skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money the VCs are swinging around on was put in their care voluntarily (you invest in the VC fund) or voluntarily by proxy (you invest in a fund that invests partially or wholly in vc stuff) whereas public coffers are kept full by threat of violence and therefore need to be treated with more respect.

When you take someone's money by threat of violence under the premise that doing so is a net positive for society you have a much greater obligation to pursue that result and sustainability is one of many considerations when it comes to whether or not something is a net positive for society.
If the attacker can replace the code inside your web application, then you have security issues somewhere else than in your application.
Interesting, my first thought uppon reading this was "huh guess I can't buy this limited edition book" weird to see hoe wrong that was.
I wonder how many lost sales thoughts like mine cause in the end
Do you find the small village pubs are open to left-wing viewpoints?
I always enjoy reading why HN hates cryptocurrency.
In the good old days, there was Spitting Image, which delighted in offending everyone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image
Are Walmart "associates" particularly well off as a result?
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The wave of emails which are difficult to process automatically, and the fact that you can email anybody (which also is the great thing about it)

There are some standards for invoicing.

Another great application is Civilization over SMTP.
Once upon a time Republicans represented the managerial and investor class and Democrats represented labor (1920’s-1990’s).

Now the corporate DNC is just pro mega corps with lip service to corporate safe “progressive” topics that don’t challenge their power. Identity politics etc.

Sorry more of a rant here but I don’t see unions getting much help anytime in the press or national stage and doubt Apple, Google, Wal mart and Amazon will see any real movement towards unionization.

It’s almost like a movie script... see we were open to the idea of unions ... but the people “chose” not to unionize ... wink.
Both insane, case closed ;-)
Well yes, but that sort of precariousness and the obviousness of the power imbalance between the parties is precisely what makes a union so necessary in the first place.
What a bummer and a complete disregard of the current engineering team. You do not fire them to rehire other people in their place. If you respect them as much as you claim, you allow them to grow into the requirements that you need. It feels like there is zero trust that people can perform outside the well defined boxes that you think they operate. They are not engine oil to be replaced, so you machine will run better. Bummer!!!
funny how articles damning the F35 (which isn't being "cancelled" or even threatened with such) appear just as the military begins development of 6th gen aircraft...these articles feel like astroturf

Hundreds more F35s will be produced

pilots like the plane

the per-unit cost is acceptable

why do these articles keep appearing?
I am not suggesting you are wrong, rather, I wish to promote this when I ask, do you have some really solid citations for that?

I have long suspected that the common theme in getting shot is "male" not "black," then poverty.
Thanks for replying, even so late!

If you don't mind, then, can you explain what does allow for staking more coins at a time? That is, if I wanted to increase my rate of mining by 100x in a PoS system, how would I do it?
In fairness, that's because amazon gives its workers health insurance. Plenty of similar workers get nothing (Walmart for instance).

More generally I agree this needs totally rethinking, but Democrats have been trying to do that for at least 20 years so it might be a list cause...
Obviously, the mainstream isn't exactly campaigning for trans people to be treated in any particular way, but there's a kind of baseline expected level of respect for them as people that's changed over time, and I get the impression that the activists fall below that baseline - especially when compared to people of similar ages and social backgrounds who aren't proud crusaders for social justice. Not only that, the "salami-slicing politics" seems to happen after the non-activist consensus shifts to the point the consensus within the activist community is untenable, not before - of course, the activists spin this as evil bigots suddenly infiltrating their glorious community for justice, but in reality those views were the almost-unchallenged status quo up until that point. Even back when there was much less awareness of the existence of trans people, the activist community was vicious and nasty enough that I suspect it would've made mainstream people uncomfortable if actually exposed to their actions.

Also, it seems like the non-mainstream communities which acted as welcoming spaces for trans people back in the earlier days were often non-activist ones, founded around the kind of "liberal" ideas about diversity and acceptance that activists decry. Then more recently the activists used that historic support for trans people to demand some of them end that diversity and acceptance, because that's supposed to be what it means to support trans people these days.
I've met many supporters of Brexit in local pubs here in London, I don't think it's that uncommon. I've had work colleagues that argued for and voted for Brexit, here in London. We had fun conversations on the topic, changed our opinions on many points, but still ultimately agreed to disagree. In the meantime, the media helped polarise the debate by making it about them hating those damn "forriners" on one side, or the EU being akin to a stalinist dictatorship on the other side. The "gammons" to the right, the "remoaners" to the left.

I think the issue is that most progressives in cities in the UK live in progressive bubbles and are unlikely to come across people with very opposing viewpoints on a daily basis. They're also quite arrogant, which is something I've noticed amongst friends (most of whom are progressive). I'm a non-white EU citizen (forriner to the average brexiteer in a village pub) living in the UK so it's already a matter of fact that the majority of people I speak to are of a different identity.

If anyone gets their information about a group from what the media reports instead of from actually speaking to members of said group, then they ought to reconsider their views.
> The alternative is expecting companies to make native ports for what would be less than 1% of their userbase - and the handful that have done so haven't done it well, and even if they did it well it wouldn't change any outcomes for them.

Valve decided to seek short term gains instead of thinking of a long term strategy by working with linux people to develop a nice ecosystem with libraries / drivers / app distribution

They could collaborate with Epic/Unity to facilitate linux builds

Valve went selfish and the result is here, linux share isn't growing, despite massive efforts from microsoft to kill themselves with vista, windows 8, and window 10 massive spyware drama and now the updates that break gaming

What if windows 11 is again a free upgrade and completely breaks wine? by introducing massive architecture changes

That'll be the death of wine and linux gaming, because no thought went into securing a nice and flourish ecosystem
Yes, it's a rational fear.

There should probably be GDPR-style "significant percentage of corporate global revenue" penalties available in these scenarios.
>I sure don't want to work with those who bring their hateful ideology to the workplace.

>unable to accept differing viewpoints.

Please, read what you are writing.
Of course they can make up their own mind - but simply pointing out the existence of propaganda and other factors at play, and the fact that ideology plays a large role in our lives, does not imply 'brainwashing' as much as ideological forces. The tug-of-war between labour and capital has been raging for centuries, and at no time hitherto is it more visible that it has graduated to the ideological battlefield when Amazon starts putting up posters and training their employees on otherwise hilarious videos to push their point of view.

And I think anyone should point that out - whether it's a union organizer in Alabama, a tech worker making 10x the salary (who, by the way, may also have an interest in improving cultural support for unions if they are a tech worker in favour of software engineer unions) or a historian on capital-labour relations. As far as I know, however, no tech worker has contacted anyone in Alabama and told them they're brainwashed.

'Paternalism' would be someone pushing the ballot for them 'for their own interests'. That does not preclude discussion of priorities, rationality, and the rational frameworks (epistemological/ideological/moral/practical/etc.) we have available to discuss how wise those decisions are.
Google isn't exactly a penny pinching small business, and for now, while the getting is good, they don't need to act like one.
Why is this taken as the only way these things can be in the US?
My experience in Belgium is very different.

>1. At their best unions protect members from managerial malfeasance, but unions also go out of their way to protect incompetents who should be fired. That is soul crushing as a coworker, bad for the company, and possibly harmful to customers.

As far as I'm aware there's not much our unions here in Belgium can do about that. If there's a legitimate reason they have no interest in spending their funds fighting a court case going nowhere. They do occasionally take action when it's harmfull to the company when there's legitimate reason for firing but this involves the company laying of lots of people when they are closing down a division or plant or so which generally doesn't stop it but makes the closing more fitting to the workers.

>2. Unions are heavily involved in politics. As a worker, part of your paycheck is being seized to support politicians whom you may vehemently oppose.

Our largest unions are very plainly politically aligned. We have a leftist union, christian democrat union, liberal union and then a neutral union or 2 , industry specific unions. Either way tho part of my paycheck does not go to politicians and if it did not to politicians i don't align with. In fact what i pay to the union is a tiny sum. They compete among eachother and these big unions operate at scale.

>4. Unions foster adversarial relationships within companies, an us/them mentality against "management". Sometimes the environment is already toxic so nothing is lost, but it can also turn an otherwise reasonable workplace sour.

I don't think we interact with our unions much on average.
My experiences with them were limited to.
1) them blocking entry for trucks ( i could just walk in) when there was a big announced nationwide protest regarding things like wage indexation i believe.
2) Them checking the legality of the contract i was offered and given pointers.
3) Them paying me my unemployment at some point and handling the paperwork.
> Maybe a majority of the workers there prefer the status quo?

Analysis showed this is what happened. Please don't mistake that to mean the status quo is good. There is an enormous power imbalance between Amazon and the laborers in Bessemer, Alabama.

This has happened many, many times throughout American history. Coal towns are a canonical example of holding all the cards against labor. The hallmarks of that relationship exist here.
What are the benefits? The only thing I can think might be that for a shot while you can catch some criminals but as they learned to use gloves they will learn to use masks,

After that what benefits are there for creating a database with everyone historical location?
I'm also a politically informed person and, unlike you, I am politically active. What can I say? It's my hobby. People go skydiving on weekends, I engage in left-wing politics. But I'm quite afraid of the possible consequences. What if a prospective employer sees me handing out flyers? What would by colleagues think? Well-paid developer and activist, how does that even work? Aren't they all unemployed and living with their moms? Fact is, many people (certainly a large number of bosses, and those are the ones whose opinions matter) think that you can't work at a private bank if you think private banking shouldn't exist.

At every workplace I've been at, liberal (as in right-wing) views have been omnipresent and shared widely. I've often had to bite my tongue. If your coworkers celebrate tax cuts because it gives them more money in their wallets you are a downer for expressing doubts on its consequences for society. Don't argue with people expressing anti-immigration views because you will be labeled a "virtue signaler".

I have no problem working with people who do not share my views. I briefly worked with someone who was a member of a Nazi group once (he didn't know I knew). It worked fine.
Same here, I abuse the notification system as some sort of unified inbox. Probably still dip into the actual apps most of the time.
From a user's perspective for example. I pay extra to install office through the app store. I'd happily pay extra to have the app store manage adobe and zoom.
It’s more complicated than that. For the most part the browser is a secure environment due to same origin policy. JavaScript in the browser can only send and receive from the domain from which that JavaScript is served, which means the JavaScript must come from your own domain or from a third party you trust. That trust is all from the perspective of the web server, though, which is orthogonal to the concerns of the end user.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy

Browser extensions can bypass that though, which can expose you to malicious third parties.
Sia kinda works. I have a few GBs of data on the network and it only costs me about $1/yr
When you have billions of money, do you have really have that much drive to optimize your properties which might be nice to keep as occasional holiday homes? Sure you'd think that "ooh, 5% more income on my properties" would motivate them to rent their properties out but they might be perfectly happy just living off their other investments and not giving a damn about such tedious optimizations.
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That’s because you are a developer and not a security manager.
There was a slightly frustrating time in my life when I had to compile a single source base with several compilers (MSVC, Clang, GCC, CodeWarrior and ARMCC), whose tolerance for various quirks was rather incompatible.

I do not remember the details anymore, but some code provoked a compiler warning from one of the compilers, while its easiest fix provoked a compiler warning from another of the compilers.

I wanted to keep my -Wall, but it required strange twists of code sometimes.
This has amazed me too. Even the iOS app, until very recently, for years, had no "news feed" for all creators in one timeline like the website had. You had to click each creator individually. They finally fixed it but like..? it's the #1 obvious feature.
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No, not really.

Most artists aren't going to sell, in no small part because there are a LOT of artists out there in the world and because selling art is Hard. I've met plenty of folks that spend more time selling art and being social enough to sell art than they spend actually making that art. And this is just the average seller: Few can actually make it a career.

Money, connections, luck, and a lot of social labor are pretty well required to get your art selling at higher prices, and might get rich folks to buy your stuff.
With many of those offices gone, many people simply won't live in those cities. There seems to be an assumption here that people want to live in cities, but that's certainly not true across the board.
It's also not counting any repercussions, short or long term. I don't know Google but several other friends have told me productivity is down at their companies significantly with WFH.

Also, if it's just about the perks mentioned, those perks might be part of what retains employees.
Well, people from poor countries probably don't need to play newest AAA games.

>A phone can be had for comparatively cheaply, in comparison.

Some phones definitely can, same with some computers, the thing is whether you're comfortable with trade-offs.

Computer unlike smartphone can be relatively easily built with used parts.
most people can tell when a rendered image looks slightly off somehow, but most people can’t pinpoint the exact problems.

But experience people can. I've worked at a 3D animation studio and we had this 'old guy' who started his career as a classically trained artist and sculptor. He could look at a character model that we all agreed felt a bit 'off' and point out that the problem is how you'd modeled the muscles connecting the shoulders to the arm. Hell sometimes he'd look at a model that we all felt was fine and suggest tweaking the bridge of the nose and that made it much better.
fingerprint is actually extra easy - the phone is plastered with them.
> Well, Thailand isn't more of a third world country than the US

The USA is flying a helicopter on another planet right now.

SMH.
It seems like if Apple created an actual app for Notification Center messages they could do this, or something close enough. The nature of temporary notifications is a pain point for me, and could be solved if I could go to such an app and see previously read notifications. And motivations are already centralized from every app / service.
I carried a BlackBerry for work for years and was an early tester of the iPhone for my employer. They issued the iPhone 4 to a few volunteers to test out with our email system etc.

I found it to be way better than the Blackberry. If they had forced me back to the BlackBerry I probably would have found a new job.

And, a huge number of colleagues who saw me using it at work got excited and put in requests for their own iPhones. It was just so much easier and more pleasant to read on the iPhone.
That wouldn't make for a very useful global ledger :)

Once a farmer wins a block it's theirs, the same way it works with bitcoin. The reward is tied to a public key, not the original storage. Just like in bitcoin once a miner wins a block they don't need to continuously prove that they have x amount of hashing power in the future.

You can learn more about the details of the blockchain and algorithm here: https://www.chia.net/greenpaper/
> This was the era when in the US Eminem had lines like "nobody listens to techno"

That was a diss line about Moby, a "techno" artist who achieved mainstream US popularity around that time. Eminem wasn't trying to accurately depict the state of electronic music in the US, he was being salty.
Yeah, "lean back and ask yourself what really happened" is a great debugging method.

But, counterintuitively, it actually might work better with the projects you are less familiar with. Once you are too deep in some rabbit hole, all the details you know may have negative impact on your ability to orient yourself.
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There is making something new, that reinvention, and there is making better use of what is there now.

What you want is not email.

So make what you want, and if it really does reduce the pain of countless people, it will see broad use, right?

And if it does not?

Send me an email, we can talk about it.

Maybe what you want to do can ride in an email?

Great, do that. And again, if countless people feel better, they can run clients that help them feel better.
State actors with armies haven’t exactly helped a lot of fiat survive. Ask a Venezuelan if he would rather have BTC vs his native fiat.
This is a perspective that will be broadcast by the financial media (usually uncritically) and rammed down the throats of employees in compulsory anti union seminars. It's pretty hard to miss.

Even if it weren't broadcast at us relentlessly it's not like it's in any way surprising.

It would be mildly interesting if he questioned why unions in Europe were vastly less confrontational and acted in a way he purports to prefer, but I imagine that's a topic that would get uncomfortable for him fairly quickly.

Instead he simply declares his sworn enemy "too confrontational".
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I would like to bring the community attention to the issue of Safari not supporting shared workers and encourage you to leave your use cases on the bug tracker page if you have any. For example, my use case is about sharing a single web socket connection across multiple tabs.

Apple does not seem to be opposed to the idea of bringing the shared workers back, however, they have not shared any immediate plans.
I'm Italian as well, btw.

Just off the top of my head:
- 2001 raid on Armando Diaz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Raid_on_Armando_Diaz

"The detainees were given few or no blankets, kept awake by guards, given little or no food and denied their statutory right to make phone calls and see a lawyer. They could hear crying and screaming from other cells. Police doctors at the facility also participated in the torture, using ritual humiliation, threats of rape and deprivation of water, food, sleep and medical care."

None of the responsible parties served any time.

- Way too many to count cold blooded murders of people in custody. The Aldrovandi, Cucchi and Magherini cases are emblematic as they at least got covered by the media.

- Violence against minorities, for example: https://www.statewatch.org/media/documents/news/2009/mar/Eve...

- Illegal detentions, for example: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-28/califo...

- General lack of accountability and transparency.

- Widespread abuse of power by intimidation.

- Flat out lies, helped by crap media. I'll bet you $1,000 that on Dec 25, 2021, the news will report a variant of the following story: an elderly person called the police because they were lonely and wanted a friend to share a glass of spumante with.
Could you be more specific, maybe link to some examples?
https://www.newsweek.com/china-u-s-economy-gdp-capital-econo...
To some extent I think these are things that should be discussed and addressed internally rather than externally so I'll try to be generic. Key things are

(1) I'm a strong believer that anyone with a job should be easily able to get health insurance and be able to send their children to university (i.e. even if law doesn't enforce it I think a decent minimum wage for all employees is appropriate)

(2) people doing work of similar value should get similar compensation in the same organization/on the same team (i.e. location based pay adjustments should be minimal at most)

(3) hiring should be diverse w.r.t. background/class/education (i.e. search widely and resist hiring people's friends)

I think these are not just moral issues, I think a culture of fairness also benefits morale and gives people more confidence to contribute and feel heard. And I think these kinds of issues become especially important when considering public organizations and non-profits.
When you're a billionaire, you can employ dozens, if not hundreds of people, to do tedious optimizations for you all day. And if that's the difference between 5% and 10% RoI, those people even pay for themselves (and then some).