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> I have yet to see a union that is not run by and for the lazy and incompetent

Exactly what I've observed throughout my career, thank you for putting it so succinctly.

You're also missing those for whom the union is a pure political, power-grabbing device.
>Using Qt apps under Gnome on Wayland can break in weird ways

Same on sway. I think the relevant bug report is this [1] but there is no traction and the patch doesn't really work. Qt5 is probably not going to receive any attention now too, so I'm not holding my breath.

[1] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87303
Or in other words, we need to indoctrinate people so that they vote the way I think they should.
The problem with the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” thinking is that it ignores being born into the problem.

This is both right and wrong. Asian immigrants are notorious for arriving on foreign shores, penniless, then winding up owning businesses and sending their kids to top tier schools. The problem isn't being born into not having money and things. The problem is being born into an environment that sets children up for future failure.

The good news, is that such cultural practices aren't attached to race or ethnicity and so can be learned and adopted. There are historical precedents for this.

The bad news, is that other cultural practices can do the opposite, and insulate groups of people against things like valuing education and a work ethic.
Precisely. The only people who complain about others bringing up politics at work are those who are privileged, as they have the luxury of not exposing themselves to politics because it doesn't affect them negatively like it does, say, minorities.
It's unbelievable that a woman would marry into a 1000 year old family institution an head of state without taking a moment to grasp what that meant. It's so shockingly naive I can hardly believe it.

A 'curtsy' for your grandmother, the Queen, is a obviously a bit formal but it's not remotely irreproachable. It's literally just a form of greeting.

Japanese culture has a zillion of elements of common formality - literally entire modes of language - that are an every day occurrence.
OK.

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/04/06/colorado-georgia-votin...

Colorado voters can use a wide range of identifying documents, from standard photo ID to a bank or utility statement. If you have no ID or any of the other documents, Coloradans able to cast a provisional ballot, and counties must attempt to verify those individuals’ identities.
To some extent, I wonder if the perception that your peers aren't that smart is just due to getting adapted to your environment.

I went to an Ivy coming from an inner city public school and I found it a big culture shock in terms of both how well behaved people were in classrooms and also how quick/smart people were to grasp what I was saying and build on it. By the time I was a senior, I had lapsed to the "people here actually aren't that smart" line of thought - but I wonder if I just got used to being around more intelligent people.
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Walmart is famous for doing exactly that. I'm not sure what else I can tell you if you (a) claim that a certain outcome never happens, when a cursory search shows it does, and (b) actually think that your political opinions are the result of some kind of pure logic chain. They're not.

It's not a 'logical fallacy' to not want to risk disruption of your livelihood, and that's the only relevant question to this thread: is there any set of facts that would reasonably lead the workers to vote against unionization? I think clearly there is, and there's no point arguing over subjective prioritizations. The workers are not 'irrational' for prioritizing their own jobs over the 'national action' that you seem to want. They may even consider that harmful. Not all workers have the same political opinions.
No, they mean iMessage - it's true iMessage falls back to SMS, but a lot of fidelity is lost. Reactions don't work, there's no stickers, images are lower resolutions, videos are potato quality, read receipts don't work. It's not complete incompatibility, but it's a much worse experience compared to what fully native users get.
So, you're implying the 11 union decertification petitions in the link I provided are fake or something?
Yeah, those are valid points. That's why I was a bit apprehensive to post my original comment.
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good things about the US! I wouldn't hesitate to move over there if I had the chance - know anyone who could sponsor a visa, by any chance? ;p
But it does seem like an exceptionally easy place to slip through the cracks of society, but if you're not in the lower percentile you've probably got it better than most people in the world.

The one point I would have to disagree with the the reasons for voting against their interests. And the only reason for this is seeing the results of the Brexit referendum in 2016. What happened there is people who set themselves up as figures of authority and told the people Brexit was in their interest. They made the fishing industry into the poster child of their campaigns and convinced them they would benefit. The fishing communities in particular where overwhelmingly in support. Perhaps some did try do their own research, but a large part of social media and the mass-media where all pushing the agenda and using scare tactics and any concerns were batted away as "project fear". When you have figures of authority pushing an agenda it's understandable that people will believe them - Why would they lie? But as Jan 2021 rolled around, the fishing industry in the UK is all but decimated (YoY Salmon exports were down 98% in January). So from that perspective, I wouldn't call the voters dumb because it's easy to get caught out by the disinformation that's out there, but for the most part I would say many were naively trusting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Before you sign a lease on an apartment make sure you understand exactly what the lease says and what you are responsible for, particularly in shared living situations - you don't want to be on the hook for 3k for a summer that you don't intend to live there. Plenty of shady landlords in college towns. If you're living in campus housing it shouldn't be a problem
> Amazon imposes terrible working conditions on its warehouse workers, which a union absolutely could address.

How? The union's negotiating power comes from the ability to go on strike. They make a demand, Amazon says no, they go on strike, Amazon closes that warehouse and sends people their cheap junk from a different one.

All the union can get you is the unemployment line, unless you do something to increase local competition for labor. In which case you don't need the union because employers have to compete through better working conditions.
Fair enough, but "slippery slope" is a particularly well-known logical fallacy and it seems worth pointing out when someone invokes it as the crux of their argument. Next time I'll use better words.
Yep. Linux gaining HW support for the M1, and Docker on your penguinized mac, was the context I thought.
> step function

As mentioned in the article he wasn't well accepted by academics of the time. A college math professor of mine remarked that the acceptance of naming the step function after him was intentionally demeaning to the rest of his work.
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It's a forum, where each topic is built by all participating users, not only one. Users can add content to it and the topic will always be made of the most upvoted content. So each topic acts as dynamic post which is than shown on personalized feed.
Yep. He totally fucked up a post I didn’t think was even theoretically fuck-up-able.
> To say he doesn't stand up to Einstein...

Who said this, though?
I think this will fail until they try to unionize is a more prosperous state like Virginia, California, New York state.
I think that's the point - we are surrounded by devices that are always watching and listening. If they looked like eyes and ears, maybe we would think twice about how and where we use them.
You have a misunderstanding of reality. The USA has done the exact same research before, and we have (also) had accidents around pathogens being mishandled, and we have had a consequent ban.

However we ended up unbanning it and we still do it now. If the goal is to simply stop this type of research in its entirety, there's still no point of trying to get China to stop as we have no authority in China (or any other country) to begin with. Even if China were to claim they've stopped we have no way of knowing.

Let's just assume China did have a lab accident. OK, then what? We tell them to stop doing it? Let's say they agree. In the future they decide to start doing it again. The entire thing is pointless to begin with. We can't get our own citizens to consistently wear masks and we think we're going to substantially change China's behavior here - hilarious.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00210-5
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All my food, except rice, are fruit-legumes leftovers/damaged, free or 50%, collected at several groceries and producers. I also forage fruits in the "wild" (residential areas, road sides)
1inMM also used contributions from new investors to pay out to older investors in this scheme as well, which is one of the hallmarks of a true Ponzi scheme.
> Maybe more could have been done to help smooth their relationship, like an apology.

Total tangent. I've recently watched a lot of the Dardenne brothers' films, and in one of them, The Kid with a Bike, the kid has assaulted and robbed a man and his son. He's caught, and there's a scene where his foster mom pays restitution directly to the man, but also, the kid apologies to the man he assaulted. (The man's son refuses to accept an apology.)

It struck me as a very humane form of justice, and I think we could do more of that in the U.S.

So yes, an apology I think can go a long way.
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Last time I was in this situation, the UX expert and I had the entire dev team stand at the back of a conference room and vote on which font was most legible. All but one agreed Verdana was the easiest. Not only that, but it was still more legible than our previous font at 1pt smaller text, which meant we could get more info onto the screen. Not tons more, but we were having to truncate text in some spots, and sometimes even one or two more letters is enough for people to get the gist without having to backseat drive the presenter. It's subtle but I was beginning to recognize this as an important waste of time and energy when we were dogfooding our app.

When people are already getting short with each other before you even get to the actual reason for the meeting, you know it's going to be a long day.

But corporate wanted our fonts to match their other product. I don't know if it was my imagination or not, but it felt like that act broke a couple people on the team, myself included.
> So anti-union people exactly where does your information come from?

From speaking with family members who work or worked for Unions.

From a management perspective it is untenable to not be able to hire who you want (because you must offer the job to any "qualified" union employee before you can hire externally), not be able to fire who you want (because you must meet arbitrary requirements set by the union).

From an employee perspective I've seen situations where they want specific or custom arrangements with their boss and their boss would like to give them but they violate union rules so they are either forced to work around it (and face repercussions if they are found out) or refuse to accommodate situations that both the manager and the employee agree upon.

I will also say that I find the anti-anti-union rhetoric very distasteful. I fundamentally agree that employees have the right to discuss their desire to join or form a union but I think that companies have the fundamental right to advocate their position as well. Virtually all of this get's called out as "anti-union" propaganda and I find that very distasteful and disingenuous. Most of the "propaganda" videos I've seen I found to be actually quite reasonable arguments, while most of the anti-anti commentary I find to be disingenuous appeals to emotion.

There are also many industries where unions are massively corrupt. I know nothing about the union here so I won't speak about it, but I do have personal experience with this.

Finally, I will also say that my opinion of unions skews heavily against larger and more diverse ones. Had this been Amazon Warehouse workers choosing to form their own union vs join an existing union, I feel that would have been more successful by virtue of being smaller in scope and more targeted.
It's happened more at the elementary school level.
They have higher standards for decorum and appearance, but not higher academic standards. One of the advantages of private schools is that they are essentially exempt from standards. Their students are generally not required to take standardized tests, and the schools generally are not required to follow prescribed curricula. I agree that private schools generally have a higher standard of cleanliness and facility upkeep. And although the families have to pay more for students to attend compared to (free) public schools, teachers as a broad class are paid less, not more, at private schools. There are numerous reasons for this. For one, a prospective employee has even less leverage than they do when seeking employment at a public school.
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Tempting. For those who have never used emacs or vim, how long would it take to get up to speed?
That is what he said already. "it was a front to get investor money to cycle to other investors"
I have one of those fancy gamer mice (Logitech G700S) and I bound the most prominent thumb button to middle-click. Haven't looked backed, making scroll-wheels clickable was a mistake.
In 2011-2012, the average pay for a full-time public school teacher was $56,410. For a private school teacher, it was $40,200.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_211.10.a...
In my case, Zoom will cause my Mac to heat up quite a lot on each call, using the app.
The mindpong is mindblowing
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Nice Work!

I have a MagneTrainer, which is made by the same manufacturer as the DeskCycle, and uses the same "trip computer" as the DeskCycle.

When I bought the Magnetrainer years ago, they had some Windows games they could link to using the Aux connection, but the connection kit was overpriced, and the games that were available looked "meh".
the UK healthcare system isn't so great either. It's good enough for a safety net (mostly... the wait times are horrendous for non-emergency work, and I know a guy whose collarbone pokes out at a right angle because his doctor wouldn't fix the break), but if you have a chronic condition that isn't one of the handful of really common ones that all doctors know about (like IBS) then you're mostly on your own unless you go private.
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Scolded? What was their reasoning?
I assumed the majority of distro makers chose it because of red hat and canonical choosing it, making it a defacto standard.

Kinda like gnome, even though kde is more customizable and has more features.
Would you prefer they count each bike as a separate crime so that once somebody has stolen a certain quantity they'll be locked up for life?

16 months combined with some sort of monitoring afterwards (and, in an ideal world, support in jail and afterwards to find it easy to move into legal work) should be enough to make the crime not worth doing and to hopefully stop that person doing it again.

Would doubling that prison time help anything?
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Pets eat 20% of the world meat/fish production https://nowhereandeverywhere.co/learn/pets-consume-about-20-..., that's yet another way to act on this problem, replace your pets by plants or just nothing
Public policy constantly requires leaps of faith to try to make the country better. You can't know that providing housing to the homeless helps them until you actually try it for the first time.

What is: Based on currently available numbers, there are about 59 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.[1]. We do not have a shortage of houses, but instead a shortage of desire to house the homeless.

What makes you think we, as one of the most powerful countries in the world, cannot provide housing to the homeless?

Also, if you want to actually have a conversation about this, I would appreciate if you don't belittle my comments.

[1]: https://www.self.inc/info/empty-homes/
Are you just saying that or did you look at his proposed plan? It included VAT and other ways to make it sustainable.
Should those at the bottom be condemned to poverty?

The lesson of the GINI coefficient and the psychology of relative wealth, is that absolute, material well being isn't the issue. The issue is whether people think the cards are so stacked against them, that they will never win.

So the answer is no. We know that condemning those at the bottom will result in civil unrest. Everyone needs to live in dignity, or there will be violence. Psychology has pretty much determined this to be a fact of human nature.

However, this doesn't mean we should have equity. People should be rewarded, and people should also have something to strive for. It's the dignity of the common person which has been eroded over time.
> [Bezos] was never tested on his competency.

This is extremely naive. There are lots of failed CEOs and failed companies. Amazon survived AND grew over 20 years while actively fighting off competition from Walmart, Google, etc.
Shit, you're right. I actually checked the date on my computer before posting. I swear it told me it was the 8th. What is happening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity ?
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Fascinating! I'd heard the name in 'Paranormal' (an Egyptian TV show I would recommend), but didn't know it was an actual thing. Or used to be, anyway.
Kinda sounds like the same type of criticism someone would have given when musk talked about spaceX...
My spouse (medicine) and several of my peers (journalism) have and they would disagree. Spouse has experienced both sides of the coin, and has seen better benefits and better pay in the unionized workplace than the non-unionized one. Very much the same story for my journo peers, but in their case, they unionized the workplace so the only variable that changed to improve their lifestyle was the introduction of a union -- not a change of location or management that a bad-faith FANG-worshipper would use to muddy the comparison.

I'm sure those aren't valid examples anyway, as the only unions that matter in discussions on this hellsite are the ones that also exist in Randian works of fiction.
I just want to achieve an outcome. An argument could also be made that GUIs are a pita because you have to spend too much time discovering when you could just read the manual and do the task.
This is the same story for every media creation tool, which goes hand in hand with advances in technology. Editing audio used to require all kinds of expensive hardware and software, now you can get the basics done (and sometimes a lot more) with Bandlab and Garageband on your phone. Same story with putting printed words on paper, video creation, etc.

There are a couple of interesting things about Canva, though.

First, it's a VC funded startup so the motivation behind it is not just ease of use, it's profitable exit - probably by Adobe. This does not give me confidence that Canva will work for me 2, 3, or 5 years down the road when someone screws up the M&A or deliberately sinks the acquired product.

Second, Canva hits that non-designer quadrant and new use cases mentioned in TFA pretty well, but it is not useful for many advanced use cases. I use Canva every week for my own business, but I also depend on a paid subscription to Adobe Acrobat to do things with PDFs that free tools can't match or can't do well.
> very expensive subscription model which has resulted in people seeking out alternatives

I disagree, from my own experience and people I know in graphic design field, Adobe products just feel clunky and unintuitive. First time I've tried Sketch, I was blown away by how simple and intuitive the interface is and I would not mind paying the same or more for Sketch compared to Adobe suite.

The goal of software is to make me work faster and more efficient, if 2x more expensive software makes me work 3x faster - it's always worth the price.
This rings true. Most of my friends now that I'm older are basically people I met at Uni or people I met through them. Kind of a weird thing to optimize for though.
That's not a lack of support, it's just LLD, the LLVM linker, being broken. I hear LLD for Mach-O is being worked on again, after a long period of stagnation where it was sort of but not fully working. But the default linker on Apple platforms is still ld64.
Trial and error. You start with the assumption that the developers are working logically and that they will have chosen the simplest solution.

A few of my initial assumptions turned out to be wrong. For example, since I did see some word (16bit) values I assumed all the values would be words. That's probably what I would have done. But that turned out to be incorrect once I started looking at the values (it's a mix of bytes and words).
In a proper managed environment (whatever that may mean...), this could be useful as a means for continuous integration. Maybe not worth all the hassle, but maybe there's a usecase where this would be a beloved silver bullet.
I have so many objections to this line of thought.

1. We are so far from building enough to even lower the price of houses, let alone depreciate them from $3m to $800k.

2. The idea that most residents in SF have outstanding debts of $3m is just.. you need to get out in this city a little more.

3. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If there is even a possibility that with more building, the cost of your home would go from $3m to $800k, you shouldn't be going into debt if you are planning on not living in this home for the rest of your life.
What do you expect them to do? Fingerprint the scene of the crime and run it all against a database of petty thieves? I know my city of Portland has bait bikes and things like that, but I think people severely over-estimate the abilities of local law enforcement to solve these kinds of crimes.
From the HN guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I was intrigued by the title, and the article was worth a read. It didn't make it less interesting to know that the site is a regular feature here.
Higher marginal rates also reduce marginal outsourcing of labor. At a 40% combined federal and state rate, in order to pay a tradesperson $150 to come do some minor repair task at my house, I have to go out and earn an extra $250 to get that repair job done as compared to doing it myself.

Make the combined marginal rate 60% and now I have to go earn $375 in order to have $150 extra to pay for the labor for that repair. For the equivalent of $375 in wages for a service call, there's a lot of things I'll bother to learn how to tackle myself.
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> Wait... How can 1 Hidden layer be called DEEP neural network?

Yes. They describe a general algorithm, but show results for shallow nets. So it's unclear if this works well in general.
It amazes me that in the year 2021 there are still Ponzi schemes being pulled off like this.