skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. MicroConf, who put together the report, is a conference for bootstrapped founders so naturally the audience that participated was already skewed towards non-VC

2. I believe this trend will continue since there are much more interesting and lucrative problems to solve outside your sphere. My SaaS has nothing to do with what I was doing at the time and came from talking to people outside my industry

3. I'd like to see a comparison of how successful these companies are vs. didn't validate

4. Margins are pretty high in SaaS due to leverage in software. You can likely serve 10 customers with the same cloud costs as serving 100. The only exception here would be if your service was prone to scammers or abuse which would make requiring a CC much more prudent

5. When you're boostrapped (which is where this report is skewed toward), you don't have the time or resources to provide support to non-paying customers. Growth at all costs is not the strategy here

6. I still don't know my visitor -> trial conversion rate because it's not that important to optimize at my current stage. As long as you have a reasonable amount of users trying out your product, it should be enough to grow with. And I'm not dealing with thousands of visitors per month. If you have some traction, you should already have the intuition of what moves the needle like improving the product, making customers happy so you can get word of mouth referrals, reducing churn, building features that visitors keep asking for, etc.

Disclaimer: I run a bootstrapped SaaS @ https://trunkinventory.com
Don’t underestimate the value of build tools. Just because you know Xcode and Swift or Android Studio and Kotlin (or their antecedent languages) are you done. Finally having a senior dev who knows what he’s talking about has done more for me in the past two years than the previous 8 of reading blog posts and hacking. He’s shown me the real value of build scripts. Today even my personal iOS projects are dependent on a combination of Swift, Ruby, YAML, and Kotlin to build. It’s complicated to set up but I can prove that my code works.
Interesting thought. Not sure if I can gather cord lengths of all the hubs.. Will note it down for later:)
Really? Who says this?
These are fair observations, however your answer is too general to be informative.

It seems like Apple has added a lot of powerful stuff - e.g. CoreML, ARKit, massive improvements to 3D apis etc, which makes the ‘share sheets from iOS’ comment seem like an inaccurate dismissal.

Team size seems like an odd measure off success. If Apple is actually supporting the development of new tools, you would expect the team size for more powerful apps to go down, not up.

It’s fair to say that the rise of iOS (and Android and the web) has drawn attention away from the Mac, but it’s not clear that this has anything to do with Apple investing in the Mac or not. The market isn’t just larger for Apple it’s larger for everyone else too, so that is going to guide everyone else’s strategies as well.

What kind of apps of the caliber of the ones you list are missing? And what kinds of functionality should Apple have been investing in to enable them?
That’s the point: if you’re not customizing Blink, you’re not changing the huge influence which Google has over de facto web standards. If you want to make more than simple customizations you need a significant commitment just to keep pace with the upstream – Microsoft can afford that, Samsung can, etc. but it’s not clear that Brave or Opera can.
Ring security is actually useless. We had one at our work and somebody ripped it off the door and stole it, then transferred the device to their account.

Yes Ring allows anybody to transfer the device to their account once they steal it. No confirmation email to original account owner.

Even worse, this clears all of the video from the original account holder SO YOU CAN’T SEE WHO STOLE IT!!!

The whole point of owning a security camera is gone. No footage.

Its just a fundamentally poor product. And given all the other poor privacy measures - I’ll never buy one again.
I don’t think you have experience with kids... while there are a rare few with that level of “big picture” awareness, most aren’t. Additionally, it would be rather disingenuous for a study to ask kids rather than post-adolescent adults and not include a disclaimer.
It’s not clear. The elections were widely reported to be fraudulent and voter intimidation and violence were widely reported. A meaningful portion of the world’s imprisoned reporters are in Turkey. It is trivial to find articles and reports on this.
Don't overthink it. Kazoo of shame.
I run video surveillance at my home out of some combination of paranoia and curiosity. But I run everything myself - cameras are recorded by an in-house NVR, which is an inexpensive single-board computer with a 1TB hard disk, and 'alert' clips are uploaded to a VPS on the off chance of someone breaking in and stealing the NVR.

Although open source NVR packages are, in my experience, a massive disaster (either extremely outdated and frustrating to set up and use in the case of ZoneMinder, or extremely feature limited as in the case of the fifty Raspberry Pi-based solutions), commercial software packages like Blue Iris and Xeoma (which is even cross-platform) are inexpensive and have expansive feature sets. I use Blue Iris, which has the downside of requiring Windows, but the upside of generating MQTT messages or HTTP requests on alerts which makes for a lot of easy integration. Xeoma is cross-platform but relatively immature (although I've found the vendor to be extremely responsive to emails) and has a bizarro-land UI that's very tricky to learn to use.

On the other hand, consumers don't necessarily need to deal with any of this, because lots of vendors sell NVR appliances that are hardware and software in one product, and they're pretty cheap. Costco even regularly carries them from a couple of major manufacturers. I prefer to do things myself, but I've used appliance NVRs from Swann in a couple of cases and they work fine with extremely easy setup. More recently Ubiquiti has gotten into this space, and I haven't had the opportunity to try their system yet but their products tend to be pretty good quality and ease of use for the rock-bottom prices - and as I understand it their premises-based NVR also runs the UniFi manager, so it makes it really easy to build out a large-campus WiFi-based solution but might also be a neat trick for home use if you want to use the great-for-the-price Ubiquiti APs and/or USG.

At the end of the day, I'm not convinced that cloud-based surveillance solutions really offer much to consumers beyond being backed by vendors with very aggressive marketing. Most people know about Ring cameras but don't know that they can buy a completely non-cloud, on-prem solution-in-a-box at the big box store or even, well, from Amazon. And at the end of the day, the manufacturers of these on-premises systems don't get to loop you into a "social network of fear" and analyze your video, so their opportunities to monetize are a lot more limited, and so they charge higher up-front prices.

I think a lot of it is just awareness though - Amazon and their competition are pushing their cloud-based solutions very hard, while the on-prem surveillance vendors that have for the most part been around much longer just don't really advertise to the consumer market.
With the ubiquity and general awesomeness of sqlite I see no real reason usecase for these toolset over sqlite.
I think you shouldn't use terminology you don't understand:

1. All this "1st / 2nd / 3rd world" is from cold war time and not really relevant anymore.

2. Turkey is NATO member since 1952 so it's would be your first world country.

PS: Of course Turkey is not a rich country, but everyone there can certainly afford $3-5 a month for VPN.

UPD: s/user/use/
I read this while at a buffet.
Names and addresses?

Edit: In case it is not clear, this is a (poor taste) joke. The track record for beating those who dissent even when outside of Turkey is well established.
Yes. Oil will continue to be harder to get over time, and makes some nations dependent on other nations they'd rather not be.

Wind isn't going anywhere, the sun isn't going anywhere.
Title: "Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C"
In the article: "There are at least some scenarios that can meet the Paris goals without CCS."

WTF ?!!
To work around macOS' awful monitor restrictions (i.e. lack of general MST support), we bit the bullet and got a Dell WB19TB [1] (Thunderbolt dock). It sucks from a wiring perspective but it works.

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-thunderbolt-dock-w...

(To those that go down this route, be aware: you cannot use both DP ports on this dock as-is -- again, macOS lacks MST support. One monitor must be connected to the Thunderbolt add-on module.)
Also, the neighborhoods tend to be safer and more inviting than those right next to the major freeways.

I was originally thinking air quality is the major reason, but Vancouver has really good air quality overall compared to where I live in Los Angeles. I would be interested in seeing this type of study be done across cities with different air quality.
As a billionaire philanthropist you will still have to align to your home country’s foreign policy, because your billions only have value so far as the State enforces your property rights.

So very concretely, if China says "hey US of A, please don’t bring uncensored Internet to my citizens: it would be a shame if all this manufacturing and trade suddenly stopped", and the US gov agrees, then Elon Musk will not provide uncensored Internet access to Chinese citizens. Else, Elon Musk will cease to be a billionaire and the Internet access will stop working anyway.
That’s a parody ad, not an official Golden Corral ad.
Using Psychedelics Wisely [pdf]
> You’ll spend inordinate amounts of time researching the “right” way to do things only to find that there really isn’t one, but instead several ways with varying levels of wrongness with different trade offs.

From what I've heard Android is unusually bad for this but this particular sentence resonates with me in terms of basically everything ... though that may be because I do a bunch of deployment/ops stuff which is generally entirely made out of "choose your own petard to be hoist by later"
I felt the same way looking at your commit history.
I'd like the aftermath opinion (before the "math" happens).
It may be ironic but there are benefits to rolling your own. Having your persistence layer talk in terms of your business models instead of raw SQL could be seen as a benefit in some contexts. The process which is the "server" can be written to allow for relaxed consistency based on specific business operation being performed (e.g. no need for transactions around log entries). This could be used to leverage substantial performance gains. The benefits afforded by guarantees of exclusivity between application and database are difficult to overstate.

These advantages of purpose-built functionality would also extend into the arena of handling replication and clustering. I.e. multiple distributed processes each with independent databases synchronized via some custom protocol that operates in terms of specific business models and processes.
better get your money worth of steak
> were made by the same programmer: Chris Sawyer.

... in x86 assembly language:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RollerCoaster_Tyc...

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RollerCoaster_Tyc...
I go to library almost every day - it's free office space essentially when you're running a startup, with WiFi and printing.

I can't say the same about movies.

Seems like apples to oranges essentially.
and you can say that while Erdogan's party lost all local elections couple of months ago in all major cities like Ankara, Istanbul?
I'll give another vote for straight.el and its use-package integration.
> It seems reality doesn't match your beliefs.

France is about 75% nuclear, Germany is about 10%

French electricity is about 2x cheaper than German, and they have much lower emissions.

Since Germany has shut down nuclear plants in favor of renewables, it has been forced to increase coal and has actually increased total emissions and accident deaths significantly.

Ontario, Canada is about 60% nuclear and its electricity prices off-peak are about 10x lower than German, on-peak about 5x lower.

Nuclear is the safest, most efficient, and more reliable energy source all nations that have it and those who have more have more affordable energy. Reality has shown this consistently for now almost 80 years.
That's an interesting point. I'm not saying you're wrong, just posing the following for thought: If a country/language picks a name for a place, that that place doesn't use, who owns it so to speak? That is, who 'owns' the word Germany? And by own I mean, makes some claim to it. It's hard for me as American perhaps because the 'lingua franca' is my native language. For example, I feel no sense of ownership of the words 'Estados Unitos', or Meiguo(sp?), and see them as belonging to other countries. Food for thought...
Could it be that Kent references this tiger in their song "Sverige" [1]?
Ber om ursäkt from Swedish persons ITT if the question sounds stupid.

[1] https://kent.nu/latar/sverige/
3 degrees of warming turning into 7 degrees of warming because of the chain effect is probably a bit less economical than tackling the problem.

But I'll be dead so whatever. Live your best life.
This shit is everywhere and I've lately observed that the big outdoor brands aren't even close to doing what they can to stop using them. It's even in childrens clothes, all in the name of keeping us dry.

I actually recently tried Greenland wax on a cotton canvas anorak, and so far it's working out great. Perhaps it's not as effective as Gore-Tex. I think we should try to remember that people somehow survived outside before these materials were introduced.
Well the word "sushi" actually means the kind of rice they use. It isn't exactly fair to call it a catch since that's the dish. And at the all-you-can-eat sushi chains in California I've been to, it is always against the rules to remove the rice. In fact that seems like a common rule at all asian buffets I go to.

If they start making the fish super-thin that's quite lame though. A buffet chain near me did that as they were trying, unsuccessfully, to survive. I also once went to a regular sushi places that had an all-you-can-eat special and who kept ("oopsie") accidentally bringing way more california rolls than I ordered.
We have those too.

You get to enjoy the same noises and distractions while drinking wine and reclining on a bigger seat.
You don't actually sequester C02 in gaseous form when you do geologic carbon sequestration.

First off, even the simplest methods wind up with it dissolved in water. You basically can't just inject gaseous C02 into the ground and have it remain a gas. The rocks you're injecting it into are filled with water and it's highly soluble in water. Under certain conditions, you can inject liquid C02 and actually displace the water already there. However, that's mostly not what's being proposed.

Geologic carbon sequestration can take a handful of different approaches. The two you'll hear talked about the most are: 1) Inject it into a reservoir where you expect it to react with something and eventually form carbonate minerals (in-situ mineral sequestration, or mineral trapping). 2) Inject it into a very deep reservoir where it will dissolve into the brine already there and/or is unable to find a way back out again due to the geometry of the reservoir. (Solubility trapping and/or residual trapping)

The first method is preferable, but actually hard to guarantee in practice. The second may sound more risky, but we're actually pretty good at identifying regions that can store a buoyant phase over geologic time -- it's exactly what we do in hydrocarbon exploration. Both are being actively explored along with several others. There's a lot of geologic research being done on carbon sequestration right now (and has been for quite awhile, actually, though the government funded it well before industry started to).

The risk of the "seed the oceans" approaches (or the olivine beach proposals as well) are the environmental side effects. Altering ocean chemistry _will_ have significant effects. Similarly, putting olivine on beaches will result in a lot of heavy metal contamination (you can't get pure olivine -- you're going to have a lot of chromite and fun other odds and ends in ultramafic rocks).

I'd argue we're better off impacting the deep underground where more or less nothing lives than we are altering the oceans.
13% of America is literate enough to code??
How did science come to speak only English
Human readability. I don't need any other software but a text editor in order to easily view/edit the database.
You’re right. I didn’t realize how much larger the new engines were.
Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack
This project is the result of a one year long learning process in speech recognition and speech synthesis.

The original task was to automate the testing of a voice-enabled IVR system. While we started with real audio recordings, very soon it was clear that this approach is not feasible for a non-trivial app and it will be impossible to reach a satisfying test coverage. On the other hand, we had to find a way to transcribe the voice app response to text for doing our automated assertions.

As cloud-based solutions where not an option (company policy), we very quickly got frustrated as there was no "get shit done" Open Source stack available for doing medium-quality text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversions. We learned how to train and use Kaldi, which is according to some benchmarks the best available system out there, but mainly targeting academic users and research. We made heavy-weight MaryTTS work to synthesize speech in reasonable quality.

And finally, we packaged all of this in a DevOps-friendly HTTP/JSON API with a Swagger definition.

As always, feedback and contributions are welcome!
Case: You really, really enjoy your text editor and have even built special tools that work within it, but it doesn't support SQLite and you generally enjoy using text tools anyway.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, I would agree that most of these make a lot of sense if you can afford them. I wonder what the order of importance is - I had a doctor tell me it was sleep > diet > exercise, but where do e.g. air and water quality fit in?

I would modify vegan/plant based diet slightly - either add supplements for B12, or eat eggs. Also, I hadn't considered travel to be as important as the rest of the items. Do you know what need this fulfills?
I’ve bought a uni USB-c to DisplayPort cable before. Support was helpful: had some trouble getting it to work with my laptop in Linux and they sent me another cable to make sure it wasn’t a cable issue.
Probably better return on the investment if other parts of the world were to implement them:

https://waqi.info/
Like a 'roll your own affiliate marketing site'? You could call it 'affilterate marketing'.
I'm also using the secrets feature but it's very brittle. If your swarm gets destroyed or you want to migrate servers, it's a huge pain to get those secrets back up and running. Unless I'm missing a better way to do this, I'd love to know!

I currently have my secrets stored in an encrypted text file in case I need to bring them back up.
It's hard to go wrong with Spark. Jumpstart Rails is another option from a source I'd trust.
> “No individual entity -- person, place or corporation -- needs a TLD. They're TLDs, they're for giant collections of people, places and things.”

I would say it's either no one or everyone — I personally wouldn't mind if we could all get a tld and link that to a personal public IPv6 range and simple enough software to administer it. I think we should all be entitled to get that over internet, it belongs to all of us as a system.
They tend to drop product lines immediately when they're no longer profitable (like their bang'n external drive docks) so we buy their stuff in bulk when it fits our purpose.

edit: Oh hey, it's run by a former googler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anker_(mobile_chargers) neat.
It is. So this is probably not the best example by the parent (given that there would be yet another party trying to claim it).

But I think the point they raised is still very good.
> The higher the bar, the greater the cost. McKinsey’s analysis defines an upper cost threshold of €60 per tonne avoided (i.e. the chart only shows alternatives that are ‘cheaper’ than €60 per tonne).

60 Euros per ton doesn't seem terribly bad. Burning a gallon of gas generates about 20 pounds of CO2 (hydrogen from the gas bonds with oxygen from the air, resulting in CO2 emissions that weight about 3 times as much as the weight of the original gasoline). So, every time you refill a 15 gallon gas tank, that's about 300 pounds of CO2. I'm not sure if the chart uses metric tons (about 2200 pounds, let's say it does.

It looks like most of the CCS options on that chart are in the range of about 40 to 60 euros per ton. 60 euros * (300 pounds / 2200 pounds) is about 8.18 euros, or about 9 US dollars. That's significant; people would complain. It's not insurmountable though. People would still keep driving.

It's worth noting that the carbon capture options listed are specifically carbon capture from existing fossil fuel power plants. There may well be other carbon capture options that are cheaper, like sequestering carbon from plant biomass. (I didn't read the paper, maybe it goes into that.)
Free VPNs are not always spyware. Some just going to use your PC as proxy server for someone else instead like Hola / Luminati which is extremely shady, but on other side dont need to spy on you since their commercial customers pay them well for residential proxy servers.
This report is a pure, unadulterated, dumpster fire. No one is explaining how a video file is a trojan vector. Also this report has way too much background of the “Hacking Team” that really sounds suspect from me. I just feel if you are trying to establish that this vector was the source of a trojan - youd actually prove that instead of giving a page or two of conjecture on where this code that you haven’t shown is malware - came from.

Also, obligatory, correlation does not imply causation. This report hinges on the argument that “video received from MBS and shortly thereafter the total data egress increased”. Okay what data was egressed? Where was it egressed to? Just basic things are missing from this report that are relevant.

Absolute garbage.
Actually boomers are quite anti-nuclear as a generation. Millennial and younger are far more into it largely driven by the seriousness of climate change.

The fact I stated is true.
One key differentiator is that recutils are for use cases where you want your data files to be in a plain text format.
Do you have any hyperlinks to resources for those who want to go DIY-ish? Thanks in advance.
> That's a big "if" though.

No, that's pretty much how the CCS debate has been going.
Norway announced a big project to cleanup a gas plant with CCS used for an oil refinery. The plant was built, but without CCS.

When Germany built its last wave of new coal power plants a common argument was that "the CO2 emissions are no big problem, we'll add CCS later". Which never happened.

The promise of CCS as an excuse for continued fossil fuel use without actually buildling it is a recurring theme in the debate.
Very well said. There are no worse people than those who trash their own country with ludicrous arguments.
> It is trivial to find articles and reports on this.

I’ll link to the Wiki, as that seems right.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Turkish_presidential_el...