skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if RH customers maybe trade far more than those of other brokerages?

I believe this is true. The metric, revenue per mean dollar, is used in the industry as a measure of how productively customers’ assets are being monetised. It lets bank managers compare e.g. trading and wealth management. Given a lot of compliance costs scale with accounts and assets, not volumes, the measure makes sense.
I don't think they need a Blockchain solution to serve a few, likely uncontroversial, marketing video files.
May I ask from which provider you are getting this VPS? 20USD for unlimited 10Gbit/s bandwidth sounds a bit too good to be true.
My brokerage will only let me buy options in the standard batch of 100, which means to get anything I'm interested in I need to drop $20k, which isn't going to happen.

I only want to spend a couple of hundred on long term options ..
This is more of an issue with instacart. The vast majority of online groceries in the U.K. are served from supermarkets by supermarkets and the fulfilment rate is 95%+ with decent substitutions (typically a free upgrade to a more ‘premium’ product that you can decline at the doorstep)
> stock ownership and investment is unquestionably a good thing, when compared to money sitting in a bank account

Agreed. But cash in a day trading account at the hands of an inexperienced trader has a lower expected return than that bank account. Particularly if they’re trading options.

The net effect of Robinhood is we’re training a generation of investors with self-destructive habits. It’s possible to use Robinhood responsively. But its UX is antagonistic to that use pattern.
In many places the switch has already occured back to disposable plastic bags i.e., it's getting them to switch back again to reusable is the question. How long will the public etc. accept the continued use of disposable? It could be years..
GmbH gives you limited liability, that's its main purpose, to encapsulate risks and create a body on its own. You can just as well just register as a freelancer if there's no significant risk of going into debt suddenly or being sued. The overhead is not that big though, you have to submit tax returns, do proper accounting and you might want a tax consultant for this - that removes most of the headache, and costs you 3k€ a year. The pains start with employees, but I've also outsourced that to an HR company, costs me 30€ per employee per month - removes most of those pains too. Often tax consultants do that too. Bigger pains start at 10 employees, but by then ure hopefully large enough to have a few experienced people around you to take care of those :) All in all, I've found Germany to be less painfull than expected.
It's going to happen, this is actually why I've re-focused on Supply Chain/Logistics as there is so much room for potential growth and re-capturing losses within them as I saw working in the Automotive side of Logistics and Supply Chain a few years back.

We're going through a very unique, but much needed, transition right now that will likely bring about the automated warehouses, distribution hubs, and transport depots we always read about in books and and sci-fi lore--and that so many feared. It also re-enforces the need for UBI now more than ever, something that not long ago was though to be impossible, yet is being pilot tested by Andrew Yang and Jack Dorsey as well as other places in the US, and even by YC itself!

I'm actually optimistic, and believe if we play it right it could in fact be the seeds that allow for a Post-scarcity economy one day on Earth, as so much is lost in critical supply chains, and having these over-extended international based ones may have done more harm than good, as they accelerated a race to the bottom system in terms of price and quality (even on critical things like Medical Supplies/Drugs) as so much went to China but also made most countries entirely dependent on the CCP and has way more Geo-political consequences than we can predict.

Right now I'm taking a course in Supply Chain Operations and my final will be analyzing the consequences from the displacement of critical manufactured goods (PPE) to China and the affects it has had during the onset of COVID, and now also recently due to the massive flooding in Wuhan and the surrounding areas of China [1].

The most optimistic delays in lead-time are 2-3 weeks, but if COVID showed anything, as we saw with Medical staff in the US and even Australia having to go months without PPE and wearing trash bags in lieu of actual medical grade PPE, is that its best to actually double that to get an accurate time.

But it wasn't all bad as it also saw many 3D printing hobbyists use the technology for ACTUALLY MEANINGFUL potential instated of printing trinkets you use to clutter a work desk. And some other companies, mostly in the automotive Industry, pivoted to making breathing apparatuses.

1: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/record-china-fl...
It’s sad to think VPN logs might be accepted as a source of truth. They probably are in most countries, but they really shouldn’t be.

If your crime is downloading Frozen, and the authorities can’t find any trace of the movie on the device the logs claim was used, then it would be shameful if the logs alone were enough to convict the person.
That's neat, certainly, but I'm struggling to think what to actually use this for? The article mentions a couple cases, of which "taking action if devices fail" seems the more concrete; AFAIK that would make it probably straightforward to replace a drive with a spare? Anybody want to share any other concrete uses?
Hang on... If you use a self-hosted VPN through a VPS, the hosting company that's providing the VPS could still log ir MITM traffic from the VPS. So you still need to trust someone, no?
With even DNS using TLS on some newer browsers nowadays, the risks of using a public wifi are disappearing.
Where I live, you have to earn at least 3 times what you spend on housing to be allowed to rent/buy. This alone forces people to live further away from work even if it costs them more in the end.
Man and they are HOT too
When I was faced with this issue I found that spending about 30 minutes at the start of the day planning, and then another 15 minutes or so at the end of the day conducting a retrospective, really helped. Start by creating a list of tasks to be completed, and then prioritise them. It helps to be very specific with your tasks. Don't have a task be "work on assignment 3", have the task be, "Find 6 articles to support section 1 of assignment 3". Once you've got your prioritised list, work on them starting from the top and mark them off when you're complete. Sometimes you will have emergency tasks come in that take priority, and that's ok. Log them in your task list and work on them like any other task. It's ok to not complete the tasks you planned for the day. In your retrospective, critically examine the tasks you completed, and determine (and log) why you either did or did not complete everything you'd planned. Next morning in your planning session, take yesterday's list, re-prioritise with any new tasks that have come up, and work through the process. If your tasklist keeps growing and growing forever, then it's just fundamentally clear that you have too much work to do in the time allocated and you need to either bring somebody else in to help or start making sacrifices, either with the tasks you take on or the quality/effort of your work.
> VPNs are the wrong tool, as evinced by these leaks.

Are they? So far every leak I’ve read of, has been by pretty shady companies. This seems more like evidence that if you buy a pacemaker from aliexpress (or in the case of NordVPN from Wirecard or Theranos), you might die from it failing.
Most paywalls are trivial to bypass with a new browser profile or deleting cookies or disabling JavaScript. Some like the WSJ paywall can be bypassed using archive sites like archive.is, archive.org or outline.com. For example:

https://archive.is/20200720034756/https://www.wsj.com/articl...
As everyone moves to e-commerce, a lot of companies are going to be burned by counterfeit products finding their way into their warehouses. This is a problem Amazon just kinda ignores, because it has such a high volume that they can just accept returns no-questions-asked. But when store-that-is-accustomed-to-in-person-sales suddenly has a bunch of people returning items that are wrong, they won't know what to do. Are the customers scamming them, sending back the wrong item? Was it the supplier? The manufacturer's warehouse? Their own warehouse? It's a tough problem, perhaps there's room for a 3rd party company that only traces the source of counterfeits.
This is the trump administration you’re talking about. The 33 year old will just pick whatever choice he thinks his boss, the idiot in the White House, will like. That’s it.
Uber drivers to launch legal bid to uncover app's algorithm
The benifit of a cloud/managed cdn is in it's availability, latency, and peering agreements.

Your vps is perfectly fine so long as you're not serving traffic in China, India, etc. If you need to push data globally, need to handle very peaky traffic above the throughput of one machine, or need to have 99.9999% uptime, a cdn will look attractive.
An legitimate users still wonder why using a VPN makes the internet harder to use in terms of being on blacklists and having low IP reputation.
> I only want to spend a couple of hundred on long term options

Former options market maker. And honest question. Why?

Long-term options are tricky because theta and rho, the least intuitive components of the option pricing model, become significant as tenor increases. If you want to take a leveraged bet on the market, a margin account or leveraged ETF is safer.
Adrenaline?

Same motivation as gambling. You can enjoy the hope of the possibility of wealth. Steady investment will never give you that. Of course, this involves a heavy dose of self-delusion, also popular these days.
> At the same place though, we had F5 load balancers and actual integration with AS/400 systems but development/test environments didn't have a load balancer in front of them :(

That sucks; I really wish people would make a better effort at staging-production parity. Like, it's one thing to run dev on a smaller cluster or older hardware (although still potentially risky!), but changing out things like how connections are passed to the environment seems like asking for incompatible changes to get pushed through and break prod.
Yes, as I looked into your code, I was even tempted (in thought only, eg subconsciously feasability-checking) to fork/rip your shell syntax parser and plug it into shelljs to replace theirs ;)

To clarify, in my use case, the native asset meta-format for declaring assets and their relationships has a "field" where you can put in an external command to prepare the asset (such as minifying, sass compilation). Like in a Makefile.
I’m sure he’s just another trump dick sucker
I'm experiencing the same thing after being knocked out with a COVID-like illness in early March. (At the time I could not get a test to confirm that I had it.)

My symptoms:

1. Breathlessness, with a feeling that I am not getting enough oxygen. However a pulse oximeter shows my oxygen at 97%+.

2. Thick phlegm production in my throat. I am not congested in the chest or sinuses, but I am constantly producing very thick phlegm in my throat.

3. Occasional severe fatigue and weight loss. When it occurs, I cannot get out of bed and have no appetite. I have lost 25 lbs since March.

4. Occasional headaches and eye pain, including bloodshot eyes and blurry vision.

What's interesting is the way these symptoms cycle on and off. I will go a week feeling pretty good, and that will be followed by a week or two of symptom flare-up. This has been happening for months. I've found that any heavy exertion or exercise tends to bring on the bad cycle.

My general practitioner doesn't know what to do and I feel like he's skeptical. He prescribed me antibiotics for a possible sinus infection, but that did no good. He prescribed me an inhaler, but that did no good. He doesn't even think I had COVID.

It's sounding like I could be experiencing symptoms of ME/CFS. Has anyone had any luck finding doctors willing to take this seriously? I'm starting to get depressed that my long-term future is going to be like this.

Oh, and to anyone who thinks COVID is "just the flu", fuck you.
99% of critizism against GDPR I've seen is either about how it's poorlt implemented (but still a good idea in principle) or about cookie banners (which are note ven GDPRs fault though); I don't think I've ever seen anybody complain that the whole concept of GDPR is bad.
I don’t get “the tyranny of employment”. I’ve had bad jobs before, but within a couple of months I got a new one- in my case always within the same company. My peers in tech have had incredibly dynamic careers as W2 employees.

I’ve toyed with starting a company a few times, but it’s primarily been because there is problem I want to solve that no existing organization I know of is likely to solve it own their own.

I suspect what I really want is a professorship and tenure, but I’d probably be more likely to succeed at creating and exiting a startup successfully at this point.
This is a big deal, and it's not the only hit on a lawyer recently, and we also don't know whether the judge or the judge's husband was the target, and why. Epstein is actually an unlikely factor.
You don’t need a cofounder.

You don’t need a VC/funding.

You don’t need to over identify self with business.
That’s until the election. The current administration remains until January 20.
> teaching all devs on how to do devops within 2 months, so they can be self sufficient.

At least this Key Result is measurable: 100% devs know how to do devops. :)

But who is the individual accountable for implementing this Key Result? For a task that broad, I hope a department manager is responsible for creating a training problem, not individual devs responsible for teaching themselves.
Adaptive delivery could easily be added by converting the files with a video encoding service. Transloadit’s community plan is free and should have enough traffic included for these use cases. Full disclose: I’m a transloadit founder
If they cheap enough, imagine the fun of trying to secure government sites against everything from random conspiracy nuts to journalists and state actors when you need to secure it against something bug sized entering...
If you want this functionality you can encode the video into chunks at multiple quality levels using video2hls[0] and host them anywhere you like[1].

[0]: https://github.com/vincentbernat/video2hls

[1]: https://ryanparman.com/posts/2018/serving-bandwidth-friendly...
I have a good portfolio of stocks, and to be honest I want to bet a hundred or so here or there. I never buy lottery tickets or anything like that, but I feel like it's a good chance to take.

It has nothing to do with safe, and is about risk v reward.
What's the reason of this article showing RH as an evil corp? People also gamble in Las Vegas, no one is stopping them.

It is a good tool, thought me a lot about stocks and options. I am not investing heavily, but overhead of my investments would be far more higher with other competitors.

The other trading companies literally asked my lifestory, bunch of scans and very long process of acceptance. Let alone their extremely cumbersome software would possibly (I am certain) lose more money because of the mistakes I would make.
how does order-book sales (if it even happens - apparently it's not legal?) affect your existing shares in RH?

Unless you are trading, tiny differences in the price at purchase and sale is unlikely going to make a big difference to your final total returns. I would just consider it cost of the transaction.
If you have an encrypted channel to the VPN server, it'd be quite difficult to extract any meaningful data from it.
You don’t understand how it works. You can’t explain how the model works. Go ahead and correct me if I’m wrong.
> 2. Public transportation: high speed rail road

Heh, it is easy to do high speed rail roads if you don't value human life. [0]

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/25/chinese-rail-c...
I try to just make it explicit. I'm quite happy to something and say "I don't like how you implemented A but that's a personal preference. Section B is a code smell but non-blocking. You need to fix C because it'll break prod in a way that tests don't yet catch. I'm willing to let you leave D as-is if you can explain why you did it like that."
Other thread makes a claim about the case involved without it being mentioned in the article - any evidence for that?
Partial answer:

Hmm... given in the interviews I've been as a web developer... No.

If I could redo my whole thing again, I'd focus much more at making people laugh and like me. That might get some "you passed the coding challenge but you don't have enough experience" out of the way.
> Think again, fleshling. As we chat over Skype I’m tracing your IP address with my freaking bare hands so you better prepare for the singularity, you sham-empress. The singularity that wipes out all of reality. You’re dead, you monster. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can simulate entire worlds within our world and within my imagination. And I’m currently doing that with the future you’re from. Not only am I extensively trained in quantum physics, but I have access to the entire power of Silicon Valley and I will use it to its full extent to rule you and your pathetic little world, you little pissant.

I did not think the machine revolution would start like that

> Your future self will be consumed within my simulated reality and you will die a thousand times a day, your body unable to comprehend the destruction of a trillion soul-matrixes a second as my intelligence grows to transcendent levels. You are dead, you pitiful twit."

is it referencing "I have no mouth and I must scream" ?!
How to Improve Your Mobile App Optimisation Process?
I had a negative experience with this course. I have taken lot of statistics courses in Coursera and edX. I tried this course in edx and found it not well organized and reasoned out; I don’t remember instances to give examples for, just my opinion. FYI: I have very high respect for mit, it’s professors and ocw courses
People are also missing the complete video, its not just about magnets, it’s about why imagination can be fun. Here he just demonstrates why you can’t always turn to similarities in the classical world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ww1IXRfTA
That was my experience as well. It’s all odd because coins can be accurately weighed if the denomination is separated.
Mail sysadmins about the drive failures for example.
> I take what you say as ‘losing buying power’ to mean that a lower quantity of real goods and services can be purchased for the same amount of currency.

It's not a matter of quantity, it's a matter of which goods and services get bought. Shifting buying power means shifting demand, which means shifting the economic incentives for producing goods and services. In the case of the Fed's QE, which gave printed money to financial institutions to back mortgage and commercial construction loans, the result was to shift production of goods and services into those sectors and out of other sectors. Hence, as I said, McMansions galore and empty commercial real estate all over the US, while at the same time other things that many people need or want are in short supply.

> The creation or destruction of dollars has no bearing on the purchasing power of the dollars held by anyone else.

Yes, it does. See above.

> you need to look at what is being done with the money

Exactly. And when the government plays favorites by printing money and giving it to particular entities, the wrong things get done with the money: too much of things that people don't want or need, not enough things that people do want or need. In short, misallocation of resources, resulting in waste and unnecessary scarcity. The historical evidence for this is massive, going all the way back to at least the Roman Empire.
Title is better here...
I didn't know that HandBrake also supported command line. It's much easier to use than ffmpeg directly.
Please don’t feel like this article wasn’t useful to some people though even with bias; as a new entrant to the industry I liked reading it!
Maybe that after c-19, Chinese release c-21 that kills anyone previously marked by c-19.
I was lucky enough to fly business on the top deck of a 747. I remember it felt like driving a building down the runway compared to the A380, regardless the 747 will always have a special place in my heart <3
VPN's run through a company will always be subject to monitoring. I don't see a way around this other than something similar to TOR or mixnets.
Remember to pay PIA with ATM or other anonymous BTC and don’t use your real email address. The account emails are always used in PIA cases and they can’t protect you if that email can be traced back to you.
I think the next main challenges for Rails are improving the view layer (see upcoming ViewComponent for example) and better integrating with modern javascript (WebPacker feels half baked for gem writers). To me these issues (which both have to do more with the view layer) are where Rails is very much lacking.
By the end of this year Airstrip One[1] will have always been part of Oceania.

See also California, Texas, Hawaii[2], Philippines (1899-1901)[3], Vermont, Republic of West Florida, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)

In local context, Valais, Neuchâtel, and Geneva[4].

Less recently, the scots-irish in northern ireland, cyprus, korea, israel, not to mention Lawrence of Arabia or the former ottoman balkans in general[5].

The mongols are said to have offered neighbouring cities the thirteenth century equivalent of "plata o plomo", although in their case the silver would flow the other direction...

In ancient context, the opening lines of the Melian dialogue occur with the Athenian delegation saying "everyone in this room knows why you all force us to address the aristocracy instead of the people — you all know the people would be unable to refuse our offer."

Too many to bother looking up in between and before, so I won't multiply examples.

[1] The US no longer needs B-52's for aerial minelaying. I don't know how much mining might affect Brest, but it would certainly be a bummer for Rotterdam and Genoa. I trust brit HN'ers won't wind up eating chlorinated chicken but I guess we have to wait for Oceanian domestic politics to resolve before that question will be answered. In any event, the UK mantle of "inside the tent, pissing in" seems to have already been passed to poland and hungary.

[2] which came over wholesale, not retail, so maybe it shouldn't count. If it does, maybe we can add the original 13 colonies, as what would become canada frankly declined to join them.

Contrary to popular opinion, I believe "Екатерина, ты была не права" would be anachronistic if referring to Alaska, and refers instead to Catherine's sudden refusal to send George any troops to help put down the bitter dead-ender terrorists (and, later, foreign fighters) who famously had had an arms cache in Concord.

[3] with current interest in southeast asian sea routes, I bet the USN would like to have Subic Bay back. Unfortunately at the moment it's been redeveloped in luxury condos and yachts (being within bugout distance of Hong Kong), so it might be rather more expensive than when it was ceded.

[4] "Liberated" by the french with a fair amount of domestic popular support. Attached to us by everyone not the french, because while all of the great powers wanted our territory, the only stable strategy in 1815 was for them to agree that none of them would get it.

[5] Having studied their latin and greek, the english, while they had their empire, made good use of "let's you and him fight."
Russian Elite Given Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine Since April
... thank you, that was the example that made me realize I can/should go use this at work because it will solve a problem we have:) And a good point in general.