skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not go to an Ivy, but I went to the 1-2 ranked public institution in the US (for CS). The baseline is definitely higher, but there is a big gap between people who got there by their own grit and determination and people who got there almost helplessly due to a tidal wave of fortunate circumstances (e.g. parents were in sweng, went to cushy private schools that inflated grades, "did" a bunch of charity work / extracurriculars to pad their resume for college).

The "not smart" people are the latter category: they can still pick things up quickly, but they viewed getting into the institution as the last hurdle they'll have to go through in order to be set for life. They just coasted and got Cs and didn't really care about learning new stuff because they knew the university's name on their degree alone would land them some cushy PM job where they wouldn't need that pesky coding ability every again).

It was actually infuriating because I really enjoy CS and getting paired up with these folks who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths but didn't care was disappointing. Most of them were uncomfortable with the mental struggle of doing difficult group projects, often just showing up for the "design session" but skipping out on most of the coding. I made a lot of enemies out of them when I told the profs to look at my (GPG-signed) git commits and consider how they want to distribute grading points.
> better benefits and better pay

You are only considering one side of the question -- and actually a limited form of that one side (namely, the material benefits/pay for the unionized employees).

What about the productivity of the firm and workers? The profits? The cohesiveness of the market strategy? The sense that the workers were participating in the success of the firm itself (and not the success of the union)? The creation of healthy relationships between management and labor?

It's probably beyond dispute that unions introduce a "middleman" between management and labor, but we are probably arguing about whether or not that middleman is (most often) a good or bad thing. (I do not dispute that sometimes unions can be healthy and might align its incentives with company success, but I tend to believe that this middleman is not usually a good thing except in extremely unhealthy companies -- perhaps like Amazon, and I must confess that in working with about 50 companies, of which less than 10 were union shops, I've never actually seen a union shop where labor didn't put union goals over company goals, to the detriment of both.)
I thought it was going to be about an actual era. Basically the modern era, in which our environment may be too clean, and potentially do weird things to our immune system, cus its an environment radically different from the one our immune system was designed to work in.
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The idea that iMessage was the lock-in factor here is absurd. No one purchased an iPhone specifically to get access to iMessage.
What's GBM?
the average grocery store clerk in the UK makes 8.80GPB/hr. Add on healthcare and they're coming out far ahead of an amazon warehouse worker.

Is it fair to compare the average wage of a warehouse worker across the entirety of the U.K. with the starting wage of a warehouse worker in a single deeply impoverished town?
I love the label unskilled.

I don't think most of my colleagues in academia could physically complete a shift in an Amazon warehouse. Is that a skill?

The labels unskilled and entry level are used to depress wage expectations not accurately represent the requirements of the work performed because the work is deemed to be of low economic value.
People whose marginal tax rates would be reduced by the implementation of a UBI are probably not hiring maids either before or after the implementation of UBI.
In Korean.
Imagining a federal $15 minimum wage will easily level up everyone in the town to middle class... (sarcasm)
Kaiser operates in Alabama too, just FYI.

You're correct that there's regional variation, but that's mostly a function of the medical networks. For instance, UHC's network may have more coverage in the Northeast than Blue Cross Blue Shield (or vice versa).

Ultimately, as full-time employees, Amazon's warehouse workers are entitled to the exact same health insurance as their white collar counterparts sitting in the offices, and they offer extremely above average Cadillac health insurance.
It was based on real research. I didn't see conclusive results confirmed though. Thiel is really into all of this afaik, which I actually applaud him for.
I surprised myself by spontaneously shedding a tear as I read that sentence.
I'm sorry, what? Are you saying aren't an organ donor because your family would not get paid for it? How would you value the organs? Do you believe having the ability to pay for an organ makes one more morally deserving to live?
GraphicsMagick is like ImageMagick but much more sane & performant.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
> The complaint alleges that Horwitz and 1inMM promised investors returns in excess of 35%

If someone offers you a 35% return and they aren't the Renaissance Medallion Fund, you should probably do your due diligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies#Medal...
> for a way to encourage Zoonotic disease, it’s hard to do better.

CAFO style agriculture is a front-runner also.
> Let me put it this way: if managers weren't forced down onto workers, maybe I'd work with a different manager or no manager at all.

Most employers will allow changing teams/managers internally. Also, you can discuss it with your employer and if you can convince them that you will be able to be productive and relevant without the need for a manager, some employers will actually entertain this request. Several startups actually have a very flattish structure and very loosely defined hierarchy.

> The employer used its "monopoly" to force management on me. That's cured by my ability to try to get a different job at a different workplace, yet somehow a closed union shop is different. It's a double standard.

It isn't a double standard. A closed union shop is clearly different, because it is not the employer's choice/will, but rather a legal binding. In the absence of such a binding, there wouldn't be any closed union shops. There is no legal binding on employers to assign managers to employees. It is an employer's choice/will/culture.

In a closed union shop, the worker who doesn't want to deal with the union isn't happy, and the employer isn't happy either. Both, the worker and the employer cannot do anything to change that. In your "forced management" example, it is just you who are unhappy, and you can try to make changes in your existing workplace with the possibility of some success, or find a new workplace.
My personal feelings are that all 3 are possible, but approximately 0.0001% of people will actually consider the likelihood of each one, but rather, most will choose whichever one is most convenient and comfortable to believe in.

Of course as an Asian person, whatever people believe in will have a direct impact on me. I remember after 9/11, the amount of awful things that were said and done to the Sikh population in my city. It didn’t matter they had literally nothing to do with the attacks. People were angry and wanted someone to blame.
Ah, the union vs anti-union discussion again. Seriously we should TDD our way out of this discussion. There are clearly some union policies that work and some others that don't. Can't we work out just the beneficial ones and enforce them as a baseline while discarding the bad ones? Print that as a standard and boom! You've got a compliance measure to rank unions :)
They don’t have cash for copays and all the other american nonsense so it’s not really the same thing.
It's really easy to run a private instance of your own: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Mine isn't publicly accessible so never gets throttled.
Other than images and videos degrading, I'm always surprised by the number of people who care so much about iMessage.

Is it even the extra features or do people primarily care about blue/green bubbles?
Turmeric is purported to have all of the qualities attributed to Silphium where as Asafoetida does not.
I'm stupid, but why does unemployment cause violent crime?
Frozen meat is perfectly fine, I use it all the time. And even if it wasn't, should we really sacrifice the environment for the sake of our tastebuds?
I guess to some extent it's about some aspect notion of "fairness". Another concern would be if their poor performance spills over into my own role and that prevents me from pursuing more interesting tasks that are more aligned with my growth/interests.

More practically, if I'm working at a place where my team has fixed head count I'd rather us have the ability to replace someone who's not contributing to the success of the team.
That Charleston plant has terrible quality control compared to the more mature, unionized group in Everett. Some airlines have refused shipments from south Carolina in preference to the Washington group.

https://leehamnews.com/2020/09/14/pontifications-boeing-sc-m...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+NFT+en...
Ahem. This idea that companies -- and CEOs in particular -- only weigh in on things that directly effect their businesses is absurd. See Hobby Lobby. See Henry Ford and his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. See Peter Thiel.

Even the unwashed plebes using the power of the purse to influence policy isn't new. Lest we forget the original BDS against South Africa. You don't play Sun City[0]. You don't buy gasoline from Shell.[1]

"Strangely" pearl clutching is only involved with the much less effective later, never the much more effective former.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_City_(song)
[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-12-me-3593-s...
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I checked that box on my recent DL renewal (against my family's wish). The moving send off photo in the article confirms I made the right choice.
> Amazon Warehouse workers have medical coverage here too. So they're leaps and bounds ahead if you want to go ahead and say that.

incorrect. they are OFFERED healthcare coverage. By this use of the word have, I have a private jet because I could buy one if I had the resources.
there wasn't a medical reason - if I remember correctly, the doctor said that if it wasn't causing any medical issues then there was no need to fix it.

I've had other NHS experiences that make this not particularly surprising.
On macOS my experience with Zoom in the browser is that the gallery mode works in Chrome, however in Chrome it has problems with the camera (it reports that the camera is in use, or will hog the cpu and work at about 1 frame per second). On Firefox the camera works fine, but there is no gallery mode. On Safari the gallery mode and camera both work, but audio does not work! So I need to choose whether to do without video, audio, or gallery mode, or I can connect to the meeting twice with two different browsers.
I think your motivations are different from most who are open to having their organs used to save others' lives.
I think an interesting addition would be the sexualization of pop music through the 00s and 10s. The other child post referenced the Janet Jackson super bowl fiasco. There was plenty of outrage for Britney Spears and I’d say even more for somes like WAP and Cardi B. While I think there is an argument to be made this started much earlier than the 00s there has been a lot of “outrage” more recently than I remember.

I also think it’s interesting that pretty much all of these themes have existed in music for the last 50 years or so but for a song to get real outrage it really needs to penetrate the ether. For example, the company selling these shoes sold ones with holy water in the heels, that a very small, in comparison, number of people knew about. I’d consider something like that sacrilegious, but I didn’t hear of any public outrage.
I hate this. I hate how it looks. I hate that it tracks me around the room.

I can't explain this hate. It's just my visceral reaction.
All the other entities are doing work - of course they need to be paid. You are dead, you're doing nothing. Why would you be paid?
Free healthcare - yeah I had to go to a hospital in Romania - I'd take my Alabama private hospital any day.
I'd love to see the social media or technology you willingly use and donate information to that allows others to get rich off your non-compensated usage.
I'm an Amazon warehouse worker in North Carolina. As far as health insurance, I pay 100% of the first $1500, then 10% of the next $15,000 (so $3000 total), then 0% of anything over $16,500. I wouldn't call that astonishing, but it is the minimum $0 monthly premium plan. Also, I'm generally happy at work. I basically feel well paid and well treated.
It's not a matter of identifying the obviously worst performers. It is about insulating the majority of middling workers from the whims of their bosses so they can't be fired at a moment's notice for a vaguely defined idea of "poor performance".
You are held accountable for performance of your team, directly or not. I have worked with people who were a net negative - try to push their work on me, or just being an asshole in general. The productivity would have been higher if they were not there, and I would be much happier.
An app/website where basically a person ask for help, And then near by people volunteer for doing the help.
This top comment and the thread caused by posting it actually seems to be the main source of heated discussions about whether lab leak suggestions are xenophobic or not.
I agree with the comment you were replying to. Throughout most of history, corporations were seen as institutions that took an active role in shaping society. This was particularly true in the gilded age. This idea that corporations are purely apolitical money making engines is relatively recent, something purely of the post ware era, and somewhat illusionary in truth.
:( Rest in peace DMX!
Good lord. A capitalist to the end. Do your next of kin even want the proceeds from the sale of your remains?
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With the shrinking fraction of jobs which are unionized, is it really surprising that a younger crowd has no experience with it?
Is it irrelevant or something? It felt relevant on this article and considering this is a startup site.

I don't mean to diminish the benefit of watching another young man being able to run and live with the heart of one's child in him but merely to ensure that some part of the value chain comes to rest where the person providing a crucial piece intended.

EDIT-Response since I'm now rate-limited.

User psychometry: I am not complaining about the downvotes, to be clear. I don't mind being voted down by people who disagree with me since that is how this platform is intended to be used. I would prefer not to because it makes what I say hard to see but if the community believes it doesn't fit, then it doesn't fit. This comment was intended to be a request for clarification from this guy, but if no one wants to share that's also okay. I won't be very upset. It is a sunny day in San Francisco with no traffic. I will go for a ride and if I am to die on my motorcycle, my organs will rot. That is unfortunate, but perhaps if that happens a year from now, they will instead be of use, and my family will be wealthier by some small measure.
> These were the best paying jobs that many of these workers had had in their entire lives

What does that have to do with health system
Ask HN: We're thinking to drop HTTP support, Thoughts?
We're planning to completely remove HTTP support across all our sites, endpoints, APIs. Meaning: Stop serving at 80 port. By doing so we'll be able to remove servers, nginx, loadbalancers, etcs that manage http traffic.This will save us a few bucks, reduce complecity and improve security.

Currently we're already forward(301) all http requests to https. Most of them bots, garbage.

Thoughts? Can we expect any problems? SEO? Browsers to refuse to connect? Or any unexpected problems?
Google sat around not prioritizing messaging and allowed the market to not decide on any sort of standard, except in countries that standardized on WhatsApp – basically, it's all a mess of different proprietary chat apps. Google themselves couldn't even decide on which proprietary chat app to stick with for their own services. They absolutely could have been WhatsApp (or bought them) but dropped a huge ball on that.

Then you've got telecoms who are anti-innovators. Google struggled to drag them into the 21st century with RCS, and as a result Google has to run their own RCS service to make up for so many carriers not yet supporting RCS.

Google has decidedly failed to make carriers do what they want where Apple has succeeded. The launch of the original iPhone was so disruptive in the sense that Apple found a carrier willing to allow them to ditch carrier-controlled app stores, implement visual voicemail, and offer an unlimited plan that was offered at a price point palatable enough for consumers.

I once tried to activate my Nexus 5X with Verizon, and they refused to do so because it wasn't a allowlisted device. Even though the phone had CDMA radios and was compatible on a technical level, Google apparently didn't bother to work with the largest carrier in America to get it to work (at least, at the time).

The fact that iMessage is built in to Apple's messaging app isn't really any different than someone deciding to use WhatsApp or Discord for chatting. SMS/MMS just happens to live in the same app. As antiquated and horrible as it is, SMS and MMS are the current universal standard, iMessage is not, and you can't expect Apple to be forced to make it so.

That means that iMessage itself is and was never relevant to the discussion of interoperability. The interoperable standard is SMS/MMS and you still can't count on cellular telecoms to support anything better than that, including RCS.

Now we're left with a duopoly where each party involved has zero incentive to cooperate. Perhaps this is the point where government intervention is supposed to kick in. Or maybe Google and Apple can scratch each other's backs to get Apple to climb aboard the RCS train.
X11 is a security nightmare. It is absolutely broken enough to justify a huge change.
Even the high end unions have pretty big problems.

Things like the actors guild are simple rent seeking at the expense of newcomings. They are setup in a way where only insiders are allowed to get jobs at certain places, and there are large barriers to entry to becoming an insider.

If we were to apply this to tech, it would be contract provisions that keep out engineers that dont have degree, or discrimination against H1B immigrants.

And I don't want the tech industry to have contractual provisions that discriminate against these groups, and would be willing to spend a huge amount of effort fighting people who want to do that. (And based on comments that I have read on hacker news, there really are a lot of people who want to screw over self-taught developers, or immigrants)
I went to college (University of Georgia) with Pell Grants for free. 100% free including lodging and dining, both Bachelors + Masters in Physics. My parents were unemployed at the time and we interviewed at the deans office for the grant, I clearly remember when my father broke down in tears. I had to borrow friend's books, use the library scanner to create PDFs of the pages that were important - couldn't afford textbooks.

I am eternally grateful for the FAFSA/Pell Grant program. Without it, I wouldn't be conducting fundamental science and getting paid 6 figures.

I know this is N=1 sample size, just wanted to put it out there.

I think college should be free only for people that cannot afford it. Rich kids should pay.
I agree with the author...partly.

Sure, <divs> and <spans> are not buttons and should not ever be used as those. Knowing and adhering to standards, especially when they are there for accessibility, is an excellent thing.

But in some cases, making links links instead of buttons (and similar scenarios) just means exposing internal works to the user. Say I have a SaaS with the classic "GET STARTED NOW" button on the landing page. Now I change my tech stack from something classic like Rails or Lavarel, where "get started" probably means a link to the signup page to some fancy JavaScript which triggers the action of overlaying a signup form. Would you really agree that the HTML for my "GET STARTED NOW" button should change depending on what kind of method my app uses?
The problem with Boeing is that there are not many aerospace employers to got to. An aerospace engineer can probably only work for 2 or 3 aerospace companies in their career. Not to mention they may have to completely uproot their life on each change of employer.
I prefer indoctrination that improves people's wages and working conditions as opposed to the present anti-union indoctrination that only serves to empower bosses at workers' expense.
It is crazy, but I've always wondered how many Ponzi schemes are currently going on. Given that this one was just caught despite being founded in 2012, it stands to reason that there are still some out there currently working that haven't been caught.
It's still just cherry picking 2 variables to graph together that may or may not be related.

Correlation != Causation.
Ah, in that case, one small bit of feedback - you might find a new term, rather than "cancel culture". To my understanding, that is a rallying cry for the American right wing. Specifically, it seems to be a criticism of a situation where private businesses decide what behavior is disallowed on their platform, especially when the violating entity is a conservative.
I replied to another poster but let me double down the fun.

Well first off, especially in low wage jobs, there is little they do for you and it can cost nearly two hours of your pay per month for the benefit. You get this wonderful set of rules which spells out what your employer can and cannot do but it also limits you as well. I got first hand experience in a union shop from late 1980s to early 1990s. My reward was seeing our rep once a quarter if we were lucky in her Mercedes which cost more than we made.

However for every complaint about people being anti union and listing off "Bunch of facts" you never see those same people list their facts that support a pro union stance. Most of the time its little more than what people already have with some variation of something they won't even get when unionized.

The simple fact is, in the US they are more political than worker oriented. They feed a ridiculous amount of dues and even state funds into political coffer so they come replete with lots of wonderful political supporters and press who love to lay the claim that workers will be better for representation. The benefactors are political appointees, elected officials, and union leadership. The workers are mostly pawns.

What I read about European unions would be very nice to see in the states but what I experienced, family members have experienced, is not this fantasy that some people have of what its like here.