skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paradoxically, the most trustworthy thing you could do as a VPN provider is explain why most people don't need and won't actually benefit from a VPN. Outside of a few limited use cases (accessing location-restricted content, connecting to legacy services) and with almost-ubiquitous end-to-end TLS encryption deployed on the Internet, there's really not a lot of good reasons to use a VPN (and many good reasons not to). Reasoning about this in a transparent and objective way is something I've never seen VPN providers do, and for this reason I struggle with trusting them.
The way I see it, websites like that are saying they’ll only do it without a condom. You want it real bad, so it’s tempting to try to bargain about it, or maybe just take it off for now - it’s just a little while, what’re the chances it goes wrong? - but we all know that the smart move is to keep it on or back out entirely. Reasonable partners, of which there are many, understand and cooperate. And ones that don’t aren’t the type of partner you want anyway.
I used to have a reinsurance company as a client. For those unfamiliar, that’s an insurance company that sells insurance to insurance companies. Example: You buy a $1,000,000 automobile liability insurance policy with a $1,000 deductible.

If the insurance company doesn’t sell enough of these kinds of policies to reliably offset payouts with premiums, they might turn around and buy a policy from a reinsurance company with a $10,000,000 limit and a $100,000 deductible against their entire portfolio.

Thus, reinsurance companies spend a lot of time thinking about things that don’t happen very often but can be very expensive when they happen.

And yes, they had a division that did propositions like hole-in-ones, and also they insured legal betting companies against wild trifectas and that sort of thing.

I have a small trove of stories they told me about bizarre accidents that wound up costing enormous amounts of money.
> a literal fight with IT

How did that pan out?
Enlightening as to possibly why their overall UX is worse than the IRS'.
this is awesome, great work. this is really the first time i've opened up one of these "awesome list of X" repos and immediately learned a ton.

required reading for the bash newbie and mage alike. 10/10 will reference again and again.
GNU/Linux Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook
A "2FA Mule" is a special kind of burner phone that forwards the authentication to the endpoint of your choice - in my case, email:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29710908
Have you ever worked together with toxic highly political group-think people? It is awful to work in such an environment, where most communication only serves to virtue signal and make others conform to a specific world view. Its exclusive, unproductive and just awful. A workplace that aims to include a diversity of people and opinions can not be a space for political activism.
Always hard to prove things in deep history but:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/03/europe/swedish-meatballs-turk...

" King Charles XII took the throne in 1697 at age 15 and later spent several years in Bender (now Bendery in Moldova), which was under Turkish rule, before returning to Sweden in 1715 – allegedly with a recipe for meatballs. "

(allegedly)

"Coffee beans and stuffed cabbage were also brought back to Sweden by Charles XII, according to Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu. "
Ask HN: How to provide healthcare for a global workforce
Hello,

we from croit.io, a 100% remote company, grew a lot in the past years and want to ensure that everyone in our company has access to decent health care.

Now it looks like it's hard to get a good contract thats able to cover countries like the USA but also Venezuela, Bolivia, India,...

I'm happy to hear how others deal with it as well as suggestions where to get a good but affordable health care for our employees.

Thanks in advance!
The Germans banned the Nazis from political participation or even airing their views publicly. Did the Germans give up democracy?
not at all, sort does not change type of those elements, string conversion is only used for comparison, so you still have number[] everywhere
Stanley Druckenmiller:

I’ve never used the stop loss. Not once. It’s the dumbest concept I’ve ever heard. [If a stock goes down 15%] I’m automatically out. But I’ve also never hung onto a security if the reason I bought it has changed. That’s when you need to sell.
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least concerned about

Why are people saying this sort of thing about the CDC? They have proven themselves out-of-control, irrational dictators.
I completely agree. Lots of out of touch in this discussion thread. “They are contractors, what do they expect!?”
I've always enjoyed reading this article by Angersock. It dives into the causal factors of burnout while acknowledging how personal and diverse it can be: https://web.archive.org/web/20190423185636/https://angersock...
Pitbulls were banned in the UK in 1991. We still have fatalities from pitbull attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_t...
If you ignore the awful controls and equally awful minigames, I think Escape is still a fun pirate tale with a lot of things to love about it. I think the plot's overall is pretty inspired about the gentrification of the pirate islands, and it's the natural progression from Curse's exploration of the same themes (which in turn those themes going all the back to things like Secret's used boat sales lot). A lot of Escape is extremely funny, too. It just has that huge grind in the middle made worse by awful controls and environments that were both too big and too densely packed with sight gags and too empty all at once.

"Somewhat bad", sure, given those qualifications of pretend the controls and their grind don't exist. But also, more inspired than many give it credit for and still "worst Monkey Island" is a relatively high bar compared to other franchises we could mention.
>yes obviously there are people out there with fully automated systems who will try massive lists of commonly used plaintext passwords for authentication if you don't throttle/rate-limit it.

and those people use single browser/single useragent/single browser fingerprint/single IP

the people competent enough to send millions of requests are usually also competent to send hard to detect requests

there are dozens of (free)tools/services offering those capabilities for LEGITIMATE purposes(like scraping)

there is an even bigger underworld market for paid tools for illegitimate purposes
Manga's tough because it's so easy to pirate and there are so many older titles out there.

Viz has done an amazing job by having access to a decent Shonen Jump library for only $2/month that hopefully will grow, but it's dead simple to go to a manga fan translation aggregator site and read a larger range of comics (and from non Shonen-Jump titles). I'm a subscriber and read titles they have there. The image quality is better than fan sites unless you download torrents or something.

The obvious solution for this era is to have a Netflix or crunchyroll-like approach with Manga. Also for some newer titles, they're creating the translations to be released when the title is released in Japan.
Framework laptop is certainly cool if you like to change out ports and want to repair your own laptop, but you are currently giving up quite a bit if you choose to get one:

* No AMD offerings, at all. The AMD 5900 processors have been available since EOY 2019 and dominate this 11 series processor on performance/battery life

* No dedicated GPU options, period.

* Even if you stay with intel, the processors are basically 2 revisions behind now.

* Form factor is quite a bit more bulky than its competitors, even considering the fact parts are removable.

* No guarantee of companies longevity for future bios updates / repair parts

* Price is quite a bit more expensive for what you get, compared to its competitors. For instance, This dell will be more powerful, slimmer and cost less ( https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-plus-lap...)

I love the reparability of the framework, but I just cant get around the drawbacks if you choose to go with them. Its not even a issue of money. You cant pay more to match features of other 'non repairable' laptops. You just have to accept a inferior product compared to other options.
I'm happy that there is at least one laptop maker putting their dollars and effort into function rather than form.
For real - i have one of Pacsafe's[1] on hand for international travel where the phone tracking scares me even more than US' domestic situation

[1]: https://int.pacsafe.com/collections/rfid-blocking-wallets/pr...
I just started my replay of the Legendary Edition with some mods and having a blast. I love that it hits that sweet spot of narrative and gameplay. For a decade old trilogy it definitely holds up.
> Is it an absolute that Mullvad doesn't log/sell information? No, of course not. But they make a much more convincing case than my ISP does.

That's not the only deciding factor though, is it? Mullvad (not singling them out, but just for sake of illustration) is in many ways is more attractive to bad actors because it centralizes users seeking privacy. On top of that, you're adding additional software and network complexity which equals attack surface. There's more to consider than what appears at face value when considering whether a VPN is appropriate.
This, very much. I need to keep myself distracted, otherwise I get very upset.
No. I wouldn't let a 6 year old play unsupervised with any dog. That would be incredibly irresponsible, and has lead to innumerable unnecessary child & dog deaths.

Would you leave a 6 year old unsupervised with a hungry rat? No - what a stupid question. A chihuahua can cause the same degree of injury (life-altering).

Is there a significant difference in behaviour between a pitbull and a chihuahua? No - this study confirms what has been known for years.

Breed-specific legislation is utter bullshit. It clearly doesn't work, isn't workable anyway (breed is judged based on looks rather than genetics), never had any scientific basis, and has been proven to be detrimental to its own aims time & time again.
To me the 'plainness' of the design is a feature, not a bug, because I plan to own the case for a long time and that means I can make it my own however I want. Other laptops are essentially disposable, so there's no point in putting any of your own effort into their aesthetics.

Also, the ports are TB4 ports. I use mine with a TB4 hub.
While that sounds like an amazing technical accomplishment, I can tell you that discovering it on an amiga with a hifi separates amp and speakers[1] was definitely better. I was very lucky, but I'm not sorry! ;) The soundtrack is sensational.

1. To be fair, the speakers were intended for the back shelf of a car. It was cobbled together from castoffs found in the loft...
Shipping to Europe was promised before the end of 2021, if I recall.

The design is worthless if I can't get my hands on it.
> Now imagine being a naive post-teenager

Adult. The word you’re looking for is adult.
> I think the best thing we could do is encourage people to buy fewer things that are better quality.

I would LOVE to do this, but I have absolutely no idea how to identify quality. Is the $50 t-shirt at Macy's actually going to last me longer than the $10 that looks identical at The Gap?

Since I don't even know, I usually end up taking the $10 safer choice.
your understanding of personal, spontanoeus, life-changing moments are viewed through a context specific lens: your behaviors, routines, and lifestyles which at the time created a specific interaction. and you seem to be recalling it with rose-colored glasses.

because then suddenly you draw a conclusion that all personal spontaneity which has life-changing implications must happen in person (and that only these kinds of interactions can be serendipitous) and must happen according to <whatever arbitrary rules you think governs (your personal, remember) interactions>.

however your lens fails to resolve the context for what it is: a set of circumstances around how you personally lived (and worked).

Nothing more, nothing less.

many moons ago i happened to accidentally click on a game server for a game i play which has quite a niche, but super competitive online gaming community (fps). i quickly found myself in a server where there were a handful of people spectating a couple of people playing. all very casually. sometimes taking turns.

i then discovered each person in the server was a professional player, who previously and currently for the time competed for money, and were to varying degrees successful. i spent the remainder of my night unexpectedly well, not playing, and just watching. hanging. getting pointers.

ultimately it led to me making some cool friends, but specifically finding a mentor -- one of them took me under their wing and taught me how to really play the game. that interaction alone pushed me to not only stick with the game and to become a better player -- which under this person's guidance was crazy because of the knowledge they possessed -- but it also left me with a life-long friend.

this friendship is one i very much so value, and it was formed totally accidentally, unexpectedly, serendipitously, and completely 100% virtual -- i have yet to meet this person, or any of the others (they are foreign) in person to this day.

that is one of many personal experiences i have had on the internet.

i have absolutely no idea how people arrive at a general conclusion that `office == only_vector_for_serendipity` other than this line of thinking being a direct consequence of drinking Steve Jobs'/Apple kool-aid (ie: designing bathroom layouts to favor random interactions), while also conflating personal experience with universal truth-ness.

that does not mean in-person interactions, random or otherwise, serve no purpose (ever work with someone who has valuable input but often self-censors? body language is hard to hide). i am just baffled as to how one can make such a sweeping statement about a thing being absolutely necessary.
I'm on a Pixel and Google Fi, no such thing happened to me. Are there other entities that might have hand their hand in this? (State, Telco, phone manufacturer)
> Every user gets a separate DB file, and a cron job syncs their records

Call it SQLitus Notes or something like that?
Related: https://twitter.com/a_m_mastroianni/status/15211330751991439...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31245559, but we merged that thread hither)
You are vastly underestimating the value of 3h (Bay Area average) of out of each week if one commutes 5 days a week. 3h*50wk = 150h - assuming $100 (lowball) bill rate that's $15k. A more median bill rate would likely be about $250 meaning it's probably worth $50k.
If the activity is easy/cheap to recreate it's probably good to assume that advantage players will also do the same practice to improve their odds.
Can confirm. I'm from BFE Michigan, and I've heard of it, too. It's funny and kind of fun, but I wouldn't expect the average Midwesterner to have participated it. A born & raised urban-dweller might not have even heard of it.
I don't think we talk enough about the downsides of DRY.

Reinventing the wheel for the sake of reinventing the wheel (not-invented-here) is a problem, but reinventing it for the sake of learning more about wheels is a big deal.

I suppose many developers reach for libraries because they're more confident that the libraries will implement things correctly/more efficiently than they could. But if they keep reaching for libraries (instead of trying to write an `isEven` function themselves) then they never really improve either.
>Restaurants obviously being the most important metric

This reminds me a bit of Eddie Izzard's impression of the Queen: "A plumber? What on Eaaarrrthh is that?" Not everyone can eat at a restaurant nightly. Not everyone can eat. And some of the reason for that is designed into the current system.
Pretty sure they do support hardware tokens.
I don't think this take will age well. By all public accounts there's something like a 15%-20% engineering talent shortage in tech. That means pay will go up regardless if Topeka or SF until the current generation of engineers catch up and become hire-able.
Dubai sounds decidedly better than the towns that surround it, sure, but it's pretty clear based on this description (and every other) that it is not even close to a world class city.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31239268, which was posted earlier (since re-upped a la https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308) and has what I guess is the original source.
Good point. Movable Type, one of the oldest blogging engines, used CGI Perl scripts for the admin interface and generated static files. I believe if someone made a comment it would cause the relevant pages to be regenerated in just this way.

I've sometimes pondered generating "static" sites which comprise PHP files, where PHP is only used for the actually dynamic parts. So common headers/footers are regenerated only when changed, but things that change constantly are still dynamic. But this would probably be pointless optimization; if one is using PHP, one may as well use it.
It's gotten slightly better for developers, but the video game industry is horrible for most of the people in it. It's tends to be toxic with lower pay & benefits with much longer hours. I guess that's the price for doing something that you love.

imo The only time it works "well" is with successful indie companies.
There's no DA in the UK.
True. Approximate skill of the golfer could also be an important factor - the article even mentions three LPGA golfers getting holes-in-one in the same tournament. Presumably they were quite a bit more talented than your average entrant.
A Case Against Text Templating
For day trips I brew coffee at home and carry it in a vacuum insulated bottle. The bottle smells like coffee even after cleaning, so I have one that I always use for the task.

For multi-day trips I already have a small camping stove (MSR PocketRocket or an alcohol stove), and I pack instant coffee. I heavily prioritize saving weight on longer trips, so I generally drink my coffee out of the same light plastic bowl that I just ate oatmeal out of, which doubles as a decent way to clean the bowl.
Certainly the Bay Area and quite a few other places on the West Coast (depending on your tolerance for clouds) are, to my taste, pretty attractive places beyond job prospects in certain industries. But NYC, Boston, Austin--add your other fairly popular cities in the US, much less Toronto in Canada--and cold/snowy winters or hot/humid summers haven't led to especially cheap housing.
Great question! Modern tends towards a post truth relativistic framework would point to no.
They are necessary for the company but not for the employees. The top bosses cannot (don’t want to) be behind every employee to check if they are as performant as they could be.
I would agree, but I really don't think many people are making that kind of money at IBs. Things may have changed, but as I mentioned, a neighbor who is pretty much in my seat- well technically one level up as a director (though title inflation has just made pretty much all titles below MD worthless), and was not pulling 300k. The new guys on the desk were not clearing 100k, and even "senior" guys like me were making a wage that just barely put us in the ownership class, and we were sacrificing a good chunk of our lives for it.

And again- these are the cream of the crop, this is the team most people wanted to work. I was one of the first to leave, but all those guys are now making multiples elsewhere that I am aware of. The point is that there are just better opportunities out there where you get to actually enjoy your life. I hear you on other jobs being stressful and demanding, but I have not really worked at a job where I was wearing that stress 24/7- well typically nothing traded on Saturday night, so nothing would ruin that, but outside of that, I could expect a call at literally any time of day- the markets were trading 23x6.
Because they're an organization which is still bound by public laws and social norms, whereas the real sinister use of our location data goes entirely unnoticed and is far, far more insidious than will ever be printed in the subservient press.
This. I own a Frame.Work laptop, and unless you're repairing it, it's underwhelming. It's not bad but in retrospect I should have spent the money on a new macbook pro with the good keyboard and nice ports. Because, I mean, how often does a laptop break? My last macbook has gone almost 10 years now with only a screen replacement.
They serve them with mashed potato - in which markets? In the UK they are/were served with whole (peeled) steamed/boiled potato.
thanks, i appreciate the detailed response. I do believe, though, that "least quirky", while definitively important, is not the most deciding factor here.

Axum is very young (was announced <1y ago), it has good momentum, is based on hyper and built by the tokio team. On the other hand, it has few actual projects built with it, I couldn't find a guide for it like actix or even Rocket have (it has some documentation in its docsrs documentation, but it is pretty minimal). Crucial questions like how to handle configuration, integration with database, autoreload, are left to the examples at best.

I have no doubt that these things will come if the framework matures. I'm just questioning if it should be the default choice right now, as opposed to in a year.

(Btw, I would absolutely recommend against Rocket right now, even though API wise it clicked the best with me, until it gets more maintainers and development resumes)
Yes, unsafe marks the places where your code must be correct no matter what. If it's wrong, the problems can appear anywhere.

That's very different from environments where all code must be correct no matter what. But the impact of bugs isn't what changes.
I’ve absolutely seen a narrative along the lines of “don’t take the leaky mRNA vax with it’s dangerous spike proteins, make ivermectin and vitamin D”

I’ve also seen pro-vaccine pro-ivermectin narrative, but all the same.
The first Xprize was awarded through a hole-in-one insurance policy, sometimes with the monthly fee just barely paid on time out of someone's personal pocket and set to expire shortly after the prize was actually awarded (so there was no simple extension possible).
Hmmm. this article from 2011 says they do: https://web.archive.org/web/20130504074926/http://gulftoday....