skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is an anti-labor-power strategy.

If you consider the case of publicly-traded employers (there's a different argument for pre-exit startups that comes out to a similar conclusion): they could give you your compensation entirely in cash, because shares are pretty liquid. And you could buy stock in your own employer. But very few people think that's a good idea, because now you have correlated risk across your own actual job (both continued employment and things like the ability of the company to give large bonuses/raises) and your investments. So the company effectively forces you to buy some of their stock and not sell it for some period of time. You know exactly how much you're forced to buy because, again, the company is publicly traded and you know what that's worth; you just get it in illiquid form.

So, by giving you part of your compensation in this funny form instead of in normal cash, they get you to feel internally conflicted about policies that improve your cash compensation (and other intangible benefits) at the expense of a theoretical drop in your funny-cash compensation. That doesn't benefit you (even if you were the sort of person who wanted to invest in your own employer, you're still free to do that on your own if you want, so forcing you to do it is at best equivalent to giving you the option), but it does massively benefit the people who own way more shares in the company than you ever will.
Definitely agreed +1
My wife is a 2nd grade teacher, also in the midwest. 200+ kids out today with covid or b/c of a family member. Over a dozen teachers out today in a small school. There are no subs and they are asking parents who aren't sick to come "supervise" classes. The janitor quit and nobody is cleaning the bathrooms or classrooms. Yet the superintendent says schools need to be open, we are taking all the best safety precautions, etc, etc... completely ignoring the reality on the ground which I'm 100% sure he knows about. At some point reality has to set in here? right? maybe?
I have a couple issues with Google Maps on my iPhone over the last few months

1) it has trouble connecting to its own servers, leaving me in offline mode for an indeterminate amount of time, whereas Apple Maps was ready to go with live data. It seems Google Maps is not able to currently tell connectivity changes well, or that Apple Maps has a priority networking route or downloads things in advance.

2) Google Maps also has begun choosing unnecessary routes. I didn't use to need to double check and use my own head (as one should), but this is more frequent now as I don't trust it in this area. Yes, last night I was mid trip and saw Google Maps route but didn't have a place to pull over and tinker with it so I opened Apple Maps and just used its route which was quite different. The irony is that I had just finished jokingly making fun of someone for probably "being an Apple Music and Apple Maps user".
2021 Mac shipments grew twice as fast as overall PC shipments
The web UI has some weird rendering bugs that were introduced with the last reskin. For example, at certain zoom levels highway ramps disappear so the highways look disconnected.

Edit: as an example, look at https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6264803,-79.321245,11.34z The highway labelled "427" on the left looks disconnected from the "Gardiner Expwy" until you zoom in further. I expect basic details like this to work.
That it is really hard to dig down 100m without modern digging equipment.
So they should work on doing that as soon as possible?
Ask HN: Best Tools for Technical Writing?
What tool do you use or recommend when drafting technical blog posts or books?

I've found that editors tend to do one thing or the other very well: they're either really good editors for rich text and multimedia or really good editors for code.

What tools balance the best of both worlds?
This is only if you view college as a vocational endeavor. I know that's the current prevalent thought, but it hasn't always been the case, and I'm not sure it should be a given.

Just the nature of this thread (cost, ROI, supply & demand) shows how much of college is thought of in a business mindset which is a departure from how it used to be viewed.

I would also argue that while the economy may not need humanities majors, society probably does. E.g., An engineer can tell you how to do something (e.g., develop facial recognition for public cameras or develop attention maximizing social media algorithms) but an engineer with a grounded understanding of philosophy can help determine if that's the right thing to deploy as policy and whether they, at the individual level, wants to support that with their career choice.
Targeting Facebook and not Google or Amazon for tech monopoly is not a good look, and just makes people feel like Zuck didnt make the right political donations and didnt censor for the benefit of the party in power hard enough.

Whether Meta qualifies or not is a different question, but Facebook as your first target?
> I think they've just become a de facto thing that is expected.

Good god! Where in the world are you?

Here in Blightty, it wasn't that long ago having a linkedin account would count against some of our candidates.... as a candidate must have had their head in the sand not to be aware of the toxic behaviour of linkedin (spamming personal contacts) [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/07/linkedin-...
"Tracebacks now highlight in which AST node the error occurs."
Can you describe in simple terms how the AST works?
This comment is an example of why I’ve become skeptical of the downvote button. It sounds like people read it, knew better, and politely pointed out that it was incorrect.

Everyone who might have shared the same misapprehension learned something and the parent wasn’t being an asshole.

Doesn’t that add to the discussion?
Perhaps the answer is to break all of them up. For those who truly believe that, out of practicality, we may not want to engage in whataboutism and go for whatever launch pad the world / legal landscape offers.
National Backwards Day?
https://nationaltoday.com/national-backward-day/
I'm pretty sure you missed the joke.
Flu kills at most 50,000 people a year. Covid is 10x that. All my life I don't know anyone who's died from the flu, i know multiple people who died from covid. It is like comparing measles to chickenpox. Measles has a very similar mortality rate as covid.
In other words: gas compression storage suffers from temperature losses. The compressed gas is hot, the heat dissipates from storage and that energy won't be coming back.

But if you extract that heat during compression you can put in a separate storage, one that is much easier to insulate than the compression tanks, and "mix it back in" during recompression, avoiding a large part of those losses.
Being from an area where the roads are bad, I often share this sentiment. There have been many occasions where GMaps has rerouted me to a road that seems shorter but the quality of the road is pathetic. Feels like there should be a gyro sensor sending back information as to the quality of the road. Possibly it’s like a black swan type event that the maps designers have not thought of?
Sir, salute your effort. I'm no expert but have you thought about freelancing? Also you can start on Twitch if you haven't already. You can practice your skills there and meet and connect with people.
“Tip #2: Finishing a book is optional”

So we’re not talking about reading books, we’re talking about “how to be exposed to 50 high-level perspectives a year”. At which point you may as well read one of those “executive summary of this year’s 100 business books” and claim you read 100 books a year.

This isn’t to say this isn’t necessarily valuable but claiming this is “reading a book” degrades the value of actually reading a book. Next tip will be “get your College degree by going to one class per course”
you don't have to build those caverns as they already exist and we have extracted gas and liquids from them, also the volume should be already known as we know how much we pumped out (unless it's an old site)
The are police and other public sector unions. The point of unions is to protect labor interests. Unions can exist as long as labor does.
You know unions also operate in the public and non-profit sectors, right?
The Verge: Buy Nothing exploded on Facebook – now it wants a platform of its own
Title should be "Boris Johnson admits attending Downing Street party during lockdown"
>If the company's in a competitive market, it's unlikely that there's a huge pot of gold somewhere to hand to employees in operations.

Here in the US, corporations all over are making record profits! Buying back shares like never before! Unless you want to play definition games about what a "competitive market" is, plenty of companies in competitive markets have big pots of gold to hand to employees.
The UXN project might also be fun, the virtual machine is fairly simple to implement and there are a lot of interesting programs written for it.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html

There is also the LC3 virtual virtual machine, with a fairly great guide on creating it.

https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
Alphabet buys lots of companies, so im not sure what you are talking about here.
I recently got some masks from Home Depot that work really well with glasses; they are 3M Aura Particulate Respirators (N95). Nice nose piece, and they are designed to direct the airflow outwards/away from glasses/goggles.

Edit: Found the link - https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Aura-Particulate-Respirator-N...
Fun times. I remember back in the year 2000, during the dot com craze, there was a company in India that built a clone of "Who wants to be a millionaire". It was in beta and there was no real cash or prize involved.

They had all the answers stored in the source code. I wrote up a quick perl script to play the game and unfortunately left it running overnight, and in the morning there were complaints from other players asking how I'd reached the top rank so quickly.
This is also a security vulnerability because MySQL/MariaDB silently truncate strings at the first invalid character. This can result in data manipulation attacks where a higher level layer validates the complete input as UTF-8 for insertion into the DB, but the database only stores half the string.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1253201
Do all the other car companies provide those stats?
Google is web scrapper number one, as any search engine. Making web scrapping illegal mean making search engine illegal.

You do not want information to be public and/or free?
Put it under login and charge for it.

You want to prevent people to reuse the data you publish to build other (potentially competitive) products, then use licensing and copyright, and the law.

However, banning a technological mean because what a minority could potentially do with it? Then make the internet illegal then and the problem is fixed altogether.
You're right, it's just anecdata, but literally I have a dozen stories like that and almost (not quite) zero countervailing stories.

My experience with unions is that they start out with noble intentions, and then within a generation or two of union leaders devolve into just serving themselves; meanwhile, management suffers with worse and worse employees, because they can't do anything to get rid of the bad apples. Over time, the bad apples bring in more bad apples and things get progressively worse. That can happen in a non-union company, too, but then it'll get punished by the market.

It's really a question of misaligned incentives; the union reps have no incentive to do anything to help the company, and often have incentives to do the exact opposite, like initiate a strike at the worst possible time.
Madness that they haven't gotten back to your access request in 6 months!

Why even bother having the API there - so much value can be added by people building on top of YouTube and other large sites, its a shame that most of these large sites do nothing to provide API access and people have to go out of their way to scrape them them...
If this is in the US and it's One Of Those States, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Flag Carying WW2 Nazis and not "cancel culture" ones. I grew up in One Of Those States and we talked highly about Slave Owners, Pinkerton, and other obviously bad people.
I am doing the Georgia Tech online masters https://omscs.gatech.edu/ right now, and your points do resonate. The financial ROI would be higher if I just invested that time into career, but I have no formal CS education and I'm doing this purely out of a learning experience. Life is long, education is important in the long term, and money isn't the main goal for everything.

Plus, it's under $10k for the entire program.
The author mentioned MariaDB in the intro and the went on about MySQL, not sure which he actually used.

I think the latest recommendation for MySQL was utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci and utf8mb4_general_ci for MariaDB.

While I agree about the Postgres recommendation, it's a non-starter in the PHP world, unless doing something from scratch. Even then, the support for MySQL/MariaDB is much better.
>We don’t necessarily need unions.

I guess we dont necessarily need child labor laws or the weekend...

Remember when the cacophony of calls to "End the Olympics Now" when the IOC was found to be grossly corrupt? No, me neither. The investor owned media called for reform. As it will for literally any other institution.

Tennis is necessary.
Yes, I don’t mean to say it’s organized just like any other organization, but that it is still susceptible to corruption. Which, again, is not an argument against unions, only something to recognize when organizing and being a member of one.
> willingness to grind through problems is also probably lower

Maybe I misunderstand what you’re saying here but I don’t think this is fair. An older worker should know to put the problem down at 5 PM and walk away from it, but that doesn’t mean they’re unwilling to work on a problem they haven’t solved before.

At least, I hope some day when I’m an elderly ex convict
that I will still be able and willing to solve new problems.
There's been a bad loss of topsoil in "good" farming areas but I don't think aggressive farming of marginal soil or subsoil in arid areas does much extra damage on top of natural erosion.
I have never had that problem with Apple Maps; it's spot on, to the foot. Sounds like a GPS calibration error.
Depends on degree; I was thinking of people who aren't even covering their noses when I wrote my comment. Good point, though; I hadn't thought of "physically doesn't fit".
Sorry, based on the replies I'm getting I did not make myself clear. I only want to use Either in cases like the following.

fn some_func() -> impl SomeTrait {
if some_condition {
Either::Left(a)
} else {
Either::Right(b)
}
}

Both a and b will implement SomeTrait which is all callers care about. However, because they're structurally different they must be wrapped in an Either that delegates all methods from SomeTrait to a or b respectively.
It's not, but it doesn't require a giant reservoir next to a 100m+ elevation change. Almost all of the really good locations for dams already have them, and their water discharge rates are driven by a lot more than just power generation.
> Grid storage is going to be big business in the future

it's already a big business
That was very Mitt Romney of you.
So a mine exists and a bunch of heirs have a corporation. Through the corporation, a portion of the wealth miners create by mining from that mine goes to the heirs. The workers doing all the work and creating all the wealth organize and strike a deal that the company hires only union members.

So the thing which is "unethical, immoral, and unconstitutional and violates a person's right to self-determination and other human rights" is not what the heirs did, but what the workers doing all the work and creating all the wealth did. No questions about the province of the heirs. You're dealing with both these groups but questioning the paternity of only one of them, the ones actually doing all the work and creating all the wealth.
> The Great Resignation

Any chance it has something to do with mandatory vaccination?
Book-Driven Development from “Boost Your Django DX”
It's actually pretty standard
Does this even fully fix the problem? It looks like utf8mb4 is limited to 4 byte sequences, but as far as I understand, utf-8 is variable width. Can utf8mb4 even encode the scottish flag https://www.iemoji.com/view/emoji/2476/flags/scotland ?
Don't forget the forking and remixing of each other's code. <3
I get the same issues under normal usage (MacOS).

I pay for prime, watch a movie I can only legally view there, but I'm not able to plug in a monitor/TV to watch it.

I get an error about DRM not being supported by the monitor and/or HDMI cable. They make some excuse about cables not supporting some ultra 4k setting, but I think that's BS. I can pirate the same resolution content and play it fine on VLC.

I'm paying but still can't watch what I'm paying for. This is why people pirate.

Related to it: https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00007ccK4lSAE/ev...
Great suggestions & solid advice. Informal networking may work well if intergated with a speaker slots (I'm a decent public speaker) but I'll need to devise a strategy.
> until Julia came along nobody could do multiple dispatch fast

Is that correct/can you give a reference? Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch#Use_in_pract..., julia uses it more in its standard library, but I don’t find indication that Julia is doing multiple dispatch better than, say, CLOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System) or Cecil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_(programming_language)).
Taiwan is one element in the relationship between China and the USA. The author goes out of his way to ignore any of the aggressive actions being taken by China which might be causing the USA to strengthen its grip on Taiwan.

I would ask the author: “has China been engaging in…say economic warfare…which might make the USA think handing them Taiwan is not a good idea?”

The argument “but you have been inconsistent” is a non argument. The argument “but we deserve to have Taiwan” being portrayed here is a non argument.

The entire argument by the author is very suspicious and I suspect he is probably well compensated for producing these deceptive pieces.
You also don't get a choice in upper management, but at least the union is nominally on your side.
In point of fact this is not "required of Apple."

Some part of me would LIKE it if someone would make (in effect) Trillian for iOS, but expecting Apple to do it when it is not in their interest to do so is just entitled.
I'm not aware of airborne particle size distribution data existing specifically for covid-19 (please share it if you have it), but the majority of particles that might transmit an airborne virus are usually 0.3 microns or greater in size. That is, while some virus particles may linger and those may be smaller than 0.3 microns, the quantity of particles is highly relevant in determining whether someone will get infected - if we can cut a patient's exposure to virus particles by a significant factor, this may indeed prevent infection.

> The count median diameter (CMD) of the cough aerosol particles was fairly similar for all subjects and did not vary significantly during and after illness (p = 0.9340). When the subjects had influenza, the CMDs of all the cough aerosols were between 0.57 and 0.71 μm (average 0.63 μm, SD 0.05), and the geometric standard deviations (GSD) were between 1.54 and 1.83. After the subjects had recovered, the cough aerosol CMDs ranged from 0.57 to 0.89 μm (average 0.63 μm, SD 0.100), and the GSDs were between 1.53 and 2.28. Similar results were seen for the volume median diameters (VMD); the average cough aerosol VMD while ill was 2.44 μm (SD 1.17) and was 2.24 μm (SD 1.50) after recovery. The GSDs ranged from 1.66 to 2.31 while ill and 1.54 to 2.21 after recovery. The difference in VMD while ill and after recovery also was not statistically significant (p = 0.7780).

It is notable that the particle sizes did not differ significantly when the patient was infected with a virus versus the control group. This makes me think that covid-19 is similar.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676262/
So 19th of June 2021.
LinkedIn is a great way to build connections and have people. People send me private messages asking if I'm interested in their job position. Thus, If I have time to accept those proposals, I might find myself being hired through LinkedIn.
In the U.S., that number is 59%:

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
I feel like the quality issue is only getting worse over time. Yesterday I received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter that began with "I wanted to reach out as it is almost the end of the year" ...

The same recruiter previously emailed me in December and did not use that phrase, so it's not like he always copy-and-pastes the same thing. However, in his December message, he misspelled my name (which is only 4 letters long), and never even mentioned which company he is hiring for -- it was only apparent in his signature line.

This was a Google recruiter, hiring for staff+ level SWE roles.
Yes, I would describe that as a pretty common human failing. Human societies are collaborative by nature, and you are likely blind to the situations in which you are "carried" by others, despite being hyper-attuned to situations in which you feel you are "carrying" disproportionate weight. People's lives not being ruined every time they're not useful is a feature, not a bug, of membership in most functioning human groups, and balking at this desirable property when it benefits others is indeed something I associate with children
Isn’t this as much a problem with C++ as it is with Rust? Both tend to need to drop to C for FFI. So you’d need a C++ stable ABI as well as one for Rust.
Android was bought and Chrome was initially based on webkit.
In the balance between looking good and getting started somewhere, what's more important?
Shitty european governments (France, Germany, Austria, Italy) are to blame.
Yes the company and website is garbage but if you're seriously trying to land a job at big tech companies you need to get on there, post a picture of you and add your friends/co-workers, etc.

Applying through LinkedIn is easy.
HR loves LinkedIn.
It makes your Resume stand out if you can back it up with a decent profile.
Well, I mean, the good news is that if you write your own database system, you'll have so many other bugs in the way that you'll likely never reach this particular one!

I suggest it can be called the Sirius Database.

"It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of [the new database you just wrote] by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other words—and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded—their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."
I've seen in it many non unionized shops. And there are plenty of examples you can find of promotions that seem unwarranted. Nepotism is a common reason. As is just general networking. Seems common for folks to get good at networking and generally pleasing management as much as doing a great jobs.

I'd be delighted to see data on this. My prior is that it is rather evenly mixed with no obvious cause.
Let the machine decide:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22statistics+is+a+subset+of...

1 result

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22machine+learning+is+a+sub...

2 results

Machine learning is a subset of statistics.
How large are the adjustments? Do they keep up with inflation?

My data point for 1 big company - 0% in 2020 (excused with the pandemic) and 3% in 2021.
god I hate mysql so much - long live postgres, one of the greatest pieces of software ever created
It just means that you have problems you're not aware of :-)