skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the S-1, you'll notice that Palantir's costs are front-loaded, and their revenues are back-loaded, on a per-deal basis. A given deal both costs them far more its first year, and generates far less revenue in its first year, than it does in any subsequent year. This is strikingly similar to SaaS economics. (Palantir is not a SaaS, but its cashflows and long-term margins look a lot like those of a SaaS.)

Government contracts take a long time to close, but once closed they generally stay closed and often expand. Defense, in particular, is the most enterprise-y of all enterprise clients. So it's reasonable for Palantir to outlay a large fixed cost (in the form of sales, consulting, and integration) in exchange for a perpetual, increasing annuity. Their quarterly losses are a result of them closing many new deals that are in the integration phase and haven't yet started to monetize fully. Notably, Palantir's per-deal long-term margins (70-90%) are closer to those of a SaaS than to those of a Big Four consultancy (~30%).

The "lose money now, make money later" playbook is common to all SaaS companies and works phenomenally well. Palantir's twist is that they do significant integration and custom work up front, at the expense of less sales staff. If you dig into their numbers, it's hard to argue they haven't made a strong case that this model works.

So while I understand the skepticism at their high-level metrics, the details paint a more optimistic picture than "low interest rates made this bad company viable" (an argument I've seen elsewhere). No IPO investor wants to subsidize losses indefinitely, after all.
Hypothetically, let's say you're a regular Chinese citizen concerned about human rights abuses and police brutality in the US.

Can you roughly estimate the impact of your forum posts, boycotts, and all that on US government policy?
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Your statement is wrong in two ways.

1) Communism and Islam can by no means be considered "friends", reason being the antireligious policies that are inherent in Communism. You should read less Breitbart.

2) China can hardly be considered a communist country, it has been turning rapidly more capitalist ever since the official introduction of the 中国特色社会主义 theory in 1987.
Apple isn't passing the extra fee onto the customer, neither is FB.

I understand your point, but it's not applicable here.
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> Sure, and time wise we can witness countless examples of economic freedom increasing and material wealth while happiness decreases. The data doesn’t support your claim, almost every study on the subject doesn’t support your claim.

You can’t just declare “the data doesn’t support your claim” without providing any. Repeating it again and again doesn’t make it true.

On my part, I literally just provided you with a list of the most economically free countries. They include (in order): Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland, the UK, Denmark, Canada, and the Netherlands, among many others. They correlate strongly with most accepted lists of so-called “happiest countries”. This directly refutes your claim that “we can witness countless examples of economic freedom increasing while happiness decreases”. If you’d like it directly spelled out for you, here’s the research that not only observes the same correlation, but attempts to even prove the causation.

https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/pdf/2016/06...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-016-9770-9

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/coep.12190

https://www.yorktonthisweek.com/2.5111/people-in-countries-w...

> You’re going to have to back up that claim

I already did, multiple times. Every single liberal industrialized nation is structured around economic markets, where the means of production are privately owned. By definition this means that the majority of the industrialized world is driven by economic self interest. There are of course variations here and there: you have the Anglo-Saxon model[1], the German Model[2] the Rhine model[3], etc. All just slightly varying accoutrements sprinkled over the same fundamental structure: how best to channel economic self-interest for the public good.

It is, in fact, you who needs to back up your claims. “Good luck!”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_model

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_model

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy
I mean, exactly. Why let them have that control?

My TV is also an output device only in my A/V stack. My receiver handles all the switching duties from the various sources. I have no signal path back to the receiver from the TV, which would be necessary to get audio from any on-board streaming apps.

But that's really just a side issue, because using a well-made streaming box provides a drastically better experience than using whatever garbage $TV_Co put in.
Unfortunately, anti-competitiveness regulations can only go so far.

A better step, albeit a much more controversial one, is to address the problem at an earlier level.

Before companies have the ability to engage in sustained anti-competitive behavior, they have to grow to a certain size.

This allows them to use their heft to squeeze out competitors. Amazon and Walmart, for instance, have enough cash that they can consistently underprice smaller competitors until they go under. And what happens next? The Wal-Mart Effect, where people who otherwise might have been able to own and sustain small businesses now need to become employees with no ownership stake, allowing the mega-corps to continue growing larger and squeezing out more competitors. And that has major public-welfare implications.

So how would we address this problem at an earlier stage?

It would involve pulling a lot of levers -- taxes probably being the biggest one -- to make it harder for mega-corps to compete purely on size, rather than on innovation or quality.

It would also involve a major mindset shift. We need to recognize the hidden negative consequences of an economic environment in which massive conglomeration is widespread and encouraged, while small-business and cooperative ownership is disincentivized.
Force it how ? Countries cannot go at an all trade war. Us consumers need to reshape thw market. And most of us happend to be very pro human rights but we are just convinced into believing that nothing we as individuals do matter.
I believe the reason for the extra valuation of tesla is factoring in the potential of self driving cars and the market they can capture currently held by uber/lift - also the energy storage market and the solar market...

So while they sell cars and that is the majority of what they are known for now... it’s believed in the future they will be worth more because of the AI and storage businesses
If that's the attitude on the other side, then I guess the feeling is mutual :).
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To play devil's advocate: the west is now in a soft Cold War with China. Given China's opaqueness, any media report about China has to be taken with a pinch of salt, especially considering how the media has acted as the mouthpiece of the state in the past (most notably in the entire Iraq WMD fiasco).

So while I certainly don't doubt that China is oppressing its minorities, I'm also loathe to believe every media report about it.

I know this isn't a popular opinion, but very objectively, western media does not have a track record of being truthful when it comes to Cold War opponents.
Hate to be the guy to ask this but I like to dig into conspiracy shit like: “5G is bad for our health”.

One of the theories is 4G & 5G cause mess with the electrochemical gradient and voltage gated ion channels. Given you are studying them, whats your opinions on this even being possible?
> The wiper controls are really my only complaint.

Back to my original point: the wiper control is arguably (see above) the single most important important manually operated safety feature in a car (besides maybe the breaks). For them to have such poor design speaks to Elon’s ability to put function over form.
I use IntelliJ for Java. There's nothing to touch it. What bugs me is that every year or so they change things around and you have to figure out how everything works again, or they discontinued support for a plugin for a particular version of a VCS you were using ... (no I'm not bitter ;)

But I use Emacs for everything else. Emacs never changes how things are done. It can't do Java the way I'm used to doing it though. It took me a whole heap of work to get competency to a level I was actually productive with though, so I can appreciate why it's a tough sell. Worth it though IMO. Though I pity the person who has to pair program with me!
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There’s something terrible about the primary system and it’s not obvious how to fix it. It is ostensibly more representative than the system which came before it, but honestly it seems in the past 20 years to have delivered extraordinarily low quality candidates for both parties more often than not. It’s not clear what the solution is though.
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You say it’s absurd, but that’s exactly what happens. In Australia, the two biggest supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles, do provide free delivery if you buy more than $300 and $200 (respectively), with Woolworths’ delivery fee going down by $3 for every full $50 you spend after $50. So yes, they’ve masked the fact that everyone’s subsidising delivery by only offering it to you when you’ve bought a whole lot of stuff from them, but if you’re buying online at the same prices as you’d get in-store (I confess this is the weak spot in my argument, I don’t actually know for sure that prices are the same, I’ve never bought from a supermarket online), everyone is subsidising the deliveries, even if the threshold has made it a smaller subsidy.

Edit: on reflection, I guess it’s also possible that the fees from the small deliveries are sufficient to fully subsidise the bigger deliveries, and that regular shoppers aren’t subsidising anything. But this wouldn’t hold for any businesses that offer unconditional “free shipping” while also allowing you to pick up or buy in-store.

Edit: it is also possible that it may not need a subsidy at all. You view delivery as the luxury, but remember that stores cost money too. There's a reason some stores have gone online-only or online-primarily.
I’m guessing that true “communism” has never existed and if it did it would work?
> European country are currently doing nothing and this is despicable, my country being the worst, we just discovered that Chinese police officer are invited here to identify potential Chinese to send back to China... the moral standpoint is very weak, and only facts matter.

Switzerland, for those wondering:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/swiss-explore-renewal-...
FB has no right to any specific messaging on Apple's platform. If they really really had a problem with it they would leave the platform.

But we both know they won't, so instead they're trying to put pressure on Apple's customers to force Apple to allow them to do what they want.

And the funny thing is that Apple is actually the one thinking about the customers. The recent privacy changes is what prompted this. It's literally two tech companies fighting.

It boggles my mind that people think FB has some moral or ethical upper hand here.
For me it's the single best feature about VSCode.

Extremely useful for projects which have an environment that is a bit tricky to setup - so usually python. I can just run all my python projects on a workstation or even some powerful cluster node and never need to mess with a local python version on the windows laptop. A giant improvement over the rather lackluster remote mode of Pycharm which needs a local environment to be useful at all. It even supports a remote connection via a jumphost, e.g. for cluster nodes behind another login node.

On the other end the editor is significantly worse when compared to Pycharm. The refactoring is mostly unusable across files and more often breaks things than helps. No perfect tool I guess.
Which language? I assume javascript based on the quality of the question?
I struggled with this too. You can use the mnemonic that it behaves like an iPhone(the new ones without the home button) on top of your iPad apps. The gestures are the same then. Swiping from the bottom of the floating window behaves the same as it does in an iPhone screen. Not very intuitive but I guess it’s the same framework.
I love this kind of technical analysis. Is there any repository containing more of these kind of analysis?
Ah right, thanks. I'll edit my profile to include it in my bio.
> VSCode is spyware

Not if you deactivate telemetry.
Yes his early videos were not political but his content changed dramatically in the last two years. He was under scrutiny by other western youtubers in China e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiOOC1Exk7o to question his recent contents. Not commenting on his opinions just to provide information from both sides.
The website https://ultralig.ht/ says "No source code for proprietary modules." for the free version. So it's technically not an open source project and therefore not a suitable candidate for my projects.

Anyway the sole core benefit proposition compared to chrome seems to be less memory use.
That's a great repository, thanks.

However, Servo just isn't ready yet. There are just so many rendering issues that it's worth waiting for it to become more mature. (If you don't believe me, open https://psychonautwiki.org with Servo..)
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You were probably the first person to try this workflow in years.
> Most restaurants as well

You should check UK out then. They love to handle food and money at the same time with their bare hands.
To be fair, this might not be Amazon's fault, it could have happened with any online booksellers, because ultimately the publisher is at fault. For example, Oxford University Press used to be renowned for the quality of its printing and binding, but it has quietly moved many titles to very shoddy digital printing with misaligned pages and a glued binding that fails instantly, and online you just can't be sure whether you'll get a quality book from an earlier print run, or the new crap. Even the ISBN might be the same.
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> I do get annoyed with people who "complain online'. That's just a waste of time.

It's really not. I learned about this situation by reading complaints and passive comments online.
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I don't think everyone is subsidizing the deliveries in this case, they just make enough profit from you to figure that bringing you groceries home is profitable even after the cost (because you're inclined to shop with them more often).
Not all code is there. The website https://ultralig.ht/ says "No source code for proprietary modules" for the free version. If you want to use the technology in your free application then you tnerefore have to depend on a proprietary closed-source library. And as it seems only to save a bit of RAM. Better use Qt.
We are fortunate to still have a Barnes and Noble nearby. Hope it stays open.
Pretty doom and gloom - when do you predict the end will come? 2021? 2022? Or maybe we have a few more years 2035?
Looks like the single greatest win to me. This explains now a lot.
i don't know why you are getting down voted for speaking the truth. I don't know a single person who this article would relate to in today's climate since everyone i know is using the latest version of office or on google docs.
Nonsense. End users have the power to configure their browsers just like they have the power to configure their DNS settings, their operating system and all the rest. Of course very few people do. Mostly that power requires something most users don't have: which is knowledge to know they need to do this and how to do this. The people actually capable of doing this lose no power whatsoever.

You seem to not trust Google. Nobody is saying you should or must. Other DNS servers are available. Set up your own one if you must. You have that power. If you are smart enough to actually know how to set up DNS now, you should be able to figure out how to configure that to use https. It's not rocket science.

If not, maybe it's a good thing that your browser stops blasting your DNS queries unencrypted over a public network to absolutely anybody that can be bothered to listen in. This would include all the 3 letter acronym security agencies that you can name (domestic and foreign ones), big ad driven companies, your local police, and everybody else with or without the cooperation from your friendly neighborhood operators or arm twisting of the incompetent politicians representing which ever government is governing wherever you live. The best you can hope for to protect you from that is a combination of incompetence and indifference.
One thing that's become quite common here in the UK is multimode networks - bridging gateways for C4FM, D*, DMR and analogue into a single network 'room' - [CQ-UK](https://www.cq-uk.co.uk/) and [hubnet](https://hubnetwork.uk/) are examples.

These use software like SVXLink, [Allstar](https://www.allstarlink.org/) and [XLX Reflector](https://github.com/LX3JL/xlxd) with AMBE hardware at the server to handle transcoding between the proprietary networks.

It's all pretty cool!
Ehh, don't you think that actually makes it worse?

I don't know about you, but even if the government does not have a legitimate democratic mandate, it still has a larger say than a foreign country. Especially if you consider that the USA isn't exactly a shining example of a functioning democracy.
Can someone help me understand: The weight loss app "Noom" [1] asks for your credit card info, in the app itself, when you start using it. They even include a 15 minute countdown timer to pressure you into quickly taking advantage of an "offer". You're charged some small amount of money for a trial, which is automatically converted to a fairly expensive subscription after two weeks.

This is a completely digital service, and they're just ignoring in-app purchases completely. How do they get away with that? Are there exceptions for subscriptions? The app comes across as a scam to me, but it's not exactly an obscure product.

Or maybe they use AB tests or something that hides this from the app review team?

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noom/id634598719

Addendum for reference... I did screenshot the credit card form. This is in the app it self, not on a separate website. [2]

[2] https://imgur.com/a/756LXwQ
Cancel culture means boycotting public figures or companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive. You are talking only about tweets but those have little to do with it.

Boycotting China is definitely possible, simply stop buying their goods. Vote with your wallet! If enough people do this then it will definitely have an impact, possibly even enough to bring about some real change.
... oh great none of my markdown worked :D
You could have stopped after the first sentence.
==For reference, my views are aligned with Sanders but I’d vote for Trump solely based on his actions towards China.==

What is Trump doing about the concentration camps this article is about?
The nazi Germany had millions of citizens too, just like you and me. People who wanted to live a happy and fulfilling life.

We're not talking about bombing them. We're talking about economic boycott and economic sanctions.

What else do you have in mind? How do we act against countries that commit crimes against humanity? Do we just stand and watch because they have millions of good citizens?
The hubris in believing your position is so right the only way someone could believe you're wrong is if they're misunderstanding your position.

I don't get an itemized list of all the vendors the restaurant had to pay in order to bring me my meal, I just get a bill for the cost of the food.

It's only complicated if you make it complicated, which you kind of have to do in order to rationalize the belief that FB is being wronged here.
Ha Ha yeah it's cool - outrageous - have a look at his twitter link
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> we just discovered that Chinese police officer are invited here to identify potential Chinese to send back to China

What country is this?
Yeah, he is also presenting it from a perspective of someone running a side businesses with low revenue.

As a sole proprietor you pay only 16255 PLN/year for your health and social insurance. This is no matter how big your income is and what your health condition is. You could be making millions while suffering from a chronic disease and you would be still paying the same minimal amount for your insurance. There are also some ways to reduce it even further, e.g. if you are starting your first business.
Most style guides suggest using the "GivenName FamilyName" order for foreigner names even when speaking in Japanese. You can see this reflected in most forms of writing.

I don't think Japanese people are in any state of confusion when they say Jack-san. Japanese people simply feel that dropping "san" would be rude and they have always been taught to refer to westerners by their given names. "san" doesn't exactly neatly map onto Mr either. Saying things like "driver-san" or "foreigner-san" is perfectly normal.

How rude is it to not use "san"? I've seen a client blow up over not having san attached to their name in an English email. Manners like this are quite deeply engrained: try not saying "thank you" the next time someone hands you something, it feels deeply wrong. It's hard to blame Japanese people for a similar adherence to manners.
Well logically it makes sense, branding things with "rape," which is not a commonly known name is not . And there are other articles that support it:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/canada-tisdale....

There obviously could have been myriad reasons. Also, Aldi ran into a similar issue with rape:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/25/aldi-forced-to-c...
When I first read about FT8, I immediately started looking at the code to see how simple it would be to handle more meaningful conversations. Fortunately I stumbled onto this video from Jordan Sherer: https://youtu.be/mZKhVcFOljY He had done all the work for me in JS8Call: https://bitbucket.org/widefido/js8call/

If you want to skip the video, the design document gives a nice overview of the protocol: https://github.com/jsherer/ft8call
The probability that he will make good is a function of the payback amount (interest) so this may have have no solution. Each multiplication changes the underlying probability itself and requires a recalculation so this does not work.
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