skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't intuitive how aircraft doors work, but the door doesn't open "out" in the typical sense. It actually sits against the aircraft's outer hull, the larger the differential the higher pressure exist between the door and the skin of the aircraft.

When the door is opened, it actually slides in then out sideways rather than swings open.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_door
Sadly you're right. This is Apple's fault: they refuse to allow alternate browser engines on iOS, so iOS "Firefox" is really a Safari web view with some Firefox buttons on it. Chrome and other browsers have the same problem.
Toward Responsive Elements
ESR tried Rust a while back, and decided to go with Go in general.
I am going to frame your answer.
Whatever your opinions about name brand organized religion, and froo froo piety...

Don't delude yourself about the stewards of weaponry, for they are not nice people, they are not stoics, they are not abstinent, and they aren't doing it because they're "savin' lives!"
Love your comment. Sudden daydreaming for me.
"The one-time cost of learning a good abstraction is strictly less than the ongoing cost of understanding and then continually reimplementing it by hand."

In theory, I agree with you. However, the main thrust of my post is that the practice is not working out as that theory predicts.

I haven't fully worked out all the bits and pieces, but I do know that just repeating that the theory must be correct because it must be correct even if it contradicts the evidence is not the correct way forward. Theory bows to evidence, not the other way around.
They are a very big deal for aviation. My plane uses XM in-cockpit weather products.
No. Required reaction times would be around 2-3 s. Even if you took 10s, you're not going to die -- you might hit the edge lights though
Human society is not what it was 100, 500, 1000, 10000 years ago. Conjuring a farcical "necessity of survival" is disingenuous in a world where the average worker is hyper-specialized, such that they perform a fraction of the labor directly associated with surviving.

On the other hand, since failure to participate in this model - again, wherein a given individual hardly contributes directly to his own survival, but instead supports the society which provides the rest for him, usually far below the value of his work for it - is an existential danger, I think coercion is a fine word for the situation.
What do you question about it? The point of the specific essay was that the work of development/engineering cannot be sped up linearly by adding people. You still see this attitude with managers today: The team of 5 is running behind, let's put that other team on the same project, now it's 10 people. But those 5 new people:

1. Don't know the code base or problem domain. So they'll spend months getting up to speed.

2. Will increase the communication overhead (now each person has to coordinate with up to 9 others, not just 4).

On the small scale of this example, you may see good results. 5 more people isn't a huge amount of communication overhead, and if they're experienced (perhaps even formerly worked on the same or similar project) then you'll see an immediate drop in productivity and then a quick rise back to the new baseline. But will that hold with another 10 people? 20 more beyond that? Each doubling will not continue to halve the time to develop the project, there are limits, and at some point the returns will be negative. The additional people will slow it down. Not just the initial slow-down, but also the new baseline after things settle will be lower than before adding them.
You should give Mercurial a try. When you enable the changeset editing extensions it does everything Git does and is much easier to use and understand. I’ve trained people on both systems and Mercurial is much less creaky. The only reason everyone uses Git is for historical reasons because most of the modules In referring to weren’t added to Mercurial until like 09 when Git started seeing widespread use.
Thanks! Didn't realize that existed.
Would be great to see distribution by price tier. Does it skew more towards lower tier or mid?
It's actually a lot worse than it sounds. There are no loan apps for iOS simply because iOS won't give you access to messages. These companies read your messages and at times call people you know to collect. https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/loans-app-finds-a-chee...
The interest rates are so high that I don't think they bother with credit scoring.
Would be interesting to see something that breaks out COGS vs. R&D as it might be better representative of the trajectory of the business.

For example, revenue is up but profits are down, apparently due to freelancers costs. Are those freelancers just doing some one-off work (e.g. the marketing site)? Or are they essential to running the business? As traffic scales are freelancer costs going to scale?

Another useful metric would be recurring gross margin (recurring revenue minus the ongoing costs to support that revenue). Otherwise if you spend $4k on a marketing site it looks like your business is suddenly doing terribly. If you don't want to throw out R&D costs completely then at least amortize the R&D costs.
Is copy-paste SaaS Landing Page structure the right move? Share your thoughts
Hi,

Did you notice how almost every startup landing page looks the same? The headline, what does the product do, how it looks like, pricing, contacts ... but who is that landing page really for? Do you create your landing page for a product or customer with a problem you solve?

How do you feel when you have a serious problem?
- the problem is painful and causes you frustration
- the problem costs you time and money
- you want to solve the problem asap
- you want to pay for a solution now

Imagine you have the problem and are looking for the solution.
What information do you want to see?

- does the company understand my problem?
- does the company have experience with my problem?
- does the company know how to solve my problem?
- how much does the solution cost?

I think people with problems think differently than curious visitors. You can see this pattern on Indie Hackers, Beta list, Hacker News or Product Hunt. Startups gain hundreds of users, but what's the conversion rate? It's pretty low because those users are curious visitors without the problem you're trying to solve.

We have created the landing page with a different structure:

- title with the solution for the problem
- mention issues which target audience have
- show empathy with the target audience
- show authority (you have experience with the problem)
- show how you solve the problem
- show how your solution will transform the lives of users
- show pricing
- call to action with no-worries or guaranty

You can see an example here:
https://www.monetohq.com/

We're going to launch it and if are you interested in results, we'll share specific details from our startup journey on Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/monetohq

Questions:
1. What do you think about the different landing page structure?
2. What do/don’t you like? Please be specific
3. How did you create your landing page?

Look forward to your replies
Debit payments are around 3x as popular as credit payments here and there is, last I heard, a 50-50 split between using cards and phones to make them. There's an interesting demographic association to it as well, credit is much much more popular with older people (50+). Every few months you see a "millennials are killing the credit card industry" fuss.
It says it can reach those who’ve been ignored by banks, because its software generates instant credit ratings from data scraped off prospective borrowers’ phones

Wow...
Whilst your late part is great, the problem is the first sentence. It is not behind. It should not be. Woman are human too.
It looks much more impressive on photos then in reality. Actually, the whole city is quite poor and there are not so many sculptures or other kind of art in the city as one would expect from similar western mid-size cities (~350k people).

Disclaimer: I lived there for a year.
I think there might be an issue with your FAQs section. I couldn't see the answers and it redirects me to "https://www.masterywithsql.com/#", taking me back to the top of the page.

The course looks very cool by the way.
So what? It doesn't matter what makes sense to us, it matters what actually happened. Plenty of history makes no sense to me, but I would never just deny that it didn't happen for that reason.
I understand that most of successful startups can grow big as they manage to exploit weak human nature, e.g addiction, FOMO, etc. It is used by those giants in SV. However, it is disheartening that they rebranded payday loan as fintech solution. Those in developing countries do not have long history in dealing with high interest pay day loan, unlike many payday shops found in many North America strip malls. It may be their first easy access to money without collaterals.
> Forget better frame, chassis, and body panel design to protect pedestrians! We won't need them if AI never hits anyone.

> Forget better braking systems that apply themselves automatically. We don't need that if AI can always avoid the need for sudden stops.

> Forget seat belt enhancements since that'll just inhibit nap time in my self driving car.

Source? I never seen anyone arguing theses things for the sake of self driving. Are you just assuming that because people that want self driving really want self driving and the auto industry couldn't possible works on 2 things at the same time?
Happy 25th Aniversary – Delphi
Related discussion here in WaPo article that broke some of this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963
If you want to see this dynamic play out in dramatic form I highly recommend The Wife w/ Glenn Close.
On a side note, I love his blog. Not sure if he's using a platform or not, but love the simplicity of it.

That blog page has 4 requests going: html page, one css file and two images. No tracking, no 50 javascript libraries, nothing.

If anyone know if/what platform hes using, I'm interested. Very clean looking website, very simple. Love it.
>Any sort of window is a compromise for structure and weight

That's fine and we are saying the windows on the sides are now useless so you could simply move them to the ceiling. No compromise. I'm not a huge fan of adding computer screens everywhere and many people probably agree with me. I have been on planes with exterior camera feeds that get piped into the IFE and it's not that great except at takeoff/landing. It's also not the same as natural light.
https://godoc.org/github.com/glenn-brown/golang-pkg-pcre/src...
Chequer Street Wooden Pavement in London
Science can't settle trans debates
Do Your Estimates Suck?
Many opinions, but little data.
It's hard to assess anything under this circumstances.
Speaking as someone currently in the throes of trying to get their website setup to accept Apple Pay...it is an enormous hassle. Probably 5x the hassle of setting up PayPal and 10x the hassle of setting up Stripe.

First you need to join the Apple Developer Program. Why? I'm not developing an app.

To join the Apple developer program you need an Apple device that will do two factor auth. So I go buy an iPhone 6 with a cracked screen solely for this purpose.

Then you need Apple to approve your DUNS number. I am one of the minority who already had one, so I didn't have to go through the whole process with Dun & Bradstreet to get one, but Apple would not accept it for several weeks until suddenly they did, with no change to the number or other company info.

And then, you need to schedule a phone interview! This is the point I'm at right now, so I can't tell you how many more hurdles there are to clear. I haven't had luck yet with the Apple "click here and your phone will ring any moment with a call from us" button on their website. Phone never rings.

And I haven't even got to the part where I pay $100 before accepting any payments, which Stripe and PayPal sure don't require.

You have to endure a lot of friction to eliminate payment friction for your customers.
Maybe? I'm not an influential enough engineer to change something that fundamental. Seniors say it's troubling but they're already married to AWS so it's very expensive to have a plan B. I don't think AWS dying is high on the list of why the startup can die. There are bigger dangers and they can only be solved by writing code that works.
Forty years ago I was chief-engineer qualified in the nuclear navy (surface fleet - USS Enterprise); the Wikipedia account is what I remember our being told about the Thresher's loss. (I don't remember that we were told much, possibly because we were "skimmers," or as the sub sailors say, "targets.")
I think I've been through that book twice now and it's still a fresh read. Highly recommended.
I don't mean to detract from your point, but if virtualbox is business critical, I would suggest changing your business. Apart from KVM being a far superior hypervisor, oracle licensing provisions are a noticeable liability.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...
What's scary is if they willingly admitted to this, they've secured other means of decryption. American-owned technology can't be trusted any more than Chinese-owned technology.
Congradulations!!!!!

You are a force of light in the world!!!

Your success is a success not just for indie maker community but for the privacy of everyone online!

Thank you!
InfraGuard
I mean... are you dismissing the bad because there’s worse?

My takeaway is that this kind of new development looks better (“movie set”) than what you describe, but it does not meaningfully change how people use and interact with the space and with each other.

The hard part is building a living, breathing, functional and healthy community on a continent that’s been built from the ground up around cars. There are so many examples everywhere in Europe and Asia, but I can’t think of many (any?) in North America.
Trump Got Trickled Down
> I feel like I'm in the minority of those who love SoundCloud.

It's the only music streaming service that takes discovery seriously, and it's the only one I use.
I really wanted them to succeed, and subscribed to their Go+ tier for years. This year I pulled the plug and went back to Spotify. I can't say I it miss too much. Of course, liking EDM I miss the live sets of many talented artists, but overall their service was just not worth it anymore. Their recommendation system is bullshit, since they have tons of duplicates in their database I would often get suggested music I already listen to uploaded by someone else. This gets more frustrating when one duplicate is unavailable in my country when another isn't and I have to curate the song myself. The biggest change to their app in the past few years was introducing darkmode (only a few weeks back).

Their last marketing mail was about some new feature for artists, that's when I finally pulled the plug. They lack any direction, they focus on the artist side of things, while their listeners get a mediocre music player.
Running shoe tech: The Emperor’s clothes and issues for the integrity of running
It sounds like Costco's larger toilet paper packages make the toilet paper manufacturer feel less of a conflict of interest? That Costco isn't undercutting the manufacturer's other channels such as online sales?

What exactly am I missing here? The Channel conflict model seems to be about maximizing revenue by not selling the product to the customer and ignoring new channels.

Not selling can boost short term revenue but it's a risky move when your competitor is Amazon.
We don't need to understand it. We just need to know that, even armed with all that knowledge, he still made the decision he did, and that we should not expect others with less knowledge of how software works to be any less human.
I love Tailwind CSS (and why you will love it)
College coding is very misleading. It's usually clean-sheet, by yourself, with idealized requirements and few dependencies. It's rarely robust or tested extensively, and its lifespan is short.

It's also a hell of a lot of fun... which is why it's not really what you get paid for. What you get paid for is the long, tedious slog of the real world: maintaining existing business logic, teasing out user requirements in a domain you don't really understand, dealing with other developers who have different preferences and skill levels, doing variations of the same thing instead of exploring new domains and technologies. You spend a lot of days in meetings that should have been emails.

It's not all drudgery, and it's both more fun and better paid than 99% of the jobs in the world, but it's not picking the wondrous low-hanging fruit that you did in college.
Informing is good, but that's far away from uniting/allying them.
Their interest rate is exploitative - 15% per month. So if you borrowed $100 at the beginning of the year, you'd need to repay $280 with $180 going to interest alone. This is their policy from their own website https://talasupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600218533...
> Online is how you reach the largest audience

So? Is this going to cause any change in the government's behavior: No.

This is the literal definition of a paper tiger.
I noticed the TM used in the title: "Open Startup™". I wasn't sure if TM was used in jest here or whether there was actually an organization behind it holding the exclusive right to use the term.

Anyone know? Is there an "authoritative" source for open startups -- a list, practices, etc etc?

The closest I could find was:

- a TM, "100 OPEN STARTUPS", held by a Brazilian company [https://trademark.trademarkia.com/100-open-startups-87085663...] edit: they have active US and EU trademarks on the term

- Baremetrics' list of open startups, did they pioneer this approach? [https://baremetrics.com/open-startups] edit: openstartups.com redirects here

- A seemingly independent list [https://open-startups.xyz/]

It'd be ironic for the term "open startup" to be locked up behind a TM and a "governing body", so I'm inclined to think it's not. However, the use of the TM here got me wondering.
I wonder if it plays out like a sort of pyramid scheme where the company offers enough loans to get them in trouble then they have to borrow from someone else ... now that company has exited with their profits.
You’re probably wondering why this is relevant right now.

> In 2020, an investigation carried out by the Washington Post, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), and Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) revealed that Crypto AG was, in fact, entirely controlled by the CIA and the BND. The project, initially known by codename "Thesaurus" and later as "Rubicon" operated from the end of the Second World War until 2018.
Chrome 80 stable has a regression with Array.reduce that affects Angular
I wish something like this existed that could additionally proxy FCM notifications. Allowing push notifications without any Google involvement is the ideal long term goal, but one transitional path I dream about would be forcing Google to proxy all their notifications through a host of your choice (ideally that you control).

I think I have about 30 false start projects with names like PushMux and rough outlines on potential ways to accomplish it.

Tangentially, I also dream of having true one-way push notifications. Send a minimal notification to the target device via FLEX/POCSAG or even one-way Iridium, and allow the device to connect to the internet as needed to fetch the rest of the notification.
Yes, just tarted-up a bit.
The best setup for me is like what I have at my current company, where I work from home most days and go into the office two days a week. It's enough time to get face time and get back on the same page with everyone, but with most of the benefits of working from home.

Full time working from home wasn't great for me -- it felt isolating and I found myself running a lot more just to see other human beings. (Of course, running was good, but the motivation for it was kind of weird.) I'm shy and naturally form relationships with people I bump into regularly, but I still have no clue to how to do it intentionally, and I also feel uncomfortable practically living at coffee shops.
I think OP is referring to the "Institutional" class of funds. They have much higher minimums because their target market is pension funds and large 401(k) plans that invest using pooled accounts.
This happened long before "streaming audio" or 'apps' were a real thing. Also I live in Canada and drove in USA & Canada. The roaming charges were astronomical and didn't include data. The situation isn't much better now, but atleast I have USA data coverage upto 1GB.

Cellphone plan options in Canada are punitive and oppressive. Getting coverage in USA & Canada is painful.

When I was driving in the States, data-usage was measured in kB.
Personally, I do however have more faith in the secret agencies of western democracies than China. So all things being equal, right now I'd prefer Americans and Germans spied on me.
How do you earn so much money? I didn't think that starting a startup brought you so much money. Of course, getting clients is not an easy task, but at the same time, I see that they are the businesses that attract more customers.
And you're completely right. As someone that lives in Kenya and has used these apps, I can count in one hand the number of apps that I consider 'ethical.' The kinds of interest rates they charge are seriously absurd and some go as far as charging 10% interest per day that you're late paying the loan :/

On the bright side, while there are over fifty of these shady apps, most loans (including on mobile) - something around 84% of them, if I remember correctly, are still issued by banks.

But overall, another issue it raises is the reason Kenya (I'm not sure about other African countries) is really slow in innovation in the software field. Tala was one of the first loan apps to be released and it remained like that barely for months. The next thing you know, there are over a dozen of them and new ones keep getting released every year! It's mad!

The same thing happened with SportPesa, a gambling platform that later quit the Kenyan market. Once people realized SportPesa was profitable, the number of copycats went through the roof. Competition isn't a bad thing, sure, but once they really hit the mainstream, it's insane how many people would rather copy something that works than try something new themselves.
Most 1-3 ton objects moving with any sort of momentum are. What is your point?
But my point in making the distinction is that Stroustrup does not intend to say that 'zero-overhead' is equal to 'no runtime cost if not used'. Stroustrup favors the following:

'zero-overhead' for some feature is equal to 'no runtime overhead above what one would incur from coding the feature yourself.

That definition explicitly does not include the concept that 'zero-overhead' features carry no cost when not used. In fact, the entire point of Bjarne discussing what "zero-cost" means in his response to Sutter's exception proposal, is to state that for C++ (which originated the term) "zero-cost"/zero-overhead does not mean that language features do not incur cost by inclusion in the language, like with exceptions. There is a cost to code during runtime if one does not explicitly remove exceptions from the language at compile time. Stroustrup's point is that this built in runtime overhead from having an exception mechanism built into C++ does not violate the language's 'zero-cost' guarantee.