skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems like a weird take, but maybe I don't understand. Are you saying that the other parties are equally at fault for failing to prevail in negotiation against the unions?

Well, first, we've not actually been discussing any specifics about arbitration. The most specific we've been is acknowledging that arbitration is a point of failure, and that police unions are involved in negotiating over the arbitration framework. Neither of those things points explicitly to police unions as a point of blame. For example, arbitration problems often stem from lack of evidence, lack of consistency in application, and lack of increased punishment for repeat problem officers; none of these problems are directly related to the contracts negotiated by police unions (obviously they are indirectly related). Blaming police unions, simply because they represent officers, which is their mandate, is an oversimplification.

Additionally, systems like arbitration, or the arbitration framework contract negotiation, is predicated on the idea that both interested parties represent their position adequately, in good faith, and without conflict of interests (among other things); this is not always the case, but is the side that is representing their position adequately and in good faith (i.e. police unions, making it harder to fire "good" officers) to blame? Another example, in other terms, many people are punished unnecessarily by judicial systems because of inadequate defense (i.e. ineffective assistance of counsel), but is the prosecutor always to blame?

It's not that other parties are necessarily at fault for failing in negotiation, but that assumes that those parties adequately represented their interests (in this case, one of those interests would be the public interest), which is certainly not a given.

> I am not claiming that unions are a net detriment to police union workers, simply that there are tradeoffs.

With this in mind, I guess I should've rephrased my initial question. I should've said "can you provide some insight into how police unions work poorly for police officers generally (i.e. their members)?" Obviously there are cases where police unions (and other unions) work poorly for individuals, but I meant where they work poorly for their members overall. This is why I think your reply fails to fit my intended framing and I was rejecting the premise from that perspective.
In my case I found that for most web dev jobs I needed to learn the libraries thoroughly or live in constant stress because I was always getting behind my expected velocity.

I find most frontend libs code too convoluted to be able to understand what is happening just by taking a glipse at the code.

In contrast I've doing backend in .NET since 2008. To catch up with the latest releases I need at most a couple of weekends a year and probably less.
This. I'm old enough to have seen how little the great-grandchildren care about things (heirlooms, family photos, you name it) that were profoundly important to their great-grandparents.
https://posthaven.com/
Likely, the cause is simple ignorance. Modern developers of certain age just use whatever code they can fork from GitHub, think about licenses later (if ever).
I don’t believe it was open sourced. This is just a firmware that gives your root access and doesn’t require any Facebook integration.
A lot of programmers work for FB also despite everything. Also, many work for other ethically questionable companies.

So, for the right price, I’m sure a lot.

However, given what has been reported about wage theft and lawsuits, whether they will pay is a whole different question.
It’s not a tree really but banana plants (especially the common type found in Thailand, which is not the common Cavendish westerners know) can grow ridiculously quick, particularly if the entire “trunk” is cut off - within hours the middle most growing stems will have extended up above the cut point a significant amount.

Coincidentally they’re a PITA to get rid of too - id argue worse than clumping bamboo.
You can put a bookmark folder with no title in the toolbar next to the addressbar, into which you put whatever you want. In Firefox, that works out of the box. Recently I switched to Vivaldi, and I had to use some css tweak to do it:

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/24849/bookmarks-in-address-b...
Languages change slower once they're written down. Today's English should be readily comprehensible.
That is actually an interesting question.

Does a non-user of a services have the right to request for the source under the current AGPL 3 legal framework?
Funding has changed, I agree. I hope that some entity could provide some type of crowd-funded solution for a general purpose desktop environment, but am more than pessimistic.

My opinion of Chrome OS is that it is a cancer and I don't want Google anywhere near anything to do with the free software movement. I don't want their kernel pushes, I don't want their libraries and I don't want their opinion. Yes, I am an extremist, but Google and Facebook (and others) are not ethical partners. I have made compromises in the past and they have yielded nothing of value to me.

Thank you for funding the work for Linux on M1. That really does matter!
"transitory"
Is probably another case of “you think you are good, but it was just luck”
I'd be interested in a link to this legal theory and its application under US Law.

Barring that, what sections of the AGPL are you looking at to make that claim?
Ah, my apologies. I could be clearer. It was curious for that comment to refer to _mutual intelligibility_ for people on either side of a 1000 year period.

It's a lot easier to ask whether contemporary humans can understand 1000 year old language, than to ask whether humans 1000 years ago can understand contemporary language.
I think so. Similar story described in the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/technology/trump-truth-so...
But that's not what happened at all - you can add custom repositories to F-Droid and use them just fine, just like you can use a web browser to visit other websites. It would be more like if Google kicked them off of Blogspot but you could still use Chrome to visit their website.
> Let me ask another way. Did these modifications require a recompile? Pulling a word out of a config file would not constitute a “modification to the software”, merely use as intended.

Actually, it might. Per section 1:

> The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities.

Mastodon is written in Ruby, and large Ruby programs (particularly Rails) usually use Ruby DSLs for configuration. It's very plausible that changes to the config would trigger the AGPL.
For example in the UK unions funded politicians who voted to invade Iraq. Which worker was that in benefit of?

And powerful people in unions can have regressive ideas. For example pay based on seniority is ageist.

At the end of the day a union is a group of bullies like any other.
The criminal justice system in Chicago is a total mess. None of it makes sense on any real level.

Total speculation, since obviously I don't know the details of this specific case, but I would guess pled down to 2nd degree murder and received a sentence of time served.
In any case this is irrelevant. My point was that if you want to know if someone is a fascist, a good sign they are not a fascist is if they step down from power for reasons other than by force. Particularly if they had the ability to start an armed conflict to maintain their power up until they were removed by force.
Not OP. My guess is because YouTube offers user uploaded content, unlike all the other streaming services like Netflix, Disney+
Haugen claims backed by new Facebook whistleblower filing with SEC
> suddenly the company has to disclose all of its IP

I think you need to explain your scenario a bit better.

> I suppose it was a matter of time before supporting the GPL became a "blue or red team" position

If you have a habitual rule breaker and one team's fundamental rule is that this rule breaker is always right, then yes. Put a legal constraint anywhere in his vicinity and give him enough time to wander and he will violate the constraint. Contracts, tax laws, disclosure laws, the structure of democracy itself. Then the team decides it is the constraint itself that was in error, not their leader, and away we go.
Exactly what I was thinking while reading the article. Particularly at

> I realize it’s awkward to propose two different mechanisms for the general heat/cold-death relationship and the African extreme, but I don’t have any better ideas.

When do you ever read that in a scientific paper? In a podcast by some (self-proclaimed) science communicators, they mention from time to time how the media gets it backwards and that asserting absolute truths is not very scientific, but rather that questioning things and being open minded to whatever the data tells you is how science works. And then you open a paper that, as obscurely worded as possible, describes that given X you get Y. And the next paper claims the opposite. No doubt indicated, just business language stating things as they are.

I dunno, I like blog posts a lot better than trying to get useful info from scientific papers and weighing diverging conclusions based on methods used and other factors. Also, the lack of hyperlinks in papers. It's 2021, people, try clickable words or links in footnotes rather than having to DDG for (and then pay 40 bucks for or sci-hub) the citation mentioned somewhere on page 7 while you were in the middle of a paragraph on page 3 and then still find the relevant part of said citation.
CO2 is an input to photosynthesis. How does it lead to a net loss of crops?

EDIT: Of course, with changing climate: some crops will benefit; others will not. But how do we know in net that crop yields will definitely decrease under global warming?
"Money" isn't the issue.

It's "having people who understand the meaning of 'properly.'"

The number of people who understand the idea that "free OR open source code" is not equivalent to "I can take whatever source code I find anywhere and use it literally however I want" is vanishingly small, EVEN WITHIN THE IT INDUSTRY.
Freedom of speech is the concept, and 1st amendment is an implementation. The maximal possible implementation given the rest of constitution that came before it. So it's not just government in principle, only in practice.
The guy that wrote it is a real douchebag
Are you saying you disagree with the US Constitution and Supreme Court?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
What nakedly political reasons do Amazon workers have? They were being told to use a plastic container instead of a bathroom so that they would spend more time working, they were being ordered to put their health and their coworkers' health at risk with inadequate COVID protection, and after more than a year complaining about their working conditions little action was taken (but the workers who complained the loudest were fired for complaining). Amazon management's only response to the effort to unionize in response to all that was to hire consultants to discourage unionization.

Yeah, you are right, the way union representation works is as democratic as political representation. Shareholders also vote on corporate leadership and typically elect other shareholders to the board. That does not make it "political" beyond the internal politics of the organizations involved, and trying to connect those internal politics to the politics involved with government is dishonest.
I think the current cuisine of a culture is related to its economic status. Westerners often turn their noses up at things consumed in, say, East Asia, yet many of those same things were consumed in the west before industrial farming allowed us to be more choosy about our food.

Go read about California during the gold rush, where an influx of people without appropriate food infrastructure pushed people to eat bears, cougars, songbirds, etc.
Nonsense. F-Droid kicking apps is still freedom of association, as is Clients changing their protocol. They are also run by entities that have freedom of association.

Just as you have the freedom to not use those apps if you don't like them.

If I was the developer of a chat client app, I certainly wouldn't want to see screenshots with my app branding in them alongside alt-right content and I would do the same to prevent it from being used for such things.
Free speech starts at home, wouldn't you agree?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tr...
I believe this is one of the feature projects like Dfinity/ICP [1] are trying to achieve.

Probably overkill and way early on, but the idea of a decentralized Internet would be key here.

1: https://dfinity.org/
But I doubt Barclays is currently upholding contracts signed 200 years ago.
In presenting an overall return, it would be worth noting that some college degrees aren't intended to make a positive ROI. You don't get a divinity degree, or a literature degree, expecting to get rich, or even make a positive return. You expect to learn things that enrich your quality of life.

We could do a better job of telling students that -- and we should be investigating why it costs so much money to provide those educations.

College is rather a pig in a poke for everybody: it's a lot of money for people who know very little about their lives. I would like to see a lot of things be different, including making it easier for people to take a few years off without treating them like pariahs in school. And I'd like to see a lot of jobs stop requiring college degrees, or accept people who have unrelated degrees but nonetheless have shown via college that they are willing to do the basics of turning in assignments, write coherent papers, etc. regardless of degree.
Publish it in a major research journal. PRL is a pretty good choice.
Between '02 and '15 I was pioneering Automated Actor Replacement / Deep Fakes, but for streaming entertainment services advertising. I had a working system based on neural nets in key locations of a traditional VFX film pipeline, capable of global scale (125K 30-second video clips per hour, each with a unique person inserted as a key "actor".) Picture yourself in a pizza or car ad.

However, my tech being ready in '08 was in the middle of the global financial crisis. Plus, nobody ever heard of "automated actor replacement" back then, angel and VC investors simply did not believe it was possible. If they did, they wanted to pursue pornography, which I refused.

I went bankrupt. I ended up selling the global patents, which was an incredible achievement acquiring them in the first place. One of my technology providers was a facial recognition company that incorporated 3D reconstruction in their FR suite. So I went to work for them for about 7 years. I quit last spring, I guess a part of the great resignation. Far too many long hours, with no equity participation.

Currently, I enrolled in some graduate Machine Learning classes, and I am formally learning what I've been doing without the training for the last 7 years. I expect to be back in the market around the beginning of the new year, with a freshly minted formal understanding of the ML/DL aspects of the computer vision work I've been doing professionally for nearly a decade now.
What does that mean exactly? I could install F-Droid and add the Gab repository, and then install gab via that?
>The blockchain data will never be "optimized" or "disappear"
This is a really bold assumption - you do understand that core dev is still ongoing, yes?

You do understand that "infinite data on a disk" doesn't exist, yes? And as the chain goes on longer, more space is going to be needed, and centralization of the miners will continue to increase, yes?

Please take the time to learn how Bitcoin works before pontificating
I honestly think that is the cause of half of arguments that occur, not that the same people wouldn't disagree even if they paid attention to this, but it's certainly where they seem to get stuck.
Well I haven't worked on anything with JIS! A guy I used to work with hadn't had fractions in school, so he would use the metric even on SAE parts. He couldn't figure out that e.g. 7/16" is smaller than 1/2".
thanks for this. there is also Probabilistic Models of Cognition [0] by one of the authors. I wish however that they stuck to Church language [1]

[0] https://probmods.org/

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/~ngoodman/papers/POPL2013-abstract.p...
That's a very simplistic way of looking at the world. It turns out that things are frequently more complicated than absolutist rules allow for, and the world isn't a series of black and white with bright lines between them. Most people are actually very much okay with "Thou shalt not kill" being quite a bit more nuanced in reality, because it turns out most real-world moral questions are a little more complicated than single questions.
There can never be a true free market for unions because there’s such a big network effect bonus from everyone in your company/industry being in the same union.
You should take a look at doom emacs.
Sorry, what I meant was, who are the "others in the know"?
I just reroute all of my outgoing traffic to HN. Whatever I try to do I end up here. /s
As with most data problems, the quality of the data is always the weakling.

I think the quality of the data for this analysis is just poor (the analysis is good, but the data is really questionable), there's no way we're going to figure this one out using the data we have for it in my opinion.

As an aside, I wish that absolute numbers were also presented. Comparing things in relative ratios gets very confusing to reason about.
Ah, this again.

People who are intolerant only to the intolerant are intolerant, period. And if they consider themselves tolerant, they are also a hypocrites.
There's an idea floating in some internet circles that because you aren't tolerant of some speech you disagree with, you're assumed to not be tolerant of all speech you disagree with. It is quite obviously fallacious.
Make it worth preserving to others - ie. make it copy-worthy.

"Lots of copies keeps stuff safe".

https://dictionary.archivists.org/entry/lots-of-copies-keep-...
What about death threats? What about organizing a lynch mob? What about someone else posting your personal info and browser history? What about extortion attempts? What about copies of anything you've ever written?
> compared to some of us, even luxurious life.

Quoting what I wrote about "some of _us_", as I am unclear if you are being tongue in cheek, or seriously think I think they are underpaid.
> Why are some people not willing to spend money on these things? Isn't it a good thing to be willing to?

From what I understand from other comments on this post, it seems this particular problem can only be perfected by more testing across multiple devices etc - that requires a wider effort that is quite difficult to achieve.

For example, I use Linux as my daily driver and I sometimes fix bugs here and there. But, personally for me, this particular one requires so much effort for not-that-revolutionary benefits. More context: I rarely watch long videos on my laptop when on the move. I'd rather fix something that improves my workflow than a bit more of battery life.

Sleep, otoh, is very important to me, so I ensure to buy laptops that DO NOT have NVIDIA stuff in them. For Gaming I got my desktop. Result: my XPS 13 and ThinkPad sleep and resume instantly, WiFi, audio etc work fine, including attaching a dock. I guess its really a YMMV thing, which, as the blog points out, doesn't help Linux's popularity.
There's tons of incentive. There's over 50 million Xbox One consoles out there, so there's a giant market for people would love to not buy any games for the one time cost of ~$100.
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My guess would be CSS, JavaScript, and that sort of thing. It's possible they did some actual engineering work; if it was me, I would be concerned about people trying to bring the site down. I would guess they're also trying to make it a fundraising vehicle, so maybe some changes related to that? I'm not familiar with the Mastodon codebase so it's difficult to speculate but these would be my guesses.
The criticism about fb here isn't about the real name policy. Its the neutral content that they refuse to censor, for monetary reasons. Twitter does, for monetary reasons too.
I like to imagine someone is frantically deleting a QAnon bot right now.
People are either for free speech or against it. If a site that states "supporting free speech" as reason for their existence decides against free speech, it is disappointing.

Of course everybody can decide what they want, but it can still be disappointing and a betrayal of trust.
Nope. Both NiMH and lead acid batteries are less efficient in this regard. And supercaps have lower energy density, although they are improving quickly too.
> Do you think a biological male would be tempted to self-ID as a trans woman

Tempted to? Yeah, sure. Actually go through with it—identify themselves to others as a woman, live as a woman, and so on? Probably not. I don't think many could pull it off. And if you messed up, boom, fraud—out the door you go.
One of the things I learned watching decades of development of computing is to never say never. Things like "the laptop I bought just a couple of years ago is not supported by the most recent version of Windows" might seem insignificant now, but in the hindsight it's one these little things that influence global changes and future trends.
See also Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy

"Why is this guy saying all these obvious things as if they were important?"

Because he was literally the first one.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28960838.
The changing behaviour of browser autocomplete and the new disregard for autocomplete="off" really harmed multiple large CRM / ERP-style sites i worked on, as passwords would get "helpfully" autofilled into completely wrong fields, causing data loss.

I actually still don't think there's a proper sanctioned solution to this, it seems to be cat-and-moused by web developers and browser developers every year or two.
How is a counter example irrelevant?
We built homes in Australia for mostly clement weather, and so when it gets cold or hot, many homes fail to cope for long. If the swings get worse and longer in duration in either direction, we're going to find it really hard to keep houses livable without blasting air conditioning 24/7.
I see the ambiguity now, but I meant if they remove the evidence before making it public. Sure, if the code itself spans the client/server boundary, it's easy to find it, but it doesn't really work if they're just using a library on the backend that isn't exposed directly to the user.
I am saddened to hear you are not betting on Slovio too. :D
There is a potential (perhaps small) for this to backfire spectacularly for the SF Conservancy.

Here is the scenario. Trump doesn’t comply even after the letter. The SF Conservancy files a lawsuit. It goes to court, and Trump loses. It keeps getting appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court (1/3 of whom were appointed by Trump) rules that copyleft licenses are unenforceable.

GPL, AFGPL dead.
I don't think I've clicked on a Google ad in a long long time, but I get ads on Facebook and Instagram that on occasion lead directly to a purchase. I'd say Instagram being the most frequent, especially for clothing.
This doesn't follow unless you allow the sneaking in of the idea that all political positions must be granted the same affordances regardless of their character. I will not allow that sneaking-in because the idea is nonsense. It's quite reasonable to criticize a company for treating gay people poorly and to also nod in approval when they tell fascists to leave and to not let the door hit them on the way out.

It's also not meaningfully inconsistent for one to do the reverse, but it's telling on yourself.