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by sdan 7y ago
Great idea. Was thinking of doing something like this for a while, but obviously the drawback is that you're suspect to being the exit node for someone who's doing something illegal, which is a risk I'm not willing to take fo
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by sdan 7y ago
Yeah this works. If you're going to setup AlgoVPN might as well set it up on multiple locations (which I speculate is probably going to cost you n times more, given the n number of locations you choose). AlgoVPN works great regardless
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by sdan 7y ago
Especially when you hop on a VPN; I kid you not I have to spent literally 20 straight minutes following this bs. It’s infuriating for someone who self-respects their privacy.
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by sdan 7y ago
Wanted to say this as well. I barely if ever use my phone. Everything is on laptop.
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by sdan 7y ago
Well if you made a relatively dangerous product but don’t release it to the public, that shouldn’t be a problem... right?
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by sdan 7y ago
Agree with the docs part. As I've explained in previous comments, can't really differentiate either AWS or GCP. But personally I'd say GCP is very slightly better; not sure exactly why, but probably due to the fact it's
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by sdan 7y ago
I think I've spent too much time reading PG's essays :).
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by sdan 7y ago
Yeah that does work (which I have managed to pull off)... but I feel like it's a bit more of a pain (very slightly) to change the metadata, open up the ports and whatnot to ssh. I think AWS just tells you to download a .pem file and ss
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by sdan 7y ago
Another thing that contributes to the mess of AWS UI is their docs. Probably a personal preference thing, but I don't like their cluttered UI for their docs either. Maybe if they had some developer advocates or pay websites/blogs
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by sdan 7y ago
I don't really consider either having superior UI... but AWS's endless list of services when you click for the dropdown is a bit too much to handle. Not to mention how you'll have to use their search bar to get to what you wa
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by sdan 7y ago
> I'd keep defending this principle even in case one of those criminals would exterminate my entire family. I think that's a bit too far... but I get your point. When having a discussion around privacy, I had no response to &qu
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by sdan 7y ago
Not surprised. If AWS can't make their UI a bit more user-friendly (especially for beginners) and remove their AWS Educate for students (which by the way is horrible), I think a good chunk of developers and possible institutions might
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by sdan 7y ago
OpenAI mostly. Started following along what they're doing and eventually spiraled into going to one of their meetups and then attending ICML this summer. I'm not particularly a genius, but deeply passionate and curious on what I d
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by sdan 7y ago
Got an internship at Berkeley AI's Lab this summer as a HS student. Here's what I think when he says "luck": I emailed 50+ personalized emails over a span of 2-3 months to professors and anyone else I wanted to work with
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by sdan 7y ago
Not to be narcissistic, but I can guarantee no whales are coming on anytime soon. Unless you control the keys and it supports cold storage, don't think it'll take off.
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by sdan 7y ago
FB saying they designed it with privacy in mind is like McDonalds saying they design their food with your health in mind. Remember they stored Instagram's passwords in plain-text at one point (I remember in High School even I salt and
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by sdan 7y ago
Yep. This violates the rules. This isn't ad space for your app. Should be something like "show and tell" where you show us HN readers what you've built to see something interesting w/o paywall or having to contact s
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by sdan 7y ago
Just turn off wifi/data while using the app (not sure, but I think you can also tweak this in your phone's settings for the app to not give permission to get data without being opened...)
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by sdan 7y ago
> We propose to instead learn the hyperparameters themselves by gradient descent, and furthermore to learn the hyper-hyperparameters by gradient descent as well, and so on ad infinitum. Made me laugh. Can't believe this hasn't
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by sdan 7y ago
Although I don't know all the aspects around the Libra protocol, I'm fairly sure that FB is only making the Calibra App. The (stablecoin) Libra should be able to be accessed through other wallets overtime (given it is a cryptocurr
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by sdan 7y ago
See that you're at Circuit Launch! Anyways, like the idea, but thinking of the overall product and the mission as a whole: 1. Will the production of the beads produce a net positive/negative CO2 emissions? 2. How are you getting
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by sdan 7y ago
I feel like I came across something similar on HN a while back. Not sure of the name (or it could just be this).
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by sdan 7y ago
Interesting point. At the same time, if a person legitimately has an account (meaning it's their personal account) and decides to let everyone know of their entire personality, it won't be "pursuing an agenda". But reali
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by sdan 7y ago
I think with social media's goal of "connecting everyone" and "bringing everyone together" has brought us too close. So close that we're like a village -- blasting out clickbait and accusations with rare reperc
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by sdan 7y ago
Haven't gone too much into financials (given that it was my dad who was making the salary). But I know it was right around 100k and rent is exactly 3k(live in Cupertino) a month. Not sure what other strings had to be pulled, but I&#x27
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by sdan 7y ago
No, even I attended these conferences as a high school student. Attending doesn’t have anything to do with presenting. Only reason they sell out is because both presenters and researchers who need to keep up with the field try getting ticke
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by sdan 7y ago
It’s possible. Family of 5 renting (around 3k) in the bay with 100k salary is certainly possible. Lived like this for over a decade. Now moving onto college.
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by sdan 7y ago
I guess so, although I'm not that avid of a phone user. In either case, most of the time when I type "n" I get HN or "m" for mail and so forth. I can't really see a good use case for this.
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by sdan 7y ago
Legal issues. Think they had some clash a while back.
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by sdan 7y ago
I do similar work (arguably a bit more intensive) on my 2016 MBP with the lowest specs possible (8gb ram, 2ghz cpu) and it's surprisingly silent most if not all the time. I have around 5-6 windows with 10-15 tabs each within them as we

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