skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to me that Cloudflare doesn't really have any competition with a similar business model. I suppose the free plan requires quite a lot of spending before the upgrades offset it.
TextNow offers paid plans and "Upgrade to remove ads
or get high speed data" for their mobile solutions.

So a mix of Ad Revenue and Subscription costs I would wager.
Is it realistic for a small-medium sized business to have more than one DNS provider?
Oxford vaccine is among the front runners. This is really good news. They plan to finish their final trials before October this year.

If all goes well, we should be looking at major relief by this year's end.
Unlucky people have names that break computers (2016)
The “you win big or fail” mental model is totally wrong. If you fail, dust yourself off and try again. Doesn’t mean you have to do it immediately. Failure definitely sucks. But people who fail once at something they really want to achieve and then write it off as impossible never achieve anything.

Also the high stakes fat stacks VC hyper growth approach is but one way to create a business.
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Okay here's the thing. I'm okay with people bashing other (competing) companies when they do wrong. However, I believe it is somewhat childish and uncalled for to bash another company, because of a mistake.

First of all "I use easyDNS so I didn't notice it at all tbh" is not only a childish assertion, it's borderline a falsehood. You DO NOT offer the same services, nor the same scale. (No, VOD would not work if your VOD provider used Cloudflare's offering.)

Second of all, as some have noted in other comments, you are very welcome to get just as big as them if you can offer similar (excellent) service and similar extremely competitive pricing. Otherwise, keep working on your offer and stop going for low hanging fruit like bashing the competitor for an outage when they literally might handle 1000x your traffic, and perhaps offer 20x the services your offer.

Just a little rant ...
There comes a time when you can no longer keep something secret even if you try. The next step in getting this approved requires that some people be told about this that you must assume will not keep it secret (ie a journal that goes to libraries for anyone to read). Thus at this point they have to tell everyone who might invest, that way they can't be accused of telling their friends.
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> options pricing formulas are not settled and the predominant formula was made by a firm that blew up using it

Options arbitrage between equity and options via BSM variants is settled science. As is put-call parity, an arbitrage between put and call pricing. The latter is a perfect arbitrage—it is riskless. The former is not, there is risidual risk that must be continuously managed. (That management is another transmission mechanism for information between the markets.) When mismanaged, it blows you up. But it still enforced a tight, arbitrabgeable relationship between equity prices and options.

What does blow people up is thinking options models are B.S. and then going and trading options. They’re likely the reason my options-trading hedge fund stakes have been doing so well.
> Modern architectures look like this:

A lot of modern architecture is not like that.

And even the diagram there is something should be possible to replicate if the organization values it.

Today it doesn't even need to be too expensive as it can be deployed with terraform and torn down an hour later when the full system tests are finished qnd go back to running the integration tests.
Also, for those familiar with the space or using something else, what should we compare this against? I'm in the market for something like this.
You seem to have ignored most of my comment for this discussion.
I think you could have phrased your question better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
They do not, the vast amount are PNG files where the creator of the video themselves didn't have access to the vectors. It also is completely unrealistic to convince everyone to use a new video format, not to mention the gigantic amount of videos from the past (e.g. cartoon tv shows from the 90s) that no longer have any source material available and all that remains are digitalized copies.
Well, that's a bit broad interpretation of 'manipulated'.

If someone legitimately didn't know that there was more recent information, and made that post, it would be reasonable to post the more up to date info in whatever way makes it most helpful.

Any information you get from anywhere but your own senses needs to be checked in proportion to its timeliness, relevance, sources, bias, all the usual.

It's only that the current Internet speed has so much potentially coming at you that makes it a more complicated triage plan.
Yes that is perfectly legal and happens, but I’ll try to be brief and explain why that wouldn’t happen usually and why it’s still a good thing. When you go to buy/sell a security you see a buy/sell price. Everything being discussed here pertains only to price improvement. That is, payment for order flow only happens if the offer is better than what you saw on the screen when you said buy/sell. When you go to sell/buy a security you’ll notice that there are different prices to buy or sell. Filling an order internally means that the difference in those 2 prices is entirely bore by your own customers, versus the ability to go to broader markets and improve outcomes for both of your customers.

Payment for order flow and internal clearing are 2 ways to execute out of a ton of options that a brokerage has. The specifics are seen as moats / “the secret sauce” for these firms so you’re not going to see anyone spill the specifics of how they get price improvement. But there is a ton of legislation & complexity around it for sure.
That's why it's recommended to look into the distance when you enter a Costco, until you pass the electronics section.
It's a really fun feeling when you notice that someone posted something because they read the same thing you read and it sparked a similar association.

There are probably already manipulation techniques in play where an actor 'plants' (or 'incept' if you will) a future post by posting a lot of things that will lead people to organically 'find' the subject they want to promote.
Every gif on the web should be a video. It would weigh less and still be supported by all browsers.
Many of us also avoid using single-use plastics and driving too. Sure it's not a huge difference but it does add up.
I don't need a free tier. I just need a "basic bitch" tier for my personal usage. Who are some Cloudflare alternatives for this?
I felt this. I bought a well-known controversial EV stock quite low; my plan was to make at least 33% on it. After a year, I'd made 400%, but I was struggling to click the "Sell" button. Some greed surfaced from somewhere, and it took me a couple of days to cancel the greed and sell the stock, making 12X what I hoped to the year before.

The stock has since gone up a lot more, but my dad told me: Buy low, and Sell too soon.
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Speaking as someone who:
1) lives in a Sun Belt state (Texas)
2) went to grade school in an un-airconditioned building

Yes, it could be done, and should be considered. However, school years used to start at Labor Day, for this reason, and there were a lot of serious metal-bladed fans to make it bearable. Even outside, you would need shade (perhaps canopies?) and fans.

It was also a lower population density than modern urban schools. All that body heat makes a difference.

However, definitely worth considering, and in many non-urban areas I believe it could work.
Hey, co-founder Fitz here! Great question. We're both tackling the same problem. Our key differentiator from Preflight (and testim, and mabl and ghost inspector) is that we spin up a new VM for every browser session rather than rely on a local browser extension like all of those competitors. The comment above highlights the trade-offs of this approach but happy to discuss further (fitz at).
one thing about the Oxford vaccine is that when vaccinated you are still able to pass on the virus , despite having the anti-bodies to fight it. It's excellent news nonetheless

edited with some references

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-vaccin...
If only DDOS attacks were taken seriously and their perpetrators punished accordingly (and maybe if the network had better ways of self-defense) instead of companies and websites having to fend for themselves.
Thank you for commenting.

These are very reasonable criticisms and I will take them into account.
At 1077, this is indeed a promising result. I genuinely hope this isn't yet another marketing stunt(of which we've seen a lot lately). Mind you,

> The vaccine - called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - is being developed at unprecedented speed.

Seriously? Did they ask a 9 year old to pick a nickname?
The fastest depends largely on predictability. If it is totally unpredictable I find that prefetch roughly ties with increasing the arity (indeed, the effect is similar when you consider how it all plays out).

If there is a moderate amount of predictability I don't think you can beat branchy.

If you can change the layout, it's a while different game. You could write a paper or two on it and people have.
I'm surprised that should he exist, everyone assumes he is obligated to interdict himself in the affairs of men. If I'm honest, it's a little arrogant of us.
Thanks!

I know of most of the other analytics platforms, I am not really a fan of the hosted "privacy-focused" analytics, as they are still 3rd party analytics where data is centralized, but they are a step forward. Also the data the data that they provide is usually not enough for commercial websites.

I do release regular updates, but I am just releasing an auto-updater functionality which will enable you to update the platform with one click. This is one of the final steps before I start a bigger marketing campaign.

I personally think self-hosting is the future, not only in terms of analytics, but for any hosted service that you might use. The most important thing stopping this from happening is usually the big corporations not wanting to give up on potential huge money and data streams. I self-hosting is now possible and easy thanks to all the VPS/cloud providers that enable for very cheap servers running the app that you need to be easily setup and maintained.
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For “love” — “The natural progression of love is from cruelty to boredom.”.
You make a very bold claim that vegan diets cause malnutrition. You probably don't mean to say vegan diets inherently do this -- simply that many people who try don't know how to balance their diet, right?

Let's assume for the sake of argument that malnutrition cuts a human life short by 1 year. Does this now justify torturing hundreds of animals for hundreds of years?

I'm trying to nudge people to think of any argument that results in "we can now torture animals".

At this current time, we don't need to abuse animals to eat animals, we only do it because it's cheaper. I doubt many people in company of family and friends could say 'saving $1' justifies torturing animals.
Honestly I didn't notice the domain name, and I actually thought the author was being quite understanding by saying things like "This is inevitable and unavoidable and entirely excusable. Everybody blows up, every DNS provider in existence will experience downtime. No exceptions." and that they use Cloudflare themselves.

This is obviously subjective, but to me it didn't come across as "they suck use us" but rather pointing out the inherent flaws in this quite popular SPOF and cautioning to avoid it.
Keep in mind that government IT jobs in Germany are almost comically underpaid. People competent enough to perform timing correlation attacks usually choose the >2x salary industry jobs. The running gag was that this is the greatest protection for citizens privacy.

Unfortunately, an unintended consequence is that the government looks to shady companies like Gamma to do its job. This leads to FinFisher, which is normally used by the most contemptible dictatorships against their dissidents, to be used against German law enforcement. It also creates incentives not to prosecute Gamma for helping to violate human rights all over the world by helping to throw bloggers into torture jails.
> the McMansions, oversupply of CRE, TARP and the rest of the 2008 fiasco was the result of private sector speculation

Enabled by a combination of the Fed printing money and giving it to financial institutions for mortgages and commercial real estate loans, and Federal government policy requiring financial institutions to give loans to people who would not normally qualify for them, in the name of expanding home ownership.

> Private sector misallocation of credit, not public sector.

There certainly was private sector misallocation of credit, but it was enabled by the above policies plus the belief on the part of the private sector financial institutions that, if push came to shove, they would get bailed out and the loss would be put on the taxpayers, not them. Which is exactly what happened.
That is the problem with massive centralization even if it is market level and internally Cloudflare (or any other big fish) does decentralization/fail-over of their own. Many of these companies should have had fail-over to competitors at least for reliability.

The problem with near market monopolization, oligopoly, even the singularity, the fail-case is catastrophic and may even wipe out decentralized, diffused, dispersed, decoupled system solutions that can't make it due to so much relative size from the big fish that it squashes them along the way. The bigger the ship the longer it takes to turn.

This Cloudflare issue is like the recent Facebook SDK startup crashes where everyone has a single point of failure on Facebook SDK where people should be using or able to use the OpenGraph API directly as they need which is more robust to the app that uses it, it won't crash on startup.

In business it is a goal to centralize to grow, in nature and robust systems it is more differentiation and decentralization to survive. There will always be a push and pull between these two forces.

Systems and markets are like gardens. The garden must be maintained, new seeds planted and helped to grow from small to mid-sized, mid-sized plants the bulk of the garden, and then the larger plants need to be culled back when they get too big to not take the mid-sized and then all the resources from the new seeds/small plants. The problem is we have allowed the top end to take over the garden and when they fail they fail spectacularly. The bigger the scale the bigger they can fail.
> [...] I still store my large app downloads and videos on S3 and then have Bunny (and previously MaxCDN) pull from AWS as an origin server. [...]

He hosts the videos on S3, the CDN fetches the files from S3 and caches it. He's using the CDN for the cheap traffic/more pops. This would work without S3 and without a CDN too.
I don't get this obsession with suffering from antispecists. Suffering is an evolutive adaptation. Suffering of a cow is certainly very similar to suffering of a human being, but suffering of an ant? Probably not.

Then why should suffering modes similar to us should be the measure of everything? I don't see the point. This all really sounds like bad anthropomorphism to me, and a very poor philosophy. I don't understand how it got so trendy, except as a side effect of individualism gone wrong.
Anything to avoid actually eradicating the virus, as many other countries have done now.
Arguments are for the spectators.
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While I don't want to defend the german state, i think it should be mentioned that germany does have a pretty active pro-privacy movement. The chaos-computer club is big, with local chapters in nearly every city, very well connected and closely follows any movement from our government (and industry). While the german state itself may want as much control as possible, its attempts are always attacked by those groups.
I wasn't sure whether to remove that as a gratuitous adjective. Even without that claim, it's an interesting development, especially as the app cost only €850k.

In contrast, our nearest neighbour scrapped their app last month after spending over £11MM (~€12MM) and are now rebuilding on the Apple/Google API: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53095336

The code is already up on GitHub: https://github.com/HSEIreland
This and the Pfizer results are looking encouraging. I'm happy to see some good news today!
Just curious, how is this different from a Bialetti apart from the design? I'm looking on the website and can't seem to find a description of how it produces pressure and how much.

A real espresso machine produces 8-9 bars of pressure for extraction, and a Bialetti is about 2 bars, so it's not technically espresso.
This has always been a problem with HN due to the robotic nature of its audience.
This is just an advertisement for easydns.
> Stop feeling like you have to be an informed and empowered member of society at all times on all issues.

I think this is an underrated comment. Nothing wrong with staying informed to an extent but when it becomes all consuming (esp through social media and 24/7 news), it is essentially taking on the world day in, day out. That's a large burden to absorb for any individual and the loss of control one feels breeds anxiety.
For the record - I think the issues identified here are isolated to founders of venture backed businesses that are shooting for the moon.
What do you mean? I've done this not so long ago on my pool.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/530968/adding-disks...
I saw Mikey Dickerson give a great talk about his experience leading the completion of healthcare.gov, and it sounds like you only saw a slice of it.

This is the talk I attended:

https://youtu.be/7Vc8sxhy2I4
Insects are (more than likely) too simple to have a perception of suffering, so I don't consider morals to apply to them any more than to a plant. I can't give an exact cutoff on the chain of complexity but you wouldn't moralize a petri dish.
The LHC@Home was initially launched[1] to simulate the LHC detector and optimize machine parameters before the LHC went live. It received little to no funding for years, however without LHC@Home a lot of the work would very likely not have been done on existing supercomputers[2]:

"Some 1.5x10^5 users with more than 3x10^5 PCs have been active LHC@Home volunteers since its launch. This has provided significant computing power for accelerator physics studies, for which there was no equivalent capacity available in the regular CERN computing clusters. Volunteers contributing to SixTrack have delivered a sustained processing capacity of more than 45 TeraFlops."

The project has been a huge success and the studies done using it, such as this one[3], has helped to extract much more physics than anticipated[4].

So at least there are some @Home projects that have a very real impact.

[1]: https://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/about/history

[2]: http://cds.cern.ch/record/2301793?ln=en

[3]: http://cds.cern.ch/record/972345?ln=en

[4]: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/lhc-ended-2016-proton-...
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> The market is betting Robinhood trades are profitable to trade against.

LOL.

Fuck you retail investors, essentially. And it's not a bad approach, tbh.
> closed-source addons

wget https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3611176/youtube_distractfree-0.1-an+fx.xpi
unzip youtube_distractfree-0.1-an+fx.xpi

You'll find yt.css and ytt.js which aren't minimized/obfuscated.

Browser extensions/addons are about as "closed source" as websites, or even less so in most cases (let's ignore wasm-powered websites or extensions for a second). Not linking to a GitHub repository doesn't mean it's "closed source"; conversely, linking to a GitHub repository is no guarantee that what you're getting is what's being linked to, or the extension won't be compromised in a future update.
There's a whole list for you at http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/

An extra item that I like is : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416932.Software_Fundame...
How do you handle logging in to the app that needs to be tested? We use Google OAuth.
There are other large CDNs like Akamai. They just don't compete with Cloudflare in the consumer sector. It probably doesn't matter for them because enterprise contracts are where all the money is at.
Lol, it stands for Chimpanzee Adenovirus Oxford. Not too unconventional a name.
Yes, tightly packed nodes or nodes which are all in L1 is one place where plain cmov can win.

The sweet spot is pretty small though, because it is not only squeezed from above by branchy which wins for less cached data, but also from below by linear vectorized search. You can't always apply vectorized search (e.g. if the keys are not contiguous), but when you can it can win up to dozens of elements.

When you throw the possibility of predictability on top, where branchy wins, that's why I usually reject unconditional statements that "cmov gives a huge speedup".
IIRC it was a local food bank.
TIL - Thanks!
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