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Re:We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months on Thursday December 04, 2025 @06:14PM (#46154568)
> We were cautious to only run after each model’s training cutoff dates for the LLM models. That way we could be sure models couldn’t have memorized market outcomes.
Re:Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @12:43PM (#43623757)
Also available via Homebrew
Re:Are Electric Cars That Much Cheaper to Operate Than ICE? on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:32AM (#43091655)
> EVs typically require 30% less maintenance than their ICE counterparts. In terms of cost

followed by

> Consumer Reports conducted a comprehensive survey... their findings confirm that BEVs and PHEVs typically incur maintenance costs that are approximately half that of ICE vehicles over the first 200,000 miles.

Those numbers seem at odds with each other.

Anecdotally, after 20k miles with a Tesla Model Y, the only maintenance required so far has been windshield wiper fluid.

Re:Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @05:29PM (#20406762)
Love this. My old MacBook was covered in stickers but I grew out of most of them and removing them was a giant pain. Plus, like you mentioned, resale value took a hit. On my new MacBook, I've kept it sticker-free due to my past experience. This would give me the freedom to slap some new stickers on there knowing they're easily removable down the line.
Re:Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:47PM (#19639589)
99% Invisible has a nice podcast on this:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/h-day/

Fort Collins is in the midst of this right now, they proposed borrowing "up to 150 million" to roll their municipal fiber out. The cost break down is here, page 5.

https://www.fcgov.com/broadband/pdf/Broadband_Executive_Summ...

Re:ProtonMail blocked by Vodafone Turkey on Friday March 16, 2018 @10:25AM (#16600845)
You could run DNSCrypt and use a server that supports it:

https://servers.opennic.org/

Free instant transfer was my favorite part of Square Cash, too bad they now charge a 1% fee.
Looks like you're calculating the birth date field's min-date as (today - 50 years)? Which means I can't add a persons birthday if they were born before 1967.

Edit: Looks like this is already known: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/16

I wonder if Asuswrt-merlin does the same.
Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:34PM (#13943997)
+1 for MerlinWRT, it's great. Easy to install and let's you do some awesome things vs. stock ASUS firmware. The OpenVPN client is pretty powerful too. Using policy-based routing, you can send some traffic to the VPN and other to your normal WAN.
Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:24PM (#13943896)
Both DD-WRT and asuswrt for routers have policy based routing so you can selectively include/exclude traffic from the VPN connection.
Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:15PM (#13943817)
> Once a rule is thus repealed, the Congressional Review Act (CRA) also prohibits the reissuing of the rule in substantially the same form or the issuing of a new rule that is substantially the same, "unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the joint resolution disapproving the original rule" (5 U.S. Code § 801(b)(2))

The CRA allows the rules to be recreated if given explicit authorization from a law by congress. So they can be put back in place, just not as easily.

I'm a big fan of the online version of Eloquent JavaScript, it has inline code blocks that you can edit and run. Make's it really easy to test out a concept you just read about.

http://eloquentjavascript.net

Re:Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used? on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:37PM (#13689720)
Has Schwab upgraded their web security recently? Last time I looked at them, they had a 8 character upper limit on their password field that they then lower-cased.
Re:Lastpass acquired by Citrix on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:01AM (#13560177)
Just to clarify, LogMeIn (which owns LastPass) is merging with Citrix
Re:Detailed VPN Comparison Chart on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:26PM (#13428819)
Yes, they recently updated their OpenVPN configuration and now have a 'strong' OpenVPN config option.

>All our servers are now running OpenVPN on UDP port 1197 with our 4096bit RSA server certificate, 4096bit Diffie-Helman key exchange, AES-256-CBC, SHA256 and TLS v1.0-1.2 support.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/20093...

Re:Detailed VPN Comparison Chart on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:16PM (#13428705)
Definitely a valid point. A recent court case involving VPN provider Private Internet Access seemed to back up their 'no logs' policy.

>“A subpoena was sent to London Trust Media and the only information they could provide is that the cluster of IP addresses being used was from the east coast of the United States,” the FBI’s complaint reads.[1]

Unfortunately, waiting for a court case involving your VPN provider isn't a great way to determine what they log.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-no-logging-claims-tes...

>It’s hard to actually think about the user experience of the headphone jack and to design wireless earbuds that don't have all of the friction points that we've come to expect.

What are the 'friction points' of traditional 3.5mm headphones? The fact that they're wired?

Re:What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @01:54PM (#12541576)
My thoughts as well. Roughly 250k per employee?
Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:30PM (#12227130)
You can also accomplish it with the Activator tweak. On Lockscreen, set Hold Power Button to Do Nothing. Of course you can still perform a hard reset but it's better than nothing.
> Gamers will also be able to continue to buy over 4,000 Xbox 360 games or Xbox 360 accessories at retail and through our Xbox 360 store online, while supplies last.

Guess I need to stock up on 360 controllers

Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:00PM (#11450155)
I think they mean you can't pair the Chrome app to your iOS device like you can with the Android app.
Re:Using two-factor authentication for SSH on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:56AM (#10888535)
Authy provides something similar, I wonder if one is better than the other.

https://github.com/authy/authy-ssh