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Ask HN: Would you recommend such software in your org?
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I'm wondering if I'm the only one that feels uneasy with MS Teams, Slack or Google Meets.
I'm thinking of building an open-source communicator:
1. Zero–knowledge server for maximum privacy:
- users have no passwords,
- server doesn’t know who the sender is,
- server is unable to see a message content
2. A client software where every message/call must be encrypted and sender/caller is verified.
3. Can be self-hosted or used as a SaaS offering.
4. No lock-in. Designed in such a way that migration to other server does not require cooperation from the current server’s operator. Client software is server agnostic.
5. Fully open source (probably GPL).
6. No central authority that can disable account or deny service. No global central point of failure.
Tx finality is immediate in banks, payment cards and blockchains in the same manner. The difference is in network finality. Network finality in Eth2 is around 15 minutes.
Even seemingly simple games are clocking in at 100GB+ in disk space. I think in terms of performance many games are setting the floor at the Nintendo Switch or the Steam Deck, often ripping out features to get it to run on those platforms (CIV6, 2k etc).

This is one reason I really admired Valheim (~1GB). Though even that game had CPU issues (also its an indie title so...).
Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
> most of the opinions you read online aren't very honest

IME it is exactly the opposite. People are more honest and open with their opinions on the internet; in real life, they are more likely to stay quiet or lie where they feel their interlocutors may not be accepting if their true thoughts were to be expressed.
Every single one of these corporate consolidations makes me sad. Competition and heterogeneity are critical for capitalism to function and everyone one of these mergers reduces it.
One idea to try to train the AI about compositionality, feed it Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss. It's hard to understand that it would misunderstand the meaning of "on" or "in" or "under" when there are such nice illustrations. I've got tons of great ideas and I'm open for hire!
JetBrains tried to switch to the usual subscription model when they got new management and due to a massive backlash they ended up with a gobbled subscription similar to their superior previous licensing model.
The linux kernel forces your application to include the vDSO shared library (by pre-loading it). You can ignore it and talk to the kernel directly, but you cannot get the same performance as you could when using that shared library.

On some architectures, atomics are implemented in the kernel by the vDSO shared library (__kernel_cmpxchg), which is supplied to user via libatomic. You can ignore it, but then you cannot interoperate other code (any which uses libatomic.so) without introducing data-races into the code which were not present in the shared-library version, since they may attempt to execute their atomics differently and thus incorrectly.
Sketch... competes with Figma. They're UI/UX tools. What makes Figma great was their collaboration first element, which they will be keeping. Adobe was going down the web path as well https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/10/26/creative-cloud-...
> Except the card had only been sold once or twice at that price.

You see this practice in art and collector car sales. It's rumored that if you see a painting go for an insane amount of money, often these sales are between "friendly" parties for the sole purpose of driving up the value of that art.
> Or were all the replacements like joda time from a previous era?

Joda time essentially is the new standard Java date/time implementation. Joda was used as an out-of-stdlib proving ground to try out ideas and get feedback. The new Java date/time API is based on the learnings from Joda time.

My understanding from use of the new (I shouldn't say "new"; it's been there since Java 8) date/time classes are that they're pretty good at representing dates, times, calendars, etc., but I wouldn't claim to be an expert on such matters.
Figma is free to use. It's cross-platform, web-based, and multiple people can edit at the same time.

Limited reach is probably the last way to describe Figma. It's just an awareness thing, which is totally fine.
Why would I want something like this over Matrix? Even assuming the two products reach the same levels of development.
New York State does this. No civil war so far.
How can we say "if Palin hadn't run" when Republicans preferred her over Begich? Why didn't they pick him over the other two if he's the favorite?

Begich only got more second choice votes because after picking your first, it comes down to "the least evil", on one hand some people preferred Palin because they'd hate Peltola to win, and on the other hand people picked Peltola because they'd hate for Palin to win.

If there were Republican primaries, Palin would have won over Begich, because in that instance you cannot count the votes that went second after Peltola as they're like Democrats. And then in a general election, we'd have the same scenario play as it did with RCV.
race "the social construct" is still closely related to genetic history. Pretending there is no relationship isn't very useful. In making your response, assume I am a scientists who knows facts.
Even those with Adobe stock are not happy; Adobe's shares are down over 15% since the announcement.
The Nevada national security site – part 3
Java stack-traces are extraordinarily informative - they give line number, class, method and even offset inside relative lambda when an exception occurs. Few languages do better and Go is not one of them.
Totally understandable, but what kind of business is it? If you just keep saying 'it's a business' but refuse to provide any further details then people are gonna make assumptions, eg adult entertainment. Nobody's asking what your specific business model is.

Also consider that if the situation continues your pissed-off downstream customers will ID you sooner or later.
I wonder why SaaS has not spilled over to other businesses, ie. food as a service, car as a service, fridge as a service etc. It exists in some cases, but it s not popular
Funny you should mention MtG, since the first big crypto exchange collapse was MtGox.

I always thought it was "Mt. Gox", like a mountain of sorts. Turns out it's Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange.

Edit: MtG seems like it has some kind of evergreen popularity, and various format changes, changes in the list of banned cards, reprints, and changes in the metagame will mean that prices of individual cards can vary wildly over time. So if something was sold for a ridiculous price a couple times, it's possible that something changed (Targmogoyf used to be very expensive, for example).

Wizards seems pretty good at catering to a variety of players, both collectors and non-collectors.
I agree, I got excited when I saw the PCIe card and less excited when I found out it didn't do anything with the slot. I'd love to see on that used the slot for communication, maybe even video and power.
I was really excited to buy a nissan 300Z years ago. Sat in one and letting out the clutch would cause my knee to smack the steering wheel. It was a deal killer, and I'm 5'11.
Also, in some weird twisted way, it's fun. It's like arguing over the ref's calls at a football game.

I know how this will come off but it's true -- one of the oddities of the US political system is that despite it being bitterly polarized the majority is largely unaffected by politics in any meaningful way. This isn't to say that politics couldn't have big effects on people's lives but despite the marketing both parties are generally interested in protecting the status quo, not disrupting existing power structures, and making small incremental changes. Again I really hate to distill it down to this but if you're white, above the poverty line, and put as much distance as possible between you and the justice system, to first order it doesn't really matter who you vote for -- your interests are protected. The biggest divides between the two parties are policies that affect vulnerable populations.
It does happen a lot in physical collectible markets. It is what happened with WATA Games and the lawsuit against their employees for market manipulation through auctions. Or the Nike scandal with a VP's son using her CC and employee discount buying massive amounts of hyped sneakers and reselling them, which just made everyone more aware.
My pet theory is that the rise of SaaS in the 2010s is largely a function of the low prevailing interest rates. Standard pricing says that if interest rates are 0.5%, an annual recurring payment of $100 is worth $20,000; but if interest rates are 5%, like in the 90’s, it is only worth $2,000. With the fed increasing rates, maybe we’ll see a return to pay-once software?
Acid 2.0 was for loops and basically a DAW vs the SoundForge sound design angle. I made some wicked tracks in Acid back in the day. Also became a Sony product, still works pretty much the same.
see Beeple's 60M NFT sale as a great example
The problem is that these laws are all written from the logical perspective that employment is mostly a thing where work occurs locally. What we need are new frameworks specifically for remote work and a way to manage this all internationally. Maybe something similar to that minimum corporate tax that has been proposed (on all companies internationally) but for individuals?
Thank you for sharing this. This is definitely among our marketplace existential threat as well. We have a few Stripe Connect clients account that got shutdown with zero visibility for us the platform account.

I am wondering if anyone has experience with exploring alternatives other than Stripe Connect. Our use case involves multiple payouts: buyer -> seller -> [us and referral person]. Especially if you involve multiple payment providers, how do you go about handling vault and card data. Stripe Connect and PayPal separately have their own vault features. Would it be annoying for the buyer to have to re-enter payment information several times to save cards on file.
I find your word choice here, “failure” interesting, as it worked as implemented, the local politicians just aren’t used to the new game they have to play.
0.3% is a rounding error if you look at the electricity generation of a region, but it's huge if you look at the impact it will have over many years. That's 0.3% less of the global energy supply that needs to be replaced with nuclear or renewables+storage. It's like getting ten free nuclear plants.
Erik's estimates were not good, which is one of the many reasons he wasn't good at his job. The current staffing at Wikimedia is considerably more in-line with their needs, and their salaries are much closer to what the industry pays (but is still considerably lower). Wikimedia's salaries are much higher than $10 a year currently, which kind of shows how off he was on his estimates.

Note that any site near Wikipedia's scale has at least 2-3x more software engineers (many of them have thousands of engineers), and much larger legal teams. Support roles grow in parallel with employee size. Wikimedia's overall salary cost is quite amazing for what they maintain.
Nah, this must all be an elaborate ruse to distract us from the armies of cloudflare devs chained to their laptops in some desert.
> Then we have words that different people pronounce differently: ananas (pineapple) - some pronounce the "s", some do not. Or the village Avoriaz, same but for the "z". Or Chamonix.

As someone who is only fluent in English but tried to study French for a couple weeks before visting Paris many years ago... Spoken French has institutionalized mumbling; what I read is you're supposed to form the final consonants of words with your mouth, but not voice them... Which ends up in practice with the consonants being pretty much voiced if the next word starts with a vowel and not if not... But I'm not surprised there's some variance.

The best written reference I could find (which sadly, I can't find again) was from a Hong Kong university where the writers seemed to have learned both English and French analytically rather than natively, so they would explain the rule for French and compare with the rule(s) for English and expose me to the rules I unconciously followed without knowing they existed.

Studying written and spoken French simultaneously was pretty helpful for me, otherwise it was too hard to fill in the ending letters of many words as needed.
1. Recurring Revenue

In some sense, every business dreams of wanting to be a recurring revenue business.

- Gyms want you to pay monthly, and discount annual plans (and sometimes discount again if you try to cancel your annual plan)

- Restaurants want you to come frequently, 6th time is a free sandwich or coffee

- Bars want you to come to happy hour, at the same time, every day

- Content creators often have a daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly cadence

SaaS is all about recurring revenue. In theory, SaaS aligns incentives because you can quit once the product or service deviates from your expectations or no longer serves your needs. Of course, in practice, SaaS companies want to keep the monthly / annual drip coming and may make it hard to export your data or switch providers. Local first software could be one antidote to this (https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/) and perhaps there are others.

2. SaaS loosely resembles old-school semiconductor VC investing

SaaS is similar to old-school tech VC investing because the marginal cost is low but the upfront cost is somewhat high / fixed. A lot of investment houses think in terms of recurring revenue as well (e.g. your mortgage is a monthly payment). So if you want external funding, show a premise of recurring revenue!
Did you miss the part of covid where a bunch of multi-state commuters stopped commuting?

https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2022/09/nj-remote-workers-ny...
Reminds me of one of my buddies who decided to move out of California after going permanent remote. He encountered more than one realtor who informed him that the seller intends to charge a "Californian Tax" percentage on top of the asking price to any buyer from California because they just don't want us in their communities. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
"Which tools have been surpassed? "

Davinci Resolve is, for my use case, just as good as Premiere and Afx.

It's also free.

I wish gimp was as good as Ps.
So we have settled on one model that VCs understand and manufactured consent to be ruled by that model by relying on VCs

So much for being risk takers and disruptors. Sounds a whole lot like the opposite.

What’s old is new again. Why do we continue to value people who do not do real work but, like a preacher, latch onto a meme that has others work for them?
Yes.. but it is connected to Up and Down arrow. When you're trying to build a fast keyboardable UI, I've found it a convenient enough mechanism.

Also.. to this authors point, wouldn't you just use the 'validationMessage' if you're trying to extract the cause of the error from the field. I have yet to find myself in a position where I need the invalid value anyways.
Alaska did not have open primaries before. Except if you mean way before. In which case, if they ran this election like the elections back then, then Pelota and Palin would be running in the general as they were the top two vote recipients.

Now I'm not sure if Alaska was semi-closed, but that's not moving the needle as hard as you want it to. Because if you're already registered for a party, you cannot vote in the other party's primary. Only unregistered voters may, and only in one.

And typically, independent voters don't do that. As reflected in the low vote totals in the various primaries in previous elections.
> But it’s the ability to verify & reject blocks that’s important. And anyone can maintain their own BTC blockchain from the beginning of time relatively easily (less than $500).

And on Ethereum you can't?
He wanted to buy some Russian rockets to send a greenhouse to Mars, but they did not take him very seriously and quoted very high prices. After that is when he got serious about starting SpaceX.
True, but I don't thing wash trading is integral to convincing people that fine art is something people want...
If you need to generate multiple such random numbers, an alternative way to resolve modulo bias with minimal entropy waste is to batch the random number generation. For example, you can generate 6 random integers in [0, 100) by generating a random integer in [0, 100^6) and performing modulo reductions on the result to get your 6 integers. 100^6 is slightly less than 256^5, so if your RNG works in units of bytes, then you can use 5 bytes to generate 6 integers in [0, 100) instead of 6 bytes.
I am 6’2" and wish I was just a little bit shorter. The standard heights and sizes of everything from toilets to countertops to airplane seats simply are not designed for people over 6'.
Disclaimer: Capture One employee here. That being said I invite anyone to try out the free trial and confirm or dis-confirm my claims.

In my opinion Capture One best features are:

1) image and color quality
2) tethering capabilities
3) workflow customization and optimization
Just speculating based on my experience with other products. If I give a 1 star review to a defective or highly misleading product, I end up with physical mail to my mailbox with cards offering $30+ dollars for changing my review to 5 stars. I also get emails with boilerplate apologies and asking to change my review for money. The emails always give me the URL to change the review. So perhaps the vendors of the product you are linking to may be doing the same thing.
Simulators – LessWrong
Well somehow youtube has to pay all of those video influencers their money
Just drag the URL into an open MPV window. VLC can do the same.
Yeah, I looked at matrix and it's really cool. But: 1. recent security problems make it a hard sell to my manager, 2. People behind Matrix don't seem to care about getting this in commercial usage.
I do believe that there could be an argument that discrimination on hair color could fall under national origin or color:

Under 29 CFR § 1606.1, national origin is defined as but not limited to: An individual's, or his or her ancestor's, place of origin; or because an individual has the physical, cultural or linguistic characteristics of a national origin group.
you just described Rent-a-center, and they've been around for awhile.
This one? https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2015/04/17/detectives-service...

"Scary" indeed: look at that health inspector report...
It did pivot away from its ancestry and at that point it was indeed referred to as "Mount Gox".
I don't remember for sure (this was pushing 10 years ago and early in my career), but I don't recall any complaints of that type.
They can’t have it both ways. Either they should not be able to be selective about who they serve, or they should not be able to hide behind the figleaf of “we are just an indiscriminate carrier and not really responsible when our users use our services for illegal things” to avoid having to build sufficient support and moderation infrastructure to do the job properly and provide recourse when mistakes are made.
Cannabis is federally illegal, sex toys and porn have incredibly high chargeback rates and crypto has this handy thing where since you can't reverse anything, as soon as the crypto you bought is out of the custody wallet you cant get the thing back so the chargeback rates are also very high.

Don't believe me? Ask anyone at the front desk of a hotel the rate of attempted chargebacks for ppv porn.

You can get vetted by banks, visa and co for those things (maybe not cannabis with US companies) but the fees are considerably higher because of the chargeback rates. This is why onlyfans announced then backtracked the porn ban, visa told them "either you're paying us like you distribute porn, or you stop doing it".
AH! derp. thank you that makes total sense :) -- seemingly awesome tool, will certainly look into this. thanks for the quick responses
Imagine if people voted or staked dollars to decide how many dollars the Fed or ECB should print. It looks like it had been suboptimal for most of history that s why the previous monetary systems successively failed. Maybe there is some kind of game-theoretic gradient that leads to monetary failure by default, which needs to be fixed by central banking . But there is no place in the world where people vote their central bankers, they are among the most opaque world leaders out there.
They could absolutely destroy them fast enough. The also only need to destroy them fast enough that SpaceX finds it economically infeasible to continue launching them or blocking them themselves.

I also think that both countries could launch geosync satellites or using existing geosync satellites to just generate a shitton of noise on whatever spectrum Starlink would use.

Starlink of course won't get a license for spectrum in either country.
Frontend problems really are something else. First, a number may include letters and does not correspond to real numbers. Second, JS thought it was a good idea to not care about the datatypes. Then the worst. The mess created by decimals and commas having different meanings in different langs and cultures. A bug I see a couple of times per year and a freaking terrible one cause users enter decimal numbers that are 100 times smaller or bigger than intended.
Yes, that's how money laundering works.
It's very adult of you to concede defeat. And if I was promoting the Soviet Union then it would be a pretty harsh own on me ... if it was true. But the "kulaks" (the land-owning peasants) were the first sent to the gulags - not exactly a nice thing worth celebrating, but hey there we go.

Good news though, I wasn't promoting the Soviet Union! I was simply saying that you don't understand what Cuba was like before, during and after the revolution. And that you don't fully understand either side, where their allegiances lay (note: the Soviet Union had given up on Latin America and the Caribbean by that point... hmm), what their intentions were and how they intended to implement them.

It's actually really easy to learn about it, and basically everyone is in agreement as to how it all went down. It's nuanced, as is all of history, but you can definitely read about it and find out. You just can't be bothered - you've heard that it's a binary situation: that Cuba are the bad guys and the USA are the good guys and that's it.
And the inevitable calls for HN to be made a public utility.
Can I ask what the line of business is? I'm not victim blaming I am curious if this is part of the issue.
As appealing as Maglev trains are, the world still invests heavily in steel wheel trains due to reliability and easier scaling out to meet demand. We haven't solved issues with magnet reliability on maglevs on the scale that steel wheel trains have resolved.
Legislation has actually taken us in the opposite direction. With FOSTA/SESTA online platforms were required to make an effort to go through user content.
I think a better analogy to use is these platforms being like bars or cafes. You don't expect the wait staff or bartender to snoop on your conversations, but if law enforcement asks what they know they might be forced to comply. If a bar notices you pimping and doesn't act, they could be liable.
My intuition about CryptoKitties and many other NFTs is that market manipulation has been ridiculously easy and profitable, everything is somewhat more scrutinized nowadays, but I think that the scams and schemes are far from over.

Impersonating both sides of a transaction does not seem too difficult, and not very costly, as long as the fees are kept small.