skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these are interesting points (though a union in a standoff with Amazon isn't a great source for information), but I don't find them very convincing

For example, it is not surprising that amazon warehouse workers, an unskilled job with minimal required training, make less than a median wage. For example, the average salary of a warehouse worker in Los Angeles (where I live) is $38k/year. The average salary of a paralegal is $45k/year. This is unsurprising. I am not saying that warehouse work is easier than paralegal work, but I am saying that this phenomenon has nothing to do with Amazon.

Further, it is worth noting that Amazon Warehouse jobs are unlike most many other warehouse jobs. Being able to use a pallet jack or forklift is
a skill and that workers with those skills can command higher wages than workers without those skills is again unsurprising.

I think it is hard to objectively analyze the situation by taking talking points from a union in a confrontation with Amazon. $18-$21 with what kind of benefits? For what kind of labor?
Along with premium salaries comes high standards for being hired. Pretty much all large tech companies are constantly hiring employees as long as they meet their high standards. If there is a general shift to remote work and Apple refuses to budge then they will have to make do with less people, raise compensation beyond what it already is, or lower their standards.
> If you really believe our democracy barely survived a stress test these last several years, and don’t wish to subject it to another, the last thing you should do is create hordes of desperate people, denied a voice and livelihood, and primed to be rallied to a future autocrat’s cause.

Or in other words "That's a nice democracy you have there... It would be a pity if someone came along and insurrected it."

The logic isn't necessarily wrong, but such an argument needs to be made explicit, and placed in the context of a wider strategic and moral landscape. It seems to be saying "Big platforms can do whatever they like, unless their actions are used by a potential autocrat to rally supporters", which is a position that fails to defend Freedom of Speech from either the whims of the big platforms, or the threats of the potential autocrats.
"Docker for Mac" and "Docker for Windows" generally spin up a local Linux VM to run containers, but all of the containers run inside a single VM. (I'm going to gloss over running Windows containers on Windows, which I believe operate more like Linux containers do on Linux).
Me too, sorry if that wasn't clear. Amazon has more workers than the smallest 10 states have people.
The salary may not be premium when comp-vs-cost is factored in.

eg: a 10h weekly commute better be worth at least $75k USD
The libel and slander laws in the U.K. different than in the U.S. [0]:

> "English laws are much more favorable for someone looking to protect their reputation," says Jenny Afia, a lawyer in London who often represents people making libel and privacy claims.

> In American courts, the burden of proof rests with the person who brings a claim of libel. In British courts, the author or journalist has the burden of proof, and typically loses.

> "So you've got the rich and powerful shutting down and chilling speech which is critical of them," says Stephens.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/...
See, I gotta give them a point for this one. I'm can't even be angry
We can start by taxing enormous corporations more, not less, and direct that tax revenue to the benefit of local communities, not the military or some general federal slush fund. If we’re not going to go after monopolies then least we could do is separate companies with >$50 billion in quarterly revenue and tax them differently than everyone else. Obviously they wield a ton of power to get to that point.
The highest possible charge is 2/3 + 2/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 2. Every swap of a quark to a lower charge one reduces the total charge by 1. So the possibilities are 2, 1, 0, -1, -2.
I often wrote my college essays by hand (pen/paper) first. It seemed a more “direct” way to write than typewriter. I’d often wind up with plenty of length once I’d type it up, too. (I’ve always been able to type about the speed I think, too, so this wasn’t a bandwidth thing.)
One of the most frustrating things about the “Google-era” (I call it that because they were one of the first to play it like this, as early as the mid 2000s) of tech companies is this weird, frankenstein model of running their products where users and even paying customers are left with no contact or recourse when falling victim to highly imperfect automated moderation tools (course I don’t mean to insinuate that there’s no abuse on some users’ part but false positives are pretty prevalent). When it’s coupled with psychologically manipulative automated support emails pretending to have been written by humans and sent with artifical delays - or just appeal options that flat out don’t work, it’s understandable that it would eventually come to this.

I have been banned for days from Facebook for pictures of pets somehow being detected as sexual content and my only recourse, clicking the appeal button, did absolutely nothing for example.

Multiple creators who got banned from YouTube in automated moderation rounds despite not breaking ToS have published email exchanges with the platform that were just thinly disguised automated emails.

I don’t know what a true solution is here, I am not smart enough but it cannot continue on like this, I don’t think.
So instead of helping an evil master plan to have an open standard operating system that’s federated, you’d rather help an evil master plan to have a locked down walled garden OS controlled by a signal vendor, not opened sourced, with a 30% tax on all purchases, and you aren’t even allowed to install whatever app you want or to repair it when broke using a third party?

At least you can fork ChromeOS, and apps can be hosted or ‘installed’ by any entity with the freedom to choose centralized control or not (as many school districts too)
China’s Political Discourse June 2021: Analysis of Keywords
"[70] He wrote the “Yes, Minister” article after a health scare because “there were things I would not wish to die without having told”. There was thus clearly an intention to convey to the public information and opinion about the criminal proceedings and the background thereto. It is clear that he understood the risk inherent in the action he was taking, since he states that it was “a challenge” to work out how to convey the information “without being in contempt of court” (paragraph 54 of the affidavit). He used certain strategies seeking to avoid being in contempt, the main one of which was “to leave information that people would not understand the ramifications of but would after the trial or once further evidence emerged”. It is a reasonable inference that by using coded language he anticipated that if not at the time of the article, at least by the conclusion of the trial, the material would be understood beyond its ex-facie terms.In a tweet of 19 January, in direct reference to this article, he wrote:“I implore everybody who supports Independence –and indeed everybody with an interest in justice -to read this article very, very carefully indeed.Between the lines.”A comment was made by him in the 12 March article is to similar effect: “I am dependent on you reading this whole article with intelligence, and thinking “I wonder why he just told me that bit? Where was that relevant?""

The court seems to disagree.
I've long speculated tech companies and their backers use area real estate holdings to hedge their investments.

If people stop living and/or working local to their investments, the value plummets and the hedge no longer works.
Personally, I think the golden age of sprawling luxurious company campuses are over. Imagine you're Apple, you just spent billions building a next generation spaceship campus, and now no one wants to work there.

What a waste of money. There's no point in building a custom campus anymore if remote work is now the default preference for so many employees. If you need some office space, rent it out from some generic building downtown for the few laggards.
Looking back at what other countries did centuries before is a weak argument for justifying what one does today. The “international community” includes more than a western minority when it comes to the issue of Hong Kong.
Oh, and one of their rookie drivers sexually assaulted a woman and posted it on Instagram...
If this rule had applied to Windows, there would be no Mozilla.
Regarding [6], what?!

I'm glad i don't understand half their slang, I'd be even more disgusted.
To add to this I believe the fundamental issue is intent. Deterministic feeds and "organic" virality is trusting purely human intent. Modern algorithms muddy the network of intent and my tin foil hat take is that we're hard-wired to perceive everything as intent from some other human.
Are you implying that the NY Times is promoting conspiracy theories?
The contractors are not economically benefitting? Some Amazon customers won’t benefit from faster shipping? New employees won’t benefit from the added jobs? The local government won’t benefit from the added tax revenue?
Their comment talked about two things, and the sibling comment addressed the other one.
I thought those links would be about all the sexual assault allegations that somehow disappeared with no consequences. I had forgotten about all about the nursing home thing. How is this guy still in office?!?
I believe this is rhetorical but a lot of these companies, while they make many quality products, are coasting off one or two key innovative products. For Apple the Macintosh and the iPhone were prob their revolutionary products. Everything else is small potatoes.
They were destroyed but could bring themselves back together. The thing is that the particles are intelligent so could break apart in random ways that didn't match what particle physicists expected (they would then recombine outside the detector as to not be exposed).
You are now referring to regulation. Not direct party influence of companies. This is the same as Californian companies complaining they have to follow strict environmental regulations: we have no choice.

Keep the strawmen coming.
Sure, but will they be able to find people worth those salaries?
The extra security around all this gold would probably end up costing more than the medals themselves.
I'd like to see how that proportional drop in workforce compares to the contracted workforce. Are they actually purchasing less labor or just directly employing fewer of the people they pay for labor?

I think states and cities have legitimately shrunk budgets in proportion to regional economic output since the downsizing efforts of the 80s, but the federal government has not. Tax revenue as a proportion of GDP has dropped, and presumably discretionary budget has, but debt-financed mandatory budget has skyrocketed. The chart from the Fed seems to show outlays in proportion to GDP steadily growing for over a century, but pretty slowly: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

Obviously, the ginormous spikes for WWII and Covid are outliers.
To lean into the idea of "the pandemic changed things a lot more than we give it credit" I have seen a lot of folks realized (very suddenly!) that they needed to re-prioritize things in their lives and that work/money isn't the most important thing to them.

I don't think Apple et al. will have trouble finding talent, but they may have trouble attracting "the best and brightest" if they require that you go into an office.

Then again, maybe they don't want to hire people who will prioritize mental health and family over work. "Best and brightest" is often a thinly veiled way of saying "willing to over-work and sacrifice personal life for the bottom line".
A warning would be nice, is there a way to implement that without changing the compiler though?
Why is the assumption that Apple will be able to secure an online messaging service better than a company whose entire purpose it is to do so?
Weren’t these OLED, though?
They can also happen in a chat room or a video call. How often does that kind of conversation organically happen in an office? Maybe with extroverts but introverts tend to keep to themselves in person. They would be more likely to come up with something via chat or video call.
Call it "invading". For a bonus, it seems more accurately less of a win and more of a sin.
I've read about an ME who has spent 6 years designing air ventilation for seats 40-80 in some Boeing plane... Are such jobs rare? They seem much more constrained and with much less moving parts than modern server-side software.
The aliens are coming to Earth to take it over. They aren't much more advanced than us and so don't want us to be more advanced than the fleet that arrives (it takes them a few hundred years to get to Earth).
There is a scene in the film « Immortal Beloved » where a young Beethoven has a similar experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hhDE9ObxY
The Workpro chairs are awesome. I've probably averaged 70 hours a week in a Workpro 9000 for 4 of the last 6 years, and it's still great.
Update: 19% vacant, per NYT. 21% in downtown Manhattan.

"A third of leases at large Manhattan buildings will expire over the next three years, according to CBRE, a commercial real estate services company, and companies have made clear they will need significantly less space."

Yet there's still 14 million square feet of commercial space under construction.

Anyone need a spare skyscraper?
"I still like writing things out in longhand, finding that a computer gives even my roughest drafts too smooth a gloss and lends half-baked thoughts the mask of tidiness"

-Obama
Management isn't analysis of data, it is making a decision based on that analysis. A completely different and more complex problem. One could argue that the border between the two is unclear but we have for sure been automatizing the analysis and we are nowhere near removing the managers. Maybe we could say we have removed layers of management though
Not even if they are causing you real harm by lying?

Other countries don't allow as much of that as the U.S. does, like the U.K. for example [0]:

> "English laws are much more favorable for someone looking to protect their reputation," says Jenny Afia, a lawyer in London who often represents people making libel and privacy claims.

> In American courts, the burden of proof rests with the person who brings a claim of libel. In British courts, the author or journalist has the burden of proof, and typically loses.

> "So you've got the rich and powerful shutting down and chilling speech which is critical of them," says Stephens.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/...
That’s fair, I apologize for misattributing your position.

I just can’t shake the perception that the more power there is in local, bottoms up, grassroots democracy, the less housing (and transit, and everything else) there will be. Seems like we only got what we have because communities weren’t empowered enough, back then, to hold back capital.
This is just absurd, JIRA wouldn't exist if you couldn't break down work into independent tasks. You're effectively saying assembly lines can't exist. Tasks can be completed by individuals regardless of where they are.
Yea, if the argument is that amazon drives wages lower because Amazon took a skilled job (forklift operator) and turned it into an unskilled job anyone can do, then I agree with that premise.

I just think it is misleading to call that wage suppression as that is not how the term is traditionally used. Operating a loom probably does take less skill than knitting fabric by hand, but that's not wage suppression; that's just creative destruction.

With that definition of wage suppression, pretty much every app, piece of software, or other innovation is suppressing wages.
Yes, retrying always fixes the problem. And for the purpose of getting the latest monitor values from time to time to keep the UI in sync, this suffices.

I'm more surprised that I2C works at all over the long, thin Thunderbolt cable of my LG. Huge bandwidth going through it for video and the USB hub, lots of current passing through for charging the MacBook at the same time, I'm amazed it works so well.
Tcl

http://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/
Have you read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" ? It's often recommended here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...
I haven't used Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/), the app the author built, but it looks fantastic! Clearly great effort has been put into it!

I really appreciate this class of application that exposes more hardware functionality to the end user. Flux (which may or may not be a direct competitor) is another great example, as is Halide, the pro camera app for iPhones. They're certainly not flashy, but they can be great quality-of-life improvements.

And they're difficult to write! They require using APIs that are often woefully under-documented, and terribly difficult to debug. I wanted to write an app that would slowly lower your device's volume over time (so you could raise the volume for a song that you like, but then not accidentally spend the next 30 minutes with the volume super loud), and even doing simple things like listing audio devices and getting their names was endlessly frustrating.
> How has he not been impeached already?

Simple answer? He's delivering on policy. Legalised weed. Election reform. Ex-convict rights reforms. New tax package. Much of this was gridlocked. Magically, the grease hit the wheels when impeachment came into focus.

None of this will win him another term. But he's functionally useful and not showing signs of becoming an albatross on the party.
I've been able to do that on group calls with a shared screen. MS Teams has been excellent for that.
Further discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28005767
Despite free neutrons decaying in 800s, there are many stable elements containing neutrons. Would it be possible to imagine a tetraquark as an ingredient of a stable particle?
why is this down voted? I honestly don't know. imho the point is perfectly valid. is there too much political correctness?
I think that's totally correct. Anecdotally, I absolutely see people saying that maybe the $300K SV salary isn't worth it.
The enlightenment was a European ideology. China is influenced still by Taoism, which has very different belief structure that emphasizes harmony with the masses over the individual.
I would add that it's mostly tribalism and avoiding cognitive dissonance. Democrats were calling for Desantis' head because he was thought to be cooking the numbers. Republicans are calling for Coumo's head because he was cooking the numbers. In general, people ignore things that don't fit, and seek out things that do fit, their existing world view.
Rather implying that these were called conspiracy theories until no longer convenient to hide them.
You can use eBay if you don't want to use Amazon. Plus, you can even sell your stuff on eBay when you're done using it. I've never been an Amazon customer and don't plan on ever being one. I buy most things used too, saving lots of money along the way.
Privacy is a fundamental right in the EU. Data protection law is not consumer protection law, and thf. "consumer harm" is the wrong lens.

I don't read French and so haven't read the complaint, but I am a data lawyer, so I can make a fair guess. The harm alleged to have been suffered is likely to be that persons have been tracked and profiled without their consent, in breach of their legal right not to be, and so have suffered an unwarranted intrusion into their private life.

To those from countries whose legal systems treat privacy as a consumer or constitutional right, this may seem anti-intuitive. Even within the EU, there is plenty of controversy around some of the legal points at issue in these types of cases/complaints. Regulators are not always immune from doctrinal thinking.

It will be interesting to read the full findings of this specific regulator when available.
I mean, NYC rents are still through the roof. They could build out housing in these tall empty spaces.
You are mixing "Rights" and "Laws" in your analogy, which are often directly at odds with each other.
He's a conspiracy theorist sure but the rest of the UK media is in bed with the government, perhaps more concerned about maintaining their connections so they can keep cranking out stories. You take what you can get.

His reporting on the Assange trial has been fantastic. Considering this trial is one of the most important in recent times, the lack of reporting from the conventional media has been very telling about the actual independence of media in uk.
Before the pandemic, Apple's problem was having far too many employees to fit in the spaceship. They can probably fill that campus just with people voluntarily returning.
Ms. Mitchell, by wearing the t-shirt with overtly sexual language, was participating and engendering the ostensible 'sexualized culture' herself, and to absolve her of complicity in her own actions is maybe actually the sexist part.

If a man wore that shirt, we would declare it 'demeaning and sexist' I think, without doubt.

I fully agree, it's all too much, people should be more professional, and the Blizzard guys should not have referenced it at all.

You're 3rd paragraph doesn't add up. If she is wearing the 'dirty t-shirt' ... then she is not a 'victim' to what she herself is perpetuating, unless you think this person is unintelligent? I don't understand.

I don't think this is the story we are looking for, and I don't think legal action is warrant against people referring to someone by comments on their own t-shirt, and it's also upsetting that this nuanced information is not in the article.

'Sexism' is real, it happens, and it's important, and so we can't just flail around with bad information and journalism trying to push narratives. Facts matter and if people want to 'move the needle' it would behove us all to get the story straight.
Very neat idea, but the color choices are horrible. In most cases, it is very hard to figure out 2021 vs 2020 vs 2019, at least for me.
Is this not horrible for your knees long term?!?
It’s not only shops that make a living on commuters but also, very importantly, tax payers. If you live in NJ or CN and commute to an office in NYC then you pay state income tax to NY - which has a higher marginal rate than it’s neighbors. But if you have an arrangement where you work from home then you no longer have to pay taxes to NY. Also, people that live in NYC because they don’t want to commute have an additional (not insignificant!) NYC resident tax so if you move out that’s again more tax revenue lost.

It will be in the many billions.
Great write-up and a fun read.

I was caught off guard by this note:

> the delivery guy called me about a laptop: the custom configured M1 MacBook Pro that costed as much as 7 junior developer monthly salaries has arrived!

I tried the MacBook Pro configurator and could only get up to $2300 USD (excluding optional software like Logic Pro). I’m sure the price and taxation are higher in the author’s country, but I still don’t understand how that could cost the equivalent of 7 months of junior developer salary anywhere.
No they really can't. The number of random discussion that lead into whiteboard interesting solution to problems we run into infrequent or about the overall direction of our product have dropped to near 0 since I've been working remote.

Work has gotten easier in this remote world as it turned my whole team into input / output engines with very little thought along the way but god it's sucked all the creativity out of our work and removed most of the critical review of any product decision.
Couldn't you say the same for any SoC? Or any non-free system?
What are you implying is this persons part for the future of their country?