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Ask HN: Success stories of apps have built with Airtable / LCNC?
We're two programmers fleshing out an MVP app geared towards backpackers. The gist of the experience is recommend things to see, do and eat around public transit hubs. We want to materialize our product idea before committing to any code. Some LCNC app products promise that they keep the source code transparent, but this isn't too much of a concern for us. We will handwrite code if we can validate a product niche with ~1000 true fans. For this set of users the content will be static and dynamic user input (at "social media scale") is out of scope. In other words, we don't mind the two of us being the manual bottleneck to content publishing.

How much runway have you gotten from AirTable or similar LCNC platforms for building apps? Any examples of YC alum that have gotten in or even graduated with LCNC MVPs?

In case there is a product gap that someone else would like to capitalize on, let us expand on our vendoring thought process and product needs as a user. Static site generators are compelling for the low serving cost, lack of vendor lock-in and has a migration path to a bespoke app, but, in our opinion, this too is too labor intensive at this stage. We've learned from our previous MVP and expect to have significant product churn/adaption/resetting. Model-View-Controller separation is great in theory, but (1) our data model will in all likelihood evolve as we spend more time with the problem domain and (2) in practice there will be some boilerplate and tight coupling between M-V-C. CSS Zen Garden style modifications to the view-only are rare or requires significant effort to structure your app accordingly. Thus, even a UI based tool to drag and drop React-based component seems like overkill. We're not doing any groundbreaking app work. It's mostly a content driven app, half a dozen pretty standard views (we don't want to challenge users with novel UI/UX patterns), maybe a UI slot where we embed a canvas, custom HTML elements, or OpenStreetMap integration. We do need a content management layer (expect to have 20 locations, each with 20 points-of-interest, so let's say O(10^3) datapoints) and something like AirTable/Notion with an accessible and hosted data input mechanism seems compelling (modifying JSON files with React and having to use Git as version control is overhead for us at this stage). It would also be superb if this LCNC tool lets us publish directly to the Mobile App Store with a native compile target (as opposed to an Iframe to a webapp).
Historically you had patrons that provided for artists and the like. They weren't necessary paid for particular works.
To me it's shocking how far it's come in such a short time, that I worry if the last 10% will happen quickly.
I deleted all my social media 5 months ago, and I feel amazing. I didn't think I would be able to do it, but after all this time without it, I almost forget that Instagram and Snapchat are a thing. I no longer see the selfies of people who bullied me in high school every day. I no longer feel like every experience and accomplishment needs to be milked to boost my reputation to my peers via social media. It's so freeing. And the amount of extra free time I have now is great too
And the genes are in a population pool, not standing by themselves. So the only selection is group selection, that is, the survival of that part of the group that contains advantageous genes.
I want to like this, but there's something conflicting about "thoughtful content" and being forced to throw it away (or have your post become extremely long).

If I put thought and effort into writing something relatively long-form (otherwise, is this just single-post twitter?), I don't want it to disappear, I want it to be archived when I post something new.

Still, doing stuff is cool, so great job! Also, I like the design of the site :)
I finished my highschool in Qatar, and a part of the program was an internship. Mine was at QFCHT, Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking.

It was just a bunch of houses in which maids who don’t have things going well with their Sponsors stay in, waiting for a ticket back home. The QFCHT would just host them and negotiate the sponsor for sending them home.

Like, a 2-floor 5-room or so house that has 10 maids living in it. Their passports are confiscated by their sponsors, who were often times irrational egoistic wretches who believe they’re superior (keep in mind that the sample at QFCHT was the set of maids with the worst sponsors, I’ve seen a lot of kind Qataris who were fair and respectable). I heard though that this sponsor system has changed a while ago, not sure how is it done now since I no longer live there, but hope it’s better.

We once, at our home, needed help cleaning so we called one of those Maid agencies for a temporary cleaning. They sent us a Filipino maid. While she was cleaning, she came across my little library that I had been growing during my ECE bachelors. She looked at the books and asked me if I am studying electronics. Started talking about her graduation project back home. She had graduated from ECE too..

I saw that with Nepali workers too. Many of them were highly educated, qualified, individuals, but I don’t know what financial situation compelled them to come to Qatar to work as waiters, maids, and other jobs that are way below their qualifications.

I tried to learn some phrases in their language to joke with them and cheer them up when I interact with them. It always felt odd being on the service-receiving side. A lot of them were resilient in keeping their smile and sanity in spite of the assholic treatment a specific class of customers. That class earned the “bakla” title.
One of the clever things about Wordle is a very well-calibrated difficulty level, at least for native English speakers. At least for non-hard mode (i.e. can play a word that you already know can't be the final answer) and using a good start word, it requires some luck to get the answer in less than four but you won't lose (i.e. more than six) very often. And it's usually pretty quick.

Thinking about whether something is a likely answer also introduces some strategy itself.

In spite of being something of a professional writer, I don't usually like word games (including Scrabble) much. But I do like Wordle--although I quickly tired of the multiple word variants.
there is a lot of clanish behavior that is somehow innate and can be exploited. there is also an enormous cultural ability to rationalize and justify the "naturalness" of a multi-class society. further, people are born with a spectrum of abilities and character traits that facilitates segmentation.

without oversimplifying though the complex interplay of these and other factors (e.g. the degree to which technology can diminish the need for subjugated human labor) the point is that no human likes to be considered a subhuman. Hence the construct is predicated on social machinations and its persistence, at least at scale, is always precarious.
most likely a typo. i assume they meant shopping cart, as in they couldn't purchase multiple books in one transaction.
The kafala system isn't going anywhere so long as we can't tell these countries to take their oil and drink it. The same thing (i.e. "sponsoring" someone by capturing that person's passport and forcing low wage labor for any hope of retrieval) happened to those enslaved workers in Qatar, and then the Qatari women had the nerve to brag about how liberated they were -- that there was no housework to which they were shackled. Hmm, I wonder how many other problems they can outsource to the exploited world's poor?
I wish more people knew about fraud protection and how not to trigger it. If you want to pay in an unusual way, ask support if it's allowed or causes issues.

If you just try and imitate the average customer you will almost always be on the happy path, but ordering multiple books with multiple cards in a short period... I think that would trigger any decent fraud protection and not just at Amazon scale.
No, I don't. I tried to point out that the beginning of that sentence is triggering something in me that the writer did not intend but that jumped out at me anyway. Whether you feel that that contributes to the discussion or not is not my problem. The same could be said for your comment, and yet, here we are. What strikes me is that just pointing something like that out would result in a barrage of comments all pointing out the same thing which I had already pointed out in the original comment: that I realized that it wasn't meant that way.
Libby and similar services are designed to bleed libraries dry. Libraries are prohibited from buying a normal / retail eBook license, and have to buy a special library license. These licenses are more expensive and expire after they are checked out a few times.

I'll check out a physical book from the library, grab an epub, and delete it when I return the book.
Piracy is the answer.

I'm a big fan of old scifi films and series and the more obscure ones are getting harder to track down. Quite a lot of the stuff produced in the early 70s is sometimes available on DVD which can easily be ripped, but it depends on whether it was popular enough for them to issue it.

With some old BBC series, I'm in the position of paying for a license, but not everything is available. Just before Xmas, I was searching for M.R.James Christmas Ghost Story adaptations and whilst I was able to get the newer Mark Gatiss produced ones from iPlayer, the older "Tractate Middoth" isn't available (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03n2rnf).

There's going to be so many lost productions unless pirates get together to hoard old media.
What?? No, it isn't!
Butchered It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (we all know why) on streaming platforms. My pirated version is still the original hilarious versions.
> Authors aren't benefited by second hand sales.

While I like the idea of authors making more money rather than less, I see no fundamental reason why they _should_ benefit from second hand sales. When I buy any given object <X>, use it for what I need it for, then sell it to someone else; the original producer does not make anything off that second sale. And that's normal/expected.
This project is not actually run by the OSM Foundation
They could be paid for their work. It is labor, after all. And they don't get a choice.

The removal of their liberty is supposed to be punishment for their crime, and that's plenty of punishment. Ideally, they'd be reformed while in prison. And while I'm dreaming, they could build a nest egg by working there, instead of being exploited.

I'd like a pony, please.
Radiolab. One of their best episodes, IMO.

https://radiolab.org/episodes/fungus-amungus
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Yeah you are right. I’m still trying to get my head around what the best ranking algorithm is. So far the factors I’ve thought of are:

- Update time

- Unique Visitors since last update

- Upvotes

- Upvotes since last update (I didn’t consider this one so thanks!)
If my math checks out (which is doubtful) then yes, heat pump could be more expensive than gas heat on the worst cold days like last week (10F). However, a heat pump handles heating and cooling. So it’s cheaper to install 1 system that does everything rather than 2 systems to save money on a few cold days. Add a few solar panels and the heat pump cost goes to 0.

However, we put in a gas combi-boiler for hot water. Since we were renovating a townhouse, it was easy to throw in some radiant heaters on all floors. It’s a quiet, comfortable heat. I have the heat pump set to assist if the temps drop below 68F inside. All that said, insulation and air sealing is by far the most important thing to do first.

FYI: I checked the specs on my unit. It claims a 3.3X COP. So that’s $3 per therm, same as gas.
> Can’t wait for the apologist to appear and explain why this is just totally fine

Could we avoid bait comments? They create unnecessary polarisation which is bad for everyone. We should strive for productive discussion which allows us to learn, not to shun the “other side” and start a flamewar before the conversation even begins.
That is a major societal problem. They bring out the worst in human behavior.

Oh, wait. I thought you said venting machine. Nevermind.
This isn't a new decision, it came out a few years ago that you'd end up with disparate instruction sets between the main and efficiency cores, and they got warned it would be a problem. Their disabling of the instructions to avoid it came about as a response. Both Microsoft and Linux devs warned them about the difficulties it'd present.
TL;DR: I have nothing to hide
We can be ethical about it, ai ethics is important. Currently ai art uses datasets that it has no permission to use. The same company swears not to use copyrighted music in its datasets though.
Funny enough while I agree with your points I think you're being a little facetious given the premise. If someone came into my store and bought a different item with different credit cards for multiple transactions I'd be suspicious too. Fraud is super hard to fight back.
If you think those words are made up, wait until you hear about how we got all of the other ones.
It absolutely is hardly any training for the types of problems humans have solved. Ramanujan did not need to consume the entire corpus of mathematics or even had much formal education whatsoever. He did so, again, on very few calories compared to pre-trained AI models. I am not claiming learning how to pick up a rock does not help you in any way to understand continued fractions but it is pretty unreasonably to compare an AI as has been demonstrated as being anywhere near the same sort of thing.
They can and should. Every time this discussion comes up in HN I describe how this could be viable. In the past it was done through something called patronage: a rich guy paid an artist for a painting or art piece.

Nowadays with crowdfunding a writer could be paid by wannabe readers before the book is published, and only publish when he has obtained a FAIR compensation for his time working writing said book.
Technically this is not really a post, but more like a static page. If you call it a post that assumes I can create new ones, it has a sense of repetition and being part of a series.

There's also a CSS issue with links in the content, they are not readable with the default blue color.
Lol that’s interesting. Turns put my dark theme is broken. I’ll try to fix ot after work today.
Why do you think that is, generally speaking? Do they feel like large breasts garner unwanted attention, or is it something that isn’t even on the radar?
Basic guaranteed income model aside, centuries ago artists lived off mecenates - affluent people who chose to support works of specific people.

We see a renewed interest of that with Patreon and other services.
Ruby on Rails, was written back in 2004, it has gained popularity as one of the most cost and time-effective solutions to build Ruby applications. If you’re developing such an app and want to understand how to send emails with Rails, this tutorial is for you.
I recommend buying actual books from local bookstores (bookshop.org can middleman) and then giving them away to a local library when you're finished with them.

Piracy is for children.
You know what's even smaller, more compact, more reliable, and cheaper than an RPi? A fucking VM. I don't understand the obsession with these stupid things.
> It was remarkable how difficult it was to find the identities of actual people behind Solana, Phantom, Serum etc.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/solanalabs/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/phantomwallet/
Also worth mentioning, Plex UI and UX is so much better than any of the apps I’m paying subscription fees to (7 currently!!!).

To pile up onto your example of Westworld, I was super annoyed when I subscribed to AMC+ to catch up on The Walking Dead, just to find out that only last few episodes of current season are available and since I was waiting for more to air, I am now SOL.
fastmail is great. wish they had a platform for docs and sheets
It's possible to make bras that don't rely on tension - Empriente does it - but they're insanely expensive at over $200 per bra. (Compared to 15-20 dollars at Target/Walmart or 60-100 at a decent boutique).

There are still issues, though, because you need to consider that while a 30FF and a 38D are the same size in terms of tissue volume, the distribution of that tissue differs a lot. The wires need to be placed differently even if the same wire is used, so the wire itself would need to move which would be very difficult.
This is a textbook as a book, personally I'd do a reading/study group to get the most out of it. I don't have a math specialty but even with some of mid-level uni math courses around signals, random processes, and machine learning I still feel uhhh behind for this book
Same with music, movies, and TV shows.

Valve realized, and monetized, this years ago: "pirates are underserved customers".
It's easier and a much better experience to buy games on steam than to pirate them. And you can play them offline too.

The exception is maybe Denuvo, but steam warns you on the purchase page if it uses Denuvo.
first perhaps insignificant problem: lingua latina per se illustrata is indeed the latin for, paraphrasing here, teaching latin in latin. to borrow from this reference at all, the book should have a comparative title in greek. the first problem with learning greek is getting familiar with the alphabets and their phonetics, a problem almost non-existent with latin since the latin script is very widespread. regardless, i'll take it for a spin. i've had polis' speaking greek as a living language (https://www.polisjerusalem.org/resource/speaking-ancient-gre...) sitting on my shelf but haven't had time to study.
I switched to a dual booting Windows-Ubuntu a decade++ or so ago. After a short time, I found that I rarely if ever booted back to windows so I stopped with the dual boot and only install Mint now.

The only thing that I find better on windows is the office products. Libre office / open office are not very good compared to MS office.
I know, right? It's the same with small appliances. It's such a hassle to take an item to a cashier and check out instead of just leaving with the merchandise.
You can literarry find everything, but for rarest stuff you need to search for dedicated private commune.

FYI: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5940948
https://www.sqlite.org/support.html
In most homes they are nannies, dog walkers, shopping assistants, and cooks in addition to keeping the home clean and orderly.
Here’s a source with more information about the US penal system using slavery.

- https://www.vera.org/news/slavery-is-still-legal-for-two-mil...

Additionally, it’s also estimated that the US has at least a half million people in domestic servitude as stated in the article. This does not include sex trafficking which is a separate issue.
>You're way more confident than I was in my comment, and I don't think you can justify it.

I don't get this reaction. They're not aggressively disagreeing with you or belittling you, they just seem confident in their view of the situation. It's OK to disagree.
Didn’t Steve Jobs say something like that to the music industry when starting iTunes? “If people can’t easily buy things, they will steal them.”
If you just want something simple to dip your toes, maybe go the way of a live dvd boot and try out a couple different flavours first.

I'd suggest both Manjaro and Rosa are worth a look.
So you’re saying that someone at the centre should judge that this is a great store and then make sure that it is run in a certain way?

Can you see how this completely contradicts the approach - leaving aside the fact it’s a sample size of one and that none of us have access to financials etc.
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> it literally says 'we have a Filipino woman, who works for us'.

It _literally_ does not say that. You added a comma which changes the expression.
no no no no no no... its all shit really. You can't really expect that "lets have everything here" tools get into tiny details of specialized tools.
Graphite is tasty though
ssh -t that-machine tmux -s your-session show-buffer

And

| ssh -t tmux … set-buffer -
Because I don’t want to feed the system / make it legitimate. It’s a matter of principles.
I successfully migrated to ProtonMail using a strangulation pattern.

I set up a forwarding policy from GMail -> Protonmail. Whenever I would receive a forwarded email, Id go to the sender and update my email address. After about 6 months the only email coming from my Gmail account was spam.

Then I turned off my forwarding policy and noticed something: I don't really get spam anymore. I don't know what it is about Gmail but it receives several of orders of magnitude more spam than any of my other email accounts. To drive that point home, to crack down on spam, I setup my own domain on protonmail and configured a catch-all. Now everyone gets their own email address (like homedepot@mydomain.com). It lets me reverse track who is sharing my personal info with who for marketing purposes. Turns out: in the 5 years I've been using Protonmail I've had two cases of someone sharing my email address. I had assumed all my spam was from people sharing my email - turns out it was just a Gmail problem.

If your experience ends up being the same as mine, the time you save not dealing with spam on Gmail will cover your migration costs.
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I'm sorry but this sounds like a pebkac. You created a new virtual card for each purchase rather than just create a single card, load it up with £50 and use that. Why? Making multiple purchases on multiple cards in a short period of time is absolutely classic fraudulent behaviour. Of course your account got suspended. You can probably get it easily un suspended by contacting customer support.
For audiobooks it's even worse. Some are practically impossible to purchase outside of US. I guess it has to do with arcane distribution rights.

Authors should always have a donation page for people who are forced to pirate their work.
I like how you call this bullying, when all they did was rip off another company's product interface 1:1 and then cried foul when they got called on it. Imagine it were reversed. If a large and well financed corp released a product that was an exact copy of a small company's product, you'd blame the bigCorp for stealing the work and using their industry position to annihilate the small company.

Then again, I guess nobody gets fired for bashing Meta. (In this one case, I'm actually on Meta's side. Might be a second time for me)
It’s not just “not understanding,” it’s a massive revocation of rights that consumers enjoyed with physical goods. That needs to be changed. If you buy a digital good, it’s yours. You own it, are able to resell it, and no later revocation of rights by media conglomerates should be allowed to change that.
Was the same bug in yarn?
In the US, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) made it illegal to bypass DRM[1]. It also set up the ability to get exceptions by presenting at the copyright office. And the exceptions expire after three years and must be argued again.

The practical side of this is that no one is coming after you individually for removing DRM from your own files. They will target the tools people use, or especially online services that are available.

1 - The DRM just has to exist on the file, there’s no need for it to be strong or require massive effort to undo.