skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched pizzagate grow from day 0, AMA.

I spent an inordinate amount of time on /pol/ around the 2016 election and when Wikileaks made the emails available I was among those hitting the random button to see what we could find. The authors of the paper did a great job in understanding a key feature; (vacuous) conspiraciy theories involve a lot of jumping to conclusions, and are all over the place (multi-domain). At the time there was so much momentum to find dirt on Hillary, that every silly comment seen through chan culture lenses became a zero-point energy engine, and suddenly we were swimming in mspaint.exe infographics pulled out of thin air.

I was never a believer though, but I did enjoy the shitstorm, and human trafficking is a real thing. I was disappointed that people was so fed up with the matter that Epstein's suicide was not a bigger deal with the general public.
Haven't been following Macbook quality much, huh?
Author here, I'm actually short BTC as a whole, but that's besides the point of this article.
> everything is constantly the best ever.

Not just the best ever, always 3x or 300% better according to fake benchmarks that nobody can audit. It's beyond Marketing, basically propaganda.
FWIW, I remember it as "that should be twice what any of them makes a week".
If something went awry, and it caused more pain because Slack was down, how would you feel?
If you’re missing comms/observability then waiting to deploy seems prudent.
You can use https://web.archive.org/web/20210104154304/https://www.singl... since the original website is experiencing HN bear hug.
It doesn't have to be about just deserts, it can be about ethics. This argument is the main thrust of Plato's dialogue Crito [1]:

> In Crito, Socrates believes injustice may not be answered with injustice, personifies the Laws of Athens to prove this, and refuses Crito's offer to finance his escape from prison. The dialogue contains an ancient statement of the social contract theory of government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crito
I skimmed this and everything presented in this article has basically been argued to death already. eg.

* bitcoin is volatile

* bitcoin is deflationary

* bitcoin doesn't have intrinsic value

* blockchains are inefficient compared to centralized ledgers
What a surprise, the functional folks are arguing that

"Because your language is different than mine, therefore it's not as good as mine."

I've heard people say that Java or C++ isn't a language, because it doesn't have features x-y-z when Racket does. Garbage. Similarly, this guy is saying that because Python's shell doesn't have breakloops, it isn't a real REPL. Also garbage. 99.9% of the time when using REPLs/shells, if something doesn't run, I correct the code, copy and paste it into the shell, and run it again. Breakloops don't exist in the Python shell because they don't need to. Python shell works about as good as Clojure REPL for me.

I get really tired of these elitist holier-than-thou arguments. Functional programming is a thing. Procedural programming is a thing. REPL is a historical name... for an interactive language shell. They really are quite equivalent.
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How do you get Obsidian 0.10.5? I only get offered 0.10.1/
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> Here in Germany unions (in tech) will for example make sure that older employees can't be fired, so the younger employees will be fired instead.

That's the law actually, IIRC. It also protects people with children.
> For example, the line about "economic justice" almost certainly means the authors believe the company should be used as a propaganda vehicle for socialism/communism

These days it's for race+gender-orientated demands.
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Thank you, that makes total sense. What about an MBA from a mid tier school?
I forgot about that. Starfleet really was in good shape back in.
^ This plus YAML.
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Here's their website:
https://alphabetworkersunion.org/
It's hard to find in Google searches buried under all the news articles.

Does the Google Walkout count as rabblerousing? It's all been word-of-mouth until now, which is kinda slow since everyone left the office and went online.
You're right. The Bundys are lawless domestic terrorists. These people don't sound like terrorists.
> The employees benefit when the company does well

Not really, for example it would be benefit the company to reduce expense by improving automation/efficiency by reducing the number of employee.

I wouldn't say it benefited the employee to get sacked.
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"As of December 21, 2020, the Company holds an aggregate of approximately 70,470 bitcoins, which were acquired at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.125 billion"

Current value January 4, 2021 - $2,238 billion

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What’s a “big 3 property”?
Why the ad spend isn't working is a critical detail. It's definitely not most money but yes there's a lost of waste because it's a 12 figure industry with lots of politics, perverse incentives, thousands of vendors, and a complex global supply chain.

Fraud is a special case because it's criminal activity and has nothing to do with advertising. It happens in every industry but it's especially easy with online technology spanning multiple countries and data that can be easily faked. Uber was exceedingly oblivious here but I wouldn't extrapolate advertising efficacy from these examples.
> Unionizing at Google makes no sense, as there are thousands of tech companies hiring engineers in the valley -- engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".

Wouldn’t Google workers collectively bargaining with Google using the threat of leaving to work at another tech company be, like, a union?
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fully in the hands of Facebook

Absolutely deserved. I hope others use this as an opportunity to learn and not make the same mistake.

(completely ignoring ads being a shady business anyways)
In America, baseball unionization was what drove higher salaries.
"Looks at 850 unread messages in ops-notifications folder"

In my organization it's spelt "deleted items"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345955063353597954.html
It’s hard to understand that a business partner for 15 years and after dozens of millions of dollars spent can kick you in the @@s and ghost you without any explanation.
This kind of behaviors from large corporations have to stop.
Oh yeah, those were the days. Causing server splits to get your nick back that was stolen in a previous server split...
Ask HN: What can I do to better stimulate my mind for business ideas?
I often read advice saying that you can't just sit down with a piece of paper and start coming up with business ideas; it just doesn't work that way. Many people seem to suggest to just start naturally doing stuff and "notice" the problems that you encounter. Paul Graham and Peter Levels both seem to advocate for this approach.

My problem is that I rarely get any ideas I notice. Maybe I'm not doing enough stuff? Maybe all my stuff is very basic? Is there something else that I could do everyday that will "exercise my mind" for coming up with business ideas?
Because nobel prize winners polemics against Bitcoin (ie Krugman) are even less well argued than this.

Bottom line, Bitcoin is a very different beast than everything that's existed before in finance, and "experts" poorly reasoned opinion carry barely more weight than this article.

The truth is, no one knows what Bitcoin will become, because it's the first of its kind.

When the dust settles, the survivor opinion will - of course - write a book and become famous selling the bedazzled masses a lengthy, sophisticated "I told you so".
"It was working fine when we sold it to you"
medium of exchange, unit of account, store of value.
Sounds like something that could be tortious interference but how could it ever be proven unless someone on the inside talks? The absoluteness of the communication cutoff certainly makes it seem like Facebook has something they want to ensure doesn't have any possibility of accidentally leaking.
>Both major parties exploit these so I can’t blame a single party here either.

Republicans in Wisconsin abolished public unions back in 2011 (though admittedly they had exemptions for police and firefighters) and there was nationwide outrage from the left about it. There have been recent calls from the left to abolish police unions but those seem almost exclusively about police unions' ability to protect corrupt/brutal/racist cops and not about their ability to bilk taxpayers.

So while it's not completely clearcut, the right has a much better record for opposing public unions than the left.
It is bad economics after all
Facebook and google are not the only places to advertise.
I’m curious why the author didn’t take this to court?

Perhaps it can evolve into a class action lawsuit. That would teach FB and other FAANGs.
> Why allow yourself to be divided and conquered?

Most are convinced they are “special” or otherwise immune from anything that would warrant union representation.

At least until they maybe sustain an injury that makes them less productive, or even simply grow old enough to face age discrimination.

It’s always the privileged and somewhat myopic that discount the value of collective action. We act together to lift each other up. To extract the best conditions for our work and the most support from our employer because the ‘free market’ has given us coordinated wage suppression among tech giants and a mountain of sexual and racial discrimination in the workplace.

Together we are stronger. America used to get this more in the early 1900s. Then the ruling class got better at controlling the narrative and crushing class consciousness.

To the kids reading this who think they don’t need a union - nearly every positive workplace condition you have is a result of collective action in the past.
The problem is that the person doesn’t even understand the principles of BTC , why it came to be and why is there. He could just post a tweet , I don’t like BTC and spend the rest of his time brewing coffee
IWGB and UVW (International Workers of Great Britain and United Voices of the World) are examples in the UK. IWGB in particular has done great work representing some of the most precarious workers in the gig economy, a risk that bigger unions cannot or will not take. Partly this is due to the UK unions playing it safe with direct action such as strikes, since labour laws in the UK were made rather stringent since Thatcher and the NUM had it out in the 80s.

This is a great article about them. Maybe paywalled, sorry!

https://www.ft.com/content/576c68ea-3784-11ea-a6d3-9a26f8c3c...

If you Google "IWGB deliveroo" or "UVW St. Marys" you will find interesting case studies where each have represented delivery riders and nurses and won concessions where a bigger union wouldn't have bothered cos of the risk involved. Echoing the comment a few levels up, this can definitely be seen as a "disruption" of what a union is or is expected to do.
Think or Swim from TD Ameritrade is effectively free (you need an account with money in it, but you aren't charged to access it or the API). When/if you want to make trades you can as well.
I would be shocked if Slack operations wasn’t aware of this return to work spike and didn’t pre-scale in anticipation.
Filled out. What do you intend to do with the survey results?
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Talk about Fomo :|
That doesn’t describe even the most down on their luck FAANG engineer in the slightest, and the previous comment tried to make that obvious by defining two entirely separate sorts of employer relationships to consider.

That you didn’t address the second type of relationship, specifically brought your nationality in, and ended by calling their nation a depressing dystopia brings this dangerously close into nationalist flamebait territory.
This is very likely a broken release. The timing lines up with pacific time too well.
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yellow requires an issue that every customer is aware of and red requires a thermonuclear strike.
status page says apps / API are fine yet am trying to work on a slack app but can't cause of these error, a bit annoying

edit: it is now showing as a total outage on the status page
Any system that aggregates power can be used towards detrimental efforts. Unions aggregate power and as such are heavily dependent on their leadership.

When there was no employment law in the US and you had children working, obviously change was necessary and so unions were able to provide worker protections that an individual couldn't establish for themselves since they had no power against the corporation.

If you look at police unions in the US you can see how detrimental unions can be as well. They are focused on protecting their workers even when those same workers are the issue which leads to a very challenging environment around firing "poor" performers.

Often times what is better is intelligent government regulation. Though that in and of itself is an oxymoron.

Things like mandated health insurance, overtime pay, work hours, minimum wage, these are all protections that we need encoded in law, less so in unions.

The other challenge with unions, is that while one can succeed it leaves everyone else that is outside of the union at other companies completely unprotected.

At the same time, if you think of the largest union, it is all of the workers of a country. What if they joined together, to really lobby the government for massive change. Something that goes into law.

Like minimum wage increases, and the like.

The reality though is that any economic system is complex where pushing on one area creates an often unexpected result elsewhere.

You would also need heavier investment in government agencies that are meant to police the enforcement of such policies and to ensure that they are truly operating separately from the industries they are supposed to be policing. The opposite of that is what happened with the FAA and Boeing recently.
No way, maybe if you're working alone, but if there's even just two of us 'collaborating' via 'different folders and floppy disks' is going to slow me down, not speed me up.
I'd love to see a write-up of something similar from the EU - preferably continental, not the UK.

Does anybody have any good links?
Bitcoin is voluntary! Investing in MicroStrategy is voluntary! There is absolute no coercion to buy bitcoin or invest in MicroStrategy.

If you are so certain that bitcoin is toxic, short it on one of the many platforms that allow this, or if you don't have the guts, just ignore it. No one makes you use it. That bitcoin continues to grow and gain value relative to fiat currencies is an organic decision by market participants.
- Fixed supply is not a "problem built-in", it a a feature
- Yes, it can be used as a medium of exchange using the lightning network
- The blockckain is inefficient but it was not built for efficiency but to solve the trust problem in a trust-less network.

and so on...
> To take their words at face value is incredibly naive

I agree, but that's what we have to go on, as this effort just started. The opposite is naive as well, where you assume everyone always have hidden agendas. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

> For example, the line about "economic justice" almost certainly means the authors believe the company should be used as a propaganda vehicle for socialism/communism.

Well, yes and no. Yes, you can describe their economic justice value as socialistic, I don't think they are trying to hide that. Here's the full value:

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

Yes, sounds like socialism. Exactly what they are aiming to implement in the Google/Alphabet workplace. The people who sign up with the union, are people who agree they want to focus on fixing that particular problem. That's a strong point of unions in general, to align about common values.

Not sure how you get it to be a "Google should be used as a propaganda vehicle". The employees there want to improve their own workplace by implementing their ideas. Now they are calling for others (who agree) to join them. I don't have any skin in the game, so I'm fine either way. But I find the process of even trying this to be refreshing, no matter what their values and ultimately their impact will be.
Author here.

Seems like another post of mine (my take on BTC) was randomly posted and became popular at the same time I posted this one.

I'm trying to get the wordpress host's cache to handle the load.
> 4. Email delivery period. Using AWS Simple Email Service, you're actually sharing an email server IP address with other accounts.

They also randomly rotate through their mail servers on each retry attempt, so a simple Greylisting implementation based on matching the full IP address can delay your emails for not just one retry interval, but several (until by chance Amazon happens to reuse the IP of the original delivery attempt).
Is any of these large amounts of money someone's individual money they've earned that they're putting into these schemes, or is it part of financial complex/capture - where decision making has trickled up to a small few - so few people to manipulate/convince into such decisions?

"Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money" - Elon Musk; I haven't seen any pro-Bitcoiner try to spin this quote as a positive yet, though I'm sure I'll laugh at whatever mental gymnastics are presented. Good luck betting against Elon's understanding of the holistic, exponentials.
Sorta. Where else would you advertise if you’re specifically trying to reach people who are doing web searches for your product category?
Is that really the most likely?

I'd suggest it's much more likely that they tripped some automated spam protection or a moderator thought they looked suspicious, than there's a conspiracy against the company by a competitor.

That conspiracy would be of a high reputational risk to Facebook and the competitor, and would have a paper-trail in contracts that guarantee Facebook that ad revenue for the deplatforming.

It seems highly unlikely to me, as much as I believe Facebook to have poor moral standing.
Our company uses Cliq. I wouldn't say that it's as good as Slack, but it's probably 80-90%, and even has a few unique features (integration into Zoho's suite, remote work checkin, integrated bot development environment, etc)
To elaborate a bit more on this point, you have to think about it like any complex system failure - it's almost never one thing, but rather a combination of many different factors. The factors around post NYE releases:

- high risk changes that weren't released pre-holidays get released. Depending on the company, this could mean a 1-week to 1-month delay between implementation and release. The greater that interval, the higher the divergence world of production and the world of the new feature

- lots of new hires (new year = new hiring budget). New hires are missing some tribal knowledge about the system and make a production-breaking release.

I tried to think of other reasons, but these two overwhelmingly stand out as the two biggest reasons. Would love to hear from others.
My one big issue with thinking about BTC as gold/commodity, is at least at the end of the day gold has actual uses. I can make jewlery, or use it in components. BTC has no inherit value at all. My only reason to own BTC is because other people also want it.
The schools are sanitized nightly and those who go in literally don't have to see anyone else, and by policy are not supposed to.

"Unified front" That is not the purpose of the union. The union exists to serve it's members. If serving it's members might be slightly more difficult if it actually accommodates the choices of the members it serves, well that's it's job. It's job is not to make it's job easier, it's to serve the members. If the district tries to pressure other members because some make a certain choice, or not provide a safe working environment, That is the fight the union should fight. Not bullying members against making the choice the members feels is the right one to best serve the students.

The possibility of adversarial action by the school district is insufficient to justify the union's actions, especially when, in the case of my school district, the district has otherwise been very responsive to the concerns of the union with respect to health & safety protocols.
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The claims are what is patented, not the simplistic headline, nor the discussions that do not analyze the claims in detail.

For all the outrage, not a single post here yet discusses the actual claims.
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By no means I am an expert in deep learning, but lately I've been considering graph NNs snake oil of neural networks. There are no impressive results on any common tasks and that picture is supported by a recent paper claiming transformers to "contain a graph network inside".
It's shocking to me that you say this. What was their action that you claim to be an act of terrorism?