skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saying this doesn't represent systems being set up for one purpose and then developing into a different, more nefarious purpose. The men at the gate were jailors before they were guards.

> surely you're talking of things that happened thousands of years ago.

Well, sort of. The Tang dynasty was from roughly 600-900 AD.

> Is the Great Wall really like the Iron Curtain, there to keep its citizens inside?

I realize this is just rhetoric, but as far as I understand it, the Great Wall's primary purpose is indeed to keep people in. Just not to keep citizens in.

You can't stop barbarians from getting over the wall, because it's too long to defend it all. But when they do come in, you can respond by sending an army to fight them. And when they retreat, they'll have a hell of a time getting over the wall before you can catch up to them.

(The steppe nomads to the north of China are highly mobile but low in population. China is the reverse. So in practical terms, the nomads always want to retreat, and to the extent a battle happens at all, that's a victory for China.)
The dollar deltas matter a lot too.

10% more money might be sort of in the noise of a bunch of other factors.

In the unlikely event it's 10x for whatever oddball reason, assuming it's nothing illegal/dangerous/etc., that would be hard not to give it a shot for a couple years and see how it goes.
Your comment doesn't make sense to me.

> the union negotiated pay for that campus below the cost of living

...and the graduate student workers voted to approve the contract? Every negotiated contract goes back to the members for approval.

What would this have looked like in the absence of a union? You are saying that with negotiation, UC Santa Cruz got pay below cost of living, but if they didn't have that negotiation, management would have freely paid them more than cost of living? What was the negotiation over?

> In particular, organizing a strike against the union, or organizing a replacement union would have been illegal.

What do you mean? Just get 30% of your members to sign a petition and you can hold an election to change unions. That is literally what organizing is.

If you can get 30% of your members to go on a "wildcat strike" against UC Santa Cruz & UAW, then you can get 30% to sign a union replacement card.
You’re right. I wasn’t aware of word-in-one and it’s a similar idea. The closest I’ve seen to my game in fact. ( when I had the idea for it I wondered if anyone else had had the same idea. I’ve not seen another game doing exactly the same yet)
I definitely agree (and try to bring that attitude to my own life). However, it is much easier to do this when these tasks do not take "too long".
> Who is going to TA deep reinforcement learning

Funny aside, did you find my thesis? :D.

> Also, seems like you are completely ignoring the actual "labor"

But I'm not, you are literally not paid for that (unless you are a research assistant). That is "studying" which I keep pointing out is the whole issue. Which feeds back to your point about highly-specific knowledge TAs. The implicit agreement is that the university provides you with the training required to TA these classes in exchange for being a TA. They normally call this waived tuition. That is, they are supplying you with a +50k benefit for free which is how they draw many people to begin with.
by using a unique id for every visitor, stored in sessions / cookies / local db. modern fingerprinting goes way deeper than device, OS and IP
So weird - I switched jobs recently and it was with zero interview preparation and I had competing offers from fang. I feel quality of engineers hired there is dropping.
English translation

Large-scale changes were made to Wikipedia content from the networks of the federal government and other authorities. This is according to a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the report, vandalism attacks on Wikipedia articles were carried out via IP addresses assigned to the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) at the Internet registries.
Not only the BSI itself uses this address space, but also authorities connected to the federal networks (NdB). The authors of the changes therefore currently remain anonymous. According to the FAZ, more than 17,000 edits have been made to the German Wikipedia from the authorities' address space in recent years - most recently, for example, to the articles Bombenlegeraffäre and Gasreserve.
More recently, an attempt was made to expand the entry of Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) with the criminally relevant accusation that he had enriched himself from his party's Coronabonus. However, this change was reversed by the Wikipedia community. The investigations by the public prosecutor's office were discontinued at the end of March 2022, as the initial suspicion of breach of trust was not substantiated.
In the Wikpedia article titled Illegal Immigration and Illegal Residence, a user from within the authority network attempted to criminalize immigrants in June 2021, the report continues. In the article on the topic of journalist, a user from within the authority network had denigrated the profession as "rectum dwellers of the powerful." He also added that journalists were "also called pay writers or press whores." These changes, too, had been discovered and reversed by the Wikipedia community.
With the cases of vandalism as well as violations of copyright or personal rights made from authority networks, the authors make themselves liable to prosecution under certain circumstances and in most cases violate official law. Accordingly, technical authority facilities may not be misused for private interests.
Ask HN: Is anyones Spotify bugging out when going back to the app?
In macOS - when I have it playing in the background and then return to the app the time seek goes back to when I last returned to the app. It’s almost like some variable in the code isn’t being updated or something.
I was lucky, the data also included lat/lng and the address for most (if not all) the entries.

If I would have been confronted with such a situation though, I would have probably used some Geocoding API like Google Maps's geocoding [0] or OSM's Nominatim [1].

[0]: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/o...

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
I agree, it's dumb you have to have an Instagram account to use Instagram. Sadly it's been like that for years now.

Fair enough, I don't think we need to clog this up anymore. If people use Insta and are curious to see these videos they can, but if not they can move on.
Are caves different in 1/6th Earth gravity? Are they bigger?
It's not capitalism as much as human nature. People respond to incentives, be it social, monetary, or threat. Social only gets you so far, monetary is much better than force, and also produces better results
I appreciate the talent and ingenuity behind this apartment hunting project.

I just wonder if OP ever thought of contacting a broker? I would have done that before I wrote a single line of code.

Scraping all this data is really great, but a human broker is going to know the local area and the other human nuances of apartment searching in the local area.

Plus, brokers already have access to their own software that’s different than what’s on the public Internet, along with human connections. Why reinvent the wheel?

My last apartment came up as an option before it even hit any sort of public property advertisement platform, and that was thanks to our broker working directly with the landlord.
Are you seriously claiming that a pani puri vendor on the street makes more than a FAANG engineer in BLR?
This is exactly why people are aiming to change this forced behavior. Language reflects society and the only reason why male terms are considered "general" by some parts of the population is because men for centuries repressed the female populations and the non-binary.

this is unfortunately one of those times where "I have no opinion" is an opinion
There are genuine privacy concerns at play here, for example there may be existing tenants/owners who don't want people randomly knocking on the door because someone saw an ad online. Or getting a bunch of junk mail because there is an extra data point about the property.

I guess the variety of concerns will vary from country to country depending on local laws / existing open data though.
If you are not worried that a criminal (or anyone) gets your phone number, post it here in reply to this post.

That's kind of my very coarse litmus test for PII: If I'm not willing to post it publicly in a rando internet forum, it's probably PII. There are exceptions obviously, and the inverse is not true: I may be willing to publicly post certain PII.
I assume you mean in the USA specifically. No, it is not unprecedented for grad students to have a union and a union contract. It has been slowly gaining steam in the USA over the past 20 years -- as the US NLRB keeps changing it's mind about whether graduate students have the legal right to protections to organize unions (and sometimes different for public vs private universities).

I went looking for a list, and found the wikipedia article has some kind of old statistics (anyone wanna try to find newer ones and update it?), but let's you know it's not unprecedented: "As of 2014, there are at least 33 US graduate employee unions, 18 unrecognized unions in the United States, and 23 graduate employee unions in Canada," and "Since 2000, more than twenty campuses have unionized." —https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_employee_unio...

I haven't found a complete list, but some mentioned in the wikipedia article are Oregon State University, Michigan State University, Temple University, the University of Washington, and Columbia.

They are still more common at public than private schools, and I think it may be that none of the Ivy League universities have graduate student unions? MIT is not technically an Ivy, but is usually considered in the same tier of prestige/funding/quality. So in that sense MIT unionization is ground-breaking.
You could use nominatim [0]

[0]: https://nominatim.org
Excel can be replaced, but it won't be replaced by the current crop of VC-funded SaaS.

> Airtable really ought to be killing Excel, but the SaaS model combined with a stupidly low artificial row count limit (over 50000 rows is listed as "contact us for pricing") means that it will never achieve penetration into weird and wonderful use cases like Excel has.

Many Excel processes are 20+ years old. No SaaS could replace the stability and pricing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30871148
> any plagiarist with a camera can record a convincing sequence of iterations leading up to your brilliant riff and successfully sue you into oblivion.

Except

1) The lawsuit failed.

2) It's not enough to show prior art. Ignorance of the other creation is a defense against copyright infringement.

3) Iterations are irrelevant.

> it doesn’t matter if you can improvise a great melody in the moment out of nothing

No one can. All great musicians are inspired by earlier performances.
This is graduate students unionizing.

Everywhere I’ve seen this, the principal complaints are wages, housing, acknowledging they are workers, and working hours.

Grad students are used as slaves. This is trivial to avoid just by paying them what they actually need to live. This is a university, what they can’t figure this out? No, they just overplayed their hand at the bargaining table.
I have an extremely close friend, who is at the C-Level, that just shocked me with news of moving to Boulder, Colorado due to the hostile California laws. I haven't gone in detail with him about what laws/ordinances are specifically having him move there, but yeah...
This is a bad idea for a number of different reasons. I'll highlight one.

The actual "competition" wouldn't be among which union the employees joined - rather they would compete to undercut each other on contract negotiation, which would only bolster the employer's hand.

There are good reasons why this is not common practice - but there is also no law preventing multiple unions.
oh, so this is essentially turning a keyword-search into a playlist. neat!

it would be nice if each song being played would be added to the browser history so that one can go back to previously played songs or even bookmark the good ones.
Yes, I probably should have expanded my post to say that an effects system is how this should all be handled.
I remember when Michael J Fox announced that he had Parkinson’s in 1998

https://www.michaeljfox.org/michaels-story

He started his foundation to treat/cure the disease. Somehow I thought we’d have had made more progress in 25 years.

I also find it interesting to look back at the US national debt and wonder how the world would have been different if we invested more of that into research (e.g medical, pure science, etc)

In 1998, the national debt was $5.5 trillion and today is $30 trillion.
this article is about kids, not old ladies.
The scrolling bothered me and I had to stop, but I did enjoy what I saw.
He added basically everything it can do to uBlock Origin's dynamic filtering, and it's easier to maintain one addon than two.
So what's this 'road' in your analogy that was installed by the union, that wasn't there before, and that introduced a lot of utility, comparable to a road?
I use Beaker (from the Muppets) with his hair on fire for my work pic.
I'm in security, just seems to fit.
We are daily inundated with woke vernacular all day everyday and I bet you never leave a comment there complaining about terms like "casual transphobia", "harm", "hate", "problematic", all the "-isms", "-ists", "-phobes"... but you drew the line at this one HN comment. Good for you.
Why an alist for the properties rather than a plist?
Hey OP great work. I’m curious on the metrics and statistics, how much of people that consume media, use annotation? How's the impact?
Oh yeah, I know.
As someone not embedded in “web3” or whatever they’re calling it these days, this just reads like parody? Is there anything of value behind it all?
Looks like the femtocell module issued by Free Mobile (Groupe Iliad) in France.
I write to keep record of things that I'm working on, issues that I've tackled. If I've came across something, maybe my writing will help someone else.
> However with cleaning specifically

Cleaning can be a great way to relax your brain. It's menial enough to be effortless with just enough thinking to occupy the fidgety part of your brain so you can think deep in the background. Like a walk in the park. Meditative.
It might beg the question, but if the OP has a stated lack of interest in the subject matter that makes "tech" companies tick - I'd suggest reevaluating the motivation.

None of the roles listed in the edit can be done well, or at all, by people who don't have even a basic grasp of the industry they're working in.
Wait, so, you're trying to make programming languages accessible to spreadsheet users, by giving a new spreadsheet to programmers?
It would be better than the status quo, but I get your point. I think there's a way to set an objective standard that protects extended compositions (film scores, etc.) while not also making jazz illegal.
Does Santa Claus serve this function at scale? Showing how humans can maintain a lie in collective, distributed fashion?
The main advantage of India for me personally is a sense of community that I felt when I went back there after 8 years. Everyone in the society (i.e: I'd say equivalent to a street or a suburb) knows you and greets you. You go to the temple in the morning, and pickup some snacks along the way. In the evening, people go out to eat, meet their relatives, etc.

There are pros and cons of this sense of community as well, people can be nosy. However, coming back from India recently, I felt pretty depressed and alone. In North America, everyone seems like a busy worker bee that is working all the time. On the weekend, the bees explore a little bit more. Go hiking, or explore their other hobbies. But the sense of aloneness is something I never knew I had until I went back to India.

Aside: This was my first trip back after having done a few when I was young and hating those since I was just stuck in the house as a YA and had limited internet access. The country, the people, have come far from that and as an adult I have all the freedom to do whatever the fk I want too.
Given the similarities (they're both browsers, both focused on decentralization, etc) it seems like a pretty major naming conflict. Very confusing.
Academia trying to "Make Haskell Happen" is a clear indication of how disconnected it is from the practice of software engineering. Haskell is not going to happen.
If you can't protect the trade secret with secrecy, then it doesn't deserve to be secret. Legal protections have shown, time and time again, that they fuck over inventors, creatives, and artists, in favor of encumbents seeking to consolidate power.

The current environment strangles remix culture nearly to death. To say nothing of greedy artists claiming ownership of a concept of notes. I thought you couldn't copyright an idea?
There's a giant difference between randomly hitting on the same melody as an existing massive hit AND then re-using that melody as the first hook in your own song. And Scrubs by TLC is a massive cross-generational hit that Sheeran can't claim not to know without making himself look like a tourist in the pop world.

Sheeran's lifting was so blatant I assumed he was intentionally quoting it. Doing that is fine - and it happens regularly, especially in rap and R&B - and is even encouraged when there is overlap in the publishing rights holders (label, publishing company) with the original writer. But royalties should and do follow. So I'm just baffled that he still thinks he is being taken advantage of here.

Fwiw, a much less fair copyright infringement case was the Tom Petty vs Sam Smith case around "Won't Back Down" and "Stay with Me." The musical similarity there was much smaller and there are likely scores of gospel songs that use a similar melody.
This is really an absurd oversimplification.

Almost every great melody is "trivial".

And almost no original melody is actually original.
Omicron appeared in last Oct. It's only been 6 months.

I also suspect that the gov doesn't want to make a new version as it would imply the original versions are ineffective (illogical I know.) Who knows how much they stockpiled the original shots ($$$).
Maybe ecash can be backed up so you can't lose it?
Lion and Bull: Old Persian Mythological Symbol (2014)
I've still got my 3-character AOL name
Who is running the university? Robots?
Back when I worked as a tutor, we knew a lot about the professors since most of us were also TAs at some point or worked as TAs concurrently. Some were consistent in busting people for cheating, others tried to avoid it at all costs (because they based their self-worth on their Rate My Professor page), but a few were just capricious and arbitrary. On their good side? "Eh, everyone uses Stack Overflow [or forgets to do anything to hide their plagiarism, not even bothering to edit the author name Javadoc comment on the code they copied] every now and then." On their bad side? "Copying others' work is unacceptable, you can either take an F in the course or plead your case to Academic Integrity."

Of course, the ones who showed favoritism were also the ones who practically printed grant money, so nothing ever happened while I was there (and I doubt anything ever will).
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> where more of the workforce is unionized

Is this fact coming from the weighted average of how unionized is the workforce in the diferented countries from which workers comes to USA? Is this true for high and low paying jobs? Are the migrants from these countries representative of the workforce of their country?

Could you provide proof? My first reaction is to be agnostic upon this claim.
I can't agree. they generally describe different situations and are used in different contexts. We have different "degree" words for all kinds of situations. I think it's people just trying to virtue signal on both sides though. People really overreact to what in the end is just a word.
GMOs and the deterioration of health in the US (2013) [pdf]
Organizing workers does not necessarily require joining a huge national labor union that was obviously not meant for the type of problems grad students face. It's fucking weird to me that so many schools have joined United Auto Workers. I don't see any real changes to the problems with academic training at any of those schools. And I don't see why UE will be better here. The power imbalance in grad school is very different from the typical labor situations:

1) Grad student roles are extremely heterogeneous compared to laborers. The union at Harvard for example is trying to represent both TAs and RAs, in departments ranging from literature to biology to math, all as part of one collective bargaining agreement. There are huge differences in the problems those students face, and that's before getting into how different student experiences can be even amongst e.g. biology RAs.

2) Grad students receive atypical compensation, not just the degree itself but also things that are clearly not quantified by the union orgs - the (often falsely promised) academic freedom to pursue independent research interests and the time and resources to do some learning for the sake of it. Further, for RAs it can be impossible to untangle work that counts towards the degree requirement and work that is being done in exchange for stipend/other benefits.

3) Graduate school is only a short portion of someone's overall career in the grand scheme of things, while existing unions mainly focus on jobs that can be/often are lifelong. Grad school is by definition a stepping stone. Nobody asks "what do you want to do when you're done being a cop".

4) Most grad students at least enter their programs with the goal of themselves reaching professorship. Auto workers are not trying to build towards owning an automobile factory.

5) There is not a sub-20% acceptance rate for becoming an electrical worker. At many of the schools that are forming unions lately, there are tons of departments with highly competitive admissions processes for the PhD. Some at MIT are easily in the single digits acceptance rate, and this is amongst a specialized pool to begin with.
Both ideologies have their pros and cons. Take a look at Shanghai right now to see the downsides of when the collective matters more than the individual.
Long term trust pays the bills quite often, it all depends on what product or service your company is selling. And, yes, I apply this in my own projects, unless I am doing some ugly cash grab project.
Before anyone lynches you and takes this off-topic:

> it would have required Russia to be the aggressor

toward NATO*
There is a reason patents are limited, and that public display of an invention pre-patent can be prior art. The reality is that once ideas are out in the world the creator is no longer in control (which is why we have to create systems of control via laws).

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lites his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” --Thomas Jefferson
> they may even intentionally give you bad data (e.g. hijack the payload to give you intentionally malformed data).

Interesting. Are there tools we can install to send malicious payloads to surveillance companies?
Honestly, 3D model file thumbnails would require some sweet performant code so we all just assumed this was written in Rust anyway ;)
It is unfortunate, I agree. You'd think that after playing the game off and on, sometimes quite intensively, for three decades now, I'd have been able to finish it once at least.