skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I suppose someone up there thinks they're stimulating the British economy this way, with opportunities for local middle men to handle the UK VAT.

However, those middle men will be paid by ... the average UK consumer.

I don't see how that's a plus for the UK economy. Or maybe it inflates GDP while decreasing purchasing power...
Fiduciary duty is to the business not to the leadership, and to replace bad management. An employee-backed check bolsters this fiduciary duty.

> If I had a company, I would like to have the right to make bad decisions. And who defines good and bad decisions.

Feel free to do that in a company of 1. As soon as your company exceeds 1 person, you lose the absolute right. You lose the right when your decisions impact the livelihood of those around you. It doesn't drop to zero instantly but it is attenuated as the company grows.
It is no worse/different than people worshiping the US dollar. Anyone that understands Bitcoin and at least has read the White Paper know that Bitcoin (now called Bitcoin Cash) is nothing more that a digital cash replacement for government back currency.

The Bitcoin Core (BTC) crowd co-opted that project into some sick Ponzi scheme but digital peer-to-peer cash lives on in projects like Monero and Bitcoin Cash.
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In case anyone wants to play around with some basic dithering, I run a webapp called Dither it! that does just this:

https://ditherit.com
It's probably in response to the entire planet wanting as many doses of vaccine as they can possibly get their hands on.
Even if Jack Ma did something wrong, being disappeared without explanation is not exactly great :P

And certainly his speech seems to have caused offense shortly before this disappearance.
Polite disagreement will often result in downvotes for oneself though. I think this is the problem?
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Slack won’t protect you from this as it’s possible for admins to export even private DMs.

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/business/slack-updates-privac...
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The US Gov will never have an issue paying their debt because they are sovereign over the currency they use (USD). Furthermore, they have an extra advantage because the USD is the most popular reserve currency and because of this demand around the world, it's easier to maintain its value or relative strength to other currencies. That being said, long term it's not looking good for the USD. If you check the DXY index, the USD has been trending lower against a basket of currencies, and the FED had to buy a lot of treasury bills in 2020, because of lower demand from other entities. Another bad thing for the USD is the long term liabilities of the US Gov, which will only be able to be satisfied by printing dollars. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpgfIfD_cRs)
Well, while I disagree with Bitcoin being called a religion, if true, religions are (very unfortunately) forces to be reckoned with socially.
The list gets more and more absurd as you go down the list. Halving/10,000BTC pizza being celebrated as a holiday? I guess it gets brought up every year but calling it a holiday is a stretch. Also, bitcoiners only eat meat? wtf?
Location: Germany
Remote: Optional
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies:
* Penetration testing | Network, Web&Backend security | Offensive security | Code auditing | Red&Purple teaming | Security research work
* Developing in Python and Golang
* Fluent with Linux, Unix GCP, AWS, k8s, Terraform, etc.
Résumé/CV: Via email
Email: HNewsInfosec@gmail.com
Five Cell Suppliers: 78% of Global EV Battery Cobalt Demand in 2019
> Our western "liberal" democracies stop being liberal when the government gets angry at you at a personal level.

That's a fairly weak observation both because liberal democracies still punish criminals and many people do take serious issue with what Assange is and has done - it's just not a common thing to say on hackernews.
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Just to offer a compari-trast to the viewpoint of this article: X11. Two of the examples cited are the direct result of the attempt to throw out the X Window System. If there are any pieces of software that exhibit properties of serious stability, then the X Window System is surely among them--not to mention exhibiting a de facto "doneness". Wayland, on the other hand, seems to be a perfect example of a piece of software that enjoys an undue image of "freshness" because of its recency and level of activity--i.e. the trendiness that the post lambasts--while in practice seeming to be in a state of being perpetually never ready.

Besides X11, there's the Web for stability, or at least a subset of it. That's a subset of the subset that includes everything that has been standardized, implemented, and widely available since let's say 2000, 2005 or so. It's perhaps one of the most stable pieces of technological infrastructure that we have examples of. But in the face of this, we have people advocating that we throw away this stability in favor of another approach (Gemini) that is supposed to deliver on some vague promises of fulfilling its purpose better than HTTP does. In reality, it looks like another example of NIH and the flakiness of hobbiest programmers' fleeting interests and will probably be deader 10 years from now than Flash. Whatever the case ends up being, Gemini is needlessly incompatible with existing Web infrastructure, given its advocates' ostensible priorities of stability (and it goes beyond mere irony, considering the places where they are similar--but just not similar enough to be compatible).
When I went to build a PC recently, I was disappointed to find out that the most cost effective cases that otherwise met my requirements all had those silly windows, and that some RGB components were actually cheaper than non-RGB. So I ended up with a window and RGB, despite having no desire for either!

I had to hunt around for the correct software to disable the stuff. Little did I know that this project existed at the time :)
You might like to have a look at the markdown package [1], which lets you write markdown in LaTeX documents. In fact, we drafted this job ad in markdown on Overleaf using that package! (That said, there's certainly more we could do to improve the markdown experience on Overleaf.)

[1] https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Articles/How_to_write_i...
Censorship resistant is not useful to the consumer? If a vendor has been financially censored then bitcoin is surely useful. For instance, if you want to purchase a 4chan pass, its crypto only baby.
Does anyone recall when nanotech was the new hot thing, there was a group claiming that very tiny crystals of one element could be coerced into behaving chemically like another element?

I suspect since we haven't heard anything since that whatever they were seeing doesn't work once you bond the particles to other substances.
It’s rarely a good idea for everyone’s freedom to blindly follow the will of the majority.

Too often minorities are suppressed.

Plus, voters are terrible at understanding the long-term implications of what they think they want.
Which western religion isnt?
> Gov: “Here is our wallet blacklist feed. If you transact with these wallets, you go to jail.”

Me: "I'm already in Africa, find me, losers"
winnie the pooh is so cute though. especially when he drives tanks and runs over people.
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Location: NYC

Remote: For now

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

Mostly Python and Clojure, but have been fairly polyglot lately.

Data Engineering, Search, backend.

Django, Flask, Rabbit, Storm, Rabbit, Elasticsearch, Postgres, etc. Have used OpenCV, and ffmpeg.

Typical AWS stack.

Résumé/CV: Upon email

Email: jmkr@fastmail.cn
Elaine Chao’s sister is married to Xi, while Elaine, as transportation secretary under Trump, was busted inviting family with business ties to the CCP to official US government meetings.

The fear on this forum is imagined political thriller more than realistic.

Every technologist is grifting off the military industrial complex.
Do you need build tools?
Noooooo not the poor CCP billionerinos!
About value..Thats a way too static way of looking at life. It's the typical subject where 1% of the population think that and the rest don't care and would agree with anything...

But if you really think about it most nice monuments visited by tourists in any city, like churches, temples are actually buildinga mostly well restored and currently used in some way.

Colosseum is just a bunch of ugly ruins. Visiting Colosseum was one the most underwhelming experience of my life and I've travelled quite a bit. just build something nice Instead
Boeing has software engineer unions. They start at like, ~$70k and after a few years can get up to ~$90k (someone correct me if I'm off, but I don't think I'm very far off).
> Craig Murray's reporting

The first two words explain any surprise here. It's still usable data but the HN-groupthink is still wilfully blind to Craig Murray's habits.
Congress Prayer – House Guest Chaplain Emanuel Cleaver: “A-Man. and A-Woman.”
Right up until something you say gets proven to be wrong.

The higher confidence you presented your wrong statement, the higher the hit to your credibility will be.
If this thread is to be believed, apparently a lot of engineers use slack for alerting and don't know how to check their monitoring software manually.
For everything that's wrong in the United States, it's just terrifying to think of what it's like to be in China/Russia/Saudi Arabia/etc., where the government has no qualms about poisoning, arresting or otherwise silencing you if your disagree. I have endless respect for people who stand up to those governments, because quite honestly I'm far too much of a coward to ever do so in their position.
Your personal situation doesn't represent the market, moreover, you spent 20 years watching coke ads growing up and having coke, it's impossible to tell how that affected you.

You saw 1000 'product placements' for coke without being aware of it in films other things. Taste is associated with familiarity and comfort.
Ask HN: Have you tried Shape Up / Six-week Cycles?
In 2019, Ryan Singer published "Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters", which details how Basecamp approaches their work. Among some of the topics are six week development cycles, shaping work before it's given to a development team to work on, and a betting table where projects for the next cycle are decided upon. This all sounds very compelling, and I've seen some of the same issues they detail as common struggles throughout my career: feeling like projects go on and on, with no end in sight; product managers can't find time to thing strategically about the product; leadership asking why features are getting out like they used to in the early days.
There have been some blog posts from other companies adopting this in 2017 when Basecamp was writing about six-week cycles, among them Intercom (https://www.intercom.com/blog/6-week-cycle-for-product-teams/) and Buffer (https://buffer.com/resources/6-week-cycles/). There have been other blog posts about the book since it was released, but I'm curious to hear from the HN community:

Have you implemented Shape Up at your company? How has that been going? What have been some of the benefits/downfalls?
What is CoC in this context? Code of conduct?
>Edit: for those in relatively more corrupt, tenuous circumstances then BTC is a net positive, of course.

Even that I'm not sold on. You could argue that it gives incentives for the rich and powerful to maintain the status quo since their own riches become out of reach from the corrupt government.

Meanwhile the commoners are still very much under threat since most of their assets will be physical (their house, their clothes, their belongings, their bodies etc...).

The idea that cryptocurrencies are empowering the poor makes about as much sense to me as trickle down economics. If you are in a position to benefit from Bitcoin it means that you already have a significant amount of disposable income you can convert into bitcoin and afford to "HODL" in your wallet for a while. "Being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship" is completely irrelevant if you're a poor farmer in Buthan or an elderly shoemaker in rural Pakistan. Transfer what money, to whom and for what purpose?

This whole concept is just social-washing cryptocurrencies to obfuscate that it's profoundly libertarian (the USA flavor) at the core. If you consider that the government is always the enemy and it can't be fixed and should instead be thoroughly destroyed, then and only then do cryptocurrencies make sense. It's not about good vs. bad government, it's about no government.
"Hey NY Governor, nice state you have there. Shame if it didn't get any vaccines"
No reason to do it, he's been useful to them and will remain useful to them alive.
The science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness
https://archive.is/5vSj1
What isn't free is the time it takes to learn all these.
None. The point of the paper was the proof technique, which was later extended to include a large family of constrained motion planning problems (i.e., problems that previously were of an unknown computational complexity could be easily mapped to the framework, thereby proving that they were PSPACE-complete).
One more: Gmail app on iPhone forces you to open links within the app, meaning you can’t actually login with Safari proper (the session/cookies aren’t shared).

Super frustrating, and something Apple should clamp down on (any app that opens web links needs to provide a full “open in Safari” option that isn’t an in-app browser).
Really enjoyable article, reminds me of being at school where the first scanner I encountered only output dithered black and white.
Apologies for being off topic, but the side project you link - https://andychung.me/self-portrait - is absolutely awesome. Runs like butter in the browser and I absolutely love the art style.

Kudos to you!
"Coming soon: Waterboarding as a Service"
Indeed [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
Also religion is going through evolution, Christianity or Islam is just the result of many trial-error previous long forgotten religions which were less fit and were replaced by religions that spread faster. For example, it seems like mono-theistic religions were simpler and easier to understand - this is one shared trait between the most of the current "live" religions.
That flippant posturing is the result of reading history books from the perspective of everyone who lived over the past several thousand years being backwards and evil.

It blinds people to the realities of power dynamics that still exist today and have not been at all lessened or subdued by progressivism one bit.
If that kills a state currently committing genocide, no.
It's why it's so terrifying to watch people call on social media companies to censor controversy. Freedom of speech is what separates us from them.
There's no such thing as an authoritarian that gladly accepts challenges to their authority. It's not about emotion, it's carefully calculated.

If Jack Ma can speak up, what's to stop the next richest guy from speaking up? It's dissent all the way down. You need to nip it in the bud.

Furthermore, if the fortune of a billion people rests on your authority, virtually all ends justify the means.
> I don't know whether something like that would work in the software industry, but it seems at least plausible to me that it could benefit everyone who is currently employed in tech (at the expense of future potential tech employees).

I doubt it, if only because actors are hired in large part due to their celebrity. There are no celebrity SREs (at best they have some cache in the software/SRE community, but not in the general public).
Propagation of something that isn't racism.
Yep, which is exactly what I did here:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82751815.pdf
> Would one turn into the quality downvote while the other turned into the feelings downvote?

No, they wouldn't. The problem is that if considered intrapersonal, different buttons could get different qualities, but when considered interpersonal they probably wouldn't.

There are different possible ways to fill multiple downvote buttons with a sense. For example, it could be "feelings downvote" and "quality downvote". Or "quality downvote" and "feelings downvote" from left to right. Or it could be "slight downvote" and "strong downvote" and "slight+strong downvote" which is even stronger. Different people will use buttons differently, so in average it would be the same mess. Probably if a PhD dug into the raw data, she could make sense from it by categorizing downvoters and summing up their votes with normalizing coefficients, but I'm not sure.

Lichess recently changed their puzzles and forced me to vote for each puzzle. I really do not know which puzzle is good and which is not. I struggled to find a way to vote, and finally came to a simple strategy "upvote each puzzle", because I do not know any better. I'm sorry I did it, I wish to help lichess, but do not know how to. When faced with two downvote buttons I probably would struggle to make sense of it, then I'd find some simple strategy which I could verbalize and stick to it. It would be improbable, that the strategy would be "feelings" vs "quality", because how could I separate my feelings from a perceived quality?
"hyper liberal" you say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In societies that are not America, unions are traditionally left of center but most definitely still more or less in the center.

It seems that political discussions relating to the US don't have the appropriate vocabulary to discuss political opinions that are positioned to the left of the corporate wing of the Democratic party.
I have a Corsair RGB keyboard.

Not because I wanted RGB... I wanted a good keyboard, this was what was available.

I found the RGB useful to see what I am typing at night, problem is... I can't get the thing to behave as I want, and it requires the 'iCUE' program to be running at all times and that programs eats RAM like there is no tomorrow.

If this software lets me ditch iCUE and still have lights... I will certainly use it!

My plan is set my keys to have some darker glow (if possible... never tried) so I can see them on a pitch black room, and use the RGB part for information (like if I am running out of RAM or not...)
The only think you'll do by working from bed, is destroying your back. Don't do it.