skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company can make it more or less painful and the good ones do a good job, but there's no way around it.

Sure there is. There are corporate cultures that are needlessly toxic and abusive. Stack ranking at Microsoft was not necessary to their success. Uber's culture of harassment and unethical behavior was not necessary to their success. Amazon's burnout culture is not necessary to their success. AAA gaming death marches are not necessary to their success- or maybe it is to that industry, but they could at least pay overtime. Perhaps there are other companies that are better candidates for unionization than Google. But to pretend that every successful company's excesses and dark underbellies can be justified by "hard things are hard" is to excuse abuses and unprofessionalism that go unchecked. Because HR systems are insufficient, workers organize.
Those alt texts are oddly specific.
Interesting to go back and read the HN discussion from Jan 30, 2018 when the venture got announced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16264662
While it is true for most applications. HN does not do any customisation of the content. I don't notice I am not logged in until commenting
> Well, Chelsea Manning was the actual whistleblower in this situation

Granted, Manning was the one who provided Wikileaks the files. But, lets not omit that Sara Harrison and Julian were critical in getting Edward out of Hong Kong and his gravitas made the Bitcoin community to go against Satoshi and donated to keep Wikileaks alive and made all of this possible.

Cypherpunks are not going to live up to people's ideal image but they sure as hell get a lot done. And Julian is yet another reminder of that fact.

> Reality Winner is also still in prison, due to The Intercept's egregious mishandling of her leaks.

To be fair it was shared amounts of mishandling [0], which for someone who worked as an NSA contractor in cryptology related fields should have some understanding of OPSEC; but maybe she rished it and hoped they would do it on their end?

I'm not victim blaming, and the Intercept clearly dropped the ball and should have sat on it and taken care of this before running it. But this is why I think Defcon and the CCC should be mandatory watching for people in and especially in tech before anyone decides to do involved in 'hacktivism' or anything like it.

In fact, in the early days of Bitcoin they wanted to create an anonymous drop for journalists and leaders that would pay bounties to gray/white hats to do go over these kind of things, but this opened the door to so much foul play that it was dropped all together. Still, I hope Reality takes solace in knowing that Trump will be out of office when she gets out, but that her Obama bias was probably not everything she thought it was when you look at the amount of Whistleblower cases that were prosecuted.

Either way, I hope she is well and that the Intercept do the honourable thing make amends and give her a well paid role there.

0: https://xorl.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/opsec-fail-reality-win...
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Is the UK about to have liftoff in the global space industry?
1) you believe someone else will buy it with higher price;
2) its scarcity;
3) the value is not fixed on anything other than buyers.

It is the same as paintings and other arts. It can be used for money laundry as well investiment.
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Is that “pre filled” number your browser’s auto fill by chance?
If they could, they would eliminate dog/kid photos entirely because they don't make money off that stuff. They just show you enough of your friends dogs and kids to keep you around to view the profit generating crap.
The dollar printer went crazy in 2020: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2. This definitely had an effect on stock and property prices, and seemingly some cryptocurrencies as well.
Personally, the only IFTTT I have is the Django releases RSS feed tied into my personal todo list.

However professionally, things like Zapier are very popular. Our marketing and operations teams love them because they can build semi automated processes without time from engineers. Often it's connecting spreadsheets, ticketing systems, customer support systems, etc.

It feels nice to have these things under the control of engineering teams, but really it's unlikely they'll add value, and I think these services are pretty handy in so many cases.
I'm afraid the initial decision may as well be a staged attempt by the UK to save face, so they don't appear to the rest of the world as a spineless lackey of the US. The US is really in no hurry to get their hands on Assange. They'll play along as long as they know that Assange stays in a prison somewhere, till they get a favourable extradition ruling.

If the UK is really serious on the well-being of Assange, they should allow him to seek asylum and relocate elsewhere, without obstructing him as they did in the case of Ecuador.
1) you believe someone else will buy it with higher price;
2) its scarcity;
3) the value is not fixed on anything other than buyers.

It is the same as paintings and other arts. It can be used for money laundry as well as investment.
I have no idea what you mean...Germany is the European version of the US healthcare system. It is very high-cost, the private sector is not small at all, and it isn't only used by the wealthy. Again, German doctors are kind of notorious.

The reason why people don't mention NL is because it doesn't fit anyone's narrative. In the US, they have a mixed public/private system with a large private sector so their solution is: someone else should pay for my healthcare. Mixed systems are less attractive because, to a large extent, that is what the US has already (the US is exceptional because of the administration/ancillary costs in their system, not the structure). I agree though, NL is very good. The results are pretty average but it is very well optimised overall. I am from the UK, and healthcare is unbelivably bad because it is so ideological...that is definitely the wrong road.
Like Retric says below, it's easy to put an upper bound to all of the other commodities on earth (and especially so to amber, since no amount of asteroid mining is going to increase that). I think the appeal of BTC is that it's a commodity [+] that's easily transferable across large distances & incurs very low storage costs. I get that. However, that alone does not necessarily make it a good store of value in my eyes; for that to be true, there'd have to be an extremely low risk of the value suddenly degrading to less than 1% essentially overnight(e.g. in less than a week). I guess here is where I disagree with lots of BTC proponents - I don't see it as "independent" of anything, certainly not of big nation-states. I don't see what would persuade people to continue to assign value to BTC in the face of events like those presented in the article.

[+] Do note that I do not accept it is "currency" - because it has low acceptability, by design.
Right, they have a large distribution center in Italy, where they process all orders across Europe and beyond. Putting a distribution center into UK wasn't useful pre-Brexist as orders might contain items from different lines and a larger center is more efficient. Post-Brexit the market could be too small.
>Of course a UK company should not be shipping to Italy and back to the UK.

They aren't a UK company, they're an Italian company. Per the article it was sold in 2002.

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Owned since 2002 by Italian bicycle saddles firm Selle Royale, Brooks England’s suspension of orders from UK customers highlights one of the impacts of Brexit on trade between the UK and the EU.
===

>The UK is now outside the European Union. There are trade barriers now.

The agreement was signed on December 25th and is 1200 pages long. It's ridiculous to assume that a business could be ready in 6 days for a 1200 page agreement... this is just further incompetence on the part of the politicians running the show in the UK.

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But the fact that the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which runs to 1,200 pages, was only signed on Christmas Eve has given businesses little time to assess the new rules and adapt their practices and systems to them.
==
I saw some errors on HN yesterday, for what it’s worth.
Different outlets for different kinds of mental illnesses. There aren't really any levels to being disgusting. Once you hit that definition, you end up alongside with everything out there that fits it. Spreading hate, lies, paranoia, disinformation, your personal delusions is disgusting as is pedophilia.
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Is this an attempt to refute the claim using Zoom is bad, or an indictment against those still using it?
> You just might not be allowed to put it on your resumé.

"Department of Defense" or "State Department". There's an office that actually can check your resume for you if you work for a top secret agency, usually on your way out to make sure you're good :)
Thanks for Poppendieck and Reinertsen links.

As a fan of Drucker, Deming, Goldblatt... Today's "agile" has always confused me; I really don't understand when and why our profession jumped the shark.
"Can the US pay it's debt?" is the wrong question. The US can pay off any amount of debt, because their debt is measured in USD and congress can issue new USD as needed.

"How does the debt actually effect the economy? (Does it?)" and "What is the long-term impact of various debt-maintenance strategies?" and "Will political deadlocks prevent effective management of the debt?" (among many others) are better questions.
Does it have anything to do with what's going on now? https://downdetector.com/
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I agree somewhat, the values are a bit wishy-washy, like Google's original "Don't be evil". But I think the dramatically different circumstances of our time are playing a huge role in the distinction you're drawing.

USW were fighting for the abolition of child labor -- this is not a direct concern for Alphabet employees, thankfully. Actor's Equity Association were fighting against McCarthyism and blacklisting (which SAG participated in, and apologized for in 1997).

In particular, for the Alphabet union effort, I think their press release[0] is more concrete. I think the goals of increased workplace democracy, pressuring management to prevent pushing externalities, and preventing suppression and retaliation in the workplace are pretty relevant, and would be high on my list for a prospective union for tech workers.

Ironically, I think they would draw much more ire if they merely focused on analogous workplace/worklife comfort improvements, for Software Engineers at least, given their famed perks. Hopefully the union targets the Alphabet employees who really do need workplace/worklife improvements, mostly found in the non-full-time ranks.

[0] https://alphabetworkersunion.org/press/releases/2021-01-04-c...
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of course, just like how when the mob says "if you want our guys to be around to help protect you, listening to our guidance is the best course" it's not a threat but a general statement on the importance of community solidarity or how when trump says "if you want our tax dollars and support for your state, finding those extra votes is the best course" it's not a threat but a general statement on the financial realities of federal spending
Deaths from the current year can take a while to be finalized, and Decembers can be one of the deadliest months. If the U.S. hits 500k excess deaths this year, that's still a 20-25% hike on our normal death rate (2.7M give or take). Seems like Sweden will surpass past years in the end, perhaps by a similar percentage.
>instead of the 43" 4K screen I have on the desk.

I've been patiently waiting for a 32" 4k 144hz hdmi 2.1 ips display. I've noticed manufacturers seem to like making them in 27" (too small) and 43" (too big!) sizes.

I have questions. How far away do you sit? How is a 43" screen for coding? Do you use a tiling window manager to allocate all that space? Do you use it for gaming at all? If so, how hard is it to keep track of everything on the display? Do you find yourself having to turn your head to keep track of everything?
Gorgon Stare is, to my understanding, using much larger fixed wing aircraft capable of carrying and stabilizing the added weight of a telephoto lens. Glass and mirrors are the key for imaging; multirotor UAVs have very limited payload lifting capabilities and even if they can produce the required thrust, an offset center of gravity caused by large lenses or mirrors slung below the rotors can have profound effects on their agility, speed, and flight time. Gorgon Stare as a program appears to be calibrated towards ID and tracking of vehicle sized targets across an urban landscape; this discussion is about the unrealistic perception that 250g-1kg quadcopters are somehow desirable for perverts. Neither consumer multi-rotors nor military reaper/predators are particularly stealthy surveillance options since anybody close enough to spy on is going to be well aware of the aircrafts presence. 10 foot mirrors in low earth orbit tend to be the tool of choice for serious spies.
Have you considered the floor? When I was young (late teens to early 30s) I found that laying on the carpeted floor on my stomach, with a pillow under my chest, and my head tilted back (think of Superman flying and you'll get the picture) with my computer in front of me worked great.

This probably wouldn't work out well nowadays with a desktop computer because desktop monitor sizes are usually way bigger than they were back then so you would have tilt your head too far, but it might still be fine with a laptop.
Why not Mattermost or Flock?
From wikipedia, comparing it to the old fashioned method:

> RNA vaccines can be produced faster, more cheaply, and in a more standardized fashion

So should be cheaper if anything rather than more expensive.
Well it has been up to everyone to prepare for the new rules. I get that details have not been known until recently. But it was clear from the start that moving goods around like this will not work.
I heard that idea attributed to Heinlein many years ago from a friend who read everything he wrote.

A few downsides I thought of

1. It makes it easier for rich people to do mean things to poor people (it's not like there aren't already lots of ways, but something to think about)

2. In rapidly changing conditions, people who neglect to file their paperwork will get screwed -- either significantly overpay or get kicked out of their houses for below-market values. The people who are neglectful in paperwork are probably disproportionately those that we typically aim to protect with government interventions

3. Eminent domain changes a bit; people would naturally price their houses for above-market values, because being forced to move unexpectedly is a hassle, so you would assess your value at a premium to avoid that hassle. This means the government would likely have to pay more for property than the "fair market value" that courts require. Depending on where you fall on the political spectrum, that may be okay.

4. Holdouts[1] tend to be popular. Making it financially untenable to be a holdout thus might be too unpopular a law to pass.

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(real_estate)
At my previous job, I implemented a stream processing solution in Clojure, which superseded a Java one which never had quite worked (it was a pretty bad codebase, in fairness), added more complex functionality, and allowed me to drop 1/3rd of the code in that module (from 18KSLOC to 6KSLOC). More importantly, it worked as intended, and only a couple of negligible bugs made it to production, which for the complexity of the system, and the scarcity of QA we had, was surprisingly good, tbh.
So politicians cave to large organized groups who can cause them problems and effect their ability to be elected?

How is that a surprise, of course politicians give public sector unions what they want -- they hold the cards, a huge voting block and cause problems. Most of the tradeoffs are passed down the line so the politician doesn't care either.
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To me it's mildly irksome in the same way as people who say "may or may not". Like, yes, those are the two possibilities, thank you.
> This is one of the keys that helped me get past many issues, because when it comes to conspiracy theories true or not, the real crux is the probabalistic likelyhood of truth which can be modified as more data points emerge, not some black and white true and untrue label.

I think part of the problem here is that most of what we call conspiracy theories that are true aren't actually conspiracies per-se, except in the loose sense of "a conspiracy of silence", and don't particularly intersect with things like secret societies. I mean, sure, there are efforts made to conceal things from the public, and yes, there is a certain amount of coordination among powerful actors where their vested interest align, what else would you expect to happen in the real world? For every amoral person to act as a solitary megalomaniacal villain?

But none of that particularly implies that this sort of thing is planned ahead or centrally organized in any particular way or there wouldn't be any need for in-person meetings like the Bilderberg Group (which didn't even meet in 2020). It certainly doesn't imply that such conspiracies deliberately interlock with each other except as you would expect simply from survivorship bias.

I mean, organized crime is a conspiracy. A large corporation evading responsibility for a chemical spill is a conspiracy. Cartels doing price fixing is a conspiracy. The US military flexing in support of private interests is a conspiracy. Lobbyists getting exceptions and loopholes enacted into law is a conspiracy. Politicians accepting bribes is a conspiracy.

So conspiracies as such aren't unknown. Such things come to light all the time in part because maintaining secrecy is so damn hard and there are many interests aligned in exposing them. We should encourage that where and when we can.
Thanks for the info. Epic was giving it for free recently so I own it. I will definitely try it.
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The bureaucracy stops being faceless the moment you encounter a human. If the human is unwilling to help you, that is on that human. If that human is unable to help you, that is the human who put that obstacle in the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy isn't making any actions itself.

To be clear, I am not defending governments, corporations, or bureaucracies. I am pointing out those things are too often used as a shield so the individual can divorce themselves from the results of their actions.