skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starbucks did introduce one non-burnt base for drinks, the "blonde espresso"

But burnt Starbucks also sets the standard that a lot of people now expect, and then smaller places try to follow that so...
You're willing to pay the price of those algorithms and the Google ecosystem. Others are not.

I'm excited to review this project. Thanks to the creators.

This has come at a perfect moment ... as, this weekend, I'm literally downloading my entire Google photos archive (one year at a time) to my local harddrive and figuring out a way forward.

I'm done with Google after a 'straw breaking the camels back' moment with their payment system.
Feels like the culture series "aura" for droids could fit here. Subtle colours indicating mood in the books by Iain M Banks, but could indicate system health.
Maybe (depends on your income and what expenses you currently have). However for many, pouring that energy into an income-creating task will create a larger amount.
No rational human being would see this problem and just start adding the first few items. A smart student would skip the problem. It is counter-intuitive that just adding the first few items would be correct (why would they make it so obvious). If anything I would start with the last few items. Problems like this are the entire problem with math education in the U.S.
>- Young people: Hard to make them use the browser, if there isn't an app (Instagram, TikTok), you are lost. If they want to discuss a topic, mostly Twitter through hashtags, YouTubers or Discord.

I disagree on this take.

GenZ can do long-form discussion and they use forums frequently, but for specific discussion(s).

Content consumption is done via forever-scroll apps because it's good to kill time; Tiktok, Instagram, etc match this well because it's just a stream of things to have fun with.

But GenZ is making great "longford" content on many traditional platforms, even blogging. The difference, as I understand it, is their approach to engagement. GenZ has seen Facebook arguments and said "no thank you". Twitter discourse also isn't really a thing -- people disagree and Tweet at people, but Twitter isn't like a forum thread and there's no way to ensure your content is associated with the content you want to respond to, so it's not effective to communicate in responses. Reddit is kind of a mystery for me as I just don't frequent it at all, but I don't get the impression that GenZ is posting frequently.

GenZ has platforms that work best when you make a statement, not where you open a discourse; Twitter is too fast/broad to respond to all comments and find real content to respond to, video content just isn't great for back and forth and becomes time consuming for lighter topics. Viewers will make whatever statement they want, but the validity of the video is based on how far a concept is spread; I'd actually position GenZ is very good at concisely expressing its idea in a simple and condensed format, and responses are not at an individual, but an idea. But, they will go to Tumblr/Medium/other long-form post when the medium is appropriate. This is one thing I like about a lot of GenZ content because they tend to be VERY good about choosing the right format for their argument; that many don't have much more to express besides tweets/tiktoks isn't an indictment of GenZ, it's praise. Think of the forums you maybe still lurk around and how many comments are just complete garbage/non-sequiturs; for forums such a post are enough to derail a topic/distract because we feel obligated to a degree to respond, but filtering noise is part of the skill of using more modern platforms.

Forums are kind of contrary to this, and also are bogged down by the before-mentioned Facebook-argument issue and the preferred platforms not really being strongest for direct rebuttals. Again, there are times when you'll see GenZ use forums or other long-form posts, but it tends to be more controlled or on 'forums-but-not-really' forums like Tumblr.

Forums have their purpose and use; but we have __many__ alternatives that make forums defunct, as some topics/ideas are far better expressed on Tiktok or Twitter, and whatever followup we end up with.
Futurists have their heads in the clouds
Objective criteria like grades or sat is better than subjective holistic factors which can be easily gamed by rich parents.
If you give "start a business" advice to people, the majority will end up poorer than the advice he is complaining about. Sure, you may have more options to invest and pay less taxes, but that's only if your business is making money, which most don't.
On top of this, good algorithms should be run if it is possible to do it in a privacy friendly way.
Owning a small slice of a business where you're employed can also help make you rich if it grows a lot. In the tech world there are probably more financially independent employees than founders, because of the growth of some massive companies over the last few decades and high salaries. Probably a different story in the UHNW category though, very few employees can get to that level.
>The Afghan military surrendered over a week ago. While we were still in a position to decommission equipment

I don't know what you're defining as being "still in a position" or what your basis is for that determination, but we all witnessed that chaos ensued quickly upon the collapse of the Afghan govt/military. At that point, it seems the priority was on saving lives and extricating human beings which was meeting with significant difficulty to say the least.

That's a much more plausible explanation for why decommissioning the equipment was not prioritized.

The situation is bad. The 20-year occupation itself was horrible foreign policy. But just making unfounded allegations of "corruption" is FUD.
Re: Shared Albums

>the receiver just needs a free ente account.

I feel like there should be an even more frictionless option to make it easy for family to access photos. For example, if there were a way to just trigger a mailing list when an album is added to, that would be perfect. “Here is an update on our trip: [link]” I love that you mention you are security and privacy focused, and I see how this could conflict with that mission. Perhaps a tradeoff here could be allowing one viewing via link and future viewings require account?
How do you know it's zero knowledge?
I think these can be discussed as well. In the end thats the ones we suffer the most from. (edit: typo)
Since it‘s a paid service with user accounts. You would be able to ban users that have been reported to use this service for illegal means. The same question can be asked to WhatsApp / iMessage / Signal / etc.
Gates did some sketchy things as a businessman, but now he is basically eliminating malaria. On the balance i think he has positive utility to the world.
“I found a more comfortable pillow for cryogenically suspended space travel!”
$61.5k in yearly contributions is out of reach for most people. I can't even max out my 401k due to high cost of living (with a family) and mediocre income.
Comparing the Size of the World’s Rockets, Past and Present
Child pornography will always exist as long as there is a demand for it without any available substitutions. And there will always be a demand for it as long as pedophiles exist. And pedophiles have always existed and as far as we know always will exist and are probably a lot larger part of the population than most people expect.

Like the war on drugs, this is a battle that is never going to end.

I wish some government agency, maybe NCMEC or someone else, would realize this and try actually catering to pedophiles as citizens of their country rather than pretending they are vermin that can be stomped out.

Imagine if a government put their vast resources into creating artificial child pornography so that people who want to look at child pornography (or perhaps aren't pedophiles but are just curious) have an outlet that doesn't actually involve children.

There are a million ways to do this. You could train a GAN on actual CP images that produce new original images without any actual victims, or maybe with enough talented researchers create one that never involved children to begin with.

You could pay some very talented CGI companies to create realistic child pornography, maybe with the help with actors that already look underaged but are not.

Or maybe even just commission some shotacon artists or cub furs artists off Inkbunny (although the community is already doing this.)

"Hey, we realize that you're sexually attracted to children and like all people have sexual desires that need to be fulfilled in order to be happy. We know you're not a bad person and we're sorry we can't give you real children to have sex with, but here are some links to artificial child pornography we've made so that you can be less sexually frustrated without breaking the law."

I really don't understand why, if the goal is to prevent the sexual exploitation of children, any government hasn't tried making photo-realistic synthetic child pornography. It seems like such an obvious solution that would actually make gains in reducing the consumption of child pornography.

I suspect most pedophiles who do consume child pornography would stick with a realistic ethically-made artificial alternative, if only to avoid possible prosecution.
The goal of most personal finance experts is not to teach you to be mega rich, but rather to be average and while still being pretty average in terms of income, hours worked, and capability, remarkably comfortable to peers.

> Yet you almost never hear the financial experts recommending that you start a business.

Is the average business owner any better off? I know that there are plenty of successful business owners, but we tend to completely ignore the many that filed bankruptcy after taking cash advances on credit cards to live one more month.

> Nor do these guys tend to mention the importance of understanding how taxes work.

Only really matters if you make a lot of money. My Dad is a tax accountant. We optimize the heck out of our personal taxes. But at our 100Kish incomes, it doesn't make a big difference beyond what the personal finance people say.
For the readers of this forum, perhaps, but for the typical person making $40-50k it maybe easier to get a side hustle.
It's an odd dictatorship that someone voluntarily submits to.

Being out of Facebook's decisions on what you may say is as simple as closing your account.
Tldr, you’ll only get rich by starting a business. Great advice for the tiny population of people who have the skills, the means, the discipline, and the time.

That person he describes with $50k annual income, little or no savings, and significant credit card debt sure as hell isn’t starting a successful business, especially since they most likely have children and are working hard hours.

He’s dismissive of being “less poor”, but for anyone who has actually been in or witnessed this average scenario, less poor is way the hell closer to rich than not.

The real problem on display here is the capitalist dystopia we live in. Fifty years ago that average person would have been able to support a family, buy a house, and not live under the constant threat of bankruptcy from a surprise medical bill.

But yea, start a business!
I’ve got the big one last year. It’s still worth it — while the usage overlaps a bit, you still want a ruggerized device that can survive knocks and submersion for emergencies.

This is still a rumour after all.
The problem is jobs reqiring degrees even if the work does not require it. Maybe this means higher quality of employees but at the same time leads to more demand for college and more debt.
Internet access that isn't subject to whatever domestic firewalling is in place, presumably.
I think those low-middle "financial advisors" are generally BS. I have been a low level one for a few years and talked to middle level advisors from time to time. We didn't know much TBH.
Why does this app need to link my identifiers and contact info to my identity?

I would feel a lot more comfortable with this if it didn't collect any data of mine, and you were just storing ciphertext.

I don't want an account, and I don't want to give you my name or email.
I think that would be more clearer if he was agnostic. Since he explicitly denies God, it seems a bit counter productive
> Blocks for cloud variables have a small square in front of them to distinguish them from regular variables, like this:

That's supposed to be a cloud icon. :-p
Anyone have a nice opensource/pretrained TTS model they like using? I use google's wavenet TTS heavily to create 'audiobooks' (especially from archive.org which is great for old books). But it's pretty expensive

I periodically look for new versions and, while the examples sound better, they fall down really hard on other text.
What is the problem/why is there a problem?
I would argue that middle class today is a lot richer than 50 years ago. Larger average homes. More cars. More trips. Better healthcare. Food is cheaper as a percentage of income.
is there a way to automatically migrate from google photos?
I had the exact same thought -- it seems like some multidimensional version of a Zeno's paradox, with all the attendant issues.
I love that idea, you should submit that on frontpage.
No worries, I understand. Congrats on the launch and good luck!
Hasn’t it been an S year for the last 3 years?
> The r/personalfinance and r/financialindependence subreddits are quite good and even cover more exotic details

The great thing is you can read the subreddits casually for ~3 months and learn everything you need to know to autopilot your financial plan for decades if you go the boglehead route. After that you mostly need to pay attention to major changes in tax law and entitlements.

I still read them all the time but I haven't learned anything new in years.
Totally - it was more of an example of the quality of the subreddits. If they’re willing to get those details right then they have the earlier steps really well established.
If the masses got rich, inflation would set a new baseline. In short, if everyone is rich, no one is ... it's just normal wealth.
https://ente.io/transparency/
I've found even the walk to the bathroom, which went from two full hallways away down to a few steps out of my bed, to be a useful jaunt to think about a problem without looking at a screen.
The source code of the client-side apps appears to be available on GitHub. So if they're bluffing, it won't be too long until someone calls them out on it.
The monthly storage costs are too high. For the price of 1TB from you (15€), I can buy more than 2 TB just about anywhere else.

Commercially, Apple and Google are both 2TB for 10 CHF and Amazon gives you unlimited as part of a Prime membership. Storage providers like Backblaze and Wasabi both charge around $5/TB and that's really the table-stakes price. For the more DIY-inclined, Hetzner sells a 2TB OwnCloud instance for 9.90€/month.

I'd prefer to buy software from you than storage. It's out of the question for me to pay you per TB but I'd consider paying a flat rate for software I then host myself.
> Skipping the Americas does not sound like a typical Apple move.

I know of one place where Apple does this: in China, and only China, you can buy an iPhone with two physical SIM slots. You can do Dual SIM on iPhones elsewhere, but only with an eSIM.
I only know that a friend of Wallace, Glenn Kenny, complained about the movie, mentioning that Jason Segel’s performance was not really accurate.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/29/why-the-end-of...

I don’t know… I just enjoyed it as fiction. The problem with movies based on real events or on real people is that at, the end of the day, they are just fiction, and I guess they are inevitably going to disappoint some of those who know more about the real-life events or people they are based on. On the other hand, I can also see the value of getting the facts right and characters that respect the spirit of the real people they are based on. I don’t have a strong opinion on the matter as you can see.
If everyone used cash, maybe, but since that isn't happening, those who don't use credit cards are paying for those who do.
The idea behind the project is to make privacy accessible. We are hopeful that we'll be able to lower the price points as we scale up and still remain profitable.
That's true but the Series X has a turbine design similar to the trashcan Mac Pro where air is pulled through a heatsink block that makes contact with multiple components.

It seems much more effective at removing heat per unit of heatsink mass than the large flat heatsink+heatpipe design of the PS5.
Nursing and teaching in the U.S. are overwhelmingly female. Is that an exclusionary “girls’ club” as well?
Whole numbers can be defined and proven to be necessary to describe the world pretty easily. From there, rational numbers are trivial to define. Negative numbers are somewhat more abstract, but they have very intuitive definitions in many domains, such as accounting. It may be possible to avoid them in a theory of physics, though.

The complex numbers (well, at least those with a rational imaginary part and a rational real part) have been recently proven to be necessary to describe the universe[0] (assuming quantum theory is correct).

The irrational numbers are then are the only numbers that are harder to pin down, and I'm not sure that there is a way to prove that any physical quantity has an irrational value, vs a rational value that is arbitrarily close to that irrational value.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10873
The preprocessing suggestions I see are to crop out everything except for the numbers and I don’t know how to do that programmatically. There’s many kinds of displays: rollers, 7-segment, dot matrix, and LCD.

The preprocessing to increase DPI to 300 did not help when I tried Tesseract, unfortunately. It’s hard to achieve a good contrast between the numbers and the backdrop
Not going to claim to be an expert, but if you struggle with the nuts and bolts of personal finances (ex: bounced rent checks even though you're a highly paid software developer) you might be interested in my radically simplified and fully automated system:

https://www.petekeen.net/automatic-finances

I've been using it for about three years now and, modulo a couple tweaks, it's substantially identical to that write up and requires ~zero manual intervention.
Small satellite receivers are possible and exist for extremely low bandwidth signals. Text messages could be feasible. There are small devices on the market for sending texts via satellite.

The part of this article about FaceTime calls over satellite sounds like editorialization, though. FaceTime requires a relatively large amount of bandwidth to pull off, which isn’t in the realm of possibility with current systems.
> Very different than what?

Than system communicating with geostationary sats.

Training the circuitry onto one weak, but stable satellite signal is much easier than keeping readjusting, or communicting with multiple satellites at once.

Just like with the GPS, the trick is the super duper accurate, and stable frequency reference.
I wish that were true for me.

But I think you're missing the point. The advice for most people (the target audience of the gurus) is wrong. It's just a coincidence that this article is posted on HN and it would be disingenuous to examine it from only this position/context.
The value of a forum is not to get everyone. It is actually in limiting a community to the most mature voices and thoughtful people.

There's little upside to having teenagers in a forum, for example, unless you're looking to monetize.
A better explanation of the growth from 1870 to 1900 is the Second Industrial Revolution[1]. This was a short period of massive changes to logistics (better railways), society (electric lights improved factory productivity), and what was even possible to make (improved materials and precision machining). Labor only comes into the story because less labor was needed to make things. Wages went up because productivity shot up.

I would be more convinced if you showed two similar nations who had very different outcomes during the 1870s to 1900s because of wages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Industrial_Revolution
Which town is that? I'm interested in reading more about the bike tunnels
Dharma: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_Initiative
Yes! You can go to takeout.google.com, export your photos and drag them into https://web.ente.io. We will preserve all of the metadata Google generated.

If at all the upload flow breaks in between, just drag and drop the exported folder again, we will skip already uploaded files and resume from where we left off.
I think the worst vulnerability I can imagine is the USG having unfettered access to the entire db contents without a warrant, which is already the case with everything in Azure.

This bug only seems to widen that vulnerability slightly, to those groups plus those with knowledge of this bug.

Nothing in major US cloud providers can reasonably be expected to remain private, so I think this breathless headline is a little overblown.
Well, depending on legislation, they could be ordered to change the code to send the user password to them on next login for that account and then decrypt everything…
Yeah, Ramsey rich is being an "everyday millionaire" by the time you retire. It isn't really rich, but it is just having a comfortable retirement and a large financial moat.
From https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/592606

> 5.17 x 9.90 x 2.61 cm

That's the same order of magnitude of volume as a phone.
Ask HN: Fastest way to get funding for a startup with the queue of early users?
Hi there,

A founder of AI text writing assistant startup here. We have a small team of 4 experienced tech / non-tech co-founders, 70% MVP done, a unique text analysis tool based on the mix of GPT-3 and top language models, a set of tools similar to conversion.ai, but more focused on a narrow segment of the market and a queue of 45 early users (trial period).

We exhausted our small FFF (friends, fools, family) $10k budget fast and had to switch to outsourcing development (as we worked before) to survive.

The question is: we still believe that we have a great potential to create so many incredible and valuable things in the scope of this product, we implemented like 0.000000000001% of what we can.

What is the fastest way to get $25k-50k investment to expand our startup and release the first public product version? Crowdfunding? Accelerators? Private investors?

Thanks.

Michael
mksl@pm.me
I’ve never had the problems you’re describing. I do know the first impressions are powerful (first impressions are why I don’t care much for Köln), but despite the xenophobic graffiti I’ve seen in Nürnberg and Bad Kissingen, despite the anecdotes I’ve heard from a Pakistani coworker, the closest my experiences get to “your German is no good so I will judge you” have been one rail official giving me a useless answer (and even then it wasn’t bad), and one business (legitimately) deciding I couldn’t manage one of their teams (not xenophobic! I agreed with them!), and I’ve cycled the Rhine from the Netherlands to Switzerland and visited Frankfurt (both of them), Köln, Hannover, Leipzig, Nürnberg, Suhl, Magdeburg, Heidelberg, and live in Berlin, an even despite living in Berlin my German language skills are still embarrassing.
It's like taking a bed apart and rearranging it into two beds, each identical to the original bed, without adding any more material.
I mean once you reach a certain age you really can’t afford to just hold on to your investments for a few decades because of a financial downturn. That retirement money is also most people’s emergency medical fund which can and does hit people in their 40s.
Those "algorithms" can run locally, on a NAS or a desktop, generate the metadata and make it available to you only on your mobile.

I can see myself paying for such software if it was mature enough.
I live in India and I'm technical co-founder running a SAAS business nocodeapi.com

Yes, I got lot's of feedback to invest on my own ideas. Thanks for the valuable feedback.