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Ask HN: Any Family focused applications? What's their pricing
I'm considering making an application that should be very cheap to make and not costly to run, that will be of use to families. Trying to figure out the pricing by looking at similar things. Cost of running the service would be something similar to serving each logged in user a single page customizable message - so probably less network traffic than a simple ToDo app - although we might allow serving of images, embedded youtube videos at some point this would probably not be in the MVP.

I was thinking 5 a month, 25 6 months, 45 a year, but considering Netflix base price is not much more than 5 a month and their operating costs will be significantly higher than mine per user I am wondering if it is too much (but also worrying too little a price will make people not willing to pull their wallet out)
HN, happily, has many Russian users who follow the site guidelines and therefore are not banned.
> Exactly. If you could accurately predict returns, you wouldn’t publish, you’d profit

While it's sometimes fun to assume things, it gets hard when you talk about people. In this case, not everyone is driven by profits and money, so it's most likely incorrect to assume "They didn't use this way of gaining profit themselves, so it's probably not profitable".
Probabilistic programming uses computer science techniques to do automated statistical modeling. For example, imagine I have a coin, and I want to discover if it is biased, i.e. if it lands on heads more often than tails. In a probabilistic programming framework, I can express my model as a simple Bernoulli model, `x ~ Bernoulli(p)`, and then automatically estimate the bias parameter `p` given some data (do "inference").

You can easily do this calculation by hand or in Python, but this does not generalize to more complex real-world scenarios. For complex probabilistic models, we must rely on numerical approximations. MCMC is just one algorithm for doing this approximate inference. Another popular technique is called variational inference [2]. Another commenter mentioned HMC [3], which is just a specific instance of MCMC.

[1] https://mc-stan.org/

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00670

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1901
> Statues are all about symbolism.

Statues, and monuments, are way more than symbolism. Their purpose is to shape the public opinion regarding specific values and look up to the ideas that the statues and monuments represent, so that they become an ever-present reminder to everyone of what values the ruling regime wants to be adopted and followed by the populace.
Not sure it's directly comparable. When modem flips one bit, the CRC checksum in IP packet becomes incorrect, someone drops the IP packet, the condition is detected and the packet is re-transmitted. This slows down things substantially but user still gets their data. I think tapes need more reliability because there's only 1 try.
Beyond Meat stock tumbles to 52-week low after lowering Q3 2021 revenue outlook
I agree. Know what I hate way more than fake shutters? Giant flat exterior walls, usually on the site of the house, with a couple of small, undecorated windows. To me, they look like a kid drew a house and then remembered to draw a couple of holes on it.
The odds are that mandating covid vaccination starting in the first month of availability would have saved somewhere between thousands and hundreds of thousands of lives including vulnerable individuals who died despite vaccination.

I don't agree that you shouldn't be able to have that conversation but I don't think its a hard argument that people ought to have been forced to vaccinate. People would have freaked out and still be bitching today but they would be alive.
Once a month is close to my usage and it's often enough to remember things in principle but not often enough to remember the d#$%#$%^#$n syntax with all its obscure details.
What will bring down a functioning body politic is the prohibition of unapproved speech. That's what you're advocating.
What does it mean when laws are not enforced or even overlooked in favor of immunity?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

To quote from wikipedia:
A 2020 Reuters report concurred with Sotomayor, concluding that "the Supreme Court has built qualified immunity into an often insurmountable police defense by intervening in cases mostly to favor the police". The report reviewed over 200 cases involving excess force by police since 2007, and found since the 2009 Pearson change from mandatory sequencing to discretionary sequencing, plaintiffs have had a more difficult time moving their case past the qualified immunity stage.

http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking06/Muckraker.html
no, transistor-based technology means that these days it makes more sense to capture each input audio stream and mix it before sending it to speakers.

Here's where things ended up: https://meyersound.com/news/fare-thee-well/
Almost everywhere you go, you'll see stacks of meyer sound speakers.
Set up a trust fund that pays someone to keep it available as times change
Waitlist for world's first personalized general education company
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> "Right now, we are seeing lots of Fridays off for deep work, and lots of people who must work Fridays anyways," Chief Operating Officer Daniel Vogel wrote in an email to staff reviewed by Bloomberg.

I think that's a huge benefit of these non-holiday days off. I don't work at Epic, but at my employer when one of these comes up, half of the time I use it to take the day to work in complete peace. No slack / no email / no webex

It's bliss, and I enjoy it very much. The other half of the time I go out and do something.

The choice is part of the benefit mentally as well.
Fake shutters exist because home exteriors look barren without them. Additionally, shutters predate window blinds, blackout shades, etc. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not a huge fan of hearing shutters bang against the side of my house in a windy storm.

At my folks' house, they've kept their fake shutters and also have these galvanized storm shutters which open and close from the top. They block out some sunlight but also keep the house cooler and make for less effort when securing windows in the event of hurricanes.
I'm running iOS 15.0.2 on an iPhone 12 Pro. The response I got was, "I believe this iPhone belongs to Bob," where "Bob" is my first name. Then Face ID was disabled, and the only way I could unlock my phone was with my passcode.
agreed. also not a doctor, but I can't imagine bloodwork and ultrasounds would be definitive of anything. and I also can't imagine they wouldn't have biopsied the excised tissue - that seems grossly negligent. and too small? how big does a sample need to be to run histology, sequencing or look at it through a microscope?

you need to get the biopsy now. it sounds like it hasn't metastasized, so there's a chance they could excise the whole thing, or she could get a transplant. if it has metastasized it might be game over.

get biopsies and labs first, then look for a second opinion. not the other way around.
This much energy and passion about faux-window shutters is kind of impressive.
Serious question - why not just help Khan academy?
Change the damn topic please, this is just for Utah at the moment. It may be that after the state decides this will go to SCOTUS but I really don't know if Utah works different than my home state, New Jersey (which has to send cases like this off for consideration to SCOTUS). Even if it makes it there, they'll probably decline to review it, because they suck.

In New Jersey you can absolutely be compelled to reveal your passcode: https://www.eff.org/cases/andrews-v-new-jersey. Again, as with many of our (non-1A) bill of rights cases, SCOTUS declined to hear the case: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/andrews-v-new-je...
Wait till the Gen-Z-ers discover CDs where with superior sound, durability, and the ability to skip tracks.
I made money while I was in jail by suing the jail for all their rights violations. But my day job has been web development since the 90s.
See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28952502

And:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28954492
The Safe browsing implementation is designed with the intention that Google can't infer the URLs of sites you visit from any queries sent to them: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...

Obviously you have to trust the FF Devs, but you're already doing that by running FF in the first place.
Crave it in stone in a place without much erosion. Worked for the Persians.
I have both but I found myself struggling to use vimagit over lazygit as it feel faster to work with.

Do you have any specific workflows that you prefer one over the other?
It is more than just people being angry. As was famously pointed out by Axel Leijonhufvud, inflation makes the process of economic planning extremely difficult. If you are a business, you need to make long term production plans, and when you have no idea what the costs will be, that severly disrupts the production process and leads to shortages regardless of how you feel emotionally about something.

Instead of talking about "inflation", talk about "cost uncertainty". That should make clear how a complex society with long production chains can't really deal with it. That also includes households, who have much less capability for planning than firms and really need to know what their bills will be and how much things will cost when making decisions.

https://www.academia.edu/43768978/NOTES_ON_COSTS_AND_CONSEQU...
HN is an YC platform where YC companies and founders have special perks by design. It is nice to have it on ycombinator.com subdomain for clarity.
If you know git cli very well, most of the stuff are straight forward. Most people struggle with git if they have not spent the time to understand how it works.

But there is one thing I believe is still not-very-smooth in the git cli: splitting hunks.

if I do interactive add in git, and I get small hunk that adds a line, deletes a line, adds another line, and deletes a line, then if I want to include only the addition of the second line, it is pretty annoying in git cli. In magit, it is basically selecting the line and pressing "s".
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That shouldn't be the assumption. If there is slack to be picked up, good management should hire more labor rather than stretch existing labor thin and burn out their workers. Companies that grind people right to the deadline are doing it wrong.
Yeah I see what you mean. All the panels are largely the same, to do with configurable numeric inputs. I think this is a interesting space to explore, there are so many possible alternatives.
I have a family, and I'm very protective of my time because failure to, for example, pick my kid after school would quickly escalate to criminal negligence. If my work demanded that I commit any crime, I would refuse until I got fired (quitting is for losers, in this case: I want my damned severance).

I don't assume that non-parents can or should pick up the slack. I expect all of my coworkers to be protective of their work-life balance and I'm dismayed whenever I see them prioritize work in a detrimental way.

Said differently, if you're upset at parents putting their children's wellbeing before your team's performance, then you should re-evaluate your relationship with work.
I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure my grandparent's house had bifold shutters[1], which genuinely are just 1/4 the width of the window, and the visible slats when open (and folded) face the same way they would when closed. I always assumed that was the style that all the fake shutters were copying, negating his first two points in most cases.

[1] https://www.newhorizonshutters.com/new-page-321
Right. Could not afford it. And the court is supposed to appoint one for you. The reality was that my lawyer and I were caught off-guard because the police shouldn't have been able to testify like that. My lawyer objected, but the judge overruled.
Okay, let's see your source that proves "most people don’t just dislike gab, they think it’s dangerous," Dr. Statistics.
“minimal viable knowledge" describes my git knowledge. I simple don't have time to become a git expert. After all git is only a source control tool, there are way more important things to deal with that impact our customers.
I think you're missing the point. They'd still keep building boats right? Except they wouldn't exclusively serve the ultra wealthy. Because the market wouldn't exist. Because people shouldn't be insanely wealthy. Because that comes at a cost to other people and is entirely a function of social systems, systems that we should make benefit everyone and not just a select few.
Single sat wouldn't be able to broadcast 24/7 because batteries will fail after some time and sun won't be available all the time. Because sat won't be powered on all the time it will collide with something eventually even if there is fuel left(I believe that you can't hold fuel for ion drives for that long because gases leak). One sat is definitely not going to work, dozen might have a chance. But I think they all will be hacked in less than a century.
I stopped caring because PipeWire works well and ships as a drop-in replacement for PulseAudio and Jack by default.
> It was the norm for a single programmer to be doing the work that would normally be a team (sometimes multiple teams).

One thing that surprised me when I entered the professional world was just how much this is seen as a downside. At almost every level, companies will choose technologies and techniques that allow them to hire more headcount, even if that results in a worse end product.

Many startups value the appearance of having a large actively-hiring engineering team, and many BigCo middle managers want lots of direct reports. They don't usually care how much work gets done per employee, and sometimes they don't even care about the total amount of work that gets done across the organization. It's all about getting warm bodies into seats, either to impress investors or to gain status within the organization.
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I think the author lacks domain knowledge to draw conclusions about deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and this article reads as though the author didn't talk to any experts on public health in these regions.

Uganda has seasons - rainy seasons and dry seasons. If you are trying to understand seasonal mortality trends, you should be considering the seasons that exist in that part of the world. I would imagine that monsoons and flooding bring public health risk - from hypothermia to compromised access to clean water to stagnant water for mosquitos to breed.

Discussing the temperature-dependence of African mortality without discussing other known-to-be-seasonal mortality factors is is bewildering to me. Mosquitoes thrive in certain temperatures. Child and maternal health in Africa remains a serious issue and birth rates are seasonal in many part of Africa. This article asked a question with an incredibly complicated set of answers and tried to come up with a one sentence explanation.

I would suggest that the author spend less time analyzing bad data and more time talking to domain experts. Without sufficient domain knowledge, this analysis has no hope of being accurate.
Following this. I just started working remotely for a US based company while living in Germany. Thought this was perfectly fine as long as I register as a "freelancer" in Germany?
I wish I could have Church as a Jupyter notebook/lab Kernel.

Would make it much easier to play around with the language when trying to wrap my mind around the church version of probmods.
My earlier comments?
Read this website and you won’t be able to unsee a lot of things:

https://mcmansionhell.com/
I think he means they one of the biggest consumers of cluster resources. Each group within google probably has a quota for how many resources they are allowed to use. It's unclear here if their consumption is so huge because they are successful or inefficient though...
> In the U.S., meanwhile, Apple is engaged in a lawsuit with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Though the case is now under appeal, the judge’s original ruling would have required Apple to allow developers to point to their own websites within their apps, where customers could then pay directly for its services or subscriptions, bypassing Apple’s payment systems in the process.

This article is continuing to spread FUD, the judge _explicitly_ said Apple is still entitled to it's 30% commission even payment took place outside the store for a digital good used in the game.
Excellent example, yes, thanks.
Could it be that the informed and uninformed are simply at different stages of the Gartner hype cycle? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

The informed might now become fully aware of all the limitations and problems with it which might cause them to swing too far the other way, in contrast to their previous optimism.

At the same time, however, being aware of these limitations hasn't become mainstream, so the uninformed have to go off of other information - marketing materials and hand wavy explanations of how blockchain will eventually be good for a large variety of problems.

The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle, as it has with most technologies.
I understand this is a fairly well studied phenomenon in retail, that empty shelves reduce customer spending.

Years ago when I worked at a big box home store, it was common policy for department heads to fill empty shelf space due to missing inventory with random nearby product.

I personally hate this, because it looks like someone left a mess or worse mislabeled something. But I’m also not sure I wouldn’t be more turned off by empty shelves.
It is. Thanks.

But even if it weren't, the fact that a smaller number of people would run into the bug doesn't magically make it not-a-bug.
Fucking lefties with their big government, wanting to.. stop paying the monarchy for breathing.
I was able to fit about 60 MB per channel on a 90 min audio cassette [1]. The bias frequency of that particular deck was about 60 kHz. This means bypassing the recording circuitry could lead to much higher data rates.

1.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28193079
Or just right click on the selected lines and Stage Selected Range
On a criminal case? Potentially hundreds. Personally I've put in several thousand hours in legal research towards my case. The deeper you research the more you find. I'm eight years in and only recently did I find some binding case law to support some of my arguments about the police misconduct.
Pemmican.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican
HN is divided on topics where society at large is divided, just like any large-enough population sample. There's no "their" there, and defining the whole by the part you most dislike is a cognitive bias (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) - a common one. The people you disagree with are complaining just as much about how your side dominates.

If there's a difference with HN, it's that the site is non-siloed, meaning everyone's in one big room, so you're more likely to run into people and views you deplore than on other sites where you choose in advance whom to follow. I believe that's to HN's credit, at least for those who believe in communication as opposed to just smiting enemies. But it's a credit that people usually experience as a defect, because it can be so unpleasant to run into. I wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098.

Usually when I mention society being divided, people assume it's about polarization in the U.S., which is true. But it's worse than that, because HN is a highly international site. I can tell you that cross-national and cross-cultural divisions are at least as much of a stress, and much less understood. People often misinterpret and assume that they're dealing with an extremist next door when they're actually talking to someone on the other side of the world.

In person, we automatically recognize and modulate such situations; even when we find someone's views abhorrent, we're more willing to take into account their different background, realize they're not working with the same information that we are, and go for persuasion and explanation rather than jump into aggression and battle. But on an internet text forum where nearly everyone has excellent English, people are at the mercy of these misunderstandings and don't even realize it.
A very engaging mortician (Ask a Mortician) talks about how the real-life events on which the novel "Moby Dick" was based were so much more disturbing than the book ... https://youtu.be/QS299VkXZxI .
Yeah, it's a pain-in-the-ass to always have to enter a code to open your phone, but I'd rather suffer that than have the cops hold my face in front of the phone to open it up.
Strong is not the same thing as absolute. One of my strong ethical values is that neo-nazis and fascists should be deplatformed to the greatest extent possible.
I’ve had the experience that you mention here too, basically a really competent co-founder but someone with a vastly different worldview. You can’t really change someone’s worldview, so it was tough to find out later.

I’m curious, what area of need would you service if you did find a co-founder that was more self-aware?
And maybe their workers will actually be engaged in their jobs. I am always confused when low-wage employers complain that none of their workers give a sh*t.
House-shaped box. Windows are expensive, see. It's especially annoying when the home is in a northerly latitude, and the S/SE facing side has no windows.
Yup. Turns out people love pimping their houses!
Hi, one of the authors here. ICU format from Unicode and Format.js libraries definitely simplify our localization workflow. However, the main challenge is to empower designers and engineers to create impacts without any i18n blockers and to allow translators to get meaningful context and therefore deliver accurate translation
You can either do it multiple times (my preference), or you can use Alt for multiple selections.