skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you cannot see that unions are price-fixing conspiracies

Of course I do not. It doesn't meet the definition of conspiracy, and back in 1842 Commonwealth v. Hunt established that unions were not a conspiracy, in the context of common law, and even addressed and dismissed your "price-fixing" argument - in text I already quoted. The courts since then have never determined that unions are a conspiracy, and that's with judges from the left and right.

My "bizarre rant" contains the materials to support my answer to exactly the topic you addressed.

I don't know why you willfully ignore the last 180 years of history.

You are the one who eschews definitions, but that doesn't mean you can redefine well-understood terms without expecting general confusion.

The claim that unions couldn't exist without active government intervention is a claim I've only heard from ill-informed libertarians who view everything through a very ideological lens. Your responses are not dissuading me that you fall into that category.

You have yet to point to any external source which supports your arguments. I have pointed to primary sources demonstrating that your specific claims are invalid and your understanding suspect.

You make other claims like "the left pretends it is normal" without attempting to explain why your ideologically extreme viewpoint is correct, or meaningful, much less explain how the right - start with Reagan - is any different.

> So don't go round claiming it is just like a firm with multiple employees. That is nonsense.

I did not. Are you referring to my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37274569 were I wrote "If it makes you feel better, think of the union as a co-op owned labor provider who made a multi-year contract with a company as the exclusive provider of a certain type of labor. Would that be "collusion"?"

That was meant to show how union "collusion" could be implemented in a corporation model, leading to similar economic results for the co-op owners, but demonstrably not seen as a collusion when done by companies like Adecco.

I did claim that you confused the abstract concept of "employer" with the concrete concept of "employee", leading to a failure in your analogy. It means you see a company as a distinct economic entity (created by government fiat) from the managers who make employer decisions. By analogy, a union is a distinct economic entity (yes, supported by government fiat) from the employees.

A union is not a firm, and claiming so would be counter to centuries of history dating back to the medieval guild era.
Ask HN: How to come up with a useful, coding hobby project?
I get bored on weekends. Of course I go out and do things, but I also find myself bored at home sometimes with not much to do, lots of mental energy, and not in the mood to watch TV shows or play video games.

I'd love to start a hobby project that:

* ..would teach me something new (i.e. TCP protocol, or redis, or..)
* ..would keep me "entertained" for potentially 100+ hours
* ..I would NOT be tempted to start monetizing. It has to be absolutely useless

As an example, some time ago I had fun implementing this book: https://www.amazon.com/Ray-Tracer-Challenge-Test-Driven-Renderer/dp/1680502719

This time I'd like to go deeper into some other topic; I don't think I spent more than 20 hours cumulatively on that book.
Literally typing this on the old 2012 Chromebook running Debian 12. Very nice and snappy.
If you take the average reported Twitter salary from before the layoffs and multiply it by the estimate of number of people laid off, the annual savings is approximately equal to the annual interest repayment on the loan that Elon Musk used to pay for Twitter. Ultimately, he didn't save anything.
Different people will probably have different experiences. I for one limit my Monster consumption to one can a day, and if that stuff was all that addictive, I don't suppose I'd be able to voluntarily hold myself to that benchmark.
That's breathtakingly reductive, cruel, and that's coming from me, who smiled and am amenable to the overall premise.

I'll try to lead by example here:
I'm glad they established its okay to moderate answers flagged as AI and that moderation rules should be public.
How come these old typefaces like Helvetica and Gill Sans not in the public domain? The article mentions Helvetica being rolled in with one of Monotype’s purchases yet Helvetica is from the 1940s?

Hard copies of Shakespeare have individual copyright because of their unique prefaces. Are these typefaces in copyright still because of the individual numerical descriptions being the work under protection, rather than the actual shape?

Is it something similar to
How X’s recording of Bach’s Y concerto with The Z Ensemble is in copyright, but the musical score itself is in the public domain?
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
reminds me of https://equineink.com/2021/10/13/bad-sport-horse-hitman/ where the insurance incentives were such, they created a market for insurance fraud which was very unfortunate for the horse.
And subtracting
Technical solutions to people problems are rarely effective.
Imagine believing that the quality and quantity of Twitter discourse has increased, and then having the gall to accuse other people of being in a bubble.
It was absolutely ages ago now, it might not still be around (I have a feeling it is one of the apps that didn't make it to 64 bit iOS).

Can't remember if it did ligatures.

I will look through my purchases shortly and edit this/comment again...

Edit: it was iFontMaker. And it's still around! I might have to have another go with this, because I last used it so long ago that I was using one of those rubber-tipped Wacom passive stylus things...
The point is that someone should never be arrested for what their child says.
> In 1440, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press

Well, it starts wrong. We've been printing for quite a while already and he didn't even invent removable lead type.
Allie Beth Allman, the Queen of Highland Park
The movie shows Oppenheimer averting his eyes from footage of the horrors, which is a meta nod to the film taking the same approach.

The movie is not so much about the morality of dropping the bomb as it is about the subtler question of what it means to live the sanitized experience of being half a world away from it.

If you don't have to face it, what then? Do you still find it troubling, or does it become easy to latch onto projections of how many people might die if you don't use it? Or how much influence you'll lose decades off if you don't intimidate a future superpower now?

If you don't see civilians dying do you still approach it with humility, or attend pep rallies where we lament missing the chance to have used it on the Germans?
Interesting. That has activated more questions in my noggin. Now I am more curious than anything how much each of the OS and browser vendors are paying in royalties. Beyond that of course there are browser forks usually managed by a handful of developers volunteering their time. Are those forks a legal ticking time bomb? I would be surprised if they strip out the code for the non system fonts.
Doubtful, given the JSR comes from an inline asm. You’d need to code the call in C (with an appropriate calling convention, which I don’t know if this port defines) for Clang to be able to optimize a tail-position call into a jump—which it is capable of doing, generally speaking.
If 70% of businesses reported a change in output, it seems weird to conclude “there’s no impact to productivity” as it concerns an individual business setting policy.
I fundamentally disagree with this. There is zero logical reason why everyone cannot have an app. We create unintentional barriers to such for no real logical reason. Web apps are an example of this!
You can live and let live while also politely pointing out that the title is annoying and cumbersome in its current form, and consequently against the guidelines.
How do you do double entry accounting of paid time off ? In the end the employee is paying themselves out of payments they got for working some other time.

Paid time off makes as much sense as making energy from not doing work instead of spending energy to do work.
Your state or locale usually has a government surplus place and you can buy them from there.

It’s always a mixed bag and you have to know what you’re buying. I try to surplus equipment intact and with the cords jammed inside the case if I can, with re-use and buyers in mind.
it may not solve the problem, but i think it is better than leaving AI submissions on there.

in short what they achieved is that the company can't just override the moderators at will, which is think is reasonable. if i volunteer somewhere i want to be respected, not be treated as a lackey that does their bidding.
Software Developer (National Careers UK Government)
Software developer

Alternative titles for this job include, Programmer.

Software developers design, build and test computer programmes.
Who are the ULEZ Blade Runners? Story behind the name given to camera vandals
But nowadays you can't really see the difference between good webapps and native apps. We also migrated our native apps to full SPA apps. And really it makes development so much easier. The apps we have are relatively simple without fancy stuff. But the css render engine is fast. Even on Android.
And we reduced some of our apps from 30mbs of java code to 150kb of java/typescript.
Plus as a bonus we can have a website and serve ios as well.
For us there is really no reason to go back.
Sidenote: some parts of the app are still native. Ads, Auth and analytics
In a year you'll be able to use a custom new font for every project.
There is a difference between "table-stakes" complexity and premature complexity. I'd argue that a simple but sane CI / deployment pipeline takes relatively little work to set up and falls under "table-stakes" in that even a pre-pmf team will have a positive ROI in doing it.

On the flip side I have been the one working long nights and weekends reverse engineering code by engineers who prematurely built complexity into the system because they wanted to add a GraphQL api in addition to a rest API. All while in the pre-pmf days, with no value-add to the features that ultimately DID find pmf.

I do generally believe that cleaning-up after the pmf-hunting phase is itself a privilege that many startups do not get to experience, and should be treated as such. I understood the author as arguing that we shouldn't chase shiny things and should ruthlessly avoid complexity in favor of finding pmf. This philosophy is clearly illustrated in the devtools startup he is running. I thought there were some cool ideas there.
If people were actually arrested for 'wrongthink', they could at least be given due process and subject to clearly defined penalties.

That might be a step up from the mob justice currently doled out to people with bad opinions?

It's clear that society no longer values freedom of speech, so maybe we should consider formalising the punishment for expressing wrongthink, so at least there's rules that can be applied fairly and consistently?
And efficiency is everything. People defending bad education system using "gov has no money" "country has no teacher" excuses while the higher education is pumping out unemployed graduates every year. They can act more actively to make teacher as an job option to people. They just don't like problem being solved. Now GPT4 personal tutor exist, make them no excuse to not provide better education to people.
The US is mad that Bangladesh and India are continuing to work with Russia instead of supporting the US and Ukraine: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/05/bangladesh-us-russia-ba.... Bangladesh is doing so because it has close economic ties to Russia and China.

This is a continuation of a position that’s been going on since the Bangladesh independence: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/when-russia-stunned-us...
ah okay, yeah there are reporting requirements at certain % thresholds of ownership and $ values. in that industry to that regulator.

‘act according to the law’ and you’ll frequently find laws that benefit you, such as a lack of transparency in many other industries
Building a Simple Music Synthesizer in JavaScript
What if your job is in the worse town? What if your aging parents are?

You commute, like people do today. Living in one town, working in another and having your parents in a third sounds completely normal
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Based on your experience, is it possible to start with cross-platform frameworks while the app is simple, and then rewrite (ahem) or gradually move to Android and iOS development?

One issue that I see is: I need to learn both Kotlin and Swift as opposed to Dart. I wonder how much of a learning curve that would be?

With respect to web frameworks, I totally agree. Web dev is much more fun.
You forgot another pro: it keeps the Boston Strangler[0] out of your house. By tying users' hands behind your back you can ensure that you dictate the terms by which they use your work. No piracy, no adblock, etc.

This is why game developers largely fell in line with the "Licensed by Nintendo" model back in the 80s and 90s, and mobile app developers did the same thing with the iOS App Store in the late 2000s. They don't want to work directly with users to circumvent the platform owner, they want the platform owner to tie the users' hands, and they're willing to have their hands tied in the process.

In the specific case of, say, your banking app; they want secure remote attestation so they can ban users that are running credential stuffing attacks against their app, prevent malware from opening your banking app and clicking the "pay fraudster" button, prevent users from extracting various tap-and-pay related encryption secrets, and also prevent them from injecting stolen secrets into their phone app. The app cannot, on its own, validate that the user's hands are tied; it needs a trustworthy (to them, not you) third party that lives in the boot chain and/or EL3 to validate that. So they don't want to just give you an app and a signature. They want Google to do it so that Google can tie your hands.

It's important to note that all the user-facing benefits of app stores are backreasoning. The goal from the beginning was to tie users down, because to them, users are little thieving mosquitoes. This is the "quiet part" that they don't say out loud.

Let's hope to dear god that Google's WEI proposal doesn't happen and PWAs never have access to attestation. Google already has the whole "we don't let you login on unknown browsers" nonsense and we don't need that cancer spreading.

F-Droid is great. Google's shenanigans with Android need to be shut down. Hell, the EU was able to do that but the US needs to also do that and have it apply internationally.

[0] MPAA code word for noncommercial small-scale copying, i.e. someone with a VCR taping shows off TV. Jack Valenti really was a piece of shit, wasn't he?
I have seen them live here in Kiev, Ukraine. One of then-oligarch invited them to play at a closed party of about 2k or 3k people and I did everything I could to get a ticket.

Living legends. The light and stage are minimalistic to the point of disappearing and the sound is nothing but perfect.
I used to stream all my videos 144p less than 5 years ago because streaming any higher resulted in a stuttering buffering mess. Youtube was the only streaming service I could watch because most other sites didn't bother with resolutions/bitrates so low. Maybe that's why youtube won out. Much like how whatsapp made it their mission to run on every phone they could get their hands on.

Now we have proper internet I don't but don't for a second doubt that a sizable portion of the internet still suffer from slow speeds, even those living in developed countries.
Also, give me the ability to find nulls. Call it "other" or "unknown" if that's more accessible to normal people. In an ideal world, every product listing would have all relevant fields populated (and with correct values). In the real world, practically all databases have errors.

For example, my grocery store's soda category: https://www.heb.com/category/shop/beverages/soda/490015/4900...

There are 419 results. On the left, the Package filter has Bottle (168 results) and Can (139 results), which totals 307. All 419 products actually are bottles or cans, so 112 products just don't have the data. If you filter, they will be missing.
A lot of people just don't want to spend their attention cycles on something that they don't find useful nor stable right away. There's just absolutely no reason for people to do free labors of figuring out what the thing is really good for nor testing the stuffs for billionaires. Sometimes the winning strategy is simple ignorance.
Women often died during childbirth. In medieval times some estimates put it at 30% of women died during one of their childbirths (but I can’t find rates on a per pregnancy basis and don’t know how many children they were having in average). Estimates are that up to 1-in-50 pregnancies killed the mother in antiquity.

I suspect it was exceptional if a woman bore more than 6 children, although obviously some women would have more than ten. I believe the baby boomer generation had large families due to excellent modern medical care post WW2.
Very true, but there is no excuse for prioritizing performance over correctness.
Mozilla would cry bloody murder if Google proposed a raw sockets API for the web, for the same reason why they oppose WebUSB & friends.
The film is based on the novel with the same name by Emmanuel Carrère and it's one of my most favorite ones ever (with one of the most chilling ends). All of his other books are also worth reading. In a way for me the evil twin of La Moustache is L'Adversaire (The Adversary), which you can put in the true crime category, but on the other it would be too short-sighted and does no justice to the book.
Getting the UI for that right seems like the real trick. We have checkboxes and radio buttons that are well-understood to give us the thing(s) that are selected or checked, but we don’t have anti-checkboxes.
For me, to get good sleep, I need to have a surprising amount of exercise during the day and have tried hard at something so that I'm mentally tired. That plus not eating any calories at all for the 4 hours before bed and I'm pretty guaranteed to get good sleep.
Indexing technologies tend to have support for facets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search

generally what you have is lightweight searches that you can query and get just the count of documents you would receive, in the case of facets you can generally get a list of facets or even a list of facets relating to a particular search and a count for each of these facets.
No. The compiler knows that trick for its own code :) not sure about introspecting into the assembly (I think LLVM doesn't do that). But either way, standard C returns int of 0 from main on success. So: ldx #0 txa rts
I understand the arguments for unified RAM on a SoC, but it’s still a shame; even the new Mac Pro doesn’t have RAM slots.
Ha, I actually love that analogy! I will neither confirm nor deny whether I've eaten ramen dry from the package before...

I really didn't mean any offense, so I apologize. I was just trying to find an analogy for a feeling that I've otherwise found difficult to articulate, but I probably did not adequately convey the lighthearted sarcastic tone I intended. My bad.

As I said at the top of my last post, I would never intentionally begrudge or shame anyone for using tools they feel are a better fit for them -- to each their own.
Personally, my use of fonts are more utilitarian. In that context, the fonts shipped with a typical Linux distribution are perfectly usable and far from shitty. While I would expect someone who has more of an eye for design to have more discerning tastes, I would be surprised if many people shared an opinion as extreme as yours or mine. (I suspect that they would be more inclined to notice the quality of font rendering or missing favorite fonts than anything else.)
> Truthfully, I'd prefer to get rid of the app and just have users go to the website and install the PWA, but the average user still doesn't know how to do this. And the Play Store is still the first place users go to find apps. If google would just allow submitting a PWA directly to the app store, that'd be nice... I am not looking forward to doing this yearly.

This is what Trusted Web Activities (TWA) are for, you can use it to list PWAs in the Play Store without frameworks like Cordova

https://rangle.io/blog/publishing-a-web-app-to-the-play-stor...

https://developers.google.com/codelabs/pwa-in-play#0
But is it just knowledge or is it the human connection that makes a difference?

Students have access to all the information they need on Calculus through Google and other resources, for instance, but actually sitting down with a living, breathing human being and having them help you through your troubles...to me, that cannot be replaced with an AI.

If access to knowledge was all we needed to acquire and maintain intelligence in a specific area, we would all be a lot smarter...
What if replica mom was in your life for ten years before someone told you? I suspect you'd have a brief moment of shock and betrayal, and a few days/weeks later continue on as if nothing happened. (at least with respect to love for replica mom--i imagine you'll struggle with other issues forever)
We haven't had conversations with real teeth yet.

I agree with what you said.

Changes to this state of affairs will only come from us.

Otherwise, they have position and are fat 'n happy.

This means we need to speak in more basic terms. Expensive terms.
Don’t use social media where this is prevalent? “I don’t like this because I had to do it another way”
> Second the student testing software/services that schools are required to use is only certified for ChromeBooks that are officially supported by Google

Well, that's just dumb. Does the policy apply to Macs and PCs as well?
Ha, moms. My Arab mother is the same way. I feel your pain.

That entire generation is incredibly quick to conspiracy.
> The royalty is being paid in the OS licence attached to the viewer's computer, basically.

So who is paying for Linux? Or is Linux using open source alternatives to these fonts?
I bought Berkeley Mono largely for that reason. First, it's a great font that I love using. Second, it's a passion project from a small shop that cares a whole awful lot for the work and doing it right.
> It's a fairly niche project and the people that work on it really don't care about Linux at all.

Maybe true for the core OS, but they provide portable OpenSSH, OpenSMTPD, OpenNTPD, LibreSSL and a few others.
Thank you for explaining this; there are a lot of comments here suggesting trivial code style improvements for use cases where *kwargs wasn’t actually needed. The more interesting question is how to improve the use case you describe — which is how I’ve usually seen *kwargs used.