skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developer of EteSync here.

You can share your collections with other users, so it's definitely end-to-end encryption. Though I'd argue that even if it was just single-player, it was still e2ee, because you have multiple devices and the server is oblivious to the contents of the data. Sure, you could maybe call that client-side encryption to have a different term, but that would just confuse people.
I can totally second this as someone who began surfing web in 1997 as a university student.

Content discovery was next to non-existent. You had these directories like Y! or Lycos which more or less mirrored yellow pages. My group of friends would exchange interesting site links over e-mail, floppy disk or the good old way, write them down in a note book. Before you ask, internet surfing was only available in expensive public kiosks so browser book marks weren't of much use. Only when I got my own PC + internet in 2000 did I began using browser bookmarks.

And then Google became popular around 2002 just when I entered post-graduation and changed web surfing forever.
in Soviet Russia/Union you had radical Utopia gone wrong as the governing ideology, an ideology that could wipe anyone out just like that, without any constraints whatsoever; (talking here about the Utopia of Thomas Moore that is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29 - You didn't have as much power in the hands of the state in rest of Europe, until the damned nazis)
I liked this until I got to the end and saw Jeff is still doing that "Day 1" BS. groan
> 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.

Many of us don’t like unions. We consider them to be parasitic organizations that pervert the employer-employee-customer relationship without adding value. In fact, by twisting a business so that it is run for the benefit of the employees instead of for the mutual benefit of employees, employer, and customers, they destroy value. What is worse, unions have a nasty habit of convincing the government to make laws that effectively give the union a monopoly on certain kinds of tasks, preventing other workers from competing.

Now you may not agree with this perspective and its certainly something that people should discuss rather than accept uncritically. But have you considered that you’re so unfamiliar with the actual case against unions that you have trouble imagining how someone could make a website opposing them without being dead inside because you’ve only been exposed to pro-union arguments?
The link you posted is about the Moderna vaccine, not AstraZeneca.

I have no qualms with the Moderna vaccine, I consider it and the Pfizer to be the most effective and least questionable.
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Was the Tydings-Mcduffie act part of a larger political agenda?
"We" can be easily considered a prequel to the "Equilibrium" movie
I wonder how many people commenting have actually been part of a union. I have. My take is that if it's voluntary: great. If the union has negotiated that a company cannot hire you without being a part of the union: not great. Perhaps that should even be illegal. Forcing people making minimum wage to pay union dues is as far from helping people at the bottom as you can get. Unions are typically about benefitting people with TENURE. It's one of the reasons you end up with lots of tenured teachers with great pay who are impossible to fire, while the best young teachers with relatively terrible terms defect to private or charter schools, burn out, or become cynics and wait their turn to do nothing once they have tenure.
> Meanwhile, over in Seattle, AWS today reported revenue of $12.74 billion in the last quarter alone and operating income of $3.56 billion. For 2020, AWS’s operating income was $13.5 billion.
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> sometimes I feel like I don't see the results I expect to find

This gets brought up often but I wonder how much of that is just familiarity. Have you ever tried a different search engine if Google doesn't give you what you expected, or continued to either tweak the query or look further on Google anyway?
The way I always see it is that `null` is for known unknowns, and `undefined` is for unknown unknowns.

Explicitly defining something as `undefined` is paradoxical and IMO should never be done. I've tried to explain this concept to some co-workers without much lasting success, but it's a pretty common concept to other languages.

Undefined should basically never be used as a value directly.
This is not a useful list in any meaningful way - it's not for developers, it's for a subset of web developers.

That said the google SRE book isn't useful unless you're actually working at that scale, so seems more like the webdev version of A Brief History of Time or GEB where the important thing is to be able to say you've read it (or at least have it on your bookshelf)
CTO of UK IoT business. Yep, I once had this daily, but now, not every day but maybe once or twice every week or so.

For me, after some experimentation and ruling things out one by one, I found it to be bunch of things. First and foremost for me it was caused by work. Those lovely insane deadlines from the board are a big source of anxiety for me. Also, what I am consuming. Consuming from a diet perspective, news, social media etc etc. Oh and dont forget the after work beer or two some days!

My solution that has worked was to do the usual diet tidy up, reduction of alcohol, EXERCISE. Then some thinking on a daily basis. Not the cool kids meditation but more just mindful thankfulness for what my life has given me. With all the craziness in the world, being thankful for the little things made my daily existence more content and happy.

Important to take time out for yourself too. Get yourself a hobby or some other interest that sparks a passion in you again. Or just timeout to do whatever floats ones boat. Your time is important. Even if that means getting up with the lark, do it.

I have also found a technique, by accident, when I am feeling anxious or being confronted with a stressful situation in work or other situations. The technique involves a mental note to almost "rise" above or "tape a step back" from myself and the situation I am in. In real-time too. This enables me to detach from the moment, without going into shutdown and see what is causing the emotional build up. Normally, its the lack of understanding, the known unknowns if you get me. Most worry comes to zilch. Remember that.

Hope this helps you friend.
Yes, they plan to land "tanker" starships directly back on earth after they have transferred their fuel to another vessel.

They plan to land passenger ballistic re-entry starships which fly without a booster directly to another city on earth in <30 minutes. These are going relatively slowly.

They plan to land orbital starships, which is like landing the dragon capsule. These are going far faster than the falcon booster ever goes. The second stage (on top of the falcon) never lands, it's disposed of every mission. The StarShip (top half) is essentially a reusable second stage.

The Starship mars or moon editions will remain in orbit and never land on Earth again after initial launch. These do not need hardware for an Earth descent and will rely on refuelling. The Moon edition will have no heat-shield tiles (no need for atmospheric entry) and special thrusters half-way up.

You are correct that interplanetry velocities are very high, so yes... a Mars entry at Earth-Mars transfer velocities is likely to be quite ... exciting. I can't remember how exciting though.
Is it common practice to put main thread blocking async await Fetch requests in UI components in Svelte? That's a very bad idea. The user can't so anything else in the app until that request completes. If they're on a slow mobile connection the UX is going to be pretty horrible, especially as the component doesn't give the user any feedback that something is happening or any option to cancel.
That very first * is the first major point for unions.

Many unions protect part time workers, or protect workers from being excluded from a fair share of benefits based on their inputs.

The reason for this is that there’s no incentive to push hours down until no one gets benefits. Which is not uncommon, unfortunately. Many companies tout incredible benefits with a significant portion of their workforce having no entitlement to it because of arbitrary suppression of their shifts.

I don’t believe unions are universally perfect. When they’re well run and union members participate and have a voice, they can be quite amazing. My partner’s union makes my cosy software job seem like it’s missing something. Sure she pays huge dues, but she’s also given protections and benefits I couldn’t even dream of.

I net about 4x as much as her on paper, but if you figured in the cumulative value of her union agreement, it would be much more than her dues. Collective bargaining is no joke. She has life insurance that would cost me an arm and a leg, a great pension plan, incredible leave options, very generous extended health/vision/dental benefits... It’s a long list.

I could say my money is better but it’s nowhere near as secure and dependable, and although it looks so much better paper, I’d be spending a huge amount to get the same benefits privately.

I think she gets something like 6 weeks of leave per year, too. If I don’t work, I don’t get paid, period.
In order to trade, the buyer delivers cash and the seller delivers shares. Imagine it's a short sale between banks. The buyer institution doesn't keep all of its assets in cash (no interest accumulation that way), so it has a division whose job it is to rent out treasuries overnight for cash to cover liquidity needs. The seller institution, meanwhile, has to go get some shares. By the way, shares can be acquired in a few different ways, each of which would be managed by a different group within the institution (stock loan, swaps, options, etc).

That doesn't even take into account the clearing aspect of the trade, where a separate corporation has to do the bookkeeping that says that Firm A sold a share short (shorts++) and Firm B bought a share long (longs++). Or wait, did Firm B cover an existing short (shorts--)? In the status quo, these numbers net out and get updated daily. But real-time settlement would require far more memory writes, so to speak.

In the end, I don't know if the nicety of real-time settlement is all that nice. You'd essentially have to either (A) make the entire system so fast that the existing process can take place instantaneously and so robust that it can happen millions of times a day, or (B) create an entirely new (blockchain?) methodology for clearing.
What is the fastest sort?
I was confused at that as well. Ultimately I decided it was a veiled threat that management would be angry and make their lives harder.
Internally Google has platforms that support easy reproducible builds, binary verification, secure deployment, etc. out of the box. Those don't exist for GCP (or, for that matter, other cloud platforms). That means you need a strong justification for GCP over borg.

Many acquisitions and Other Bets do end up on GCP after migrating from AWS/Azure, though.
Seems to be a staple in diplomacy for powerful states. Can't think of any that are exempt.
Google and FB are the initial targets due to size, but the draft isn't saying they're limiting the list.
I like this app (voice dream) for text to speech: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader/id496177674

Buy books wherever you want, then put them into voice dream to listen.
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Interesting. 3% of $25k/yr easily translates into $500 in post-tax income, and that's on the low end.
Hey everyone, developer of EteSync here. Sorry for not answering questions earlier, I literally just woke up. :P

If you are a developer, you may be interested in our related project, Etebase[0], which is an open-source SDK for building end-to-end encrypted applications. Here's the related HN discussion[1].

For those of you that are interested to learn more about EteSync, I was on FLOSS weekly last week[2], and I'll be giving a talk about Etebase at FOSDEM this weekend[3].

[0] https://www.etebase.com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25059133

[2] https://www.twit.community/t/floss-613-etesync-and-etebase/9...

[3] https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/etebase/
Q: Will NOT having a union provide better wages and benefits? A: Yes, it could. Unions introduce parasitic loss and collective bargaining. Collective bargaining allows a large part of the workforce to negotiate as one unit and consequently higher performing workers are unable to negotiate a salary commensurate with their performance. In order to retain higher performing workers, corporations end up paying average performing workers more and high performers less under union conditions. The amount of benefit you receive from collective bargaining, and if you receive a benefit at all, are directly related to your productivity relative to the median worker.
What is your tooling regarding CI/CD and documentation maintenance?
We thought we’d use off the shelf software to do (COTS ;)) but it seems incredibly complex and rigid for a SaMD that’s just, in a way, a simple function.
This isn't true. Why would you think so?
A) If the union has a good chance of increasing wages 400 to 600 per year locally, then that is a great deal for the union organizers, a passable deal for the workers, and a bad deal for Amazon. I didn't say they won't be able to raise wages at all - just maybe not enough to justify the $500 union fees.

B) Not every state is a right-to-work state. So, from a 'worker's of the world unite' perspective then obviously making a union in Alabama will help other places form unions.

I could be very wrong and perhaps the union could get 1 or 2k more per year - but I am skeptical.
the forum normally has hundreds, maybe thousands, of posts each day that all are some stupid bet on an option or another. To act as if SLV was the next hot thing is incredibly stupid and misinformed. It's like if I went into the politics subreddit and found one thing that is anti-Biden (there is basically zero upvoted threads anti-Biden) and everyone reported reddit hates Biden.
The idea isn't to use more simple tools, but to create an environment where only simple tools can be used.

Http was made to transport documents to people (or machines) requesting them. Then images. Then form submissions. Now, try going to a website where all you're trying to do is read some text and see what you get. The vast majority of web browsing to this day is people trying to read text. Yet the vast majority of links you click go to great lengths to do things other than deliver you text. Wouldn't you say, at least for that use case, that a more restrictive protocol would make everyone's lives a little better? It is not enough to just write documents without the megabytes of cruft packed in, you must make it so that to reach people you cannot pack megabytes of cruft into your documents.
To be fair, a lot of people that started their project a few years ago might never have heard of redux toolkit. I only know of it because I read hackernews.

I don’t think I really ever have to look at the redux docs, which probably doesn’t help.
Sidenote: are you from Lichtenstein?
Why do so many academic papers seem to omit or bury the publication date? I see the bibliography cites some papers with 2020 dates, so this paper must be from 2020 or 2021.

That really irks me. It's apparently a holdover from the days when papers were published in magazine-type journals which had an issue date. Putting a date on the paper made it clear how far behind the publisher was. Papers should now have dates on them.
From his Wikipedia page:

> He was high school valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar, and a Silver Knight Award winner in 1982.

> ... In 1986, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a 4.2 GPA and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree (B.S.E.) in electrical engineering and computer science

> ... After Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986, he was offered jobs at Intel, Bell Labs, and Andersen Consulting, among others. He first worked at Fitel, a fintech telecommunications start-up, where he was tasked with building a network for international trade. Bezos was promoted to head of development and director of customer service thereafter. He transitioned into the banking industry when he became a product manager at Bankers Trust. He worked there from 1988 to 1990. He then joined D. E. Shaw & Co, a newly founded hedge fund with a strong emphasis on mathematical modelling in 1990 and worked there until 1994. Bezos became D. E. Shaw's fourth senior vice-president at the age of 30.

Yes, he’s very good at business, but he’s clearly very “book smart” too.
You don't need to hold and transfer the cash immediately with T+2 settlement because effectively your broker is lending the cash to you for 2 days with the shares as collateral, hence the margin requirements and the RobinHood debacle.

But there's no fundamental reason that loan must be made by your broker, aside from the historical T+2 convention. You could just repo the shares for two days while you wait for the cash to arrive.
Maybe it’s more that they try, but fail to find any motivation to write something as mind-numbingly boring as documentation?
What you're talking about making illegal, requiring all employees to join the union or pay dues, that's already illegal in much of the country: that's what "right-to-work" laws do.

Alabama is one of the states with a right-to-work law.
Don't take it completely at face value. This wasn't just to to try to convince people that a union was a bad choice, this was a scare tactic to indicate how angry Amazon will be if they go ahead & unionize, and the consequences of that anger. See the part about not being so "helpful".

Unionization efforts also always take place against the backdrop of former employers simply shutting down the business location and moving elsewhere to avoid unions: Subtle and not so subtle threats of that are always in play during unionization efforts.
Not quite.

Chinese uses a system where every morpheme has it's own grapheme with some minor exceptions. Almost every grapheme maps to a single morpheme and thus a single pronunciation though there are obviously different morphemes with an identical pronunciation that might even be completely different parts of speech.

It is more similar to how Japanese is written, which has graphemes that correspond to phonemic moræ in the language, as well as digraphs of graphemes to express more complicated moræ, as well as finally using Chinese characters to express concepts and ideas, not morphemes as it is in Chinese. Consequently, in Japanese the same Chinese character can be pronounced very differently depending on the context, similar to how, for instance the English words “kingly” and “royal” reflect the same general concept, but are pronounce very differently.

What makes the situation even more complicated is that due to historical shifts in semantics, many word are now spelt with characters that no longer reflect the semantic concepts they express in modern times.

On top of that, most of these grapheme combinations also have an official way to spell them within the phonemic script, and this is not as phonemic as one might want, with pronunciation exceptions being rampant. — the official way to spell them phonemically does not always map to the official way to pronounce them.

I think modern Japanese might actually be a candidate for the language with the most complicated, least straightforward writing system that ever existed, given that it grows in complexity over time, rather than being simplified.

The big difference, however, is that Chinese is a language that is exceptionally suited to be written in a script that has one logo for each morpheme, because Chinese is bereft of allomorphs: each morpheme in Chinese has only one pronunciation, unlike in, say English, where words such as “feet” exist, or the plural marker is pronounced as /s/ or /z/ depending on the stem it is attached to.

Japanese is very much a language with allomorphs, much like English, which are not reflected in the Chinese characters, and the morphology of the Japanese verbal system is particularly ill-suited to be written how it is.
That, or they're pitting union and non-union members against each other.
The broad strokes claim that "companies" are monopsonistic is inaccurate... Some are, but it largely depends on location.

I think do unions in right to work states are excellent, though.
Same reason why Amazon can cut service to Parler. The First Amendment guarantees the right for private companies to govern their own properties, literature, and procedures.

If you do not like it you may criticize them publicly, boycott their business, or start your own competing employer with the policies you prefer.
737-max crashed because they never went through full blown simulation and acceptance procedures for it. They just made the body longer and compensated for differentials in flight control software parameters but they had a blind spot in their assumptions. Those aircrafts have decades of air flight simulation behind them and yet ....

Shuttle is a much finer craft but these guys may have different objectives and that is their prerogative. The fact that there are errors in there that can lead to explosion is troubling to me.

The claim that the explosions will lead towards a better design is an assumption.
I would urge you not to join Blind if you consider yourself reasonably comfortable with your perception of your coworkers. It will change.
Gosh, how badly I miss my Q10.

Had to switch to major OS because of banking and few other apps.

Every single device since then sucked, including BB Android based crap.

The last time I've something like that was when I switched to 9900
> higher performing workers

Do you mean the ones that sit at their keyboards earning a multiple of the salaries of those who do the actual physical work necessary to serve customers.

I often remind my colleagues that we are very lucky to have such easy and well paid jobs by asking the simple question, “how many bags of sand did you carry yesterday?”
They have a progressive webapp, no?
Plus...

* public cloud computing -- Amazon got it to work in a scalable and secure way.

* S3 object storage

* Dynamo -- A distributed, key-value store that ended up in products from S3 to Cassandra

* Redshift -- First cloud SQL data warehouse with ground-breaking ease of use

* RDS -- Cloud relational databases

* Amazon Aurora -- Relational DBMS that pushes the log and store into a virtualized, replicated storage layer

They've been particularly innovative in applications related to data.
Either is really, really hard to read, but I suspect that’s more haskell and the code itself than the naming.
This is why I’m afraid of building things that go all-in on a proprietary platform like Firebase.
Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design (2020)
Was in the industry for a stint, and the issue was not only about money going to Amazon. There was a serious fear for their usage data to be used as a window into their business (if not fear of more illegal and unethical access to their data)

The case of Amazon using internal market place data to guide their own product strategy has already been made over and over, so the precedent exists.
The alternative is turn to hardware tagged memory.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri...

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61059/gqajs.html

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/preparing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkoOD4hmiGE
It does say in the article it could be a helpful treatment for people who have tested positive for covid. Do you think that's just hype, or could it actually be helpful?