skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If using a CDN that is owned by a US company is illegal in Germany, then how can Germans run international websites?

Just like US companies can run computers outside of the US border, so can other companies. A German CDN can setup their own infrastructure within US borders, then German companies can work with that CDN to speed up connections within the US for users coming from there.

> There is no way to avoid this.

There is. GeoDNS ("Regional Records") is one way, where you reply with different IPs to the instances based on where the DNS query comes from. So US visitors to domain.com gets a different IP than German visitors to domain.com.

> What can German indiemakers do now? Register a company outside of the EU?

Use European infrastructure, make sure you follow GDPR. As a fellow European (mostly) "indiemaker", it's really not that hard.
I remember listening to that interview and this part always got me:

> Matt: (27:13)

> I think of myself as like a fairly cynical person. And that was so much more cynical than how I would've described farming. You're just like, well, I'm in the Ponzi business and it's pretty good.

I seriously cannot understand how after this interview Sam still had any kind of support from VCs and so on.

I hope the late 2010s-early 2020s will be remembered as the dot-com era of extremely dumb money...
Similar journey but several different languages and trust me when I say I've used and tried them all.

To name a few off the top of my head - XAMPP, WAMP, EasyPHP,
Vagrant, QEMU, WSL, VirtualBox (headless and ui), Devilbox, Vanilla Docker,
(Homestead, Sail, Valet, Laragon)

My favorites where #3 Laragon, #2 Devilbox and number one nowadays is Lando.

Lando [1] is the best of all worlds as I have projects running node, c#, java and php and while I haven't needed to I can use or drop to raw docker files if I need to. Everyone I have introduced to it ended up loving it for ease of use and convenience. It comes with about everything you need and you can craft your own recipes and access them as needed. In one laravel project I have meilisearch running [2] and more. I could go on and on about this tool but it makes the dev process so much easier where I can focus on problem solving and not wrangling with commands and tools.

[1] - https://lando.dev/
[2] - https://usa.adaptagency.com/news-knowledge/meilisearch-and-l...
If you were to have a static site (note: that was the original question), and want to perform a dynamic tasks (like filtering) - how else would you do it besides using JS?
FTX was making a killing, so its token that paid out trading fees was worth a lot. To bail out trading losses in Alameda, FTX sent it cash in exchange for a bunch of its own token. This might have worked out fine, except now the moment everyone expects FTX to go bankrupt, it's bankrupt.
I think it really depends to be honest. I don't think what you are saying is generally true of people at prop trading firms, the ones that I know were generally very into math/physics and got lured by the high pay.

With prop firms, there is little need to schmooze the rich with fancy degrees
Ah, didn't realize this about the $1B/year. Thanks!
Algae? With all that sh*t we have in the oceans? I'll pass
It's like he has no business acumen at all. And I know that's not true. I think he's intentionally destroying the company for some unknown reason.
10% is $1.6B. Only needs 1% for $160M. .1% for $16M. Which is still generationally rich. Yeah, I think he would have taken that out right?
Few notes:

- some crapplications do not want to run on custom rom

- more than mere mobile privacy I'm MUCH worried about new cars (witch happen to be mobile crapware connected crap)...

As a small dumb example, I've got my new EV, formally already fitted by default of crappy surveillance contracts with some vendors "pre-payed" and I have to unsubscribe to them all one-by-one. Car itself is a mobile OS, connected to the vendor and who knows what PLUS Android Auto/Apple CarPlay. Being semi-autonomous and connected can potentially blocked or cracked from remote and I doubt we can even LEGALLY flash other firmware's.

To add a small anecdote I found the car already bound to the vendor phone, it's new but probably they have do some test being a vehicle in their exposition, he simply forget to unbind it. Witch means he potentially track, remote open, remote power on etc the car.

In such terms while I prize all FLOSS efforts we can't have privacy on mobile crapware and craphw: the sole option is IMPOSING with popular acclaim mandatory FLOSS for anything and all "connections" must be in the term "your device can expose, at your options as the real owner of the device, some services to the net. All we offer is a connection service, with a public IPv6 address and a (sub)domain name for you. You choose what to do with it". No "push-OTA" and other stuff allowed by laws, with sanctions severe enough no one would even try to.
I haven't worked for someone else in over 20 years, live in my favorite place in the world, and work when I want to. That book and the concept of "lifestyle design" are big contributors to my extraordinary happiness.
I hope you're trolling because this is a very large scale theft. Most of us would agree resignation is not appropriate consequence for such conduct.
Heh, yep. Missed some magnitude there. Argh. Though still something to consider, like pulling from SQS could use most of the item space for example.
Europe is ruining the internet.
Ask HN: Best way to keep the raw HTML of scraped pages?
I'm scraping information regarding civil servants' calendars. This is all public, text-only information. I'd like to keep a copy of the raw HTML files I'm scraping for historical purposes, and also in case there's a bug and I need to re-run the scrapers.

This sounds like a great usage for a forward proxy like Squid or Apache Traffic Server. However, I couldn't find in their docs a way to both:

* Keep a permanent history of the cached pages

* Access old versions of the cached pages (think Wayback Machine)

Does anyone know if this is possible? I could potentially mirror the pages using wget or httrack, but a forward cache is a better solution as the caching process is driven by the scraper itself.

Thanks!
I'm impressed that there actually is a chart.
Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
Close. Depends on your marginal tax rate and returns post tax compared to the debt rate of interest. At higher tax rates, it gets closer to being a wash with the spread still low. If risk free rates continue to rise, the investment vs pay down benefit becomes more clear.
There is one: https://www.futurefund.gov.au/
Dumb question: so if you stored digital assets in a FTX wallet, does that mean you just lost all of your $$$?

If so, wow'zer.
> There was a comment of 'why is this comment hidden under 'more' and 'offensive'. Hence checking.

I don't understand this, you're saying that you made one comment and it was deprioritized so you think that one comment being deprioritized is evidence of you being shadow banned for following conservatives? Maybe the algorithm prioritizes based on how often you comment and how often your posts are liked, which seems like a pretty sensible way to do it.

> Firing the political activists was a shocking change in comments for those I follow. Curation of twitter users was obviously occurring.

Hm.. Yoel hasn't even publicly announced he's leaving, as far as I know he's still at Twitter, so when you say "Firing the political activists was a shocking change in comments for those I follow". Which political activists and when? When was this 'shocking change' since Yoel as recently as yesterday said he was still doing his job?

Also, how do you know this isn't just confirmation bias / people testing twitter with more? I mean uses of slur's on Twitter went way up, but that was while the content moderation team was still in place.
It's almost like they asked GPT3 or Dall-e to create "a corporate structure that is so confusing it will be a liability shield to keep my ass out of jail", and then used whatever came out
Arcade fire too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8AArhhjo44
Bridgewater is an even worse example of this than normal. Very cult-ish
I'm not arguing on the basis of what Levine thought of the conversation.

At the very least, it's apparent that SBF sees crypto as being heavily based on speculation that's disconnected from any actual value proposition, but he's choosing to exploit and profit from those systems. And it's now apparent that he also was engaging in speculation with user funds himself via Alameda.

A wild-eyed crypto believer might lose anywhere from a few thousand to a few million of their own money in poorly placed speculation.

A sophisticated market-maker will facilitate the loss of billions (about $10 billion in this case) from numerous people.

Which is more dangerous? A HODL who loses their savings on some speculative crypto purchase, or the next Bernie Madoff?
This reminds me of the time I nuked all my code by mistake (rm -rf *) and I still had PyCharm open, and I opened their "Code History" tool and un-deleted all my code, immediately proceeded to commit and push whatever state it was in because I was about to freak out.

I think all IDE's should have their own internal copies of code that are housed elsewhere, it has saved me hours of turmoil trying to re-write already solved for code.
I'm not sure where you get your iPhones from, but Google [Chrome] is not the default browser on stock iOS, Safari is.
Neither it discriminates foreign companies. Domestic companies have to follow the same rules.
He worked at Jane Street prior to starting his own company which was built on a successful arbitrage. Whatever his issues - qualification isn’t one of them.

I’m not defending this catastrophe (which seems like it was partly an execution by a rival), but this kind of comment is just bizarre on hacker news in the world of tech companies and startups. Age is not a good proxy for competence.
It took the Fed a full year of inflation being over the target to raise rates.

If you look at the code of the climate models responsible for the decision making of trillions of dollars, you'll find old fortran code with many obvious inaccuracies on the order of magnitude of the things it's supposed to measure, and you'll find they all copy code from each other and reach diverging results.
> Or not at all

If the list is not at all accurate I doubt it would propagate as well or as long because an entirely inaccurate list provides negative value to its recipients by giving them a false sense of security that will be eventually dispelled when they realize their personal experience does not correlate with the list. I would be more concerned about a list that is sufficiently accurate to ensure continued propagation while still containing harmful inaccuracies.

> The negatives of this kind of behavior are equal to the supposed benefits

Whether the harm caused by inaccurate warnings exceeds the harm avoided by the accurate warnings seems subjective because these harms are different and impact different people. It would also be hard to assess without knowing the actual ratio of accurate to inaccurate warnings.

But regardless of whether these kinds of lists cause net harm overall, individuals will continue to share warnings as long as doing so provides net value to them. Outlawing rumors is something not even totalitarian regimes have managed to do, so the only solution I can think of would be to ensure that the alternate methods of addressing problematic behavior are more attractive to people than resorting to rumors.
I didn't ignore those words, I directly addressed them in my comment.
Haha thanks. I wrote it in a ranty way, but I've found that doing the opposite of my "advice" in the article is actually really useful :-)
Airport Visitor Pass Programs That Let You Say Goodbye to Loved Ones at the Gate
Odd way to do a humble brag, but okay
just looking for data points in a storm.
> Not sure what that all entails.

Those same network effects that propelled web3 into stratosphere are going to bring it down back to earth. Not necessarily vanquish it, but put web3 in its place, so to speak. A scenario I'd imagine where DEXes / DeFi will endure and possibly thrive, but DEXes / DeFis don't have the kind of moats to justify astronomical valuations... which is both a good and a bad thing, depending on which side of the coin you are on.

Tech VCs have already circled back to AI, so doubt private companies in need of more money can stay afloat for longer, if they weren't being careful with volatile crypto assets.
Feels a bit like mastodon needs to come with load testing tools? If only to give smaller admins a quantifiable sense of what level their instance turns into a flaming ball
>They sell real stuff

Whether or not they sell real stuff is a distraction from the real question. To figure out if it is a scam, you need to look at 1) where profits come from (is it from "selling" the product, or is it from recruiting sellers and "selling startup kits".) If most of their money is from people buying "be your own boss and own a business kits" then that is the product. 2) The next question is if that product they are selling (the kit) is a scam or misrepresented pipe dream.

Even if they sell a product, you need to ask if the product is the product. If all the money is from a pyramid of recruiting people to recruit people to buy startup kits, there should be some kind of action taken against them. The distinction becomes more obvious when you look at something like Cutco/Vector, where there is a product company and a marketing kit company.

In essence you can have two identical companies with two identical business models, and one can be a scam and one can not be a scam based on execution. If the business derives profit primary from sales to end customers, then everything is above water. If millions of "own your own businesses" end up with garages full of unsellable product, its a scam.

I recognize this interpretation takes away the agency and culpability from the person who joins a scheme, buys a bunch of stuff in hopefulness, and fails to execute as a salesperson. I also recognize that markets can dry up, and what was once above water can start to look like a scam. But these companies prey on those types of people. And if preying on vulnerable people is your business, its a scam.
It doesn't require it, but it provides you with Google's one big magic trick:

If someone searches for "hotels new york" you have what's called a motivated customer. He or she is much more likely to click on an ad for New York hotels.

It's one weird trick, but man, is it a good trick.
Designate a representative in the EU? That doesn't seem straightforward to me, especially for a small company.
FTX WAS a corrupt bank/betting parlor. Cryptocurrency is about self custody and full transparency. This is what blockchains allow. FTX was people depositing money in SBF's personal piggy bank. FTX has nothing to do with crypto, other than the fact that it allowed people to bet on crypto prices.
As meat eater I'm not wholly against it. If the texture and taste is palatable why not.
> anyone in the EU is not even allowed to connect to any website owned by a US

These laws don't bind individual citizens, but companies offering services.

One might however ask, whether EU ISPs are allowed to route to U.S. as that passes IP addresses to U.S. companies. Maybe if they implement NATing?
Entrepreneurship is an extremely challenging practice. My biggest wins have come from seeing things in ways that don't occur to ordinary people and some of those insights I've discovered through books.
Prime Focus Spectrograph passes significant testing milestone
Coinbase's fake email unsubscribe button
I just got a random promotional email from coinbase. This email has no unsubscribe button on it at all so I google'd "unsubscribe from coinbase email" to see why this is, and this came up along with this: https://emails.coinbase.com/unsub. Am I missing something and they telepathically know what email address I want to unsubscribe on or this is the worst email spam-scam I've ever seen?
I never said it was a smart idea but if you don't understand technology (i.e. majority of politicians/public) it might seem like a great protectionist idea. The simple idea the politicians believe is protect our privacy by forcing big tech companies to change for our benefit -- if they don't our own population will build the technology. Win win in their eyes.
I do feel like SBF path was obviously distinct from this hedge fund/IB pathway you are describing.

For one, he got hired for a prop trading firms - in which these effects are not very large because they have little-to-no interest in clients and managing assets.
You can operate on very little knowledge of English.

Essentially you can learn middle-out vs other languages.

To understand a programming language you just need the bare bones.

English is the JS of programming languages though, being that it's everywhere and it's very easy to use.
Sort of the anti-Google.

Whereas Google will release something, get user traction and then try to make it 'best in the world'. If it doesn't get to world class status, then it cancels it and moves on, pissing off the early adopters in the process.

The problem is that this becomes counter-productive just like serial dramas in the TV world. If people think you're going to cancel something, they're not going to get emotionally invested in your product. Then it almost certainly gets canceled because it doesn't get enough user traction. Rinse. Repeat.
Stable Diffusion on beefy hardware is faster than OPs process in OPs docker container, but I don't think we can judge from this that OP uses a slower process. For all we know this is running on the equivalent of a $10 Digital Ocean droplet.
I read somewhere years ago -- and this may be incorrect -- that one indication that a child is autistic is that he doesn't point out things to others. The idea was that autism predisposes one to believe that his own consciousness is the only one that exists, and when we point out something to someone else we are inviting them to share in this particular experience of observation.

If it is in fact true, however, that autistic children do not point out things to others, might it not be due to the eye contact phenomenon discussed here? If you think about it, before pointing out something to someone else you usually establish eye contact with the person whose attention you wish to redirect.
But the exchange it seems was but only one constituent of a wider more complex (necessarily complicated?) web of cross funding that in no way represents the expected business practice of an exchange. Matt it seems failed to account for the bare faced lying of a deluded ideologue. Or at least someone who hid behind an ideology to excuse absurd business practices

https://i.redd.it/078p4g7m6cz91.jpg
Thank you.

As you probably know, the big deal about double descent is that once sufficiently large AI models cross the so-called "interpolation threshold" in training, and get over the hump, they start generalizing better -- the opposite of overfitting. State-of-the-art performance in fact requires getting over the hump. As far as I can tell, you did not mention any of that explicitly anywhere in your post.

Also, all your plots show only the classical overfitting curve, not the actual curve we now see all the time with larger AI models like Transformers.
Yeah, just as with aspirin, I carry a few of those (i.e.,"souls") in my pocket for emergencies, e.g., in case I need to fend off Satan (an archaic term for an individual evil entity of great power) - I toss a fee on the sidewalk and skedaddle away while He (i.e., the Devil [caps for classicly-attributed respect of his overweening spiritual powers]) devours them.
There is no new format [1]. Just stop referring to reddit.com when you think about the site. Go to https://old.reddit.com, and redirect everyone you know to it. Use an extension to redirect when you're not logged in [2]. Also change your site preferences to keep the old version when you are logged in. Everything works as expected.

Side note: If anyone in your life says "I like New Reddit", you have now identified a fundamental point of difference in taste with that person. Use this information wisely.

Reddit needs to realize the asinine mistakes that they have made in this "redesign" that no one asked for. The moment they remove or screw with the old site in any way, I'm gone and never coming back.

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[1] Just in case it isn't clear; this comment contains hyperbole for the sake of a little humor

[2] https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
“Some employees kept their life savings on FTX,” the second anonymous employee told CoinDesk. “We trusted that everything was fine.”

When I read that, I directly think "morons".
It may be practical to feed that beef algae instead of corn.
Don’t dip your pen in the company ink has been in the lexicon, since well, when you had to refill pens from ink pots. Lots of uncomfortable situations which can arise from dating within the company which have little to do with current politics.
Because they might have missed it by a tiny margin and were borderline. The feeling of totally bombing an interview and being within an inch of passing are enterily different. I wouldn't be upset by the former, but the latter would grind on me for a bit.

To the grandparent poster: if you actually have the goal of passing that faang interview, just keep trying. Taking multiple tries to succeed doesn't make you a subpar engineer. I worked for one of those FAANGs for a while, but there was another one i wanted to work at, and I kept coming short every single time during onsites for that one specifically. Like, it would always be good enough to go to the hiring committee, but it would inevitably end up with "you were so borderline, only if that one interviewer out of 5 gave you a slightly higher score, you would have been hired." Turns out, 4th time was the charm, and I got hired. And now, I am not noticing being "subpar" to any other engineers i work with who got in on the first try, my perf review was quite good, and I like the job I do, so trying all that time ended up being worth for me. So if you have that as your goal, don't get discouraged by failing, just give it another try later.
If your staff is acting like spoiled bratty children, you talk to them. If they don't adjust, you fire them.

If you can't fire them because they're hard to replace, guess what; they have more value than you attributed to them, and were probably RIGHT to complain and insist on better pay.

Just like your employer tries to extract maximum value for minimum pay out of you, so should you extract maximum pay for minimum investment out of your employer. That's only fair.
If so, then he will be facing jail time. If not, then he is fine.
Well, that means anything public-facing really. You are allowed to keep contacts in your personal phone book though.
2007 graphic novel. Lots of awards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika_(comics)
Yes, by acquiring new customers who then buy further products and services.

It could also just be sold as a service, or an addition to iCloud+.
I don't think I've ever heard Go described as having "pretty syntax".
> A German CDN can setup their own infrastructure

Ok, but what if you just want to run a website and not build a billion doller global CDN.

> GeoDNS

According to the GDPR you have to protect the data of your visitors no matter where they are.
It's quite common to spin off daughter companies per project, it isn't unusual or illegal in any way. Without at least type and ownership information it's hard to tell if it's iffy.
People are free to give away their PII
I take full responsibility for stealing $10 billion and am stepping down as CEO, it has been a long journey from me having nothing to this point. I am sorry to those that lost some or all of your money.

I will no longer take part in the company and will quietly fly away on my private jet to my $50 million home where I will contemplate my next venture.