skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of comments here to the effect of "shame on you for letting yourself be so dependent on them", but the awful thing is that there are so many businesses whose unit economics _only_ make sense if they can buy visitors via Facebook. They are way, way cheaper for a lot of B2C businesses than any other ad network. I don't know why. Is it because people who are browsing FB/IG are bored and actively looking for ads to click on? Either way, it sucks that no one else offers the same access and CPM/CPC etc
I visited "shared.com" and the content looks pretty innocuous. The first story is about office chairs, the second is about celebrity engagements. Sure, it's clickbait, but we're talking about facebook - not nature magazine.

Maybe facebook changed their ad policies to prohibit this kind of content. That's within their right but they owe an explanation to their advertisers and perhaps some wind-down time.

This sort of arbitrary ban-by-T&C, with no judicial oversight, is further evidence that Facebook, and likely all large tech companies, are abusing their monopoly power and need significantly more regulation.
I came here wondering the same thing as I've encountered a handful of availability issues this morning.

* Todoist MacOS app is having trouble talking to its API
time for nap
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No, acting like you're the only one who knows what endotoxins is is acting almighty.

Besides that, the problem is overstating how much of an issue this actually is. For a medical product you need to cater to the long tail of humanity that might have a very adverse reaction to endotoxins. But most people, very nearly all of them, do not have such a reaction. People prepare their own IV drugs all the time. What kills them isn't a reaction to endotoxins (if there is any to react to in the first place, as it is quite easy to make chemically pure drugs) but side effects of the drug or infections from reusing injection equipment.

Mammals have been getting poked with sticks for millions of years.
We already have corruption and nepotism, there are no regulations on the hiring process at all except for some impossible to enforce laws about protected classes.
Chat infrastructure at this level of scale is not easy to build and maintain, I appreciate all the hard work that the engineers at Slack are putting in to resolve this.
Notion Not Working
Status page still saying all fine: https://status.notion.so/

Many complaints on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40notionhq&src=typeahead_click&f=live

Assume this is related to the Slack outage? Cloud issues?
Right, I remember seeing that headline - that's due to the Trump administration's incompetence and/or treason; can't do much about that except correct the system, break apart the duopoly and the power of what has become the limited players in mainstream media; Andrew Yang's Journalism Dollars and Democracy Dollars both would help counter this adequately, along with his UBI/Freedom Dividend policy and Ranked Choice Voting - 4 simple policies, along with government option for healthcare - would powerfully shift the system immediately, and put the US on an exponential path again, without so much friction, allowing thriving for everyone; the buying power of "$1,000"/month increases exponentially as we automate more and more processes.

Edit to add: Sorry about lazy people downvoting you, whenever I talk about Bitcoin - pro-Bitcoiners don't qualitatively engage, just a quick hit of dopamine satisfies them and suppresses contrarian thoughts that aren't financially incentivized like their Bitcoin propaganda and behaviour is.
Now an outage
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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.

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I was investigating unions over the holidays and saw that these types of things are specific to companies which didn't make sense to me. I'm not familiar with unions in general, but the ones I hear about most in the trades seem to be exterior to any specific company.

Making unions specific to a company rather than a profession seems less useful...or are trade unions specific to their companies as well?
Minor nitpick...the animation industry is only really unionized in LA. Outside of LA, the animation union dwindles dramatically and is close to non existent.

For example, Titmouse was the first studio in Canada to unionize and that was just in mid 2020.

The Bay area studios like Pixar aren't unionized either, even though their sister studio WDAS in LA is unionized.
I'm failing to understand how they are ignoring violations when A) they don't see which policy rules are being broken B) the rule that Facebook says been broken has norelevance to the ads they actually run and C) the CEO of Freebies tried to reach out to Facebook to clear things up.
Can you give examples of what aged really badly in friends? I don't remember it well enough.
Even if all 5 produce 600M doses a year, it'll still take years. Some of those also require two doses per person.
I initially misread this as saying that you won't concede it shouldn't be called an outrage.
I think we're actually on the cusp of some sort of hyperinflation/stagflation this decade, so BTC is a fantastic hedge against that.

You can't float the entire US economy along, shutter all of the businesses but keep people employed on government loans without ramifications. We should be in a terrible recession right now, but of course the government stepped in to prevent that from happening (mostly).

A functioning economy has a healthy level of financial inputs and outputs: you go to work, you spend X amount of your dollars on entertainment, food, home improvement etc. and you save Y amount.

The problem is when you shutter all of the businesses that just creates a massive surplus of money. That doesn't even get into things like stimulus checks, PPP loans, etc. People don't necessarily need more cash, people really need to produce more and start spending money again.

Too much economic input without enough output.

Needless to say the MicroStrategy investment was really smart and the author doesn't know what he's talking about. 51% attack? Really? So an individual actor is going to spin up computational power eclipsing the country of Switzerland just to take down bitcoin?
IMO it's really poor Slack took 1 hour to update this to an outage, given the impact this seemingly had right from the off.

It's also extremely bad that we're 1 hour in, and they are still "investigating", with no more details than that.
> I have no evidence for this but it feels like Soundcloud is on life support and they have zero or near-zero developers working on it.

Well they have been teetering on the brink of collapse for a long time, so no, I wouldn't expect them to have tons of resources. I'm surprised they're still around to be honest.
Seatbelts don’t work. Lots of people die in car crashes and lots of them were wearing seatbelts. Stop wearing seatbelts. Some doctors believe this. Don’t believe the experts. Be your own researcher. Your Google Fu is certainly a match for the CDC and its $6.5b yearly budget.
It's worth remembering that there's a need for 2 doses per person to vaccinate - don't think the article talks about dose as "the amount needed to fully protect one person"
Using a podcast to tell the story of your startup
I think Pfizer has already found a cheaper and easier to manage dry ice based distribution method. If there's a will, there's a way.
Huh, I thought exFAT was much older, not 2019.
hof uses diff3 so you can write the custom code right in the generated files.
I haven't spent a dime on online ads, but if it were my problem, I'd go though the top Alexa websites and see if they accept money for ads.
She did actually use tags, not mutually exclusive categories:

> Another cool feature of the way I was logging my data was that I could log more than one activity into a single time slot (walking and listening to a podcast is a classic). This means that the total time spent on all activities sums up to more than 365 days - you can see this as 'extra days' on the plot above. Turns out that this year, I had 395 surplus hours or 16.5 surplus days. I hope I didn't spend them on human function.
The fact that 30% app store tax exists and both stores (App Store by Apple and Google Play Store) have somewhat similar strategies highly indicate collusion going on. Apple only changed it for people making under $1m a year after people got mad and they got sued by Epic Games or they knew Epic Games was coming for their asses. But they know that majority of their revenue comes from pubs making over $1m a year which they still tax at 30%.

Then the fact that they hold Safari backwards to cripple the adoption of PWA's (Modern Web Apps). They don't allow real competitors to Safari either. The competitors that exist like Chrome or Firefox are just Safari under the hood on iOS.

iOS and Apple have single handedly crippled the innovation on mobile web. Safari is the modern Internet Explorer but Apple forcing people to use it directly or indirectly and not allowing real competition on iOS.

This is straight up anti trust material and they should face scrutiny for it. Sleepy lawmakers should wake up.

Not only does it harm American businesses, but also businesses across the world.
So are graph embedding methods, which the post discusses
> that the Iraq War was based on made-up evidence was a conspiracy theory.

To be fair though, that never was much of a conspiracy. Maybe in the United States it was but in the rest of the world I don't think people believe the WMD story, rather, we believed the UN weapons inspectors' story.
We have seen glimpses of what a modern Hollywood equivalent could be without unions in the gaming industry
In modern Safari this pattern will often take you directly to the website (or some other, non-Google website when it guesses wrong). When it works it's very nice.
If that's the plot, then I think Scott Alexander did it better with Sort By Controversial, a short story about a team who uses machine learning to generate maximally-controversial claims/articles, then find themselves ensnared by that very same inflammatoriness.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190508
“Workers” aren’t some monolithic group. Individuals can certainly optimize for their own best interests. We don’t see ourselves as victims in a collective but individuals all pursuing our own goals. My goals aren’t necessarily the same as the person sitting next to me. Why should that guy have a voice in my compensation?
> I'd be hard pressed to be able to justify voting "guilty" on a moral basis even for quite serious crimes. It feels designed for vengeance and inducing harm rather than for safety for society and rehabilitation.

If you lived your entire life in the US, and everyday felt the "Me or you" and "I'll get mine" mentality, you'd have a different approach.

It is a VERY strong dog eat dog country, and the feeling is palpable for people who live in countries with a lot more equality and sharing.
It's a thing investors buy and sell but that also has other uses? So it's an asset.
Large swaths of film production work is non union btw. Union is the default for on set and pre production but it's not exclusively so. Post production is majority non union
"It's Magic!"
OK but we're talking specifically about Google so the non-FAANG is irrelevant. The whole point is the detrimental effect this will have on quality of life at a FAANG.
> Dispatch tables are pretty desperate in 2020

You assume the development bandwidth exists to implement JIT runtimes for all small interpreters/VMs. Transforming VM bytecode into host machine code isn't a new concept, quite the opposite. The development cost to do so generally outweighs the benefits, especially in the beginning of development.

Plus, fortunately, such a refactor is generally unobtrusive, so computed goto is by far a more attractive option than implementing a JIT runtime.
> Specialty distribution is not something you can easily scale in a short period of time

That doesn't mean that you can't scale it at all, and one would assume that scaling over a super short period of time (like, weeks) is harder than scaling over a slightly longer time span (like months).

On that basis, is it not fair to assume that there'll be at lease some non-linearity in production and distribution rates over the next year or so?
They aren't seperable. If you have lots of vaccine, there is no reason to do prioritization and things will inevitably go faster. I'd put myself on a list for the hospital to call me any time to come in for a vaccine, but they don't have anywhere near enough vaccine to spend the time making that list (doses for about 5% of the county available, I'm towards the end of prioritization).
For starters, distribution is currently restricted to a very small slice of the population.
> they don't all need it at the same time

We're talking about years, even if all of the existing vaccines can hit the same or similar production quotas. Compounded by individuals requiring multiple doses of some of the vaccines.

Years is a long time to wait for herd immunity.
I agree on the first part. But "higher salaries, better work conditions, more benefits, and similar things" are usually part of left-wing political ideology too.
So for me there is no surprises and nothing new in unions sharing/pushing "sociopolitical ideas currently in vogue in left-wing political circles".

If i understand correctly your point (and to paraphrase), unions are not setting the correct priorities between work condition and more general sociopolitical ideas.
For me this is a good new : It mean works conditions are not that bad and that union want not just to take care of personal interest but of company interests as well. But this is a ideological stand point :)

And some may argue that's not the role of unions. But the role of union is to carry the worker voices. If this is the subjects workers want to talk about, i don't see any issue. If it's not, the union will just not meet enough workers to join them.
>If by finished you mean still having double digits of billions of dollars and live a life doing pretty much whatever he wants without actively challenging government regulation. yeah.

History would suggest otherwise...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/business/china-xiao-jianh...
Let's be fair here.

Shared.com is in the business of producing and distributing crap content. That's a subjective term, but it's like the supreme court ruling on pornography, you'll know it when you see it.

These guys most likely "skirt the line" to just operate as a mediocre and crappy content distribution network, that at scale, makes a lot of money because there is a certain subset of the population that will eat up any content at any quality level.

Facebook decided they don't want to be a part of this type of content distribution, and they made a conscious business decision to not to engage with it's owners and operators because it will simply result in an exercise of splitting hairs and a reduction to the ridiculous. They just aren't going to bring themselves down to the level... and I don't blame them.
I just got an invite to join my company’s Google chat.
Well, that would be true if it was the same team doing the re-write and/or the original code was set in stone. Instead it was one guy. Stockfish is still heavily worked on and the developers have access to CFish code. The reason they are not porting performance improvements is exactly that it wouldn't be idiomatic C++ (even though the whole project uses only minimal set of C++ features). One of his explicitly stated goals was to explore possible optimization issues of C versus C++ compilers. That is to see how much typical even light C++ abstractions cost in comparison to more close to the metal style.
Meaning = Information and Evolution (2016)
The open source version of Graal does not have poor performance, by any means. It's more or less as good as regular Java, or better for some languages, but it's not really worse except perhaps on a few specific microbenchmarks.

Moreover, GraalVM is open source. Please don't try and redefine basic terms, as otherwise by your logic Linux would be shareware because Red Hat sell a better version of it, Android would be shareware, Chromium would be shareware etc. Making an open source product and selling a better version that isn't is perfectly legit. If you don't believe that, how do you envision platforms be funded?

As for the pricing, it is or was on their online shop. You could buy it with a credit card. Seems they have a problem with their store right now, but I've seen public price lists in the past. It's expensive but not at all "if you have to ask you can't afford it".
It clearly states in the article they are not looking for better pay for fulltime staff. The things mentioned are the contractors/vendors, huge severence payments for sexual harrasement and unethical government contracts.
I can't speak for you, but I can:

* work on code
* update JIRA
* complete required trainings
* work on my peer reviews (Workday/Okta are up)
* review tech specs

Deploying is actually a very small part of my job.
> Though it's Californian to the point of having Nuclear Free Zone ordinances, SimCity allows players to set tax property tax rates above 1%. (probably because it would be unplayable otherwise)

Major shade being thrown at the state of CA here.
So you don't have to carry two devices with you. Especially relevant for people who need to be contactable outside regular hours.

Also means work pays for the device, gives you a new one every year, and pays for and organises the data plan including worldwide roaming.

If you break it, they give you a new one in 5 minutes rather than haggling with an insurance company taking weeks...

It's a pretty sweet deal if you trust your employer.
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Institutional investors have to (and personal investors should) have some concrete understanding of what an asset is and why it's valuable before investing in it. If there's a better understanding than "just a currency", sure, that's worth discussing. But if it's an entirely new asset class and can't be simplified into any narrower definition, how do I figure out what a reasonable price is or what numbers I should put on my accounting statements?
Perhaps you could summarize your reasoning?
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> Reasonably cheap to transact large value across space.

Nice dodge on the 8$ min. transaction fees :)
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I looked at the shared.com website, it seems like it’s just a content farm for marketing affiliations. They were probably banned for being a source of spam, even if the dashboard says “green” (maybe there are ways to systematically game this rating, very odd the article is so hung up on this rating).
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The dictatorship is hidden so well none of us can actually feel its effects.
> Isn't this the explanation?

Err, how is that an explanation? If they don't run dating ads and Facebook says their dating ads are non-compliant, it's a non-answer. It'd be like me firing you for having blue hair when you don't have blue hair.
Here's a bit of an implementation detail question I have wondered about unionizing in tech, within software engineering specifically - how would a union work in a field where the lines between managers and employees are so blurred? Most companies have a parallel IC track where the most senior ICs are paid more and are more senior at the company than many managers. And there are tech leads/team leads that have no reports and aren't managers but are in leadership positions.

From what I understand, even middle-managers are usually not allowed to unionize or allowed to talk to other employees about unions. Where would the line be in tech? If you decide to switch from the IC to manager track, do you have to leave the union?

Just the mere fact that this seems like such an odd distinction, because IC software engineers are generally treated just as well as if not better than managers, makes me step back and wonder what problem we would actually be trying to solve by unionizing within the engineering track. What would the tangible benefits be?

On the other hand I'm already imagining of all sorts of potential downsides. A lot of tech companies tend to be very open about company details with employees. In my experience, most managers tend to work very collaboratively with their employees in terms of helping them set goals and figure out a path to getting a promotion. There often feels like there genuinely is alignment between the company and employees - if the company does well, employees tend to do well. Not just because they already own stock in the company, but also because companies tend to expand when they're doing well and this opens up opportunities to promote from within. I imagine all of these dynamics would completely change in a world with tech unions, where the employees and the company would be pitted against each other.
Started with the original Tropico when it first came out, just downloaded Tropico 4 to play over the holidays based on some feedback that 4 had less complex and more fun gameplay than 6. Any perspective on which is the best in the series?
When I did employee-side employment discrimination law, the stories from the union employees who worked at a giant US airplane manufacture were the saddest. Often with local union leadership being involved in the discrimination.

Eventually I learned to pass on cases that involved unionized employees because having a union involved made it much more difficult to prosecute cases.