skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If new hires tends to break production, it's not in the first business day of the calendar year. December gets really quiet for recruiting, typically, as candidates get busy with their social lives, and scheduling interviews gets harder.

January is busy for recruiting, but given a week or two of interviewing and negotiating, two weeks notice, it's probably February before new employees are starting, and they're not making big, production-damaging deploys for a week or two after that.
As a matter of fact/demonstrable behavior, regardless of the things we would like to be true, most people would value the life of a billionaire business person well above the lives of millions of poor people who don't speak the same as us. This is especially true the higher up in power you go; and since it requires power to do anything about it, the chances of anything being done about it are much greater when it's a billionaire business person than a nation of poor people.
believe it or not, advertising existed before 2010.
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Here's one way to think about it:

What does "actual uses" mean other than "there are people out there that have a desire to get their hands on some of it"?

In other words: things only have value because someone, somewhere is ready to exert themselves to get some.

Where that intent comes from is entirely irrelevant.

There is only one thing : supply and demand.

Where the demand comes from does not enter the conversation.

There is strictly no such thing as "intrinsic value".

Econ 101.
If he’s been kicked off their network, does he have anything to lose by biting the hand that used to feed him?
Companies also gain the ability to support surges/drops in manning requirements

They have that ability already without unions - much more easily because they can reduce staffing without the entire company falling over due to strikes.

and know workers have a minimum level of training

They have that ability already without unions.

Not every union strangles their company like automotive unions

By and large the only unions that remain large and powerful in the west are those organising government employees, where strangling the host is impossible because tax revenues mean it cannot die. In most other industries they did indeed strangle their host industries until they declined.

Look at this thread. People keep talking about Hollywood as an example, apparently unaware of just how much business foreign film studios have taken from it, particularly the UK, due primarily to a much less aggressively unionised workforce.
I think you're onto something but looking at it in the wrong way when you say that YOUR stuff is basic. It's not YOUR stuff that is basic, it is what you can find that is basic.

Many of the challenges that would lead to a revenue generating idea seem (to me) to come from something that isn't regularly discussed - something basic along the pipeline that causes someone, somewhere down the pipeline a small and/or large headache - with varying degrees of course.

Let us take a small peek at Stripe, they identified a piece of the puzzle by creating a solution for online business payments. That is awesome and all but I want to detract from that into a more manageable scale. What do you find is a headache, to any degree? Maybe a prebuilt excel sheet for those who don't whelm the power of being an excel guru. Perhaps an app that allows drivers to simply upload a receipt every time they get gas to track average mpg - with some nice extras that could track mileage. The market is flush with these type of solutions. I think the real challenge is pushing beyond the idea of this mindset being challenging.

Think of all the moving parts vs the large scale. You'll be sure to find something along the way, I guarantee it.
So some sort of bitcoin ETF with authorized participants[1]? That still doesn't explain why you'd use it rather than holding bitcoin directly.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/authorizedparticipant.a...
Could be, it's the perfect time overlap between US-West, US-East, and Europe.
Crazy? That's literally what they did.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-...
from what I remember, it is a replica... sorta. Made for promotion rather than for filming. There were several filming cars, and most were damaged for various reasons during the show. Also, most of those didn't have interiors. Interior shots were done in a different cockpit from the exterior shots, which were mostly stunt cars.
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This is hopefully the answer. Hopefully facebook is trying to improve their feed. It's absolute garbage.
I agree. It's far more likely some of the content mill sweeps they made during the election caught them.
Makes perfect sense for O'Brien, DS9 had serious backup issues in the first couple of years

The Forsaken (season 1 episode 17)

LOJAL: I've been reading the reports of your Chief of Operations, Doctor. They gave me the impression that he was a competent engineer.
BASHIR: Chief O'Brien? One of the best in Starfleet.
LOJAL: Then why aren't the backup systems functioning?
BASHIR: Well, you know, out here on the edge of the frontier, it's one adventure after another. Why don't I escort you back to your quarters where I'm sure we can all wait this out.

Rivals (season 2 episode 11)

KIRA: My terminal just self-destructed.
DAX: What?
KIRA: I lost an evaluation report I've been working on for weeks.
DAX: Even the backups?
KIRA: Even the backups.

There's a reason to have a backup to the backup by Destiny (season 3 episode 15)
> Prioritizing the environment? Straight from the radical liberal left playbook. It means allowing my children die of hunger because I can’t find a job so a dolphin survives.

So if I understand what you're saying as a reply to my question, you mean that having "We prioritize society and the environment instead of maximizing profits at all costs" as a explicit value for the Google workplace, means that you'll end up without food for your child?

Not sure when/how dolphins became Google's business, but I might have missed something recently as I don't follow their every move.
please read and learn more before concluding anything:

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/
It’s almost as if the current administration is doing it on purpose in order to make the situation far worse than it needs to be.
Im sure you get ideas that are below your threshold for engagement... most people do until someone makes them aware and they have an “aha” moment..

Pick a topic, product, food, restaurant, etc. at random and think of (then write down) at least one way to improve it (even if subjective).

Now for each propose at least one method of doing it. If you don’t know how, then take a minute to google the processes that lead up to the improvement... slowly you internalize that knowledge and it becomes second nature.

It’s an exercise, but after a week or two you will come to do it naturally. Just make sure you tell people your ideas if your not going to use them.

I’ve found that when you “release” an idea, better ones follow.
> So even if theoretically the most aggressive licenses still allow for commercialization, the practical effect is that commercializing a copyleft codebase won't travel too far on its own as a business plan.

Red Hat was acquired for $34 Billion.

It really depends on what you're selling and how good your product is.

> "don't do copyleft if you want to have any aspirations of commercialization on the software itself as opposed to peripheral elements such as support services or similar"

Cop out argument. This comes from the same people who do split licenses that spit in the face of the spirit of OSS. It's people who want all of the benefits of writing OSS (outside contribution, growth in use of your product, less investment in sales) but none of the risks (someone else using what you offer for free and having a better product than you). It's purely anti-competitive.
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It means that one is not sending a session cookie of any kind, thus should be sent to a 100% cached version. No "Are you XYZ and what to log into ABC's Slack again?" box.
I've become increasingly more skeptical when I read those stories.

Let me be clear, I absolutely despise Facebook, but as I understand it, they are massively under fire from all sorts of governments over moderating the content which is posted on their platforms. There is a chance that this business knew they were doing something borderline dodgy in a grey area and Facebook started to weed those "bad" actors out in the moment of heat. I'm not implying that this is the case for sure, but it's not entirely impossible to imagine. Perhaps it's good that when governments take action and put pressure on FAANGs that they are even prepared to cancel a 57M customer if that means staying in business for themselves.
non-logged in user may not go through all the same codepaths as a user with cookies present.
$330k/month means that you could have multiple employees specifically and solely tasked with managing this one account. It is not a small amount by any means.
> I think JSON support will improve, but SQLAlchemy for example is ok with a common JSON interface over mySQL and Postgres.

This works extremely well with Postgres. The MySQL one is I think just saving it as a text string, which may become a killer.
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If I encourage people to leak Chinese classified documents, would that make me a bad dude too? I don’t think your reasoning is sound here.
To get high quality, up to date data, expect to pay. I just moved from Quandl to Tiingo for EOD stock data.
SimCity is why for my first MS-DOS machine I went with a Hercules graphics card and paperwhite monitor. The added resolution and clarity seemed much more important than the color that came from CGA (EGA and VGA were far outside of my budget at the time). The game played really well on monochrome.
I wonder how much "inherent" value gold actually has vs how much value we ascribe to it though. I.e. nobody is holding onto a 2 inch cube of gold instead of a house because at the end of the day they could make some jewelry out of it if it comes to it.

On the flipside any currency-like concept that could come to be worth more as the raw commodity than the currency seems inherently unstable as you'd be better off using it than keeping it.
You can edit the source file and send it to the listener.

Suppose I'm in my REPL and I do this:

> (foo 'bar)

I get dropped into the debugger because foo doesn't exist. So I switch over to my .lisp file in another buffer and I type:

(defun foo (symbol)
(format t "Baz ~A~%" symbol))
;; this will print "Baz BAR" in the example

With the cursor anywhere within that function definition I type C-c C-c, go to the debugger and restart it. It works now.

My source file and my Lisp image are both synchronized.

In the case of changing a variable. Say I'm somewhere deep in some code and this tries to run:

;; in context x = 0
(/ y x)

I'm dropped into the debugger. I know x was supposed to have a minimum of 1. I can do a couple things:

1. Examine the back trace in the debugger to see if I can locate where x got an incorrect value (maybe it was the line above, maybe 10 functions earlier). I make a note of what to fix, maybe I fix it now.

2. Change x to its proper minimum value and resume.

If I was able to trace how x got a wrong value, it's fixed already. If not, I'll have to explore more. But I don't have to restart way earlier, I can just restart at this point (assuming nothing else was broken by x having the wrong value here) and still get the result of my program (assuming x being wrong didn't break a lot of other things). Or I can quit back to the REPL and start exploring the problem.
You may be thinking of Zoom, who signed a massive Oracle contract.
> I think the warning about building your business on someone else's land

There aren't really any businesses which have sovereign territory
Epstein was possibly the most high profile case of child sex trafficking linked to people in power in all of history. Instead of being treated as such every procedure, protocol, and standard were botched, disregarded, "glitched", ignored, ect. You are never gonna get a video of Clinton, ect confessing to buying child prostitutes from Epstine.
That means it's not a user auth error
> Historically fiat currency has been an anomaly

So was the Gold standard, which didn't become a thing before the end of the 19th century. Before that, the standard money system (at least in Europe & Islamic territories) for the previous 2000 years was the combination of Gold and Silver with a fixed exchange rate. It ended up not being well suited to the beginning industrial civilization and was replaced by Gold+paper money around 1870. And then, when industrialized countries grew in number and in development, gold+paper was progressively abandoned in favor of paper-only money (the US were the last, but pretty much everybody had abandoned it after WWI and WWII).

The industrial civilization itself is also an historical anomaly, and if it ends, maybe gold (or gold + silver) will come back. But in that event, I'm not optimistic about bitcoin's chances of survival…
Sounds good. Tech unions can exploit a market to the benefit of shareholders by eroding labor standards.

- The market is labor

- The shareholders are the union members

- The labor standards are the current status quo, which made Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe owners and managers believe this (https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/01/16/37...) was acceptable until the government forced their hand on it. "Erosion," here, would be a disruption that makes the status quo worse for company owners... Makes that kind of one-sided back-room dealing no longer safe for the companies that engage in it, since they no longer fear merely government intervention, but their own employees banding together to say "Knock it off."
The twenty year business of a blog to online publication
Well yes and no.

FB revenue in 2019 was 70e9$.
I also assume that Freebies spending was not constant over the 16 years.
So their spending represented almost 1/10000 of FB revenue.

I agree you can probably afford to lose that as a business owner but you probably can't be "meh, whatever" either. I expect that a decision of that scale would have probably be considered by many people / relatively highly ranked employee.

(At least, at that scale, I wouldn't give the authority to two low level support staff and an algorithm to delete 1/10000 of my global revenues...)
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The top infectious dresses expert in the country certainly disagrees with a lot of what you are saying. Yes it will stick around. Yes the vaccine will help a great deal. What exactly is your point? That there is no reason to rush?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/us/coronavirus-pandemic-year-...
I second your opinion about having a family to support will conflict with being an entrepreneur.

It reminds me about the reason #9 not to start a company: http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

> I wouldn't advise anyone with a family to start a startup. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that I don't want to take responsibility for advising it. I'm willing to take responsibility for telling 22 year olds to start startups. So what if they fail? They'll learn a lot, and that job at Microsoft will still be waiting for them if they need it. But I'm not prepared to cross moms.

> What you can do, if you have a family and want to start a startup, is start a consulting business you can then gradually turn into a product business. Empirically the chances of pulling that off seem very small. You're never going to produce Google this way. But at least you'll never be without an income.

> Another way to decrease the risk is to join an existing startup instead of starting your own. Being one of the first employees of a startup is a lot like being a founder, in both the good ways and the bad. You'll be roughly 1/n^2 founder, where n is your employee number.

> As with the question of cofounders, the real lesson here is to start startups when you're young.
In my experience it's not promotion-eager engineers that want to push after a code freeze, it's antsy product managers. YMMV tho.
An incognito browser would ignore all client-side cookies, so the Slack web client would not try to - say - resume a previous user's session or re-use any previously saved data.

Likewise, incognito mode will also ignore most cached web content, meaning all assets on the Slack web app will get loaded again from scratch. This "clean state" start could, theoretically, get around issues with old - potentially incorrect/outdated - assets being loaded, even though that really shouldn't happen under most circumstances.
The author may be right in that MSTR putting the surplus capital towards BTC was a somewhat strange and potentially reckless move.

He got a lot of things wrong with what Bitcoin is and how it works. For instance he claims Bitcoin to be anonymous and a criminals' haven when all BTC transactions are publicly and permanently recorded on the blockchain. While also criticising it's inefficiencies he offers no other alternatives nor any solutions for them.

Unrelated though; There is no fighting against Bitcoin as the future of digital currency. The fast dinosaurs like PayPal have already started seeing the mass extinction ahead.
YES!

Windows 7 is the first version of Windows to let you to leave off text from running programs, leaving good sized square icons, so vertical taskbars didn't look as stupid as they did before. I disabled combining taskbar buttons, and tried putting the taskbar on the left. It's been 10 years and I haven't looked back.
You should probably ask Jimmy Buffett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU
org-babel might work here. There are also repl keybindings in python mode in emacs.
ah, awesome! thanks very much
I have tried to sell my organisation on a shared Google Chat doc for 90s style realtime ICQ chat in times like these, but there has been little uptake.
The average electricity consumption of a UK home is 8 to 10 kWh per day (or 330-400 W if you will).
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You just don't deploy something major the first day after a 2 weeks vacation, it does not makes any sense.
Maybe some day I'll know what I'm talking about. Which part specifically do think is wrong?
What is end-to-end encryption and how does it work?
But software can be written anywhere.

I do think Google has good engineers, but they are really not that indispensable
It did, and it still does. The biggest difference is that now, FB and Google and a few others have a scope that is an order of magnitude larger than all other advertisers combined. They've gained almost total market control over advertising, hence the word monopoly.
Hedy Lamarr has "co-invented an early version of frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication for torpedo guidance" according to Wikipedia, in addition to "appeared in 30 films over a 28-year career".
The Verge is down, but the post can be read here: https://archive.is/PWbbw
I love when things like this gets visible (even if I may not love why, or the result from it).

Eg how a very large percentage of the worlds christmas decorations are made in one Chinese city, or large % of harddrives in Thailand, or quartz movements for basically all of the worlds watches are from one-two suppliers, etc etc.

Opens your eyes to both how fragile some niches of the world are, and to how some markets are completely commoditized under a shallow layer of branding (most headphones, many phones, etc).
It's funny that this isn't considered an "Outage" by their status page's standards.
You're best equipped to solve problems that you experience yourself, but these problems don't have to be your own. Maybe you have friends or family in a different industry -- Seek out points of friction they might have. Maybe consider just interviewing others, researching their needs, etc.
Agreed, when a major service goes down HN is the most accurate overview, often a useful sanity check when its AWS or Slack size orgs before I open an incident with whichever party.
There is still Hesiod support in GlibC / NSS, etc on most modern systems.
When put together with Kerberos it's a nice way to provision auth on lots of machines automatically.

It's nice to have a dedicated and restricted resolver config so that the zone visibility can be restricted but that makes deployment a little more complex.
Redhat is the exception that proves the rule. How many more companies which relied upon selling services around GPL'ed code have died? Lots.
It’s ridiculous how you’re being downvoted for speaking common sense.