skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unions increase the negotiating power of those selling their labor. That’s not forcing the private sector to act like a charity, it’s just giving workers more leverage.

The thing I don’t understand about your argument is that you say that giving “monopolistic control over the negotiating power of a company's work force will be economically harmful”. But companies already have monopolistic (well, monopsonistic) control over their workforce. So why is this an acceptable status quo?
He sounds like a time traveler from the future. He talks like it's a given that the Internet is going to take over the world but back then it really wasn't.
> The majority of Ivy League enrollment is regular kids from working class families

HN does so much moderation, with dang slapping people for being nasty. Why is obvious, egregious misinformation like this not subject to moderation?
Cold Paths
>>. It's a place where jobs are hard to come by, so maybe Amazon offers something the desperate, the poor, and the struggling something they can't get elsewhere.

If you make it illegal to provide bad jobs, those jobs will not be substituted one-for-one for good jobs. That's not how an economy works. You're only hurting low-skilled workers by mandating higher minimum work standards.

Responding to below:

Yes, every so-called labor protection for adults, except protection against contract fraud, should be abolished, for exactly that reason.

Even child labor laws only became practical when per capita GDP reached a level where prohibiting child labor wouldn't lead to an increase in people dying from privation. Child labor is also very different than most types of labor, in involving parties who cannot in many cases provide informed consent, so laws relating to it can be justified in a society based on voluntary interaction.
In this case, I think it is.

Do you think BLM is a political agenda?
KLEE is only popular with the HN crowd, but not certainly not in the industry. There cbmc/satabs is leading. Esp. automotive. Also much older, and much easier to use. I recently even added formal verification to my CTL library variant, the STL for C.

https://github.com/rurban/ctl/commit/cc65e82ba1fdafcf9c83697...

cbmc found some huge bugs the testsuites were not able to find.

KLEE has similar status as Z3. Hugely popular, but rarely used in practice. Educational toys, or used in side-projects only.
What I don't understand from here is that even if MS were to take over, wouldn't they be restricted under the same law?

ie. if its not favorable for MS, maybe they just want to ditch the country too?
What I don't understand is why anybody would believe opinion pieces put out by their employer regarding if a union is right for you or not. Your interests are clearly not aligned. Is there some segment of workers who can't appreciate that fact? Whenever anybody gives you an opinion on anything, it will be tainted with their interests. Is pondering a topic from another party's perspective an exceptional critical thinking skill of sorts? I ask because it seems this sort of advertising is often effective.
I can't respond to your original post anymore, because it's already downvoted into oblivion, so I'm going to post my reply here:

> The best argument against unions is thay they violate contract liberty, and thereby inhibit market freedom and increase economic rent seeking.

Freedom of contract is about state interference. Worker's unions are compatible with free markets as much as corporate groups or large companies are. You can't make a logical argument rejecting only one of them.

> any industry in the US that came to be dominated by unions became uncompetitive: the auto industry, US Steel, and the passenger rail service

Except that a lot of the competition from other countries that supposedly leapfrogged them has famously strong unions. So much in fact they're usually used as examples for them. How do you reconcile that?

Also the US car industry isn't even that bad off and neither is steel.

Saying that your argument is limping would be sugar-coating it. If that was truly - as you say - the "best" argument against unions, then... oh well.
I tried it in curl before your edit and yeah, "curl https://ext-sq.squarespace.com -H 'Host: cranberry-groundhog-8agy.squarespace.com'" just returns this site.

Probably something to use before your IT team sets up the CNAME record.
Seems rather lopsided. There's plenty of other development I think could reasonably be considered "professional" that may not even touch a browser or use Python.
Parody of a typical comp.theory newsgroup discussion on a P≠NP proof (2004)
I found this through the list of P vs NP "proofs" that Gerhard Woeginger maintains [0] and could not help but give it a chuckle.

[0] https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm
Dennis Rodman I observed when he played for the Detroit Pistons was worth one game in every playoff series. He had the ability to get in one players head and force him to drastically underperform.

With the Chicago Bulls it was Scottie Pippen. Michael Jordan saw it and convinced the Bulls to trade for him not just for his prodigious rebounding capability but for the intangible. Pippen wasn't excited about it because he hated Rodman but he went along with it and a dynasty was born.
That's not what I asked, but maybe I can try to rephrase it. It seems odd to be going to such verbose lengths to defend something you wrote but apparently don't want other people to see.
It's fairly unreasonable to assume everyone knows about all the issues on both sides. The current echo chambers make it hard to look at centralist/opposite-leaning news since it might ignite distaste for the reasoning that side uses (aka less dopamine gets fired when you read it compared to when reading from your favorite source), plus news sources that express completely opposite views aren't shared in your echo chamber circles in the first place since you probably don't follow or often talk with people who think opposite of you.

But to address the left-wing causes on the site, It doesn't actually seem like they're partisan issues unless you're talking about the ones specifically about the previous administration, perhaps except for #22 (which boils down to 'we should tax the wealthy', aka something that was not censored, even if it was narrated against) and #6 which is specifically about a new national news source which is trying to deceive readers by appearing as a bunch of different local news sources. Obviously you might not agree with more but they don't seem to be strictly selecting left-wing articles for this top 25 list.
Lets see how long it takes to kill it, if they keep being 3rd

> The Information reports that Alphabet leadership briefly considered leaving the cloud infrastructure market in 2018 due to concerns over profitability. While they ultimately opted to invest in a buildout, long-term funding looks contingent on Google Cloud leapfrogging Microsoft in market share by 2023.

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitio...
Amazon recently opened up in Sweden.

According to this (Danish)

https://fagbladet3f.dk/artikel/svenske-amazon-arbejdere-faar...

the workers are in an union.
I just want to know how you know that "you" are incredibly right in this. You are just speculating like everybody else here. There is no quality or quantitative measurement available here for you to make these absolute statements. The only thing that I can gather from your text is that a lot can go wrong in fact.

Having the prototype that is exploding is NOT fine at this stage and that is "my" opinion. Your opinion is yours alone.

You are basically claiming your analysis is indisputable and that it has to be accepted and your belief in people's intelligence makes it so and I am stupid because you believe that they are smarter.

It is not matter of getting it right the first time and improvements in parts and efficiency. It is about having it never explode after the first round.

I don't care who you believe they are beating in the market place and how magnificent you believe this rocket is.

Good luck if you are associated with this venture. If so you are allowed to pump it.
I’m not sure that I’ll ever recover from being called moderately smart but I’ll try not to take it personally haha

The reason I mentioned peer reviewed research was more to provide context to the timeline and roadmap rather than to argue that it was better. Something I’ve seen a few times is that Cardano is a ghost chain which I don’t think is accurate given where they are at in their roadmap. If they don’t gain adoption after deploying smart contracts then they could become one but personally I don’t think that’s a fair characterisation at this point.

DPoS, staking, smart contracts, native tokens, metadata etc aren’t new but I do think there’s some interesting implementation details that make what Cardano are doing interesting.

Anyway, it’s not my intention to get into a religious war around crypto projects and I have no particular affiliation with Cardano or investment in it.
> you are introducing top-down control and limiting the free market that is so effective at coordinating large numbers of people to better meet their collective needs

I can't believe you're saying that with a straight face, talking about Jeff Bezzos' company, after covid and 2020.
Having the latest graphics is probably a fairly niche interest I would think? Fairly exhausting to keep up with, and tends to be a bit cyclic: consoles are ahead for a few years, then behind, then jump ahead again.

I think for most people the decision on PC vs a particular console is:

* Which types of games tend to be available on that platform.

* Which specific games that they like are available on that platform.

* Inertial / brand loyalty based on what gaming machine they had on the past.

* If they play multiplayer, what their friends have.

* How much they like tinkering with / get frustrated fighting against computers.
This seems like the most mundane anti union campaign. Other times there are veiled threats about "competitiveness" and work allocation and such.

Amazon: "Don't pay $500 in dues"

Their main argument is that it is not worth the money.
I think we should keep asking that question about everything spoken or printed that someone, somewhere might potentially disagree with or find objectionable. Free speech means freedom from disagreement and objection. So all speech should be approved ("allowed") by the proper authorities before being able to be communicated. Free speech is restricted speech.
Genuine question:

From Amazon's perspective unions are strictly a net-loss. Even if the unions offered the employees zero advantages, the same paychecks from Amazon would have less impact on workers because of dues/meetings, so you'd expect moderately higher attrition and other negative effects.

On the flip side though, is it actually clear that an Amazon union _would_ benefit workers once accounting for the overhead? Is that even the goal, or are prospective Amazon unions just trying to improve safety levels to something on par with other warehouses? Are there other factors?
Median household income in nyc proper is 50k. It's only 100k if you include the burns further out.
When I read an article that annoys me, I usually just shake my head and move forward. Today however I cannot without comment. It is unfortunate that the article that has upset me is from a source that I usually have a great respect for, the Conference Board of Canada.
It's not difficult to find many regular people who hate unions vehemently. I would be angry too is someone spoke in my name without my consent.
I used to think this way too, but working over the years with TypeScript has gotten me so accustomed to it that it’s now the other way around. I feel much more productive in TS in general.

With TS its like you’re writing the unit test and your code at the same time, and if your types are expressed well enough you can also skip the compile+run+verify step.

I’ve had cases where I would spend days just writing code, refactoring and iterating, without building the project once, compile it at the end, and have a complex feature work correctly on first try, passing all the functional tests.

It’s like I have a pair working with me constantly compiling my code and pointing out syntax and interface errors while I concentrate on the business logic and big picture stuff.

When I go back to JS it’s as if I now have to do all that manual labour too, as well as constantly write and run unit tests myself to make sure what I write actually works.

Though it definitely took some time to get this comfortable with the TS type system.
That's correct. I got USD 3,500 credit in GCP for my startup.
On the last paragraph in the article (criticism of the lack of extensibility of the protocol), Gemini itself is a protocol largely designed to improve on the modern shortcomings of the gopher protocol, so if ever Gemini were to fall short of the demands of the type of people that use protocols like this, the solution is right under your nose: make a new protocol.

I'm a big fan of Gemini. I think the philosophy around light document delivery over the internet is very important. And the lack of extensibility is a core part of that, Gemini cannot be everything to everyone, by design. And no protocol should, I personally find the idea that http is used to deliver news articles and web apps to be a bit ridiculous, the protocol was extended well beyond what it was intended, and I can find no reason for this other than that people don't like typing different things on the left side of the "://", if they ever even type that part at all. Imagine an internet where people routinely use different protocols (and know about it), how much cleaner the experience would be.
It proves quite a lot about the hype around cloud native and the things it enables.

And there were great VR games before HL:Alyx and Alyx is no killer app.
Regardless how much security minded people would like to replace C, the POSIX world isn't going away in generations to come, so this kind of solutions is welcomed.

The only alternative to it, besides improved static analyzers, is the ongoing work from CPU and OS vendors to bring hardware tagged memory into mainstream computing.
> The USSR, had it not had to fight a cold war against the US, could very well have been a much better system not just for space flight, but for a way to structure and run society in general.

What makes you think that? If they had such a wonderful "way to structure and run society in general", why did the USSR and its satellite states have to systematically mass murder people who wanted to leave this wonderful society?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_from_the_Eastern_Bl...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schie%C3%9Fbefehl

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_graves_from_Soviet_mass_e...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_prisoner_massacres

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
> Some reasons Apple doesn't provide Xcode for Linux (a la Visual Studio)

Visual Studio Code is not Visual Studio, and AFAIK the latter cannot run on Linux, not even using WINE.
You can make this argument about literally any labor protection. “You’re only hurting people desperate for work by mandating safety requirements.” “You’re only hurting poor families by banning child labor.”
Deep consolations to your fate :) It must have been real torture. Putting it on school program is worse than putting Dostoevsky there. While i was able to read Dostoevsky again later at University, and that time i was enjoying it and started to understand him (at least it was my impression that i was understanding him), i was able to start reading Platonov only when i was doing heavy physical labor 12-14 hours/day 7 days a week while working in summer construction in Siberia ("stroyotryad") - that puts you into the state of mind suitable for Platonov :)
Article says data centers. They're the chicken that comes before the golden egg
This is a disordered degree of anxiety, even if it's relatively common. You should absolutely see a therapist and/or psychiatrist. Anxiety is very treatable.
Well the way they're adding services I suppose they could make a "paper" version of it soon.

Would be a fun conceptual project
I once had to fill out a regulatory form because a vendor wanted to send some bottles of wine to my coworkers and me, and instead of shipping every bottle separately he sent a case to our office in my name. FINRA has a rule that vendors cannot give gifts valued in excess of $100/year/person.

On the other hand, the Secretary of the Treasury can take $700k from Citadel to speak, and then weigh in at the cabinet level on current events involving a Citadel-backed hedge fund and a brokerage that sells its order flow to Citadel.

https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/key-topics/gifts-gratui...
> You declare that one way is more "convenient" than the other (he calls it ugly), without defining what "convenient" means. This makes the argument subjective.

Nope.

1. Some things are objectively more convenient than others.

2. I've explained exactly what I mean. And so did Dijkstra.

Since you apparently don't want to use natural numbers for indices, what do you want to use?
Google Co-Founder Brin’s Family Office to Open in Singapore
what barriers do institutions face in trying to implement logical niceties like real time settlement?
For fun... what are the major “bad” plays they’ve made?

The phone is probably the first that comes to mind.

That big MMO they tried to release was pretty bad.

I’m gonna try and predict the future and suggest their LotR original series will be bad.
> They increase that negotiating power by preventing the employer from negotiating with the larger labor pool. It is a zero sum gain that enables unionized workers to extract economic rent.

Such rent as sick leave, holidays, weekends, basic health insurance (US), ...? That rent?
When they say its negative -1000nT or whatever, what does that mean? Compasses point to the South Pole?
You can install apks on Q10s manually. I did that when WhatsApp was discontinued for BB 5 years back.
I’ve been wondering if we’ll see a drop in deaths in the future too. A lot of the deaths are people that wouldn’t live much longer anyway. If 2 years from now the death rate is 17% lower we only lost an average 2 life-years of the 17% population, which is tragic, but is it more tragic for the other 99.3% of people to lose 1 life year because of that?
Not sure why it was marked as a dupe, but IMO the poster should have included (2020) in the title to make it clear that this isn't breaking news from today. This article does provide value in explaining what's in the dump (plus the old tweet is no longer available) so maybe @dang will re-up[0] it later on.

0: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#second...
Thanks for the kind words! (EteSync developer here)

Sharing: you can also do sharing from all of the apps (e.g. Android), but yeah, you can't share from 3rd party apps (yet!).
There is an asymmetry because the union collects a due even if the fail to do the wage negotiation.
> IF YOU’RE PAYING DUES… it will be RESTRICTIVE meaning it won’t be easy to be as helpful and social with each other. So be a DOER, stay friendly and get things done versus paying dues

What is this line even supposed to mean? Probably the most incomprehensible union busting talking point I've ever heard.
>I wonder about the sort of person who would design such a website. Surely you'd have to be dead inside to create such an abomination, even if it's just a job? I am not trying to be hyperbolic here.

Though I disagree with Amazon's official arguments, I'm even more opposed to the notion that anyone who agrees with them is dead inside.
I love reading through things like this. Interesting and inconsistent use of the oxford comma.
Your memory would be more credible than mine certainly!

Perhaps I'm remembering my/people's reaction to first seeing reviews on Amazon.
ANSI escape codes (2019)
React has built in hook to handle state in components, useState.

It's the first hook that software engineers learn in React hooks.
If you live in the US, you can digitally check out audio books for free from public libraries. You get the quality of audio without any of the cost.
You must be angry a lot - and often, too.
The second Lens version is way easier to read IMO
Title should be: Books I like
I honestly don't find tests that "self documenting". They are complementary and optional to reference documentation, but much less readable. Every time I've looked at them, I've found myself better grasping what the function does by simply reading the function itself.

And having to read regexes in order to understand code seems more like a negative. In that regard pytest and simple unittest code reads more easily IMO.

The most readable test code I've come across is that written in jasmine (behavioural driven testing)
> what is Google supposed to do here?

We've seen this with MS already. Install Chrome - get either a random search engine assigned, or a randomised-order choice box.
I got a weird vibe of WW II-era propaganda from it, the cute music bopping dog... like a modern version of something out of a newsreel piece, or a parody of it from a Fallout videogame.

It's so blatant & over the top that I'd almost believe the union organizers set it up to make Amazon look bad.

And it's telling that they focus pretty exclusively on the $500 in dues: They pay their employees little enough that they know ~$10/week might be a significant decision making factor here.
This is really cool.

It could easily be taken to the next level of miniaturization by building a custom PCB to integrate all of the components. I bet a 1.5” diameter would be achievable!

Edit: Simple PCB fabric services are very cheap these days.
That’s a hard sentence to parse
Thanks. I felt lucky to read your responses to the person that's stuck on semantics or by whatever force(s) that make him assume he has choices when there's no choices.

Majority of people I've been able to have the discussion with do eventually understand free will is an illusion and "making choices" is just a human expression that doesn't describe reality. So, I think it's possible that one day determinists will out number free will believers. Would be nice to have been born into such a society that's modern and well structured for everyone's health with a dream of equality.

Btw, I have cancer so I don't have as much energy and cannot write on HackerNews as much as I used to be able to. Once again, thanks for writing what you did and even when it was just by fate.
One aspect can ruin the total safety. It can't be more safe than the least safe part of the trip. Sure, maybe in 50 years we'll figure out something better. But SpaceX is talking about flying long haul Earth to Earth routes with Starship, not a hypothetical future craft.
My god, it’s full of stars.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90227665/the-economy-is-booming-...

Quick Google search turned this up, I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole but this line seems relevant:

> Factors like race, gender, and educational attainment have an undeniable effect on people’s economic outcomes over time that unions do not necessarily flatten, but certainly helped to mitigate. For instance, macro-level data show that unionized workers, in general, see a wage boost of around 20%. When VanHeuvelen controlled for various demographic factors like race and geographic location, he tracked wage increases between 3% and 12.5% for union members.

I'd like my chances that will add up to more than $500 over the year if I were a union worker, and this does not take into account the other potential upsides.
> I wonder about the sort of person who would design such a website. Surely you'd have to be dead inside to create such an abomination, even if it's just a job?

I suggest you hang around Blind for a bit and you'll realize that some of our techie colleagues hold some.. interesting opinions about labor or about how much to pay workers we now consider 'essential'