skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said „you can‘t waive it in a contract“, but that‘s also not the case here. The right is waived by entering a collective bargaining agreement, which could be treated differently. There are rights in the German labor law that can‘t be waived by a mere contract, but can be waived in a collective bargaining agreement. And while I‘m not versed in Canadian law, the article indicates that the point of contention here is that this has been ruled as a strike that is illegal because a collective bargaining agreement is in place and for the duration of that agreement, strikes are not permitted.

As to why this is considered a strike, the article is a bit hazy. The contract seems to say that overtime is mandatory unless there’s sufficient volunteers. The union seems to have asked the employees to not work overtime - and that could be considered a strike. They‘re not performing their work duties as contractually required, which is sort of the definition of a strike. Setting aside the question of whether such a requirement to perform overtime work is legal or not, I can imagine some similar ruling in germany. Overtime can be contractually required here (within boundaries), and collectively calling for rejecting overtime could be considered a collective action. Details obviously matter, so blanket statements here are impossible.
I also swear by my Brother black-and-white laser. Now that I work remotely and I can't grift off of printers at work, it's become invaluable for printing out online purchase returns, hiking maps, etc. I require surprisingly little color printing, as it turns out.
> If you bought into the new age pro noun thing the SAME way you already buy into the pointless formalities we use like "please" and "thank you" there would be no argument.

"If you met the conditions that proved me right, then I'd be right". Well I don't, hence you're wrong, as I said
The UX Behind ProdPad's Magically Extending Free Trial (2016)
Easily discover image vulnerabilities earlier in the development life cycle.
Code has to be 100% correct or else it’s considered a bug (assuming it’s syntactically valid).

Code that is 98% correct is actually much worse than no code at all. That’s the kind of code that will introduce subtle, systemic faults, and years later result in catastrophic failure when the company realizes they’ve been calculating millions of payments without sales tax, or a clever hacker discovers they can get escalated permissions by passing a well-crafted request etc.
Do you have any other recommendations? I really enjoyed this one.
Opinionated may have ment the 'fight for your view till death' kind of folks perhaps. In which case it is being far from fun.
i’d add that you also learn (perhaps more) about what _not_ to do if you pay attention and keep your ear to the ground while working.
> If you break an employment contract, the contract is arguably void, and you are no longer employed, that's all.

That depends on the nature of the way you break it. If breaking the contract willfully, even after receiving warnings causes considerable harm to the company, you can expect to be held accountable for the consequences.

Also, if you break a contract in a way that causes a company to break the law, I suppose it could lead to criminal prosecution as well. Let's say you're an airplane inspector, and you sign off on a checklist without actually checking the plane, you could be in trouble if the plane crashes, especially of your team cover up for each other when doing so.

Similarly, if you work on an oil rig installation, and something bad (like and oil spill) is the result, it may be more than just losing your job.

Now in the case of this article, the topic is not just about individuals breaking their contracts, but indeed there seems to be someone organizing it. Organizing some activity with the explicit intent to cause harm to the company may very well be subject to prosecution, just like organizing a hacker group to attack the computer systems would.

Indeed, in the early days of the labour movement, ring leaders frequently went to jail. Eventually those conflicts were solved in a way that gave strikes a special status, explicitly allowing them. However, that came with some restrictions, such as the strike having to be organized by a union, and also some limits on how much damage the strike could cause (especially to third parties). Finally, unions would have the right to temporary forego the right to strike for a given duration, in exchange for some compensation up front.

Actually, this last part can benefit the Union in that it provides a very valuable bargaining chip, especially if they work in a high-cost industry (such as oil&gas). By offering that chip, it may cause the employer to provide better conditions and pay than it otherwise would, in exchange for security. An employer not having the luxery of knowing that workers will not strike have higher risk, and will have a harder time finding investers. In turn, that means less growth, less ability to take on critical projects and generally a smaller pie to share between the workers and the owners.
At the very least, there is scientific value in gathering composition data about interstellar objects happening to fall down onto our planet.

Even Loeb acknowledges that alien technological origins would be a long shot - it's probably more about raising awareness and making some headlines.

The fact is we don't see any alien activity in our galaxy as far as we can discern. If a random piece of interstellar material turned out to be of alien origin, a couple of interesting things would follow from that: either the creators are long dead (in which case: why can't we see their structures out there?) or they have somehow learned how to overcome thermodynamics.

Again the null hypothesis here is that we're just a very, very early civilization. Possibly the first one to arise in our galaxy. Let's assume that we're it and act accordingly.
It needs to work for all people stuck paying US tax, which also includes people outside of those 50 states.
These "VPN" services should be called Virtual ISPs (VISP services). They're not a VPN in the classic sense of extending a private IP address space (like 10.0.0.0/8) over the internet. They can do anything a physical ISP can do with your traffic.

If you trust the VISP service to protect your privacy more than your physical ISP, they might be useful for privacy. Otherwise they're harmful to privacy, and only useful for getting around region locks.
Photographers also spend a great deal of time shooting real people and events. An AI-generated wedding photo is not a thing.
I suppose it's easy enough for many of you in Blighty to pop out this lunchtime for a pint and a bite to eat in a pub older than the UK itself. As an Australian I'm always surprised at how long ago European colonisation of North America began, but it's probably not too hard to find pubs from before then, as well.
I think many of your prompts have trouble getting the right representation because you're using a lot of abstract and implied language. For these prompts to work right, you need to be very specific and often add keywords as if you're specifying a mood board. You also need some overlap between what the model has likely been trained on and the expected output.

The system works much better in img2img mode. Slapping together a rough shape of what you want in GIMP/Photopea and then applying a prompt to blend everything together make the entire process a lot more reliable.
I noticed the same in Denver. Those car-free peak covid months were incredible, and only made the return of the car commuter more depressing in comparison.
I’m seeing a paywall, is that expected? (iOS Safari, private mode). Is the article or alternative source available somewhere for free?
I think the odds it's technological are 'astronomically' slim.

That said, there are all kinds of reasons a technological object could crash into us. Brake failure, course correction failure, sensor failure; or more interestingly, a fearlessness of impact and high heat due to advanced technology.
Also uMatrix makes it a lot easier to figure out what you need to allow through - uBO just gives you the hostname, but with uMatrix you know in the popover menu whether it's a XHR, script not loaded, etc.
You do sound like a snob! It's a De'Longhi Magnifica S (typically 300 EUR, 250 on sale). Yes, that's their entry level offering. It's not junk. The coffee is fine. I buy decent beans, which helps.

I'd recommend it to everyone who just likes coffee, but isn't interested in making it their hobby.
And is obviously not what he was implying...
Haven't most companies that produce home electronics converged to device designs that guarantee steady revenue streams (as opposed to: sell once every 20 years devices)?

By doing things like: opting for subscription models, short device lifetime, cross financing the device through asking high prices for commodities like the cartrigdges.

I guess it's just more obvious with printers because you have this duality of the device itself _and_ the need for a steady supply of either toner or ink, which most companies abuse with nasty business models.

I have an almost 20 years old HP b/w home laser printer (guess one of the first with USB, no ethernet). It doesn't copy/scan, it can only print.

I don't use it much and it produces some minor artefacts but mostly works surprisingly well after so many years. The cheap toner costs like 10 USD or so and lasts several years with my usage.

No printer company would design such a device nowadays anymore. Since it has no network access it cannot be updated to stop working.

Many people want to print over network today and if I wanted to I could plug it into our router so I can print over WIFI.
A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
There was an in depth discussion about this drug with a longevity researcher on a recent episode of the Tim Ferriss podcast, in case anyone wants to dive deeper.
Please go full Richard Stallman.

Control of computing is an all-or-nothing business - even a single compromised component can lead to compromise of the complete system.

Don't trust opaque binaries.

> How do you deal with this situation, do you use a virtual machine, or is there any other ideas I am missing here?

If you really want to run that opaque binary, a virtual machine will give you a decent amount of security. With GPU passthrough, you can even get near-native speed, too.
I've definitely had some great times with Fiasco, and as another comment suggested Microscope.

The specific thing I like about the Apocalypse system games for this sort of list, though, is that they seem to be in the general ballpark of "as rules-light as you can get while still having mechanics for fighting monsters."
Also, you're at the mercy of the algorithm on Fiverr. I had a successful voiceover side gig for a few years, a thousand completed orders and 100% 5 star reviews - one day, the algorithm changed, and poof. Game over, in an instant. 0 orders, forever.
Nice I really missed AHK when I moved away from windows
If you want real horror, I can't recommend this short story enough.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
This part sounds familiar: "One step closer to applications"
The chain of events:

Step 1: Tweak settings and type text

Step 2: Look at the result

Step 3: If you like the result, go to step 4, otherwise go back to step 1.

Step 4: Save and share the result

Feels like art to me. Ultimately it's still a human using a tool to create art. For me AI art is just the name of the art style.
I think people here are confusing everything. And Parent you dont realize that 10 years from now you might lose your job not because of some external factors but because you mindlessly got yourself out of your own job by using tools you dont understand. So let me clarify a few points.

0. Parent, every input you put in that box is an input you soon wont have to make (and that will feel great at first) until you have no input to give anymore.

0.5 By art, I mean entertainment mainly. Not constrained to fine art.

1. Of course this looks like a tool now. And tools are great. We gota make sure they stay tools though.

2. Whatever work you do now with them, the AI will learn to do it by itself without you. You are training the AI.

3. The copyright issue is not unlike music and games in the early 2000'. You would pay if you were proposed the right delivery method.

3.5 the AI isnt creative, this is sophisticated plagiarism.

4. Moore's law. Moore's law. Moore's law. There are for-profit companies behind these AI that have no limit in the amount of value they wanna grab. Their goal is that we can click on a button and voila, you have a movie.

5. Please automate my job you may think. Absolutely, I wish mine (software developer) was. But art / entertainment is different. Now I cant explain it entirely, Im not philosopher (there is something about we still gota control what we do and do not) but if you automate art, our brain becomes useless. Our soul dies. And nature tend to recycle whats useless. Turns it into food.

6. "We ll just do some new art / entertainment". Which the AI will mimic the next day. So you cant even hope to work on entertainment anymore. It's a death I cant qualify.

The core of whats wrong here is ultimately, in a perfect world, an artist could choose if he wants the AI to scan its work (i.e. integrate its work in the tool) and be payed for it. That way we would choose what we like to do and automate everything else. If we cant do this, the AI will do everything even what we should be doing. So we should ban those models (or improve their practicality).
Everything is getting worse.
50 nodes may be close the limit of what a human can understand.
Considering half of the comments are listing the shortcomings of the current site, its design and anything related to badness of the site...

Why not collaborate and re-implement the site from ground up, or at least improve iteratively, if it's that easy?
This is absolutely unacceptable. No.

The solution to "software authors routinely collecting more info than they should" is not "accept the behavior as irredeemable, and just normalize it".

The answer is "make ot way more visible to users when it is done, snd make it harder for software authors to do/maintain." Anything else is just a tacit acknowledgement and grant of legitimacy to the behavior in question.
Bigint? How often are we dealing with strings over 4GiB?
Canon, HP and Brother all have them. I chose a Canon for it's ability to do 2-sided duplex printing and collating in a compact design for small office use (up to 5 people).

I recommend looking for "office" instead of "home". The manufacturers seem aware of the fact that business people have low tolerance for unreliable crap.
That's definitely the focus but they're not fundamentalists – even if you work primarily in non-FP languages you'll learn plenty from following along and as a community of serious users they're quite honest about areas where FP falls short or presents optimization or usability challenges.
> every major release tends to force the user to relearn

As in the sense of re-education? Or brainwashing? Or maybe just outright monetization of the user (as start menu adverts would indicate)?

Genuine upgrades (esp. security, bugfixes) are one thing but the practice is extremely prone to abuse. Previews are rarely robust enough and you always end up having to change your workflow to conform with questionable (or seemingly arbitrary) "improvements".

Many times I just feel like a rat in an A/B test lab.

So I embraced minimalism; I don't even bother with a full DE these days. I used to love gimmicks like wobbly windows but the novelty wears off fast. I just run a stable and trustworthy WM now (OpenBox, if you're curious) and cherry-pick everything else.

Ever since I've found my environment to be much more comfortable and serene... likely more productive too. YMMV
To be honest, depends on what type of physician you are referring to. But when it comes to generalists, like many countries have as a first point of contact. Many of them try to keep up to date, but there is just too many diseases and research. At least where I'm from they mostly just dish out the general advice that's been created by a national organisation (and often they give the outdated version for a few years). With common ails they have more practical experience and are more useful. But regarding inflammation and it's longterm effects, I think this field is too new and specific. As been my personal experience many times, for instance with skin issues.
Founder here. Seen plenty of people who “want to start a startup” come through the doors over 10 years.

To my knowledge, only 1 ever took the plunge, the rest all moved on to different jobs when they finished up with us. In every case they told me that an advantage of the new place is that they’d learn some more things they need to know for when they start their own thing.

To be clear I don’t judge their choices at all. Just pointing out that this is a pretty common thing people tell themselves.

By contrast the former employees who have gone on to do their own startup expressed no interest in the topic until one day they were suddenly a founder.
If you use Google Cloud’s “OS Login” feature, you’re using (semi-ephemeral) SSH certificates.
I was really surprised to learn that when we read (even not out loud), we actually generate the muscular activity to speak the words that we are reading.

Does anyone know which studies corroborate this? I couldn't find links on the website or in the YouTube video description.
Only printer I’ll buy. Does everything I need. Upkeep costs are negligible. Firmware updates don’t regress features.

Don’t have a lot of brand loyalty but nice to see them not shit on their customers.
I don't think that effect will persist, and before long it'll be about as impressive as using a "meme generator" site. Already heading that way in some settings, as far as I can tell.
Isn't that basically what a session cookie is?
Loeb's primary argument that I can remember was that the object accelerated in a peculiar way as it moved away from the sun. This was thought to be attributable to off gassing caused solar radiation. However, no gases have been observed and other analyses have suggested that this would have caused the object to spin--perhaps enough to tear it apart.

Edit: I realized that you were asking about the object at the bottom of the ocean, not Oumuamua which was the subject of my response. But the two are related. If, as Loeb believes, there is evidence that the first extra-solar object that we ever closely observed, Oumuamua, was extraterrestrial technology, then the limited number of other known extra-solar objects also become of interest. We don't know what proportion of extra-solar objects are, in fact, alien technology, but Loeb's views about Oumuamua give him reason to think it might be reasonably high, high enough to warrant an expedition to the bottom of the ocean.

We also know that the object is not a simple rock fragment because we can infer its density, which appears to be greater than iron.
For face generation, I think there are deep neural networks that can generate multiple views of the same face [1], [2]. Stable diffusion already provides the possibility to generate variations. So I don't think it is a stretch to imagine that these existing capabilities will only get better and/or be applied to SD.

[1]: Multi-View 3D Face Reconstruction with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
[2]: Deep Neural Network Augmentation: Generating Faces for Affect Analysis
Yeah, it is.

It is for authors that got their works stolen for "the greater good" without even being notified.

A friend of mine found his works in the Stable Diffusion dataset, the work was not meant for public use, he's never been notified and, most of all, he would have never agreed if they cared to ask.

https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/im...
HP used to be such a mark of quality. It's a shame how much modern market logic convinced them becoming a rotted husk of a company without any value add was a wonderful corporate strategy.

Their early 90s laserjets are still going. My friend's school was throwing one out a few weeks ago. It was sitting dusty in a closet. I plugged it in and it worked right away. Probably 30 years old.

They stopped making things like that a long time ago. They've got the resources and the public capital to turn the ship around if they wanted to
A lot of useful insights that I will use the next time I need a printer. This comment is totally off topic- I have noticed the same thing about external cameras for my desktop computer. Never needed one until the pandemic forced Zoom et al on all of us. Any comments?
I'm sorry if it sounded like that but you won't get any snobbery from me, my coffee gear is under €100. I'm just trying to provide useful information.

You can also like good coffee without making it your hobby, but unfortunately those cheapo budget brand machines aren't it chief. At that price range, their grind uniformity alone must be awful since the corner cutting is taken to the extreme to hit that low price point.

Yeah they make "coffee", but not good coffee, which I guess for most consumers that never tasted good coffee and have no standards and just need a hit of caffeine in the morning is fine, which is why they sell so well to the general public, but if you buy great beans, running them through a cheap and lousy machine is kinda wasteful, as you're not getting the most out of your expensive beans.

I also though the coffee my cheap machines at home/office was great for many years, until I tried a Sage, Jura or other methods/grinders that really make good coffee and I couldn't drink the previous coffee anymore. It tasted trash. There is no comparison, the difference is night and day.

But if you enjoy yours that's fine and that's all that matters.
It's not working because your prompts are bad.

Here's a few of "martian hamsters wrestling" I generated:

https://imgur.com/a/k5rgcXn

Prompt (modified from a recent post on the /r/StableDiffusion subreddit):

A picture of 2 hamsters wrestling on the surface of mars, intricate, elegant, highly detailed, digital painting, artstation, concept art, matte, sharp focus, illustration, art by greg rutkowski and alphonse mucha