skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. It might only be the amount that was settled on, because the labor board wants to do this administratively, and that's the most they can definitively prove.

You know, some wiseass was keeping a diary of his start and stop times, but his three other coworkers didn't and they're left out of this. If they try to go after more, the company will balk, take it to trial and then there's the possibility of much less (or even $0) being the payout.

Or it might only be what they can reasonably be expected to pay. What if they owe three quarters of a million, but there are no recoverable funds to pay that out? What if the restaurant goes tits up, and all those workers are out of a job permanently?

Unless it's handed down by jury and judge, it's probably negotiated.
> Going over a terabyte-plus data limit isn’t all that hard, either,

I have zero problem with caps. I use my connection mainly for text and HTML; to the extent that I download video, it's usually being forced on me by advertisers. I use a satellite dish and STB/PVR for most of my film and TV news requirements.

I don't want to share a cap-less contended channel with people who spend all day watching 4K movies on a 6"x3" device; and I certainly don't want to share the costs. It's like a vegetarian going to a restaurant with colleagues who all order T-bone steaks, and splitting the bill equally.

For what it's worth, I have a no-data smartphone contract, and capped FTTC to my home. Even the smartphone contract is abusive; I have it mainly to call a taxi, or to receive 2FA challenges over SMS (i.e. ultralite usage), and yet I still seem to use up my monthly budget every month.
It is quite astounding how blatantly you missed the point of the entire article. Let me post a snippet in case you skipped over it by accident:

> So books, from Blood Meridian to Hop on Pop, are in part a dialogue between writer and reader. But the machines generating these stories cannot participate in a dialogue. They’re Mechanical Turks, guessing what word comes next based on a mix of complex math and the labor of Kenyan contractors paid less than $2 an hour to make sure the responses aren’t too racist.

You cannot simply ask an AI to generate a story that carries any sort of meaning.
Probably meant Rhône, not Rhine.
How well should I know React before applying to my first job?
This is from 23 years ago, so a (2000) tag would be appropriate, methinks?

Other than that, it seems pretty clear that locking in customers is the most profitable thing to do. And until the world at large starts valuing ethics over income, it's hard to argue with that logic.
I had Mr. T yelling directions at me from my old TomTom. It really cut through any other noise in the car. I miss that

The only downside mr T couldn't tell me street names (though with ai voice...)
This doesn't seem shocking to me?

Per [0] Oracle has ~100,000 employees and $6B in income. Per [1] the United Brotherhood of Carpenters has ~500,000 members; per [2] (yes, I'm aware this doesn't cover all of the occupations represented by the union, and some members will not be in the US) they have a mean income of ~$60,000, meaning the total income represented by the union could be ~$30B. That the union barely edges Oracle for political spending suggest that they punching well below their weight, relative to income.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Brotherhood_of_Carpente...
[2] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472031.htm
Here you go.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468963/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270274/
> is there an authoritative guide on Bash that anyone can recommend?

This guide is a great introduction and I refer back to it from time to time even after using Bash for ~15 years:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/
One problem I've encountered is the inability to remove a payment method for an active subscription. For example, I pay for several subscriptions with PayPal. I recently wanted to modify my PayPal preference for a particular subscription so that it used my credit card rather than checking account. I normally do this by deleting PayPal and then re-adding it, which goes through the login and account selection flow. I was prohibited from doing this, because since it is an active subscription, I was not allowed to delete the only payment method on it.

However, PayPal has some pretty slick tools for managing recurring payments and subscriptions, so I think I could manage it from the dashboard over there. Haven't checked yet.
I think the distinction that gets missed in this conversation is undergrad vs post-grad. The undergrad model is more about access. On the other hand post-grad programs and research is about quality.
When I interviewed at twitter, ~2007 they asked me a bunch of questions which they praised my answers for NOT being "...Well, they way we did it at facebook..."

They were happy that I wasnt a young engineer who thought that the only way to do it was the single exposure of just having done it at FB...
> How would it be better if you weren't white?

It is my experience, so I am not saying this is statistical proof, but many of the lower income areas are African American and the services run by the same group. And by that community I am seen to have some kind of advantage because I am white that never appears for me. And I was literally told I would not want to work with a group because it would put me in a densely African American apartment complex.

I am not claiming "reverse racism" or anything, that would be stupid. Just saying how it is for me. People claiming that white people have it easy are projecting the same stereotypes or people living with mental illness.
Where I attended ceremonies (Romania, Switzerland) the priests will only marry you "officially" if you present them a civil marriage certificate, so ceremonies are usually arranged right after the visit to the city hall. I said "officially" because you'd surely find some willing monk if you elope, but I'm not sure even the church would afterwards recognize that marriage without some hassle.
> everyone in the US who has more than $1m is in the top 1% by wealth, including assets.

88th percentile for $1M net worth including home.

https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-sta...

90.5th percentile excluding home.

It is 99th percentile until age 35 to age 39 though.

https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-united-states/
Their release is here [1]. The NASA tracking number is SAA8-2031655. The agreement started in 2020, and concluded in 2022. One of the guys on board the sub is Stockton Rush, the founder/owner of the company. He clearly believes (or believed as it may ultimately be) in the product they created, and wasn't just casually playing games for bucks.

I would largely tune the media out on this. They have no more special insight than you or I. All that's known is that a sub has gone dark; everything else is speculation. Within 3 days we'll know for certain whether the people on the ship have been rescued, or are dead. In case it's the latter, we won't have any realistic idea of what happened until the sub, or its remains, are recovered. And that may simply not happen.

[1] - https://www.oceangate.com/news-and-media/press-releases/2020...
FTC complaint: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/amazon-rosca-pu...

Significant redactions around Amazon executives being aware of a "nonconsensual enrollment problem" and blocking any changes.

> the primary purpose of the Prime cancellation process was not to enable subscribers to cancel, but rather to thwart them. Fittingly, Amazon named that process “Iliad,” which refers to Homer’s epic about the long, arduous Trojan War. Amazon designed the Iliad cancellation process (“Iliad Flow”) to be labyrinthine, and Amazon and its leadership—including Lindsay, Grandinetti, and Ghani—slowed or rejected user experience changes that would have made Iliad simpler for consumers because those changes adversely affected Amazon’s bottom line.

A lot of the evidence in the complaint is completely redacted. FTC says "For now, the FTC’s complaint is significantly redacted, though the FTC has told the Court it does not find the need for ongoing secrecy compelling."
Glad to see this for the precedent, though Prime is far from the worst offender of employing dark patterns to cancel memberships.

I'd love to see FTC target cancellations that require you to call a phone number and speak with someone. There's always a very long wait, and once you speak to someone you have to do gymnastics to get them to cancel.
Well, you need to be able to change the weight of the capsule somehow, otherwise you'd be stuck bobbing at the surface. (Or at the seabed).

The puzzling bit, from what I have gathered, is that the ballast is not fail safe.
I'm a bit more hopeful for the auto generated (stable diffusion) illustration lowering the barrier for a good human writer, but I suppose I care more about the quality of content than the originality of images.

Wait until the children's books become the next battle ground for misinformation/agitprop. You could sneak stuff into images too I suppose.
Nice to hear it's appreciated! (Developer of the netlify-okta-auth package here.)
The mythical man month.

More people can very easily lead to nothing getting done.
Why haven't you left yet? Obvious scam is obvious
It is a particular idiocy to discriminate reporters and any other citizen for such rules. Security services need strong guardrails. We had 25 years of paranoid and renitent pensioners creating stupid policy without any result.

The EU doesn't provide enough value to justify their ridiculous attempts to increase surveillance. I don't want to live on this continent of paranoid people that like the state to provide illusionary security. There isn't even one sensible definition of a threat that could be stopped by privacy violations like this. We need competence at the EU level or get rid of it as supranational organisations like this seems to loose focus.

On a national level the respective governments would need to justify themselves far more directly.
Well, I mean if you're all into getting nickeled and dimed using telecommunications services subsidized by the public; you do you I suppose.
No, it is in the best interest of companies extract as much labour value from workers for as little expenditure of payroll as possible. This is not in the best interest of the workers, however. The interests of the workers and those of the employer diverge on this point and both are working, rationally, for opposing goals.

If you’re in a fight and you have a weapon but your opponent is unarmed, of course you would oppose your opponent being given a weapon as that’s not in your best interest. Your opponent may see things differently, just as the employer and employees see things differently in this situation. Apple's opponent is currently unarmed, and Apple doesn't want to see them armed with the weapon of collective bargaining.
If you want to provide good upscaling results you need to use a latent scaler but these are compute intensive so the easier way is to just blow it through a gan like here.
These companies need to remember that NLRB and unionization was an agreement to take harsh violence off the table.

In the old days, when First International and IWW was created, unionization efforts were to "set the bosses house on fire, with them in it", "pass out rifles to all workers and shoot up the bosses house", assaults, bombs.. you name it.

That's also where we have the paramilitary force, Pinkertons. They were hired by the bosses to do the same thing to the union organizers.

These companies have NO problem violating the meager federal law protections for workers. And to boot, there's basically no penalties. When things get bad enough, just watch for the "whoopsies", subvert sabotage, and direct violence against bosses and against property.

Companies have forgotten about the older pact with unions to remove violence, and then now commit economic violence (destitution, starvation, etc). Maybe they should be reminded?
Agreed. 12factor guidelines is one of the few really good one I still try to adhere to, even though I full agree that microservices are overhyped. I've seen so many devs to claim how they solve all the problems, without seeing any of the issues they cause (and there are many). Definitely not a free lunch.
And https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html
I am both. It's still a frustrating experience and eventually shareholders will be negatively impacted.
Depending on your ISP you may be able to change the public IP tied to your router. I did this, and found it significantly reduced what websites were able to track about me...for a while at least, until they learned again. But also, use a VPN.
Coq Tactics
Not that I necessarily doubt these numbers, but by personal experience these always feel awfully low (even jobs paying to TVöD on entry level should put you above the median). Especially when going for larger enterprises I can only recommend negotiating - a lot is possible and realistic beyond the 90th percentile with even moderate experience.
I would never want to dilute HackerNews comments but on the Internet you really have no idea how you impact people. Thanks for making me smile, have a good day :)
What do you mean exactly by "refuse all cookies?" The specific method you use will matter a lot.

If the first thing you do when you open the browser on a new machine is go immediately to Chrome's content settings and switch on "Block all cookies" then I'd be very very surprised to see successful tracking and remarketing.

If you just mean you're clicking "reject" on all of the cookie dialogs you see on various websites that's not going to do much.
PM to AI: "We need to find a way to reduce customer complaints"

AI: "Solution found"
Who doesn't miss catching MBA students doing coke in the bathroom at Rula Bula, I know I do.
I am willing to be a bit more generous in my interpretation, and assume it comes more from the difficulty of solving problems as a central authority, rather than cynical egotism. But I can see how one can arrives to your viewpoint, and in any case I think we both arrive to the same conclusion: expecting the current forms of governments to solve modern problems is doomed to fail.
If you don't use DNS over HTTPS, (available in Firefox, maybe in some other browsers too) then all the pages you browse are leaked to your ISP, who is happy to sell that information to data aggregators. Since I started using DNS over HTTPS and uBlock Origin on mobile, I hardly ever get any relevant adds.
What a useless article. The hot take is buried way down near the bottom:

“books are so incomplete and broken they might fundamentally damage the way young children acquire reading skills.”

Then, it’s not backed up with any sources indicating this may be true.

The reality is that it’s not. Children don’t need highly developed story arcs, or plot twists, or realistic depictions of life.

Ultimately, the goal of learning to read is 1) understand how letters form words, 2) understand how words form sentences, 3) understand sentence structure and context, 4) understand how sentences form a story.

AI is perfect for that. I highly encourage the author to take an hour out of their life and try to learn a language. You don’t learn Spanish by immediately starting at the Spanish translation of The Odyssey. You learn with stupid little phrases like “The cow is eating ice cream”.

So maybe go ahead and write your next article about how Duolingo is damaging people’s ability to learn languages. It will hold as much water as this one does.
I graduated from ASU in 1995. Tempe was a local’s community until the Chase development and SuperBowl XXX signaled what was to come. Sun Devil stadium is dwarfed by those giant glass buildings and the whole place feels mega- and apocalyptic.
"They could do permanent damage to childhood literacy."

This is fear mongering nonsense. Poorly written kids books is nothing new. The only difference now with genAI is the sheer volume, but are already way more books than could be effectively curated, so how different is it?

"My worry here is that the parents who fall for these books are likely to be overworked, with low budgets and little free time to vet purchases." How noble of this guy to cape up for these overworked imaginary parents who are incapable of not buying crap books from the internet. After all, they are poor, so therefore obviously lack good judgement. /s
With generated database types (we use zapatos) this is the most type safe query builder, the typing is extensive and very correct
Most standard aren't. Gwrmany has DIN, Japan has JST, we have ANSI, etc.
Ultimately it's an issue of deceptive advertising. Comcast sold me a 1Gbps plan. That was the upfront marketing, that's what we agreed to, the salesman certainly didn't offer up any clarification, the cap is just buried in the fine print. If I were to max out my connection for 3 hours, I'd cross the limit. That's less than 1% of an actual 1Gbps link.

I don't know if any home markets still advertise "burstable cap" billing, but it existed in the early 2000s. Comcast doesn't want a small number and a "sometimes more" asterisk. They want a big number with an "always less" asterisk. And they don't want to make usage-based billing part of the messaging, customers already understand the pain of cellphone data caps.

It's just an argument about how much dishonesty they can get away with and for how long.
Ukrainian pilots plead for F-16s as they battle Russian air superiority
We're talking about Apple Stores, not Apple in general. I'm sure Apple would be fine if they closed all stores.
> It’d also be nice to be able to file mobile orders with Dunkin’ / Starbucks / etc. on my route and have them executed when I’m within range of them, so my order is hot when I arrive.

So much talk about AI, but we dont get simple things that go a long way, and don't even need AI to function. What we will get instead is a forced option that buys dunkin and starbucks anytime you drive near them because whenever tech giants release things they think of the most obscure / under QA'd way to implement and release them.
Sadly, in contemporary corporate culture, the truth is considered rude if it's at all negative. You're supposed to imply it, and if that fails you can speak it but it must be sugar-coated heavily to avoid people taking personal offense at it.

And to be clear I'm not talking about rudely blunt truth (which can indeed be pretty rude), I'm simply talking about inconvenient facts that people don't want to hear and try not to acknowledge. Things like "the Facebook engineers belittled our product" should instead become "there were personal chemistry challenges between us and the Facebook engineers." Instead of "the Facebook engineers were young" it should be "we had a culture mismatch" or something like that.
Well, celebrity voices, and updates that break things! The recently released a nice, pretty new Android Auto UI that prevents people from reporting and confirming hazards if they are using a trackpad input. So there's that.
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation with GOP Billionaire
"In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg, Alito posed for a picture. To his left, a man stood beaming: Paul Singer, a hedge fund billionaire who has repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to rule in his favor in high-stakes business disputes."

How can I get invited to one of these vacations?
How does it compare to zapatos?

https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
It depends where you are using it. Apple Maps is still missing public transport locations or information about shops in many areas.
AWS definitely deprecates features, but it's not near as common as Google killing products. Aside from that, AWS gives _plenty_ of notice, and good alternatives.
If you are at all concerned with privacy, why are you using Chrome? It should be no surprise that the browser built by one of the largest data-harvesting companies in the world is pretty good at harvesting your data...

If this is a concern for you, maybe consider Firefox? Then grab some extra privacy-conserving extensions like ublock, adnauseam, privacy badger, privacy possum, ghostery, decentraleyes, clearURLs, IStillDontCareAboutCookies, etc.

I get that this is a work machine and you may not have admin rights to install Firefox but any IT manager worth their salt won't refuse a request to change browser, especially if the motivation is personal security.

If they really don't budge (or you are too welded to the Google ecosystem to part with their browser) then maybe you could look for some of the extensions I mentioned above on Chrome?
"First off, employees aren't directly accountable to shareholders. Nor should they be. Company boards are."

In the real world this statement is demonstrably false. Ask the majority of employees in the world, because if they aren't the owner they are working directly for the primary shareholder of the business.
Two and a half years ago, Ireland abolished blasphemy laws. They're back already, and with a vengeance.
Reddit Is Removing Mods over NSFW Protests
There are metal replacement toners that replace the silver in a print with either gold or platinum. This way the print can be made normally with an enlarger and silver chemistry to overcome the contact printing limitation. Toning improves the longevity of the print and provides many of the same tonal effects, depending on how long the print sits in the bath. Unfortunately, the chemicals involved are quite toxic. I remember one of the instructors at the Rayko darkroom in San Francisco running a "toning day" and it was very busy with a number of people coming in to tone their work and share the considerable material and hazmat fees for the chemicals.

"unlike silver gelatin prints that hold the chemicals in a layer on top of the paper, platinum photography uses chemicals that are soaked into the paper, so the image lies embedded in its fibers."

Fiber paper for silver prints is also a thing, and easily available from commercial sources. It requires more extensive washing compared to RC (resin coated) paper, and it tends to curl and warp after wetting. To get prints flat after drying, you need a big heated press that looks like a giant panini maker.
And also it's nearly impossible to report or confirm hazards for those with a trackpad input. I'd have rather it did remain stagnant, lol!
I love this. I felt these issues a lot while working on a fullstack project in which nobody cared about anything except delivering fast. It turned out to be a great mess nobody wanted to take responsibility on.. Now I have this, which is a really good mental model IMO
If successful, it probably sets precedent a lot more effectively than going after smaller targets. Amazon won't care if the FTC goes after some small company; but the small company will probably care if the FTC wins against Amazon.
Is this Nova Scotia? I ask because I've often wondered over Stan Rogers' song "Guysborough Train" which seems to be about a planned but never completed railroad line.
I think OpenAI's moat is a large corpus of well-cleaned training data. There is no brilliant insight behind the model architecture for GPT-4, but rather 100s of small incremental improvements upon previous model iterations. Eventually, large companies will be able to catch up. Open source should also be able to, in theory, all though it will be hard for things to come together.
You should check out nostr :)
Needs a [2000] because I was quietly confident / hopeful it was going to be a " ... to before we sold Trello to Atlassian" story.
Why? Afaik they are build from Centos Stream, just like RHEL. So nothing changes.