skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I will never understand how some working class Americans can be against unions

I've wondered if this is because unions in the U.S. are considerably different than unions in other places?

This was an interesting article [0] I bumped into titled "Europe could have the secret to saving America’s unions".

It said that in the U.S. unionization happens at the enterprise level, leaving unionized companies at a disadvantage relative to their competitors, so individual companies are very much incentivized to fight against unionization. In other countries when a certain amount of workers call for unionization negotiations happen between the union and a federation representing all employers in the sector, and the entire sector unionizes at once, not individual companies.

The article also talked about employees receiving benefits from their unions in some (fewer) countries, like unemployment insurance, instead of from the government. This incentives workers to join the union and pay union dues, instead of forcing them to do so. The idea was thrown out there that things like health care and retirement plans could also be included with union dues for people in gig-work jobs that would otherwise not receive these benefits.

I'd add that the article didn't address a concern many in the U.S. have about unions protecting under-performing workers, to the detriment of others. I've heard that this is different in other countries, at least to a point, but the article did not get into this. Also in the U.S. there have been a lot of corrupt unions, and public employee unions that receive (expensive) preferential treatment by law, I don't know if these problems exist in other countries.

[0] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/17/15290674/u...
> Has the network effect of Twitter been seriously disrupted at this point?

My feeling as a long-time user is "no". That being said, we know Musk has no problem "spinning the truth", so as you imply it seems unlikely that we'll ever get trustworthy metrics again unless Musk were to allow independent auditors.

However, conversations have become boringly "meta" (lots of hot takes this morning about Musk unbanning everyone he banned), I'm getting tons of spam (where I got almost none in the years before the Musk-quisition), and the quality of the advertising I'm seeing has plummeted.

The primary thing Musk has going for him right now is that there's nowhere to go.
Setup is in the beginning.
Punchline is in the end.
Subversion of expectations is a standard template.

But, like you point out, it fails to grasp the subversion.
Examples of what? You're just using a word wrong. There's nothing more to it.
You can ask it to spell out words, which it will do. I asked it to do this and it was successful. I then intentionally misspelled a word (e-i transposition), and it gave me the correct spelling. I asked it if that was how I spelled it, and it confirmed that it wasn't but that the way I had spelled it was incorrect (and noted the e-i transposition).

So while it may may receive input as word tokens, I'm not sure that that means it can't "see that at all".

I will note that I don't have a good understanding of chatgpt at all.
At what point does the terminal stops being terminal and becomes a GTK window? I guess now we can make full fledged GUIs within modern terminals.
Not moving goalposts. Read my original post.
You are right, but it’s desirable to prevent suicides and mass depression just as much as it’s desirable to prevent revolts.

Revolts spark because people have nothing to lose

Mass depression, bad mental health on a country level and suicides happen when people feel worthless
I've already done that.

You're the one arguing that there's some special exemption for aircraft, but have done nothing to substantiate that claim.

Besides, with the GDPR it works the opposite way. You have to justify why your data processing is legal, not the other way around.

And for fucks sake, neither of Flightradar24 or ADSBExchange even offer a GDPR-compliant privacy policy. ADSBexchange does not offer one at all.
In another words, there is no money in GNU/Linux games.
Because in USA every union is a battle. There isn't much to talk about with respect to Scandinavian unions, if you don't want to be in one just don't be, if you want to be in one just join, it is much simpler, while in USA one side forces the other side to take the same route, so you can't choose union other votes for what union you are in etc.
> meritocracy isn't a thing

One of many examples I can give to disprove this as I'm sitting here watching Croatia & Morocco in the World Cup, is looking at some of the contracts some of these players get from their clubs. Wide disparity and definitely seems to be based on a meritocracy. Taken further, why are none of these fans in the stands, many of whom who also play for fun not equally compensated or even compensated at all? After all, they can kick a ball too.

So now that we've established that meritocracy is obviously a real thing, we have to ask what evidence you have that a meritocracy wouldn't exist in other fields, like programming for instance.
The Kindle Scribe is also overpriced IMO. Plus, native advertisements (even when there's a paid upgrade) offends me as a consumer.
Frida lets you hook behavior in apps. Think of it like mocking but for reverse engineers.
No, the bug I'm referring to also happens on Wayland.
As I have a M1 MBP I am probably going to have to have a separate gaming laptop, or possibly Steam Deck in the future, for quite some time.
I use this even without being a consultant. Amazing app to track more or less what eats most of the time at work.
Gimlet Sans Blah
Linux Foundation employee here [0]. The value the Linux Foundation is providing the legal infrastructure for competitors to work together and stay clear of anti-trust problems. Every one of our meetings is supposed to start with this slide [1] or similar [2].

0: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryjones/

1: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/download/attachments/20024102/H...

2: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/antitrust-policy
Mazars is not lower tier.

They're not in the big four but they are quite large and well respected, at least they were until they - and BDO, another large accounting firm - were flagged as insufficient in terms of oversight by the UK regulators.

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/mazars-bd...

So they're on thin ice and they will not risk going down with this particular ship.
Stalin — man of steel — was his nom de guerre, just as many people are (or at least that was long the convention) referred to by their usernames.

The term is used quasi-ironically on this very site, when people say they will “steelman” an argument. And there are many other people born with that name in various languages, such as Stahlman or, notably around here, Stallman.

I’m not to trying to defend one of the most brutal dictators in history, but since you’re the one who raised the onomastic issue…
Right?

There are only two useful interpretations for the meaning of a song:

1. What the artist intended

2. What a listener interprets through their lens

Both can be valuable and True. Note that neither of these is "what a mechanical parrot spews out based on a crude imitation of human speech".

What a remarkable engine for converting energy and money into bullshit.
Being right and sounding right are two important but separate skills in natural language communication. It sounds like they've nailed one of them and the other is somewhat hit and miss right now. To me it's obvious that there's no reasoning going on behind the curtain, but in a lot of domains that doesn't matter. You don't need your answering machine to opine on philosophy questions just like you don't need your mechanic to invent and machine a custom part every time you bring your car in.

(Edit: Point being if you can back the chatty part with something that's actually an expert in the domain you need it to talk about, then you've got cold fusion.)

I don't think it's ready for prime time yet, but the way voice recognition and synthesis, ML, and scalable computing power have been going in the past several years, we're not far off. And that's incredible.
As a Pine64 fan... yeah. I think their thinking is that the hard core devs who are needed to get these things off the ground are comfortable with UART and have the tools to program them externally, but IMO that really misses the mark when you need community-critical mass to get anywhere close to the popularity of something like Arduino or Raspberry Pi. Both of those companies/products make programming stupid easy for professionals and hobbyists alike, so they get a lot of attention and sales. The RP2040 is also superbly documented, unlike basically anything Pine64 has put out.
Examples were given, we enjoy our unions, thank you very much.
Saying that something is merely a “correlation” (not a causation—and implying that this other thing is) and saying that something is “self-evident” are both arrogant statements when you just end up saying, hey, look at this narrative that I like instead.
Somebody needs to step up to save Clang now that Google has more or less abandoned it.
Fair point, but still, LLMs do not invariably give the same continuation to the same prompt.

Update: it is a significant difference that you don't have to do that with an LLM.
lol who's gonna tell them
>Mazars is worried that people will misconstrue it as them giving Binance a clean bill of health

If they saw the same headlines I did they were worried that people were misconstruing it as them giving Binance a clean bill of health
I would think the constant astroturfing on sites like Reddit would have driven this concept home for people, especially on a site like HN, but reading this thread apparently it hasn’t.
Sounds like a recommendation for the author of the script, rather than the platform, no?
> Can you think of some examples where tech was obviously ahead of its time and not accepted?

Well I think we might have different ideas of what "ahead of its time" exactly is. I would include - and I think I hinted at that with "released too early" - things that simply weren't refined enough technically, as well as things that relied on other technology that simply wasn't capable, widespread or accepted enough at their time.

So regarding Rhapsody for example, it was released in 2001, a time where the majority of people was still on dial up iirc, and even if you were one of the lucky ones with a DSL connection, you might've had a metered connection, so music streaming was just... ahead of it's time.
i guess JWZ doesn't like things linked from HN
Access Control Using Permissions
A blog post on providing access control to users using permissions.
Dreams happen in the electrochemical activities of brains. We can detect when dreams are occurring in the brains of sleeping people.

That spontaneous activity inside the brain is ‘experienced’ by the person whose brain it is in, in a similar way to activity caused by external stimuli, doesn’t seem to say anything about whether dreams are evidence of some higher level of ‘qualia’ beyond just.. brain activity is consciousness.
In a new window/session. Same-session conversation memory has actually been good, if not too-good, as evidenced by un-prompted regurgitation of what it already helped me with 6 messages ago.
Gtk-mushrooms was one such fork, but I think gnome will make it pretty hard to maintain a fork if one starts getting popular.
I love this. This reminds me of Data for Star Trek: The Next Generation. The most sophisticated android in the quadrant had only a couple of limitations compared to humans. One was his inability to use contractions, and the other was the inability to understand jokes. It seems like ChatGPT shares the latter limitation of the fictional Data.

Second. I’ve seem this language model describe it self like the subject in Searle's Chinese room thought experiment. Only “passing” the turing test because it has been trained to do so. However, this shows that ChatGPT doesn’t actually pass the turing test. In fact asking a language model to explain jokes might be a good way to conduct the Turing test going forward.
A company should be able to set different salaries for unionized vs. non-unionized workers.
I didn’t know about the graphic novel intention, but that probably explains why I have only ever seen it working in a motion picture medium, in my mind, as an anime. A well-done “Snow Crash” anime would absolutely do the material justice but I’m not sure it would have enough market potential to get made. I’d kick money into that cause, too.
They actually did in the past, but they've realised that many game devs can't be trusted to maintain Linux builds as a second platform. They're often left outdated, require dependencies they didn't ship with or simply have worse performance than the Windows builds running on Proton.

These days they check both builds if available and suggest the devs which one to use by default; often the Windows builds over Proton are simply better than mediocre Linux support.
Show HN: Oidia – A simple no-judgement streak tracker for the terminal
Hey all!

This is OIDIA, a terminal-based streak tracker I'm toying with. It's still fairly early days, but in terms of look and feel and working I think this is about where I want it.

One of the main points I wanted to stick with was that it's "no judgement"; it tracks counts on days, and that's the lot. No shaming, no percentages, nothing like that.

OTOH the data is held in a simple JSON file allowing anyone to have all the fun they'd like with what they accumulate.
You need to cool the laser presumably, I wouldn’t use water for that, however.
You don’t know many working class Americans or you could ask them. I do and have and they report exploitation and misaligned incentives. Unions are like corporations, they can have poor leadership with goals that are incongruous with the goals of the members. Union dues can feel like you pay a lot of your hard earned cash to just have your money siphoned off to a politicians that literally hate you. But usually they have agreed that in general it’s good that unions exist. Better to have them around than to not have them, in the abstract.
Why doesn't Binance flex and encourage a complete withdrawal by say Jan 1? Wouldn't that kind of power move boost its reputation above all competitors?
It's a journalist's job to be suspicious. Yeah, maybe it's a total coincidence that these things happened together. Maybe the rat just happened to be leaving this listing and waterlogged ship! To visit its relatives! But that's not how a journalist thinks.
The likely challenge for the shadier exchanges it the “ok, but what have you used these coins you demonstrably possess as collateral for?”

Having $10B in crypto is easy to audit. Finding out $20B is owed is where it gets exciting, FTX-style.
Google uses Clang for much of its production code and employs people to work on it. I don’t think saying that they’ve abandoned it is accurate.
If Russia is where you draw the line boy do I have news for you! If your standards were universal, you wouldn't be doing business with any company at all.
What matters is whether or not when you add up all of reserves and subtract the liabilities that the balance is positive indicationg the firm is still solvent. If they've been leveraging or borrowing from the reserves then the proof-of-reserves process (which they themselves have created) is the only thing that they can use to shuffle the books to the point that it looks as if they are still solvent.

The way money has been routed between various accounts (both internal and external) suggests that they are using timing rather than actual reserves to make it look as though they are solvent when in fact they are not. Time will tell if that is an accurate reading of the situation.
Where you see some inevitability "...you're going to get a labour or conservative government no matter what", I see choices not taken. It's if you're implying political free will doesn't exist. It's very hard for me to understand where you're coming from (no offence!).
It’s clear by the ratings that The Peripheral, based on Gibson, but also an AmazonVideo product, has Rings of Power beat by a significant margin. And “The P” was the underdog here. So theres a chance that AppleTV+ (as well as AV) will learn from that and steer clear of the more obvious mistakes.
> after WW2 there was no union left worth their name behind the iron curtain.

Solidarność.
You should check out the economist, you’d be surprised it’s not all economics! Also those gosh darn New York Times newspapers don’t solely focus on NYC. Wtf!

Don’t judge a book by the literal interpretation of its title?
Don't sell yourself too short. You may test different price ranges and see what works best but your work should pay off in the end.
JetBrains maybe?
Globalization moves money to people most in need of it (i.e. developing countries with cheap labor/resources).
As someone who lives in a country were unions were one of the major political forces during the 20th century, the impact they had on the social and economic development is truly self evident and mostly (overwhelmingly so) positive.

Of course, the GP might be from a country with another experience.
> Has the network effect of Twitter been seriously disrupted at this point?

In my niche of Apple platform software developers, it's definitely been disrupted. The migration from Twitter to Mastodon has been accelerating, especially in the past few days. A lot of abandoned Twitter accounts.

A significant number of these people had been on Twitter for over a decade.

Overall, it's not the total user base that matters, it's the prolific tweeters who matter, because most Twitter users are quiet consumers of tweets. There's nothing to consume if the tweeters leave... except Musk's own tweets, if you're into that.

Some of the people abandoning Twitter include developers of 3rd party Twitter clients and browser extensions, so that's going to matter a bit to the general user base. Also, alienating software developers isn't going to be great for any future hiring that Twitter may need, if it ever crawls back from the financial brink.
Interesting. Will learn
Why is it poor? I read through the link you posted and see nothing remarkable?
Id rather have static binaries than a flatpak/snap for "universal distribution", personally.
Government employees get job in related field in private sector… not a groundbreaking revelation and not clear what to do about it. e.g. Trump’s proposal to ban former DoD employees from having jobs relating to American data for 7 years after service is a horrible solution. Well it’s a good way to further cripple our veterans and in general eliminate any remaining appeal of a government job for any half-competent person.

What evidence do you have of “a massive shift?” Because on my side there’s 200 years of case law that all pretty much concurs on every single instance of this happening.

Yes I do think it’s fine that our security apparatus attempts to maintain security within the confines of legislated and adjudicated law and that private corporations are able - both in theory and in practice - to resist unlawful pressure to control information. “Checks and balances” is a state of tension. Party X requests, Party Y denies, Party Z adjudicates. That’s how it works.
Well, yeah. His comic timing’s not the best but I think that was meant to be the joke.
Especially not when the rats have very recently been going over the waterline of the ship looking for holes.
Those unconcerned by this should ponder for a moment that not even Russian tech has such a direct relationship with state security organizations.
You know what is real? The FBI killed the Z-Library last month. They just let the InfraGard network get hacked. They’re spreading FUD against Apple’s new E2E encryption.

I’d rather us focus our energies on the substantive and real than embarking on another grandstanding set of histrionics about social media first amendment rights.

This is far from PRISM, which was surveillance. This is busybodying and enforcing federal election laws. Ho-hum. You want to call the FBI rogue, call them out for the important things they did wrong.
It is disappointing to ask for data and get more unsubstantiated opinion.
> like turning file copy dialogs into notification toasts

That's a great thing that I'm surprised other DEs don't do. Works really well for file downloads too. It makes intuitive sense and the fact that finished state is retained in notification history is such a helpful thing that genuinely improves user experience for someone with such a poor working memory as mine that it's really weird to see someone calling it weird.
Should you worry about lead in your chocolate bar?
> These durable, flexible solar cells, which are much thinner than a human hair, are glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, making them easy to install on a fixed surface. They can provide energy on the go as a wearable power fabric or be transported and rapidly deployed in remote locations for assistance in emergencies. They are one-hundredth the weight of conventional solar panels, generate 18 times more power-per-kilogram, and are made from semiconducting inks using printing processes that can be scaled in the future to large-area manufacturing.

Because they are so thin and lightweight, these solar cells can be laminated onto many different surfaces. For instance, they could be integrated onto the sails of a boat to provide power while at sea, adhered onto tents and tarps that are deployed in disaster recovery operations, or applied onto the wings of drones to extend their flying range. This lightweight solar technology can be easily integrated into built environments with minimal installation needs.

> [...] They found an ideal material — a composite fabric that weighs only 13 grams per square meter, commercially known as Dyneema

They also make ultralight backpacking backpacks out of Dyneema, but without the UV-curable glue.

> […] “A typical rooftop solar installation in Massachusetts is about 8,000 watts. To generate that same amount of power, our fabric photovoltaics would only add about 20 kilograms (44 pounds) to the roof of a house,” he says

Paper: “Printed Organic Photovoltaic Modules on Transferable Ultra-thin Substrates as Additive Power Sources” (2022) https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202200940
"Linux" ? What company is "Linux"? The state of journalism is indeed sad in the tech world.
Yep, the first sample was generated via OP's method. The tl;dr answer is that I used a few plugins in my digital audio workstation to make it sound better.

I made a video specifically in reply to you if you want to see exactly how I did it (3 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Q-cseNCI4
A new species emergent, Odious Toadius spp, grabs a thread, any thread, and as it breaks - falls further....
Mr Always-grumbles-about-correlation-studies reporting in here. Maybe it's a nice causal study, but the jump from "moderates compensation of top executives" to "reduces equality across the whole income spectrum" is a big stretch.

Update: also, I went and scanned the linked article (because I'm that type). They're credible authors, but they themselves explicitly say: "In reporting correlations between unionization and managerial pay, we are not necessarily able to establish whether unions cause differences.... We try a variety of strategies to understand these issues, however each is imperfect."
Because so many people can't even afford diagnosis and those that do manage get help are put into debt slavery. You can't seriously think that that is comparable to what is actually available to actually everyone in Europe.
Mazars isn't either so that feels a bit irrelevant.
The proof of reserves can be done in such a way that each user can verify that their balance is backed: https://www.kraken.com/proof-of-reserves

> Proof of reserves today != proof of reserves tomorrow.

You should be able to detect large outflows/inflows from/to their wallets and demand an explanation.