skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a large body of philosophical work over the past 2 decades that argues that no rules is precisely the marker of an iron-clad ideological structure wherein the citizenry self-discipline so that the order functions with total freedom of choice between given options. Meanwhile, we never get any access to the frame or the economic and political decisions (QE, Current War with China and Russia through Sanctions). China, on the other hand, the argument goes, requires strict rules because the people there know that they live in a strict ideological structure and fight against it constantly. While we in the west are so certain we are free because we can choose between two candidates, zillions of types of products and popping off polemically on all our platforms.
> 2 of the 3 dollars in your pocket have been created out of thin air in 2020.

Dollars in your pocket (not 70%, but 100% of them) have been created out of paper, after a swap of figures on a balance sheet (that you call “thin air”). The number of paper dollar didn't increase by ~70% this year, what did is an economic aggregate called M1 which is a conventional (since the sixties) way of counting certain things. It ISN'T some fundamental value of what-money-is®. Most of the dollar every American own (their bank account, and their savings) have never been part of M1, so this money wasn't affected either.

The monetary system is a complex thing, and the landscape is changing at a fast pace since 2008, which makes it even harder to graps. Unfortunately, most cryptofans didn't even try to understand it, and they keep parroting the almost 100 years-old Autrian critique of central-banking without any kind of cognitive effort: “It's obviously broken, so I'm not going to try understanding it”.

For people without prejudices, interested in understanding the subject, I strongly recommend Perry G Mehrling's lecture on the Economics of Money and banking on coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking
We just had to route around this so we're trying out chat.google.com for the first time. Seems ok.
You’ve hit on the fundamental problem of intellectual discussion.

It’s impossible to competently discuss entities more sophisticated than oneself, by definition. If one comprehends all the competing and confounding factors involved in the actions of the CCP, for example, then they would at least be as sophisticated as the CCP, by definition.

If not, then sooner or later reality intrudes.

Of course it may be that no human is intelligent enough to actually comprehend all the dynamics within an organization of 100+ million. Therefore no one on this planet, even in China, fully understands all the factions, factors, reasonings, etc., of such an organization. And actions may happen for mysterious reasons because no one fully comprehends all the underlying reasons.
Right. Quarantine that is suggested, like it's been in the US, and quarantine that's enforced are very different. Again, national strategy for "let's all stay exactly where we are for four weeks while people in hazmat suits deliver you groceries" would have been closer to medieval quarantine.
This article kind of feels like people are working really hard to rationalize working from bed?

Personally I just find it extremely uncomfortable, and I just can't be productive that way. Plus you have to wonder what the long term effects are, it doesn't seem very ergonomic.
Slack has been failing - hard - the past few months. Yeah, I get it, lots of remote workers - but Slack has had months now to prepare for an onslaught given the trends with COVID. Simply not acceptable.
I think the guy has just low technical skills. He writes that he managed a team (that means other had to work), that he prefers team work (usually it means that someone else has to do the work).

Then he started with the classic: previous code is bad so I rewrite it from scratch.

Then came to a conclusion that his own code is bad and shouls be rewritten.

And only then author had another conclusion: it was unlcear how the product should work. So they hired an UX person. Then we learned that moving buttons around requires back end changes (wtf?)...

And then we learned that the author still didnt know how to make the main feature of the product.

My guess: if they hired another programmer the other person would code it in few days.

Author looks like a manager / team player - someone who never did anything on their own.

Also I really loved the part about previous code being bad (classic) and rewriting everythig just to say that own code is bad too and didnt move the project at all.
I wonder what part of the solution even works. Probably nothing apart from login window.

Also the part where the author wrote that after coming back to previous work they had to do lots of frantic work... sounds like normal work. But author wasnt a manager anymore so the work had to be made: hence it was so painful. No more possibility to delegate the problem and do nothing all day. And real deadlines.
Just like many sequels of this kind, it had to happen anyway. Just to finish the (new) wave.
its certainly not measured on 15minute candles either ;)
Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
Well until the issue is resolved you can't know how long you've been down for, so you can't actually update the uptime.
Ask HN: Is Ansible best for K8s-first infrastructure?
Right now I'm using a collection of bash scripts with Helm, but I'm wondering whether I should continue down that path, use Ansible, or create a dedicated tool with Go.
I suspect we will not see a revolution in deep learning from GNN without a corresponding hardware(FPGA?) or optimization method(HSIC? HTMs?) advance.

GNNs trained by backprop are making many of the same mistakes that LSTMs did: solve one important problem(exploding/vanishing gradients), but introduce a bunch of hyperparameters that bring along their own set of problems. GRUs are successful in my opinion, because they remove some of those tunable parameters.

Of course as the post suggested, not being able to tune something, often loses out against some more tuned and curated solution. GNNs being the newest version, having tons of parameters to tweek. In the end do we get a better, ultimately more generalizable solution? Or do we just get more hyperparameters to tune, and spend more time and money for a modest, unrepeatable gain.
In Australia, it’s spelled “Yiros” if that’s anything to go by...
While Slack is down, let's remind ourselves that it is not the end of the world. To their ops team, good luck in sorting out the root cause(s), to mitigating their re-occurrence, and to emerging the other side a stronger team. You've got this.
A lot of valid criticism of this post on the reddit ml subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/kqazpd/d_w...
Well, I think it's possible FTL will be gone from OBS by the end of 2021 so I guess they need to figure out what they are doing sooner rather than later. There will probably be a post about it on the OBS Github soon.
I think the point is that a "Status Page" should show the accurate, current status of the system. Not a place holder for "we'll fix it later". People look at a status page to know what's happening now.
> When you did, like FDR did in 1933, you got a long, extended deperession.

But the Great Depression began in late 1929. FDR's decision in 1933 retroactively extended the depression by 3 years?
Just a note, if your company uses G Suite, chat.google.com exists and is basically an entire Slack clone. We use it as a backup when Slack goes down (obviously doesn't help for bots and ChatOps we've set up, but works well for realtime work chat).
Where I live, unions just seem to protect un-productive employees (if they are union members of course) and slow down process by adding another layer of bureaucracy. But maybe it's different in the land of the free?
Sure we can. Hollywood without unions = gamedev. Looks pretty shitty to me.
"Facebook had taken action against me, personally, that one assumes are reserved for the worst in our society — criminals, pedophiles and conspiracy theorists."

Yah, it's those conspiracy theorists that are the worst in society.
> Why are those capabilities enough to drive the price of a Bitcoin up?

The market values those capabilities because it is the only asset in the entire universe of fungible assets that has that feature.

A) Bitcoin's ability to support that assurance is tied to the consensus model of bitcoin. The harder or more expensive it is to change anything at all let alone contentiously, the greater amounts that people will want to store as bitcoin.

B) Other market participants value other things about bitcoin, or at least demand it. So there simply is a market.
I don't mean the REPL is stateless, but the code developed using the REPL would ideally be stateless. Stateless code would be easier for others to experiment with in their own REPL, without "oh no, you broke production with your REPL!"
> Facebook had taken action against me, personally, that one assumes are reserved for the worst in our society — criminals, pedophiles and conspiracy theorists.

Lumping in conspiracy theorists with pedophiles? This guy is an ass, his business was probably barely legitimate, and I don't feel sorry for him in the slightest.
You can say they are cheap compared, but affordable is what can actually be afforded. And for a country like India with a billion people, paying ~$1 per dose VS something like $15 for moderna is a huge difference.

All I'm saying is you should give more credit to companies doing the right thing and essentially giving the vaccine away at cost while there's a pandemic, even if their vaccine isn't quite as good.
Heinlein Waterbed
> Customers may have trouble connecting or using Slack

I can't stand how marketing speak pervades every sphere of the world. Their entire system is offline (inconvenient certainly, but it happens) and they can't bring themselves to say "Slack is down. We're working on it and will be back ASAP." or something similar. Instead we may have trouble.
Everyone switched from Slack to HN. :)
Hammers should cost $10, but it is new invention and not everybody is convinced yet. Early adopters are selling hammers for 0.03$ waiting for more people to want to buy hammers.

Also, there are multiple factories producing hammers and there is no one entity to tell others what hammer price is/should be.
I'm not a fool or an idiot, and those types or attacks are not allowed on HN. You don't know a damn thing about me. I don't know about you either. You're not even addressing the argument.
Yes it's
Don't have data, but just imagine that you are a recruiter looking at two resumes, one from MIT/CMU/etc. and the other from lesser-tier universities, which one would you give a chance of interview to? Now imagine you have 2,000 resumes.

Or, imagine how many premium SV start-ups have those MIT/CMU/etc. guys and what advantage you can leverage if you come out fresh from the same university. Maybe you are even taught by the same prof :D
I'd be a little nervous if I'd recently bought Slack for $20B.

It's not like there aren't alternatives. You could even imagine someone has a live bridge between Mattermost and their Slack team, making the switchover seamless.
It is the replying that is particularly slow for me.
I started read.cv when transitioning from full time to freelance design in July. I wanted an easy to update 'about me' page to link from my website and bio – something simpler than LinkedIn and more dynamic than a PDF.

Design wise I focused on legibility and tried to give projects/side projects equal weight to things like education and work experience. A few unique features: tagging collaborators in your experiences, status updates, and print optimized profiles.

It took me around three months (Sept to November) to get it out the door, and I've been working on making improvements since. Open to any questions or feedback!
Lots of services quite red on https://downdetector.com
Every time I end up working from bed I'm angry within 30 minutes about typing experience - and that's assuming I remembered to grab trackball to not be angry at touchpad experience!

Seriously, f*ck bed work :|
T.LY generates QR codes for all short links generated. We also have a simple tool for creating QR codes from any URL https://t.ly/qr-code-generator
there are none...
Early 2021 downtime jeez good luck ops team i believe in you
> and they keep parroting the almost 100 years-old Autrian critique of central-banking without any kind of cognitive effort

Just naming something doesn’t invalidate it.
It most certainly is. The upward movement on the daily chart is also volatility. Volatility isn't exclusively toward gravity.
The client on my Mac showed a page that said it was having issues connecting with a link to their status page.
Is he a journalist or an intelligence asset? In my mind, he can't be both. Once you pick a side, you lose the right to press protection.
For business users, there are regulatory requirements. You need to keep information around for some period of time, but not forever. History and searching is useful for spreading tribal knowledge throughout an organization.
That is true, but Jack isnt any ordinary Billionaire, this would affect Chinese businesses.
You might enjoy reading a Game Designers Analysis of QAnon.

https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analy...

The author has a pretty compelling explanation for the design of mass believed conspiracy theories, which I think is fairly close to what you posit in spirit, though not exactly.
Exactly! The biggest arguments I have around Bitcoin are

1: Even if you can treat it like an asset, it's an unproductive one.

2: It's too easy to have some sort of problem and lose it.

At the end of the day, I see the long term value of BTC going to zero.

I feel lucky to have had some at one point, just to have that experience. One day, I saw that Bitcoin sitting in my wallet, and realised I didn't really care anymore. It didn't solve any problems I was having, and I couldn't do anything with it other than look at the balance or send it somewhere.

I'd rather have my future wealth come from value I create, than some asset I happen to hold.
Adding features adds complexity. Features interact with each other in complex ways. If you add a feature and don't know quickly if it broke another feature, that costs time.

Letting the users find the bugs costs time - you have to talk to the user, replicate the bug report, find the failure, fix it, and then release. Finding that same bug 2 minutes after you wrote it (and before it got released) is massively quicker.

This feels like one of those "write code 16 hours a day to make more progress!" things that experience has taught me just doesn't work in practice. I feel like I'm making a lot of progress, but after about 10 hours most of the code I write is pure shite and needs to be rewritten the next day. I've found that it's actually way faster to quit coding after 8-10 hours rather than spend 2 hours the next day rewriting everything I wrote in the last 6 hours the day before.
Debugging web performance with the Chrome DevTools Network tab
> • Functions with names like >!! and ->>

To be precise, those are just function names, not syntax. But even Clojure having a more complicated syntax than Common Lisp or Scheme is much simpler than Java, for example. Instead of f(x, y) it's (f x y), essentially.
Yes, they are, but companies doing it at cost should get more credit than those doing it for profit.
Several sites and services are lagging or slower than usual for me (facebook messenger, news sites, google)
Not sure where you read that from my comment. Corps are filled with non-management workers who will tell management about unionization efforts, either naively or intentionally.
> You have to drop the idea that scarce/finite assets can, should or need to be used as "currency".

Sure, but the whole premise that Bitcoin is an asset is that it has theoretical use as currency. There are plenty of other things which are limited in quantity and fungible which nobody is paying $30k for because nobody believes that they are future of money.
The author of the article equates conspiracy theorists to pedophiles.
We're using Google Chat again. Feels ancient. https://chat.google.com/
yes!
I much prefer my Roku, and its super simple remote. I also appreciate how I can just block one domain in my home DNS for roku, and stop telemetry. Also, My Roku is regularly updated, unlike most smart TV's, and I have heard horror stories of TV's no longer working with things like netflix, because they can't be updated anymore.
We get our primary alerts through Slack. However we also have SMS and phone call backups through PagerDuty
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20948530 is my attempt to demonstrate that implementing a Matrix client is almost as trivial as telnetting to port 6667 on an IRC server, fwiw :)
This is only one side of the coin. Unions can go that way, sure, and it should be avoided through regulation.

Unions are a way of balancing the power equation between companies and workers. Neither side should be in disadvantage.
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HN becomes slow because people notice a service is down, and go to HN to check for more info. When Google was down for an hour a couple weeks ago, HN became almost unusable.
Are you kidding? Tulip bulbs make an outstanding protocol: they are self-propagating and they come in 10+ different colors, making them more information-dense than a conventional binary protocol.
Time to talk to my coworkers in person... dry heaves

/s
mRNA vaccines can be printed on a DNA printer! You might be interested in this article: Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1345854099464470528 It lets you see the exact mRNA contents of the BNT162b2 vaccine, and for most parts understand why they are there!
As with food delivery and "ghost kitchens" the next step for streaming services seems to be "ghost bands"[1] that produce unobjectionable music meant to fill playlists for smaller royalties than a "normal" band.

Both of these trends put traditionally local restaurants and small bands under increased pressure to compete with the likes of VC-funded Spotify or DoorDash. The pessimist in me sees a future where these local business are largely gone, kind of like how Walmart and other big box stores replaced many small, local retailers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961416/spotify-fake-art...
> I just checked a half dozen exchanges-- none call it "Bitcoin Cash" in their interfaces

Which exchanges did you check? I just checked some myself, and Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, and Gemini all use the full name "Bitcoin Cash".
Dig deeper, the reason Facebook nixed you is that Zuck is going to reproduce your content, copycat you, and wipe you out.

Apple is nixing Facebooks ecosystem from preying on Apple customers data, and the Zuck whines loud and clear with full page ads in major newspapers.

Welcome to 2121.
The difference is people expect stocks to have earnings (at least eventually).

Bitcoin will never have earnings. It's pure speculation.
Down Detector largely seems to track daily workplace usage patterns more than meaningful outages.
Should private jets and yachts be banned as well? Their emissions are probably much higher on a per-user basis.
42 year old me can take a screenshot or a photo!
> The positive impact of lockdown in Wuhan on containing the COVID-19 outbreak in China

Wuhan, where they literally welded people in their homes?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meRUCxlleUc

Are you seriously advocating for elimination this virus by eliminating people's basic human rights?!
- Bitcoin was less volatile than AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility)

He discusses volatility when it comes to currencies, and the impact a volatile currency has. It doesn't really have anything to do with the stock market.
what's the point in a status page that only updates after the outage has been resolved?
> So, here's what I don't get about Bitcoin. Those capabilities are great. But those capabilities exist whether a Bitcoin is priced at $1 or $25,000. Why are those capabilities enough to drive the price of a Bitcoin up?

Higher prices means Bitcoin is capable of moving bigger capital. At $1, you can't move around $10m worth of bitcoin (that's like half of the possible supply). At $35k, moving $10m and trading it is a piece of cake. $10m liquidity is available in many markets now and do no move the price.

Since the supply is limited, the price is just a gauge for demand.
> Scientists and doctors are saying we need to end this mass hysteria. We should listen to all the experts, not only the ones we agree with.

To quote Wikipedia, citation needed. And please don't like to a YouTube/Facebook/Instagram whatever of someone in a white coat. I have not seen this from anyone with any reasonable credentials.
I’m not sure you understand how collective bargaining works. A company enters into a contract with a union. Contracts are not anti-market.

Edit: Downvotes are fine, but at least have the courtesy of adding to the discussion by explaining why the above point misses the mark
There is no realtime interaction on stream anyway if you have more than a handful active chatter. And lag is high by default if the streamer is doing more than just chatting, like playing a game, building some stoff or reacting to a video.

So which experince are you talking about?
Discord is definitely in the same realm of scale as Slack, and probably bigger (they publish different metrics, so its hard to say for sure).

The really impressive thing about Discord's scale is the size of their subscriber pools in the pub-sub model. Discord is slightly different than Slack in the sense that every User on a Server receives every message from every Channel; you don't opt-in to Channels as in Slack, and you can't opt-out (though some channels can be restricted to only certain roles within the Server, this is the minority of Channels).

Some of the largest Discord servers have over 1 million ONLINE users actively receiving messages; this is mostly the official servers for major games, like Fortnite, Minecraft, and League of Legends.

In other words, while the MAU/DAU counts may be within the same order of magnitude, Discord's DAUs are more centralized into larger servers, and also tend to be members of more servers than an average Slack DAU. Its a far harder problem.

The chat rooms are oftentimes unusable, but most of these users only lurk. Nonetheless, think about that scale for a second; when a user sends a message, it is delivered (very quickly!) to a million people. That's insane. Then combine that with insanely good, low latency audio, and best-in-class stability; Discord is a very impressive product, possibly one of the most impressive, and does not get nearly enough credit for what they've accomplished.

For comparison; a "Team" in Microsoft Teams (roughly equivalent to a Discord Server or Slack Workspace) is still limited to 5,000 people.
I also have an improved opinion of season 5 after the latest re-watch. It always seems like it goes off the rails in the early in the season, but those story lines come around and resolve themselves in reasonable ways.