skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the web as a platform for publishing static information is feature complete. You can publish basically any kind of static content you want (news, academic articles, personal sites, business landing pages, restaurant menus, etc) with ~2005 era tech and no JS.

But once you start to consider forms and interactive content, the possibilities for expanding interactivity are near endless: raster or vector maps, the spam bot / capcha arms-race, custom form widgets (ie. better dropdowns, file upload dropzones, datatables, drag/drop items), different connection types or wire protocols (XML/JSON vs. binary formats, Websockets, WebRTC, QUIC, more UDP-based stuff in the future), rich API's like payments, hardware security dongles, and social networks (webmentions/activity-pub/etc).

Kind of like Excel, these are each must-have's for some industry or app. Each one requires a different 10% of core features to work. So, we need them all if the web is going to be an application delivery platform. And for better or worse, it is the current de-facto standard cross-platform apps.

But I think this shows an interesting effect: platforms are very unlikely to ever be feature complete. Whereas distinct pieces of software are. PDF is another example of this kind of scope creep.
The Hong Kong episode might not upset people in PRC as they are being brought under same laws as people in PRC. Top entrepreneurs/researchers/engineers can buy HK activists being malicious or they can be just indifferent to them as that is not their problem.

But this will be as this is a lot more relatable.

Also, the value of HK for PRC has reduced over time so PRC could afford to do it now.
> Our western "liberal" democracies

....are by far not all like the United States.
Ask Jack Ma about this false equivalence.

The US is attempting to extradite someone for trial, not trying to harvest his organs.
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Would you truly consider old money, government regulatory capture/lobbying and defence to be in the same category as startups? They are completely different types of innovation. There job is done once a specific policy is achieved. Overarching changes to the system is often not their priority.
Come on. It also takes a couple of USD cents (per operation) for the government to automatically blacklist all wallets that "touched" (received any amount of transfer from) a blacklisted walled. The great advantage of BTC is that the ledger is public...
And the employees wouldn’t even have jobs to complain about if the company had not made the investments to grow large enough to hire them. So that’s kind of one-sided.

Just because the union made them do it, doesn’t mean it was a bluff or the right decision. And if those investments pan out, the stock gains are often worth substantially more to the employee than the token merit increase.
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I just finished making an online dithering tool, doodad.dev/dither-me-this if anyone wants to play around with dithering.

I'll be re-jigging it based on some info from that article, and definitely adding 'blue noise' as an option. Thanks for sharing.
Currently discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629774
text way too small and hard to read, by like an order of magnitude
Wow just read up on that. Depressing that they would kidnap a 6 year old - no limits to what the CCP won't do I guess.
ofc not. he is rich and famous. this helps in the US and A a lot. China does not care. Everything is shit in front of the law. Ironic that there is more equality than here.
The post was claiming that the raid never happened and articles like the one you read are propaganda.
> who cares who mines it?

Cryptocoins are subject to majority attacks and rules that can change at any time based on the miners preference. Who mines it is very important.

You would also care about who owned some real estate before you buy it if it was some company known for dumping toxic wast into land and then selling it. Those things are not as apolitical as they look like in an organized society.
> With enough propaganda, you can make people believe anything, even that Snowden is a "traitor" to the US.

When you do things like https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266892/exclusive-ns..., no propaganda is necessary.
What is the median price charged to your users for a single instance of 'a CNAME on their DNS to point to us'?
Also possibly because URL shorteners are frequently abused, e.g. to obfuscate links in spam. Operating one responsibly is a considerable amount of work.
Now I'm not sure if you're still talking about BTC or we switched to vaccines...
Waterborne microplastics grow bio-coatings to sneak into living cells
Sounds political, which is the problem with unions. If I want to work I have to pay dues to a political organisation. Also, why should a company pay you when you refuse to work on a project?
Sorry if this seems even more nitpicky; I spent about a year in grad school thinking I wanted to do monetary theory for the rest of my life, and the main thing I got out of it was that "intrinsic value" is a bad concept that runs cover for muddy thinking and ultimately confuses everyone much more.

> Food provides value in that you can eat it to survive.

People value food (in many cases) because they can eat it. It doesn't mean that the value is intrinsic to the food. In fact, in many cases the value of the food is zero (or even negative! -- it still needs to be disposed-of) because no one wants it.

> Housing provides value in that it provides shelter from the elements.

People value housing for that reason, but housing doesn't have that value on its own. It has value because people want to use it for something. There are many abandoned houses that show this value is not inherent, but rather conditional and context-dependent (like all other value).

> A goat provides milk and you can eat it.

Yes, some people value goats for that reason. If you put one in my house, it will immediately have negative value, because not only do I not want it, the time it will take me to find a good way to get rid of it will dwarf the amount I can sell it for.

> Historically, people also used things like salt, which had intrinsic value (for preserving and flavoring food)

Again, people value it for that reason, but the value isn't in the thing (intrinsic). The value is imputed to the salt by people.

> Eventually you transition to precious metals, which also have some intrinsic value (for engineering various goods)

Again, no, but this one is perhaps the easiest to understand -- the value is imputed by people because of what they can do with it. In situations where they can't do anything with it, it has no value, revealing that the value was never intrinsic in the first place.

> The idea of having a currency completed untethered to anything of value is relatively new.

I would argue that this is not the case, and comes from a narrow way of looking at value. Say I'm a nerd (this may or may not be a true story). In early 2012, I find out about a thing called Bitcoin. I don't understand it very well, but it sounds cool, and I mine some just to say I have it, and then tell people I have it. I value it. I can't do anything with it physically, but that's true of a lot of things. I own a number of pieces of art that I value, even though I can't really do anything with them other than know they're there, sitting in my closet or storage unit. It doesn't make the value somehow not-real, because all value (in this sense of the word) is imputed to things by people; it's not in the things themselves.
There's a difference between being arrested and put in jail until your bond hearing 24-48 hours later and being blackbagged and "interrogated" for 2 months before anyone knows where you are. We only do that to people in Europe and the Middle East, duh.
I originally found out about Obra Dinn by reading that devlog—it's totally fascinating, and shows impressive attention to detail.

> It feels a little weird to put 100 hours into something that won't be noticed by its absence. Exactly no one will think, "man this dithering is stable as shit. total magic going on here."

Luckily, thanks to this post, we have the privilege of thinking that.
Naaa, it happened in China. It must be the evil CCP that only made bad stuff and let 1.4 billion suffers right in this moment.

Fuck, my cat just pooed on the floor. I am sure, the CCP is also the reason for that.
Mostly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629774 too.
They don't have to write the way you want. Its easy to write positively about tools one feels are beneficial.
Rad! Do you have a screenshot? Love to see what that looks like.
Doubtful. It's not impossible a company the size of Slack would be reliant on a specific engineer logging on in the morning before a traffic spike so the service can handle the spike in load, but that's a misuse of modern distributed cloud-based computing.

Hate on the cloud all you want, but AWS has (several flavors of) load balancers and various ways to automatically scale up and down resources (and if you're conservative, you can disable the 'down' part). If you're operating a major SaaS company like Slack and not taking advantage of them, something's gone wrong.
> Both of them make Dan Brown look really, really unimpressive. If "The Da Vinci Code" is a vaguely thought-through concept aimed at general readers, "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" is an explosion in a conspiracy theory factory.

It's mostly because Browns work is just a cheap simulacrum of the original conspiracy theorists who came up with the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Gr...
I think it may be argued that holding referendums is not necessarily democratic. Referendums are not historically part of the UK electoral system. There have only ever been three UK wide referendums, two on Europe and one on the electoral system. We have none of the safeguards, of super-majorities for instance, that some countries have.

It could be argued that having failed to get your own way in the established electoral system, inventing a new unstoppable electoral system is undemocratic.
Our secret sauce is Elixir/BEAM and Rust :)

Well for the real time side, I can't tell you how big a boon it's been to build our platform on top of Elixir/BEAM. Hands down the best runtime / VM for the job - and a big big secret to our success. Where we couldn't get BEAM fast enough - we lean on rust and embed it into the VM via NIFs.

2021 is the year of rust - with the async ecosystem continuing to mature (tokio 1.0 release) we will be investing heavily in moving a lot of our workloads from Python to Rust - and using Rust in more places, for example, as backend data services that sit in front of our DBs. We have already piloted this last year for our messages data store and have implemented such things as concurrency throttles and query coalescing to keep the upstream data layer stable. It has helped tremendously but we still have a lot of work to do!

To help scale those super large servers, in 2020 we invested heavily in making sure our distributed system can handle the load.

Did you know that all those mega servers you listed run within our distribution on the same hardware and clusters as every other discord server - with no special tenancy within our distribution. The largest servers are scheduled amongst the smallest servers and don't get any special treatment. As a server grows - it of course is able to consume a larger share of resources within our distribution - and automatically transitions to a mode built for large servers (we call this "relays" internally.) At any hour, over a hundred million BEAM processes are concurrently scheduled within our distributed system. Each with specific jobs within their respective clusters. A process may run your presence, websocket connection, session on discord, voice chat server, go live stream, your 1:1/group DM call, etc. We schedule/reschedule/terminate processes at a rate of a few hundred thousand per minute. We are able to scale by adding more nodes to each cluster - and processes are live migrated to the new nodes. This is an operation we perform regularly - and actually is how we deploy updates to our real time system.

I was responsible for building and architecting much of these systems. It's been super cool to work on - and - it's cool to see people acknowledge the scale we now run at! Thank you!! It's been a wild ride haha.

As for scale, our last public number perhaps comparable to Slack is ~650 billion messages sent in 2020, and a few trillion minutes of voice/video chat activity. However given the crazy growth that has happened last year due to COVID - the daily message send volumes are well over the 2 billion/day average.
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Is this what Steam uses for the "News" animated gifs?
What are the limits of the American war crimes? Pls put ur own shit into perspective first.
I am not American and I have not condemned (or supported) "shit China is doing". I was just trying to gauge your personal opinion so I could better understand your comment.
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In 2011 a small amount (0.02%) of Gmail users had all their emails deleted due to a bug: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-eve... They ended up having to restore them from tape backup, which took several days. Affected users also had all their incoming mail bounce for 20 hours.
> forcing members to vote on way

Aren't votes anonymous in US ? Or perhaps you meant "inciting members to vote one way" ?
It's also worth pointing out that working from home not equals working from home during lockdown.
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My actual question starts here

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How can we approach this?

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I'm not sure about that. I feel like I get more upvotes from sarcasm and jokes than from insight. In this instance, I think it's because when people hear something dumb said seriously in real life, they're not going to readily recognize online that it's a joke.
100%, and that also applies to the original author.

Building a script from the REPL might mean running different parts of the code out of order (such as reloading a function definition). As you mentioned, it's easy to lose track of state, writing 'clever'/unmaintainable code, and forgetting the order and purpose of the code.
> Illuminatus! is deliberately a send-up of the kind of stuff that Dan Brown writes

To be clear (for the benefit of others), not specifically of Dan Brown. DB was only aged 11 when Illuminatus! was first published in 1975.
You are right, the security of the chain should always be proportional to fees paid.

The security of any given transaction is a little different. In practice we haven't seen that many double spends against chains that are defacto vulnerable (e.g. any chain that uses the same PoW as bitcoin is always vulnerable to an attack).

Assuming that PoS goes well for ETH it might make sense to start moving away from PoW coins before the fees drop to worrying levels.
Gold is actually less deflationary that bitcoin - the gold supply grows with improved technology and general global expansion of industrialization.
Would you please stop using HN primarily for political and ideological battle? We ban that sort of account because it destroys the curious conversation we're trying for here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Occasional political discussion is fine, but when it becomes the main activity of an account, that's quite different. There are lots of past explanations about this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

If you or anyone still has a question after reading some of that material, I'd be interested to know what it is.
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My money is on the military invasion of Taiwan happening in May of this year.

Not only is the incoming Biden administration entirely favorable to China (and includes some of the same advisors who had Obama stand down during the Scarborough Shoal incident), but May is the month where China once again will hold the Presidency over the UN Security Council and gets to set its agenda.

They're perfectly set up to stymy any international response that may be called for. Given the money flowing westward under Belt and Road, I imagine that won't be much of an outcry anyway, save for the expected parties (Japan, The Philippines, Vietnam).
It's kind of amazing how active that GitHub org is given that Mixer is gone...
No, you are still confusing it.
llvm alloca reserves a stack allocation slot. The number of slots is unchecked that's why rust has so many stack overflows. Esp with varargs. Check your issue tracker or source code.
Let me get this straight, a senile old woman who couldn’t do anything to stop the legislative agenda of Sudafed addled bankrupt reality star is going to covertly disappear mark zuckerberg.

How on earth can you hold these contradictions together in your brain?
Crypto can be extremely political if those who mine get to decide what goes on the blockchain.

Let's say Dalai Lama decided to follow MicroStrategy with a 400M purchase.

His BTC could be near unusable if China were to control some amount over 50% of mining capability.

How could that happen?
The blocks you mine you simply not process any of "undesirable transactions".

If any of the lesser miners find a block and try to add a transaction to the ledger you perform a double spend attack.
Cultural revolution was not that long ago: 1966-1976. There has already been a chilling effect before Jack Ma. I would wager control is utmost importance to CCP. Not as concerned about the chilling effect on their top performers.
This is a tale SaaS vendors (which have strong presence in online tech communities like HN because they are software companies) sold very well, and it's probably true for many small startups, but for medium sized companies managing their own platform for something like Slack is completely doable and you will not have those big downtimes compared to Slack. Sure, you have to dedicate time and resources to it, and obviously is not "core business" although a chat platform is a pretty important component in an online company.
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