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Grindr devs did ("large"). Announced intention to unionize in July of 2023. In August 2023, the gay republican CEO then made a RTO requirement to force all of engineering to Chicago, after hiring everyone as remote first for years. But designers and project managers would be forced to move to LA.

The union filed an unfair labor practice with the NLRB, but that process has dragged for over a year, even after the union successfully won their vote AFTER the purge.

Why don't workers unionize? Because management can fire them right away with repurcussions only after years, if that, and even then, the repurcussions aren't to the CEO who broke the law. Breaking labor laws should put executives in prison, but noooo, instead penalties are paid by the company and the CEO's move to another company to do the same illegal shit.

The government agencies must move faster if they want to protect workers. Delays only help management, who still get salaries throughout and are never actually punished or face any negative consequences.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mq4y/grindr-unlawfully-pur...

https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/grindr-workers-united-cw...
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That might be the point of the statue; I don't know. But equally the point of the pyramids might've been to ensure the world venerated the Pharoahs for eternity, and that's not happening today. I don't see why a landmark would have legal force.
It's fairly difficult to do American news, centered around American politics and American culture, from not-America. This, at least, applies to editors and journalists. But for tech, I'd imagine they need quite a bit of context too.
If Douglas Adams owned the Apricot before the Macintosh then it would have been an 8086+8089 one, they were reliable. His writing suggested that he only used Macs after getting the first one.
Yes, but they tend to be 'off' in quite different ways. Crumb's father was the kind of hyper-repressed figure who for most of us nowadays only exists as a boogeyman character in fiction, but who was much more of a reality in the pre-1970 world.
I'm finishing my PhD in hyperpolarization (hopefully) soon. In my opinion, hyperpolarization will significantly contribute to early-stage diagnosis. We're designing machines, processes, and chemicals that create novel contrast agents for MRI, enabling the localization of cancer cells and even tracking their metabolism. For example, it's possible to inject hyperpolarized pyruvate and track its conversion to lactate. Essentially, this technique boosts the MRI/NMR signal of the contrast agent by up to 100,000-fold. When the contrast agent undergoes metabolism, it creates a unique signal footprint through chemical shift changes, which can aid in characterizing cancer.
Have you ever used GNUstep?
dayum that was weird to learn.
> I don't expect them to replace transformers until they make some hypothetic breakthrough

Yes, a breakthrough that does what Self-Attention is doing, rather than just scaling up.
He is a man who might be considered the musical godfather to perhaps millions of children throughout the years. He sure could set a mood.
>advertisement is the engine of free market

Repeating something ad nauseam does not make it true.

Advertising is just attempted demand generation for otherwise weak product offerings, a ploy to exploit human psychology by appealing to needs to be part of an in group, desire for sexual appeal. It is exploitative and harmful to its viewers.

Hows that for a claim?
Same. My boy pug dying in 2019 was so distressful that I was coughing up blood the following morning. My father had a massive heart attack a couple months later and I was still numb to the point where I couldn't process it emotionally.

For some, esp. those who choose to be childless, a relationship like that is probably the closest we'll come.

I was happy the startup I worked at during that time allowed me to take a week off as sick pay... sent flowers with a handwritten note from our HR leader the following morning, but I opted to come back after a couple days as I needed to take my mind off things.
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What other spies do we have a choice of?
The technical reason is sending a message is free.

The non-technical reason is companies prefer to keep the majority of the advertising money instead of pay users with it. Users don't complain and don't try alternative services.
the logo is one of the best ever made.
I think Boeing developers might be part of their engineers union.

Tech companies tend not to unionize, because most developers don't see net gain to be had from unionizing. Most unions end up serving the interest of the union instead of the company, and enact things like seniority based pay and promotion. There's just too much incentive to cater towards interest of mediocre employees in a union model.

Another big factor in software development is that the jobs are comfortable and pay very well. So lots of people would happily apply to the job. IIRC, it's something like a 40:1 ratio of applicants to offers at big tech companies.
Here is a cool video of Herbie Hancock explaining his synthesizer / recording computer setup to Jones: https://old.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/sswplq/herbi...
As a dancer I had hoped from the title that the article would be a discussion of the death of dance in clubs.

It alludes to the record being popular on dancefloors but given that most these days are full of people waving their phones packed tight as sardines, or tiny spaces full of drunks and lechers none of whom can dance in either case, it seems a moot point that it's still popular...
Wow thats an interesting use case. Check out the readme - it explains how you could build your custom agents.
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And the customers don't like it, they can stop paying.

Seems like a risk to the author. Keeping existing customers is typically easier than getting new ones.
I got an immediate answer with a solution from the upstream developer when I asked about it: I can't imagine how that could have been easier to solve. And it was also trivial to hack around by leaving the entry out of fstab and mounting it in a script.
10 years ago was a very different time...
This is one of my favorite hits from the era. It's a masterpiece.
Yeah it's a good point about email.

To be clear I'm not currently hosting my own homeserver, these days I just use matrix.org.

Hope to self host again once I can find some time.
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These are NYC tech workers. "Food" isn't broccoli beef stir fry at home for $8. It's dinner at Del Frisco's for $300.

You need to understand that when people bitch about the "cost of living", they're not speaking in broad terms. They're speaking in specific terms, inclusive of their insane budgetary choices that they believe are mandatory to be seen as high-status.

Yes, you can live just fine on the median income. But in order to have your ego stroked as the super important high class person that you obviously are, you have to spend some money. Choosing to live in NYC in the first place is certainly part of that, the rest is just gravy.
Oh, I absolutely agree. I just think the idea of us being "full" is completely wrong.
This isn't Extortion because there's no gun to your head saying you HAVE to provide labor. At least in most industries. If I choose not to help you, I'm not extorting anything - you're free to find someone else. If you can't, and I'm your only option, that's still your problem, not mine.
You're talking about browser-based Web apps. I'm talking about Electron desktop apps and NPM-based programs.

And I'm not calling out "bundlers". You said that. I mentioned Babel and Webpack in the context of software that is crummy.

Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899671>

> You're having a terrible experience because you're interacting with terrible software. It doesn't matter that it's written in JS (or quasi-JS). Rewrite these implementations all in other languages, and the terrible experience will remain.
I'm quoting the NYT's coverage of their own profitable quarter.

Net income seems to be healthy, too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/04/earns-new...
Nope, I don't have a particular view on what would be adequate compensation, although I'm reflexively with labor. But it might get to the heart of why people do what they do. Why go on strike when the math says you're being payed above average on a nationwide basis? People are funny that way. Very few are calculators, they're just people.
I didn't realize how bad it was until I recently looked into doing a Python Qt application. There's two competing Python language bindings for Qt: PyQt and PySide. The latter appears more free and active, so that seemed the way to go.

They have a compatibility matrix. It's mostly red.
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python#Python_compatibility_matrix

How do you even make your stuff dependent on/broken with specific Python versions? I mean how in hell?

The fact that venv is so widely used in Python was always an indication that not all was well dependency-wise, but it doesn't seem like it's optional anymore.
IPv6 NAT is also useful because the /48 IP block I get from my ISP may change. I switched from DSL to Fiber and I got a different IPv6 block. But because if that, I also needed to update IPv6 addresses to my local DNS server (which needs to work across VLANs - so link-local address is not an option there). With NAT66 I could just assign a private address space to my LAN and have it only translate it externally to WAN.
You're absolutely right. Purchasing power has shifted in just a couple of decades
> What is less well known is Quincy Jones’ involvement with computing.

Also, he worked on debt forgiveness in African countries.

Also, he studied music composition with Nadia Boulanger (who taught Aaron Copland and many other classical composers) and studied harmony with Olivier Messiaen.

Also, he wrote the television theme song to Red Foxx's "Sanford and Son," plus a lot of other popular themes.

In fact, every time someone is about to get killed in Kill Bill[1], you hear a sample of music written by Quincy Jones.

1: except for Bill.
Maybe for 1 day -- perhaps this is a case where homeopathy actually works, and spending half-an-hour in the office once provides the best results of all.
Bell Canada buys Northwest telecom company Ziply Fiber for $5B
The fastest realistic hash is o1hash with 11.629.440 MiB/sec. The typical crypto hash is 100—200 MiB/sec. Thats about 10.000x faster.

A modern AES-NI hash is 30.000 MiB/s. That's about 50x faster than blake3 or siphash13. And also not reversible.
Ok, and if I asked a random member of the public for the name of a mathematician (excepting Turing, for clarity) what name do you think they would come up with? Pythagoras? Euler? Erdős?

I think the reality is that only a very small number of scientists, mathematicians, and similar are household names.
Found the typo too late for an edit:

$1.10B * 10% / 815000kW = $135
I personally could live off less than €1k/month for everything, before buying a house that reduced my costs by around €400/month.

Just because it's possible, doesn't mean most are willing to take the set of preferences in my head that allows me to be so cheap and rewire their own brains like that.
Tech generates more money than the Times.

It's the journalists that create the content for the tech end. Without them, there would be no Times tech employees.
I'm concerned about the performance for small hosts, which I tried and gave up.

it seems both Dendrite (go) and Conduit (rust) are STILL not in a state for prime time.
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Well, yes, but that's typically how progress works in any field.
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Isn't that just because they haven't made a blockbuster feature film about him yet?
Mendielian randomization to the rescue!
>Nah this is just false.

What is false?

I didn't make any claims other than saying that in my circles I see some of my friends and colleagues have trouble making it by on $70k. I'm not sure how you would be able to tell me that I'm wrong about that. I'm happy that you are able to make it on $70k, though.
I reckon people want to be paid as much as they can bargain for, regardless of their relative income level. Besides, it's not just about pay, it's often about working conditions.
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1% is a ton. 1% is crazy. Visa owns the world off just a 3% tax on everything else. Brokers make billions off of just 1% or even far less.

1% of all activity is only rational if you get more than 1% of all activity back out from those times and places where it was used.

1%, when it's of everything, is an absolutely stupendous collossal number that is absolutely crazy to try to treat as trivial.
How do you constrain the window size of a terminal?
>> If you take nothing else away from this post, take this: a sufficiently skilled manager can take the same body of work and make it work for you OR against you.

This is pretty much the only thing that matters (unless you are really at one of the far extremes of the ability bell curve).

>>About a year ago, I finally came to the conclusion that I would not put anything on a performance review writeup for a coworker that could ever be used against them.

When I was a contractor, I was occasionally asked for feedback from permanent employee managers. As if I would say anything bad, even if I hated them.
> if I remember correctly, he was on the board of former Xerox PARC researcher Alan Kay’s Viewpoints Research Institute

Alan Kay knew him from before then. On Kay Savetz's podcast, one of Alan Kay's researchers at Atari (Donald Dixon) in the early eighties recounted meeting Quincy Jones when he was being shown around the lab.

https://youtu.be/q3cwZaofB68?t=1236
// 2. 1.5k rent for a studio in a good safe location with utilities

I actually can't think of an EU Capital where that's achievable anymore, bar possibly the socialist outlier of Vienna. In Dublin a good studio is at least 2k, and you'll pay 52% tax on earnings over €70k as well...
As someone who has both built and used different off the shelf tracking tools I've always found that they were terrible for evaluating individuals but great for evaluating teams (and by proxy the manager).
As a young Gen Xer it's fun to go back and listen to radio hits I heard growing up (on mostly terrible sound systems playing radio or cassette tapes) using modern audio hardware. There's a lot of depth in many tracks that I couldn't really appreciate at the time, because even a half-decent sound system was the kind of luxury I (or my parents) wouldn't have splurged on.
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I’ve seen another loophole here. The pre-layoff restructuring that moves low performers into a restructured business vertical that is intentionally designed to look like it’s all economics for this purpose but really functions as a purge.
I appreciate your honesty, that's not easy to admit even on anon forums. You seem to evaluate it correctly. Just one thing - if work is such shit ie due to manager, just leave, you don't own them nothing. First try to talk to manager that this doesn't work and what can be improved to bring out your potential, but in any case search of another job should run in parallel.

I've seen so many brilliant people stuck in jobs they didn't like or even hated, when it would be trivial for them to stand up and go to next door. Yet they didn't. Don't be that guy.
If you need metrics to see an employee isn't doing what you assigned to them, what are you even being paid to do?
Buckle up admins – Windows Server 2025 officially hits GA
I'd investigate getting a build out to Node.js (looks like you already have this) and then just doing a simple SCP of the build to a VPS. From there, just use a systemd script to handle startup/restart on errors. For logging, something like the Winston package does the trick.

If you want some guidance, shoot me an email (in profile). You can run most stuff for peanuts.
> War crimes have entered the chat.

Good point, but I believe war crimes mainly come when you substitute ‘a people’ for ‘a person’ in:

> "Unfair" is in there. If you are competing against a person who will pull out all the stops against you, then there is nothing unfair about pulling out all the stops against them.

But I did specifically mean a person, just one. (I also was envisioning, like, struggling for top spot in a class, not struggling to take San Juan Hill. But I'm not immediately sure I can sign on to an ethical principle that says that you are not entitled to respond to one specific competitor with as much fierceness as they bring to the competition, even when that competition becomes deadly.)
Oh so maybe 0.01% of the population will even recognize his name
>10 years ago was a very different time...

Indeed. When tech workers actually had some bargaining power. The rise of remote work, AI, and the flooding of the industry with bootcamp and CS grads has changed everything. We'll probably look back at the last 20 years as a golden age akin to the postwar manufacturing boom in the US, where a single person could reasonably provide for a family.
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Thanks for mentioning that! One of my libraries does a 3 day code. It looks reasonably insecure and scriptable to fetch since it is hard coded as a hidden element in the page that opens the NYT page upon successful login.
It's all about rent. If you've lived somewhere a while and have rent control, or you have roommates, or an unorthodox living situation (e.g. no kitchen), or can find a below-market unit, or some combination of those, you can survive on FAR less than someone who is moving to the city today and signing a new lease on a market-rate 1-bedroom apartment.
`grid-template-columns: max-content 1fr;` is preventing the text from wrapping in `header` elements. Should be a simple fix, but it'd definitely loose some points from me.
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The thing you always need to keep in mind about CPI is that it’s a weighted average for the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Like, retirees in Florida who own their own homes have a very different relationship with prices than young renters in NYC. It really only makes sense to use CPI and other inflation figures when you’re talking about the whole country.
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Absolutely, pet bereavement should be taken seriously. Losing a pet can be one of the most devastating experiences, often comparable to losing a close family member. Pets are part of our daily lives, routines, and emotional support systems
Don't underestimate how someone's feeling about something animates their actions about the same thing.
And the reason they suck is the feedback loop is just too high as compared to running it locally. You have to jump through hoops to debug/troubleshoot your code or any issues that you come across between your code and output of your code. And it's almost impossible to work on things when you have spotty internet.
I haven't worked on extremely sensitive data but for PII data from prod to dev, scrubbing is a good practice to follow. This will vary based on the project/team you're on of course.
Wow! I too would like to know more about his involvement with computing. Anyone have any pointers?
Performance problems matter to the people who have them, who often are in an inconvenient place. Having the ability for profiling to just work means that it's easy to help these people.
I like to think of Science and Nature as good molecular biology journals that, for some reason, run papers in other fields (physics, social sciences) that come to outrageous conclusions. In those fields it’s like they run the papers that fail peer review for The National Enquirer.
I appreciate you for joining in solidarity.
I wasn't ready to despair but now I am.
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Sounds like a recipe for permanent lawyer employment.
that's a pretty localized in time issue re: used cars. There's still covid supply issues being felt in the downstream used market as a result of underproduction for 2+ years.

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/spotlight-new-york-citys...
Here’s a fun link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38035628/c-why-did-ansi-...
Performance reviews can definitely be used for ill, at the same time I think it's valuable to have some mechanisms in place to make sure people are accountable. Generally if one person is slacking off, being sloppy, or just plain not doing the job it puts even more pressure on those who do which isn't fair and tends to burn out the people picking up the slack.

What systems do people see in practice that keep folks accountable? What works?
Also the tech team at NYT is co-innovating with the business and journalism sides. Their work is highly ambiguous and changing year to year as they move their capabilities forward. That can't be outsourced or it undermines the strategy. NYT could build that capacity over time in another location that's cheaper but it would still need to be tightly integrated (i.e. employees).
Without context, not very meaningful. Does this simple measure lines of code? Characters written? Is it “oversuggesting” code that it shouldn’t be confident in? Does this code make it into production or is a large percentage of it fixed by humans at great cost?

Google, and really, the whole financial machine has a vested interest playing up the potential of AI. Unfortunate that it isn’t being given time to grow organically.
fwiw the housing price index in New York has actually seen lower increase since 2000 than the rest of the country

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYXRSA

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA

The same is also true if you use 2005 or 2009 as your start date. I agree there is variance in theory, but in practice it has been about the same as the national.
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It would be great if you can make it android basd also