skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would help to list some of the perceived benefits of unionizing.

It helps to look at other highly-skilled workers that are unionized, and pro athletes are a particularly interesting as a case-study for modern organized labor. They get profit-sharing and guaranteed raises built into their contracts. No need to wade through the BS of exercising shares that may or may not be worth something down the road. There are obviously many differences between the revenue that pro athletes generate and earn compared to tech workers, but if anything, I believe that it shows that tech workers leave a lot on the table by not unionizing.

Additionally, organized labor would give more power to workers in termination situations. Right now, lots of people are being laid off because companies raised headcount irresponsibly and are now dealing with it by trimming their staffs. A unionized workplace is in a much better position to demand more favorable separation terms (guaranteed insurance, severance, etc.) in order to disincentivize employers from irresponsibly hiring and firing. If we're gonna be sacrificed in a market downturn, we should always be taken care of.
There is "lying" which is apparently "betrayal", there is "bullshitting" for the nuance of cheap and vile, and then there is talking of things you do not know properly.

But this is an example of the already noted risk to have "overly quick" "bullshit identifiers" around, which may add further noise instead of progression.
I've always held that guilds would be the perfect name for a tech union, given their MMO connotations.
Great ideas! I've added both! Find them in Settings! Enjoy!
> As of the last month or so,

What other major event also occurred over "the last month or so"?

That "event" historically results in a significant up-tick in total numbers of sales (and resulting numbers of packages shipped).

Would it not seem reasonable for times to extend when a significant increase in total packages shipped also occurred "as of the last month or so"?
> For example, as I understand it, the line in LA makes a weird circuitous out of the way bend to service a suburb of LA which adds significant transit time for very few people vs keeping a straighter route and connecting that suburb with light rail / subway / buses.

Unless the routing has recently changed radically, this isn’t really true (or, rather there is a very good reason for the chosen route north of LA).

One of the most expensive aspects of rail projects is right of way acquisition, and the plan is/was to use the existing Metrolink ROW through LA to Antelope Valley.

Another expensive aspect is crossing mountains. From Antelope Valley, the line will cross the Tehachapi pass, which is the only really practical place to cross the mountains separating the LA basin from the Central Valley (without a 35 mile / 50 km tunnel through bedrock and a major fault line).

At this point I’m in favor cancelling the whole HSR project at this point, but the LA-Bakersfield routing isn’t really a valid criticism of the project.

Reusing Caltrain ROW for the Bay Area segment was a smart move, for the same reason. A new ROW through the peninsula would have taken a century to acquire.

Mandating 220 mph speeds, vs say 160, has exploded project costs. If advocates were willing to settle for 110 mph in LA and SFBA and 160 mph though the Central Valley we would likely already have an operating train, and for only the the original projected cost.
I didn't mean there would only be a sqft / yr based on the value. I meant there would be a sqft / yr + value. So the city center would still be a higher tax than the edge.

The edge would still be worth more to build on because of the lower base-dominant tax.

But it does make the edge less accessible to lower incomes due to the base tax.

It should probably be a max value or max sqft on a given entity than try to indirectly force that with tax values. There's a reason we have anti-trust laws.
It appears the minute hand only reflects local time.

When I add time zones with fractional-hour offsets, the hour hand for those zones is at the appropriate angle within the indicated hour.
psql

Never needed anything else.
Mac OS Ventura Issues
Rent has also skyrocketed, so your framing as some trade-off between availability of rent or buy does not seem correct.
If the data is correct, Russian integrated air defense is better than what the US or west can muster at the moment (just read up a little on these systems and how they integrate, Russians math good). They might suck at practically everything else, but not air defense. This is pretty widely acknowledged by western experts.

In fact, the old S-300s and Buks in Ukraine have been pretty effective and probably what spooks the Russians from using their air force in mass. Even those old systems are probably better than the Patriot for a lot of tasks. There's even been talks of sending more S-300s from Greece because they work and Ukraine knows how to operate them.
I'm curious to see what secondary effects this trend of legislative requirements brings about. Once USB-C becomes the de jure standard, what happens when a better option appears? Will it require multiple countries to simultaneously agree to shift to a new standard. Or will nothing new come about because USB-C is seen as good enough and too entrenched?
Dark Sky was fantastic, and their API was great to use. They provided a very intuitive way to get both hyperlocal, and general forecast data, along with their nice graphics and icons as well. Way back when I built a bunch of geeklets for geektool using it to embed into the mac desktop so it's always there.

I liked their morning "do I need an umbrella today" report as well. Useful in an easy minimalistic way.

It's nice to see the Apple weather app pick up a lot of the Dark Sky features, but it's still not nearly as nice to use the Dark Sky app. The Dark Sky site has been in my bookmarks bar for probably a decade as well. The easiest way to get all the info you really need without all the fluff that most other weather sites load you on. Info rich without being overly dense. I find the Apple Weather app to be the opposite. It's info dense, but harder to pick out the items that matter (although that could just be muscle memory from using Dark Sky for so long).
> Technical debt is real debt. [0]

From OP.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/southwest-airline...
It's truly incredible the mountains that are moved in politics to ensure poor families attend inferior public schools since Brown v. Board.
It depends on your specialization, I guess. If you're making a website, a few microseconds here and there probably don't matter.

But in my field (Fintech), performance really does matter. Doing the simple, slow thing is just lazy and won't make it through review.
The firehose issue is definitely a problem with RSS, especially if all you've ever experienced is algorithmic social media feeds. It's solveable, but it does require either a very specific approach (I quickly scan my unreads in Feedbin/Reeder, save whatever I want to read in depth, and then browse saved items later), or a reasonably large suite of rules applied to your feed (takes a long time to build, takes even longer to refine, and you will find yourself perpetually tuning them), or something like Feedly's AI assistant (but then you're still outsourcing your feed to someone else's algorithm, and avoiding that is supposed to be the point of RSS).

On some level, "I want to/am able to wade through the firehose" is a pre-req for RSS. I'm sure that's part of what limited the appeal even in the fabled golden age of Google Reader. Also, like most things, it's better if you pay for it. I've paid for two versions of Reeder now (about $15 total, I believe) and I pay Feedbin $50/year to act as my backend + web interface. The overall experience is better than any of the other modern RSS apps I've tried, and better than Reader was way back when.
The less positive view is that when boomers begin to leave the housing market, it won't release housing pressure by putting more homes on the market, but rather create a wealth transfer to their children who may just rent out the homes for more than the equivalent sale.
> How do you express as a DAG a tree where nodes need to keep references to their children and parents?

Rewrite your program in a form where it does not contain a tree.

If you want an actual tree as a data structure, see the trees crate.

> Rust is not Forth. I can write whatever I want and there's nothing wrong with that.

And other people write Haskell code in Python :p. If your code style doesn't match the language you are using you are going to have a lot of unnecessary friction.
That says a lot of good things about you
I liked how Gary Stevenson put it. To crudely reproduce: He said that if he walked into a bank he would get a job instantly earning millions based on his accomplishments. An employer would bother to check his background and figure out what he is worth. They have to. Meanwhile news outlets hire economists who are clueless and without accomplishment to speak to the masses as if some authority on the subject.
Speaking more generally, I'm curious to hear what your speculations are in terms of a war with China.

Most people seem to think it'll be a walk in the park for either the US or China, but I think it'll end up a kind of stalemate, with China and Taiwan both facing extreme privation from sea blockades, the Strait and SCS being a charnel house, and the world experiencing a massive economic disruption; domestic politics in democratic states would determine the terms of the final resolution.
In an ideal world - yes. But seeing how overworked professors and other staff members already are in top universities, I doubt this is top of mind for them. There are courses with hundreds of enrolled students, weekly homework, practical projects, etc. IMO somewhat centralized DS tools are more suited to handle this load than an individual contributor (a professor in this context).
Of course skilled professionals have formed guild forever and this is where the concept comes from, but also, I think plenty of us secretly want to join the IRL equivalent of a Mage’s Guild.
Why "probably"? A union is whatever its members make of it, and most engineers at any given tech company have relatively little seniority. It's hard to imagine them voting to join a union that would so obviously not prioritize their interests like that.

My guess is in most cases you'd still end up with an avenue for merit based layoffs, they just wouldn't start until new hiring had been completely stopped, and perhaps include an option for everyone to take a pay cut instead (which might be bad! but it's an idea I've heard floated by engineers way more than seniority based protections).
How does "value" get defined here? In the context of LVT.
> On the other hand, ordinal systems have to be much more coordinated as they are not trivial to parallelize

I don't think this is true for all ordinal systems is it? Wouldn't most condorcet methods simply be tallied into a head-to-head table at each precinct and then combined centrally? It's mostly just IRV that has this issue since it's just iterated first past the post, and the order of elimination is important to know in each round before it can be continued. When all that's needed is a h2h table (no iteration) this isn't an issue.
I have my own reservations about social media, but occam's razor suggests a simpler interpretation in this case: Haidt used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what Haidt is with isn’t it anymore and what’s it seems weird and scary.

As with Bernie Marcus, does Jonathan Haidt not understand that alternately insulting and patronising Gen Z is unlikely to garner their support, neither at the polls nor elsewhere?
Why would anyone think isolated acts of charity can solve endemic problems that are built in to a society? That's like saying the wealthy should send a check to the IRS if they want higher taxes. Toddler logic.
I looked randomly into one of these 'alternatives', the Atomic Pi. It seems to be completely useless for my purposes (https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/the-atomic-pi-is-it-worth-it...).

I'm starting to think waiting until Q2 is a good idea.
Sweet. Is there any recommended backend to complement a Tamagui powered application, that gets us closer to the comfort a Rails/Laravel app has to offer? Or does Tamagui mostly not care about backend integration, and never will? Offering a NextJS integration seems to hint there is at least
some interest in merging both parts.
> Civil Rights Act

Do you have a source for this? The Wikipedia entry on the Civil Rights Act hardly mentions unions.
Sadly, I don't understand the example. Is there a meaning/logic to whether the word is tucked under? I know you said it rarely happens in latin, so I'm assuming it is almost akin to how 2nd is supposed to be narrower, as the "nd" should not be the same as the 2? Definitely not a typographic convention that happens in traditional text, but almost akin to dropped caps? Feels like it is a convention that is common in logos and such? (Though, scanning, I can't see too many logos that stack words, anymore. Olive Garden is about the best example I can find.)

That said, logos are a good example where TeX is not suited. Odds are high that it will not help stack words in a way that works for slogans and such.
> Social structures that create loneliness are not the same as "stigmatizing" loneliness.

I didn't say that they were the same: I said that expressions of loneliness are stigmatized in men, and that we've developed social structures that create and enforce loneliness. They're separate points.

The stigma around loneliness doesn't as much cause loneliness as it ensures that the causes of loneliness can't be meaningfully ameliorated. To use a popular phrase: "the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem."
> Never take notes when planning crimes...

Relevant 'The Wire' clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
> Our new mobile app still uses React Native…

The big reveal is that React Native is still their future.

TLDR: Their app continues to use React Native, but they've given up on using it to provide a native user experience, and instead just use it to access OS APIs.
Unlike in the Office Space movie it was more than just moving a few cents around. He employee ordered over 1000 items in a month (to resell?). That should ring any alarm bell already.
Full US Senate hearing on greenhouse effect (1985)
Read up on their history re: US occupation.
Working in a top-tier computer science department, I find our ability to answer basic questions about the health of our degree program fairly troubling. I think non-academics may be surprised by how much we don't know, and how little useful and continuous data analysis is taking place.

For example: What is our retention rate? Meaning, what percentage of students who start our degree programs complete it. A fairly standard and important indicator of program health. Next, break this down by various cohorts: What is our retention rate among women? And so on. Heck, frequently we can't even answer questions about the current gender ratio within our program—and this is something that has been a focus of our diversity efforts recently.

I've had people say with a straight face that we _cannot_ calculate retention because we don't know when students leave our program. But of course someone knows this! And I've been able to produce rough estimates even given the limited data that I have access to. But a lot of educational data is fairly siloed, and frequently the people assigned to perform these tasks don't have much training and tend to give up quickly.

I suspect that many departments just don't have anyone assigned to do even basic educational data analysis on a regular basis, and with access to enough data to run interesting reports. My department is in the process of creating a faculty leadership role around academic data analytics, but my sense is that this will be a very unusual position. (And don't worry—it'll be filled by a faculty member, and not a new administrator.)

And don't even get me started about student evaluations of teaching. Yes, we give a survey at the end of every semester and ask students whether they liked a particular course and professor. No, those answers have very little to do with how much they actually learned. Yes, we could measure learning in other better ways—success in downstream courses, for example. No, people don't tend to do that.

There's a lot of room for improvement here, just working with the data we already have. No need for additional "telemetric signals".
If you're referring to the holidays: this did not occur for the past several years. Typically they will scale up temporary staffing to handle demand. If they failed to do so for some reason, that is also interesting to me.
Well, the ice age[1] was everywhere right? Our ancestors would've had trouble surviving most anywhere, why not California? It's not that literally nothing grew, otherwise what were the mastadon & other animals in the kill site eating?

Another possibility is that this was another group of hominids, not homo sapiens, and that they did in fact die out.

But honestly I'm not qualified to say much more in the subject than I have, I think it's a fascinating hypothesis & that the evidence that the bones were broken apart by being impacted with stones, in a similar manner to how bones are broken up to extract marrow, is compelling. And that the further isotopic evidence suggesting it was the stones found around the site, rather than construction equipment, is also compelling. But I'm not an archaeologist, and when the debate settles, I'll accept the conclusion they come to.

[1] Not to be pedantic, just to note because I find it fascinating, but the current ice age hasn't ended, this was the "last glacial period". Between ice ages there can be things like palm trees and turtles living at the poles. We're currently in an interglacial period of an ongoing ice age.
So Edward Norton?
But shouldn't that be covered by the 30% haircut they're also taking? Do Apple or Steam charge developers additionally for bundle size?
> Are there other benefits besides layoff protection? Discussions like these often focus on the downsides of unionization. It’s hard to recall one extolling the virtues.

It's less about preventing layoffs, than preventing employers behaving differently from they did during the good years. Slashing benefits, imposing harsher conditions, and so forth.

It just feels like we're in a grasshopper and the ants situation and if winter comes, we're going to be inundated with news stories about tech corporate management undertaking gross and appalling actions that would have been unthinkable, or easily avoidable, during the boom times.
Postgres can limit queries to only given number of milliseconds.
I'm always wary of tools that as an extra compilation step, because of the added complexity.

(Look at the common C workflow: cc was too hard to use on its own, so make was created; make was too hard to use on its own, so autoconf was created; m4; ...)

I hope the user experience makes it worth the complexity.
YOU can do it, since you're here and presumably have a technical skill that can pay 2-5x the median income. That opens up the door to saving and investing your way to wealth MrMoneyMustache style

I agree that most people can't, and we need to do something to ward off a populist uprising
That's not what they were charging the fee for. They were charging the fee to cover each Kindle having an active SIM, which is a fixed cost regardless of the book price. They don't, for example, separately charge a store entry for the cost of delivering the high quality product images; random garbage like that is what their cut is for because it generally scales with the quality of the product.
Sounds ideal however such a tranisiton is never really encouraged or enforced. I would argue that dependency is encouraged, probably because its hugely profitable.

I would say the most common message is much like"think of the children" , "think about your education" plently of time to learn real life skills after you graduate with huge amounts of dorm debt.
How to get the most out of next year (2016)
I've used this annual planning/reflection doc every year and have found it a refreshing way to put my life into perspective and reset for a new year. Hoping you find this useful too.

Alternate download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2PaeRjVqAN7MngxTXFPQkpLVj...

Spreadsheet for filling in: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f5y9YjbOB5ixeQHFyUEp...

Plain Text: https://pastebin.com/raw/V7FaFS0Q

Past Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249796
I mean I ended up at FAANG after undergrad too, but that was Amazon which isn’t considered impressive.
Given the P/E ratio for tech shares are generally better than profit sharing, especially in R&D heavy industries.

The companies that go under don’t tend to have a lot of profit.
Nice writeup. I share a lot of these gripes, as someone who's also on the publishing side: it continues to surprise me how many people actually do read my blog via RSS (based on statistics passed back through user agents), given how poor the discovery and client experience is.
But not “out” params, sadly.

It can return multiple values, so this doesn’t matter much for value types, but it would be nice to be able to specify that a pointer arg is an out-param sometimes and enforce that it is not read from while handling allocation in the caller.
> As an example: one time a lady threw a huge fit about a 2-3 inch smooth brown hair being in her meal when her server was a blond girl and the entire kitchen staff were 35+ year-old Mexicans/ African Americans with completely shaved heads. Now I'm not saying this woman brought the hair into the restaurant and planted it in her meal... but I know for a fact it couldn't have been from any of our staff in the restaurant, so you can make your own decision.

Check the author’s photo!
It's the same over 3 year old thread from April 2019.

GrapheneOS has gotten so much better since then that the comparison to iOS there is hardly relevant anymore. You can now use nearly every app from the Play Store on GrapheneOS due to the sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer and per-app exploit protection compatibility mode.

There have been huge improvements in privacy and security by both Android and iOS, but Android has made bigger gains and gotten closer to iOS than before. Pixels have gotten much better. Overall, we think the Android Open Source Project without our changes on a Pixel is better than iOS on an iPhone in these areas today overall. GrapheneOS makes far more improvements to privacy and security than before and has features like Storage Scopes addressing weaknesses of the Android app ecosystem compared to the iOS app ecosystem.

The issues with the Linux kernel are still just as relevant as ever with few changes since then beyond more weak mitigations piled on and the start of official hardware-specific drivers being able to use Rust, which hasn't happened yet upstream and there are no Rust drivers for the hardware we're targeting yet despite that effort being led largely for Android to use it. The title of this thread is about Linux, but that thread is about how GrapheneOS compares to iOS and covering Linux in a response was part of comparing them. Most of the other information there is outdated. I would not say that most people are better off with iOS than GrapheneOS today. Things have changed.
It would be interesting if the next tech boom sees startups and other new ventures set up with co-op structures and democratic management structures, certainly.

Even something as simple as allowing worker reps to have a seat at the board, codetermination, would be innovation for the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
Adjusted for inflation, does it beat the South Sea or Mississippi bubbles?
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SQL `SELECT`-only API is a stateless API.