skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, thought it said “math addiction” dammit
Broadly speaking, the HN readership supports entrepreneurship, novel ideas and transparency; as a result, it tends to be critical of inherited wealth, entrenched institutions and arbitrary and opaque power. The royal family in England embodies all of the latter.[0]

Of course there are exceptions! Most people are empathetic and few openly celebrate the death of a 99-year-old. But I think it's fair to say that a large percent of the community here has reason to not be overly sentimental about the passing of Prince Philip.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-que...

"The Queen successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents discovered by the Guardian."
Throw the mouse out and just use emacs!
The piss bottles and bags to poop in weren't click-bait. This is based on leaked documents.

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottl...
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All the while, the hand was spending many multiples of their yearly income on telling them all the things they would have to go without when paying $500 in dues yearly.

America is utterly rotten.
That's not arbitrary code in the security sense though. It's the very narrow range of things which are permitted to run in a javascript sandbox (more or less "things javascript can do in a web browser context, minus the extremely small chance someone is trying to drop a JS 0day on you using this link")
Dagnammit - sci-hub.se is blocked by VirginMedia in the UK
Really, it seems indisputable to you that someone who’s job is on the line and who probably spent quite a bit of time looking into what was being proposed ultimately decided to vote no must be wrong? I’m curious what better information you have (especially to compensate for the lack of skin in the game so to speak) to come to that conclusion.
How do you get anything done throughout your day, if you took that joke so seriously?
AFAIK, Podman still uses cgroups to separate the containers.

Fly uses Firecracker to separate containers.

Those are two quite different methods and AFAICT Fly uses Firecracker because of the stronger security model of that solution.
How did you conclude that HN is anti-union? Please cite refs
The fact that something is illegal doesn't really address the issue of renewing/maintaining the legitimacy of a social organization. If anything saying that something is illegitimate or unjust because it is illegal suggests that one benefits from the status quo.
I'm definitely not in hurry to switch from X11 (it's good enough for my use cases) but this is an important step to enable a mass migration to Wayland. I'll give it a try as soon as screen sharing and video conferencing work out of the box for NVidia. Meet, Skype, Slack, etc. If a customer of mine use something that doesn't work on Wayland I have to keep using X11.
What set of facts could possibly have made unionization a bad idea? I genuinely can't imagine a single hypothetical which would make voting against this a good idea and would love to hear one.
What you are describing sounds like the onefile mode. Pyinstaller also has a onedir mode which is much faster to start. I packaged some python ml models into a pyinstaller built exe and a larger java application calls them. Onedir makes for a big install but they only take a second or two to run.
By that definition, companies are workplace monopolies. So are you against companies ? If you want to argue you can choose a different company, by the same token you can choose a different union by choosing a different company.
African Union, Australia and Philippines limit AstraZeneca’s vaccine use
Pay someone with social reach to write about it. Effectively, it's marketing of the subtle kind.
> It's impossible to conclusively prove

no it's not. it might be impossible to prove the negative, but if it did come from the lab there should be physical records and first hand witnesses.

> so what

so maybe we make it a point to have the lab shut down so this doesn't happen again? maybe we publicly acknowledge there are secret teams working on secret science and viruses that can kill people en masse?

but you have a point, it's always easier to embrace nihilism than tackle hard problems head on.
It's really no different than campaigning on tax breaks, industry subsidies, infrastructure plans, or a million other things. All of these ultimately boil down to "Elect me, and I'm putting more money in your pocket."
The people need to take care of themselves first, then their family, then their immediate surrounding, then their region and their country. Reversing the dependency on a large scale is not sustainable. Someone's right is someone else responsibility, for someone to receive money, someone else has to provide it. The government is a middleman in this transaction that wastes a substantial share of the value in the process.
> HN is very consistently anti-union.

Is it? It just seems to vary per thread.
I'd imagine you could but enough people just don't bother that it still ends up worth it.
$15 an hour is more than you can get in almost any place in Europe or the world for unskilled labor, what are you talking about?
How soon after the event will we find out whether they collided?
I think we're a bit naive in the west and most often assume good faith from certain other business cultures. We're not used to companies that engage in calculated perfidy that have their sorry prepared long before you've discovered the problem. To put another way, "It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission", or to beat around the bush even more: I disagree with Hanlon's razor.
I'm suggesting that if you are a valuable enough employee where you have a direct relationship with your employer (as the person I responded to said), you may still benefit from having a union like baseball players or screen writers. The wage table for those professions establishes a floor.

A warehouse employee is not likely to have any kind of relationship with anybody above their supervisor. They can only bargain collectively.
By that logic, we shouldn't have judicial systems. We shouldn't have any post-mortems. There shouldn't be any kind of accountability.
Especially in that region, I would take this vote rather as an indicator of the lack of alternatives. Amazon is so large that they could simply scrap that location without being that bothered, yet the workers do not have that freedom. The choice is between taking what you can get even if it is tied to bad working conditions or having nothing at all.
Fair enough, but I don't think that would be convincing to Jobs. It being hard to make apps idiomatic isn't ideal for an Apple development product. I suspect his view would be that this is a space better filled by an independent company that cares about such a product.
Eh, I don't think nix-env is all that bad. Put it this way:

nix-shell lets you dip your toes in the water, without learning the Nix language. Amazing value added... but sometimes it's annoying that it forgets that package you used yesterday.

nix-env lets you "install" software, without learning the Nix language. Great, now I can use that Nix package repeatedly without having to nix-shell it. We're still better off than "apt install" at this point, and it's no harder than that.

Everything else -- nixos config, home-manager, flakes, overlays, etc. -- requires Nix language knowledge, and non-superficial comfort level with the Nix data model (nixpkgs, attribute sets, and a very long tail of other things).

Nix-env is a beneficial stepping stone for converting dabblers into diehards, and is one of the Nash equilibria for some Nix users. (i.e., not everyone wants to learn the language and drink the koolaid, they just want to enjoy some additional benefits beyond nix-shell.)
Wow, you're not kidding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer,_Alabama#Economy

"Crime increased following the rise in unemployment and social disruption from the decline of manufacturing industries in the area. As of 2019 Bessemer ranks first in terms of violent crimes for US cities with 25,000 or more people."

Population has fallen from its peak in 1970 of 33k to 26k today.

Thanks for the reference.

EDIT: Also home to the world's oldest chicken, who lived 16 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(chicken)
To be fair, there is one shell that I think someday we could rely on. https://www.nushell.sh/ Besides that, my answer is "any programming language," since at the core, dealing properly with system calls and their outputs is the whole reason PL's exist. In practice, I've been using Rust lately which makes a nice systems language, but JS and Python are always options for shell-like scripts that don't suffer from quite the level of degeneracy when encountering weird filenames or unexpected input in general.
But I said with today's Element UI/UX. Anyway email was already a standard before corporations took over internet, it would have been really difficult to have a decentralized standard taking over in the 2009 Internet already. Also XMPP was EEE by both Google and Facebook around that time.
> "my desk is actually the perfect height for peddling"

Why is it so hard even for native speakers to spell the verb "pedal"? I mean it's spelled exactly like the noun, which most people seem to be able to spell properly.

It's a genuine question, I see this all the time, maybe most of the time actually. It's strange because typically people tend to over-generalise, not the other way around.
Curious to hear what ways and strategies you considered and landed on.
You're joking but really, I'm just a curious guy who likes to look up pricing every time someone groans about paywalls.

It seems the average is about $500/year which is (IMHO) insane unless it's your only paid news source.
My parents had to be in union (during USSR days). In their experience, unless you are a buddy of union leadership you got to go on vacation during worst times of the year to the worst (if any!) places only. You are also getting the crappiest job assignments. And yes, you had to give up a non-trivial part of your already miserable salary as union fees. Basically being friends of union leadership was absolutely critical.
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You nailed it. There wasn't some machiavellian plan at work, it's just that HyperCard was not a killer app, and not something that would help a struggling 90s-era Apple. It was one of many cool concept apps that came out of the early PC-era, and although it personally captured my 10-year-old imagination like no other, from a business perspective it never achieved the prominence or practicality of your FileMaker Pros and Microsoft Accesses.

Also, Steve Jobs wasn't even at Apple for the critical phase of HyperCard's life cycle. By the time he returned in 1997 there had been no meaningful investment in HyperCard for many years, and it's lack of a native networking paradigm meant that even if Apple had thrown their weight behind it, it would not have been possible to catch up to the web which was already well past critical mass at that point.
> in a place where SARS outbreaks have already occurred in the past,

Not correct. All previous SARS outbreaks were in a totally different places (~1000 km away).

Prof. Shi (石正丽, the head of the Wuhan virus lab) herself said in her March 2020 interview that she was totally surprised of a SARS outbreak in Wuhan. It is not a location where it was expected.
This is outstanding engineering but absolute nightmare fuel.
No, but many people spend a great deal of time reading, and it is possible to do that while cycling.
This goes for every hardware platform doesn't it? The Raspberry Pi foundation could decide to have Raspberry Pi systems boot only Windows 10 IOT only starting tomorrow. But they don't have any interest to do so.

Apple went out of their way to add support for third party OSes to Macs. They actively made tools to allow the Asahi Linux folks and others to boot unsigned OSes on M1 Macs. They would have had much less work - both in terms of making and maintaining the tools as well as customer support work - if they kept the boot system more similar to the iPad boot system it derives from. In general really Apple doesn't seem to be interested in closing down the Mac at this level. Hence why you can (attempt to) run third party OSes on virtually all Macintoshes going back to 1987 [1].

I for one am happy with that. If I buy an Apple Silicon Mac, I won't be running Linux on it - at least not on bare metal. But I might do that in 10 years after Apple's support has ended.

[1]: NetBSD claims to still support the Mac II, a Motorola 68030 based Mac release in March 1987: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/mac68k/
Why is AV1 a bad choice for that "something" ??

No, why would I want Electron ??

IMHO EPUB should specifically be script-free.

And if I wanted scripts in my document¤, then instead of packaging the whole browser (that would be overkill!!) with the document like Electron does (?), I would rather use MHTML.

¤ The following was supposed to be my example, but since this website uses Flash, these scripts are no longer easily ran. But since they are described, you should have a good idea what they are going for :

http://resonanceswavesandfields.blogspot.com/2007/08/phasors...
i don't know about you, but i got crepped out.
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Keep drinking the Kool-Aid!
Who is in "they" in this context? Are you painting Amazon as the David in this situation versus the Goliath of dying US labour organisation?
> hard to fire bad performers

In the jobs that I do, "bad performance" is super subjective and very hard to measure. It's also the common canard to use from the managerial class to get rid of someone they don't like.

> your merits don't matter at all

They don't either in the non-union corporate world either. They pay as little as they can get away with. They'll assign as much work as you can possibly do, and then pile on more, and set unreasonable demands. The moment you surmount them, there's more work.... But here's your COLI for the year.

And, it's a common and well understood in the tech field that if you want better pay, you job hop. An employer who's paying you X knows that X is enough, and won't give any real merit raise increases.

> wayyy too much focus on seniority

At least that's measurable, and better than managerial decisions of "I like this person" or "I don't like you". Been there and done that. And with a crummy manager in a union job, you at least have the union steward to represent you. Non-union, you have the unemployment line.

> overall just too many rules (example: unlimited PTO)

Really? You use unlimited PTO as an example?!? It's complete utter trash it's unlimited by simply not showing up to work at all. That's unlimited, and we all know you'd get fired if you did that. You'd also likely get the axe if you took off every Friday as PTO.

I would much rather have fair delineated and straight-forward rules for all to see and vote on, than the touchy-feely sounds good but not real faux-rules like 'unlimited PTO'.
Nothing's stopping you from using the one domain as it was initially intended.
Good for Halloween maybe. The other 364 days of the year ... no thanks.
I know a number of people in a large teacher's union and the stories indicate the union is bad for both good teachers and students. I've personally seen many great teachers leave for private schools and other public systems. The union rewarded the incompetent and did little for rampant administrator abuse.
There are several ways to approach the problem.

One is to look from first principles and analyze how the great plains came to be. It should be obvious that the carbon didn't just sequester itself. Therefore if one were to mimic the roaming herds of bison closely enough (and how close is close enough is up for debate) then it should absolutely be possible to be net sequestering. I'm having trouble finding a good source for this.

There's a guy named Gabe Brown from North Dakota who is consistently increasing the amount of organic matter (and thus carbon) in the soil of his farm. I don't know how you'd interpret his results as anything other than sequestering.

https://www.sandyarrowranch.com/2019-fall-winter-update/

Finally there are places that are trying to study this rigorously as there's huge money to be made if you can offer guilt-free beef. Might that taint their results? Yup, but they might also be right.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90368127/is-it-possible-to-raise...
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-regenerative-land-and-l...
Unbelievably creepy
I don’t think the debate is over whether there has ever been any benefit or downside from any union, but rather what the expected net benefit or downside is from any given union, and perhaps even more importantly, what rights union organizers, union opponents, and workers ought to have.

I think it’s pretty silly to quibble over whether someone will answer gotcha questions like “can you name one good/bad thing that has ever happened in a unionized/non-unionized workplace.” That’s just not relevant.
Why can't it be both ?
Creepy AF.
You're not taking into the account the context in which Hypercard existed, that is, a time where UI design was in its infancy.
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They said that they did not want to be represented by these specific people with this specific deal. Maybe they'd be happy to be represented by someone else as part of some other arrangement? I don't know, and neither do you.

But if that's what they say when asked what else should we do except honour that?

If you think it's absolutely inconceivable they could legitimately vote against it at all... I mean then why have a vote at all? Might as well unionise them by force against their will and impose the union leaders as unelected and unwelcome representatives? That'll empower 'em, right?
According to Yle they only started using Tiresias in 2012. The article doesn't mention which font they were using before. I would be interested in their 90s font as well.

Source: https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2012/01/27/televisiokanavien-t...
Now there is a product looking for a market. I suppose people who like to be watched (exhibitionists)?
How does Affinity Photo compare to LightRoom? I've tried everything from Luminar, to CaptureOne and nothing really works quite as well as LightRoom for various reasons.
> The user base that is disgruntled are the ones that would have been using the cracked versions anyways,

I disagree; I think I correctly identified a user base of corporations and users who would much rather do things right, but don't have 600/yr/user of need. Currently they are paying adobe subscriptions, or juggling free trials. If someone offers them good-enough software for significantly less, they won't think twice about jumping.

This is separate from the issues of students etc. using cracked or 'educational' versions. Some of them may not like the subscription only approach, but as you say that isn't a real impact to bottom line because they would never buy it.
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.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients#...

IE11 (ew), old Edge (ew), Chromium Edge and Chrome are fully supported. Newest Safari has limited support, and only Firefox and older Safari versions are the only ones explicitly not supported.
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It IS slightly different. In those cases it's much less direct, and the candidates at least tend to pretend that it's for some greater good. Here Biden literally said "vote for him and he'll put the cheque in the mail."

All pretence is gone. Talk about "naked (crony) capitalism".
It started during a student summer job. I was taking care of lending canoes to people in a park. One canoe got visibly dirty so I brought a rag and some cleaner from home and just cleaned it.

I was reprimanded by another worker because according to whatever union full-time employee had, cleaning a canoe was a union job and by bringing my own rag and cleaner I was violating the union's chart of some shit.
> it's not xenophobic, but xenophobic people really love to talk about it. that's the problem with the discourse.

AKA, "you're not allowed to say that". The problem with the discourse is that it exists; its existence is problematic. (Considered problematic, I'm not claiming that)
C is the original language where you can reliably build an executable and ship it as a single file where it will run with no extra dependencies not already on the target system.
‘Technology’ Is the Most Useless Word in the English Language
I'd be really interested in a longer answer. I'm running Void Linux. What would exactly would Qubes add in this respect?
The evidence is circumstantial, but there has yet to be any evidence ruling it out. To be clear, the lab leak hypothesis is always possible. Things can always leak out of labs, let's not kid ourselves.

Some things (going by memory here) that seem to support the hypothesis:

1) Major point of differentiation for this virus is that compared to it's closest known relatives, it has acquired a furin site (eukaryotic protein cleavage site) that enhances its virulence.

2) That furin site RNA contains a non-canonical amino acid codon

3) That non-canonical codon contains a restriction site that could easily be used to track, whether, say, your added furin site is surviving multiple cell passages, by performing a restriction digest and running the fragments on a cell.

Like I said above, it's circumstantial, but this is all very normal. Both adding the furin site (how does coronavirus evolve into something more virulent?) and tracking it that way. Then all it takes is someone to get infected (EVERYONE working in biology has broken at least one lab safety rule in their life, even in BSL4) and either not be symptomatic and realize, or not say anything.
I'm pro-union, but I think its worth noting that the type of average commenter here isn't in a position where unions provide large tangible benefit. Unions work extremely well in places where the employer holds a disproportionate amount of power to the worker. Fortunately, as things currently stand for the tech industry, the worker maintains a lot of power in that they can easily find new work of sufficiently equal pay/benefits. For us, if the employer is shit, we move up the street, but in places like factories where the employer can re-train labour on a whim, the union provides far more benefit.

So merely by nature of the type of individual you'll encounter on HN, you'll get a strong bias towards the anti-union.
The problem with the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” thinking is that it ignores being born into the problem. Sure, some people can work their way out of a rut that their parents were in, but the majority can’t.
This is extremely ideological to the point of simply being untrue. The best outcome for everyone is no union and a supportive employer that gives you a fair deal so you don’t want one. Unions are a huge tradeoff and better as a last resort.
Ah, loper-os.org. The saner, more competent Richard Kulisz. I miss this kind of thought leadership. Though not the beratement...
Yes. I would have edited it in right as the questions hit the front page. I mean, people want to see the app, there's nothing wrong with including the link.
What do 8 billion people do with 50 billion tons of bananas? Seems like most sources in Google are citing ~115 million tons of bananas produced per year a few years ago.

http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/bananas/bana...