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IMHO, the engineering needed to build a webapp capable of handling millions of users is out of reach for a small business trying to release a MVP.

If the company have potentially millions of users, the income should be large enough so that redesigning the MVP should not be a problem.

Think about premature optimization, the MVP's goal is not to handle millions of users, its goal is to tell the world you exist. If you start building from scratch such a complex system, you take the risk of delaying your first release by months, leaving room for competition to grow.

Also, recruiting. If you built your software on top of widely known tech, it's easier to recruit developers. If you do everything homemade, you can be sure no one will have experience with your tech.

> At some point, that company will pivot away from the initial Django based web app MVP or MVP in general and start building a modular platform where the frontend and backend are independent from one another

What prevents you from just making a REST API with Django and serves a static frontend made with Vue or React? You don't need the coupling between frontend and backend with Django templates, you can make independent and *interchangeable* components (the REST API can always be replaced by another implementation, 2 different frontends can still query the same REST API).

NB: You can also do GraphQL with Django.
It would be nice if you could install apps without the app store, right now you can't choose anything else w/o jailbreaking.
I got the impression that it's similar to Amazon, where officially no 3rd-party-seller sales information (from the Amazon Marketplace) is used to decide what products Amazon would sell itself, but it later came out that they simply lied about it and did use the data to get an advantage.
Ad technology is what enables products like Photopea to exist in the first place.
If we make the internet standards hand all this power back to the browser users, then Google will clearly just not implement that particular standard. They have plenty of precedent of going their own way, establishing it as the way the web works, and then getting the standards written retrospectively to cover it. (Not singling out Chrome here - most of the major browsers have done this at some point.)
Lol this guy acts like he reads all tos.
The deb package for GIMP is like what 20MB? I won't count dependencies such as GTK here since they really wouldn't exist without the GIMP project.
Except antitrust law, you mean.
Over time I came to compare facebook with the car culture. It plays a central role to a ton of people’s lives, provides a widely needed service to communities and allows some lifestyle that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. But with a incredible amount of casualties and second/third order negative effects on the whole environment.

The debate will always be “is it worth it ?”. As we dial back on car presence in a lot of situation and try to counterbalance all the lobbying and bullshit that has been thrown at us by the industry for several decades, I see us coming to the same point with ad based/attention based industries. It’s not “evil”, but needs a crazy amount of adjustment to come to a healthy point were the benefits are not drowned into societal pollution and casualties.
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A few threads on HN have mentioned some historians fears around colorised images, and people didn't really understand what the problem is.

Here's a great example.

This person isn't just adding colour. They're editing, changing, the content of the photos.
Main author and architect of Weaviate (https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate) here. This real-time requirement was one of the major design principles from the get-go in Weaviate.

In Weaviate, any imported vector is immediately searchable, you can update and delete your objects or the vectors attached to the objects and all results are immediately reflected. In addition every write is written to a Write-Ahead-Log, so that writes are persisted, even if the app crashes.

We wanted to make sure that Weaviate really combines the advantages of AI-based search with the comfort and guarantees you would expect from an "old school" database or search engine.
Sure, it did. When I first got an ipod touch over a decade ago, I was excited to have something customizable. After all, all the marketing was focused on how wide a selection of apps existed, and the general vibe was that it was a good platform to develop for. I'd have loved to have made small utility apps for myself.

But, part of writing things for myself is wanting to share them with friends should they ask. And that requires either a $100 fee, or walking each friend through the process of requesting a developer license in order to run an unpublished app. The fee is a pittance for anybody doing large development, but was far more than college-me wanted to spend on an entrance fee to a language.
I am quite sure that if I went to a thread discussing Go or Rust (for example), and I said something along the lines of: "I don't like this, it would be more readable if you did like Forth", I would get downvoted too. And rightly so.

We can have discussions about the convenience or readability of different syntaxes, but if the arguments are going to be of the level of "I don't like it", then a downvote is a valid response.
The developer did a AMA 2 years ago which covers a lot of questions posted on this post (from 8 months ago):

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...

> I was contacted by one of developers of Adobe XD, to coordinate me about the development of the XD format (which is very new and still in development, but I implemented it into Photopea). I am trying to compete with all photo editors, but Adobe Photoshop is the most popular one today (that is why I worked so hard on supporting PSD files).

I have used Photopea for about 2 years now after I got introduced to it from the reddit AMA. Used to use Photoshop for created App Store screenshots for my app, then I upgraded my Mac and my old Photoshop wasn't supported on the new MacOS (64 bit stuff if I remember right) and I didn't want to shell money on a new license. Photopea was a convenient choice considering I don't have to install anything on my Mac plus it loads much faster (if browser caches) than Photoshop itself.

Few examples of the App Store screenshots for my Hacker News app HACK:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...
You’re not wrong. I wonder what their future would be if the society squanders their productivity. Switzerland would turn into Somalia eventually.
The only thing that baffles me is how he was be able to get his adsense account approved. Anytime I try to apply for one for one of my SPA web apps, I get declined due to "lack of content".
Exactly. See my reply on this comment thread comment thread to see how Weaviate solves the filter-issue by using an inverted index to produce a whitelist of IDs which is then passed to the vector index where non matching IDs are simply skipped.
We're screwed even if this article is fud. 30% refusing the vaccine means plenty of variants and one is bound to kill is all.
The developer answered similar questions on this reddit AMA:

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...
TV shows are also monetized by ads, but we don't ask talented show writers why they are wasting their time writing episodes when they could be spending their efforts towards creating better ads for washing up detergent.

If the developer of Photopea went to work on advert technology what would happen? The world would loose this great piece of software, one of the worlds richest advertising companies might get imperceptibly better at targeting ads, and the creator has to stop working on his own pet project which he is doing on his own terms and work on whatever his boss tells him to. Besides, if he achieves his goal of becoming one of the most popular image editors in the world, there is a good chance Photopea will be much more valuable than he will have earned as a salary at FAANG.
Is Substack the OnlyFans of Journalism?
A nice HOSTS resource (that I frequently post in similar discussions)(not affiliated, just a user for a looooong time) is:

https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Hasn't broken anything yet on my machines, and does a pretty good job (with my AdBlockPlus, uBlock Origin, NoScript, Privacy Badger).
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The Mozilla Corporation receives nearly all of its revenue from Google. As their market share inevitably trends toward zero (iOS defaults to Safari, Windows to Edge, and Android to Chrome), their negotiating power with Google and other search engines will suffer.

The Gecko is drowning.
You chose an example that's maybe the hardest possible subject to mystify, and still science educators find it important to make that distinction about teleology. The fact that human brains are "hardcoded" to overfit metaphors is the entire reason why it's important to point it out.
My whole point is that home hosting of servers is the last revolution and I think I can leverage my MMO partly from two home 1Gb/s fibers! You need two for 100% read uptime if one fiber goes down...

Saving on the most costly: CPU, storage and bandwidth costs... I still need big machines in central euro, iowa, asia but then those would only be for latency sensitive real-time networking.

Patch data, the async. database and even two world instances can be hosted at home!
Same as the recent FB and Linkedin incidents. It's all scraped data. Doesn't mean that collecting public data at scale is not something bad
Amazon pays a lot more here in Berlin. People in Germany forget to add stocks to the total compensation. Source: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...

Otherwise, in Berlin there are other bigger tech companies and with remote opening up more and more the salaries tend to increase. Currently the biggest companies in Berlin when it comes to compensation: Microsoft, GitHub, Airbnb, SAP, Wayfair, Amazon, Datadog (Remote), Snowflake, Shopify (Remote), Hubspot (Remote), Spotify (Remote), DigitalOcean (Remote), MongoDB, Stripe (Remote). I wrote an article about it here: https://www.kevinpeters.net/top-tech-companies-berlin-2021

Most of these companies offer more close to 90-100k or even more (depends on the stock). So it is not FAANG but it gets better and better throughout the years.
Yeh and there's are crazy amount of hiring here at the moment. FB, Amazon, TikTok, Stripe, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Salesforces (amongst others) all hiring from Hundreds to a few thousand
Google operates one of the largest exchanges for advertising - ad sellers place their inventory up for auction using Google tools and each integrated ad network can place a single blind bid to try to buy the inventory.

The catch is that Google operates their own ad network and can leverage their visibility into the exchange to be only bidder who is not blind.

For any given inventory, Google can wait for every ad network to submit their bid and then make a decision as to whether or not they should place the highest bid to win the auction.

The information asymmetry allows Google to bid more efficiently - if they're prepared to bid $5 but they know everyone else is bidding $1, they'll lower their bid to $1.01.
This doesn't prove anything. FLoC is enabled only in 5% devices in selected countries.
> Exactly the same as in any other country.

Sure, so let me repeat:

> I live in one and people are complaining about elderly being a voting block anyways. Multiracial society would divide it even further.

No group is truly homogeneous. We're talking about racial homogeneity.

If you don't like that some racial groups are acting as voting blocks then go complain to politicians or those groups, not me.
He flip flopped about a lot of things through this life e.g religion.

One thing I never understood from The Communist Manifesto, was how did Marx not realise that what he was describing about the commune and communal living was exactly the same conditions described under surfdom but having the State taking place of a Lord.
WARNING: Site shits a full-screen mobile dialogue in your face, a few seconds after you start reading.
I hate that theory for a number of reasons.

It avoids so much evidence of Signals past controversial changes, Moxie's past interviews about MobileCoin and his current tweets or the amount of work done to create MobileCoin. Even a quick look into it creates many holes that can only be filled with speculation.
> Technology does not equate with winner-take-all, in my view

It does not, or you do not want it to? I agree with the latter, but it would seem the former is not supported by facts. The FAANG companies certainly seem to show that any newcomer is (a) bought and absorbed or (b) copied and economically undermined. The profits are just so high in technology that the winner will go to great lengths to protect them and have the resources to do so.
Exactly. It is bundled even tighter than Internet Explorer was with Windows. At least there you could install another browser and have full functionality. With the Play Store, no other marketplace is allowed to replicate the full functionality it has.
In countries like Denmark or Norway things like Universal health care are not free, they are paid by high taxes and gas/oil from Greenland/North sea that most countries do not have, and lots of things in Hospitals need a family member to help for caring ill people(and you pay for some services if you can).

I went to "free" public University to study engineering that was not free at all. You needed high grades to enter and to remain there. Every year half the people was ousted. The grading system had little resemblance with engineering in the real work.

No system is perfect, but socialism is one of the worst system the world ever had. In the US young people and almost all teachers are socialists, because they have no idea what socialism really is and care about what the world should be in theory instead of what it is.

I talk about socialism because Capitalism as concept was an invention of Marx to define everything that was not communism. The early phoneticians or Greeks were Capitalist as they were free to make deals and they accumulated capital too.

Go to Poland, go to Hungary, go to Czechia or Slovakia, ask the people what socialism is, look at the buildings before and after socialism. Compare with neighbors that did not experience socialism.

If there is something to fear is authoritarians, could be Hitler, could be Lenin, or could be corporativism, companies that become monopolies or oligopolies or the military complexes. Always remember Lenin or Mao, each one killed tens of millions of people out of pure incompetency, but nobody could expel them, let alone Pol Pot or Stalin that were the seed of Satan.

If there is something to fear is that people in power are not controlled. The military for example should always be controlled, but with AI that lets them not send their children to war and could people like a videogame they are even more dangerous than they were.
Are you kidding? .gov made sure Phillip Morris could stay alive just to keep the taxes flowing.
Does vagrant + virtualbox work on the M1s?
“Sometimes, programming feels like magic: you chant some arcane incantation and a fleet of robots do your bidding“
People were making things before advertisers tried to pretend nothing else could exist without them, and will continue to do so long after advertisers are gone.
>The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.

- Jeff Hammerbacher
my issue is with that comment assuming Photopea is full-time job. maybe it is idk, but maybe it isn't and he can still work a day job and this is a side business. regardless of FAANG ofc.
Do you mean it is bad for their career if they go back in Europe or simply they usually don't like living in the US?
> Kitten is a statically typed, stack-based functional programming language designed to be simple and fast.

It's amazing how many languages are designed to be simple and fast. You'd think that at some point the design would converge...
Advertising is providing information about the product, so that consumer can make an informed decision whether to buy it or not. Creating messaging tailored specifically to an individual exploiting various vulnerabilities or their situation is not.
Since he has a paid version that doesn't seem to make much money, my guess is that he is not making that much from ads. Probably just enough for me.
>Free speech in US means that anyone can say anything

It doesn't mean that and never has. There have always been laws against certain forms of speech in the US[0], many against false and fraudulent speech.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
The best trick I've learnt: spend more time doing something else than computer stuff. It pays off.
I'd like to filter out the ones that demand access to my contacts list or network access. Why can't we filter on permissions yet?
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What do you mean? Pretty much every one I know used to record calls. It is perfectly legal in my country.
If Google was concerned about security / privacy why they didn't disable cameras as well?
No it's not CGI. Here's another view and you can see at 7:00 he does a similar setup where there's a large ball placed on his head which he removes before doing the smaller floating ball, which gives him some excuse to touch his head. I'm guessing there is an invisible string dangling down off his forehead because the ball always floats in alignment with his head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUqHLeXeecY
I think for certain "unpalatable" vice taxes, the increase in revenue is usually not worth the bad publicity. But one example I can think of regarding cigarette taxes is the increase in smuggling they cause, and as a consequence a lot of "government action" to prevent said smuggling. What ends up happening then is you get to see a glimpse of the thinking not being "lets keep people from smoking" but rather more in terms of "lost revenue" or "tax money stolen by smugglers".

On some level, if the tax is there to "discourage" people, then the fact that they're willing to buy "smuggled" goods to save a bit of money shows you that they're not discouraged enough and they're not your target audience.
This comment was a test to see if someone would inevitably point out the restrictions.

Congratulations, you passed.
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However, that integration took a year, which we know because they made their development private while they worked on it. I'd call that a non-insignificant impact, both in terms of what else they could have worked on in the portion of their time they spent on it, and because it moviated them to hide their source code.
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I guess Larry must use Gmail with ?ui=html then, if he wants fast load

One of his rare failure might be Google Plus
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If the jobs were that easy to automate they would have been automated at the current rate. Min wage going from $18-20 doesn't suddenly make that all-in-one supermarket bot doable. Automating real world jobs is hard and often not viable especially for dynamic work. Even the no-brainier automation like self-checkouts are actually not saving much apparently. (could be false, heard it on a anti-min wage channel).
> that this might be signal telling you it's been compromised.

> IMO Signal is still the best choice out there by far.

I'm a little confused. How do you decide to excuse MobileCoin as a cry for help and then decide to ignore it?
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The study also needs to examine:

- Noise pollution

- Air pollution and ventilation (PM2.5 and CO2)

- Bed comfort

- Temperature and humidity

Its possible that the home environment is so bad, that any increase in sleep yields no improvement. By contrast the workplace might be comparatively better controlled.

Getting rid of fossil-fueled cooking, power generation and transport solves some of these issues.
The Soviets were decades ahead of the U.S. The existential dread that's reflected in late Soviet art directly mirrors what Americans are currently experiencing, at the end stages of its imperial reign.
I don't use Photopea enough to justify paying for it. I already own Photoshop and only very occasionally fire up Photopea when I need to make a trivial edit to an image for posting online, or suchlike when I can't be arsed waiting for Photoshop to launch.

And, since I have an almost pathological hatred of adverts, I block them and use Stylebot to remove the space where they'd be.

But I'm glad the dev is making a decent living from what I've previously described as probably the most impressive web app I've ever seen. He deserves rewarded for his work but I'm sorry, I'm NEVER even looking at --never mind 'clicking on'-- a single advert while using the web, if I can possibly help it.
Your reasoning is accurate; but doesn't most of what you're describing already occur _as well_?

Often progress is about eliminating one large negative externality, only to discover that there are others to handle too.

The 'submarine' type content you're referring to is somewhat addressed by trust networks, fact checking, link reputation, and various other techniques.

One large question is whether we're ready for all of the economically-motivated actors to start shifting into that space.

PS: You make a good point about transparency. It's nice that (at least the most honest) adverts are identified clearly as such.

Could we have similar transparency in content? ("I wrote this because I'd been thinking about it after reading an article by X about Y yesterday, and here is the source)
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He estimates that he's missing out on 10% to 40% of revenue due to ad blockers.
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Wow, I went to read the article and completely forgot you said "same domain". I was fooled for a while and couldn't believe I'd never heard of it before. Very facinating indeed. It'd be pretty wild if that stuff was real :)
Great stuff! The Blitz family were an absolute joy to code in, not just because of the language but because the API was well thought out and straightforward. Good to see it moving forward.
Looking for your feedback on this little helper script
> MHO EPUB should specifically be script-free.
Agreed.

Yeah maybe I am just knee jerking, with AV1. Broadly speaking however there would be two schools of image and video compression, one for computer generated images and one for images of natural concepts. So AV1 isn't really suited for animated graphs and the like at the end of the day.

On second thought maybe allowing in AV1 would open the door for sound, which really would take us to far away from the book format.

I do definitely see the need for having animations such as the ones you link in your post however. So many things that just takes sentence and sentence to describe can still be described way more efficiently with an animation.

CSS Animations or animated SVG maybe?
> America has made a lot of enemies and inflicted a lot of damage and terror

That's simply false, as shown by reactions when the US doesn't get involved as "global policeman." A country that chooses the communist ideology chooses to be an enemy of the US, not the other way around.

There's this opinion by snowflakes that they can comment on what they don't understand, but that's just childish.