skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It happens everywhere or almost everywhere in the West. Some country simply lose population due migration to other countries.

Inside immigration is also big. Small towns/cities are losing population while big cities/capitals are rapidly growing. We have hundreds of towns that once had thousands inhabitants and now they barely have a couple hundred and haven't seen a kid in more than a decade.

But as far as I know, there's no Detroits in Europe. The cities with most crimes are also the ones that are attracting more people and immigrants. The abandoned places are quiet and peaceful.

There's also growing trend of trying to revive those places by people that just can't take big cities anymore or people who work for home, etc. Why would they pay a huge chunk of their salary for a crappy shared flat on the city when they can live on a nice house with garden only 5 hours away?
Oh yes.

Charleroi Belgium comes to mind. Once a prosperous industrious town, now the glory is gone. Recently read somewhere there is a bit of revival, culturally at least. Economically I’m not sure. A bit like Detroit maybe.
thanks. The challenge with post-filtering is that the K in TopK becomes unpredictable if I'd like to get a fixed page size. I may end up issuing multiple queries with progressively large Ks to get a single page of results.
Replace `twitter.com` with `nitter.eu`:

https://nitter.eu/EU_SST/status/1380120766071635968
For people in the states, you can get appropriate cards from the White House for important occasions.

I sent Bill Clinton an invitation to my high school graduation party, and got a letter back from the White House telling me to work hard in college.

But mailing a birth announcement to the White House is a much better idea. They send a card back to the child welcoming them to the world. You can file it away and then give it to your kid when they are an adult and tell them this is the first letter they ever got.
We use Fly to run our website & control panel, that was previously hosted on Heroku. Not a big workload but we were able to move it regionally closer to our backend services to improve performance.

The deployment experience is just as easy as Heroku. Perhaps easier.
And like I said, there's up and downsides, and it really depends on what you want out of your career. Some people want the 9-5 clock-in-clock-out with well-defined rules and tasks, scheduled raises and all that, so they can focus on their real life. Others actually like the work they do, and are comfortable working hard to get four promotions in a year and "messiah" treatment from management. I'm sure there are bad non-union employers as you mentioned, but honestly in startup-land you're a lot more likely to have experiences like I described than otherwise.

>unlimited PTO

This, exactly this, is the problem with people in the union-mindset. "Oh it's unlimited, that means we don't need to work at all, right?" It means you have a certain amount of accountability and responsibility: "Hey, we just finished project X so I'm going to take Fri+Mon off to go camping" is a regular thing, without having to book your vacation dates a year in advance or deduct quarter-hours from your various "PTO banks", or even have to document it anywhere. It means the company trusts you to do the right thing. You're not going to see that in a union shop where you constantly have an adversarial relationship with your management.
> Is there similarly a "rust belt" in Germany

Not yet, but we are doing out best to deliver that in the near future \s

What we do have is sort of a coal belt. The Ruhr Area, where coal mining used to be big but has died out. Some regions did not recover from the closing of mines, Gelsenkirchen for example.
Likewise.

The pandemic showed us that the supply chain is more frail than we think. I also just finished Wages of Destruction, about economics in Nazi Germany. And at last I explored the nooks and crannies of an abandoned hospital.

It's eye-opening to see how complex a large building is, with all its pipes, wiring, and shafts. That's without considering the satellite buildings, or the specialised equipment on the actual production line.

It's also surprising to see how much depends on components and raw materials produced thousands of kilometres away.

And at last, it becomes obvious that you can't just spin up a new factory, nor can you trivially retool one or re(al)locate thousands of its workers.

Scaling up demands feats of logistics. Scaling down can bring financial ruin to entire regions.

This draws interesting parallels to the production of vaccine. You can't just throw more people at it for the same reasons.
What exactly would the retribution from Amazon look like, had this passed? They can't pick up the fulfillment center and move it somewhere else (without inconvenience, time, and expense, of course). They will need workers willing to travel to Bessemer for work, which presumably are people who live near or adjacent to Bessemer.
No.

Most of Japan is dying as nearly its entire population moves to Tokyo.

And that's only a slight sprinkle of hyperbole. Other regions are sustained only by tourism or by other industries where the average worker age is past 60.
Estonian Electronic Identity Card and Its Security Challenges [pdf]
It has a special workspace for editing RAW and can do most things Lightroom does. However it isn’t a streamlined experience, so I usually use one program to star and sort in directories and Photo to do the final edits. Darktable is what I use for sorting.
We need better education so that people stop voting against their own self-interest, in union elections and generally.
You should watch the full video – that's the point.
firstly, why is being abused and peeing in a bottle inevitable? Your post basically reads like how someone in 1500 would look at serfs and peasants in mud huts and say "that's as good as life of a common man is gonna be". Same goes for Victorian workhouses and children in coalmines.

Secondly, what is low skill exactly? Can these people not read, write, use Excel and email, could they not do secretarial and other jobs? I bet quite a few of them have degrees. Some countries have free education / upskilling specifically to avoid people getting trapped in this situation, and to improve overall productivity of the economy.
I've read that AV is a dumpster fire on Linux and you're lucky if anything runs and Linux has never solved it and no resolution in sight.
What do you think of the Screen Actors Guild? That seems to have been a huge win for workers in the industry, seemingly without the negatives you describe.
(disclaimer: I do this for a living) First, what is the purpose of the feedback?

NPS and similar are old-school corporate CYA tactics. Today you can look at the attributions for referrals and work with what people do not just say.

For improvement (e.g. you want to increase on-boarding completion rate) you need behavioural interviews.

Here are my latest channels: hubspot, email, intercom, inapp. Why I chose one or the other was determined by target audience (who I want to gather info from) + relevance (how close to the moment I want to find out about can I get) + tech capabilities (what is possible technically speaking).

Prior to this decision there was extensive behavioural mapping and profiling. It is the only way you can get quality responses, as user feedback is mostly qualitative.

Let me know if I can help
Just curious, what kind of host OS is Fly running for the machines hosting the VMs? A custom immutable image built with something like LinuxKit? A stock OS designed to be a container host, like Flatcar Linux? Or a conventional distro?
I think a Lightroom competitor was on their list (but for a while now, hope it arrives soon!)
How long ago was this going on?
In Europe, workers have workplace safety protections that these Amazon warehouse workers don't have. Amazon workers are treated as disposable, and unlike Europeans, their healthcare benefits don't extend beyond their usefulness to Amazon:

https://revealnews.org/article/how-amazon-hid-its-safety-cri...
With increase in population and decrease in fossil fuel level. Humans could definitely shift to electric vehicles for betterment and safety.
Kind of a weird premise. CEOs have always used their wealth and corporations to wield political power.
> In the jobs that I do, "bad performance" is super subjective and very hard to measure

Are you a poet?

In every job I've worked, from manual labor to writing code, it's incredibly easy to figure out who is "performing badly".
This is a mostly-fake, media phenomenon. Most CEOs and most companies do not engage in political activism, we just tend not to notice people not speaking out. What's described in this article is something the authors (and most journalists) want to happen, but it isn't actually happening at most companies.
People in America have been subjected to nearly 100 years of very successful anti union propaganda. They used to be very strong, but have since been eroded and vilified by capital.
I think that a huge amount of people in this country were and still are suffering from the economic impact of this virus and the related lockdowns and that desiring financial aid from the government to help support them in their time of need is not a matter of greed.
I remember going to the unions xmas party with my dad when I was a kid.
That's no different to Xcode. You just need to decorate properties for simple things, and maybe write a setup method or two if you want live-updates (eg to pull a weather map from a server)... Google @IBInspectable and @IBDesignable.

Unless you're saying that the most recent versions of Xcode don't do that, which would be news to me.

I agree that it's not well-used, but that's not the fault of Xcode. As far as I can tell it provides everything you'd need.
If the post above about average houses costing $90k there are true, then the Amazon workers are earning about $26k a year, that's around 3.5x salary to house cost.

I live in the middle of The Netherlands; the average house price is 360k and the average wage is 36k, that's around 10x salary to house cost.

One important point: in almost all cases in NL both partners work, the general rule is that women work part time and increasingly couples under 40 both work full time. That's how the insane house market is propped up.

Healthcare costs are around 200 EUR / person / month at the limit (you pay ~110 and the deductible is about 900 EUR a year).
The people at the top will move to a tax haven.
While low skill / high supply jobs can be more challenging in some cases to negotiate, I know many many employers that are having problems finding people even for the most entry level jobs.

Further good employees, even in low skill jobs, are very hard to find and even harder to retain. employers want to keep them, unionization often limits their ability to retain these high performing employees because they are not allowed to give bonus, raise or any other incentive beyond what is laid out by collective bargaining.

So I really do not see how it is easier to negotiate as a group. my personal experiences matches what have have observed in employment rations through out my career from when I was in a entry level position to now where I am in a higher skilled position
If 90%-95% of Europeans were killed by foreign invaders, and the remaining survivors were herded from concentration camp to reservation to concentration camp, and were then consistently robbed of their land by the government and resource extraction firms, you may be able to reasonably compare the plight of a native Dane to that of a native American.

Since that has not happened, such a comparison comes off as both incredibly tone-deaf, and incredibly ignorant of history.

PS. It's not Native Americans[1] that are driving anti-immigration sentiment in the United States.

[1] Yes, obviously, some of them harbour such sentiment. They don't make up the majority of the political support for it, though. Most of that support comes from European immigrants and descendants of European immigrants, many of whom were admitted into the country with not much more than the clothes on their backs.
Comparing centrality measures (mean, median, mode) on 200k+ trivia questions
Totally agreed. No one has explored textual interfaces for designers, because everyone assumes “well designers are visual thinkers so they must draw”. I think that’s somewhat reasonable but it’s also blunt and obtuse.

As it happens, I’m currently creating a platform-agnostic DSL specifically for designers. The goal is to give them a parametric language through which they can communicate their designs using their own mental models and verbiage.
"Not gonna lie. They had me in the first half."

Reading the dock I kept, repeatedly, thinking, "yeah, but that's not AI."
With security concerns, biggest challenges CTOs can face are phishing and ransomware.
You're right, but obviously the fear of retribution was enough to influence the vote.
The question of a lab leak is not incidental. The virus has caused massive suffering (and will continue to as we understand the fallout IMO).

If it leaked from a lab and that was hidden from the world we have to wonder how much suffering could have been avoided if all the information was given freely as Chinese authorities knew it.

There are some who suggest the virus was allowed to spread beyond China as a way to ensure China didn't fall behind competivley. Pure speculation, but we need to knowing if it came from a lab is a hugely important question.
But this time it's the correct political wielding of it!
That might be true on average, doesn’t mean that specific cases could have vastly different outcomes.

I don’t see how a propaganda campaign can push the vote to 70%, this is not Soviet Russia. Money does help but not on this order of magnitude (see Mike Bloomberg or many failed ballot propositions with tons of money behind them).
thx for the chicken edit
Commented in the other thread, but the original google link you posted did make this clear and I was just lazy / misreading it
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I'm reminded of the "eye statues" at the dungeon entrance of a Legend of Zelda game on Gameboy color:

https://www.purezc.net/Tiles/t1s1.gif
You have a skewed view of what it’s like on Windows or macOS. I certainly haven’t paid for a bunch of crappy, trivial apps — the utilities I use are all free (and don’t upload my data to the cloud, nor make me watch ads).

And are you saying that gimp is a superior product to photoshop? It’s not like you can’t get gimp or octave on non-free OSes, but for some (good) reasons illustrators and scientists and engineers choose to pay for photoshop and matlab.
Maybe. Maybe not. Let's take for the sake the argument that yes, it's a problem.

Should Amazon be prevented from closing the factory? For how long? Do they have to send as much product there as they did before? Can they open a non-union warehouse in Columbus, MS less than two hours away? Any temporary/sunsetting requirements just get factored in to the new math of how much a union would cost them. So maybe you buy the workers six months but the same thing happens. So if you actually want to "fix" things (again, from the assumed standpoint that shutting down the factory is a Bad Thing) the requirement has to be permanent. So is the requirement then that Amazon has to keep this one warehouse open in perpetuity just because its unionized? What if Amazon goes bankrupt? What if Amazon sells its fulfillment and shipping components to another company? What if that company buys everything except this one warehouse?

The argument of "they shouldn't be able to close the factory" falls apart pretty quickly when you think of how you would have to enforce it.
> But the unfortunate part is that it just ended up creating permanent ghetto subcultures of culturally ingrained poverty, crime, and government dependency.

Are you sure it was the welfare state that created it, and not continued discrimination, redlining, and systemic racism?

I don't believe all the people and organizations carrying out those practices just shriveled up and died as soon as the CRA was passed. You're looking at wet streets, and deducing that they obviously caused rain.
Man, I wish it was just that.

Using Qt apps under Gnome on Wayland can break in weird ways (e.g. in one case I saw popup menus opening in weird places or disappearing entirely). Meanwhile, because window decorations under Gnome are client side, the behaviour is weird and inconsistent (double-click on a Gnome titlebar and it maximizes, but double click on a Qt app titlebar and it doesn't).

So maybe switch to KDE? Unfortunately, the idea of a "primary" display simply doesn't exist in KDE on Wayland, which is a major regression for multi-monitor setups. And that's setting aside that KDE on Wayland still crashes on a very regular basis.

Under Gnome I've also seen apps like Guake that simply don't work properly due to either bugs in the compositor or limitations in the Wayland protocol (I'm still not sure which), so you need to find workarounds in those cases.

In general this leads to distros not enabling Wayland by default in clients and toolkits, even if Wayland is the default display server. For example, on Debian (testing), both Firefox and QT require special environment variables to be set depending on your setup. If you don't set them, those applications just use Xwayland and you lose things like fractional scaling. Force the use of Wayland and you end up with a lot of the issues I mention above.

Wayland is really coming along. When it works, it's smooth as butter and works great! Heck, I'd love to use it if only for fractional scaling support. But a lot of things are still very broken and it's still gonna take a while for things to mature.
> This is my fundamental problem with unions—it helps the insiders and hurts everyone else.

Misesean analysis showed that unions cannot benefit everyone, they always benefit the sr workers at the expense of the jr workers.
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It’s not a binary outcome. Of course all large organizations will have people of varying types. But it’s an order of magnitude easier to clean house outside of government and union shops.
Progress Blinds People to Progress
I've found all the companies I worked at rewarded merit and fired bad performers. Of course the systems were imperfect but on average both happened.
I also like zoom over the alternatives. Does it have problems, yes but what software doesn’t. I have been using zoom for years (my school switched early) compared to previous tools it just worked and worked well. Yes I know they lied and deceived but again marketing is always full of BS and guess who makes the blurbs we read on the internet about a company. Again the constantly changing UI is annoying but what is better? If someone has something better that even my grandma can use I will give it a shot.
What's your point?

If you want the laws changed, vote for a party that legitimately changes the law through the defined channels (congress, senate, etc).

However, if you break the law, be prepared to suffer the consequences.
For me, it is all anecdotes from my dad (some of which I observed first hand). He worked for unions for half of his career and then intentionally uprooted us to move to a right to work state purely to escape the unions. He moved up the ranks and ended his career as the general manager of a manufacturing facility. The next county over was heavily unionized. The contrast in the two counties was notable. The industry in the unionized county was run-down, falling apart, constantly in and out of bankruptcy.

The industry in the non-unionized county was literally some of the best in the world in what it does. The plants were clean and well run. Early on in the management-part of his career, my dad hired some formerly unionized workers who had moved up from the unionized county in order to find work (jobs were disappearing in that county due to the bankruptcies). They were fired in a few months because they wouldn't show up on time, were constantly dropping the ball, etc. In his opinion, their work ethic had been ruined.

I'm actually not anti-union, but I'm mostly anti US union. I think if we adopted a non-antagonistic model similar to Germany, it'd be alright.
Meanwhile the Teachers, Police, Firemen, Government workers, Health, public transportation workers do not live in a state of wage slavery where the best job they can get doesn't even give bathroom breaks (i.e Amazon)
To be fair, that's because the author of the project left Apple, and it was a one-man project.

I think the framework is even deprecated now.
Correct would be subjective
Brace, brace, brace ...
Yeah, give the employees some skin in the business, not just in the labor negotiations... Incentivize good union behavior, not adversarial behavior.
That's a very common misconception and a stubborn myth: https://youtu.be/l_aFHrzSBrM

I fry mushrooms (and many other things) in olive oil all the time. It works great, tastes great and as long as you use extra virgin oil, doesn't create any more harmful substances than using rapeseed or sunflower seed oil, probably a lot fewer actually.

You can even deep fry in it, which some celebrated chefs do.
If your friend complains about something you talk about then you stop talking about it.

If your friend complains about something they saw you do then you stop doing that in front of your friend.

If you're getting money to do something why would you stop just because a friend complains?

This is ultimately an ethical question. Not everyone has the same ethics.
The union Amazon warehouse voted against (the RWDSU) is a blue collar union.

Your point is a good one when we see the backlash against unions in software engineering and related fields. I just wanted to bring it back around to why anti-union comments on this story specifically would be right to cite their problems you listed in the 2nd sentence.
I was quite surprised to find that I could code and type normally while pedaling. I did expect this to be for just checking email, etc.

I don't think that you want to do fine mouse work at the same time as any physical activity.
Because crying victimhood over every perceived slight becomes the boy who cried wolf - sooner or later everyone realizes that the only way a union can justify itself is by creating problems where none existed. Otherwise, why waste money on union dues for something that isn't needed?

It CAN be both... but generally it isn't.
Most smaller startups, because it's literally do awesome work or shut down.

Trading/finance, because it's either outsmart the rival trading firms, or lose your entire stack in 1 day.
> What changed? I'm not sure, but I think it's that I'm working on a project that I believe in

To me, this is the difference between being able to work 3 hours a day vs being able to work 16 hours a day. To quote Steve Jobs:

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
That is an argument and such bad spirit.

The actual discussion is about the degree of which government should handle re-distributing wealth to the lower class and to what degree the middle and upper class is responsible.

The “divide” is that politicians on both sides who’s actions don’t always match their stated positions.
(oops, my comment was directed at the parent of the one I actually commented on)
Yes I know. I have bought it and used it in cooking. Takes a pretty light touch to not offend many (most?) western palates. Very easy to overdose, but I have loved it in my Indian friend's home cooked food.
Sorry for the late reply, the website uses data extracted from https://data.police.uk/data/ and organized in areas using the coordinate polygons. Yes it's clear that more populated areas will have a higher raw theft count but the app shows also rate of thefts per 100k as a better measurement.