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If i am seeing a competition between a man who overpromises and underdelivers, is being investigated for securities fraud (SolarCity, $420 tweet) and bets his company a lot and the man who has been CEO of Amazon for the last 27 years and Bezos is trying to compete with Musk i would bet on Bezos until he stops competing.

Internet access is a fungible good for most people provided competition exists. I don't see how there is much of a first-to-market advantage if the product is so fungible. If it is non-fungible don't forget local companies which are first to market too. The on the ground rivals are companies native to their market and can hope for government backing against competition of the US from space. Internet is a critical infrastructure and any nation not building local networks has a huge strategic vulnerability.
As mentioned in the article itself, the RPi Foundation is the charity at the root of the organisation, and RPi Trading is a wholly owned subsidiary of that charity.

I have no links whatsoever to any RPi organisation of any sort, so this is purely guesswork, but I could imagine that operations have grown to the point where they are interfering with (or at least a distraction from) their original educational mission.

Perhaps this move is to offload that distraction and allow them to re-focus on the original idea?

Why must it be assumed that this is a greedy move that works against their mission?
This article grossly understates how much Anil Dash adores Prince! Anyone who's followed Anil knows it goes quite deep.
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I always scroll every page along the whitespace on either side for that very reason
2 MB is huge over mobile for a simple graphic illustrating one of many, many features.

If you really want to use GIF, it would make more sense to manually create an animation out of frames you define, switching between highlights of that feature, rather than a screen recording that captures every minor, irrelevant animation and follows the hover popup as it moves around a few pixels. That's just a waste of bandwidth. A manually curated GIF of that size could be like 40 kB or so, not megabytes.

Otherwise, I'd argue MP4 is by far the superior option for this use case given its far smaller size, where visitors just need to know at a rough glance what a feature does, not examine it for pixel perfection. An imperfect video that loads in 20% of the time is preferable than waiting forever for a huge gif to load.
Lots of "Amazon Bad, Union Good" sentiment in these comments.

I think there's a difference between saying "Amazon is bad to intimidate its workers" and "Unions are good". It's totally fair to agree that Amazon have been acting very poorly intimidating its warehouse workers while also thinking those workers would be better off voting no to joining a union.

Ultimately the workers should have a free vote to determine what they want for themselves. You don't need to be pro- or anti-union to believe that.
How does that work with other kinds of investments like loans? You don't "save up" to open a restaurant, you put together a business plan and go to a bank. VCs are just doing that but willing to take on riskier businesses in exchange for equity instead of interest payments.
The results here are interesting.

`shirt without stripes` definitely fails (and I see it is a natural-language meme because that's what is returned most prominently against that phrase. Hilarious.)

`shirt -stripes` as an image search is also not foolproof. It does a better job, but some leak through (I would assume for two reasons: if the text just doesn't mention it, the negative key filter has nothing to key on, and we have different words for "stripes" that Google doesn't consider synonyms. Is a plaid shirt striped? What about a checked shirt?).

But hilariously, all of the ad results are stripe-heavy. Looks like there's a bug: negative keywords in image search aren't passed as negative keywords to the ad engine, but instead as positive keywords. Wasted money for those advertisers; that's definitely not what the user wants.

For this sort of search, I'd actually use Shopping... Except that while there is a "Striped" category, I know of no way to do a negative category search on the Shopping UI, so I get the opposite of what I want. I can get all the striped shirts ever, but non-striped would be harder.

I suppose I should amend my previous comment to say "If you don't try natural language queries on the fringe of known unsolved problems, it works better than keywords." ;) And since Google is forever targeting the common use-case, perfect may be the enemy of good here for getting most people what they're looking for most of the time.
> There are many laws in many parts of our country which restrict my ability to work in a given job or industry unless I join a union.

This law is called basic contract law. A company can agree to only hire via a union just like a university can agree to only sell Pepsi products.

> I prefer to have the right to choose whether to join a union or not

I prefer to have the right to choose whether I am under my management structure or not. I suppose someone could say one can go somewhere else, but that would apply to a company with an exclusive union contract as well.
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Super excited about the new edge usecases this could potentially enable
No.

Worth noting that (a) The USA does have an auto industry and (2) the decline of union membership correlates perfectly to the stagnation of middle-class wages and the increase of corporate revenues going to the wealthy.
This is an extremely inaccurate take by someone who also decided it was a good idea to bring sexism into the conversation.

Why does this kind of trash get upvoted here?
I’m not sure “people not yet alive have a right to mundane details of your life” is the less entitled position, tbh. In their defense, they’re not the ones making that argument.
English pronunciation can be tricky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)
So can you explain exactly what the "that" in "That's stupid" is referring to?
What's the business case for a service like this? Is there anyone on HN that would order this for example?
I think that if the company doing the search results wasn't also the company getting money from SEO spammers posting ads on their websites then the search results might be better.
None of the charts seem to take into account any absorption at all, regardless of the duration. Having a chart 120 years long, and not including absorption, means all the numbers are significantly wrong.

Also, 120 years is on the upper range of most estimates, and does not assume any increased absorption despite the fact that we've almost doubled the concentration of CO2.
A bit like usenet of old, information could be recreated on everyone running a full node. Making it much harder to censor.

Now this makes sense for a number of industries, particularly financial, where the data is small, and the rewards are large. Storing petabites of porn on a distributed blockchain, probably not efficient.
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We may not have flying cars, or jetpacks, but at least we don't have to suffer a Robot Uprising. Win some, lose some.
"Global warming" in the United States is a political issue that has nothing to do with science. A lot of our news reporting has so many contrary "scientific" studies that the average person doesn't know who to trust.

Thus appeals to authority have no meaning if people don't trust that authority. The end result is anyone saying stuff they like is correct and anyone that isn't is wrong.

The US also has a problem with people active trying to cripple and downsize government because it steals their money and tells them what to do.
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I used to think well of those John Oliver pieces until he did one about a subject I knew deeply. Now I assume everything he does is a one sided hit piece that leaves out important details that completely change the picture.
That's not the future, that's already happening. And you don't even need to get into "Hatsune Miku" territory.

I was listening to the radio the day after a local Madonna concert, and plenty of people called to mention how old she looked. Sure, she's in great shape for someone over 60 (hell, she's in better shape than me), but with her music being auto-tuned, her pictures and videos being photoshopped, and her public appearances being heavily orchestrated, the "public" Madonna looks and sounds a lot different than the "real" one. Most people where expecting someone in their early 40s. And she's far from being the only one.
I'm not sure I agree with this article. It's like saying the web is centralized because everyone has to use the same web technologies. Decentralization is about how many people have control, not about how many choices in technology there are.

If something like a social network on top of Bitcoin takes off, the Crypto Bros will have far, far less control than Mark Zuckerberg does over Facebook.
See https://dagger.io, the next gen tool by the creators of docker that does this.

CUE + BuildKit
Cash for anything > 5 to 10 years is def not the way to go.

For a kid I'd put it all in some form of All World tracker 100% equity. If you eenvisage they'd actually draw on it aged 18-25 I'd scale back to 70/30 with bonds/gold/cash/whatever.
The skepticism isn't focused on whether it's happening (or even scientifically possible), it's on how much hyperbole is attached to the claims being made and how does that align with observed/measured reality. When the news is shouting "omg panic!! code red!!" based on the least realistic models in the IPCC reports, anyone who is intellectually honest says "well, wait...what aren't we being told here?"

Because that happens more often than not, skepticism is further excited when you get politicians who claim to be in favor of climate change policy, only to then go and fly private jets, buy ocean front property, etc. This gets conveniently ignored by folks who have turned climate change into a religion.

Every time you even begin to say "hey, we should consider this..." people sperg out and start calling you a "climate change denier" or some other disparaging term. Literally turning their brains off to counter argument because they can't handle the idea that they're living in an incomplete reality.

There is absolutely nothing controversial about saying "let's look at all sides and evaluate carefully" (the scientific process as we've agreed upon it for millennia). People have been radicalized and frightened to the point where they no longer think rationally about the problem (and solutions) and instead get hyper-tribalistic, shouting down any reasonable discussion that doesn't automatically agree with their point of view.

That's why people are skeptical.
This is the best comment of this entire thread
In the US overtime pay is already guaranteed by law, unless you're salaried.
My funny anecdote around that: The road in front of my house has a dual center yellow line, but the reflective additive they used in the paint shows up white. At night all of the lines are white. VERY confusing.
There are a few factors at work.

Primarily, quality content and discussions are now all paywalled (e.g. journals, magazines, newspapers, comment threads, and original content).

Secondarily, remnant content is trivial search engine marketing content. This content is low quality, low information, often false, with a low-grade reading level.

Third, google is actively down-ranking & removing “controversial” content in the name of ML fairness & integrity. In many cases this may be just, but it’s also going to lower the overall content quality because almost everything innovative is going to be controversial .

So you have at least three massive forces preventing quality content & discussions from being found on web search.
Will this drive an increase traffic to things like the fediverse? If it drives people away, is this not good? If hegemonic tech-giants wish to over bureaucratize everything, is the ethical response to decentralize?
Separate comment on the technical side:

Emacs has tons of new features in every release, and one of them, introduced some time back, was the ability to use binaries compiled natively as modules (not sure if it's the default already, it was behind `configure --with-modules` for some time). That was one of the things Stallman really didn't want to lose, ie. the inability to use proprietary code in Emacs. The only thing he managed to get is that the module has to define a constant saying that this_module_is_GPL (or similar). While it still expresses a political opinion, now it's more of "you're saying you're a good guy, we believe you" instead of "No binary blobs in Emacs! NEVERRRR!!"

Also, the new features in the last couple of releases were not user-facing, but very exciting. Starting from `lexical-binding:`, generators, threading, new modules for hashes, keyword and assoc lists, fast JSON support, native compilation, dynamic modules - Elisp is getting modernized, and fast. While the per-pixel scroll is not likely to be a priority, the team still works on things that would make implementing that scroll, in the PGTK branch. It's a continuation of the work to date: first moving rendering to Cairo, then text shaping to harfbuzz, then all the widgets and GUI handling to GTK.
With the important caveat that you can be charged agency fees.
CSV data? Psh; you're going to have to change it eventually, which means you need historical pricing data… Just have a detailed description of your pricing philosophy, and let the reader determine whatever information they need from that.
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the point of the union is better outcomes for the workers, not for the customers
An understanding that dealing with super complex systems with lots of interacting variables are very hard to accurately model and prediction value is likely to be low?

Plus maybe just a general distaste for propaganda.

For my own part I believe humans are affecting the climate to some extent. I don't see how anything else would be possible.

But I'm early 50's and have been watching this closely for 30 years and don't believe the hype and doomsday predictions anymore. I don't think the models are good enough to say what will happen in sum. Should we get off fossil fuels and stop polluting? Yes as fast as practically possible. Is OMG the world ending oceans collapsing 12 years from now? Probably not and they don't actually know that.
When the US government finds its responsibility to limit the power of its companies (unless you are of the belief that their power should be unlimited), come back to me on that.

Companies are a tool that should serve the public, if they cease to serve the public, they should be bought in line, destroyed, or (as is threatened in this case) exiled. A democracy is meant to be for the people, not for profit. Profit is just a motive to try and incentivise things that are valuable for society, when that isn't achieved, regulators should step in to fix it.

Companies that are too large have too much money, and too much power. They are inherently anti-consumer and cause harm to the very fabric of democracy. In any sane world, we would be breaking up a huge number of these large corporations into much smaller pieces.

The electorate has a responsibility to protect democracy and not let companies break the law of the land, they have no responsibility at all to companies.
I joined Stripe over the summer.

Sorry to hear about the ghosting, my interview experience was very different to yours, no re-scheduling, and my recruiter was great with respect to timely follow up.

Now that I'm at the company, I've seen how much stress folks are under to interview. Stripe is currently exploding in HC and it's definitely taking a toll on folks who are being tasked with multiple interviews per week which include not just the interview itself but evaluation/coordination/feedback/etc.
John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute. Discussing vaccination restrictions has lowered your social credit score and you are now also banned from owning firearms. Oh wait, that's already the case in Canada. All joking aside, Canada is looking more fascist every day. I would be doing anything possible to leave, if I were a resident of that nation.
>state teachers' unions

I'd say yes to that.
The money Bezos uses to pay them comes from selling their labor, and without the laborers neither Bezos nor the union president would get that money. Pretty similar.
Because anything related to crypto is immediately judged the same way among HN users - all crypto/web3 projects are inherently bad
Employees pay Bezos the surplus value of their labor. Their wages are what Bezos allows them to keep, not what Bezos pays them.
So they react like most wolves to most of those variables, and therefore the sum total of their behaviour is about the same as other populations of wolves in areas where the variables have similar values?

Not sure about terrain and population density in Wisconsin, but at a guess, they probably behave much like wolves in central Sweden or Finland then.
> > you owned

> Only in the Americas. And we all know how that was made possible.

Yup. The term "landlord" didn't originally mean "a guy owning a bunch of flats for rent in London", but rather a noble who rented out his lands to local peasants.
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It's probably quite far off being viable as a daily driver search engine, but maybe it doesn't need to be either. I built it to pick up the slack in the areas where the big search engines are floundering, and as long as it's doing that, I think that's quite sufficient.
I submitted a post about this some time ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113007

It's not just an issue of refining results to fit a majority of the population. Something is seriously wrong with it.
It was probably done using RFDs (Requests for discussion),. You can read more on the process here [1].

But someone from Oxide would need to tell you exactly how many RFDs took to desing and implement Hubris.

[1] https://oxide.computer/blog/rfd-1-requests-for-discussion
Using web3 for auth costs nothing, and users here have often stated an interest in an ad free pay-per-use web.

Here it is, people are just confused because there is a strong incentive on this forum to trash anything cryptocurrency related.

Web3 is by far the easiest way to provide auth to a web app right now, if you haven’t experimented with it I highly recommend giving it a try. The react library is a decent place to start.
Having been in three different unions for low-payed, unskilled labor like being a warehouse picker is, I can tell you that the union was never on my side for anything and mostly served to help management pay everyone the minimum rather than based on performance.

And yes, the union reps got the best positions, the best hours and two salaries. The next best positions and best hours went to their friends.

The unions only stepped in for the most egregious cases but not in the way you might think: When Buffalo NY's Tops International Market fired their baker for literally urinating in the cake batter used to make the store cakes, the union stepped in to defend the employee because as part of the union contract employees were not supposed to be on camera to perform their duties. They fought hard to get their baker reinstated and won.

Outside of federal employment and outside of hollywood, where the strongest unions are anyway, the history of union activity in the US is quite unremarkable. It is most frequently anti-consumer and often works against the long term interests of the workers that it's supposed to represent.

Literally 99% of the time I hear somebody shouting support of unions here, they've either never been in one or they've always been the reps. Voices like mine, of those who've been in unions and got the shit end of the stick, get shouted down.

I would rather die than participate in a labor union again, for as long as I live.
They are pretty much the "only" hyperscalers. The only two you could add is possibly Alibaba and Tencent Cloud.
Interesting to reflect on how this plays out in the tech world. I know a lot of people who work in tech and outside, and my impression is that the interview process outside tech (and specifically data science or software engineering roles) involves more discussion and networking, whereas in tech (for tech roles), it shifts very rapidly to exam taking. For instance, a fundraiser might talk a bit about her experience as a fundraiser, whereas a programmer is likely to talk about how to find the shortest path in a graph using python, or the difference between logistic regression and a one-layer neural net. By "talk", I mean implement at a white board, preferably in julrythonava++script, but tight pseudo code is fine too.

There are such things as more casual job hunting in tech (giving presentations and having discussions can be great), but this sounds to me like living in a perpetual mid-term week during second year of a computer science curriculum. Which maybe is a good thing, at least you wouldn't ever forget how to implement merge sort or how to find all subsets of a superset of words that combine to make a different word that is also in the set.
Intriguing - but the first three questions that immediately came to mind didn't seem to have an immediate answer. (1) What range/power, (2) Pricing (3) Density/Number of connections? I'd love to see a network architecture that shows how they hop from antenna to antenna as well, and whether it's guaranteed with no interruption to service.
> The idea isn't to focus on any individual bit of misinformation. Its to throw away the whole thing, conceptually, as a bad way of getting information, as a low quality source of it. It might have to include some left-leaning media as well, or most media in general as we know it today, because unfortunately most media today is manipulative instead of informative.

No. The important thing is to _GET OTHER PEOPLE_ to do this.

My mom, or my sister's father in law, will not trust what I say if it contradicts their news sources. So there's no feasible way I (or really, anyone else) can get them to throw away their bad news sources.
IANAL, but it seems that until Janus V. AFSCME three years ago, it was legal to "require bargaining unit employees to pay union dues or an agency fee". So while those employees could decline to join the union they still had to pay for it. They were not forced to join but that just meant that they didn't get a vote yet were still bound by the result.
Who cares. Stop using their spy machine and use duckduckgo
At least I'll be able to wipe my ass with all those violations.
If only the linked-to page had a section clearly headed "Use cases"

/s
The delta between what he (Bezos) would have to pay them with vs without a union negotiation can be seen as a gift to his bottom line. Similarly, the cost of that union president spread over union employees is still far less than the increase in comp and benefits union shops would get with a union negotiation.
You could charter a boat?

You could also take the ferry to Newfoundland and then one to St. Pierre and Michelon, ie France and fly out of there. I don't know if France has restrictions.

I definitely disagree with the situation as well, but it's a global problem, better to stay and try and change things.
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Every major video codec does this exact thing. Can you please stop spreading this misinformation all over the thread?
I finished high school and college, and my friends and I routinely communicate with each other in this way. I also never went to Caltech.

Any other odd blanket statements?