skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't have a CS degree either, and I'm not sure why you think labor unions would impose them?

Labor organizations lobby for qualifications because it helps people who have them of course.

Additional requirements lower the supply of labor, and therefore increase wages for people who have those qualifications.

An example of a similar union where this is done is in the screen actors guild. They don't just let anyone in. Instead, they require you to do a certain amount of work before you are allowed to join.

The catch-22 of course, is that the union screen actors guild contracts prevent all but a minimal amount of non-union jobs on a certain production, therefore putting up barriers to entry for new people wanting to join the industry.

You need to be in the actors guild to be able to work in the industry, and you can't get into the actors guild unless you've already worked as an actor! Catch 22.

It all makes perfect sense for the goal of a union to be to decrease the labor supply, thereby helping the existing members.

I'm sure other people can come up with similar examples.
Indeed, "Further Reading", p. 252 of the print edition:

<https://archive.org/details/shallowswhatinte0000carr_r4d5/pa...>
UPS drivers just negotiated $150k TC by the end of five years. That's for unskilled labor.

Think about how much additional profit highly skilled engineers could capture from company owners if we negotiated as team against the organized team that company owners pay for.

Negotiating as an individual against a full time team seems nuts.

Why leave so much profit on the table? For what good reason?
> No, I don't want to go around dividing those things into “accessibility” and “merely aesthetic” buckets, and then only allow the things in the first bucket. For one thing, some of them are both.

I agree, and want to allow everything. Actually, I think perhaps all of them are both, and anyways the end user should control and configure all of them.

> If you are speaking as a web designer, then you don’t get to complain about rounded corners on the viewport.

I think the web designer may have a reasonable complaint about the browser doing that by default with no option to disable it, since that makes it difficult for everyone. However, the user has a better and even more valid complaint about this, especially if it cannot be turned off. However, if the end user adds the rounded corners deliberately then it is not for the web designer to complain about the user's preferences.
"people should not focus on what they want" is so adolescent that it doesn't require any further dismissal.
Yeah, it's difficult to care about community when you can generate the perception of happiness at home with minimal effort.
Project page from the company doing the engineering:

* https://colossal.com/mammoth/

The following statement from the same page appears to be their support for the claim that bringing the mammoth back from extinction will benefit the environment:

>The loss of these large cold-tolerant Mammoths over the past 10,000 years has stripped this ecosystem of the grasslands that once efficiently absorbed carbon. Instead, there are mossy forests and wetlands, which aren’t as helpful with combating rising temperatures. However, if the Mammoth Steppe ecosystem could be revived, it could help in reversing the rapid warming of the climate and more pressingly, protect the arctic’s permafrost - one of the world’s largest carbon reservoirs.

>Re-establishing an ecosystem filled with grasslands will help to create a cycle that prevents the thaw and release of stored greenhouse gases within the arctic permafrost. With cold-tolerant elephant mammoth hybrids grazing the grasslands and roaming comfortably during the winters, they scrape away layers of snow, so that the cold air can reach the soil. This also allows grasslands to thrive and since they’re lighter than forestry, the snow won’t melt as quickly. Making way for another benefit - a surface that reflects the Sun’s radiation.
I'm pretty sure all a carbon tax does is solve for the "demand" side of the equation. Fundamentally you would still need an accounting system for carbon, thus carbon credits of different sorts. Or am I missing something?
RocksDB and glibc malloc don't play nice together
A 'Godzila' moment ?
One solution few people mention but that can probably work, is direct solution: hire women to have children, and pay them a wage conditioned on the kids' physical and mental health. Put no limits on those children's numbers, accept that they will be half-literate, traumatised folks - ok they will make perfect post-industrial serfs, but at least they will be there.
Those same 'independent' learners end up carrying the groups they're placed in. In the best case they're essentially drafted as unpaid tutors for the rest of the group, but often they end doing most of the work themselves while sharing the credit with the others. In either case they end up overworked, but particularly in the later case it becomes a system for gaming statistics to make the whole class look like it's performing better than it really is. Teachers like setting up this kind of system when their compensation/advancement is tied to student performance, a manifestation of Goodhart's Law. The sort of equality that you can achieve by giving student the average grade of a group is just a trick with numbers. Why not grade the whole class as one single group? Average every test score together and give every student that average score. Now you have excellent equality as the whole class performs adequately... but only on paper.

Anyway, there's no "one size fits all" in education, any scheme will favor some students more than others.
Doesn't macOS round the corners of application windows, including browsers?
I didn't know about this!

It's interesting that "local-variable" and "instance-variable" are hyphenated, but "class variable" contains a space. I wonder why that is?
>> Nobody's reading 1984 for the telescreens!

Surprisingly, nobody ever read Asimov for the positronic brains, either.
You would probably want to induce differentiation in vitro before injecting to make sure it turns into the right cell type but stem cell therapy hasn’t worked out particularly well.

One of the easiest problems to understand is that the cellular potential for infinite replication is what causes tumors/cancers too.
“Guys, you won’t believe this, it was in my other pants!”
> I wish that all miles were nautical miles because they have a real meaning.

Could you define 'real' here please?

This feels like one of those 'customary is better because you can't divide 10 by 3 using only integers' claims.

You seem to be asserting that once you divide a circle into 360 arcs, then at a a certain distance from the focus, one of those arcs has a certain meaning.

I would say that because ~ 2 millennia ago the Greeks pinched the Babylonian's use of 360, and the Babylonians came to that number by perfecting a rough days-in-a-year measurement used for astronomy over the previous 2 millennia, a nautical mile now has a derived / coincidental meaning, more so than a 'real' one.

EDIT: And this is before contemplating the complications of living on an oblate spheroid - the NM's length depends on where you are.
> I'm anti war and the idea that these are being flown into civilian areas is troubling.

The idea of the Russian armed forces using the Geneva convention as a todo list in Ukraine is a bigger worry to me than this.

> We NEED an Armistice - our own country can't even afford this kind of war!

Then tell Russia to leave all of Ukraine (including Crimea) that’s the only acceptable way this war ends, along with real actionable security guarantees for Ukraine when Russia tries again.

The only country that can unilaterally end this war today is Russia, Russia has decided it doesn’t want this war to end therefore it must continue.
OnlyFans has a very strong connotation with porn but it’s just a paywall.
Can anything go wrong with these approaches? Like what is the rejection rate, is there even a rejection rate? Curious, I know nothing!
So it's already beating humans at this too?
> and most unions try and foster apprenticeship models

This is exactly the problem I am talking about. This is a barrier to entry. Instead of being allowed to just apply for a job, and accepting it, you have to "do you time" in a low paid apprenticeship, due to contract requirements that are setup or lobbied for by these unions or guilds.

This puts up a barrier to entry to new people wanting to join, because union members want to reduce competition.

I am not just talking about degree requirements. Instead, I am talking about any barrier to entry. Unions have a very real and logical reason to put up barriers to entry. It reduces the supply of labor and increases prices for existing members, at the expense of people trying to break into the industry.
> In my subjective experience, French and Spanish are by far the closest of any two of those languages.

This is precisely what you would expect from the divergence times.

> Cantonese and Taiwanese would be the next closest and Mandarin is considerably further from either than they are from each other.

This isn't; Taiwanese is the outgroup to the more closely related pair of Mandarin/Cantonese.

It's always possible that learning "a bit of Cantonese and a bit of Taiwanese" doesn't give you a good grasp of what's going on in Cantonese and Taiwanese.
I mostly agree with you. But I think great writers have, instead, earned the skill of when and how to be wordy for desired effect.
I absolutely HATE the loading spinner. Even if a dev has no idea how long something is going to take, at least attach a number that increments in response to a listener event indicating some additional "tick" of work was done - otherwise there is zero visual difference between a process that is hung and one that is simply slow. It boggles my mind how many UI/UX people don't understand this.
Greece’s countryside is a little like this.

Villages with less than 10 full time residents, collapsing buildings, overgrown vegetation and roaming animals.
I'll admit, I was a bit surprised that they went for the double bird rather than the single. (I was also reading as "six-four-five" hahaha) Or not going for 132. I have definitely heard "4-off" after they learn this. But then again, as kids we use to use our pinkies as a way to flip the bird without actually doing it, so I think kids are always going to encode what they can.
Any citations that don’t come from anti-porn groups?
This is not specific to these specific cardboard drones. These cardboard ones are cool but hardly a game changer
Garbage in, garbage out. I wonder if it can contextualize the code in StackOverflow questions (i.e. why doesn't this work?) as bad and that in highly rated answers as good, or "code is code".
The long term trend is that Xi is fizzling Deng’s economic miracle with terrible policies. Plus the rest of the world is catching up in manufacturing as the Chinese workforce becomes smaller and more expensive. Said bad policies mean that there is nothing to take the place of manufacturing as the party seeks to control all businesses - especially tech. Belt and road seems to have turned into an expensive incomplete project with no great returns except now they have a bunch of broke countries indebted to them which I guess has some value
Gen Z Sees Benefit of Offices After Lonely Summer Internships
> Before HFT, stock exchanges couldn’t provide liquidity

demonstrably false. "Liquidity" was available even before the dawn of networking. It was called "the ticker." Anyone with a ticker could see the last trade in a given stock. You could call your broker and he/she would convert your stock into cash (minus commission). It was just slower.

As in Ticker Tape Parade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker-tape_parade
Not really. Anyone could but not everyone. You need people to uphold the Ponzi scheme of capitalism to funnel money to the trillionaires.

Edit: I’d really love to know what these damn down voters are thinking. You literally think everyone can just be a trillionaire? Where is the value being produced? Where is the money coming from? Trillionaires passing each other money around???
It did make me think that elephants are very social matriarchal animals - the elephant that gives birth to the mammoth is going to want to keep it around, and the mammoth can’t really be separated and kept in some kind of isolation. But then they need to birth more mammoths, and even breed the mammoths (could be quicker) so I wonder how they’re going to manage a combined elephant-mammoth herd. Doesn’t make much sense to have a solitary mammoth wandering around on its own in Siberia, it’ll take a bunch of them. And then to convince them they’re not elephants.
Masons require a belief in a higher power. Individual Masons may believe in God, but the institution is committed to a broader higher power.
It does. Do you use post_url?
Most of the chiptune people are using gameboys with LSDJ or a Dirtwave m8. The latter seems to have really taken off.
> Not "if", but "how".

Sure, but "how" could be to abandon the concept of credits whatsoever and institute a carbon tax.
Public sector unions do seem problematic. How do you suggest public employees negotiate the highest possible wages for themselves?
I think most software engineers are a little uncomfortable with the whole arrangement of employment to begin with, and any backlash against unions is the backlash from having to face this somewhat subservient reality. The origin story of getting a computer, some library books, and spending 10,000 hours alone with your computer seems pretty common. With that mental model, why would you want someone who isn't a software engineer interfering with your career? You built it yourself, and you don't need any help. I think that's where the attitude comes from, and it's probably something worth talking yourself out of. (Nobody is discounting their hard work, but the more BS other people deal with, the more time you can spend alone with your text editor.)

The other thing that people probably worry about are protecting the net negative members on the team. Those that make more work for the team, derail meetings, block things from being submitted, etc. Nobody wants to hear "well our contract doesn't allow us to fire them".

Like all engineering, there isn't a solution with no downsides.

I think unions deserve serious consideration. Our working conditions are not perfect (know any software engineers with wrist problems, back problems, or sleep apnea?). Our benefits are not perfect (love being forced to take a mandatory vacation every year paid out of my personal vacation balance). And, we have pretty much zero sway among the government. (Do you think that if attorneys were paid in illiquid shares that every time you received them, you'd have to send a hand-signed letter to the IRS?) There is certainly something to be gained; software prints money, and the people that make it deserve their fair share.

Even on HN, commenters are shocked by the FAANG salaries, but you know lots of people are making way more money. Someone just paid $7M for the two story house behind my apartment. I'm guessing they're not a couple of software engineers. Why is that? Is it because we self-sabotage? Is there not that much money in software after all?

Someone should look into all of this, but as long as we see ourselves as individuals and not a group, we will be easy to ignore.

(Uh oh, now I sound like a communist.)
> So, the answer is keep the war going?

The answer is to give Ukraine everything it needs to win this war and kick the invaders out.
"Ramblin' Man" is so good
Median income only makes sense if cost of living is the same but it's not. The median house price in Germany is $410,000 and the median one in Mississippi is $254,900. It would be easier to afford a home in Mississippi with a $24.5k income than one in Germany with a $32.1k income. This is not accounting for other subsidies too like I mentioned.
That's not always because of anything intrinsic to the Web. We know that ordering a pizza isn't any more complicated than what can be represented on a paper form. Forms can also be capably represented in a browser. The problem is that app developers are by and large not capable of distilling the requirements down to what is necessary and sufficient for the task at hand. Instead, they're foolishly preoccupied with what they consider to be the mandate to deliver experiences.

In short: most devs' simulacra suck.
I think almost certainly, yes? But I think it would require a whole research project to gather persuasive data on this, in both directions.

But my intuition is that failing to find product market fit (for whatever reason) kills companies earlier, whereas hitting product market fit with a subpar engineering foundation is more likely to slow companies down in later stages where they die more slowly or just underachieve.

I think Twitter is probably the best known example of that second pattern. It may be apocryphal that this was their problem, but either way, I think this is a real phenomenon in general.
There are multiple areas in Berlin alone that the police officialy declares as No-Go Areas, among them:

- Alexanderplatz
- Görlitzer Park and Wrangelkiez
- Warschauer Brücke
- Hermannstraße and Bahnhof Neukölln
- Hermannplatz and Donaukiez
- Rigaer Straße
- Kottbusser Tor

Görlitzer Park is officially lost to African drug dealers, they just group raped a woman in front of her boyfriend.

In other cities it's similar. I go to Hamburg and Dresden regularly, can't even befin to describe how much downhill St. Pauli and Alaunpark are going. No sane person goes there after dark anymore.
KLIM in New Zealand does outstanding work: https://klim.co.nz/
Walmart is the largest employer in 21 states[0]. How would they exit operations in a state and still earn income from their brick and mortar stores in that state? Sure, they could move some centralized distribution centers if they're already kind of close to a convenient border, but for the most part they need the employees they have in each state because they're fundamentally a last-mile organization.

That said, NLRB/FTC/FCC/CFPB/etc regulatory rules are typically quickly reversed after presidents from opposing political parties take office. They are extremely weak on moderate timescales, compared to statutory legislation, which tends to stick around more often between shifts in power between parties.

0: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/walmart-nation-largest-empl...
What was the "forcibly" part?
For reference, 5280 = 2^5 × 3 × 5 × 11

(8 prime factors, 4 distinct)

So 5280 is better if you want to divide by 11, I guess! What a strange thing, how on earth did it end up with a factor of 11 in there...

Edit: it's complicated: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/inches.html
> Web applications should be designed with this in mind: control of the client experience is in the hands of the user or the user's agent. ... web apps that obsess over having minute control over every detail of the presentation tend to be clunky, nonresponsive and inaccessible.

You are right; I agree.

However, the web browser designs tend to make things difficult, and the specifications of W3C can also make things difficult because they are excessively complicated.
Unions are sticky. Once you let them in, you will have a very hard time decertifying them if you feel you are not being represented well.

https://freebeacon.com/policy/labor-leaders-say-illinois-fir...

https://www.mackinac.org/26962

https://www.americanexperiment.org/the-seiu-hopes-to-plunder...

https://leadinghomecare.com/blog/2014/05/01/michigan-home-he...
There's a lot of stuff you will learn in an apprenticeship that a lot of folks in our industry miss or skip, like soft skills, teamwork, risk/reward, effort/value, etc. I personally think everyone should be required to spend a year or two in tech support hell, or understand why a senior person thinks and researches before they start writing code, for instance.

You say barriers to entry, I say putting in the time to ensure you're someone I want to work with in the future.
Japanese doesn't really have separate words to denote villages by their size. There is only City, Town and Village. (市町村) And you would really only say "Small Village" or "Big Village", etc.

The legal requirements are based on population, and vary by prefecture.

So this is likely a translation issue.
> You burn bricks before they are assembled into a building, not after.

Yes, obviously. As I just mentioned, this is a technique that dates back several thousand years.
Common Practice Period
https://www.dodig.mil/Ukraine/

The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) is committed to conducting independent and objective audits, evaluations, and investigations to promote efficiency and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in DoD support provided to Ukraine.

In addition, the DoD OIG coordinates closely with the OIGs of the Department of State (DoS) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and chairs a joint working group with representatives from multiple Federal oversight agencies to ensure a whole-of-government approach to Ukraine oversight.
The fact that you can't do this with new fangled languages is one of the reasons I don't use new fangled languages
Dealing with Indexing Bots
I am so tired of the "someone else's server" trope as if there is no value add.

S3 is a fantastic piece of architecture and service and the fact that the common dev has such tools and service available instantly from their personal laptop or even phone is mind boggling.

We are very fortunate that AWS led more services being made available to common folk than what had been done in the past.

Its not all about cost or hardware ownership--the value these near infinitely scalable services is easy to ignore but astounding at the grass roots level.
Small drones are generally individually piloted. You can find plenty of footage of them trying to take out individual vehicles or troops. Generally pretty successful.

But a volley of explosives they are not. If that’s all you want, it’s still much cheaper to use artillery. Which both sides are fond of
I wonder what would happen in 39 years if an AI which is designed to feel and emulate humans enters human competitions and beats them at everything.

Like can Liutenant Commander Data be excluded from human competitions? Yes. But can a replicant from Blade Runner? I guess the answer is that they will not feel the need to compete. But what if they do?

Level 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_T...

Level 2: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Soji_Asha
Businesses are pressuring Target to force its employees to return to the office
Community infosec does have an asshole problem, but not a gatekeeping problem.

Every single infosec community I grew up in was more than willing to share knowledge and the only requirements were a willingness to learn and ask questions. And skin thick enough to tolerate rudeness if there was any disagreement.

Unless I misunderstood what you meant by gatekeeping?
I sure hope not. I don't have definitive first hand experience though as my kids are not old enough to have to use a computer and they haven't grow much interest in that direction. When my dad's first PC arrived home it was for me the most exiting thing ever, but it didn't have to compete with a smartphone.
> I doubt that anybody would think Budapest memorandum would cause Russia defending Ukraine from itself, with a straight face.

The persistent myth of the “little green men” has been busted wide open by Igor Girkin who admitted there was no armed rebellion until they imported soldiers and made one.

Regardless Russias invasion of Crimea at the same time was still a violation of the Budapest Memorandum.
I appreciate this comment. It's possible they're doing exactly their job but that it's not a job we need done.

The job we need done is rapid decarbonization. So how do we do that?
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