skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP (but another Fastmail customer) - but there's a difference between caring about the use of your personal data from a eaves-dropping/tapping/threat perspective vs having your personal data used to make you the product. Fastmail is a paid service that provides an excellent service/product where the email you send/receive isn't monetised or incorporated into a revenue/ad machine.
To a lot of people, there IS no difference between an iPad and a tablet.

To a lesser degree, there's the same confusion about iPhones being a generic term for any smartphone.
A lot depend on implementation of the app (is more a concept, is like putting Clippy along some modern well-tought assistant and saying that everyone in every possible situation are bad), and a lot on the stage of the pandemy on a country (or potentially delimited enough region). And also how easily/fast you can get tested and how that scales and how responsible is the average citizen.

In US or Brazil, where the virus is very widespread, it will give you a lot of false alerts (and a few right ones). In countries where the cases are relatively few and spread apart, having good warnings about being close enough with some of those rare cases may be the key to avoid spreading it. Once exposed, you can go around up a lot of days without developing symptoms, an early warning could limit how you interact with others at the very least (and getting yourself tested if in doubt).

But a bad implementation is not a reason to discard the concept, at least, not that alone.
If someone is waving a weapon around I really doubt the police are getting near enough to inject drugs. There seems to be zero good reason for the use of this.
> I understand that they’re interested in maintaining a luxurious image

They give you a lot of value back compared to other cards I've tried in Europe. I don't know it's something as flippant as 'luxurious image' - people use them because when they are accepted and you're buying something expensive like corporate flights and hotels, you can earn an a significant amount of value back. I flew transatlantic first-class a few times completely free on my AmEx. My Visas give me so little I don't even bother checking what the current total is.

It's free money to you (the actual cost is amortised across all consumers and it's there if you use you card or not) so might as well take as much as they'll give you.
> 315 milligrams is still.. a lot. Especially injected into the bloodstream (I presume?)

Iv dose for induction of general anesthesia is ~3-5 mg/kg. Or ~5 mg/kg intramuscularly.

The main thing with ketamine is that it causes tachycardia/arrhythmias and increases blood pressure. While that can be desirable for people in shock, it is a big problem if the person is already under proarrhythmic drugs (e.g. cocaine).

In Europe, we use antipsychotics for similar situations (haloperidol).
> So you already accept the premise that caring about more than yourself is an appropriate goal

By wearing a mask, they are directly benefiting others. It offers only small amounts of protection for the wearer.

Your argument seems hostile and misguided.
Paramedics were the ones who killed Elijah McClain with ketamine.

Putting aside that police shouldn’t be utilizing drugs period, there is zero justification for administering drugs to someone who isn’t a danger to themselves or others, as was the case for McClain. It makes more sense when you realize that the Aurora PD is eighth in the nation for police killings per capita.
Crypto at War: How Digital Currencies Will Shape the Future of Conflict
It isn't feasible to design an AI fighter jet with a limit of 30G. The airframe necessary to handle that strain would be way too heavy, seriously limiting the fuel load. And how would you avoid compressor stall in a 30G turn?

Dogfights no longer occur anyway. What matters is early detection.
> ..Kabbage, a leading financial technology company providing cash flow management solutions to small businesses in the U.S.

> American Express will acquire Kabbage’s team and its full suite of financial technology products, data platform and IP built for small businesses.

> Kabbage’s products include access to flexible lines of credit, online bill payment, cash flow visualization tools, e-gift certificates, and the ability to centralize funds through the company’s recently launched business checking account

> This product suite is integrated into a single online platform that uses real-time data processing to help small businesses better understand, forecast and manage their cash flow.
Trends in anxiety in the US: Rapid increases among young adults
There is another method you neglected to mention: deescalation.

From all I've seen of US law enforcement, this seems to be applied very seldom, with cops actively escalating the situation and quickly reaching for tools of violence (beatings, batons, pepper spray, tasers, guns).

Most (all?) of the rest of the western world doesn't have these issues to anywhere near the degree the US does. Nobody in their right mind outside of the US would be justifying injecting people with massive doses of disassociative drugs, yet some people in the US think this is OK. That kind of says it all, really.
We develop on Avalonia, it provides very limited control set and functionality, and 3rd party libraries/controls do not exist yet. Cross-platform framework requires some time to become mature and create ecosystem around.
ESP-32 + captive portal?

https://github.com/tonyp7/esp32-wifi-manager
I agree with most of this although I think if you do privacy well there is a core of people willing to pay so yes your market is much smaller but still potentially valuable.

My issue really is with taking 7 months to build and not shipping anything. I see the authors comment that he's not a fan of ship fast and apologise later but surely you can put a beta out there even if it's just for feedback from the indie hackers and hacker news communities.

As the existing photo organizers to increasingly creepy things - face recognition I do think there might be a market but how long are you going to spend before actually testing that out? Right now it's just a theory.
Versed is pretty wild, even at preinduction doses. You can learn to be OK with it, but it was a little scary for me too, the first time I had a procedure that involved it.

That procedure also most likely involved ketamine - I don't know for sure, it was a long time ago and nobody told me the names of anything but the Versed and that only because I asked, but I had totally uncharacteristic recurring nightmares and emotional problems for the next little while afterward. When all of that came back up during planning for the surgery I had to have last year, my surgeon noted that that sounded in his experience like ketamine side effects, and that this time I'd be getting propofol, which is not at all a dissociative, instead. And, sure enough, I was just fine after that surgery, despite it being much more invasive and thus painful in its aftereffects.

Based on that, I'll echo what others here have already said: the thought of being given a surprise high dose of ketamine, in the context of a situation that also involves the use of violence against one's person, is horrifying, and complex PTSD is the least severe consequence I can imagine.
> Over time I’ve realized that action precedes motivation and procrastination precedes guilt

I group tasks into three categories:

1.) Stuff I don't want to do but really need to do.
Get the most important stuff over with so you don't need to feel the shame of procrastinating and you will feel clearer too.

2.) Stuff I shouldn't be doing.
Opening you Inbox first thing in the morning is something you should /NOT/ be doing as a solo founder, aswell as checking social media or news sites like Hackernews. Email (for me) is a TODO list created by other people, and social media just wastes my day on mindless trivia. It is not productive in any way and serves only to make the founders of those social media companies richer, and you poorer.

If you must get your news, setup alerts for major events, or read the Current Events[0] page on Wikipedia which I find to be unbiased and comprehensive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

3.) Stuff I can delegate to others.
For example, do you really need to write blogposts yourself? There are plenty of good content marketers that can churn out good quality blogposts for a fee and you don't necessarily need to be blogging all by your lonesome. I can understand the need to write a personal blogpost that others can't write, but most posts don't have to be personal anecdotes, they can be technical and draw from different sources on the net.
Great link. Thank you for sharing
Not guaranteed
Avoid Zoom
As a solo founder for 10+ years, what I can say is that all "rules" in business are "rules of thumb"... Not laws. It's ok to be a solo founder... Sometimes. Bounce ideas off your team instead of your co-founders. Make use of mentors. There is a workaround for all your challenges. I also recommend listening to podcasts with other founders. I host a podcast called "Open Source Underdogs". Lots of good advice there for all founders... Even if you're not working on open source. But there are plenty more. You need outside ideas... Just seek them out.

Don't burn out your friends talking about your startup. It's not that they aren't interested. But nobody needs a single vector relationship.

Also remember that VC's give tons of bad advice to founders. Or rather founders tend to put VC's on a pedestal, and misinterpret what they are saying as advice, when it is really just filter, convenient lies or lazy analysis. Be hugely skeptical of anything VC's tell you, including "you need co-founders".
I used to, but I don't have convenient sandboxing set up, and now I'm too scared of what the world has become to run native apps that don't come from a well-known-and-trustworthy distribution method -- whereas, I trust my browser enough to visit links I find or are recommended to me by people I know (though there's still a chance of zerodays, etc.)

How do you keep your native apps well behaved?
Local incremental backups of Google Photos on Ubuntu with gphotos-sync
That depends.

If you're doing your work and something NSFW pops on your screen I doubt your boss will give a fuck.

If you're spending your time watching NSFW stuff in your work time he'll probably be mad, not because of the NSFW stuff but because you're not doing your work.
The authors of the paper actually describe their hypothesis for how it occurred [0]. Basically perfect conditions were required to preserve them.

In short the first tracks were made in dry sand, eroded a little, moistened by fog, dew, or light rain, and then covered by dry sand again. The second tracks were made through the dry sand into the moist layer which was then crusted over with calcite and covered. Only the toe markings from the second tracks were preserved.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I had Alan Chalmers as a teacher once. An interesting man.
Desktop apps to browser makes sense as it's more platform independent and you can access them from different machines. You don't need to worry about saving your data and carryin it around on a disk.

(IDE's are one thing that I don't think are ready for the browser yet, maybe I haven't tried a decent one though).

Mobile native apps seem to be a bit smoother than web apps.
Being a solo founder myself here are a few tips I would like to add:

1. Solo founders are most often devs, which means they focus 90% of their energy on dev and what little remains on marketing. Unfortunately this is a easy trap to fall into and you should invest equal if not more time doing/learning SEO, content marketing (which you've done here very successfully btw) and building an audience.

2. Making a product without any user feedback. You work 1 year on a product and realize people don't get your idea. That's why it is essential to get feedback every step of the way and your spouse doesn't count :D

3. The good news is being a solo founder is no longer very unique thing. There are hundreds of thousands of people who are doing this and hang out on online communities like indiehackers, makerlog, etc.

4. After trying out hundred tools I've found that nothing beats trello. To each his own though but you really need a todo tool when working alone to keep on track. I've actually written a local trello for myself with one twist - the tool assigns me a task daily and as soon as mark it as complete it assigns me the next item from the list. But at any moment there is never more than 1 item on my "doing" list. It was because i was spending inordinate amount of time bike-shedding when i don't have one single todo.
DiceKeys creates a master password for life with one roll
To do list for the one week project I will start tomorrow
It's probably quite dangerous in this kind of setting though, where the person has likely already been beaten, tasered and choked.
This seems to be a case of "The beatings will continue until morale improves."

Perhaps the crux of the issue is in the "repeated negative reenforcement" and its failure to rehabilitate a person with anti-social behavior.
> Regulating retailers because you don’t like their cut is price controls

That's not the point though

The point is that if Apple Store (or Play Store) is the only way to ask for money to users, Apple cannot decide who's in and who's out on their whim, they have to allow anybody and only act post-facto on the apps that misbehaved

In real life you are not arrested for attempted homicide because you carry a knife with you 'cause knives can be used to kill people

They have two choices: relax the rules of the store or accept other stores that can apply different rules, giving more choice to developers, publishers and users

The other point is that Apple cannot control what's inside an app, if the developer wants to promote their own product, website, other ways of buying a subscription, they should be allowed, in the same exact way the manufacturer of the blood pressure monitor I bough on Amazon have put inside the box a 5 euros coupon to buy OTC drugs online on their e-store.

Amazon doesn't have a say on that.

> I could see Europe doing something more intrusive, as is their tendency.

As European I love that Europe protects me as citizen of Europe instead of Apple, which is not even European and evades taxes using tax heavens
The equivalent would be that you can only use an apple console to go shopping in the apple store, much like only using an Xbox to shop in the Xbox store ... so the analogy does work and the marketplace is fine with it, and clear.

// FWIW, I wish I could play Horizon Zero Dawn on that Xbox, but it’s not in the Xbox store.
I found cuppa around
march / April & enjoying it since then. I learned a lot from makers & founders even i learn a lot in automation afyrr joining cuppa.

I am glad to be in early usrrs.

Gurvinder
I recently dipped my toe in cross platform desktop dev with C# via Visual Studio on Windows and then the Mono runtime on Linux.

Mono renders the app UI really well, but it's not pixel accurate - in fact, I found all the widgets to be stretched horizontally by an extra 10%. To confirm it, I put a circular image on the form, compiled it, and ran it in Mono (Rasbian distro) and the circular image was rendered by Mono as a squished oval. Otherwise it's a fairly good solution.
This is assuming you don’t leave home. If you travel a lot, self-hosting on your residential internet connection is not going to be a very good experience.
I use a pi this way so I can join my pi to hotel wifi (or similar) then join my iPad to the pi’s network - which lets me ssh into the pi to access software there while both devices have internet access.
Some people are unable to recognize great architecture when they see it. Saarinen's building is applauded as one of the finest modernist structures in Britain and is rightly Grade II listed.

https://www.economist.com/prospero/2017/09/26/the-american-e...
This post has really inspired me as a young programmer!
Height + bellysize + muscle size?
She literally replied "absolutely". The whole documentary is made in bad faith. She's supposed to be a scientist, what kind of an answer is that? The only benefit of the doubt I can give her is that she's being quoted out of context.
I don’t mind dart, but typescript and electron have the full weight of Microsoft behind them while dart and flutter remain mostly hobby projects.

We did the business case for cross platform, as we’re a non-tech enterprise organisation with 10.000 employees but few developers. We wanted flutter to win, but react native came out like the sound choice.
The particle collection that fancied itself a physicist
NASA's Curiosity Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars (2019)
I intuitively agree with you, but at the same time I am pretty sure that some apps are just a wrapper around the web app without me realizing it.
> why do it?

1. I'm scratching my own itch. I wanted a privacy friendly alternative to Google Photos to store and organize my memories, I couldn't find any that were as convenient, so I'm building one.

2. I have a clear path towards a public release, so I'm not worried about it being a "zombie" forever. Some projects take longer to see the light of day, and I'm okay with the delayed gratification.
Right... how do I get a number from looking at those?
I'd guess the hardware is the problem. Most antennas I've seen on access points are larger than the entire Pi Zero W. While I'm no radio expert, I'd expect APs to use the smaller antennas if they were capable of being as good as bigger antennas.
As solo founders we can easily decieve ourselves. That is take on a dodgey narrative to explain our slow progress or failure. In my case I set some magical goals...I think these goals were me setting myself up to fail. If I didn't have x mrr within 6 months then it can't have been my fault because I really, really wanted it to happen.

I'm 9 months in to having given up my job and have taken on some consulting work. Time will tell if the business grows or if I go freelance/employee.

I'm living in day by day land now rather than fantasy land.
Raymond Hettinger, Modern Python Dictionaries A confluence of a dozen great ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg
Solar panels are starting to die. What to do with the megatons of toxic trash?
My fiancée has to deal with kids in the ER who got injected with too much ketamine by overzealous EMTs all the time. I don’t think limiting it to EMTs will solve the problem.
Supply chain disruptions, sanctions threaten school shortage of 5M laptops
wxWidgets

https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets

runs native on the following platforms:

- wxGTK: The recommended port for Linux and other Unix variants, using GTK+ version 2.6 or higher.

- wxMSW: The port for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows variants including Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10.

- wxOSX/Cocoa: For delivering 32-bit and 64-bit Cocoa-based applications on macOS 10.7 and above.

- wxQt: wxQt is a port of wxWidgets using Qt libraries. It requires Qt 5 or later.

- wxX11: A port for Linux and Unix variants targetting X11 displays using a generic widget set.

- wxMotif: A port for Linux and Unix variants using OpenMotif or Lesstif widget sets.

Bindings are available for C++ and python

Window Layout Using Sizers

Device Contexts (along with pens, brushes and fonts)

Comprehensive Event Handling System

HTML Help Viewer

Sound and Video Playback

Unicode and Internationalization Support

Document/View Architecture

Printing Archiecture

Sockets

Multithreading

File and Directory Manipulation

Online and Context-Sensitive Help

HTML Rendering

Basic Containers

Image Loading, Saving, Drawing and Manipulation

Date-Time Library and Timers

Error Handling

Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop
Chaining Comparison Operators
I happen to not be afraid of boobs, so ever since my days on Reddit I wish for blocking of random gore instead. This is weirdly pertinent sometimes on DDG's image search.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not afraid of some killing either, thanks to the pop culture of the past seventy years or so. Now, why eye-hurting images of bodily damage pop up on rather innocent searches—that's a haunting mystery. On Reddit, the ‘NSFW’ label is used equally for a vaguely sexually suggestive shape or a close-up more suitable for a surgical journal. As if I didn't get plenty of suggestiveness just from music videos anyway! So my long-standing wish was for an ‘NSFL’ filter instead.
For those interested, you can look up "Vauban" or "Vauban fortifications", in reference to Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, an important military figure under Louis XIV.
Note: the definition of an entrepreneur is someone who doesn't listen to advice (some of it good). This dude says you're startup is "zombie"... Well, he might be right, but if you see an opportunity there... That's what makes you smart. And in 10 years if you're successful, the same people who said your idea was bad will be saying it was obvious.
I've heard a lot of times about the "American puritanism" but this blows my mind.

Is it true that male teachers can't put their hand in their pockets because they could touch their penis or something like that?
I know there are problems with destructors. That's why I didn't implement them yet. But in C# they do exist. And after all you may always use explicit finalizers. I don't think that it makes the concept of obligate-GC invalid.

But after all I don't care much. I'm more interested in other parts of language designs :)
The ideal app store on the Mac is https://brew.sh/

“App” inventory: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/
What's the possibility of buying a cheap data SIM-card in Bulgaria (or somewhere else) and using the EU-roaming laws to get cheap data in Greece?
For the data structure & algorithm courses I've seen, basically none.
In Northern France much of the tank action IIRC was at very short range, due to lots of hedgerows.

In such an environment where all tanks are able to reliably hit and penetrate all others, numbers become the dominant factor.

In more open country, tank armour and punching power make more of a difference.
It sounds like you have the motivation and persistence figured out. That’s great! Have you read Lean Startup and done some customer research? Maybe I’m wrong, but gut reaction to this app is that very few people would be willing to pay for this. If someone is privacy conscious and anti-google, Apple has a much better track record for privacy. I get multiple gigabytes of cloud backup for free and can add on additional space very cheaply, and I trust them to keep my data replicated and safe. The photo apps are also very robust and have local AI and such. It seems like a hard sell, and that the people who understand and care about end to end encryption could just set up a NextCloud instance and get E2E encrypted backups in their native photo client, in addition to office tools, general data storage, etc.

I wish you luck, and I sincerely say this to try and help you, but I think you should stop adding features and start trying to convert people to paid to see if they will.
If it's ok for us to deal with violent people by:

a) gunning them down in the streets

b) beating the shit out of them

c) injecting them with hilarious overdoses of drugs and crossing our fingers

then why would we pay for police?

If that's ok, we might as well go back to old west times and just have everyone carry revolvers, possibly calling the town apothecary with his bottle of ether if we think we need it. It'll be way cheaper than maintaining a standing police department.

The whole point is that police are supposed to be trained and equipped to handle disturbances without harming the person being detained. There are options for this, including that so rarely used tactic, defusal.

Like, we pay police overtime. Cordon the person off, give them space but don't let them leave, wait until they get hungry even if it takes 12 hours, and then bribe them with pizza to come quietly. Build rapport with them over the entire incident. How often do we see that strategy deployed before we fall back to injecting ketamine?