skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concerns are that it will have licensing requirements to be a computer programmer. Also I like to work a few years and then take like a year off, I don’t think unions allow for this not working all the time structure.
Because gas and other fossil fuels are inelastic - it's expensive to turn them off or on, and it can't be done rapidly. The fact that wind can be turned on or off at will means they can be used to balance demand spikes.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-08-25-060825...

Reminds me of when Google was in danger of being a mutual fund for having too much cash
Slack most likely has more US customers but

- Revenue is not same as users. Slack have tons of free users and some countries also has lower priced plans.

- Many companies like Amazon etc. probably is counted as US revenue for Slack but they have more than 30% of their employees outside the US. This should not be huge numbers but significant.
"engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better"."

That's only collective bargaining if a lot of them leave en masse (ie. collectively), and for the same issue(s). To do that effectively they'd need to organize, coordinate their efforts, and speak as one voice: in other words, they'd need to unionize.

Leaving one at a time, for different issues is not collective bargaining, it's individual bargaining, so not at all comparable to a union.
The evidence for the effectiveness of the vaccine is stronger than this: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.08.20222638v...
It's not anti-union FUD. Unions killed housing bills in California this past year.
Using Xephyr in that way is essentially the same thing as client rendering. (Xephyr draws the whole framebuffer and then sends that)
NatWest Group | London/Edinburgh | VISA | Data Scientists and Data Engineers (multiple levels)

NatWest Group operates a wide variety of banking brands offering personal and business banking, private banking, insurance and corporate finance. We have several data science and engineering positions available to work on some very interesting problems from fraud detection, understanding our customers better and climate impact.

https://jobs.natwestgroup.com/jobs/6019222-data-scientist
https://jobs.natwestgroup.com/jobs/5885319-data-engineer
Yup I have spoken to them about that as well however that move wont be for a while
> Facebook decided they don't want to be a part of this type of content distribution

Isn't that a slippery slope? In my country, Facebook decided not to ban some right-wing posters for hate speech because the right-wing in power had managed to get one of their OWN into Facebook, who "advised" Facebook that fighting hate-speech from such people would adversely affect Facebook operation in India as the government in power won't be happy about it. This person also got Facebook to take down opposition ads during the elections, thus harming their electoral prospects.

Source: Facebook and Narendra Modi: How FB’s policy head in India allowed a BJP politician to spread hate online so that it would not hurt its “business prospects” - https://churumuri.blog/2020/08/15/facebook-and-narendra-modi...
Glad I can tick off 'comment that rephrases first sentence of the article' from todays HN bingo
Oh, the perils of having a 600k TC job and having to step down to a job only clearing 250k while you climb the ladder again. Oh those poor senior Google SWEs.

That’s not being trapped. That’s being greedy. There’s nothing wrong with trying to preserve massive TCs with the WLB of Google but let’s not pretend there is actually any plight here.
Yeah, I do this all the time. I don't want to be bothered on the weekend, so I push releases at the beginning of the week when possible.
> have to admit I don't fully get the "bling" thing for PCs

Me neither. Today it's hard to find TVs that are just TVs and not smart TVs and similar thing is happening in the PC builders ecosystem. Built a new desktop computer recently, and had to spend more time searching for things that don't have RGB things in them, seems most components nowadays have some sort of RGB lights in them, even when it's completely not needed.

Back in my day, people used to buy strips of RGB lights to add to their setup, so us normal, non-RGB people could still buy the same components. Today, it's a lot harder to find stock CPU fans that don't ship with RGB lights...
I have definitely worked in places where the times right before and right after a change freeze were the most unstable, so that could be it. However, as others have mentioned, it's pretty early on the west coast of the US. Unless some engineer was up extra early (perhaps at the behest of an anxious project manager) it seems unlikely to be a release.

What it could be is some engineer somewhere coming in after the holiday, noticing a slightly flaky thing, and thinking, "I'll reboot/redeploy/refresh this thing so the flakiness doesn't get worse". Only it turns out the flaky thing was a signal of something else falling over. Or maybe the redeploy was the wrong version because of bad CI/CD, or maybe the person just fat-fingered it.
This is an excellent reminder of the danger of being locked into closed systems.

I wonder how many companies (like mine) have literally ground to a halt because of this? Do other companies have a risk-documented backup plan B for times like this? Presumably the default is for everyone to resort to email?

More worryingly is the number of ChatOps processes and alerting/observability systems that are in place around Slack.

Not being able to chat with co-workers for an hour or two is fine, but not being able to safely manage CI/CD/deployments is a big risk.
My lower back wishes to dispute posted title...
> Believing that inflation rates in the next years won't spike as a result requires an amount of trust even more artificially inflated than the USD today.

Or just a basic understanding of monetary economics... the Fed's actions aren't an exogenous variable, they were taken precisely because of deflationary expectations in the market.
Let's make this simpler and more accessible. You are the CEO of Google you wake up on March 1, 2020 and realize that a malware worm is spreading across your servers, damaging systems and in some cases even the hardware. The long term impact on the systems that are infected and later recovered is unclear but early evidence already suggests it's not good. Do you:

(a) Drop everything and concentrate all your resources on containing and eradicating the worm, using all available internal and external methods.

(b) Tell each department head that the worm is their problem and continue to pretend that it's business as usual. The subcontractors will figure this out because it's in their best interest to do so. Free market works.

If you choose (b) please show your work.
Every idea I brought to market and my notes of ideas I keep all come from things I have encountered through talking with other people or directly myself. Sitting down and dreaming up ideas is pretty idealistic but it generally doesn't result in successful products. Even things like the automobile were an evolution type product, not a from scratch thought process. So you need to be out experiencing life, talking to people and finding pain points that have a market to sell into. Write down those things over time, take the ones that look promising and go deeper and talk to people about them, explore what type of market might exist and then you settle on ideas.

In my notes I have more ideas then time now cause everywhere I go I see things that could be solved. Just many of them are not worth enough to do as a business, others that are worth it require significant capital (so more due diligence to explore there) and still others I am exploring myself deeper all the time. But you'll find when you stop trying to dream up fancy new ideas and start looking at processes and pains
around you and in other peoples lives, businesses etc you'll find an unlimited supply of ideas. Some of those ideas are incremental, others are transformative and either can be lucrative and fun.
Your credentials aren’t what prevent you from being a fool or an idiot. However, your bizarre beliefs surely put you in that category.
The claim isn't that the explanation is incorrect or based on a faulty premise, they're saying that there was no explanation at all.

Maybe they're right about FB incorrectly flagging their ads, I'm not in a position to judge. However, they're making a misleading claim by saying this happened without explanation and leading with the image showing no Page Quality violations, since the affiliated Freebies page did apparently have numerous violations.
Don’t the charges at least need to be credible?
For all those doing math and commenting regarding Facebook revenues vs this ad spend while you do your math keep in mind that Facebook revenues are reported in US dollars and the $57M mentioned in this article is Canadian dollars.
You might have to buy Devon's truck and hire Bonnie for a while.
On the other hand, it may potentially "kickstart innovation". The driven engineers will be more likely to flee to smaller companies where they can work their magic.
You can’t compare pearl to apples , and he does
Again, let me preface that I'm playing devil's advocate, but one could argue that constituency is also the name of the game in China: it may sound crazy to us over this side of the pond, but a lot of mainland chinese people actually support the CCP.

Both there and here, there's political work being done, each with their own ideas of what is best for their people. We can argue that their great firewall effort is oppressive for example, but on the other hand, they are probably more than happy the US has outsourced manufacturing to China to such an extensive degree. Both countries ostensibly "work as intended". I guess the end result of all that work still remains to be seen.

Another point that I think is worth pondering about is whether majority opinion is necessarily correct. The US response to covid, for example, has been all over the place, with places like San Francisco, CA being more strict and successful, to places like Minot, ND being hit really hard.

Like you, I'm also all for pragmatism, but I think things like the early perception of the epidemic in the west shows that sometimes the right course of action might sometimes fly in the face of public opinion.
> In the era of the gold standard, there were no great depressions

Apart from this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

> "The gold standard was the primary transmission mechanism of the Great Depression"
I found this last week and was really happy to come across it. I ditched Windows for my main desktop/gaming machine in 2020 partially because there are some fantastic open source projects that replace many of the Windows vendor-specific utilities that look like they were designed by teenagers in the 90s.

https://github.com/libratbag/piper is another great example that handles mouse configuration.
> French intelligence agencies said he was probably dead for at least 7 years

All I have been able to find was 1 French newspaper publishing what it claimed was a French intelligence report that simply noted that Saudi intelligence agencies believe bin Laden had died in 2006. The report seems to have been immediately noted by the French president as not being confirmed. Furhtermore, in 2010 a recording of bin Laden threatening France was confirmed as genuine by the French Foreign Ministry, showing that French intelligence services still considered it at least possible that he was still alive.
I will -- I'm also working on building some specialized displays -- it's a huge project to get right.
The patents on FAT32 are now fully expired, including the final lingering LongFileName one.

Therefore FAT32 will remain preferred until the patents expire on exFAT, even though the specification for exFAT has been released, things like that have proven to be not good enough until after the patents expire.

The purpose of exFAT appears mainly to be an attempt to foist a new encumbered filesystem on developers now that the first mainstream Microsoft filesystem is in the public domain.

We will know when Microsoft has reduced their anti-user stance on filesystems after they have released very detailed full NTFS specifications in the most useful way possible.

Also I have the greatest respect for Dave, and like he mentioned he was only doing the UI not the bitmoving of the actual Format process.

Those who were developing the NT version of FAT32 formatting failed in much more serious ways where Dave did not.

The inconsistency compared to FAT32 formatted by W9x is actually intolerable.

Best reliability still requires booting to the DOS from W98SE to properly format FAT32.
Apparently this is a Members-only union. They are different than classic teamster/boilermaker/machinist unions most people think of.

Unless the law or NLRB has recently changed its position, employers do not have to bargain with members-only unions. Though they can if they want.

https://prospect.org/justice/labor-crossroads-defense-member...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members-only_unionism
The Orwellian part is people talking as though it’s a fact that Apple is overstating something.

As far as I can see that’s bullshit.

They say what they are measuring, and people do check it.

They’d be open to straight up legal action from both customers and shareholders if they were lying.
Supply shock. Take a minute and read about S2F:

https://link.medium.com/IeD1uR5y5ab
Neither of those things apply to Google.
- Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time
- Bitcoin was less volatile than AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility)
- Bitcoin becomes less risky over time (since despite increased incentives to "hack" it, no exploits happened)

My dude bitcoin dropped 20% last night. I'd run those numbers again if I were you.
> Shared.com is in the business of producing and distributing crap content. ...

> They just aren't going to bring themselves down to the level... and I don't blame them.

Without being familiar with Shared, I'm willing to take you at your word on the company. I do question your conclusion though. I've seen no indications that Facebook has any standards and if anything they seem to promote crap content not bury it. If it drives engagement and doesn't bring legal trouble to their doorstep, Facebook seems to be all over it.

Which makes me think there is something else going on here.
The vaccine won't be available to 10% of the world's population for at least 1 year.
Here is a good comparison:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1345757893161754624?s=20
I agree, but those are not in contradiction. 1000x affordable vaccine is still an order of magnitude more affordable than 100x affordable vaccine.
See https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/a/3680
Germany's concept of unions are far better than the American model that just ends up controlled by mafia families (they still are in NY) or union administration that pad their salaries because the way unions are structured and protected by the NRLB basically encourages hostile centralization.
I use this software, to disable all RGB lighting. Very handy.
> In the era of the gold standard (before the Federal Reserve 'changed' it), there were depressions, but they were quite brief (usually a few months); there were no great depressions or great recessions

You mean The Great Depression of 1929 wasn’t a great depression?
now do one for "critical race theory"
I personally have found that one of Discords major shortcomings is the lack of support for threaded message chains. For those times when you may have 2+ parallel conversations in a channel you end up dramatically reducing the ability to effectively communicate.
>The gains can be explained by nothing else than mania and speculation

And almost 22 billion fake tether dollars injected into the space.
Yes - I wondered if they took some servers down prior to the break as a cost saving measure, and forgot to reinstate them.
Just wanted to come here and say, hey! How is everyone doing? How was your Holiday break?
I wondered about getting credits for the outage but you can't view the SLA page because the app is down.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/terms/service-level-agreement
> It reflects pretty badly on Microstrategy that a speculative investment of theirs outpaced their core business. Publicly traded software companies aren't hedge funds, they're not supposed to be making the kind of investments that can do that.

We have a different vision of what traded companies do.

For me, a traded company gives either a dividen, or shows a pattern of growth that is reflected in the share price - in either case, it will give me profits in the end, which is all I care about. I do not care about the "how" - that's the CEO and board job. I care about the profits. And so do you if you are not retired, because without profit, you won't be employed by this company for long.

A company that can adapt to a new trend, cut out bad lines of business, and give me more profit is a company I can consider for investment.

All that matters is the bottomline! Unfortunately many people here focus on useless things like technical debt or CICD pipelines, while they are just tools.
I think even Bernie was against TPP, not just Trump.

The situation could be similar to the idea that you gave unfair terms to a business partner and felt robbed. So you found other business partners and signed the same terms with them, basically to spite/limit the original business partner. But now you are still being robbed, even faster infact, and by multiple people, and no way of recourse, as you just signed that deal!
I would think that number will be updated once the fire is put out.
Can't handle the post-holiday surge, or people wanted to justify their long holiday and pushed something only to witness their holiday optimism head-crashing on the surface of the reality?
> But if it's an entirely new asset class and can't be simplified into any narrower definition, how do I figure out what a reasonable price is or what numbers I should put on my accounting statements?

Two words: digital gold
You're not supposed to do that today, either.
When I built a new PC recently, I got RGB everything. I just keep it all set to a dark blue. I think it looks nice, that's really all there is to it.
> correction of my sloppy wrong comments (wrong numbers).

It was not completely wrong. Being an employee gives you those benefits (eg you can stretch parental leave to 2yrs with part time work, the minimum vacation is 24 days instead of 30, but there's unlimited sick leave), and it is incomparable to the ridiculous PTO/PSL system in the US.

However, companies by and large only do this due to external pressure (govt, unions, competition), not any kind of inherent cultural benevolence.

In tech/engineering, this typically means that instead of direct hiring, hiring through agencies where people are regularly rotated out of projects to not have to become permanent employees, and without the regular benefits of the host company. Freelance tech work is actually becoming rare because German law has Duck Typing for determining employment status, so if you're de facto salaried, and the govt finds out, both the employer and employee suddenly owe all the relevant employment taxes, even years back, and because this has been abused and has been cracked down on, nowadays getting freelance work is difficult.

Of course, that somehow didn't stop companies from trying to pull the same scam with "gig economy" BS on the lowest paid workers the past few years.
ad people hate it when they become useless

american companies still hate the success of spotify

the music industry is bad
Anything that a person finds useful (or, more strictly, that a person can trade) can be an asset. Bitcoin is a new type of asset that has properties never seen before. That is what my point is, that they new properties are being discounted heavily by the author as they try to force it into a traditional asset to make a shaky comparison.
The Uber incident has been known for almost a year. There are other instances, mostly undisclosed audits which have shown similar results. One audit revealed $220m in ad spend for a global brand with a +$500m budget had no impact on their results, it was vapor. On the finding of these results, they didn't want public embarrassment or the hit to their share price.

Not everyone in the industry is fraud, not everyone in the industry is a huckster. But most of the industry is people talking up their game and creating a facade, from Brand CMOs to Pubs gaming their performance numbers. Fraud can be reduced, but few want to engage in the rigor and even less want to recognize actual/validated performance when the current fiction suits their purposes more easily.
I’m not even in health care and I have a reasonable understanding of how dna, rna, translation and transcription work. Do nurses not learn this stuff?
It's really just this. All the crypto maximalism comes from people who forgot to attend ECON-101.

They see the big scary market, they don't understand it, and are trying to re-invent it from first principals. As such they're just speedrunning the history of finance, and quickly finding themselves exactly where they started.

They are the anti-vaxxers of finance.
Which could theoretically be done today but then you'd be a tenant of Musk. I really think the idea of mesh networks is great for neighborhoods but can it be extended to a global-scale network (well ... continent scale until there's a personal communication mechanism that will cross oceans)?

EDIT: This was posted on today's "Who is hiring?" thread - not really p2p Internet but ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25633106
Its especially strange when you think about how unoriginal Slack's product domain is, and how comparable, and in some cases small, their userbase is.

* iMessage, which likely handles something in the range of 750M-1B monthly actives.

* WhatsApp, 2B users [1], though no clarity on "active" users.

* Telegram, 400M monthly actives [2]

* Discord, 100M monthly actives [3]

* Slack, 12M daily actives [4]

* Teams, which is certainly more popular than Slack, but I shudder to list it because its stability may actually be worse.

The old piece of wisdom that "real-time chat is hard" is something I've always taken at face-value as being true, because it is hard, but some of the most stable, highest scale services I've ever interfaced with are chat services. iMessage NEVER goes down. I have to conclude that Slack's unacceptable instability, even relative to more static services like Jira, is less the product of the difficulty of their product domain, and moreso something far deeper and more unfixable.

I would not assume that this will improve after they are fully integrated with Salesforce. If your company is on Slack, its time to investigate an alternative, and I'm fearful of the fact that there are very few strong ones in the enterprise world.

[1] https://blog.whatsapp.com/two-billion-users-connecting-the-w...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/24/telegram-hits-400-million-...

[3] https://wersm.com/discord-reaches-100m-monthly-active-users-...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/slack-says-it-crossed-12-mil... (this was also announced on Slack's blog, but that's down).
Are these US only numbers? 600M sounds like very very few doses given worldwide population and even western world population.