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You cannot predict the market. Here is a Forbes article citing the same issue in December and speculating that the stock market would not rise in 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2018/12/31/when-th...

If you had pulled out of the market at the end of 2018 expecting a bigger drop, guess what, you would have missed one of the fastest market comebacks.

The scenario being discussed is just one possible outcome. There are numerous other outcomes as well. You can off course bet on this scenario and pull your money out of the market, and if the crash occurs, you can tell everyone about how to timed the market. Or you might be the person who lost big time.

As with all speculation...only time will tell
Unless you want to sell certain types of plants/chemicals, gambling services or your own body...
The ability to adapt is the definition of a contingency plan. It's essentially, "If this person/service/database/customer/etc vanished off the face of the earth, what do?"
But then what if you disabled CSS or use Lynx? (You should also add text next to it to say don't use it, and hide that text as well sa the form field. Then, if the form field is visible for any reason, the user will know not to use it.) (Using scripts for it also applies, if you have scripts disabled or are using Lynx or something that does not implement JavaScripts.)
Room-Temperature Magnetic Order in Air-Stable Ultrathin Iron Oxide
Only Google-owned website I open is Youtube, and even that I don’t use in the browser (I redirect the URL to mpv).
An alternative is that this money goes into buying 10 apartments, pushing their value up, and making even more money for the buyer. Buying this $13m car will transfer money to dozens of employees, subcontractors and shareholders in Bugatti. "Blow this amount" and "Waste the money" = the money is put into circulation. If the buyer doesn't "Blow the money" then they either keep it, or invest it and gain even more money from someone else.
Oh cool, they have a package for urql: https://graphql-code-generator.com/docs/plugins/typescript-u...

I might try it out once it supports the new hooks.
I don't have the freedom to spend $13M as I see fit... I don't think if your spending budget were 1/100,000th of mine, you would consider us equally free.
Fair point about what the effect might be. I'm talking about the ethics of the YCombinator community and company in particular and not the internets at large. If someone asks me to delete something that was private, I just do it.
I.e: "Let's destroy a beautiful thing of the past, with our modern crudeness".
Personal opinion, it's really important in the ISP/hosting world to identify what market categories are a race to the bottom, and if at all possible, refuse to participate in them.

I look at companies selling $5 to $15/month VPS services and try to figure out how many customers they need to be set up for monthly recurring services, in order to pay for reasonably reliable and redundant infrastructure, and the math just doesn't pencil out without:

a) massive oversubscription

b) near full automation of support, neglect of actual customer issues, callous indifference caused by overworked first tier support

Conversely, as a customer, you should be suspicious when some company is offering a ridiculous amount of RAM, disk space and "unlimited 1000 Mbps!" at a cheap price. You should expect that there will be basically no support, it might have two nines of uptime, you're responsible for doing all your own offsite backups, etc.

If you use such a service for anything that you would consider "production", you need to design your entire configuration of the OS and daemons/software on the VM with one thing in mind: The VM might disappear completely at any time, arbitrarily, and not come back, and any efforts to resolve a situation through customer support will be futile.
We are going to have a lot of excitement in our lives coming in the months and years ahead but few will enjoy it. On the other hand some people would never shine had it not been for service in the midst of catastrophy.
"“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law,” Melzer said. “The collective persecution of Julian Assange must end here and now!”"

Sad how democratic values are tossed out the window when it doesn't suite them.
Did the parents approve the use of the photos by a 3rd party? Were the parents advised of the policies around data retention and data destruction? Will this data remain in the system after the children are adults?
Soooo... an automated script flagged them. they get themselves unflagged, and proceed to do the same thing immediately. without any real confirmation that they wouldn't be flagged again.

They've basically been flagged as abusing the system multiple times, and they're surprised they had to kick up a storm to get themselves reactivated again?

Not to mention, that process they need to run every couple of months, that takes 1s, but they still need to parallelize over a bunch of vms, that's weird and sounds like something that needs to be rearchitected at the very least.
lets see what kind of slap on the hand fines these ISPs will pay to continue profiting off user data.
Sure, but them closing combined with the chance of them freezing your account (feasible, considering the topic here) and the chance of account compromise, and the chance they go down for extended maintenance... It is inexcusable not to have a disaster recovery plan for the scenario where you cannot access your DO account.

Imagine you are a customer of this company. Would you be rallying to their defense, "backups aren't needed because the scenarios are unlikely", or would you be angry that the company had zero contingency planning and lost all of your data (or the data you rely upon)?

If you can honestly say, as a (hypothetical) customer of the company in the thread, that you wouldn't care if a company you relied upon has no disaster recovery planning, more power to you. I, however, like to make sure that the companies I'm relying on have some sort of contingency that protects me as a customer.
I'm not sure I follow nor agree. When I go buy something at Target, they take my money but I in no way expect that Target would then be able to see my bank account balance nor all of my transaction history at every other place I shop.
> I'm not sure I agree with the "undervalued"

Agreed. Sometimes its even the other way around. You could be an awful engineer from a technical angle, but if you can write good blog post and shiny docs, the powers that be (those who don't look at the code) will think you're awesome.

Still, the skill is insanely valuable. As someone who's not a native english speaker/writer, I can manage, but it takes me 5 times as long to do something less than half as good as my peers, yet I always find myself needing to write a new page of doc, a wiki/blog post, etc. If I was better at it, I'd be much, much more successful.
> This is both absurd and obscene.

Someone with less money than you could say the same thing about a lot of your purchases from your discretionary income. The people paying for a $13m Bugatti are likely spending a lot in taxes which is generally how society has agreed upon people benefiting society through their spending. You could argue for higher taxes but that probably doesn't impact much spending for these people who own 80+ cars and have $13m+ to buy a car with.
Paul Graham has an essay on how (US) school is mostly used as a prison
For your keloids try Lugols iodine solution.
Okay, then that means they did have a contingency plan, except for a single rsync.

Which would mean you disagree strongly with coldtea?
Future generations may wonder about this too...
then make 10 or 20 million and do something better with it.

I hate this argument of "I could have done something better with x", it's reeks of authoritarianism. Yes, there is a better way to spend money, if you decide what "better" means, which you don't, because it's not your money.
That's definitely a lowball offer.

Government research labs are on the GS scale (mostly). We're capped at $166,500/year in the DC/NY/SF area (and also, as it happens, the Denver area). $80k is what we offer fresh-outs. A senior flight software engineer managing ten developers with a TS should be near if not at the top end of the salary range.

Contractors doing that work should be similar or higher. I've tried to convert contractor senior flight software engineers to civil servants, and I couldn't... because our ~$150k/year offer was $30k/year too low.

Here are the GS pay scale tables. The job you've describes should be either a high GS-14 or GS-15. So, $133k/year and up.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
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Asymmetry and non-dispersivity in the Aharonov-Bohm effect
Agreed, I think code is more like a recipe than an API is. But I don't think the parent was arguing that APIs should or shouldn't be copyrightable because of how they compare to recipes, they were just answering your question as to how they can be clearly differentiated from code.
In which case, how in the world will anyone sane consent to "I didn't like this call - prove me wrong or give me $10"? (Yes, yes, make a law, I got that. Good luck getting that passed.)
>getting locked out of your account is usually just not a consideration

How many horror stories need to reach the front page of HN before people stop believing this? Getting locked out of your cloud provider is a very common failure mode, with catastrophic effects if you haven't planned for it. To my mind, it should be the first scenario in your disaster recovery plan.

Dumping everything to B2 is trivially easy, trivially cheap and gives you substantial protection against total data loss. It also gives you a workable plan for scenarios that might cause a major outage like "we got cut off because of a billing snafu" or "the CTO lost his YubiKey".
There's no point in a hard fork when you can just start fresh, and mint a new network of cryptocurrency.

Especially due to the fact that the early cryptocoins like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monereo each designed their supplies to dump into a plutocratic distribution.
>My point was that Docker purports to solve the sandboxing and security problems.

Says who? The article I linked to you says nothing about security.

>Docker failed at security.

If somebody thinks security is the strong feature of Docker he/she is misinformed.

>For the vast majority Docker is just a nice and easy-to-use packaging format

For the vast majority of who? Developers? Sys admins? PMs?

The big advantage of docker is the self-contained environment for CI builds.
And Linode has always had faster CPU, I/O, Network. And lots of small things like that DO only catches up in the recent years, like pooled bandwidth.

Although these days I tend to go with UpCloud, it is very similar to Linode and DO, except you can do custom instances like 20x vCPU with 1GB Memory, spin it up for $0.23 an hour. Compared to standard plan on Linode and DO, 20 vCPU with 96GB Memory would be $0.72/Hr.
Story's like this just remind me of the early days of the app store, when someone launched an app for the then maximum price of $999 or something, that didn't do anything except put an icon on the home screen.

That for me is perhaps the purest example of people selling 'status'
Given that the author was quite vague about the nature of this “pipeline” and that their product is an “AI-powered Startup Selection engine”, I have a suspicion they were probably crawling and scraping a whole bunch of pages for new startups. It’s possible that this was totally legit and it just looked like a ddos attack, or that it was something else entirely, but everyone here seems to have taken him at his word that what they were doing was actually above board.
If the kids are allowed to know their "social scores" many of them will compete to get the lowest to be cool. I kind of hope the administrators make this mistake. It would give me great Schadenfreude.
Lets say you have 100 TB of data, plus two backups, you are now paying for 300 TB of data.
There is no such thing as 'big data' in terms of data, there is proper and improperly designed programs, Hadoop is in the latter.
Agree. The end of the article has a bizarre and jarring transition that does not flow logically.
I think, going forward, a data backup is not going to be enough. You’ll need a full devops plan b/c where you just redeploy to another hosting provider.

Even better: run your infrastructure across multiple hosting providers with something like consul. DO might cause slower service but not a death sentence.
"I'm swiping my card" versus "I'm entering my banking username/password" are very different authentication methods.
We need to invent a category of property rights for the results of such testing against non-consenting populations. That would create an economic incentive for lawyers to do what they do best.

We already have legal precedent for paying reparations for undisclosed tests against civilians.
Sure it could be. Still not enough companies actually do this though...
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I would agree if they were reckless, but here they had a backup strategy, just the risk of a complete sudden shutdown from their provider was not taken into it. This is a new risk that must be taken into account, and I’m not sure procurement would have scanned this. Also the pain in procurement is usually because it’s in fact on irrelevant arbitrary administrative things and not on real risks like this.
Unpopular opinion but eugenics definitely has the potential to create a "better" population. The problem is its highly highly unethical in any deliberate implementation and is typically orchestrated by tyrannical dictators who's ego and ideologies supersede the science needed to make it effective. I mean look at the nazis - they had some stupid ass theories that allowed them to claim they were a superior race.

But yeah if this weren't the case then you'd have to explain away genetic engineering of livestock and crops over the millenia. That said - no one should be orchestrating that shit.
Because he knows something relevant about the mouse study, but not the human study. He's not objecting to the conclusions or tone of the Economist article, just the mouse study. Seems legit to me.
I feel for these guys, but that's not "all the proper backup procedures". I'm part of a three-man shop and storing backups in another place is the second thing you do immediately after having backups in the first place. Never mind being locked out by the company - what happens if the data centre burns to the ground?
Lockport is an old factory town on the Erie Canal, not far from Buffalo and Niagara Falls. The population is about 20,000 people. North of the city is orchards and farmland, south are the outer suburbs of Buffalo. It's not a place known for high tech, nor is it known for high municipal spending.

The backstory of how this came about would surely be interesting.
Regarding cybersnowflake's comment, I think this is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
the latency for operations in/ out of the brain is just incomparable between biological systems and cpus.

Not to mention the same issue with time needed for new algorithms/software to be generated, run, and limitations/difficulties on interfaces.

They're different systems, optimised for different things.

CPUs look superior if you ignore the problems using/requiring the huge benefits of biological and analogue systems the brain has, and the brain generally looks superior if you forget time, logic and deductive system implementations, inspection, standardisation, commoditization, etc.

obviously that's extremely simplified, but that's what one can fit in a HN post.

that also doesn't mean we can't learn and gain benefits for both by taking inspiration from the other, but like most things in life its far more complex than one outperforming the other or the two even being directly analogous.
I know there's an issue about this but it doesn't really indicate Hasura's intentions regarding it:

Is supporting CockroachDB something Hasura is actively working on?
> but is it that big of a tragedy if Google loses?

considering the fallout would extend far past Google, yes.
A replacement might actually easier to build. The detector is no small feat, but the major problems with JWST come from the foldable heat shield and the segmented mirror. Both of which are due to size constraints during launch. Basically it has to fit a 20 x 14 m heat shield and a 6.5 m mirror into the 6.4 by 4.6 m fairing of an Arianne 5.

Targeting a rocket with a larger fairing diameter (even at same payload mass) would make the design much simpler. An upper stage with 20 m length and 9 m diameter on a Falcon Super Heavy would allow to have a fixed mirror and heat shield that is only folded once, instead of the crazy origami that JWST is. But of course such an upper stage doesn't exist yet. SpaceX was only started 6 years after the work on JWST started...
Perhaps if you backed off for a second and considered the amount of wealth this person had to create, and the people and businesses they had to support (besides Bugatti) in order to achieve this level of wealth, you'd find that it's not as obscene as you think. That process was the one that "moves us forward as a civilization and society."

IOW, as you get to this level of wealth, you improve the lives of the others who provided you products and services. Does it really matter to you that much what this person then chooses to do with their accumulated cash?

How is buying the car worse than, say, a single person winning a $13M lottery? Would you complain about that?
I fully agree.

I'm suggesting that some sort of risk evaluation framework more sophisticated than "Gee, I can imagine a scenario where this kills us all!" might be in order.
DeepMind's AI gamer is a better teammate than human players
I'd forgotten about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
I'd generally prefer discussion on Hacker News was kept civil. If the parent had a reputable source for their assertion, I'd be interesting to see it. A lack of a source is also interesting.

Either way, asking for a source is better than just saying 'I don't believe you'.
Couldn't agree more! We've been using Heroku at ReadMe for ~5 years and it is easily my favorite piece of technology we use. Off the top of my head I can't think of a single issue that entire time that has been their fault.
If implemented well, sure -- sometimes, maybe often, you can point a customer to a support document that directly answers their specific question and relieves some of the load on your staff. That's great.

But the execution matters a lot, and DO's is currently not great. IIRC, it takes clicking through a few screens of "are you sure your question isn't in our generic documentation? How about this page? No? This one then? Still no? You're really sure you need to talk to someone about this error? sigh Okay, fine then."

These systems should not be implemented as a barrier to reaching human support, but they often are.
General Assembly and other UN organs have zero vetoes, only Security Council have them IIRC. Of course the UNSC is the most important UN organ in international politics and diplomacy...

Oh yeah, UNSC veto-possessing members can also veto UN Secretary-general election in secret.
On the Existential Fear of Losing Your Online Persona
Ask HN: Insurance for startups – is THREE any good?
We're looking into getting the usual business insurance coverage for our startup and noticed that Berkshire is offering some new product they call "THREE," which they claim is comprehensive business insurance with a three page policy (https://www.threeinsure.com/the-policy/). Does anyone have any experience with using this service for a startup? This seems simpler/more appealing than the patchwork of policies we would have to do otherwise, but I don't know if something advertised for small businesses is good for startups, or if there are alternatives that people have used that they would recommend over this service. Thank you all for your time!
In reality, I don't think he's that wrong here. The majority of FB users really don't care overly much about their privacy or expect FB to take it seriously - they just want a free social platform for posting their stuff and interacting with people. What could be argued here is degree. A lot of users probably expect that there is some privacy line FB and other social platforms shouldn't cross, but where that line actually lies is up for debate.
Whenever someone tells you "the only solution is..." You can just write them off. There's never only one solution to any problem, let alone one where the problem is purely speculative.
Routing queries through a centralized resolver service that happens to do performative DNSSEC checking is not the same thing as "using DNSSEC". Rather: go to any list of the top domains in any Asian country and take them to "DNSSEC-NAME-AND-SHAME.COM" to see if they're actually signed. Yahoo.co.jp? Rakuten? Google.co.jp? Nope, nope, and nope.
This exact same thing happened to me last year. I accessed my account abroad and they perma banned me.

Support was useless and even with evidence did not believe who I was.

I then somehow convinced them to give me temp access, which in my opinion is even worse. They didn't believe me about who I was and then gave me temporary access to an account. DO can't be trusted when their support team could so easily be socially engineered.
Well those money provide jobs, r&d and so on. So it has pretty good effects overall.

Taus are boring. Be dark eldar and enjoy the good stuff in life.
> $12.5 million ($18.9 million, counting taxes)

50% sales tax? How does that happen?
I flagged this in the hope that other moderators will review and retract or at least refine this statement. I do hope that moderator posts that are flagged are reviewed by a different moderator?

We are surely not supposed to be here to reach consensus but to discuss issue.

This is a deep topic and people disagree on fundamental levels. In order to express themselves clearly they have to start from the beginning.
Much more userfriendly. Works on all major platforms. Big public repository (dockerhub). Extensive tooling for everything. Graphical and CLI tools for all kinds of users.
How Companies Manipulate Employees (With Examples)
You seem strangely concerned about the health risks of a one-off/low production car that you will probably never encounter on the road.

Personally I'm much more concerned about the 100s of diesel powered buses that run 24/7 across cities such as London, and the huge amount of particulate pollutants they emit into our lungs.