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To be fair to Apple this is how our capitalist society is set up.

Apple device owners are generally rich, young, impressionable and loose with their money. They are the holy grail for advertisers.
This is really cool but I think I need more examples of how to create good doorknobs.

wait, did I just create one?
Do it. That would also be an asset worth anywhere from $100k-500k (depending on the type of business, growth rate, etc).
"Guns fired at the funeral of Queen Victoria in London in 1901 were heard in Scotland"

Wait how is this possible?
For starters, that you only want HN to be used the way you want to use it; which for sure it not the way I want to use it and more than likely significant number of other users too. If that’s not gatekeeping, then what is?
> I don’t even know how I’d get back into piracy. I used to have a seed box, accounts on all the big trackers, then it just became less hassle to sign up to streaming services and I let it all lapse

Private trackers aren't necessary 99% of the time. Set up Jackett, point it at all the big popular public trackers, and you can find nearly anything.
Google is locked out the ecosystem of people who actually have money to spend. How else do you explain how they are willing to pay a competitor $14 billion+ a year?

It doesn’t matter that Android is running on a bunch of $100 phones where they are getting a low ARPU. The Oracle trial showed how little profit came from Android.

Who do you think business would rather target iPhone users or Android users?
Google's ads do not seem particularly well targeted, even with the 20+ years of information they have collected on me. I feel like I've given up way, way too much of my privacy for what I've been given in return.

By far, the best targeting is to show an ad as I explicitly search for something and that's not going to go away for them anytime soon.
Yeah, I know a lot of the shortcuts, though 2015 is literally 20 years since I started yearning for some kind of cut-and-paste in the Finder. I'd given up hope long before then and started living more on the command line more and more.
TL;DR Apple re-used the term "Continuity Camera", which now applies to both a preexisting feature from iOS 12 and a prerelease feature in iOS 16. The app's description refers to the preexisting feature, but app review metadata-rejected the app anyway.

Also, app review initially neglected to mention the specific problem, instead simply hand-waving about the rule against mentioning prerelease features.
Amateur car racing youtubers have constant gopro problems. Just from today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ytTUe_M90

Racing ~12 times in a year and having gopro die >3 times on you is really bad.
Linux has had an arguably FAR superior UX to Windows since Vista.

Mac and Windows both have some great "power user" features - but I think for the average person, Ubuntu is far superior for usability.

I remember 10 years ago when my friends would use my Linux laptop and expect it to be impossible and couldn't believe how easy it was to use and figure out.

Maybe for a few rare laptops that have perfect driver support, it's on par. But this isn't a common case.

The main problem with Linux is for laptops - the power management is simply not in the same league as MacOS.
This answered all my questions, thank you.
Unless you're married and your partner continues to work and covers benefits for you.

My aunt did exactly above, and felt it was a moral duty to let new younger teachers have the spot (nevermind it meant that she was going to draw a pension from the system for more years than she'd actually worked).

Plenty of other teachers feel the same way, though obviously not all.
And have docker insert firewall rules in ways you didn't expect on a production server? Sounds fun.

The solution is frequently less software, not more.
I think what they are saying is that gas stations of these brands sell the Top Tier brands gasoline among their selection. It's not clear if it is every station. And I have never even seen it much less purchased it.
> My sister is a professor. Neither ever worked summer jobs

Mmm... Not even summer semester?
Maybe it will cause the OP to reevaluate whatever absurd worldview led them to posting a ridiculous comment?
The dealer network is so screwed up and scammy you won’t be able to get one unless you accept overpaying by 5-10k. You can’t even test drive or sit in one it’s so bad
Do you and your partner live together? Do you pay some their rent, or food, or for travel? You're basically their subsidy. Nothing wrong with that, but just pointing it out, that maybe they don't need a second job because they have you.

And are you sure your sister doesn't have a side hustle? Writing books? Tutoring? Expert witness? Consulting? Professors get a lot of opportunity for short term work, and many have to take it.
A good time for 'think of the children' rather than their parents. Maybe combined with better access to free contraception so that every child is a desired child. If the environment isn't good for the child change that child's environment (family). Yes, those systems probably also need more love.
Curious to hear more about your idea if you feel like sharing. Is your 100k ARR target an estimate based on research into the space or more like a notional goal you'd be content with reaching?
The LOX tank cameras are amazing. The quality isn't great but recording video from inside a cryogenic pressure vessel through fiber optics and strobes (shutterless) to the film frame rate using 1960s tech blows me away.
And one more on this theme, When the Body Says No, by Gabor Maté.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450534.When_the_Body_Say...

The author suggests (amongst other things) that anger suppression can lead to cancer cells not being dealt with by the body as they would normally otherwise be. The evidence is anecdotal, but then it perhaps quite unlikely that we will see clinical studies along these lines any time soon unfortunately.
> Windows is actually for maybe the first time in decades not that clunky anymore—yay!

Does it still re-install candy crush without my permission? Serious question.

How bloated is Win11?
Cursor based pagination doesn’t actually solve the described pitfalls if your results are ordered by anything mutable, though.

A result you haven’t yet seen can be mutated to sort before your current cursor, likewise a result that you’ve already seen can be mutated to sort after the current cursor, causing you to see it twice.

Cursor based pagination does minimize the issue somewhat, because only the mutated rows are possibly affected, not unrelated records that lie on page boundaries. But depending on the use case I’m not sure that is worth that added complexity of cursor based pagination (it does get a bit tricky once you have any non-trivial sort clause).
If you already parse the html, what's the point in calling the Algolia API at all?
Ah, I suspected that the main image may give a wrong feeling as it's not really about a microstartup investments right now. But it fit together with the "no" and "your idea is not good" topic so I kept it.

Anyways, I'm still planning to build a part of MicroFounder towards investments. Probably not legal/technical side but the marketplace, yes.

The idea is this: you're a developer and you want to build a (micro)startup that pays your bills etc. But it can be hard to find the necessary time and energy to work on it so much that it will succeed (or it takes just too long). And of course there's a risk that it will never take off.

So, you de-risk and sell part of it to an investor. Maybe even not a % of the company but you agree on a profit share for some period/amount.

Because now you have an idea for a startup and – let's say — $120k to pay your salary until you reach $10k MRR, or something like that. You will focus on this startup and see if it works out or not after a year.

Another thing is from the point of the investors. Like this whole MicroAcquire thing. I was considering selling my other solo startup RemoteHunt.com – some investors said that "hey take like $120k for 10% but I still need you on the project as otherwise I have to hire a team etc that takes a lot of money, time, etc.)
That's crazy then. Is the hardware different, or just the software? I was under the impression that FSD was just basically paying for the software feature. It definitely looks much more dialed in, but still there's a lot of weird glitches with object permanence and physics failures that make me wonder how well this will always work.

I was a little concerned with how fast the car was going on Lombard when the pedestrian darted across. It worked out ok, but if the person had tripped, or dropped something and stopped to pick it up, it would have been harder to stop.

I skimmed through the whole video, but I didn't see any traffic light recognition of anything more than red, amber, green. Are there videos with more complex traffic lights? It's interesting that they managed to drive in that area without going through any of the weird intersections with cable car or Muni traffic lights.

Is the autopilot preview meant to help sell FSD?
> essentially a distraction

As you might know (AYMK), the new trope is that TicTok in one country teaches study methods, while TicTok in the west teaches ???.
I suspect you haven't met too many people in these programs.
I had a student in one of my university programs who was handicapped and could barely see 3ft in front of him. Guy had to ride in a motorized chair, get guided around campus, and use a super-zoom lens and a laptop screen that made everything 10x-50x its size to be able to read the whiteboard/presentations. I'm sure none of that stuff was cheap.

But that guy was awesome, fun, and super clever. His lowest score was an A-, and he had a great character.
I'm sure he had to work ten times harder than I ever did just to get into that position, but I never heard him complain.
Personally, I think keeping a mind as great as his in some sort of hedonic trance instead of letting him learn and contribute would have been a great loss, and possibly quite cruel.
Gen Z poses a problem for the luxury industry
Neat tip! So this will ensure that all connections including Apple's push notification service always go through the VPN?

How does this interact with public wifi captive portals, which often are a barrier to get online in the first place? A pretty common need would be to click through the public portal, sometimes dealing with email verification links or Facebook logins for those portals that require identifying oneself, and then to want 100% of traffic after the Internet connection is open to go through the VPN.

In other words, road warriors with security concerns need a solution that is NOT always-on but is comprehensive when on. Apparently iOS doesn't support this as per the article, and the always-on MDM suggestion isn't that either.
Also I'm pretty sure they are making enough money as they are. And don't need to chase that ever increasing stock valuation. Which might not even mean increased profits.
I use this and it's pretty great.

Also it can be highly locked down - run as it's own unprivileged user, with access only to directories served by another webserver for the ACME handshake, storing certs, and a tightly restricted sudoer to restart the webserver on cert cycle.
My implementation of cursors works by encoding the primary ID of the last row on the page, along with additional information corresponding to the sort order if that's needed.

That way it doesn't matter if the record is deleted - I can still return the next page by showing records that come after that provided cursor value.

There's an example on this page: https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/sortable?_sort=sortable

Since the table is sorted by the "sortable" column, the next page link includes this:

?_next=15%2Cg%2Cz

15 is the last value for "sortable" on the page, then g,z are the compound primary key for that last row.
I see that on Hacker News a decent amount as well when going through the top stories across multiple pages. My assumption has always been that the order changes between when I load the page and when I move to the next one (which sometimes is not for another several minutes).
I like ScanTailor! I've used ocrmypdf for the OCR and compression steps. It uses lossless JBIG2 by default, at 2 or 3k per page; I'm curious how that compares to DJVU. (And my mistake, pdf and DJVU are competing container formats.)
> "Thousands of hours of historical Sesame Street" is exactly the type of content that streaming services should be making economically viable for the first time.

I see what you mean, but if we are at all concerned about preservation of old media, a streaming platform is useless unless we are able to download it without any form of restriction. I doubt most platforms would be okay with that, because it would remove part of the incentive of continuing to subscribe to their platform.

If I recall correctly, Netflix and Hulu both have some form of "offline access" to certain content that their studios produced, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is some sort heavy handed DRM associated with that.

To make things more frustrating, consider this: Plenty of streaming services that have already come and gone. Most of those platforms had some amount of original content on it. Once the platform shut their servers off, viewers lost any form of access to it (assuming that there wasn't a workaround to download a local copy.) Theoretically, that media could pop up on another platform in the future if some deal is worked out between studios, but, I find it extremely unlikely, and even less likely that all of it would ever be available on a singular source. That is to say, there is a near guarantee that there is a growing amount of media that we will never have never know about, let alone have the chance to see.

Technology seems to rotate through various trends. The only realistic possibility that I see of us finding any kind of long term solution to this issue is if there is a sudden, overwhelming shift back towards physical media (DVDs, Blu-ray, etc.) Without unrestricted physical access, the ability to access "lost" content is merely a expiration date, either by a subscription ending, or a platform dying off.

The less likely alternative that I can think of would be some kind of gentlemen's agreement. Each time a new piece of content is created, a preserved copy is provided to a third party source, to be made public if that piece of content is no longer accessible. Something along the lines of how the Library of Congress works. I just don't see any studio being particularly interested in humoring that type of arrangement, unless it was a legal requirement, or something that was demanded through unions like Screen Actors Guild, Writer's Guild of America, etc.
Yep. Finance. Resource allocation has life-or-death impact.

Whether your immunology research finds applications, a hospital gets acquired instead of wound down, or an N95 factory gets built can be a few parameters pushed through a model. Parameters dictated by sentiment.
For me, emacs (with org-mode) and array languages (like J) do augment my intelligence, because the productivity boost is so profound that it affords the opportunity to try more things and be more creative.
The Forsaken Forest
The biggest example would be the Apocrypha, which is accepted as canon by Catholics (and most Orthodox churches?) while it's usually (but not always) rejected by a lot of Protestants.
BBC? The Guardian? The Independent? I think you're picking and choosing narratives here, not accurately representing reality.
No, one of them has caused many more human deaths than the other.
Did you mean test coverage? Test coverage tells you the code was tested, but it doesn’t tell you if the programmer used TDD to write the tests.
I feel like I may be the only developer that prefers Windows to MacOs

No, I’m also using windows, having many years experience with all of the mainstream OSes.

Mac hardware feels great

Does it?? Maybe, if you cover the price with your hand and close browser tabs with same-price pc configurations. Also their aluminium edges are pretty sharp, I can remember few times when I damaged that thing around my fingernails with display or keyboard edges.
You'd think this should be something they'd check for one way or another...
HTML isn't a programming language. It's a markup language, and unlike CSS it's not Turing complete. So, you can't really program in it. Also, to be extra pedantic. SICP uses MIT Scheme, which technically _is_ a lisp in the sense that all scheme's are lisps, but that's also like saying a square is a rectangle.
You took some time to read the page and while reading it, the homepage changed and some new posts got added to the top. Therefore some posts get moved to the 2nd page.
Postgres supports cursors and documents them very well:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-cursors.html

Basically, you declare a cursor like that:

DECLARE cname CURSOR FOR <select statement>;

You can pass the cursor’s name „cname“ (and even store it on the client side, although, best encrypted) and obtain the „next“ slice of your data corresponding to the query on demand like that:

FETCH next cname;

Not sure you really gain that much performance on everyday queries but with a large number of rows it might.
This post is not about database cursors. It's about the style of pagination where you have a ?_next=xxx link to get to the next page, where the xxx bit encodes details about the last item on the current page such that the next page can show everything that comes after that record.

This is also sometimes known as keyset pagination. My favourite technical explanation of that is here: https://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset
It's interesting that in all three cases, it's sports-related. I'm not sure what to make of that trend.
That Netflix refuses to play ball with apple is why I unsubscribed from them. Who do they think they are, preventing their content from being findable via a global search?
The fact that the response to trashing the NHS from some sectors would be counterintuitively to insist on trashing the NHS more (as some kind of punishment I guess) is exactly what the people trashing the NHS were relying on in the first place.

"It takes forever to see a doctor on the NHS, now!"

"Let's get rid of the doctors altogether and see how they like it! They think they're so safe."

This thread really matches well with the thread about teacher shortages. The problem with the NHS is that it should cost far more, and should turn people down when they can't pay. Then patients would understand their place in relation to doctors, like in the US, and stop complaining.
I've always wanted to contribute to LibGen. Got me through college and has powered my Wikipedia editing hobby

Are there any good guides out there for best practices for minimizing files, scanning books, etc?
I said nothing about modifying anything, if anybody is assuming things, it is you.

Case in point: my 70 year old aunt and 8 year old neighbour can change the RAM and storage on their computers, that doesn't make them power users.

An Academy-winning Hollywood director I know bought his Windows-based computer pre-made, doesn't modify anything on it, just uses Da Vinci Resolve, but requires the absolute pinnacle of performance. He's a power user.
You need to understand that the S3 API is an open protocol. It’s a simple, well documented HTTP API of which there are many open source implementations. Minio is one of the well known ones.

It’s not some closed, custom binary protocol.
Of course. I am sure that nobody will throw toxic substances in the river. Now why this algae chose this particular river, that is a mistery to me.
again and again it is this road to customers that is tough as a technical founder, who can I hire on upwork that can take on this task of doing cold out reach? Business development? How would I structure the compensation (per lead or per hour or both?)

so many ideas fail because they cannot get through this grind.

I got my customers from a simple tweet that was retweeted. It's literally rolling dice because when I posted the same thing years ago there was no response.

I wonder if successful people just got lucky at rolling dices early on that puts them in a good mentality position to build their chips for the bubbles in a poker tournament.
A good read, thanks. I like the description of take/give sides and it's well portrayed. I wondered if there's any take home message here for salvaging a give-take conversation.

I'd crudely deduct that being takers/givers in a conversation may be a function of cultural, linguistic, social, and intellectual dimensions coupled with personal, emotional, and ambient states a person is in.

As such there's really very little just one party can do to have a better conversation flowing on their own. So apart from affordance, I think participation seems to also be a key factor and can be seen as "push or pull or slide" aspect of that doorknob.
can someone post a python to a clear and simple How To do a microstartup from scratch? There must be such a thing.
This is a not widely documented Civil War phenomenon, but happens probably quite often without people knowing it since by definition, it is the ABSENCE of sound that has to be noticed.
Sure, if you're married and have a second income, then that second income is basically subsidizing education. My wife was a teacher and retired when our kid was born, because we could. Some time in her 50s she'll be able to draw her pension.

But basically the only reason we can afford to live in the Silicon Valley is because I'm an engineer with a decent salary. A lot of her paycheck went right back into her classroom, and with the hours she worked, she was basically make $3/hr, despite getting some of the highest teacher pay in the country.

And all of her coworkers were in the same boat -- almost every one of them, even the senior teachers, were married to engineers. The few that weren't either had family money or at least had parents who bought them a condo or house. Or a good friend. We let one of her young teacher friends live with us for a couple years until she managed to save up enough for a down payment on a small condo, and then got married and got a second job.

It is basically impossible to be a teacher in Silicon Valley without a highly paid spouse or multiple side hustles.
There is a theory that the mRNA sequences could have been reverse transcribed into the DNA of various organs, including liver cells.

https://www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/44/3/73/htm is a in vitro (but not in vivo) demonstration of one element of this theory.
IT'S A TRAP! Seriously. I love the intent here. But in my view the whole premise is epistemologically wrong. (A word I'm almost educated enough to use.)

Truth by consensus is logical but not the point to which we have evolved. Here it seems like a retreat from our capacity into a pragmatic defensive stance. This is all we can manage.

This is essentially the Overton Window. Truth as managed by mainstream sensibility. And the mainstream is primarily a point of view that does not question our industrial imperialism. Things that subtract a lot from growth are not included.

And there is the potential disaster. Large parts of our history do not match our mainstream perception of national character at all. In fact, the mainstream view is one of intentional avoidance of facts. Dissent has never been mainstream. The forces of social change are not supported by the majority.

Example: The Overton Window does not include Chris Hedges. In fact, it doesn't really include any of the real investigative journalists or honest historians of our time. The most curious and informed people we should be promoting are too subversive to be mainstream. And so they will not be included in a truth consensus.

What then is that 'consensus' if it's too shallow to feature its experts?

Something like that. Sunday morning shouting into the void.