skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP, thanks for sharing your article.

On the balance, you aren't doing anything wrong. The only real takeaway is entrepreneurship is hard. VERY HARD.

You will make plenty of mistakes. Technical mistakes. Business mistakes. Mistakes that cost years, maybe even decades. Mistakes that will cost you thousands (hopefully not millions).

Don't obsess about "we should have done this" or "I should have done that." You'll beat yourself up unnecessarily.

If you want to do entrepreneurship, keep at it. Find problems. And fix them fast.

If you don't have the bankroll to do it (or just fall out of love), then you can quit too. That's ok.
None. Epstein killed himself. Everything else is a conspiracy theory of stupid people. We should laugh about them. We are so much smarter. People would never do sth like that just because of power.
All people are nice and have good intentions. Questioning the intentions of people in power is a stupid conspiracy for morons.
Unions are involved in more than pay negotiations. Sure I can work hard and earn a promotion and pay raise. Working hard cannot, for example, get me out of signing a non-compete agreement. Unionized employees could collectively bargain to ban non-compete agreements.
Lies, damn lies, statistics, status pages.
Was my first though too, really looks like they scale down based on the average of the last 2 weeks, but obviously this last 2 weeks would have been extremely low.
Isn't there a massive 'labor shortage'? If that's already the case, that proposal seems even more impossible. You could hire non-tech workers and pivot to other industries where you can employ other people.

I suppose they could try outsourcing again/more and see how that works out.
You can actually sanity check how common it is for T.ly by triggering an analytics hit within a <noscript> tag. Looks like you're using GTM/GA on your site, so this[1] should put you on the right track.

You'll still be blind to individuals that are blocking GTM/GA itself since you're not using the newer server-side GTM option, hence only a sanity check. But it's a fairly low-effort tweak to be able to get a read on how common it is for your site specifically.

[1] https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/track-non-javascript-vis...
Same as me, yet the status page still saying OK.

HackerNews is starting to become the real status page.
It even spans multiple services! I remember I learned about Google and YouTube down also from HN.
Divide and conquer - pitting one group against another - is a pretty standard union busting tactic.

Since unionization is essentially a fight for power with management and fights are, well, confrontational, its kind of a given that there will be casualties and fallout.

Whether that's worse than yielding all collective power to management depends on many variables, including how confrontational and revenge oriented management tends to be.
Their status page reports it's fine: https://status.slack.com/
Or steals bits at rest remotely for later analysis
I keep thinking about this quote from Dr. Strangelove:
"Yes, but the... whole point of the doomsday machine(or in this case, the status page)... is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?"
:this-is-fine:
Yes, I also came here to check if anyone else noticed.
FAT embedded a long/short name mapping algorithm that a modern system shouldn't need, but Microsoft had patents on. The main feature of FAT is simple native support on all platforms, Microsoft never had a financial incentive to add support for alternatives on Windows.
Not trying to argue in bad faith, but why is it all that different if the outcome of legal avenues is effectively the same? It's not like joe schmoe tweeting about their outrage will change how the law is interpreted or what constitutes legal precedent.

One could argue that a cacophony of opinions spanning the entire spectrum of possibilities isn't necessarily much better than having no freedom of press, if the end result is people literally believing deceptive propaganda, as opposed to merely being afraid of voicing informed, dissenting opinions.

IMHO, patriotism should be about defending the values of a country and calling out BS when it's appropriate, instead of merely defending the country's name without concern for the substance of the criticism.
Chicken, egg issue I think. The people most likely to seed the movement are gonna be activist type people whereas the actual majority of workers might just be left/libertarian leaning but mostly non-political people. Once the majority of workers are part of the union, and if it's really democratic, then the union should reflect what the members want it to reflect (even if it ends up being the same as the activists').
Six Years of Recruiting Emails
Unfortunately nowhere in the law does it state "you can break any law if it helps human rights causes".

I fully support Assange FYI, but at the same time I think he possibly broke laws while doing his (incredibly important) work, or at least there would be enough ambiguity around law to bring a case to the crown court (remember this is the magistrates).
Yep, I'm unable to load some channels and DM's are failing to send.
I don't want to try and change your opinion on Assange's actions, many journalist have said the "I'll help" you see as a problem is a routine procedure, but you clearly disagree.

A crime still isn't just a crime though. A less ambiguous example, unauthorized possession's of classified information is a crime, yet no journalist has been charged for it.
As a counterpoint to this, I quite dislike this approach, especially when the auth is a link instead of a OT2P, because now whatever I am accessing has metadata and can cross-correlate data from other providers about my phone. Amazon is one in particular that I experience, and I never click the link, and rather just type it out by hand on the system I am already trying to log in via.
Ok what did you get out of those interactions?
Certainly is for me.
You seem to be implying that it would be immoral for Assange to publish such a thing but don't justify it.
You'd have to look at your logs when it happens but google has a habit of tarpitting(i.e. repeatedly delaying email receipt) emails from servers they don't necessarily "trust". For large providers (i.e. those that would be used for handling one-time link emails), this normally isn't a problem however for small or self hosted email servers it can be from time to time.

I'm not sure what all goes into ~~the algorithm~~ that google uses to decide to tarpit emails from a server but I'd make sure that you have your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all set up properly to give google as little of an excuse to dislike your server as possible.

It's not a great solution but I've long since given up on any attempt at self-hosting email and just use my own domain with protonmail at this point since the industry seems to be so hostile to self-hosting.
On my end, probably 50%. I've logged ~200 hours on that screen and the surrounding components.

But I get your point; that should've been almost the only focus. I did was time with tech, build, code quality, release automation, ci, code formatting, git workflows, project organization, lazy loading, and whatnot. It all adds up and eats time that I didn't realize I didn't have to spend in the first place.
Down on US East and US Central for me
I have to rely on Teams now, the horror. God forbid I have to start using the telephone next!

On a more serious note, downtime is not that bad, it probably allows me to focus without interruption for a bit, but will quickly create problems. Being the first day of the year, there is a lot of quarterly planning going on and many colleagues are reaching out for this. There is also the flurry of typical support queries after a break of nearly two weeks, at least for most.
Takes about 50 seconds to open a thread for me.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make with that quote. The languages that F* can be compiled to and the ones it’s written in aren’t relevant to what was being discussed.
Reminds me of the legend that the first person to stop clapping for Stalin in a meeting would be arrested, interrogated, and executed for treason.
> as a producer, I know non-union candidates will be less experienced;

The downside of unions is that they’re functionally a protection racket.

Getting into the union isn’t easy because union members don’t want to dilute their clout.

Being outside of the union makes it harder to get good work because the union will literally invest effort in shaming companies that hire you.

It’s fun to imagine the benefits of being inside a union, but we need to remember that creating the union will make life worse for those outside of it (young people, workers new to the industry).
Design Thinking Challenges for Economics
An update has now been posted to that account: https://twitter.com/SlackStatus/status/1346112838176149505.

Text below:

Customers may experience issues connecting to Slack to loading channels at this time. Our team is on the case and we will keep you posted. Apologies for any disruption.
The status page of our app has failed due to so many reasons, eventually I just let the status page perform a few tasks a user would do, and undo them after that.

Not visiting a special status url, but basically running an e2e test suite on production.

It runs every 5 minutes.
SAG covers things like pension and healthcare which Google employees already have. It’s necessary because of the piecemeal nature of work in film. Not every actor is wealthy - that’s an edge case.
ahhh this is a much better theory than mine: my first thought was the lifting of a holiday deploy freeze.
Everyone's headed back to work! I'm having trouble on my phone, but the web version seems fine to me.
I hope that's the issue.
The incident appears to be acknowledged now: https://status.slack.com/2021-01/9ecc1bc75347b6d1
Slack is down but status page is all green
I think it's worth countering this with the fact that FB ads work very well for us at Thread, because in the HN echo chamber it's very easy to lose sight of this.

This is going to depend entirely on the product and the market. We're B2C, and a very "personal" service rather than a service for one's professional life, so that probably helps. Plus our target market isn't defined by being tech-savvy.

As with all channels, optimising for customer acquisition (not just clicks), and lifetime value (not just easy sales) is critical for the long term health of the channel.
Wife is vegan, kid doesn't really like them and I just don't eat a lot of food. Nobody is really all that interested. We eat some but the chickens are free range and since the last move, we haven't found their nesting ground. We get one a day is a predictable place and the rest are who knows where. Even with one a day, we give about half away.
We might well be capable of creating a new type of union, but that's not what these organizers are doing. They're seeking to join a branch of the CWA, one of the existing union powerhouses.
I remember seeing a great example of a unix quine somewhere:

#!/bin/cat
Oh man I didn't even think of that one
Lancet indeed gives those numbers, other sources gives other numbers. Who's right? Probably we'll never know, but just for having the other numbers out there, here they are:

- Lancet survey (March 2003 – July 2006): 654,965 (95% CI: 392,979–942,636)

- Opinion Research Business (March 2003 – August 2007): 1,033,000 (95% CI: 946,258–1,120,000)

- Iraq Family Health Survey (March 2003 – July 2006): 151,000 (95% CI: 104,000–223,000)

- PLOS Medicine Study (March 2003 – June 2011): 405,000 (95% CI: 48,000–751,000)

Only Opinion Research Business[1] seems to put the upper bound above 1 million.

Rather than going for the "Lancet Surveys" page on Wikipedia, you'll probably get a better view when reading through the general page of "Casualties of the Iraq War" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

Also, hestefisk (which you're replying to) are talking about Middle East, not just Iraq. US sure has killed a lot more people in Middle East than just the ones that died in Iraq.

> being caught in the middle of a civil war is challenging

Not sure we're talking about the same war here. As far as I know, the US invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq in recent times (so no civil war), pretty sure we're referring to those events (post 9/11), not the civil wars that were happening there before that.
yeah its gone completely sideways for me
Then what, for every other jury duty?
Looks like they just updated the status page
Actually yes. I ignore all SMSes. WhatsApp is the go-to communication method in Israel. SMS is only for government services and a company from whom I've ordered from in the past.

I get zero advertising now that I moved. It's liberating.
For me the status page says "Customers may have trouble loading messages or connecting to Slack"
Your observations are valid, and need to be kept in mind when developing in an exploratory, interactive way.

Your alarm seems a little overblown. Maybe it reflects a particular bad experience? I've delivered a bunch of products built in the way I prefer to work, and it's been a long time since I've had the problems you're describing. Maybe that's because I ran into such such problems early in my career and learned ways of handling them.

And yeah, if you just iterate and explore, you can wind up in lacunae. You do need to develop some actual goal and a vision of how to get there. Interactive development can be really helpful for the exploring part, but it can't pick your goals for you.

In short, interactive development is a way of working that's good for some cases and some people (me, for instance). It's not a cure-all or an objectively superior methodology for all people or all cases. I don't want it to take over the world. I just want it to continue to be an option because it's the way I prefer to work.
> I think the judges are probably more interested in the global standing, power and leverage of the UK than Boris is

Really? I wouldn't assume that at all; it's very much not their job, and it's not unusual for the courts to cause the government significant trouble and embarrassment. A judge's job is to uphold the law, not to be a political actor. And the UK's judges, by and large, have a reasonably good reputation for sticking to it.
Fewer people seem to be demanding democracy in government. ;)

I am not OP, but I’d say the reason authority is acceptable in a managed organization (not necessarily for profit - any managed organization whether the military, or NGO, or business, or charity) is because it ultimately has a narrow function: either fulfilling a mission, or increasing the wealth producing capacity of the organization.

Democracy at that granularity is somewhat irrelevant: either you’re doing the things (objectively measured), or you are not. Voting doesn’t lead to better policy decisions, just freer ones.

Of course the best performing companies aren’t managed in an “authoritarian” manner in the usual sense of strongman rule, because one person (or even a small group) doesn’t have all the answers. Labor/management collaboration and recognition of the importance of human capital is essential. This is why management doesn’t have as much power as it used to in modern industry: it is dependent on human capital retention in its labor force, which is very expensive to replace (far more than just skilled labor).

Collective bargaining becomes less about power disparity (when labor can make as much money elsewhere and management needs labor more) and more about pressure on systematic policies that are difficult to change without sustained external pressure: pay disparity, bonuses to sexual harassers, etc.)

At the bigger picture, life is a lot bigger than missions or profit, and democracy is essential. (Unless one’s mission is to own the libs, then I guess democracy isn’t so important)
>No, it only protects the web site, as a service provider. Users of the web sites are not protected by Section 230 and can still be sued. This has happened frequently in the past when the RIAA would sue users of various media sharing tools.

No. That's not true. Users are also protected when they repost third-party content by section 230. cf. Barrett v. Rosenthal[0].

No one is protected from being sued for first party content. Everyone is protected from being sued for hosting/reposting/sharing third-party content.

However, if there are other (civil or criminal) legal issues (sharing copyrighted material for example), section 230 does not protect users, websites or other platforms.

As section 230 plainly states[2]:

"(1) No effect on criminal law

Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair the enforcement of section 223 or 231 of this title, chapter 71 (relating to obscenity) or 110 (relating to sexual exploitation of children) of title 18, or any other Federal criminal statute.

(2) No effect on intellectual property law

Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining to intellectual property.

(3) State law

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any State from enforcing any State law that is consistent with this section. No cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section.

(4) No effect on communications privacy law

Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the application of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 or any of the amendments made by such Act, or any similar State law.

(5) No effect on sex trafficking lawNothing in this section (other than subsection (c)(2)(A)) shall be construed to impair or limit—

(A) any claim in a civil action brought under section 1595 of title 18, if the conduct underlying the claim constitutes a violation of section 1591 of that title;

(B) any charge in a criminal prosecution brought under State law if the conduct underlying the charge would constitute a violation of section 1591 of title 18; or

(C) any charge in a criminal prosecution brought under State law if the conduct underlying the charge would constitute a violation of section 2421A of title 18, and promotion or facilitation of prostitution is illegal in the jurisdiction where the defendant’s promotion or facilitation of prostitution was targeted."

You are wrong about Section 230. Please see here[1] for details.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_v._Rosenthal

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

Edit: Updated post to include reference to other legal liability.
What's the difference between exproprating labor time and compensating for labor time (in Google's case excessively well)
Down for me too - it's a great time to check out an alternative! :) https://async.dev

(I'm the founder/builder of async - happy to answer any questions if you're interested!)
As long as data science remains subservient to Product, the inevitable result is cherry picking and post hoc rationalizing of some PM's intuition. To blame is the "embedded" model in which DS works within (and takes direction from) a cross functional team driven by a PM.
It's showing an ongoing incident to me.

Links to: https://status.slack.com/2021-01/9ecc1bc75347b6d1

Funnily enough I just submitted this to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632346
DownDetector [1] is sometimes a better status page.

[1] - https://downdetector.com/
Assange literally encouraged people to infiltrate US intelligence agencies and "leak" classified intel.

Let's not even get into his work laundering Russian hacked docs to damage the US, and then repeatedly lying about it.

He also is credibly accused of being a rapist.

The US has done some bad shit, no doubt, but that doesn't make Assange some saint. He's a bad dude.
Government isn't the parliament.

No court in the UK has ever overruled the parliament.
The barrier to removal creates low performers. I worked in education for years and saw first hand how lazy and shitty grown adults can be (professors). However, I would never condone eliminating unions. The faculty need a bastion against those who control the money ("the administration")--think about the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. Otherwise you would never have the few professors that make the whole system worth it. We need to strengthen unions and make sure the unions' and management are aligned on the same objective. This takes a rational and inclusive approach by both sides. In my experience if either side is mainly concerned with their own silo the whole thing gets very toxic. Unionized employees are not the enemy and neither are management.
it looks like a service provider must be down because there's a lot of other services struggling.. https://downdetector.com/
Apologies, you're right. It was my own misreading bits of code where a chip was inferring its own pin state (1/0/hi-z) based on previous calls or flags and what it should be. Not inferring it externally.
I see they are selling other Hoff items, but still question why not sell the car on a more automotive focused site like Bring a Trailer
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M0 is not so important. It has increased M3 by around 20% (similar to the US dollar).
Half of the world joined the standup call at the same time and prob DDoSed slack.
Does anyone have a fallback solution for such situations? WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Zulip, something else?
Updated about three minutes after your comment. Twitter too.

> Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. Our team is investigating and we will follow up with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for any disruption caused.
My wife has made tool for doing this on your IPhone.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/take-control/id1499424011

+ it is completely free, no ads, no nothing paid, not snooping your data

+ you don't have to unlock your phone - you can just type what you are doing inside the notification itself / choose from list of your usual activities
Standard Notes [0] are allegedly encrypted at rest.

[0] https://standardnotes.org/
Both of what? Both the publicity machine for producing the photos and the website for republishing them? Or both the photos themselves and the spurious connection to semiconductor physics?
Yepp they just updated the status page
Looks like sloc is about to get a ton of new test cases for their comment parsing system.
The best way to respond to a frivolous PIP as an employee is a frivolous harassment claim against the manager, sexual or otherwise.
January 4th in Stamps: Braille, Schrödinger, Finnish Declaration of Independence
> America inherited Saddam's problems

Sounds like not only the American politicians were drunk on something, what the hell are you talking about? In no way have the US been through the same pile of shit that Iraq has been through, and neither have any of those problems suddenly walked over the ocean home to the US. Sure, the US has their nose wet in Iraqi and Afghan blood, but let's not pretend and say that US takes any sort of responsibility for the bloodshed they've caused.

Otherwise I agree with your comment.