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> Would you rather make the obscene amount of money or work with a bunch of people who aren't permanently stressed out from internal rat races?

You offer this like they're mutually exclusive. They're not - and that point needs to be understood by pro-union people.

Just because a place is non-union does not mean the staff are automatically abused.

Plenty of places offer lucrative compensation and sane work hours.

> How many stories about people getting chewed up at places like Amazon do we need to hear about?

Despite the narrative, there's still thousands of engineers happily working for Amazon. Has it ever occurred to the pro-union folks that maybe some people don't share that "experience"? Or perhaps that "experience" was being touted by disgruntled, unproductive employees that found Amazon difficult to coast at...?

> There's nuance, but employers negotiate as a bloc (in that even a single company has its own overall policies

This isn't true for every company of course - and eve for companies where it is true, there's often exceptions that can be carved out for desirable people or high performers.

> Unions and labor action can make all of this happen on a way smoother time scale

Or people can just stop accepting crappy jobs? Unions once-upon-a-time fought for a standardized 8 hour workday. Today, if unions disappeared tomorrow, would anyone agree to work standard 14 hour days again? I think not...

The problem with VFX and that sub-industry in particular is the glut of people willing to do the work for next to nothing and endure absurd hours just for the opportunity of working on some project.

So unions will come in, demand absurd pay, and gatekeep tons of people out of the industry. A select blessed few will be allowed to work, and the rest will have to find a different industry anyway... so what's the difference?
Sorry, I meant a kiln for the wood :)
Some fancy PCBs rulers for a senior design class: http://evan.widloski.com/projects/uiuc_ruler/index.html

Though I guess technically the PCB fan made them.
True, but then you gotta wait until next month instead of next day.

Amazon's delivery network is the biggest thing they have going for them.
i agree, its not like there's going to be shortage of brakes in the future, that's a rather simple component.
Windows 10 almost killed windows for me, and windows 11 has been the final nail in the coffin (tested 11, but I haven’t moved to 11).

It’s too dumbed down. Settings don’t exist or are buried. The interface has gone backwards. Cloud and internet spam embedded everywhere..

The only reason I was still on windows was for gaming, and even that is mostly a solved problem on Linux these days.

My next main install is old faithful ubuntu server.
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kill each other for shoes

Nobody kills each other for shoes. This is a racist dog whistle you are repeating over and over. It is not backed up by anything. You wrote it multiple times and you haven't even explained why you think that's true.
I kinda hate this, but it also seems like the only way to keep Grammarly in business. I've paid them for a personal account since 2016, since ChatGPT's launch - my usage has fallen precipitously. I can write utter stream of consciousness garbage, paste it into GPT-4, and get out a professional looking piece of text.

I'd definitely pay for a private AI assisted writing experience - the biggest blocker I have with using Grammarly is my inability to use it at work.
I think you're missing the point of my comment - the point is not that there is a meaningless metric about AI, the point is that it is -not a measurable metric- by any stretch of the imagination.
A similar thing https://github.com/WebReflection/coincident
> The best distro for a new Linux user is actually the same distro your best friend uses.

100%.

Although an experienced GNU/Linux tinkerer can probably easily help you with any distro unless you're using something really exotic (i.e., it's immutable, non-GNU-based, non-FHS, or something like that). I run NixOS but I support a Kubuntu system for an older relative, and it's not really a problem.
What approximate physical location are you in? This is my dream, but right now I’m wasting away in SF. I’ve been looking for properties with a stream but they seem pretty far between.
Who on earth would buy a book written by ChatGPT from Amazon? Unless they thought they weren't.
The Advent of the Omni Engineer: Navigating the New Era of Tech Mastery
Exploring the rise of the 'Omni-Engineer' - an evolution beyond the full-stack/full-cycle developer. This piece delves into how AI tools, like ChatGPT, are enabling engineers to master multiple domains efficiently and the implications for the tech industry and hiring processes. Would love to hear thoughts on this shift and its potential impact.
See also, the NBA. The average person in tech is no where near as talented at their job, hard-working, or disciplined as the average NBA player, yet the latter has a union while the former do not.
I'm not well versed in the business side of things so I want to ask : Isn't fixed cost contracts considered usually a bad idea in creative-technical endeavors?

I spent about 10 years or so working in AAA games and I found that I had to work in a way that was essentially anticipating major changes. Essentially a totally different approach to programming compared to the other programming jobs I've had (robotics/finance/academic).

Many games I've worked on, the shipped product is completely different from the initial prototype that was sold.

My understanding was generally you get into a contract with a publisher and have a payment schedule every N months. At each checkpoint the publisher can assess whether they want to continue with the contract or let it go.

I can't imagine this kind of project ever working with a fixed-cost contract. Extreme change is the norm when you have creatives at the helm of the project.
I also did proofs for the first time in Geometry. But the reason I think of proofs as more in Discrete, is that you usually get proofs immediately in Discrete via number theory, graphs, or things like induction. But you usually don't really get proofs in analysis until you take, what real analysis or complex analysis? So you typically have trig, precalc, calc 1/2/3, differential equation and partial differential equations that is just calculations. That's my thinking anyways.
I'm not a vivid official TV watcher, so I can't comment about it, sorry. My point is that every russian citizen is perfectly aware of what's happened that day, so hiding very important events is not possible, at least today. Hiding plane crash with hundred of passengers is not possible.

Now explaining those events is another matter. And that's where propaganda will kick in, for sure.
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This is such a ridiculous take it doesn’t even bear responding to.
1Password with a family and personal vault. Periodic dumps of this data to a safety deposit box or similar secure/reliable location. It takes a non-trivial amount of work starting from scratch, but I'd believe in this approach over some SaaS start-up promising continuity.
Personally i think it sounds more cringe than fun. Although i agree generally that it doesn't really matter and there are more than enough real things to care about that he has done.
This is totally true and there is so much more math that is accessible and fun to teens. The list in the blog post is great. We had fun doing some of this and I'm doing it now with my step kid who really likes math but also likes to be in class with his friend.

I did encourage my own kid to take calculus in year 11 rather than the usual year 12 so that he would enjoy physics more. His physics teacher told me she changed a little so she would call out calculus applicability or offer some extra problems for him, not so much for him, she said (I think she didn't like him, actually) but because it was just more fun to have someone who understood the math.

Interestingly he said he was the only calc student who actually wanted to be in the class (a dozen kids). He said the rest were there because their parents had been pushing them.
I went looking for childrens books. Some titles looked good. But if you view the preview .... complete trash. Must cost nothing to upload, and you might get some suckers that don't realize.
You are not. There are three different programs by which you can accelerate entry/re-entry to the US and all three rely on facial recognition. All are optional.

There is no facial recognition in the normal re-entry line (and all these processes are before customs as part of border control). Foreigner entry may now require facial recognition, I’m a US citizen so don’t experience the process foreigners go through.
> the demand for their labor will go the same way as shoe repair workers

Shoe repair worker seems like a very sustainable job to me. People will never not need shoes. Why would this be affected by AI?
In the UK & US at least that's not true, there are de facto (unregistered) and (offering more protection) registered trademarks.

In the UK at least if you could show your name gave it some weight, and that you'd suffered some financial harm as a result of its use, then you'd have a case without it being registered.
> And IMHO it's not surprising that fascism is back as well. Fascism has historically always been in the favor of those in economic power.

That's more to do with authoritarianism (ie. a strong state) than just fascism. In such a political climate, you're forced to be cozy with the state, because of how powerful it is. Doing so can get you favors with the government (eg. lucrative contracts, favorable legislation/foreign policy), and not doing so can result in your competitors outcompeting you or getting investigated and sent to the gulag.
>you might get some suckers that don't realize.

Exactly my thought. There's an element of fraud here.
It is illuminating to do a search for the word "consent" in the document, considering they say that they will not use things without it.

Seems like it might be worth them including, IANAL. Otherwise can't they just change it in the website UI...? They don't promise any particular process for acquiring consent, but sure declare you give it to them for many many other things.
The EJMR situation appears to be pretty horrific, and also pretty typical. As it's a specific culture (not a general social site like FB or, well, HN) I'm particularly glad it's being called out and investigated.
This kind of pedantry always appears when people are trying to have a discussion about non-android linux distributions on mobile devices. You know full well what they're talking about when they say "linux" here and it's not "android."
As far as I know, there is no such thing as an international patent.

What is called an international patent is just a standardized application so that only one national patent office has to examine it. If it is accepted, other national offices will grant the patent much more easily since the hard work has already been done.

And here, there is an international application, so what I think is that there is already a patent in Korea, but it is still pending for other countries.
Shouldn't the policy stopping you from using Grammarly at work also be stopping you from using ChatGPT?
The article is about Marvel's in-house on-set VFX crew, not about those working at outside shops, so the problems you're referring to does not apply to these workers.

However, actions like this might trigger a domino effect across the entire industry.
There’s a huge industry of leasing jet engines to avoid downtime since most shop time is spent waiting for engine repair. The lessors hot swap engines and avoid downtime for an entire jet just so an engine can get serviced. This is a perfectly normal practice in the aviation industry.
But don’t overlook how easy it is for them to bury obtaining consent in a 40 page agreement. It almost makes the things you highlighted moot.
Yes. The government actually owns a bank, NS&I, that offers a special account "premium bonds" that effectively pays interest in the form of winnings from a lottery which make it tax free.
Even a RX 6600 would be a nice upgrade over your 970, and in that category prices are OK.
I'm so used to it I read right past it, but yeah, on closer inspection if any other race was used in this context or the source material I suspect it'd get cut real quick. And the author doesn't even bother to mince in some quotation marks to baffle the connotations.
People are buying new shoes instead of repairing them, it's a pre AI disruption. In part cultural shift, in part the result of increased productivity and sophistication in shoe production due to automation.
> 18 months into a war that Russia's government had otherwise been preparing domestically for

Eh, I think we all saw how "prepared" Russia was.

In any case, I think the following factors are definitive here:

- No one really considers the current situation as "permanent". The war will be over at some point and life will go on. So investing in manufacturing of those specific parts might prove a waste.

- This is specifically an issue with parts for foreign aircrafts. Is it even worth producing parts for foreign crafts?

- There are ways to evade sanctions and smuggle parts and right now, to some degree

- Russia passed a legislation allowing 3rd-party parts and signed a contract with Iran on airplane maintainance and parts supply - Iran already has an expertise and industrial capacity operating in somewhat similar conditions. Iran also has more experience smuggling.

Obviously, that work had started many months ago, not just now.
Having been more or less "over it" from very early on, I can definitely see that tempest-in-a-teacup factor, not to mention feel the hollowness of all the articles about how "we" live "our whole lives" online and that's why this or that is sooo important. Close the laptop and it all goes away, in some respect. Though there are cracks in it... for example it becomes a real problem when it's harder to get your local government's attention by engaging their own communication protocols than it is hail them or shame them on Twitter... which requires entering into relationships with at least 2 maybe 3 private companies that maybe I don't want relationships with, or have the money to do so. And of course there's the general and widespread degradation of decorum and social cohesion, though this too is mostly confined to online. It's when people start to have the nerve to act like that in public, in person, that it, again, becomes a real problem.

Already nobody was in charge, but now there's really nobody in charge.
If you "Look Inside" the offending books on Amazon you can see they have extensive "About the Author" page describing Jane Friedman - so it would be difficult to argue that the books are not trying to trick people into believing it's Jane.
It's still used to allow for timing discrepancies between the physical layer and higher layers. Phys will insert and delete symbols in the IPG when the FIFOs between layers have too few or too many entries. This allows for systems with ever so slightly different clocks to talk to each other without any packet loss.
It's not trademark, but you can sue someone for fraudulently using your name and likeness, it varies by state in the US.

Of course the actual entity posting the fraudulent books are probably overseas somewhere and will disappear if anyone tries to contact them. Maybe if it happens to enough people a class-action lawsuit against Amazon would force them to do some due diligence when listing a book to make sure that the author is actually who they claim to be.
Yeah play it safe!
Currently going through it around this and Zoom at my employer, who are a small team and seem to really not trust my experience in security and privacy. Definitely a losing battle and I’ll probably need to exit soon due to differences in direction.

Anyone hiring in the security field these days? Off to check the last who’s hiring post I guess.
Yes I bought a new WD 1TB a year ago and one day it was damaged beyond repair. I did not do anything with it. Shop technician's diagnosis was "several tiny scratches on the disk". Not sure what that meant, I assume the whole build of the drive is just bad?

I just lost a 4 years worth of my kid's videos. I will never forgive WD.

Edit: I just forgot to add that my old WD HD (bought around 2009-ish) is still working. But reading the contents will take hours. But the point is the quality of WD has gone downhill.
I forget who was it who bragged that if he didn't make at least one VFX studio go bankrupt during the film, he wasn't doing his job. I am probably getting the quote wrong.
Unfortunately, there's plenty of precedent both in terms of sanctions and lives lost in Iran, which is a flying junkyard of ancient planes:

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

For example, if you'd like to fly an Airbus A300 (first flight 1972), the only ones left in passenger operation are in Iran.
Buses carry many more people, so the damage-per-user-mile is mitigated.

Also, buses don’t require storage at the destination, aka parking. Cutting parking space allows the city to be more walkable, further mitigating vehicle damage.

And increased density is also good for the tax revenue per square mile, which is also good for the city’s bottom line.
gpt is clearly capable of constructing and interacting with a model of the world -- there was a famous example in the microsoft bing paper where they described a complex maze and had it reason its way out. 'predicting what it thinks is most similar to stackoverflow' etc does not explain any of its behavior in a meaningful way, unless you are willing to apply this description to human intellectual labor. gpt4 is clearly not sentient, but what is shocking about it is that it demonstrates that honest-to-god cognition can be decoupled from sentience.

btw, i think i have tended to see these pessimistic takes by people who have only used 3.5, which is impressive but not reliable -- i strongly recommend using 4 in the course of your job to see how useful it is. every day in the course of interacting with it, it produces novel lines of thought which shock me.
>Also Mark must've felt like a fish out of water at IBM.

Huh?

Dissapearenace aside, he is (or was) a programmer, writer and blogger, with quite regular opinions, not some quirky magical writer of whimsy.

I can understand _why_'s fox-ladden guide to Ruby to be considered "quirky" but there's nothing quirky about Dive Into Python, I can't even understand how one would get that idea (I'd consider the thought itself quirky!).

And how is the choice of "roman numeral conversion as an exercise" quirky in any way? As far as programming exercises go, it's quite standard and straightforward.

People are likely to know a little about roman numerals (if not from anything else, from movie and game titles using roman numerals), and there's a mapping with well defined rules between roman and decimal representations.

Oh, and Dive into Python was quite popular, and it was even put in print (both editions), iirc from Apress. Mark had also written a few books for O'Reilly, back when doing so was kind of a bigger deal.
We've never been so close to dilithium crystals. `2(5)6 dilithium 2(:)l diallosilicate 1:9:1 heptoferranide` for the uninitiated.
This should be replicated outside of Texas. When I lived there my coworkers and I used to get a good laugh at the traffic signs like "do not drive into water". Who could be so dumb?

Actually of course texans are no dumber or smarter than anyone else, but there were very many opportunities for a laugh, parallel to the "known to the state of California to be harmful" signs. Still, it would be interesting to see if there are cultural differences before drawing too broad a conclusion.
This looks like a very very small development concerning only 50 workers at one shop. The VFX industry is much larger. IMO it is extra difficult for this field to unionize because so much of the labor either has been offshored or is easy to offshore, as compared with physical jobs like set electricians, or jobs where cultural immersion is critical like screenwriting...
It is something that I've written about and scary to even think about, especially as I just put my grandpa in hospice, whose health deteriorated in less than 2 months from going out to restaurants and supermarkets with me to not even being able to get out of bed.

There was a website that sprung up a few years ago... a woman who went through something similar, I think her husband passed all of a sudden, and its not something we think about, but not leaving any will or any wishes legally makes everything much harder.

https://getyourshittogether.org/

My spouse and I recently separated and I do not have any children, so its a constant on my mind. I could be gone tomorrow. Luckily, I don't have anything major other than a very popular website I run that would be missed, but I've always alerted anyone wanting to publish on it... I plan to be here for another 50 years... your article exists on the website for MY lifetime.

I really do wish that Google or Facebook or Microsoft would finance a "forever project" that takes over websites and archives them, so no changes are made, but the bills for it are paid. Unfortunately, it's really just not a reality that could happen. But if you do have kids, friends, etc., it might be best to leave them with your wishes and hopefully some money to try and pay for the projects or accounts you want to be there.

However, when you really think about it, the only one it really matters to is you.. and after you're gone.. your time here is done. It's not that important. It was just earthly stuff you did while you were here. Only the rich have the real contingency plans... I'm sure Zuck and Musk and Bezos and all have people to take over. Apple and Microsoft are likely already covered since Microsoft and Apple has been running without Gates and Jobs for years.
Coolest of all time is probably the touchscreen that you can use in an MRI[1]. But my current favorite is a low-impedance guitar pickup[2].

[1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10820839B2/en

[2]: https://alexshroyer.com/posts/2023-01-01-Low-Impedance-Picku...
TPO is extremely important for social things like creating a union. It's tough to get the lightning to strike a second time.
Haha… Amazon, you say? You mean the large money laundering operation, putting third party counterfeit goods in the same warehouse bins as legitimate goods from legitimate suppliers, so that as a consumer you never know if you’re going to get counterfeit goods? Yes, that’s the Amazon we know and love.
Most successful NixOS users— that is, people who enjoy running it!— tend to have a decent background with the usual GNU/Linux userland before they start.

I don't think it has to be this way forever, but it would take a special type of guide to help someone navigate learning the GNU/Linux userland and NixOS' take on it at the same time and we don't really have that.
> Unions do the opposite, they raise mobility

Which unions are you referring to raise mobility compared to not unionized?

The rest of your post can really just be a rant against capitalism for better or worse.
A New AI-Driven Cyberattack Can Steal Your Data Just by Listening to You Type
I can't think of any successful stable coins that offer yield on their own. DAI in a round-about way, I guess?

Seems like it would be relatively trivial to dump pyUSD into a Curve pool which would generate yield for pyUSD HODLers (among a myriad of other ways that pyUSD could be used to generate yield).