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I have, I’ve been a welder/fabricator, a machine operator, a forklift driver, and a temp. I’ve seen anti-union propaganda. I’ve seen pro-union propaganda. And I’m familiar enough with the discourse that I don’t wonder why anyone chooses what they choose. And there are evil parasites on both sides. But rarely do I see people acknowledge the arguments of the other side, usually just calling them parasites.

> I'm not the original poster, so I'm not sure why you're responding to me as if I were.

This whole ting started because they said that how could someone do that unless they were dead inside which I inferred to mean they hadn’t been exposed to any reasons why someone would do that, and you couldn’t believe that anyone would be unaware as to the legitimate rational case against unions based on workers’ interests. So I observed that you didn’t share the same reaction as the original commenter when you were exposed to the propaganda.
> Whats more relevant to our discussion is that a high performer is not as easily replaced.

I agree that a high performing developer is hard to find, but so is a high performing manual worker.

Conversely in my experience retaining a high performing developer at market rates is easier, because the job is more rewarding (that’s what I think makes the job easier to do).

I think what you are talking about is scarcity driving the market salary rates for developers, not performance.

Personally I think a union with members including the scarce developers and the abundant manual workers would be a good thing for all the employees.

I expect 20 years from now there will be no scarcity of developers, and the vast majority of them will not be paid nearly as much as US manual workers - primarily because they will be working in poorer countries with labour laws that favour the employer.
Perhaps it works at your organization. I've been a PM where engineers and UX had no sense of ownership nor business sense. A PM's role is to understand what is important, how to prioritize, how to validate ideas fast, and how to avoid the tail wagging the dog (the tail could be UX, tech or your VP). If you have engineers and UX folks who can do this, more power to you!
Amazon is free to refuse to sign any contract with the union that doesn't leave them with their desired level of profitability. Forming a union doesn't change that.

Amazon undercuts competitors and plays hard ball with suppliers literally every day. That's business, that's life. I don't see why workers shouldn't take their opportunity to engage in tough negotiations with Amazon themselves.
AWS is 57% of Amazon's profit in 2020.

Cloud has barely begun.
3) The other party has a lot of stuff on his/her plate and does not get the luxury to spend hours of research/thought on architectural details.
>pleasure of writing C?

Compared to C++?
The web app depends on you being on the same wifi as a real Whatsapp mobile app. It’s more of a desktop solution.
So is the night sky.
I’ll take a look, thanks!

The threat to invoke the border protocol was absolutely shocking to me, so I’m very interested to learn more of the background.

Edit to add: for others reading this thread, here’s an article from the same site about that border protocol dispute: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/shellshock-in-bruss...
Sounds like a recipe for bureaucracy and ambiguous leadership. I can't imagine this ever working outside of a tech company with fat enough margins to keep 3 separate leads on an individual team.
"Imperial China, which accounts for most of the past 2000 years of mainland Chinese political history" is political theatre.

> China was politically divided during multiple periods in its history, with different regions ruled by different dynasties. These dynasties effectively functioned as separate states with their own court and political institutions. Political division existed during the Three Kingdoms, the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Northern and Southern dynasties, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periods, among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasties_in_Chinese_history
> No, they will lower prices and keep margins constant. This prevents competitors from moving in.

I'm not sure what to say about this other than, no, they won't.

If you're a publicly traded company, your investors want profit margins to go up, not stay the same. Unless you can convince them otherwise because you're growing -- but even then, they still want your profit margins to eventually rise.

If you go into a business thinking "I want to make $X, and I'll lower my prices until I hit that target", then you're approaching your business the wrong way.

Even in cases where companies are trying to cement a monopoly or drive competitors out of business, they still don't make their pricing decisions based on the cost of material/labor, they make their pricing decisions based on what prices will drive competitors out of business. Companies like Uber famously lose money on many of their services because they're trying to cement monopoly statuses for those industries. They get VC money and they price based on what they think they need to price. Their decisions are based on what the market looks like, and they're willing to have negative profits in order to hit the prices that they think are necessary.

In both cases, no competent business owner is thinking "I only want to hit $X profits this year, and anything over that is going to the consumers as a gift so that they'll like me."

> Similarly, increased benefits from collective bargaining will result in higher prices for amazon goods and services

See above, that's not how markets work. You don't charge what a product costs to make, you charge what the market will bear. Literally the first thing you should learn in an economics class. Products cost what people will pay for them.

This is (arguably) the entire cornerstone of free market Capitalism -- the idea that the value of a set of inputs into a business is not necessarily the same as the value of its outputs. One of the big points of Capitalism is that products get priced based on what people are willing to pay, not based on what they cost to produce or based on some kind of predetermined formula. If you have to pay your workers more, tough luck. Under Capitalism, your products are still only worth what the market is offering.

> and more automation

As opposed to right now, where Amazon isn't trying to automate any part of its warehousing or delivery process?

And in any case, automation is good. We want to eliminate bad jobs. And even among automation-critics who worry about lost jobs and the cost of retraining, their goal in opposing automation is not to make those jobs periodically worse and worse to try and keep pace with the price of machines.
You going to include a url? :)
That sounds like you had several people to do one person's job, not like it's a job that doesn't need to be done.

Solid UX people think like product people, but you either over-burden them, have them shift part of their roles off to others (research, user testing, etc),or do both jobs poorly. Good product people not also doing design, research, technical work, etc...they should be able to manage several teams / projects in a related area at once.
maybe there is a language thing here buy you said you are on an hourly contract?

Are you employed by this company as a full time employee, or are you a contractor?

In the U.S. at least, this is a night and day difference so I guess that is why I am trying to get clarification on that.
Trust everything you read on the Internet, sure.
There is time that you can spend in productive endeavors and there is time for rest and relaxation. If you're going to work at something, work at something useful. If you're going to occupy the time and energy of a government, occupy it with something that is helpful to the people being governed.

Sure, I'll spend time faffing about and commenting on HN, but I don't think that Congress needs to pass a resolution about it.
SpaceX targeting two Starlink launches for Thursday
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If you think that's hard don't look at the types for any moderately complicated JavaScript project.
Let's see! I'll try!
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> I’ve seen anti-union propaganda.

You yourself haven't even had the experience of going through life without seeing a significant amount of anti-union propaganda. Yet you believe there are people who miraculously have.
I don't know, I just returned a faulty smart light bulb and the process was beyond easy. Just select it from my previous orders, submit a request to return it, and choose how to send it back. Pretty easy.

As a "bonus" I was able to send it back through a Kohl's store so my wife got a 25% off coupon that she used to purchase some masks and socks (and stuff). Yes, I know, they got us to purchase more stuff, but she really likes shopping there and it was a "we're going there anyway" kind of thing. Plus I didn't have to box up the return or print a label or anything. Just show the clerk the QRCode and hand them the bare light bulb.
Interesting article. Here's a point of critique: I think highways and motorways are still commons –– At least in countries where their maintenance is paid by state money, ie. where they are not private roads. This is the classical argument of having the state in charge of providing the infrastructure (such as streets, but also water, electricity or fast internet). Here in Germany, privatisation of infrastructure is a frequent point of discussion and anger. From my point of view, this is the modern equivalent of the "commons become [...]" discussion, where [...] is now more like "bought by private companies" then "productive ressources".
People still think you need the most generic name possible, they just don't understand that the reason QuantumSpiritualCrystals.com was still available is that it wasn't generic.
> The other day I found myself watching a Chinese action film that only had Italian subtitles

The good old days of going down a Youtube rabbit hole :)
Strength only comes in numbers.
The challenge I've had with that model is that as a company gets more complex, having someone whose sole job is to focus on the business <> technology interface is invaluable as people start to specialize. It's often more valuable to have engineers with (say) 6/10 expertise in the business and 10/10 expertise in their technology domain, working alongside PMs with 10/10 expertise in the business and 6/10 expertise in the technology. It's simply very hard to be 10/10 in both domains.

I agree that PMs are largely overhead in the early days of a company, provided that you have strong product-minded engineers/designers.

(Also just my 2c from heading a PM department / being a former engineer)
> I agree that a high performing developer is hard to find, but so is a high performing manual worker.

high performing manual workers negotiate superior wages unless they are restrained by a union

> I think what you are talking about is scarcity driving the market salary rates for developers, not performance.

So they are related but the key concept here is that a low performer is more easily replaced, and so does not have the negotiation power to negotiate a higher wage. So these workers benefit from a union.

> Personally I think a union with members including the scarce developers and the abundant manual workers would be a good thing for all the employees.

It would be a good thing for the replaceable workers and a bad thing for the less replaceable workers.
Without rules I think you'd see a lot more violence. They'll get their way domestically, in the same way large enterprise has leveraged violence the world over to get their way.

Someone has to have a monopoly on violence or you're going to have a bad time.
LeGuin had a great essay called The Stalin in The Soul regarding Zamyatin and We, I first read it in her book The Language of The Night about 40 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night

Haven't found it online, but did find this description of it http://jesseabrahamlucas.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-stalin-in-... - for some reason I remembered it as the Stalin of The Soul.

on edit: Note the description is anti-LeGuin, and her conclusions of the essay, but is still worth reading I think.
A union in Germany negotiates income in multiple income brackets. People on the same bracket get the same income. As an employee you just negotiate which bracket you are on. You can still get more income from better performance.
Ask HN: Is it possible to change an audio stream or video stream on the fly?
Lets see people tap a button at any point in the audio or video stream and I want to show dynamically change the stream depending on how many people tap on it. Would FFmpeg be the best way of doing it?
This sound like a symptom of having too many smart people with too many diverging architectural ideas at the same place. How do the mgmt get them to march in the same direction? Easy, find the top 1% and create a mythological narrative around them. Then when a smart engineer in a team have a solid architectural idea he/she can defer to the Unicorn Principal that will "advocate" another "approach" that "balances tradeoffs" with "competing interests".

Sort of like the much hated ivory tower software architect.
From what you explained in Facebook examples, your whole domain is likely to be placed on adblock lists, which then has the result of other (non-ad) resources not loading resulting in a broken website.

There is also bottleneck issues with using one place for resource download.
The Logitech Marble is not thumb-controlled, which is probably what OP is looking for.

I use the Logitech, and it is amazing. The only downside is that I haven't figured out how to separate "ball scrolling" from the scroll wheel under Linux. Ball scrolling and wheel scrolling are interpreted as the same key input, meaning if you set wheel sideways to anything else than "scroll sideways" if you want to use a "button+ball" scroll as well.
It's too soon.
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Good work. That is how it should be measured.

In economics as far as I know, they measure productivity via salaries. The more money people make, the more productive they are assumed to be!
I suspect your “additionally” part is in fact the main reason. Emojis in Japanese phones were transmitted not by font information, but dedicated code points like Unicode. East Asian SMS systems need to implement multi-byte encoding for “real characters” anyway so it’s considerably less friction to add some fun ones. That’s much more difficult argument to make if you’re designing a system for the American audience.
Most of the world, definitely no. When it comes to education (and healthcare etc.), most if not all Europe definitely is.
A couple of Paul Davis’ submissions on HN deserve more discussion. Especially relevant to open source.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=PaulDavisThe1st
If being one of the most successful businesses in the world means you can’t pay your employees a living wage, then I think there’s a fundamental problem. That’s also context.
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Sounds like you’re not concerned about all scientific advances, you just want to give them enough to time to be sure there are no adverse side-effects.

Vaccines have been around for a very long time and have proven to be incredibly effective and safe. Nobody is embarrassed about how the vaccines for smallpox, polio and measles have worked out (apart from some misinformation in recent years -- you’ll have to do your own research on that one. If you come to it with an open mind I think you’ll come to agree those vaccines are safe.)
Business matters, you know, and CIA doing their work to get more bargaining chips.
You are spot on.
Universities PR scientific releases like this are usually bad. And I'd dare say, detrimental to science if it reaches the public.
It sets false expectations regarding scientific work and its meaning.
For volatile stocks like GME on IBKR right now, 300%, so very much the opposite of fractional reserve banking. Well, fractional, but the numerator is far larger than the denominator.
It seems the BB stock also popped last week, I wonder what happened there. Was there some WSB induced sort squeeze, or just a simple pump and dump, or did anything positive actually happen with the company itself?
You can pick up used HP NC523SFP or NC552SFP (better!) NICs for about $15-$25 each off eBay. The drivers fell out of support on RHEL8/CentOS8 but I think Fedora Server, RHEL7/CentOS7 and Ubuntu Server are fine with them. TrueNAS can make use of them as well. Then all you need is a 10GbE switch that can do bonding. Or, just make yourself a router with a bunch of dual port NICs.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-2-593717-B21-HPE-NC523SFP-DU...
> There's a reason why RH is accused of helping Citadel front run their own customers.

Are there serious accusations of front-running (a serious financial crime) and collusion to facilitate that crime? Or are you referring to people with a poor understanding of the interactions here making complaints that really boil down to privacy concerns, not actual front-running?

I haven't seen anyone post any evidence of actual front-running.

For why Citadel would pay for retail flow, if they're not committing financial crimes, market making is essentially profiting from separating pricing signal ("alpha") from pricing noise. If the prices are jumping around randomly, you make money by holding prices steady against that noise. If the prices are moving in one direction because new information ("alpha") has become available, you lose money if you try and hold prices steady against those moves. Empirically, in aggregate, retail flow has a lower signal-to-noise ratio (lower alpha) than the market as a whole, so market making on just that flow is more profitable, even though Reg NMS[0] requires Citadel to give RH customers' round-lot orders prices at least one cent per share better than available in the open market (price improvement over NBBO, combined with no sub-penny pricing).

By paying to exclusively trade against a low-alpha channel and damp out some of that noise before it affects the market as a whole, Citadel makes more money, at the expense of other market makers who would normally have exposure to that noise.

Also, there's a bias in execution called adverse selection: bad trades tend to get filled faster than good trades. For their non-market-making strategies, crossing against low-alpha flow has less adverse selection than trading those strategies on the public markets. Here too, RH customers trading round lots get prices at least 1 cent better per share than NBBO, unless the orders are passed through and placed on a regular public venue.

Disclosure: I work in financial services, but have never worked for Citadel.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulation-nms.asp
Depends on the change you want yes, you can apply filters on chunks https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html
In this regard, it's logical to conclude that all leaders of this world is helping China, such a strange world.
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Even then the P/E has only been ridiculous for a few of those years - the stock is valuable, but the company walks the walk too.
Everyone.

Points help you calibrate your own behaviour to be more helpful to others in this community.

Whatever helpful means in a context.

In this case it was a funny comment well received by the community.
Yeah at first I thought the analysis had failed to deliver data.
I don't have any resources to share on this, but I was also interested in this type of thing at your age (still am). If it interests you, never assume something is out of your league.

You have time on your side. Sustained effort compounded over time is unreasonably powerful. Keep pushing!
I was telling a friend what a treasure Irving Finkel is, and she turned around and said “He’s my uncle”. England can be a small country sometimes.
State Machine is just state machine. I don't understand the immediate association you implied with over-engineering.

It is essential for developing complex component, where to accomplish a single transaction requires a series of actions that is inseparable from each other, e.g. creating a viewable configuration object that has internal dependency among itself, or complex annotation tools.

To keep you sanity to handle the dependencies, and failure case, you need a state machine, period, or you invented your own without knowing, or your code is just too broken to be fixed.
No idea about scans but loc has some wired web archives - https://www.loc.gov/collections/science-blogs-web-archive/
Government apps no - both require a 'modern' Android or iPhone.

Banking apps partially - I can't use the web browser on my phone (it doesn't support modern enough crypto) but I can use the web browser on my laptop. Mostly it's that I've not been able to try any of the online-only challenger banks ;)
Pre-2000 porn was a wild ride. You were never more that 1 click away from crashing your computer under the weight of a hundred pop ups!
Your linked article doesn't show that, at all. AWS as we know it today essentially had its first public release in 2006 with EC2 and S3, which means it existed for 7 years before your article even breaks out profit for AWS in 2013.
I get what you are saying at a high level, but owning the business even in part would totally screw up the way unions work.

If the union has a vested interest in the betterment of the business, they loose the impartiality to serve the workers.

A lot of the places the unions end up with negotiated metrics that either had direct cash payouts, or effect the terms of the next union contract.

This doesn't seem to carry the weight you think it would, generally the bar is set low enough, and the reward is minimal, so I guess the incentive isn't that appealing.
https://betterexplained.com if you haven’t been through it yet.

Already often quoted on HN, and some discussions are interesting with the author bringing feedback. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbetterexplained.com
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That's the game theoretic analysis from an amoral standpoint. You'll forgive me if I don't think ignoring morality captures it better because you do have to embrace being a thief to take the optimal solution of a rational agent. There are many people who won't do that. Ignoring them doesn't seem quite fair to me.
The auctor is also complaining about suddenly obtaining touchscreen controls, however.
everybody seems to be talking about wages negotiation but let's remember that some Amazon employees had to pee in bottles. It's easier to collectively bargain for toilets to be better located (though it's sad that you have to)
The numbers I saw were around 21 billion in profits with around 800k employees. Correct me if I’m wrong on those, but that’s more than 1000/employee.
> I wonder what the value of short term naked short selling would even be?

First, to put everyone on the same footing as the market makers.

Second, just to make short selling easier in general. Short sellers are massively important to spots bubbles and other asset mispricings, but they never get any love.
I have to disagree with the idea that sales is somehow becoming a scientific process due to CRM. There are openly gut feeling fields like how a call seemed to go, how "hot" an opportunity is, etc.

Most of the ideas predate software as well. People had remarkably complex paper based sales systems.
I'm pretty sure Books.com is just as memorable as Amazon.com, what matters is the execution.
> The "C" in C stands for compatible.

Source?

Wiki says:

> A successor to the programming language B, C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 1973 to construct utilities running on Unix.

> In 1972, Ritchie started to improve B, which resulted in creating a new language C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language