skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many unions protect part time workers, or protect workers from being excluded from a fair share of benefits based on their inputs.

I can understand why this would be highly preferable for part time workers. Can you understand how a company might be able to afford to provide a $30,000/yr benefits package to workers who work 40 hours a week, but not be able to afford to provide a $30,000/yr benefits package to workers who work 20 hours a week? Can you see how increasing the cost of part time employment might make a lot of those part time jobs go away?

> 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 understand that it seems unfair for a company to replace one 40 hour worker with two 20 hour workers. Especially when the 40 hour worker has benefits and the 20 hour workers do not. The issue here is that requiring an employer to provide benefits for full time employees creates the situation where an employer may not be able to afford benefits for their full time employees. So in order to keep the business going, they do what they can. Making it more expensive for them to do this is just going to result in fewer businesses anyway.

> Collective bargaining is no joke.

Collective bargaining flattens worker salaries, the lower performing workers make more than they should and the higher performing workers make less. Its not a given that everyone wants this, or should want it. People should be able to negotiate as individuals.

> 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.

Not everyone wants all these things. More importantly, not everyone wants to pay for all of them. Some people could use the money elsewhere (perhaps they are covered under a spouse).

> 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 like a world where both of these things are available for people who choose them.

> I think she gets something like 6 weeks of leave per year, too. If I don’t work, I don’t get paid, period.

I personally would prefer to get paid more and manage my own finances and vacations. You don’t get interest on vacation days (although they do include health insurance).
Snowpack, next level build tool to speed up the development
The part-time/full-time issue is very union dependent. I was a member of the Teamster's union many moons ago and got zero benefits as a part-time worker.
I do the same. Here are the docs I used to configure it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Logitech_Marble_Mouse#S...
You won’t have many corporate or government contractors left if you exclude those that are vulnerable to 0-day exploits.
There's no center to it. Each obscure protocol or space is a separate small internet, only connected by the people that participate.

Gemini has quite a bit of good content, if you like to read without feeling the need to weigh in or interact, when the mood strikes you.
According to Robinhood, they didn’t want to put limits on anything, it was the cleaning house that made them, so there had to be something that triggered AMD restrictions?
Grime and UK drill are exporting multicultural London English
All fine and well, but then the Webpage should perhaps tone down a bit on the flashy images, and perhaps mention more prominently, that this iron is still glowing hot on the forge, and basically a tinkering environment for the time being.
> 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 mean “higher performing” according to the people who pay them.

> 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?”

I’ve been a welder/fabricator, machine operator, and forklift driver. Programming and web development isn’t easy although it isn’t physically arduous. Whats more relevant to our discussion is that a high performer is not as easily replaced. Physical work is honorable and demanding. Its also something a lot of people can do.
> Where do thrust and chamber pressure even come into the equation?

Thrust given to show difference in engine scale. Pressure isn't shown - what do you mean? :)

The point is that re-light of Briz and Fregat is very different and so hard to compare.
It does for marketplace but no aws as far as I know. Still makes sense that folks would be skeptical though.
Is every time someone pushes against something it's now "suppression"?

The National Labor Relations Act allows employers to argue against the employees voting for union formation.
I can’t share the code, but this is exactly what we do on my team. Using typescript and a light wrapper around useReducer, you can create a fairly robust state machine hook which uses a fairly simple interface to represent various valid states and how they can transition safely.

You’re right in thinking keeping state management in react is an asset. It’s where the state should always be, in my opinion. React is excellent at managing state and the more ways you can avoid doing it elsewhere, the happier you’ll be.

I’ll see if I can pull some sample code out without violating any contracts. I had a lot of fun putting the hook together - it was the project that totally sold hooks for me. They’re remarkably powerful due to ease of compositions and predictability of their state management. Combined with typescript it has been a total game changer for me.
This brought back a long lost memory of when before we had internet at home. My dad took me to an internet cafe and I had printed a whole list beforehand of sites I wanted to visit. I had just guessed a bunch of random domain names based on my interests and things I thought would have a cool website. Stuff like porshe.com, titanic.com, mountainbiking.com, spaceshuttle.com.
$ Heroku Whoami
I like the Blackberry Torch form factor, but it was a dud commercially, so what do I know.

Not as bad as the Storm though.
Happened twice to me now: weak product team and product definition. Engineering optimistically forges ahead and ultimately gets flogged for not delivering results. Long work hours, micromanaging, and unpleasant work culture.
First time experiencing it was a learning lesson early in my career. Second time I recognized red flags but had other reasons to keep the job. Ended up just as painful as I expected.
> This always takes me to USE YOUR PRODUCT. If you don't use your product, you'll never know if it is good.

This is a bit absolutist. Sure, use your product when it makes sense like in your case but many people here build things for user groups they don't belong to (constantly).

Besides: are you hitting all the same use cases your users are and at the same rate?

This advice always sounds nice but it's impossible to apply for lots of people. More generically applicable advice is that you should be acutely aware of your users real(!) experiences. This can be by using the product or by making sure the team sees and hears raw user feedback. Preferably combined with data that helps prioritize.

There's nothing like hearing the frustration in someone's voice when they are trying to accomplish something and _your product_ is holding them back. (well, except for experiencing it yourself and then we've circled back ;) )
I've also been using Zod for the same purpose - they've got a nice comparison section that included io-ts

https://github.com/colinhacks/zod#comparison
I don't know about Amazon, but many employers don't let most employees work full time. If that's the case these workers sort of are born into part-time employment since the socioeconomic class you grow up in is the biggest factor of success.
Google says that the magnetic field strength on surface is between 30µT and 60µT. To these values, the anomaly would be a bump of at most 3%.

I would guess the negative indicates that the field has reduced strength there.
> Don’t buy that dinner, don’t buy those school supplies, don’t buy those gifts because you won’t have that almost $500 you paid in dues. WHY NOT save the money and get the books, gifts & things you want? DO IT without dues!

Man, that is really grim. Basically admitting that $500 will be make or break for many of these employees, while the company itself is hitting record numbers.
I don't know how things work these days, but a few years ago, Google's GFS didn't support deletion. The "delete" flag only meant "don't replicate this data" and it was just simpler for them to keep it around until the disk died.

Source: This was published by Google in their research papers on GFS. Sorry, can't remember which paper.
> almost everyone with the same role gets basically the same pay

> without any unions

Good, they don’t need one then? They do the same job at the same performance but they somehow want more money. Good, so does everyone else.

> Minimum wage (or even amazons $15 minimum wage) jobs are very difficult to negotiate from a performance perspective given the nature of the job.

Yeah, it sounds like the government already mandated that they get paid more than their labor is worth so I’m sure a union would just introduce more parasitic loss without adding anything.
donation page reads:
"Your support will allow us to:
- Provide emergency humanitarian relief for Uyghur refugees
- Interview concentration camp survivors and help tell their story to the world
- Campaign to end "business as usual" while Uyghurs are suffering crimes against humanity"

Which one these do you despise exactly?
You’re right, not all unions protect part-timers. I’ve known of a few that do, but probably just never heard of many that don’t.
I guess what we all learned today is if you want to do something break it into its most simple components and do it.
> False assumption: "Higher performing workers" are good at bargaining.

I didn’t assume anything of the sort. Consider bargaining skills to be normally distributed in society.
Something other folks haven’t mentioned yet but it also means direct access to middle class households which are more likely to be buying books.
You could have a point. I tweak the query. Maybe after 20+ years I speak a query dialect optimized for Google.
Thanks for the motivation:

“Keep inventing, and don’t despair when at first the idea looks crazy. Remember to wander. Let curiosity be your compass. It remains Day 1.

Jeff”
Not everyone is interested in going public (e.g. see Valve), and correcting one wrong with another is not a valid approach.
I’m in Canada, but I work an hourly contract with no explicit vacation time. By law I need to be paid some minimum amount to cover the bare minimum of vacation time (4% of my wage, I think) but ultimately if I’m on vacation, I’m not going to get a pay cheque.
Because we already have systems that are already superior and much more stable, we don't have to endure any artificial shocks due to inherent instabilities in the system (caused in large due to interest and other immoral practices).

The 2008 crash was just one manifestation of what happens when the system is taken to its logical conclusion, it all comes crumbling down eventually because it is not sustainable. We saw it these past two weeks with GME, however, the big players stepped in to put a stop to it because they can't allow the market to play by their own rules (because they're unstable).

I have no issues with businesses going under because they can't compete, that's how a free market operates. I have issues with lending money with interest and other predatory practices, such as shorting, because they destroy economies and/or exploit one class, causing the lender to gain an unfair and immoral advantage simply because he has money.

Gain wealth, but do it morally and without exploiting others. I'm all for that.
Side stepping all the union talk, this site is ugly and inaccessible. The contrast ratios are awful; white text sitting on top of full screen, lightly colored videos? This was made in haste by some amateurs. Or maybe it's trying to be trendy? It's tragic either way. Doubly so if you actually read the content.
Take a look at IndieHackers, maybe?
The thing you’ll get to hear the most is: “find problems”.
Unions don’t increase wages by negotiating, they do it by excluding non-union members from employment. It is literally the only mechanism by which unions can increase remuneration.
Amazon has had (and continues to have) its share of failed products, a very lot of them in fact. But then that's just how they operate[1]. Given their DNA they wouldn't have been where they are without those failed experiments. One could argue it's just one of those PR angles. But it's not. My last stint at Amazon was in Kindle tablet team. And boy did they experiment with hardware! ~2012 was the year when Amazon made a conscious choice to enter the hardware market to complement their AWS offering. There were close to a dozen devices being worked upon at that time. I think about 5-6 of them failed, some didn't even launch. But then, Eco succeeded and how! And now just look at the hardware devices they have launched.

I tend to look at Amazon and Apple and wonder. Both of them are valued at trillion dollars but the path couldn't have been more different. Apple being very deliberate, very long term, sometimes decade or more long, planning. Amazon on the other hand, hundreds of experiments, most fail and some succeed spectacularly. I remember an Amazon exec comparing these experiments to Cambrian explosion and I think it beautifully captures Amazon's DNA.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/03/jeff-bezo...
It uses the Etebase[0] SDK behind the scenes, so you can look at how Etebase works for how EteSync works. Here are the docs: https://docs.etebase.com/protocol-specs/introduction

The gist of it is: everything is encrypted. We can't see your calendar entries.

[0] https://www.etebase.com
Yes. You could do all-point-to-point CAN by or-ing all of the CAN-TX logic-level outputs, perhaps in an inverted tree, and then fanning out the global OR result to all CAN-TX logic-level inputs. Or, at short distances, just use wired-or at logic levels.
> What's the intended form factor of a laptop? What are the top 10 intended form factors?

Isn't the real questions why we allow devices or their makers to decide the "intended use-cases" and accept that many other use-cases are often near impossible. The PC revolution was about a general purpose computers, and laptops should imho still be general purpose computers; not machines for which some overlord in Mountainview or Cupertino checks on every button pressed whether I am allowed to do what I intend to do.

Politics aside, I am the only one who has the impression that with every new release of macOS or Firefox features get removed, that enabled me to personalize and optimize my workflows before?
I didn't know about !g. I'm using Firefox with the old style separated URL and search fields. I click the search field and the Google button on the menu that opens under the search string. However !g is useful when I tweak ed the search string in the DDG page.
What key features should an HR software have?
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/26/technology/amazon-q2-earnin...

I edited to remove my mistake, the downstream convo is gonna be wacky
Good point - might as well reduce that when possible.
If your root cause analysis leads to a preventative fix that amounts to “humans should not make mistake X” you haven’t done anything to prevent recurrence.
pretty ironic I can only charge android phones with the charger that came with my macbook
Okay, but what I really wanted to say is that I want a very small and low powered NAS without a big PSU. The PI is powered over USB, that's fine for me.
> Lots of documents and books contain passages in other languages, it's reasonably common

Yes they do, and since Gemini allows Unicode, it can cope with this. Note that books typically don't mark what language foreign words/phrases are in.

> But Gemini, at least in theory, is designed to be parseable.

If I was designing Gemini I'd design the source format as something very like Markdown and have it compile to a format which would be a subset of HTML. This would allow <span lang=...> constructs.
"Doer" sounds like they're trying to bring in the "maker" moniker into jobs where you don't really make anything. "Maker" sounds fun and positive - you're someone who creates something! Not really it has the same kind of effect when you're not making anything and you're just doing what you were ordered to do.
Did anyone else read the headline here on HN, then look to the right at the parentheses that says "ucsf.edu" as the source, then think to themselves "press release from university PR department", get a bit suspicious, then decide not to click on the article and move on with their evening?

I'm not hating, exactly -- universities do cool stuff often, and I like to hear about it. But when the source is the university itself it seems a bit like COI.

(And lo, ramraj07 and others' comments bear this out: not much to see here.)

Edit: after some backlash, let me clarify: I'm asking whether others look askance at university press releases. In my experience, they're often as fluffy as press releases from corporations and the like, which was a letdown early on for me. Does this anecdote align with anyone else's experience?
Capacitor-Less DRAM: Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide Thin-Film Transistors; IGZO-TFTs
Exactly what I thought.

For anyone unfamiliar with the term:
As an example, gaslighting is when Alice and Bob had an argument. Alice slaps Bob in the face. Then, three weeks later, Bob goes back to Alice and asks "why did you slap me during that fight" and Alice would go "That never happened, Bob. You slapped me. Are you insane?"
Thus making Bob question his memory and sanity by insisting on a false narrative.

What Facebook is doing is simply trying to lure people, it doesn't mean they are trying to question their sanity.
Context which will be blithely ignored.
For those who don't understand your comment about HFT saving money for retail investors, several well-regarded published studies suggest that the narrowing of mean bid-offer spreads since the introduction of HFT can be attributed to HFT.

There are actually a variety of HFT strategies, but there's good evidence that the high-speed market-making variety are good for small volume investors. Those in favor of getting rid of HFT should be specific about exactly which sorts of HFT they want to ban.

The narrowing of mean bid-offer spreads isn't surprising, since many HFT strategies are essentially faster versions of traditional market making. They're able to offer narrower spreads (better prices) than traditional market makers because they're faster at widening spreads (worsening prices) when the market starts to move in one direction. On average, this means better prices for people trading small amounts of stock. However, for large institutions that trade market-moving volumes, low-latency market making means worse prices, since the market makers are faster at noticing and widening spreads when there are large market-moving trades afoot.

Also, the ETF arbitrage variety of HFT strategies reduce the amount that ETF prices differ from the prices of the individual stocks within them. This results in fairer prices for people who primarily invest in ETFs.

On the other hand, low-latency market-making results in less liquidity being offered when the markets are moving quickly in one direction, which is when it's most important to have liquidity.

Also, for the average person, a very large portion of their exposure to the stock markets is through pension funds and mutual funds, which tend to make the sorts of large-volume market-moving trades that are hurt by HFT's ability to notice and quickly get out of the way to avoid being run over.

Disclosure: I've never worked for an HFT fund, but I do work in the financial services sector. I did some work on systems designed to reduce market impact of large institutional trades, part of which is breaking up patterns so that HFTs are worse at noticing and widening their spreads.
The difference between product manager and product owner is subtle enough that it doesn’t make too much difference in my experience. What’s a product owner at one company is a product manager at another and visa-versa.

The one with marketing in the title is about marketing rather than product management.
The Legacy That Jeff Bezos Is Leaving Behind at Amazon
Earlier discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25459119 (134 points/160 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440832 (102 points/84 comments)
I believe the point of the state machine wasn't to save the state but to show how to handle transitions from one state to another using a state machine.
<strike>They pay their employees so much that they only make $1k/employee in profit.</strike> The dues on top of whatever useless shit the union negotiates for could put amazon back into the read without any benefit for anyone except union officials.

Pleade strike the first sentence of this comment, thanks.
AWS didn’t suffer huge losses for years. In fact it was “hugely profitable”: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/9/6/amazons-pro...
So from 1977 until 2018, you could be required to pay union dues, even if you weren't a member of the union even in "right to work" states, 22 of them.

So it isn't like you've been free and clear to not have a union interfere with you being hired.

It took the supreme court (which over threw its own ruling) to remove this.

Additionally, even in places where you have union and non-union employees, the unions can make things difficult, and costly for non-union employees. My personal experience was that I removed from a wall mount a wi-fi router, rebooted it, and placed it back on the wall.

This resulted in me reprimanded, my department having to pay a 4 hour call out fee, to the union electrician.

So, my choices are to call out a union electrician to service the mounted piece of equipment. Or "accidentally" bump the IO switch on the surge protector.

It was this, and countless other stupid shit, that made me really dislike working in a place with a union.
Without reading the paper, I'm about 99% positive it also would mark the data as unused, which would allow the disk space to be reclaimed and overridden. Disks aren't write once.

It also likely would reindex it, meaning that you can't find it if you go looking for it unless you happen to know which disk it's in already and it hasn't been overwritten yet.
Nice article and great research. Nowadays it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish “real” reality online :-)
> published by LSE’s International Inequalities Institute

Sounds like an agenda based organization found the result they were hoping for.

In any case, what do rich people do with their income? They invest it. Taking that money away leads to less investment. If the taxes are high enough, the rich people leave, like they're leaving New York City, taking their business elsewhere.
But it's not a choice between vaccinating one person with one dose and vaccinating one person with two doses. It's a choice between vaccinating one person with two doses and vaccinating two people with one dose apiece.

If you try to give the person a second dose, that means you're causing another person to be walking around completely unprotected.