skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a warning that although it claims to support Linux, on launch I got two options:

* Run without wine (Linux)

* Launch with wine

The first one took me to a black screen. The second took me into the game but the colors were entirely wrong -- everything was red and black. So caveat emptor.
CMD-Space is just as quick and works system-wide. There is a Windows equivalent as well. Works when the net is down too.
When I negotiate a starting salary, I don't just stick to "salary and workload."

I keep everything on the table. If there are any benefits that they can provide me that are outside the scope of salary and workload, it's possible I'll be able to get something more valuable to me while being more favorable for my potential employer

Eg I might negotiate team size if I'm coming in to lead a team, I might negotiate benefits if I'm going to a sufficiently small company, I might negotiate how frequently I'm expected to travel for the company

Being able to negotiate quality of life is important because many employers offer _what looks like_ a generous package but then shove their employees into dangerous working conditions.

Remember that unions are always less powerful than your employer, and you can influence the union more easily than you can influence your employer (caveats on seniority in which case a union isn't for you), for better and worse
SimCity is very much a product of its time. They went with the dominate development paradigm of the late 80s and I guess they've stuck with it because the game has sold very well. Why mess with the cash cow? If there ever is another version released, maybe the features of the competition will spur the project managers of SimCity to expand into the modern era.
Arguably the present system was easy, and adding optional "VAT stamp" for companies that handled VAT on seller side would have been easy... but it's not how things happen.
I saw a lot of crap appear organically, but my guess is that by volume most is exagerated, clickbait, racebaitting stuff done as a dayjob, with wildly varying levels of sincerity. The few talented peddlers that create organic looking content make a huge difference, and some almost believe their own bullshit.

For reference: IMO, Alex Jones knew from day one that pizzagate was just bullshit made up on the internet, and kept distance accordingly. But there was so much intersection with his audience that he treaded carefully and did an obscure video on the side where he said he was just playing it cool to avoid persecution. Of course, if anything real came out of that, he would have claimed he was in on it from the start.
> The issue isn't with the user's email. The issue is with the site's email provider.

Actually, it could be either. Postmark (the email provider for a bunch of sites) monitors "time to inbox" for several user email services: https://status.postmarkapp.com/. Apple, in particular, seems to frequently add 2+ minute delays on the receiving end. (The "source" link above the charts describes how Postmark collects the data.)
> the inefficiency of everyone cooking and cleaning is starting to have market implications

Elaborate on your reasoning here? While I can maybe imagine a more centralized food preparation system being more efficient, the currently growing market solutions (DoorDash, etc.) are certainly not, and I can't think of a system in which transporting clothing somewhere for someone else to clean would be more efficient than an in-home washing machine. The wasted energy alone would be colossal.
Satellite fleets?
My only criticism of Skylines is that it’s not a game, it’s just an art board for painting cities that move. There aren’t enough meaningful challenges to building your city, the reward for playing comes from making something aesthetically appealing.
We have only had the vaccine for 9 months so there's not enough data to know.
> It is sorta like money (or can easily be converted to "real" money), an asset, store of value, protocol, and secure network all at once

Apart from "protocol" and "secure network" ... this sounds almost how one might have described owning a tulip bulb in the year 1636 :)
"Political motivation" does not mean that the motivation must be associated with only 1 political party. There are many political decisions taken in the US that both parties agree on, especially in this area of the intelligence state.

If anything, as the judge notes, the current administration was likely somewhat more "friendly" to Assange than the Biden administration will be.
Clearly you can make a hypothesis though.
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Exactly. Every time there is any kind of mania there is always a slew of articles on how much people are making on it, there is a remarkable dearth of articles on how much is lost when the mania ends. (Credit to Reddit's Wall Street bets group for breaking that one a little though.)

The $3 trillion+ of money printing behind all this? As you say, completely lost in the wind. But for the record here it is:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2

You can go back 100 years in US monetary history and not see its like.
Any opinions on using Discord vs. Slack?
This is how it works with the nurses unions. My mom got accused by another nurse of intentionally hurting a patient. Without the union she would have been on her own to deal with HR and management who would have just gotten rid of her as a matter of their convenience. Nothing of substance was found out of the investigations. The union worked. It will also protect her against any future political repercussions arising from the accusations and investigation. The police were involved and everything, no way in hell an employee would survive that without union representation.
Yeah, doesn't show up again after the first season. Might even be only in the first episode of first season of TNG.
Sure, I mean, I personally believe in the "conspiracy theory" that most of the QAnon conspiracy theories circulating on social media either originate from the Russian Internet Research Agency/Glavset, or is at least being actively nurtured and amplified by them as an attack on their geopolitical adversaries and their electorate. A belief that I don't have solid proof for, but which I still consider less naive than the alternative, that all this viral disinformation is really being created and spread by people who really believe it themselves, or just for the lulz.
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well compared to the previous Administration this one did not arrest any journalist nor set the IRS upon them. Now this dog did bark a lot.
That is a great attitude to justify a war by creating imaginary enemies.

Are they a competitor and do they want to protect their interests? Yes. Export their governance model to you? No, why would they want to do that?

China just signed the RCEP -- an initiative by ASEAN. Clearly their neighbors don't think they're going to invade make everyone their slaves.
I have a masters degree and three publications. I'm not a fool or an idiot. Your attack is an ad hominem and your divisiveness is patronizing.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
>2. Reasonably cheap to transact large value across space.

Definitely not accurate and this says nothing of the massive environmental cost of transacting on the blockchain.
One of those affects money via SLA's. Slack is still up, just not usable.
Everything you say is true, but the Illuminatus! Trilogy also presents some serious philosophy sandwiched between the raunchiness and silliness. For example the SNAFU principle is a reasonable explanation for a lot of what we see in large organizations. Also, expanding Hegelian dialectic by adding Parenthesis and Synthesis to fit the Law of Fives is tongue in cheek, but in a haha only serious kind of way.
> Social and economic justice are paramount to achieving just outcomes

Social justice is not justice
This is typically what companies spending 57m on ads do. Its less expensive per click/impression as fb/Google don't take a cut. More expensive to manage.
I was wondering how old he is, thinking that he might be spending the remaining years of his life dealing with this. So I looked it up and found out he is only a year older than me. I’m honestly surprised. Just looking at him I would have guessed he was in his 70s. Maybe it’s the result of all the stress?
Oh nice - I actually quite like the article. Probably shouldn't have come after it so hard. I like level headed people pouring cold-water on bitcoin occasionally as it can get a bit loony.
+100 for use Hesiod. It solved this problem well and correctly years ago, and just works. (It was also a key part of the support for Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew networked filesystem.)

The seamless integration of all the Project Athena stuff (Hesiod, Kerberos, etc.) with DEC Ultrix is one of many reasons that Ultrix is still, IMO, the greatest Unix/;Unix-like distro in history.
The post can't be accessed with a Internal Server Error. Or is it just my ISP? I often confuse myself with other representation learning methods such as graph kernels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_kernel

Are there any relations between them at all?
Like most posts critical of Bitcoin it ignores that

- Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time
- Bitcoin was less volatile than TLSA, AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility) [0]
- Bitcoin becomes less risky over time (since despite increased incentives to "hack" it, no exploits happened)

It also repeats typical nocoiner fallacies like "it has no intrinsic value" and "gold is used for jewelry", ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE/SoV.

New in this post was the author's stance to trust the Fed to keep inflation predictable:

"as long as the Fed isn’t run by spider monkeys stacked in a trench coat, the inflation is likely to be within reasonable bounds"

"well-run currencies like the USD, GBP, CAD, EUR, etc. all lose their value at a low and most importantly fairly predictible rate"

However, the Fed increased M1 money supply by ~20% just in the 2 months following that blog post and by ~70% in the total of 2020 - an increase unprecedented in the history of the US dollar. 2 of the 3 dollars in your pocket have been created out of thin air in 2020.

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.

[0]: Daily %-change of TSLA,BTC,NFLX,AAPL,AMZN: https://imgur.com/a/mE7bSI4 (TSLA is green)
Has that ever been tested in court? That someone can sign away their first amendment rights?
To be clear, none of these vaccines are approved for young children (though it helps that they are poor vectors and super low-risk).
I'm very much opposed to the current news cycle about the vaccine when the much more immediately available fix is available on the shelf at any store that carries vitamins or milk.

https://vitamind4all.org/letter.html
It's pretty. Even 10-15 years ago cold cathodes and windowed cases were starting to be a thing and with the current addressable LED obsession that's been doing the rounds in the maker community over the last decade, from a technical POV it's actually nice to see that now rolled into desktop PCs.

People also seem to treat their IT equipment far more as fashion accessories these days - or at least expect technology to fit into their ideas of aesthetics. If you think multi-coloured, cleverly fading LEDs look pretty then you're well in. If you don't then at least it's all pretty easy to switch off.
last time I checked, the answer was "we don't know". There seems to be a >=8 months figure floating around now, though.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/12/two-stud...
Exactly. Bitcoin has been heavily criticized on HN by some, but we're seeing its value proposition come to fruition: an asset that is resistant to artificial government fueled inflation. Perhaps also easier to get into than stocks (no need for a brokerage account, and you can buy in almost arbitrary amounts), and definitely easier than getting into property.
> The first path [one of the attributes of these outstanding employees is that they likewise go above and beyond for the company] is much preferable for everyone.

I don’t think this view is as widely held as you might think. Or at least it depends on what you mean by going above and beyond. I want to be paid for a job, which I will do. I will do whatever needs to be done, including things outside my “official” duties, but when that clock hits 40 hours, it’s time to stop working. Maybe that’s going above and beyond or maybe not.
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> I just don't understand it.

Because we don't know how to use the feature yet.

But you can connect something like a CPU trigger to a led, so use 3 keys with 3 colors for CPU%, RAM%, SWAP%, then one blinking for disk IO, network IO and you get something very useful!!

For a full keyboard, you could have predictive input for the other as a typing assistant (ex: after pressing t,y put r in a strong green, e in a lighter green, p in a strong red, i,n,g in a lighter red : so typing and tyre are shown as 2 completions, with tyre less likely unless you work in mediterranean history and care about ancient cities)
It's also a risk, since, at least in the UK, after you cross a certain threshold (off the top of my head, obviously not advice, I think it's actually 20% rather than the perhaps more intuitive 50%) it's considered to be your core activity, i.e. you become an investment company that for whatever reason dabbles in <whatever you consider to be your core business> which of course comes with tax implications (or it would be an easy way to avoid tax on your personal investments) and potentially an unwanted regulatory burden.
This comment does not deserve these downvotes. Not only is it not aggressively, negatively contentious or malicious, but it’s a thoughtful commentary on the state of worker/owner relations that has direct and specific relevance to tech work in general.
Their second listed value is

> Social and economic justice are paramount to achieving just outcomes. We will prioritize the needs of the worst off. Neutrality never helps the victim.

Social justice is a progressive view normally running counter to the individual responsibly outlook favored by conservatives. Prioritizing the needs of the worst off could be supported by conservatism but they will probably define "worst" in a way conservatives find objectionable. As for "Neutrality never helps the victim" that runs counter to a lot of American conservative thought that rule of law and applying rules neutrally is a massive progress over previously biased systems. The implication of the statement is that they want to remove neutrality in certain circumstances for certain people which goes against the conservative view that all people should be treated equally.
> I personally don’t believe the free market is capable of telling states what to do

States, as functional governmental bodies, are supposed to be able to handle this.

The free market is a tool and it's a good tool for some things like maximizing vaccine production. It's not the best tool for things like resource distribution when those resources need to be distributed at a loss - we literally want to spend money to fix this and it's ok to be less efficient on the cost side if it leads to better immunity.
We ran into this, where the Outlook client would scan one-time login links from SalesForce (iirc). Huge pain to work around.
Defining a 'break room' and legally protected workplace communications wasn't really ready for the internet age when this happened (this is the context behind the above two posts for those out of the loop[0]). Thankfully NLRB weighed in and suggested that this was protected communication [1], or they at least are suing to argue that case[2] (still an open case).

0: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/engineer-says-go...

1: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cpt20...

2: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-CA-252802
I am not sure what good it will do to join a Union if you can't collectively bargain. You would essentially be paying dues out of your salary, and not getting anything in return. If you don't like Google, than quit.
if the outcome of legal avenues is effectively the same?

They’re not even remotely the same. The U.S. has serious problems with racism, mass incarceration, police brutality, unaffordable health care, etc.

But that isn’t even close to the problems China has with organ harvesting, concentration camps in Xinjiang, mass corruption, food fraud, political prisoners etc.

The outcomes are radically different.
>AWS and GCP autoscale capacity

What does this mean? What do cloud providers do when customers scale down their services? Do the providers literally power down servers? Do they sell the capacity to new customers?
I'd say it's fitting, not ironic. Conspiracies do exist, and implicit conspiracy-like behaviour does emerge where minds converge too.
Wealthy people invest in things that are successful, not piss their money away for no reason. Canonical's revenues are around 110 million a year, taking in about a 10% profit margin since 2018 (which tracks with about how long it takes big tech companies to be in the black). SUSE's around 300 million.

You miscategorize Canonical like it's some vanity project. Even vanity projects can be profitable enterprises! Look at Koenigsegg cars! They're literally a millionaire's vanity project that is a profitable enterprise employing hundreds of people.

> I agree. On the other hand, most of the OSS that exists is created by such people, and what do we prefer? Idealistic but non-existing OSS software? or compromised but existing and useful OSS software? That's the question that I feel is behind all the conversations about this topic.

Free software has been around since the 80s, at this point. With or without the GPL. It turns out that there are many, many successful products and businesses that use other OSS licenses. I don't think we're in any danger of people with our skillsets not being able to eat. We're basically all potential millionaires.

The GPL is _not_ the only option available. Heck, Apache is absurdly popular and the bedrock of many enterprises...
I am not sure what good it will do to join a Union if you can't collectively bargain. You would essentially be paying dues out of your salary, and not getting anything in return. If you don't like Google, then quit.
I can't imagine a director like Fincher ever taking it into consideration, but compressibility is a real issue that modern filmmakers should aspire to keep in mind.

I ran into this dealing with marketing folks at [bigtechco] where bitrate restrictions were more severe: certain visuals got them very excited, but we had to tell them they just weren't achievable.

I don't know much about the video production process, but in the audio world it's standard practice to preview media on a range of devices. Creators would need something similar for video bitrate to avoid the situation Fincher is in here.
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The arguments for having a closed source blog instead of open source blog boils down to this:

- If blog is open source, blog posts would be visible in the SCM before they're actually visible on the website and the author wants tighter control without the complexity of submodules et al.

- Author is embarrassed over some of the code they write for the blog and don't want that to be public or for others to use it.

- It might be easier for people to fork the blog and use change the name, taking credit for the authors blog design.

- Author is not very well versed in security and ended up having to pay a whole of $130 for a month when a hacker managed to basically abuse the "like" functionality of the authors blog.

In the end, most of the points seem misguided and not really related to open source or not. First can be solved by having two repos, one private and one public. Merge private into public when you're ready to publish the unpublished posts. Secondly is a second-order effect of modern open source. You don't have to be proud over code you publish without any warranties, that's basically what we have open source for. Zero responsibilities for you as a person. Third is bit true, but has been happening since the dawn of time, if people want to clone their website, it'll happen. Last argument is basically the author confessing they really shouldn't deploy backend systems (not even function-as-a-service ones) as they cannot guarantee the security of it, nor the visitors of the system.

All-in-all, this seems it'll hurt more the people who can learn by open source codebases more than it'll hurt the ones that can abuse it. Instead this move hurts the ones who could learn, and just slightly stops the ones that will abuse the system, no matter open or not.
I think you're right on the first bullet, but not the second. If it was mid-Feb, then maybe, but the next FY hasn't even started yet for a ton of companies, let alone onboarding newbies to production.
There are plenty of UX reasons (learning new interfaces, etc). The burden here is generally distributed and diffuse.

The really big one, for companies of a certain size / cash flow, is compliance. Companies spend a lot of time developing compliant work flows around a service like Slack.

Migrating to another service requires rewriting the compliance narrative. The current compliance people might not have the confidence or willpower to do that effectively, and can raise legal objections to any such migration indefinitely.