skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quality of a union is a function of membership engagement and organizational structure. Shitty unions, shitty companies, these are all who is in charge and how they're governed and the transparency available.

Better to admit we need better operating models for unions (and that unions need to work in partnership with management to create sustainable relationships and businesses), rigorous governance and oversight of them, and that that is likely superior to the current situation of labor's collective power to continue to erode over the last four decades. Not only does labor need a seat at the table, employee ownership should be strongly encouraged through policy (this also financially aligns incentives between management and labor, which is a good thing imho).

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
> We also outlaw speeding because speeding increases the odds that you kill someone else.

We could go further and outlaw cars that don't have speed governors. That would save lives. Lower speed limits would save more lives as well. Now we have a balance between freedom and safety.

> Tens of thousands of people are dying a day right now because not everyone is taking the precautions they have been asked to take.

That was true during the flu season of 2018 as well. The excess deaths from COVID are higher, but not orders of magnitude higher (more like 3x) [1]. The response is off the charts, economically and culturally devastating. Not the right balance.

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
I don't even make 20$ an hour after 15 years at my job... when I was 18 I was doing the kind of work Amazon workers do for minimum wage which was 5.15 an hour IIRC. I was happy to have a job and fully understood warehouse work is not a career.

20$ an hour is 2.75x the minimum wage here in Indiana. A significant portion of the people I know don't even gross 41k a year.
> It really looks like you're comparing the lives of human beings to young people having fun. What's the exchange rate?

It's the Quality-Adjusted Life Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
what I'm astonished by is the degree to which American firms are allowed to sabotage unionisation efforts despite, as I understand it, the US actually having similar protections for workplace assembly as other Western countries.

If you tried interfere with unions here in Germany you'd run up against the law, the media and so on very, very quickly, it's one of the things you don't want to screw with.
>They don't need to use bots.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/ftc-s...

>FYI, it comes across poorly the way you seem to evaluate partners based on their income.

In my experience people ether have fantastic careers and know where they're going in life, or don't want to do anything at all.

Getting involved with anyone who doesn't have a job is never going to end well. I learned this the hard way...
I read the message differently. It looks like there have been so many people wanting to switch, that Signal was overwhelmed by the new demand.

I don't know if it is true, but for your peers it certainly is a different story to tell them about all the people who are switching than just about a service who had an outage. Hopefully, the next days will bring some light to the cause of the outage.
Honest question: does the Democratic Party care about labor anymore? It feels like anti-Trumpism, identity issues (race, trans issues, etc.), and immigration have sucked all the oxygen out of the room. I can’t remember the last time I saw a Democrat run with supporting labor as their headline issue.
BattleCode 2021 – Overview and instructions- create Java bots in a virtual world
Unless the Russians were total psychopaths, their first strike would probably be aimed mostly at our nuclear missiles and the military at large (i.e., a counterforce strike), and not on purposefully destroying our population (i.e., a countervalue strike). So our nukes would reduce their ability to do second, third, etc. nuclear strikes. It would also destroy their ability to continue to make war, which would prevent an invasion of Europe or the USA after the radiation levels drop.

If we had a policy to wait a long time, the Russians could strike our missile bases, large military bases, aircraft carriers, naval bases. But unless we acted fast, our military forces would be in shambles even though the eastern seaboard, Chicago, SOCAL, the major texas cities, etc. are all still standing. We'd still have second strike weapons but they are unusable if we still had domestic civilian targets to worry about. No sane President or General would order a coutervalue strike when faced with a counterforce strike from an enemy.

If we let the enemy successfully first strike the United States, Mutual Assured Destruction goes out the window.

TL;DR; the Russians could "win" a nuclear war unless we shoot back soon.

And if the Russians were total psychopaths who target our cities in a first strike? We have to be prepared to respond in kind or else we incentivize a one sided attack.
Files are not stored anywhere - everything works within your browser. When you add a file with 100k rows, it gets added instantly and you are ready to query.
Although monthly donations presumably get more siphoned off in processing fees than an equivalently large donation annually.
Public sector unions are the worst of the union beasts -- a layer of financially interested and un-elected bureaucrats between taxpayers and the services they are paying for.

In California, the teachers union has a grotesque level of influence -- and the quality of the kids' education isn't so special, as a result.
The people who didn't cure their cancer aren't your colleagues.
Fundamentally, all values are a collection of bits. That doesn't mean having distinct structures built on top of those bits isn't useful.
Did this particular study control for that, is what I asked, because this particular study is what's on the front page of HN.

Also, "countless" studies have shown negative correlations between coffee and human health. [1] So which is it? Oh no, it looks like coffee is also positively linked with coronary heart disease and Parkinson's!

This is an area which benefits from more skepticism. Don't write off skepticism in an area filled with reproducibility issues and bad statistics as "denial".

1. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=cof...
acknowledged, but in my experience they are way quicker than 1990s / 2000s browsers
I just realized the 4D chess move Google was making in announcing union formation.
They managed to jump from 10M installs to 50M in a matter of days, and that's just on Android.
Not too long ago, I tried to install the ELK stack to enable me to ingest some log files and easily view them on a web page. After many hours of digging through documentation, I gave up. The process was a train wreck of obscurity, complexity and heavy weight processes, just to do a relatively simple task.

I've been doing open source for 20+ years now and one thing that we still haven't seemed to get right is: a simple install process and good documentation.

ELK is dead to me, but not because of a license.
On a tangentially related note. Apparently the huge game sizes are on purpose these days. With downloads and storage so fast and cheap the developers ship assets in a format optimized for the in-game experience instead of space savings. Better to use more space and reduce the initial startup and loading times.

Contrast this with a game like Detroit.. It took my system(5700 XT and 3950x) what seemed like nearly 30 minutes to arrive at the menu screen due to having to compile all the shaders and who knows what else. I'm sure there were other considerations there, but still..
For what it’s worth, SSPL is NOT like AGPL. IANAL but...

AGPL is community oriented. With AGPL you have to contribute your modifications back even if you are only offering the application over the network and not in binary form. It extends the copyleft principle. It is still debated whether it even counts as open source.

SSPL is fascinating. Let me quote Section 13:

> If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License. Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Program or modified version.

> “Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.

Emphasis mine. Basically “release the source for your entire stack.” That’s not the same thing as AGPL. Copyleft is concerned with linkage. This license seems to impose terms on entirely unrelated pieces of software. IANAL but I don’t even think this has been tested in court before.
And the protest is showing blank search-pages until Murdoch pays for it's own links...the rest is the Australian peoples problem.
Sounds more like a Telegram bot.
It's even more banal than that. The "unsettling truth" is he's got an ex who is willing to spread some unsubstantiated dirt about him that may not be true, or may be exaggerated. (Was there ever a police report? A restraining order? Probably not, or it would be mentioned.)

That's it. It's a non-story.
Whatsapp is worried the Indian market.
They've gone as far as taking out full page ads in Indian newspapers to try to convince people "nothing to see here!"
Oracle isn't an SV focused company. There is plenty of money in all those non-tech businesses to be a big winner.
I recently downloaded my Ancestry.com DNA data, and started looking at it with the help of SNPedia:

https://www.SNPedia.com

One of the neat things I found is that I have genetic markers for increased coffee consumption:

https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Coffee

I drink at least a few cups a day and so does my dad, so confirmation bias does the rest.

That makes me wonder if drinking coffee (amoungst other foods) is truly causal in decreasing prostate cancer, as opposed to heavy coffee drinkers having other correlated biomarkers (in particular ethnic correlations) that help dodge it.

Anyways, I’m not trying to disparage this study, I just think it’s neat that we’re somewhat predisposed to like certain foods from birth.
Objectives to customizing your computer:

+ Increase productivity (e.g. if value = work x time, and you can't increase available time, then reduce time consumption per unit of work to increase value)

+ Increase comfort during this process

- cost: available time is reduced, which you could have spent working.

Objectives to exercising:

+ Increase lifespan

+ Increase comfort(health) during this lifespan

- cost: available time is reduced, which could have been spent living

Tbh, these look pretty similar to me. In both cases, you're trading off an existing resource gambling that you'll get back more than you put in.

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As an addendum, there's a right and a wrong way to achieve tradeoff-based objectives.

With exercise/diet, you can certainly do it wrong: latest fad diet that's placebo or maybe even actively harmful to you, latest fad routine that isn't very efficient, overwork and hurt yourself, etc.

If you're "wasting a bunch of time" customizing your computer, I guess you're doing it wrong. Certainly, don't do that.
I've never fully understood public unions to be honest. Unions used to be the best way to protect yourself from a bad employer...but the employer is the government (and to some extent the people). It used to be that public sector workers made less in exchange for better benefits, but in the last few years the war was waged on the public to increase wages to that of "private companies". Now teachers in my state make more than an average BS degree and work 9 months of the year...along with better medical and retirement benefits. They still claim they are underpaid and taxes just keep going up.
Yes, she is now, thank you for asking!
I don't think it is. However, that brings the question of why would TSMC allocate capacity for Intel. If in the long term Intel plans on going back to using their fabs, why offer them this short-term advantage?
That would cause even more outrage.
The server is open source https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Java/DropWizard app
Given the current political climate, such a SOC-2 auditor should be outed by name.
"We have been adding new servers and extra capacity at a record pace every single day this week nonstop, but today exceeded even our most optimistic projections. Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that privacy matters. We appreciate your patience."

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350165610936766464
Can you substantiate this claim? Or is this just "I know someone who was arrested, it had to be the keyboard"?
I agree but this would just hand the world to WhatsApp. I'd rather donate enough to pay for my whole network of friends/family and keep it free.
The propaganda unfortunately also comes from folks direct experience with unions. In the US, most unions are public sector. So folks see that

Police unions may protect bad apples via union.

Teachers unions may care more about teachers including bad ones then teaching kids. We had a famously terrible teacher at my school - unfirable - as kids we thought it was hilarious. As a parent now - not so cool. Non unionized schools seem to be coming up with innovate workaround during pandemic (outside / park / hiking classrooms etc).

Absolutely horrendously drafted laws that make life miserable even for folks trying to do right (AB5, schools not allowed to keep reserves) that are union drafted, and require endless exceptions and modifications.

Google employees unionizing and striking and walking out and otherwise throwing very highly paid fits over things that don't connect with average person.

When you call what people have first hand experience of "propaganda" they may immediately will discount everything else you are saying.

The real rule should be all poorly compensated folks paid $14/hr or less should automatically be in unions. That's where the real need is.
On the off chance you're serious, here's Biden's union stance https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/.
You left out climate. In NW Europe it is no different : anything goes as long as it not labor.
>Teachers unions causing general chaos in school reopening plans

Maybe out west but schools have been carrying on as normal here in Indiana. My wife is at school teaching right now, they've had exactly 1 day this school year where she didn't have to go to work (earlier this week) because 3 students physically cut the internet going into the building and they couldn't get repairs done in time to open that day.

Edit: I don't understand the downvotes... many schools across the country have been open for in-person school for the bulk of covid. This is a concrete fact.
> I'm not sure there are many people who are publicly abusive and privately kind

Gordon Ramsay perhaps?
> They should be making no less then $20 an hour to start!

This is a noble goal, and I am all for seeing it happen. But if you think it won't just give Amazon warehouses a stronger foothold, you are mistaken. I, personally, don't think it is necessarily a bad thing if Amazon warehouses gain more workers due to their conditions becoming better as a result of unionization. But quite a lot of people will disagree with that statement.

You know why, despite all those current awful-sounding conditions, people are still signing up to work at Amazon warehouses in droves? And no, it isn't because those workers are dumb and don't know what's better for them or because they are that desperate. It is because warehouse jobs are usually always somewhat hellish, and Amazon warehouse jobs tend to be a bit less hellish than other warehouse jobs, while paying quite a bit more. Bumping the pay up to $20/hr will make it even more not worth it to work any other warehouse jobs, when Amazon ones give you a no-brainer choice that is even better all around than before.

Again, not commenting on whether it would be a good or bad thing, just an observation. I, personally, think it would be a good thing if those workers got paid more and got better conditions. But the externalities of that decision (giving Amazon more power) might be a bit too much for a lot of people to swallow. I will admit, I haven't thought about those externalities much past what I have already described in this comment, so I definitely could be missing something. In which case, I would love to learn more about those, if someone has meaningful points to contribute to this discussion in the comments.
As a non-.Net developer, my impression of anything .Net is always a hefty amount of boilerplate.
* a restaurant recommendation engine not based on reviews but on similar profile tastes e.g like amazon recommendations
* a music matching service based on spotify | youtube music so you can people in your area that listen to the same music as you and likewise discover new music and make friends | date
* trying to find clients for my data janitor consultancy, so yeah hit me if you need short term data engineering services.

anyways as a rant lately being disillusioned by the state of python package managers. & have been looking at jvm languages in as much as I hate Java.
Telegram has optional E2E encryption (as does WhatsApp) which puts it ahead of Facebook Messenger. Unlike FB Messenger and WhatsApp, the company behind Telegram so far doesn't have a history of selling your personal data. I'd say it's fairly competitive, though obviously not ahead of Signal
Does this actually work if you're being paid a salary in USD that wont likely rise with inflation?
I like lua, it's the language that really made me start to 'get' programming. It's great for lots of things, but it does have some weirdness I find makes some tasks a little more difficult. The lack of 'batteries' has never really been something that's bothered me with lua. A few other things though:

The starting arrays from one thing, while not that big of a deal, can be a bit annoying, especially if you're using lua and c together. You've just always kind of got to be aware of it.

Tables and metatables are great, until they're not.

Lack of true integers(at least when I used it) made at least one task I tried to use lua for unfeasible and I had to use a different language in the end.

In the end though, lua's still probably my favourite scripting language to write in.
I'm already having mild trouble to convince everyone to use signal, there is no chance I could get them to use and keep using Element. Element is terrible.
> There’s a scene in The Big Short where Mike Baum meets a stripper who’s taken out mortgages on five properties. The stripper doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with doing that, because her mortgage broker told her she could always refinance her mortgages when the prices of her houses went up. And housing prices would always go up.

Of course, our Government ended up bailing out people like the "stripper" who would complain that they "lost their homes."

Let's hope the new administration doesn't bail out crypto specu-vestors.
Ha, I had this game when I was a kid. There was a section in the manual about pointing your spacecraft towards a star 26 light years away, set its speed to the speed of light, and letting your PC run for 26 years, it would simulate the trip accurately.

And here we are, 26 years later...

Edit: well, the download has the manual as a PDF, it doesn't mention "26 light years", ah, how my memory deceived me!
Thanks for the pallene link! Terra was fun to play with but I've always wanted a simple compiled Lua.
I asked this in the google union thread, but was too late to the party to get any answers. Copy pasting it here:

Everybody here seems to agree that unions have the potential to do good or bad in every thread on it. The next logical step to me is that there needs to be a selection mechanism in place.

For companies, the selection mechanism is competition. If someone else does better, the consumer or worker can choose someone else. And we have anti-monopoly laws to make sure that that someone else exists, to foster that competition and choice.

Is there such a mechanism for unions? My ideal scenario wouldn't be me on my own as it is today. I'd want a handful of unions to pick from to represent me, not too differently from my choice of medical insurer. Five unions to represent 575,000 amazon warehouse workers would still average 115,000 members each, so it's a huge step forward in collective bargaining. And then people can change unions if one of them ends up how folks are worried about in every union thread.

It seems like it would get at all sides of the issue. We'd get collective representation and a safeguard against the potential pitfalls.

How could this scenario come about? Could it be something like medical insurance with an open enrollment season? There would need to be something akin to anti-competitive behavior built in, so you couldn't end up with an agreement saying you can only hire from our union. What else would it take?
The reason excess deaths are only 3x higher is because of our precautions. If we let it burn through the US, millions would die and the ratio would be more like 100x (30,000 vs 3 million). Obviously depends on some hard-to-model assumptions. Your conclusion might be right, but your argument is terribly misleading.

(Plus, letting it burn through the whole population comes with downside risks of more mutations.)
If you think moderation is censorship, you’ve got a competition problem
But native OS IMEs in japan are used frequently, while in China they are not? From what I understand hiragana -> kanji conversions are formalized and thus are easy to add by dumping a dictionary, while in chinese since the phonography is informal you need to do more effort to maintain the dictionary, as everyone ends up typing in whatever they thing they think it would be in pinyin or similar AFAIK, along with all the dialectal variations.
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But in many cases you can't choose which union you have to do business with. Do work at this location you have to do business with this union. Many examples of unions fighting other unions because they think they should get the work.

I agree that better operating models could exist (more like European ones)...but the current unions in the US have a lot to lose by doing so.