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Going bare-metal is a premature optimization. Most startups that go that route don't survive long enough to make use of this optimization.

Take advantage of AWS (or Azure, or DO) until you're big enough that bringing the action in-house is a financially and technically prudent option.
Nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity
> gimped, less expressive

That's the point. Lots of what Python does isn't required in a game engine and is slow.

It's basically visual scripting but quicker to produce, the whole thing is C++ underneath.
This is a good solution with a few caveats:

1. The "ground" in question shouldn't be your own property, or tied back to you by paper trail. A trusted ally's property with a handshake agreement, or poorly-trafficked public land. When the Feds decide to make you a target, they can and will use ground-penetrating radar on your property.

2. Regarding the radar, bury the pipes along with plenty of shrapnel to mess with the signature, in the event that your chosen location was not as anonymous as supposed.

3. Use any any all methods to avoid tracking when traveling to/from the location. Eliminate RF signatures from phones, etc, avoid license plate readers and cameras, use bicycles or older vehicles without telemetry collection, wear clothes you wouldn't normally wear and discard afterward, etc.
I think the point is to champion not feeling pressured to do everything from scratch and make things overly difficult. It can be really fun to cook things from scratch, but on thanksgiving with six dishes on the go at once I'm defo using some pepperidge farm stuffing and there's nothing wrong with that.
I have a different take. Cooking for status is a gateway to cooking for other reasons, kind of like how people start working out to look hot and then stick with it for the other benefits.

Also, when you start out, it inevitably feels like a big complicated formal deal anyway, no matter what you're cooking, so why not actually make coq au vin or beef Wellington or something super cool like that? Julia Child's classic beginner's cookbook The Way to Cook paired classic French recipes with "home cooking" versions of the same recipes, and as a twenty-something with virtually no cooking skill, I found the classic versions much more motivating than the home cooking versions. When I got excited by Thai cooking, I made my own curry paste, something I would never bother with now. Some beginners are full of energy and enthusiasm for big challenges, and it would be great to have resources for them, even if other beginners should be steered to different resources according to their goals and motivations.
That study has a lot of problems, and several subsequent problems pointed out the holes.

Here's a good summary of subsequent research that debunked it.
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-...

Even if the study were true it shows that when economic elites (150k+) disagree with the middle class they get there way more often.
(Btw it showed that the middle class and the rich agreed like 80-90% of the time on policy, and when they disagreed it wasn't by very many percentage points)

But a much more likely scenario than corruption is senators/representatives/presidents are all members of the economic elite, and all their friends are members of the elite and so it's no surprise they share the same opinions as their friends/wives/family members and socio-economic class.
Yeah, S3 is not for tiny blobs..

What I have seen done before is concatenating many small blobs into a single large blob that is stored on S3. This works great for batch processing afterwards.

If you need read access to the objects one option is merge them into a large blob, and then create a small index file that keeps offsets for each of the tiny blobs. Then you fetch the index file, find the offset of the tiny blob you want and, do a range request for this offset into large blob.

This mostly works when you're not read heavy. I recently did an index file for serving HTML files out of a tarball. As an alternative to uploading many small files.
Sounds like he had some sort of business discipline. Or worse, couldn't delegate and had to double-check everything by hand. Paper was his medium of choice in which he felt productive for this particular task.

In my case I'm pretty sure the owners didn't care about the printed documents and never checked them. It was just required to have a proof because... process.

That's when I understood ERPs were not about software but workflow. Not a solution either, but a symptom. Some requirements are bullshit, because nobody has the time (or mandate) to question the sacred Process.

I quit doing ERPs not long after that.
I like to think so, after all:

> there's wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open

No proof whatsoever, of course, but just the existence of Tom Bombadil reminds us that there are people in the world (perhaps even the majority) who actually care very little about this whole "Ring" business and just go about living their lives.
There are no comments from them in this thread, unless they deleted it. They have two submissions, though, listed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=syracuse850330

One is this one, and the other is the [dead] one they mentioned. It's not marked as [dupe][dead] or [flagged][dead], just [dead]. There are various reasons for that, shadowbanning is one. Without them actually commenting (so we can see that their comments are all starting off dead), as users we can't tell anything else about this situation.
I like this way of seeing it. All of us, at some point in our lives, have acted Helpless, Intelligent, Stupid, and as Bandits. Life and growth is learning from the past and improving where the balance of your behaviour lands in each respective quadrant.
Ask HN: Non-technical founders, would you buy a course on building a SaaS MVP?
Hello,

Recently I've been thinking about writing a book or recording a video course on building an MVP with Ruby on Rails framework. It would be specifically targeted at non-technical founders with no prior programming experience.

Ruby on Rails happens to be among the most popular programming frameworks for building web apps in startups because of its extensive ecosystem and the tooling out of the box.

Typical beginner books on programming — and programming with Ruby and Ruby on Rails specifically — are oriented at a general audience. But building an MVP or a PoC is a completely different story: you've got to be extremely pragmatic in your choice of tools, libraries and their use. You must know the easiest, scalable way of running your SaaS on the Internet. You don't have to know or understand a lot of things which are only useful to a general programmer: like performance or writing "beautiful" code. All you need is to know just enough and in just the right combination to be able to deliver the first versions of the product. If it shows a promise - you can find a technical co-founder, or hire a freelancer to develop it further properly.

A little bit about me: I have 12+ years of working as a software engineer in startups of various sizes, most of which were built using Ruby on Rails.

I was part of small teams getting an MVP ready, mid-sized teams within successful startups with multiple rounds of investments behind, as well as a company of 1000+ engineers running some of the biggest Ruby on Rails apps out there.

Recently, I've also guided a (non-technical) friend in building an MVP, and it was quite illuminating for both of us. That's how I got the idea to scale it out in form of a course, or a book.

That said, I am not sure if there would be a demand for such a course. Maybe I am overestimating the need for it, and non-technical founders prefer spending their time somewhere else, instead.

What are your thoughts?

Thank you.
Uh, never realized that gravitational lensing was stronger for higher frequencies ... is that a fact? Any reference?

[EDIT]: the formula on page 4 of the book below does not seem to have a frequency parameter ...

Also, they seem to consider that objects worth looking at are at infinity, which is why there is a well-defined focal distance from the sun.

What seems to involve frequency is that the gain of the lens varies (same book, page 9).

http://erewhon.superkuh.com/library/Space/Spacecraft/Deep%20...
Because creating cross platform apps has always been really difficult. And creating web pages that work cross platform is less difficult.

If your objection is that it's inefficient and sometimes leads to bad quality output, I'd agree. But it's the option with the least friction so people gravitate towards it, we might as well make it work better.
Can you amend this with 2007? Not new, it’s been mentioned before on HN.

Cool story, nonetheless.
That’s super interesting because it was written while they still existed and BeOS could have a future. But even then they weren’t sure about Be but proceeded anyway.

Gotta love the passion for the OS. As megacorps unify all of technology, I feel like this passion and rooting for an underdog is getting lost. Perhaps that’s just the market and technology maturing and solving peoples needs. Yet the nerd in me loves the idea of writing for an obscure platform simply for the enjoyment of it.
Could Genetics Be the Key to Never Getting the Coronavirus?
When you get a merchant account, part of the application process is describing what your business is, what it sells, and what your expected sales volume is. These metrics are used for fraud detection and risk management.

Using a merchant account for a purpose which you haven't disclosed to the processor -- like a cell phone store selling a truck -- is a violation of the merchant agreement, and is often grounds for account closure.
Sort of an interstellar "I know where you live".

Way to make friends !
Sad to see "services" as a headline on Apple's earnings beat. I'm sure it is gratifying for Tim Cook, but this is going to be the thing that brings on much harder regulation for Apple.
Oh, come on. Don't pretend like there are zero web apps with useful functionality. Or would you prefer Google Maps shut down and we all go back to Yahoo Maps where we click an arrow button that reloads the entire page with a new map tile displayed?
It's easy to enter the market and offer a cheap product. It's hard to enter the market and offer a very solid product. It's nearly impossible to enter the market and provide the hundreds of services the big players can provide, and operate at the scale they can provide, servicing the number of markets and customers they do, with the level of support they do.

The big players know that what separates the majors from the minors is trust. If you buy from AWS, you know what you get works, and you will pay a premium for that assurance. And also it is really fricking expensive to be AWS.
Why is that at all more likely?
These all look very on trend, with only one that looked remotely like an engineer's setup (a front-end dev, IIRC).

It would be cool to see some tech professionals' setups. I'm looking for lots of hardware, server innards hanging about, NVMe drives on the desk, and arduino nano with some blinky LED display, a nest of cables on the desk, and a lot less macbooks to boot!

Maybe some Dell or Framework machines running Sway or i3 or some such...
IIRC there is actually an ongoing Godot accessibility effort.
That's 16 days if the average speed is 20% lightspeed. In reality you need to speed up, and then when you're halfway there, slow down again.

Which raises the other question: how would we slow this thing down so it just doesn't keep going past the 900AU mark?

Regardless, I guess we would be fine picking a slower speed that would get it there in a few years, which might be significantly easier to achieve.
> Writing out an acronym one time in your paper/article/blog is not "constantly".

I think you mean "your paper/article/weblog (blog)"
Not if you use this option: https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
> I guess the main reason for the absence of "undeclare" in most languages is that features affecting only local scope are beneath most language designers?

Actually it's because approximately every damn compiler framework or textbook assumes that local variables go into and out of scope in a stack/LIFO order. (So if you declare `foo` and then `bar`, `foo` can't go out of scope until `bar` does, even if `foo` was a random temporary and `bar` is needed for the entire rest of the function.) And all the algorithms for working with local variables bake in this assumption, so you have to redesign everything to get back the sane semantics you get for free in assembly.

At least that's my experience with implementing proper local variable scoping; YMMV.
> (It's similar to persuading a Linux user to unpack a tarball over /etc)

Would this allow for arbitrary code execution? Curious as a Linux amateur
> Cooking has become a very weird thing - people both overrate its difficulty and complexity to the point of phobia

This is very astute and I think things like this app are probably actually counterproductive for this reason--if we imply learning to cook is comparable to learning a _language_ in its complexity you're only going to make people more wary. Really all you need to do is buy ingredients and follow a recipe; now you're cooking! It isn't that hard.

As you say, the real learning process of cooking involves making things, getting a sense for what works, what you like, and iterating, and you can't really get this from an app, or videos, or whatever.
It's really easy to confuse pet cause X when it's really a proxy correlation for more fundamental things like being poor or having low intelligence, either due to environmental damage or neglect.
Or they make lots of money and choose not to care.
Nobody is being 'drowned out'. I see a big difference between the owners of the company and the owners of the contents of the vaults.

And this is the distinction that I was trying to address with my first comment. It is perfectly possible that long time users of those vaults (not a rare thing at all in that particular line of business, ask any bank) did not visit the place for a long time and found that they had unwittingly parked their money with a bunch of criminals even though when they entered into the contract that was not even on the horizon.

My point was - in case it wasn't clear enough yet - that if Spamhaus, a non-commercial entity that must have been positively drowning in inbound information - could do the legwork to figure out that exactly one of a class 'B' block of IPV4 addresses was used legitimately and without any prompting by us or anybody else as far as I am aware that it would stand to reason that the authorities could - and should - do the same thing.

That the owners of the company operating the vaults were criminals is similar to the owners of the DC where we hosted probably being well aware of what their customers were up to, but that this had no bearing on us.

I personally prefer for the law to tread carefully in such cases because those rights are important.
>which Apple gets paid up front for

Wasn't Apple trying to do some of their own financing here?
The people who can't afford food are not the same people buying the latest iPhone
FYI WebContainers are not a web standard, but this article sure does try its best to make it sound like one. Pretty off-putting and not at all necessary for such a great product as Stackblitz.

Firefox has added support for some webdriver APIs[1] that this proprietary "WebContainers" product depends on. That is all.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
Y'all are getting texts from political parties? That sounds like a nightmare
Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics
Another way of looking at it is that we're inventing an app sandbox at the web browser level.

I'm not a huge fan of a lot of web apps either but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of introspection on the part of native app proponents. They're faster, they consume less memory, yet overwhelmingly people choose to make apps using web technologies. Why isn't anyone interested in exploring why native failed to offer what these people wanted?
Almost every country has some form of this law. Sometimes the money is confiscated, other times it is treated as a taxable event at the highest rate possible, etc.
TLDR: This guy doesn't know what social engineering is. Guy probably thinks the bartender winking at him also is hitting on him.
Is period leave a good idea?
Demangling the schema into readable SQL schema is quite trivial already, as it's a fairly normal looking schema, except we use schema object ids in place of names (to simplify renaming). Turning EdgeQL into "readable" SQL is probably also possible, depending on your definition of "readable" and the complexity of a query, though the current codegen does not prioritize SQL readability at all.
To prevent habitat loss. Like the mangroves in Florida it can help resist sea level rise and from that the city and shipping lanes itself. There is also an entire local economy supported by it. You have tourism, sustainable living, and ecological science being done.

He thought New Orleans is a goner and it honestly it might be. We can learn a lot of things regarding erosion and climate impacts from the wetlands of the area. In return we can help others resist other climate impacts.

I'll support saving wetlands anywhere due to how useful they are. In the past we have viewed them as useless in other areas of the country and subsequently destroyed them.

https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/why-are-wetlands-important
> This trip is not necessarily a bad thing to have done, and more likely than not a good thing.

I find people often underestimate how much employees cost and overestimate how much things like a Vegas offsite cost.

Even if you send a team of 20 to The Virgin Islands at say $10,000 a head, that's only $200,000. That pays for what, 1-3 salaries for the next year?

Layoffs don't happen when companies are broke and cannot afford to spend money on anything. They usually happen to _prevent_ companies from going broke.
Yes, the DNC uses superdelegates, which is an undemocratic part of the process. But in both 2016 and 2020, Sanders did poorly enough in the regular primaries that the number of superdelegates was irrelevant to the final outcome.

As much as I hate to say it, and as someone who very much would like to have seen Sanders win either of those primaries, much of America is further to the right than Sanders, and seemingly have no desire to learn the difference between social democracy and socialism.
A few interesting YoY comparisons:

Mac sales -10%

Net sales +2%

Operating expenses +15%

Net income -11%

Under operating expenses, R&D spending is up >$1 billion YoY
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to...

Learning to cook and searches for poop seem highly correlated
They can't download an exe, but can download a .reg file, modify RunOnce, run powershell scripts, scripts that write an executable, and run that executable?

I mean, maybe that's a use case, sure, but I'm not likely to remember this is in my toolbox, much less assume it'll ever work.
hi HN, there's a companion technical post by yours truly which might be more appropriate/technically dense for your taste:

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/supporting-firefox/

(I'm also sad that Multi-Account Containers are not a thing in Firefox for Android).

Disclaimer: I (obviously) work for StackBlitz.
Not sure about Adam (he'd probably be an Elf as they were the first created) but Eru Iluvatar seems very akin to the God of the Abrahamic religions to me tbh. They're both all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful yet simultaneously mostly passive deities of their respective universes. Malkor is a very thinly disguised devil-character too, being one of the angels who has turned to evil.
Of course there is. My point is Meta’s investment is currently being justified by home usage, and I will make a decent sized bet there will never be mass adoption of VR for home use in its current form.

Having worked in VR since 2015, I don’t know of a single person who uses it for their entertainment, period. Some folks here in the comments saying they use it for flight or racing sims, in which case Meta is sinking billions into an expensive peripheral for sim players, similar to a flight joystick.
Congress could fix it if they really wanted to. Make a law that essentially reverses the interpretation of Citizens United, and then take it out of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

Not that this is in any way likely to happen, of course.
The Value of Being Cavalier
That's fine, I think the other comment is actually quite salient though: no matter what laptop you get, you're going to get a blurry screen. MacOS' scaling is based on downsampling, which wastes a lot of processing power and renders a supersampled image that scales down to an arbitrary resolution. This is how a lot of UI elements on MacOS don't really look that crisp despite being high-res. YMMV based on scaling settings, though.

Windows gets the actual UI scaling side of things right, but the market of Windows laptops with hi-DPI displays is still quite small. Plus, Windows has a lot of bitmapped UI elements (particularly in old programs) that don't scale well.

Linux... I love Linux, but display scaling is a lost cause. On x11, you can hack things to sorta work, and fractional scaling will be fairly usable, but on Wayland, you're forced to either pixel-double or face a litany of Wayland/scaling bugs. Some hardware/software combinations can get it working, but it's anything but consistent.

So... you're certainly entitled to your choice of aesthetic preference, but all of these systems have flawed scaling implementation. I like high-res displays as much as the next guy, but not a single desktop was prepared to properly implement display scaling, and it shows.
> Your worth should be based on your skills (meritocracy)

And with deciding "merit" are the kingmakers, or the "meritmakers".

Congratulations. You now have created a new class of people who can take bribes and subvert leadership under the term "merit".

And, explain how one would calculate "merit"? In my experiences, meritocracies are monocultures that put forth their own biases as "merit".
So if someone came to you asking you to teach them to make a cheeseburger, you would "build their confidence" by quizzing them on trivia about ground beef? And that this will somehow translate into not being "intimidated by the literal fire on their stove"?

I'm more confused about this app now than when I started.
I feel like the number of people who both cannot afford food and will buy the latest iPhone is vanishingly small. I am sure such people exist, and that is... strange, but it doesn't feel like a useful explanation for what is happening.
BOPIS went from the back-office (is that even a word anymore?) to consumer marketing during the pandemic, too..
Intel falls as it reports an unprofitable second quarter
Haha yeah that’s a fair point and I understand what you mean - you’re right. It’s just supposed to be a joke but maybe that’s not clear
Not an adult is okay, but how old are you? In some jurisdictions you might be able to earn legally, maybe do an internship. I would propose contacting small-to-medium security agencies. I'm pretty sure they'll try to find a way to work with you assuming the skills are there.

<rant>Some comments are proposing illegal activities to a - most likely - teenager. A teenager cannot assess properly the risk that goes with illegal activities same way as an adult would. Repercussions about a future full of potential, etc. Please be responsible.</rant>
fiverr and upwork has a nasty reputation, but I've made a few 1000s on them in a pinch.

https://www.upwork.com/

Highly do not recommend as a long term life strategy though.
All applications and all malware.
You don't want web apps to get write access to your HDD.
Apple beats on revenue and profit, expects growth to accelerate