skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nice thing about a UBI is that it's still progressive even if funded by a flat tax, like VAT, because with the UBI it's still a net transfer to lower income people. How are the people at the top going to avoid VAT? By moving all their customers to a tax haven?

Also, in this context "the top" is anything above the middle. Are lawyers and petroleum engineers going to move to a tax haven?
Someone make a Furby based one.
> That's not arbitrary code in the security sense though

True, you're right.

> It's the very narrow range of things which are permitted to run in a javascript sandbox

Well, yes and no. Narrow scope in terms of what other programming languages offer, yes. But in terms of limiting the amount of information that can leak from the user (you and your browser), it's not that narrow. And since est31 is making the privacy-argument, I'm guessing they are referring to that.

Cover Your Track by EFF showcases how much information is actually leaking and what Twitter et al could do with it: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
It would sound like popular is the real word we're looking for here.
"We can't win, they'll just crush us" is 1. wrong on the facts more often than people think and 2. even when true, a good argument for organizing more effectively, not giving up and accepting the shitty status quo forever.
I’d imagine it’s from lack of use in daily writing, combined with a lack of a ubiquitous context-aware spell checker.
I make similar mistakes quite often
And a little bit of smoke with olive oil is fine, the white "smoke" is likely just water boiling out.
"zero-day?"
The only people who benefit from lack of unionization are the owners of Amazon.
I don't see how the large majority of security problems could be solved by any OS design. Human failures would just account for 95% of breaches instead of the current 85% (made up numbers). Not saying the OS improvements aren't useful nevertheless..
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Unions are employee cartels. They are a tool for correcting an imbalance between employers and employees. Sometimes unions are good, because the employees have no leverage. Other times unions are bad, because employees have plenty of leverage. Workers are not saints. When given leverage, they use it to advance their own interests, which are not always reasonable.

People disagree over whether Amazon is a situation where unions would be a benefit or a detriment. Make an argument instead of diminishing people who disagree with as you misinformed.
I'd imagine the Great Plains had a much higher plant:animal ratio than commercial animal agriculture will be able to achieve. Plus the animals involved were native species adapted to the environment, not imported animals bred to maximize meat/milk output. I doubt we'll be able to reach a conclusion about this without more data, though.

Gabe Brown definitely does seem like he's achieving carbon sequestering, which is great! I have no doubt that carbon sequestering exists and is effective — my problem is that it neither matches nor exceeds the carbon output of e.g. cattle. So even with maximally effective carbon sequestering practices, there's still on net large GHG emissions. (See 20-60% figure from above.)

As far as the links you provide, here's the direct quote from the conclusion of the FastCompany site: "...better management techniques can be helpful but not as much as many think, and that the term 'regenerative' is so vague that it risks becoming greenwashing. Another study, from the Food Climate Research Network in the U.K., found that better management of livestock only sequesters carbon under some conditions and even then may be temporary and not necessarily large enough to offset the negative impact of raising the animals."

The second link seems to be marketing copy from General Mills, which as you note I might tend toward being suspicious of. Their sponsored study seems to contradict both the FastCompany site and all the other studies I've read. Definitely something to look more into on my part, though: will update here after reading more thoroughly.

Thank you for the interesting links, and for being willing to engage in good faith.
I was kind of hoping it would be a contact that records video. Like a spy device or something.
They could suck up the losses of closing a 1 year old warehouse to send a signal. Walmart has claimed unfixable plumbing problems at union stores and closed them in the past.
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...

And research in logs and events can either be quick or very slow, depending on what you're looking for.

And it's also easy to slop out slow bad code, and make it someone else's problem (dev side of things).
I don't think you can definitively state that they are great for consumers. When I buy something from debenhams, I know there is going to be a certain level of quality. Amazon is like a dump of products, most reviews are fake, the description of a monitor has different resolution in heading and it's body, a friend of mine bought an electric kettle with a thermometer and temperature control that, when set to 100, boils forever and never turns off. It's full of counterfeit products too.

All this mess devalues the manufacturers willing to produce quality items, they are lost in the noise and never make money.
there are valid points against unions, but when the balance of power in this country politically and economically is sooooo slanted towards the capital and those with wealth - I don't find any anti-union argument remotely compelling

if the balance of power was more evenly divided maybe, but unions are almost non-existent and government regulations don't favor labor - that making such arguments feels naive to the reality of the situation
I understand this position, not wanting to be a first mover is noble, but most of the complaints about "Linux Desktop" (hiDPI screens for example) are solved with wayland, so ultimately I prefer if we don't make the switch so painful. (python3 for example).
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.

This is only for people who just apply to "jobs" and accept whatever money is given. You're entirely in control of negotiating terms and it's easily possible to negotiate wildly different employment terms than your coworkers at medium to large companies.

Thinking otherwise is for people who aren't talented, lack the ability to negotiate and don't have any imagination.

I know several software engineers who have negotiated for $500k+ cash compensation at their employers because they had skills that are in demand and it was worth paying them that.

You would never be able to do this with collective bargaining arrangements.
The union doesn't bargain with the workers. It bargains with the company. All unions I'm aware of that have real power maintain that power by preventing their employer from hiring non-union workers.
And conversely there are plenty of good employers who don’t require unionization to treat employees well.

The point is that these situations are often framed as the angelic unions vs the evil capitalist employer. In reality, there are plenty of bad unions just as there are plenty of bad employers.
I wonder if that is where we are heading when it comes to publications not driven by clicks
normally systemd-timedated does a good job keeping things in sync!

but some of my systems seem to have not great real-time clock batteries, and the system will forget the time. i think there might be some other circumstance that sometimes causes my system clock to be way out of whack, but i'm not sure what.

so that's why my clock doesn't work and needs sync.

the dnssec internet protocols are designed to guarantee the user that they have up to date, accurate, trustable records. this depends on your system knowing what time it is now. if your system is way ahead or way behind the actual time, the dnssec records it gets dont appear as valid. And systemd-resolved will reject them, if it is set up to respect DNSSEC.
I've been to "fish markets" in Germany that kept live animals (mostly poultry and rabbits) in cages in close proximity to each other and tons of people. Just because it's uncommon or illegal in the US doesn't mean it's exotic or unusual in the rest of the world. We only freak out about "wet markets" because 1) the name sounds gross (but it's catchier than "perishable goods street market", I guess) and 2) orientalism.
That unions can be bad is not news to anyone. But what's clear is not having unions is much, much worse. A simple comparison of wealth vs union membership tells it all:

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1369433256907710470/photo...
> Wayland is staged to replaced X11

Wayland can't possibly replace X11, it's got a fundamentally different (I'd even say broken or even malicious) design. If anything, some Wayland compositors may emerge as dominant desktop environments, but this would be a dark day for power users, if it would mean not being able to switch to an actually friendly design, as currently offered by Xorg.
Zoom is pretty well-liked by those who would be stuck with Teams otherwise.
> 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.

Are you serious? This line of thinking is exactly why I'm against union. It is really not that hard to tell who are the bad performers. There will be false judgement, but the rate is low. If you want to avoid any false results, well, I don't know what world you live in. And look at teacher's unions across the US. What kind of damage did they do to our kids? The infamous Principal's Ball as described in Waiting For Superman should make any sane person's blood boil.
But I think this is a clear example of an issue where pro-union rhetoric has diverged from the reality of the situation. Are there any workers who actually prefer formal, timed bathroom breaks over the "go whenever you want as long as you're meeting your productivity goals" model?
So, do you know anyone say 20 something and trying to get into the SAG? Dealing with the drama of union vs off union jobs in NYC? It's usually something like:

Work the union job for $10 an hour, earn credit towards joining the SAG. In 10 years I can actually join the SAG and make actual decent paying jobs, and actually get health insurance.

vs

Work a non-union job for $20.

It feels very much like a way to exploit people to let them someday get the magic card. The numbers are very approximate, but the sentiment I have gotten from people actually with boots on the ground. Do I want this as a developer? No way!
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Seriously? Do they think that if you're not sitting and typing you're not working or something? Do they measure how long and often you take restroom breaks?
There were some problems today with the unexpected traffic which overwhelmed the servers and some features of the app such as the monthly chart and theft rate became unavailable. We are still working on this issue and hopefully next week those will be solved. Also we are looking to include other countries in the future such as Germany and maybe others if we can extract the data in a similar manner from the gov sites.
You mean something like this? https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-one-euro-homes-cast...
I’m not sure I understand why they need to do everything twice. But regarding your comment about most market segments not caring about privacy, I agree especially when it comes to B2C products.

Users will complain about it but it will rarely be a deal breaker. Will only matter if the product being offered holds really sensitive info

Either way if a company or Dev wants to respect privacy, that’s great and I applaud it. A product doesn’t need to collect every single piece of data on all their users to figure out their strategy...unless your product’s monetization strategy is all about selling user data
Guilds are a little different from unions in practice. They set minimum standards but there's no group negotiation based on seniority or anything like that. Studios are free to pay some hot rising star 100x as much as the guy who has been a character actor for 30 years as long as he's making the minimum and getting his breaks and meals and stuff.

It's also a challenge to get into a guild, SAG has minimum requirements for having already performed. A union is generally just something you have to join when you take a job at a unionized company.

This is not a value judgment, just wanted to point out the differences.
Food and housing is extremely cheap in America. Americans have an extremely low cost of living and low taxes compared to every other wealthy country. Also higher wages for similar jobs.
Huh? iMessage transparently integrates and falls back to SMS from any phone, Android or not, even dump phones (or iPhones without iCloud login for that matter).
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Delta? MLB? Coca-Cola? Over the Georgia legislature's attempt to disenfranchise voters? This is fake? I don't believe so.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/4/5/22368566/corporate-re...

Larry Fink's letters to CEOs (Blackrock has $9 trillion AUM)

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1qqdhmzgrwbb3... ("When Fink calls for transparency on issues like climate change, companies with significant BlackRock ownership adjust their disclosures.")

"As society became politically polarized, companies became more activist. With a 24-hour news cycle and social media fanning polarization, it’s more problematic for organizations and their CEOs to remain neutral. Consider what’s happened in the past decade: Hobby Lobby — a chain of craft stores that challenged a federal mandate stating companies pay for insurance coverage for contraception — took their case all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Nike featured the controversial athlete and social crusader, Colin Kaepernick, in an ad campaign. Retailers like Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods stopped selling certain weapons in response to tragic mass shootings nationwide."

https://hbr.org/2020/02/how-do-consumers-feel-when-companies...
Well, that dredges up some old nightmares.
What works best is to use `keydown`[1] with `keyboardEvent.key`[2]. Chrome took a while to implement `keyboardEvent.key` and I’m guessing that delay hindered adoption, but for the past few years (since the 5 year old Chrome 51) it is objectively the best—and arguably the only robust—way to figure out which key the user typed.

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/key...

2: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...
Every non-unionized place I've worked suffers from many of the same problems. These are real problems, but don't outweigh the benefit of unions to people's material well being.
I’m not talking about whether or not unions are objectively good or bad. I’m talking about perception. If one side is attempting to withhold facts are that obvious and self-evident, then no one is going to trust that side even if they’re objectively right.

Consider Obamacare. Objectively, it was an awesome law that covered millions of previously uninsured Americans. However, it was a PR disaster because people were told they could keep their plans and their premiums wouldn’t increase. Because of how impossible it was to lie about those two things and because the Obama administration lied about them anyway, people greatly distrusted Obamacare, even though most of them actually liked the law and its outcomes.

Similarly, if a worker is told by a pro-union advocate that no one will lose their job with a union but that worker also readily sees that many workers lose their jobs when unions cause companies to collapse, that worker is going to feel lied to despite knowing that union membership is probably in their best interests.
With the right assumptions, ignoring not a few significant details, to a useful order of precision, as long as you don't look too hard.

Maxwell's equations are a nice continuous approximation to whatever it is that really happens.

But it's not a good idea to confuse the map with the territory.
I bought an under-desk bike near the beginning of lockdown and have run the odometer into the four figures. I highly recommend it to anyone.

I definitely agree with you that it is no replacement for walking, yoga, or other active forms of exercise. But I have found it a great substitute for just sitting while using a computer.
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As if other vendors are certainly more secure. Those bans seem more based on media exposure than known technical facts and evaluations.
Another app that has captured "mindshare" among artists and designers is Procreate - a digital painting app for the iPad. It's leapt over Adobe to dominate the digital painting space on the iPad. Adobe is playing catch-up with their late-to-market rival painting app Fresco.

However, to keep things in perspective, usage of Adobe's apps still dominate the creative industries. That grip shows no sign of loosening. Just the volume of tutorials for Photoshop alone is humongous.

What the likes of Procreate, Sketch, Figma, and Affinty show is that you can carve a profitable space in the design and graphics field and succeed even when that field is dominated by a behemoth like Adobe. It's also refreshing to see rivals rethink the way of accomplishing design tasks. A lot of Adobe apps have accrued so much clunky UI interactions and lack the fresh ideas from some of their rivals.
> But as a European looking (from outside) into the US, it looks like everyone has the impression that they're all millionaires who just haven't made it yet.

The "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" trope gets repeated often online, but it's largely unfounded cynicism. It's true that we need to fix our health care system and bolster our safety nets, but the reality is that average Americans are relatively wealthy and even the median worker has significant career opportunities that are harder to come by in some other countries.

Look toward the professional trades like software engineering and the differences are even more pronounced. I worked at a company with US and European offices for a while, and the European employees were routinely stunned to learn that the US office had to pay employees so much more for the same work.

> They don't seem to want to disrupt the status quo, even if it benefits them,

The situation is more nuanced than what you read online. The reality is that these moves aren't as unilaterally good as presented. It's more honest to approach them as tradeoffs.

In this case, I'm inclined to believe that the workers casting these votes did more research and have a better understanding of the situation than the internet gives them credit for. The idea that they're all voting against their self interest because they're dumb, or that we know what's better for them than they do, is very presumptuous.

Why can't we accept that these people are really voting for what they believe is in their best interests? Why do we have to conclude that they're not smart or that they're voting against helping themselves? The reality isn't so simple, and we're not in a position to judge after reading a few paragraphs on the internet.
A different kind of activism, perhaps. Isn't the "work should just be for work" attitude simply a political statement of its own—one in support of the status quo?
People who move abroad still have to pay taxes in the US, unless they renounce citizenship.

Some remote workers who can might do that but I doubt very many.
This feels like a natural evolution as companies try to ingrain their employees with the concept of being a part of the "family."

If a company asks and gets you to spend SO much of your time living and breathing their values, then it only makes sense for that generation to push for the company to live out their values/the ones that resonate with them.

That being said, I agree with the comment that MOST CEOs and companies do not engage in any kind of political activism and don't have a reason to do so.
IIRC it took more than a year for people to conclude it was the civets.
More fucking websites like this motherfucker. Thanks.
I'm trying to look at it from the workers' perspective.

I can't trust the Union to waive dues. Especially if they haven't said they would. Even if this would benefit me in the long run, I kind of need a place to stay, food to eat, and transportation to work in the interim and if I'm already one bad day away from being destitute, It seems like throwing that extra $5 - $10 a check is only going to exacerbate that issue.

I've been in tight situations. Where I've had to juggle 0% financing and dick around with minimum payments just to keep myself at level. Charges I had to incur due to various emergencies at the time. I wouldn't have been able to afford to unionize in those days.

Now I have a much better job. I just moved into a pretty nice house and my biggest concerns are whether my curtain rods are going to arrive before my curtains and if a larger TV wouldn't be more optimal for the living room. So I try and be cautious about not going too "Lucille Bluth" when I hear that what I would now consider a small expense be a major factor in someone's decision. I realize my situation has changed a lot compared to where I started.
You've typically already cached the data.

e.g. Driving around a city. Many people have Apple Maps open, to navigate, and the maps data is already downloaded on Phone A. When Phone B starts Apple Maps (or auto-load it without opening the app) transfer the data from Phone A to Phone B (instead of using A or B's network). Continue the propagation for all phones C through Z. Eventually refresh Phone B's data through the network, transfer the data to Phone A. Its a symbiotic relationship for all the neighboring phones.

e.g. Traveling to a foreign country. Staying at a hostel/hotel. You need to download Offline Translations for "English to X". Someone else at the hotel, Phone A, has already downloaded it. When Phone B requests to download it (or auto-refresh it), Phone B gets the data from Phone A (without any online network access). Again symbiotic, because Phone A could have gotten it from some Phone Z, or downloaded the same data it would normally have.

The same types of scenarios work for Yelp style reviews and menus, Weather data, App downloads, etc. Any data that is public, location sensitive, and highly cacheable.

You could think of it as turning every iOS device into a Torrent seeder for certain data sets.

At most each phone is paying some extra battery life. Likely negligible given its just data transfer over UWB/BlueTooth, and made up for by using less battery life because of less network access at other times.
Keeping proposals and design documents private is essentially the same as making a project "source available". It prevents people from participating in the extension of functionality and limits them to being bug fixers.

What Microsoft is doing with .NET is true open source where all proposals are being discussed in public with volunteers improving proposals and suggesting new ones.
If you have a counterpoint, make it.

I'll try for you: the cohesive view of cost of living would show these rubes to be peasants to the unskilled European's millionaire.

Interesting point, where's your data?