skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does a janitor at Google really deserve more money than a janitor somewhere else? What makes them the "chosen ones"? Just lucky to work for a successful company?

Google makes a ton of money off of each employee, and could probably afford it.

https://csimarket.com/stocks/GOOG-Revenue-per-Employee.html

Google, like much of Silicon Valley, regularly puts forth the messaging that it represents the future, not only in terms of technology but in terms of society. ("Making the world a better place." "Don't be evil.") Forward-thinking often lends itself towards democratization, and of personal empowerment. So if Google wants to portray itself as futuristic, and its employees so lucky to be working for such a futuristic organization, then it would follow based on their own company line that janitors at Google might be entitled to more money at more traditional, hierarchical, less worker-empowering companies.

If Google didn't want their employees to set fires, then maybe they shouldn't taught them them the Promethean secret. Perhaps tech companies should cease pretending to be so much nobler than every other traditional form of business. The people running Google created this culture.
Google would be catastrophic because so much is stored there.

Slack is mostly real time communication, at least for me. There are a few bits and bobs that really should be documented that are in the messages though.
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It is definitely not easier than stocks. Brokerages made it really easy to enroll and start buying it
Yeah there is nothing comperable. For those with infared needs we're mostly stuck
The problem is a few companies pay very well, at senior+ levels, Google, FB, NFLX, AMZN, etc, If you work there for a few years and want to leave comp will be an extreme drop which given the cost of the bay area is a hard pill to swallow, why not try to unionize and fix a broken company?
Relevant
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/09/21/why-irc-is-still-good-in-c...
> I am saying that you need to consider all facets of the technology.

And to your point the author did assess it as a medium of exchange and deemed it a failure.

> but that doesn't mean it won't in the future or that it has other useful properties today

Just as you think it has a future, the author thinks it doesn't - hence the short position. But saying that the author didn't consider all aspects is disingenuous - they literally did, they just don't agree with you.

Also, you talked about other uses like "protocol and secure network". Aren't these just features of the technology that powers BTC (e.g. blockchain)?
How will people who don't take a vaccine be phased out from society? This sounds like a bit of a conspiracy theory to me, but then that by no means proves it as a falsehood. Should I be preparing for a purge of some sort?
But you are comparing stocks to a (digital currency). Compare USD or EUR volatility to Bitcoin.
The optics are still very, very bad for Zoom. I have zero trust in them.
The Matrix clients I have tried have "call via audio" and "call with video" buttons available in convenient places.

> fwiw if you use the Jitsi widget, you can share the URL to your Jitsi room with anyone and they do not need Element or Matrix to join.

I would like my grandma to click a green "phone" button and answer my call. I would like my grandma to be able to issue a call for me.

> and the participants then need to agree on some server/software combo that provides the actual video conferencing.

Since the button is in a very convenient place, I would expect the integration to be a bit deeper than "hope the client understands the invite"; it's tricky to make the clients without a spec.

It would have been nicer if this were documented better/more obviously, so we know what to expect if we want video calls to work across different UIs.
Indeed, if you DO actually try to "play" and build a functioning city, the inability to handle traffic in any way basically stops you dead at small town size
>I didn't realize that Discord has way more active users than Slack

Keep in mind you're comparing daily active users vs monthly active users. I'd guess most slack users are online weekday for pretty much the entire day (because it's for work and your boss expects you to be online), whereas a good chunk of discord users are only logging in a few hours a week when they're gaming.
> UK also doesn't really have freedom of speech or press in any meaningful way.

Not in a way meaningful to libertarian extremists, no - thank goodness.

Citizens and the press can say pretty much what they want, barring libel and what you might describe as “violence done through speech” ie threats, harassment or abuse.

Consider that if I were to walk through London wearing a teeshirt emblazoned with “Atheist” I’d be perfectly safe. I suspect doing the same in many US towns or cities might result in assault - contrast “liberties” with “effective freedoms”.

Also, political free speech is pretty much absolute in the UK - it’s citizens putting the boot in to each other in public that tends to attract Police interest in keeping the peace.
If you're in this thread "I built a PC, all my stuff has RGB, it's fine but I don't get it", try setting them all to the same color - you might be surprised how nice it looks. I set everything to white, but my roommate has a nice shade of purple he uses for everything. My real golden rule is absolutely no motion. Can't stand cycling rainbows or whatever.
Everywhere I've worked often has a massive backlog of things that get released after a moratorium or extended holiday week. Those are usually the worst weeks to be oncall since things are under so much churn.
This is so rad. If the demoscene had infinite computing power, these are the shenanigans they'd get up to: finding the coolest, most interesting scene they can render with a succinct closed-form expression.

I'm also reminded of an earlier, more innocent time on the internet when a Japanese artist used the X11 diagramming tool Tgif to draw pictures of cute anime girls using closed spline curves. (This same artist also supplied detailed, annotated English translations of Gunbuster and Evangelion which is how I discovered him.)
Absolutely! Before the holiday shutdown, I Slacked myself a huge reminder list of things to jump on as soon as we started up again, so that I could hit the ground running in the new year. Oh, wait....
I'm setting up backups for our company on discord. That way maybe some webhooks won't be working, but communication resumes.
The outage is not for everybody, I can connect.
It's been a rollercoaster for me the last few hours, sometimes servers are up sometimes they are down. Point being, they are intermittently up :/
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There used to be massive economic crises all the time while people still were using your "intuitive" grasp of economics.

The truth is that inflation expectations were in the hole [0], and the Fed action restored inflation and price stability as per its mandate.

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE
Satoshi Nakamoto (whoever he/she/they) would not believe what he/she/they see today:

- Bitcoin is not used for transaction, due to it is not scalable
- But used for store of value, which plenty of people find reason 1 is not a bug but a feature

Suddenly Covid19 hits. People go crazy over masks, lockdown, trust in government at all time low. Government attempt to fix the damage done by pumping more money. Economy destroyed, money printer go brrr makes all asset class bubbles. Institutions are out of asset class to invest and "hey we got too much money, where should we throw this? look there is this thing called Bitcoin we forgot about it, let's just gamble it away, 5% of our portfolio, if we lose it we lose it, but if we made it we gonna go to the moon"

Institutions then joining in, prompting more retail skeptics to reason "if institutions join then this gonna go to Jupiter, and at best land on the moon, I'll join up, I need to pay my mortgage/student debt, or get out of whatever screwed economic situation that happens in this 2020 pandemic just like most millennials out there, I have no other choice, go big or go home".

Welcome to the (USA only) Circus. Soon there will be Bitcoin Mining Employment Act because all of us will only mine Bitcoin, no other economic activity matters.
Before that Great Depression, the term 'Great Depression' referred to the 23 years of economic crisis which started in 1873 and ended only when gold was found in the Yukon...

Tying economic growth to the availability of gold was a disaster.
>why aren't there charges filed against the company?

There are, it's currently under investigation, lookup tether/bitfinex new york court case.

Tether is needed as many exchanges cannot trade in USD so need a crypto-substitute in a form of a 1:1 dollar equivalent stable coin.

Not being backed matters because it means a single company can essentially print infinite money and buy up crypto, leading to fast price increases, just like the one we are seeing right now. When you see $30000 price tag on a bitcoin you don't know what percentage of it is actually fake USDT dollars. Right now it doesn't mater as you can exchange usdt for usd 1:1, but one day the music will stop and a "bank run" will happen, which will expose a giant hole and a real price of btc, collapsing the whole scheme.

>why 1) isn't BTC tanking

My current theory is that they co-opted a lot of exchanges, if you read their website https://tether.to/ they admit that they are not backed by USD and mention "loans made by Tether to third parties" which sounds like they give exchanges billions of dollars for IOUs. So exchanges get free billion dollar loans and in turn tether can print more billions and trade it for real money on bitfinex which they own.
MS Teams seems to be down
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I am looking for someone to write me an open-source, block-based WYSIWYG editor based on React components which outputs JSX. Think Colonel Kurtz, Sir Trevor JS etc, Editor JS doesn't support nesting.

Ideally the editor will be a React app. Output will be:

<Text>
<p>This is text, with
<Highlight color="red">inline components</Highlight>.
</p>
</Text>
<Aside>
<Text><p>Nesting is possible.</p></Text>
<Image id="12" layout="right" />
</Aside>

You get the idea. All editors represent this structure in some weird hybrid of JSON and HTML at the moment.

For editing, Custom elements are simple React Components that provide the UI.

For output, the content is just parsed as XML and rendered. I can provide a more detailed spec.

I've reviewed the majority of WYSYWYG editors out there and made starts on coding this but I just don't have the JS chops to pull it off.

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In addition, early on we had statements from two front-line doctors in Bakersfield which were pulled from YouTube:

https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/video-interview-wi...

and we had professor Karol Sikora, who former ally worked at the WHO, discuss what he saw in his on oncology clinic (also censored on YouTube)"

https://unherd.com/thepost/professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-mo...
It doesn't. The status page is currently showing information about the outage. And the 100% uptime number is probably still correct, since it's only been out for a couple of hours.
Here is a chart[0] of the daily changes showing BTC, AMZN, AAPL, NFLX, TSLA from January to November. Can you tell me which one is BTC (hint: the green one is TSLA)?

BTC has higher volatility than other assets on short timescales (e.g. < monthly and particularly, daily). But once you calculate over >3 months you get volatility comparable to stocks. And an investment in the size of $400M doesn't feel like they are worrying about daily volatility a lot.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/mE7bSI4
How's this different from Kennedy + Reagan?
All services have now been marked as [outages]:

> We're continuing to investigate connection issues for customers, and have upgraded the incident on our side to reflect an outage in service. All hands are on deck on our end to further investigate. We'll be back in a half hour to keep you posted.

- Jan 4, 11:20 AM EST

> There are no changes to report as of yet. We're still all hands on deck and continuing to dig in on our side. We'll continue to share updates every 30 minutes until the incident has been downgraded

- Jan 4, 11:52 AM EST
That wouldn't be ideal.
Viagogo are ticket touting scumbags. Don't work here.
Okay there are two separate issues here:

1) I think it's very unhelpful to speak in terms of "not owing things" to people and defending anyone whoever does the absolute minimum until they're dragged kicking and screaming to extend the most basic courtesy. Part of being a decent human being is extending such basic courtesies to others even when there's no legal obligation to do so, and, when an org doesn't do that, it's absolutely right to call them out on it.

2) If you're right, that this only came after extensive negotiation in which FB did reveal their objections, then yes, it's fair to call the advertiser out on that, for misrepresenting what explanation FB gave him.

Edit: Also,

>With regards to this, my point was that Facebook doesn't want to get into a long drawn out discussion with whataboutisms and splitting hairs on policy.

That's not relevant, because FB can recognize when they're making a judgment call; my point was just that it's courteous to at least recognize when you're doing so.
No it is not the same thing because in the hypothetical Xephyr case the client doesn't need to know who or what executes the rendering command. The client also doesn't have to implement its own rendering as a fallback.
Awesome !!!!! Thank you so much
The cascading "herd DDOS" of everyone moving from slack to other channels for communication has started
That's a good point, however threads do tend to help with keeping things organized when in a channel.

It actually might be a good thing that everyone doesn't feel the need to look at slack every X minutes.
It's not down for me...
Everybody here seems to agree that unions have the potential to do good or bad. The next logical step to me is that there needs to be a selection mechanism in place.

For companies, it's competition. If someone else does better, the consumer or worker can choose someone else. And we have anti-monopoly laws to make sure that someone else exists, to foster that competition and choice.

Is there such a mechanism for unions? My ideal scenario wouldn't be me on my own as it is today. I'd want a handful of unions to pick from to represent me, not too differently from my choice of medical insurer. Five unions to represent 120,000 employees would still average 24,000 members each, so it's a huge step forward in collective bargaining. And then people can change unions if one of them ends up how folks are worried about in this and every other union thread.

It seems like it would get at all sides of the issue. We'd get collective representation and a safeguard against the potential pitfalls.

How could this scenario come about? Could it be something like medical insurance with an open enrollment season? There would need to be something akin to anti-competitive behavior built in, so you couldn't end up with an agreement saying you can only hire from our union. What else would it take?
To be fair, that's a 10% drop for the day, but for me at least the argument still holds. 10% in one day is a pretty big swing, doubly so if that's a regular occurrence.
> It's pretty handy.

Exactly this! I don't want to waste screen space or CPU time to fancy widgets, but having a few leds that blink too much when my system does too many things is very handy. It's like in the old days of HDD leds: it didn't intrude, but I quickly knew what was going on if I looked at it. And blinking things have a tendency to catch your attention, so it removes the "monitoring" problem too (because, when do you know it's time to check htop?)

Linux LED triggers are very handy to do just than.
None of that stuff is particularly useful, if I wanted that, I have my screen that shows me metrics.. My desktop is a black box. I dont know why anyone would spend a second of their time looking at a tower, when the only moving part is a fan
I resort to just saying the definition of words, in a sentence, instead of the word itself.

I've told and convinced plenty of anti-vaxxers about the magical secret way our body naturally produces antibodies if we expose our body to dead versions of a virus (or, now, things shaped like that virus). They like magic, secrets and nature, they do not like the word vaccine.

I do the same with the word conspiracy, "That is a secret plan by a group to do something harmful". It rolls off the tongue.
It's also the case that the leadership of said company communicates (or did 12 years ago) anti-union rhetoric to their employees on a regular basis (starting from orientation) and requests employees to report any unionizing talk from other employees. Always with the same language about how unions are bad for employees, etc.
Two in Three Americans don’t care if their smart devices are recording them
> The day I never have to use NTFS-3G again cannot come too soon.

That day might be soon

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/12/31/126
My understanding is that both the Moderna vaccine and the BioNTech one are being made in only a couple sites each.

Is there any reason why more labs across the globe couldn't start producing the vaccines, under a license from those companies? Is the technology needed to create them so unique that it literally can't be made anywhere else?
The US has lost any shed of credibility when it comes to human rights or being a lawful state. War murderers go free and journslists go to prison.
Ugh Krugman, has there ever been an economist that's been more consistently wrong about the economy? I'm seriously tempted to do the opposite of whatever this guy says.
Yes. Id pay significantly more to have a good panel that is dumb. no apps, no privacy concerns, fast boot. Pioneer years ago used to make the elite panels that were exactly this.
You realize states are supposed to fund their own public health authorities right?

States also collect their own taxes. It's on the state to manage their own budget by passing taxes and limiting expenses.
It's been more than 10 years since this was written and I'd like an honest reassessment from the author. Reddit is a much different place than it was in 2009. In fact, I think Reddit's voting system is precisely why we see so much manipulation on that platform. It's very easy for activists, advertisers, and political partisans to push an artificial consensus using downvotes. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to share my thoughts on Reddit but then stopped because I knew I'd be heavily downvoted for going against the grain.
If the question is about comparing the performance of immediate mode and retained mode, the comparison should be between two otherwise-similar applications. There are a lot of applications that are faster than Spotify, but that says more about Spotify than about those applications.
Of all the comments in here this has to be the most naive.
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Everybody trying to "autoscale" on the first work day of 2021?
I am making the analogy to the federal government, not Pfizer.
> Don't think we've ever seen Hollywood in the modern era without unions, so not sure how you can claim it's "undeniable" the industry is better off. We basically have no clue if it's better off or not.

Um it's called looking at the past? Making reasonable inferences?
The problem with that line of logic is that states are a lot more like contractors than employees - the feds can only exert so much control. And a lot of the states are frankly incapable of taking direction even if they wanted to.

These are entities that run DMVs like, well, DMV offices - no amount of oversight/yelling/etc from the feds is going to get new IT systems online at the state level in short order in many states.
Maybe they shouldn't use Slack as their backend /s
It is still patent encumbered. MS just promised to not give trouble for it being in the Linux kernel.
You're misunderstanding something here. It's reasonable and very common to say that the true value of a financial asset is different than its market price; anyone who makes an investment in something is expressing the thesis that the current market price is lower than it will be in the future.