skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If true, that would be bad news for the spiritual home of free-market capitalism

I'd question the premise that the US is the land of free-market capitalism. America is the home of Hamilton's American system, of the Rockefellers and the gilded age, and of monopolistic competition (now Bezos and Amazon).

Startups like to describe themselves as free-market oriented but they're either giants-in-waiting or dead. There's no equilibrium of middle-sized, free market startup capitalism. That Jeffersonian ideal you're more likely to find in the artisanal, small and debt avoiding family business in the German Southwest, say.

Same goes for trade. With trade volume only constituting a quarter of the GDP[1] the US is one of the most domestic economies in the world. Compared to France and the UK at 60% or Germany and South Korea at 85%. It very much explains America's bipartisan streak for protectionism compared to much of Europe and Asia.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_trade-to-...
> this comment that made me angry enough to make an account.

Wow. Well, you're welcome? Or, sorry? Welcome to HN. :)
In this case you can x-ray it to see the problem. They were x-raying some, but not enough.
We priced Images to be super affordable for customers of all types. It is hard to do a perfect apples to apples comparison but if you look at Cloudinary’s $99/mo plan for example, you get 225K transformations or 225 GB of storage.

If you purchased $100 worth of storage on Cloudflare Images, you’d be able to store 2 million original images and generate upto 20 resized variants for each image at no extra cost. If we assume your average original is 500kb, that alone is ~1 TB of storage (vs. 225 gb on Cloudinary).

If we assume each variant equals one transformation, you’re getting upto 40 million transformations (vs. additional $99 for 225K transformations) at no additional cost.

Btw this doesn’t take anything away from Cloudinary. We’re fans and think there are plenty of interesting use cases for both Cloudflare Images and Cloudinary to coexist.

Happy to chat more about it. Feel free to reach me at zaid @ cloudflare.
One should think about archiving and being able to reproduce code consistently before ditching technologies like Apple does.
That is definitely a key component. Getting an actual bet requires two very dedicated and thoughtful people to negotiate terms and commit to possibly looking foolish down the road.

And I think you're also right about what managers want. I was very involved in the Lean Startup movement, which had a few years en vogue a while back. Core to it was being very disciplined about stating and testing hypotheses as quickly as possible. Used right, it can work extremely well.

It got some uptake in startups, but not as much as I expected. And even less uptake in more established companies, although the methods work well there too. Why? My take is that it's not just about managerial desire, although that's important, but also managerial status. For rising through the ranks it's much more effective to talk a big game than a modest and humble one, even though the latter traits are more likely to lead to success.

I hate it, of course. But we can look at examples like Theranos, Uber, and WeWork. None of them ever turned a profit, and it's possible none of them ever will produce a net return. The first CEO got caught eventually and might face some consequences one year or another. But the other two ended up incredibly rich. Who am I to say that bullshit doesn't pay?
Low interest rates, QE, stimulus, and rocketing stock prices facilitated the hot real estate market as much as proximate covid policies. You are correct to guess there is a substantial discussion that you're ignorant of.
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I’m not very libertarian, and am open to criminalizing vices for policy reasons where doing so has good societal outcomes even at the expense of personal liberty. Even more importantly, I think internet platforms should be held much more accountable than they currently are for the content they host.

So I should be sympathetic to the prosecution here, and yet from the very beginning this case has seemed to be a clear cut example of a witch hunt with prosecutors engaging in bad faith tactics to try to force the defendants to plea when they haven’t committed any crime.
In their defense, there are sometimes good explanations in the comments when you get things wrong and those end up helping. Though, I agree that it isn't content that is provided or verified by their team and it is something coming from the user community.
There weren't studies back then. Just correlation. We have quite a few studies that show the damages of specific kinds of social media and specific practices by social media. Hell a genocide happened because Facebook fell asleep at the wheel.

There are many ways to regulate social media:

- Determine constraints and objective statistical goals the ranking algorithm must meet

- Blocking and marking fake content

etc.

Facebook could choose to rank positivity higher but it does the opposite since it increases engagement.
When it's inconvenient, "children aren't capable of adult responsibility". When it's inconvenient in the other direction, "this court has decided to have you tried as an adult."
Thanks for the update. I had a feeling that this might have been the case due to the launch crunch and it's perfectly understandable. Really excited for the future of this project!
What are some things you saw that made you feel it wasn’t improving or less healthy?
my measly half million dollar worth of stocks "only" grew 30%. There's a significant amount of people do that much better than i did? what am i missing?
A good chunk of evidence has been summarized here: https://ledger.humanetech.com/
I agree, that is a great feature. Now we can separate what is a true project issue than a broad question/discussion
Is this the right way to think about flight pricing given that the vehicles are not expendable?
A down payment is required if not paying cash, usually 10-20%. You’re financing the rest at 2-3% for 30 years, or borrowing against your public securities at ~1% and a reasonable amount of leverage (~%30) dictated by your brokerage.
I wouldn't define "returning to historic norms" as "cratering". Would you define a plane landing smoothly on a runway, even after a steep dive, as "cratering" the runway?
Samsung phone are the worst phone I have ever used. They are even hard to root because they have some shitty knox trip button.

I used xiomi and they are also bad due to adverts/data collection but I flashed other roms and my device is working flawlessly.
True, but this is consistent with several other studies[0..3] which show waning immunity from pfizer in hospitalized patients.

This is why Israel is requiring boosters and the US is following suit.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262423v...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02261-8

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e2.htm?s_cid=mm...

[3] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v...

Edit: added more studies outside of Israel
Space is only ~14 psi of pressure differential from sea level, far less than in your car tires. Nothing is exploding. The issue is mostly off gassing contamination of critical surfaces like optics and sensitive circuit boards.
Same here. I've been in Microsoft land for the past decade and doing some Android work in xamarin which is I believe still on Java 8.
100%. Commodities are for producers, consumers, and speculators.
Ah yes, the Keynes Ex Machina
Same boat here. I really really really wanted to love home assistant. But it’s been constant battle to keep it running over 3 years of me using it. I’m fighting to keep systems up for money at work, and at home I just want something that works.

If only one day Hubitat makes usable dashboards (I know there are third party ones, but it means either some cloud solution that will die one day, or some hacky custom stuff I’ll need to fight with) then it’ll be perfect home automation solution for techies IMO.
America was built in the last century. New high tech cities are being built all over the world now. They are paying top money so getting top talent and top firms to work for them. America is getting left behind, and routed around when needed. The corporations have left their home base for greener pastures.
Once you notice the "Weasel words" [1] you'll never see a press release like this one the same way again.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
Complete Anathema to the upgrade-addicted architecture astronauts round here.

Nothing can ever be finished, there must be "upgrades"!
Since non-sterilizing, intramuscular vaccines provide blood/serum antibodies that offer protection against serious illness/death, rather than nasal/mucosal immunity which prevents infection via the upper respiratory system, recipients of existing Covid vaccines can be infected. If the vaccine works, they will be protected from serious illness. If there is vaccine escape (e.g. Delta) the risk of serious illness or death is that same as an unvaccinated person, i.e. a few percentage points.

After recovery from their Covid infection, they will have long-lasting immunity from infection, transmission and serious illness, with no further need of intramuscular vaccines or boosters. To shorten the duration of infection, accelerate recovery and reduce the risk of long-term side effects, a variety of early treatments are available, including monoclonal antibodies. Early treatment is especially important for those with other medical complications.

In the EU, recovery from Covid (proved via antibody test) enables qualification for the EU health pass, including travel to/in EU. At present, that duration is limited (as are vaccines), but that will hopefully change as more data becomes available from ongoing studies of both natural and artificial immunity.
You're really missing something obvious here. I don't know if it's the statistical nature of ML or the statistical nature of correlation or what. But the fact that everyone else can see how it probably works while you can't should be a red flag that there's a hole in your understanding somewhere.
I don’t think that shows any aptitude for “the graft of government” or goes a ways to disproving the characterization of him as an ideologue whose focus is to assist fiscal conservatism (reduce costs) and to have a cosy relationship with the military industrial complex (increase revenue).
https://web.archive.org/web/20210916034205/https://www.econo...
Need to use old Java, yep. Not as painful as using old browser.
Biden backs top general Milley after reported 'secret' calls with China
I'm a lifetime "fitness person" and I know for myself and quite a few others like me that being fit is a side effect of exercise not the primary goal.
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Idk I drive my grandfathers old car and I think most people have at least 2 grandfathers
If the Fed is committed to propping up equity markets which they asserted in no uncertain terms when markets died in the beginnings of the realization that COVID was going to be much more substantive than SARS or H1N1, it was clear that equity markets would take the "good news" of lockdowns + continued lower interest rates as signs that equity markets were going to continue to rally.

I mean basically where is there yield? Crypto + NFTs (yuck to the latter), real estate and equities. Even just running correlation analysis on these various assets over the last 20 years showed that crypto was super underpriced (despite only 12/13 year track record) while real estate is tremendously overvalued and equities were the only thing to react in a reasonable way to both (1) the initial realization covid was serious and (2) the Fed stepping in with 2 novel revolvers for SMB and for corporate credit. Treasury even threw in a bit into the bowl and performed stimulus. The last 1.5 years likely minted more "wealth" than in the previous 100 years combined (hand waving a bit) - a framework was laid to make much more money than what you put in provided you were looking at what was to come based on what was spoken.
The issue is that it’s a non-apparent side effect to an outside caller.
People are refusing to work minimum wage jobs and causing small businesses to shut down. My relatives have a Japanese Steakhouse with Sushi and they are short people working. Meanwhile Covid means reduced hours and mask wearing.
For every 100 obese individuals in the United States, you’re likely to find fewer than 1 on average that is caused by an autoimmune disease.
I’m also very familiar with ulcerative colitis. When not counteracted with the correct medication, those suffering from this disease typically lose weight due to their bodies vacating their food more quickly than they can process the nutrients. Add to that the reality that chronic sufferers are so miserably tired of living on the toilet that they simply forego eating as long as possible just to guarantee some measure of bowel relief—you mostly proved my point instead of yours.
Moderna also announced recently the effectiveness of their vaccine wanes.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
QDOS was originally a clone of CP/M, but for legal reasons was changed just enough to become 86-DOS (then became MS-DOS)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
I don't think any of them have better durability. If you used the Biothrax reduced schedule of doses at 0 months, one month, 6 months (five months after second dose), 12 months (six months after third dose), and 18 months, you might be able to switch to boosting once a year before a predicted spike. That would be improbable even in the richest countries (look at how Anthrax went in the US military), so the probable solution would be not to care about infection, or to pray to the god of live attenuated nasal spray vaccines to save us all.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. For me, empathy is a root of compassion.

E.g., a friend of mine had an OS problem where she lost a bunch of files. I felt empathy first, and expressed it first as well. Only then did I turn to compassionate aid.

It's true that one has to manage those emotions, but that's true of all emotions.
I'm extremely surprised You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger by Roger Hall didn't make the list. This book had me in stitches the entire time reading it. Amazing story teller and just an overall amazing story.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Stepping-Cloak-Dagger-Bluejacke...

It seems that this specific gun was owned by Roger Hall (OSS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tct21UpVwM
This is a big fat "Duh". Capitalistic monopolies also largely explain a majority of the supply chain issues we've been facing for the past few years, largely driven by "Just in time" production.
Arm is the future, Apple proved that with their M1 chip.
Have you somehow modelled how the global economy would change if copyright was 10 years and fiat currency didn't exist and people used gold instead? Without that, you're living in fantasy land. You can make any idea seem better if you just make up the consequences in a way that favors your idea.
Hey wait, aren't Helter Skelter and Yellow Submarine still under copyright?
RayBan just released glasses with integrated camera and speakers. But this is better, and probably the future. The only concern is the radiation being so close to your brain for prolonged time.
The only connection between disappearing messages and end to end encryption is they're both privacy features.
> It felt like fraud at times but we pulled it off so well

This hits home. 99% of work for those projects is common sense, and 1% is that special knowledge that you can learn on the job.
It took everything the shuttle had to get to the Hubble, so it is an interesting choice for an orbit. I'm guessing it was a check box on some SpaceX "can we do this" type of list.
Note that even fairly small donations feel pretty good. Go ahead, try it!

On one hand it they’re probably going into archiving more stuff, but I wish they invested some resources into polishing up the UI. Besides not being great to look at, the snapshot selection calendar thing everyone has to go through is a joke.

Also, not sure if it’s just me, but I’m proud of donating to them and would be happy about some ways of showing it. I’d probably buy merch.

Besides a small to medium UI overhaul I’d like to see some improvements in search, listings and perhaps curation. There are some amazing things in the archive, but I find them to be not that easy to discover. Some more explorability might mean more enthusiasm.
Some studies[0] have shown Moderna does not have the same waning problems as pfizer, possibly due to pfizer’s much smaller dosage.

https://amp.ft.com/content/aaddc31b-415d-43d0-b314-bc89a8b86...
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I’m aware of the basics of this school of thought, so I think the fact that I can still genuinely find no trace of “violent expropriations of private property by the state” in that quotation shows who the ideologue is.
> Taking TW without substantial losses is more or less foregone in most strategic thinking.

Do you have a source for this? Everything I've read says that the PLA Navy would struggle to take Taiwan even without US involvement.

Amphibious landings are the hardest thing in all of warfare, especially since landings can only occur along a Taiwan's well-fortified beaches, and not along its rocky cliff coastline and given the Taiwanese are dug-in and well-armed.
It's a very very good thing that people are refusing to work for minimum wage. You want employees worth a damn? Pay for it.
>"Brnovich said such testimony was allowable only if it involved evidence that Backpage executives and employees knew about it," according to the Arizona Republic. The article continued:

>Similarly, Brnovich said that testimony given by Jessika Svendgard, who discussed being sold as a teen on Backpage, went beyond the legal boundaries she set in place. Brnovich said that despite her ruling that prosecutors stay away from day-in-the-life style testimony from any prostitutes or trafficking victims, the government's attorneys succeeded in getting Svendgard to discuss exactly that.

>Svendgard told jurors, at times through tears, about being sold on Backpage by a series of pimps. "I would be raped for money," she said. Brnovich said the use of that word "raises a whole new emotional response from people."

Apparently the government wasn't supposed to bring up the victim's experience. The retrial will remove this testimony and they will still be convicted for the sheer number of laws they broke.
>The demographics are not a problem because of how they constrain the number of troops they can field - their population is still quadruple the US, so no problems there. The problem is the economic weakness that comes with a country where each working person supports two retired people (either directly as in family or indirectly as in taxes). That doesn't work as far as we know. So China is right near the peak of their power (maybe 15-30 years away.) I still think that means they'll be patient and wait for their moment. But they can't wait forever.

PRC military budget is ~2%, without global commitments that's enough to procure a military that can pace or eclipse the US in relevant domains. Demographic decline problems are mostly social, increase in per capita productivity projected to keep the economy growing. Money is not going to be an issue, and frankly inverted pyramid social problems, which will suck, isn't going to undermine military spending below what's necessary to maintain security interests. Countries much poorer than PRC spends more on military while mainstreet suffers simply due to security realities. And the security reality of PRC is it will always need to take over TW, or have sufficient military to challenge USN in its backyard.

Historically, it’s not unusual for large powers to spend 5-10% or more % of GDP on defense. 2% is indefinitely sustainable goal for PRC even with demographic decline. Also Chinese demographics peaking =/= Chinese military capability and appetite for reunification peaking. Realistically PRC could rationalize 2x/3x military spending, especially in time of need.
> while adding a level or something to a game has almost no marginal cost increase

ha ha ha
Are you suggesting that the likelihood of a contract renewal worth tens of billions of taxpayer dollars rests solely on our government seeking to objectively determine the best vaccine for the taxpayers?
There isn't that much excess kilns to dry lumber. They have to be of a certain standard -- especially if they are graded.
I'm shocked that an effectively untested new drug technology is flopping. Shocked,I tell ya!
Except sports headlines. I like them in sports headlines.
We will have to pay the trees to stop growing!
> Did you mean to say “when people have nothing to fall back on”?

This is better than sitting doing nothing, starving, and waiting for a handout to come, as happened in many, many countries.

My strongest belief is that America needs an economic shock therapy, to spring out of economic lethargy.

Lets face it. America is no longer the financial superpower. China is currently world biggest foreign investor, and creditor, and has banks that make Morgan's balance sheet look like pocket change.

Betting on banks to lead America's return to prominence is futile. It's akin to trying to wing a card game against a professional card trickster who lives off ripping off casinos.

Nor is the dream of service the dream of "service economy" feeding much of the country materialised. You can't earn much FX selling McKinsey consultants, nor are they are much needed around the world, because the world doesn't have American problems.
I really like Java the language but I feel everything involved in working in Java is 300x more complex than it needs to be. (Even with a IDE)

Just getting code updates on our old java websites makes me realize why all the new stuff is arguably slower php and python..
Another great question! Regarding Security/Defense:

Browser sessions are protected using TLS versions 1.0 through 1.2 for maximum browser compatibility. ECDHE cipher suites are supported to provide Perfect Forward Secrecy (when supported by the browser). There are limits imposed on login attempts per user, per IP, and per session. If per-user limit is reached, then IP whitelists are imposed. Saved passwords and associated data are protected using AES-256 with salt and MAC. Beyond that, the security of the product ultimately relies on choosing a strong password, verifying your certificate, and restricting physical access to your PC.
The Israel study (not "studies") is an outlier, and is inconsistent with the other studies that have been done so far:

https://nitter.net/mugecevik/status/1430218372348878860?lang...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01557-z

This one in NEJM, from today, just being the latest:

https://nitter.net/davidwdowdy/status/1438268969211744256#m

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110345?query=fe...

...which is why, also today, the FDA recommended against boosters for healthy adults:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-says-covid-19-vaccines-rema...

We'll see where this goes after ACIP, but this is now highly politicized, and the recommendation of boosters for healthy adults is far from a sure thing.