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So Notion's backend DB is actually Slack channels?
Also, unions are about balance of power. Giving more bargaining power (collectively) to people that otherwise don't have much bargaining power.

Most people in tech, and especially so at places like google don't feel like they have low bargaining power. So I think the perception is, not only is there not much to be gained by unionizing, there is potentially more to lose by giving up individual bargaining power to the union. So basically losing autonomy and control for some unknown and fuzzy benefit.
is this after you rip out the grass that is already there and then replace it with a grass that is amneable to to a putting green? because if you can make my St. Augustine grass a putting green, then you sir, are a god.
Of course they'd say that.

We've run Google's Local Campaigns, which are supposed to drive brick and mortar store visits, which they measure using GPS and "other signals". I checked with one of our most remote and least frequented stores, to see whether they could see any of the 100 daily visits that Google claimed to have generated, and they couldn't see a thing (avg daily visits were around 80 before during and after the campaign)
It seemingly worked ok in UTC-2 in the morning and early afternoon, then started having issues and is now a bit intermittent (or fixed, there's not much traffic on my channels, as it's evening already). Do they have that much more traffic on US east coast than in Europe?
US literally forced Snowden to stay in Russia. He wen to HK, then was supposed to fly to Chile or Argentina through Moscow... But US government decided to disallow that.

So no - he didn't "flee to an adversary", as much as he was "forced to stay at advesary's".

PS: US "justice" system would have granted him no justice. So you can stick that "good faith" argument in the same location where I tell people to stick their "go march in Pakistan with your PRIDE flag" arguments.
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Does CompilerWorks compile between different versions of a SQL database? For example, making it much simpler to upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to MySQL 5.7.
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It is not end of the world if you are just using slack for intra team communications.

However lot of the monitoring which alerts on slack and other automatic notifications are critical for many teams.
I think this is definitely exacerbated by the general lockdown situation on top of just working from home.

Previously I worked from home a couple of days per week. I augmented those days by walking to a nearby coffee place in the morning to get out of the house and get some movement in.

I'd also try to meet someone for lunch when schedules worked out.

This year many of us combined working from home with a restriction on all of those "safety valves" and in-person socialization in general.

Personally I think I was happiest with the part-time flexible work from home setup, but I think I could make full time work if I moved to an area with more walking-distance amenities.
Both Notion(https://status.notion.so/) and Slack (https://status.slack.com/) are experiencing outage for about an hour now and HN seems slow at the same time :(
You are misinforming the HN audience by making it sound like you know why FB took their action. In a way you are distributing crap content here.
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Nice tip! Zoom chat is cool (although chats without gifies are way too productive ).
I didn't realize they shared any user data outside China (misread the WP portion). It appears they did share 10 users' data which is a bit questionable but I'd hardly call that unfettered access to US data.

The fact is all of the US businesses operating in China give surveillance ability to the Chinese government for the Chinese users and are operating in an ethically questionable space being primarily based outside of China, at least in my opinion.

It's really not too different than the businesses sharing US citizen data to the US government, much of which Snowden and others before him exposed. I suspect there's a lot more surveillance going on everywhere than the general public know about and the businesses best positioned to do the surveillance are probably doing it.
> According to Wikipedia, “Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error”, and is a technique not only limited to images. It is actually a technique used to this day on audio recordings […]

Dithering as a digital signal processing technique is also used frequently in the digital control of physical systems. One example of this is in the control of hydraulic servo valves[1]; these valves are usually pretty small and their performance can be dominated by a lot of external factors. One of the biggest ones is "stiction", or static friction, wherein if the moving parts of the valve are at rest it can take a large amount of current to get them going again which translates in to poor control of the valve and in turn poor control of the thing the valve is trying to move. It's common to use very high frequency/small amplitude dithering on these valves to eliminate the effects of stiction without compromising accuracy which greatly improves the control stability and responsiveness of the servo valves.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrohydraulic_servo_valve
> War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

from the judgement of the International Military Tribunal for Germany, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judnazi.asp#common
Controversially, courts have upheld that citizens can sign away their right to a trial by jury; it's called binding arbitration.

Also normal (non-government) NDAs let you sign away your right not to be punished for speaking about certain matters. I don't like it, but it's pretty well established.

Point is that—legally speaking—rights aren't actually inalienable.
I have a bad habit of doing this. Every now and then I get a sudden surge of motivation so powerful that it allows me to uproot myself. Typically, I tell myself I’m going to take a new job and fix everything wrong in my life. I even come up with short and long term plans to do it. Then a year later I’m in the same depressed state I was before and have to wait for whatever will trigger the next surge and restart the cycle.
As if blogs don't have ads on the side or even in the middle of a post occasionally. A properly threaded message will have all of the content linked together with replies falling all the way to the bottom. Just like a blog.

Twitter isn't nearly as difficult to use as some people like to make it out to be. My biggest petpeeve on Twitter. Is 30 different replies of "@ThreadReaderApp unroll".
Why be nervous? Outages happen. If this were a string of major issues over a few weeks or months, that might be cause for concern, but a single incident is not.
Many people have had the same experience over the past year. There's three things that are usually suggested which might help you, that you've touched upon.

First, you should have a dedicated work space. A room is preferable, but you can make do by erecting sight barriers to your desk for example. The main idea is to make it easy to leave your work 'at work' and not be reminded of it in your free time.

Second, clothing. If you feel your day lacks structure make sure you're not lounging about in a tracksuit all day. Put on clothes you would wear to the office before work, and take them off at the end of your day. Wear shoes.

Third, take a walk before starting work and afterwards. A 20 minute walk will allow you to plan the day ahead and get in work mode, and will let you unpack the day and unwind after work. Ignore the rain.

So basically, make going to work a ritual (as foolish or unlikely to work as it may sound). You should also minimise distractions and control impulses to do non-work related things while 'at work'. If you can, consider getting out of the house for lunch or eat at your desk and not at the dinner table. Lastly, take part or try to instigate remote water cooler chats with colleagues to keep sane.
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It's not entirely offline though. I was connected via my phone ~90 minutes ago when I first got online today and never had any issues and was able to tell folks at work my PC connectivity may be spotty for a while. When I signed in via my Mac laptop I wasn't able to connect for about 20 minutes, and was redirected to the status page. I've been online for about an hour now.
Note that I never claimed teachers were forced to work every day of the summer. I said “a few weeks” because for the teachers I know scheduling a vacation ends up being a couple of weeks where they have a contiguous free stretch between the end of school in June (usually a week after students), staff meetings and trainings, professional development, and planning for the school year which begins in August. No, they aren’t working every day of that period but it’s nowhere near as generous as people tend to describe it sounding like June 1st to September 1st.
No mention of computed protein folding?
If Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency like the dollar, its volatility is ridiculous. If it is supposed to be a store of value, like gold, its volatility is ridiculous.

Now you are retreating to stocks for a comparison. Indeed, if Bitcoin is supposed to be treated like individual stock, volatility of Bitcoin becomes reasonable, but it is still very high. That is why you do not put all your money into a single stock. You diversify, like in an index fund. Compared to an index fund, Bitcoin volatility is ridiculous.

Unlike with stock, there is no index fund for cryptocurrency that is substantially less volatile than Bitcoin itself.
This article is very well put together, and a helpful reference, thanks for sharing!

A sibling comment links to a Show HN that didn't get much attention, but is definitely worth checking out. I will also point out that it is possible to do dithering using GIMP (https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-convert-indexed.html). Alternatively, use ImageMagick if that is more your speed (https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/#ordered-dithe...)
My first comment is an observance that both the public and the media usually exhibit intense interest in matters that involve the sexual abuse of a child. Considering the Epstein affair involves the alleged systemic abuse of multiple children over a long period of time, and it involves celebrities (which itself usually attracts significant attention), the minimal level of interest it has received from the public and the media seems rather counter-intuitive.

Regarding my second comment, I was noting that you seem to have a sense of omniscience about you:

- "...a deep shroud of secrecy around the Epstein affair that doesn't really exist."

- "...the Epstein stuff was basically all a matter of public record."

Of course, if there was in fact a shroud of secrecy, or if some evidence on Epstein was not made available on the public record, you would have no way of knowing this. Yet, you speak as if you do know.

My armchair psychologist theory is that these sorts of incredibly common logical errors (several of which can be seen in this thread) are due to subconscious heuristics running on binary (True/False) logic rather than ternary (True/False/Unknown) logic. The human mind, both subconscious and conscious really seems to struggle with Null/Unknown. I have the impression that this phenomenon is increasing over time (perhaps due to increased internet usage, plus Trump), but I don't know how one might go about measuring such a thing.
You might be correct, but why would anyone care about quarter-to-date as opposed to a rolling quarter ending now? The latter would mean that an outage of X duration will always reduce this statistic by the same amount regardless of how close the nearest calendar quarter boundary is, which seems like a superior quality for such a statistic to have.
Google maps improved their worse-case residuals of traffic estimation using GNNs (messaging passing Nets, not graph embeddings).
> It's still a social construct - all the laws, even nations, are social constructs.

So? Social constructs have a lot of teeth in the real world, and always have. Wishing them away won't have any effect.

> I'm saying there should be no special benefits for employees

So are you arguing that those benefits (i.e. health insurance) should be universal? Or are you making the argument that only those in a position to pay should have access to those things?
Generally, states requiring masters degrees pay more than $40-50k a year. Teaching is a rewarding profession, so naturally there will be a lot of teachers willing to work, which depresses wages. Regardless, teachers get paid well above medium incomes regardless of where they live.

I agree that teachers should be paid more, particularly newer ones, but I blame the unions for this. So much money gets funneled into pensions, which only a small fraction of teachers ever get.
No, the influence was actually the reverse. Very briefly: railroads, oil/telecom companies, car/retail companies then WW2 then govt begins to try and pull management from companies into the military.

This is the military-industrial complex of Eisenhower. Companies were integrated into the military during WW2, and their influence was maintained after: management practices from companies into the military. Kennedy's govt was full of people from business making foreign policy/military decisions (with unfortunate consequences). Again, it is difficult to understate how far ahead the US was with management training so it is natural that this innovation spread into the military.
For reference, here is a chart of the last year's prices of USD, GBP, JPY, and BTC compared to the Euro: https://i.imgur.com/7OHdaWw.png

Bitcoin is far too volatile ever be used as money.
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Um, the part where the guy opens the door and sees a bar welded in front of it?! There are Chineese sources that show bars being put up against peoples' doors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfzQ8Dag8V8

There are tons of these videos by the way:

https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/is-china-locking-up-ent...

But they are difficult to confirm because China heavily restricts all coms in and out of the country, or are you going to try to deny the Great Firewall of China or extreme media censorship exists next?

Here's an opinion piece from the WaPo by a Chinese citizen also stating people were welded into their homes:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/06/warning-c...

and here are a list of Chinese sources as well:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/46045/15222
Regarding your last sentence. Trading your time for money will take a long time to build wealth. Wealth is usually created by holding assets.
No it doesn't which is what is keeping me from moving from Notion to it. It's really clean and fast but all the hacks to get access to your notes on mobile (other apps that sort of work with the obsidian data structure) are a turn-off right now. When they do get mobile apps out then I really want to try to move to it.
It's not just Slack: the major outage is hitting many tech platforms
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When I was at Google, I'd have been very tempted to join this union, if it was actually focused on improving compensation, bringing more objectivity to perf and promo, and workplace issues. But this new one seems primarily focused on... whinging about Timnit. Even that would be a big positive, if they were focused on getting protections for workplace freedom of speech for all workers and a structured dismissal process, but for some reason I'm skeptical that they'd be standing up for Damore.
Logitech is probably the worst offender with their windows app being buggy as hell and sometimes pegging one CPU core to 100%. Wtf?
Being in DR,I live my life wondering about that too. I spend alot of extra time checking accounts and making sure that I print (yes, sneakernet) out important data as well as have manual copies of passwords. Its old school, but it removes the risk to my business in case of a total loss of a global service and lowers the risk of a heart attack and related stress.

The rest of the world may not be so energetic re: their accounts and data, so it would be painful for many, it depends on their how much risk they are willing to experience.

Being in DR, it is very difficult for businesses to allocate the time and resources to good planning - for many, DR is an insurance policy. Staff: engineering and development are focused on putting out fires however, a real DR is more than most companies can handle if they have not planned accordingly or practiced through testing failover/normalization processes as well as performing component-level testing.
They say it's XChaCha20-Poly1305 [0], and "no one but you" can read your private notes [1] (I don't know what that means).

They also list some security audits, though not without problems.

[0] https://standardnotes.org/help/3/how-does-standard-notes-sec...

[1] https://standardnotes.org/help/1/who-can-read-my-private-not...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635115

Here's a HN thread about this
>The XRender extension does all the rendering client-side.

I'm not sure where you heard this, but it's not correct, you might consider checking the extension spec and the implementation in the server:

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/renderproto/renderpro...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/blob/master/re...

The reason why it's not used in all cases is because it doesn't map 1:1 to cairo and there are things missing, e.g. curves probably being the most important. You would have to ask Keith for a definitive answer why this is since he wrote both XRender and Cairo. (I assume it's because Cairo already included the necessary tessellation steps at the time)

Indirect GLX does work great for simple use cases, once you start to add textures into the equation the amount of bandwidth used would probably make it unusable over the network. There has been no serious work in getting indirect GLX working past OpenGL 1.x. I think another one of the main problems is that nobody really came up with a good way for GL extensions to work well there, the server needs to manually add an implementation for every extension you want to use.
My company monitors EC2 performance and availability across North America, and EC2 has been fine this morning, according to our data (that said, they had some intermittent issues the last 3 days).