skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're allowed to be anything you want. It's a free country. But 2c worth of advice - representing speculative things as high-confidence erodes your credibility. Unless you have some insight or information that everyone else here doesn't, you're really just full of it.

"Facebook decided they don't want to be a part of this type of content distribution" - That is not stated as an implied opinion, it is stated as a fact with absolutely nothing to back it up. Certainly Facebook is just as filled with this kind of low-quality content today as it was yesterday or three months ago. There is just nothing to support your speculation that this is part of some movement by Facebook to improve quality of content.
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> It's collectivism. Disregard for individuals.

This is a clear misunderstanding. We're talking about two different social justice's here. The social justice you're talking about is the current moral panic many feel in the US today. The social justice I'm (and hopefully the future union) talking about, is balancing society at large and the individuals. Not disregarding, balancing. That means that sometimes the individual has to have less of something and society more, and sometimes the other way around.

But maybe the word "social justice" in the US has been completely co-opted by TV politics, so us in the rest of the world now talk a different language...
Like Guantanamo Bay or prosecution of Assange for his journalistic work to expose wrongdoing of government? Or maybe you’re talking about for-profit prison system and mass incarceration practices? But you’re probably talking about China, right?
I thought the down arrow was supposed to be used to indicate that a post is of low quality or that it doesn't conform to guidelines, not to express disagreement; and that disagreement was meant to be expressed by posting arguments
The interesting question is what was happening 15 billion years ago.
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Seems like I posted a comment to a withdrawn story.
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Or conversely - if intelligent people with experience from around the world in the best scenario possible feel that right now a union is needed - then that is a shot in the arm for all those others people in far worse situations who can't hope to start a union because they would be busted faster than I can write this full stop.
Agreed, it's quite ridiculous seeing people who need a store of value using corporate stocks as a store of value... It's like if you need to sit and decide to use a table as a chair.
> there is no such thing. not in bitcoin, not in usd, not in gold. all value is extrinsic and assigned by market.

Just as a nit, there absolutely is. Food provides value in that you can eat it to survive. Housing provides value in that it provides shelter from the elements. A goat provides milk and you can eat it. Barter systems typically involve the trade of two such goods. The problem is that such goods typically spoil with time, which is a primary advantage of fiat currency -- it is not subject to physical constraints.

Historically, people also used things like salt, which had intrinsic value (for preserving and flavoring food) but didn't spoil. But the use becomes so abstract that its pointless to haul salt around. Eventually you transition to precious metals, which also have some intrinsic value (for engineering various goods) but much less concrete. Then you transition to effective "gold IOUs" (gold-backend currency).

The idea of having a currency completed untethered to anything of value is relatively new. One of the most interesting aspects of bitcoin is proponents fervently advocate for one element of the gold standard (a fixed supply), but not the other (something physical of utility).
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Another Obsidian here, not because I hate Notion, but I really don't trust depending on it being online.
A recent problem for me: I have only one room to myself, and prefer to keep work out of it. I am used to working outside from cafes, esp. coffeeshops, rotating my surroundings little by little. As of late, though, all relevant establishments are shut down in the vicinity, which disrupts both my work and sleep schedule.

Of course, I understand the need for such measures. Hopefully I’ll manage to continue consulting through this without losing a customer.
agree!

Although reading is more comfortable (for me) in a blog post, posts also tend to have way more junk before it gets to the point. I.e.: recipe posts, entertainment news, etc...
I believe you are making incorrect extrapolations.

Gold did not cause the great depression, people invested in gold after the economy crashed.

If people are hoarding Bitcoin, again it will be as a hedge against the inflation that is occurring.
My guess is you have no idea of the underlying dynamics because you haven't done your research before deciding for yourself and stating confidently "can be explained by nothing else than..."

Here are a couple of threads describing the dynamics in play. Feel free to agree or disagree after reading but, contrary to your statement above, these can explain the price increase:

https://twitter.com/Croesus_BTC/status/1319734166557081600
https://twitter.com/real_vijay/status/1143070383261638656

Here's Lyn Alden, regarded by many to be one of the best macroeconomic thinkers working today (who is now very bullish on BTC), playfully echoing the same idea from above:

https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/13458545139457065...

And, just in case the tone of Lyn Alden's tweet confuses you about the caliber of thinker you're encountering here, this is a recent article of hers with relevance to BTC macroeconomically:

https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/

And another covering several BTC misconceptions:

https://www.lynalden.com/misconceptions-about-bitcoin/

As I started: I believe you have not done your research to understand what you're looking at. This would be an excusable situation 5 years ago, but the BTC space is now teeming with high quality, pre-digested material that you can use to build a foundation of knowledge and understanding.

I believe you'll regret your hubris...sooner rather than later.
Nothing really, it just looks like a way to create a formal progressive institution within Google using existing legal frameworks.
Income and wealth are not disjoint concepts. Income begets wealth, and wealth begets income.

From a societal standpoint, it doesn't particularly aid widespread inequality if a small number of tech workers receive a bump in income; the union may cause the situation to worsen, as the union has an incentive to keep the supply of employees restricted in order to maximize their compensation. The unionized employees would be protected from public competition.

Having pro-sports players in a union hasn't exactly improved widespread inequality.
Yes. It is. However, if you can tell me how to turn it off in a manner that actually turns it off without unplugging it, I'm all ears.
> Facebook decided ...

How do you know that?
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I had a good think about your comment.

Certainly any comment could be phrased in a kind way. That's the thought behind Non Violent Communication from Marshal Rosenberg (may he rest in peace). Which, is great when the stakes are high and good faith abounds. But, online with anonymous users with dubious motives, the method falls apart.

Additionally not everyone subscribes to the "Prevent any and all possible harm." moral philosophy. I certainly don't. Prevent unnecessary bodily suffering, sure. But protect the possible feelings of a bold misguided fellow. Not so much in this context.
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I think it's a pretty bold claim to state that Zoom's actions aren't unique.

What other business in this space has given China unfettered access to US users and data? I'm not aware of it occurring with Webex, Teams or go2meeting. The "one rogue employee" thing falls flat pretty quickly when they're the only ones that had this issue.

This feels like their encryption thing all over again, there's an "oversight" that is equivalent to a backdoor that only gets fixed when they get caught.
I'm sorry, but with my (admittedly broad and _shallow_) view of religious history, trying to see human relations through the filter of religion seems at least as fluid and relative as politics.

So much individual human mucking about with what could be basic universal principles. On one end, people who say that "this version of this written word is God's literal truth" when their version has a known history of edits, blatant rewrites, and translation errors. On the other end, recently started religions (Jainism is the first but not by far the only) that are at least as valid in their core principles but have their own dogma and assumptions.

Throw in Quakers etc who believe in a direct personal relationship with their God, and I can't see any consistency except "believe in us, and convince your friends! Their soul is in peril if they aren't with us!"
I'm guessing because they don't want the support burden on a rarely used but necessary fallback solution vs. something plug and play.

This is the reason these "closed" ecosystem apps like Slack/Zoom are multi billion dollar companies and have massive uptake. Simple and easy to user.
Employee decisions aren't necessarily right, but who's to say that management should deserve unilateral power to make their decisions with maybe the board reining it in. And in tech specifically, we've been seeing more companies where the founders/existing leadership retains enough of a share that they can ignore the board, never mind their employees.

Unilateral control over a business's destiny can doom it if the leadership is making poor decisions even when the rank-and-file oppose them. It's all easy to say the company should simply go to ruins but why should it? What if the good or service is solid, should the customers and the market suffer because the failing company has deprived them of it? Should the workers be punished because they had insufficient leverage to oppose those decisions? Should a ton of money and effort be wasted for an apparently pointless enterprise? If we live in a society that seeks to maximize life expectancy, and if corporations are people, why should we not seek also to prevent avoidable business failures, at least for those enterprises that are building useful products?
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This is entirely in line with my experience dealing with outages. 85% of the time to fix consists of fielding requests for status updates.

It's like when people push the elevator button repeatedly if it's taking a while to arrive, only pushing the elevator button doesn't cause it to take even longer.
fascinating take on the economic incentives, do you have any books or studies you can share if I want to learn more about it?
Arrested in 2019 when his Ecuadorian asylum was revoked, charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, maximum 5y sentence. Was changed a month later to be the Espionage Act charges.

Those all stem from the US though, I think he's only detained by the UK for extradition?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julia...
The gravitational time dilation from proximity to the book does not work in your favor, better to leave it on the shelf while you sleep.
In what areas would you find such requirements? And shouldn't the default position be that it is illegal to keep those logs? Especially those involving direct messages between employees.
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> 6. Yes, you’ll have to join the Communist Party of America and pledge allegiance to AOC in order to even join the zoom call, of course. Because that’s how unions work

You might say that as a joke but Unions have a long history of heavily pressuring or forcing members to vote one way and in turn using these "guaranteed" votes to extract "favors" from politicians.
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You've got bigger balls than me. Cryptocurrencies, Tesla, and penny stocks are the assets I absolutely won't short, no matter how much I think they're overvalued, because the low liquidity in them means that they can easily shoot up 10x and wreck your margin position even if you're right.

(Disclaimer: Long Bitcoin, got in at prices between $6.5-8K in 2018. Previously sold @$11K in Dec 2017, after having bought in 2014 at $800. It tends to rise 10-40x from peak to trough each time, which means we could see $100-150K Bitcoin this cycle. There's also the chance that this is "the big one" - the cycle where the dollar collapses entirely and cryptocurrency becomes the new global unit of account and medium of exchange. IMHO the tail risks facing the dollar and the U.S's hegemonic position have never been higher.)
CIA literally funded drug cartels. Obama literally authorized a drone strike on a "suspected terrorist US citizen" in Yemen.

While the rape accusation was retracted.

There's no equivalence of a proven fact vs accusation. Assange is unquestionably on a moral high ground here.
Depends on whether the idea behind "learn to implement custom buttons" is "because I want to have custom buttons on my website" or "because I want to be able to use this knowledge on future projects."

If you want to learn to make custom buttons with the idea being to be able to apply that knowledge elsewhere, you probably ought to learn to do them accessibly.
> compared to a 12:1 in the USA at the time

That doesn't sound quite right.

After a quick google, here's some typical numbers for shipping meat: a big rig with refrigeration can transport more than 40000 pounds of meat; at about 1000 (kilo)calories per pound, that's abotu 40 million kcal. Such a rig travels about 500 miles per day, has a fuel economy of about 6 mpg and burns an extra 15 gallons for the refrigeration, all in all, about 100 gallons per day. At about 35000 kcal/gallon, that's about 3.5 million kcal to travel for one day. So you need to move around for more than 11 days to get just to a 1:1 ratio.
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Loved both Caesar and Pharaoh, but Caesar (3 I think) was my favorite.
The Agile Manifesto does bring some Lean ideas to software development. But "agile methodologies" are by themselves a subversion of the ideas on the Manifesto, and the most deployed ones are completely antagonistic to Lean.
I agree with pretty much everything here but to be honest it seems like most of these things are obvious. Of course college is important unless you have something better to do. Starting a business is hard. The media hypes tech up. Of course you won’t get rich quick flipping houses. Good to see that others agree though.
I don't have hard data, but from listening to interviews with musicians it seems to me like the difference is that the power distribution has become even more skewed. For every star discovered on Spotify you used to have 10 bands that could at least eke out a middle class living in their city/state touring and selling albums.
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Because the manufacturer recommendations are based on achieving the best outcome for the individual receiving the treatment. But we're in a global pandemic, a situation the world has not faced in living memory. A different quality metric might be appropriate under these circumstances.
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> Without being logged in, things are as fast as they usually are -- but post log-in, SLOWWWER THAN MOLASSESS...

> I tried this several times; why this is, I can only wonder...

That is to be expected. Non-logged-in pages can be cached aggressively server side. When you are logged in much more has to be done dynamically.

The fact that non-logged-in pages are still loading fast is testament to the fact that the HN devs have done their job properly with implementing caching.

In the bad old days it would be slow for everyone whether logged in or not. In general I mean. I have only been on HN since 2009 and have been logged in (other accounts in the past, changed name) pretty much always so I don't know when HN got good at caching. I would kind of sort of expect that HN was actually like that from the beginning, given that pg came from having used Lisp in production at Viaweb and they got a lot of experience there early at how to do things fast (in terms of time to implement) and presumably proper (since they were able to compete with others).
Was there any testing done comparing 2 doses to one? I think it was speculation that led us to test with 2 doses because we'll, we don't have much time, 2 must be better than one.
I think a more apt analogy would be the 'soup nazi' and your soup can only be eaten in special, overpriced 'soup nazi' bowls.
I've put a bunch of hours into 3 4 5 and 6. I'd rank them 4 > 6 > 5 > 3. 4 is clearly the best though, everything just seems to hit the perfect balance between simple fun and complexity, and the writing and character rpg elements made me want to play with different play styles. 6 is big, but I find myself getting bored in the middle game. 3 and 5 are just worse than 4 in essentially every way. All are fun though.
I don't find that these articles acknowledging BTC/ETH clearing the 30k/1k price point provide any value to the discussion surrounding their existence.

Article acknowledges incumbents, pumps them, drops some other altcoin names and provides brief summary of XRP issues with SEC (which we've already discussed here).
https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1346102729140297730?...

Three Arrows Capital position in GBTC tops $1 billion. As per a filing with the SEC, the firm's holdings represent 36,969 bitcoin.

1,240,000,000/36,969 = average price is $33,541.

The fomo is real.
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