skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You absolutely can. Managers will push back with "rules" that only apply if management doesn't want to pay you more. Or they will go to HR to get an exception if they think you are worth that exception (that is, if they aren't worried about not being able to match an offer for an employee that they really care about). You can absolutely negotiate.

In the past, I've been quite open when I thought that I needed more money to my manager, and have even given specific ways of making me "not distracted by money concerns". Sometimes they can meet those goals, sometimes they can't.

Personally, the offer as you've given it is probably more adversarial than I'd prefer. Something like "I feel like I'm worth more to the company than X, I feel like I'm worth Y, and here is a list of reasons, here is my career goals, etc etc". Then if they don't match it, you can accept that other offer. But YMMV.
Half-Doses as Good as Full?
He started in another comment that he has a short position. I theorize that he knows what he's saying is nonsense and it's just trying to misinform the less educated by playing on common (and actively disproven) misconceptions.
> It seems clear to me that these are people who are unwilling to sacrifice some of the money they earn to follow their ideals and principles, so they are trying this instead.

So you missed the part of the article that explained they will commit a portion of their salary to fund the union?

They are working for a company known to hire union-busters, fire employees trying to unionize or point out issues, and you want to argue that this is the safe way to try to follow their ideals and principles? This doesn't make much sense.
Fully accepting this, can you give me one example in the past 20 years that this cacophony of political discourse led to changes in political economy in the Western World for those who have no inherited wealth?
> Those capabilities are great. But those capabilities exist whether a Bitcoin is priced at $1 or $25,000. Why are those capabilities enough to drive the price of a Bitcoin up?

Isn’t that just because there is a limited supply of bitcoins and lots of people want to buy them? Just the same as saying that an expensive fast sports car is great, but would be just as great if it cost $1.
You have a point, but so does he, considering today took place in 2021, not 2020.
This happens to me almost every day, when there are no incidents/outages. And it's not a network issue, the other apps work fine (e.g. WhatsApp).
It is different than all the other city building games listed, in that you place all the buildings by hand.

That being said I would not really count Transport Tycoon as a city building game because transport is literally the name of the game.
Funny YAML Gotcha
$ cat foo.rb
require 'yaml'

p YAML.load(<<~YML)
vat_rates:
dk: 0.25
no: 0.25
se: 0.25
YML
$ ruby foo.rb
{"vat_rates"=>{"dk"=>0.25, false=>0.25, "se"=>0.25}}
Their UIs are faster and slimmer than their smart TV counter-part. Since I only use my TV to connect to either a laptop, my mini-desktop that sits under it or a gaming console, I have around 0 use cases that gets solved by having "smart" functionalities which ends up bloating the rest of the experience.
Are there any mobile versions that are good and not in app purchases / time based?

I wouldn’t mind paying for a game but not a fan of the time based, gem collecting price models. Would rather pay for the app and just play
Why would the intelligence community be involved with decision-making inside the department of justice?

And Obama's DoJ apparently decided not to pursue the case, why would we expect Biden's DoJ to come to a different conclusion?

It's also interesting that this case has so many overlapping conspiracy theories that I don't even know if my initial comment is downvoted by US patriots for suggesting that the case might be politically motivated (which is the assertion made by Assanges defence team and many human rights groups), or by Assange supporters for suggesting that there was no ongoing investigation in 2010 and the Swedish allegations were not a plot by the DoJ :)
I just finished an 5 hour debugging session on what turned out to be several cascading bugs in one of the older systems at my company

Can't deploy the fix, because

- developers trigger deployments through slack and I don't have access to the underlying deployment system

- infrastructure guys who have access aren't responding to my emails
Arguably silver sterling standard of England can be considered equivalent to modern fiat money, too - a critical component of its value at one point became the fact that tax payment was defined in pounds of sterling silver. It was just a bit easier to convert without special exchange accounts ;)
That rule absolutely does not work for me.

For me, the whole point of the repl is that I want to build something incrementally, interactively, building it a little at a time by making small changes to it. I want it in memory, running and responding to my changes as I make them. Put this here; put that there. Change that around. Let me look at it; nope. Put that back where it was. Now add this.

If the repl is stateless then the whole purpose is defeated.
Film that evaporates sweat six times faster and holds 15 times more moisture
This site seems to be lagging as well. Or is it just me?
First: that's awful because it means business don't have any flexibility to change. you're forced to work with people who don't work, because they can't get fired. The lower productivity of those workers becomes a drag on everyone else.

Second: this is the worst. Instead of shedding the dead weight it insists on protecting the people who've been paying dues the longest, at the expense of young people.

No this is not what I call a just society.

A just society is one where people doing more work get more pay. This exists fine right now. Workers have tons of companies to choose from. Companies have lots of workers to choose from. There's a vibrant market and most people end up getting paid what they're worth.
We were in a private beta test, and have just started to try and reach more clients.

We’d love help! We do think we can help more people and that we haven’t solved the best way to reach them.
> But those capabilities exist whether a Bitcoin is priced at $1 or $25,000.

If those capabilities are useful, more people flock to BTC. Price goes up.

This is similar to the valuation of the many tech stocks which are not necessarily grounded on the present revenues of the respective companies.
I don't use Slack that much, but I know plenty of people that work on teams that are probably at a standstill, right now.

HN is also pretty slow...
And I absolutely agree with that. Earl Kitchener is an evil man. But he acted independently to convert humanitarian refugee camps into punitive concentration camps. The British government itself investigated the allegations, and explicitly put an end to Kitchener's abuses after they came to light. The opposition party and subsequent prime minister vehemently denounced his actions.

In contrast, Nazi leadership sat in a seaside resort and meticulously planned out the industrial mass execution of millions of people. The entire regime from Hitler down was involved. So while, I'd agree there's a moral equivalence between Kitchener and Heydrich, the Nazi regime itself is far more guilty than the British Empire.
I work in this space and can confirm this guy is talking out his ass and has no idea what he's talking about.
G Suite actually has an entire Slack clone, chat.google.com. I've been on G Suite (now annoyingly renamed to Google Workspace) for years and actually just recently found it existed from another comment on HN.
Is your understanding of this only from that line or do you have a more deeper take on it.

Back in 1920s, govt could 'adjust' the gold standard by changing the rate whenever they wanted.

Wanna double the money supply by 60%? Change the gold standard peg from 1.505g to 0.888g of gold.

When you didn't do that, you got a very short lived depression of 1920-1921 [1].

When you did, like FDR did in 1933, you got a long, extended deperession.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920%E2%80%93192...
Lack of logs and history is a feature not a bug.
Not just you. It is slow for me as well (Calgary, Canada).
Looks like my vacation continues!
Definitely for meeting people. Also recorded some podcasts. Haven't attended any of the formal social events for years though. The event's grown too big for that sort of thing to be pleasant for me.
How to stop caring about what other people think
Devs can improve our writing beyond blogging
> Coming from a third world country, whenever I see someone contrasting human rights abuses of US and China, I instantly realize the person was born and bred in the west, and does not have a meaningful realization of the level of depravity that can exist.

The purpose of these comparisons is to identify the similarity to the behavior of a country known to be worse. "China is worse." Yes, that's the point. We don't want to be like them, so we have to stop being like them.
> 2 of the 3 dollars in your pocket

Well, they're probably not in your pocket, since most of the new money goes to well-connected special interests (banks, megacorps, etc).
Me too (New York).
The U.S. Army’s Warehouse Full of Nazi Art
Internet Relay Chat – host your own redundant chat platform
It's struggling. All the people freed up that think chatting in Slack is productivity?
Yes, I'm wondering that also.

Todoist was having issues and iOS app launching from Xcode started taking a lot of time in the middle of the day (which reminds me of the app online check fiasco not so long ago).

Even HN seems to be a bit slower.
Appreciate you sharing your experience -- I've been considering a FLIR cam, did you find a better alternative?
I had 1 day off, so basically working all the time.
I didn't realize that Discord has way more active users than Slack. I'm glad, Discord is a fantastic service in my experience. It's a shame they got shoe horned into a mostly gaming oriented service. I've never had a class or worked somewhere where Discord was a considered solution instead of Slack, but I can't think of anything that Slack does better (in my experience). In general, I think Discord has the best audio and video service that I've used, especially kicking Zoom to the curb.
So fast. Ugh, I'm 27 and even just looking at these pics makes me cringe.
Not to mention muscle atrophy, including cardiac output.
> Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time

> Bitcoin was less volatile than AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility)

Have you got a source for both of these statements?
The Science of Westworld
Same here (London)
It also conveniently allowed Microsoft to collect license fees from ExFAT patents on all SDXC devices.
> Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time

This is stated as an article of faith. Is there anything about bitcoin that would make this be true?
Random Simcity soundtrack trivia: apparently "Concrete Jungle" from SC3k is in a pretty unusual time signature. And the soundtrack is also pretty good.
Originally black: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KPs5O5HXODE

A virtual twin of KITT (same prop set I believe).

Later two-tone: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dYs_DkFIqx8
> Has anyone had success running video calls over Matrix without Element?

fwiw if you use the Jitsi widget, you can share the URL to your Jitsi room with anyone and they do not need Element or Matrix to join.

The whole voice/video thing is a design problem as protocols like Matrix or XMPP are designed for non-realtime communication, while voice/video is very much realtime. You cannot possibly federate a video stream, so Matrix or XMPP can, by design, only supply the routing (i.e. connecting the people who want to participate in a realtime chat) and the participants then need to agree on some server/software combo that provides the actual video conferencing.
It's already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632346
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Can be remote, but working in Boston at MIT is preferred. Contact me via the Julia Discourse for more details.
At GitLab our fallback from Slack is Zoom https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#emergency-c...

I'm posting this because I found a lot of people don't know that Zoom includes a complete chat client that includes channels.

And #HugOps to the engineers at Slack working on this. I appreciate that they posted a periodic update even when there was no news to report: "There are no changes to report as of yet. We're still all hands on deck and continuing to dig in on our side. We'll continue to share updates every 30 minutes until the incident has been downgraded."
I would go so far as to say that "crap content" is Facebook's entire business model.
And there we have it: Relying on big companies sucks. It's great as long as it works. Once a system breaks thousands, or even millions, of businesses suffer. (Of course they are also beneficial and a private server can also crash at any time + I don't wanna blame Slack, but we always have to keep this in mind).
This particular points concerns me the most. All the numbers we have now should be considered "half vaccinations". Very soon (if this hasn't already happened), we'll be hitting the point where people start getting the second dose. Assuming the second dose takes as long to administer as the first dose, the rate of people getting the first dose will be cut in half.

I think the logistical challenges of administering the second dose will be even worse. You have to contact and schedule all of the first dose people, you need to have them actually show up when they are supposed to, and you need to have sufficient doses on hand.

I am expecting that a large number of people will, voluntarily or otherwise, either not receive the second dose or receive it later than they are supposed to.

Areas of the US that are looking "good" now in terms of the rate of vaccinations may look far worse very soon.
I've been WFH full time since 2011. I could not even finish this article.

Anyone who thinks that working from bed is good in any way, shape, or form, is deluding themselves. It's an ergonomic nightmare that is unsustainable. It's lack of separation between Life and Work. It's everything WFH should NOT be.

In a year, there will be another article that says "Working from Bed: Maybe not so much"
Hopefully it stays down forever
On the opposite, I'd say it's a great way to destroy your sleep routine and habits. As a rule of thumb, your bed should be dedicated to sleep and cuddles with your significant other.

"This study indicates that the use of computers and mobile telephones in the bedroom are related to poor sleep habits" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2869...

"Computer use, TV viewing, and the presence of media in children's bedrooms may reduce sleep duration, and delay bedtimes." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23886318/
Same here (Berlin).
I think there are a lot of sites that would benefit from automatically scaling up whenever Slack goes down.
Are the supply and demand curves supposed to be reversed?
i noticed the HN slow down too. maybe it isnt only a slack issue
Why does the slack client not show connection issues instead of just hard locking up?
Could you expand on this? I've heard many times that tether is what underlies a lot of the infrastructure of bitcoin trading on exchanges and that the company responsible for backing them is particularly unclear about what's going on and likely engaging in fraud.

As someone who is an amateur looking in, could you help fill in the holes in this picture? Why do we need tether? Why does it matter if tether is not backed 1:1 by USD? If the fraud really is so obvious and impactful, why 1) isn't BTC tanking and 2) why aren't there charges filed against the company?
Notion is having a service interruption
Should be an interesting post-mortem...
> can you actually make an argument for why things should be that way?

yes - because it didn't work any other way. Look at how communism fared? Tell me a way to incentivize people to invest their capital any other way?
This is actually impressive, in a bad way. I just have become so used to being able to run highly resilient cross region infrastructure for millions of users with just a handful of people that I forget what real downtime looks like.

For their app to just go completely offline is unacceptable. Bugs and degraded services I get. But this is catastrophic.
My company runs heavily on Slack. Part of my team got together in a video chat, but I have no idea what happened to everyone else in the company.
> This is an excellent reminder of the danger of being locked into closed systems.

Do you honestly think a self managed solution or open source solution would be more reliable for most companies?
I am genuinely surprised that Slack wasn't ready for people to come back from holiday, to view increased queues of unread messages, to have to manually login vs. having auth tokens or cookies, etc. Either that, or they had a cosmically coincidental outage on a really bad Monday to have it.

It's bad enough team comms go over Slack so much now, at least we have email fallback. What scares me is for the teams that use Slack for system alerting.
Let's see what this disappeared Billionaire exile is doing in America:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/950360647
Because the "smart" component in TVs is usually a potential minefield of spyware, ads and security vulnerabilities.

As a rule of thumb, don't trust any software developed by white goods manufacturers and connect it to the internet since it has most likely been developed in a rush and on a tight budget (HW margins are razor thin and good devs with security know-how are expensive) and is most likely a house of cards of outdated kernels, libs and services that are full of CVEs which might never get updated.
Notion is sluggish as well. That combined with the reports of HN potentially being slow, is there some larger network issue at play affecting a region of servers, potentially?
It's quite fast for me.

Edit: Not consistently, I guess. 9 out of 10 times it responds instantly, then it lags once in a while.
Even if 100% of the dead are in the risk/old group (which is not true), it's hard to achieve a 99% reduction with a 95% efficient vaccine. For that to work, you have to assume that the main way of infection is from inside the group. I think this is highly unlikely in a scenario where you say: protect the weak, let everybody else just get it.
With regards to this, my point was that Facebook doesn't want to get into a long drawn out discussion with whataboutisms and splitting hairs on policy.

They made a business decision to move on from this content platform. I love to hate on facebook with the best of them, but they really don't "owe" anyone anything.

There seems to be this pervasive attitude in technology circles that platforms "owe" other businesses and individuals something when they build businesses on top of said platforms. Just because you spent 54MM in ads on a platform doesn't entitle you to anything when a legal or business decision has to be made. Is it crappy not to communicate and give an explanation...? you bet it is. Did that 54MM in spend generate anything for Shared... you bet it did. Everyone was a winner until Facebook moved on.

I suspect that Facebook and Shared working to negotiate out of this will just result in a lot of spinning wheels, ammunition collection on both sides to pursue legal remedies, and nothing of real value changing. Facebook said we're moving on. Done.
I didn't say they shouldn't be allowed to fire me, I didn't mean to imply that they would suffer no consequences however the consequences of 100% of my income is way smaller than whatever tiny fraction I make up of a 50,000 person company.

Did you consider your management may be shit and maybe the person should make the rules now, not you? If you were harassing them, for instance, or bullying them, they may have a point and your single point of control over the enterprise may be harmful not just to the worker but to the company.

Just because you would like to fire them doesn't mean you should, as after all, the fiduciary duty is to the company and not to you personally.

That is specifically the value that the union would provide in this case.
IMHO, there either has to be a mandate or a personal incentive to get to herd immunity faster. With the low fatality rates for younger people, the personal incentive to get the vaccine is not high. This leaves mandates. Workplaces and schools can do this.
Time to slack
It looks like a Stirling engine : Perfect on paper but no real world application. Reddit comments seem to agree.
However, it really looks like magic. Must have been really fun to build.
I think this is telling you that you're ready for something more - something bigger than what you're doing. One possible step is to go to your boss and say "I think I'm ready for a bigger role. What do you have that you could give me?" Many bosses do not have a problem with employees wanting to do more.

Note, though, that you need to be very careful to clarify that you want harder work, not just more work. The goal is not to start working 12-hour days; the goal is work that challenges you enough that you're not bored.
> put in more hours

I'm skeptical of unionization in tech, but the one thing I can imagine unions would fix is the constant unpaid overtime that's associate with tech jobs. In a union situation, you'd be paid more if you were working more hours period, rather than hoping somebody would notice and give you a pay raise at some indeterminate time in the future.
For some reason, today, HN seems exceedingly exceedingly slow (to me) after logging in...

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...

To quote Bill and Ted... "Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K..."
Slack has been a uniquely iffy service. I wonder if there's a solid decentralized alternative.
The author is saying it's lack of ability to be medium of exchange is reason for it's failure and their decision to short it, I am saying that you need to consider all facets of the technology. It might fail as currency today, but that doesn't mean it won't in the future or that it has other useful properties today
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