skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a reductio ad absurdum argument and then treat it like it’s a completely reasonable comparison. It’s not.

You seem interested in getting some answers, so I will give you my two cents worth…

> but customers who have been with you for 8 years is the anti-thesis of fragility.

Sure. How many of your customers have been around 8 years? How did you acquire them?

> for instance, you could have a thousand customers but with low LTV (they cancel after a month or one off).

Since this is basically 100% MtM churn, this is not a viable SaaS business.

> which is more fragile here?

If you take the 1000 customer SaaS and make it a more reasonable 10% or even 20% churn, then your business is more fragile for sure. We have no idea what might cause people to churn in your business because the n is so low. With 1000 customers, we can probably find some reasons (possibly before even buying) for the churn and halve it, thereby doubling LTV.

So questions I would have for you if I were serious about purchasing:

1. What’s the TAM?

2. What’s your moat?

3. How did you acquire your customers (esp. the 8 year ones)? If it’s a personal relationship, that is very bad, since they may leave when you aren’t the owner.

4. How many of your customers are new (1 year or less)?

5. What marketing have you tried?

6. What is the language of communication with these customers?

7. Where are your customers located (country)?

So after a quick glance with only the information you have given so far, I would probably be willing to pay $5k for a business like this and give it to an intern to develop. At $10k, I would be tempted to have one of my programmers make a copycat and just compete. As such, we could probably meet in the middle at $7-8k. This is probably a bad deal for you.

More information could increase or decrease this price.

Note that my biggest concern would be that all of the customers could instantly jump ship after you leave, because they were only customers because of you. This may seem odd to you, but I’ve seen entire business that make ridiculous amounts of money for the owner(s) exist purely because of personal connections. How do I know that this is not the case for you business? Since you have so few paying customers, I can’t even be sure that an answer you give me is true.

My totally unsolicited advice to you is to find a young and competent SaaS sales person and offer them 50% rev share (maybe with a 2 year cap). This allows you to grow your business with relatively little grunt work, and you get to keep the cash cow. Selling cash cows is almost always bad unless the money completely lacks significance, and then you should look more for a competent owner to hand it off to rather than optimizing sale price.

I will be happy to answer more questions if you have them.

Best of luck!
I see. So previously you did find it concerning, and now that there have been arrests, you’re no longer so concerned about it?
And those areas are harder to find unless you go waaaaay out there.

Even then you need to invest in septic tank generally.
Yes.

The point I was making is that YOLO and v7 don't go well together, and that is true for either meaning of YOLO.
In our greenhouse this year a wasp colony formed without anyone noticing.

But luckily the particular species in there is very peaceful and has a comparatively small colony. What is very interesting is that this species does not enclose their nest but build it in a completely exposed way. Very cool as you can always see whats going on in the nest.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldwespen#/media/Datei:Nido_d...
This is a picture from wikipedia showcasing the unique nest structure.
At this point the cost of Fukushima in yen and in lives blighted by evacuations will be far far above any positive contribution from the plant.
"Russian-Hating Dream of Brzezinski Clan Nears Fulfillment as Poland Agrees to Host Permanent U.S. Base and Turn Baltic Sea into NATO Lake" seems, uh, self-explanatory.
They literally just announced they were doing it.

https://gizmodo.com/firefox-update-stop-url-tracking-chrome-...
Yes, but the 'background threads' are usually not working on the UI.

So it's not rocket science to just coordinate access to the tree.

It'd be nice to have an architectural way of doing that, but frankly, just living with the idiom ("Don't Do This") works well, and some frameworks put in runtime checks, i.e. QT will crash I think in some cases if you try to mess with the tree on the wrong thread.
the params are included when sourcing a shareable link from the website/app (direct links don’t have this). This is a move to mimic tktok’s aggressive tracking practices.

Twitter appears to be just analyzing who shares what with whom, but haven’t moved into using it for ‘growth hacking’ like tiktk yet (i.e. join cmg, who shared this link on Twtr)
I took a look but 9 in 10 articles are the same as HN's front page...
That's false: you're assuming perhaps reliance on the garbage collector, and overlooking escape analyses (the compiler pass) enabling entire classes of Go programs indistinguishable, after code generation which obviates the garbage collector from user code at least, from optimized C++/Rust.
Why are you surprised that Reddit for Bosses is against unions?
I’m not particularly interested in having to defend myself on this forum, on a completely unrelated post. heartbreak will likely respond, and that’s fine, but it’s very interesting that they decided to look into my (public) associations here.
Oh I forgot. Let's talk about transport danger.

Uranium is 16,000 as energy dense as Coal (and coal is the densest) . That means you'd need ONE tanker sized craft to transport way, way more fuel than all the tankers of the world.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/468405/global-oil-tanker...
“White trash” is effectively an ethnic slur. Ordinary poor white people aren’t “white trash.” When people say it, they’re specifically referring to the stereotypical southern or Appalachian American (usually Scots-Irish) or Midwestern American (usually German).
> People needs to start looking at local self-sufficiency of energy and materials to some degree.

This is a complete, unrealistic pipe dream. Yes, we've obviously seen a "deglobalization" occurring, and many countries are feeling the pain of being completely dependent on critical fuel and materials from one or a few other countries with shaky political systems.

But the idea that "local self sufficiency" is possible on a wide scale, without sending us all back to the stone age, is quite frankly nonsense. I remember reading an article a while back about how something as ubiquitous as a cheeseburger is only possible with wide, nation-crossing supply chains.

Saying "we should look at local self sufficiency" makes people think of planting a garden in their back yard, when in reality it would mean virtually all of the advances in human comfort, health and convenience over the past couple hundred years or so would have to be given up.
The neutral temperature is 27C, we may have to follow countries further south in setting it higher.
> we'll be needing a minimum crew of 8 - 1 painter, 1 safety expert, 1
signalling expert, 1 electrics expert, 1 spotter, 1 paint quality
expert, a foreman to lead the team, and a union rep to check
everything is done according to the book.

Hah! Typical free market libertarian approach that cuts corners. You
can't just go out and start painting stuff matey! What about the
viability study? Someone needs to build a model of the processes, and
conduct a pilot time and motion study. People won't just accept white
rails without consultation. Where's the perception management and
transformation campaign to make sure the new white theme is on message
and brand aligned for Railtrack? You'll have to add at least 1 lawyer,
1 community liaison officer, 2 PR people, an advertising account
executive...

> we'll need a mobile toilet booked and installed

Toilet? Pfff. You can't just go out and stick up a toilet....
Today, we (and I mean me and my company) use poetry for prod code delivery and it just works. Poetry uses pip and virtualenv under the hood. It's worth understanding virtualenv regardless.

For every project you're developing, there will be virtualenv which has all the dependencies that project needs (which may be different than what's installed in the system, and different than what other projects may need).

"python -m venv init project/venv" will create it.
"rm -rf project/venv" will delete it.

Usually the virtualenv goes somewhere well known, like "project/venv". Sourcing the activate script ( "source project/venv/bin/activate" ) changes your shell environment to use the virtualenv instead of the system python environment. Once activated "pip install package" installs to the activated virtualenv. "deactivate" will turn off the virtualenv.

This is semantic sugar for what's really happening behind the curtains. There's a copy of python in the virtualenv: "project/venv/bin/python" which runs in the virtual env regardless of whether the virtualenv is activated or not. "activate" just adds "project/venv/bin" to the start of the PATH. "deactivate" removes it.

Regardless you can always see which python you're using by typing "which python". System python (/usr/bin/python) will use system packages. The venv python (project/venv/bin/python) will use the virtualenv python packages.

This allows you to have different virtualenvs to try out things like new versions of python, say. And each virtualenv is isolated from every other virtualenv.

And poetry is just a nice wrapper around this process that also figures out total project dependencies and creates a "lock" file to freeze all deps to a particular version for consistent releases. Pipenv is basically the same thing.

"pip install --user poetry" will install it in your home directory.

It's not recommended to use conda and pip together, basically the recommendation is to use one or the other, though I've heard miniconda is better in this regard. YMMV.
Did it and on a similar pixel device and love it so much! Was super skeptical of the webusb thing as a jaded old fart (which IIRC is funded by the community) and I whistled with sheer amazement it worked perfectly the second time. First failure was BC of flakey internet with a bad download and a time crunch when another phone died.

I have hated android not meeting my own personal watermark in respecting open dev and privacy forward user design at its core. This project, although not core and on the fringe, gives me a small glimmer of hope in a dark smart phone world! Been a stable daily driver for like six months now.
Thanks for the feedback, I was hoping the course would be something of a redemption.

I self published the book to prove I could do something like that. It got much more traction than I had planned and, in hindsight, I wish I had paid for editing and formatting as a minimum.

As for the quality of the paperback, that was unfortunately out of my control as I used Amazon's print on demand services. Definitely a painful lesson for me.

In any case, I appreciate this comment and others here. I'm definitely working towards much higher substance with increased polish. :)
The switch should have started years or decades ago. If 90% finds it economically beneficial to keep using fossil fuels for heat the economic incentives are faulty and needs to be updated to move to other alternatives. Heat pumps, bio fuel, waste heat from industry, there are probably plenty of other sources. And of course, energy management, with well insulated houses.
Awesome, so xxhash seems to be the right choice (best case: when using its xxh3low derivate)

Thank you very much.
In many areas they actually torture and abuse the dogs while butchering them also because they think the adrenaline makes the meat less tough. If I knew back then what I know now I would probably have declined when it was offered.
Very cool! I noticed AGPL 3 License, do you offer licensing options if folks want to host this integrated with other closed source code? Or would it be permissible to create a "microservice" with ODM only that closed source software can use API calls to contact?
Okay.. but it's his platform right?
The pictures it produces have a very 'filmic' quality to them, as we are accustomed to the anamorphic format of motion pictures. Always wanted one after seeing Kai's pictures on this DigitalRev video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38plXCYCvKQ

Seeing how it has such a cult following and how much the prices have shot up on eBay, it boggles the mind that they won't make another version. There are a number of DIY projects on various websites that use medium format lenses with integrated shutters, however they usually end up quite expensive as well.
I guess I understand it's basically an inventory? Maybe someone could chime in with what teams are expected to do with an SBOM. Do you do something with the output, or is it just an audit checkbox?
FWIW, check out "A Trip Down Market Street", filmed in 1906 in SF just before the earthquake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubsaFBUcTc

Upscaled and colorized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_1AdYRGW8

You can see pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, and early automobiles all "flowing" together.
Hmm.

Ostensibly Facebook has a party line and attendant menagerie of moderation and AI tooling as a broad response to self-harm, but at the end of the day all of that has its box to work within, and thinking and breathing this one subject does not define Facebook's identity and core DNA. And that may be the core of the problem.

I wonder if the auto-assessment ML model passed right on by the described post *precisely because* the "clicks and engagement" ranked it as "good", where "good", intentionally or otherwise, has wound up becoming the TensorFlow distillation of "not our problem"... because *that* is where the focal point, the emergent foundation everything else finds itself orbiting around, at the end of the day.

From the angle I'm squinting at this from, this situation seems unsustainable intractable. FB is attempting to "benignly police" N billion people at once in an effort to monetize a private (non-government, publicly-traded), commercially-delivered digital town square experience. IMHO there is no global point of cohesion that can encapsulate this effort, which is trying to unify multiple fundamentally incompatible dimensions at once. It doesn't work.
Because restriction of gun ownership is the only thing that works. Source: Americans still getting killed by guns despite all the other crap you've tried to implement. Legit dumbest country ever re protection of its own citizens. Place is basically in permanent civil war. But oi....can't be taking their freedom to shoot eachother away now can ya? Lol. Pair the gun response w the likes of roe v wade crap an we got ourselves a state full of bumpkins pushing politics like it's the 1950s. But for some reason folks keep defending the place....
Tethering fees bought up by private equity.

$1000 per month for a steel loop in queens to tie onto!
A lot or 3D renderers use node-based programming for shaders.

Some even use it for procedural modeling ! (Houdini, Blender)
boycotting a mortgage on a secured loan with 40% down is a political statement, not economically rational. The numbers are probably minuscule and the “boycott erase story” is itself mostly political.
It all makes sense now.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. The cycle repeats.
We don't need more beautiful apps. We need usable and consistent apps.
Typical beautiful app is barely-usable.
Same thing happened to me! Entire career is based on a guy leaving, and being forced to use history commands to learn everything. lol.
I gave this a try. Looks neat however one thing I noticed is that it does not seem very performant in querying parquet files. Take this simple query for example:
'select * from ./order.parquet limit 5;'
It takes roughly 38seconds to execute on my machine (I ran it a few times). The order file is about 300mb with 7.5m records in it.
To give some comparison DuckDB can run this query in less than a second (while also directly accessing the parquet file).
It's the land stupid.
It might be a mixed bag and presumably different operators have different results. OeBB did not decide yet on the future, smaller operators are. Italy has been painting rails white for many years (40?) and continues to do so.
Sometimes you just need to be creative in how you approach…

https://youtu.be/fkxFzkykAd4
BountySource tried to be a marketplace for that sort of stuff, but hasn't been going very strong lately.. https://bountysource.com/
Sooo nice :-)
It looks like small cute kitten to me, sorry.
Looks really neat! Some ideas/questions/suggestions:

1 Are you taking a fee on sales completed through the platform? Couldn't find this at a quick glance, but it's important info.

2 Did you look into legal / liability aspects regarding the veracity of expense / revenue / profit claims? Do you vet projects/owners before listing them? How do you ensure that the offer is legit (ie the seller actually owns the project)?

3 Does the platform facilitate safe transactions (eg deposit access credentials / purchase price in an escrow service)?

4 Any reason that only sellers can post a public ask price? Using eg a second-price public auction system could make sense here.

Happy to support btw, feel free to reach out, contact info is in my profile.
Businesses can be owned by all of the workers collectively, its rather silly to assume that's not true and it needs a singular owner. There is zero reason why this would be the case. Groups of people can agree on things, believe it or not.
Story Title: “Cultish is Culty”

Subtitle: “Cultish is a podcast with an abundance of resources created by a destructive Christian extremist group masquerading as allies in the fight against cult abuse”

Page title: “Culty: An Extremist Right-Wing Church Starts A Pod…”

I was thinking I’d summarize, but the titles probably give away the story.
> A C data structure is never a disaster of "thread unsafety" if, like most data structures, you don't use it across threads

lmao. profound stuff man.

> It's not a religion where apostasy is punished by castration.

What on earth are you even talking about. It was just a metaphor for runtime crashes you absolute dingus.

> I'm criticizing Stacked Borrows because I've seen more than enough evidence that it's an unreasonably stringent memory model for writing unsafe code

I didn’t ask! I don’t care! At no point in my life have I cared about anything less than I care about what “nyanpasu64” thinks about Stacked Borrows. Take the hint you tedious dork.
I’ve tried it on the iPad. Does it work the same there?

I still think it’s more awesome to see just a written sentence that I typed out become something. Once you introduce any form of barrier between that and output, it’s hard for anyone to know what’s really happening behind the scenes to help you.

There’s a beautiful purity to just simple text becoming something awesome.
In the grand scheme of Microsoft licensing, IIS w/External Connector licensing, while not "cheap", is surprisingly reasonable (IIRC, less than $200/month per physical server, including software assurance, licensing for two VMs per production server, and no charge for VMs on hot standby servers; I believe cloud pricing is similar, if not identical, and possibly cheaper on Azure), assuming trained personnel and any other required Microsoft infrastructure bits (e.g., AD, SQL Server) are already available.

And for internal applications where users already have per-user Windows CALs, Windows Server is already licensed and deployed, IIS is effectively free.

With that said, it's not obviously better or worse than open source alternatives in general, just different — though, at least from an admin perspective, not necessarily any more different than, say, Apache and Nginx.

My own personal bias tends towards deploying on a given application's "native" platform where possible, so I'd generally only consider IIS as an application server for a Windows-native application or application developed using a primarily Microsoft stack.

And, for reasons of license cost alone, I'd certainly look elsewhere for any non-revenue-generating personal applications.

But in these cases at least, modern IIS releases are, in my experience, stable, reliable, extensible, securable, and as easy to deploy and configure as anything else I've used (mostly Apache and Nginx).

I can't comment on scalability because I've never personally had to scale it beyond a few tens of thousands of (total, not concurrent) users.

Plenty of dumpster-fire applications are implemented on top of IIS, of course, but that's true of any popular Web application server.
> none that are more generalised

Do you know vvvv gamma?
It's a visual programming environment for .Net. Its language (called VL) combines dataflow programming with features known from object-oriented and functional programming.

https://visualprogramming.net
https://thegraybook.vvvv.org
Pretty common situation that happens in a lot of countries. If the market is OK the developer takes deposit and the apartments and sells them to someone else. If the no one wants to buy the developer goes bankrupt and people who bought lose everything they've paid so far - bank forecloses on the apt which isn't worth much if anything.
Yes, that's when Atlantis was there:

https://medcraveonline.com/IJH/is-atlantis-related-to-the-gr...
there's no type checking, which i'd say is a fairly integral part of a compiler...

but it does use a parser generator to generate a parser that constructs an ast and it then iterates that ast to generate a bytecode.

that's basically a compiler, even if the language is basic expressions.
Your mother has a workflow that she’s presumably used for many decades. (I used to use it too): paper boarding pass and look up your flight(/train whatever) on the schedule board. That system will continue to work (for her and for me).

So when introducing a new feature set consider who your adopter audience will be. When think of my own mother she wouldn’t bother to register her face (but does demand a paper BP). She doesn’t want to change her work flow, though she does use her phone for more than calling.

I on the other hand, am willing (even interested) in changing to make my life simpler. Im not saying “make gumby’s life better” specifically, but that effort would be better spent on infrastructure.

BTW though I wasn’t clear, I wasn’t thinking of an airline-specific app, but on in-terminal localization that would interact with my map software in a privacy-protecting way. Delta’s gimmick is not privacy protecting (what happens to that face registration?)
Zero trust isn't the same as defence in depth.

Certainly one could define defence in depth as a component of zero trust I guess (very vaguely) but they represent different perspectives.

Defence in depth is a technologically focused approach: implementing redundant checks at multiple architectural layers of a stack.

Zero trust is about the high-level approach to perimeters and ACLs, including not only tech & stack architecting, but organisational messaging / policy / culture.
Nothing from Adobe. Affinity Designer is a competitor, but it's hobbled by some bad UI, missing functionality, and a "we're not gonna fix that" attitude from the publisher. Not a terrible option, but it has been disappointing.

There's also Sketch, which offers a more limited toolset than some and seems to target UI design. Not bad. Some unintuitive UI and some bugs here and there that aren't getting fixed, but you can get stuff done and it's supported by quite a few design-collaboration platforms online. There doesn't seem to be any official user forum for Sketch, though, which is annoying. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Corel Draw, which is Windows-only, has always been better than Illustrator. It's pretty good.
Never could get the hang of Thursday.