skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Across the US political spectrum free trade has been embraced by economists and politicians alike, all with the idea that capitalism will force liberalism in places like China. And yet, here we are 50 years later and the CCP is as strong as ever. Instead of a growing middle class resulting in better working conditions, it resulted in an insulated and complacent privileged class who either can't or won't demand better working conditions for the less privileged, for fear that they or their families will become state enemies. China's currency manipulation and curbing of worker's rights ensures industrial equivalents in the US are incapable of competing.

So many economists have rationalized the benefits of free trade as being that the country who can make things most efficiently and with the best quality will succeed, but they ignore what goes into "efficiency". But worker safety protections (especially from litigation risk), higher wages, and better time off are all significant sources of inefficiency, from a production standpoint.

The market devotee acknowledges that the market solution to worker protections is unionization and job-shopping, but it's nearly guaranteed to put enough pressure on corporations to offshore as soon as possible. Unions help wages for those jobs which stay, but guarantee there aren't that many left. Free trade with places like China and Mexico is stacking the deck against American labor.

Conservatives have long used unions as a scapegoat for this problem, but it doesn't explain why it's more often the case that a corporation offshores operations instead of moving operations to a state without government mandated unions. There is some truth to their argument, but I don't think they understand that basic safety protections, natural market forces, and potential litigation all contribute to a significantly more costly American worker than one abroad, even if they aren't in a union.

I think that one of the central reasons this has been happening is that the American ruling class has been insulated in their ivory towers and Ivy League schools for too long. They're genuinely more concerned with "saving the world" than creating a cohesive, prosperous society. It explains why so many lives and money is used to intervene in countries on the other side of the planet, why immigration from 3rd world countries is heavily promoted despite fierce resistance from the lower class, and why they have all but abandoned the idea of low-skilled labor becoming more valuable.
cough Yggdrasil cough
I’m not saying people no longer trust traditional news sources, but there is a difference in degrees that has to be appreciated.

Think about the way that FDR used his “fireside chats” to directly message the American people. By making them feel like he was speaking directly to them, many Americans felt like they were given access to a greater level of transparency of government. 50 years later, Reagan and Clinton both still made regular radio addresses, but failed to control their narratives the same way FDR did. Why? Because by that time the farce was up. Most Americans knew that radio wasn’t some intimate conversation between the president and them. There was a greater cynicism about the medium, everyone knew that lying was just as easy over the radio as compared to written statements.

Now think about how many assumptions people make about social media. Even forums like Hackernews. You’ve engaged with me, so you probably have made several assumptions about me.

1. I’m an actual person and not a bot
2. I am personally commenting my opinion and not the opinions of someone who has compelled my opinion
3. I am arguing in good faith
4. I am a single person, not multiple people with the same account.

I’ve made the same assumptions about you. But the funny thing is that NONE of these things is guaranteed to be true. And in some cases it’s not even likely that all of these things are true.

Eventually people will stop making these assumptions, and learn to mistrust the Internet to the degree that they probably should.
First I've heard of that, will definitely look into it.
The serverless/decentralized web could potentially keep it going once that's more scalable and user friendly.
This holds true not just of a storekeeper in the US, but in many other countries as well.

The US invested a great deal of both soft & hard power ensuring this is the state of the world.
Mac SE/30
> Getting it off the ground is one thing, keeping things reproducible so you can stand it back up reliably if the instance goes down is another thing.

Are we talking about pet servers or kubernetes here? Jokes aside, I think you're underselling how complex Kubernetes is and overselling how complex logging, monitoring, process management, et al are. You don't get any of those things with kubernetes "out of the box" unless you've got an ops team or someone's got a year plus experience running one cloud provider's version. It seems really easy cause we've got one click clusters and a bunch of great UIs but all the time people spend chasing down problems and wrangling the extra complexity of k8s in production gets papered over because it's the hot new thing.

The bash history for the setup above fits on a single page and since the advent of Nix and now Terraform, repeatability hasn't been a problem. The harder part is discipline among coworkers but Linux user/group permissions go a long way towards making it readonly for debugging purposes while still giving fine grained control over servers.
> Knowledge steadily accumulates over time.

No, it doesn't. Only knowledge that people consider to have value will be retained over time. Many things are lost to history, for example.. nobody knows how to make cobblestone. (Or so I'm told)
yea it's a real coincidence that it coincides with the death of representative money
If you're using something like DigitalOcean, you can enable full system backups for 20% of the cost of the 'droplet' (VPS) a month in one-click. Probably quite a safe bet.
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I'm kind of assuming (but couldn't quite tell from the pics) that it's more like a mobile vending machine. That is, there is one area for storage and another for dispensing.
I have ran my own CA in various capacities (workplace, private [hobby]). I will say that LE is wayyyy easier than trying to splice in my root certificate to X number of systems. Also some systems do NOT support custom self-signed root certificates.

I acknowledge your points with the risk of intelligence leaking. However most DNS is benign / not a state secret in general.
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it was economical in the middle ages for hundreds of years! But, having decent steel for your knights' armaments was also an existential concern for most power centers, a more peaceful society might deal with different economics.
MacKeeper is an aggressively sold “security” package that many/most people think of as malware - for their business practices and functionality. It used to be very hard to remove as well.

I don’t know precisely what the entitlement allows but I’m presuming it allows an app to insert itself into the network packet path to examine and possibly drop traffic. Certainly nothing I’d trust MacKeeper with.
Appreciate the response. I guess we'll agree to disagree.
Definitely a good question! Short answer - I have a strong idea, but nothing concrete yet.

I've started this whole journey with a problem-first mindset.

In the first 2 articles, I chose a problem and a niche:

As a remote product or engineering leader in tech, it's hard for my team to develop personal connections with teammates distributed across time zones.

Over the next 2 weeks I'll set my product vision and share specific requirements for an MVP. I'll scope an MVP that I can build in a month or less.

The landing page today is vague - I was hoping the problem and potential outcomes would resonate with potential users, with the goal of collecting and qualifying early waitlist sign-ups.

So far I've had 50-60+ signups, but hard to say how serious they are.
Would you include HashBackup (author here) in your next round of benchmarks? Thanks!
Huh. I didn't remember that.

To be fair, I had to look up Vavatch. It's been a while since I read the last Banks book. And it really was the last :(
> Neopets

Now that's a blast from the past, I remember growing up with NeoPets and NeoPlanet Online. Good times.
> Hatred of Trump's personality was cultivated daily for four years by the DNC media.

Nope. It's literally been his words and actions. "Grab 'em by the pussy" wasn't a DNC smear job.
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Please tell that to the Rockafellers and other ultra-wealthy dynastic families that keep a variety of lower profiles but have incredible influence.
Thank you for putting down your thoughts here, especially 1, 2, and 3. It is messy.

Some of my criticisms of HA are absolutely not their fault, and users should realize the state of devices. It's very common for HA to report a false state of a switch. However, if the switch is report "yes, I have turned the light on" but the actual mechanism in the switch to start and stop electricity is not working, what's HA, or any hub for that matter, supposed to do?

The quality of the devices highly matters, and the truth it, a lot of them are cheaply made junk with no or few alternatives.

Home automation is very, very far from "just works" and people getting into it need to jump in with their eyes open instead of falling for hype.
There is a campaign mission where you have to hobble a broken Panzer through a bunch of Allied territory. The voiceovers for the infantry can be heard sarcastically commenting about the quality of German engineering.
Because it's an article of faith for hard money enthusiasts[1] that nearly all society's economic ills can be blamed on the abandonment of the last vestiges of the gold standard, which happened in 1971, and yet anyone who pays any attention to the posted charts will notice that 1971 isn't actually the inflection point or even a partiocularly notable date on many of them. As you point out, there are many other historically pivotal things in the mid-late twentieth century that caused systemic changes, and many of those timelines better fit the data.

[1]A cursory look at the site's blog posts will confirm the site author is indeed one
https://wtf1971.com/page/2/
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Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25186843
This is actually the same terms we developers work under. When working for an employer, our code is not our code, but the employers. The copyright (& hence why licensing) is theirs. Your employment contract generally says as much somewhere. (It's also often taken too far and tries to detail that any code you write outside of business hours, in your spare time, is also theirs). Sometimes developers (myself) were able to negotiate royalties for games (after costs are covered, of course)... (but never amounted to anything) as an incentive.
That's great insight and I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. I have it in my head that I need to get to a state where I have the boilerplate "done" - able to handle accounts, users (for areas where the two need to be 1:M or vv), admin, and basic subscription billing. I'm trying to get to the point where I have this thing, and each MVP is just an incremental build on top, but instead I have this half-baked thing and a lot of undelivered ideas. I suppose there are no shortcuts and I need to hammer at it, but as you said, not go nuts with handling edge cases.
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Picture an analytics application--something that has to crunch a bunch of data per request, and your users are mostly visiting from 9-5. Depending on the size of the user's data source, they could easily use a whole CPU and a lot of memory for each request and requests can take up to 60s or maybe even multiple minutes. You need to run more than a handful of machines, so you can either overprovision or autoscale, but in either case you need some amount of reproducibility to wrangle all of those machines and you'll probably want to plan for them to come and go because you probably don't want to pay for a bunch of high-end machines sitting idle every night. Optimization is nontrivial so you'll get around to it eventually and maybe even hire, but hiring your first employee is a lot harder than hiring your 101st employee, so you're not going to do it right now but you still need a solution to your problem...
> As this would depress salaries everywhere, that's very unlikely.

This part of your comment was super confusing. So much so it seems better in reverse:

>As that's very unlikely, this would depress salaries everywhere.
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Is there a clear dividing line between engagement and celebration?
60w charger: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08786SHXV/

90w charger: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B083ZBXXN5/
Hmmm....

Someone more passionate about open source usage could put up a brag site where products using open source and profiles of the authors of the open source are tracked. It would be of some benefit to the authors.
Meat-free diets linked with greater risk of breaking bones
for that you need a human unfortunately ;)
There was a surplus during the last years of the Clinton administration. But, yeah, that was brief and a long time ago.
Can you please email hn@ycombinator.com so I can give you some tips about how better to present your work on Hacker News? (I'm a moderator here.) You tripped a spam filter the first time but this is obviously not spam. If you write, we can help you do a Show HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, https://news.ycombinator.com/show).
This is so utterly predictable.

People flock to "free" services and give away all their data to do so.

People buy "cheap" printers, and sign up for extortionate ink programs to do so.

We have a car maker to "takes back" software options sold when the car was new on re-sale of that car.

No we have people buying "cheap" Wi-Fi routers which are subsidized by their ability to be used by third parties for nefarious purposes.

Caveat Emptor only goes so far. The ability to fleece people through technology has been known and exploited for a long time, I wonder if we will ever see a consensus backlash against it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_GDP_of_China#/media...
> Reed employs a group of highly skilled operators from South Africa

This is mentioned as an afterthought but struck me as strange . Migrant workers commuting from South Africa? The article even mentions their wage at $30/h.
It's considered bad practice, as far as I know. The executable should decide that, not library.
Hey! Sure thing.
> but no author to my knowledge has argued that video games and their players do not at least qualify for moral consideration

This is a weird phrasing, to be honest: if an author decides to write on a topic, by definition they believe the topic is worthy of consideration. By the same logic, by how niche this topic is, even by moral philosophy standards, we could deduce that most authors do not believe it is worthy of consideration?

Honestly AFAIK, the position that actions happening in a fictional scenario have no moral weight is the default and widely accepted one, with hardly any credible objections.

I couldn't read the papers you linked because they are paywalled. I'd be interested in hearing a dissenting opinion if you could outline one.

> but your usage of the concept in describing lotteries as unethical targets the descriptive sense - a code accepted by an individual or a community (...)

This is a distinction without a difference. Morality in the sense that "all rational people should accept it" is basically an empty set, AFAIK most of the philosophical arguments are "moral implications", i.e. if you accept X, then you should also accept Y; but it's dubious it's possible to make any moral judgement in the sense you require.

The root cause of my opposition to lotteries, etc. is the moral belief that it's unjust to reward or punish people on the basis of events or characteristics they have no way to control. This is a moral intuition, there is no way I can rationally convince you in a non-circular way that you should absolutely accept this fact. If you don't, the discussion is kind of over.

To make a different example, why do you oppose slavery? (I'm going to assume that you do) The most likely answer is a variation on "all humans have a natural right to self-determination", but why is that? Again, it's a moral intuition without any absolute justification.

> If so, why wouldn't we be able to say the same if the papers I have cited make convincing arguments about video games and players of video games?

Because I'm not convinced they do.
John Kerry, Biden's special envoy on climate was a leading anti-nuclear force [pdf]
Aside from smoking or something that requires a flight attendant to clean up a mess after, how exactly is what goes on in the lavatory a problem?
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What's the current workaround? uBlock Origin isn't working for me and the earlier userscripts I saw were broken by Twitch
Not sure. Just to be safe, by not clicking "disagree" they agree to my ToS, which include an invalidation of previous ToS to which I might have agreed.
I haven't actually been able to find an actual release from Disney where they claim they acquired the rights to the novelization IP but not the liabilities. That seems to have come from the SFWA. (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21578621/disney-alan-dea... confirming this.)
Thanks, this is a good point. I just blindly assumed it was too small because it was a small number.

I think there was a bit of an implication in the parent post that it would eliminate hospitalizations (instead of just reduce), i still think that is unrealistic.
I also found that very unclear. It kind of sounds like another...Slack? Maybe?
Thank you, that was an enjoyable read!
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It’s funny that China spent so many years and many millions of dollars trying to rehabilitate their image as a manufacturer of non-working items and now that their items work...they’re avoided because of security holes instead.
Austrian economics infected Executive team compensation.

Instead of paying execs money they were paid in shares. Execs took decisions that were bad for the company holistically but good for the share price.
> Also, where's the unit test?

What would you think if the following were true for a fairly generalized problem:

- It is easy to prove a particular upper bound on memory requirements when calling a function.

- It is very difficult to know exactly what the memory requirements will be for particular input.

- No known input achieves the known upper bound.

Is it a problem if we allocate enough memory to satisfy the bound we can prove, and then don't have a unit test showing we can't do with less?
One part to clarify, you're quoting NTD/FLG/Epoch Times/Shen Yun/Bannon/New Federal State of China/Guo Wengui. Being partisan is fine. Just be sure to dig through to primary sources beyond editorials.
> Using the internet without adblockers is intolerable.

Yes it is. I remember conversations here on HN years ago where some would argue that people in fact loved ads.

Now it seems this line of argument is gone for good. Everybody agrees ads are horrible.

The only question that remains is, are they indispensable? I think not. We'll see.
Is there a chart for that?
The oil shocks were a big deal, but they were exacerbated by the expense of the war in Vietnam which was really never properly accounted for.
kudos for doing the quick research into the actual topic and background of the situation at hand instead of soap-boxing about hypotheticals.

This should have been mentioned in the original post as it gives some much-needed perspective about the scale of the contribution.
I had to create a account with password to control my christmas light. I am sure next winter I will scratch my head to remember my email/password.
> South African crew seems a tad odd but I wonder if it’s just availability of the labour rather than any other specific reason.

That's an underhanded comment or do you assume Africa can't produce any technical skills?

Agriculture and agri-machinery is big business in SA which is similar to AUS who have generational farmers aplenty and new entrants alike.
It strikes me as weird that Pinkerton never changed its name. Their name seems to mostly be used either to accuse people of being like them or as shorthand for "evil corporate/government henchmen" in historical works. Merely talking to them is going to anger an employee base. Why wouldn't they just change it to something more innocuous like "Allen's Neighborhood Union Breaking Thugs" or "Academi?"
you need to have someone who is very comfortable saying "no" to be in charge of maintaining the interface. otherwise, and especially if the plugin devs have access to the core code, they will say stuff like "hey, I see you have a very convenient function in the core, can you expose it for my plugin?". once you open the door to this, your encapsulation suffers death by a thousand cuts. you can end up with a de facto monolithic codebase that also has a complicated plugin interface that doesn't really encapsulate anything.
Never heard of sendportal...but now briefly reading it, sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing this! I will def. be taking a look to use this!
> Google owns all of the spam filters used by 99.9% of all email providers. If they don't like your content, the majority of your intended audience will never see it. This isn't including search traffic. They regularly censor news organizations without telling them.

Do you have a citation for the censorship allegations?
Yeah no kidding. If you have to compare your current status quo with probably the most extreme time period the US faced in the whole 20th century, it's definitely a bad sign.
That's a good point.

However, I believe that it is different between bacteria and viruses.

From my understanding of the whooping cough studies, they found that some vaccinated baboons who were subsequently infected still had high levels of pertussis bacteria after five weeks. These bacteria couldn't cause widespread infections in the host, but had seemingly found pockets where they were safe from the immune system.

A virus, however, can't find a "safe pocket" away from the immune system in which to survive and multiply. It needs to use the body's own cells and machinery to do so, and (outside of the blood-brain barriers) there aren't cells hidden from the immune system.
When will the world realize this for what it is. An act of war in the information age.
Came here to mention them too. Great product
Availability of your applications, and availability of the kubernetes control plane, are not typically correlated. One of the nice things about how Kubernetes orchestrates is that the master is not in the path of requests. Ie, in many situations the Kubernetes master may be unavailable, but your applications will be unaffected and can still serve traffic.
The article covered WeWork much, much more extensively than Theranos.

I know its against the guidelines, but did you read the article?
Only if you use their website. It's invested with ads and tracking. You can use a desktop client to play the stream in a native player and irc for the chat.

https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/
At best It will be Late 2021 and widely available in 2022. AMD normally use High Performance Node and Mainstream Node Pricing. And that is assuming there will be that many capacity left, as far as I can tell, ASML hasn't been keeping up with their shipment numbers. Possibly one reason why rumours are pointing to Apple using 4nm instead of 3nm in 2022.
Man that's luck!