skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shocking, but not uncommon in my anecdotal experience. Of course it might not be universal. In my experience it went as follows:

Union members automatically pay dues. They have the option of paying more dues. Someone who paid the automatic dues went to the union for help. Each time, they were urged to opt in to paying more dues. They chose not to, and were left waiting for help. When they finally chose to increase their dues, the help suddenly materialized.

And sure, most speech surrounding the bullying isn't direct. Would you expect it to be explicit? That simply isn't how any remotely intelligent person makes illegal threats. But it's pretty easy to pick up on the tone of "hey it's a nice job you have here. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it"

I support unions, I think they provide a net benefit to workers, but power structures frequently attract people more interested in wielding the power than in the purpose that power is suppose to serve. I see too much of a tendency in supporters of unions to overlook this fact, with any criticism dismissed as "you don't support the workers!". (Note: I'm not accusing you of that. We appear to be having a reasonable discussion)
Jack Ma hasn't been seen publicly in 2 months
Honestly I'm fairly sure the vast majority of "technology" we've deployed, as an industry, in the past 10-15 years has actively made life worse. I don't know about anyone else, but that's the opposite of why I got into technology.
By that metric alone, Bitcoin compares very unfavorably to Ethereum, which transfers value almost instantly and far cheaper.
The sadly inavoidable fact that haters gonna hate.

Others make an analysis a little bit deeper, and can separate the traders activity (by its own name: speculation) from the tecnology itself, but the hate to speculators is more nice to transmit than the positive thing and opportunity that cryptos are... so, they belongs too at haters gonna hate crew.

I think similar to you, bitcoin and cryptos in general, are a great opportunity to create a new paradigm of capitalism maybe little more healthy (or less unhealthy, you choose).
Nothing says you can't have multiple competing unions.

Given that capital is overwhelmingly concentrated into a few hands, the job "market" is also a monopolization. You can get a different job but the owners are always the same
We structure our company similarly. With effort DevOps is god on everything except HR, Sales, Finance, Chat, and C-level management which are operated with 3rd party services controlled by the individual departments and "owned/managed" by the C-suite.
The last section quotes the most promising bit of epidemiology I've seen on the origin of the epidemic, but alters the explanation of what happened a bit.

The article suggests that the gain of function was accomplished via passaging of the samples that the miners obtained, but the key point in the paper that is being cited is that the gain of function happened entirely inside the miner's lungs.

How did WIV get samples of this virus? Well, they harvested the thymuses of at least one of the miners, which then contained the fully passaged virus, no laboratory passaging necessary.

Why didn't this cause an outbreak in 2013? Initially, the virus was not infectious to humans without the kind of megadose that the miners received, and by the time it had evolved enough affinity for human ACE2 receptors, all of the medical staff involved in the care of the patients were extremely careful.

I'm just paraphrasing the paper that is cited in the articles conclusion. It's worth a read, and NYmag gets some of the details wrong. https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/a-propos...
This hardware trend is stupid and I hate it.

I accept all downvotes.
There are more ways to give food to citizens in an emergency than printing trillions of dollars. There are more ways for the government to acquire money than conjuring it out of thin air. There are more ways to prevent local businesses collapsing than inflating the stock market.
This seems like a huge problem with online ad supported services in general. I wonder if this sort of thing happens on Apple Music and other for-pay-only services since you'd have to pay to have an account for your bot?

But this is more troubling than it seemed at first to me. Couldn't something like this also happen: So I could put my song on Spotify (or YouTube or any other ad-supported service) and some business can come along and set up a bot to open Spotify and play my tune and several others. Spotify will also play ads and probably show ads on the page during playback because it's not a paid-for account. Now Spotify determines that this stream was sent to a bot. They remove the play counts from my tracks and any others played. Do they return the ad revenue from those ad impressions? If not, what's stopping Spotify from just making up numbers, charging the advertisers and discounting my revenue without there really being a bot stream? How can any of these ad-supported businesses be held accountable? This seems insane.

I'm not saying they're actually doing the above. I assume they are not, but it makes me wonder about how you would even know? It could even happen accidentally due to some error in their software. That seems less than ideal.
Also take a look at the more technical overview of the Octoverse: https://gh.clickhouse.tech/explorer/

It is like interactive notebook when you can edit and run your own queries on the metadata from GitHub.
This is not possible if your password manager itself requires a password. Unless you mean "password managers don't work because someone might know the master password" which is true, but realistically the alternative is just using the same weak password all over the web, which is way worse.
it's tatters not tartars. Tartars are a Turkish ethnic group.
I suppose, economically this might be an example of an externality? Seems like a lot of industries are piling up externalities right now in terms of their effects on society, wages, political discourse, the environment, etc..
Well, if you are a huge Italian bicycle saddle maker, and you buy a small boutique British bicycle saddle maker, and you decide to centralise your logistics, where are you going to do it?
If there is indiscriminate use of maximal force in all situations of noncompliance with the law, then there is bad government.

Bad government may be worse than no government at all.
Nothing is true about this statement.
I don't think that is $57MM in one year. I think that is over the lifetime of the business.
The limit could only be changed through consensus. It‘s s democratic process. People holding BTC would have no incentive to devalue their own holdings, so they are unlikely to agree with raising the limit. This is why people treat the 21M cap as fixed.
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Some non-technical users do read change logs, looking for new features. Even if they take every update, the notification of an update pings the hope that there may be something useful or fun. "Bug fixes and performance improvements" means "you need this update but there's nothing you really care about".

So there are least two kinds of updates, those with user-facing features and those without. Currently both come in the same stream. We could come up with a better way of differentiating the two, including not notifying users at all when the boilerplate "fixes and performance improvements" comes on. Just update the app and what the user doesn't know (hopefully) won't hurt 'em.
You might find it interesting then, to learn about the Swiss style:

https://www.printmag.com/post/swiss-style-principles-typefac...
And who are Facebook to decide what is crap? Since they claim to be somewhat of a public utility surely everyone within the bounds of the law should be able to post what they want.

Facebook are, of course, not a publisher, yet they are now the editor?

Sounds to me they are whatever they want to be, depending on the audience.
The point is the statement wasn't good -- it was definitely in bad taste -- but I hear people make worse ones over drinks or whatever all the time. The correct response when it happens is to call them out and tell them to cut it out, that its not ok.

Getting someone fired over an off-the-cuff stupid joke is crazy. Getting a lynch mob to literally attempt to destroy someones life over a stupid joke is much much worse than the joke itself, no matter how sexist or racist it may be.

Besides, you don't change people by attacking them.

> I don't know the individual story

The specific story isn't really relevant, although you can look it up to see the context. The point is that the reaction is completely out of proportion with the "crime" and when someone loses everything over something as stupid as a joke, you either radicalise them or you push them to anxiety, depression and sometimes suicide. That is never ok no matter how racist or sexist you were.

> I won't be surprised if my employer decides to get rid of me.

Have you never said anything that you later regretted? I've certainly made jokes I wish I hadn't. She posted it to her 170 twitter followers, stupid sure, but how was she to know someone would pass it on to a journalist with hundreds of thousands of followers who would then spread it and complain to her employer?

I mean, sure, its dumb to assume anything you post online won't get spread and come back to you, but that's a separate issue.

Besides, it looked to me that the employer fired her because thousands of faceless "internet activists" demanded it, not because they themselves deemed the tweet was a fire-able offense.

Remember, this conversation is based off my statement above:

> There's a difference between calling someone out for something untasteful and actively trying to ruin their careers, marriages and lives over it.

By all means, call peoples bad behavior out! But don't go out of your way to try to ruin their lives. That is all I am arguing for.
Well as a citizen of the US I also have to pay taxes with it, giving it at least a small amount of utility that other objects do not have. But in general this is true, yes.
It's impossible to stereotype a country full of people that have little in common.

Most justice in US is served on state and local levels. You don't need 700k votes to get into your state assembly(in most cases) and try to change laws that affect your day-to-day.

But I must correct myself - most Americans are completely ignorant of their own legal/justice system. How many know what Civil Forefeiture is?
Another common cause is resource exhaustion as a result of poorly monitored resources (or bugged monitoring). For example Google's authentication was down because their system reported (wrongly) available quota of 0. The last two incidents at my company were also related to resource exhaustion.
Of course it will not happen, it is a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Nobody is getting phased out, the people who chose to not take the vaccine will just not be able to buy or sell.
The SWE does not own the data center though
I'm currently using Integromat for some personal stuff, but I'd like to self-host so I came across n8n. All I need is a Google Sheets trigger, which I do see is in the works [0], then I'll probably have a go at it.

[0] https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/pull/1154
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At least for keyboards, it can be useful.

Take Factorio as an example(scroll to the very bottom): https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-218
You have never been in a politically unstable place.

That's what local police are for. The moment you talk about tanks and fighter jets, you are talking about the military. When the state uses the military against its own people, it is bound to betray its covenant with the commonwealth. The idea of freedom and liberty is safeguarded by that covenant, that the judiciary, military and government work for the people and not against them.

Im surprised you havent learned that in school seeing as your government excels at destabilizing whole nations. See Libya before and after al-Qaddafi. Who wanted him dead. Who killed him, what became of his country and who is mediating the current filth that is the once proud state of Libya.
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There were only 8,096 confirmed cases of SARS worldwide.
There was lots of hopeful talk about UK contining to be in the single market. I think I heard that up through spring of 2020.

Even assuming it was clear that what they were doing wouldn't work, I don't think it was necessarily clear what would work. And it may not have been cost effective to change until necessary.
Is it defamation to accuse someone of sending a bogus DMCA takedown notice?
I might be wrong but I think Youtube Premium uses that pricing model. At least their FAQ seems to imply that's what's going on: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en
You would cache the rendered html, the front page has your username and points and stuff. The whole page will be unique to you because of that
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Giving one dose increases the probability of someone catching COVID and the virus evolving resistance within this person. I don’t know how likely that is but the impact could be huge.
That explains the attitude!

(I work as a consultant, and get most of my income in cryptocurrencies, so I don't see any of these problems as impactful).
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> Extradition was specifically blocked on the grounds of a particular regime he might be subjected to (to be fair, probably the only legal grounds on which he had any chance of succeeding). That leaves the US with a way out if they want to proceed with the extradition - guarantee a different set of circumstances.

And isn't that actually done on a fairly regular basis? IIRC, the US has pledged not to pursue the death penalty in certain cases in order to get cooperation on an extradition.
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Your license, as I can read it, intends to prohibit profiting from your software by either (1) including it in their product, or (2) hosting it and selling its functionality. So for example, if a user wants to have some kind of Spotify import feature built into his online music-management service, he is not permitted by this license to build n8n into his paid service. (Correct me if I am wrong on this interpretation.)

But I think you will get a lot of demand for including this product in various workflows in an integrated way. Are you planning on releasing an API license, or some such?
Yep. All government sites have to be accessible due to section 508. These descriptions look like they were generated by some ML vision algorithm.
It would be more accurate to say "the US exported its own inflation to China" ... now it is time to pay the price for it since "there aint no such thing as a free lunch" or TANSTAAFL.
From somewhere in the warren of links to dang posts I traced out from there:

> I think people have the wrong idea about HN downvotes because they think Reddit rules apply to HN.

That one gets me, because I had previously assumed that downvoting for disagreement would be a standard Reddit thing, but that HN's community is supposed to strive toward a more "we're all mature adults here" kind of community standard.
> Like, what's the outcome of comparing "soft" with "warm"?

You can have "soft" or you can have "warm" — which do you want?

You can have an apple or you can have an orange — which do you want?
There are practical and legal thresholds, yeah; if X% of the company doesn't join over the next N months, you'll probably see lines in Google-related articles about the "failed attempt to form a union", even if it doesn't warrant headlines.

I should also note that 1% is like, a starting number here. If the union is successfully formed and dues start accumulating "Let's cut the union dues to 0.5%" is going to be an extremely popular position for (prospective) union leaders to take.
Useful life of a TV is at least 10 years. Useful life of a internet media device is generally significantly less than that, but also relatively cheap to replace/upgrade every couple years. (Aside: my 5 year old Nvidia Shield still gets updates and works perfectly, but that's an exception compared to all the other media devices I've owned).

The one smart tv I own is crazy annoying. I used Plex, Netflix and YouTube on it, and about once a week either the core software or one of them would get updated, constantly nagging me with "update available, install now?" prompt, and then blocking usage for several minutes when I finally relented and said yes. That TV now has a Chromecast and all built in network connections disabled.

I won't even get into the adware/malware nonsense others have already talked about.
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> Is the general opinion here really that we are to simply give in to the whims of these companies?

Ans: I can't pay for the $2M house I bought in Noe Valley on a normal salary.
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It's just bizarre that the terms of the extradition treaty, which explicitly bars extradition for political offenses, would be irrelevant. If the terms of the treaty don't matter, then what's the basis for extraditing Assange in the first place?
I totally agree. This website looks a free Wix template that someone set up over the weekend for some amateur placeholder website, not like a website I would expect from a huge and important organization, and especially not from a government organization.

Click on the "Motivational Speaker" template here and compare them: https://www.wix.com/website/templates
For anybody thinking about contributing this, this is sadly as close to not open source as open source gets. I tried to contribute to this, but it's impossible to build without the webrtc binary and the docs are deliberately opaque about going about building your own version of the binary. You are encouraged to pay the (almost sole) contributor of this repo for his build of webrtc. For this reason it's not really surprising that this version is both quite out of sync with the mainline OBS and also has only one or two contributors. Fortunately, for me, most plugins built with the mainline OBS do work with this.

I get that the maintainer has put a lot of work into this and wants to try and monetize some part which is hard when OBS is GPL, but depending on a binary which is nigh-on impossible to build and then charging for it on your website just feels a bit of a shitty way to do it.
Conspiracy mongering? No. The article contends there is no conspiracy here, only the possibility of an accident that, projected through the lens politics, has become too toxic to discuss out in the open. Time will tell.
I have noticed that most people that say this tend to just have shitty homes. Not every home is suitable for working from, you really need all sorts of amenities and plenty of space to walk around and refocus, and a good outdoor area. If you literally just have 600 sqft of bedroom, living room and kitchen then yea I can see why going to the office would be better.
We have thousands of brown people in camps along the border, in brutal conditions, without access to healthcare(unless you count forced sterilizations as healthcare). Do you consider those to be apples as well?
I vaguely remember reading something along the lines of "You're thinking of antibiotics. Vaccines and viruses are different".

Anyone got any solid insight into this?