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Price of container shipping has skyrocketed due to high demand and the supply of ships being fairly limited, even more limited when the average trip time of a boat increases.

One question I've been thinking about is whether the ocean freight companies will respond by increasing supply of ships. These ocean shipping companies didn't actually make a lot of money prior to the pandemic: back when China-USWest prices were under $3k a container, their margins were actually kind of thin.

So if we've had all this consolidation, and there are now three alliances that handle most of the freight, what is the incentive to increase supply? Just a 30% increase in ship capacity would likely crater profits.

Is the industry going to respond with building more ships, or, like OPEC, will they be able to coordinate to constrain supply so that long-term rates settle down in the $6-8k range versus the <$3k that existed previously?

If they are able to operate as a cartel, that will have major, long-term consequences for the dynamics of geographic manufacturing and supply chains. If they can't, then the pandemic will be a multi-year blip and we'll go back to hallowing out manufacturing and sending it to Asia.
It's 400A peak usage, not average. Different decisions could have been made to lower that peak load considerably. As another commenter mentioned, swapping out the tankless water heater which can trip a standard house's electrical connection all on its own.
Curiously enough, one of the exercises in the Programming Erlang book is to write a rudimentary IRC client.

Glad to see both sides now covered :)
I would. I own a Tile, and it's limited by the relatively smallish network, at least out in the burbs where I live. Having every iPhone in the vicinity conscripted into the network would be good for me... even though I don't particularly want an iPhone.

Mind you, I only ever use it to locate my wayward cat, so perhaps my use case isn't the most common. I don't seem to find any other need for it, though perhaps I should attach one to my keys.
I get headaches and light themes feel like someone is stabbing me in the eyes. Dimming, dark themes etc are sometimes still too bright.
Even when I don’t have a headache I still prefer a dark or gray mode.
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Rather than ban the device, punish the behavior. Apple has made it quite easy for anyone with an Apple device to notice if they are being tracked. Why punish someone tracking their scooter as if they were tracking some "daughter"?

GPS tracking of cars is legal in many place. Those devices don't report their existence to the owner. Perhaps we should start there?
Serious question (I don't mean this as an attack): is online astroturfing part of your job description? It's the only way I can make sense of the tireless apologetics you've been doing all over this thread.
What is a realistic example of what I'd have to do as an individual to get my tax burden down to 1%? Also, why do billionaires and those who need it the least pay proportionally less in taxes than I do?
CAR-T therapy is indeed very cool and very promising against certain lymphomas. My wife had triple-hit DLBPL (rearrangements of the c-MYC, BLC-2 and BCL-6 genes) and received CAR-T therapy. The therapy itself almost killed her due to neurotoxicity and other immune responses. We were initially very optimistic as the CAR-T cells rapidly destroyed the cancer cells and visible signs of the cancer on her body vanished. The cancer is her brain was eliminated, but after a few weeks, the lymphoma in her body came raging back, causing pleural effusion, swelling and horrible pain. Keytruda (pembrolizumab) was started as a salvage therapy but wasn't effective. Time of diagnosis to death was 10 months. CAR-T was administered in the middle of July and Melanie died on the first of October.

For those wondering, she received several rounds of DA-EPOCH-R chemo for the lymphoma, high dose methotrexate for the CNS involvement, had a port installed in her chest and an Ommaya on her skull that allowed drugs to be put into her brain (intrathecal treatment.)

The first rounds of chemo were pretty effective and she had a few good months. The brain involvement eventually damaged some nerves which caused Bell's palsy, which causes eye droop and facial paralysis. It sort of looks like the results of a stroke.

For those curious, the CAR-T therapy itself was $650,000 US. Getting the blood to create the T-cells involved yet another special catheter getting put in to do the draw. The CAR-T infusion was a big deal at the cancer center; lots of staff came by to observe. It was also super stressful for Melanie and everyone as there was a pretty fast reaction to the infusion. She ended up in the ER about six hours later and was in the ICU for about a week.

One thing I do wonder is if some of the drugs used to moderate the CAR-T cell expansion slowed things down enough that some of the cancer was able to avoid the T-cells? Regardless, if things weren't slowed down, she would have died from the infusion.
It's not that we "create" space-time it's that everything we measure is from the perspective or filter of human-perception. (The quantum world doesn't really exist, that's how our bodies perceive reality!)

Meaning that, as a human, if I make a human-made telescope, it will see things that the human eye is able to see or perceive using the telescope. If you have a telescope made by a mantis shrimp (https://phys.org/news/2013-09-mantis-shrimp-world-eyesbut.ht...) then it would be able to see things that the mantis shrimp would be concerned about, and also would likely look drastically different than anything our minds can conceive of at all because we lack the sensory input to generate the new concepts from.

Science is at a very pathetic place right now.
If you have an absolute majority (which PiS was the first to achieve in 2015 and 2019), you can do anything. And if people protest, you can just wait them out - since 1991, only trade unions can announce paid strikes, their membership is dwindling and the largest one (Solidarity) became a puppet of the Law and Justice party.
Russia has had one ruler for a very long time, and that ruler has had somewhat stable (even if bad) policies. This makes Russia a more predictable place than say… the USA where every 4 years you risk having one extreme political view vs another in control of the country. One year you have peace with Iran and Cuba, and the very next year that’s off the table and it’s sanctions time. That’s a massive swing in political fortune.

Then there’s that thing of: should we? Absolutely, yes. Russia and the USA would destroy the Earth if tensions move to war. The US corporate press loves to say that Russians are massing troops on their border, but that’s within their own territory. Meanwhile, the USA has massed troops all over the globe with bases in nearly every country. The antagonisms need to stop. Peace needs to reign. The alternative is the death of the Earth.

A train connecting Asia and North America might be exactly the kind of thing to bring this peace to the table. Politicians respond to lobbying. Cargo freight is big business. If enough money lined their pockets…
Didn’t they have to debase the currency to make those payments?
And 230M people would like a word with you.

Trumpists seem to forget that neither their movement nor their President have ever had the support of the American majority, much less of all "regular people." Never even the popular vote.
> If there was a load of cool software that Apple was preventing from coming into existence, Android would be the dominant platform by now, because it would have all the cool stuff.

A mobile application that can't be shipped on iOS has a much lower total addressable market, which potentially makes it so that it isn't a commercially-viable undertaking for the developer. When I was working in the mobile space, I saw more than one great idea that never advanced to a product because of this factor.

There are also a lot of cases where a cross-platform mobile developer will kill an otherwise promising feature because they can't ship it on iOS and don't want to fragment their product by having different feature sets on each platform.
Because people have gotten used to using their devices at night and in badly lit rooms. I think it's one of the worst design trends in recent times with negative effects:

"[...]To summarize, a dark-on-light (positive polarity) display like a Mac in Light Mode provides better performance in focusing of the eye, identifying letters, transcribing letters, text comprehension, reading speed, and proofreading performance, and at least some older studies suggest that using a positive polarity display results in less visual fatigue and increased visual comfort. The benefits apply to both the young and the old"

https://tidbits.com/2019/05/31/the-dark-side-of-dark-mode/
Hopefully, this time, we won't overcorrect. We need to clamp down on crime without crushing the underprivileged under the fist of heavy handed policing.

Policies like stop and frisk really do work at reducing crime. But they also increase the abuse of civil liberties. Especially in those who don't have the resources to fight back in court.

And who pays when people do fight back and get huge settlements for trampling on their rights? No, it's not the cops that perpetrated the abuse. It's the tax payers.

Countries like China and Singapore have very low crime rates. But I don't think we should emulate all their practices. In Singapore, you can get lashed with a cane for grafitti. So, they don't have much graffiti.

We need smarter policing, not necessarily more police. Even in my area, I keep hearing about a shortage of police, and yet, I keep seeing police here just sitting in their same little speed trap hiding places waiting to catch someone and write a ticket.
If you can be flexible about the infrastructure there is no problem with gRPC. Most problems I have seen is that is does not work or perform as well through proxies and load balancers without tweaking.
"Most recently in TN where they ban books about it."

That's a worry. What kind? Those that put war in a negative light presumably.

"It would help if the US would actually teach history..."

The US isn't alone, many others do the same. The other worrying observation is that antiwar sentiment doesn't last more than a generation or so if that (the Vietnam generation was about as anti as it has gotten in my lifetime and come the 1980s/90s the feeling had almost totally dissipated).
That's not how the Fed works. [edit] (As I replied in a peer comment, increasing the money supply is not debasement or a loss - that is measured from its impact. In the years subsequent to the bailouts inflation hit at some point an annualized -4% before returning to a range of 0-2% going into COVID.

Modern economics isn't as simple as "supply up bad.")
Mortgages and equity funding aren’t really comparable since the terms of the instruments and risk tolerance of the investors is very different.

Just because someone can’t qualify for a mortgage doesn’t mean they can’t raise funds for a business.
Hi! Sorry for the delayed response. Atlas focuses more on deployment pipelines, and is a more structured system for deployment-specific use cases. It has a lot of support for testing, application recovery, and state remediation.

Tekton is quite similar to Argo Workflows - they are both frameworks that provide ways to declare workflow pipelines for execution on Kubernetes. Per one of the Argo project leads, the majority of the users are using these workflows for ML, ETL, data processing pipelines, and CI.
Funnily that is also my dream and I have been (slowly) working on making this a reality so I can just be an imposter by myself. But after months (even years) Eurotripr.com is no where near an MVP. I'm even too slow to focus on my own things.
That's not really considered a dark pattern, seems like an auditory "tetris effect"
XSS escaping, sql injection prevention, click-jacking protection, password hashing updates...

Django provides so much security out of the box.

That's before we even talk about features.
An increase in supply is not a debasement. That is measured post-facto based on its impact. Inflation was strongly negative between 2008 and 2010, hitting an annualized -4% in 2009. [1] The Fed was also making good progress unwinding its balance sheet going into 2020, before COVID hit.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
If you have a family Apple account you can avoid having your keys beep at your wife.
I made the transition from engineering to product management.

The transition, like many, had its ups and downs, but I mostly like what I do.

The Pros

You interact with a broader range of people. When I worked as an engineer in large companies, there were very few opportunities to interact with marketers, sales people, customers(the most important). Being able to work with people in those roles gives me a holistic view of a how a business operates.

You get to shape the product. You do research on competitors, deep dives with UX, calls with customers and figure out what's missing and what needs to be built, and when to build it. You have more of a voice in proposing what needs to be implemented because you have more context.

You get to write! I love writing. Many people are bad at it. Part of why I became a PM was because, as an engineer, I was often either not given specs or I was given poorly written specs. Being a PM allows me to write and communicate to a level of detail I want. It's a different style of writing than engineering or back end specifications, so there's a learning curve to it but I enjoy it.

The Cons

Politics. This is a big factor , especially at large companies (and a big part of the reason I'm at a startup now). In large companies, you have dependencies on other teams if you want to ship. That means priority decisions are based on how close someone is to another PM, how strong their allies are, etc etc. It also means higher ups can override your product decisions in order to make themselves look good. If you're transitioning to product, make really sure you know the type of culture at the company. If it's against your style of working or leadership, leave.

You don't build anything. Being a PM is a lot of soft power. Can you write a proposal to convince someone else to build something? Can you relinquish control when a developer says "This is hard to implement!" and your engineering side disagrees? Are you comfortable building something without actually contributing a line of code? This continues to be the hardest part for me.

Communication. I don't mean writing. I mean keeping everyone (all the stakeholders for your project) aligned. As an engineer, my manager and the product folks knew where I was at in terms of implementation. As a product manager, all the devs on my team need to know what to do, my manager needs to know. Sales needs to be kept in the loop so they know how to phrase their sales calls. Marketing needs materials that they can send to consumers. Customer success managers need updates that they can tell clients when to expect that feature you promised. It's an exponential increase in the amount of communication you need to do. (My advice is writing documentation and making sure everyone knows where to look for updates. Otherwise it's slack hell).

Meetings. If you're not careful, you'll have a full calendar. Try to avoid this - product managers need time to think too :)

My email is in my profile. If you have any questions, reach out. I'm happy to talk through it.
I don’t check figures, but Rust hype feels ever lasting….
The failure of the first DAO for Ethereum in 2016 is what you are talking about. [0]

Its a similar story, but this time no individual at the top reversing the whole blockchain of that transaction and hard forking it to cause a revoult against the main blockchain or a new group creating something like Solana Classic, etc. whilst talking about 'code is law'.

At least this is indeed 'Code is law'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
> but the value you bring to the company!

I hear you! But the value brought to the company is still relative to the cost of doing business, and that ultimately becomes calculous on where the business & employee are located.

This is the whole idea with outsourcing. I'm sure cheap labor in less developed places like Mexico, India, or China... provides huge value for the foreign companies. In those other economies the workers can be paid a huge amount of money compared to the local average, and yet still be significantly lower than equivalent people living in the developed world.

The concept is not limited to other counties, it makes perfect sense here in the USA and around Europe. People earning 100k in a place like Alabama or Mississippi are high earners in their area. Take that same person, same amount of pya, but put them in San Jose... now they are effectively in poverty.

What is 100k worth to somebody in China, Mexico, or India? Just because that's the cost of somebody somewhere else, doesn't mean the same applies to people located elsewhere. Likewise, same applies to people in Colorado.
"fear" is necessary because I was stuck at an apartment for 3 days and nowhere to go with no heat and no water when the weather outside was -17 degrees.
Apple has over a hundred million iPhones all across the US and opted them into helping track Airtags without asking for permission (I'm sure it was buried in the middle of pages of terms of service). The only way to opt your iDevice out of tracking is to turn off Find My, so you can't find your phone if you lose it. Nice bit of artificial tying there. Tile and Samsung devices are more for personal use and won't really work outside your own location.
You can always cherry pick news items to depict Israel as bad or as good as you want to. But remember, reality is more complex than what's on the news.
While there are some terrible mistakes, Israel's treatment of Ethiopian Jews is definitely not terrible.
>concurrency issues, latency issues, poor database schemas, scaling issues, there's a lot of reasons internet scale things can grind to a halt.

With such a budget, you can solve these problems within 8 years.

I would bet my net worth that you(anonymous HN account 'newacc9') could have solved these problems in 8 years. You might even need to have gone to university and gotten a compsci degree to learn about all these things and still have had over 4 years to solve it.

I feel like it cant be a technical thing.
>an incredibly high bar that no respiratory viral vaccine has ever met.

An incredibly high bar that no intramuscular (humoral) respiratory viral vaccine has met. Mostly because injecting into the muscle does not lead to tissue resident immune cells in the upper respiratory mucosa because it's a separate immune compartment from the body serum. But there are options like intranasal boosters after intramuscular vaccination that can prevent infection and do significantly reduce shedding and spread.

And it's been driving me crazy the entire pandemic that intranasal spray vaccine boosters are not being heavily funded and persued. It would save the world so many lives, time, and incalculable money.
Well, i'm not counting the phone (pretty much ANY tracker requires a phone/computer to view results) which I assume is a given. I'm specifically speaking about the phone PLAN which is where the real money goes. A phone service plan will cost $20/mo in the US easily, so thats $250/yr forever. At this point, tracking luggage/bicycles isnt cost effective...the tracker starts to become more expensive than the tracked.

The AirTags are awesome because ANY phone creates a mesh for them to broadcast.

UPDATE: per sister comment, see https://www.hologram.io/pricing/flexible-data
Absolutely. With all the air tags in my family, I think I'm completely desensitized to the beeping and notifications. I really doubt I would notice if I was being stalked.
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Signing Git commits with your SSH key
Tile didn't work well enough for stalking.

I bought some Tiles and Trackrs and gave them to friends who agreed to help me test their usefulness, pretending that they had "stolen" these items from me. I would see if I could locate them a few days later when I "noticed them missing".

I got one ping from a Tile once when the friend had apparently stopped for gas, but none from their house. And zero at all from the Trackr. Apparently there just aren't enough users in my area for the networks to accomplish much?

By stealing battery from every iphone user and data from their cellular plan, Apple has built a find-me network that actually works. Therefore it also works for stalking. Therefore Apple is getting the criticism.
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Yup, it was called "the dao" and a hacker ran away with a third of their Ethereum.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
Kind of off topic, but anybody know how I would gain the skills of building a house from scratch without quitting my day job as a developer?
> Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, scientific papers about health - none of this stuff is very interesting to me

> I flag most of those stories

Please don't flag stories just because you don't find them interesting. Flagging is intended for stories that violate site guidelines (off-topic, spam, uncivil comments, duplicate posts, etc.). A story about privacy or a scientific paper is not likely to be off-topic.

The HN Guidelines say: "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."[1] The guidelines don't say that you should flag articles that you find uninteresting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That didn't seem to work well for guns in the US.

Besides, this tech is opening a tracking pandora box with social and political consequences that we can't predict.

I'm for banning without a licence on this one.
This is something sort of like what I want to do, though I think my budget is probably an order of magnitude smaller.
Recently got Starlink. From 10Mbps/0.5Mbps to 150/10 is a god send. I'll gladly pay for the extra power consumption.

I have some sympathy for the astronomy crowd, but I wonder if its inevitable. And is world wide broadband more/less important to society than having to correct for light streaks?

The router debacle is just ridiculous though. All of the networking tech being used is so ubiquitous, why not include a damn ethernet port.
I just received my ethernet adapter 2 months later and... it doesn't work. Tried multiple configurations including straight into a PC - nothing. to top it off my support ticket was closed without any response... so my $300 mesh wifi will just sit on the shelf while half the house gets poor connectivity.

Overall its exciting to have decent internet and not live in a city. The future of it is exciting too -especially the space laser links. Imagine a situation where you can hop directly to a ground station on or very nearby a data center. A lot of people saying Starlink is great if you don't have access to something better, but Starlink may end up being the "fastest" internet available.