skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, Down Detector doesn't actually monitor these services, so we don't know if they are truly down. Down detector relies on human behavior, and we all know humans don't act rationally.
> alt="A woman with medium-light skin and long dark hair."

Interesting. Government accessibility requirements maybe?
They have a website with a platform and priorities at https://alphabetworkersunion.org/power/why/

"We want to wield our power to ensure:

* Our working conditions are inclusive and fair,

* Perpetrators of harassment, abuse, discrimination, and retaliation are held accountable,

* We have the freedom to decline to work on projects that don’t align with our values,

* All workers, regardless of employment status, can enjoy the same benefits."
Funnily enough, I worked for a company that sold software to casinos, many of which very much exist on sovereign tribal land, where they're often the single major business entity.

It led to some quirkiness: we had to disavow ourselves of almost all cloud services. They wanted all the software and data on-prem because they didn't want anything on U.S. soil.
Had to use WindowBlinds to give it back the XP look. Why can't they just leave it alone?
As for arbitrary-palette positional dithering,

there's no better write up than https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/
The Trade and Cooperation Agreement was first published on the 24th of December. That’s 11 days, not two years, even if they worked through the Christmas break (and why would their EU counterparts care enough to help them with that? It’s a problem for the Brits, the Italians can sell to the rest of the Single Market.)

And don’t try to say they should’ve seen it coming, the UK government has consistently claimed everything would be amazing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/agreements-reache...
For me it was fine an hour or so ago when someone mentioned it in the Slack discussion, but it has steadily gotten more laggy as time goes on. It's sluggish now.
> But those capabilities exist whether a Bitcoin is priced at $1 or $25,000

This is simply false. If the value of Bitcoin was $1, you would not be able to store or transfer large amounts of wealth with it. Based on current circulating supply (not accounting for lost coins) the market cap at $1 per Bitcoin would be $18,590,606. At that market cap, there's simply no way to store/move a billion dollars, because there just isn't enough value in the network.

Price going up makes the network more valuable, which allows you to store and transfer more money. Since money storage and transfer is the whole point of bitcoin, price is actually a very important feature, and a proxy for the usefulness of the network. Currently you can store and move billions using the Bitcoin network, and I believe within the next 5-10 years you'll be able to store and move trillions.
> You realize states are supposed to fund their own public health authorities right?

States can't deficit spend, which is why the Feds tend to step in for natural disasters - hurricanes, floods, pandemics, etc.
This just proves the point. Wikileaks is not a journalistic organisation because it lacks the editorial expertise, ethics, and resources essential to carry out responsible journalism. They have to rely on real newspapers or the pentagon (!) to do it for them. It’s no defence to say: we tried to get other people to help us do the right thing, but we couldn’t, so we knowingly did the wrong thing instead.
And one can heat a house now while mining on the north.
You should measure inflation for your own personal environment and check if it holds true.
What if SkinWalker Ranch had become well-known before Bill and Ted?

In any case, I thought it was just me ;)
From the WHO (https://www.who.int/news/item/13-12-2017-up-to-650-000-peopl...)

> Up to 650,000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal flu each year

Current COVID-19 deaths: 1.85 million. That's more than double the flu. This is not the flu. Sweden is not representative of the rest of the world. You do not know what long-term complications to longevity COVID-19 has. It's quite possible you live a full healthy life or it's possible you drop dead in 5 years because of permanent damage to the lungs and/or cardiovascular system.
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Interesting that PG&E is on the list for power outage in SF.

Wonder if that's related?

https://downdetector.com/status/pge/
How would you apply dithering to animations (without the screen looking noisy from the different starting conditions of each frame)?
I'm not so sure that a less effective vaccine is better than no vaccine at all. If the virus has a less-effective immune response, it could have a better chance of mutating into something that's resistant to the vaccine, in which case all the work creating the vaccine goes out the window.
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They also publish their source materials and how they obtained them.

Writing summary articles is not the definition of journalism.
I’ve heard this “active number” and “active email” thing for a while, but isn’t the fact that the message wasn’t “returned” undeliverable a sign already? If I send an email to a GMail account that doesn’t exist, Google will reply that the account doesn’t exist. It’s the same with calling (every carrier) and texting (at least with AT&T; I just tested it)
The bigger picture is that it can be anyone's business - even the most "pristine" one. Getting banned without any notice when you run a business is just low and pathetic.
>at the time

Your numbers need adjusted for 30 years of fuel efficiency improvement (but to be honest I think your calculations would still illustrate the same point).

The passage I'm reading doesn't cite an exact study/paper except to cite that it's from the works of Dmitri Orlov.

I think the point was more likely centred upon 1:1 calorie transport/consumption of the variety of staples needed rather than taking one of the most calorie dense categories of food like meat for the purpose of back of the envelope math. I also took a quick glance at a passage from Google from Orlov's book which takes all the calories involved in the growth of the food as well, so there's probably a little more to it.
something was going on, Cathie Wood was buying up for weeks
But they are still operating adjacent to a highly unionized industry, so parts of their products may have operated under union rules, and for others, they may have competed for employees that had a choice to work for unionized employers.
this 100%
You want us to cite HN's rules? You're supposed to know them.
That’s quite a large assumption on who would win those battles - and further how they really have to be enforced - pen mightier than the sword, or some such.

Btw - fun ‘spar.’ I respect your thinking, just disagree slightly
That's true, but the FDA EUA specify that Pfizer & Moderna stick to the dosage regime as tested. It's very likely that a half dosage/reduced dosage might be deemed acceptable, but AFAIK no national authority has allowed a dosage regime deviation from what was tested in the Phase III trials. The closest would be the UK allowing upto a 12 week gap between doses of the Oxford vaccine. I agree that it's probably worth it to half the dosage and double the number of people who can be covered when initial supplies are so limited, but till the FDA makes that call, we have to stick to the dosage as specified.
interesting twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/martinfowler/status/1345375503277023232
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My "smart TV" is a pile of junk. We wanted a large TV for home theatre, but couldn't find anything over 65" that wasn't "smart".

It takes 3-5 seconds to turn on, then another 10-20 seconds to react to input from the remote (at which time it will rapidly replay all input provided that it didn't react to in this time, sometimes turning itself back off for no reason).

All of the "apps" are barely responsive and crash regularly. Hulu, particularly will crash at the end of every episode.

I've tried factory resets, and was hopeful about an open source mod until I discovered my firmware version is "unpatchable" as of yet.

The Internet of Shit is alive and well.
> since despite increased incentives to "hack" it, no exploits happened

Bitcoin really has been absurdly resistant to security flaws given the immense and growing incentive to break it. How is it this good when every other major software vendor in the world has to issue weekly security patches?
Bitcoin is Schrödinger’s program. Whenever it’s deficiencies are pointed out, it suddenly becomes something else.

Bad transaction rate? It’s not a currency, it’s a store of value! Why does it have value? Because it’s more stable than fiat! What about the volatility? Ignore daily volatility, it’s going to the moon! But why is it worth more? Because you can buy stuff with it, like a currency!

Round and round it goes.
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Ah. Better branding to f*ck up more brown people.
United States involvement in regime change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Won't see any mention of this under "Our Legacy", I'm sure.
If you are living in the US or EU then being able to hide assets and transfer without censorship is mostly a bug, not a feature. And eventually the governments will have to do something about it in order to preserve the rule of law.

What happens if you are disabled in a horrible negligent accident or defrauded in some conventional transaction and defendant hides all assets and transactions in BTC?

I can't imagine a long term equilibrium where [Americans, at least] store trillions and trillions of dollars in BTC without substantial additional regulation.

Edit: for those in relatively more corrupt, tenuous circumstances then BTC is a net positive, of course.
Lost me at around 40% - suddenly "immutable references", "mutable references", "borrowed implicitly"...
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I suppose the union could aid the exodus by lobbying against any new positions opening in the bay area, and lobbying for existing positions to be relocated. I'm not sure how popular that would be with wealthy tech union members who like living in the bay area, though.
That seems a bit excessive. I have me -> My ISP -> (Level3: BOS, SAN) -> HN
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I liked it very much while I was beginning my first StartUp project, unfortunately it is in italian, but I think you can use english subtitles.

The idea in a nutshell: You have the landing page, you invest some euros on FB/LinkedIn ads (or whatever social media you think your audience it's more linked to, either B2B or B2C).

See what happens.
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It seems more common these days to use it on HN to express disagreement. That wasn't the case years ago.

I suspect it has to do with the reddit / youtube generation becoming adults. Polite disagreement seems to be on the way out.
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That sounds like a recipe for the Billionaires of the world to get their hands on a lot of otherwise unavailable property. Jeff Bezos will have no problem valuing his property at or even above market value, what's an extra million dollars in taxes to him compared to the shame of having it bought out from under him.

Would be a great way to get back at your enemies when you find out they've been undervaluing their assets though.
I think the judge stopped the extradition because of inadequate conditions regarding mental health and suicide prevention in US prisons. On other issues(publishing materials) the British Judge sides with the US authorities.
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Thanks, that was an interesting summary.

I don't think the involvement of parliament necessarily causes polarisation: Germany has a quite similar system to the US, the most relevant difference being that the election is by secret ballot. Germany has relatively apolitical judges.

Instead, I think the spectacle seen in the US has more to do with the role the Federalist Society has played polarising the legal profession, making the politics of judicial candidates interesting to career politicians.

Relevant to the Assange case is not that judges benefit from showing overt political affiliation, but that ambitious judges want to be seen as safe non-boat-rockers - establishment friendly, if you like - because there is the possibility of having appointments nixed by, e.g., the Lord Chancellor.
discussed by the author of the mentioned game (return of the obra dinn) here: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
Oddly and timely, the Scorpions just posted on Twitter about Winds of Change - seems like they are Reaaly Really good if it was the CIA ha

https://twitter.com/scorpions/status/1346121593915912206?s=2...
Nerds and FreeSoftware
Which posture of nerds, from revenge of the nerds movie about Free Software.

Ogre is like an apple-things user?
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I think in their metric, the wheat that the US occasionally shipped to the USSR counts as a downside to US agriculture.
We got a discord server as a backup when teams is down, seems like it has gotten worse with days being down entirely, and we have to resort to discord voice which always seems to be up..
On the other hand people become complacent when they achieve relative wealthiness. Economic success is also the basis of how the Chinese regime stays in power.

The Tianmen Square protests are well known in the west (tank man is a very iconic picture known by basically everyone) contrary to your claim and if the sources on wikipedia are to be believed did not result in 10s of thousands of deaths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...).

In general I think it is a constant struggle to keep society free from tyranny, and you should not torpedo that with comparisons with places that have it worse.
Great depression didn't end till 1939.
Alright, so lets not look at the signers, let's look at the clearly listed authors on that page:

> Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist

> Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development

> Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert

> Dr. Alexander Walker, principal at World Health Information Science Consultants, former Chair of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Some of these people have done interviews too. You can go look them up on major news programs.

> Hint: if a doctor or researcher can only publish their findings on YouTube/Facebook/Instagram, they don't have anything worthwhile to say

We're talking about an ongoing crisis where we see clear censorship in media, big tech and academic publications. People are basing world changing decisions off pre-prints and pre-pubs. Does it really matter where a doctor or researcher publishes their views so long as it is a real doctor or researcher? Why does the platform make their opinion invalid?
> laborers who (by definition) do not own the productive capacity

Is this really true for a job like SWE where all you need to do the job is a laptop and internet?
>Not just the best ever, always 3x or 300% better

Well that is the new / recent Apple. Steve rarely use these technical benchmarks with specific numbers and only talk about the experience or it is being faster, better.

Now it is just a more polished event Keynote which felt the same as Google event in that they were prepared by tech people for tech people.
RootClaim.com was giving 81% chance C19 was an accidental lab release.
The good thing about that is that if you want a fast client there are quite a few native clients to pick.

https://matrix.org/clients/

For example, Mirage is Python/QT and quite fast in my experience. There are Rust clients, C++ clients, terminal based ones, etc.
All good man. I appreciate a sharp bullshit detector.
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Keep track of environment variables in go
I've always wondered about this. What exactly should you describe in an alt text? Are there established guidelines one could reference to determine what is appropriate?
Good reason to try matrix or even setup a reserve (matrix) channel.
What is going on, exactly? Are there any theories?
How can you know Facebook decided anything? It could just as easily been an algorithmic error.
I haven't seen any issues with AWS. Slack seemed to be having it's own issues. Notion is having an outage as well. But otherwise, it's not widespread and none of the AWS services my group runs are having any issues. Sometimes these are coordinated DDOS attacks, but I can't imagine who would target Slack, Notion and Hacker News.
Thanks for the feedback! As you mentioned the arrows indicate that the project is an outbound link (links are optional so having a visual indication that something is linked was necessary, though there are certainly other ways this could be achieved).

Pages subscribe to updates in real time, so I think you just so happened to be viewing a profile as it was being edited. Seems like live updates should probably only be on for the editor.

As for the landing page I'm hoping to redo this in general. As a quick first version I just embedded an actual profile so I wouldn't have to update image assets as the design changed, but I can see how this approach is confusing.
A better system for automatically grabbing torrent releases
Not until after you sign the NDA
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