skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every major company I've worked for/with that has a large service workforce (Retail, MFG, etc) has "union avoidance" employees/training.

I recall my first week as a Best Buy part time tech in 2002, we watched a video on how Unions are bad.
I meant that the recommended guide doesn't include anything regarding the DMARC setup. Technically, it should be possible of course.
> The ichthyosaur is approximately 180 million years old and, with a skeleton measuring around 10 metres in length and a skull weighing approximately one tonne

For the who didn't want to wade down to the 8th paragraph to find out
Isn't the scope of the standard library of C and C++ close to the scope of the Rust standard library (an thus much smaller than python's)?
Perfect Freehand
Interesting product strategy, but I can't help laugh at some of the product examples like "barcodeless scanner" or "quality inspection" (I can only comment on imaging as that's my background). First of all the idea of replacing a perfectly functional barcode scanner with an ML model is not a great sell (having how much I pay at the register dependent on the lighting at the grocery store is not going to be a fun time). Second, ML models are great when failure is OK at a specific rate, none of the image classification examples shown have that characteristic.

While I'm sure the founders are competent and understand these limitations, it's unfortunate that they've chosen such flawed examples to show off on their home page.
>helped turn from worthless into ETH-comparable money

So still worthless.
This is really helpful! Thank you so much!
The idea of the “rockstar ninja lone wolf 10x-er” type is more mythical than reality.

Good managers know they need to hire good team members, not just people who are good at coding by themselves.

The real 10Xer types are those who can work together with the team, set aside their own personal ideas (if they’re different than what the team has decided), and coordinate to get things shipped.
Can’t you survive for 8 days on zero pounds of rice?
it's probably a typo for "rogue" state
Show HN: A tool to auto-generate vocabulary for a book
Takes a book in English, finds the words that are "rare" (by the measure IDF >= 15 or -ln(frequency) > 14) and lists the definition in a dictionary and the places it occurs in the original text. The final output is a static HTML file. You can view a live demo for a subset of words from a book here: https://deedy.github.io/vocabuliwala/

Some examples output demonstrating some of the key features of Vocabuliwala:
- Dictionary lookup
- Secondary dictionary lookup: looking up dictionary meanings which themselves need explanation
- Difficulty rating
- Show appearances in the input book

Who is this for?
- A casual reader of a book
- A teacher trying to teach a book
- Students trying to learn vocabulary for a standardized test

Curious to get the community's feedback and see how I can improve this!
It's not a class, it's a variable.

If another language uses the same word for their aunt or uncle, a decent way to represent that in English is `AuntOrUncle`.

If the word 'Sibling' didn't exist, `BrotherOrSister` could be used instead.
I wouldn't, but if I'm passing something to an external command line tool with many options like ffmpeg, it might be over 10.

Anyone regularly calling a function with actually 10+ parameters is calling for a refactor though.
Are these representative samples?
What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack
don't many traditional clients support webtorrent as well? https://feross.org/libtorrent-webtorrent/
During the early phases of organization building, Google needed to build a huge army of engineers in a competitive hiring environment. To do that they had to convince potential hires that it would be morally acceptable to build the most sophisticated tracking/surveillance system in human history. (I don't think this was entirely cynical: I also think it was also necessary for the founders to convince themselves that this was all going to be ok.) Perhaps there's more, but that's the basic story behind "don't be evil."

But obviously organizations change. Much of Google's infrastructure now exists and nobody needs to be convinced to build it. Google/Alphabet also has new corporate leadership that is more beholden to the company's shareholders. Of course, one could point out that this was inevitable from the beginning: corporations can temporarily behave in "moral" ways, but (absent outside pressure) they won't necessarily stay that way.
Imagine the outrage when a gamer learns his $1,000 silly hat won't render in the latest horror game.
To me, the energy waste is secondary to the massive amount of intellectual resources being wasted on this.
I enjoyed your comment because it seemed balanced across multiple interesting perspectives:

* What changed your mind when you were more anti-union.

* How upper management perceived unions.

* What joining a union means for your spouse.

* Why you would support a union today.

I've only worked in one place that had a union. I couldn't see the benefit. The union seemed to be contributing to collective laziness and complacency. Being motivated to go above and beyond always put me at odds with the union people who would snitch on me for working after hours. Maybe I wouldn't feel so motivated to improve things if more employees were contributing higher than the just bare minimum? This was a union for a US government agency.

>And there probably shouldn't be any government unions

Seems you understand that perspective as well.
Then stop working on it and start working on something new. They can't reasonably expect you to do all the work for not enough pay while they contribute nothing.
"It is their duty to shareholders" is a factually-incorrect statement.[0] That piece of misinformation needs to die out.

0. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...
I don't know how the union law works in the US. Over here (Europe), you can have multiple unions in one company. It takes minimal 3 people to form one. So you could probably form a union for pro-DoD people?
Google is a huge, public company.

Any ideals that survived going public will slowly be ground out by repeated exposure to management consultants from McKinsey and the hordes of MBAs attracted to the smell of ibanker excitement.

You can't go public, or become part of a public firm, and not become more like the rest of the big players.
Bayes rule with odd ratios makes it pretty easy.

base odds: 20:80 = 1:4
relative odds = (1 letter/6 letters) : (2 letters / 8 letters) = 2/3
posterior odds = 1:4*2:3 = 1:6
Final probability = 1/(6+1) = 1/7 or roughly 14.2%

Bayes rule with raw probabilities is a lot more involved.
If you make comments like this, why not provide some link as a 'reason to believe'. For all I know you're absolutely spot on but I won't get far quoting "hogrider on HN" as a source, will I? And if your observation thus goes no further, what's the point of it?
When I read "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will." I thought, what an elitist (and libertarian) idea to assume people would be able to afford and manage a server in their home but also afford/have access to the required Internet bandwidth. Yuck.
There is a whole host of orthodox dual-pane file managers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Dual-pane_manager....

On Linux, I'm using GNOME Commander, and Midnight Commander in the terminal. On KDE, Krusader is the greatest.
There's nothing immoral with eating things. Why would there be? The other posters' rabbit-fox example is a great point.

I also strongly reject the idea that we need 'our specialness' to 'justify eating things and how we treat them'. I don't need justification beyond: 'That thing is made of meat. I can eat meat. I'm going to kill it and eat it'. There is no moral crisis. Things die. Things get eaten.

Just 2 days ago, I caught 2 mice that had been living a nice life in my attic (because I was lazy for a few weeks). I drowned them in a bucket. Is there a moral crisis there? No. They were vermin, living where I decided they cannot (because I live in that space). There is no difference between that and a scorpion killing small spiders trying to spin webs in its burrow.

I also think you've touched on something: We created distinctions that 'separates us more and more from the rest of the world'. If what you say is true, then they're simply illusory. If humans are so like animals (indeed we simply are the apex animal), an attempt to force morality onto our natural impulses and diets is absurd. Therefore, killing and eating anything we can reasonbly digest is a natural behavior of the human animal. Returning to the rabbit-fox example... well, clearly you can see meat-moralilizing falls apart in a hurry.
This is a question of solvency. They were not Ponzis beforehand because the fair market valuation of their assets was correct. When the valuation changed, then they had the opportunity to become Ponzis, but things went a different way.

If banks had been forced to mark their assets mark-to-market, then they would have had to either 1) become insolvent, or 2) write-down customer deposits, or 3) take out huge amounts of loans to cover the difference.

The idea of TARP was to artificially mark up their assets so that they appeared to be solvent, with the Fed and the Treasury acting as the backstop in case of liquidity crunches or runs on the market. This never really panned out and the Fed just took the money and did 3 instead, and Congress was just "hey, fuck it, whatever".

2 is out of the question -- the formalism of the banking infrastructure created by the Fed and later the New Deal basically forbids saying "hey, you're taking a haircut on your savings account because you were really investing and investments may lose value".

1 was what some of them did, too, and then bigger banks came in and bought them up with borrowed money.
One of the typical arguments against unions has been that they take a lot of money from employees to pay for dues. I think that is a dated argument from a bygone era. With modern tech stack there is far less administrative overhead, and union meetings can be conducted virtually or async. Additionally, the relative dues for running a union in a tech setting are going to be a lot lower as a percentage of salaries as they tend to me much higher. If there are other arguments that somehow unions harm employees I’d love to hear them.
The creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen, is now full time focused on crypto: https://www.chia.net/

It's a novel layer 1 crypto with some interesting tech behind it. A lot of decentralized nodes inspiration from BT went into it as well.
FYI for those wondering - NRI stands for Non-Resident Indian/Not Really Indian depending on how pejorative you want to be.
And probably using a colour profile intended to make media or games look better, rather than making everything more colour-accurate.
The only thing I can think of that NFTs could potentially add to Amiibos would be part of a form of DRM. The amiibo data is trivially piratable onto NFC cards, and there is a cottage industry of custom amiibo cards.

Still though, if you pirate you don't get the actual official figurine, there are certainly other ways to implement DRM, consumers hate DRM, and despite Nintendo's well known aggressiveness in litigating and preventing piracy, they don't seem to care about DRM on amiibos, apparently because the data is not the core value-prop.
> It's only when they get cancer, or finally meet some form of humility that they see the inherent advantages they had over others for what it is.

It is surprising to me since I'm not from US. Don't tech workers at Google have good health and life insurance for such cases?
The per file hash to assist in deduplication is pretty neat. Wonder if it could be taken a step further by chunking files into blocks based on a rolling hash, so that it can dedup portions of a file as well (a la lbfs https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/lbfs/). Or does anyone know if it already does that?
del.icio.us is still up, albeit with a "note secure" warning [0].

"""

My name is Maciej Ceglowski. I bought what remains of this site in 2017 for about the price of a Volkswagen. I got that money from running a paid clone of del.icio.us called Pinboard.

"""

[0] https://del.icio.us/help
Probably more representative than "I see..."
> you have to resort to cannibalizing broken ones off eBay or your parts bin if you’re in enterprise

Except these graveyards are ENDLESS because of the amount they produced and companies threw away. My favorite is all the originally $150 docking stations that you can pick up for under $20 (or at least when I was in the lenovo t series game).
I have the T1000 in my storage closet under the stair. (with SWTP CT-82 and Cat Novation acoustically coupled 300 baud modem.
The T1000 had a boot Rom disk with DOS 2.11 on it.
I had a memory upgrade to 512 or 640K which I used as ram disk and loaded files from the single floppy.
Ran Turbo pascal on it, probably version 3-ish.
Got go do some computer archaeology and resurrect it.
SF startup Bolt implemented a permanent four-day workweek
I don't know what you mean by superstar--that will mean wildly different things in different contexts/companies. That said if I read that as the mythic 10x ex-Google master I'm not entirely convinced such people exist nor if they do they would be so productive in other circumstances.
I agree, the work comes from desire to create but I think the public github repo and the promises you give to the potential users comes from the desire to receive praise and cred for your work.

From the users perspective, the joy and the pain is the same as with the paid product. If you promised them something and underdeliver, they feel scammed.
My post didn't, the one above me did. They said if you don't understand it you shouldn't invest. I just said that the majority of people with bitcoin don't understand it. And that's not what you were saying, Noone is investing in computers when they own them. They buy the computer to use. Unlike people investing in bitcoin.
This has been my experience too.

I constantly fear Spring Boot magically reconfiguring itself based on what it finds in the classpath, and half the codebase being annotations and import statements.

I've found the metaprogramming in Ruby much easier to understand and teach than Java's reflection and annotation processing.
You’re right. It was earlier than I thought. I updated my comment per your reply.

Heaven forbid “wage inflation!”

Was the AFL pushing for employer-based and the CIO pushing for national? I don’t even know where to find history like this. It’s virtually impossible for an average person to learn about the history of the American labor movement.
Lenovo Thinkpad really helped me throughout my college journey, the laptop never let me down.
A lot of people seem confused why a lot of tech people aren't pushing for unions.

For me it's simple: Tech has brought me from near poverty to pretty darn wealthy. Why mess with that?

Could a union help increase wages even more? Maybe. Are we being paid too little compared to our output? Maybe. But at the same time I'm being paid more than I could have possibly imagined before I entered the field.
Unions are organizations that transfer value from employer and non-union members (including not-employed-yet employees and customers) to union members.

Long term effects of that transfer are rather unpredictable, because there are too many factors in economy.
They like the feeling being on a moral high horse.
I don't see how anyone would have been required to pay for Linux under this proposal. The idea is that everything would still be available freely to everyone under a copyleft FOSS license, but companies that don't like copyleft could pay for a permissive license instead.
Long term everything fails, Malthusian pressure gets us all.

But in the medium term, the NHS was doing pretty well until Austerity became the dominant U.K. policy:

https://fullfact.org/election-2019/ask-fullfact-nhs-waiting-...

https://ifs.org.uk/publications/15557

(That said, I don’t have longer graphs to hand, and I am slightly concerned by the convenient start date on the graph in the second link).
The WDR link discusses different opinions on intubation as well as the fincial incentives. It even mentions that guidelines got adjusted which led to less invasive care.
The second link is very 'Welt'-typical, at first using almost tabloid language only to then not delivering on the promise. The interviewee goes into the topic of hospitals having the wrong financial incentives for optimizing the duration of intubation but doesn't accuse a systemic wrong-doing or patient harming.
Fair enough, the system is not perfect but it's far from "systematic hospitalization where ambulant treatment would be possible and recommended".
Not sure about Prof. Stöhr, I read some of his criticism on how the pandemic is handled regarding schools, the idea of a mandatory vaccine and things like country wide measures vs. more local adjusted measures. I didn't hear him saying there is a _systemic_ problem of wrongly administered intensive care just to make money.
Most of zynga's losses are due to acquisitions they make, they are otherwise very profitable, recently they have been acting as venture capitalist than developer.
WRT point 2. Googling darknet links is how people get scammed into sending cryptocurrency to fake mirrors.
Thank you !

This might be the only comment that address my point. Imagine if we had mixed use high rises, 1st floor is retail , 3-5 floors are apartments and 5-8 floors offices.

I could live an elevator ride away from work, and still buy groceries without ever going outside!

Unfortunately in America we have business zoning and residential zoning, ensuring we all have to commute miles to do anything. I want mixed zoning. I want to walk to work, and then walk to the bar afterwards.

Hell, biking would only be for longer commutes in this dream.
Pure speculation on my part but I think Google unionizing makes the most sense out of any FAANG. Googlers in SF are “trapped” by the benefits they get.

> the employee has more leverage over the employer than in many other fields

Housing deductions, childcare costs, food, travel, etc are all heavily subsidized by the company making it near impossible to leave without moving out of the Bay Area. Housing benefits alone can be an enormous deterrent because if you quit Google, your rent can jump up 50% easily.
I'm familiar with the C++11 object model.

How does OCaml compare?

From a quick skim of papers, it seems it provides sequential consistency when using atomics and acquire/release semantics when not.

Sounds like a pretty bad design.
Attempting to convince employees of something is not repression.
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> Rutland is not "the UK's smallest county"

Who are you quoting?
Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1
In most cases that I am aware of, small businesses have zero ability to deal with this. For example, the local HVAC company has 12 or so vans that are just parked in some lot with a small office. There is no garage and no infrastructure for charging. Same with my landscape person and snow removal person and so forth. They just park their vehicles in some warehouse lot.
What exactly did anyone think the “internal communications” department did and why it was so large, other than this sort of thing?
Thankfully there are countries where whatever corporations think is against union law.
Actually, all these examples are straight from our userbase. I can't speak to how successful they're being in their own businesses, but they seem happy with the ML.
The 'barcodeless scanner' in particular is about scanning bulk foods that don't have barcodes, and it seems to work for them.
The opaqueness of QR codes for public uses like this is a problem. I was musing on this on a restaurant patio recently, that used the "QR code to view our menu" sticker things. It would be no work at all to slap new code stickers on all the outside tables. The potential for actual malice is maybe low there, but mischief is easy (ads for a competitor restaurant, PETA website at a BBQ place, autoplay fart noises, just general gross-out website, etc.)

I suppose the builtin Android and iOS code readers will have to get a confirmation step at some point. The classic problem of convenience vs. security.
I'm curious, do you know what function was being declared implicitly? That's really atypical in modern C code, so there's probably a missing #include somewhere that could be fixed upstream.
Can't give you a good informed answer but I've seen friends play League on like 8 different machines -- all very unimpressive in terms of specs.

I have to say, League is one of the very best games out there in terms of optimization and modest sipping of resources.

Shame about the community though; fairly toxic and demanding (IMO) and that's why I'll never play it. But the game itself is a technical marvel.
Second this sounds military, but probably American?
Show HN: Build your own crypto index fund
13 years in the technology world is not "emerging"
No bike paths, just rural roads. Generally without any center line, even. We gave our kids mobile phones early on so they could stay in touch while being independent. It is common for kids in town to go fishing or sailing small boats on their own on a large pond in town. Lots of autonomy.
>The New York Times has had an anti-tech vendetta for a while now.

I believe the news should have a vendetta against anyone and anything that has outsized influence and control in society.

I don't think the NYT has the domain experience or insight to present the most damning critiques of big tech. I think that even when they get a chance, they'll prefer hot button topics over than the meatier but less sexy lines of criticism. I often think their motivations for articles are suspect.

However, even with all that said, media orgs like theirs are still the closest thing we have to a check on the control soulless monsters of industry have over our lives.
A fox eats a rabbit out of necessity. In our modern economy, people don't need to eat animals; it's usually a matter of convenience, taste, and tradition. But in all reality, we can get by quite comfortably without doing so.
Yes, we have political processes that have undefined read write access to unrelated settings and data.

You will have to format the drive and install a new Government.
Suck is relative. For google, unionization would suck as it depletes their power over employees. For employees in most situations it would help the common and probably hurt the "guru coders" more. There is plenty of evidence that unions can go awry (just like domineering employers) as well and a balanced approach and using historical references can help both sides.