skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is these contracts will have bugs, as most software written by normal coders can attest to. Further! there is no decentralized way to settle disputes. Finally, modern contracts are at least ostensibly premised on being human readable. You may think such "pure logic" of some JS-alike smart contract is somehow easier to understand, but this will never be true while keeping the language meangfully capable, due to turing completeness (and other friends).

Such a system, where stakeholders are required to trust coders, destroys the benefits you claim. You now have the bottleneck of required human vetting/interacting. -This- is what people mean when they say such a system cant work in practice and is essentially no better (and definitely has lots of strange quirks like gas fees) than existing financial instruments.
> Some might, but I doubt they are a lot. None have such where I am for sure.

Just your subjective knowledge of your local area and class of home you normally experience.

Not everybody enjoys the security that western democracies provide (although US and couple other countries seem to be slipping behind). In most of the world people with wealth above standard have to actually take special, pretty expensive precautions to preserve their wealth (and in some places lives).

Here people install security to call security company whenever the alarm is tripped. Lack of power is immediately suspect (thieves like to cut power). The security company is notified by the automation and they call the owner for security code. If the owner does not give the security code within required time they will immediately dispatch their patrol. The owner also has special security code in case he is compelled to give one and this triggers a specially escalated response.
Or not... I had such good memories of it, but then tried it again a few years ago and, uh, it's just terrible. The concept is still cool, but it's just pain to play. The memories were way better.
It is very rarely that there is only one fishy thing about bad business. Bad businesses are run by bad people and bad people can't really help themselves but be bad in a lot of things they are doing (it is a matter of character).

This is very true. If you've ever had a "bad boss" at work, chances are that they did not do just one thing, but many things that were bad / against other people's interests.
The actual 'brains' repo is [1], which is MIT licensed.

[1] https://github.com/bulwarkid/virtual-fido
Using double quotes used to do this...but for semi-obscure topics I notice Google search doesn't give a crap about the quotes, it'll latch onto one or neither of the terms.
Ask HN: Can anyone share cases study of successful SaaS getting into the market?
Hi,

The background is we are a startup working on IoT development framework and we've just started to launch our product. The result of current advertising and promotion in the North American market is not up to much so far.

So anyone can recommend some worth-learning cases of SaaS products getting into North American market? (Actually we are doing PaaS stuff but considering SaaS is more common and easier to be as a reference)

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
This isn’t a slave contract. He can just… stop releasing updates and move on with life.
Additionally to the sibling comment, we do expose a secret API that can be used to fix distortion on other properties.

To take border from your example, in the Framer app we add correction that fixes border. But border is tricky because it only renders rounded values and triggers layout - exactly what we're trying to avoid. I always recommend a two element approach, one with an inset. More performant and visually nicer.

We also use this API to do more advanced stuff like this <LayoutCamera /> component for React Three Fiber/Framer Motion 3D. https://www.framer.com/docs/layoutcamera/

This camera renders the scene pre-distorted so when the layout transform is applied, everything looks correct.
I think that is definitely the mood right now. But really? Is that actually a smart rational response or are we just getting caught up in the inevitable backlash?

I like my banking apps, I can see my balance and move cash and pay for things instantly and more securely. Maps with GPS (and public transport integration) is a god send. I see only very very minor downsides to these. To be clear, there is plenty that I don't like (privacy has basically gone to zero for a start, plus the distractions). I just think we were in "unreasonable optimism" for the first 8ish years of smart phones. Now we are in "unreasonable pessimism" mode. Neither were reasonable responses.

I wish we could just skip to reasonable responses mode (pass a law requiring buildings over 10 residences to offer keys so you can always get one if you want and then let everyone get on with it?).
No limitations if self-hosted
An induction stovetop. It really does boil water as fast as they say.
It wasn't 2022, but 2020 when my SO got femtolasik (of all places in Estonia). €1700 and a couple of days of discomfort. It's not surgical so the recovery is speedy.

Such a massive quality of life improvement as an outside observer (and by her own account as well).

The procedure is quite fast, circa 10 minutes, and of course meetings before and after to determine suitability and post procedure care.
Well, then don't cross oceans then. Travel long distances rarely. It's not a human right to get cheaply to the other side of the globe. And with recent breakthroughs in electronic communications, we don't have much need for vast majority of travelling. Close-but-living-far-away relatives dying or getting married happens only so rarely.

If we want to fight pollution big time, ultimately we have to reduce amount of traveling. At least till we get nuclear fission working and batteries with good energy density. Entirely new ways to make trains and planes themselves.
Could you elaborate on how the information you provided answers GP's questions? I'm not really following you but I also don't know a lot about this topic.
It may be great if you look past this, but that it BLOCKS AND FLASHES THE WHOLE SCREEN while loading ANYTHING makes it impossible for me to use or recommend to anyone until this is resolved, it's so irritating.

No other software does this for very good reasons. What were they thinking?!
You can wrap these in a <LayoutGroup /> component to ensure these components are aware of each other. https://www.framer.com/docs/layout-group/
Cliff Notes to the Beginning of Infinity
Hindsight 20/20?

Anyone could tell you can't solve financial/social troubles with just moar tech.

And a distributed hash collision generator couldn't gain that much $$$ without something super shady.

This isn't hindsight 20/20. This is having eyes and not averting your gaze.
To me it seems like these people are more interested in power, and the prestige of being an "insider" than anything else. The moral dilemmas are secondary, like fun anecdotes and conversation topics they can interrupt with "well, actually..."

It's a culture of complacency and pretentious bragging that allows evil companies to keep going. This is the case for every bad company from Google, to Blizzard, to FTX.

Back when Blizzard was making great games, did they have a culture of "I work for Blizzard therefore I am a true insider"? No. That's their current culture though.

I've seen plenty of people saying they got hired by their "dream company" and now they're in "silicon valley" and all that, and invariably they're joining some predatory company that rides on a legacy from pre-2015, or some hype train like most crypto projects.

You want to work for a non-evil company? Just don't work primarily for bragging rights, it's not that hard.

Of course, some companies are not necessarily evil but have the prestige. I think what differentiates those from others is that people want to join those companies to be part of a mission rather than simply make money and gain bragging rights.
Exploring Docker Hub’s WASM technical preview
The further I scroll down that list of ridiculous pseudo-businesses on the right hand side, the louder I hear that famous quote from The Critic - ".. and nothing of value was lost!"
Postmortem for RevenueCat's Aurora Postgres Migration Turned Downtime
A thorough postmortem for RevenueCat's biggest outage ever
I feel like BeOS was even cleaner. And it made my old PC feel really snappier than win98.

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/beos-1....
Or they will get it via that thing called Windows Update. Got Windows 11 only ARM laptop, every other computer was updated automatically if it was eligible.
>I want to know what this kid is smoking.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-psychopharmacology...
I am unsure if you are knowledgable about the situation with FTX given your comments. However, I do want to hear your opinion. Could you share what was broken about crypto in this FTX case?
It's much more than just "being in a rut". You can clearly see how social media and "viral"-ism has changed the way movies are produced and shown. In recent years when I go watch a mainstream action movie, it's like a deafening blur of post process filters and carefully crafted scene after scene where everything is manipulated via the computer to a degree where you can no longer even look away from the focal point and discover details and enjoy watching a movie multiple times - because now if you look elsewhere than the producers want you to look, there is nothing there anymore. It's all CGI garbage or empty sets, covered by CGI made shadows/lighting/fog/whathaveyou.

AI in the movie industry will absolutely accelerate the race to the bottom, and make mainstream entertainment even more shallow and empty.

In fact it's probably why movies nowadays are like 2h to 2h30 when they used to be 1h30. They're so shallow and empty and filled with noise that they have to stretch them out so it feels like you actually watched something.

edit: on further thought, maybe you know, movies are over? I mean clearly as much as I hate it, tiktok's success is showing us that people get far more stimulation from watching feeds - or maybe it is indeed since COVID & Netflix etc there is even fewer incentive to sit in a dark room with lots of other noisy people munching on their popcorns and kicking your seat while to try to enjoy a movie.

My point being I doubt that the movie industry will recover.
Dune II may have coined the term "real time strategy game" but it was not the first RTS. That title belongs to 1981's Utopia or 1983's Stonkers.
On my swedish keyboard the left bumper is z and the right bumpers is the *-key (right of 'ä'). Tilt is still x and . so no tilt proximity for the right bumper but usable.
For me it was weird not hearing that very specific sort of grinding noise of old hard drives while watching the boot screen :)
>A lot of apartments here have security devices which will call for assistance when the power is turned off.

that's quite rare and bad design if you can't go overnight without power

>Then there are devices that expect power 24/7 like fridge.

that's why i said to leave kitchen ON, not that Airbnb fridge on first night would contain anything requiring power anyway

> Also, since I was abroad, I relied on the Internet that was at the apartment that would be cut off if the power was turned off.

dunno about you, but when I sleep I don't use internet, but maybe you are able to disable some parts of brain and use internet while sleeping

>Also... you know... there are these funny little devices called switches that allow you to turn individual devices on and off without cutting power to entire apartment. Just saying...

Also you know maybe read the comment I'm replying to about faulty automatic switches impossible to switch off.

I thought HN readers pay more attention to what they answer to and the context, but after reading some replies to my comment I've lost all hope that this site is any better than Reddit.
CEO of OpenAI Praises Azure
“microsoft, and particularly azure, don’t get nearly enough credit for the stuff openai launches. they do an amazing amount of work to make it happen; we are deeply grateful for the partnership. they have built by far the best AI infra out there.”
Although FM has a higher bandwidth, from a listeners perspective its more likely that you were experiencing a narrowband monaural AM - hence the massive difference to your ear.

Stereo or wideband AM is much clearer:

http://www.amstereo.org/sound.htm
Very interesting point! (Though for non-homogeneous but still isotropic universes there still exist spherical harmonics, so homogeneity doesn't seem like a critical restriction here. Those are used, for instance, to analyze non-homogeneous alternatives to the usual FLRW cosmological model, e.g. Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) models.)
Their derivatives, f^n(x) for arbitrary n, do not converge fine. Indeed, even n=1 is usually terrible in practice.

Fit a pleasant day-trip velocity curve with a NN and the acceleration would kill you.
Fully agree with this. That being said, a lot of companies are wising up to this and forcing consultancies to work "fees at risk" - where they are only paid based on some measurable success metric.

There are obviously lots of hacks and shenanigans around defining and negotiating these success metrics with various "levels" [1] of impact being defined and fees being released only when some stage is crossed.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/rts/our-insights/keepi...
If you know about something then how is it that the thing in question has been hidden from you?
Cordless leaf blower. I derive a lot of personal peace from seeing my backyard in order. The corded blower I had was painful enough to use that I always put it off and spent more time than necessary looking at mess.

Also switched from using a hiking backpack to a $350 camera bag for my drone/camera gear. Keeps everything in order (3 drones, DSLR, 14 batteries, action cameras etc) and is much more satisfying and quick to use. Felt a bit expensive at the time but haven’t regretted it for a second.
i worked in a startup who where inexperienced and tried to save costs by using taiga.

Once experienced people joined the team we switched to jira.
Thanks, I didn't know about capsicum(4) and I completely overlooked the mention of sandboxing in the impact section.
Also 061C, E0001, E0020...E007F. And probably others, yes. The list at https://invisible-characters.com/ might contain more.

> Unicode is a deep dark forest.

Oh, indeed.
It’s an Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200, which should have BLE support; I use BLE game controllers with it all the time. But it’s weird that it doesn’t work with a USB cable either, even when using the motherboard headers. I’m on Linux (Fedora), not sure if that matters or not.
You're talking about retail customers (dumb money) being lured back in. But the comment above is about getting billionaires (smart money) to sign up and recapitalise FTX. I don't see the latter happening...
> Personally I will never work in e.g. finance or "defence"

Finance: Get people enough capital so they can do what they want

Defense: Keep people safe enough so they can do what they want

I don't see the basic premise of these two industries as being evil. Of course, participants can go off the rails but so can any company.
> Its cheaper to develop and host your app on

Cheaper than what?

That's the beauty of vague unverifiable statements like "for developers, there is no platform that realistically competes with 'web3 smart contract'." For any counter example you can always say "that's not what I meant"

> Recognizing that makes you way better of a developer and entrepreneur than the 10x coder hunting for exploits and bug bounties, where making money is the goal

Was this sentence written by ChatGPT?
I was briefly a child actor, but left that world to focus on developing tools and techniques to fight some of the horrible people I met in that space.

There is no replacement for practice… make a slide deck or script and practice it repeatedly, to the point you barely need notes. This will take 10-40 hours for a 30 minute presentation. (Spaced across multiple weeks - you will increase the chances you bomb your talk if you attempt on short notice)

Then practice it in front of someone, and edit the copy until someone who is not an expert in your domain doesn’t want to ask clarifying questions.

Then practice another 10-40 hours until you’re as comfortable as you were prior to trying it out on a test audience.

You might spend 20-40 hours practicing per 30 min of speaking initially, but eventually you’ll get to a point where that ramp up period will get much shorter.

The above, paired with some improv classes and purposefully letting yourself bomb a few open mics will get you to a point where not only will you advance your career, you’ll be so persuasive you may not care if you have one due to all the side quests you go on with the enraptured folks who come to you after your lectures :-)
It's harder than you realize to make good games!

And a lot of good games suck until very close to the end where suddenly everything clicks and they become amazing. It's not really a very predictable process & at the end of the day you have to spend a lot of resources (time & money, some of it you're on the line for to publishers or investors) before you find out.

It can very easily be better financially (or at least less bad) for a studio to finish up a game they realized (possibly too late) isn't as good as they hoped than to just abandon it - you have contractual obligations, you get paid on milestones, and everyone still has to get a salary even if you decide to abandon the game.
U got 3 drones? I guess that is for professional use?
Banking apps. The most insecure way to do things.

I have read the local news. Some old person is scammed, by making a fake site getting first the account id and the password for identification and then asked to provide secure on time code. And now after the app is installed it is fully trusted and the scammer is free to steal all the money.

Where as with website you need to verify each transaction with one time code.

If I was there when legislation was written I would have banned making transactions and approving them on same device.
A bigger bed with a harder mattress.

It's silly I spend around 1/3 of my life there and hadn't thought to improve it for several years before that.
A GPD Micro PC: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2022/08/18/i-love-my-gpd-micro-p...
Fraud requires intent. Weirdly that makes incompetence a legitimate defence to fraud (and similar) charges...
I havent managed to get my hands on the sequel =(
A french butter cup!

It works by pouring a bit of water in the outer cup and the inner cup that holds the butter, fits upside down. Keeps it fresh without oxidation.

I love real spreadable butter on my bread and together with my bread slicer, I’m a happy man :)
It works for me too, but to answer your question, if it was actually not working:

> Why is 1 small UI mistake is enough to put you off an entire product?

Because removing the page-up/down functionality requires extra work. If the developer is performing extra work in order to make the UI worse, then their UI decisions in general are likely to be equally crap.

In this particular case, however, it works ...
I mentioned to my dad that my wife and I were boycotting a company due to evil / corruption, and he said, “If you’re going to boycott everything that is evil or corrupt, you’ll be very busy. You’d better start with me.”

There are degrees of evil and lines that shouldn’t be crossed, but for the most part, if you’re doing anything in this world, you’re going to be interacting with evil in some capacity.

I’m writing this on my Foxconn iPhone as I’m making ethically sourced coffee— but is the coffee really ethically sourced? It produced a lot of carbon being shipped to me and being roasted. I’m about to go write some software that I know is being used to teach things that I consider reprehensible and evil.

I’ve personally chosen to focus on one or two changes where I can make a difference, and for the most part, I’m letting the rest go.
It says "careful" as a warning, and then it fails. I think it's more about the number of times that how hard you tilt it but I don't know.
I agree anything crypto-related needs an analysis of what happens in a 99% drop.

That is because even Bitcoin crashed 70%+ quite a few times since inception. As such, leverage is reckless.

An exchange should not have been exposed to price fluctuations. Only to trading volume (if the fees are proportional to the amount exchanged).
I have tried Taiga, and I love Penpot. Here is my take on tools such as Project Management, Sales CRM that are likely to be used by lot more people once you grow.

Many Startups start with lot of other nicely designed, new, and good Sales CRM. Once they grow enough and becomes big (and successful), they all go to Salesforce. So, why not just start with it. I'm not against the other tools, they are good and they do their job. I personally love Hubspot for its UX amongst others.

For Project Management, it becomes extremely difficult to convince people to move and change to another provider once people began to settle in. This is extremely hard in larger companies. I have used Jira when it was pretty bad. Recently, I checked it and it has improved a lot. It is free for unto 10-people. If your company grows, you will need to upgrade. You should always ask, "How much am I paying when I'm paying?"

This is rather personal but I would start with the idea in mind that you will one day grow to 100+ people. And thus, which one will you use and work backwards and see if it has a cheap/free version to start with. So, why not start with something like Jira, or Basecamp (single pricing for n-users), etc. etc.

Why?

Last time I tried Taiga, it was pretty limiting. Everyone else have used Jira somehow, and I remember I could make Jira sing with its SQL-ish script.
>This camera renders the scene pre-distorted so when the layout transform is applied, everything looks correct.

Close, but still not perfect. Lines look blurry during the size animation, because the WebGL surface is rendered at the new resolution and then stretched to the current size. So if you animate from a 600x600 viewport to a 60x60 viewport it’s gonna look very bad when the animation starts. You should always render at max(old, new) resolution during the animation.

And again, this only works as long as the WebGL content commutes with affine transforms. If the WebGL content would contain 1 pixel screen-space hairlines, those would look bad when the framebuffer is stretched.
Kubernetes (K8s) Security
Traditional investments have ways of generating and returning money without selling the asset itself. For example, stocks in companies can pay dividends, real estate can return money by renting out properties. They are positive sum games and the risk of loosing money is much lower.

Speculating, like gambling is a zero sum game (at best). Any gains come directly from other players. They are inherently risky.

There is a qualitative difference here.
I don't think I bought a "thing" outside of replacements or necessities. Maybe a pair of tongs to make frying steak a little more pleasurable.
The partition of colonial India was anything but a peaceful road to co-existence. The consequences included over a million dead, and tens of millions of people displaced. Last time I checked, India and Pakistan shelling each others' positions is still so commonplace that it's become a meme.
> led to a brief shutdown of Facebook news feeds

> the country, has largely worked, a government report said

nothing of value was lost
Steam deck.
> If you have a bone to pick with the "effective altruism" movement, it would be better to critique what they actually have done

It's in the comment above:

> they stole customer funds

SBF isn't some random crook who happens to be vaguely associated with Effective Altruism; he's a relatively central figure to the movement. Currently, one of the most significant fruits of EA is massive fraud.