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Hi! The app is written in Ruby on Rails :) So far I have around 100 users I think. I am getting new sign ups now since posting this so looking forward to seeing where this goes :)
Sadly, you and I watch a different YouTube than probably 95% of people. Almost nobody I've talked to has heard of Lex or Louis, or Bret Weinstein, or Sean Carroll, and so forth. Just open youtube.com in a private window and you'll understand.

Even if the average person watched some of Louis Rossmann's videos on the right to repair, I just don't think the importance of the issue would compute with them. Almost nobody my age fixes any of their own things, whether they're electronics or other household items. The concept of repair may be totally antiquated in another 20 years.

EDIT: By the way, I sent my Macbook to Louis for repair last year. His team did a great job! Easy to communicate with too. I got it back in the mail really fast once the repair was complete.
Both flatpaks and snaps have been reasonably successful in distributing software in a cross distro way. Once apps reach any of these technologies they don't need to be in any specific distro repo. Snaps, for example, can update automatically silently in the background and it has been used at least by VSCode to bring updates to users.

Also consider that "stores" like ms/windows store, apple's app store, steam, google play store... are all mere glorified package managers which can update packages. Most used operating systems' these days offer such functionality. And yes, time has proven they are practical.
Singapore: 300 Unvaccinated Covid-19 cases in current outbreak vs. 78 vaccinated
Show HN: Marketing image generation tools and API
Hi HN,

Creating lots of marketing visuals in different resolutions for all the social media platforms out there in multiple languages is time-consuming and frankly really annoying.

I wanted to make a solution for this that is fun / cheap / fast and that can be used by both developers and non-developers (such as designers and digital marketers).

I built the entire app solo while working full-time. The most fulfilling parts has been the technical challenges and also the challenge of building a product with hopefully “smooth” and beautiful UI/UX - as my day job has been very enterprisey lately.

App is currently sitting at 1,000+ users of which a handful are active and using it for: Automated open graph images, User generated content e.g. reviews or new e-commerce listings to social media graphics

The app consists of four tools:
1. API: each layer (e.g. text / image) that is added in the image editor can be changed with the API.
2. Spreadsheet: Add a row in a spreadsheet and create an image from the row content.
3. Form A simple visual way to create multiple resolutions at once + can be shared.
4. Zapier integration for no code automations.

What makes it unique: Easy to generate images for multiple resolutions / sizes for each template. Cheaper, funner (and faster?) than the alternatives.

Best tech choices:
Next.js + Vercel serverless functions - fast and great development experience. react-moveable for the image editor itself. Checkly for API and e2e tests - super easy to use and setup.

Biggest technical mistake:
Firebase and firestore: huge bundle size + reading and writing to firestore is just too slow + it’s hassle to get it to work with Next.js and SSR.

Obs:
Signing up for an account is required for the API but there are two open demos: one for generating OG images and one for generating device image grid.
Trying so hard not to make a quip about footballers finding “thinking less” very easy…
Well if you did patent it, it's stolen. The equivalent for books is copyright laws, so if the work is protected copyright then yes, you've stolen.

And theft is defined as stealing, which has "to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully" which applies fully here so...

You can nit pick definitions all day, but you'll find most people would consider this theft, as you're depriving the artist of the rights to their creation. I really feel people who want to argue the other way are a stain on this earth, because you're so happy to defend it...it's just mental gymnastics to a pathetic argument
You can use Metal on Android. Won't give access to chat, annoyingly, so you mist still need Facebook Lite
I referred to the operating system commentary as having nothing to do with his wheelhouse. The other videos just give a context to his...theme.

Further, blaming YouTube for someone's pandering to the basest audience seems dubious.
There are two things in software that I try to stay away from: Bluetooth issues and calendar/dates...
Genetic Chimerism (Lydia Fairchild)
I think marine biology is a thing because it is generally introduced in middle school science class.

Providing jobs and even providing for your family is very noble.
> The GDR was small and with little industry compared to its Western counterpart, not in absolute terms. When we’re talking about people moving between the two that is what is relevant.

I repeat my point: Switzerland is tiny compared to Germany, yet it is richer. Russia is big compared to Germany, yet it is way poorer. China is enormous compared to Germany, yet it took ages to overtake German productivity and is still somewhat within range.

> The insistence of the US on a split Germany with half of the capital as an enclave was the first such hostile action, especially when the USSR was proposing a united neutral Germany.

Historically just wrong. There were different plans during and after WW2. Britain had the idea to do a North-South division. The UDSSR wanted to split Germany permanently and as small as possible. Read what Stalin said in Teheran in 1943. It was not the US, who proposed to divide Germany.

All of them invaded Germany, but the US did so comitting less war crimes (e.g. against women) themselves than the UDSSR and with less intend to destroy everything or move it to America. That's of course also, because their people were less affected. We all know, who they acted in the Pacific. But it was also, because they had learned from WW1 and tried to bring stability to Europe. The UDSSR brought a totally different kind of "stability".

> In terms of reparations, it’s normal for an invader to pay reparations to their victim, if nothing else to rebuild. What is unusual is that the rest of Germany didn’t pay reparations to Eastern Europe.

If you ignore giving up 25% of its landmass with entire cities like Königsberg/Kaliningrad, which is now impoverished because of the system you are defending, then sure. I also don't know whether Poland and other Eastern European countries would have called the UDSSR a victim, after they had been invaded by them.

> The insistence of the US on a split Germany with half of the capital as an enclave was the first such hostile action, especially when the USSR was proposing a united neutral Germany.

Germans have to be forever thankful for the US keeping tabs on Berlin. It is part of the reason why Germany could reuinte eventually. You probably know about the Berlin Airlift. The UDSSR has proven its open inhumanity not only against enemies but also its own people and people they controlled time and time again.

> There were numerous covert attacks against the GDR, what do you think the Stasi were fighting?

It's own people. The documents are still there, you can look at them. It was a horrendous system. I cannot imagine why you defend it. I can admit that the West is not perfect. We can find ways to improve it, without defending a system that is so clearly worse.
Cool. Good to know that. I wish you luck with it.
Okay, that's good to know. Thanks for taking time to explain. I'll have to correct my association then. Knowing that I was way off on that actually made my day better.

I heard this word in Eastern Europe countries exclusively referred to as a name for the neo-nazi salute.
Could the ransomware crisis force action against Russia?
It is though. It's astonishing how little people are willing to sacrifice for their ideals.

If you don't have an issue with Facebook then disregard and continue using their services. If you do have a problem then try being the change you want to see. Tend your garden. You cannot control other people but you can control yourself.
Nah the length of a second is fixed as precisely 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation of caesium-133.

The leap second concept again comes from the calendar. All of those higher-level concepts can come from software.

The hardware just needs a clock that tells us how many (normal) seconds passed since someone shoved a battery on the thing, and how many seconds passed since the computer was booted. That's all. Well, also assuming it's approximate, unless the computer has caesium in it.

Most pain in system design comes from poor judgments of where to put what. Separation of responsibilities can be non-obvious at first.
Macro factors in all those things you mentioned.

Of course there are micro instances with particulars to a situation, but the main driver for wages is supply and demand.

The reason the janitorial service only gets $12/hour is not a result of all the biases you mentioned, even though it’s hard work- unpleasant, time constrained, shift work hours. The wage is low because many, many people are capable of doing the job.

I’m not sure why you would think America’s wages are unjust. But that can exist at the same time as supply and demand issues. Perhaps it is unjust that people make too little, but the reason isn’t that the universe is an asshole. The reason is that lots of people are capable of doing jobs that are hard, so it’s easy to pay less.

So the injustice is because people need more skills and are only capable of taking jobs that lots of other people can do, and few demand.

But again, wages aren’t set based on difficulty, or value, or the intrinsic need for human dignity of the people performing them. Wages are set by supply and demand.
You are the "you can't criticise a movie if you are not a seasoned director" kind...
Amazon Fulfillment can cause even that to go wrong.

https://www.redpoints.com/blog/amazon-commingled-inventory-m...
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For eBay kind of model where the seller has to pack and ship items themselves, it would be a nightmare. The govt postal service is highly inefficient and the private players are not organized for door to door logistics.

Amazon doesn't package and ship your items if it weighs over 30kg, you've to fulfill orders on your own if it's larger than 30kg.

>Try shipping few metal parts weighing 1Kg+ yourself to any random address to understand perhaps that is the most difficult part of the problem.

Not true! India has changed. I've shipped over 300kg per shipment no problem. I've a business of shipping industrial parts and we regularly ship median weight of 50kg

I am not sure how old was your experience, leave the government services. We ship with delhivery and safe express

Who are you shipping with? And when did you try? Today you can easily get the shipping rates we are getting by signing up for Delhivery's business account the more you ship the cheaper it becomes but man we are no longer living in dark ages of IndiaPost parcel times anymore
My kid's daily driver: 1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner

What my kid wants to drive: Trabant
Not as impressed as the OP about that painting. My eye was not drawn to the vaccination point as suggested. The two faces in fact are not both looking there; one is not clearly looking anywhere. No, the attention-getter is the bold print kimono and the splashes of color. In fact I didn't see the vaccination at all until I read the text and looked again.

Anyway to each their own.
> since he does circuit board repair for Apple devices.

And thus, the insight comes from someone who only repairs the components, not someone who knows about designing them. I wouldn't trust my mechanic to tell me that my car's engine was designed badly because chances are that opinion is solely based on how easy/cheap it is to repair.
Not bad! Thanks for being open! Good luck!
Thanks, I appreciate! :)
Can you recommend a guide for embedding Debezium?
Then it isn’t master data anymore; it’s just one field of a record of a commercial document. This is taking a long way around to the same point.

(Presumably no-one is trying to reference-count GC their RDBMS. If so, I wish them all the luck in the world.)
Beautiful style. Just like their coinage.
What climate change models can’t tell us
It's from 2019 -- it was squashed and buried quickly.
| I sent my Macbook to Louis for repair last year

Water damage. Sad little Macbook into a happy little Macbook. I hope you learned something.
I don’t think that’s a good analogy. This is like being critiqued on your software architecture by someone who’s never written ‘Hello World’.
Chia Is a New Way to Waste Resources for Cryptocurrency
Great for you I guess.
The most unfair part about it is more productive "loyal employees" have to train new employees that come at a much higher pay.

This problem would be mitigated if salaries were open. Glassdoor and levels.fyi somewhat help with this problem.
Yes i know about this (mentioned it in another reply) but this assumes there weren't any changes (like another dev made here) and really there isn't much of a reason to do that when you can just bundle the library with your binary or, even better, just rely on it being there and have it as part of your system requirements.
I agree with you but I think that's just part of the youtube celebrity playbook. His massive following might give him the confidence/ego to put out a lot more edgy type of content that appeals to his audience. I noticed he also puts out a lot of videos about his personal opinions (eg. NYC real estate, personal relationships, etc.). It is his own channel.

Regardless it does not diminish his prominent role for the Right to Repair.
But it probably wasn't "a thing" on rental vehicles in 2001.
with the obesity epidemic, i may rethink that
> To be clear, I didn't put forth my perspective, which is that crime and punishment and society is a very complex issue, and one that I'm not particularly well versed in. From what I do know, there are different theories of justice - utilitarian, retributive, justice, karmic, etc.

You did put forth your perspective.

> I think I must be misunderstanding. It sounds like you are saying that you’d prefer to cut off your nose to spite your face. (Punish criminals despite punishment being a net negative.)

This is utilitarian thinking, period.
I just canceled my Ebay account a couple days ago (and rarely buy anything from Amazon any more). Ebay and Amazon are victims of their own "success." Everyone understands what they're doing wrong, and exactly when they went astray, but they don't seem to be doing anything about it. Ebay and Amazon continue to strive to be all things to all people selling and buying online, and won't fix the problems we can all plainly see. I note that other apps/services like Etsy or Shopify or Reverb are filling in the gaps left behind from this mentality. I hope these second-tier apps continue to attract more disillusioned people from the first tier, but stay focused on what has made them successful so far.
The problem isn't politics, though. The problem is that you have two mainstream belief systems that do not share the same reality, that are mutually exclusive. One has to be completely wrong. This is not about perceived polarization, black-and-white thinking and stuff. Those camps live in two different worlds, and the truth isn't somewhere in between. They don't disagree about some facts, they disagree more fundamentally about the question how facts are produced.

Naturally, the people in-between or the ones that are silent are seen as an enabler of the other side. And to a certain degree, in this polarized situation, that is true. After all, the other side wants to take away your fundamental rights. And again, that is factually true - the other side does want to take away or not grant some rights from/to you, and you see those rights as fundamental.

So the question is, can you ignore and escape politics? Should you? Do you have to get involved? Well, generally, you should get involved - of course: Society doesn't work otherwise. However, in this situation, its understandable if you skip out, with tensions running that high.

But then how can these two camps can ever come together? The solution can certainly not be that two separate groups enforce themselves in their beliefs - because unfortunately, it seems that this only works by vilifying the other side, only increasing tensions.

So it seems that talking politics at work is the lesser of two evils? Or is it too late for that and stuff's just gone too far?
That definitely happens to me. Additional thoughts go through a pro player’s head during penalty kicks. 11 years ago I was fascinated by a short Freakonomics podcast. The data shows that the best chance of scoring is to kick it straight down the center to the keeper. However, most people won’t do this even though their odds are better since the pain of kicking it to a keeper who does not dive to the side and instead catches your ball is far greater than not scoring!

https://freakonomics.com/2010/06/14/what-to-do-with-your-pen...
> You must know that Joe Rogan is a polarizing figure and posting him in any but a right-wing community is going to be a troll for reactions. That doesn’t strike me as “bizarre,” it strikes me as the obvious outcome for your choice.

This is interesting to me, because I found out about Joe Rogan from some liberal friends that were recommending him. Doesn’t Joe label himself as. liberal? Why does the left hate Joe?
Looks like it would take 10 of those vials to make roughly 1 pound of uranium glass at its minimum concentration and 150 vials to make a pound of glass at the concentrations typical of the 1800s.
> For a really odd looking car, check out the Melkus

My response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071521
100% humanity can do so much better than to work out ways to exterminate large numbers of people. Hitler lost WWII but the Nazis carried on ideologically.
> and if the keeper doesn't move early they're not saving anything that isn't down the middle

Most penalties are poorly taken. I hate seeing a keeper dive early to a random side only to be beaten by a weak shot down the middle. I assume that keepers don't have faith in their nerves/reactions and thus have to force their bodies to dive before the shot is taken. Otherwise the best strategy for the keeper is to wait for the shot
Each time I hear about this I'm baffled that not prosecuting is a legal option for DA.
You have a low opinion of your mechanic. Operational knowledge is very important and designs that look good at design time sometimes deal poorly with the world. The iPhone 6 and the butterfly keyboard show designs that were not good in actual operation. Mechanics worth their salt know great engine design beyond easy/cheap to repair.

Please don't take this attitude as a developer towards your operations / support staff.
Mechanics are generally pretty knowledgeable about reliability of various vehicles and their components generally; many are genuinely interested in these things and not just repairability as it relates to their job. I would imagine something similar is true here
Why Worry About Collapse?
This is cool and ambitious, but isn't it a bit like David vs five Goliaths?

What does this do exactly that the average blogger would choose over WordPress, Ghost, Wix, Blogger, Tumblr, and many others?

Is this aimed at the average blogger? If it's for tech people then you have a chance for a niche platform.
They are lying when they say this. I promise you Facebook MITMs WhatsApp communications for oppressive regimes.
Thanks for the transparency, it’s cool to see other bootstrapped founders running Kubernetes :) And congrats on the launch!
> weird stories from San Francisco

This sounds like it should be a TV show, perhaps along the lines of “drunk history”
Use the web-app version on Firefox with the "Facebook container" extension, and just add an icon to the home-screen that links to it. (Note this is for fb not WhatsApp, in which case you'd have to consider alternatives like Telegram and Signal)
Developers have no leverage because there are no alternatives. What can they do, take their apps and leave the store?
WhatsApp is closed source, so you have no idea what it's doing. And they can push an update doing whatever they wish to you at any moment. You have to rely on Facebook pinky-swearing that it is what they say it is. And I promise you it isn't what they say it is.
Seems more like being critiqued on your software architecture by someone who has to debug your code.
Use the web app version with Firefox (for Facebook proper, not WhatsApp)
I would argue that, the harder/more expensive it is to repair a consumer car, the worse it is designed. It's not the only factor, but it is an important one to a LOT of people.
And their competitors who decided to play fair.
In oversimplified terms, BGP is more like a routing mechanism between ISPs, rather than just computers. BGP has historically been problematic, as a misconfigured ISP could suddenly start broadcasting routes for eg YouTube which could bring that whole site down. (This isn’t a hypothetical example, this actually happened, see for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122826 )
I understand the IP address being used as evidence to start an investigation and perhaps some surveillance but it seems way too flimsy to justify search and seizure. Is this sort of grasping at straws acceptable in other areas or is it just because of how computer illiterate the legal system is?
How did you pick these numbers?
I've ranted about this in the past. What makes me a little crazy is how freaking obvious this problem is, yet Amazon won't fix it. It must be what they want, otherwise they'd change it. Right? Am I taking crazy pills here? I just wrap my head around how they think that their god-awful search and filtering is helping them. I am also buying everything I can from brick-and-mortar these days.
LaGrange: A Beautiful Gemini Client
Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this in his brilliant essay - The Art of Failure. "When Jana Novotna faltered at Wimbledon, it was because she began thinking about her shots again. She lost her fluidity, her touch." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/08/21/the-art-of-fai...
Yeaa Amazon here is best in small towns of India. In my town they've bought a warehouse at Industrial area and their trucks arrive before 7am.

I place order before 2pm and my orders arrive at my desk next day before 11am, arrives in my town at 7am.
I know you mean well. But it’s ironic that with the first iPhones, Apple was combating the tight gripe of carriers, especially in the US on consumer control.
I'm not quite sure what "master data" means in English (a non-native language to me) but Wikipedia tells me that it's "data about the business entities that provide context for business transactions" (and lists examples that sound relevant for this situation to me). Based on that I'm inclined to think that this would qualify.
Some people shift to Telegram / Signal if they can get their friends to install them.
According to KolibriOS' site the fork happened in 2004 so it isn't like some recent move where they got the source, added the copyright and then presented everything as own work. This is mentioned in the first page of the site too.
But it frees you from having to have on your phone sketchy closed-source software from a an evil tech empire for whom you are the product. That's worth a lot. And you can self-host matrix bridges that will do this.
We don't need local solutions, we need FOSS solutions so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
We lived happily in an 800 square foot apartment, paid nothing for child care, both held well-paid full-time professional jobs, and saved nothing towards college funds.

All of those changed in some way or other once we started planning to have kids.

It’s also been totally worth it, but that’s beside the financial impact.
I think it applies to almost any programming language and certainly also to every programming paradigm.