skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of what you say here, but a few small points to contest:

First, it's not just big YouTubers moving towards the patron model. I see many smaller creators doing the same, and I'm some cases thriving.

Second, I don't agree that the patron model will become the dominant model. I think this line of thinking is more of a medieval model from which the word derives. In terms of the number of people paying by ads & PII or through patronage, the ads& PII crowd will win. (the dollar value per contribution might be lower).

Third, I don't have any reason to believe that creators will "look back and wonder" why they would like to attract a million viewers. I think it might be a very good way to advertise to their patr(e)on-age.

Finally, there is another revenue model of direct sponsorship / placed ads which you do not seem to consider. I think it is a major contributor to the economics of medium-large creators.

Maybe my gut feeling is a response to your notion of the "attention economy being doomed" because "there are too many people online". To me, it seems the opposite. The attention economy is thriving because there are so many people online.

(Interesting topic! Thanks for making me type all of this)
https://www.movably.com/

Got beat up a bit here originally- didn't have the science to share to back up our claims. Now we do, moving regularly prevents back pain & can be easy and without impacting desk work productivity. Study report: https://www.movably.com/_files/ugd/ba4f7a_ee962b83d95e4c47a4...
> I'll judge them on the end result

So your argument basically boil down to: the end justifies the means. Do I understand correctly?
1) I work half of the globe from US. We've half of the contracts in USD, valuation in USD and use the same tools as people on your side of the pond (yay internet). Sending invites via outlook (desktop app, paid once) is free and usually good enough :-)

2) IDE (Jetbrains), knowledge repository (wiki,confluence, notion), on-call management (pager duty, jira SD), error monitoring (sentry) - just a few from the top of my head. AWS pricing and size of the offering is topic on its own.

3) it's not being cheap. At least not only that. Take a look at this summary [1] I stumbled upon recently. According to this calculation tools may account for almost 20% of recurring expenses in Sweden. Sweden is far from being poor. What's more important - you must pay, because otherwise you lose it (hope it never happens to my screwdrivers or popcorn). This is huge liability, that may stop your company from operating. Often really unnecessary.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34375755
> and other data from 5 senses.

It only makes your point stronger, but there are way more[1] than 5 human senses, not counting senses we don't have that, say, dolphins or other animals do. I can only name a few others, such as proprioception, direction, balance, and weight discrimination, but there are too many to keep track of them all.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/15/archives/we-have-more-tha...
supabase+svelte or nextjs
By providing the words to say and arguments to make to the court, in response to a specific case or circumstance, DoNotPay was giving protected "legal advice" as opposed "legal information". There is ambiguity to find between legal advice and legal information, but that isn't.
> are we really expected to keep all of that packaging in case of warranty issues?

Depends on where you live and your consumer protection laws. In some places there are laws/rulings stating that no, you don't need to keep original packaging - especially for statutory minimum warranties.

If there are no laws it's up to the discretion of the seller.
Okay I can see how you thought that. And we do use something higher for all the other parts. Look at ffmpeg for an example. https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg The github mirror says a mere 6.6% is assembly
Indeed. This reminds me of the people who were unimpressed by the iPod because there were other MP3 players already on the market.

Sometimes "making the first X that doesn't suck" is a lot more important than "making the first X".
Kafka hit the nail on the head with this one: https://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html
thanks very much for this insightful response. i haven't heard this perspective before but it makes sense.
Backend? Probably Python w/Pyright (Type-checked Python), FastAPI, Postgres.

Reasoning is pretty straight forward: I know it quite well and it's easy to grok and hire for them. Good tooling and ecosystem around it. Are there better languages out there? Sure, but Python has the advantage of being wired into so many different business and scientific domains its impossible to paint yourself into a corner.
If you want to check your images for some common leftover files in all the layers, I made an app for that: https://github.com/viraptor/cruftspy
How to transition <div> height with CSS
Can't be done
Nah it's the same now. IBM was my first tech job straight from construction/concreting. Work environment was a dream, an absolute pleasure. Got opportunities to pump out training and work on many parts of the stack way further up than I expected. I was a remote area hardware tech. This was bout half a decade ago. Best job I've ever had.
It's even worse than that. X voters don't think X is wrong, and they're being persecuted by Y.
Speaking as an app developer, I would not believe that a doctor has created this app. Many developers would struggle to create something at this level, kudos!

I was really impressed by the UX and design aspects, but the way you’ve integrated camera and mic is really cool.
People reading this for inspiration on what stack to use should keep in mind that the best stack is the one they'll actually use.
Fair use is a thing.
Indie Founder Bootcamp - https://nugget.one/bootcamp

This is the information I wished had existed when I started out building side projects. Unlike other similar offerings it is not all ra-ra yayy go get it. It's more like a splash of cold water and very pragmatic.

The whole idea of "just start a side project it's easy" is very rarely true and was recently discussed in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34103896
Yes, it makes it way harder for them to get away with corrupt activities
The legislators in question are public legislators. I think there's a reasonably strong argument to be made that being transparent to the public is a large part of their job.

(Nothing about this seems to indicate that it's meant to protect correspondence between legislators and their friends or family. It seems aimed primarily at obscuring political correspondence.)
Telling them they can fix their problems without doing any of those is not working either.
When programming, do you write “Hello World” in your language? (2020)
They have a pretty efficient system to force payment if you don't after multiple reminders.
Not OP but for me it's the syntax. I'm not even saying it's bad or could even be improved... I just don't find it intuitive. I've only sat down and walked through some of the learn rust book and tried to hack out a few small things.

I'm not sure what it is - there just always seem to be random symbols that dont seem to follow conventions of other languages. Guess I am use to C-style (including C++, C#, JS) syntax and python. Its possible that there are just new concepts that aren't really represented in the languages I use too.

Again, I don't necessarily think its bad. Just what I don't find intuitive.
[..]farms in the region with fair working conditions, low pay and substandard housing are systemic throughout the industry. The housing prospects for workers are particularly bad because rents are so high.

She said she knew of one group of 16 adults living in a 1,000-square-foot apartment who had to line up every morning to use the bathroom.[..]

This BEGS the question.. why is the industry growing low value perishable commodity crops for out of state sales …in a state where housing is chronically challenged even for highly paid workers…in a state with a historically high COLA .. if you can’t run your business without low paid manual labour and that has to resort to obtaining undocumented workers illegally, should that industry even exist. Curious minds want to know.

Just like the homeless situation in CA is needed and required to disburse millions of tax dollars to non profits and the care and feeding of their employees…poorly paid migrant labour and unsustainable ag sector is needed to employ all the ancillary industries that rely on California’s produce to keep unemployment down.

The value of Ag produce in CA is around 45ish billion. The total amount Ag contributes to GDP is 350+ billion.

The industry isn’t Ag. It is the creation of jobs for other industries and job sectors.
I can revert it to the more anodyne original ('Legislature changes rules for retaining correspondence'), but I thought he first line of the article better summarized the contested nature of the change.
Do you think this is also the reason, why Translate is still not as good as e.g. DeepL?
Im thinking on going with Searx instead. I don't want to pay money, and I already have a server I use for a variety of reasons. I get why most wouldn't want to do that...self hosting isn't for everybody. But I would prefer it to paying someone else or having my data sold
The executive branch needs its records accessible, at least to the legislature, so that the legislature can see what it's doing. FOIA laws are an extension of this concept to the general public. They are the ones carrying the stick, and they need visibility.

When we negotiate treaties, private conversations between leaders are useful and productive. The same goes when negotiating laws. Voters already have the most important visibility into legislative output: the laws that get passed and how their representative voted.
> Some of the most depressed mentally ill people you find will be very well off financially.

Is this statistically true? otherwise this is worthless.

See: Study Finds Strong Relation Between Income and Happiness, Does Not Max Out at $75k. Turns out that famous study that everyone loved to quote isn't exactly truth. https://www.nysscpa.org/news/publications/nextgen/nextgen-ar...
My personal issue with Rust isn't the borrow checker. I actually find it quite intuitive. What I don't like is the extreme complexity of everything. There's just so much... stuff.

What I want is a Rust, but with almost everything stripped away. Complexity similar to Go.
If employees can jump for a significant pay raise en-mass, the companies weren’t showing loyalty to begin with.
Just spent 400 CHF at Galaxus, same day no charge delivery. Ho hassles.
This is rad. I'd love to see it updated with current data. I've tried to bet on MMA with mixed results, but ultimately tried to find a data driven approach to place wagers. My approach would net me tons of open browser tabs trying to track down stats about each fighter :(

I really like what you've done.
Cammelx3 is great. I like Keepa as well, especially the chrome extension that embeds the chart on the Amazon page. It also seems to have a bit more functionality.
Thank you! My process was: try to write it myself -> google it until it works -> ask ChatGPT how it can be better. I did this one component at a time, starting with the questions array, then answer buttons, timer logic, game over prompt, settings menu, etc.

I learned a hell of a lot more and a hell of a lot faster doing this project than I ever had in online courses/lessons/etc.
In real world software, you need lots of freedom in order to design high performance scalable systems. This includes using non-trivial data structures, and being able to access and organise memory in subtle ways. The Linux kernel is an example of this. Look at the reclaim subsystem in the kernel, for instance, and how it interacts in subtle and very complex ways with various other subsystems, the page cache, the generic block layer, the memory control groups, the VFS and the filesystems. All of them are multi-threaded and run on complex high performance CPUs performing memory re-ordering, speculative execution, branch perdiction and parallel execution of both processes and instructions. You really need extremely smart smart data structures and organisation and very smart algorithms to manage the concurrency. C is a language where you have all that freedom to do whatever you want leading to high performance and low latency. In Rust, you can't even safely implement a doubly linked list. Now, if you have to use unsafe every time you need high performance or scalable data structures, then Rust is as unsafe as C and it's just making your life harder for no reason, except hype.
And not getting locked out of account.
There's also keepa.com.
I think 2.0 has potential still, it works with textual inversion type models much better, which can kinda play nice with each other, so given enough of those I imagine you can get some cool stuff with it. I've also heard it does negative prompts much better, so those are less optional in 2.0

But yeah for now, all my custom models are 1.5 so I've yet to fully upgrade yet, most of the community seems to be doing similar at the moment.
If I was starting from scratch and didn't have any other constraints, I'm sure that I would go with Elixir/Phoenix.
Never heard about Galaxus, but looking at their e-shop, I felt like being propelled 10y in the future.

Their UI is so much ahead any e-commerce website I ever seen.
Pretty sure op means to gradually increase taxes the more properties someone owns, to the point it's hardly profitable to have 100 rental properties, when you make the same with 70, because of taxes, so you can sell these and the rise in supply will lower costs to purchase a home, etc.

Though, personally I'm more in favor of a land value tax, I think op is on the right path. Having the tax pegged to factors like average wage / rent of an area would help landlords keep it in check, though.
https://sequencer.party

It is a modular audio/video/midi environment that supports Google Docs-like multiplayer, and supports third-party plugins (a format called Web Audio Modules 2 -- like VST or AU but for the web).

One of the parts I'm most proud of is the MIDI sequencer plugin, where you can script a custom MIDI sequencer in a few hundred lines of javascript:

https://editor.sequencer.party/sessions/0e87d610c4d08d750fb7...

Still a lot to do on it, but in it's current format I've had some fun jam sessions where people sequence my hardware synthesizers over MIDI, and listen to the result over twitch.

Longer-term it will have thousands of samples, many more WAM plugins built in and templates available in the public library, integration into freesound and archive.org

I've previously made two synth-related apps for iOS (Synth Modes and Spectrum synthesizer bundle).
I see in the repo you mention wanting to add support for archiving. I'd really like to see a sort of master playlist for a genre. Just keep adding the songs from each weekly playlist to the master genre playlist, then the "date added" field could be used for looking at the playlist historically. You lose duplicates this way, so maybe not the best archival strategy, but with the master playlist you could have hours of music instead of an hour.
This is an actual business model? Surely this must be a joke.

If not this will only end in a hilarious disaster.
I've always thought that a good metric is that if you had to leave the US in a real hurry (not sure if it would make a difference, but for e.g. Yellowstone is going to explode), do I have enough liquid to charter a private jet to somewhere else.

Probably $80K to $100K for that, plus extra for snacks. :)
Really? When I open a file, nine times out of ten I'm modifying it in some specific location that's definitely not the start of the file, and the first thing I need to do is navigate, which is what Normal mode is for (among other things).

About the only time I fire up an editor and face a blank file is when I'm writing prose, which is definitely not the majority of time I'm spending in Vi/Vim.
So if they "under hire", should they step down for that too?

Maybe they should step down any time they fail to accurately predict the future?
Laravel + htmx + sqlite + Bootstrap

I'm currently making something with these for the first time. I picked sqlite because it's convenient and seems to be supported on free hosting.
I feel like you’re just in another scenario that isn’t in the story.
I worked on a couple of large legacy PHP projects. They were terrible.

Then I saw someone come in and modernize a legacy PHP project. It was a thing of beauty. I think modern PHP is seriously underrated.
Where do you think their high salary comes from?
Their website - and tech in general - are way better than the competition. Their prices are competitive (sometimes the best, sometimes not, but rarely an unreasonable rip-off). I often prefer local pickup over mail. They already have my information on file, I don't need to futz around with making an account.

Price comparison sites are fine if I know exactly the item I want, less so if I just have an idea of the category.

It's not that I buy everything there. But it is my default option.
Even in the strictest possible strengthening of IP law, where you need the artists written permission before feeding their data into a neural network, I think the market for artists is doomed.

Disney can train a model from every frame of their video library as well as whatever they can find which is unambiguosly public domain. Then they could hire a few hundred artists to draw whatever the model is bad at by the end of this process for finetuning.
> strong explicit typing/high ceremony

If you think strong typing is "ceremony" then you probably spend most of your time writing (and documenting) code and not reading, refactoring, or collaborating on it.

The time people spend writing unnecessary, buggy unit tests (that static analysis can do in better languages) is far greater than the time to just use the type system.

Most languages don't even force you to be explicit anymore. They infer the types, so you don't even write extra code. You just get better errors and speed.
Ah, right, forgot that Volvo sold off Volvo Cars to Ford. I was referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo (and the financial report it cites).
On 1 - I've worked at startups using Django ORM and banking companies using MSSQL stored procs. I don't understand why anyone would ever go the stored proc/raw SQL way unless they absolutely needed the performance. And if you do need the performance, you can always dip down to that level from whatever ORM you are using.

Most of the queries I've done using Django can be optimized at the application code level to be fast and efficient without even touching SQL. There were a few instances at the two Django shops I've worked where we optimized one or two queries by writing raw SQL, but the number of times I've seen that in a codebase can be counted on one hand.

The SQL/stored proc method, on the other hand, doesn't come with any way to do migrations or version your database by default (AFAIK). So now you have to write migration code and come up with some kind of versioning system by hand.

Wish I had more experience with SQLAlchemy/Alembic. I've tried using it on little things here and there but since I've always known Django, that's what I usually go with.
It's about volume. A fake case would be expensive to run and running dozens of them a day would be hard.

That said. The consequence of most traffic tickets is increased insurance and a fine. Yes these do have an impact on the accused, but they are the least impactful legal cases, so it would make sense to focus on them as test cases.
Because in my experience MVP at first is a marketing test, not functionality - I need something to easily put text and images down :)

...So - anything. Simple WordPress page with some content builder would work.

No need to invent functionality before testing out the need.
I don't sign in to my work email on my devices so I can tell my employer with a straight face that my device isn't their device. If legislators are really worried about their personal communications being leaked, they should keep those separate from their work communications.
A Survey of Digital Manufacturing Hardware and Software Trojans
Breaking Bad: Quantifying the Addiction of Web Elements to JavaScript
EventReduce - An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times

https://github.com/pubkey/event-reduce
It is so lovely to come across a doctor with tasteful and deep interest in technology, ux, graphics, music - and took all of those interests to try to help improve peoples’ lives.

Often I get the sense that HN is an accessory to adhd and leads me astray. It is nice to see a counter example of how a person can fuse their interests to create an amalgamation that contains the elements and focuses them to a purpose.
It's the standard library & tooling for me. To be perfectly honest for must stuff I use rust for I'd prefer to have garbage collection. But the standard library and tooling I just too far ahead of the competition (diplomatically avoiding naming languages here)
I used to think so. Maybe they have become more visible now. It feels like outgrowing Ayn Rand as an undergrad missed some people lately.
I'm guessing they didn't rivet each ring shut like for real mail, did they?
I have thrown a set of our requirements and some helm charts at it and the summary it produced was pretty good. It needs some work but I think it’s just a matter of time until the output is pretty good. The bar for most documentation is pretty low.
Brilliant thinking - sometimes too much sunlight is damaging.

Better to make sure that the people supposedly using the public power they were given be allowed to act without accountability.
> only 2–3% of Li-ion batteries are collected and sent offshore for recycling,

> Until and unless this recycling rate is provably 50% or higher at the time of an EV sale, you should not diss on a 50% loss of efficiency in electrolysis for an FCEV

Most lithium ion batteries are still not used in car batteries but rather in phones, computers, cameras, power tools, and other personal electronics. Should we be running those on hydrogen instead?
Crystal is directly inspired by Ruby, so I don't think is too far of a bridge!

I programmed Ruby for years before learning Rust, and aspects of Rust's library and language inspiration from Ruby are obvious to me: the closure syntax closely resembles Ruby's blocks, for example, and much of the core iterator APIs match their Ruby counterparts. It's a very different language overall, of course!

(Then of course there's the part where many early Rust contributors came from the Ruby community.)
Yeah, it's kinda weird. I'm in Colombia and a lot of times I'm redirected to spanish versions of sites, although english is first in my accept-language.

To me it seems easier to display the page in a language matching the accept-language header than to do a geoip lookup and guess what language they want. In some countries they speak multiple languages so it doesn't even make sense to do geoip.

Most of my friends don't speak English so defaulting to English isn't a good solution either.
> Hydrogen cars are chemical.

FCEVs are chemical in the same sense that BEVs are, because a “fuel cell” is, like a battery cell, an electrochemical cell.

The only real difference is that the “fuel” and “waste” are inside a battery, but come from and go to the outside in a fuel cell, which means that an FCEV can be fueled (and exhausts) like an combustion engine vehcile, despite being fully electric.
True- Eros is much larger though. I was just interested in using the technology on the website - not trying to be alarmist or anything :)