skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slack has been in business for several years and has survived several December to January transitions, including several people stopping using their product before Christmas and then returning early January.

It seems a bit presumptuous to assume that's at fault here, given their age.
Thoughts of "a year later" and MVP mostly don't mix.

Agreed about coverage.
Move then, complaining on HN will not change reality
> How many companies really plan for an event where their entire infrastructure goes offline and their entire team gets killed?

Since 9/11, more than you might think. For example Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield [1] had its HQ in the WTC.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2585046/empire-blue-[1... cross-it-group-undaunted-by-wtc-attack--anthrax-scare.html
Four instances?

What kind of tasks are you using them for?
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Well, other than the fact that the ISA is different and MIPS has a couple of strange legacy quirks (branch delay slots?)
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Right. Should have done this 20 years ago so we would have plenty of nurses today. Should do this today so that when the next pandemic hits in 20 years we are better prepared.
> what's the alternative?

Not my field, but let's say the societal goal is to continue to transition the journal publishing industry from a business model of customer lock-in, rent seeking, and restrictive access, to a model that's competitive, fee for service, and open-access. As this is a transition from a very profitable high-margin model, to a commodity low-margin model, the industry will be more opponent than cooperative partner in this process. Two policies which seem to me as having been notably helpful, are mandatory open-access tied to government funding of research, and the continued existence of sci-hub. Which suggests spreading the former, and avoiding actions which endanger the near-term existence of the latter. Endorsement doesn't seem needed... merely deferred enforcement. Sci-hub both remedies the societal harm of restrictive access, and reduces industry incentive to slow the transition. Perhaps something vaguely resembling this deal might be where we end up long term, but for now, it seems more like society is in an actively abusive relationship, giving up some of its limited leverage, for an untrustworthy commitment to do less harm, to some, for a time.

> generic medicine

Nod. Perhaps that makes for an interesting analogy. Imagine pharma had years ago offered India a deal: we'll give you lower-cost access to many medicines for a time, if you shut down your generic medicine industry.
There's still a pretty huge concentration of automakers and suppliers in the greater Detroit area.
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I'm not sure if that's a normal spike, or not, but the recent spike in the graph there for AWS is a little ominous in context.
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> Consider that if I were to walk through London wearing a teeshirt emblazoned with “Atheist” I’d be perfectly safe. I suspect doing the same in many US towns or cities might result in assault - contrast “liberties” with “effective freedoms”.
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> Also, political free speech is pretty much absolute in the UK - it’s citizens putting the boot in to each other in public that tends to attract Police interest in keeping the peace.

While I have a lot of sympathy for your argument about effective freedoms vs. de jure liberties, someone was stopped and told to cover up her "fuck Boris" t-shirt by police in London not that long ago[1]. (Though, while I consider the stop ridiculous, at the same time at least the officers in question otherwise conducted themselves calmly)

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They posted a giant list of the services they use recently.

They use a ton of services.

Likely you don't want your backup to be one of your systems and another part of the company probably uses Zoom already so it is probably easy to fail over to that.
There is nothing beautiful about this I see.
> Even if you erased humanity and started over, the new humans would still find gold to be economically valuable

Ridiculous point to make. Gold is valuable for some applications, but in no way is its current value related to its utility in industry and all.
...Let's not stereotype a country of 380+ million people. C'mon.

There are many Americans who feel the justice system is too punitive, and fails to uphold justice for the average American. Especially for people of color.

The problem is what can one realistically do? Besides voting (both parties adore punitive instead of rehabilitative punishment) and contacting our representatives (yeah, that'll help...).
You’d be surprised how many software developers have no idea how https works.
Saw this one the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25605151

There's also ASML, which was a focus of that thread's discussion.
> there's a long precedent of British newspapers doing what WikiLeaks does and even collaborating with WikiLeaks without being prosecuted

The judge discusses that in the opinion. The difference she notes is that the newspapers carefully choose what they publish in order to avoid harm--for example, they don't publish the names of government informants even if those names are contained in the materials they obtain, since that would put the lives of those informants at risk. Wikileaks did not do that with the information obtained from Manning; they just released it all. The judge quotes the newspapers themselves condemning Wikileaks for doing that.
You could but isn't the whole thesis of the internet-business a la Google or Facebook that it's "automated"?
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> Natalie Portman is one of only 10 people to have an "Erdos-Bacon" number

No, she is one of only 10 people to have an Erdos-Bacon number listed in the Wikipedia page for Erdos-Bacon numbers.

There are lots of people with Erdos-Bacon numbers who aren't listed on that page, e.g., Neil deGrasse Tyson [6].
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I read somewhere that Slack's yearly uptime SLA is 99.99%, which has already been exceeded on January 4th.

Sending big hugs to their ops team.
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Or have the color encode a performance counter like total CPU.
Because someone else's devops can't use it against you institutionally. Nor is going to insist on having an opinion on things that they're unaffected by.

This isn't a slam at devops, it's about the need for institutional information hiding; not everyone needs to know about and weigh in on every decision being made.
I didn't consider that I was endorsing commuting. Point well taken.

If I had a nice weather-protected path to walk to work (like the underground networks in some major cities), walking would be far preferable to driving.

My argument, nay, my observation, is that some type of transition between work and home appears to be vital to my well-being. I suspect that the time component for that transition is just as important.

For example: What if I built an office in my garage? That would give me a physically different space, but I'd be deprived of that transition time to switch mindsets.

What I don't know is how much time is needed for the same effect. Would a 5 minute walk suffice? Could it be even better? Who knows?
As pointed out by dang, the same (I think) tutorial was discussed in 2016 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10949288). I went through the first half of the tutorial in 2018, and I think some aspects of F* were genuinely new, but the development seems to have stopped. There is a need for a framework for program verification of real-life software by non-experts, but F* might not be it. In the latest article [1] of Project Everest one can read: "[...], it required several person-months to implement and verify a generic doubly-linked list library in F*, while it required only three hours to do so in Dafny."

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BTC has already been legally ruled as property, not currency, I believe if I read the ruling correctly.

Not digital gold, but pharmaceutical grade gold as Saylor put it in a recent Odd Lots pod, and it's hard to argue that...also quoted from the same pod..[not a perfect transcript]

"...so that took us to cryptos and we looked at 6500 cryptos and we found that BTC is the dominant network. its 25x bigger than the next closest thing that looks like it, and has more than $200bil monetary energy in it. it is basically Facebook or Google for money.

and this is the nuance that most people haven't realized yet..what you have is a dominant digital network that has been engineered to host a safe haven treasury reserve asset superior to gold in all respects.

it's pharmaceutical grade gold [love this line]. if God [blurb] gold as a treasury reserve asset to hold for 100 years, he would create 21mil gold coins, he'd make it impossible to make any more, he would make it possible to audit it from anywhere on earth from any node every 10 minutes, make it unhackable and make it an open architecture where you could build it into an iphone or into Square or paypal or any other exchange without permission, and he would distribute it everywhere on earth with these crypto SHA256 miners so hat no company controls it, no CEO controls it, no country controls it, and no regulators control it..."[0]

[0] https://play.acast.com/s/oddlots/6b8b72d0-455c-11eb-b9ed-377...
Thing is, everybody involved has an interest in making the numbers look good. And it's really easy to make them look good even without faking anything. Just omit the fact that you're counting post view leads, stretch the lookback window, etc
When the price of bitcoin goes up, it becomes harder for smaller amounts of money to move the market. I like to think of seeing the water rise when I step in to a bathtub versus stepping into a lake.
I have a bad feeling that the new app won't be as battle-tested on Firefox as it will on Chromium-based browsers like Edge and Chrome.
> All unions end up being political.

You say this like it's a bad thing. Instead, we've just been conditioned as "professional" employees to not talk politics in the one place where we have a modicum of control over how resources are allocated in society.
Illuminatus! is deliberately a send-up of the kind of stuff that Dan Brown writes, though. He's sincerely trying to make thrillers; Wilson and Shea were (partly) making fun of authors like him.
> While it is a microkernel, it's real world reliability has been poor in the past.

Nitpick/clarification: it currently supervises the security posture, attestation state and overall health of several billion(?) Intel CPUs as the kernel used by the latest version of the Management Engine.

If ME is shut down completely apparently the CPU switches off within 20 minutes. Presumably this applies across the full uptime of the processor, and not just immediately after boot, and iff this is the case... percentage of Intel CPUs that randomly switch off === instability/unreliability of Minix in a tightly controlled industrial setting.
It missed a really nice one with walkable cities: the Caesar series. I remember playing Caesar 2 in the 90s and I believe there are newer ones.
You don't need to convince miners at all. If BTCs future is in using it, it has to convince the future companies and stores to not use other coins or services. Or to a buyer today to still have as much demand even after the speculation is gone (which is currently its main/only function).

Wallets, miners, etc won't really matter at all if Square and Amazon etc have a plugin that uses a stable coin of each currency along with BTC. The world will have infinite transfer capabilities of other "scarce" non-fiat and fiat pegged coins without BTC (including other electronic currency based services).
Do they ever get pulled off of flights to reduce their cumulative radiation exposure?
Have you been to China? Have you ever been outside the city in China? I assure you, they have not "eliminated" poverty.

edit: Was curious, now I see the commenter above's account is only 3 months old, and exclusively comments on content regarding China.
Keynes actually had a nice quip for things like Bitcoin:

> The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
If you compare with the value of BTC 6 months ago you are largely in the green. Looking at daily fluctuations is useless.
In React land, generators are the basis of Redux sagas. I'm still on the fence about when sagas become worth the weight, but a lot of people are using them. (In the recommended style, a simple fetch call with sagas requires more than a dozen lines of code spread over several files. Which is a pain, but it integrates nicely with the Redux framework if you're using it.)

Generators are also really nice for writing parsers and other tree-walking operations. Rather than passing in visitors or producing an entire tree, it's very easy to yield an intermediate result and then keep going. I don't see it used all that much (I believe in part because people don't write all that many parsers), but they're actually a pretty good way to get a handle on generator writing.
How do you deal with a different opinion that dehumanizes people? Eg. If I'm a trans person how do I not attempt to correct the misconception that "trans panic" is a socially acceptable justification to murder me?
"Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause"

They are free to choose whatever license works for them but this reference to Apache 2.0 is problematic.
It is a bad idea to affiliate with CWA. If CWA was the origin, it is a terrible idea. Tech should be wary and look at what the automobile unions amounted to.
Yes, but only since a couple minutes ago.
It was the patent application supporting Happy Cyborg https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140927011544-42285562-you-a...
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The United States government's just lost their case against Julian Assange
The United States government's mass incarceration system just lost them their case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
> I cannot see a single erson who is still alive that has done so much to help disclose these atrocious crimes to the Public and has risked his life to help other whistler blowers than him.

Well, Chelsea Manning was the actual whistleblower in this situation. She also went back to jail for refusing to testify against Assange. (Conversely Assange said he would turn himself in if Manning was given clemency, then obviously did not when her first sentence was commuted.)

Reality Winner is also still in prison, due to The Intercept's egregious mishandling of her leaks.
Making a man like Jack Ma disappear and possibly dead sends a message that no matter how rich and famous you are, don't fuck with the CCP. That's how it will reflect. Poorly, and fearsomely.
I don't question that their web-apps are good. I also didn't imply the native applications were any good.

But there is absolutely no reason for a mail client or calendar to use gigabytes of RAM and have significant impact on battery life. Which is bound to happen if you bundle Chromium et al. and run the webapps in it.
> Asset price inflation was actually close to 30% this year...meaning real inflation is much higher than the bogus CPI formula the US government uses.

You don't even have to be a neo-keynesian, you really just have to recognize that not all price changes are "secret inflation." The markets (ie. the "real world") tend to agree with me [0].

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE
I'm not sure a monopoly like Google is something to aspire to. Europe is full of amazing copmanies doing innovative things. If Google is your ultimate measure of success though, you're right, my list won't keep up.

Arm
Ocado
TransferWise
Skype
Nokia
Skyscanner
ASOS
Klarna
Spotify
Deliveroo
Rovio
> pension contribution

Pensions are horrifically anti-worker. You're basically withholding X% of someone's pay for 40 years, and also confiscating that pay if they don't stay at the same company until the pension vests (so people cannot leave without incurring a huge financial penalty even if they hate their job and can find better options elsewhere).
In what kind of Lalaland is 50 million nothing?
I think the article misses the point completely: this is bad practice because the company has no business buying up random assets using other people’s money. That would be equally true if they bought $400M of fine wine, real estate, or gratitude crystals.
It has been a very good strategy so far. Stock is up 3x in a few months. Hopefully MicroStrategy can spin off the software part of the business and just buy bitcoin.
I mean, unless if you need to actually use that value. Then daily fluctuations matter a lot.
Would anyone have written this article if it was $400M of TSLA? The company made a risky investment with its spare capital. That's not a crazy thing for a company to do.
I think this ultimately will doom this type of organization. Workers don't want to be on a crusade they want rights like better pay, better hours, freedom to choose, rights for parents, etc. It's not a social crusade if that's what they're planning on doing, they will tune out 1/2 or more of the other workers there. I think you're a bit harsh on people standing up for their status like preferred gender, sexual orientation, etc. You seem to be dismissing their concerns entirely. I don't think a worker's union is the right place to try and enforce anything other than an equal rights workplace as idealistically most labor unions say that they're for.
> I want a heck of a lot less volatility in what I use to pay my bills and buy things than I'm willing to accept in my investment portfolio.

Which is good because BTC is used nowhere as a form of payment.
> where is the "intrinsic value"?

there is no such thing. not in bitcoin, not in usd, not in gold. all value is extrinsic and assigned by market.

> tons of other things do! E.g. why not invest in amber, it's probably one of the rarest things in the universe

and tons of other things are invested into: precious metals, commodities, etc. bitcoin is the first digital commodity, which can't be inlated by some centralized authority.

> is there ANY inherent guarantee

yes, bitcoin transaction is finite and irreversible as soon as signature is published via any possible information channel and sufficient number of blocks are found on top of the one that includes the transaction. you can morse-code it into ionosphere to be picked up by the receiver or you can flashlight it across north korean border, no internet required.

US regulation may prevent you from interacting within US jurisdiction, but that's a different issue and precludes bitcoin being money about as much as US ban of certain drugs precludes them from getting people high.
Do you recommend it for use by teams?
Holidays are a good time for a company to do a risky deployment, but a bad time for an individual employee to do a risky deployment, assuming one doesn't want to work overtime over the holiday fixing things.