skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But behringer, regular users don't see bitflips, they see "a random error", a random reboot, a random green pixel in a photo. That's if they even consciously observed anything at all. You yourself said those could have a dozen other root causes. I for one have not actually observed a bitflip (so something that I can actually consciously detect as an issue) in a decade. No unexpected reboots, no unexpected file corruption, etc., nothing that made me say "weird, must be some memory corruption".

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for ECC memory, I practically showed the value of ECC after intentionally running the same multi-day Matlab job several times on a non-ECC machine with different results just to prove this very point. But you use your deeper knowledge to assume what someone with shallow knowledge and interest wants or needs, and that will almost always be off mark. Your car does not have a roll cage. Normal computers do not have ECC memory.
I've found that element.io itself is really slow to load.

That said, we're pushing up against the limits of our free plan with Slack and will likely deploy a matrix server in due course.
They had two years to get ready. Of course a UK company should not be shipping to Italy and back to the UK. The UK is now outside the European Union. There are trade barriers now. That's what Brexit was all about. Leaving the European Union.
Especially when it's "uptime for the current quarter." A three hour outage since Jan 1 is already a 3% downtime automatically I would think...
Yes, same here. I'm wondering if it is the post holiday rush? Everyone back to work and getting on HN (and Slack and YouTube and everything else that seems slow today)?
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They would need to do an FDA supervised trial.

Edit: the Oxford AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines are adenovirus and are nearing completion of their trials, so we are on track for much wider availability.
The US Government, specifically the SBA, defines a small business as any business with fewer than 1,500 employees and less than $38.5 million in average annual receipts.

I was surprised by this definition too.
To clarify my position: I 100% agree that bitcoin is the first digital commodity. I disagree that it's appropriate to call it "money" (based on the fact that, by design, it has low acceptability - if enough people would use it for their daily transactions, the entire network would break down). I'm also really uncertain that it's an appropriate store of value, and lean on the side of "it's not".

WRT guarantee... yes, let's say I accept that you can send BTC to somebody regardless what laws the US passes. The question is, can you receive something in exchange? Because if you can't then it means that the technology is not offering you any guarantee. So that guarantee can't be the "intrinsic value". (you don't claim that it is - you just claim intrinsic value does not exist, which is a completely new discussion that I don't want to get into right now)
Except of course she fails to note that Assange tried[1] to do that and was rejected.

She cites the Guardian who has a history of questionable reporting on Assange and WikiLeaks because they didn't do a good job[1][2].

In fact WikiLeaks made a point of going via the newspapers after being blamed.

1 - https://www.salon.com/2010/08/20/wikileaks_5

2 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51633303
(By the way, HN is taking about 20 seconds to process a posting today.)
Yup; consistently 7, 8, 9s to load every page.

EDIT: 19s for that comment :/
A more effective change for the Bay Area would be for tech workers to leave, not unionize. The issues spring from the market pressure that the hoards of highly-compensated tech workers place on the community.
You're right - Hitler was overt, while British still pretend that they are the "good guys" and literally blame the Irish for not joining them in WW2.

No wait! The British are worse, because majority have not accepted the horrors that British empire has brought to many people... Not the least being be Bengal Famine of 1943.
There's no question that Nazis were evil. Time to realize that many other empires were/are "not benevolent".
There are quite a few esoteric programming languages used on code golf that use more or less the whole Unicode character set to solve even complicated puzzles in a few characters.
> SC4 has some rudimentary water pollution mechanics with agriculture being among the worst polluters. It was pretty easy to avoid just by having a separate water towers or pumps for your farms and city and make sure you didn't connect the two systems.

That's there, but it was pretty dumb -- it didn't take terrain topology into account, so you wouldn't have to worry about making sure agricultural zones didn't wash into rivers/lakes/oceans that might otherwise be used for water supply.

> The Network Addon Mod (NAM) addressed most of the transportation issues I have with SC4. I remember having a mod that had road/bus and road/subway combo stations but I'm not sure if it was part of NAM or not.

While I love modding in general, I think something so fundamental as being able to put up a "bus stop here" road sign should be included in the default game. As it exists, a bus stop or subway entrance take up as much space as a small home.

The NAM is a great mod if you're looking to get into SC4 today, but it really should be included in any new release for the knock-on compatibility benefits (you don't have to worry about another mod somehow breaking NAM).

> Mixed use zoning would be amazing, absolutely. Without it, it makes designing Main St and walkable cities nearly impossible. This kind of medium density zoning is something that SimCity has always been bad at. Somehow I think Cities Skylines is even worse at it.

Skylines is definitely worse at it. The base game is a little too bare-bones for me (generally, I like games where the simulation is a state machine where you can tweak inputs vs directly messing with it), and the transportation options are lacking even when compared to SC4. I've tried to get into it a few times, but I keep bouncing off.
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Sounds more like a political party than a labor union.
"maybe the doctors turning it down right now will accept it after the elderly are all vaccinated" - This is a conjecture and not a fact observable in any collected data about vaccine uptake.

What your thoughts or my thoughts are really don't matter. What matters is observable facts and how they inform us about future policy decisions.

To me, medical professionals turning down the vaccine when offered suggests that public policy makers should consider vaccine mandates if we're to reach herd immunity faster.
To clarify: I don't think that "meh whatever" is literally what people are saying (to each other or themselves), it's just that there are also other customers, new leads, and all sorts of other things to do, so it's more of a "doesn't matter enough to actually take action"-kind of thing. Or, in short, "meh, whatever" :-)

And there are probably other factors as well, such as poor internal communication, algorithms making poor decisions, and more. But those are all solvable problems and I suspect that "meh whatever"-attitude plays a fairly large role in them not getting fixed at various levels. I mean, if my company left 330k/month on the table then I'd run after that faster than Usain Bolt. But do you think Zuckerberg or other top-level managers at Facebook will?

But I have no insight in any of this, so I'm just guessing really...
I object to unions because of past experiences in and interacting with unions. For me the 2 major problems with unions are:

1) there is an us vs them mentality. You are in or you are out. If you are out, it’s harder to get in. This also leads to dead weight staying around and people doing the bare minimum. This might be good for those already in the union, but terrible for anyone not.

2) a lot of politics / corruption / nepotism. Hired are made based on relationships, promotions are either tenure based or based on relationships.

Not saying these things don’t happen at non unions places, but from what I’ve seen they happen a lot more at unions. Some times the stereotypes are based in reality.
I was at CF (at new offices, obviously) briefly a couple weeks after 9/11.

They had backups and were able to recover data and systems.

By the time I got there, they were somewhat functional.

The biggest problems were the lack of knowledgeable personnel, not lost data or systems.
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A bug is still a bug even if it's low severity and marked wontfix due to implementation complexity.
Some esoteric programming languages designed for code golfing do exactly that.
The log-in page before logging in is also slow to load.
> I only read it /because/ it was a twitter thread

> Twitter is an ideal format for short-to-medium length content like this.

So you do enjoy having text broken down in small pieces inside an interface that's obviously made for short messages, with ads on the side, and replies right in the middle of the main body of the text?

All right. I guess we have different standards of readability.
I watched a documentary called “Suits” a while back about a corporate legal firm and that convinced me that you are wrong. Those well dressed professionals will use anything you say against you in the court of law!
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it isnt just HN. Slack is down, Notion (who is already slow) is somehow even slower today.
The same question was asked when Google was down. Apparently this leads to a surge of traffic to HN because everyone wants to know what’s up and this causes the slowdown. The recommended ‘solution’ is to log out so that HN can serve you with the static version of the site.
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Ah I see now, having read more of the history. Calling it that seems pretty misleading/odd.

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Ask HN: Why does HN hate Bitcoin so much?
Any time the topic of Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency in general, comes up around here the comments are mostly negative. I'm really puzzled by this, because Bitcoin seems to tick a lot of the boxes of what people around here are interested and believe in.

It's open source money! Open source is huge on here, there are tons of people who will go out of their way to use an open source version of something even if it lacks features of a similar commercial offering.

It's censorship resistant money. This is definitely one of the more interesting things about Bitcoin, and one I expect people around these parts would rally behind.

It's permissionless. hackers don't like asking for permission to use a protocol. Open protocols allow for innovation to flourish on the layers built on top.

The technology is fascinating and extremely innovative, even if it did simply put pieces of prior inventions together in a new and unique way and throw in some game theory.

It's not controlled by any corporation or government, isn't that a hackers wet dream?

Also, with regards to price, a lot of naysayers like to mention how people only talk about it when the price is going up. While it is true that excitement brings in new people and more discussion, high price is actually a feature, not a bug. Let me explain.

The price of Bitcoin is a proxy for the amount of trust people place in it, the security of the network, and the ability to store and transfer large amounts of wealth. The higher the price and market cap of bitcoin, the more wealth an individual or corporation can realistically store and transfer with it. You can now realistically move billions of dollars in Bitcoin, this was not possible when the price was lower, thus price is a feature.

TLDR: Bitcoin has unique properties that align with the hacker ethos, why do people on HN hate it so much?
Other than inflation I’m not sure how the U.S. maintains let alone pays off their > $27.5 trillion in debt. Considering total tax revenue is about $3.5 trillion per year, even at ridiculously low interest rates we are spending 10% of total revenue on interest.

If interest rates come anywhere near historical norms we will be spending all revenue just to pay interest.
Disadvantages from a union perspective:

1) a substantial part of your dues are passed on to support the larger organization

2) some member services are delegated to the larger union, and some larger unions are better at member services than others

3) some larger unions spend a lot of money on political activism instead of member services

4) less independence of action, as larger unions might have different priorities than what ground level members want (e.g. wanting to get a contract settled instead of fighting for more; external organizing over internal organizing)
I think this is normal, when ever a crucial Internet services or Network is down. That could be Azure, GCP, AWS, Verisign, Cloudflare, DNS attack etc.

A huge number of people comes to HN to check status. To the point HN report network / services condition earlier than any mainstream or social media. (Including their own Status Update pages ) Last time it was Google ( Storage Limit )

This time it is Slack.
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> if you don’t own any real estate, company stock or BTC then you will essentially own nothing because thieves already sucked all the fiat to its own end.

In all likelihood, if you own none of these you probably don't have much wealth in the first place.

(No offense to anybody, I fall in this category. Aside from my down payment savings fund, I have no wealth to speak of)
Oh no, Bitcoin has "crashed" to where it was at the start of the year! That is only double what it was a month before, and only 10x what it was a year ago!
It’s statistically safest to live on Mars to avoid bear attacks.... the data matters. There’s limited real world application, and that’s what matters most. Semantics and arguing definitions isn’t useful.
I should have provided more thought in my response. I was trying to reframe that the actual topic shouldn’t be so limited.

But it’s not reasonable for me to assume that readers would get that from my quip.

I think that I try this to try to break out of the paths where we inappropriately limit the scope to the point we can be sound in designing a solution that fits our narrowed scope but missed the goal that we were trying to achieve. I think in this case that the assumption that the goal is to fix google leaves out the individual who has mixed duties to the organization and themself. I probably get too emotional when I frequently see discussions that try to box me into being part of the solution and I see this quite a bit in product design. I see discussions around products where a complaint is met with discussion around the need to provide a solution. So the discussion spirals around kind of assuming the only options for users are: 1) propose solutions, 2) keep using. But there are three options: 1) propose solutions, 2) keep using, 3) stop using. And assuming that all users operate with only the first two options makes it more likely to only design around those two.
Third-party exFAT support did exist before 2019, but vendors had to pay a licence fee to Microsoft. Apple apparently paid the fee.

Regarding Linux, exfat-utils only provided limited functionality. The kernel mainline lacked a native exFAT driver. Mounting exFAT volumes was possible only through FUSE (with all its shortcomings).
Bitcoin has 4 year cycles because of the halvings, and it's extremely volatile, I don't think it changed.

At the same time it has the best Sharpe ratio amongst all assets (gain rescaled by volatility).
HN caches pages for logged out users (since they'll obviously be the same for everyone).
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Google is actively involved in DoD contracts.

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Maybe because CSS is simply a piece of shit? Overly complex, yet always too restricted, unfocused and trying to be everything to everybody (and failing at that), having severe cognitive issues and far-distance effects (tried to grok other people's CSS?), making implementing browsers from scratch impossible, carrying loads of extra bytes and CDNs spying on you, inviting people to flaunt their Stockholm's as in: managed to grok CSS so now have to educate the world when the question really should be whether we need it at all. Above all: unnecessary proliferation of microsyntax and unintended consequences ("frameworks") when HTML attributes are or should be sufficient. And no, the structure-vs-presentation dichotomy doesn't hold water for any rational person.
Discord gives every user an identity that is persistent beyond the server; you have a Discord account, not a server account. Slack does the opposite. Enterprises would hate Discord's model, as they prefer to control the entire identity of every user in their systems, such that when they leave the company they can destroy any notion of that identity ever existing.
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Well that's what happens when Legal joins the fun and starts defining what "downtime" means
> The behaviour of Ross and Joey was pretty gross and would be looked on pretty badly these days.

Every main character on Friends was a caricature centered around a character flaw (or a stereotypical combination of flaws), so, yeah, any one of their actions would be looked on pretty badly now or at the time they were written, and Ross and Joey were pretty much the worst at the time.

Sitcom characters are very often far from role models for their time.
There's a handy set of compounded effects at play. The inflation is pretty evident in the stock market and real-estate, which are the assets being bought up. Consumerism and efficiency in delivering consumer goods has kept pace with inflation. It's there (from QE), just not where you're measuring. It will seep into others over time (like agri) as food supply needs to increase. Luckily, with global warming, land that was good for farming and living has been affected negatively (floods, droughts, etc) allowing people, farmers and meat to move farther north. eg The cattle that now sit on the California central valley land instead of southern CA like the city of Corona. The land is relatively cheap north, much to the chagrin of Idaho natives and such, who face a deluge of immigrants with relatively vast wealth.

Food subsidies and the aforementioned weather have kept food prices relatively low...although you might notice that non-McDonalds food will cost you about 10$ a meal, as food prices have doubled in 11 years. Give it a bit more time.

Now that the QE has ramped up to ridiculous levels, you can sit back and watch the inflation continue at 4x instead of 2x for the most affected verticals.
> They indicate what they are comparing in the smallprint

(smallprint)
* tested in very specific condition X that does not reflect at all everyday usage of 99.9999% of users.

(The tech media)
Apple did it again with 300% perf increase! Mad engineering!

That's just legal department finding a way to make propaganda harder to challenge. It's still propaganda in effect.
Doesn't HN run on a single computer under some desk? I heard this one time but never verified. Maybe it's time for a proper cloud deployment?
I would add that it’s also extremely unlikely that all countries in the world would ban bitcoin. For example I read somewhere that Iran is using Bitcoin to avoid some of the sanctions the US out on Iran.

Vice also wrote an article on this: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjppx3/iran-bitcoin-us-sanct...