skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For fun I looked up a 2011 vs. 2021 Honda Civic. That's likely a much more apples-to-apples comparison. About $16k to $21k, or 31%. That's about 2.7% per year, which seems to be slightly more than claimed inflation as well.

That's interesting, I think. I suspect cars are becoming more expensive to manufacture over time due to more stringent regulations. Lower emissions, more active safety features, etc. Maybe certain raw materials have become more expensive as well? Or maybe NRE costs have gone up across the board now that electric cars are becoming mainstream?
Libertarian enlightenment is reading the Austrian school and realizing we're so far away from libertarianism that applying it to narrow scopes can often end up justifying oppression.
Is Argo free? I only see paid options
> In 2017, health-care spending in the United States came to $10,207 per capita. Germany, on the other hand, spent $5, 848 on health care for each of its citizens.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/22/germany-health-care-system-c...

Germans must do without those fancy MRI machines after all... oh wait they have those two. So what’s the catch? Maybe they have fewer people covered? No, not that either:

> Despite spending less per capita, Germany still manages to cover 100% of its population. In the United States, about 8.8% of the population remains uninsured, which equates to about 28 million people. Even more people are underinsured.

What they have less off is overhead. They do have a shortage of doctors, but not due to costs of becoming one - education is either free or nearly free (especially by US standards).

> Tuition loans of over $200,000 are not uncommon for students in the US after graduating from medical schools, which are often private institutions. In Germany, however, the vast majority of medical universities are tax-funded and, for this reason, free of tuition.
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5617919/

So we probably have more than enough money in the system already to treat every single one of US citizen, maintain great care and not close local hospitals, but we are too busy allowing profits and helping doctors pay back mega education loans.
It makes some things more difficult. CD/DVD's are generally used instead. Sometimes other computers could be connected but in that case there would be some organizational procedure for attempting to make sure that other computer was as low risk as possible.

You can't eliminate the possibility of malicious action, Stuxnet proves that. It's my opinion that at least for critical infrastructure we can probably make things much more difficult for our adversaries at a relatively low cost. This pipeline is purported to carry half the gasoline/diesel/heating oil to the east coast, but I'd be lying if I said I knew exactly where the cost-benefit equilibrium should land.
The're not really far behind so much as they cover a whole bunch of useless shit and the're not particularly prescriptive.
Good point. Yes, a lot of reliability improvements for Tunnels announced during Developer week. I will certainly test this problem sometime and post here.

Thread on the community seems relevant: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/getting-cloudflared-to-ru...
Hacked Pipeline May Stay Shut for Days, Raising Concerns About Fuel Supply
>(like how much time you have to spend there, and you can't rent it)

These sound as very reasonable strings for what you get in exchange and given the motivation behind the exchange (which isn't merely to benefit the taker).
You can't avoid all dependencies. Certainly, avoiding a dependency on a complicated application server is good, but somewhere in the mix there has to be a DNS nameserver, an HTTPS server, some kind of persistent storage for the status, and some way for you to update that status. If your status page is a static page, then that just means that your persistent storage is wherever the HTML page itself is stored; an S3 bucket, say, or the filesystem of a machine that's running Apache.

The thing being pointed out in the OP is that, while you can't avoid all dependencies, you can avoid having any shared dependencies (other than core internet infrastructure) between your status page and the service whose status it's reporting on. That way, outage risk will not be correlated between the two, which is generally good enough, since almost no one cares about your status page when your actual service is not experiencing an outage. One effective way to do this is with a service like status.io that specifically hosts status pages and specializes in having very high uptime for just that one kind of page.

If you use the same domain for your status page as for your main service, then that may mean that an outage in your application server, application database, etc., won't affect your status page, but the two will still share a dependency on your load balancer (i.e., whatever your A records are pointing directly at), so if anything goes wrong there then your status page will go down with your main service. If you use a subdomain then there won't necessarily be a shared dependency on the load balancer, but there will be one on the DNS nameservers. The only way to avoid all shared dependencies is to use an entirely separate domain.

I don't know if Discord's problem that the OP is talking about had anything to do with DNS, but I think that's been a source of outages for them in the past, in which case a separate domain is the solution.
Yep I agree that everything is a balance between freedom and harm. As for your examples: Cars are necessary for a modern society to function. Gun’s aren’t. Australia (where I live) have very few COVID deaths because of strict shutdowns. The US decided to let close to a million people die for “freedom”. Clearly our perceptions of harm is different. So our conclusions will also be different. Having lived and worked in the US, Europe, and Australia, it is clear to me that the US (in general) value human lives less than other Western nations. So the outcomes will be different.
Their approach makes a lot of sense. Corp network hacked - so to be careful shut down pipeline until you've really made sure that you are fully safe pipeline side as there now may be more attack vectors.
As someone else in this thread mentioned, I too wish there were more documented stories of business failures. That's where the real lessons for all of us lie.

Usually telling someone to "get a blog, dude" is an insult, but in this case it's a real shame that the experience you're relating is going to be buried and forgotten in an ephemeral HN thread. Have you considered sharing your experiences and thoughts on an actual blog, perhaps in conjunction with whatever business you're engaged in nowadays? That's one page I'd bookmark for sure.
No aliasing is required. I was first introduced to moire patterns by a book with a bunch of line patterns, and a sheet of transparent plastic with other line patterns printed on it. Put the latter over the former, move it around, watch the weird effects.
MSNBC had a person on who purported to be someone knowledgeable. I also read the Washington Post. The act of war part was my idea. I realize I may not have the correct understanding yet, but based on the Solar Winds hack and the Mueller report, it seems to me they are attacking us. Isn't an attack an act of war?
I also switched to One Finance, just over a month ago, and so far I really like it. I also started using YNAB almost a month ago to try to help with the budgeting things I was getting from Simple but aren't really there in One.

Kind of unconvinced about YNAB, I want something that does more "autopilot with corrections", but YNAB seems to be "everything manual so you know where your money is going".
> Perhaps we have more to lose in escalation.

We can entirely, safely remove Russia from the global Internet and we can do it trivially. That's exactly what we should do if they press attacks too far: isolate them. They have the increasingly government controlled Runet to restrict their people's access to the outside world, we should barricade them in.

Their economy is small, close to meaningless. It's nearly a rounding error at this point in the global economy and it'll continue to shrink in that relationship. The sole thing to be concerned about with Russia is their nuclear arsenal.
East of Suez
$4B
How Long Does Chicken Last in the Fridge?
The reason that cyberattacks are proliferating is because it has only recently become easy for the threat actors to receive massive payments quickly and anonymously. Remove that ability and the entire cyberattack ecosystem shuts down instantly. It is only a matter of time before this happens.
On a sidenote it wouldn’t be too difficult to cheat by using a second computer, without any school software installed
Cedar
Solarwinds hack, Mueller report, this... I don't know what the best response is. First we have to wake up that we are under attack.
His article defends a modified myers-briggs that is much closer to the big 5. Myers-briggs with personality traits on a distribution is extremely similar to big 5 minus neuroticism.
I was an adult, and I remember the experts on TV (and print and other media) debunking the “experts” you refer to, often in near real time. And, unlike the latter, the former often had the receipts (fairly literally, in the case of the debunking of the “Winnebagos of Mass Destruction”.)
You can do this, at least with Windows or Linux, by grouping windows into separate desktops.
but to pay the debt (that is used for consumption), they need after-tax dollars. If they borrow to invest (instead of consumption), then yes, paying debt is better than paying tax and investing the after-tax dollars.
Experts said several airports that depend on the pipeline for jet fuel, including Nashville, Tenn.; Baltimore-Washington; and Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., could have a hard time later in the week. Airports generally store enough jet fuel for three to five days of operations.
If a cartel kidnaps your child and says they'll be killed if they don't receive a ransom payment within 72 hours, guess that's goodbye to them, then?

This kind of punishing of victims is draconian, unethical, and, in my opinion, basically insane, in addition to being impractical and very difficult to enforce. In some cases the victim's negligence is largely to blame, but sometimes it isn't.

And even when they are negligent, I think threatening to imprison them for paying a ransom in order to remedy something that may upturn their entire life and cost them far more (financially and otherwise) than not paying is just ridiculous.

There should be some kind of accountability and regulation for negligence, and any company that's hit with a ransomware attack should be legally required to report the attack to authorities and disclose it to their customers, but I don't think you can or should punish people for paying ransoms. You should try to punish the ransomers, and the people who obstruct punishment and shield the ransomers (like countries whose law enforcement permits the attacks and extortion and whose financial industry permits the payment handling).
They were doing deep dish with crispy edges before anyone else.
So you need to sacrifice your own child's life for being so stupid as to get abducted and kidnapped in order to hypothetically decrease the probability that hypothetical future kids may be kidnapped?

Come on. You would really make that decision if your child were kidnapped?
HN silence is hypocritical, where the voice once defend george floyd??
> the great irony...

why is that ironic? This is the premis of capitalism.

> unless the investor obtained that money by wage labor done by themselves personally.

at some point in the past, or in their ancestry, this is true. Unless their initial wealth was usurped by robbing off someone else without recompense, there's absolutely nothing wrong that wealth begets wealth.
Small trucks are available. A base model, 2wd, 2-door Tacoma is not big.
I've actually worked in govt systems. If you think the whole endless threats of jail make for more secure systems you are truly clueless.

These systems are RIDDLED with the WORST outdated crap you can imagine. Absolute insane hoop jumping so plenty of pressure to work around security just to get jobs done (seriously - start with the help desk if you want access - they are so used to password resets the procedures become a joke - literally - what's the username and that's it, because if you have thousands of folks on 30 day password rotations with insane complexity all you do is password resets endlessly). Password sharing can also be crazy so passwords float all over.

The govt has had it's top stuff leaked. Office of personnel management leaked insanely sensitive stuff. They contract with the WORST folks in security. It's really crazy.

Google has never asked me to rotate my password. I have non-SMS two factor authentication options, they do pretty sophisticated rate and geo monitoring so you are not annoyed but pretty secure.

Cyberattacks, mechanical failures, weather disasters, meteor strikes, terrorist bombs, stupid construction workers ALL could affect this pipeline. People on HN have no risk perspective. Make the system resilient to a proactive few day outage. Why does this system have to run 365 / 24 / 7? Have you mitigated EVERY possible issue - including disgruntled employees? No - then instead of over doing one corner, design some give in the system.
This oversimplfies things a bit. Law firm associates generally receive a salary and a bonus. The bonus can be substantial (six figures) if they hit various performance targets. These targets are largely based on the number of hours billed, although work quality is also relevant.

Law firm partners also don't generally make the same money on their 80th hour. Partnerships will split up the profit at the end of the year, and the number of hours billed and size of the partner's "book of business" factor in heavily here. The size of the book of business depends on the number of hours the partner bills (overseeing associates and paralegals, as well as doing independent work), so working more will increase a partner's share of the annual profits.

Also, a partner whose time is in high demand can raise rates (sometimes done by reducing discounts or charging clients a "NY rate"). So a partner who has plenty of work and doesn't mind not having more work can simply raise rates and make the 80th hour more expensive for clients.
I totally disagree. I consider myself a consequentialist, and I absolutely think the net positive utility would come from paying the ransom and rescuing your child. The problem isn't consequentialism but merely an insufficiently nuanced analysis of potential actions one could take and their potential consequences.
I really liked the first book and parts of the 2nd and 3rd, but man the 3rd book really threw me off the series. Just a really unsatisfying way to land a trilogy - all of the stress and torment that Fitz had gone through for a couple of thousand pages across the 3 books is given just a few pages at the end, not even in-character, to pay off.

Wonderful prose but man the storytelling was a disappointment. Put me off her work completely.
It bothers me when anomalies related to IQ and relative ability are so readily dismissed as a discrepancy of “talent” as if hand-waving towards some black box provides any substantive meaning. Do we really understand talent, or is it just indicative of shortcomings in our current methods of measuring intelligence?
I doubt it, less than 115 is 85% of people. Aside from the low end IQ really isn't that predictive.
Do the opposite of last time logic is surprisingly popular, despite leading to some odd conclusions.
They haven’t updated their docs yet https://blog.cloudflare.com/tunnel-for-everyone/
The parent poster specifically was advocating for the Fed to be handing out retail bank accounts I believe (FedAccount)?

It seems like it would be a distraction (though also perhaps a useful tool) in the monetary policy front.
Their economy is small and ours large. Therefore we have more to lose possibly. Removing them from the internet will not prevent their ability to mount attacks. It makes it more difficult but not impossible. We cyber attacked an Iranian nuclear facility that was air gapped.
allow other code to arbitrarily call-in and out of Smalltalk

why not? isn't that the property of any RPC interface? can't RPC be completely language agnostic? as far as i understand this all depends on how flexible the RPC interface is.

i have certainly seen RPC interfaces in high level languages that allow me to call any object or function in the target system. in fact, i am working with a platform written in pike that has such an interface. pike is a high level language like python or smalltalk, and the RPC interface of this platform has clients in java and php where i can access server side objects as if they were part of the client. like i could with CORBA or others.

there is no reason why smalltalk could not support something similar.
I support expanding access to the financial system. But many of those people are blocked because they wrote bad checks. What would you suggest to do with them?
Unfortunately some externalities are not frivolous. It is kinda nice not to have polluted water, or polluted air, or deserts because of bad land management.

I'm not against your point of wealth creation, but externalities are real and do need to factor in. Individual veto isn't in play, but some sort of societally mandated rules-of-the-game are.
middle class was an abberation of the post-WW2 era when the world needed to be rebuilt.

We live in neofeudalism.
AFAIK, Cloudflare Tunnel (used to be called as Argo Tunnel) is free.

Argo (smart routing) is usage based.

PS: From https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-tunnel/, I do see "To start using Argo Tunnel, you'll need a Cloudflare plan and an Argo subscription." - I haven't enabled Argo subscription and I am able to use Tunnel. So there is some confusion.
As someone who switched from Simple to a “traditional” bank + YNAB, it is definitely a lot more in depth and less simple. I think it’s a good option for keeping track of everything and coming up with better plans though. One major downside of simple was not having credit card purchases inline. But Simple’s goals and expenses I think were easier to use even if less advanced. There is definitely more of a learning curve to YNAB.
I understand the feeling. But your question is also lacking some specifics as to what skills you have, what domains you know etc.

My suggestions: (note that I myself have not created any startup or successful product!)

1. Forget the “creative” framing of startups. “Idea” and “Inspiration” are not the appropriate words when thinking about a new product. A customer problem that you are equipped to solve, which will hopefully make money - this is a humbler but more effective way of framing your situation.

2. Once you decide you’ll only look at problems, you’ll quickly realize there are only certain problems you’re capable of solving - based on your market reach, skills, capital, domain knowledge, geography etc. Use these to drastically narrow down the problems you can realistically solve. Acknowledging these constraints is liberating as you are now free to explore a smaller space with more depth and focus.

3. Start the actual execution - even a “little bets”/Lean approach where you are willing to throw away your solution (note: avoid using words like Idea) if it’s not useful enough.

There’s a lot of advice and literature that bridges the gaps between Steps 2 and 3 above. I’ve linked to some below that I found to be good.

Further reading:

- Paul Graham’s How to get startup ideas, The power of the marginal.

- Rob Walling’s phenomenal material (his website, books and podcasts like Startups for the Rest of Us), and IndieHackers. Arguably Walling’s advice is more applicable to a majority of new companies as its only a few that raise VC.

- The Jobs To Be Done framework by Bob Moesta and Clayton Christensen. This will keep your focus on the customer side of things

- Basic product positioning questions. Use April Dunford’s writing to pin this down.
The article consistently says that there’s no brain back there, but then continuously says that we don’t know what filled the gap. I’m finding it a very unconvincing way to debunk someone’s hypothesis.
purelymail
1a. No, but there was a single attitude. Something along the lines of :

"Science is fun and the kind of fun I love. It's hard, but learning is worth it. The mistakes we make along the way are just as important as the successes, if not more important. There's no barriers to Science other than doing the work and anyone can do the work. Literally anyone, even you. Science is more fun when more people do it. Ask questions, lots of questions."
Yes, quite a bit.
I thought real takeaway is your status page should be up even if your application is down OR they have to be independent.
yesh, fcuk zuck
“Our findings may show that the absence of a desk is an indicator of poverty, which research has shown to be highly correlated with academic performance, both in the U.S. and internationally.”

This seems the obvious flaw in this hypothesis.
Interest rates aren’t fixed at 2%. If they rise even to historically low standards, the federal government could have trouble servicing its debt.
> Goods provide some value to the customer, and that determines what they are willing to pay for it

Very often customers will pay twice as much or more for the same or equivalent good that delivers the same value, you're local grocery store will show some examples. People will often pay 5x more for brand name items over white label ones. Stores will very regularly discount some items to take advantage of price discrimination, people not paying attention to specials are effectively paying twice as much for the exact same items. If you go to a different grocery store in a wealthier/poorer area you'll see the exact same items at different price points. These are all ways companies will maximize profits because people willingly pay more for the same items.
Wealth is created when the value of inputs is less than what is paid for the final good or service. It's really as simple as that.

The fact that one person doesn't see value in a good or have a willingness to pay the asking price doesn't mean nothing is created. There exceptions however, but by and large people are free to pay whatever price for whatever good. Canned fresh air, little caesar's, art etc.
It's more than that, though. Many of the modern ransomware gangs are filled with talented, dedicated attackers who specifically target certain companies.

You could invest a ton into security, have a competent security team, follow best practices, set up lots of security appliances and software, have lots of analysts monitoring and responding to alerts and actively hunting for threats and writing custom SIEM rules etc., and there could still be one small mistake that lets a sophisticated attacker in.

As the adage goes, the defenders have to win every time and the attackers only have to win once. A group of sufficiently motivated, dedicated, resourceful, and talented attackers who face zero risk of any sort of repercussions will very likely get in if they put enough time and effort into it.

This isn't just old-school ransomware that merely tries to infect as many computers as possible in general and just happens to land on a corporate machine and automatically spreads from there. These are trained, experienced red teams manually targeting companies and everyone who works at them. In many cases the victims do indeed have poor security, but a company doesn't necessarily need to have poor security to fall victim to ransomware.
> Which means they have to make more and more shows to provide that number of hits to sustain so much demand

That's a fixed overhead, because the hit shows costs the same if there is 10 million subscribers, or 100 million subscribers. Netflix doesn't not need to have 10x the number of hit shows to serve 10x the number of subscribers!