skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the inspiring story. I’m guessing that the 25K€ probably referrers to a GmbH in Germany :)

If so, would you say the GmbH/UG (Limited Liability Company) route is a good idea from the start for a solo founder of a bootstrapped SaaS?

I’ve been doing my research and maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like it has quite a lot of overhead for a first time solo founder like myself.

To clarify, I’m an expat in Germany, but I’ve even looked into setting up an LLC in the US or another limited entity because they appear more lightweight to operate than their counterparts in Germany. But then I end up in a complicated international tax situation.

I’m not seeking legal advice, just wondering if you have any tips now that you’ve gone that path several times successfully.

Cheers!
How can I trust they don’t keep logs?
Relevant to post:

I would highly suggest keeping the same CDN as the cloud/storage offering you work within. You get dinged quite a bit on transfer costs otherwise. So, if you're on AWS, stick to Cloudfront, etc.

Potentially relevant to post:

Note: I am the founder of Loom, so this is obviously extremely biased.

With Loom (https://www.loom.com) you will soon be able to upload unlimited videos (as well as record since we have recorders) to a plan for $10/month. No caps on viewing or storage.
My problem with process/policy is that it tends to attract a) bureaucrats, and b) the kind of engineer who is not particularly interested in or good at building products but still wants to ladder-climb.

These are not the people I want dictating my workflow.

That doesn't mean it's the "enemy of success." If we could raise its status to attract people with genuine technical competence and empathy for the realities of building, we could do a lot better.

>Edit: A common saying where I work is that there are no stupid mistakes only bad processes. The first step to rooting them out is admitting that they're process level issues.

Human stupidity is unbounded; such a process asymptotically approaches "do not change production ever." If you're a monopoly with a money printer, then keeping it running probably is more important than any improvement you could make. If you're under competitive pressure, you need to ship, and shipping necessarily involves risk.
I love bear and use Obsidian for my PKM and writing output with bi-directional links. Love it!
You aren't really binary searching anymore. If it all fit into the RAM, you might as well just put it into a hashset.
Possible != easy, democratization implies it's easy enough for the average person to do.
Advocating for a Product Mindset Within Platform Teams
What are “security conscious” people doing instead, out of curiosity?
I’d like to point out that this still has deficiencies compared to Vimeo or YouTube, who transcode the source file into multiple bitrates and adaptively serve an appropriate quality based on the viewer’s available bandwidth and screen size.

This manifests as buffering on slower connections, where YouTube or Vimeo would just downgrade the user to a lower bitrate transparently (or nearly transparently).

An end user today will expect that behavior and have very little tolerance for buffering if their connection is unable to smoothly play the one bitrate the creator published (no matter how fast the CDN is).

Edit: I’m aware that it’s possible to do adaptive bitrate streaming outside of using Vimeo or YouTube (as several commenters have explained below) however this isn’t what TFA describes and I think it’s important to note this deficiency in the author’s described approach to serving their own video.
That's an amazing achievement to have reached that milestone!
1.2TB user data leaked by 7 VPN services
I agree, and it's the same reason I take investment advice from all 50s/60s born with a huge grain of salt. "Put $10,000 in an index fund when you're 23 years old and you'll be a millionaire when you retire!" There are so many assumptions being made there that it boggles the mind. What if the economy doesn't grow 3% yoy for my entire life! What if it just... levels off?

Piketty pointed this out: in the early 1800s, authors would mention actual numerical dollar amounts paid for goods in books and plays. Because for all of prior history economic growth was a few basis points per year, at best. So a British pound earned in 1600 would be roughly comparable in value to one spent a hundred years later.
Depends. Are those foreign capitalists Rwandan warlords?
Even if it were as simple as you make it sound, which I disagree with: so what? Our understanding of the world improves over time.
In my neck of the woods, it’s not too uncommon to find year-round outdoor seating at restaurants thanks to radiative heaters. Mind you, I’ve never tried one of these when it’s colder than maybe 45 F. But do you think something like that is feasible?
This is not true. The experiment has been run. In June, 47% of COVID cases in Israel were from schools. The schools there are now closed.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/israeli-data-show-school-openi...
For me, the main benefit of a VPN is security on public WiFi networks.

Is it perfectly secure? No, but I trust a business I’m paying a regular amount to quite a bit more than a random free public WiFi provider, who is not only able to siphon off data but also has a lot more incentive to do so.
> For me it is absolutely no choice to be employed or working in larger companies. I want my own freedom :)

Living the dream, what are/were a few of them?

I still have too much psychological/mental stuff from my Fintech startup I left in 2018 to seriously consider doing it again, even though this pandemic put the Industry I focused on as an 'essential' Industry despite denying them access to financial services and payment processing at the same time.

I also now have made friends with an accountant at a very reputable Accelerator with connections to Silicon Valley VCs. Still, it'd be tempting to get to do it all again for not having to work for anyone again, even though I also bootstrapped and had to have a day job for the first 3.5 years.
The only thing to remember is, as a customer, you’d be paying for that service in really bad execution. I still think this is genuinely democratizing but looks like Fidelity has this also (called the absurd “stock by the slice”)
When you apply this same standard to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, it becomes clear that it doesn't matter that only a few percentage of it is used in transactions because that's just the m0 supply, m1 for larger transfers, and m2 for large investments when desired. So it doesn't make sense for that to be an argument against cryptoassets as a money surrogate, when it actually is acting like all other currencies in that regard.

That doesn't mean there aren't stronger arguments, its just that people gravitate towards weak arguments.
> Thousands of school districts are integrating material into their curriculum that claims slavery was capitalist.

It was, though, at least if you're talking about early modern slavery. Slavery in the ancient world was a substantially different model, but the early modern African slave trade was fundamentally driven by rich, increasingly centralized farm owners with a business model dependent on unpaid workers.
For everyday items I agree but for niche (including high-end) items Amazon is often hard to beat - the competition is either local specialty stores that are not really searchable online, may be set up to cater to professionals/businesses rather than the general public, and/or might not even exist at all anymore; or other online retailers that don't necessarily have the cheap and fast logistics that Amazon does.
That's the problem of RH - in your cases stock is managed because of "frictionless UI" whilst it should be managed due to financial considerations but not because they have made it easy as getting a cup of coffee.

You need to understand the model how low cost services like RH operate - they sell all your data to big hedge funds. Guess what happen at certain moment when smart money will decide it's time to cut pigs - massive wealth redistribution with robihooders being cut. It has happened before in history and will happen again since history doesn't really teach majority of us anything at all.
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I suppose the traditional paranoid answer is TOR.
There is no such thing as legal VPN provider that does not store logs.
We were on the Vimeo business plan, which was supposedly unlimited. Until you hit a certain threshold... we run a fairly popular education site with lots of videos and reached that cap. Our bills went up 10x or so.

For our business I guess it’s still worth paying, but worth being aware that not all unlimited is really so.
Files+config=functions=code, just in a weird, inconvenient format.
Maybe you're not concerned about the website you're visiting tracking you, but rather someone along the way figuring out which websites you're visiting.
Super-expressive: library for building regexes in (almost) natural language
The value of starting a company is you can hope to accomplish something which other people have not. It is a bit like being an explorer finding new lands like Columbus. It is an adventure. But you might end up marooned.

Whereas if you just work for someone else you accomplish some income. You can pay your rent or get a mortgage maybe even buy a sports-car! But you don't have real job-security and in the US you don't even have the security to know if you get fired you could still keep your health insurance.

You are serving someone else's goal which probably is to maximize their financial profit. When you work for them you are their opponent. More for you is less for them. It's not full zero-sum of course but if they are the kind of person who just wants money they will view you that way, as somebody they can make money from. It's a game and they can win big, but you really can't. Your benefit is you learn things but after some years you start thinking you are wasting your life that way taking orders from some clueless greedy business-person.

Just my feeling at the moment.
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My ISP has been quite open about selling my information. Therefore, I'm fond of encrypting everything they see, including destination IPs, DNS, and non-TLS traffic; a VPN is a simple solution.

EDIT: To clarify, I know my ISP's spying on me. Therefore, in some models, trading that against a VPN service that might be spying on me in the same way could be a favorable trade. YMMV.
And that's legal? The more you know...
Would cloudflare stream solve this problem though?
>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/07/black-own...

The numbers are kind of all over the place depending on the source, and I'd imagine the ~40 million people on unemployment would be holding on to hard currency pretty tightly too.
What a surprise, a database technology that previously has made security a premium feature is unsecured.
I wired a triac inline with my cheap soldering iron. I turn it down a bit to save the tip during regular operation (it gets too hot at full mains voltage), and I turn it way down if I'm doing something else for a minute so it stays warm.

The triac mangles the sine wave, but this resistive heater doesn't mind. I did this on a whim but it ended up meeting my needs quite well.
I use a $20/month VPS with unlimited, unmetered 10gbit bandwidth (no, I do not use outrageously priced "public clouds").

I have no troubles serving 4K video (with a 720p low-bitrate transcode) with a simple <video> tag, and I do not pay for bandwidth. This month, I've egressed 11TB for $20, and I could easily triple that at no additional cost.

I can stream 4K without buffering fine and I've never had a user complain, so it works.
Maybe you're new here, but your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this.

If you disagree, be civil and give reasons rather than throw insults.
Northern midwest US - up until January, probably. I don't think they'd be terribly effective in late January or most of February.
The road from anti-coronavirus paradigm to rampant infection in this country of 9 million people followed two months of almost total lockdown. May 17 also was the day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former rival Benny Gantz swore in their “corona emergency government,” whose sole declared purpose is to fight the spread of the virus. Netanyahu’s decree that the nation’s entire school system would reopen was a political flourish to signal everything was under control.
It sees some use in z/OS. For example, open source tarballs aren't generally EBCDIC, so:

pax -rvf automake-1.16.tar -o from=ISO8859-1,to=IBM-1047
I do not get the appeal of largely gambling with your money on RH instead of just passively investing for the long term.

Maybe with some of your money, but not to the extent a lot of people are doing.

People want to get rich quick I guess? Even if you do want to do that, why not pick a brokerage which doesn't take as much from you, like IBKR?

It's just a surreal situation to me.
Also, reports out of Florida are showing that 1/3 of the kids have lung damage on x-rays, even if they were 'asymptomatic.' It's not clear if that damage will be permanent.

TL;DR - "doesn't kill you" might still maim you for life
Not the OP, but they compute things both faster and using less energy, so that’s an increase in efficiency on both counts.
Don't know why you'd think that? https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...
> there are going to be strong financial ties to any VPN provider one chooses

Not if you pay with cash (such as Mullvad). Then it depends on what they can infer from your traffic.
If you need an email provider that doesn't store logs nor read your emails, check out our GitHub or site @ https://forwardemail.net.
You mean person.
The author has agreed elsewhere in this thread that he’s basically writing about taking VC money.

That being said, the advice applies elsewhere. My dad was a physician in US military and then decided to open up a private practice. He spent decades running a business where he was the sole source of revenue, and as far as I can tell hated dealing with any aspect of it that wasn’t direct patient care. He eventually joined a larger physician group and was much happier in his job.
Other thread with discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894701
Maybe I'm just not so picky, but I love OneNote. I just wish OneCalendar worked cross platform. But otherwise I find cloud sync between my different devices to be seemless and fast enough that I can use a tablet to draw while screensharing the same notepad on desktop. It accepts images exactly as I want (screenshots mostly) also.

The only problem is that sharing is a pain.
I don't really see the advantage there over a service like Wealthfront or Betterfront, which offer automatic tax minimization, integrated handling of IRAs, and customizable stock-bond balances, or even just investing in Vanguard target date ETFs directly for similar returns with slightly lower fees.
Off the top of my head:

Minimizing my money requirements and living minimally.

Getting a car I can sleep in comfortably and doing that.

Less time professional work, more on personal projects.

Intimacy with multiple people people long-term.

De-compartmentalizing my relationships.

Un-separating beliefs, passion, art, work, love.

Living outdoors more.

Opting out of things I don't want to be supporting.

Spending more time socializing, talking with people.
Really depends on your threat model; some of us distrust our ISP more than websites that we use.
Sqlite was used as default for local dev/testing, in production you were setting it to mysql. Fantastic setup with activerecord that made tests very fast.

People were buying macbooks just to use textmate + rails because it was so good compared to alternatives at that time. In Europe at least textmate + rails were responsible for more new apple devs than anything else; before that it was unheard of/ultra niche platform nobody was using.
"Startup" is not really synonymous with "small business". It may not be a universal view but it does seem really common nowadays for the word "startup" to imply attempts at fast-growing, VC-funded new companies.

Also while most people don't work at the big-name sexy tech companies, I think the author's point was about what people should aspire to as the pinnacle of a career. Not what people commonly settle for.
Do you have a link to that? Didn't see it here on HN.
> nice, oss, local files, ability to encrypt, x-platform apps

Every single box is checked by Trilium (https://github.com/zadam/trilium), plus you can self host a server if you want to sync between as many clients as you want, and you can password protect only specific notes if you want to. Only "disadvantage" is that the client is electron; if you can live with that, I think you should check it out. (I'm not affiliated, but I've been using Trilium for a while.)
"No, no, but GDPR bad!!11 We care about your privacy that's why we collect all the data we can, sell it to everybody and store your passwords in plaintext" As said by several ad-supported businesses and especially ad-networks.
Coming back to this very late!

> No, the article's p takes a function

Yeah it does, but it's just misdirection.

A lot of this theory is gamified "you pick YOUR function, THEN I'll pick MINE..." and the order is very important. Here representing sequences as functions only obscures. The important idea is that the sequence is lazy, BUT predetermined. It can't know what the predicate will be. That's where the black magic comes in.

> You could represent bit streams with something like data Stream = Cons Bit Stream in Haskell

I wish it did, it would be much clearer. The article makes that point itself:

"For the type of infinite sequences, we could use the built-in type of lazy lists..."

which is the point you made (which the article dismisses as insufficiently mathematical).

> If you couldn't do that -- if you could only query it with bit sequences that were defined independently of p -- this wouldn't be possible.

No, there's the rub! The bit sequence and `p` are independent. You choose your bit sequence, I choose `p`, and somehow execution finishes. That's exactly what makes this "seemingly impossible."

There is a back-door dependence where `p` forces a lazy sequence to materialize bits, but nothing more. The sequence cannot introspect `p`, and vice-versa.

I think this my third time encountering this post and it took me a few tries to get it!
Onion routing is a better way. Not bullet proof but its a whole lot better than a vpn.
For sci-fi I really enjoyed the Three Body Problem series
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> So the conclusion we are to draw is that VPNs are for the naive

Bit more nuanced than that, but it's certainly a field full of liars and scams.

> and that if you really get security, you self-host

Really depends on what your goal is; self-hosting can, for instance, pin you personally to a single static IP. But for some things, yeah it can be better.

> or go VPN-less (what is the alternative, exactly?)

TOR, I expect.

> Isn't the major benefit of a VPN the added hoop websites have to jump through in order to build visitor profiles?

That can be one benefit, yes. It doesn't have to be a silver bullet, but you do want to be clear on what benefits you expect to get from your particular solution.
I've thought about this since the days of IDE drives. As a black person in America I see it as a reminder of a painful legacy reduced to a catchy mnemonic. Those kinds of things waer in you, just like seeing 5 out of 7 people on US currency being slaveowners.
Running generic OpenVPN/Wireguard/TOR/etc, and segmenting traffic by purpose/nym.
Wayland and LVGL on PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch
Related, LLVM developers evaluated the use of these instructions too:

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21385

On your graph, what’s red and what’s blue and what is on x axis?
It's entertainment. Especially popular now because much other entertainment is closed.
Betterment is extremely painless (outside of their slightly awkward checking accounts), and has fractional shares as an automatic part of diversified portfolios.
> Thousands of school districts are integrating material into their curriculum that claims slavery was capitalist.

Chattel slavery of the type practiced in the early US and elsewhere was part of the dominant Western system of the mid-19th century for which critics coined the term “capitalism”; what else would it be but capitalist?
Looks like it would!
It just boggles the mind how people were able to invest for hundreds of years without a frictionless UX.
Titles are usually editorialized?
This is a sign of an impending run on precious metals.
Right there in your link:

> conducts the nation’s monetary policy to promote maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates in the U.S. economy;

(Emphasis mine)

Every single bullet that follows either restates the first bullet or is tertiary.
Youre saying at some point big HF will say 'a bunch of robin money is in some stock(s)' and make a move to cause losses for the RH folks?

>It has happened before in history

When?
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You can start out with an Einzelunternehmen (Sole Proprietorship) which means your personal finances and your "companies" finances are the same, but it's very little hassle and cost to set up, basically an online form and a few Euro. Then, when you want to grow your business, limit your financial liability, take in outside money or just better control the flow of capital you can set up a GmbH (don't bother with an UG if you have the €25k at hand). Bonus points if you think it likely that you'll sell your business you can set up two GmbHs in a Holding structure which has big tax benefits in the event of a sale. You still only need the €25k once in that case.
A pain point that I’ve encountered repeatedly but observed consciously for the first time today: The natural comfortable font size can vary for different languages. Hence, a font size of say 14px that works just fine for English could make you squint when reading Chinese.

A solution for this is to add something like the following to your CSS stylesheet:

:lang(en) {
font-size: 14px;
}

:lang(zh) {
font-size: 18px;
}
The Benefits of Online Events
My usecase involves sharing private video with access control for my sports club. For that I use https://mux.com/ which take care of hosting, CDN and all the conversion shenanigans. On top of that I've build a Django app which uses video.js as a player.
I'm not a daily note taking type of person but I have a notepad on my desk for doodling, sublime/notepad.exe for quick scratch pad stuff, and a todo app for longer term things
I disagree with the premise of the article, since it takes the POV of an experiences trader, but that isn’t necessarily the whole story. The alternative for a lot of Robinhood traders wasn’t / isn’t trading on e trade or another platform, it’s not investing at all. If the market is going to be growing, which is the assumption of any economic theory, it should follow that people want to get money into the market in order to grow their wealth. Options are unlikely to convey on any platform, but stock ownership and investment is unquestionably a good thing, when compared to money sitting in a bank account.
When the physical stores are open to the public too, the incremental cost can be zero.

This is why grocery E-commerce distribution is usually done from a store estate (with the exception of occado, which has a higher cost to serve but also gives a better resulting service).
For a moment I will consider the conspiracy: If you kill a judge, another will simply take their place and the process will continue. Ergo the only way the conspiracy holds water is if the judge could not be persuaded to violate her oath, etc. or the chances of a judge who would be more favorable would be set to take her place. It's madness.
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