skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, yay, we're headed in the right direction! On the other hand, 81% is still too high by a factor of... let's see, carry the one... at least 81.
There are many reasons someone might want to remain at their place of work and still retain improved benefits and treatment from their employer. As an adult, it’s not for you to judge others’ reasons: who are you to say I should quit my job and spend my time solving stupid Leetcode problems?

If we can agree on that, then I’m not sure how we can disagree that unions can be an important tool in helping employees achieve greater representation in a system which generally privileges the will of execs and board members far above those of employees - you know, the people who actually make the company run.

If unions ever dominate the tech industry to the extent that they control the labor pool, we can discuss whether that’s a good thing. For now, that’s just a bogeyman. But having real leverage to increase your bargaining power in the workspace — IMO that’s very good. No one is stopping you from spending your time doing Leetcode, though.
Combine that with aggressive pruning/PIPing and you have people fighting to stay long enough to get their shares vested, once you stop getting promoted there is little stability because you will either get torn down for someone else’s ladder climb or have to keep getting promoted by any means necessary.
> it's very obvious that this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison

Isn’t that a good thing? What’s your complaint?
true. why does that make it a bad definition? it is a material relationship, it is okay to call it accurately.
I doubt that would be legal. The unions in Sweden tried it, but it was against rights enshrined in the constitution (freedom of association), so didn’t fly even here.
Can someone in the field explain how this "machine actionnable" would be different from Galaxy Pipeline [0], or a Chemputer [1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_(computational_biology)

[1] https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/news/cronin-group-builds-c...
That's okay. People have to draw lines to define things. I found the definition I provided above to be sufficient to my experience.
What data in what countries? In the US the overwhelming majority of union membership is in Federal employment and mandatory. That makes up 80% or more of US union employment. That leaves the usual trade unions and the film industry and in the former most places of employment are mandatory union (UPS are 100% Teamsters, for example). The whole film industry is set up where you work your way into the unions over years rather than opt in/out.
The physicality of an underlying asset isn’t what makes people trade stocks, commodities, options or anything else. If you’re day trading soybean futures, it’s not the ideal of soybeans that wakes you up in the morning. It’s the money you could make. Bitcoin is a unique speculative asset because it’s value is based entirely on human interest, nothing else. I think crypto is here to stay as a speculative asset class. Where it’s long term price goes, I have no idea.
Who's truth? Yours or theirs?
[EDIT: I failed at skimming and completely missed the context that this design is for a habit tracker app, where making a checkbox the center of attention is a good idea. The comment seems popular, so I'm leaving it intact below. Pretend I was talking about your least-favorite UI instead.]

I feel bad saying this since the author is very excited and clearly put a lot of work into the "satisfying" checkbox. But...

This is why we can't have nice software UIs.

The process here seems to be to take a simple, utilitarian UI element -- a means to an end -- and turn it into the center of attention:

1. Make it big.

2. Make it flashy.

3. Make it slow.

4. Make it loud.

5. Make it literally vibrate.

These are not the characteristics of a satisfying tool; they are the characteristics of a toy for toddlers. On a deeper level, this is the sort of thinking that comes from looking at the interface instead of past it. That is an understandable perspective for a designer, but indulging in that perspective results in interfaces that just get in the way.

It's also a very artificial approach. A "satisfying ka-thunk", in particular, it satisfying in part because it's the sounds of a weighty metal mechanism operating smoothly. "Weighty", "metal", and "smoothly" are all things we associate with high quality. Aping some superficial indicators of high quality is usually not very satisfying on its own.
77 launches isn’t absurd. It is BELOW what spaceX is planning for.

There’s nothing remotely sensible about a million colonists, so that’s a pointless straw man.

Lastly, the necessities to support 8 people aren’t that different from the necessities to support 100. They scale wayyy better than linearly.

Again, the issue with supporting people on mars is not the vehicles to get there.
$1B per mile is institutionalized wholly-legal corruption, not tech.

But you can retrofit corruption to any technology. Even to underground traffic jams.
Still waiting for that citation for performance and wokeism but I guess I will never see it.
Very little news needs to be followed to be a good citizen of a democracy. Local news, sure, on perhaps a weekly or monthly basis (i.e. you probably don't need to check in every day). National, state level (at least for states that aren't so tiny that state news is local news), and international, perhaps quarterly, but you don't really need much of that.

A better use of time for someone wanting to be a good citizen would be reading major books and papers in political philosophy, political science, international relations, public policy, economics, statistics, media studies, history, et c. Not the news.
I don't have image previews ;)
I’m not sure how relevant it is. Dropbox entered into a market with around 10 competitors, and trounced them all. In general it’s a mistake to worry about the competition.
As a user of this app, I disagree. During app onboarding, you _create_ the unchecked checkbox by typing the name yourself. And usually you're only building a single habit at a time, so you already know what the text will be before you reopen the app to mark the habit as done.

This article doesn't describe a good checkbox to place in a list of preferences in just any old app. It describes a _destination_ checkbox, to be checked once per day, that is supposed to gamify habit-building and make tracking that habit's progress _add_ to the experience, rather than feel like an additional chore.
The device emulation tools in Firefox and Chrome let you specify viewport dimensions and allow you to capture a screenshot of the viewport. I like to use this feature to standardize “full window” screenshots. It also excludes the window chrome which is nice.
I wouldn't divide it between skilled and unskilled. It's more a product of supply and demand.

Unskilled labor can have decent bargaining power if there's a shortage of unskilled labor.

It just so happens that there tends to more frequently be shortages of skilled labor
This seems to be an overly negative take on the article. There are many different qualities of good writing, and this happens to automate one of them.
We are, see the multiple square mile installations in the Mojave desert (in particular Rosamond). Output of that region is ~520 MWh/acre. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8097025,-118.4587554,15367m/...

Side note, land in the area is available for purchase at $3k/acre. And if you look closely, you can see the plots where classic subdivisions were initially scratched into the surface before land owners realized no one wanted their land even at 3k/acre. https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1339826,-118.0179071,2422m/d...

Edit: when I click the link, Google Maps helpfully informs me that traffic in the region is "light". :)
It's more about what the checkbox does, than how it looks:

https://i.imgur.com/2bEWKNS.png
>People who want this aren't the odd ones, those who dismiss it are.

fair enough.

>I seriously doubt that, since you're the one who brought them up in an absurd attempt to deflect a common sense criticism of an obvious shortcoming.

See my defense of channers in these threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31554117
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31554152
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31554112
It is a reasonable bet that the thermalization time of their sensor is in the neighborhood of 100ms or so (which is very fast).

The thing that is really good/interesting is the 60 nK/rtHz sensitivity at those frequencies. Off the top of my head, I believe that the best thermistor-based systems I've built have been in the 10-100 uK/rtHz realm.

It is interesting to ponder whether such extreme sensitivity for a small object might open up some new avenues in fundamental physics. Things related to temperature are generally hard, but every time a new technique emerges, it is worth looking around to see if any new doors have opened.
I keep hoping someone will be gutsy enough to build and deploy a bumpbot (or bots!) to combat stalebot.
Can we also make a hostile work environment to pro-union employees? Or is this another one of those hypocrite things?
"SpaceX, the private rocket company, on Thursday fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter criticizing the behavior of chief executive Elon Musk, said three employees with knowledge of the situation."

First paragraph of the article.

And of course there is also this, "In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.”"
The hamburglar icon is a perfect example - the whimsey happens after the action is performed (arguably the menu should appear immediately instead of pop out, but it's pretty quick) instead of delaying the action until the animation completes.
This is a more anti-union post than the one it's replying to (and also reference-free.)
Please tell me that this is sarcasm. The idolization of this man is unreal.

Elon couldn't run a Python script sent to him.
Where by "much smaller", I guess you mean "able to transport many orders of magnitude fewer people".
Funny you mention reality. I don't even consider Musk Republican, but let's assume that for the sake of argument. Latest generic congressional polling has Republicans leading by handful of points.

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Gener...
There is actual implementation in the app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-boring-habits/id1593891243). And there is a video of it in the linked blog post.
> Distorted wages for labor is not good for broader society

Real life on planet earth disagrees pretty hard with you. Google "___est countries". Pick a metric that shows policy impacts. Say, health, happiness, etc. The kind of metrics that aren't abstract BS and can't be cherry-picked.

Pick the first, say, five. Then look up their unionization rates.

I'll spoil it for you. Nordic countries win (it doesn't even matter the metric lol... they even top CATO institute freedom rankings somehow). They have massive levels of unionization. Finland has unionized entire sectors of the economy.

Counter-examples welcome. But say "GDP" and I'll show up at your house and throw a pie in your face.
Maybe it could be useful to summarise YouTube videos. If you can extract the captions and display a summary, it would be great (to summarise tutorials, travel guides, and other videos).

macOS also has a built-in summary feature (in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Summarise), you can use that to summarise news articles in Safari and other apps, but it doesn't work on videos, only text.
My car made by Toyota never had to go to the shop for anything serious for several years. Sure, I needed to get tires replaced multiple times, but internals took 7-8 years, and I finally sold it off at the 12 year mark, after having replaced the batteries, the alternator, and the brakes.

My BMW took at least a couple of years before I ran into problems.

A new vehicle shouldn't have any problems for at least a couple of years, period.
We lose humans 400 feet away from hiking trails all the time. The fact that we lose polar bears in the Arctic is not that surprising.
I think you can make a difference between types of consequences.

In a strictly legal sense, you can be allowed to call your neighbor ugly. There will be no legal consequences, because of a law/constitutional amendment protecting free speech.

On a personal level, however, your neighbor might not like being called ugly, and retaliate by avoiding you or insulting you back. This is a consequence, but not a legal one.

I think, Musk view is that expression on Twitter should play a "legal guardian" type role in moderating content on the site, as opposed to say blocking negative content (and you could argue that as a site that makes money selling ads, blocking negative content could be the smart play, similar to the NYT not hiring idiots to write for them), but that the SpaceX employees, when fired by their employer, are facing consequences not on a legal but a personal level.

Of course, there's a very good chance this is just backwards rationalizing the erratic, irrational behavior of a emotionally unstable person.
What does your first sentence mean? That you cannot have likes and dislikes and that you cannot want to improve the things you dislike?

I don’t get it. Could you explain that.
Light nanosecond depends on 'second', which is litteraly earth centric :-)
What would you prefer? You can always manually edit config files, or you can have a UI that lets you preview how various things will look and simplify changes. Seems like the best of both worlds.

Have you tried it?
The people who could create that hostile work environment refuse to cooperate with each other.
It seems bizarre to framing this as something bears discovered about themselves, rather than something scientists discovered about bears. It's not like anybody actually asked bears what the bears know.
What a great list. Please share more if you have any! Just started since recently with tailwind and there’s an entire world opening up.
Hopefully you can link to Tether's audit?

???
And there are other applications of shitcoins than fleecing public.
So it is mandatory...
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> Intimidation isn't asking fellow employees if they agree with the content of an open letter [..]

Errm, if fellow employees feel intimidated by you pitching up and asking them to sign, that's what we call intimidation, at least these days.

If you want to organise an open letter, put it up somewhere public, tell everyone involved, and wait for people to sign it? Or not, it's their choice.
I sometimes still see people referencing this article: 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-y...
It's exactly the right amount of big and flashy for a once-a-day interaction that's supposed to motivate and reward you to do a difficult IRL thing, just so you can come check the checkbox and release a bit of happy reward chemicals in your brain.
> What an extremely elitist phrase.

This! I hate when people talk about "unskilled labor" because there is no such thing. There definitely is work that requires less training than other jobs, but there is no such thing as unskilled labor.
Don't need Star-trek tech for that, just people who can move about and there are plenty of those.
It's not very well documented, but EF Core has supported IAsyncEnumerable<T> since EF Core 3.0 or thereabouts. Just about any of its IQueryable<T> LINQ implementations are castable to IAsyncEnumerable<T>, easiest through .AsAsyncEnumerable() and generally just work when you do that.

Most people just use the .ToListAsync() and .ToArrayAsync() "materialization" tools which I believe use IAsyncEnumerable<T> under the hood, but you can use IAsyncEnumerable<T> directly if you want.

Generally though, EF Core's support for IAsyncEnumerable<T> is mostly known for the confusion it causes with "Ix" (Interactive Extensions; the System.Interactive.Async nuget package that adds a bunch of LINQ extensions for IAsyncEnumerable<T> to the `using System.Linq.Async;` namespace) because if you install that package and have such using statements there's overload conflicts between IQueryable<T> and IAsyncEnumerable<T> for many LINQ operators and you have to explicitly add .AsQueryable() to almost all of your EF Core LINQ to make sure to avoid those operator conflicts and force a cast to just IQueryable<T>, not both IQueryable<T> and IAsyncEnumerable<T>.
That's a pretty awful take - labour exploitation in America is rampant with theft by employer being our largest crime by value. It's probably fair to say that 25/hr isn't what the minimum wage should be set to - but it exists to prevent extreme abuse of employees.
This article was already submitted 22 days ago and 1 month ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31269367 (11 comments)
Most people that write content, even more so the target audience of this post, don’t have a editor (other than the software editor).
I like it a lot, apart from getting my habit checked off, I like the feeling that it gives me when I hold down and complete my habit for the day
> Can we also make a hostile work environment to pro-union employees?

That's already the default in any non-union workplace, which is to say, the majority of workplaces.
Isn't all that based on the assumption that "growth rate of the economy" is some natural process - like the universe expansion or radioactive decay - that happens regardless of what people do? It appears to me that this growth is rather the result of the effort of "self made" (to the amount of their achievement - some more, some less) people that cause it to happen, one way or another. And excluding it seems kinda wrong to me. Of course, sometimes the effort belongs to one person - e.g. the startup owner - but the benefits are shared with others - e.g. investors - and their function can be treated differently. But it's not what's happening here - here the whole investment capital is excluded altogether. I am not sure it's such a useful lens.
"IMO, it’s unfortunate that the power of M1 is being wasted on such an outdated crappy macOS"

Is my opinion as well. I gave up on MacOS like 16 years ago. Great hardware held back by not so great software which hasn't been keeping up with the hardware advances.
> Competitive markets produce societally best outcomes

Define "societally best outcomes". By using the word "societally", you are saying it's not he best outcome for the business, nor is it the best outcome for the employees, nor the best outcome for the customers, but the best outcome for the society at large. Your MTA example shows that a union is great for workers. Please explain.

Considering unions are used successfully in many industries and are supported by both major parties in the US, you'll have a difficult time explaining how they are all wrong.

> Smaller and wide set of unions in an industry can be effective,

Isn't this the KickStarter union?

Also, what's a "Smaller and wide union"?

Finally, if unions are so bad, why do many of the largest companies in the world continue to hire from unions?
I was thinking something similar -- says a lot without saying much.
The wine orders were special favors to friends. That typically is not acceptable vendor management.
Design is often solutions looking for problems (that probably don’t exist). But it is very humanistic to overly design things and give them character.
You chose to nitpick a possible implication of my comment with ”Are you saying…”. That’s silly. So let me actually say something about that point so we can have a conversation on stuff that I said, not about your imagination.

I believe it makes no sense to design an animation to uncheck a checkbox in a habit-tracking app. The only occasion when this will be used is when a user accidentally marks something as done (with a long-press, which makes it even more unlikely). It is definitely important to allow that. But there is no reason at all for that action to also have an animation. There is nothing to celebrate in that fixing action.

I think it would be even ok to hide that action of unchecking behind a “Edit”, so it doesn’t add noise by showing something that will not be considered to be used 99,9% of the times.
What...sort of environment do you think caused them to unionize?
It's kind of interesting to consider how machine learning systems become biased in the same way humans do: by being sheltered and not given enough information about different types of people.
It's a good thing Europe can mooch off US innovation and Chinese manufacturing. Manufacturing that is not unionized, by the way.

If the US went the way of Europe, technological innovation would slow dramatically, which I'll argue is a bad outcome for the world in the long run.

What do you think the cost of basic goods would rise to if all the Chinese manufacturing centers unionized?
If a position cannot pay well enough for the employed to sustain themselves then it should not exist in the first place.

If there literally are not enough jobs that can pay sustainable wages to everyone in need, then we need to rethink how our economy works on a fundamental level.

A system that requires some portion of the population to go hungry or even homeless is ethically indefensible.
More so the radiation. Air isn’t that hard to solve with a suit.
A model for the automatic extraction of content from webs and apps
The union isn't my employer, why would I need their permission to work?
The ones that are the most worth-it tend to be trade publications. Of course, they are only worth it to people who are in that particular industry.
Do you have a better term for it?
> The idea that the Fed controls any of this is ridiculous... It's not a central bank.

It is very literally the central bank [0] [1] and lender of last resort [2] of the United States. I'm not sure what you're saying.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/the-fed-explained...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lenderoflastresort.asp
> the market will solve this.

I generally agree with this and if the leaked memo is true, then the market is basically solving this now.

In essence, let's say the pool of applicants for warehouse jobs is 1,000,000 million people. Amazon needs 250k of them to operate their biz and the average retention is 1 year. In 4 years, the people who left previously are now looking for jobs and the only option is Amazon. If a warehouse job conditions are that poor, then they will collectively argue for higher pay.

Said another way - Amazon's presumably poor work conditions eventually catches up with them and the market will respond.

If all of this is true, then the underlying issue is the more controversial one (and moral one), which is that the mental/physical damage to workers mind/bodies can't be repossessed.
They're obligated to announce a strategy or attitude that sounds reassuring, but you can bet that most of the execs, board, and investors are at least as worried as you are.

Nobody honest leverages as much they have without believing the diaster scenarios are either a long shot or are far out. You don't win over today-money with presentations like "well, we'll probably hit a -80% crypto winter next year but can weather our way through 5 flat years if you give us oodles of capital now"
I think you can reasonably argue that the company Musk leads are largely supported (at least historically) by his showmanship and personality cult. That may be shifting, but it's absolutely fair that diminishing the reputation of companies whose stock valuations are largely based on seemingly irrational faith in dear-leader is in fact weakening the company.

I think there's also this game that gets played now where internal dissent tries to whip up external dissenters to get their way within companies. Leaders need to decide if this is happening or not and act accordingly.