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> A union would keep salaries high by not keeping the gates open

That’s the same argument people use against immigration.

I realize HN is a diverse place and not everybody has the same opinion on these matters, but I find it interesting that people here generally support labor protectionism when it applies to high-income earners like software engineers, but they don’t support closing the borders in order to increase the wages of low-income earners.
I'd take anything Guo Wengui says about the Chinese gov't with a grain of skepticism. Steve Bannon has been running around promoting Guo's story as part of the larger anti-China Trumpist narrative.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/26/guo-wengui-chinese-bill...
It has been known for some time that America's critical infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to attack.

In 2013, a group of gunmen cut fiber lines and shot out high-voltage transformers at a substation south of San Jose. The perpetrators were never caught [0]. Authorities thought it could be the dry-run for a larger attack. It took weeks to repair the damage to this one substation. The reserve inventory of high-voltage transformers is not large, and it takes time to build replacements from scratch [1].

There is a series of memes and greentexts on sites like 4chan [2][3] which describe how to disrupt, destroy, and damage critical infrastructure in the event of (or in order to provoke) civil conflict. One meme describes how to sabotage phone and fiber lines in ways that are the most difficult to detect and costly to repair. This knowledge has circulated for years.

I'm honestly surprised that we haven't seen more attacks until now, especially during this summer's unrest. I take the absence of attacks as a positive indicator of basic human decency, or maybe general technical ignorance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/04/f34/Strategi...

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1837689-4chan

[3] https://i.imgur.com/FfjVlRX.jpeg
I think the implication with many of the "it's just a bubble" comments is that "it's just a bubble [...and after it crashes it will fade into irrelevancy (eg. tulips or beanie babies)]". In that respect the prediction has yet come to fruition. However, if you're talking about it being a bubble in the same way that the stock market or the economy has bubbles[1] you wouldn't be wrong. The GP mentioned "Once it pops then the fun will be over", which makes me think he's closer to the first camp than the second camp.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle
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I would be surprised if you couldn't match or exceed slacks uptime running whatever alternative you want (IRC, mattermost, rocketchat, etc.) on a random dedicated server.

Hardware is quite reliable these days.
And updates can be scheduled to be at a convenient time for the team.
Coming from the US, it astounds me how uninformed people from third world countries are about the US and its staggering record of human rights abuses. I do understand that Hollywood and such are one hell of a marketing dept, but you are aware that the US has more Black people in cages than China has Uighurs, yes? I mean, when we're talking about how many lives each is destroying on a daily basis, I think they look pretty comparable.
With deflationary currencies it's the opposite. The rich who get richer are the hoarders and earlier adopters of the currency. Those at a disadvantage are those who own other things, and those with fewer or no amounts of the currency.

I don't follow; how does real estate and stock become less valuable in a Bitcoin world? Or do you just mean relative to the returns on owning Bitcoin?
Would you be able to provide a link to the FRESH format you mention? What other structured resume formats are there in widespread use?
Just a note to say "thanks" to the Slack team for the uptime when Slack is not down, it's been incredibly useful as a tool to me when other enterprise systems (Teams, Outlook & co.) have been down over the last couple of years, and especially throughout 2020.

Somehow Slack is very resilient in general. I also appreciate its UX/UI being far superior to Teams.

Ultimately, the cloud is often a single point of failure that companies become over-dependent. So I'd favour a free (as in freedom) and open source self-hosted/deployed alternative if there was one (even if it was from Slack and for pay).
I agree with most on here that there isn't such a thing yet - but it's well worth building! So those of you out there who are considering implementing "yet another text editor", maybe this is something to work on.
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It's interesting to stack up other city builders against this as well. Airborne Kingdom, Frostpunk, Tropico, Anno 1800, etc all focus on different elements of the genre.

I'm working on a city builder as a side project, and it's fascinating how many little choices there are that totally change the space of the game.
I confirm that Mixer delivered on the sub-second latency claims. As far as I know, FTL's performance is in line with WebRTC's performance. As long as the servers in-between are fast, a good WebRTC implementation should match it.

Unfortunately, with Mixer's death, I don't think there are any major turnkey players left with low latency sub-second streaming. I'd probably use Discord as a primary alternative which uses WebRTC with Discord's servers in-between.

If your home connection has the bandwidth to support the load of multiple users, a service that does direct P2P like Parsec will probably give the best performance.
I like https://bloggingfordevs.com/ if you are a developer like me. You do not sound like you consider blogging, but you might change your mind after checking us out.
Don't forget that trade imbalance is the root cause for nearly 100% of the world's military conflicts.
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I agree that skepticism is necessary, but it's likely a lot less logical than that.

They probably tripped some algorithm.

This happened last year to podcast-addict (one of the most popular applications in Google's Android store) [1]. The lesson I take away is: even big players spending millions are subject to the algorithm.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219427
I haven't noticed it being slow but it is better then failing completely at rendering the page (when it's under a heavy load).
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I ran exactly into this problem with linear.app (which uses passwordless login with "magic" links) and Outlook / Office 365. Only solution has been to ask linear.app to disable the links for our account and keep only the one-time code that we manually copy-paste.
All: large threads are paginated, especially today when our server is steaming. Click More at the bottom of the thread for more comments, or like this:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632346&p=3

(Yes, these comments are an annoying workaround. Their hidden agenda is to goad me into finishing some performance improvements we're badly in need of.)
The different charts show different programming language implementations.
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I recall finding this on HN some while back, prior to retraction, for a good laugh: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32668870/.

Supposedly a few more far out papers have been published by the authors as well. Kinda makes you wonder what the motive is here. Seems a bit high effort to be simple trolling.
"xi thought", whatever that is? https://www.ft.com/content/50d9aae2-e182-11e7-8f9f-de1c2175f...

What's funny is that the Chinese natural language community seems to be way ahead of the regulator's ability to censor content, at least in eastern China (and the fact that there is still a reliance on the usage of Windows, Linux, Android, and IOS, and the easiness of transcoding between GB18030 and Unicode). This is true of the tech savvy community in China in general, but the proliferation of English auto translated internet text/videos virtually impossible for the government to monitor. It's wide scale overrunning of government controls from what I hear. The world is more intertwined than you think due to the inter webs.

Of course the opposite is true in the other side of China.
Does the security council thing even matter honestly?

Like even if PLA marches on Taiwan now and US doesn't want to get in the war, what difference can security council make which otherwise would not have been possible outside security council?
I used to work for British telecom and I remember speculation on how easy it would be to cripple CNI as compared to a jihadi suicide bombing spectacular.

Two or 3 two man teams with an angle grinder could have taken down "xxxx" I wont mention the system.
Well, they're mostly back up now. I'm curious to see what will come of the postmortem, and if that report will be made public, even if only in part.
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Yes, it seems like ultimately the distribution problem will come down to communicating who can get vaccinated and when. Like right now I have been hearing scattered reports that there are places where doses of the vaccine are available and not being used. So if I wanted to go get one could I? I'm certainly not in any demographic that should be prioritized, but if it's just sitting there then someone should use it.
It's still pretty fast for me. I wouldn't have noticed if not for this post.

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This is not exactly what I was looking for. Bitcoin is being treated as a risky investment, not as a reserve currency. I do not understand what led to Bitcoin becoming that instead of serving its stated goal as an online currency.
This is very common content marketing content. These articles are not intended to educate the reader, they're written to get high search rankings, and high click throughs.
You are really stretching here.
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Critical thinking skills are definitely missing from early childhood education (along with financial literacy to understand things like marginal tax rates).

Sheesh.
the latter was 6d.ai's whole thing. I say "was" because they were bought by Niantic
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To be fair there was quite a lot of lobbing of opinions as it pertained to his guilt and ability to be prosecuted. Including: “This conduct would amount to offences in English law” and many , many other statements outlining exactly why she thought asking for information and publishing it would be considered aiding and abetting in espionage. I only got about 40 pages of skimming in, the documents is 130+ pages, but the vast majority of it was related to way the charges are felt to be appropriate in his case and very little evidence from the defense other than their broad objections.
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An old acquaintance of mine, John Balestrieri, made a Mac app based on Bill Atkinson's dither algorithm too:

https://www.tinrocket.com/content/hyperdither/
Generally, yes. But if a large fraction of people are getting confused in a specific context, then you can say "don't word it that way", even if the wording is true when you consider it in a vacuum.

If putting the other brand name first causes consumer confusion in certain places, that's a problem, even if they're not lying or even doing it on purpose.
> asking him to redact names without telling him which ones is even more stupid

He should have had the good judgment to redact all names even without being asked to. (Or at least all names that he didn't know belonged to people whose lives would not be put at risk by their publication.) He didn't.

> Newspapers were NOT in the same position.

It is true that newspapers (and other "mainstream" media organizations) have a special relationship with governments (and note that I'm not saying it's right that they do, only that as a matter of fact they do), so they aren't in exactly the same position as Wikileaks. That still does not excuse Wikileaks putting people's lives at risk by publishing their names.

> people exposing war criminals get more blame that actual war criminals

I haven't said anything at all about blame regarding anyone other than Assange, so you have no basis for even making any such comparison.

Also, I'm not blaming Assange for publishing the material itself. I'm blaming him for publishing people's names and putting their lives at risk. As I've already said, he could have published the material without publishing the names. He chose not to.
This post is a bit behind, they claim to be back up again:
https://twitter.com/NotionStatus/status/1346183061562507264
This is a monitor that I took from the office where I have a larger desk that allows me to sit around 100 cm from it. ATM it's around 75 cm from my eyes and it's a little too close.

I don't use scaling, so it's basically like having four 21.5" FullHD panels, and the distance isn't that problematic because of the pixel density, but mainly because of the fact that it occupies my whole visual field and it feels a bit weird.

I have it hooked to a vanilla Ubuntu machine with GNOME, nothing special. I usually put RubyMine (I do Ruby on Rails) with all the bells and whistles and sidebars and toolbars on the left side of the screen, full height, which gives me a FullHD code editor and a FullHD debugger window, and on the left side I have a browser window with a terminal or a JS console. And some Spotify peeking behind it or something. This gets me through the whole day, I don't need any i3-style black magic to handle my 5 windows.

The screen has been sitting in the office for quite a while. People tried it for a bit and went back to their 3X" 4K panels, but I fell in love with it immediately.

Actually the "having to turn your head" is the most interesting aspect. Yes, I do have to turn my head a lot. I have to turn my head and sometimes move my whole body when I need to see some detail somewhere and I like that about this setup. Not sure whether it's ergonomic or healthy but I like that I can physically move myself further left or right and focus on one part of the screen.

Unfortunately, I use a PS4 for gaming and my laptops are an iGPU-equipped Dell and a M1 Macbook Air, so 3D gaming in 4K is out of the question.
Why do I lose that right? Back to the example of your kitchen: you hire somebody to redo your kitchen. Why would they have a say in how you want to have your kitchen redone?

If you work for a company and you feel they are making bad decisions and perhaps your job is in peril (because the company may go down), it is high time to look for a new job.

And again, who then decides what is or is not a bad decision? Courts will get to decide on economic decisions. But lawyers have studied law, not economics. How does that make sense?
But more to lose now and countries would readily welcome the top performers.
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> a solved problem ... for probably decades

centuries, actually: you can get all of this from reading the textbook.
> Certainly not. As I keep telling people here, cryptos are property, not currency. Why should governments be in the business of telling people what type of property they can and can't own?

Uh what? That's like the second biggest thing the government does after, you know, army.

You can't own a dead lobster shorter than 6 3/4 inches in the United States without committing a felony, even if the lobster met its untimely end without your assistance.

Of course that's what the government should be in the business of doing otherwise we'd likely all be dead, and separately, there wouldn't be any more lobsters.
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It looks to me like its in the same vein as Pokemon Cards, Yu-Gi-Oh cards, etc. Very few people actually "play". They just collect for the sake of collecting, and they buy out of fear of missing out on exclusives.

It isn't a model that appeals to everyone, but it appeals really well to some whales, hence it exists.
The creator was ex-Zynga, so of course it's largely built around a whale-first monetization strategy. Even more dangerously, it's inside of a game that appears to be largely vaporware, and has no high-profile company to give weight to the virtual items. At least you know Blizzard or Epic will be around for a while, these people could be bankrupt tomorrow and all you'd own is a worthless (and expensive) Ethereum transaction.

I'd also bet that this "sale" is an inside job, given that the virtual nonsense was purchased by another scammy blockchain gaming company via "Polyient Games Unity Tokens", and the $800K is based on the market cap of some obscure, illiquid token.
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Care to share your data behind that assertion?

Go look into the amount of btc being held by corporations as a treasury asset. There's a provable number and it says large financial interests are interested in hold large amounts of bitcoin as a reserve.
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You missed the 0 taxes though.
Let’s say Xi wakes up cranky (maybe somebody embeds criticism of him in the blockchain) and bans BTC throughout China. It is now illegal to operate an exchange, buy or sell Bitcoin, or run a Bitcoin node anywhere in China.

... now what? How do you “transfer money across political boundaries without censorship” into or out of China?
I think they scale up fine.
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First off - cool project, nice work!

Just riffing off some ideas for the 'coworkers and collaborators' section as well since I agree that I wouldn't find it useful as a sometimes-recruiter in its current state.

I think the section could do with some more structure or information given. E.g. instead of just loose association with other folks who work at the same company, break associations into 'reports to', 'close teammates', 'manages' (or make that information visible on hover or something). There's probably a pretty cool hierarchical way to show this information but maybe people would find that too invasive. As someone who conducts interviews pretty often, understanding a person's team structure would definitely be useful, and would still serve the 'social proof' function you've described.

The collaborator's title while they were involved with that specific project might also make it easier to parse what the working relationship was between the CV owner and the collaborator as well.
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In what world is an attempt to understand the actions of a governing body more disturbing than disappearing someone? The pondering of morality and underlying intentions are what fuel the entire "East vs West" debate.

Chalk it up to systemic casualties all you'd like, but let's not pretend as if that isn't reductive as well. Behind every system, there are decisions being made by human beings and it's not flippant to be cognizant of that.
It's all relative. I find it too damn slow.
Well if the failure mode under high load turns it back into mechanical it still seems useful. Not sure what the Eddie current losses mean though.
In no way is this relevant to anything related to American tech companies. I don’t know how the plight of German bank employees suggests anything one eay or another about the need for tech unions.