skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NDA for Seed / Series A Rounds
How to start ups typically handle NDAs for investors during Seed and Series A rounds? I've heard that most investors refuse to sign them. Is there a basic template that would cover materials exchange and outline a non-compete and non-solicit?
It stands for the Chad Oxford vaccine (as opposed to the virgin Oxford vaccine)
A big gripe I have about youtube links: I can't learn anything about the video from the link. Once in a blue moon a youtube source is actually good. But the odds are so low that I often wont even bother clicking.
Then how did moms get by when kids were in school not helping?

I'm sure some parents or school studenta were illiterate, but not the majority.

And families were larger, so they'd have multiple children to teach each other.
Current customers typically either run a "clean up" Reflect test that deletes account state that was created in previous tests, or they have a periodic internal job/logic that auto-deletes all test accounts. The next day's Reflect tests can sign-up fresh, for example, and use the new accounts for tests.
the tone may have been moderate, but the message is smug.

otoh it’s just marketing, and CF is no stranger to it, so i think it’s fair.
False positive failures are a really common issue with existing E2E testing tools, so we try to do a number of things to prevent them in Reflect tests:

- We generate multiple selectors for each element you interact with. So if in the future you change a class or id, we'll fallback to other selectors when running your test. We also only choose a selector if (1) it matches a single element in the DOM, and (2) that element is interactable (e.g. not completely hidden), and (3) if it has text associated with it then we'll only choose it if the text captured at recording time matches the text at run time. This helps prevent us from selecting the wrong element when running a test.

- For React apps, we use heuristics to ignore classes generated by CSS-in-JS classes like Styled Components and EmotionJS. We also have the ability to target elements based on React component name (it requires a one-time setup on your side to enable this)

- For Visual Testing failures (e.g. you've screenshotted an element and now that element has a different UI) we have a simple workflow to 'Accept Changes' and mark the new UI as the new baseline for tests going forward.

Certainly more to do here but this is one of the key problems we're looking to tackle.
> We still don't have vaccines for retroviruses like HIV/Herpes

HIV is so fundamentally different that it doesn't make sense to include it as a comparison here.

> there's a good chance this virus will burn out in our population long before a truly safe vaccine comes to market.

The virus isn't just going to "burn out" anytime soon. 143k deaths in the US already, and we likely haven't even hit 10% of the population being infected yet.

Treatments will help pull the death rate downwards, but without a vaccine we're likely looking at multiple hundreds of thousands more deaths.
Such an odd attitude. There’s no way it takes 5-10x engineering effort to write some tests for components of a one-shot python script, as most scientific code is. It’s maybe the easiest type of software to test. Would this type of attitude fly for anything else? Can you imagine if chemists worked like this?

“Yea most chemists don’t like to release their procedures, since taking the trouble of accurately measuring out reagents could be 5-10x the effort and grant money is tight. Plus sometimes they don’t want to go all the way to the cabinet to grab a beaker so they just do the reaction in a coffee mug. The truth is that sometimes the procedure is just too ugly to release. And if they come out of the lab with a new chemical, what does it matter?”
Yes, for home use you don't need to replace burrs often. However, you need a pair of burrs to make a grinder and the grinder cannot be cheaper than the burrs.
I'm super confused how anyone could recommend Minio for the foundation of a production system as well. I've understood it to be primarily for development purposes and have used it for some local mock tests for S3 compatibility behind a firewall or to simulate error test cases more reliably in my applications.

Even Ceph has its warts for distributed object storage as does basically... anything in existence worth considering that's OSS-ish (GlusterFS, HDFS, Lustre) but comparing Minio to ZFS is confusing given how drastically different in purpose, functionality, and engineering hardening has happened between the two projects. With that said, the AWS S3 team really is impressive in what they've built out and deserves more shout-outs from people outside Amazon.
Good point. I derive a lot of value as a reader from the ability to verify someones claims.
Why would Wallstreetbets lie to me?
The kids can teach each other, as was done in small "one room" schools of the past.
> If the prices were obviously bad, there is free money available to the author here by simply quoting inside the spread.

Bam. Nailed it here. Instant credibility.

A pity your HN account is "new" (green color), as I would love to hear much, much more from you.
I don't think you deserve the downvotes here. The fact that we've conflated daycare with education is something that the pandemic is forcing us to confront. The US is built around the idea that school and childcare are synonymous and there is very little in the way of infrastructure for a parent working full-time to deal with the situation of not having 9-5 supervision for their kids.

Public school is pretty much the answer to the problem of what do with families that can't individually afford full-time childcare or afford to have one parent stay home. It's easy to sit in your armchair and say something like "well they shouldn't have kids then" but the problem is that, largely, this system works!
You would think the Germans of all people would know better than to view the state with this kind of naivety.

I don’t think the state is dangerous because it gets in the way of profit (though it can do that) but because it can directly oppress its people in all kinds of violent ways. The mitigating factor is supposed to be that people can hold their government accountable, but allow the government to snoop on everyone’s private communications and they’ll take care of that.
Summer school, winter break for you.
>Even outside, you would need shade (perhaps canopies?) and fans.

I imagine fans may be problematic due to the way COVID19 primarily spreads. You might be able to design your way out of it with clever fan and student placement but without that, you might create highways for the virus to spread from one student to the next.
I'm guessing having your own delivery trucks would be cheaper, but only if you're doing enough volume (like, multiple packages per neighborhood per week). Walmart could probably get there, but not sure about smaller stores (even Best Buy).
My first thought when I saw the name : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Shadoks
Eating Lunch at Desk Again? Study Examines Why Workers Don’t Always Take Breaks
> We call it Proactive Nameservers, and we’re the only company in the world doing it for some reason.

Wait, why? [0]:

> Proactive Nameservers is a patent-pending system that optimizes the nameserver delegation for your mission critical domain names.

Oh.

[0] https://easydns.com/dns/proactive-nameservers/
Many newer buildings are shifting back towards being “breathable” to cut energy costs.
I think that’s akin to (pardon my analogy) feeding wild animals: Do it long enough and they become more dependent on you.

I think money is better spent on education and infrastructure, so that value can be created by them eventually, not passed to them indefinitely.

Another way to put it: What if your parents raised you exclusively by feeding you and giving you shelter? What happens when they die if you can’t feed yourself?
IMO, regulations are easier to gamify and capture than simple taxes are.
I would be highly surprised if world leaders communicated anything sensitive via DM on Twitter.
Unfortunately the viability of options depend on their volume - you can have a call go from OTM to ITM and not be able to find a buyer because there's just no interest in it. Half-options (50 contracts) and other denominations exist but they're incredibly rare, and I believe only used for reverse stock splits. If you're looking to get into options I'd recommend either choosing a farther OTM strike price/earlier date or starting with a stock that's significantly lower in price.
I love it, I'm making cookies tonight. Some humble suggestions.

- might be best to include the C as units for temp

- somehow allow scaling recipe to whatever my eggs actually weigh, (I know I can estimate manually bumping the output up and down, but it'd be nice to do exact calculations)

- generate cookie previews :P
Any system that is that resistant to censorship will have to deal with it being used for files that the government most works to censor. That sort of relation will drive other people away and you'll find government increasing their power to be able to take it down (or at least identifying those who access it and take them down). Until society is willing to tolerate such material as the cost of a system that cannot be censored, the majority will continue to go for systems that give government the ability to censor what the people cannot tolerate, under the pinky promise that government won't use their powers for evil.
That's what ETFs like VXUS and IXUS are for. You get international exposure.

VT is another good choice if you're lazy and just want to own a slice of the global stock market.
> in investing, more than probably any other area of life, assume everyone is at least partially lying.

This sounds quite true.
Most hand drawn animation wont't actually vectorize well, especially the ones from the hand drawn era, where every cel is a real painting:

https://caseantiques.com/item/lot-738-the-simpsons-animation...

Look at all that line detail. It creates subtle gradients in the final film, which don't readily transfer to vector graphics.

In this case, I think with some better pixel-based filtering before vectorization, they could've gotten a better result.

However, the much bigger problem is that the vast majority of animation uses paintings for backgrounds that aren't just solid lines and colors.
According to the article the pods are made out of aluminum and 100% recyclable with Nestlé offering to come pick them up at your home.
Have you read any business books? I used to read quite a few. For the most part, they take a central thesis and then repeat variations on the theme over and over again. Sometimes with anecdotes of questionable veracity. I venture that many of them could be generated with GPT-3.

My point is, GPT-3 is operating at human levels for certain contexts. I think it would get passing grades on essays in a lot of schools in the US, for instance, just based on syntax and grammar.
Content varies. Some is excellent.
Pointless Job Requirements
I learned last night that the US has been buying up all the worlds supply of various promising medicines in an historic effort to fast track a cure for the US population, at the expense of everyone else.

It now looks like there’s a decent chance a vaccine could be available to Americans before the election. Very surprised I haven’t heard more about that as the lack of coverage could help make it into a real silver bullet for Trump’s re-election if it happens.

Edit: this effort is called “OWS”
Is "getting a dental cleaning" really a high risk though? Since dentist were already well educated/following hygiene protocols even before Covid-19, i'd assume a relatively low risk.

Probably this depends on where you live though...
Not a URI -- a citation, which may or may not include a URI.

Not all academic literature has been digitized, you know. (As someone who hunts down a lot of citations, you can trust me on that.)

Also URI's break, while citations include enough information (publisher, title, author, etc.) that the source can be found regardless.
Show HN: Free Planning Templates by an ex big 4 consultant
Every time I come across a piece in that style I want to smash a screen. It could be a one-paragraph solution, but I have to scroll past three images and five paragraphs of worthless blather that assumes I'm a moron.

Unix man pages are amazing. Every technical help resource should be like that.
These aren't attacks, just protests that are sometimes big enough to be mentioned in mainstream media to then be summarily dimissed by politicians, sometimes in very condescending tones or even derogatory language. The actual impact on the lawmaking process is negligible. Politicians have figured out that ignoring protests of privacy advocates is "safe", that is, it won't affect their reelection.

Suing against the legislation in the constitutional court is somewhat more effective, but it takes somewhere between 5 to 10 years to obtain a ruling againt a law that must be in effect before the process can even start.
In World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, new game tech and old code are at war
I think the root cause (which, IMO, you correctly point out) is lost on many modern developers.

For whatever reason there's this modern idea that if a company A is paying money to company B for a service, that company B will handle all the 'hard stuff' for them.

The end result is we have a lot of applications/infra built with SPOFs, in some cases known, but in many, swept under the rug and abstracted away to passing the buck in case of a large failure (i.e. major AWS/Cloudflare/Azure outages).

You also see this at times when vendors pitch internal software solutions. I've been at more than one shop where a vendor's 'silver bullet' turned into a SPOF time-bomb because nobody considered this company's solution could fail. After all, the sales presentation said it had %nines%!
These are scattered media reports.

“We don’t know yet if the encephalopathy is more severe with Covid-19 than with other viruses, but I can tell you we’ve been seeing quite a lot of it"

That is probably the type of information we should be taking from these media reports. Given that there are over 14 million cases globally, we should be looking for patterns that impact tens of thousands, not edge cases that impact dozens or hundreds. With such a closely-studied and brand new disease, we are bound to find a lot of interesting and worrying cases. There are plenty of rare symptoms from other diseases too, we just don't talk about them much because they are not new and they are rare.
Sounds like https://github.com/fogleman/primitive but for video
>> "When one tries continuously, one ends up succeeding. Thus, the more one fails, the greater the chance that it will work."

Philosophy of French '60s cartoon birds eerily similar to modern software development methodologies
The battle for south-east Asia’s online shoppers
Generally, given what we've seen with things like the space race and ARPA-net, roughly 10-20 years ahead, depending on the technology.
I'm with you. I love a carefully crafted single-origin pourover. But I also have a weak spot for 7-11 coffee. Appreciation of the two is not mutually exclusive.
Depends on what you want but a very solid free CDN and DNS option is: host your site on netlify and use dns.he.net for your nameservers.

Another good DNS option is dnsimple.com or, indeed, EasyDNS. For even more redundancy, use one provider as your domain registrar and another for your nameservers (and set short TTLs for your zones so you can re-point IPs quickly if you need to).

For the other things Cloudflare offers on their free tier, I'm not sure what good alternatives exist (there must be some, I'm just not familiar with them outside of the obvious AWS alternatives).

Edit: one caveat with above advice, I have no idea if netlify use cloudflare behind the scenes...

Edit 2: For other options, checkout https://www.cdnperf.com/ and https://www.dnsperf.com/
Germany, too - Craigslist never caught on quite as well as eBay Kleinanzeigen (German word for “classified ad”)
So can you feed a video to it and let 'dream' of all possible outcome? If this is achievable then the internet will eventually become a loop-back device for our senses just like the matrix movie.
GM Details 12 Upcoming EVs from Cadillac, GMC, Chevrolet, and Buick
The Girl Scouts are a non-profit yet they don't give their cookies away for free.
Getting an apartment instead of a house IS easy in most places, it's just a bigger sacrifice which I think is the point. Privileged people unwilling to make sacrifices sneer at others who might actually might be doing a better job overall.
> What are the chances of someone spelling "Pulchritude" correctly ? Especially a non-native/non-fluent person ?

Depends very much on whether they studied Latin.

I think a lot of people would see "Dorise" in the abpve phrase and write "Doris".
For selecting things, I've found that allowing a "data-test='user-name-input'" type attribute is useful for a lot of cases, when doing Gauge/Taiko tests.

It might make sense to allow/recognize these to save trying to find things that way, rather than via CSS-type selectors that may change.
Couldn't agree more. A Project X-like framework for scripting is capable of extending a game's lifetime in proportion to the involvement of its community, which is fortunately abundant in W:A's case.

In the same vein, the new schema format with Rubberworm capabilities was definitely a game changer. There's something so exciting about user-generated content officially making it into a base game. Thank you for making this possible!

But most importantly, it seems you guys have enough freedom to work on these sort of new features as much as the usual quality of life/bugfix changes.

How open is Team17 to these more intricate changes, especially towards the modding capabilities dream?
His point is why the internet has a single point of failure -> Cloudflare. They offer DDoS protection for free.
> providing links ... when called out

People got so used to seeing links up to the point a fight might end in a "URL request": you have to sustain your claims by bringing a link to the discussion, and if you fail to do so, you are wrong. Like if every research and every paper, study or whatever is publicly accessible and indexed.

If am I wrong, please provide a link to a study which demonstrates it.
I think Aliexpress is great. Amazon is a marked up aliexpress, and that’s not great.

When I pay a markup, I expect something extra like curating of products so I know what the low-mid-high tier options are without sifting through tons of search results and reviews. Or at least not commingling of stock, so I know what I’m getting.
Well I guess it depends on what you mean that my stated concern is a “problem that doesn’t exist?”

Do you mean that Marxist ideas aren’t finding renewed currency? Nobody seems to deny that efforts to equate slavery with capitalism are critiques pioneered by Marx. Instead they seem to be arguing that Marx was correct. So the ideas do seem to be having renewed currency, in which case denying that fact is gaslighting.

If you’re arguing that it’s not a problem that Marxist ideas are being incorporated into schoolbooks, then in that case we just disagree.
An interesting goal to aim for, but not completely a new concept to us. It feels like a sibling-evolution to what Foundry Athera was aiming for, except in this case geared to Netflix's needs, rather than attempting to be an scaling commodity. The interesting part is going full-cloud for everything, that's the big kicker. It'll let them deploy across DC's globally so that artists in different regions can have a more optimized experience. I'm very curious about how they're handling storage, though. We push massive amounts of volatile data everyday, so they're going to have to have a central source and likely some kind of caching mechanism between DC's, otherwise there's going to be a non-trivial bottleneck with storage.

As an industry, there's been a shift to VDI (through Teradici PCoIP and similar systems) over the past several years and it is _amazing_ from an admin perspective. In studio, an artist can't tell the difference between a local physical workstation and a virtual one in the studio's datacenter. And now all of the workstations have central management consoles if needed and are located in the same spot for physical maintenance. And for remote work, there's a tad more latency and you're at the whims of ISPs, but it's very workable. In terms of bandwidth, it's not a whole lot. We're primarily supporting dual-monitor 1920x1200 and after a small handful of optimizations that maxes out at ~50-60Mbps needed by the end users, often less with the way PCoIP works.
The Internet of Things!

...and those Things are bugs.
Turns out no one got fired for choosing Cloudflare.
If you're interested in Russia, Revolutionary Russia by Orlando Figes was really good. It's a (brief) history of the Soviet Union.
World leaders maybe not but e.g. journalists almost definitely.
Cisco: Certain Cables Might Push the Reset Button and Cause an Unexpected Reset
Awareness is not a substitute for action
Our high school had many interior classrooms with no windows, and the perimeter classrooms only had one or two small ones each. It was relatively new (at the time) so was built with air conditioning in mind.
No worries, it is a bit obscure...
Big Tech’s Pandemic Power Grab
Are you certain that what you saw wasn't just the result of traffic being distributed between a higher number of exit nodes? Did the absolute number of available nodes in Germany change?
No doubt, but people need constraints. So they'll cobble together ad hoc constraints in their applications to prevent their stuff from crashing or being wrong.

A DBMS's raison d'etre is to take those ad hoc code patterns and formalize them.
I made 78k as a web developer in Connecticut in 2004. You need to find another job. 70k in NYC is too low for a software developer.
As someone who gets censored for wrongthink routinely, I’ve taken up having GitHub repos of links so it’s easy to support my point.

Case in point: I’m “banned” on HN because @dang thinks my genuine view, calmly stated is inherently a flame war and I shouldn’t be allowed to join the conversation.
Yeah my typo - I was trying to understand with limited time budget TileDB and their marketing pitch - they mentioned something like "the problem of knowing where to keep data was solved by traditional databases, now its solved by us"

On a dumb level I was just wondering if they are tracking the data sets people create - it does seem more like a data policy than a product. But I may not understsnd it well
I thought sleeping to a podcast was crazy until I found Sleep With Me, and I ended up putting it on pretty frequently, 2-3 nights/week. It's really calming. Guy incoherently recaps episodes of shows.
We fully support e-mail based logins, but OAuth can be challenging.

Github OAuth for example will issue a 2FA email-based challenge non-deterministically. We handle that by detecting the challenge and filling out the challenge code based on the contents of the email sent by Github. This requires a one-time setup where you add an email address we control to your Github user so that we can read and parse it.

For Google OAuth we can execute all the steps but the two issues there are (1) we run everything in a single window and some web apps don't like that because they assume the oauth flow will happen in a new window, and (2) sometimes Google prompts you to answer a security question and we don't yet support marking test steps as optional.

What our customers have been doing instead is setting up a mechanism to auto-log in the test user using a magic link. Basically sending in a one-time-use auth code to a URL in their app that then authenticate the user. I think some platforms (Firebase?) have built-in support for this.

I'm certainly happy to brainstorm what could work best for you though if you'd like (my email: todd at reflect.run)
This page argues Folding@Home isn't: https://www.gwern.net/Charity-is-not-about-helping