skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get this either.

We have a horse butcher here in the city whoms unique selling point is just that, selling horse meat.

Nobody cares, really.
Without a due process ensured by a union, it’s very hard to know what they did.

Even if someone does something truly horrific, unions still need to protect their rights to a proper hearing, evidence, etc.

A while ago a reporter was fired from the NYTimes for repeating racist language used by a third party.

The reporter had works at the NYTimes for decades with a clear record. A few years before the incident, they became part of unions negotiating team.

Once they joined the negotiating team, the paper suddenly began disciplining then for minor infractions.

Once the allegations about racist language came about, they had a dirty record.

Per the union agreement, had a right to see the evidence against them. The paper refused to do that.

If this person hadn’t been part of union negotiating team, they would have had a clean record, and likely would have survived.

They are now working as a reporter at the Economist.
They can’t block GitHub because a lot of chinese tech firms depend on it. That is something very hard to develop locally because the entire world can contribute
Looks to me that they forgot a comma. It probably should be "modern, on concrete sleepers."
> We are not talking about coordinate speed here, we are talking about the light cone looking different, depending on which direction you go.

Before you could even test for this, you would need to come up with a consistent mathematical model of it and show how it's different from the mathematical models in standard GR. Otherwise you won't even know what to test for.

Note that in standard GR, models that do not have isotropy of space also do not necessarily have the "isotropy of light cones" that you describe, at least not once you go beyond a single local patch of spacetime that is small enough for curvature to be ignored.

I'm not aware of any such mathematical model that is different from standard GR.
Facebook, in general, has swung too far on the ML for moderation side. Last year when vaccinations for kids first 12-18 became available I posted “It’s time to stab…er jab the kids”. That got my account locked so hard I needed to contact a friend inside Facebook to get it fixed. To this day I still have a strike on my account for inciting violence or something stupid like that.

I’d honestly rather suffer a shadow ban than know just how bad their ML is for this use case.
Just to be clear - the pay gap mostly disappears once you control for field, position, and experience. Women aren’t getting paid substantially less for the same job while having the same credentials. Also - even in fields like medicine… there’s a reason surgeons are overwhelmingly male. Women don’t want to keep doing training and intense hours during their final years of being able to have a kid. Whereas men will plough through and do it anyway. (Mainly because they have no other choice - men would choose otherwise if women would let them)

Women end up choosing a lot of lower paid fields whereas men choose higher paid ones. You can makeup whatever reasons you want for that but that’s just facts - and that’s what the “pay gap” is from.
They are in many parts of the world. The reasons why they aren’t in other parts of the world are many, but they include the fact that bitumen as a petroleum byproduct has been cheap; other traditional roof materials used in Western Europe are also naturally fairly dark; in cooler climates heating has historically been a more pressing concern than cooling; people migrating from said cooler climates have not bothered to adapt their construction methods to local conditions; AC powered with cheap fossil energy has been seen as a silver bullet; people choose to avoid upfront expenses even if that means suffering in the future; cooling is rapidly becoming a concern even in said cooler climates, but adaptation lags behind because people are surprised that the climate change is actually now their problem and not some future people’s problem…
Big companies have legal departments (or law firms on retainer); who may well have people with time on their hands who need to find something productive looking to do. You might become someone's makework project.
I encountered a founder once who built his small empire from just an idea in a garage. How did the employees know it started as an idea in a garage? Because he started every speech at every company meeting by telling the story. But if you dug just a little deeper, you'd learn that this was like the fourth or fifth startup he tried. Every time one failed, he'd go back home, live off his family's wealth for a little while dreaming up the next attempt.

Yea, I could also be a pro baseball player if I got an infinite number of at-bats.
wages are one thing, working conditions are another.

It doesn't matter how much you pay me if I can't see my kids and have to pee in a bottle.
The article has a photo of a slide with the words “don’t sign” on it at the top.
I don't remember that but I don't feel like it's something out of character for Ol' Sparky. Been a heck of a long time since I last read his bio.
I'm talking about all jobs

Capitalism was good for the time between feudalism and the industrial revolution, but now we have an excess of goods, food, and housing yet corporations are creating artificial scarcity in order to continue enriching a few people at the expense of everyone else.

We have enough empty housing in California alone to house all homeless people in the US yet we still have people living in the streets. We have people starving while we produce enough food to not only feed all of the US but also Africa, yet corporations throw away good food to create artificial scarcity to protect the profits of a few.

Forming cooperatives owned by the workers who make up the business would be a good step in the right direction, and making the excuses like 'some people don't need that baseline' is horse shit. The purpose of a system is what it does and those jobs aren't just filled by young people, there are older people who should be retired worming minimum wage jobs. There are people trying to support their families in those positions. If those jobs are meant for kids, why are the business open during schools hours?

If we work together we can improve living conditions for all humans
Bloom County was revived in 2015 - when I saw Breathed speak at the National Book Festival the next year he indicated Trump’s resurgence was “not unrelated”
The plot of the movie "Contact".
Only if you don't care about a decent memory architecture.

And if you don't you'll have to pay for it many times over for the remainder of the products lifetime.
Can't reliably run my personal cloud with just 100 Mbit/s. The best fiber service I had access to was Frontier out in Texas, and my location capped out at 500 / 500, which was great at the time. I could easily run my personal cloud... Plex Media Server, Nextcloud, etc.

Nowadays, with my UltraHD Blu-ray rips on the Plex server, it's not unreasonable at all to require more than a 2 Gbps connection to reliably stream those. I'm often away from home, so it's nice to just be able to log into my own personal server to watch stuff at it's native and highest available quality.
Its decent. Forget about any modern DX12 games, but I can count on one hand the number of games that have not worked properly outside of that. Considering the type of games I play now-a-days, it's not too terrible of a loss to be honest.

If I am in the mood for something that doesn't work or more modern than say The Witcher 3, I just boot up the desktop in windows. Its like the best of everything: I don't have to use the hell that is Windows 11 for general computing and I can treat the desktop as a compute server when I am crunching numbers.
It's almost more like c-flavored visual basic for gnome (based around gobject rather than COM).

c# is more of it's own thing whereas visual basic sort of had the same underlying idea of "hey we have this object library that has its own memory allocation primitives and data structures; what if we exposed it as its own language rather than making everyone use it from c/c++"
Yep. I can’t help but see this as a python2.7 vs python3 story in the long run…
> Some of his rivals for a big promotion got him accused of something that had nothing to do with work.

How does that translate into making racist or hateful statements?

A better translation is they were in a forum where racist or hateful statements were made, but did it participate in making them.
Similarly, the Ardennes draft horse genetic stock survived because of an (unsuccessful attempt at) an horse-meat breeding industry.

It's usually not economical to breed a horse just for meat, which in my eyes makes it a relatively ethical form of meat.
The opposite: increasing the set of network endpoints that are untrusted from the internet to both the internet and the LAN.
I'm reminded of an old Joy of Cooking recipe for raccoon: Boil it in baking soda overnight, then throw away the water and braise it for another few hours iirc
> I personally did not have my own shit together enough to earn minimum wage, not quite, at the very start. $15/hr+ starts to become a mountain that the least well-off cannot land a position earning, or cannot stay competitive at that rate, in some parts of the nation.

This is the most salient point in my opinion when discussing minimum wages. Employers have to decide which potential employee can produce enough to make up for the wages that they pay. The higher the minimum wage goes, there are less opportunities to get a career started due to not being hired. Experience is highly valued in almost every field. If you cannot get a low paying job just to build some experience in your resume, you delay or never get the next high paying job. Minimum wage ends up crippling the very people it was meant to help.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/20/bill-watterson-199...
Ha! The other day, I was having a short chat with a fellow commuter on this very topic (including 'why not in other countries?'), in the context of the expected heat wave on Monday and Tuesday. And the reason, I speculated, was exactly same as mentioned in the article. I'm glad I wasn't wrong. I'll share this article if I see them again.
I know a lot of self made wealthy and it’s all about building businesses and investing in risky things. That takes a lot of talent and effort.

There is a different group of born wealthy, but they aren’t building new businesses.
Even when I was a kid I thought the parents were cool. Other than perhaps Moe, Calvin is obviously the worst human being in the comic (although in a mostly funny and relatable way).
it came out of arbor.io (now part of liveramp.com)
The tech interviews I've had so far have consisted of some kind of leetcode or hackerrank or codility test and then basically the same thing but supervised.

On one of the older ones I stalled out on references. It was a fed gig and they wouldn't take freelance clients for references so I had to use managers from like a year or more ago and one of them just wouldn't respond to recruiter emails. They made me do a lot of tests though and they kept saying I was advancing because I beat the tests and got all the corner cases. I dropped some pastries at the old office (as much for my old colleagues as for my old manager) and emailed my old manager about the reference but she seems evasive about it. She's also extraordinarily busy and I don't really want to pressure her into giving a reference if she feels I was a bad employee (although she could say as much in the reference). She could come through in the end. I guess we'll see.

I'm in a few interviews right now. In the one I recently got spat out of, I had some leetcode problems which I think I got correct (I don't know if I got all the corner cases but I sure tested for everything I could think of). One of the recruiters said I fell down on the video interview. I'm sure their feedback will clear it up and I'll post it here to close the issue.

I don't think I'm that good at data structures and algorithms. I've definitely hit the limit of my natural talent. I'm bad at recursion (I almost always prefer while loops). I haven't been getting a lot of questions about binary trees and I think that's why I've been doing relatively well. Binary trees are okay too but I never see them in the wild and I can get confused about them. I need to grind a lot more leetcode but if I do that what I will have attained is not really a native excellence or deeper insight into the nature of data structures and algorithms but rather a kind of mental hashmap or muscle memory of approaches to mimic that I've seen in leetcode problems in the past (which is not unhelpful in and of itself).

Anyway the other day I did some landscaping around a transmission line tower for the power authority and wrote a little webscraper for an upwork client. The former paid me $2100 and the latter paid me $320 and the latter was a lot more work. Seems like there's easier ways to make a living than programming.
Not everything needs to be molded into a common base that serves the needs of all. Fuchsia has different constraints than the ones gvisor is written for and choosing to not try to morph gvisor into something it doesn't want to be is okay. Optimizing to solve problems should be the goal. Sharing code is nice to have where it makes sense.
They can't block GitHub, but all it takes is one phone call to Redmond, and their problem will go away.

Microsoft has no issue with getting rid of politically problematic repos.

https://www.technadu.com/github-removes-protest-organizing-a... - when Microsoft won't respect the right to protest in Spain, they won't give two figs about that same right in China.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/8xe... - for another example, this time in the US.
Let's assume, there is no censorship and anyone can join the boycott. What is the intended successful outcome of the boycott?

If noone would do anything (no boycott), some customers would have to pay mortgage for apartments that won't be finished ever.

With boycott, the blast radius will be bigger, possibly affecting the banking system.

What options do authorities have?
But you can dial it down pretty damn well. When I had Frontier in Texas, I rarely saw latency over 19 ms to any location in the United States. 35+ ms and I was fussy... amazing how quickly fiber can spoil a man.
If only Comcast customers had a way of simulating non-shitty network connections...
Does Apple offer a competing product?
How close are we to that? One press release away.
> "whatever the union currently says and will say in the future 100% represents my point of view"

Is that what it says? It says that you have to agree to be legally responsible for the union's opinions on netflix shows, or of your cousin's marriage?

No, it says that you're agreeing for them to represent you with the company, not some made-up all-encompassing scaremongering paraphrasing of that.
Very true. FWIW, you've used the exact terms I've embraced myself.

As it happens, such wisdom flows in all the places one would expect it to flow. For example https://www.catholiccompany.com/content/7-deadly-sins, which I just duckduckgoed. Yet it is often times so hard to open ourselves to it.
#1, and run at a loss. You have no idea if anyone even wants your startup idea or if you have any product-market fit, worrying about training your own model is putting the cart before the horse. If no one wants your product even ignoring the cost of ML, then you don't need to worry about any of that!

If you do potentially have a viable idea and it turns out there is >0 people out there willing to pay for it, then you can experiment with cheaper models and optimizations as necessary. ('People want our product we sell at a loss so much we may go bankrupt' is a good problem to have.) Also, consider that as time passes, your problem may be solved for you: lots of people moan and whine about the OA API and wrung their hands about how no one would ever be able to afford to train their own GPT-3 - but here we are, just over 2 years later, and you have a wealth of alternatives in API or FLOSS model, like Jurassic or GPT-J/Neo-20b or YALM or OPT or BLOOM or... Even if none of those work for you or can be finetuned or something, it is also now easier than ever to train your own: countless bugs have been worked out, better training recipes documented, newer better GPUs come out (A100s are no longer rare, and H100s are coming soon), and older GPUs themselves are enjoying a pricing correction.
I know there are enormous profits to be made in China, but I wonder if American investors ever think to themselves ... by investing in this place I am strengthening a regime that ultimately is the enemy of my values.
Interesting course. I'm not sure if you're affiliated with tigyog.app owners or not, but 20% commission on paid courses is too much. The platform looks neat and interesting, but I wouldn't pay 20% of whatever I'm charging for a course to be able to use a platform that self describes as a "blog with buttons".
We should worry about price of food more than petrol
> Telecom act of 1996 paid them to build fiber

Do you have a factual basis for such a statement? Here is the text of the act.

https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/tcom1996.txt

In fact, the text of the act doesn't mention fiber -- which part involves paying companies to build fiber? -- and one part is very explicit in not referring to a specific form of technology.

> The term `advanced telecommunications capability' is defined, without
regard to any transmission media or technology, as high-speed,
switched, broadband telecommunications capability that enables
users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data,
graphics, and video telecommunications using any technology.

In fact, for a simple sanity-check on the factualness of your statement, we need just one question: If FedGov paid companies to build fiber -- which companies, and how much did it pay each of them?
> liveramp.com

I am going to give this project a big no if it has anything to do with with liveramp.
Not anymore

Xserve and then the OS X Server package used to exist though.
Which book ended up helping you when you were in academia?

Which one helped you learn?
Still have plenty of services with network trust everywhere I've worked, particularly in the oldest and slowest moving parts of an organization, but now I'm on VPN instead of LAN. I can still ping AD and SAP and whatever else one could find if you could run nmap on your work network.

It's not really about trusting more or less outside networks, it's about exposing your network very selectively (e.g. single services behind authenticating proxies), preferably with a corporate login and some form of device attestation.
I wonder if some of the quality and reputation issues could be fixed if the road constraint were removed. Then more robust building code rules could be required and enforced.

The way to get rid of the road constraint would be airships, as discussed in a HN submission in the last week or so.

If that worked, than manufactured housing could change the granularity: subassemblies would be worth building in a factory and moved onsite (imagine a stack of 8’x12’ walls, already drywalled and with code compliant electrical fittings) or, on the other direction, multistory building could be transported the way doublewides are transported and then joimed in situ today.
What ultimately helped you?
Eyes Wide Shut is a very good movie about class in America as well.
I am ashamed.
This assumes that people only use Rust for the performance. I don't think that's strictly true.

95% of what I write isn't performance-critical or even, really, performance-relevant. I still choose Rust for the vast majority of projects for ergonomic and correctness reasons.
As I wrote already,

>I personally believe, though, that we don't live by money (or prestige) alone. I take comfort from the fact that for thousands of years others have shared this belief.

That said I'm not really interested in arguing with you. I'm already familiar with all the rationalizations and arguments. I choose to believe something different, that's all.
are you interested in accounting? there is one gnukhata https://gitlab.com/gnukhata/gkapp that is looking for contributors to localize it to various countries around the world. it is currently India only but if anyone is willing to help, join up
My (Swiss) kids enjoy eating chicken. I love eating duck, but I have to be VERY discreet about it, lest I want to be looked at like I'm a serial killer. Having referred to my food as "Donald" on one occasion probably didn't help…
The only way I can think of is to make profits above a certain level unprofitable by taxing them at a high rate with ratcheting without bracketing (i.e. any amount up to $X billion taxed at 10%, but anything greater than $X + $0.01 will be taxed at 60% for the entire amount, resulting in a tax graph that is discontinuous for profit vs. tax). Profits can be tinkered with, so perhaps do that with revenue instead. Then, for companies of a certain size will have no need for sales executives, and will be punished by Wall Street for exceeding optimal sales targets.
The sketchnotes style of note taking seems to have some severe constraints: (a) one has to be artistic [be able to 'draw'] and (b) one has to have the time to finish the sketch.

Situationally, I don't think this style would be well suited, for example, to note taking in a dynamic or fast paced environment. On the other hand, it might well be actively helpful in a brainstorming situation. A sort of constructive doodling.

Before it declined into flakiness (hardware/software failures?), I was a huge fan of mind mapping as a note taking format on my reMarkable. Inevitability I doodled on the reMarkable whilst thinking about stuff, and maybe that could have been built into the mindmap itself rather than being an idle fancy.

If this technique is introduced into a team environment, I think it's set to fail - you want everyone to contribute equally, and to be judged equally, without the fear of being mocked for their lack of skill with a whiteboard marker or smartpen, which was one of my take-aways from Dan Roam's 'Back of a Napkin' book, which is cracking & highly recommended to anyone whose interest is piqued by the sketchnotes idea.
A union authorization card does not “join” someone to a union, nor is it an irrevocable endorsement of “whatever the union will say in the future.”

A union authorization card is simply a means of demonstrating the 30% employee support required for the NLRB to order an election. That’s it. Unions will generally not hold elections until 60% of employees have signed cards, because a majority vote is required.

From the anti-union National Right to Work Foundation:

“You have a legal right to revoke any union authorization card that you have signed. It is illegal for a union to restrict your right to revoke a union authorization card that you signed.”

https://www.nrtw.org/rights-card-check-private/
I recently got started with Rust and was surprised that different async runtimes were not compatible with each other. In principle Rust has a similar interface concept like Golang, so it should be possible to specify desired behavior of a component and leave implementation to the library, so that you can switch between different ones without worrying about compatibility. Pretty much a Rust noob still so maybe I'm missing something that makes this difficult/impossible though.

I've been thinking about rewriting a network library using async, but the whole async ecosystem seems a bit fragmented and immature: mio would probably be everything I need but it doesn't support channels (there's mio-extras which does but it's not compatible with the latest mio version). Tokio would probably fit the bill, though it seems to be too complex for what I actually need (just a way to poll sockets and channels to see if there's anything to read from them).