skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side I wonder how many of the pro union voices I see on Facebook or elsewhere, especially millennials & gen z, have ever worked a union job and seen what a seniority system or non-at-will employment actually looks like in practice.

Of the people I know that have direct experience with US unions, even those that ultimately come down on the side of supporting them have lots of stories to illustrate the warts. That’s a kind of nuance I’m not seeing from the “eat the rich” crowd which makes me think they don’t have direct experience.
For example if they thought it likely Amazon would just close up shop as a result.
Ah crap :/

…well I guess the "center of vision" is the center of the orbit ellipse… ;D

(just trying to salvage the mnemonic aid for myself)
I think one of the biggest problems is that the fishing nets are made out of thin plastic wire which then degrades over time and ultimately fragments into microscopic pieces of plastic that fish and other sea life end up eating.

The reason they eat is is because the microscopic particles floats in the water column like "snow", just like all of the other tiny things that fish eat while they swim around.
Maybe it's defeatable, but it's still fighting against user preferences. Not sure how you can make that sound palatable. The analogy is if the text documents dictated the editor settings, what font, size, color scheme and keybindings to use because emacs defaults are not to the document author's preferences.

>There's no downside to having optional defaults that users can partially override or fully ignore at their own convenience.

That's what GNU docs do, they use defaults: i.e. they follow user preferences.
Would 4.0 even run on modern OS? 32bit vs 64bit considerations. Hooks into graphics libraries in OS changes as well. No hardware acceleration in debayering RAW, etc. There have been a lot a lot a lot of changes since perpetual licensed versions of software that nobody would be happy sticking with just for license sake.
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> This vote was no because if it had been yes the likely consequence would have been all the voters being out of a job.

Isn't that a problem?
Why are you comparing absolute dollar amounts? Is the cost of living the same every where?
I imagine few bike thefts are even reported. I doubt precincts like LAPD care very much about bike theft, given a short drive around LA will put you past dozens of camps with piles of bike frames, sometimes right next to the city-issued port-a-pottie.
Why would you think that? And what is the amateur 'security' community?
I take it your attention span is shorter than 2 minutes.
Aside from the common sense that collective bargaining obviously puts you in a stronger negotiating position than individual bargaining for the same class of job, there is also plenty of data out there showing that unions deliver results. Anti-union people counter that by flooding the discourse with FUD propaganda that is often very persuasive but just because it's persuasive doesn't mean it is true.
Also did have a role in popularizing the the usage of vectors or was it someone else?
To everyone saying it's creepy, they call it "design fiction" so I think that's the point. We really do have little eyes looking at us much of the time. If they actually looked like eyes or we at least thought of them that way, then maybe we'd think a little more about whether we really want them around.
I just recently got a free pair of Bose headphones from Wix doing a marketing campaign for Wordpress. I'll share it on my YouTube channel eventually (20 million tech views).

Why did they do this? To address this specific problem with YouTube programmer influencers.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfV36TX5AejfAGIbtwTc7Zw
If my children want to work in coal mines I'll be damned if some union is going to take that away from them! /s
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Just as comparison, an entry level firefighter in Bessemer makes about $12/hour starting out. https://www.pbjcal.org/documents/salary/03BS/firefighter.pdf
Yes, well, at least it's Python 3.
The new Dell laptops only support "modern sleep". Linux doesn't support this very well, so while things look to go to sleep (eg, screens turn off) the system is still on, just idling. Since Linux doesn't have all the hardware support that Dell's drivers for Windows might, not all hardware devices are put into a low power mode.

So often what happens is nothing: the battery often drains completely overnight and it's guaranteed to be dead on Monday morning if I let it "sleep" on Friday.
Since some of the very first discussion of the topic in public was by the president using it as a political football alongside a trade war with China and a nontrivial amount of public fear and aversion to random people that happened to look Chinese, that well is pretty solidly poisoned at this point?
> Someone's right is someone else responsibility

I don't follow. What are some examples of this?
Are mRNA therapies the future of pharmaceuticals?
I'd like to add exiftool to this list.
The economic term for is "monopsony," where a single buyer has disproportionate leverage. However, there isn't much evidence this occurs in most labor markets. People can and do often leave Amazon for another job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
My mental crutch was always Apogee Software.
It's more intuitive that someone calls their company "High Point Software" than "Low Point Software".
I'd argue that removing the facade that anything else was going on is a positive outcome rather than a negative.

I'd also argue that promising stimulus payments when the country is facing an unprecedented global pandemic and all the knock on economic impacts is pretty reasonable, but I expect we disagree there as well.
What took me a long time to understand is that there are different types of nix expressions (e.g. nix modules). For a long time I thought they are all the same. I hope nix flakes fixes the situation when they are released/stable.
Speaking of which, are there good, reasonably priced PTZ cameras out there? I was thinking about trying to track "interesting" activity out my window, but last I looked I couldn't find anything hacker-friendly, not expensive, and likely to be supported under Linux.
the obvious problem is that exactly no one in the industry has ever devoted more that 3 brain cells and 5 seconds working out a universal standard to present their data. Stuff competitors! And why shouldn't they? They have minus zero interest in making life easier for their broader (and probably narrower also) consumer base.
I got it from your depiction of the actix kerfuffle. Maybe you didn't mean it, but all the original people involved who said similar things had very simplistic views of unsafe.
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From what I can tell, a lot of people in tech are anti blue collar union, but mistakenly assume that blue-collar unions are all unions.

For example, just in the replies to your comment people are saying they dislike unions because they protect the incompetent, stifle progression, give preferential treatment purely on seniority, etc.

But then go look at Hollywood, with the Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild, the PGA, etc. These are unions that have some of the most highly paid and richest people in the world as members. The same is true in the sports world.

And sure, these unions are not perfect by a long shot, but they are doing a huge amount to hold what is ultimately a very exploitative industry to account.

Of course, companies like Google, Amazon, and the like would much prefer software engineers continued to think that all unions were like the Teamsters. They don't want you to know that there's a whole class of professional unions serving some of the most highly paid people and engaging in collective bargaining.
I would not say that I’m anti-union but my experience working with a large union was pretty universally negative. It was just one more layer of bureaucracy that never really advocated for anything good. They consistently failed to deliver pay or benefits increases but would tote meaningless symbolic victories. The union was generally out of touch with the workers.
Personally I really like the idea of a workers association that would actually bring benefits to employees and focus on personally and community development as well but I don’t see a lot of innovation in how labor unions treat their constituents.
Cars are being manufactured in the above countries. You can likely name one automotive city in those countries. Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, Detroit, Fremont and so on. The US, Japan and Germany are the 2nd, 3rd and 4th largest automotive producers in the world.

Consumer electronics tend to be manufactured elsewhere, so far from these countries' respective electorates that slave labour could assemble them for all they care. Their jobs are not on these countries' list of priorities.
>If Hell's kitchen episodes and accounts from food industry workers are any indication, sanitation practices in food handling establishments elsewhere are not necessarily always stellar either.

The issue with wet markets isn't the sanitary practices of their workers so much as the fact that meat and other food is handled in very close proximity to live animals being slaughtered, and this combined with a large volume of foot traffic. Granted, I haven't seen all episodes of Kitchen Nightmares, but I've never seen slaughter of any kind taking place at a restaurant in that show, let alone at a restaurant that is visited by tens of thousands of people each day.
I think the integrations with other platforms are done this way, so I have my games from steam, epic etc and even the titles from my xbox pc pass all in one list in GOG. Dont know about other uses for extensions.
>not initially as elegantly or powerfully

i wouldn't call the web elegent or powerful today either
jq is a neat young one on this list I think

also at the metalevel, gnu parallel
What would Amazon do if they did Unionize? Move the warehouse?
I'm not sure if I'm reading this incorrectly and misinterpreting...

But Asian hate crimes are waaay up since the beginning of Covid-19

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56218684

Do you not call this xenophobia?

It would be my elementary understanding that this rise in hate crime against Asians may be related to the President of the U.S. aggressively referring to the virus as the "china virus" and broadcasting that this was all China's fault during this time.
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It's not conflating all unions, not even all unions in Alabama, it just mentions "in Alabama" since much less people would know where they meant if they said 'in Bessemer'.
And no sustainable way to fund it.
Not just that, but if we rank everyone, some people will inevitably be worse than others. Should those at the bottom be condemned to poverty?
This may be a bit of an ignorant question, but...

Are "dying cities/slums" a purely American phenomenon, in terms of rich first-world countries?

Is there similarly a "rust belt" in Germany, of cities that had an economic collapse after manufacturing died out? Are there rich European countries with flailing cities that devolve into crime and poverty? Does Europe have its own Bessemers, Detroits? (though I do hear Detroit isn't as bad as it's made out to be)
This new is actually a bigger step torward Wayland from Nvidia:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-G...

It seems that Nvidia finally is moving away from the GBM madness.
PS: and "because of all the thievery" is a viscous cycle phenomenon, because people who buy cheap due to thievery are the ones most likely to buy pre-owned. Legit pre-owned or not, and the cheaper the less they care.

I never lived in a place like that, but I suspect that in places like Amsterdam or Copenhagen the cycle of theft is bordering on turning into something that is effectively more like a service charge, as in occasionally your bike disappears for random unscheduled refurbishing/resale and you just go to the next "refurbishment center"/fence and pay them for a freshly serviced bike, hardly more than you'd pay for service the regular way, if you brought in own bike (and you'd have no bike in the meantime).

It almost sounds a bit romantic, but the huge downside is that you can't really use a higher value bike in that scenario and that severely reduces the general utility of cycling: the cheap clunkers that fit well into the "random unscheduled refurbishing" pattern might be fine on short distances, but they tend to be unbearably bad for longer rides (similar to bikeshare bikes, just not quite that bad)
It happened about a year ago, and I think one of the developers commented on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22272966
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That's not true, I've definitely spent more than an hour hanging around in a rock climbing harness.. and that's just two thigh straps + waist.
The stores sell things in goofy amounts to promote waste
My non-tehnical acquaintances are using it just fine. Any particular issues you've been having?
Closing it would almost certainly be a lot more expensive than meeting union demands, so I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that is likely.

Regardless, it's a decent argument for a nationwide union to avoid race to the bottom effects.
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Conservative Alabamans fleeced into voting against their own self interests time again? I'm shocked.

In all serious, the political theater espoused on these people has eroded their critical thinking, and this will come back to haunt us when there comes a time for serious leadership in the face of a changing climate, and all we have at the helm are grifters protected by their blind sheep majorities.
The screen actors guild
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GUIs are very useful for people who can read, because they have text in them. Even without text, "crop a photo until it looks nice" is no task for a command line or for language.
Thank you, I remember playing Inigo gets out when I was a child!
Congratulations Andrea, and thank you so much to you and everyone who contributed with tests and reports, and Eli for your work and this announcement!
USA needs better education so that people understand economics and labor markets, so they wont calling paid positions indentured servitude.
Yes, but you could skip a version easily in the old days!
VW _wanted_ a union in TN.
I agree in part, but to play devils advocate I don’t know that it fully encapsulates the problem of the shrinking middle class.

50 years ago you could be middle class with just a high school education, largely fueled by the manufacturing sector. I don’t think those equivalent cohorts in today’s economy moving up to the upper middle class in the methods you describe but rather they are left to fill the lower strata.
The Empire was never great, and the best you can say about it is they weren't always as terrible as the Belgians in the Congo.
This just makes me mad. Over the years extended family members have spent a lot on replacement iPhones for kids when what they really wanted to get for them was cheap Android phones.
Cost of living in the middle of nowhere in the US is almost certainly less than nearly anywhere in Western Europe. The media home value in Bessemer is like $90,000.
I think the cost of living in Small town Alabama is going to compare pretty favorably to anywhere in Europe.
I hate how the term privilege is thrown around these days, but man, this bizarre narrative reeks of privilege and some marxist fantasy.

Bezos is in his position because of his competency. He built the thing. Democracy is not a virtue in a workplace.
Pretty sure Git was a side project so that Linus could manage Linux source code like he wanted.
are you surprised shills run narrative on this and any other popular open forums and social networking sites?
Equating a specific approach with _the_ solution to the problem is the oldest trick in the book. You’re implicitly assuming that this specific proposal to form a union is equivalent to “having a say in how they work”. That’s definitely what people proposing the union would have everyone believe, but it’s not necessarily the reality. There are many other outcomes possible, and on the balance the people disagreed with that framing.
That's pretty much the main political divide in our country. Should poor people have it better off, or worse off?
I was a public teacher for 9 years, 2 years in a union and 7 years in a right to work state. The union experience was better as an employee. I find it hard to believe great teachers would go to private schools in large numbers as a result of being in a union, private schools generally have lower pay, lower benefits, and lower standards. The one thing you gain going to a private school is freedom to do as you want, and no standardized testing. Anecdotally the people I know who went to private schools had someone else to support them financially and could choose the easiest route available.
I agree - I was just pointing out the absurdity / inconsistency of the argument by AlexTWithBeard.
While that might be right,You are not taking into account that in Europe you get free healthcare & education.
Good point, it's even cheaper in Bessemer AL than basically anywhere in Europe, too
I have one. I don't like to use it. When I exercise my brain is way off in alpha wave territory. I found it harmful to actually getting work done. I go jogging or ride a bike instead.
Yes, one of those means the server can see all your messages and the other means it can't.

Transport encryption has been the default for almost all internet traffic for some years so it's no longer something that you can reasonably not have.
from the cursory read of the documentation on the openbsd site it doesn't seem to support TPMs. Setting up the encryption of a disk paritition does seem easier though.
Right, that seems more tractable than trying to restore the actual state of the device though which sounds like a different problem.
> Show me a well run union in the USA where they successfully compete against union union workers, their industry isn't being shipped overseas, and workers can optionally participate without having wages garnished.

Writers Guild of America East (for journalism), or the Authors Guild (novelists). You can become a journalist or a novelist without being a member. But both guilds have collective bargaining agreements with publishers.
All my information on unions comes from people who have worked in unionized industries. My father in law is a former educator for example.
The biggest so what is that if it's a lab leak, the failure can be analyzed and improvements be made to the safety process
A few things that help get me moving:

- Make a pretty fine-grained list of tasks that are likely 10-30 minutes

- Put my task list on an index card or whiteboard

- Maybe use a Pomodoro timer

- Change my physical environment - take a laptop outside, kitchen table, bed (or in olden times, McDonalds, library, mall food court, etc.)

- Overload on caffeine and sugary snacks

- Crank up some loud, angry-ish music

- Dangle a reward for myself (If I ship this app today, I can order another keyboard)

- Grind out a code kata on Codewars or somewhere else

- Before I quit for the day, lay out the first task or two for the morning

- Take a shower

- Take a walk
I'm not sure that this is an accurate description of the situation.
well played.
> After reading articles last year on Linus insinuating it would be "unlikely" that Linux would appear on the M1 [...] just like nature, open source "finds a way".

Not necessarily.

Reverse engineering the unknown architecture and porting the Linux kernel to the new machine is impressive work that we should support and celebrate.

But making it to be a usable desktop or laptop computer (e.g. with functional power management, 3D acceleration and other drivers) is another matter. See Nvidia graphics. Even after 10 years, some cards are still not fully supported by Nouveau due to the lack of documentation. I'm afraid that Apple M1 is going to stuck at a similar state for a long time - technically, Linux boots, but it's not a machine you'd like to browse the web, write code, or carry around.
> the downsides are real: hard to fire bad performers, your merits don't matter at all

Which work environments are merit based?

Which employers fire bad performers?
"her actual job should be to bring left and right together in the very controversial, almost unsolvable issues, and get them sorted out."

No, definitely not 'bring together'. It's 'stay above'.

Even 'mediating' is 'interference'.
> These were the best paying jobs that many of these workers had had in their entire lives

Until they get hurt on the job and Amazon fires them for failure to show up to work:

https://revealnews.org/article/how-amazon-hid-its-safety-cri...
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Have you seen a easy Asian wet market in person before? If you’re comparing it to Whole Foods I’m not sure you have?

The term itself is somewhat ambiguous [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_market] in that it can cover both cases. However the style common in many places in China (and many other areas in east Asia) is one where there is no refrigeration or adequate sanitation. To avoid spoilage, animals are brought in live and slaughtered as needed to provide meat. It can be when a customer picks it, or when needed to stock a counter.

These styles of market are problematic disease wise because it brings many species of animals together in crowded and often unsanitary conditions, high stress, with humans in close contact with them, and lots of people and animals coming and going constantly.

If you’re looking for a way to encourage Zoonotic disease, it’s hard to do better.
Amazon moving into these impovershed areas, becoming the majority employer, and having absolute influence over the local governance and electorate they themselves employ makes these places de facto a company town. Brilliant move, totally evil genius move, but brilliant.
Do you think he's appealing to people's inner economist - "vote for me because helicopter money is good for the economy" or to their greed?
"The best outcome is no democracy and a benevolent king that gives you a fair deal so you don't want elections. Democracy has huge tradeoffs and is better only as a last resort."

You're right. It's ideological. And you're on the wrong side of it.
Education is free up til college in the US and the healthcare for Amazon warehouse workers is the same as for their engineers and Jeff Bezos.
He was funnier than most comedians.
Because I used Java extensively around 2001, then not till 2020, I paid no attention in the interim. It seems like it had an early golden age, then a middle ages in which horrors like Spring were born to compensate for the stagnation, and is enjoying a resurgence or renaissance now with Scala / Clojure / Kotlin / Java16 ?