skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
X is a native remote desktop system. It just happens that we generally all run our apps on the same machine as where X runs, nowadays.

Sadly playing around and learning how it works is trickier than it used to be now that X doesn't listen over TCP by default (...because the protocol is unencrypted and unauthenticated... can't argue there), but google "SSH X forwarding" for a reasonable startpoint that's still fairly universally supported (you can even get X servers for Windows that work with PuTTY, and it all works natively on Linux and macOS).
Ask employees at Amazon, certain orgs at Apple, and Microsoft (at least pre-Nadella) how this always holds up. Ask workers at AAA gaming studios. It seems like in tech in exchange for high material compensation, the toll is sometimes high psychological and emotional pressure.
Modern CTs are also sometimes the result of disinformation campaigns where (contrary to your example) there is not an attempt to provide multiple facts that would support "the" CT but rather continuously providing multiple plausible different (and incompatible) CTs to drown out the true situation - especially since most parts of the true explanation (which the disinformation campaign wants to muddle) would also overlap with one or more of the debunkable and debunked CTs, thus eventually getting to the desired end position of "ah, noone can really know what's true".
No, what "entitles" them is that they do the work and generate the profit and therefore have the power to organize themselves into a coherent, self-interested group that can withhold their labor if they don't get what they want.

Who cares what you think they're "entitled" to?
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That's some real magical thinking there.

Why is it acceptable for the leaders of companies to subvert the company to serve the personal and ideological goals of the company leaders, but it's bad for the employees to do the same when they are often the ones who are called on to do the work for those goals, and are less likely to have the freedom to simply change jobs (especially during an economy melting pandemic).

I recognize that in general, the leaders of a company are the folks who are either selected by, or are the investors or founders, but at the end of the day, the impact that those investors or founders can have is strongly limited by the talent they can attract.

The entire tech industry is a shit show from a human rights perspective because of the ongoing imbalance between the folks who are making decisions, and the folks who are executing those decisions (see: the coinbase affair, the recent Uber ad spend revelations building off disclosures by other adtech researchers, the whole mess with Susan Fowler, the way Timnit Gebru was fired, and any number of issues that seem to come up on a weekly basis)

Unions can be problematic, but it is blatantly clear that tech investors and founders are basically the robber barons of our generation. In the pursuit of power and profit they have advanced us towards the type of cyberpunk dystopias most of the folks posting on this forum grew up reading, and most of the people posting here are the cogs that enable some of the atrocious privacy and human rights violations that are happening on the regular.

I am a strong believer in the role that unions play because I grew up in a community where unions literally saved lives because managers at a smelter wanted to maximize profits and workers didn't want to die from a massive cauldron of liquid copper or zinc exploding on them, or wanted effective safety gear when prying plates of zinc deposit from cathodes. It may not be quite the same degree of physical risk, but the folks who screen objectionable content on social media platforms certainly deserve protections. Gig economy workers deserve protections. Startup employees deserve protection. If government regulation isn't doing the job, then unions are the natural organizations to step in, as they have during some of the most prosperous times in history.

Virtually all of the concerns that folks have about shitty unions (and shitty leadership) can be solved through transparency, but it is incumbent on the leaders selected by constituents of those groups (union members and investors/founders/executives) to choose transparency.
Any reason you used go and rust rather than node?
Yeah and they’ve killed off dozens of projects, profits and revenue are down, innovation is long out the window and the quality of their products has gone to hell.
There is a large caveat, though: The virus is a SARS variant, which in turn is well-studied. Prior research sped up sequencing and analysis significantly. I think we had the first PCR test even before the full genome was sequenced. It is also somewhat easy to target with the mRNA approach. So don't expect the same speed for everything else.

I think this particular virus was one of the best possible for a pandemic. One the one hand it causes a serious, potentially deadly, illness. But on the other hand the illness does not immediately destroy our health system, let alone our industrial basis. It is also ideally suited for the relatively new mRNA vaccines.

This might be cynical, but the whole thing might turn out to be a net positive. Many more viruses could be attacked now. Personalized, immediate cancer treatment could be just one step away after this. Heck, we might even have found the solution to the problem with antibiotics resistent bacteria.
Someone needs to know Lane Mathematics and proper round-a-bout setup :)
when are you planning to lunch?
What single wrong decision? Invading Taiwan (depending on the US response). That could collapse a lot more than China...
100% agreement
The company I work for plans for that and it's definitely not FAANG. In fact, DR planning and testing is far more important than stuff like continuous integration, build pipelines, etc.
Actually a number of people die while protesting in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_dur...

More recently, they are usually killed by right wing extremists who are unofficially sanctioned by government and often not prosecuted.
We tried running it, so a lot of experience with it, and it wasn't great. It barely stayed online.

For something so simple, you have to run a massive server, like gigs of ram and multiple core, even with a very modest user load. Take a look at the codebase, it's also a mess and impossible to fix any bugs. Finally, if you want to get your data out or report on the message activity, good luck, you'd be better off passing paper notes around. The open source version is nerfed a bit too, no LDAP authentication for instance, so it creates a lot of problems there too.
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Indeed there are already many forks of bitcoin and alternate cryptocurrencies like monero, ether, etc. It's fascinating how people assign value to an asset created out of nothing that will never show revenue.

Makes you wonder if you could get people to buy shares in a company that promises no revenue but markets itself as "exchange traded gold".
Ask HN: Is HN slow today?
What's normally the snappiest site on the web has been consistently taking ~5 seconds for each page load today. Extra traffic due to Slack being down, perhaps?
This would be a good explanation for an outage in March or April 2020, not so much in January 2021.
But BTC will never be the best or only way to do that, so once it actually is priced to a real function (transfer capability) it won't be scarce or unique. You can print an infinite amount of alternative coins or stable coins (or even other services without crypto at all) to do transfers including intl transfers.

"BTC will always go up as demand for it will always go up" is nicely self reinforcing as long as it is believed by enough to be true, but the price can go to $1 without issue once it is not.

But since it seems quite likely to at least 3x or 10x or who knows before that sad end occurs, I'm not exactly recommending you short it.
Just seems slightly disingenuous to me to have "100% uptime" on the same page that says there is a current major outage.
Scarcity is a myth

I know of no serious economic school that espouses this.
Does any of those games have some kind of 'free mode'? I'm not interested in playing but rather in a casually designing city, similarly to the Townscaper game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291340/Townscaper
Used computers that have RAM in them. But as I wrote, two of those computers were brand new with new RAMs in them.
I run a consulting company and if I decided to stop working for a client the right thing would be to give some explanation even if it's "We don't think your website meets our quality bar".

Almost 80% of the ads I see on Facebook are of similar quality. If they're trying to reduce low quality content on their platform, than they should just say that.
What about people who use bitcoin but don't believe in crypto maximalism? Can you share some information with those people that would convince them not to use bitcoin?
How to study for data-structures and algorithms interviews at FAANG
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Was working from home for the last 20 years except for occasional visits to clients / shareholders meetings. So far enjoying the freedom of not being stuck in the office environment that I do not appreciate at all and not wasting my time on commute.

With that I can't even remotely imagine myself working from bed. I do exactly 2 things in bed - 1) sleep, 2) wild guess here
> Even Steam Play Together, ostensibly built for this purpose, wasn't low latency enough in my limited experience (this really surprised me, so maybe I'm doing it wrong).

I've had good experience with Steam Play Together, mostly playing Unrailed (a hectic game in the style of Overcooked). I definitely forget about the remote connection while playing. We were 1000 km apart, but had quite a good connection (100 Mbit, 15-20 ms ping).
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.

"...people who forgot to attend ECON-101."

The real problem is people that think the neokeynsian and econometrics nonsense they learned at school is valid in the real world. Easy to detect members of that crowd, they are generally clueless about scarcity value, bitcoin/hard-money and will inevitably end up poorer than the less ignorant.
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Mass server migration?
https://twitter.com/samuelgoto/status/1346145032663756805
No I'm pretty sure that's just a sort of 'integration', Mattermost shipped with GitLab?

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/08/18/gitlab-loves-matter...

> Like many companies in the last year we've switched to using Slack to improve internal communication. [...] Since Slack doesn't offer an on-premises version, we searched for other options. We found Mattermost to be the leading open source Slack-alternative and suggested a collaboration to the Mattermost team.

I'm not really sure why it's 'GitLab Mattermost' and not (at your link) 'GitLab Nginx' et al. though.
Working from bed is great when you're too depressed to get out of bed. I'd rather nor do it otherwise, but I appreciate the flexibility of being able to do it.
Do you know that was the root cause or are you making an assumption and running with it?
> finding that same bug 2 minutes after you wrote it (and before it got released) is massively quicker.

That's not realistic.

Your last paragraph about overwork seems unrelated to TDD dogma.
Can managers not fire people?
Low maturity risk management functions.
Sorry, but an executive is not just "an employee" and any alarms are rightfully justified. Took a little bit of cajoling in my company but we've successfully moved to self-hosted tools for the most part (Jitsi and Rocket.chat) with just a couple of projects with outside contractors using Slack.
It also says there are 60 other companies working in China.

> China has some 60 glass medicine container providers

Plus we’ve seen markets adapting really quickly already a ton of times through out the pandemic.
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> I've been hearing 600,000 vaccinations (granted, this is from politicians, so ready your salt) this year in the US.

I don't know where you're hearing that, but the US is already doing more than 300,000 vaccinations per day (302,000 on 1/1 and 325,000 on 1/2.) If we maintain that rate we'll have 100% vaccination before the end of the year. Of course not everyone will take the vaccine, but "600,000 vaccinations this year" is wrong.
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Who is pretending they always work? Does something have to be perfect in order to be worth pursuing?
The fact that talented people without degrees can get jobs to an extent that can be essentially impossible in other fields doesn't mean that they can trivially get hired for the many many positions that advertise various degree requirements.
The chatbot part was a subset of what I was doing.
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> Then, yes, BTC has that property... but, tons of other things do! E.g. why not invest in amber, it's probably one of the rarest things in the universe.

Yes but the amount of amber, gold, silver, etc. on Earth is a known unknown. There are presumably deposits of gold that we don't yet know about. The amount of BTC is known. You seem to be conflating rarity with fixed scarcity.

> Using existing anti-money-laundering laws & global institutions, you'd be effectively banned from getting back any value from your BTCs (or, doing so would expose you to all the associated risks).

While this is true, this is sort of the whole point of bitcoin. Like, it's a currency that is independent of any nation-state and acts as a sort of systemic-hedge against governmental incompetence/malfeasance. So the fact that it could even be banned by any particular country is kind of part of its value proposition. And, similar to VPN's, just because an IP-based technology is banned doesn't mean that it'd become impossible to use.
I like that everyone sort of forgets about the time the big tech firms were caught in a wage-fixing cabal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Doing this in Linux seems like a lot more time/trouble than just putting the side of the case on (and not getting one of those silly cases with a window in it).
If they are in fact worth $1m TC are you ok with them "only" making $600k TC?
There was tweet from Snowden - https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1334608745192677380.

Chatter has been at couple of discord servers I am on. It has been going on for long. But since Biden's win, it has picked up steam.

Trump has always avoided the whole Snowden Assange wikileaks saga - for a guy with too much to say, it's interesting to note.

Obama was quite tough on Snowden and Biden will continue. Trump will just do it out of spite against Obama & Dems and also hoping to get more followers with good hacking skills. Trump will do the right thing for all the wrong reasons.
Even if Apple shouldn't be subject to an anti-trust suit, I think the whole industry should be regulated to counter how Apple goes about it's business - if Google could get away with acting like Apple does to it's customers they probably would, Microsoft would also love to but they've been bitten before.

Basic legislation guaranteeing certain freedoms for the consumers costs Apple and Google et al. nothing but massively empowers consumers in a sector where information about the products is largely controlled by the creators of said products.

This also prevents products becoming e-waste when the company is done supporting them.
I only read it /because/ it was a twitter thread. I wouldn't have clicked the link if it had been a blog post (unless I read the comments here and found a compelling reason)

To defend twitter: each tweet in the thread has to have a point, something compelling about it - and in this case, an image with each. The limitations of twitter force the author to write concisely (as opposed to blogs, where paragraphs can be as rambling and long-winded as the author pleases). The medium also allows persons to reply to any individual tweet - performing a similar role as threaded comments on a site like HN, but more focused. Twitter is an ideal format for short-to-medium length content like this.
You answer gives me vibes of the recent spat of apologetic answers to the news of Apple banning the "Amphetamine" app in that you defend a behemoth banning something or someone on vague grounds - a discussion on this type of Stockholm syndrome can be found here [1]. My response on to how to handle the shenanigans of these corporate megaliths - by shunning them [2] - was voted down so I have to assume that this is not seen as a viable option either. Is the general opinion here really that we are to simply give in to the whims of these companies? The argument here is that shared.com distributes "mediocre and crappy content". If that is the bar by which companies are to be measured Facebook itself would never be able to meet it.

I sense a need for a new Ralph Nader, someone who has the clout to take on these companies and put them in their place. That place is not in the halls of power, it is not at the dining table of lawmakers, in the ear of regulators. Their place is on the market where they are to compete with other companies, where developers and users use their power of choice to keep them from attaining too much power as they currently clearly have.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618066

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25606807
Here is to hoping it's not SolarWinds related eh!
I have a hard time imagining this. Is the cafe outdoors or is this something like a mini service area?
I would fully encourage any FAANG employee to be as greedy and disruptive as possible. Anything that weakens the massively increasing power of these companies is a good thing for the population at large.
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