skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Striking isn't extortion. Same as capitalists trying to keep their costs as close to zero as possible isn't extortion.
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Isn't this just the norm though? Most companies seem to do this to keep things ticking over whilst strike action is ongoing, is strikebreaking illegal in Sweden?
Do they also fire plastic bullets? No? Then just improve the restriction of ammunition.
If you’re as sick as I was these concerns of privacy become minuscule because I probably would’ve been dead right now if I did not get my genetics 15 years ago.

I got my genetics from 23 and me and I’m well aware that they are using my genetic code for drug research. As far as someone getting my DNA you can pretty much get it for me anytime you want by following me around and taking a swab from a cup or whatever.

At least they genetics at 23 and me are anonymized. And I would think people can figure more out about you if they have your Gmail address then your genetics.
Presumably they would have to comply with labor laws in the state as they do today.
The Rust type system is a godsend when contributing to a large, unfamiliar codebase. Make one change, and then just follow the type errors to find all the other places you need to change.
Thank you for this fascinating insight into labor organizations in Sweden.

Observations:

The things that stand out to me are that Tesla owners would potentially not be able to have their car serviced, and the overall unity of seemingly unrelated unions in organizing.

Also coming from an American perspective I muse about how America would be if we had a similarly strong human-centered organized labor. It sounds nice to me. Q hassle for corporations but making money can be arbitrarily complicated!
I agree with this for consoles. I think the main issue is cross play. One solution would be to make cross play opt-in. It's not fair to either group.
> Or maybe we should have written codecs to be amenable towards GPU shader implementation...

They are, but programmable GPU shaders are nearly always more power expensive than fixed function purpose specific silicon. It's why many key aspects of GPUs are still fixed function, in fact, including triangle rasteriziation and texture sampling/filtering.
Let me get this straight... the UK and US did some awful stuff and you're asking us to respond by boycotting a TLD which has no meaningful connection to said awful stuff?

Thanks for letting me know about the Chagossian tragedy, but this boycot just sounds silly to me.
> Is strike breaking illegal in Sweden or are they just surprised that is has happened?

Not illegal, but unprecedented. Since the Saltsjöbadsavtalet in 1938, unions, workers and unions have mostly agreed on how to act, Tesla seems to be ignoring history and the country's widespread union participation, thinking they know better than 99% of the country's existing industry.
Haha yes it pains me every time too ;)
Don’t worry, it’ll be good because it’s trained on human stories, in which usually the good guy wins.
The word Pro in the product name really doesn't separate consumers as well as you might think.

Every college kid has a Mac Book Pro, yet they are by definition not Pros
read the last bit of that sentence you quoted
Lots. I have yet to come across someone who didn't care, after they understood what was happening. Virtual anonymous people in forums don't count ;)
The lifecycle of a code AI completion
I don’t think those controllers are actually the targets, financially speaking, here. They’re the excuse. The target is “normal” controllers that sell for less than Microsoft’s does and are bought by people around the world looking to save money when buying another three controllers.
I think you ably demonstrate the all or nothing fallacy that powers this type of bully advocacy. My way or the highway is used to get people on the same page at first. Then it's used to make more and more tenuous assertions about morality, assertions which coincidentally conform very specifically and in great detail to the needs wants desires and worldviews of the bully.

The sooner the victim rejects the entire program, the better. Morality is not and has never been a simple issue easily resolved by dogma. In fact, I'd argue the the worst periods of human misery are dominated by dogmatic thinking and righteous bullying. It is bitterly ironic that people who enjoy the fruit of freedom willfully seek to undermine that progress. It is everyone's right to be stupid if they so choose but so too. Is it my right to judge them self-destructive and contemptible.
Nice in theory, not in practice.

YouTube was already a great video sharing and recommending website in 2005, but if it still looked like this, it would be dead.

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/youtube-website
More like cheap out on monitors such that devs want two crappy monitors instead of one crappy monitor
That's more of an argument for decoupling though. Why can't I have a local permanently-updated "fetch mails via IMAP"-tool and then a mostly dumb GUI mail client that does not care about cipher changes for 10 years?

If someone's about to comment with fetchmail, shoo :P

I've never seen that work properly on Windows, it's not end user friendly and I'm not sure how to put "decoupling" better - all I'm saying is that for how email works at least, no, Thunderbird wouldn't necessarily need the means to talk to servers, something local via socket/named pipe/filesystem might be enough - but this would mean more of a paradigm shift and yes, it would maybe also be bad for end-to-end crypto (depends how you define the end, it's still your machine...)
>How is Apple buying all the production slots for a process in any way unethical?

This has been the case on HN for more than 5 years. Intel Fabs used to sell their industry best node to only Intel themselves, and charges a premium for those newer CPU. I guess that is unethical too.
Great visualization! For those in the Northeast US, Cherry Springs State Park in PA is a wonderful place to visit for night viewing (and camping). It's one of the best places (darkest night sky) on the eastern seaboard for stargazing. We camped there in the summer and saw the Milky Way like I'd never seen before. Be sure to look at the moon phases when planning -- try to plan for a new moon so you have a dark sky: https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/CherrySpringsSt...
rad that only makes me like the author more.
It's more shocking to me that anyone is surprised by this. When you take an action as aggressive as a strike, what exactly prevents the company from making an aggressive action in response.

A strike is your way of saying, "You need us and we're going to exploit that need to accomplish our goals."

The company bringing in other people who will happily do the work in your place is their way of saying, "I guess we'll see if you're right."

If you play chess, the other player gets moves too.
> Nothing Apple hasn't been doing for years at much greater magnitudes without many objections from the tech crowd.

I'm sincerely sorry that you retain this emotional bile to the degree that you're compelled to express it in an unrelated thread here. It's unpleasant to read, but I imagine it's far harder to live with.

What's an example of a standards-based USB device that works with Windows and Linux, but that Jobs blocked on macOS?
Are they anonymized? Would think this is illegal even if users agreed to it which most would be unknowingly agreeing. Like agreeing to hand over your first born.

If anonymized, are there issues? If it helps cure disease with anonymous dna, why not?
This is probably not going to turn out well for Tesla.

As a point of reference, check out the story on how Toys'R'Us, which had a blanket no union-policy in the 90s, faired against the Swedish unions: https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/what-canada-can-le...

tl;dr: every single Swedish union had their members refuse to interact with the company, leaving them completely blocked out from the Swedish market until they backed off.

I would not be surprised to see a repeat of that story this time around - the unions really don't want to let this become a precedent.

Best case scenario, Musk gets humiliated again.
You can create zero compression zips in Windows Explorer. It's probably the most common use-case for their "create" step (people just creating a quick zip to send projects, etc to each other).

But yes, if you specifically want a tarball you'll still need tar.
While the sum of many i.i.d. random variables may be easy to model, that doesn't mean that everything involving i.i.d. random variables is easy to model.
Real estate is the primary thing that makes cost of living so high, and that's primarily a city problem. California state actually passed laws that require increasing housing supply: https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forev... - which cities are dragging their feet on
Straight from Knuth's paper: "anybody can make use of my programs in whatever way they wish, as long as they do not use the names TeX, METAFONT, or Computer Modern. In particular, any person or group who wants to produce a program superior to mine is free to do so. However, nobody is allowed to call a system TeX or METAFONT unless that system conforms 100% to my own programs."

https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb11-4/tb30knut.pdf
Why the company and not the employee?

I think that the taxpaying public receives benefits from the remote work arrangement; such as less traffic, noise, pollution, and consumption of public resources such as roads.
It is only the privileged that is allowed to have any choice in their live in what they can do and what can be done to them. When the option is to die to starvation or the elements then anything, really anything, is better.

This is why many governments are in general responsible to provide enough social support that turns all citizens into privileged people.
Spooky Developer Memes [video]
> living in a car society is a nightmare

More like living in a society with invisible cars. You only know there was a car when it hits you. And every time you move a foot you have to first try to throw a pebble to check if there's a car
Okay? I still don't understand how that means the costs for a private company should shift to the public purse. Please explain.
But Microsoft also makes Microsoft Mouse and Microsoft Keyboard!
I've been seeing this sort of laziness all over lately. Some people seem unable to separate analysis/criticism with opinion on overall worth/merit. i.e. if you think there's anything wrong with Organization X, then you must hate them or secretly be a supporter of Organization Y, their arch nemesis. It's annoying at best, dangerous at worst (because that type of thinking can lead to behavior/decisions that are never questioned or challenged).
Catching climate maladaptation before it happens
I'm guessing that's probably to stop 11 users making archives that can't be extracted on 10
Hey, but I can sell you a 21st century e-hammer with AuthentiCode licensing. Swing power savings of up to 2% can be achieved. (Requires constant internet connection).
Respectfully disagree, I think getting value out of a work in-progress is preferable to the alternative and provides vital feedback to the software builders.
Seems like it could be sorted pretty quickly if employers had to reimburse mileage and "reasonable commute times" for hourly calculations. Just the mileage for a 10 mile one-way commute would be $260/mo
I initially put "strikebreakers", then I changed it to "scabs" as more people might be familiar with that term, then I changed it yet again to put both terms to be extra clear.

I wasn't aware that "scabs" is more of a derogatory term than "strikebreakers", but then the idea itself for me is derogatory so maybe I'm not the best person to judge.

FWIW: I changed the title to just have "strikebreakers" in it now.
I wrote a little command line calculator once. Main purpose was to learn about parsing with Bison/Flex.

Now, I'm using it every day and haven't changed it in years. It compiles everywhere even on my M1 with Asahi Linux.

All my other software is not beautiful. It requires changes.
I remember seeing a tweet from an AI guy at Nvidia saying they were using AI for chip layout. Presumably not LLMs and I’m not going back on X to find the tweet, but just to say I think they are doing this (at least experimentally).
I don’t know how nebula is these days, but I had the worst time with them. I sent my kit I and six months later they had nothing and they kept telling me it was coming, It was coming until they said there was something wrong with it and I would have to do it again.

I asked for money back and they delayed and delayed and delayed until I said I was going to sue them when they finally gave me my money back.
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Is it really unquestionable?
This was my first thought, but the article mentions the they interpret that situation to not be a necessary expense since your voluntarily working remote. Maybe not as bad as my first reaction.

The expenses listed seemed pretty typical for benefits. My last job already let me expense my cell phoen, internet, gave me a stipend for office equipment
California regulations aside, my understanding is that's sort of the tax code today. My accountant always told me that home office expenses were a questionable deduction if you had an office to go into if you wanted to.
The current implementation sends YouTube false information about whether the ad was run. That absolutely intrudes on the server. Really it's no different from telling a cashier you already paid online or something like that.
Return To Office is all about power
Yeah, but the problem is that 13980HX has 24 cores, 32 threads and incredible 157W Turbo Power.
That means it will be really slow when on battery. And when connected to the mains, it'll be as loud as an airplane taking off.

The perf per watt claims still apply.
But if you come to the office, they will have to pay that too. Electricity and internet is not free, even in offices.

After all, the whole point of this decision is to equalise the "windfall", as the article says.
No, people just need to learn self control. You don’t need a new laptop every year or every 2 years.

My current MBP is nearly 8 years old, cost $4,500, and is finally in need of replacement. I just purchased a $4,300 M3. Why should I have to purchase a 3 year old M1
Automating data workflows with plaintext files and Git
I agree (while clarifying that we're talking about a legal war, not a physical one, so bystanders don't need to come in and start yelling at us about it).

I've had some luck in said arguments by pointing out that Chinese law forbids certain content, and asking if they abide by it. It's interesting to discuss why EU law should apply to non-EU hosts, but Chinese law should not apply to non-Chinese sites.
https://archive.ph/KftoD
Mixpanel. I forgot my email and the support on the other end just gave me a hint like “do you remember having an email like *@**.xyz.” No unnecessary reset or anything like that.
I use Firefox on all my devices, and you'll have to take them feel my dead cold hands before I switch back to chrome. Not only Firefox is the only obstacle that protects us from browser engine monoculture, it is actually superior to chrome (in my experience) on both mobile and desktop.
Could you expand why you believe an old hammer doesn’t work with current nails? As a metaphor it seems completely the opposite of your intended meaning since it’s a good example of an ancient technology which still works compatibly.

Adding wallets to a black list is highly effective because while there was a lot of dishonest marketing around blockchains improving privacy they’re actually perfect for censorship since a public ledger allows you to transitively taint every transaction downstream, significantly reducing the value of certain tokens and removing the ability of people to say they didn’t know the funds they are receiving were connected to a crime.
This smells very much like a power play by an American executive who is not familiar with just how aware European workers are about their rights.
Likely no, just like any other software ever written.
I mean the person I replied to asked the unanswerable question. How can we say how much memory they need in their computer 'for containers' without knowing where they want to set those sliders (and how many of them there are), and then it's not really worth asking, or it would be a question about runtime overhead or something.
I have been using a lightly customised dwm and st for the last 4 years with absolutely zero hassle. I spent a nice afternoon once to customize it and then that's it.
I must have spent an order of magnitude more time on my mac fighting with iterm the weird features that I sometimes trigger by mistake. And I am not talking even about the window manager....
2019 Intel MBP has no native external monitor support. It's dongle hell all the way down.
Yes but the players in this case are unionised, same as the workers in all the companies that Tesla need to use in Sweden. It's not a great strategy to break a strike when you depend on other companies, and those other companies then face the risk of strikes from doing business with you.

Furthermore, if your customers are also heavily unionised, then they won't want to buy your products.
Because the company is the one directly receiving the most benefits?
I'm not here to defend SolarWinds, and it's entirely possible that they were a "bad investment pretending to be a good one", but I have some issues with this framing.

First, contrary to your assertion, there is no doubt that they're in trouble because of getting hacked by a nation state (and dutifully disclosed it). This wasn't some routine audit, wasn't a whistleblower complaint. The only reason the SEC went after them is that they had the misfortune of falling prey to an attack that few other businesses could conceivably repel. So, I'm not sure that's sending a great message.

Second, the complaint isn't showing that the company brazenly and deliberately deceived investors. It's not that the SEC peeked under the hood, immediately realized this is messed up, and had to act. No, they spend months poring over every email - and all they came up with is not exactly a smoking gun. The whole complaint is basically "the company only made generic investor disclosures, but we found instances where specific employees pointed out more specific deficiencies."

Ignoring the one-sided narrative of the complaint, the actual quotes they have don't paint the picture of a deliberate conspiracy. They paint the picture of normal day-to-day communications where people sometimes say dumb things, blow things out of proportion to try to get resources, etc.
Absolutely love my 14” M2 pro and use it daily for coding. Perfect size/weight for the backpack, and endless battery at the local coffee shop.
> a largely unregulated practice once confined to the ideological fringe

Tell me your bias without telling me you're biased.
As an aside, NanaZip[0] is a 7zip derivative with better shell integration. Also available on winget

[0] https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
I have read that the Baby was disassembled and parts of it used to build the Mark 1. The Baby had been a proof of concept system for the Mark 1 design.
Consider the two words: "sustainable" and "fuel".

As a locally generated process input, H2 appears to make sense, say for steel production or yes, ammonia. But H2 is hard to store; best is to do so cryogenically which uses a lot of energy and is heavy. storig higher temperature H2 is more difficult (those crafty molecules are tiny!). The economics likely work for many industrial processes, but not for transport, much less grid power generation. The "fuel" part doesn't pencil out; I believe H2 fuel story are just a subsidy to the fossil fuel companies in order to get legislation passed.

Compared to other fuels Ammonia isn't especially energetic, but for a large vessel with a lot of space it can work. But it's really toxic and harder to manage safely than buker fuel or jet fuel. "Sustainable" doesn't mean just its production but its overall risk to human life. It lacks adequate energy density to drive something like a car much less a plane, even if you were willing to have something as nasty as NH3 in your fragile, weight-sensitive vehicle.

Don't take my word for it: Maersk, who is famously commissioning ammonia (and methanol) vessels, has publicly stated that these are not long term solutions but rather (they hope) a way to push the green agenda forward.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231031143032/https://www.washi...
It’s really is an incredible experience.
I think there's a slight difference in sound of the "o" and the "ou", it probably depends on your accent though.
Ask HN: Thoughts on the Meta Quest 3?
The release of the Meta Quest 3 seems to have been slowplayed but my take is that Zuckerberg is still going full force ahead with MR but doesn't want to have a fiasco like the last round of publicity about "the metaverse".

I read a lot of very positive reviews so I got one and I am really impressed. It comes with a very convincing demo where cracks appear in the ceiling and walls of your room opening views onto another planet and then aliens come into your room that you have to shoot with the controllers to stuff them into a tube. I am showing this demo to people on the hopes I can sell some kind of MR exhibit to a local museum.

Karl Guttag could show that the MR quality is "awful" from an eye chart perspective but the motion-to-photon is really excellent, you can throw and catch a ball just fine wearing it, and it is totally practical to walk around the house, interact with people, read (large) text to copy, use a touchscreen, etc.

I get the feeling too that they are doing many of the right things to market it, for instance, it comes with a license for a major game that comes out in two months which will might give people who don't click with it right away a chance to re-engage. There is intensive notification based marketing with discounts and stuff which is totally textbook for a new app store and that I like at the moment but it is possible it just won't connect if the product isn't up to snuff.

I tried Horizon Worlds and ran into the problem of not being able to succeed at the fishing minigame (in real life I've only been able to catch sunfish and smelt, but you really can fill up your freezer with zero skill with the later) and also the way it is weirdly empty. I have some content that I think could be put in there which I think is often a good idea on a new platform that is heavily promoted (e.g. easy to get free publicity and other benefits from the platform) but that emptiness might mean they don't feel pressure to get content. VRChat was more fun but showed me the challenge of onboarding people to that sort of thing, I got into an entrance room where I met one person who was actually attentive and trying to communicate and I think a lot of kids who were "doing their own thing", I figured out some of how to interact in that space but the problem of "getting gud" while sharing the space with other people who might be annoyed seems tough.

If you're excited about Apple Vision I think you should be excited by this. Any thoughts? Anyone tried the MQ3? Anyone developing content for it?
Look at my reply to Gasp0de
Can you share the results of your power analysis?
I wrote most of OnlineOrNot to Daft Punk's Alive 2007 album on repeat. Parcels' Live Vol. 1 is slowly starting to replace that vibe for me.
California Supreme Court ends Disneyland's fight against Anaheim wage law
Good luck to these people, hope it turns out well. Personally, I can't imagine home-schooling kids. I neither have the time nor patience to do that, which is why I appreciate teachers.

Besides, I believe school is also a place for kids to socialize with and learn from their peers. I'm very introverted, but I think I would have ended up horribly social-wise if I was home-schooled.