skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't monetary economics also point out that various goods, services and assets have differing rates of inflation/deflation?

Inflation is an increase in prices as money becomes worth less. "Differing rates of inflation/deflation" are just the price system at work.

Since during Covid, velocity decreased, inflation dropped substantially, which required an increase in base in order to prop back up inflation.

> Has the wealth gap and ensuing social unrest caused by this bifurcated inflation historically caused nations to fall?

The wealth gap is not caused by "bifurcated inflation." It is caused by rapidly rising equity prices, among other things, but that is not the same thing as inflation.
Is this remote in US only?
UK scientists worry vaccines may not protect against S. African Covid variant
Obligatory BGP hijack prediction, since there seems to be a bunch of other sites down too.
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Notion is also down right now.
Why decry the Software Engineer preserving a toe hold in the upper class income bracket vs. the leadership team making 10-100000x that amount? ( The 100k multiplier is the real maximal difference between what a Senior Engineer at FAANG makes and the owners of FAANG in a good year )
Yes because one blog post is going to change the price of bitcoin...
That’s a very black-and-white way of looking at it, you do know that? How is unionizing and asking for reasonable demands “forcing your beliefs on others”

The company is not some helpless animal that just rolls over when a union appears. Especially if you regulate it well, like in Europe.
I agree 100%! Though I think it might be dangerous to prepare for the "last disaster". It'll be some other system breaking next time, so I think we instead should identify what systems that do not have some kind of redundancy and determine blast radius of those crashing

I'm good at not panicking about things I can't change, but I worry about some of my colleagues who find it difficult to not have control in these situations

I can't do anything to help them at the moment, so for now I'm heading to my couch with my analogue book :)
> It's a bit of a shame Microsoft didn't push and open up exFAT earlier and allowed FAT32 to become an issue again, only with removable flash drives and memory cards this time

Erm, because that was the idea? SDXC is a big racket and Microsoft has been collecting patent fees from any kind of consumer device that's capable of reading memory cards thanks to the filesystem requirements in the standard.
We mostly use Slack for communicating, but we use Notion for docs/planning/everything else
Natalie Portman is one of only 10 people to have an "Erdos-Bacon" number, which is your Erdos Number + Kevin-Bacon number. How many degrees of separation are you from co-writing a paper with Erdos and how many degrees of separation are you from being in a film with Kevin Bacon. Natalie Portman's Erdos No. = 5, and her Bacon No. is 2, for a combined 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
"That same business ate years of my life keeping it afloat"

Presumably you were paid for your services. If you were unhappy with the pay, you should have renegotiated or changed jobs.
Good point, a lot of the value prop is simply blockchain, which there are many "crypto" versions. Bitcoin's real value prop today is the network effect (growing in users/wallets/network hash etc).
"Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time"

No, like gold, the more it is used as a savings asset, the more it gets tied to the real economy, the more it becomes unstable.

When gold had too much ties to the real economy, it became unstable enough to cause the great depression.

This happens because, people, businesses and banks start hording tokens instead of investing in building and maintaining production capacity of consumables and the ratio of value of tokens meant to buy consumables vs actual production of consumables gets out of wack.

When the music stops, people realize that people are sitting on tons of seemingly valuable tokens but stuff to buy with them is getting scarce because capacity is not being maintained, they reverse their trade, prices of stuff go up, volatility ensues, and the destructive cycle resets.

Savings being tied to too popular tokens instead of assets that create real value results in a massive coordination failure, a terrible Nash equilibrium, a prisoner's dilemma where the first to invest in production are disadvantaged so everyone hoards tokens instead. Companies hoarding Bitcoin is the first sign that this might be happening now.

This is what central banks and sound currencies are designed to prevent.
Does Google use slack? Wanted to start my year with some extra strength tinfoil and it'd just be great if the day a unionizing initiative started the major way workers could talk about said unionizing initiative went down.

EDIT: according to a random quora post they do, so keep the tinfoil out!
Pocket City is okay
In Standard Notes' case they are AES encrypted before leaving the device using a note specific key encrypted using your master password (or at least that's how the underlying system Standard File used to work). Encrypted at rest could just mean the volume is encrypted but they can still read your notes (since they have the key).
Pfizer is aiming for 1.3 billion doses this year. That alone gets us to 10%. The WHO also rough guessed that there are already 750 million people who have been infected with the virus. So that's another 10% who likely don't need a vaccine this year. Then there's the 600 million from Moderna. AstraZeneca is aiming for a billion doses plus partner producers, e.g. Siam Bioscience to produce 200 million doses. We're probably getting to 30%-40% globally by the end of the year. Less populous western countries will probably be fully vaccinated by the end of the year.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/us/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-v...

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In this case I have to disagree. I've been using the web version of outlook for at least 8 months now and it is so much better than the rusty windows application.
There's a wide gulf between "some customers may have trouble using Slack" and "most/all customers are completely unable to use Slack". Putting aside formality, I'd say "Slack is down" is in fact more accurate here (assuming that it is true that most users can't use it, which is true for our company at least).
Covid vaccines “might not” work as well on South African strain, scientists warn
I've been in therapy for years after my uncle tried to convince me the mob killed JFK.
Lucas had lots of help from Lawrence Kasdan and Steven Spielberg on the Raiders script.
You might find the following interesting:

2016 election timeline:
https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6fyugv/link_you...

2016 summary of Wikileaks events:
https://old.reddit.com/r/WhereIsAssange/comments/6nebdk/can_...
Not only that, but this line stuck out to me.

> and other employees have been placed on administrative leave until the investigation is complete.

Zoom at least suspects he did not act alone.
From the article:

>>In total, several pages that had 21 million fans had been unpublished, and Facebook had taken action against me, personally, that one assumes are reserved for the worst in our society — criminals, pedophiles and conspiracy theorists.

Er, no. Just be slightly more right-wing that the current Facebook overton window and you'll get banned.
This reminds me of what happened to the financial services Cantor Fitzgerald after 9/11, just replacing a system with hundreds of lost employees:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-...
The vendor tools are so bad. I don't want to download a 500Meg program just to change my mouse DPI or make the keyboard light up
There are a load of ways NY might have contributed to this, but it may not be a direct cause. What's more likely, Slack forgetting to scale their deployment back up after too much mulled wine, or a number of people on holiday meaning a simple failure has developed into something more serious?

It could be anything really- my post was more about how situations like this can happen to even the most prepared. The assumption it has something to do with NY tends to assume very trivial, silly mistakes. Especially with no information, that seems a bit uncharitable.
Wldfires in US and tropical Africa during 2020
1 Bitcoin is worth 1 Bitcoin so a government printing more money can't hurt your Bitcoin, only make it more pricy.

This assumes that you can pay for something in Bitcoin directly (which was a common thing a few years back)
Because it's not that you "may" have trouble

If their service is down, you will have trouble. The service will be absolutely inaccessible. Don't give people hope with "may"
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That's not actually what the down arrow is for.
If an oracle told you that AGI in 10 years, what would you do differently?
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"It will replace email."
That really depends on whether the union is larger than the company it's making demands of. It may be in their best interest to bleed a company faster if it will yield greater benefits over the now-altered life span of the company.

There's a real consideration of whether X% of employee compensation over N years is better than the same over M years.
It's interesting the same way any other code golf is interesting: artifical constraints breeds creativity.

This sort of thing actually does have real-world applicability though: eg security issues caused by different parsing by a validation layer versus the actual execution.
I did manage to receive a message a few minutes ago, so it might be just mostly dead.
I found Ziggy a great character and important part of the series when watching the series for the second (or third) time. I can find similarities between him and D'Angelo: both of them do not really fit the frame they've born into. Both of them try to get out from that frame.

The whole season 2 is about how people turn into criminals and why. This time it happens to white working class men and this is one of the reasons I find the second season essential.
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I'm confused: The Assange defense team literally argues that the Obama DoJ decided not to prosecute the case, and that the Trump administration resurrected it in 2017 for political reasons. (The judge rejects the premise and argues that since there is no sufficient evidence that the Obama DoJ decided not to prosecute, the Trump administration couldn't have made a political decision to resurrect, since the case was always ongoing.)

Your position seems to be that the defense is mistaken, but that the case is still political because it was already started as that under Obama and continues to be politically motivated throughout the Trump and Biden administrations?
There are remarkably few organisations I somewhat trust (even then on a sliding scale) but on that spectrum Zoom sits at the "wouldn't touch them with someone elses bargepole" end.
Yes that can occur. Lots of things can and do occur.

If we think unions are bad because they do bad things under certain circumstances then that should also apply to corporations, no? Worker exploitation, ignoring externalities and such?

So, we could get rid of corporations and unions? Or ... have both, since like any human institution, both are fallible.
> I've made some decent cash by shifting some money into Bitcoin on a Monday and cashing out my positions by Friday during these rallies to the tune of 30-70% profits but it's not for the faint of heart.

All of this is gambling, not some rational modeling of how the bitcoin price will move.

I'm glad that it has worked out for you.
That's not how the US actually works. The federal government does quite a bit of wealth redistribution from the states that are net producers to states that cannot generate enough revenue on their own: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2019/03/20/how-...
> And the 100% uptime number is probably still correct, since it's only been out for a couple of hours.

It's listed as "Uptime for the current quarter"; if they mean that as "calendar quarter", i.e. since the start of the year, then we aren't even 100 hours into the quarter so we should be well below 100% by now.
Aren’t countries a business?
Tether will be replaced by other stablecoins, so this isn't nearly as big a deal as many people will claim.
Haven, Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt healthcare, is disbanding
Thank you! App sent.
Task managers must also have traffic spikes early in the new year...
The company in question is still operating. We don't know if the employee was just a scapegoat.
Well, they did hand off slack to Salesforce
"We're experiencing increased service degradation" is so 201x-ish
You'd have to look at a lot more than that. What are the demand/supply curves and how will the change in supply affect the value, what's the actual inherent value in the jewelry vs the value from gold having ascribed value and being used in jewelry, once you have that how much of the value in jewelry is itself an investment of gold vs other value. Repeat for each remaining sector. All that graph tells you is the demand for gold would be non-zero if its utility as a form of currency/investment went away, it says nothing of how much inherent vs ascribed value we put in it.

I don't have answers to the above, I think they'd be extremely hard to get, which is why I used the house vs 2 inch block of gold to illustrate there is at least a significant amount (likely the majority) of the value is ascribed rather than try to put a quantitative number on it.
It's not a huge stretch to imagine the following scenario play out though:

1. Tech workers unionize, negotiate with employer that any work > 40 hours / week get paid overtime.

2. The company now has two choices: A) Pay their employees more than their competitors for the same work. Or B) Don't authorize any overtime.

3. In scenario A, they're either running at (much) higher cost than their competitors, and thus a disadvantage. In Scenario B, they're either slower to ship products, or there's a bunch of "off the books" work done by engineers trying to ship things anyways (which is basically the status quo today, except now it would cost you 1% of your salary).

I could see the first scenario potentially attracting better talent for the significantly higher pay in the short term. But it's also a perverse incentive structure where if my 8 hours of work suddenly takes 9 hours, I get paid more, so why would I finish it early? Oh and because I'm in a union, it's now much harder to get rid of me, even if I'm half-assing it.
(Perhaps I'm not a good person to ask, as I don't work at a product company or in IT services)

I really wouldn't give it a second thought, as everybody is using this stuff.

In my niche, there is very little focus on this kind of project management, due to the required speed of development and deployment.

If you work fast and reliably enough, delivering commercially important software, nobody is asking about a JIRA ticket.
Yes. You could almost think of the mRNA as being "printed".

The real technology in these vaccines is actually encasing them in a lipid, which prevents your immune system from attacking the mRNA.
1. I don't want to install you app.
2. I don't want to find and pick up my phone.
3. How do you log in to the app? This has a bootstrapping problem.
Just look at the impact a 40 minute outage of Google Auth had last month, I wouldn't be surprised if the global productivity hit during that outage was in the billions of dollars, and that was for a relatively short outage without any data loss.
I'm not demanding 100% uptime, I'm asking that they say "99.94% uptime" when there has been an outage.

Honestly, I could live with a 99.50% SLA, if that's what it really was. After today's probably full-day outage, they'd just have to be extra careful for the rest of the year (or pay me money). Kind of sucks when it's 1/4 that you blow your year's SLA budget though.
I think you're longing for a US that never was. Its always been about who has "the right power" and who doesnt. Everything from Mccarthyism to the Salem Witch Hunt.

it also stands to be said that America doesnt exist as America, instead as a revolving door of loosely defined groups that step up to the levers of power and try their luck.

Its best to understand the actors instead of the machine. Its most often where the problem is.
Does HN feel particularly slow to other people today? It usually loads for me in <500ms, and page loads are taking ~5 seconds now when other websites are completely fine.
Far from narrow experience, C/C++ is just one of the languages I have used to deliver systems over a long period of time.

Not being cocky and not turning my nose up at Python as I know it can be productive and allow quick creation of solutions.

But pointing out that my experience has also encompassed high-resilience, high-availability, low-latency, fault-tolerance, high-security, air-gapped and embedded systems along the way.
For the latter of those especially, the rigour of defining requirements and proving them during design and test phases, are key facets that go beyond the choice of any programming language whether modern or old.
Sure, I'd be interested in your list of European tech companies that have innovated a comparable amount to Google. Whatcha got?
To further clarify, holding a clearance is basically an NDA a person signs with the government. If you don't sign the NDA, it's ok for you to know the information. The question is, what crimes were committed to give you that knowledge? And how complicit were you in aiding those crimes? For example, hearing a classified fact that was inadvertently leaked in a briefing is different than paying people to break their NDA and give you secrets.
Santa Clara County (where Google's headquarters are) election results:

Biden: 72.64% (617k votes)
Trump: 25.23% (214k votes)

Source: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/1060...

Caveats galore of course: Not every Santa Clara resident works at Google, not every worker at that office lives in Santa Clara county, Google has many other offices in other areas, voting for Trump doesn't mean someone is republican, etc. etc.

But, it would be pretty surprising to me if there wasn't a sizable minority -- say at least 10% -- of workers at Google that voted republican/trump.

Here's another data point, re: donations to political parties by Google employees, with probably an even longer list of caveats than the above analysis:

Democrats: $5,437,048 (88%)
Republicans: $766,920 (12%)

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-...
I'm quite surprised that you don't use Mattermost as a 'Slack fallback' at GitLab.
Services like Slack are replaceable to most extent. How does even replace a service like Google easily? There are like to like services available for Google but the data is where it becomes tricky. Almost 1bn people losing their email addresses could cause massive issues.
> When I talk to colleagues in tech about unions I hear a lot of misconceptions, seemingly based in stereotypes about what unions are for and who they serve

Agree, things that a union can address:

- Pay transparency, Have detailed info about pay bands, and ensure some new hire from a hot company doing the same job as you is not making 2-3x your salary.

- Broken promotion process, at my company promotion is completely broken with really talented engineers leaving all the time as they are not getting promoted(alot of politics at play etc), a union can ensure promotions are granted in an even process.

- Age discrimination, This one will affect everyone as we all will get older. Alot of companies abuse this one under the guise of "culture fit". A union will ensure that talented older engineers are not discriminated against either while working and being fired for being too old or at the interview process under culture fit nonsense.

- Interviews, I think most people can agree that tech interviews are pretty broken. They are designed to be extremely hard to encourage people to stay in their position and it usually takes months of practice to be able to pass one. Unions could fix this broken process.

- Working with bad actors, When google started work on a secret search engine with the chinese govt. googlers were outraged, a union could ensure its members do not work in any way with a govt that does not support common human rights.
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