nlh

9 ms·

91.
by nlh 2y ago
Heh. My roommate (in NYC) at the time was involved-enough in this that one of the actual "devices" appeared in our apartment a few weeks later and surreptitiously remained for many years, fully working in its Lite-brite/LED
92.
by nlh 2y ago
I'm not really sure what's weird. Programming is a skill -- it can be used for fun, for work, for your benefit, and/or for others' benefit. The union does not want to work for their employer at the moment because they d
93.
by nlh 2y ago
(Professional coin nerd here) You’d be surprised! It’s all about supply and demand. You can get very common Ancient Greek coins from 300 BC (eg ~2300 years old) for $50 these days. For example: https://coins.ha.com/itm&#x2F
94.
by nlh 2y ago
One thing I will say, the Internet deeply and dramatically changed my perspective on the global community and connectivity in general. When I got my ham license (DE K2KD) at age ~11, the idea of picking up a microphone or tapping on a morse
95.
by nlh 2y ago
I’m a huge ledger fan (hledger specifically) and have used it to run my entire accounting life for the past 8 years or so. A few tips: * Resist the urge to break up your various accounts into too many separate files. I tried that and went b
96.
by nlh 2y ago
Because it's a startup hub, there is great engineering talent there, and the cost of living is lower than the US.
97.
by nlh 2y ago
Disclaimer: I am NOT a big company guy, and I generally fight tooth-and-nail against the enshittification that happens when startups grow beyond a certain point, so I've got a bias here. I think, for once, pg is dead-on with this post
98.
by nlh 2y ago
Great question. Authenticity is easy - I mostly deal with certified coins, which means they’ve all been authenticated and guaranteed by a 3rd party service which stands behind their mark (they will pay you for the coin if they make a mistak
99.
by nlh 2y ago
Thanks!! Infra: I was hosted on Google Cloud for a while -- literally a single VM running Docker Compose, but I decided I wanted something a bit more flexible and interesting, so last month I switched everything over to Fly.io and I am in
100.
by nlh 2y ago
100% agree! I often get folks asking if their $2 are valuable, and tell them exactly what you do -- no, alas, they're not worth more than $2, but they are super fun to leave as tips because people still get a kick out of 'em.
101.
by nlh 2y ago
Yes! Very much so. And in fact, the grading services are owned by the same parent companies. NGC and PCGS are the big coin graders and I think their card graders are CGC and PSA respectively?
102.
by nlh 2y ago
There really should be, but the fact is there isn't a tool that does this yet. It would not be deeply hard to build, but it would mean training a model which means getting good enough training data which means taking the time to actua
103.
by nlh 2y ago
That's awesome and a very thoughtful gift for him! Yes I'm planning on building alerting - BUT - I'm probably not going to expand beyond US-based stuff for the foreseeable future. It's just the niche I know and even th
104.
by nlh 2y ago
I did it all in about 2-3 years. I was a big collector as a kid but didn't get back into it in a serious way until 2021. Becoming an authorized dealer is basically, fundamentally about building trust. The whole coin industry operate
105.
by nlh 2y ago
Awesome -- thanks! Tell your son to join the Instagram coin community if he hasn't done it already - there are tons of kids & adults on there and it's a real community that meets up regularly at coin shows, etc. Send me an e
106.
by nlh 2y ago
Nobody that I know of is doing this, and see no reason why it wouldn't be possible from a technical standpoint. I think the only reason I can imagine NOT to do is that the ROI probably isn't that high in reality. Now, granted, I
107.
by nlh 2y ago
I’m a tech nerd rare coin & currency dealer! I took my two hobbies and combined them into a real business and I’m having the time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here: https://www.rarity7.com/ About 50%
108.
by nlh 2y ago
Looks amazing - congrats on the launch! Would you consider Briefer to be a competitor to https://count.co/ ? (Certainly, if you do, your pricing is a helluva lot more appealing...)
109.
by nlh 2y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but you're using "should" a lot. Companies should do a lot of things! They should make their sites secure. They should have a formal bug bounty program. They should have securit
110.
by nlh 2y ago
I don't think the onus should be on the researcher, and I think A16Z should have paid them. But if they actually wanted to get in touch, I'm just saying they could have. If they're putting the effort into vuln scanning the s
111.
by nlh 2y ago
Counterpoint: OP is a security researcher and couldn’t find a single human email address at one of the most well-known VC firms on the planet? LinkedIn? Twitter? Facebook friends? Come on. They’re not hard to reach if one really wants to
112.
by nlh 2y ago
It’s a fair and totally reasonable question but clashes with reality. Many hosts have data that others want/like to scrape (eBay, Amazon, Google, airlines, etc.) and they setup anti-scraping mechanisms to try and prevent scraping. Whet
113.
by nlh 2y ago
Sorry you had to deal with that :( > I changed my account email address and that finally stopped the hacking Sounds like perhaps they had actually compromised your email (and were covering tracks) and using that as the vector into your F
114.
by nlh 2y ago
Oh man that looks cool - BUT - $199/month for the "starter" version and $1k/month for a team prices me wayyyyyyy out on this. I am but a humble solopreneur trying to use SQL to build some nice dashboards (and not go bro
115.
by nlh 2y ago
One of the greatest quotes I've ever heard from a founder buddy was when his startup was going through a particularly dark moment and struggling: One of the investors said to him "Maybe you should seriously think about shutting d
116.
by nlh 2y ago
While we're on the topic, what SQL-based BI tools do we all recommend? I'm in agreement wit OP that writing SQL is generally a best-practice, but I'm still a bit clueless about the State of the Art tools. Metabase? Looker?
117.
by nlh 2y ago
The Internet did this to me for a lot of things -- when I was an island, I used to think I was really good at a lot of things: Table tennis, Tetris, some other video games. And relative to my friends and sometimes even the people a few ci
118.
by nlh 2y ago
Thanks for sharing the experiences. I'm fascinated to hear that painting on the iPad has the same (negative) affects as watching videos from Plex -- it's surprising to me. I'd hoped that a creative process like painting wou
119.
by nlh 2y ago
Great points and great suggestions -- thank you!!
120.
by nlh 2y ago
As a new parent of 4-month-old, I've been thinking about this topic a lot. (I know I have a few years to prepare). Where I'm torn is that I had access to technology early in life and in many ways it shaped who I am today for the

More ›