skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And before HipChat there was (and still is) Flowdock [0]. I think they have the best threading model I've still seen on chat apps, so it was very weird seeing Slack get threading so wrong when there were much better examples to copy from.

I suppose Slack won that popularity race as they had a free tier; AFAIK Flowdock was always only available for a paid subscription. Slack definitely was for a long time the worse product. Though at some point much later Slack's larger dev budget finally tipped the scales in their favor I think.

[0] http://blog.flowdock.com/2009/07/05/announcing-flowdock-real...
The "pedophile scandal" was the work one fantasist, himself a pedophile, making up lies. He is currently in jail serving an 18-year prison sentence for those lies. The real scandal is the way the police behaved, harassing very elderly people who had served their country for decades with no evidence other than the ravings of an easily discredited lunatic.
I think that those can both be correct, and they were just being a little slippery with their language. During the talk they tried pretty hard to focus on saying their compute engine would pick the best hardware to run on... and I suppose if the GPU has terrible performance for eager mode, then the CPU would be the best.

However I find that quite disappointing. I hope there’s significant upgrades coming down the pipeline for when they start releasing more powerful Apple silicon based devices.
I hate the way it gets fuzzy when I erase and rewrite the same sentence over and over.

And don’t get me started on marker ink bleeding!
In the UK, I have low-cost, fast, reliable, accessible money transfers. Basic bank accounts are free, and come with reliable free instant transfers to any other UK bank. That may not be reality in all countries, but it is in many.

That's quite a high bar for rival payment methods to clear, but I think the main problem for corporate currencies like this will be rivalry from government issuers. Governments jealously guard the right to issue currency, as they rightly perceive it as one of their biggest holds over citizens. Any sufficiently powerful currency would attract their scrutiny.

I do think payments are ripe for disruption though - when money is sent over a free global network between pre-vetted partners (i.e. bank customers) there is no reason the transaction fees should be high, even internationally. I'm not clear how a blockchain based currency is going to help facilitate that, but would love to see a revolution in payments which made them simpler and not tied to archaic concepts like sort codes and account numbers, and reduced the fees charged to customers and merchants for payment networks or card issuers which don't do the hard KYC work (banks and payment processors do that).

The problems here are in verified identity tied to real people, not how to perform transactions quickly, or things like anonymous trust-free transactions which nobody actually wants.
> Then somewhere around 2014 it turned negative. I'm not sure what drove this change.

That is around when Bitcoin dropped its currency aspirations and went whole hog into being a vehicle for speculation.
The peak of this behavior led to a small war between coal miners and a sheriff and a small airforce that bombed the strikers that only ended when Warren Harding threatened to send in the military.

They ultimately lost but what happened there led to the sympathetic growth of the AFL and CIO and ultimately to the New Deal and the rise of the middle class.

They say history doesn't repeat but it rhymes. I wouldn't be surprised if the next series of pitched struggles between American owners and labor result in extreme violence also, before giving way to a system that is slightly more egalitarian.
People don't pay for privacy, that's why we have ads.

+ You can see all the transactions in bitcoin..
It’s all perspective. It changed my perspective which changes confidence.

But I am at a profitable company, in a senior role. I’ve been at a handful of unicorns. I just turned down a faang 2 weeks ago after getting an offer.
Congratulations on interviewing a majority of non urban cops. When can we expect a comprehensive write up on your findings?
This may just be to discourage you from doing it. I've been on a number of hiring committees, and job hopping was never discussed as a negative. By the time you've been on the job for 1.5 years, chances are the hiring manager and recruiter have both moved on.
The motive is to make it harder for US personnel to carry out foreign policy objectives in these nations. if a hostile foreign state can cause these symptoms without being detected, hence deniability, that’s a win for them.
which is why EM radiation alone is hard to accept, since it would be trivial to set up ultra wideband detection equipment at these locations.
likely there is much more known that is not released for security reasons.
Did you watch the video? The scenario it depicts seems fairly ludicrous and one sided. A section of the article is based on this interpretation, so I think it's fair to question it.

To be clear, I scanned the entire video but didn't watch it minute by minute, so I may have missed something. (Different from "I stopped when...") But I'm genuinely curious if anyone knows the context behind whether people asked questions because it really throws the premise into doubt.

Would be interested to get OP's take in particular, but I think I'm nested into oblivion at this point.

https://youtu.be/vjP22DpYYh8
New Stay-at-Home Order a 'Deathblow' to California's Small Businesses
I walked over 1000 miles already in 2020. I mean dedicated walking miles, not regular movement. I only discovered the joy of long walks this year. I used to drive to mountains for a hike on weekends, but now I just go out the house for a walk after lunch sometimes 1, sometimes up to 3 hours ever day if schedule permits.

I might have never felt as healthy, even though I'm also a long distance runner and exercise regularly.
> > Every job in the last 5yrs

> How many jobs have you HAD in the past 5 years?

I'm old enough to remember when having two or three two-year jobs in a row classified you as a job-hopper to employers.

These days, it seems like having several two-year stints ought to classify you as either complacent about your career progression or pretty lucky, depending.
> People being responsible for their own well-being certainly doesn't imply a dislike of safety.

Totally agree, and yeah I think "conservatives on the street" aren't really advocating for Mad Max levels of safety.

But businesses spend billions (trillions?) of dollars lobbying against regulations--regulations designed explicitly to prevent tragedies like this--and their argument largely is "the market will decide". Another way to phrase this is "people should be free to choose to live in a skyscraper clad in highly flammable material if they so choose", which is classic right to contract. So, I think it's fair to remind everyone that opposing regulations and supporting "market will decide" dynamics is core conservatism.

But beyond that, how was anyone living there supposed to know this was a problem? I'm a pretty smart software engineer and I guess I would... google around for building permits? It feels like a tall ask. Like, quick show of hands, who here knows what the wires in their walls are insulated with? Is that something we think people should know? Perfect information is just... a mythical creature.

> Allowing governments free reign to determine truth has historically led to immense suffering and hundreds of millions of documented deaths.

I think there's a middle ground here between "state propaganda machine" and "free for all". It's not censorship or propaganda to require companies to meet building codes, or to punish companies for saying they meet building codes by pointing to results of rigged tests.
> Basically, I think the underlying idea is valuable - low-cost, fast, reliable, accessible money transfers - clearly something missing right now in this world

You could also mandate that wires are free as part of necessary banking structure. I don't see why this needs a new currency at all; our financial system is shitty because there's little political control exercised on behalf of consumers.

Still, papering over the mismanagement of government with predatory private services is the theme of the future of the US. We may as well accept that we have no control.
This paragraph is paramount, coming from one of the youngest Fields Medalists and a truly trusted source. Truly honest and inspiring.

“ I have occasionally been able to be very persuasive even with wrong arguments. (Fun fact: In the selection exams for the international math olympiad, twice I got full points for a wrong solution. Later, I once had a full proof of the weight-monodromy conjecture that passed the judgment of some top mathematicians, but then it turned out to contain a fatal mistake.)”
Gold and crypto are hardly comparable. Start by factoring in all the crime & scams being done via crypto and you've got a general public practically begging for government intervention for cryptocurrencies.
Some manpages are poorly written, some are excellent. Seeking correlation in writing quality in a system where every project submits it's own content by anything other than said authors is flawed.
My (not well researched) understanding was that Racket is a popular Scheme variant. But thanks for pointing towards Chicken Scheme.
Thanks for explaining the downvotes though. I didn't realize it came off that way, but can understand.
This is where experience comes in.

You need someone in charge who can see when you REALLY need to break out the latest javascript library that was released last week vs "I'm bored and want to use something shiny at work".
They’re also apparently long range and easy to aim. I imagine agents could carry microwave detectors, though it’s not clear how long the exposure needs to last, and the only recourse seems to be running toward the interior or other side of whatever building you are in (if indoors).

That might create a lot of false positives unless calibrated correctly, so everyone would need to carry logging devices or something, and then wait for a few attacks.
Payment processors already deplatform sexually explicit content that features minors. (They also don't process payments for digital-only sexual content, likely because of high fraud and chargeback rates.) But I haven't seen PayPal fall down the slippery slope of banning kinky/less mainstream sexual content.

Right now, these payment processors are deplatforming racists and neo-Nazis who openly advocate for the creation of a white ethnostate. To assume that eventually these payment processors will be successfully pressured into deplatforming moderately-right publications like the WSJ is classic slippery-slope fallacy. There is a huge difference between believing conservative ideas and advocating for violence against ethnic minorities.

> social network Gab, which describes itself as pro-free speech but has high concentrations of toxicity.

Give me a break. Gab is a haven for white-supremacists and neo-Nazis. PayPal deplatformed Gab after a verified neo-Nazi user posted anti-semitism on the site, then shot up a synagogue killing 11 and injuring 6 [0]. "Toxicity" is terribly bad faith argument.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#2018_Pitt...
>>> Says who? Who is going to enforce some random African country that is in the middle of a civil war to have those?

> This is meant to be a completely different ecosystem, no? An ecosystem not controlled with the US. This isn't a normal financal service, it's not banking, it's outside of banking hence why it's aimed and people without banks.

Last I checked, Facebook is a US company, with a US headquarters, publicly traded on a US stock market, and with an American CEO and controlling shareholder. So, unless they all want to relocate permanently to "some random African country that is in the middle of a civil war", they're going to have to deal with US regulations.
It looks like OP is a freelancer/contractor with a DevOps focus. I can imagine a profile like that with several short term lucrative contracts.
Because corporations have become extensively global they now have extensively more reach than individual governments.

I find it is whether this is concerning to a person that typically indicates how they feel about things like in the article.

So the “solutions” are about dealing with a large quantity of multinational corporations as opposed to education or other things.

Do we continue to try to unify governments globally as was done with the EU?

Do we’re work towards international trade agreements to standardize the rules for these corporations such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

Do we limit the size vertical integration of corporations via anti-trust regulations?

There are also other potential tools, but in reality this is a difficult modern problem that will likely define the direction of the next hundred years of human history. Personally that feels important enough to me to keep an open dialogue as we search for solutions and identify specific issues to the current situation.
Diem is silent in Indonesian slang language
Ask HN: How can I monetize free desktop app?
Chicken and Cyclone share the same gc strategy.
There's no actual use-case for bitcoin anymore. The enthusiasm got diverted to blockchain aka. the technology.

Except speculation.
Guardian longread: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-...

Couple awarded £200k for wrongful arrest: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/14/gatwick-dron...

You can go hunting for the case on Bailii if you like, but what that verdict means is not only that the evidence was weak but it was inadequate to even justify an arrest.

The investigation took on a life of its own, and ultimately the police felt they had to arrest someone.
Also disturbing amounts of our economy run on top of Excel sheets with macros and VBA.

It's the one tool that is on every desktop in the company and doesn't need a 6 month procurement process. It might be shit, but it's there and it'll get the job done well enough.
"We're a creepy Orwellian company with a demonstrated record of having no morals and psychologically manipulating people not only for profit, but for sport!

Have faith and trust in our cryptocurrency!"
> my guess is if the tower wasn't in the richest neighborhood of London, the council wouldn't give a shit about its insulation and energy savings

This seems backward to me - why do you think a council with more financial pressure care less about their bottom line, and a council with less financial pressure care more?
Hmm, even though that's a bit of a stretch that actually makes sense. Also Russia seems like the only geo-political adversary that could pull this off and have a vested interest in keeping Cuba in their sphere.
I know about these two, which are made in Rust:

- https://github.com/sit-fyi/issue-tracking

- https://github.com/neithernut/git-dit

Not sure about their activity/status, but they both tried to solve this problem, they may help to widen your evaluations.
I read an interesting article the other day.

"I am always amazed by what happens: no matter how stringent I was in the original collecting, no matter how certain I was that this thing was worthwhile, I regularly eliminate 1/3 of my list before reading. The post that looked SO INTERESTING when compared to that one task I’d been procrastinating on, in retrospect isn’t even something I care about.

What I’m essentially doing is creating a buffer. Instead of pushing a new piece of info through from intake to processing to consumption without any scrutiny, I’m creating a pool of options drawn from a longer time period, which allows me to make decisions from a higher perspective, where those decisions are much better aligned with what truly matters to me."

https://medium.com/praxis-blog/the-secret-power-of-read-it-l...
My take on it is that (most) code isn't a picture, so drawing with it (alignment especially) is missing the point that code is a form of text instructions.

If anything, the editor should "render" the text in a form that is pleasant to the eye, divorcing the meaning from the presentation.

Lining up things too much is a "works for me" way of baking presentation into the data, where the writer assumes that because it looks good o their setup, it will look well for the reader too.

Similarities can be seen to building web pages on tables, sending around Word documents, or hard-wrapping emails.
My imagination is just fine, thanks.

I see a use for Bitcoin as a speculative instrument, which is how people are using it. I just don't care for that use case, and I'd rather people speculate on cold pieces of yellow rock than on proving that they can do the digital equivalent of burning car tires.
Optimizing for the wrong metric, part 1: Microsoft Word
Wiretransfer solves it much cheaper/faster
Normalization of Deviance is a fascinating topic. For those interested in reading a bit more about it there is a good article entitled

"How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance." https://fastjetperformance.com/blog/how-i-almost-destroyed-a...
Seconding the recommendation of Thinking About Things. That newsletter is really one of the internet's unknown gems - I tire of most "interesting article" curators eventually, but they cover such a diverse array of topics that it's been over a year and I still enjoy their articles.
I always think it's hilarious that people who call themselves Bitcoin enthusiasts will say things like "No one wants to live in a country where bitcoin has become vital for payments", when the original Bitcoin paper calls it "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" and the introduction quite clearly suggests that it would be better for people if they used Bitcoin to replace trust with cryptography. Please just read the first two paragraphs: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

(Or actually, read the whole thing, it's interesting, but it's obvious that the experiment really didn't turn out the way it was planned)
> People being responsible for their own well-being

It's literally impossible for a consumer to evaluate all the materials, labor, and external effects involved in all the products they encounter or are effected by. Even then, if they identify something they find unacceptable, how do they avoid it if it's related to a necessity and it's an industry standard?

How do you propose the consumer has any realistic chance of having a say in these matters other than collectively empowering a group of people to look into it and enact recommendations and rules?
> It is sickening that the US government was unable to protect its own agents for the last four years because of interference from the White House.

Citation needed.
Microwave energy probably made U.S. diplomats in Cuba ill, report finds
He's right about roasting the planet though. Scarcity without computational (and literal) power is necessary.

Maybe if we could use the inherent incalculability of the three-body problem as the basis for a cryptocurrency. You'd need to observe the universe to "find" astrocoins.

It would be Astrology on steroids.

Of course that leaves out verifiability, encryption, anonymous identity yet ownership.

What if you (somehow) knew both parts of the quantum uncertainty portions of a particle because you initiated the system. Then you could demonstrate ownership by being able to predict the location or the momentum at any time based on that.

But it would be fun to hold cryptocoins called Heisenbergs

But that is an actual physical particle.
> If you can get it anonymously, you can move it anywhere you want as long as you stay on the blockchain

Q: Is this fundamentally different to having a suitcase full of cash?
The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point
> That is around when Bitcoin dropped its currency aspirations and went whole hog into being a vehicle for speculation.

Was that when we started to see all the scammy pump and dump schemes around random new cryptocurrencies as well?
State of the Octoverse (GitHub)
> LA's climate is fine for regular outdoor dining all year.

It gets cold even in LA

The weather report for Sunday 12/6/2020 says the temperature in Los Angeles will be 60F at 6pm - and it’s not winter yet
Forced choices reveal a trade-off between cognitive effort and physical pain
Speculation from actual victims suggests it was intimidation from Russian agents who knew there would be no response as long as Trump was in the White House.

Some victims were approached by the Russians and told to go back to the US immediately before (within a day or two) of the attacks.

Such warnings are apparently extremely unusual, and a violation of professional etiquette between the US and Russian intelligence agencies.
Also, I'm hired to do a job. Around 1-2 year long job. I finish it and move on to what excites me next. My best hiring/HR managers and recruiters understand this, it makes our cooperation a bliss.
They are. Monero and other privacy coins have features built in. But the ability for anyone to generate addresses anywhere adds for some level of privacy. The only way to identify the owner of an address is to have concrete information linking a person to an address.
Cubans want the Americans to leave Cuba.
1) think of it as a centralized database that needs replication, you’d be a bit worried if this central place got attacked, so then you need some gossip-based protocol in place to allow some users to police the system. Consensus is a simple one because it allows most users to trust that consensus was agreed on correctly, as opposed to systems like transparency protocols that require users to more willingly engage in policing.

2) it is tied to non profits as well! The whole point is to fund this project by companies, no a company

3) we will support single currencies (a USD coin, for example)

4) that’s what we’re working on!
I have one at home as a TV, four at work as dashboard displays for live data. No other affiliation.

https://www.swedx.se/#horizontalTab2
Illegal how? LinkedIn is no more official than fortnight.
Why do people install GeForce Experience in the first place?
Maybe pressure from constituents to stop wasting money on projects for undesirable folk.

At least, that's what I would expect here in the USA.
Yes. To achieve privacy and fungibility, one would need to use something like Monero instead.
Microsoft was using per team stack ranking, Google global stack ranking. That's a huge difference I think. The problem is that the managers go to the promotion commitees and started exchanging promotions with eachother, so the system that was working before doesn't work anymore.
I don’t see how exposing a corporate scandal helps politicians whose job it is to pass laws to keep this kind of thing from happening. The article itself says that these companies sold their products in the UK because the regulations were lagging behind. Can’t it be both a government and a corporate scandal?
>The Russians definitely were working on this fifty years ago, and it produced symptoms consistent with many independent reports from US agents and people that suffered collateral damage

The twitter thread mentions this. It involved a bombardment of microwave rays that was detected. How would a similar attack evade detection now?

>The twitter thread’s main objection seems to be that the US is not publishing plans describing the secret Russian weapon.

Even without publishing the plans, if you think a microwave weapon caused this event you should be able to explain how it would function.

>Now that he’s on the way out, it’s not surprising they’re beginning to take action.

Taking action is a report that took months to complete with no strong conclusion?
The use case is decentralized digital gold.
That is a personal decision. It may or may not be a rational decision, but depends on short and long term goals, and one's self-awareness and self-honesty.

It becomes very quickly a real-life game of "would you do X for Y money? ".

Saying "I wouldn't use a linked in hashtag for $10k/year (25k a year? 100k a year?) " is a pretty strong principle.