skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main thing I found interesting about this is the idea of trying to break the taboo of working from bed, especially for those who have a disability that make it hard/impossible to get out of bed some days. After all, this is the reality for a lot of people long before the pandemic. Yes, fine, maybe it's bad for your back or sleep schedule (I personally hate even reading in bed), but it's up to the individual to figure out what works for them.

I really hope that one thing we get from this pandemic is not just that remote work is more accepted, but that there's more understanding and flexibility over people's individual situations (without them having to try and justify themselves). This would help so many people, whether they're disabled, or juggling childcare, or whatever.
For the record, I am logged in and have exchanged messages with at least one other person. The rest of my team does seem to be unable to get in though. Maybe it's because I have just had the Slack tab left open in my browser since before I left for Christmas?
I really agree Discord is amazing and wish I could use it for work instead of Slack.

I think the big things that prevent it from being adopted more for professional use is the lack of a threading model (even though I hate it when people use threads in Slack) and the whole everyone in every channel except for role-based privacy settings. The second one especially is a big deal because you can't do things like team-only channels without a prohibitive amount of overhead.

That said (with zero knowledge of their architecture) I have to feel like both of those missing features aren't too terribly hard to build. Its very likely Discord is growing as a business fast enough on the gaming and community spaces they don't feel the added overhead of expanding into enterprise (read: support, SLAs, SOC, etc) makes sense and are waiting until they need a boost to play that card.
If you enjoy this sort of humor [that the parent comment is employing] there are some very good parody accounts on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/parikpatelcfa

https://twitter.com/punchablefacevi

https://twitter.com/cokedupoptions

https://twitter.com/thestinkmarket
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Never deploy a new release on Friday and Monday!
If they were spending 57M a year that would be different and they would like likely have an enterprise level team. 57M over 14 years doesn't warrant that, and in particular, I'd expect that to have been primarily in the prime years for content on FB, 09-12.

Assuming an even distribution over 14 years, for FB today, spending 300k a month might warrant a rep but it's at the very bottom of tiered spend.
I disagree that this is clearly indicative of anything.

>But inside America the billionaires, oligarchs and CEOs are mythologized as benevolent actors, and workers should be thankful for the gifts graciously bestowed upon them.

I've spent my life living in different parts of America, and this sounds very out of touch.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/03/02/most-america...

I've come across other polling that indicates similar trends.
> the fact that the US has now tried to extradite him proves that.

It proves they care now, under a wildly different (and totally clownshoes) DOJ, which if anything lends more credence to the theory they did not care back then or we would have seen them try back then.
I listened to the podcast "Wind of Change", which explored the rumor that the CIA had written the hit Scorpions rock ballad as a psy-op to undermine the soviet union. As a non-American, it was quite fascinating to hear about proven past CIA ops like Project Azorian or the Mission: Impossible-inspired face masks. Moral objections aside, it seems like it could be an interesting place to work. You just might not be allowed to put it on your resumé.
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> You DO know that you have virtually no say in what is in that contract, "accept it or leave," is not having a say in that contract.

Not only is "accept it or leave it" very much a form of "having a say" in your work parameters, it's a much more powerful way of exerting your preferences than voting.

If 100,000 people are voting on a contract your 1/100,000th share of the influence functionally rounds to zero. The contract will reflect your coworkers aggregate preferences, which will in general be completely orthogonal to your own preferences. On the other hand, when you shop around for a job you have unbounded freedom to decide where you want to apply to and what working conditions are you willing to accept. If you want more job stability and better working hours in exchange for lower pay, someone will be willing to offer it to you. If you want "fuck you, pay me", someone else will offer that too.
Oohh look at these people with more than one room!

(Ok it's valid for those.. but I'm still feeling a bit salty.)
Did he or did you? Some arbitrary game of how you count lines of code is not interesting enough to make the front page.

Using an arbitrary metric that is not commensurate with reality is inaccurate. The point is that the title is clickbait for what amounts to a singularly exploited bug in a tool, not what was purported. Literally the same misinformation goes on in the political space all the time, where it is lamented. If it's related to quirky coding eventualities, it's lauded.

That's the point.
> If given the chance, I would go to great lengths to adjust my business, to right whatever wrong Facebook believes I have committed. I would change my business model, and shift the direction of my business to ensure I am fully compliant with Facebook’s policies. I have done it many times before. I would like to do it again.

This is a reminder Facebook is too powerful.
Salesforce bought Slack, so maybe it's enterprise now.
We can't change who or how we love
Pilots get a lot of radiation exposure though! It's not to be casually dismissed.
I created a Markov chain bot from my friend's log files. Is it a "conversational chat bot of a specific person"?
People (myself included) read these comments like a debugger — “How can that be?! I triple checked my ‘brain base’... that’s wrong, must fix”
> your Bitcoins are safe from USD printing.

Wouldn't that make it a hedge against inflation?

Many people in this thread on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kruger curve.
>600M sounds like very very few doses given worldwide population and even western world population.

Which is why people are so keen on getting more vaccines approved (in the US and abroad). Pfizer is targeting 1.3B doses manufactured in 2021, 600M from Moderna, which still leaves the world plenty short (remember each person needs 2 doses). It's a group effort, and there are additional vaccines under development/review that will hopefully contribute to the effort.

There's also discussion around whether Moderna's vaccine can be reduced from 100ml to 50ml while retaining the same efficacy, which would obviously double the amount of doses provided by Moderna.
"A single transaction takes as much electricity as 800,000 VISA transactions, or watching 50,000 hours of youtube videos."
Respectfully, I'd like to call BS on those points. I'm surprised to find these assertions in a post this highly ranked on HN.
I think bitcoin is the new politics, we won’t be able to talk about it in work soon.
It’s ok to disagree with someone, but to just attack the author is ridiculous.

examples:

“I work in this space and can confirm this guy is talking out his ass and has no idea what he's talking about”

“Yeah, this author has no idea what he's talking about and it's stuck in a cognitive dissonance bubble”

“I don’t know what to say. Or the person behind this is 150 years old and was living under a stone, or is someone that obviously has 0 knowledge about Blockchain”

“maybe try to properly host an html page before advising multi billion businesses...”

“I feel like these analyses are always very well researched and set-out, but the authors lack any formal qualifications at all. Why read this when there are Nobel prize winners with polemics on Bitcoin?”
If you do not trust your own devops, why are you trusting someone elses devops?
> How did you go from "manual upload to file server" to Docker+Gitlab?

When I learned what I said: it takes little time to set it up and you reap the benefits. If you don’t know how to use it then it’ll take some time to learn, in such case I see value going with whatever you know.

>We've been shipping MVPs long before those were a thing.

That reasoning can be used with almost any technology and doesn’t tell anything.

>./deploy.sh runs the commands you used to run manually.

You went from “manually copying” to having a script with reproducible steps. You’re closer to CD than what you were thinking.

I think the rest of the comment doesn't need to be addressed.
The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice
There recently was a Show HN thread of an interactive dithering tool called Dither Me This[1]. I think you will like it if you liked this article

[1]:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25469163
> Can you explain what you mean by this? From my understanding the fed has been buying corporate bonds and ETFs directly

The Fed has been buying bond ETFs as a way to buy bonds. (Bonds are illiquid, and a whale like the Fed buying them individually can create artefacts.)

When the Fed buys it puts the asset on its balance sheet and gives the seller money. That money can then be spent or re-invested. Spoiler: it's been getting re-invested. That is the transmission channel from the Fed's buying to other asset prices, e.g. stocks and non-target bonds and Bitcoin and beanie babies.
> While the issue is largely still ongoing, we believe some customers may see improvement in connecting to Slack after a refresh (CTRL/CMD + R).

Nice.
i was quoting your "Why?", not asking you a question.

and if you continue to treat a group of millions as a homogenous unit, you can't have thoughts like "maybe the doctors turning it down right now will accept it after the elderly are all vaccinated" which wouldn't slow down the overall vaccination rate.
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I love the "powerful" retro sci-fi look but let's be honest about KITT, this UX is (unsurprisingly) terrible. All those glowy bar-graphs that line up perfectly are hard to differentiate and flat out inappropriate for some measurements. There is way more information presented than needed, and it's not grouped into logical clusters at all. It looks super cool but it's a safety nightmare.

The dashboard morphed a little during the show's run. KITT must have got an upgrade because the speedometer max went from 200 to 500 MPH. It's got a built in printer! I'm dying to know what "Propagation Delay HRS" is supposed to mean. And you know it's 80s because: no blue LEDs.

https://knight-rider.fandom.com/wiki/K.I.T.T._(2000)
https://www.deviantart.com/davemetlesits/art/Kitt-dash-S1-2-...
https://www.deviantart.com/davemetlesits/art/Knight-Rider-Ki...
> 23% are still in circulation approaching one of the other outcomes

Begging the question a bit

It's also been quite easy to predict which currencies are going to be in in that 23% and have stable value ("hard currencies") and which aren't. Traders and investors typically don't keep assets denominated in Egyptian Pounds or Colombian Pesos, they gravitate to Euros, US Dollars, Yen, and Pounds.

> In other words, the most successful long standing currency in existence has lost 99.5% of its value.”

The Pound Sterling hasn't been successful as an investment asset. That's a very different thing from being successful as a currency.
Maybe, but it's irrational also from a perspective of wanting to maximise your own pie. You don't need to favour equality and sharing to acknowledge that a more humane treatment of prisoners leads to drastically lower re-offending for example.
I was actually agreeing with that comment, but I can see how it got misconstrued. There really aren’t any good arguments against a union, if done (regulated) well.
Yeah working from home full time for me is like cheating on a diet. It sounds great at first, and for a few weeks you eat whatever you want and you don't notice much change.

Then all your clothes stop fitting.

Working from bed is like eating ice cream for breakfast. Sounds great, nice maybe once as a treat, then becomes horrible.

I need structure, routine, and not having to go into work makes enforcing that routine so much harder.
> Is being an anti-vaxxer political?

In current popular fashion everything is political.

But also, anti-vaxx is an obviously denigrating term that’s part of the whole liberal orthodoxy. You’re drawing very broad characterizations between disparate topics.

Even the vocabulary you use is odd and one-sided. Should I call you a credit expansion maximalist?
HN, Slack, Zoom, Google, AWS and more experiencing problems
You'd have to convince the whole ecosystem - miners, exchanges, wallets, buyers, sellers, etc. - to switch over. It's the same network effect that protects Microsoft or Google or Facebook or even Nike: changing peoples' behavior is hard, and in general beyond the resources of new entrants unless the incumbent really screws up.

(Arguably, Bitcoin's rise is precisely because of the incumbent really screwing up. If someone created a new currency in the 1970s or 1990s - and people did - folks would laugh at them. It's only because trust in the government and mainstream financial system is so low - and the Fed continues to print trillions of dollars to paper that over - that Bitcoin has gained a foothold.)

"If we collectively wanted to..." is never an answer. People don't make collective decisions, they make individual ones. Adoption requires convincing lots of people, individually, that your new solution is better. You can get a boost from peer pressure, but you have to start the flywheel going yourself.
> Apple languages don’t reach the top-10 of languages used on GitHub. While this is likely impacted by the Objective-C/Swift split, it still shows how niche development for that platform is.

Michelin 3-star restaurants don't reach the top used in world either.
For an added bonus, on keyboards such as the logitechs you may be able to have different colors for different key types for quick and easy reference
> “ Papers have a NJ politics "beat", with an editor and reporters who are experts in that single domain and are expected to produce work rooted in that specific domain.”

> I suspect that this is increasingly less true every year as local reporting is actively dying.

This isn't a new concern, of course[0], but in 2021 local reporting has probably already mostly died as much as it is going to. There just isn't that much money left to take away.

[0] https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2017/the-west-wing-total...
If your ready paying your camera the price of a small car, Xenics has a few alternatives that work well. They also have a support team who replies to your questions.

It's important to note that some technologies (Micro-bolometers, InGaAs) have export restrictions due to applications for weapons systems, etc..
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Coinbase Card would allow you pay for anything using a credit card.

https://www.coinbase.com/card

It's just another way to spend money.
last night was in 2021, last time i checked.
That commute turns out to be one of my favourite parts of the day.

In the mornings, I leave early to workout at the company gym. (Not true at the moment, because all gyms are closed in my area right now.) That commute gives me time to wake up and get into the gym mindset.

After work, it gives me time to unwind, let go of the stress for the day, and get into my dad-of-4 mindset.

Without it, everything blends together. My work days would never really start and never really end.
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That’s not being trapped. That’s being greedy.

Tomato. Tomato. (This doesn't work on the internet.)

No doubt it's a trap of their own making but it is a trap nonetheless. The idea of giving up the fancy things that you've worked hard for, maybe having to sell your house, take your kids out of a school you pay for, etc just so you can leave the company you work for and go somewhere 'better' is a hard choice that no doubt feels selfish. The decision has a significant and material impact on other people after all.

Very few of us would prefer to earn a 250k salary that comes with the freedom to move to other companies, even though that's a lot, if there's a 600k job on offer instead. We'd all take the higher paying job and maybe regret it later. I don't think it's very fair to suggest those who are in that position are wrong or stupid to have put themselves there.
Well, most outages start with issues that increasingly get worse.

That apparently was also the case here. I started having smaller connectivity issues before it went down completely.
>e, I would go to great lengths to adjust my business, to right whatever wrong Facebook believes I have committed

Also a reminder not to base your business on a functionality of a monster.
But is a chat bot novel?
Slack/Notion. Stop with the features already. You're killing yourself in slow motion. Focus on performance, robustness of your infrastructure.
1) Bitcoin is Digital Cash.

2) I am saying, they think they missed the boat. Bitcoin (capital B) is here to stay.

3) The Bitcoin Core chain was long ago hijacked by corporate interests and failed to live up to the White Paper. Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Monero have been around a long time and have real use cases.
This isn't a real union. It's more a lobbying association, like the IEEE. They're not trying to get a contract with Google.
I have a Roku TV and while it suffers from a bunch of smartness issues it’s pretty good. A bit slow to boot, a bit slow to shut down, the apps are shite, and the “Oh no that’s our competitor so you can’t do this obvious thing (like use hbomax)” experience is terrible.

But overall it’s okay. The remote is simple, the main apps are fine and the overall ecosystem integration is okay
Good leaders don't even have to be rare. They just have to be not forever. Sooner or later you get a bad one. The more power they have, the worse the damage.

The US has had bad presidents. They did damage. But without the checks and balances, they would have done far more.