skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tone-deaf strident diatribe blaming everybody. Nothing to read here; move along.
Individuals accounts cannot always be categorized in one of two ways. There was a consistent attempt to counter any ideas that ran counter to a certain narrative.
Hypothesis #1: European unions aren't like American unions in this way: they are far less oppositional to the objectives of the companies.

Hypothesis #2: This is a result of European unions having an origin as trade guilds whereas American unions have an origin as political organizers.
That's interesting. What did you find?
That is not my experience.
You are right, didn't watch it. Will do.
> But I am skeptical of micropayments ever working.

It works fine with sites like fansly and onlyfans. 'creators' lock their posts behind a subscription or a tip, you tip and get access.

Reddit has the same, with awards (although they keep it all for themselves) Twitch has the same with points etc, it's here.

All you do is top up your wallet, scroll your feed, see a post you like, press the tip button send them a $1 (virtual points from your account to theirs) then they can cash out.

The hardest thing is making sure you're not falling afoul of the money laundering laws or accidentally financing 'terrorism'.

Hopefully we see more of it on the mainstream platforms, but on other platforms it's been here for years already.
Rishi Sunak - the current Prime Minister - held a US green card until October last year (when he gave it up).

Boris Johnson was born in New York.
He used to have an excellent course in Udemy or such, which was using Python.
visual studio = WPF app
Why not just get a serial adapter, or repurpose an Arduino as one?
Also before Putins energy war?
The way you guys define "better" is so obvious that I really thought you were talking about something more than that.

In terms of what you talk about, confidence, muscle, productivity even... these are ways to become a better narcissist. But a better person? Nah... I'd argue you're worse now that your ego is pumped.
World War II was a much bigger reason and a cause for this. There is a problem with correlation vs causation in the article’s logic. I’d argue the unions were a bi-product of a historically rare moment in time vs cause of equality. The market bust and global world war increased taxation, demand for workers, and value of each worker in the early 40s. Much more importantly, for a few decades after WWII all other global world powers were rebuilding after being leveled by the war. The US instead remained as the last productive developed nation standing for decades and enjoyed likely huge margins as a result of both lack of competition and demand for supplies by the rest of the developed world. Those margins and the unscathed living conditions, also turned the US into a magnet for technical and scientific talent from everywhere else.

The more competition recovered in Japan and elsewhere, the less bargaining power and surplus could be captured by Unions. The Union-driven higher costs of manufacturing also drove outsourcing, off-shoring, and did not lead to higher quality output, (if Unions were producing higher quality that would have kept Japanese-manufactured cars from dominating US car sales shortly after).

Even further, exorbitant labor costs make it worthwhile for manufacturers to do capital investments in automation, and we are seeing the output of that.

The rise in middle class should probably be attributed to investments - in equities, bonds, house purchases. Growing up in Eastern Europe, where only housing investment was an option, and unions were abundant, the middle class that sprouted came from those who invested in property and business. Labor union power and wealth was too politically and corruption influenced to be a sustainable source of growth for the country.
>Go-Lang (I know not everyones.cup of tea) what they did do right from day one is include these basics in the stdlib. They really wanted ppl to use it to build stuff!

This is one possible philosophy. Another is the one rust is following.
You can see it in the comments of this thread, even.
Twitter is free to invent whatever narrow definition of shadowbanning they want, and we are free to call out their obfuscation for the bullshit it is.

Language is about effective communication. Right now we're all trying to have an important conversation about relevant social issues which requires a common understanding. You cited the common understanding, I pointed out how Twitter engaged in practices covered by that common understanding, and that should be the end of that. Can we move on now?

Instead of bikeshedding over this irrelevant minutae, engage with the actual substance of the discussions, like whether they should shadowban in the way they've been doing it, whether there should be limits to moderation policies for online public squares, what the guidelines for censoring speech should look like, whether to deplatform people entirely or merely deprioritize their speech, etc.
>It's probably my European brain, but I cannot understand how someone [...] can be against unions...

America unions are structured differently from Europe and some can become as distrusted by the workers as the corporation.

Your viewpoint is common but it's based on the mental model of "Unions are good. Period end of story."

But for voters like your proverbial Jerry against unions, the mental model is more about tradeoffs like this, "the proposed union by these particular set of organizers has made some promises and wants to charge me $$$ per year to negotiate with the company. Things may turn out better -- or they may turn out worse (e.g. no job)."

As an example, the Amazon union vote in Alabama failed and many blamed Amazon propaganda. No doubt that Amazon crafted many negative messages about unions. But outsiders forget that many voters had older relatives from Alabama coal mines telling them that "the union just took our dues money and didn't do shit for us".

How can pro-union advocates counter those disillusioned union coal miners spreading negative information like that? These are the kinds of scenarios Europeans are unfamiliar with.
The point it, he does it much much better than ChatGPT, to the point that his understanding of the comment appears seamless, whereas ChatGPT's is crude and mechanic in comparison...

So, that's neither here, nor there - except if you believe that the parent's argument was that ChatGPT doesn't have a soul and he has, as opposed to the relative competence of their respective patter matching and "mind" computations...
Where would you even load to program to and where from?
Typical microcontroller platforms only have a few kB of ROM and RAM, you can't load your application to RAM to run it, it's directly run from Flash.

But the internal flash of a MCU can only be erased in pages that can range up to 4k or 8k depending on the platform. So that already limits how many free pages you might have that you could dedicate to an application.

What usually is done is to partition the flash into two areas, so you have two firmware slots. This allows you do do OTA updates: While you run from slot A you can write the new firmware to slot B, once you verified the firmware in slot B you set a flag that tell the bootloader to boot from slot B next time. (Oh and you need different firmware images for slot A and slot B as ROM addresses will be different and there is no address translations. Some bootloaders will avoid this always copying slot B to slot A if it's newer than slot A, but IMHO that's unnecessarily complex/inefficient. You might as well always generate both slot images and let the firmware decide which one to request).

Another question is, why would you even want to dynamically load applications?
Those systems are not interactive, if you have some sensor monitoring the water level of your pot plant or the vibrations on some industrial equipment, it will only ever run that single application. It might get updates if it's doing some networking, but that will just be an update of the whole firmware.
Nobody has any idea how to properly evaluate that. So they just pick the person who works the least and talks the most, using random jargon to seem smart.
> compulsory union membership

Yea, it can be frustrating be barred from jobs, like construction, being a non-member, or being forced to pay union dues to a union you feel is doing nothing for you.

Small, company-sized unions have always been a lot more appealing to me than the huge behemoths the US currently has.
Laying all of the US's industrial decline at the feet of unions is a bit much. I think a lot of the management-hostile, zero-sum thinking that drove bad union behavior was a clear response to previous management behavior filled with both exploitation that drove the rise of unions and hostility when they couldn't get away with as much.

An instructive example here is the story of the NUMMI plant in the 1980s, which clearly shows the awfulness of GM's internal culture, the cluelessness of management in the face of existential threat, and how much things can be different, even with the exact same union workers: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015

If we want unions that have a collaborative, win-win approach with management, I think we first need management that has that spirit toward the workers. But looking at how US companies are reacting to the recent uptick in unionization, I'm not very hopeful.
It's very difficult to deserialize in serialize things like yaml and json in CL because it doesn't have a distinct false object. When you do deserialize `false` it turns into nil. Then when you serialize it back again it turns into `null`. From a practical perspective, this is annoying.

I don't hate using it as a language, it's fine, but because it's different enough than other languages it confuses people.
And ironically, these are the _more_ polished pieces of UI in modern Windows
Fragmentated Is Better
It would have been better for everyone if Corbyn had stayed a back bencher.
Guerilla activists fight NYC drivers who hide license plates to evade tolls
Politics aside, there might not be a causative link between unions and inequality—just a correlation. Supporting unions may or may not reduce inequality
if they get apple map?!
This is equivalent to saying, "So it's not the semiconductor that makes it fast, it's the electrical current."

The medium that is changing conductivity is water in this case, and it is able to do it much much faster.

That said, the system involves a laser that adds to the ability to switch quickly. "Because the laser pulse is so fast"
You can describe any transistor with the same words as "shine a laser at a material to change it, and then use another laser to detect the difference":

"apply a voltage at a device to change it, and then use another voltage to detect the difference (i.e. to detect if a current passes)".

This is an optical switch, like a transistor is an electrical switch. An optical switch that is not very efficient, because the transmission is varied only between 100% and 80%, but one that is very fast.

It can be used in THz range mixers and oscillators.
Only for Google Workspace for now.
I doubt it's "as advanced" as doing keyword matches on the page in question, though they might well do some of that as well. I suspect the main reason for hitting the link is to resolve redirects.

I run a plain Mastodon install on https://m.galaxybound.com/ and I can post links to it just fine. If it can't even detect a standard Mastodon install, it's not a very successful search for blocked content.

It seems to me they're stupidly still maintaining a blacklist of the larger instances.

Note that I've "even" tweeted links to a post on my Mastodon instance that contained links to a blocked instance, and Twitter didn't even detect that.
> Meaning of the song "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim (Ft. Bootsy Collins)

The song "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim featuring Bootsy Collins is about personal empowerment and strength. The song encourages the listener to find their own individual weapon of choice—that is, whatever resource they find to fight their inner battles and make their way in life—rather than relying on provocation and violence. The song also encourages self-reflection and awareness of the struggles of those around us, and reminds the listener to be careful in challenging situations and to watch out for those they don't know. Ultimately, the song is a passionate and empowering anthem that encourages standing up for one's own self-determination and respecting the journeys of others.

https://www.songtell.com/fatboy-slim-ft-bootsy-collins/weapo...

The lyrics are notably Dune references, which the bot completely misses. Not even mentioning the worm, which is one of the most prominent words. It seems like the interpretations fall into one of a few categories:

- Very well known songs with a large corpus of direct discussion on the lyrics, and basically just summarizing what people said (Bohemian Rhapsody)

- Songs with relatively straightforward meanings and it just summarizes directly from the lyrics (insert most pop songs)

- Songs that are too obscure to have widespread discussion but slightly opaque lyrics (Weapon of Choice, Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz)

- completely fabricating from insufficient data (Around the World by Daft Punk)

Still a really cool concept!
Yes for example an immigrant that is under threat of being deported might want a more level playing field.
Indeed. If all the information were already in the song lyrics, there would be little use for the tool. Now I have to go ask it about American Pie, lol.
I find this is true for some unions but not all.

We have a union at my company and it’s for our creative writing and video production folks. We’re in the media space. These are some of the most effective and driven people I’ve met or had the privilege of working for.

People being lazy (or not) and wanting to do a good job (or not) is mutually exclusive of whether they are in a union (or not).

I do see why you would think this. Many media outlets and corporations spend lots of time making sure everyone thinks unions are just for lazy people. That’s not true, but after decades, many people think this now.
After all the drama that happened, I think they have learned their lesson quite well.
The exact attitude in this thread is why people don’t like unions.

It’s this smug idea that the workers are simply too stupid to understand that they should join the special club. Not that they don’t don’t like jt, or have made an informed decision about it, it’s because they are dumb and not capable of advocating for themselves.

I don’t want to be in your weird HOA club. Leave me alone and let me do my work and go get a job in HR so you can be a part of the PMC, which is obviously what you are after anyway.
I think it's perfectly fine for any agency to ask any platform to remove content. Keyword: ASK.

You can say no to these requests. Possibly, twitter did.
This isn't just uniformly true, though. As a worker you may be better off without the union you're a part of- it depends as much on the union as the company.
Exhausted with people abusing and misusing the word monopoly. A monopoly and having market dominance are not the same thing. Google has put far more effort into Google Maps than Microsoft ever has into Bing Maps.
Mine was a long time ago now (~7 years), I was pretty horribly messed up and dysfunctional for the first 2-3 years but I'm mostly okay now. I have HPPD too but that's also mostly subsided, and things only flare up for me if I go without sleep or am under a lot of stress.

Hope you're doing alright too!

I also take Buspirone, which I've found helps a ton with general anxiety.
> It is necessary that there be a special empty-list object which is a list but not a cons.

That is not true. NIL could be a CONS. In fact, it acts just like a CONS whose CAR and CDR are itself. The only way in which NIL does not behave like a CONS is that it does not answer true to CONSP. But that doesn't matter because it answers true to NULL, so you can build a CL-style CONSP if you want it by checking for (AND (CONSP thing) (NOT (NULL thing))).

It is not even necessary that NIL be unique. The only thing that is necessary is that there be some non-empty set of distinguished objects with a predicate to test for membership in that set which by convention designate the ends of lists.
The Patriot act and it’s reauthorizations under different names are the worst federal legislation in decades.

Comparing Twitter getting reports about ToS violations from FBI via email instead of from users via the report button isn’t in the same galaxy.

I am struggling to think of a more bad faith argument than comparing this to the Patriot act.
Spotify, SAP, Skype, Unity, Sitecore, OutSystems, Bayer, Pfizer, Nokia, Ericson, Vodafone....

Managed just fine.
So the CTO is the Comedy(Tragedy) Orifice. I only wish this had been explained to me earlier in my career...
I'm happy for him. The AI field is making things happen. VR has potential, but as of 2022, almost everything about it is hot garbage.
> The rise of the paid newsletter and the prominence of the paywall leads me to be a little less cynical about the prospect of micropayments.

I don't think of these as micropayments, whether the user-must-click-each-time or service-calculates-distribution types. These are bog standard subscriptions to a single publisher.

The idea of upselling to subscription is interesting, but a big part of how broad publications like a newspaper work is to bundle a number of things together that different audiences want into a single economic unit that can charged at a higher price. A user who can get only and exactly what they wanted at a lower price will do so.

What I believed when I started was that there was an in-between audience who weren't served - those who wouldn't subscribe but who would pay for individual consumption if it was frictionless. I did a lot of work on how that could be achieved across multiple websites without needing a central aggregator (even to the point of obtaining a patent on part of the technology). But so many efforts, like Flattr and many others, came and went that I've come to view the whole idea as a tarpit.
I think your characterization of unions is a propaganda driven falsehood, and your argument ignores the fact that Most people see less and less of the fruits of their labor.
Valve is paying open-source developers to work on Proton, Mesa, and more
From the outside looking in, was the opposition worse?

On the one hand, labour seem really similar to the Tories - disunited, dogma over common sense and oddly out of touch.

Their policies _were_ opposite to Tory policies but they are trying to be an opposition so…
Yes Corbin was a leftie (corduroy elbow patches and all) but he’s a leader of a left wing party. It’s like complaining that Thatcher was a bit right-wing.

It seems like the core issue is that the voters want something like Tory-lite. Blair did that and no one wants to go back to it. So this is what you’re left with
> It is simply stunning that the seasoned direction and counsel that someone of John Carmack’s caliber is capable of delivering was not being followed.

I'd be very careful about making that assertion when you're only hearing one side of the story. There is a good quote from the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey about why she never takes sides in a broken marriage: "Because however much the couple may strive to be honest, no one is ever in possession of the facts."

I strongly think that applies here.
I haven't worked with 'bigger' (application processors running Linux) yet, but with the small MCUs I always stick to an Open Source toolchain/RTOS.
Sometimes you have to write a driver yourself, but if you can integrate it upstream it's not in vain.

But I imagine that the larger SoCs are a more complex beast where getting everything to play nice with upstream Linux would be a greater challenge.
They think "oh no my lazy coworkers might get a bigger bonus!" rather than realising that their boss is the former lazy coworker.

Basically the american idea that deserving people (aka myself) will magically prevail.
Difference is one company paid for the inspiration with pre-IPO stock…
Found after iPhone sent a message via satellite to an emergency call center
I grew up in Minnesota, but left before there was much wind farming in the SW part of the state. (I've been told, SW Minnesota is one of the best places for wind farming.) Wind farming does work well in SW Minnesota.

However, I also remember a news story about some used wind turbines relocated from California that had trouble due to inadequate heaters to keep the lubricant from getting too viscous.
what do you mean? you still can
can you share how it was resolved and what trigger the ban in the first place?
Work doesn't make you a better person. I don't think you became a better person although I certainly don't know you.
QM doesn’t say the “observer” has to be conscious, or even alive for that matter. Anything that interacts with the system is an observer: be it a sheet you’re firing particles against, an electronic sensor or anything else. All QM really says is that quantum state is unknown and not fixed until you interact with it.
> How can pro-union advocates counter those disillusioned union coal miners spreading negative information like that?

Because coal mining is in no way the same as Amazon’s retail business? Now, I will say, some of these folks are beyond hope. In an energy transition documentary done by one of the HGTV property brothers, they interview a coal miner dying of black lung in Appalachia, and they believe that’s the job their kids and grandkids should do versus renewables or “new tech” even when considering there are other options available. [1] Belief systems are deeply ingrained and have defense mechanisms. Persuade the open minded whenever possible, of course, but ignore those who aren’t. The effort is better spent elsewhere. As Max Planck said, “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Same deal.

[1] https://youtu.be/MgRa5spkfXw
Umm, Rishi Sunak (PM, this month) moved to California to start a hedge fund, had a Green Card, and still has a mansion there …
Yes, Murdoch is probably the single person with the greatest responsibility for the current mess. The sooner he shuffles off his mortal coil, the better.
Honestly seems like a better fit for him than VR. VR may be games, but everyone is saying his strengths are technical, not organizational. Seems like he wants to work on hard technical problems and thats what he's good at.
On modern kernels you can do some really interesting things like "pidfd_open" and "pidfd_getfd" to get a duplicate file descriptor from the process referred to by the pidfd.
So, you're saying someone is going to try to vote on the day some random low-follower account told them was the correct date? Despite consistent messaging from a variety of other sources telling them the correct date? You really don't have a high estimation of the average voter.

It was clearly a joke. Anyone getting fooled here is clearly the most uninformed voterimaginable. Not even low-informed, but completely uninformed.
how much did it cost to have toll agents?

The main 'cost' of toll agents is that they greatly slow down the flow of traffic and their infrastructure takes up a lot of space.
> They are the children of (rich?) Brooklyn hipster parents at a Performance arts school

Murrow isn't strictly a performance arts school, and it's not located in a particularly hip or excessively wealthy part of Brooklyn.
Jasper AI is alteady AI copywriting assistant.

Why you want to make another tool? How it's different?
"The Economic Policy Institute is a 501 non-profit American, left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C."
I struggle to see why supporting OpenStreetMap wouldnt be a better course of action. OSM already has lots of good data; is the only valueadd redefining the format to be more enterprisey andor gatekeep some data? Hard to tell from their press release or really even the article.