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Hi tejas,
First off, thanks for building this app. I will explain where I am coming from (no pun intended), I have been watching porn since I was twelve years old. I am 25 now, its a habit I have been trying to quit. I have only been able to tone it down a bit, earlier I would download porno (I had 100s of GBs of porno on an external HDD once) but now I just stream it but still that is barely an improvement. I just installed your app and tried it out and I see a lot of potential and I am mulling over whether I should buy it or not.

I have a fairly successful career in tech but I absolutely hate the control that porn has on me and I am looking to rid myself of it. I also hate that it completely interrupts my focus and concentration. I was looking for alternatives and then I saw your post. I have cut social media out of my life successfully (FB, quora etc), never used IG, TikTok or Snap, never did like it. Hell, I even quit YT, I just use it for watching educational stuff that too on my laptop browser.

Some suggestions,

1. The pricing is prohibitively expensive (I live in India), the yearly plan. The one-time pricing, I understand though. Can you try varying it by geography, I know that might be difficult for a startup. Just so you know, I don't even have Netflix (way too expensive and a net negative IMO) so for penny-pinchers like me, this app is expensive. Also, do you have a monthly plan, wherin I could pay for a month and see if I want to continue paying, I only see a yearly plan and a buy once forever plan.

2. Please keep a longer trial period. If I am paying 100s of dollars for something, at the very least I would expect to use it for a couple of weeks and then decide. An optimal trial period would be 14-days, I know you can't offer months since developers and compute (AWS costs!) are no joke, so please try offering 14-days at the very minimum. I am afraid, 3 days is just too short to make a purchasing decision. Habits take time to build up.

I want to emphasize the 2nd point, I just don't have enough data right now and don't see how I can make a purchasing decision in 3 days. If you can, please have a longer trial period for premium features.
Good luck, I want to see you guys succeed.
If you aren't already doing it, you should start a cardio and weight lifting routine. If you really whip yourself into shape, then you'll feel like superman, and then you'll be able to handle almost anything. I'd spend the time and effort to right your ship before you go looking for a different job. Taking any new role is typically a big challenge, and you're not up to the task at the moment.
DVRescue sounds promising — thank you. From https://github.com/mipops/dvrescue

> dvmerge A script that takes multiple transfers of the same tape containing errors and combines them to create one file with the best information available for each problematic frame. dvmerge is part of dvrescue. See dvrescue -h on a recent build.

> dvplay A script that plays back and visualizes the DV errors as a stack of images. Running with the -x flag will produce JPEGs instead of just playing them.

> Snapshot daily builds are at https://mediaarea.net/download/snapshots/binary/dvrescue/.
Yes, I was wondering about that too. Of course without knowing the details, or having listened to the podcast it's easy to come up with quick judgments.

I was thinking that perhaps original film material or personal belongings were lost. Or additionally perhaps the island symbolized something important to him and that the island, or it's inhabitants rejected him in this way hurt more than we can imagine. Or perhaps it was just a lot of money and he and his wife were financially ruined.

I am also reminded of people whose friend or family member goes missing for years and people don't know if the person dead or alive so they can't give it rest, perhaps it's similar. I never lost my house and my belongings, so I wouldn't know. I suppose I would make the best of it and accept the situation and try to move on.

Once I was scammed by a bank for a lot of money, I spent half the amount of money on a lawyer to get justice. I am normally quite stoic, but was quite upset. After a few years the government arranged a (poor) deal I took, this meant closure to me and a lot of people.
> Bonus point if the company didn't want to give/loan company devices, so you have to install it on your own personal devices.

Oh i would NEVER. That sounds horrible.
I would like this as a digital photo frame on my desk. If the portrait mode conversion works as well as I hope.
You make a good point. Maybe it would need to also be worn with hearing protection until the novelty wears off. And adding a chin strap would prevent other people from removing it.
Presumably that was after the fire. Fed up with the eyesore someone then knocked it down and the hotel next door started using it as a carpark.
Definitely fund these guys. I really hope they can get to the point where they are paid as well as those of us that work in commercial software development.
Sincerely appreciate and acknowledge your story about Atul Joan. I will like to learn more from other successful entrepreneur.
I think you're underselling just how much slower and clunkier Teams is. It genuinely overshadows every supposed UX improvement for me, and it's nigh unusable on Linux / Firefox.
You left out the bit where the various superpowers inevitably have to try using the shiny new technology against their rivals because it's never been tried so we can't be certain it's a bad idea. That's the bit that worries me the most - I'd rather do without a rerun of World War 1.

> it's more important to assess the impact of this emerging force multiplier and develop countermeasures

What is there to do other than develop your own equivalent systems though?
The problem is that driving a vehicle is a dynamic process, where the driver adapts to the situation in real time relaxing some rules while tightening others on the fly as best fits the situation. That is a very bad match for the current state of the art in machine learning, where we more or less assume that after a while we've seen all the cases that the world can throw at us at a high enough frequency that we can say that our solution 'works'.

People are smart, very smart compared to our smartest computers and forgetting that we apply this all the time and yet have a fairly high error rate (called 'accidents') is what should count as proof that driving isn't a simple problem that be handled by classifiers and rulesets. It may well require much more than that.

The current state of machine learning is an excellent match for problems where brute forcing isn't an option but we have a good general idea of the problem space and repetitive tasks that require some rudimentary level of intelligence. Full autonomous driving (L4, L5) under the same circumstances where ordinary drivers are required to perform are for now out of reach of our tools and solutions.

By the way: one way in which we could quite easily improve on the number of traffic deaths is stricter certification, faster impounding of vehicles based on previous offenses (for instance: DUI, reckless driving), loss of insurance when continuing to drive in dangerous situations (fog, heavy rain, snow).
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> However, soil CO2 fluxes were suppressed when biochar was added to fertilized soils, indicating that biochar application is unlikely to stimulate CO2 fluxes in the agriculture sector, in which N fertilizer inputs are common.

> Our results showed that biochar application increased soil CO2 fluxes by 43.33% in unfertilized soils, but decreased by 8.61% in N-fertilized soils, consistent with the meta-analysis of Liu et al. (2016).

The metastudy did go into detail about N2O and CH4 as well in both fertilized and unfertilized soil.
>search ranking is a complicated and subtle problem

Absolutely !
I think never before the saying "the devil is in the details"... is more appropriate than here.

Sure most users agree on the extreme's the REALLY bad search result (putting in 'apple' getting out LCD TV's [maybe the tv's are in parent-category 'Electronics' and you have category and popularity boost to high' ?]) and the REALLY good (results that you expected)

Search Results are commonly evaluated with Recall(did ALL the documents that are relevant got returned)
vs Precision (how many of the results are 'correct')

But that is "one" of many-many metrics.

The biggest issues are non-tech ppl (like your boss or manager) walking in and "discussing" his/her pet-peeve-search query, cause in his mind when he put in APPLE iPhone we should be returning ONLY apple-iphones and NOT apple-iPhone accessories) or maybe we should be returning ONLY the "latest iphone" not the model from 2 generations back

I've commented this before, you can usually only shoot for an "average amount of happiness" (sounds like Arthur Schopenhauer ? :P) for most users. Never "ok ppl, search works perfect" for everyone one now

As to the "practical matters", we found that building a "search-test-suite" where you put in the "manager's pet-peeve" as well as any angry-emails about search queries, and whenever do you search-tuning it's easy to see any-query-regression oh and of course this needs to be an automated search-test-suite.
I used to try and miss the start of episodes so I wouldn't know exactly who did it. It's usually very easy to guess throughout in any case, but it's still an enjoyably journey even if you're almost 100% clued in.
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In my experience, conferences are a very nice to have, unique experiences, interesting people. But productivity? No. When it comes to being productive, I get far more done sitting at my desk at home. I totally understand that conferences are a really nice thing to go to for contributors. But its more a sort of compensation for unpaied work. At some point, you are invited to go to a foreign country, and you get a sort of geek-holiday. Thats nice. But I never considered it essential for my contributions.

In fact, my impression actually turned around when the "bring your children" thing started to be normal. I vividly remember a few talks at DebConf where I was not able to follow the speaker because of verbal small children in the talk room. Since then, I really really prefer to listen to talk recordings at home.
I don't know about conferences per-say, but something like LibreGraphicsMeeting is, as people developing lots of open source graphics get together and swap ideas.

Luckily there is one there has been some funding, at least for travel.
Of course I can’t find I now, but there was a website that let you read today’s Usenet from 30 years ago in real time.
I'm sorry but I just don't understand your point. Would you clarify?
Agreed. I got rid of a late model Mercedes on account of phantom braking, which I considered endangering other drivers on the road as well as myself (and possibly other occupants). This crap should be illegal until they have it working to a degree where you don't have a near accident on account of your 'safety' feature every few thousand km.
I do, it's very good!
I cynically think that they wanted to make it a bit hard to disable threads so people would experiment with the feature on rollout.

Otherwise they would have enabled the feature and defaulted it to off. I found out that we had threads enabled when someone created a thread.
Well, when an argument devolves to "you're right but you're an asshole for being so" there isn't really anywhere else to go. I disagree that I'm an asshole, and yes I say things like "all lives matter". I do not agree that black people need some kind of global social movement promoting anti-white/male discrimination to help them, especially given that many of us live in places with no history of slavery and very small black populations. Even in the UK, only 3% of the population is black and in other parts of Europe it's far less still.

But even if we just focus on the USA, the situation and causes of some parts of the black population's outcomes are so complex that reducing it to "white people don't care enough" just doesn't make sense. White men don't make black men get divorced at a much higher rate, to pick just one example.

Greatest adversity I've faced "as a white male"? I ignored the question because it makes no sense to me. I don't know what it means, grammatically. I've faced all sorts of adversities and was a white male whilst those things were happening but that's not what you mean is it? How about being incorrectly accused of being racist? That's happened a couple of times. Whether that happened "as a white male" I cannot say, but I really doubt it would have happened had I been black. But then maybe it would have been. Who can know?
When you hardcode a lookup table to be able to align data is very useful (and also esthetically pleasant), at least from my point of view. I would not leave my monospace font
What two words are they?

"Atmana" invokes imagery of "Atman"and "Mana" particularly for native english speakers; both words are highly connected to spiritual and/or philosophical concepts that most devout members of Abrahamic faiths are not going to be comfortable with.
Maybe I should have invested in a proof-reader. Thanks for both of the corrections.
I'm still trying to work this out as well. Why does Medium even register on Google search results? I thought showing one thing to the crawler and another to the user got you demoted.
F-150s are huge trucks? What's a semi to you? Or even a 350? Most people who own 150s don't need them, but they're not huge trucks.
I've been using Input Sans Condensed for years. I thought I'd hate proportional fonts for coding until I tried it.

Given that code formatting is enforced by automated tool, I'm not allowed to use whitespace to align things because the tool decides how stuff should be indented, etc.

The only time I've needed to do any alignment is in comments trying to do some ASCII diagram or something, then I just use the column number to line it up for everyone else.

Monospace fonts now feel... Huge. So much wasted space.
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You can't hear it but you can see it.
You're right, I didn't mean "all", I meant "some".

I don't think it's a panacea at all, I just think it would be the most effect with the smallest disruption (in that it's simply a reform to be done inside the framework of free market, private property, etc).
As somebody who's quite a bit of a generalist, I really don't see this happening. IT is just such a huge field that knowing enough general stuff to be useful is still pretty hard.
Yeah, with a community that small, I can see them managing to keep it amongst themselves. Especially since this guy was "an outsider."
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A lot of the time I had my over-the-ears headphones on in the office, I wasn't even listening to anything - it was just nice to block out the environment noise a bit, and let people know not to bother me.
Why?! If everyone else jumps into a well, so should you? I hate threads.
I would assume that over time the property will have a better total return profile than the cost of the bank loan.
Short term this might not be true, but over longer time frames it usually is. So its just a question of the company staying afloat for long enough..
Are you on Linux? I'm running a Mac, and I find broken builds for projects big and small all the time. I'd open issues for them but the number of times I get a "it works for me" and any of the myriad other types of shrug devs like to give tends to put me off.
I don't get how you draw the connection between a not satisfying damage award and unaffected house prices.

Maybe the real reason why nobody spoke out was the fact that the guy flattening the house was Tory’s biggest employer. The hotel Óstan Thóraigh has been at the centre of island life since the late 1800s. The hotel and general store was supplying everything from salted fish to marine chandlery to the island.

The hotel is for sale now. It didn't survived Covid. See https://www.irishpost.com/news/irelands-stunning-tory-island...
Substack has 250,000 paying subscribers and its top 10 writers bring in $7m total per year, according to Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/falonfatemi/2021/01/20/the-rise...). We might guess that each subscriber pays $10/month, which would add up to $30m annual revenue.

The New York Times alone has 7m paying subscribers (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/business/media/new-york-t...). The cheapest subscription is 50c per week, so that's at least $182m revenue per year (in fact that's an introductory offer and the standard rate is four times that).

But Substack is growing! Yes, but so is NYT. In fact it signed up half a million new subscribers, double Substack's total, in the first quarter of 2020 alone (https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/05/the-new-york-times-success...).

Maybe the NYT is too ambitious a target. OK: the LA Times, which is "in crisis", has 356,000 digital subscribers (https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-crisis-stalled-sub...).

So, I'd say your argument is not proven yet. Wanna take a bet on when Substack total subscriptions will overtake the NYT?
KMonad is a cross-platform tool to customize how the keyboard behaves.

Or if you're always working from the same desk, you could invest in a fancy QMK-powered keyboard where it's easy to customize the firmware.
The concept of permissions existed far before Win95 launch. At least on Unix and WinNT. As a Unix and WinNT seller, Microsoft knows it perfectly. It was also not possible on Macos to through system files in the trash bin.
I didn't hate the office.

It was mostly boring.

If I could cut out the 40h work week and commute, I think working in an office would be okay.
I would like to present you how complex life is, maybe you embedded a video on your personal website and no one hacked your apache/nginx:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xz3/a-defunct-video-hosti...

People like to embed things in their personal websites - integrate them with third parties. That is my point.

Now you are responsible for what you embed on your personal website and what you publish.
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They must have finally figured out the lesson ?
I've tried a bunch of different fonts, but I always find myself going back to PragmataPro. I love that the characters are narrow but still readable and distinguishable. It also comes with the PUA loaded up with Powerline and Nerd Font glyphs. I appreciate not having to patch it myself to get those.
Maybe the real reason why nobody spoke out was the fact that the guy flattening the house was Tory’s biggest employer. The hotel Óstan Thóraigh has been at the centre of island life since the late 1800s. The hotel and general store was supplying everything from salted fish to marine chandlery to the island.

The hotel is actually for sale currently, for €400,000. It didn't survive Covid. See https://www.irishpost.com/news/irelands-stunning-tory-island...
The pricing model of programming fonts makes no sense. Most seem to be sold at standard desktop font licensing rates, i.e. the $30 to $100 range. 99.999% of developers are not going to spend this much on a nice-to-have.

On the other hand, if these fonts were priced at around $5, they drop into the range of an easy, impulse purchase. Even if the creators made substantially less money on each license, I'm sure they'd make more overall from much higher sales.
It's a shame and a contradiction how the smartphone market has ballooned for the past few years yet choice is smaller and smaller.

How can it be that there are 100s of smartphone models out every year yet every single one has the same form factor? You cannot even get a phone smaller than the phablets of 6 or 7 years ago, let alone a phone with physical keys...
I had a similar reaction. Even though I have some familiarity with the required topics I really didn't like the look of the interview. It seems like getting invited skips all that, but I don't know anyone in that world any more. To be fair there must be a barrier to entry, and having it very high should be good for community quality.

Might be easier to try to find an acquaintance with invites though.
Perhaps this is obvious but the answer is: cost. Developers are expensive. Delivering a viable poc cheaper, sooner, even if you end up having to redo it all anyway, can be an excellent trade off.
I can’t believe such over generalized garbage is upvoted on HN.

Everyone’s job is different, everyone is different. There are productive engineers who are introverts and there are productive engineers who are extroverts. Making jokes in the office and having conversations does not take time away from doing good work - no dev is productive 100% of the time.

Humans are social animals, and working _with_ someone is important. I don’t care if that interaction is over chat or in person but this idea that people are productive in isolation needs to die. This is especially applicable to new hires. The most productive engineers you talked about have habits and work they do that cannot be taught over chat or VC. It just doesn’t work that way.
For non-hidpi screens I always use Dina font and I've used it for many years. https://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/
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If I am not mistaken this means that one is less likely to get thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) after the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine than one were after the first. Sounds like good news.
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People (especially the kind that hangs out in HN) dont seem to understand that there’s a vast ocean of fairly smart people, much smarter than the average (or even above average) programmer, who are unable to build what they can imagine because of the coding bottleneck. I know many, and it’s not for a lack of significant effort that they are not able to learn to code in a way that’s meaningful. I suppose there’s something in your brain that needs to click to write code? Anyways I’d much rather trust a product created by a team described in this comment than one written by a pure group of engineers.
Absolutely! You could have a single aggregator which selects different articles and publishes them. It would stake its reputation on the quality of its journalism. Writers would compete to get into the best aggregator. This is a great idea. Needs a name. How about "newspaper"?
Gah, a shame EA are getting it via CodeMasters.

A shame someone at CodeMasters couldn't sign off them getting it before this happens.
Congrats on your launch team swipe! I think we already have a great payment infrastructure in the BHIM UPI and bill management like this is definitely the next step. Am I correct to understand that you provide a QR code for payment through any UPI app of my choice, similar to what Bharat Pay does, and the bill is sent to the number linked to that?
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Does the hard drive click of death count?
> even then anything heavy can be done in the cloud or at the network edge (with minimal latency thanks to 5g, see cloud gaming).

Hard doubt. And anyways, why 5G? I don't see any figures where 5G outperforms fiber in latency.