skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>which I am honestly not sure how it is meant to be interpreted

Here's how: we have entire movements preoccupied with spreading FUD over any policy that aims to curb crime. We have movements preoccupied with letting violent criminals out of prison (trust me, there is no way to reduce the prison population without releasing violent offenders).

This story is an example of this. Look at the facts: Baltimore is one of the most violent cities in the world (not just in Maryland, not just in USA, in the effin world).

What that means is that there are a lot of innocent people being victimized by criminals. There are parents trying to raise their children in these neighborhoods and are desperately hoping that they their children don't get assaulted, killed or recruited into gangs or drugs, as they walk to school. All those tech bros in this thread wouldn't drive through some of these neighborhood. They wouldn't even let their children watch PG-13 movies due to the violence ... but there are children living in those violent neighborhoods day-in and day-out. Who is standing up for them? I don't see ACLU lawsuits to protect their rights - do you?

There is an attempt to curb this by introducing a drone program to attempt to provide some relief for this by improving police investigative powers and catch more criminals. And this program is the opposite of 'tough policing'. ACLU and other organizations focus lawsuits on this program to get rid of it (not to create common sense policies around, but to get rid of it) - why? Because they care more about safeguarding criminal rights, then the rights of citizens to safety.

It's fucked up and that's what I mean by "Victim-rights trump criminal-rights."
One difficulty I see with the mission statement (https://alphabetworkersunion.org/principles/mission-statemen...) is that it is very broad, and contains a lot of progressive values that are likely not as widely shared as the authors might expect. One might or might not agree with these values, but it is going to be significantly harder to start steering the company's product direction and social responsibility efforts than 'just' representing the employees during e.g. benefits and compensation negotiations.
I think the judges are probably more interested in the global standing, power and leverage of the UK than Boris is and the Brexit rulings arguably reflect that too.

The UK government is about more than just Boris's ego.

I wouldn't speculate as to the exact mechanism as to how this ruling came about but to assume it came divorced from politics is naive, especially given the nature of the ruling.
Strike price: £40/MWh or in consumer units 4p/kWh. https://www.offshorewind.biz/2019/09/20/uk-offshore-wind-str...

Strike prices are a form of option or insurance which guarantees income for the producer over the long term regardless of market prices. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contracts-for-dif...

By comparison, when Hinckley Point C is finished, it will have a strike price of £92.50. And the solar panels I have on my roof are paying me 14p/kWH in subsides because they were build under the old regime.
So it's not a good example for benefits, but a good example for problems?
Do you have an example of country A asking France for permission before extraditing a French citizen who was not wanted for crimes in France to country B?
Again more details in the article. The verge article links a NYT article which goes in depth on the “two tier system” within google.

That’s not to say that even outsourced contractors couldn’t benefit from unionizing with google employees. Google has the leverage to improve the lives of its subcontractors, but pressuring the contracting company.
So would 99.9% of ads. In fact, that’s what spam is—an ad.

The difference is that Google got paid for one and not the other. Pay them the protection money, and they’ll let you through.
> If collective bargaining allows employees to negotiate more, then shouldn't they negotiate more?

It is not clear whether these employees are actually in a good position for negotiating. The idea behind unions is that an employer is not willing to lay off all the employees that are unionized (because this would lead to a sharp decline in productivity and thus KPIs). I consider how many products were scrapped by Google as quite some evidence that Google would be nearly as successful if it fired the unionized employees and continued working with some "core team".

This does, of course, not mean that I endorse this reality, but when you negotiate, you better know what leverage you actually have.
> Your other examples mostly seem to boil down to "we were not willing to commit the necessary resources to do it".

Yes, of course. If I invest resources from the beginning for "I want to relicense and open all the code" then there is no problem. However for most companies the priority is "get this out before our competitor releases their product" and many things fall under and often neither developers nor managers have the legal knowledge (and don't care)

And btw. I fully support this on a different level: For instance for devices like (home) routers I support a scheme where a company is required to publish the software once they cancel support, so one doesn't have to throw away fine working devices only since the vendor stops fixing security issues. But that won't happen quickly, as it goes through the supply chain: You need the device drivers for the chipsets etc.
what do they need to be "successful"? a certain % of employees?
With their current membership of just 230 people, the ~$500k annual memberships probably won't get anywhere near to paying for the protracted legal battle they're surely about to enter...
What is semi-supervised learning?
There is plenty of evidence that I've seen firsthand in municipal government of unions protecting and promoting incompetent IT talent. It doesn't all fall to @#$& solely because government tech is often very slow to change, so mediocre workers can train on very specific applications and not need much continuing ed. I scarcely ever met one that would get hired at either a FAANG or a tech startup. I will qualify this by saying it's U.S. only. Maybe other countries handle this all much better, but we're dealing with Google U.S. in this story.
Credit everyone by name or credit no one by name. It is inherently unfair to only credit key talent.
Not having a country anymore could be perceived as a disaster to anyone optimistic. Easily the dumbest climate change measure would be not to have kids.
I am a former film industry worker and former member of Local 600 Cinematographers Guild.

You have two incorrect assumptions here:

1. Non-union filmmaking is absolutely a common thing. Most crew members start their careers on nonunion shoots. Further, not all filmmaking related unions prevent their members from participating in non-union shoots (though some do and others will encourage you to call the shoot in if the budget is high enough to justify union participation).

2. Most crew on a film are not working for a specific employer on an ongoing basis. Generally, crew are hired on a contract basis for individual projects.
> but when you already work at the company that pays and treats their employees like Google, I'm not sure what more you are entitled to.

Google made something like 300,000 in profit per employee in 2019. There are regular complaints about benefits and pay multipliers being cut back. Why shouldn't workers seek to capture as much of their labor as possible? People don't seem to complain when businesses do that.
All potential death sentence extraditions are automatically refused (not just from UK). A fair number of other ones are, not sure what proprtion.
Is this the beginning of the end of Google?
you'd think but...
>Trade unions are ... a force for good.

As witnessed by how much Europe innovates in tech.

lol.
This is a great point / comparitor
> But containerization and CI/CD? If you've some experience with it you know it's something that takes little time and money to set up (e.g. GitLab CI) and you get tons of benefits - you don't need to get super fancy either

This - CI/CD during development pays off so fast it's not worth skipping.
Could you be more explicit?

"Booble" and the other stuff seems like just harmless fun to me. I'm not saying it's particularly funny, but I don't see how is it demeaning or dismissive.

Is joking about this off-limits because Spears is female? If there was a fan-site dedicated to, e.g., a male bodybuilder; with similar attention given to his biceps muscles as is given to Spears' breasts here; would you think of it as demeaning or dismissive?
> each one can generate enough electricity to power 16,000 homes, at less than the average price of electricity in the wholesale energy market.

This is the kind of wishes presented as facts that discredite almost all articles about new renewables.

They don't say if this 16k figure is peak charge, they don't say how these homes are powered when the wind is down, if this price includes all costs (transport, subventions, storage...), etc.

It gives the impression that electricity works like fuel : you just extract it, then use it when you want.
It‘s ok to use google for calculations. But kind of strange to show a calculator screenshot as proof for a 10% calculation...
This is a little bit disingenuous.

There is no proven accusation because Assange hasn't gone to trial, which is the part of the process where that standard applies.

The credible allegation part is the indictment handed down from a federal grand jury; this is the 'probable cause' standard.
All the databases seem to have database-specific ways. SQL is the least vulnerable to this. Obviously if you leave SQL for e.g. Mongo, then you could not have picked a more bespoke and unique interface. Notionally SQL is standardized, but who migrates databases anyway.

Network latency is the real performance drag, not string parsing.

I think JSON support will improve, but SQLAlchemy for example is ok with a common JSON interface over mySQL and Postgres. I am sure this will resolve itself in time, its just a bit new for SQL.
Thoughts on reinventing paper – reMarkable 2
No this is not a good thing.
Binding workers right to political views is dangerous and other countries show that unions can work without any party propaganda.
I guess my real question is, how is this different from anywhere in the industry?
another past approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
Just waiting for the advances in creating the COVID vaccine to help with HIV & other illnesses
Not to mention there was Hitler's quote about how no-one remembers the Armenian genocide. He wasn't even wrong about that, as few remember the brutality that the Nazis exacted on the Poles.
Although i think it will reflect poorly on CCP to secretly make Jack go missing, who is actually a world famous personality at this point. One should also remember that anything is possible in a totalitarian regime.
I don't understand this "ideological" issue. (but maybe it's just due to language as English is not my mother-tongue)
Lots (/most) of what you choose to do (or not) can be see as a result of your own ideological standpoint. (investment, buying, culture, laws, politics, culture, media...)
I prefer when the so-called ideological point is explain in an article rather than discovered after fact. This is more honest.
Yeah, they definitely need to gather support of some sort, I'm just curious about the scale. 40,000 people from within the 120,000+ organization seems huge. If that's really the case, the coverage so far would seem fairly sensationalist - 0.25% of employees signing on to unionize is a drop in the bucket next to a required minimum 30% of the workforce signed on.
Guo Wengui is the main associate / bankroller of Steve Bannon. Behind stuff such as Hunter Biden's laptop, the "scientific" papers that proves that COVID19 is made in a lab, how Trump had the presidential election "stolen" by election fraud.

How ARTE, which is a French/German public service TV station, can have him as a center-piece of their documentary is beyond me.
Have a look at this [0] video on the topic. It's mostly "gibberish" by one person.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7lWCqbgQnU
There is a good rule when dealing with government enforcement of laws. Everyone must be equally treated under the law, it must be safe against misuse, and failure by the government must be punished harder than the offense itself.

Extradition cases sadly fails all three of those. They are extremely selective enforced, there are few safeguards, and generally no punishment against officials that fails to uphold the few safeguards that exist. The whole ordeal is intertwined with diplomatic relations and politics of both national and international nature.
They don’t write “this nuclear power station powers X homes, apart from the 20% of the time when it’s tripped off”, so at least they’re consistent.
Thanks!

As I said, I'm not trying to push for this or that license, just want to have a perspective of the choice for new OSS projects.

Mostly the usual lesson is that authors typically don't really think through much about the licensing choice when they are hyped about an upcoming first release. Technical concerns are, understandably, what gets most attention at the beginning. Your position is the most common one I've found for small-ish projects.
There is no “absolute” separation of the judiciary in the UK. Parliament sovereignty is absolute, which includes the power of rearranging the justice system as it sees fit - as indeed was done when the Supreme Court was established a few years ago. Before the SC was created, the highest court in the land was composed of members of the House of Lords, and the Lord Chancellor (a member of cabinet) was a judge - effectively making the High Court an offshoot of Parliament.

The new Supreme Court is still composed of judges that must be approved by the Secretary of State for Justice (i.e. a government minister, a politician). Technically the appointment is made by the Queen, but overruling an elected minister would be considered an infringement of constitutional prerogatives of Parliament. That means a government can veto high-justices it doesn’t like.

Downstream of that, the judiciary cannot invalidate or overrule primary legislation. Parliament comes first.

What we have in UK is fundamentally a degree of protection of most judiciary elements from the otherwise-supreme power of Parliament. That’s not absolute separation, but rather a partial one - if very extended.
In mature, competitive markets - like the ones OP was targeting (enterprise communication) - MVPs don't make sense.

MVPs are good if you're solving a niche problem in a niche industry. But if your competitors are Slack and Zoom, you're going to have a hard time launching with a barebones approach.
The idea that a certain pattern of economic behaviors is "pragmatic", "non-ideological" and even "non-political", while others are, is in itself a good example of ideology.
You mean big tech's reputation is in tartars? Facebook and Amazon are no better and Apple's reputation should absolutely be down in the gutter but people jump aboard their privacy nonsense and turn a blind eye to all the forced labour they use.

I do wish Google all the best however. They have handled their very privileged workers very poorly and may pay for it.
Due to all kinds of reasons people tend to not wanting to be officially associated with an budding union until it becomes reality.

I mean you can guess which 230 people are more likely to lose their job, then they had been before (if the union fails).

(I don't mean Google will target them, but that if Google considers letting them go for whatever other reason it's now more likely that they will let them go.)
Yes, the fact that the extradition wasn't rejected on press freedom grounds makes me think maybe it's just a way for the judge to shake it off so that it's not HER who goes down in history books as to have made the decision to extradite.

But having sided with the U.S. on pretty much all of the counts concerning press freedom, an appeals court may well 'find' that the heath condition is not enough.

I REALLY hope am wrong here.

But it goes to show the West is again only concerned with 'press freedom' when it's our strategic competitors violating it.
I'm hearing that since the COVID, many Google workers are being deprived of their 3 free meals a day and access to the gym.

Clearly unacceptable, time to unionize.
Essentially the different is that Google is so incredibly culty that people refuse to leave even when they're grossly mistreated and the company does incredibly unethical things. Everyone in big tech has job mobility, so for someone to care to unionize, they have to not want to leave.

So where in other tech companies, unhappy employees leave, at Google they try to "fix" it, which has led to these unionization type efforts, with wider goals around making the company behave.

I absolutely think that the fact that many Googlers' primary social identity is that they're a Googler is why this is starting there and not another FAANG.
I didn't realize the number was so low. I thought they usually have to reach a specific percentage of workers on the petition before they unionize.
I've asked before and no one seems to know: what is unionising meant to achieve for these workers? Are they under compensated? Are they getting fired for unfair reasons? I thought big tech had the opposite problem: everyone gets 6 figures, no one gets fired you just get moved to a do nothing team...
As in sentences like "I'm satisfied that you did your best" and "I'm satisfied that it contains no gluten". Do those not work in American or other international English?
>I don't care how often it happens.

Yes, that is clear.

> If you have solved the problem of data integrity...

As above, this is not a binary, black and white thing, but you keep presenting it as such. It's probabilistic, and higher protection is not free - the tradeoff is engineering.

> Redundancy alone reduces the probability of spurious failure by several magnitudes

ECC "alone reduces the probability of spurious failure by several magnitudes". That's why it is used.

Naive redundancy ignores almost a century of better method form forward error correcting codes. I have a feeling your idea of redundancy is having multiple exact copies of a system or data and having them vote, which is a terribly expensive way to do data protection when there are vastly better methods.

>Of course, somebody who sells ECC RAM will want to convince you that ECC actually solves a real problem. The same can be said about the nutritional supplement industry, or many other industries that rely on make-belief.

And we're done. If you don't think ECC helps a real problem then I see why you don't understand bitflip causing problems. Good luck.
Where we find out that extradition from the UK for political offences is actually largely permitted.
Some protection from extradition remains, but it is very narrow. It only stands if the person is being prosecuted "on the basis of their political opinions" :

"53. The EA 2003 created a new extradition regime, described in Norris as a “wide-ranging
reform of the law” (§45). As the US points out, it is a prescriptive regime, setting out the
sole statutory basis on which a court is obliged to deal with matters, and does so in a series
of imperative steps the court must follow. These steps no longer include a consideration
of the political character of an offence, and there is no opportunity, within the scheme of
the EA 2003, to raise this as an objection to extradition. The EA 2003 retained the bar to
extradition where the request is made for the purpose of prosecuting the requested person
on the basis of their political opinions, pursuant to section 81 (the political opinion bar),
but removed the protection for offences which have the character of a political offence."
Being a hypocrite isn't a logical fallacy, but it isn't a good rhetorical stance for convincing others.
> The idea behind unions is that an employer is not willing to lay off all the employees that are unionized (because this would lead to a sharp decline in productivity and thus KPIs).

It's also illegal.
Scott Galloway’s 2021 Predictions
I’m sure Europe would be happy to see US tech salaries and company growth stagnate a bit so they can catch up and stop losing good workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Just for clarity, I was only going for the "fundamentally different tastes" angle, and not trying to draw any political analogies.
Aha! Wasn't aware of this rule change. Wonder how they'll garner the votes they need to fully form the union without internal rabblerousing digitally, and with offices being closed.

Is it legal for a union to use employee info directories to contact employees outside of corp comms?
According to the F* landing page [1]:

> F* (pronounced F star) is a general-purpose functional programming language with effects aimed at program verification.

> The main ongoing use case of F* is building a verified, drop-in replacement for the whole HTTPS stack in Project Everest [2]. This includes verified implementations of TLS 1.2 and 1.3 and of the underlying cryptographic primitives.

[1] http://www.fstar-lang.org/

[2] https://project-everest.github.io/
Many people don't realise this but unions don't just negotiate salaries. They assure rights aren't being violated, promote ethical, safe and healthy workplaces, prevent and fight against discrimination and unfair treatment, fight wrongful dismissal, etc.
I wrote an OFX importer for Lunch Money just last week. Do the brokerage accounts support that?
>I also see the best workers rising through the ranks, and bad ones either never actually entering the union or quitting when they realize they're not going anywhere.

This doesn't sound like an advantage for software engineers. Surely unions can't decide on someone's competency. It kind of raises a red flag about potential gatekeeping methods (e.g. the tax status where you have to join or else).
Well, color me very surprised.

Very happy with the outcome (assuming it stands), but I would have bet the farm on the opposite outcome.
The total percentage of actual vested shares that are held by the rank-and-file workers is minuscule at best.
I don’t quite understand this case. It’s not really US vs Assange. This is either US vs GB, or Assange vs GB, but the claims don’t seem to have anything to do with allegations of damages between third parties under GB law and jurisdiction. The interpretation of US law by a GB judge seems extraneous. The US indictment is settled. The only relevant question is whether the extradition treaty applies. I don’t know if any of this is relevant, but, to recap from a layperson’s understanding, this is a US case against a non-US person residing in a foreign country, and accused of a US conspiracy to commit a crime with a US person who was incidentally pardoned by a US president. GB and AUS both have direct standing and jurisdiction under their own law through NATO, so why is he not being tried this way?

My guess is that the US wants nothing to do with this case. The military would be watching proto-Obama crucify Prof after pardoning Chelsea.

Side note: I’m pretty sure at this point he wishes he’d not had anything to do with any of this hacking stuff. Being a professional dog-walker in a small village probably sounds great.
Yeah, it's a kind of magic. We are the champions.
The number of days where it makes no little or no contribution to the UK grid surprises me: https://gridwatch.co.uk/Wind

In the press, at least, it seems that the UK is consolidating on wind as the 'green solution', when it's clear the UK needs a much more mixed solution.

Doggerland is interesting purely for the bones and artefacts that are dredged up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland#Discovery_and_inves...).

It's a shame the article didn't mention anything about that.