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Tom Cruise is in an industry where he can be shut out at any given moment and there's only like 5 employers.

How does that match tech? FAANG pays outrageously compared to regular dev jobs, but regular devs jobs are still pay absurdly high for a job that has a lot of comfort. This is nothing like average actor.

So for me, average dev, what is a union doing for me? What can a union offer me that I don't currently get? I make far more than median income in my area. It has never taken me long to get another job even when I burned a bridge. I can't be "black balled". My benefits are stellar and every company I have interacted with has stellar benefits. Merely being at a company with developer bestows better benefits for all white collar workers in my experience.

What can a union offer me when unions in the US are prone to valuing seniority over all (I say this as someone with 10+ yoe) and prone to being sympathetic to companies over time and tending towards modest progress instead of allowing supply and demand pressure to be fully felt.

Software development is not at the stage where it has been whole consolidated and companies are insulated from market pressure. If you work for an airline what real threat is your quitting? You can only do so so many times. This is not the case for developers. Unions however would bring forth a kind of calcified standardization that will resist radical change. That's why I'm against it. If unions existed when I first started my career, I would have seen the rise of unlimited PTO that allows me EU level vacations. I never dreamed when I started that I'd take 5 or six weeks off a year and that would be fine. I could tell my interviewers I'd be doing that and that would be fine. Because as it stands companies need devs and I have power.

People are upset about layoffs but barring Twitter which was an illegal shitshow, was anyone really harmed by it? Layoffs are rare in our field (ignoring game development which does actually need a union for inhuman work conditions and general instability). Easy money ended and so they layoffs happen. Should financial professionals be so up in arms about what happened to them in 2008 because it was the same kind of shitshow looking at my circle.

I remain unconvinced at this moment that unions will help and in fact feel they will hurt our industry which hasn't settled into a bad state and unions could settle us at a point less than we could otherwise get.
Can I get more details on that one? Which subreddit, and why was it so disruptive? Genuinely curious.
> You're literally getting paid 150k at a minimum

There's more of the world than SV. Most people outside of those areas do not make that much or even close to it.
Business have to buy a license else they break the TOS. “a license must be purchased for continued use”
Unlocking the Power of Translation Through Byte Pair Encoding
> If not, then the default assumption should be that it's not useful, or at the very least not equitable. We shouldn't be adding qualifications to things based on guesswork.

In a free country, that's for them to decide. I don't think it should be a default assumption. Neither does the government, where excessive debt tends to signal a willingness to commit treason for those who try to get security clearances.

If someone would try to sell documents to the Russians because they carry a x5 debt load of what they should for their income, is it really so ridiculous a concern that they might skim the till for the same reason?

> And in general, we very often legally require companies assume higher risk in various things

Sure, when it's morally the right thing to do, or when it would create perverse incentives if they didn't.

Here? They just won't hire anyone. Self-pay at the pumps, no convenience store at all, or some horrendous gigantic vending machine deal, no employees. That doesn't serve the community, customers, and Mr.-I-Think-Credit-Cards-Mean-Free-Money gets no job.

> The thing that generally pisses me off about attitudes like yours is that it advocates for a system where when you do one thing wrong,

It wasn't "did one thing wrong". It's always "did one thing wrong, then like a misbehaving child decided to do five other things wrong out of spite or for shits and giggles or whatever."

And that behavior's just dangerous to fucking society as a whole.

> I've found that the people with these attitudes are usually those who have either a) never experienced much in the way of hardship, o

Then I'm your counter-example. Grew up on food stamps. Remember living out of a car when I was a kid. Free school lunches. Not just for a little while, first through highschool.

> and now have a chip on their shoulder that makes them advocate for continuing to make it hard for everyone else.

The universe makes it hard on them, and everyone else. Stop expecting others to try to make it easy on screwups.
> I'm very curious to see who shows up to pick up the bill in your new world.

I will pick up the bill for my own consumption. I have less than zero tolerance for advertising but I still buy a lot of stuff. The difference is I do it on my own terms. I won't have them actively advertising to me. When I want something, I'll ask them. When I actively seek out their products it's not advertising but information.
> Big ads in cities are more difficult to avoid, but then again, someone wearing a sports shirt of his favourite soccer club is doing advertisement. Someone wearing a cross for his religion, etc.

Yeah, but those give more room for consent than something like a youtube ad.

You passively see those advertisements while doing something else. When you see a television or youtube ad, your full attention is much more likely on the computer and on that ad.
I have a different opinion on behavioural tracking: in most cases and contexts human behaviour is very low entropy; each person is unique and so on but we are also quite predictable and malleable and in many situation we collapse into far fewer modalities of behaviour.

By gathering enough data it become possible to predict more and more of our individual behaviour; I believe that keeping this as hard as possible is a noble cause.
This was a fun read (well, at least if your definition of “fun” is “brings back painful memories”). Maybe I overlooked it but I didn’t see any rationale for which browsers to include. Did Chrome render it perfectly in 2008? How did Safari do in 2003?
Arm Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering: $51.00 per Share
The mess more reflects supporting a programmatic interface to processes in a cross platform manner, coupled with the actual complexity of parallel processing.

You didn’t mention the recommended high level option for subprocess, ‘subprocess. run’.
Do I still have to use pg_upgrade when I'm just upgrading from RC-1?
Growing Crystals for Laser Second Harmonic Generation (Laser Frequency Doubling) [video]
We switched away from this font because even though we had a lifetime multi-site commercial license from the previous owner of the font, we were constantly getting legal threats from the current owners The Type Founders. Like several times a year we had to put together paperwork to show we could legally use it. I feel like you should have to do some minimum amount of research before demanding a cash settlement from someone.
>>> Consider Open Source Geolocation Projects

Not the definition of "from scratch" in my book
> “Can you do REACH->GRASP?”
> “Certainly! ...”

I think here is the answer to the question of do LLMs ‘reason’ at all. Since we know the LLM is a sequence completion mechanism, that initial ‘certainly’ (which was a wrong assertion to boot) can not possibly be the result of any sort of reasoning.
Consider that this is just the beginning for LLMs, and GPT-4 is already somewhat magical. There’s no reason to believe that this already magical program can’t get exponentially better. Magic ^ X

It’s going to be a wild ride. Also consider that LLMs don’t have the “last 5%” problem that self-driving software has, where widespread use is currently untenable because humans still need to intervene and that poses safety problems. LLMs are very complimentary to a large breadth of human work, until they stop being complimentary and instead become a substitute.

Another thing I’ll say is, the investment in the already mind-blowing LLMs like GPT-4 is relatively puny, a fraction of the cost of building 1 skyscraper. What’s happening is that the market has been validated and much larger sums of $$$ are going to flood in, including into the research pipeline which can solve problems such as data “scarcity” for future AI.

Imagine a much smarter version of GPT-4, except constantly thinking like a human does (as opposed to prompt-response-wait-prompt-response…), constantly working towards some specified goal, and…placed in a robot body like those made by Boston Dynamics. That’s not even in the far future. It’s technically possible in 6-12 months.

Finally, looping back to self-driving - I think you’ve reached your conclusion too early there. Once the last 5% problem is solved for self-driving, it will be solved for everyone and forever and getting from point A to B on the road will forever be available to you by a robot chauffeur 24/7, forever deliver things to you autonomously, and improve supply chain/logistics by a lot, with downstream reduction in the price of delivered goods.
Customers have this expectation because VCs paid for growth. Then for another decade or so Google continued to give it away. Is it any wonder many people have a clear misunderstanding of the costs of software?
This is also likely tied to the age population bomb

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2021.7065...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479690/

There are plenty of papers with similar conclusions.

Endocrine disrupters aren’t limited to BPA. “BPA free” items often contain other endocrine disrupters like BPS. It’s almost impossible to avoid some form of it now. It’s in food packaging, paper receipts, clothes, and much more. That’s ignoring other classes of pollutants like PFAS which you can find on cookware, clothing, and even dental floss.

I predict that artificial insemination will likely become more the norm in the future

Edit: let’s pretend that we can magically remove these pollutants from all new products in every country starting now. That still won’t eliminate the problem because it’s still in the environment and animals have been ingesting it. there is also giant source of it in the middle of the Pacific
Can't wait for a smartphone brand to argue their phone is a game console because you can play games on it.
Scroll down, the article is confusingly below that
Yeah actually a union can help with all of those things.

That's why police are unionized, as well as most team sport elite athletes (players unions). And they like the power it gives them, which is why you never hear them talk badly about it.
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Here's an interesting part of the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaslPhb9_ls&t=427s

Notice how a little bit later, at the precisely correct angle, the crystals start to emit a huge amount of green light! (https://youtu.be/UaslPhb9_ls?t=451)

Keep in mind, the energy source for the above visible light is originating from an infrared laser.

If that's not a cool phenomena -- then I don't know what is!

Related:

Les' Lab Channel on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@LesLaboratory/videos
>Don't unions work best in fields where quality is very uniform and expertise counts for very little?

Absolutely not.

I'm a software engineer in a research & development department (with a headcount of ~200 in an organisation of about 20k). Roles here are very varied, from people with multi-decade experience and very deep specialist technical knowledge to recent graduates, in domains that range from RF engineering to ethnography to project management.

Our union is indispensable, both within our department and across the whole organisation.
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An Opinionated Checklist for Choosing a Vector Database
Somehow switching the font on Oracle's site would be fun.
Also makes the value of Pegasus increase.
Welcome to the World of Competitive Boat Docking
> I would completely tear down the ad-driven status quo in favour of people paying for things.

As someone that grew up poor but now works in tech, I'm very hesitant to say that people paying for things is better than the ad-driven status quo.

A good portion of people just wouldn't be able to pay and likely have a worse life by their standards (not yours or mine).
Interesting fact: at least in the US, font files themselves can be copyrighted, and thus the exact coordinates of each glyph, but the general shape cannot. You can rasterise a font, trace the result, and turn that back into a vector font file, and change the copyright that way. Hence why there are so many free alternatives of otherwise restrictively licensed fonts, that look identical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
It's not mitigated by TLS itself.

It's a separate addition. Chrome has already started their gradual rollout of ECH (previously known as ESNI). Though I haven't seen nice server-side implementations/automation.
At least here in (highly unionized) Finland unions set only the floor on the wages and other working conditions, and especially in white collar jobs practically everyone is paid above the floor.

Some, mostly public sector, contracts have union negotiated "wage tables" suggesting pay based on position and individual performance, but similar exist in almost all large organizations. And the unions don't care if someone is paid more than this, and at the moment they wouldn't even know, because individual pay isn't public information.
We can agree to disagree. My claim is actually quite the reverse. For A/B testing specifically, Bayes is much better suited to address the practical questions you would usually have when running A/B experiments. See my response to AlexeyMK below.
Wish she went over the life there in more detail. It's a very isolated place, surely you'd go mad constantly being stuck with the same people.

Or other interactions like that. More on the uniqueness of the location, and difficulty of travel or getting stuff.
https://archive.ph/vL4ID
I didn’t like the numbers to begin with, but there are a few advantages:

- After a while you associate the number with the subject so it becomes faster to visually scan a list.

- You can type the number faster. They are shorter to reference.
This is a very useful .csv, what is the license? Is it free for personal and commercial use?
It would scare the shit out of you ...

"You are seeing this ad on ShittySite.com because you clicked on an article about new cars on NewsSite.com 13 days ago and searched for 'Tesla' 10 days ago and subscribed to the 'Car Buyers' newsletter 8 days ago and viewed a video about used cars 7 days ago and ..."
That's definitely the appeal for many of its users, being able to escape the locked down and restrictive environment of Android/iOS and having the functionality of a general purpose desktop Linux device in your pocket.

And you can definitely text with VIM, by using scripts like https://man.sr.ht/~anjan/sxmo-docs/ or something custom ;)
> I simply cannot rationalize this.

Without ads, how are companies supposed to get the word out about their product?

Email seems like a worse medium. Calls / texts even worse. Blog spam / SEO content is maybe the least worst? Paid (biased) reviews?

Without ads, we'd probably see a lot more paid placements (which might not be labeled as an advertisement, similar to food companies buying prime shelf space in supermarkets unbeknownst to shoppers). More influencers pushing brands directly to audiences (another form of paid placements).

I won't argue that ads are a good thing, but they serve a role in the economy. It's not obvious to me what would happen if companies suddenly couldn't advertise anymore.

E.g. you open a new restaurant. Is it ok for a restaurant to geotarget ads to the local residents? Buy an ad in the newspaper? Or do we say "not allowed" and rely on word of mouth?
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I think what you want is an iPad but I do wonder if the USB-C iPhone 15 Pro will be able to support more of what you mentioned.
I agree, 7 years should be in the flat plateau of most product's bathtub curves, before most things start failing and consequently need spare parts in the first place. 15 years would be a lot more meaningful, but it really depends on the type of product in question.
When you say you encode different values in rgba channels, are you actually saving the rasters as image files then?
I keep hoping for a QUIC transport option for SSH with regular TLS. Just to make the life of all these middleboxes way more difficult.
Same. I'm sure there ARE some mediocre men there, but turning this into a "women good men bad post" really ruined it for me.
Advice on PgBouncer from a Support Engineer
I might be misinformed here, but aren't unions part of the board for LLCs in Sweden? Or is it in Germany? (which, I mean, if you want limited liability, it's a good idea to have real oversight).
It's not even a particularly nice font, it looks rather corporate memphis.
I don't think it's an empty threat. What's your plan for when they sue you?
Nice, a Jacob Geller video, my absolute favorite essayist on YouTube.

In fact, he might be the one content creator to convince me to get Nebula, his essays are so good, but are often censored to avoid being demonetised.
Good for you, if you kept going it goes on to complaing about... Antarctica being too white also. I'm sorry, a scientist in Antartica and you are spending your down time shadow boxing racism and sexism?

> Antartica: Is the harsh conditions and weather actually a form of redlining?
> This is nit-picking the specific example rather than engaging with the GP's point.

It's showing that tags can be fuzzy too. So the initial complaint is not avoided, just moved.
Telemetry is orthogonal to the concepts of Free/Open source. You sound like someone who just has an ideological objection to companies making money and producing text editors, and to proprietary software. However, many of the people here on HN work on proprietary software.
I scrolled through the page and have no idea what he is actually giving/selling, but maybe I am not in the target audience. Also, I find this style of "YOU GET $1000 for $1" and letter writing sales to be very common with scam pages, that don't actually give anything of value away. I might be wrong, but the 10% refund rate also seems pretty high.
Relevant section of the constitution. Don’t know if this would fall under inspection:

> No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
Assuming C# support is rolled out to all platforms soon, its still a massive undertaking to port over scripts from Unity's lifecycle and libraries to Godots. I assume shaders are actually much much easier to port in an automated way. But also many assets are custom to Unity, like their animation system.
I see several here... is the issue the tight spacing makes it too hard?

https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2022/07/18205803/MBA_M...
Adobe provides adding fonts from their CDN and they are hosting Proxima Nova: https://fonts.adobe.com/search?query=Proxima%2Bnova.
Looks like OP is using it from Adobe's CDN and now their client is being chased by the owner of the font.
Wonder if Adobe is not paying (any/appropriate) licensing fees to the owner of the font?
Any numbers to back you up? (Other than your one cherry picked city)

If you look at the top 10 states for software jobs, you will see that they fall in the higher end of the distribution for cost of living.

Even looking at your cheery picked example, we see the salary and cost of living track roughly - median dev salary is about $95k based on multiple sources and COL is about 7% lower than the national average.

Yes, devs do tend to fall on the higher side of a local median than others. Hence my point about unions not being just for more money.
We’re talking about clay pots here. How would you get the crown into the narrow opening? If you have two containers, one for displacement, the other for measurement, you would lose far more water in the pouring than the precision required.

Here is an idea: I can imagine a vessel that looks like an elongated tetrahedron upside-down with one of the isosceles faces open and the point below it beveled to enable it to balance in two positions, position 1 with the long end slightly higher than the short end, and position 2 with the long end exactly the same height as the short end. Start in position 1, fill with water, place the crown to overflow it’s volume, then remove the crown, tip the vessel to position 2, mark the extent (rather than the height) of the water on the elongated end, repeat with the gold, compare.

This could be improvised with something like a large urn and a block to lift the long end a little bit. I’m still not sure about the precision of the overflow and dripping off the water.
It's not 'Linux Phone' problem.

Problem is that Cellular is most surveilled domain in the world.
Converting polyurethane foams to 3D printing resins
Apple has been making uncharacteristic strides in this area. At WWDC this year they announced that Death Stranding was coming to Macs, and at the Sept 12 event they had a fairly long piece about how the iPhone 15 Pro is capable of playing AAA games. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was actually a conscious strategy for this angle but that’s speculation.
Interesting. Do you have specific examples or a link to a post detailing this?
No, you need to fuck off, and not justify and defend this kind of rhetoric on HN.

nobody should be calling anybody brainless here. The end. I will page dang if you want.
The seven-years provision seems a bit heavy handed. That may significantly raise the cost of doing business in California and result in companies not selling their products there. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
All of them are replaceable but Apple won't provide the part numbers.
> Nb: I recently took a trip to the USA and was appalled that they play full volume video advertisements while you’re filling up with gas. At least that’s not a practice that’s caught on elsewhere.

On most of these pumps you can push the second to top button on the right side of the screen to mute the ad.

According to the guy that owns the gas station down the street from me, this gets tracked and if the owner/advertisers see that enough people are muting the ads and they're not profitable, they'll stop paying to have them play at the pumps.
Can confirm the desktop and my web browser are a whole lot snappier on Wayland
Focus around platform engineering in kubernetes, basically how to do you make kubernetes from a cool technology into something the org can really use!
Why pay for your own lawyers when you can make the other person pay theirs instead? Plus they might decide it is not worth the effort and just settle. It is very rare for companies to be punished for abusing the legal system this way, and usually only after years or decades of flagrant abuse.
i've been using an adopted version since about 6month now and it's actually works great. I really like that every file now has a specific place. I even transferred the concept to my offline documents and folders.
My understanding is that most of these zero-days are runtime so the above wouldn't help at all. The most recent one took advantage of Apple Wallet taking first dibs on a (virus) image and loading in the payload. Changing data structures/flags/compiler optimizations wouldn't have made a difference.