skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An employee is beholden to his/her manager, but cannot "call the shots" but simply takes orders.

This is true only insofar as the value you bring to the company cannot be outweighed by the shots you want to call.

If you are, for lack of a better term, that good (and while I have a dim view of VC-silly startups, the successful ones I know really are that good), that can be a very wide remit. It very well might be "wide enough," even, and it's worth considering.
I've always thought VPN was a bit pointless: a browser fingerprint already has far more bits of information compared to your IP address.
Yup. Father in-law had this quarter collection. For whatever reason he spent decades collections quarters from each of the states and had well over $500 worth of quarters. None of us wanted his quarters. He was able to sell them at 3 quarters per dollar, a 25% profit!
US Customs Plans to Tap into Nationwide License Plate Reading Network
Conversely, their parents and grand parents get infected by the little plague carriers returning from the plague pit and general viral exchange facility that is school.

And the grand parents and obese parents are vulnerable as all merry hell.
I don't disagree, probably.

I keep finding myself working on internal projects that are driven by a UI and have little business logic but lots of I/O to other systems. With no hard requirements, no guarantee of shipping and no direct access to end users. Which I find less suited to unit tests than (automated) integration testing. As soon as you put unit testing in all anyone can ask is what your test coverage percentage is and why it's some value less than 100.

Unit testing is a dev tool, if a dev sees value in writing and maintaining a given test, great, otherwise it could just be that it's not a panacea. Let them strike a balance but ensure the team ask the question of any production issues - could a unit test have prevented this?
Lots of use cases aren't covered by a self-hosted VPN. Public VPN servers allow you to blend in with other traffic coming from a shared IP giving you plausible deniability for things like piracy.
Would a better word be "validating" in production?

I try to validate all of my changes in production, see them run, see them output expected values, etc.

I try very hard to test everything I can prior to production; but, then I read loglines, watch graphs or run the code myself, all to validate that all the interconnected pieces are working together.
There are a lot of bootstrapped founders, actually the vast majority of them since the percentage of companies that VCs fund versus the number of pitches is tiny, so this doesn't seem that accurate. Just look on www.indiehackers.com for more info on these types of founders.
You don't have to change the archive format in a breaking way, you just need to extend it

Backwards compatibility is more important with archives than with the util itself
Let’s not forget wolfram. Wolfram alpha made me good at math. The fact that you can specifically ask it to solve sub components of a more complex problem is fantastic for figuring out where you’re misconceptions are hiding.
And the ones with gummy schmoo on them?
> Siberian separatists are as real as Texas ones.

Having grown up in Moscow, I’ve never heard of those Siberian separatists. However, in my almost two decades in the US I haven’t gone a year without Texan separatism becoming a topic in my social circle.

This observation is made without controlling for my age or current political climate, so a hunk of rock salt is in order.
Details are more grim than the title...the judge's husband and son were shot by a gunman dressed as a FedEx driver. Son died, husband is in critical condition.
The title is both editorialized and making assumptions.

We do not know the motive nor the intended targets of the perpetrator.
It made me laugh hard, so true. I wish there was a better way.
> Derivatives top the list, estimated at $1 quadrillion or more in notional value according to a variety of unofficial sources.

1 Quadrillion:
1,000,000,000,000,000 (10^15)

Derivative (finance)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_(finance)

Derivatives market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivatives_market :

> The market can be divided into two, that for exchange-traded derivatives and that for over-the-counter derivatives.
No, that's against their ToS.
As Bruce Schneier says.... Data is the toxic waste of the modern era... you just know sooner or later it's going to leak.

Don't collect it if you don't need it. Destroy it as soon as possible if you do.
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The long term effects of flu are known. The long term effects of Covid-19 on any demographic are unknown. Polio killed less than 2000 people per year prior to the development of the vaccine, but impacted many more.
Hm okay, thanks for acknowledging! I guess the reason I had strong words for this was that the mental bias I observed is actually extremely pervasive among people here in the bay. In fact the first question I get about my firm is whether/how much I raised.
Really doesn't matter how many tb to be honest, I don't even look at the number. Even 1 kb is more than enough.
Show HN: Launched my startup solo after rejected twice.100 business signup in 1M
just don't give up guys, i got 100 business sign up since i launched Conferfly a month ago.
it was hard and i almost gave up after i got rejected twice but i am happy i didn't. finished the project by myself with my humble budget.
now i am working with some happy customers

*Thanks for all help from HN community
The "value" of order flow is not "per person". Ordinarily, it should correlate with order volume, but RH is getting far more than expected on (something close, but not exactly) that measure. I wonder if RH customers maybe trade far more than those of other brokerages? Maybe that data isn't publicly available, requiring them to use average account value as a proxy?

Anyway, the point here is to stoke anger from RH customers by calling them stupid (making bad trades). Dividing their revenue by number of accounts would tell a different story, one that would also anger customers because, again, it paints them in a bad light. But this time their stupidity would manifest itself by allowing RH to profit so much more than other brokerages.
Robinhood was an absolute game changer for me. Outside of my 401k (and a Viacom stock my mom bought me 20+ years ago to teach me about the stock market), my investment portfolio was nil.

I now maintain a growing but conservative portfolio of stocks thanks partly to the frictionless UX of Robinhood - but, primarily, to the addition of fractional shares.

To pay $1500 for a share of TSLA? When I could put that precious money into my savings account? Pass. But if I can buy 0.1 shares at $150? Now we’re talking. Hey, TSLA went up a bit today. I’ll buy another 0.1 shares. Etc. That, without hyperbole, is truly the beginnings of the democratization of the stock market.
> No, at this point we can be pretty certain that this disease doesn't affect young children as badly as flu

That's just straight up wrong. According to the CDC, as of June 23, COVID-19 was three times deadlier than the flu for kids 5-17, and 190 times deadlier for kids 0-4:

https://i.insider.com/5ef234caf34d051bc821d0d8?width=700&for...
I'm not too optimistic that this was a "bad" move, just a move by people that have already carefully considered the pros and cons and their conclusion was to make the move, meaning they found more pros than cons.
It does have the option to load data from an exported XML subscription list.
My use case is not piracy.
England's test and trace programme 'breaks GDPR data law'
Yes that would be awesome! We try and play games during our team happy hours, but the friction of finding a site, getting everybody to sign up, and dealing with "this doesn't work on my machine" issues is often off-putting. Having a collection of games we can start instantly mitigates many of these issues.
I think the model that I prefer is: "if you're going to deploy some code in the evenings or beginning of the weekend, you're on call for the code you added until work day tomorrow"

And have it be only around the code you just added.

If you deploy (and validate) earlier in the day or not on Friday ( or whatever the end-of-week day is) then that requirement is gone.

I've definitely seen code get deployed at 8pm on a Friday night; and, who knows if it was guaranteed to work. That person definitely should be on call for it.
Security conscious people aren't installing proprietary VPN trapware, nor routing all of their traffic out one VPN.
Sometimes they're useful to do IP-based ACLs, or to evade geoip restrictions for media-consumption etc.

Hiding IP addresses, and pretending you're anonymous, is only one use for VPNs (and a poor one for that matter).
As a rule, I don't check anything but HN before bed simply because they usually don't have those types of stories. Tonight it had an assassination attempt on a Judge working a high profile case who's 20 year old son is now dead and a husband in a hospital. In the United States.
I'm afraid of Bay-Area-view-of-the-world-being-inaccurate sorta things, was kind of sad to see it in myself (though my scope was narrowed partially because my only experience was choosing between industry vs startup)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873418

The author of that article completely confused about the goal of protobuf. Read this rebuttal comment, written by the previous owner.
If you don't already have a soldering iron this is not a bad idea if you have a low budget. You should get a heat gun instead if you want something useful in today's modern age though to work with SMDs unless you prefer baking all your components. A heat gun is much better for removing smd components and is a lot more useful than a clunky iron even if it's risc-v
Not sure what you mean by “directly,” there are going to be strong financial ties to any VPN provider one chooses, and as such, they are no better than running your own in a lot of circumstances.
The main problem with home espresso is not the machine. Professional machines are expensive because they are specced to make shots in quick succession and also handle a lot of shots before requiring service, a machine for a couple shots per day and 5+ years life can be made for couple hundred bucks or less.

The grind is the problem that has not been solved yet. You need uniform and adjustable grind size and there is no cheap way to make a mill for that. Entry level espresso grinders are starting with hand-cranked ones at $200+, a decent electric one will be at least $500 and the good one will be $1000+. Just the replacement burrs for mine are $250 and these are not some one-off hipster burrs, they are mass-produced for commercial machines. Making precise shapes out of hard steel is very expensive.

So there are essentially two solutions for at home espresso-like drink: various pods (ESE is apparently from 70s and was designed for commercial use, I imagine very light one) and machines with a pressure valve on the exit from the portafilter (essentially all machines you can buy in department stores), those take pre-ground coffee and use the exit valve to create espresso-like "crema". It's not espresso because there is no noticeable pressure difference over and under the grounds and espresso needs the layer of coffee to provide enough resistance to get to 7-9 bars on top of it. I think some pod systems could be more like espresso, at least in principle.
I think the commitment aspect of a startup is mostly underrated by people

Freedom? Closing the work laptop at 6PM is freedom. Not having to worry about office rentals, trash collection, bathroom cleaning is freedom. Fine, you could go WeWork for that, or just stay at home (aren't we all) but something will go off at night, or your future self will regret your past self decisions.
Can you still say that you are hosting the content yourself if the content is still on a 3rd party CDN? I guess that is just semantics. Great article none the less!
What is the benefit of self-hosted VPN? No, security benefit I know of, unless you primarily consume HTTP or other unencrypted communication and even then it saves you from MITM or other attacks between you and your VPN server and not till the content server. Anonymity is only a benefit in public VPNs.
No, gamers themselves distinguish between gamers and non gamers. Quite strongly and it is important to them. Gamers do have shared values I tend to disagree with.

No cyclist ever told "she/he is not a real cyclist", so cyclist is descriptor for people who cycle enough. Cyclist is not identity.

Gamer is identity and subculture, because gamers use it as identity. You can't be like "she is not real gamer" and then turn around "everyone who occasionally play games is gamer" when it suddenly suits you.

The things gamers consider good, I don't. The shared values and culture of gamers makes them more then just stereotype.

And also, I am here talking about things and people I gave experience with, both online and in person. No, it is not media stereotype what I talk about. More of conclusions based on interacting with gamers.
Anyone who is using VPN probably(?) knows about browsers too? I have not met a single non-tech field person using VPN.
Lol. Fabulous answer to the math, with nice humour! Unless the Gas industry learns how to make new Gas on the fly, Lion will continue to shine also because of the amazingly different ways that it's energy losses can be replenished (wind, water, sun, vibration...), even while it's doing its thing.

So, GP's comment of "develop the tech that seems impossible as the biggininng" (typo included) is the important part. It might be that in the future, because the motors and other moving parts become increasigly efficient (& are already much better than a combustion engine) then less energy is required for the same resulting work. Even more so, the ingenious ways that energy can be 'reharvested' to flow back into the system could in fact allow us to develop something that seems impossible...simply because we're harvesting energy and pouring it into our Lion dependant system better than Gas ever can.
Mutual funds and ETFs are basically that but you get a sliver of like several hundred high quality companies instead of just one. I’d argue those products did more for democratization because they allowed investors with small sums of money to achieve diversification.
With a less common perspective:

https://jacobinmag.com/
A few other major use cases I've used them for:

- Scraping, when my scraper gets blocked from the real estate site, wallpaper site, etc, I click next IP, change my UA and I'm ready to go for another round. You can play cat and mouse all day without worrying about all your IPs getting banned.

- Avoiding DDoS attacks, if you're doing something that makes you likely to become the victim of a DDoS attack, like say, joining a script kiddie's botnet IRC server, not giving a crap if your public IP gets dropped is pretty handy.

- GeoIP bypasses, allows you to work around everything from region locked content to discriminatory pricing

- Country-wide and default blockades, many countries censor the internet only in minor and weak ways, blocking things like BitTorrent tracker websites by domain or IP that commercial VPNs will trivially bypass
You can do those things on any brokerage. You can buy options pretty much anywhere. Not seeing where the democratization is coming from that is different from the status quo
congratulation, it looks really good.
definitely a bad word. this judge will probably suffer a very bad depression, PTSD, all this stuff.
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Yes, everything is built for a purpose. But the raw materials used to make a thing do not change because of the purpose. They follow their own laws, it's us who ascribe the meaning to the resulting combination. Laws are something we cannot change, only use. But purpose is a concept. We do need concepts to create and operate things, but if we shouldn't mistake them for laws. Concepts are something much more pliable :)

It's all rather abstract, I guess, but yesterday I found an example while playing a game, "Opus Magnum". You are to solve puzzles by arranging mechanical arms to move marbles. Initially I mentally referred to actions of the arms as "taking a marble" and "placing a marble" and solved quite a few puzzles this way. In all solutions all my arms did exactly that: they took and placed marbles without doing any purposeless movements.

Yet yesterday the next puzzle looked too tiresome to built. I had an eureka moment once I realized that the arms do not take and place marbles, they merely close and open their grips and if there's a marble, it gets caught, but the arms themselves have no idea whether they're moving a marble or not. And once I allowed myself to let them do "purposeless" movements without marbles, I found a simple and elegant solution :)
There needs to be a level of serious discourse that doesn't appear to currently be in the air, around what to do, international treaties, and repercussions.

I have no idea why people aren't treating this with grave importance. The level of development of AI technologies is clearly much ahead of where anyone thought it would be.

With exponential growth rates, acting too early is always seen as an 'overreaction', but waiting too long is sure to be a bad outcome (see, world re: coronavirus).

There seems to be some hope, in that as a world we seemed to have banned human cloning, and that has been around since dolly in the late 90s.

On the other hand, the USA can't seem to come to a consensus that a deadly virus is a problem, as it is killing its own citizens.
The problem I've been facing recently is that long form also turns out to be a waste of time after you go through the most informational/influential pieces.

Lots of the articles thread the same water, dive into totally unnecessary details, or just tell a story that, while fascinating, does not really give you any important new information, or bury it in a few casual sentences, never elaborating on them.

For books it is usually just the same story told over and over again with the character names and forms changed.

That applies even to some of the stuff recommended directly here on HN. I would not even dive into aggregators recommended here.
The issue is that a CDN is still involved - and they, like YouTube and others, can ultimately choose to deplatform you. LBRY (decentralized video sharing) might be a better alternative, perhaps? https://itsfoss.com/lbry/
isn't differentiable programming a concept that has existed under one shape or another since the 80s, likely earlier ?
e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/322609.322611

Like, I'm pretty sure writing a generic "differential function" is one of the first things you teach to undergrads taking a LISP class - isn't "differential programming" as mentioned here just the same concept baked in PLs ?
I completely get where you are coming from. In college I had to almost all my papers and projects late at night to take advantage of the “tired effect.”

I’ve thankfully been able to move beyond that a little bit. A large part has been getting more confident in my work; or more precisely more confident that everyone else’s work is generally terrible as well and mine is just fine in comparison.

One thing I’ve found incredibly useful is having developed people who I can give first drafts to. I can accept that I’m doing “sub-standard” work because they’ll tell me if it’s actually bad or not.* I’ve been surprised at how positive some responses have been to things I thought were terrible.

Getting over that inner critic can be tough. Sometimes it helps to have a team.

* My mom was the first person I’d this with- her “I have no idea what you are talking about, but it looks convincing to me” stamp of approval has always been amazingly encouraging. Thanks Mom!
Completely silly to put in the notional value of the derivatives market in there as most derivatives are designed and issued in a way such as the real value is none or cancelled out.
If the VPN provider doesn't keep logs, you have plausible deniability that it was in fact your traffic coming out of that exit node.
https://xkcd.com/980/
CDNs are the best thing since sliced bread. Found this out both from ease of setting up frontends and the pain of setting up backends.

I wonder if there's a way to build a database on top of a CDN, or a webapp backend (might just be something like serverless, but instead of function definitions you have files+config a CDN automatically knows how to run). Something like Plan9 for the web.
Isn't 500 karma needed to downvote? Karma might be an indicator of seniority indicated by peer vote. As for the other issues, there are ways of being highly critical without needing to be brutal.
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The lowest energy means to get to Mars is to use the Hohmann Transfer Orbit and the launch window comes about approximately every 2.1 years. Therefore, you’ll tend to see missions from different agencies all launch close together. More complex missions using gravity assists or relying on certain alignments etc are more variable in timing.
">Since PIX does not “take screenshots” but instead captures the sequence of D3D commands and executes them on hardware, we can observe that executing the commands captured from an AMD box results in the same bug when executed on Intel."

Mass Effect bugs aside, this is interesting!

Before this article, I never knew that DirectX (D3D) commands could be proxied from PC to PC; I think that's a great capability!

Also, if that's the case, and apparently it is, then it would seem like you could do something like X-Windows/X11 but for PC's running Windows over a network by proxying D3D commands... And of course, if Microsoft wants to be proprietary about that, then the same thing could probably be done with open source software using OpenGL commands, that is, proxy them over a network connection to gain an X-Windows like effect, if I am understanding the underlying technology correctly, or am I mistaken?
I’m not saying that the speculation implied by this headline is true, but, if this were related to the Epstein case, which explicitly involves the president, who just commuted the sentence of one of his several criminal associates... I’m not sure why you’d imagine the government would act with moral force and clarity here.
In Europe it is generally cheaper as a merchant to take credit vs cash, because they have low credit processing fees. Because of this they take credit for pretty much any transaction.

In the US, it's not uncommon to see places only take credit for purchases over $20, especially restaurants.
I think there's still plenty of opportunity to develop a professional network through structured events like 1:1s and mentoring sessions, but you definitely need to be intentional with this since you can't just strike up a conversation in the hallways anymore.

Where juniors will struggle with is not being able to swivel their chair and ask someone next to them for help. I've witnessed situations where people hold back "stupid" questions which end up blocking their work because the effort of crafting a Slack message or asking to set up a Zoom was too high. For anyone with juniors on their team, make sure to check up on them every now and then!
the key is not to give up
The judge would likely have prefered to die than for her 20 year old son to die. I think the attackers sent the message they wanted.
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If what you want is anonymity, VPNs are the wrong tool, as evinced by these leaks. My main use case is privacy on unsecured networks such as that of coffee shops.
It shouldn't be trivial to find you if someone wants to file a lawsuit. Everyday p2p shouldn't be dangerous.

If you have a server, allocated an IP, and someone sees that IP... that's a pretty direct tie.