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Ask HN: Has anyone ever let customers host only the db of your app
In normal SaaS world, the company host the service and the data, but also some SaaS companies let their customers self host the app and the data.

My question is, has anyone done, hosting the app and let the customer manage the database ? That way they have the ownership on their data and they choose how to host it, you only offer a service on that data ?
It’s not just that you don’t have the same facts, you actually speak different languages.

People share a lot of similar ideas but I find I have to switch out words depending on whether I’m talking to someone with left leaning or right leaning tendencies.

What makes it worse is they’ve spent decades listening to propaganda that turns words from the opposing languages into trigger words and trigger phrases. As soon as they hear those trigger words, they begin to parrot talking points that have been drilled into them.

It’s pathetic.
Isn't Google pouring lots of money/developers into developing Swift for AI?
To follow up for the various games I play in roll d20 is the goto - some people have problems with sound on roll d20 or want to stream so we use hangouts.

You can also use discord but the sound is laggy and doesn't work with better gear as well a it should

Players really need a decent headset not a $9.99 special offer.

You can play on ipads etc but you ideally need a real PC/MAC with a big screen or screens.
How is this worse than the status quo?
The difference is the intent. The criminal wants to do bad things while the pilot does not want anyone to get harmed.
3 months? That is simply not true, Spain is the only country that forced masks 3 months ago. That nonsense, in Germany it's public transport, France recently the public spaces. Europe has been "maskless" the whole pandemic.

Majority of people in Europe who are actually in healthcare agree that general population using masks is with no scientific evidence and for very little effect. Masks are for the politicians to show they are doing something.
> A simple, small, unpainted cinder block shack doesn't hide its materials, is made of raw concrete, but probably isn't brutalist. Neither is a brick victorian.

> The idea that beautiful forms can come from purely functional design without needing to cover things up with baroque decoration is really a central theme.

Huh? These two are contradictory statements. I recommend giving this a read, Architecture is where brutalism first sprung up: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/t-magazine/design/brutali...
it is. Eg, catching blunders or discovering key moves. GM matches are determined by one or two of these
Uncle Bob sounds like someone trying to tutor a young golfer by talking about how his shoulders are aligned, how wide apart his feet are, how he's gripping the handle, etc. Dan North sounds like he's objecting to that style and prefers just yelling "JUST HIT THE BALL FAR" at his students over and over.
Can confirm. We bought the cheap $10-$15 dining room / kitchen tables over a decade ago. They are still fine even though they still feel flimsy. Same goes for our other IKEA furniture. The only IKEA furniture I wouldn't recommend are the couches and beds.
> disinformation doesn’t travel as far in other developed countries (ie the nordics for example) because they have better, more accessible education for their citizens.

I hate to be that guy but, citation needed.

I’m willing to bet highly that misinformation travels at the same speed in most western countries, and that to a first order approximation misinformation travels proportionally to bandwith.
Arguing against the article, 1/5 lb is a pretty small potato. I just weighed a baseball sized potato I dug last week, and it was 7.5 oz (~1/2 lb, 200 g). So if you are picturing an average baked potato, it's probably only 30 potatoes per day. Which, granted, is still a lot.

Cooking time doesn't strike me as a problem. Boiling 30 potatoes does take somewhat longer than boiling 1 potato because the mass is greater, but it's pretty much boil and forget. Also, the boiling can probably be done by one of those women or children who are only eating 10 potatoes a day!
I know people with severe chronic illnesses, some directly in my life. My own problems are minor by comparison, in that I can manage them to the point where they hardly affect others. Or so I think.

You need to make headspace for 'self care' as a category of activity, one you not only give yourself permission to pursue, but expect of yourself. One of the best comparisons I've heard is the oxygen mask instructions on an airplane. It's foolish to help other people when you haven't helped yourself. You just end up killing yourself by prioritizing expectations of others over your own health. If you do it right, you can often accomplish both.
We have a DNI who is patently a hack. Unqualified. Damaging the IC.
Thanks for the detailed explanation! Was it worth the extra cost? Possibly a novelty item or will it catch on?

I was wondering if flameless stoves will become a thinb
> Thus speaks someone who doesn't know anything about the difference between computer programming and software engineering. They may be able to program circles around everyone else, but they can't software engineer their way out of a wet paper bag, and they're going to produce a disaster.

That's at least a bit of an assumption. Perhaps it hits close to home from my days in a Lisp shop, but some of the most brilliant Lisp programs I've seen weren't even written by programmers or software engineers; they were written by drafters who were clever at math. And while I know I'm waxing poetic, I do consider that a credit to Lisp's purity.

Hell, in the drafting industry I would say this story is (or certainly was) absolutely true. I wrote a whole bunch of LISP that I believe is still in use today, 8-12 years later alongside a number of small C#/VBA applications. Amazingly what was put together was not only a 'non-disaster', but done thoughtfully enough that the team was able to take that code and evolve it over that same time period since I've left (I keep in touch with some of that team, specifically the guy who got 5 days of me offboarding 6 years of work...)

On the other hand, I've seen the opposite as well. In the C# world, writing one's ORM is often seen as a trial of passage where one should hopefully by the end realize the difference between programming and engineering.

BUT, but... I've seen things blown the other way as well. I've seen PDD (Presentation Driven Development) in it's worst form; where engineering principles are so overvalued that nobody actually does anything. It wasn't even bikeshedding the architecture; it was bikeshedding the project itself.

I think we also sometimes forget differences in engineering philosophies. A Youtube channel called Regular Car Reviews did a great video once upon a time discussing the failure of the Chrysler-Mercedes merger from the late 90s. One of the things touched on was differences in engineering philosophy. The way a High performance 'european' car used to get made was often a measure of precision, lots of fancy pieces working in unison (and, as anyone who had a late 90s BMW with VANOS can say, expensive to fix.) American Engineering? Just make it bigger!

We see some of this difference in engineering philosophy today; consider folks who prefer ground iron or cloud iron vs functions as a service.

The first lesson I learned about programming versus engineering was about disasters left behind.

The second lesson was that sometimes the disasters had a good reason.
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Plexiglass shields are everywhere, but it's not clear how much they help
It's an underappreciated topic, especially given today's modern cramped construction of apartment buildings; few people realize exactly how important architecture's role is in fostering those who live in it, and around it.
According to [1] it was literally the bike she rode the race on.

Her claim is the motorised bike belonged to a friend, was handed to her in error, and she rode the race on it without using the motor as she didn't know it was there.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/bike-investigated-technologi...
David Foster Wallace 1990's E Unibus Pluram also digs into this a bit, and also talks about the influence of a possible future smartphone (taken from a proposal by George Gilder):

The downside of TV's big fantasy is that it's just a fantasy. As a special treat, my escape from the limits of genuine experience is neato. As my steady diet, though, it can't help but render my own reality less attractive, render me less fit to make the most of it, and render me dependent on the device that affords escape from just what my escapism makes unpleasant.

[...]

My real dependency is on the fantasies and the images that enable them, and thus on any technology that can make images fantastic. Make no mistake. We are dependent on image-technology; and the better the tech, the harder we're hooked.

[...]

An exponential surge in the mass of televisual images, and a commensurate increase in my ability to cut, paste, magnify, and combine them to suit my own fancy, can do nothing but render my interactive [telecomputer] a more powerful enhancer and enabler of fantasy. [...] . Insights and guides to human value used to be among literature's jobs, didn't they? But then who's going to want to take such stuff seriously in ecstatic post-TV life, with Kim Basinger waiting to be interacted with?

– https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
I think it's funny you think the ellipsis abuse was something the older folks picked up from your generation.
Well, apparently Chess24 has an engine that will let you play against a simulated Magnus Carlsen at various stages and skill-levels of his career.

So you can set some engines not to pick perfect moves but to pick moves consistent with a particular rating or style...
I m trying to figure out what is it that throws people off? There are successful podcasters that are far more clueless than Lex (e.g. Joe rogan) and he s not interrupting much. In general the interviewee is usually the center of attention, and they seem to be actually going pretty deep on presenting their theses or personal ideas (e.g. sebastian thrun, joscha bach, george hotz, lisa feldman, james gosling). As for a few cringey questions in 1.5 hours, it's like a restful interlude, after all talking can become exhausting. Do people think the interviewees are offended by Lex's (few) obsessions (Musk,dostoyevsky,his soviet past)? It certainly doesnt seem so judging from their reactions during the interview and after (in twitter etc).

Being in MIT probably gave him easy access to the interesting people that started off his podcast, but beyond that i think his affable , empathetic and easy style is rather attractive, so people don't say no to him, and many have returned back.
And how is real-time chat “supposed to” work? It presents a text box to type into. The text that I type in there is proper English, with correct punctuation and sentence structure. I don’t see how it being real-time suddenly means you need to abandon that.

In the same way, face to face communication doesn’t suddenly abandon inflection or tone simply because it is real-time.
Great feedback but yeah, big picture we're talking pretty small numbers.

The 10 (or so) spam accounts posted about 30 times. The longest lasting survived a weekend, after which I enabled manual account activation. From start to finish the spam issue lasted around 3 weeks. Eventually, I got rid of the forum altogether.

Alas I tried all the usual things, from the disavow tool to Webmaster forums and dozens of site changes, sadly nothing helped. My penalty felt back then and still appears to be, permanent.

It may help to know pre-penalty my rank was quite high, first page for most relevant search terms. (immediately after page 20 or lower, now around page 10).

Ironically, while the rank was nice to have I never actually did anything for it.

I simply built a fast, human first(!), site that inadvertently followed Google's site quality guidelines.

For example, my software generates web forms. One common growth tactic my competitors use is placing a link at the bottom of every form back to the parent site.

Me -- I never did that. I strongly felt that under no circumstance should the output of my software be used as a marketing tool. Sure it may harm growth, but it felt right, and that was enough for me.

Years after my penalty I read just that. Google frowns upon and may penalize sites for using such "widely distributed site links".

My focus was and always has been on user, so of course I'm the one who gets penalized lol.

Anyway, I think the most damning part of the process was not having a reasonable path for knowing what exactly happened and what I could do to help.

If I were crafting legislation that's where I'd start. I can't help that Google has the market-share it does, but it does mean we all have to play within their world.

All I ask is the rules, wherever they are, are fairly, justly, and evenly applied.
>A significant number of conspiracy theories have turned out to be correct.

That doesn't sound right. A lot of what some people refer to as conspiracy theories were in-fact public knowledge. There would be no evidence of discussion of these topics until after the information became publicly available. What are some of the significant number to which you refer?
Yes, but that dictionary is from the RAE itself, so it is ruled by them.
As a developer what I find frustrating is that it is so difficult to make my browser trust 127.0.0.1.

Shouldn't there be an easy way to configure it to trust that?
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* State leaders should continue to remind
federal lawmakers and policymakers of federal
obligations to its forests within California.

* State agencies should plan to make greater use
of the Good Neighbor Authority to perform
treatments on federal land.

"""

51% of forests in California are on Federal Land.
That's misleading; the underlying problem is that voters can't hold them accountble, because voters have at most 1 bit per two years of influence of Congressional behavior.
Operator overloading can lead to ambiguities in dynamic languages. Ruby, python, and any number of other languages have it much worse because they can be overloaded any way you want while JS overloads are (currently at least) set in stone by the language.

If you could only choose one number type, would it be floats or ints? Crockford would say decimal, but the rest of use using commodity hardware would choose floats every time. It's not the language implement's fault someone doesn't understand IEEE 854. This max safe integer issue exists in ALL languages that use IEEE 854. In any case, BigInt is already in browsers and will be added to the spec shortly.
There's a style of programming with no concept of loops or jumps. It's called functional programming. There's other styles that are drastically different as well.

Most of these styles aren't new though.
California is an odd place. Dry, warm, and sunny, surrounded by deserts on two sides and slowly fading to a wet climate in the north. In the desert there are few trees. In the lush PNW trees do well, generally. Is it any surprise that dry California is so prone to fires? It’s the edge of the forest ecosystem, the last stand before it gives way to dry desert.
Expose your local OpenFaaS functions to the Internet
This, even assuming only your own devices.
Now throw the technology unsavvy family's devices into the mix and then YouTube Premium becomes a no brainer.

I would very much like to set up a pi-hole but the moment something goes wrong pitchforks will be pointed at me.
So the ideal would be to have the execution engine written in elisp (or the elisp replacement)?
TD Bank files lawsuit against Plaid for “duping” its customers
Enhancing Syzkaller Support for NetBSD
I don't think it is important how secrets come to light. It is only important if they are true or not.

Sure, Russian Intelligence may have hacked my politicians computers. Or Russian teenagers. Or American teenagers. Or American journalists paid off an informant.

None of that actually matters because the only thing important is if the information is true or not.

If it was uncovered "legally" makes no difference in the USA, except for prosecutions and lawsuits. Journalists cannot be prevented from publishing true information, no matter how they got it.
Spain has been enforcing it very well, there is 0.x% of people not wearing masks for the past few months, the virus shows no stopping nevertheless.
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He seems to have made the typical armchair general mistake of assuming strategy can defeat logistics.
For most farmers corn and soybeans are the most profitable crops. They are easy to farm in large quantities, and they store well. Most crops that you think of as more profitable are worth more, but not always profitable - either because so much labor is needed that you cannot scale as far, or because they spoil so fast that you can't be sure of selling your entire harvest before it rots (Corn can be stored for a few years if you need to, lettuce is not edible after a week). Also there is the demand problem - even if there is more profit in some other crop that doesn't mean there is enough demand to sustain adding another farmer without prices collapsing.
Probably not. In my experience, they usually have zero self-awareness, so your own introspection bodes well.
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CHERI provides spatial protection and is very strong at this but does not handle temporal protection well (use-after-free for example). Once a pointer is given to another code entity/compartment it is hard to revoke the permission since that's tied to the (capability) pointer itself, not the memory it points to. There are workarounds but not that nice.

MTE, OTOH, was specifically designed for detecting temporal bugs. For example, a freed object has the allocation tag (stored in memory) changed by the heap allocator so that the original pointer (with the original tag) can no longer access it. Of course, the trade-off is the 4 bits per 16-byte granule that need to be stored somewhere and the probabilistic nature (1 in 16 chance of hitting it).

But I think CHERI and MTE would complement each other nicely.
The message I replied to is about being concerned about the partner being in an accident if the partner doesn’t reply. The ancestor post is about defining geofencing so the partner can get movement notifications on the other partner.

This has nothing to do with being hungry. This is a person with separation anxiety or control issues.
Speaking from personal experience working with these reputation warehouses and with handling a good deal of incoming and outgoing email volume, they aren't any more effective than other IP-based spam heuristics and if everyone configured their DKIM correctly these warehouses would be largely obsolete. I don't see a problem with crowdsourcing heuristic data per se, but email is a much narrower field than internet traffic at large and I can see a lot of the ways that poorly configured fail2ban type software could accidentally ban a lot of valid traffic.
I have cystic fibrosis.

I'm quick to admit my limitations with people. I own the potential lifespan issues, and view my financial plans accordingly.

I've focused on freelance, for flexibility in doing treatments, etc. I have actually been at my current role for years, but that came out of a freelance project, and it's a small company where I have a great relationship with everyone, so I have as much freedom as I need. I wouldn't trade that for a hot startup or a FAANG job.

I hire people as necessary to help me do things around the house, etc.

I'm fairly upfront with how I'm feeling and what's going on. I even did a Zoom call with a client from my hospital bed one time.
For some classes, especially as you get higher in fields, no amount of open books will help you in an exam. If you're able to figure out the material using a book then and there while not knowing it before, you deserve the grade.
For the US 2018-2019 flu season ( https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html ):

> CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza

Covid19 has killed ~220,000 people so far in 2020 in the US.

From the same article you quoted about the epidemic in California (from 2018, mid-January):

> This year's outbreak is on track to becoming one of the worst flu seasons in recent history due to a deadly strand that has so far killed 85 adults and 20 children nationwide as the numbers continue to climb.

Covid19 has killed ~16,000 people so far in 2020 in California.

Related to the UK 2017-18 flu season that saw hospitals stretched ( https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/18/flu-outbreak... ):

> After 35 more deaths last week, 120 people across the country have died of flu-related symptoms since early October, compared with 45 in the same period in 2016-17.

Covid19 has killed ~43,000 people in the UK so far in 2020.

For the France 2016-2017 flu epidemic ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321906828_Influenza... ):

> During the epidemic wave, a marked excess mortality estimate at 14,400 deaths attributable to influenza was observed.

Covid19 has killed ~34,000 people in France in 2020 so far.

Point being, perhaps it is the old news that were a bit exaggerated; either way, Covid19 is measurably worse than then any recent flu, and this is after extreme lockdown measures compared to any flu pandemic in living memory.

Note: I am fully aware that some of the lower numbers are partial numbers from about the middle of the flu season. Feel free to look up the final numbers for that season as well - they will be at worst half the Covid19 numbers.
Hiring aspiring magicians for cheap will not keep them very long in a magician hungry market, regardless of the imagined wage slave trap presented.
The article did reference CDDA vehicles in a list item near the beginning of the "Pathfinding" heading.

I've been waiting for CDDA to support multi-tile creatures for ages, but that's likely to be some time coming as there isn't much in the way of common logic between creature and vehicle entities. :(
> I really don't want to have to wade through library choices and configuration each time I start a project.

I think this is a false dichotomy. You certainly can have an opinionated way to setup a project that 90% of people use at first, with some way to customize things as you go along, or at least a way to replicate the standard setup with whatever tooling is more conducive to the user's vision.

Flask is a good example of this. You start out with a minimal single-file app, with a somewhat magical tool (`flask`) that will take care of starting a debug server for you and whatnot. As you go along, you can grow your app according to the official manual ('project layout', 'growing big' manual pages, using blueprints and application factories and other typical Flask patterns), or you can do something that fits more to your existing codebase. You can also keep using the `flask` tool, or write your own equivalent. Or skip it entirely and express everything as Python scripts.

Even with the quite more complex and scaffoldy Django, you're very much able to rejigger a scaffolded app easily into whatever structure you want, as long as you're ready to dust off the “Forbidden PYTHONPATH and DJANGO_SETTINGS tricks” book.
> That's a bad sample then. A lay person can definitely file a good provisional patent application. They just need to describe the invention inside and out.

I just looked up your provisional application (which became public when your non-provisional application was published). It's half a page of text and some pictures. Is this a good example of a solid provisional application written by a layperson?