skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I read lately that the Heaviside layer .. was seasonal and unpredictable on a short term basis so using it seems to have been about equal parts luck, skill, and art.

It was a lot more useful than that. Before the advent of satellites, shortwave radio was used extensively to commuicate with her Majesties far-flung colonies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service
What has that got to do with equating all unions with each other?
One person earning $15 Amazon in Bessemer is solidly middle class for that town.

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/07/22/worst-cities...
And once the M2 is released there is no point in getting it anymore since then it's the outdated model and the next one will be announced soon ;).
> provide a far better job, wage, and benefits than most

And now we're seeing the results of the race to the bottom play out.
It helps, that some Thinkpads do ship with Fedora OOB. Lenovo worked with Redhat to have the support for these models upstreamed to the respective projects.
That's a false dichotomy. The solution to a badly run union is to run it better, not dissolve it and surrender all your power to your boss, just as the solution to a badly run republic is to elect better leaders, not abandon democracy and go back to the bad old days of monarchy. Unions are workplace democracy. Opposing them is by definition supporting workplace monarchy.
This so much, also eats way too much CPU, and has no support for background blur, just a damn basic chroma.
> You can also stub the hash (e.g. with lib.fakeSha256). nix-build will fail with a hash mismatch and tell you the correct hash.

Are you kidding me?
Neo is your own bot who attends team meetings for you
Neo is your own bot who attends team meetings for you.
In case you can't attend (maybe you're having your clavicle repaired after you crashed at le Tour),

or you could use a hand tracking issue after issue from meeting to meeting.

How do all you managerial types lurking in HN feel about it?
I saw that done but it definitely feels hacky.
A good clue is to look into the systems (i.e. cybernetic) interpretation of the word "governor" or "government". Within a system, the "governor" is meant to ensure that the timing & operation of the other components is in order for the system to operate as designed. The "governor" should minimize intrusion into other components, or it will tax (a pun naturally formed here) the efficiency of the overall system.

Which begs the question, what is this system, that we call civilization or society, designed for? If it's for the well-being & growth of all people, then it's the government's role to minimize intrusion into peoples' lives & to be be non-permanent; meaning the government should shrink after it grows to respond to a crisis. This is why early government did not have "professional" politicians or bureaucrats. Once it becomes somebody's livelihood to govern others, the teleology will always be a relationship of ever-increasing extraction until collapse. This is also why early government did not have "professional" armies. The "governor" (or political class) becomes the monarchy/aristocracy in a neo-feudalism state. One can see the state of American politics with it's two-tiered justice system as a proto-aristocracy which will eventually lead to a monarchy. Perhaps we should think twice before our celebration of giving James Bond a "license to kill".

If there is a crisis of some type, the government may be useful in theory, though in practicality it's function is restricted by the autopoetic traits of people that run the government not being able to avoid being self-interested and self-selecting to form cartels. See the Stanford Prison Experiment & Milgram Obedience Experiment as references.

Persistently high taxes are a good indicator of the breakdown of feedback loops re: the performance/utility/effectiveness vs the cost of the government.
If it is like asafoetida ("devil's dung"), as mentioned on the linked page, I'm out. The only spice I know that can manage to seep out of a closed container in a spice drawer and infest the rest of your spices.

Given the roman taste for garum [0](also notably pungent), I'd have to guess that the similarity is real.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum
Depends on a lot of things. If the 0day is an RCE they would need another privilege escalation exploit. How easy that would be depends a lot on how your system is setup.

But the short answer is probably not. Unless you are running Qubes or something, if someone can exploit an RCE then they can probably own your system.
I'm not sure you can rule out "engineered as you described above."

WIV had recently published research on, and had an active grant to perform (at the time of the outbreak), chimeric Coronavirus research, and they were one of the two world leading labs in this. In that research, they were transplanting the spike gene from one virus to the "backbone" of another. You could call this "engineering" or "gain of function" depending on your perspective.

The thing that raised people's suspicions about this is that the spike RBD strongly resembles a virus sequence they released recently (Pangolin-CoV), and the backbone strongly resembles another virus they recently published (RaTG13). That suggests that there was some sort of recombination event. That recombination could have occurred in nature, in an animal that was simultaneously infected with two viruses, or it could have occurred in the lab.
Mine is experience working in an union. I generally really disliked the effects of the union and saw no benefit to me at all. My career progression was capped, lots of nepotism (eg manager holding a position for his son), people are generally coasting etc.
The state machine is great in a vacuum but it falls apart when someone trips over the power cord at exactly the wrong time. Thats the benefit of idempotent design, that it is resilient to real world failure modes that dont typically get modeled into the systems you describe.
Empirical argument: The biggest unions in america are for the most poorly run and corrupt organizations. Teachers, Police, Firemen, Government workers, Health, public transportation. All with massive costs to the consumer, corruption, service disruption, closed shops, etc.

Microeconomics argument: The only meaningful way unions increase employees wages is by artificially restricting supply. They can only move the point of equilibrium of demand and supply in their favor by restricting supply, thus unions always have in their interests on: increase minimum wages, licensing, closed shops, etc.

Political Economy argument: What is most interesting for unions is to survive as unions, which means that even if sometimes they are adversarial with employers, they are often allies to the structure. This is because at the negotiation table between unions and employers there are some actors missing, namely, the consumer.

Political argument: Unions exhert force only by destruction: by refusing to work, by boycotting, by collecting administration fees to maintain its structure. The proliferation of unions is the proliferation of destruction. Giving special legal status, protections, considerations, rewards to unions, you are proliferating unions and proliferating destruction.
The workers exploited by Amazon will have my utmost sympathy and support.

Up until they make a decision that's not in accordance with what i, the great armchair warrior, decide is good for them. Rejecting my unsolicited advice, means they are ungrateful fools unworthy of my elevated consideration.

All of that went through my head the moment i read the headline. I'm surprised at how intolerant i really am. But with second thoughts, these workers had a choice, they made it. Who am i to say that they are wrong.
It's very hard to follow this article, but I'm mostly upset that it's apparently legal to directly promise voters money if they vote for you. Talk about moral hazard.
Alabama Amazon union vote comes out against union
Interesting, but geez, they really are going deep into the "uncanny valley" with that thing.
Amazon and Walmart are local monopolies as the sole employer resp. shop around where they establish their locations.

It is only natural to put up a collective against that monopoly.
The one you can vote for leadership. Unions are imperfect, but they are democracies. Corporations on the other hand are feudal. You don't get to vote Bezos into power as a worker -- he's just the lord of the manor. Some nobles are good and some nobles are bad, but the serfs have no say.
sorry- that's just super creepy
Doodle 0.5.0 Released
I use Zoom fairly regularly, and haven't had *too* many issues. (Debian, x11, the app, though the browser version is fairly terrible)
Shortwave radio was great in its day. I used to spend many hours a day listening to international shortwave broadcasts, and talking with other amateur radio operators.

One day about 20 years ago I was driving through San Jose and happened to tune in to North Korea radio on the shortwave receiver I had installed in my car, and heard this news gem:

"Scientists are studying the brain of Respected Comrade Kim Jong-Il, because the Respected Comrade is capable of feats of mental power beyond the ability of ordinary human beings."

Even today, shortwave is making a bit of a comeback thanks to High Frequency Trading:

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/12/hft-on-hf-you-cant-beat-it-f...

https://swling.com/blog/2018/05/mystery-traders-using-shortw...
Dan is simply awesome. He certainly has a way with words.
Wow that's amazing! I bet you could probably still do that today if you found an original version and ran it on the hardware.

It's interesting to read here (http://myst.patchallel.com/myst_fl.html) how they used HyperCard as sort of just the "front end" to dispatch external commands and connect it all together. I just used Godot to make a game, my first that I've ever completed (including save/load functionality!). The interface and UI building tools, once you climb the gentle learning curve, are really quite incredible and the theming options gives you extensibility to define your aesthetic. If programming languages like Python or even Rust had this sort of quality WSYIWYG VB-style form editor, I think we could see a renaissance in desktop apps. I know at one time the Godot folks were considering Python as the scripting language for the engine.
Good points. Those are the main problems I've run into. One is pretty much having to ask others to trust you that what you're doing is worthwhile (because big refactors are exploratory, in my experience). The other is an extension of that where if the refactor is larger others will have to come in for sizable PR reviews. In the end, the problem is that refactors cost money and time. Essentially, they are humble rewrites. The good part is that a big refactor opens doors in terms of where you can take that system and reduces maintainance costs, but those are long term gains. A short term loss, but a long term gain. I'd like to have a better concept of how to make that sell. I think some organizations will be more inclined to that type of investment than others.
Agree completely. I don't feel I was being contrarian here just to be contrarian. I do think it's silly that MM is posting on this. I do think the WP community is considerably more sensitive than other tech sectors with which I'm familiar.

For as negative as tech/digital professionals are about Wix, it is a $16B company with $1b in annual revenue.
I didn't feel like typing out everything involved, but yes, it was better than not having it. Both positions became unionized during my tenure with those organizations. The pay, benefits, and time-off benefits were much better as a union shop than before we unionized.

I know it is just my experience, so it's very anecdotal evidence at best. And that was my point - that is my experience, which is why I'm confused by the massive vote against unionization. I, personally, do not understand it and would like to.
> the difficulty today is to know what to feed it and to know what that means for the real life performance.

This has always been the difficulty.

Generalization is the fundamental problem in machine learning. Making easily available tools has led to an exponential growth in applications as more people play with it (many without understanding what they are doing or why), but predictably hasn't lead to an exponential growth in successful applications.
I think of "peripheral" as being "far from the center of my vision".

Fortunately, years of Kerbal Space Program means the apo/peri prefixes are pretty solidly ingrained.
British Naval History is fascinating - in a lot of ways the reform of the navy into a modern (for it's day) naval force has interesting lessons about people management and harnessing technological developments as a force multiplier.

Things like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_sheathing gave the navy a marked advantage against it's peers.
>but disgruntled that user base

The user base that is disgruntled are the ones that would have been using the cracked versions anyways, so there's no monetary loss to adobe at all in that regard.

I get being a poor student that can't afford the software that you eventually need to know how to use. I grew up learning Adobe products from those cracked versions. However, now that I'm a working stiff, I pay for my software. I can't think of the last time I used a cracked version. Everyone has to start somewhere. Adobe now gives full version access via trials for 30-days.
Good points. I got the auto firmware thing wrong, it was actually the controller update, which I run on a Pi. And fair point on running it disconnect from the cloud, which it is now. Going to check out the Cisco stuff.
What's the cost, though? At $1/month a union membership would be a no-brainer, at $100/month people would probably think twice.

Unions are in the business of recurring subscriptions, and the pitch had to reflect that. Sounds like in case of this specific workplace, the cost-benefit analysis was either high on costs or low on benefits.
Cigarettes used to be a huge problem too, the regulation came after more people started to realize what was going on. Hopefully some regulation of social media companies is coming soon.
I wonder if in the future we'll see talk about different programing styles.

I recall one of my co-workers making fun of Notch being a bad coder. Which begs the question, is the best code the code that ships ?
> Can someone who works/worked one of these jobs please explain it to me? I am so confused by how lopsided this was.

It's a result of how unions are structured in the US. (It's different in Europe from what I understand, and they're more popular there as a result.) In the US unions are structured as a monopoly on labor which then nominally has more negotiating power with the employer.

The problem is that monopolies are inherently an industrial scale fail factory and everything about them makes everything worse.

You then have effectively two possibilities.

The first is that the employer is competing with a hundred other local employers for labor. In this case there isn't really anything for the union to do, because the employer will already have to offer competitive working conditions or employees will go work for somebody else. And the employer in a competitive market won't have thick margins for the union to extract from, implying that the union's overhead will be larger than what they can extract from the employer.

The second is that the employer is, itself, a monopoly. In theory it now has thick margins that the union can extract concessions out of. But then you have two monopolies negotiating with each other. It's a battle of attrition. Can the employer afford to have their facility closed for longer than you can afford to be on strike? You know the answer to this is for large multinational corporations. The corporation will barely even notice the complete shuttering of that facility because they have a thousand more to pick up the slack.

A monopsony employer is still a big problem, of course, it's just not a problem that unions are a solution to. Try antitrust, or lower regulatory barriers to small businesses so that there are more competing local employers etc.
The campaigning was based on the existing debate of whether the stimulus check should be $600 or $2000. Biden and the Democrats were pushing for $2000.

There was never a camp that was pushing for BOTH a $600 check and a $2000 check.

They did not secure power in the White House and Senate in time to change the $600 check to a $2000 check. So instead they sent an additional $1400 check.

Would it have been ideal from their perspective to have gotten things done in time so that people only got one check? Sure. Do I view their inability to do so, especially in light of them making good on the total amount, as an indication of lying and misleading people? No.

Situations change. They made good on the total amount. You can claim that they technically lied because it took two checks instead of one, but I'd say at that point you're more worried about scoring points on technicalities than caring about the actual end result.

Calling fact checking dead because they chose to look at the whole picture, while still taking the time to note the technicalities, is incredibly short sighted or incredibly partisan.
It's exploitation- people are attracted by $15/hour work. Unfortunately, the work in unsustainable on your body. Eventually you go on disability. This seems to be biggest complaint [1]

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-wo...
Puts away popcorn
Max Miller on YouTube’s Tasting History channel did a recipe with modern replacements. It was allegedly an aphrodisiac so could be popular if a specimen could be found... https://youtu.be/D-QHd4_1geE
The web was a big "feature" to allow Figma succeed over Adobe.

In Figma you design and changes instantly for everyone, just sent a link and anyone (designers and non-designers) can see/collaborate the latest version because is web based.

Adobe sleep many years bloating Photoshop with features that try to cover UI design needs and fail, finally releases Adobe XD but is miles away of Figma, in Adobe XD today, you make changes in a file and have to go to Share > Update link everytime, and then the web based version of the file is updated. Is crazy. Sketch sleep on that too.

Also Figma was clever to make prototyping and developer handoff a core features pretty quickly, now they have a polished "trifecta" with UI desgin + Prototying + Developer handoff.

Here a good resource to compare UI design tools (and more)
https://uxtools.co/tools/design

I'm wondering whats the next step to smooth even more the gap between visual design and development.
No. The browser vendors left the W3C. When the final browser vendor (Microsoft) left and joined the other vendors in WHATWG, the vendors collectively sent a letter to W3C asking W3C to please stop copying and introducing errors into the standards WHATWG wrote. See e.g. https://www.zdnet.com/article/browser-vendors-win-war-with-w...
Is it practical to do fine mouse work while pedaling? Or is pedaling more something you do while checking email etc.? I know if someone so much as jiggles my desk I immediately notice.
Lastly, I very much did not want all my workout data locked away in this app.

This is a great example to demonstrate the simplicity of modern "smart" products. I think of the Tim Berners-Lee next generation web product that never got off the runway: just of common and understandable interfaces for gleaning data from interconnected devices. The workout domain is a great candidate for standardizing data-types to pull health-related information into anyone's standard conforming health database. It should not require reverse-engineering like this to do.
Yang had a nice plan for that :(
I would try working one of "those jobs" at some point in your life.

I repeatedly voted against unionization in previous lives of blue collar jobs: bus building, commercial roofing, and sheet metal workers.

First, Union leadership is bought out and pursuing their own interests. They're not "for the people" as repeatedly braindeadly repeated in the comments section ad infinitum. Union leadership is out to benefit themselves first and foremost, and workers might benefit if you contribute to their cause, but it's a fantasy to pretend union leadership has everyone's best intentions in mind.

Inevitably, this leads to the second, which is escalation of costs at the company. This is only partially wages; business decisions get delayed at committee, competitive advantage on market timing goes away, old-timey boomers get mad when something changes, and your company's innovation becomes stagnate. Your company falls behind and wages stagnate, and union leadership blames literally everyone except for themselves.

Finally, the benefits are stupid for the price you pay. If they were measured on charity navigator, they would be listed as some of the worst run. The money gets funneled into union leadership pockets and their golf buddies. Nepotism runs wild; promotions got to whomever is slapping whom's ass or giving it out to their kid. It's a "tax" you can't vote yourself out of except to quit your job.
He's buried near where I live, I've been meaning to go on a pilgrimage
My employer won't let me get an under the desk bike. I was also scolded for doing pushups in my cube. Working out from home with tape on the webcam is great.
One actionable fix is not putting virus labs in big cities (just like Nuclear and industrial plants), the other is stronger regulation of animal markets. Both make sense independent of where the virus originated from.
The UK civil service agrees.
Yes, here's what optical bench quality galvos look like and cost. [1]

My comment on the drive electronics was simply about how to fix the drive circuit cheaply so it had enough current capacity to not overheat and burn out.

[1] https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=37...
Got it. Yeah, bucketing by use-case would really not be that hard, you could have a system for rotating through them. I think Artifactory has some built in capabilities for aliasing, presenting multiple repos as if they are the same one, etc.

In any case, if I rolled my own hash package scheme with debs, I'd have to build this piece of the tooling regardless.
> So anti-union people exactly where does your information come from?

HN is start-up-centric, so a good number of commenters, who may be workers themselves, are, to borrow from Steinbeck: "temporarily embarrassed employers"
Well, as is previously mentioned, it's not _quite_ a 0-day, and finding it and responsibly disclosing it is a very good thing *compared to alternatives*. I do agree, though, that the tone is needlessly confusing, and it feels like PR over clarity.
There's nothing optimal about the level of pressure being applied to these human beings. The same job could exist for the same pay, with the same overall tasks, with 10% less robotically-enforced (literally) pressure, and Amazon would take a tiny hit to productivity in exchange for a workforce that gets to live relatively sustainable and healthy lives instead of burning out after 6 months.

The current state is optimal for Amazon only. It's far from optimal for society.
Come on.. the workers don't even get bathroom breaks.
Asafoetida is probably the closest substitute, as it's made from the same plant genus that silphium belonged to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida
For first link: Yes, can be done easily.

For the textures in the second link:
You can go a long way in Figma and just use stock-photo images like wood for textures.
You'll still need a bitmap-based app like Photoshop for the bubble, and import them into Figma
Thank you for the explanation. Those are viewpoints that I have not encountered or considered. That makes sense.

>To a lesser extent, I didn’t like the idea of union leadership who were paid for things I didn’t think added value.

Can you expand on this point, please?

>So my overall take was that it was good if you were in the union and employed, but was much harder to get work and join the union.

That makes a ton of sense.