skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That list is extremely incomplete, and makes it seem like bank runs are happening more lately than ever before. In the 19th century and before they were frequent:

Yeah, that might be. I'm not making any claim that bank runs are less frequent now than they used to be or vice versa. I'm just showing that the claim "runs don't happen" isn't true.
That person is not reputable, a fact that was easy to confirm in minutes just by googling their name and finding them peddling 'Obama's birth certificate is fake' nonsense as recently as 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTmIDuCMFk&t=2s
Assert? No, this is what all evidence indicates.
Ask HN: How are meme stocks like GameStop and AMC not crashing?
Stock markets are crashing, growth is down 80%, and crypto is going into winter.

How are some meme stocks, namely GameStop, holding up so well? Who continues to buy? Who continues to hold?
How to retain employees despite title inflation
> I bargain for myself, thanks.

Judging by that history, you aren't doing so well. Good luck, and hopefully things improve!
Then why should another header work?
My question still stands. We're near ATH of oil production and are a net exporter. Sure, the Boogeyman wants to kill oil, but has he been able to do that with great success in 1.5 years as president?
It doesn't.

It is possible to e.g. have 32bit registers but 16bit ALU (and do 32bit operations in steps, hidden from the programmer).

This is how the 68000 worked.
>Can we also make a hostile work environment to pro-union employees?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_busting

Historically, it would be hard to argue otherwise. It is lucrative to remove bargaining leverage from labor.
There is no audit. That's why they produced that bullshit attestation.

Tether has been saying they would produce an audit since July 2021, that's a year ago!

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/17/tether-usdt-redemptions-fuel...

This is long but fascinating. Tether is a scam, it just hasn't fallen apart yet.

https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid...
My comment holds regardless. Whether they merely wanted to solicit their boss's favor or had some ideological objection, they still opposed it.
I just now unsubscribed from NYT, in response to this thread. I had to do an online chat, but at least it wasn’t an overly prolonged process. I am quite certain that I did not have an option to unsubscribe from account settings.

I also unsubscribed from The Washington Post. It did have a non-chat-based unsubscribe option, which I greatly appreciated.

I also unsubscribed from The Economist. It was the worst. They went through multiple but-here’s-an-even-better-deal stuff, then tried to subscribe me to email newsletters.

Thanks, HN, for the incentive to do this; I had meant to for some time.
If you're on the far right of the bell curve of earnings, you might not find studies based on the average too convincing.

> Google "___est countries".

How about I Google which countries have the largest revenues for their technology companies, and the senior-level salaries of their employees?
The MTA is run by New York State, and therefore at the whim of Albany cronyism [1]. This is why it’s so dysfunctional. I wouldn’t necessarily blame the transit unions.

Edit: also, there’s a history of multiple private subway companies in NYC, it didn’t work out.

1. https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2021/01/how-the-mta-...
To be fair, a lot of cities in Europe had been blown up 10 years earlier.

America was in the unique position of ending the world with no mainland damage.
I'm not a native speaker, but to me exploitation has a negative moral connotation. I think it's possible for companies to make use of their employees to make a profit without exploiting them.
>> I 100% guarantee you that the CME or Goldman will not let you "ride things out".

That is indeed generally the case. There are, however, monthly collateral agreements in some cases where you can ride it out for a month before getting margin called. Also, there are sometimes credit-rating based collateral calls. The most famous would be AIG's -- they eventually had margin calls of over $100B when their credit rating fell and the housing market also fell and liquidity dried up.

Funny thing in such cases -- when the borrower owes banks those sums of money, it ceases to be the borrower's issue and becomes the bank's issue
> Unskilled labor can have decent bargaining power if there's a shortage of unskilled labor.

Not really, because that’s the definition of unskilled: it takes no special skills to do the job. So if there’s a shortage and wages go up dramatically then skilled labor can take its place. (The opposite is not possible/ advisable though.)
BigCo version on top of this:

* A/B testing of animations

* Realtime analytics and heatmap for when and where the user clicks

* Captcha to defeat click-bots

* Updates for new animations, later on it's also customizable

* Ad in the middle of the animation

* Emotional input from the user
People like to forget about this. With the way salaries work in this industry, we are all underpaid.
Soybeans (and most other assets) have inherent value which gives them a price minimum, but not necessarily a price maximum. Crypto has no price minimum (0 I guess, at which point returns are incalculable) and no price maximum because it has no inherent value.

My entire point is that crypto is a unique asset class, so I think it’s here to stay as long as there are people willing to speculate.
No, and even worse, it is mandatory for the union to negotiate for employees who don't join. That's one of the many ways in which unions are sabotaged in the US. If unions could negotiate for exclusive benefits for their own members, they wouldn't have any trouble recruiting. Instead Taft-Hartley made it illegal for them to manage insurance/pensions that the employer contributes to.

Unions are weak because the deck was stacked, the same way it is in every kleptocracy.
As a relatively avid 3D printer, I love this innovation to solve a real problem! I've also printed a holder for my webcam, a bathroom shelf for holding devices and shims for stopping toilets from rocking! Now I can easily keep track of my Yubikeys!!!
I can see that. It could be useful for something like a daily diet or exercise tracker. I still don't care for the specific sound presented here, but for this use case I'm not opposed to something this long and flashy.

watchOS has really satisfying sounds and animations that trigger when you fill your fitness rings and meet goals.
I’ve found that to be untrue.

Often what people think of as “toxic” are informal actions and behaviors that unions don’t resolve.

Maybe they can sit with you in a meeting but that doesn’t change how that manager can behave.
To add to the “protecc SpaceX” line of thought, I think there is some level of disconnect as well — Elon, while a champion for SpaceX’s cause and its public figurehead, and still involved in the decisions the company makes, isn’t the main showrunner. Gywnne Shotwell is. So as much as Elon is publicly the King of SpaceX, Gywnne runs the kingdom and some subjects wanted some reform.

Also, SpaceX definitely has spun itself up as a “this is for the good of all humanity” type company and attracts employees who really are bought-in on the whole Grand Vision. To the writers of this letters, that Grand Vision > Elon the Person.
If you want a guaranteed job where you can do whatever you want, including running down your boss, then get a job with the government.

Businesses that are trying to stay in business don't have time for you.
“That crowd” being people who think that the leftist intelligentsia in the U.S. is off their rocker?

It’s a big crowd, and getting bigger.
You don't have to be that fit to pull a trigger. Conversely, look at all the wars that continue to happen in places with severe food insecurity. In theory starving people shouldn't be able to fight, in practice those most willing to fight get enough of the limited food supply to keep fighting.
Yes, combination of the misaligned incentives of government coupled with a public sector union.

Given the lack of a profit motive, a well run government needs incentive structures to motivate results towards societally good outcomes. Too bad none of the local, state, federal governments do. Would be easy to institute if the will were there though

Edit:
To address your edit, the private subway systems failed after NY instituted a price cap on fares, IIRC. And inflation destroyed their profitability over time due to this.

Once the subway system was made public, development pretty much halted entirely, outside of an extension every few decades.

Subway systems are private in Japan
> The tiny minority is Musk

As Terry Pratchett so wonderfully put it in Making Money (Discworld #36)[0], there is "a piece of ancient magic called [..] fifty-one percent of the shares".

As far as what happens at SpaceX goes, Musk isn't the minority. He's the (?? 78%) majority owner.

So, if you work at SpaceX and don't like him, I think the options boil down to: a) suck it up, or b) find somewhere else to work ...

... or maybe c) leave and start your own SpaceX? We all know competition is good. Of course in that case you'll really have Skin In The Game[1] - and coincidentally that's the Taleb book I've been reading this afternoon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Money
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book)
Most people would disagree that there's no fundamental difference between an employee-employer relationship and a user-service provider relationship.
That wasn't what was said. At the time of the mischaracterized comment there actually was ongoing research into therapies applying local disinfecting agents and UV. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/11/joe-biden/...
> This isn't a nuanced problem. If you raise the price of something, demand drops. Whether the price in question is for things or labor is irrelevant.

There's a little nuance.

Some anecdata: When I tried charging $0 to get my feet wet in consulting I had zero takers. Raising my hourly rate to $100 drastically improved my success rate (nothing else changed, I was still just some kid in high school with a knack for programming at the time).

The real world doesn't have perfect information and is more than happy to use imperfect signals to save time and effort (in any constant-bounded time that's provably required to hit any fixed desired epsilon of error). The price somebody is asking for is often enough a useful signal that demand need not be monotonic.
I've heard mediocre feedback about their research groups as well, although they do pay pretty well.
This is not unusual at all.

My first job as a developer was with a big consulting firm. Undergraduate seniors were hired en masse every year as entry-level staff consultants. The expectation (not stated, but not hard to figure out) was that many would leave within a few years. Some would remain and get promoted, even fewer would stick around long enough to be considered for partnership.

The work hours were long (50 hour weeks normal, more was not unusual) but the pay was good and it was good experience to cite when applying for other jobs.

Amazon warehouse work is not a career. It's a job, that has minimal if any prerequisite skills other than being strong enough to move boxes around. It's not the sort of thing someone does for a lifetime.
When I saw this post earlier I thought that I had seen a few start-ups try this idea. A lot of those pages are now 404 but here's a few random links that a quick DDG trawled up

https://teambuilding.com/blog/virtual-date-ideas (See Idea #2 'Virtual Lunch')

https://www.botreeinc.com/product-page/virtual-restaurant-ex...

https://tripleseat.com/blog/virtual-restaurant-experiences-y... (mention of Reata Restaurant)

https://www.gartner.com/en/marketing/insights/daily-insights...
It's not elitist. Some skills are effectively commoditized. They don't require specialized, rare knowledge, years of training and constant personal investment.

If you pick a job that literally anyone else can learn to do in a few days, then the cap on your salary and lack of bargaining power is on you.
I'm quite looking forward to checking them out.

Here's some discussion prior to the release (which was two days ago) of this new specialization (3 courses rather than Ng's original single course):

Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course (deeplearning.ai)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31435801

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Just a matter of degree, which becomes obvious when you imagine the extreme: HS without any animations would be very unfun.

So the answer is somewhere in between and the optimal UX might only be achieved by adjusting for individual players, for example depending on their speed or for how they have played the game.
People tend to dislike moving about in places where ice bears roam, so there are not very many who do.
Is it due to the sound it makes?
>> Not really true, collateral is decided at the end of the day and not mid day.

Depends on your CSA (Credit Service Annex/Agreement) and what the joint agreement was. Also depends on the type of position (daily settled via exchange vs contractual)
Soybeans exist and people consume them. Obviously you can speculate on whether the price of soy beans will go up or down but they will always (excluding, of course, obviously unreasonable scenarios) have some value because the soybeans themselves have some value.

The producers and consumers of soybeans are extremely likely to continue producing and consuming soybeans even if no one speculates on the value of soybeans. This is the "physicality" or "human interest" in soybeans.

Why would crypto be "here to stay" when there is zero use for it besides speculation?
Think you're reading the headline wrong there my friend. 'discovered' is passive in this sentence. [A] Polar bear population [has been] discovered [by researchers] that can survive without sea ice.

the perils of headline-syntax
>"Have you worked at a company where you were treated unfairly, were lied to, etc? How'd that work out for you?"

I feel like this happens, from time to time, in virtually every company or institution. I know of people who work for public-sector unions and this kind of thing is commonplace there as well.
Caveat: IN THE USA

some countries have decent labour laws that won't crucify you for disagreeing with your employer
I don't think anyone would claim that a place where you have free speech, but you might just get murdered by your government for your free speech, is a place where free speech exists
More exploited | Less exploited?
Skill is a proxy for supply whereas pay is a proxy of supply-demand. It might actually be a better term, since even if you do very skilled labor, you would prefer an union if there was no demand.
Just because conditions are good, doesn't mean they couldn't be better, or that they will always remain good. Demands like unionization are made most effectively when the demanding party has high leverage. Unionization is a preventative measure against a future potential backslide in conditions.

Not every worker can or wants to work for a FAANG, whether because of skill, time available to study, logistics like location, moral reasons, or anything else. We all deserve good working conditions now and in the future.

Tech workers are absolutely spoiled compared to most other laborers. We also have higher leverage and thus a better chance at unionization compared to many others. Others having it worse should not prevent us from raising our own conditions, and actually helps improve conditions of other classes of laborers by making it more likely they'll unionize themselves or causing employers to improve conditions as a preventative measure.
For most people, their job is their primary (or only) source of income. Being fired decreases (or entirely removes) their ability to afford food and shelter--things which are both necessities.

A company of any significant size, on the other hand, will be able to handle the loss of a single employee just fine.

There is a power imbalance between the two parties here and I don't think you can construct a solid argument while ignoring it.
Are there different "best practices" for games? This breaks almost every guideline for effective UI elements that I've been exposed to. Really don't like it.
Looks like it was just lifted from some article somewhere.
True, but they can protect that manager from materially affecting you (wages, promotions, etc.)
I like to think that for step 4, you can provide a healthy substitute.

Personally, the thing that got me to quit smoking weed was getting really into brazilian jiu-jitsu.

It may be possible to generalize this.

Besides that, I really like your post, the 1st 3 points are solid. ^_^
I have a domain that was ranked #1 for a decade, it always had GA. I removed GA replaced it by Piwik, it dropped in rank.
Nowadays I'm not eben on the 1st page anymore, despite having the most authentic design and simple use.
LOL. The shitty version of Youtube has always been Youtube. If you were making an amateur video Youtube was plenty. If you were an auteur and wanted to be above the fray you hosted it on Vimeo. Sadly, Vimeo has gone the corporate video route while Youtube is leveraging Google.

Vimeo knew their target but sadly that market isn't large enough to pay the bills.
Yes, the latter is correct given the unique grammatical conventions of newspaper headlines. These sorts of headlines are called "crash blossoms": https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage...
ESP8266 controlled blinds with Tasmota (2019)
Look at China to see where all this tech is headed.

One party rule. Anyone that disagrees with the party is silenced.
Tetraethyllead is an element?
This is a terrible substitute, since there are a lot of low-paid high-skill jobs (ex, graduate students, TAs).

There's a meaningful labor liquidity difference between a job that takes 2 years of training and 2 days of training, and it's important for policy decisions. Sorry?
Sample size of 1 here, but hopefully worth the read.

I got food poisoning while abroad shortly after college, and took some shitty OTC antibiotics. I was low-grade sick for ~1 month, and when I came home I started developing IBS which got progressively worse over the next few years. FODMAP saved me, but at the detriment of needing to eliminate a lot of foods that I loved eating.

Recently I started eating 2tbps of chia seeds with some lemon juice and water daily. Chia seeds are incredibly fibrous. Over the next month, my stomach seemed to get permanently better - I can now eat larger quantities of some of those "problem" foods without debilitating side effects.

The bacteria in your gut affect a whole lot of things. And there are competing cultures, all of which like to eat different things. My hunch is that I coaxed the fiber-loving ones back to health, and they in turn did me the favor of repressing the cultures that liked fermenting beans and cruciferous vegetables. There's a lot we don't know about our gut microbiome, but my guess is that eating high-fiber, high-diversity diets is a much better solution than taking a pill.
I think it's important to note the top demand of the letter (in italics):

"As a starting point, we are putting forth the following categories of action items, the specifics of which we would like to discuss in person with the executive team within a month:

Publicly address and condemn Elon’s harmful Twitter behavior. SpaceX must swiftly and explicitly separate itself from Elon’s personal brand."

I don't know why anyone would think that that would go over well.
This was basically my motivation when I designed the language I use for my day-to-day tasks where I program. I just wanted a ‘functional’ sort-of language that compiled to C.

Even though I’ll never release it, it was a rewarding theoretical and practical exercise.

As an aside, I really love how detailed and example-ful Ante’s site is. It looks like a ‘fun’ language and I hope the creator keeps working on it.
In theory... the most satisfying checkbox would take your inner most desire, that you've been trying for the longest time... and when you check the box, it completes the desire. Visually it doesn't matter as much as the function. Like checking something off your bucket list is more satisfying than checking something off the grocery list. I don't know if the visual component is as important as what is actually functionally done. "beware the pleasures of the eyes"
As I get older, I am more and more skeptical of people trying to influence my emotions.
Games are a bad choice as an example. (Some) Games are always trying to squeeze the most out the latest hardware. You can't have a massive world with 4K textures and no loading screens using an HDD and 8GB of RAM without performance degradation.
If your skillset is sufficiently rare and in-demand than Google/Facebook/Apple aren't your only options for high-paying employment.

Heck, I haven't even worked for any of those yet and last I checked at least 2 of them were offering less than what I make for my role.
oddly though - in some science and software themes, Canada is more closely aligned to the EU and Commonwealth than the USA. (American here..)
> Defi is about to find out how hard it is to make money when no one wants to stake.

I have often described DeFi as Decentralized 2008.
Your belief stems from a nativity of the power systems and how they operate. Ideological zealots do try to dictate changes all the time. Look at history and understand the reason behind China and the replacement of the four olds. Look at what happened behind the scenes during the replacement of the Russian Tsars. Look at critical theory as a framework for gaining power.

Now understand some simple fundamental realities. Dictionaries have always been expensive and almost never turned a profit in history. They were created as loss leaders for name recognition, passion projects by eccentrics, heavily subsidized by fundraising or (most often) a combination of the three. They are subject to corruption through funding, through people, and through the will of their parent company.

Merriam-Webster should be focusing on language and it's use. Not subtly accusing Kyle Rittenhouse of fake crying during trial. It's corrupted at the personally level at the very least. Not to mention their cozy relationship with Google.

Oxford, like most universities, has had biased hiring policies since my parents were children. Today, it's filled with the out of touch, weak and over-socialized. They have received a mountain of criticism regarding their "woke score" hiring policies, "woke" additions to their dictionary and many other issues.

It's unfortunate that you and others trust such biased sources. Like being "the dictionary" gives it some sort of official authority on the way you can communicate.
Howdy swyx. Long-time follower, first time writer. Following this thread! I have a hunch we'll see improvements to the Temporal workshops (like the Go one posted today).
>Know who those people and their cults are now? No? Right, nobody does.

I also don't know who the unhappy underling people in those companies were. Nobody does, and nobody did at the time either (that's the difference).
If they had gotten a hold of Mike Pence they intended to kill him.

https://youtu.be/0vzeTgm2qWw?t=1437
That's an oligopoly/cartel, which represents monopoly power on labor demand, and is illegal
When I helped run a union we had to carefully track paid time and expenses. Only time spent negotiating and enforcing the contract could be collected from non members.