skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean how do you measure VPN services?

- Credit only Word of mouth, but it depends what type of VPN you're looking for. So again, word of mouth these days.

> I never understood why people working in tech would ever trust a VPN service?

-I do, quite a bit actually, I need to connect to another network but region specific.. They are a tool for as you say 'in tech' to work.

> A VPN is seeing all your traffic, and you have to take their word that they do not log any of it?

- At least in Europe that doesn't fly. It does depend on your provider though. Thats why you shop around.

- On this point, I will argue that running your own VPN is better, but so is running your own web hosting. It depends on your priorities.

> I use free tier AWS servers across the globe with wireguard. It might not be perfect, but I still prefer that than using a VPN service.

- Good for you. Enjoy.
Back-end tests can be super robust immediately whereas front-end ones generally take some tweaking to get to that point. I still think they’re worth it, especially for testing the core feature happy paths. Selenium and the like are fine. Being end-to-end these type of tests cast a wide net so it’s worth logging the dev tools / browser network logs if you can at the time a test fails as well as taking a screenshot.

Use a cloud device service like BrowserStack and setup some CI. Who wants to test this stuff manually after the first time. Make sure the front end devs don’t change your data-* attribute tags or whatever else you’re using to find elements and are strict with that.

As lead dev and co-founders at Tesults.com I’d obviously recommend you use that for consolidating test reporting from your back-end and front-end tests :-)
The bonus money paid to executives is not available to the bankrupt estate and therefore to innocent third parties. They arguably should be subject to clawback.
Hmm. Under US bankruptcy code any payment made in the 90 days prior to filing is subject to being undone by the court (you have to pay the money back). Perhaps this rule doesn't apply to employee bonuses??
There were pockets of resistance to mask wearing in the 1918 flu pandemic, but it was not widespread.

https://www.history.com/news/1918-spanish-flu-mask-wearing-r...

Also, they didn't have government leadership publicly questioning the wisdom of mask wearing.
I don't think this is an issue with the on-site analytics, but with the quality of the traffic and website performance. If you make sure that:

1) Your site loads in under 3-4 seconds for any user.

2) The user is interested enough to wait 3-4 seconds until the page loads.

Then most issues will be solved.

The problem with ads in many cases is that the traffic they send is of very low quality or just bots. In the end you already know from your ads provider how many users they say they sent and you should always use that when calculating ad conversion rate.

Also note that using Cloudflare will count as bounced users who never actually even tried to load your page (bots, crawlers, scrapers, all HTTP requests).
Exactly. Another fundamental abstraction they should have mentioned in the article is [the surprising way z-index actually works](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Positio...), especially being aware of the existence of [stacking contexts](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Positio...).
Discord is forcing bot developers to submit photo ID for verification
I agree with all your points. I would prefer more control over what ads are shown rather than blanket ad ban. There is no alternative way for companies to reach customers. Supporting Content Creators is not the same though. It just benefits two people in the equation: Content Creator and Consumer. This is not viable longer term as it depends on the Consumer being able to pay for the content offered by the Creator! And how does the Consumer make money? Through either a job or having his/her own enterprise.

I am assuming you work at a company or have startup of your own. Either ways your company would never get orders without some form of advertising. I know it sucks but that is the only way to reach potential clients. Banning advertising will end up having a major cascading effect where companies that rely on advertising (nearly every company does) would get shut down leading to huge unemployment. I rather ads be regulated than banned completely!
Vue v3.0.0-RC.1
Many Sodastream owners do things like this. Such as hook up a large, commercial CO2 tank, or refill Sodastream tanks with dry ice. Lots of videos on YouTube on this.
Yah well, maybe, maybe not. Instead of force projection by aircraft carriers and assorted gadgets one could instead invest in people projection by other gadgets?

Anyways, PEANUTS!

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Indeed, perhaps I should have said it a bit differently. There's certainly a potential issue with government influence over scientific research. But there's also an issue with any preliminary finding, and the same solution could address both issues.

I considered the important finding is not necessarily the images, but the recipe for preparing a sample of the virus. If this recipe works, labs with better equipment or better techniques should be able to produce even better data. If the recipe doesn't work, it will be quickly apparent.

There are known histories of government influence over science research with unhappy endings, such as the Lysenko affair, and probably global warming research in the US. Countries know that spewing out false scientific knowledge, if it's a solution for any problem, is a short term one. The Chinese government still has an interest in developing a good reputation in science. At least that's my take.
> It's not enough just to legalize everything (which will never happen, 80-90% of the globe will never do such a thing under any circumstances, regardless of what the US does).

Cutting the US demand (and the prices the US will pay) out of the illegal business will make the cartels far less profitable, even if the rest of the world does nothing.

> So the US has to go into the production business for cocaine, heroin, etc

If it's legal in the US, US business will rush into that domain. Especially if it's not legal to produce in the rest of the world, so they only have domestic competition.

> The US will fully legalize marijuana and it will hardly make a dent in taking down the cartels or reducing cartel violence in Latin America, which demonstrates their considerable staying power. There was widespread opinion that it would make a big difference, in reality it'll have hardly made any difference (Mexico is more violent now than it has ever been in its history).

The US hasn't legalized marijuana at all. (Individual states have, the feds have just paused enforcement of laws on the books, with no guarantee that they won't retroactively resume them within the statutes of limitations. Everyone doing business in the field is in danger of not just garden-variety narcotics offenses but make-enough-money-and-its-life-in-prison kingpin laws. Which effects the willingness for mainstream businesses to get involved and means that the state-legal businesses are often operating at only a remove or two away from traditional organized crime. You can't judge anything about actual legalization effects on legal and illegal business networks from the current state of affairs.)
I also had no issues connecting to a few different networks, including Freenode and EFnet.
What’s stopping China from using your data as a bargaining chip to trade for some data they want from, say, CIA?
It pretty much did, until he started ordering fake IDs shipped to his house...
If true then what is a workable solution? Does Mexico need UN peacekeepers to reinforce the government's efforts to retake control from cartels and corrupt militaries?

How sustainable is any change if people believe criminals will just regain power once help leaves?
I haven't been able to bring myself to read any bloomburg article since that fiasco went down. Refusing to redact a fabricated story doesn't bode well for an organization that claims to report news.

I'm still waiting for a redaction and apology, bloomburg. What you did was reckless and irresponsible.
If you legalize and tax production, you'll grow a booming local production market. Smugglers have trouble competing with legal enterprise. The endless argument is mostly one of "how many more addicts would you create and what is that harm" vs "how many people would enjoy better lives if they were not criminalized for taking drugs (and their suppliers were regulated and not criminalized)."
Hmm, how do you then perceive the success of the Prius? It was similarly conceived at a time when oil prices were high and became a huge hit. And then every other manufacturer started producing their own hybrids in response.
You're right, I confused effective and real rates.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/082113/under...
All the traffic... but not all the time. At home, if I work, then I use the corporate VPN. Otherwise, no VPN, except when I need to appear like my traffic comes from another country.
For instance, I just have (AWS) tiny server in Europe with wireguard. So, easy to switch. I share the servers with my family as we are all scattered around the globe and still like to watch our European shows/replay.
> just going somewhere is not going to be enough.

How about going there completely disguised, and pretending to go to a different floor in the building than Fahim? If he went there to talk to him, he wouldn't press a button in the elevator for a different apartment.
I get that. Everybody reading this gets that. The thing is thou, that this is not tooling. This is 101 of BASIC security practices.
I started a substack one month ago after a couple of friends asked me to share my ideas and insights. I read a lot of books and have a wide interest across business, finance, technology and personal development. This has enabled me create content so far.

For the time being, marketing my blog has been through friends and family members.

I also get views straight from google. I think the title of a post sometimes brings more organic views from google.

For me right now, my goal is to output great content to the world. Great content comes from an intersection of reading a lot, observing the world and interacting with the world.

If anyone is interested, check it out.
https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/
Oeck claims no-logs and details how they've achieved that (they don't even have hard drives). Support is responsive, you'll be responded to by those who actually built the platform. They're planning support for WireGuard.

Unfortunately they have admins in Australia which has some pretty hefty laws similar to those in the US (look at gag-orders issued, and recent responses to media outlets for publishing vetted and leaked data). You can find their intro post in Whirlpool forums.

They configure a PXE and have a system in place for distributing the OS in each region (and thus each data center).

For debugging issues they try to replicate things on a local environment and my assumption is if there's any networking issues, they likely have a node on the same data center they can remote to, to test connectivity issues - however functional issues require replication locally. No SSH access to the box.

So I think for now, Oeck or Mullvad are good choices. I only wish these services did 1 thing differently - and that is, release a live video stream of their server farm's rack and video-document the entire process of compiling and shipping their hardware, as well as the systems in place for loading the OS to ensure no exfiltration data from malicious services or agents on the box.

This could be done relatively cheaply - I'm surprised none of the VPN providers have yet. A fish-eye lens attached to a webcam on a rack would be cheap to install. It's the closest thing we have to proof a VPN server hasn't been owned without a zero-day. If you're using up-to-date services, a LEO, government or APT using a zero-day to own your server is really the only means of exfiltrating user data in this environment.
The current Mexican cartels are offshoots of the military / federal police. A large part of their military / police organization is taking bribes, if not outright working for cartels. It's tragic. They are well armed and more importantly, know how to use them.
Waterloo CS 798: Advanced Topics in Quantum Information Theory (Spring 2020)
I used filebin to create a link - should be fine. Otherwise the doc is behind a paywall.
They will trust it if Fox News/OAN reports it. And that remains to be seen.
Fuck this guy. These people are the cancer of Silicon Valley that generally has integrity and decency in pursuing startup endeavors; with some rotten apples here and there like this guy and Elizabeth Holmes.
Don't you have to pay for those VPN ?
How do you pay them ?
I don't know about selling clicks in general but, for me, that headline is even more compelling. Corporate executives' salaries are canonically justified by the fact that they're tied to the success of the corporation. If executives get their millions even when their corporations tank, I see a serious problem.
I heard that we're (as of today) seeing so many cases in Park County that surveillance testing has been suspended.
I've been eyeing the new PinePhone as a potential candidate for a reimagining of Dynabook using Smalltalk-78 (which was built for the Notetaker) in a portable form factor.
Checked out your substack. Well done.
Merkel says coronavirus exposes leaders who rely on 'fact-denying populism'
Those are not the only two possibilities
No, broken link, the linked code isnt publicly accessible on Gitlab apparently.
> True, but this is why it shouldn't be bashed either. When you need it, you need it (cue very complex enterprise applications with SLA requirements).

To support this, look at how many people criticize Kubernetes as being too focused on what huge companies need instead of what their small company needs. Kubernetes still has its place, but some peoples expectations may be misplaced.

For a side project, or anything low traffic with low reliability requirements, a simple VPS or share hosting suffices. Wordpress and PHP are still massively popular despite React and Node.js existing. Someone who runs a site off of shared hosting with Wordpress can have a very different vision about what their business/sideproject/etc will accomplish compared to someone who writes a custom application with a "modern" stack.
Commented on the original outage: Hopefully with this outage Cloudflare will provide non-Enterprise plans a CNAME record, allowing us to not use Cloudflare DNS and more quickly bypass Cloudflare if the need arises.
Gamedev here. Slight correction: what they're describing is the smallest viable loop, not necessarily the core loop.

The core loop is the smallest engagement loop in the game, where the player goes through it inside a single session, and reaches some kind of a stopping point, but also wants to come back and go through it all over again (right away, or next time). It can be the smallest loop, maybe, sometimes, but usually isn't.

For example, in this article, they focus on the loop "player returns the ball <-> opponent returns the ball". This is the smallest loop for sure.

But the core loop here is on the point level: "Someone serves, players exchange the ball back and forth, someone finally misses, the other person scores points. Repeat." Or maybe game or set level, for more advanced players who are no longer challenged by point play.

Similarly in a racing game: the core loop would be a race, not a single lap, or a single pass of an opponent's car. Or in an RPG: hitting the enemy and having the enemy hit you is a tiny loop, but it's not the core loop: doing a quest and coming back for a reward is much closer to what we're looking for in a core loop.
Like real money or stock & stuff worth that much?
Anyone who has served in the Armed Forces knows how strict range security is. This couldn't be the case.
Should be labelled as such
Well, this is done in the open: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone/ .
I really love this talk by Mary Rose Cook — she illustrates step-by-step how to code a game loop from scratch in 30 minutes.

https://youtu.be/hbKN-9o5_Z0
What's your suggestion for a better API?

You can't just say "React" though, you have to show how it actually integrates with the DOM that we have. "Throw away the DOM we have" isn't a realistic option either.
You mean like Storage Spaces, ReFS, Access Control Lists including rich Claims support, TPM-integrated volume encryption, cluster volume encryption, encrypting file system with user-friendly smart card integration?

Or do you mean things like the Windows Management Instrumentation that is object oriented, works locally and remotely, and has over ten thousand counters by default? Or the event log that has had circular binary logs and log forwarding available with no extra software for two decades?

Or do you mean how Windows Server has RDMA support so that even simple things like file transfers over SMB3 can run at wire speed on 40 Gbps Ethernet and replace fibre channel at a fraction of the cost? Or is it the native IPv6 support that actually works (unlike, say, MacOS)? Are you talking about the Windows DNS client, which unlike Linux can properly handle an unresponsive primary DNS server? Or the policy-driven IPsec support? The Always On VPN capability maybe?

Which of these important things were you referring to?
What you're describing sounds nice but apparently the incentives don't support it (perhaps because it's better to keep the people who know all about their company than contract execs who know nothing about the company or perhaps even the industry).

I agree with part of what you are saying, hence my tirade about how Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws need reform. But what bothers me is that most people just assume the executives (who mostly aren't even responsible for their pay) are evil, without understanding how everyone acted rationally and morally under the incentives of the broken system. The fact that it's happening on such a broad scale should be a clue that the system is broken, rather than a statistically significant collection of individuals.

Just to spell it out for everyone, there are a few actions happening here, highly incentivized by the system. I doubt many of the self righteous commenters here would do anything differently put in a position to make any of these decisions.

1. You are a major shareholder of a company. The company cannot pay its debts. The debts are greater than the company's assets. You have two options. Vote to file chapter 7 (liquidate to the debtors and get nothing) or file chapter 11 (get the court to forgive as much debt as possible and maybe you will get something back if the company turns itself around). Many of the major shareholders hold significant portions of their net worth in one company, or are institutions (e.g. Vanguard) which have a responsibility to do the financially prudent thing for mom and pop investors like you and me.

2. Predictably, the shareholders voted to file chapter 11. This has already happened. Given that it has happened, you want to give the company the best chance of making a recovery and returning value to shareholders. It makes sense to partially restore executive salaries with retention bonuses, so that you have leadership to keep the company afloat while restructuring. Note that most of these salaries would have been heavily impacted by the bankruptcy filing, in which options and RSU's (the majority of most exec salaries) are now nearly worthless. So you sign a retention bonus as soon as you know bankruptcy is inevitable.

Don't hate the players, hate the game. As I tried to elucidate in this thread, the problem is not any immoral actors, but the power of corporate chapter 11 bankruptcy and the fact that creditors' do not get to vote on the likelihood of it being a better ROI for them. It's simpler to blame it on the evil greedy executives (which makes no sense in this case) or try to make all sorts of band-aid amendments to how you can give bonuses to executives during a bankruptcy, but that misses the core problem.
Weird... I did the test, and clearly I cannot watch shows on European TV website, and when I select one of my European server, then I can watch the shows.
Something must be off with your setting.
Hmmm. My point was that even if the journalist wasn't themselves willing to hand over data, at least in some (western) jurisdictions the police will raid them and seize the data directly.

Now, whether or not given journalists are following good enough data handling practises (eg encryption, etc) to still maintain confidentially is unknown.
I don't see why people who speculated on options should be be compensated for their loss. That whole argument doesn't make sense to me at all. They could have negotiated less options and more salary, if they were the risk-averse type, could they not? Or worked a job with less risk.

It's just buddies taking as much as possible before they lose control. And everybody knows this. It's weird to read these invented reasons of why they need extra compensation at this point.
There are no other criminal enterprises that offer a comparable revenue source. Not one. It's utter nonsense to think that organized crime is just going to switch to avocado extortion and keep bribing their way out of jail.
They track almost every site you visit with a little tweet this button.

Thats our data.
Should all incentive pay be treated similarly? What about commissions for salespeople? Should payments to consultants also be 'clawed back', perhaps depending on what kind of consulting they were doing, and whether it was related to the bankruptcy?

I think this would quickly get complicated and have many unanticipated results; you might have situations where key employees start leaving when they think the company is going down, thereby causing a complete failure.
Right, I overspoke. It provides no extra privacy, against anyone except your ISP. If they're the threat, AND you're able to safely assume that the VPN provider is less of a threat, THEN it provides some privacy.
This is in fact the first example in the article.
> The current Mexican cartels are offshoots of the military / federal police.

Only the Zetas are really “offshoots”, having been started by former anti-drug special forces IIRC, the rest are more business partners.
Like at most large companies, I am "stack ranked" and a bell curve is applied, but in my company we do not really have any problem with gaming the system, or trying to shit on your colleagues.

The way this is achieved at my company is having no quantitative performance indicators and having your performance decided in a completely opaque process by leaders three levels above you in the organisation who you have never met.

As a consequence, we have all given up on engaging in the formal side of the performance review process because we know it is a waste of time. However, if you have a good line manager, you end up having a genuine conversation about what went well and what could be done better.

An odd situation, but infinitely preferable to counting up the number of fake "thank you" comments you receive (which just makes me vomit).
Around certain people, never relax
> But conditional on being in a pandemic the chance that the virus that arises to cause it is like SARS-CoV-2 is super high!!

This will be misinterpreted by everyone who doesn't understand the Bayes rule (which is 99.999% of the population). What she's saying is just a fancy version of "this is the kind of a virus that would likely cause a pandemic", nothing more.