skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a union supporter who's spent some time reading about anti-union sentiment here, I've found it generally boils down to a few things:

1) A large portion of users on this site are entrepreneurs or in higher-level tech. For the former, unions can be seen as getting in the way of the startup lifecycle; for the latter, many believe that the value they provide makes them untouchable, or believe that the supply of high-level tech workers will never meet demand so they will simply be able to move to another company if needed without much friction.

2) Many people believe that unions spend too much time protecting "low-performers," and that a union enacting barriers to protect employees from quick firing for performance will hurt the overall team/company.

3) Many people also believe that both paying union dues, and a union negotiating for the "average" worker will lead to them making significantly less money. IE, say your company was split 75% junior/25% senior devs, and paid junior devs $75k and senior devs $300k. If the union put pressure on the employer to raise the minimum salary to $100k, then they believe that money will come out of the senior devs salaries (reducing it to ~$225k).

I can say in my experience, the first point is at least somewhat true right now (I had no issues moving to a more senior and better paid job after my last company sold out). I personally think the sentiment of point #2 is interesting; I generally don't view this as "protecting" those who should be fired, and more view it as a public defender ensuring everyone receives legal representation, even if they are clearly guilty.

I'd also just note that even I'm not blanket pro-union; Police unions are a prime example of what happens when unions consolidate too much power because they went decades without any pushback. I'd consider that an extreme outlier though.
OSS creators can choose their license. If I make something MIT licensed, I can't then complain that people are "stealing" my work. Just make proprietary software at that point.
> The compensation for created value is based on market rate for both work and capital.

This equivalence doesn't make much sense unless there's a widespread phenomenon of businesses "firing" owners in favor of other capital-providers who will accept lower returns.
Usually have differing work depending on which phase of project lifecycle.

Early stage days are estimating + research. Often sitting with users and figuring out system complexity (from a usage and implementation perspective). Most important part of any project/transformation. Can never know enough.
This is usually 2-3 hours meetings per day with users/technical groups, 3-4 hours documentation pieces.

Later stage projects are process heavy. 3-4 hours with support, incident managers, networking, testers, devs, SLA stuff, NFRs all that fun stuff. Rest of the day writing.

Overall it can be busy with long presentation prep and discovery/planning work or it can be quiet (something gets delayed) where I just go play with some new tech for a few days!
I'm basically you. I am married, have been watching porn for a _long_ time, still have a good sex life and have never had any issues with ED. If anything, as I've got into my 30s, I've become even more horny than ever before! I also lift, HIIT, etc. (gym 3 times a week), am generally active, eat well, don't smoke, and I'm not overweight.
>Please reconsider how that happened.

As should you since flamebait isn't conducive to good conversation.
Yeh I just saw it screenshotted on Twitter. Damn, so dumb. Graham once again getting too high on his own thought-leadership.
True, a little bit of philosophy can be a dangerous thing, since it can lead to a shallow kind of idealism that can easily fall into extremism at all.

However, I believe that the general attitude of the trans community is relatively moderate and easy to accept:

1. Trans people should be able to get the kinds of treatment they need (from therapy all the way to aesthetic surgery), in cooperation with their doctors. Children should be allowed to get some treatment, and their parents should be involved (with some complexity when the parents' bigotry may interfere with the best interest of the child).

2. Other people shouldn't be allowed to ostracize one for being trans, and should seek to accommodate them (such as not referring to them with the wrong pronouns or name); accidental use is easily forgiven, but intentional misgendering is clearly malicious; the problem of "non-passing" trans people complicates this somewhat

3. Trans people should be allowed to use the amenities that correspond to their gender, which will, in the vast majority of circumstances, correspond to their gender presentation; "non-passing" trans people complicate this, as does participation in competitive sports

However, I believe trying to modify society to dispense with the concepts man & woman, or to avoid inoculating them in children - as would be natural if we take the position of the first group too seriously - is way beyond what most people would agree with.

Of course, extreme positions such as trans-medicalists/truscum or people insisting everyone "shares their pronouns" and such are somewhat significant sub-groups, as are people who insist that children should be able to just take hormones without any supervision from doctors or parents if they really think it's right for them (I've seen this exact position on HN before). But while they exist, I think they are still loud minorities, even within the relatively small trans community.
Then everyone would think I'm just a ChatGPT bot trained on HN ;) /s
Again... Account for externalities.

For instance: how strongly does the population support the weapons expenses? If it's forced into this spending, the trade is not moral.

How much damage is dealt by each bullet? What does a bullet cost?
Completely off topic, but I wanted to see if your bio could be parsed for an email with chatGPT - since I thought yours was the most interesting I've seen in some time. Turns out cgpt is quite clever:

What's the email address: To email, send to the domain [redacted], using the mailbox "[redacted]".

In general, email addresses consist of a username followed by the at symbol (@) and the domain name, such as [redacted]@[redacted]. However, without being able to verify the existence of the domain [redacted], I cannot say for certain what the email address would be.
Ask HN: When will ChatGPT become open?
Every third post I read in HN is about chatGPT and how much fun and creativity people are getting out of it. However it's unlikely OpenAI will just release the model like they did with whisper due to the size and commercial constraints. To adapt this technology to different industries like education / healthcare, it needs to be open to experimentation and tinkering.

So I was wondering, when will chatGPT have it's stable diffusion moment? Is it possible for any decent machine to run these kinds of models?
I assume that being desperate means needing to increase your money fast, crypto isn't really that kind of market unless you're in a highly volatile period which no one can really know or time.

Also, I would assume people speculating tens or hundreds of thousands aren't really desperate, they could just...keep the cash and insure themselves e.g.
Which is driven by concerns over the safety of Taiwan's fabs.
I'm not setting a fixed timetable, but the medical establishment sure has their own opinions as to how fast people should transition. The "conspiracy" is out in the open - and these opinions aren't always comprehensively informed by research about good outcomes.
Anything less than a bury, cheesy, bouncing ball that follows the current lyric is failure.
New C++ Sender Library Enables Portable Asynchrony
Didn't GE spin out or sell a lot of their business after that time? So you would have to look at the stock price for all of those spun out businesses too.

(EDIT: and also any dividend they may have paid out over that time period.)
If CIO.com says 9 out of 10 leaders are implementing AI/ML in their business, do you want to be the 10th?
Eh. As someone who has been involved with survey work--both giving and receiving--standard practice in this situation would probably be A and it wouldn't shock me if it had been covered in class. D is not wrong and might be the right answer if, e.g., emailing out a survey to a broader mailing list of people who don't have a close affiliation with you--i.e. you don't want to pester a general population. However, A is pretty much what is done for employee satisfaction surveys and things of that type.
Fair, I think I read more into your comment than was warranted
Eh, at the same time our society is often very closed off about these things, such that I doubt just how much folk wisdom there might be floating around. For example, something very basic occurred to me not too long ago: if you orgasm to something repeatedly you will condition yourself to seek out more of whatever the situation was when you orgasmed. I wouldn't say it's downright Pavlovian, but it's not far off classical conditioning.

It'd be nice to get some studies etc. to back it up, because it's still just a hypothesis at this point, but now that I reflect upon this, it should have been like, stunningly obvious. It should be the sort of thing parents tell their kids at puberty, basic word of caution. Yet just typing it out triggered all sorts of "oh, that's socially taboo!" warning bells for me. You shouldn't speak about conditioning in humans, you shouldn't speak so openly about pornography, etc.
I mostly agree but on the subject of student life, those judging student life to be poor could be the most likely not to engage with the survey. I would go forward with the data, but the response rate should be discussed in the report.
>If you bought their stock any time after 1997 you've lost money on that trade

Regardless of what you see on that chart, this is not correct at all.

I bought in October 2020 when the price began to bounce up or trend up from a long-term low. I am up on that investment more than 25% as of this morning. I also bought Ford just as their stock began to bounce off of the lows in early 2020 and am doing well on it too.

Your performance on any stock purchase is strongly tied to the date you purchased it and the health of the company at the time. I watched these stocks of old-school conglomerates decline as people moved money to new tech offerings. These companies are not going anywhere so I bought when the price movement confirmed a new up trend and have held since.

I did the same thing years ago with Corning in late May of 2002, when at the time, they were the only company on earth that produced the glass for LCD display monitors and they produced most of the fiber-optic cable and the pc industry was beginning to recover while entities everywhere were planning to upgrade fiber-optics after the huge dot-com bust. I paid just over $1/share as it built the right side of the cup pattern on a big bounce. Corning survived of course and went on to continue to dominate glass-making with Gorilla glass being nearly ubiquitous in consumer products not to mention their huge fiber-optics production.

GE used to be into everything. They have shed a lot of under-performing or non-aligned assets but they still have a huge role in diesel-electric locomotives, jet engines, etc.

They will spin off a few things but that only allows them to improve focus.

At least GE has real products to spin off.

Many of these new tech VC-backed XaaS operations (some of which I have occasionally invested in) have nothing more than slippery marketing ploys pitched to gullible, cash-rich investors who have money to burn.
not everyone is happy about this change, pagination allowed people to keep track of previous results on different pages.
I changed my mind. Give all same kind UBI is better idea. Otherwise "shakled genius" may find a way to jailbreak and cast wisdom of revenge on everyone else.
> Not Midtown or the Financial District, mind you...

Ha!

Imagine if, as in EU cities, one could live above one's shops and workplaces, with no car needed -- and no transit as part of the daily routine!

Very few places in USA is this feasible at scale, NYC being one of the few. Even there, when I preferred to walk (no transit) to work which required me to live in Midtown, I was looked at like I was nuts -- why wouldn't you live in Brooklyn or Upper West Side or Chelsea or East Village?

Because my aim was to not spend life on a commute.

Love that you don't commute, shows it's possible. It's also possible to have one of those Midtown or Financial District jobs and not commute at all day-to-day. Then when you want a different neighborhood for variety, use transit.

PS. Side benefit in a town where square meter residential space is so limited: no home office necessary, you can just "step into your office" downstairs or across the street.

PPS. If you're one of the "avoid Midtown" folks but like to wander around and browse food, check out the pedestrian corridor called "6 1/2 Ave" very Harry Potter style. The southern end starts at ~ 50th and runs up to ~ 56th. There is an Asian street food concourse between 50th and 51st that's new, another food hall at 52nd, and an amazing French bistro up between 53rd and 54th. The food halls essentially let you try food cart experience year round or in the rain.
In theory, this is exactly what should happen. All the incompetents go insolvent and are purged from the market. Unfortunately, I suspect most of the founders walked away wealthier than they started, and can go on to start their next grift.
Apple Music has custom play lists, which it updates every week. One of them is the "New Music Mix", which is sort of a combination of Spotify's "Release Radar" and "Discover Weekly" play lists. Apple also has other mix play lists, which are updated weekly: things like "Favorites Mix", "Chill Mix", and "Get Up! Mix". Finally Apple Music has custom "radio stations", which are endless playlists based on your listening history. (I believe Spotify also had stations, but I never used them much.)

I switched from Spotify to Apple Music about a month ago, mostly because I wanted music in Dolby Atmos. (Not all songs are in Dolby Atmos, but many are, and they sound far superior on my AirPods to anything without it.) After transferring my Spotify playlists to Apple, I've found that the experiences are pretty similar. There are a few things I like better about Spotify (e.g., it has better support for non-Apple platforms like Linux and Windows), but I prefer Apple now. If you're curious, I'd recommend a free trial.
No meaningful percentage of the global population uses crypto and a large majority that do are bad actors, either in their use or their motivations for marketing it's "uses". Maybe "relatively" would have been better but the point is the same.
The book The Million-Dollar One-Person Business goes into a lot more examples. It's usually people who build software that can scale.
Philosophy of X is how we talk about X, the terminology and the state of our understanding. Philosophy is a huge part of learning, but we usually don't call it philosophy.
The highest costs in Semiconductor fabrication are the specialized machines needed. Most of them are at best dual sourced. Many are single sourced. The fact a technician in the US can make $100k when their counterpart in China would make $50k doesn't matter when the EUV Lithography machine is hundreds of millions of dollars.
If given a UBI, I'd definitely be going back to university.
... I mean, karaoke's pretty popular. This might actually make me switch to Apple Music.
YES! The greatest invention since fire is going to replace Google and programmers and chefs and will end poverty and solve climate change. Here’s a thread about a gabazillion use cases! Yes, it’s cool, I get it. But please move on. Build something useful, put it use as a real product and show us.
Ask HN: Do you measure NPS/CSAT in your app/product and how?
We have a small SaaS product and looking to learn more about our users and why they (eventually) churn. What's your experience measuring NPS or CSAT inside your app and collecting qualitative feedback via microsurveys and what service do you use for that?
Thanks a lot for your insights!
If the exams are known beforehand, the test is flawed. Notwithstanding, what people deem to be an expression of IQ requires practice anyway. At any rate I don't understand the value in the tests. They're redundant.
Probably some would choose not to upgrade devices and not to sign up to services and then they could put their greed where it belongs.

I am getting fed up by the user hostile attitude of producers and providers, maybe I will just keep my money or spend elsewhere.
It's essentially a mechanics of conducting surveys question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medes#Prehistory

A substantial portion of the indicated area in the map later became the Median empire. Above link discusses the "power vacuum" in that area before the establishment of centralized power, which would explain the lack of state involvement as there was no sovereign counter party to the trade treaty for the consuming power. This also may explain why the first Iranian dynasty were the Medes in that specific part of today's Iran (and not in the southern zone like the Persians who came to power later) - looks like it was most likely an outgrowth of economic activity.

Also note that there was a significant Israelite community in that center dot in Iran (which was called Rhages and is now called Ray, now a suburb of Tehran). The Book of Tobit mentions the community of Israelites in Rhages and how Tobin sent his son Tobit to Rhages to get a proper wife. The book is ~2300 years old so 1000 years after the subject of the article, so not entirely conclusive but possible that a 'trade network' that spanned that zone in fact existed and had some cohesion (it was Israelite) and that is what facilitated this entire affair.

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

"Tobit's son Tobias is sent to retrieve ten silver talents that Tobit once left in Rages".

Why did he leave it there? He was a trades man, that's why.

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[edit] p.s.: fact checking this the Israelite tribe of this book was deported ~723 BC so my theory does not hold up.
The price is set by people trading.

That's the idea but follow along with me now --- what if one of these "people" trading is the CEX itself. And unlike most "people", what if they have an unlimited supply of money (stable coins they can just mint at will) to trade with.

This would be like combining the NY Stock Exchange with the Federal Reserve --- no real conflict of interest there, right?

As you still convinced the CEXs aren't setting or manipulating or influencing the price that you pay?
I a fair bit of time playing Dwarf Fortress a year or two ago. Once I grasped that I wasn't supposed to directly tell the dwarves what to do, I started picking up the mechanics much more quickly. The depth of the simulation is amazing, but it's not particularly legible unless you spend a lot of time manually poring over descriptive text in menus. DFHack and its various plug-ins[1] (especially labormanager) and Dwarf Therapist greatly ease the management process and can help avoid confusion when your dwarves just won't do what you want.

It's still a lot of fun to play around with for a while. I would love to see what could be done with a larger development team working on it, but I suppose it would be hard to keep the concept focused.

[1] https://docs.dfhack.org/en/0.47.05-r2/docs/Plugins.html
> People have a fetishization with hyping up disappearing water sources as leading to mass forced desertions of population centers, which is not rooted in any kind of reality.

I have never heard this. Where are you reading that?

Disappearing water sources are a reality. Time and time again, long pipelines like what you suggest just aren't viable.

I'd suggest you enjoy some fact-based reporting on the topic: https://grist.org/agriculture/drought-water-pipeline-cost-we...

The near- and medium-term solutions we need are solely in use reduction. Period.
AirTags or other “tracking devices” are not illegal. We don’t sue gun companies for selling legal weapons which are then used to illegally murder someone, do we? Do we sue knife companies when someone stabs someone using one of their knives?

AirTags, like knives, are a useful tool that can also be used for purposes which are either illegal or borderline illegal. But we have so many tools which are like that, are we going to sue every company that sells something that could be used nefariously?
I wasn't blaming people's attitudes for the birth rate, just making observation about how any anti-natalist memes are likely fighting an uphill battle to propagate compared to memes that will get passed from parent to child
any civilian could even leverage someone's own Apple device to track them
You have too much wealth vs. defenses.

Good and cheap defenses are intermittent walls (which have 75% cover).
My original claim was about his particular flavor of the tech, not crypto in general.

But in any case, there’s a difference between good judgement and intellect, and a difference between an idea and its execution. If he’s truly puzzled through Ethereum’s usefulness, he hasn’t offered an argument that’s convincing enough to me. However, I can still admire the thought and skill that went into its implementation.

It is of course entirely possible that I’m thoroughly mistaken.
An obvious name for such a product suggests itself.
If you think coastal land costs £7000 in the UK, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you!
Total speculation, but maybe Apple focus grouped it and saw karaoke has some corny/cringy implicit associations so they wanted some distance
THIS! It's a company that's not keeping on top of things! Overworked managers, HR doesn't have a queue, whatever, but it is unlikely employees magically escape these issues.
The GPS part is just the tiles talking to any tile-enabled phone. The GPS is only in the phones, like:

Any tile-enabled phone -> sees a tile -> sends a packet to the Tile mothership with the tile UUID + phone location.

(Plus perhaps some nuances like guessing a more specific location for the tag based on bluetooth radio data)
AI Story director: "And then everyone died. I SAID EVERYONE DIED, THE END"
>keeps declining

Where? It's highest in the history in Poland, Germany, Italy and very close to the top in UK. US is the outlier, even there, it kept increasing after 2015 and just the pandemic dropped it. Even then it's higher than before 70s. Even in aging Japan it's very close to top.
Not sure what you’re getting at.

If you think I’m trying to hide Elon Musk’s failures, I’m disappointed.

There are numerous message boards where Musk is presented as either an unassailable genius whose every word is gold, or an evil Apartheid profiteer who lucked and bullied his way into any success.

I expect slightly more nuanced takes from this board. You evidently do not.
I've been struggling with insomnia for a couple years now and discovered sleep podcasts. They're typically people reading stories or talking for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour or so. They've truly helped me get back to sleep easily when I wake up in the middle of the night. Also bought a pair of Bluetooth headphones in a headband. I had to add a little foam for better cushioning.
Another unexpectedly helpful item was covering the top of my head with a small blanket.
There are apps for Android that monitor and alert for nearby AirTags.

There's an official one by Apple, Tracker Detect [1], but I've heard that some third-party apps perform better [2].

I have no personal experience with any of them.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...

2. https://mashtips.com/android-airtag-finder-apps/
Access to plentiful, cheap water was a major reason why Micron chose Upstate NY for their new fabs.
(which is to say it's a records issue, not the real value of the land)