skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the structure of unionized employment where you work?

In particular:

1. Do you have a choice of union?

2. Do you in theory have a choice of union even if in practice there is only one applicable union?

3. Can you leave the union/not engage in collective bargaining via the union if you believe the union is not representing your interests?

4. Can you in theory form your own union if applicable unions do not represent your interests?

From a cursory inspection of the structure of German and Swiss trade unions, I believe the answer to all of these questions is yes, though I do not have any in-depth or firsthand experience indicating the truth of my belief, so it would be helpful to get input from someone with firsthand experience.

In contrast, based on a more in-depth analysis on the nature of legal recognition for unions in the US, in the US the answer to all of these questions is no. I hypothesize this distinction, assuming it is true, is a key reason for the different attitudes towards unions in the US and Europe.
So auto-related taxes and fees fund policing and defense and general taxes fund roads. Sounds... convoluted. I reiterate that none of this really makes much sense, and I think we're seeing the end result of those policies.
My city assesses land and structure value separately as part of property taxes so having them assess just land instead seems like less work not more.
Right but today we have that problem already. We know that a bad actor journalist can write a fake story. We therefore require sources. If deepfakes come along we will know videos can be fake and so we will be skeptical, as we are today, and look to proper sources. We will easily come up with some way to validate sources via cryptography or org reputation (e.g. we might trust the NY Times to not just fabricate things)
It should be noted that weight has been dropping YoY and is expected to drop further when M3 gets a structural battery pack. Those drop the weight not only because there's now no longer a structure the battery is bolted to, it is the structure, but also because the weight drop lowers the batteries needed to get comparable range (further reducing weight).

Model Y is the first tesla vehicle with a structural pack.

I expect that other EV manufactures will eventually follow suit. Why wouldn't they? Less batteries and materials is a win win.
> After the 10th "SMS Service" is created, no one knows what any of them do

Yeah, that's always been my concern. "Descriptive" is a very precarious strategy because it takes very little to go from maybe descriptive to generic and confusing. Multiple variations of the same "descriptive" name are another common issue. I see often a lot of very similar named services that are the bane of naming in my opinion. Someone made a User Management Layer and then someone else made a Person Data Service and next thing you know you see a User Data Service and now it's just confusing. Factor in that each one of those things gets called the UML, PDS, and UDS and it just gets worse (did I mention they each connect to the Person/User Data Store/base).
Now imagine the same exact thing but instead of buying a house, the person rented for 30 years (probably would have been forced out of the neighborhood much sooner). Are you still empathizing?

What about the people who couldn't get a loan in the 1940s-70s because of redlining and ended up having to rent for the same amount of time?

All of this "empathy" talk hides real wealth redistribution towards property owners. Just holding on to a piece of property should not increase your share of real productive capital disproportionately.
Thanks so much! This is super helpful :)
When I was working in the gaming industry there were days we (on the server team) had overtime because the client team was behind on their work and everyone staying late was better for morale... but we were ahead on ours since we'd fought hard for our timelines and my manager was a badass. The result was we server people sitting around chatting in the office while the client team struggled not to be distracted, I don't think it helped morale.
These people were my age (mid 20s-early 30s)
I wonder if it's due to trying to use the newer Bluetooth profiles? Which of course OSX and Windows don't let you select, nor do the vast majority of headsets.

Every headset I've used with SBC selected has worked perfectly, including some ancient cheap ones, and I'm pretty sure that's how things are connecting to my car (which always works).

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For mice, I dunno. I've had consistently good results, and I primarily use logitechs. My wife recently swapped out an ancient one that worked perfectly with a AA that lasted 3+ months for a modern one that... also works perfectly with an AA that lasts for 1-3 months. Similar results for keyboards, I primarily use a chonky wired one and I can't feel any difference when I use bluetooth ones.

If I did feel lag, it'd be an weird and I'd probably immediately return it. So I do tend to stick with one for a long time, and haven't tried many.

I've never done objective latency tests, but they feel fine to me. No noticeable lag compared to wired, which is plenty good for me. RF dongles do at least make pairing a non-issue though, just plug and go (which I LOVE about Apple laptops + keyboard/trackpad, plugging it in sets up the bluetooth pairing).
The photos at the top of the page are the researchers—the demos (two videos) are a bit further down the page.
they still own the generated content, only grant usage. I have mixed feelings about this confused approach, it won’t last long.

> …you own your Prompts and Uploads, and you agree that OpenAI owns all Generations…
I could not possibly disagree with this sort of "everybody has to work" view more; I think it's the primary problem with our current society if you could boil it down to that. Thorstein Veblen said it better than I ever could.

More precisely, I suppose, it's not the factual content that I have a problem with. It's technically true, but it also doesn't need to be said. It's like telling a human to keep breathing. So instead, it serves the purpose of contributing to a society that values "sacrificial work" too much.
Yeah latency and timing seems like the killer, it's practically hard to imagine a worse possible environment for this.

Especially, btw, with the Spectre/meltdown mitigations that coarsen the browser's clock resolution/etc.
I'm with you on that, written articles > videos any day of the week.
while I agree with the general premise (majority of VCs are not good investors) it's important to remember the money they raised isn't sitting in a bank account.

It's likely still in the LPs stock portfolio, doing a capital call when everyone is down a lot can be tricky. You need to sell the investment more even though they agreed to give you the money when you asked
That's a very callous attitude, especially for people who have put a lot into their property. Being forced out due to taxation is no choice at all.
You just shut down the division and outsource to someone for QA.

The fact the outsourcing company is in the same building and has positions open that could be filled by the now-redundant QA staff is accidental.
Thanks for the informative comment. Are there resources you would recommend for learning more about performant algorithms? At the moment I'm just messing around with JUCE
They ship from Hong Kong
Lots of great comments here. I'd like to add something unexpected: story-telling (or, creative writing).

An interface is a story. Even better, an interactive story.

P.S. I also found that it helps a lot if you read the copy aloud when designing it.
If you spend all day eating carrot sticks and peanuts and drinking unsweetened iced tea vs. eating Snickers bars and Cheetos and drinking Coca Cola (or whatever), after a few months you’ll see a pretty big difference.

Many people will eat whatever snacks are available against their better judgment, and then regret it later. Having unhealthy snacks there and in people’s faces is a kind of psychological manipulation that takes some people nontrivial willpower to overcome.

If someone really wants candy bars, they can bring them from home.
Behind Closed Doors review – entertaining study of London private members’ clubs
No worries. I unfortunately had to make my own cheating accusations when I TA'd other classes...

Reading some of these old proofs is a little cringe-inducing. Masking cluelessness with the royal we doesn't work very well :-)
Wikipedia article lists Pittsburgh as having streetcars. In the 30 or so years that I've been here, I've never seen a streetcar. We do have light rail, however.
This is already possible today and we don't need AI generated stock photos to do it. A bad actor can already spin events to fit their narrative, suppress dissent and control their population. Dictators have been doing it for centuries and we're seeing it in real time in the form of Putin's Russia right now.
I live in a town like this. 'Roads' are actually reciprocal easements to allow all other land owners to pass. Each lot has water well and septic, though one group of houses has a large shared water system which pools the individual well permits.

Electricity and gas and internet are private companies using an easement.

Police and fire can easily be funded by sales tax, just like the public transit. Alternatively, land owners can voluntarily pay yearly for police and fire, or opt-out just like people are not forced by government to buy homeowner insurance.
Good! Best of luck, long overdue in the industry. QA, in particular, has a thankless and critical job.
Considering the churn at most QA shops I'm pretty sure they accepted the job while being told it was all rosy and are just there long enough to realize they were duped and find another job. EA in particular is famous for literally vomiting out disillusioned QA veterans.
Southern NH here and I would be interested to see if NH's eye-watering property taxes (when you only have one lever, it gets used a lot) have a similar effect as Chicago. Personally, being somewhat involved in city politics, while I appreciate your take, it does mean pricing people out of their forever homes when they've done nothing more than retire to a fixed income in the middle of a bubble. I don't have the answer, but I can definitely imagine the fear of the unknown seeing you will not only be forced out of your home but your town and region to find something affordable.
Could be as early as winter. Things are not very bullish for the EU right now given their energy situation.
> Most users want to boot up their machine and get to work. Linux can absolutely do this, but if a user hits a minor snag, then I guarantee they will have more difficulty fixing it compared to an issue found in macOS.

You use mac so you find it easier to fix macproblems. I use Linux and find it easier to fix Linux problems.

> Design is important. The user experience will make or break an operating system.

Not really. Just look at windows. I press the windows key, type reboot and it gives me a link for the movie ReBoot. The Windows design is a joke. There must be something else going on, OP.

> Another advantage macOS has over most other Linux desktops is tailored hardware.

Tailored to be bad I guess. My coworker with a mac can't run more than 1 external screen or 8k graphics. Couldn't pair to her sony headphones either. No such problems on Linux.
The Road to Stalemate in the Russia-Ukraine War
Annoying that if removing the watermark is allowed that it is even inserted. Imagine if Adobe did that.

Here’s more information on super resolution options beyond what Adobe already offers:

(1) List of options current options for super resolutions:

https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Different_Neural_Networks

(2) Older example of one way to benchmark:

https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/dc/d69/tutorial_dnn_superres_ben...
Absolutely. Even though we have a fintech background and we're tackling carbon accounting from the angle of spend, we know how sensitive revenue and budget data are. Our business is firmly in mapping the carbon graph; we'll never sell financial insights.
Dalle seems to only have a few "styles" of drawing that it is actually "good" at. It is particularly strong at these styles but disappointingly underwhelming at anything else, and will actively fight you and morph your prompt into one of these styles even when given an inpainting example of exactly what you want.

It's great at photorealistic images like this: https://labs.openai.com/s/0MFuSC1AsZcwaafD3r0nuJTT, but it's intentionally lobotomized to be bad at faces, and often has an uncanny valley feel in general, like this: https://labs.openai.com/s/t1iBu9G6vRqkx5KLBGnIQDrp (never mind that it's also lobotomized to be unable to recognize characters in general). It's basically as close to perfect as an AI can be at generating dogs and cats though, but anything else will be "off" in some meaningful ways.

It has a particular sort of blurry, amateur oil painting digital art style it often tries to use for any colorful drawings, like this: https://labs.openai.com/s/EYsKUFR5GvooTSP5VjDuvii2 or this: https://labs.openai.com/s/xBAJm1J8hjidvnhjEosesMZL . You can see the exact problem in the second one with inpainting: it utterly fails at the "clean" digital art style, or drawing anything with any level of fine detail, or matching any sort of vector art or line art (e.g. anime/manga style) without loads of ugly, distracting visual artifacts. Even Craiyon and DALLE-mini outperform it on this. I've tried over 100 prompts to get stuff like that to generate and have not had a single prompt that is able to generate anything even remotely good in that style yet. It seems almost like it has a "resolution" of detail for non-photographic images, and any detail below a certain resolution just becomes a blobby, grainy brush stroke, e.g. this one: https://labs.openai.com/s/jtvRjiIZRsAU1ukofUvHiFhX , the "fairies" become vague colored blobs here. It can generate some pretty ok art in very specific styles, e.g. classical landscape paintings: https://labs.openai.com/s/6rY7AF7fWPb5wWiSH0rAG0Rm , but for anything other than this generic style it disappoints hard.

The other style it is ok at is garish corporate clip art, which is unremarkable and there's already more than enough clip art out there for the next 1000 years of our collective needs -- it is nevertheless somewhat annoying when it occasionally wastes a prompt generating that crap because you weren't specific that you wanted "good" images of the thing you were asking for.

The more I use DALLE-2 the more I just get depressed at how much wasted potential it has. It's incredibly obvious they trimmed a huge amount of quality data and sources from their databases for "safety" reasons, and this had huge effects on the actual quality of the outputs in all but the most mundane of prompts. I've got a bunch more examples of trying to get it to generate the kind of art I want (cute anime art, is that too much to ask for?) and watching it fail utterly every single time. The saddest part is when you can see it's got some incredible glimpse of inspiration or creative genius, but just doesn't have the ability to actually follow through with it.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing these. So powerful! I really feel Maya Angelou's quote.
Last time I've looked into it in any detail, there were tendency for any effectiveness to vanish in repeated studies (indistinguishable from placebo).
Even though it states on web page on big letters, that it ships to Canada.
It does not.
Canada not available.
(I suspect same with USA)
Thank you. That helps me to view the author's paraphrasing in a more charitable light. "Fraudulent" may have been too strong of a word. I still find it misleading to paraphrase a study in a way that is different from its main conclusion. We don't know what data concerns, etc. the study authors may have had such that they did not explicitly reach this conclusion. And the imprecision in Yamamoto's wording seems intended to mislead as well.

This is an interesting area of study and I'm sure a different author would make a more persuasive case for/against this effect being real.
When these tools can generate layered tiff/psd images, polygon meshes and automate UV packing; then we’ll be talking.
Maybe we should be honest and say that you can't "own" land? Government always has eminent domain, and power of seizure for unpaid taxes. You are effectively renting the land from the government. Why not just call it that. Give people a 99 year lease instead of a mortgage and property tax. If you do nothing with the land, your lease can be terminated. If you improve the land (build a house on it), you can depreciate that on your taxes as a leasehold improvement.
how many drams of whiskey to make an ounce?
You would presumably input “South Korean CEO”. DALL-E would then unhelpfully add “black” “female” without your knowledge.
How do you interface with DALL-E?

For MidJourney I was painfully surprised to find that everything is done through chat messages on a Discord server.

I'm not a paid member, so I have to enter my prompts in public channels. It's extremely easy to lose your own prompts in the rapidly flowing stream of prompts going on. I can kind of see why they did it that way--maybe, if I squint really hard--to try to promote visibility and community interaction, but it's just not happening. It's hard enough to find my own images, say nothing about follow what someone else is doing. This is literally the worst user experience I have ever had with a piece of software.

There are dozens of channels. It's so spammy, doing it through Discord. It's constantly pinging new notifications and I have to go through and manually mute each and every one of the channels. Then they open a few dozen more. Rinse. Repeat.

I understand paid users can have their own channels to generate images, but I really don't see the point in paying for it when, even subtracting the firehose of prompts and images, it's still an objectively shitty interface to have to do everything through Discord chat messages.
I meant specialized IT tools to support the law firms that do this work.
Someone said "hey log4j 1.2 wasn't that bad" after the log4shell vuln and came up with the idea of reload4j which is just log4j 1.2 but with its known vulnerabilities, bugs and performance issues fixed. Complete feature freeze besides that. Considering that a log tool shouldn't have that many features and that log4j 1.2 was being used by a lot of companies (just see maven central stats) there is no need to add more features to reload4j, which I find kind of cool
My middle paragraph up-thread proposes that you can emulate it much faster than we're doing now, at full precision with integer SIMD and a specialized JIT. I'll reiterate the 80-bit softfloat stuff I've seen in use now is not really optimized. I suspect that beating the performance of a cpu on x87 from the era where x87 was relevant is somewhere between realistic and trivial. Beating a modern cpu on x87 from another architecture still feels possible (but it's a less useful thing to spend time on).

> Even lowering the precision of the x87 unit isn’t sufficient as that only reduces the precision of the mantissa not the exponent.

I don't know what you mean by "isn't sufficient". To be clear, I'm speaking from experience emulating x86 games on low resource arm devices, where I had success emulating x87 in lower precision.

For QEMU, IMO the bigger performance issue is that it doesn't natively JIT _any_ FPU or vector instructions, and the indirect memory mapping hurts general performance quite a bit too.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/databl...

The facts are as exhaustive as they are exhausting. There’s one simple conclusion from all of this. We’ve been tricked. We’ve been told that America, like most other majority-white countries, deserves the title “developed economy”. It does not.

A bit polemic but an interesting perspective. Maybe it's just the case that the us IS a "third world' aka >developing county<
"It's going to result in more content being created"

Is it, though? This model took over a month, on extremely fit hardware, to even create.

Lets say for a second, in some hypothetical future, that anyone can access/use/update these models (by anyone, I mean someone with both low amount of resources as well as little to no programming skill), why are they creating content?

"Rate, scale, and volume of production will increase by orders of magnitude."

If by production you mean "paid creation", I'm not so sure about that. In this world where everyone creates content from thin air 1) there is little to no monetary value to the content anymore (as monetary value inversely correlates with scarcity) 2) So there is less incentive to create anything, because there is no monetary value to doing so.

In fact, by definition we can pretty much prove that not much of anything will happen in this regard, because content is already limited by budget - the budget has not gone up, and the return has only gotten worse (in this hypothetical scenario).

What I think is more likely to happen - a few, "blessed" individuals will have out-sized content creation capabilities, without much need to innovate. The rest of us will have almost no incentive to create anything as a result.

Disney will use these systems, and they will use them to churn out more garbage, faster, on average, most kids will not be generating any movies in an afternoon.
> gets so bad that banks stop issuing mortgages on them.

That actually happened in a condo building I lived in. A buyer's mortgage company refused to go through with the loan a couple days before closing because, by their calculation, the reserve percentage was not high enough.

Now, it was a couple thousand dollars and the building had a reserve of around $2 million at that time, and the association's response was "we hired consultants to figure out the correct reserve amount. You mischaracterized X, Y and Z; if you do it properly the numbers are all fine". But it was all too late, the sale fell through.

A few weeks later we discovered that the association hadn't been paying the water bill ("not our fault, they didn't send us the bill"), put the condo on the market and sold immediately. That bank was apparently ok lending 95% LTV; happy to be done with it and living in a detached house.
Oh, how I miss Gobo.
It's a mistake to assume that builders are responding to demand. All actors in a market have only partial information. To take my city as an example, the housing market started heating up, so builders started constructing condos and tried to pack as many units into their building as possible, thus improving supply. This created a vibrant urban centre for young people who live on their own in modest apartments and drove up demand among that cohort even further, thus incentivising further construction of those same units, creating a self-reinforcing cycle.

But young people aren't the only ones who need to be downtown, as I said, and families were driven out to the suburbs for suitable housing. They have to commute instead, which has caused all sorts of gridlock and the usual problems with urban sprawl.

If the right incentives existed for mixed housing, tax incentives included, then this wouldn't happen, and people of all ages could afford to live closer to where they work, thus alleviating many of those issues and creating more livable cities.

Here in Canada we already do this in one sense by mixing government housing among more affluent neighbourhoods. This has prevented the formation of ghettos, but this same approach hasn't been applied to create an appropriate mix of housing for all different living arrangements.

So given a land value tax incentivises certain kinds of land use, my question is whether it would incentivise using land to make urban centres more livable for all types of people, rather than only certain kinds of people or lifestyles.