skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your numbers are wildly outthere.

$2.50 would be the API costs per user. So $5 would cover, take in some money and pay appstore feeds. And if you're looking at 10% of his userbase, that would be about 4 million a month income with 2 million being for Reddit. Based off his claims of 20 million a month with a $2.50 cost per user.

I'm sure he'll be able to survive off $1,000,000 a month profit.

Edit corrected the numbers:

$2.50 a user for API costs.

$5.00 a month subscription would cover that cost.

$1.50 going to AppleTax.

$1.00 a user to the indie hacker

If 5% of users that would cost $20MM sign up for $5 a month it would be $2,000,000 a month overall revenue.

$1,000,000 to Reddit.

$600,000 to AppleTax

$400,000 a month to the indie hacker.
This seems only mildly different than already existing electrostatic drivers??? In terms of getting rid of heavy magnets at least.
Which is to say have a contract that your counterparty can’t redefine freely.
Why legal writing is so awful
> Compressed source code archive is over 300Mb.

Much of it not interesting security wise.

> That's not a manageable amount for one individual, so I wouldn't expect it to be systemetically reviewed.

I settle for people thinking like attackers and going for the attack surfaces.
LibreOffice is such a bloatware that I migrated to SoftMaker office two years ago and never looked back.
Congratulations, moritz: you have successfully piqued my interest in a TV series by means of a software analogy!
This echoes my sentiment exactly. My biggest gripe is when type suggestions are replaced with AI suggestions, as I more often just want to auto-complete a method/attribute. I frequently find myself toggling AI suggestions via hotkey.

As for the getting a suggestion by writing comments, an "insert from prompt" action perhaps, or just a separate prompt pane/popup/whatever-you-prefer combined with using good ol' copy+paste would suffice.
> 1. Found a goal early in life. Comparison: I'm almost 41 and still not sure what I'm passionate at so I dab on a lot of stuffs which can be seen on my github acc, but I never drilled deep in any of those;

Same age and similar path here. However, my ultimate conclusion is that I'm not passionate about anything - at least not to the degree required to put in thousands of hours of work required to get good at it. I prefer to dabble.
49% control with one entity is effectively 100% control. You only need about 2% of the remaining votes to get your way in any decision.
These models run on CUDA. Making a version that ran on Metal filled a feature gap on Apple's proprietary GPUs. CPUs aren't involved, the last thing, for example, Stable Diffusion needs is help from AMD and Intel.
Yeah I am really nonplussed how this is the top post on HN right now (I know that is against the rules to mention but really)
I've found it's really about your negotiation and your confidence to ask for it. I've hired software engineers and frequently talk with others who do hiring, and I can confirm there's plenty of people who are making $120-140k who could've come in at $160-180k+ just by asking for it.
Saudi Arabia’s ‘prickly prince’ of oil bristles as crude price slides
To effectively fix an emergency situation like an outage, you have people extremely familiar with most/all aspects of your systems walking through a checklist of checks, verifications and tests to identify the root cause of the issue and then go to work on that. The point is that people are "under pressure," sure, but they are extremely comfortable and familiar with the domain. They already know what is supposed to work or what the expected results are to certain basic tests, and that familiarity and knowledge is what maintains a level head and prevents someone from panicking.

This is pretty much the opposite in an interview situation, even when it's a subject people know well, there's way too much "unknown" about your particular setup that the interview doesn't/can't know.
The Folks Lining Up for Elon Musk’s Brain Implant
For worktree, what does this mean (in the docs)?

> Multiple checkout in general is still experimental, and the support for submodules is incomplete. It is NOT recommended to make multiple checkouts of a superproject.

I'm not quite sure what is safe and what is risky.
what's the deal with raspberry pi are you still allowed to buy only one per person?
Looks like rather than replacing or recharging the battery, you have the entire thing removed and a new one placed.
And for just $12,500, you can keep the device instead of returning it!
My relationship with my self is just fine without external validation. It's in my relationship with everyone else where that comes into play.

Your friend broke a commitment to your other friend. In doing so, they proved a level of disrespect to commitment itself, and that damaged their friendship with you.

But what if they didn't make the commitment in the first place? What if they knew that they wouldn't be any good at monogamy, and said so upfront? Could they have avoided this entire situation, and upholded a respect for commitment; all without changing their behavior?

Our society has an implicit expectation that romantic relationships be based on commitment. That's not the only thing a relationship can be built on: your relationship with your friend was based on respect.

I want to build my own romantic relationships on respect instead of commitment. Is that really such a batshit insane idea? If not, I could really use some external validation.
I personally don’t understand the outrage. Reddit obviously has costs, and if it wants to make a profit it should not subsidise third party apps that cost double - both no revenue and no ad views.

The cost of 0,00024 per request seems reasonable, and according to Apollo’s creator the cost per app user would be just 2,5 a month. Keep in mind that currently this app probably has no incentive to go light on the requests, so with some tinkering the creator could probably get that down. Maybe some proxy caching or what not.

Of course free is going away, but paying users at say 5/mo or 50/yr should still work for Apollo.
To be fair, Sam is human and is doing a LOT right now. In addition to leading OpenAI and partnerships, he's having to do a parade lap around the world to console politicians and communities.
> Just so you know, the point of my post isn't to rip on people with low willpower or to brag about mine

Sure came off that way though.

> Ozempic is supposed to be a treatment applied to people who are not yet overweight enough for bariatric surgery, yet it is being used ubiquitously.

Because being overweight, albeit not quite enough for bariatric surgery, is quite ubiquitous? Dunno for sure, but certainly feels rather plausible. Wouldn't you say?

> I wonder what part of my post was hateful or otherwise below the standards of this forum.

Probably the bit where you came off as an insufferably smug prick, saying “Why don't they just eat cak—” Oops, I mean “Why don't they just stop eating?”. Comes to about the same thing, votre Majesté.
Surely, there should be some reasonable amount of time (maybe 2-3 years?) after which you can safely consider the money to be yours? Especially if you made a reasonable effort to return it.
Reddit could just charge its users $5 a month, offer a $10 a month tier for some extra features and co-offers, and keep the API free.

It's a spectacularly stupid move, almost on a par with Musk >50% of Twitter's value and Waves trying to force their customers onto a subscription model by making old versions obsolete.

Reddit will lose a huge number of users, its brand will be trashed, and the app companies will be forced out of business.

There is no way this can't end up as a net loss.
Who would apply those rules to the mods? Rules aren't magical, bolts of lightning don't shoot down from the heavens and obliterate the offending moderator. If only.

Who do you report mods to? Other mods?

There is no one to report them to.

The trouble is that people demand that the discourse remain pleasant and unobjectionable. That it drives on in a direction that they agree with. And good, human conversation can't ever do that. We have unpleasant things to discuss, and we have objections. The direction can and should be capable of changing at any time.

But because most people are cowards and children, you strive like little eusocial insects to deconstruct and destroy conversations like that. It bothers you. And the biggest and best tool for that is the moderator, some unintelligent busybody with grudges.

Until the one day of course that you yourself realize the there is something unpleasant to be said. Until the direction should be different. Until there are objections to be made. Then you get banhammered and you want to cry about the very juggernaut you helped to enable.

The confusing part is why you think that the solution could be an ever larger juggernaut? Why do you think that could ever help? How do you even propose creating it?
Paypal locked my account and won't do anything unless I provide data to prove something I care not to prove. All unsubscribe mechanisms are locked behind a login...

The result has been a complaint to the CRTC(Canada) for sending CEM emails without an unsubscribe mechanism. Oops.
I'm not sure I understand this point. Can't you still play CS:Source and CS 1.6? Why wouldn't CS:Go keep operating. It may not get as many content updates but the core game should be able to keep going as long as Valve keeps the game servers running.
Banks are also more regulated than PayPal and when they screw you over you can complain to a banking regulator who can make their life hell.
By the way, it looks like you were quoting from the syllabus. The syllabus is a convenient summary, but it is not the opinion of the court. The actual opinion begins with "JUSTICE BARRETT delivered the opinion of the Court."
Yeah, easy answer. Not even close. Kids are already tough on your energy, and it just gets worse as you get older and add more kids.
Pelé enters the room...
People ALWAYS try to sidestep accountability; i.e., "He didn't kill him intentionally. The drugs made him do it."
In the past this has happened to me because I have a "givenname.surname@gmail.com" email address and a relatively common name. The other people frequently misspell or forget their email address and end up with mine. I get occasional money sent via paypal but also all kinds of other email. I get a pretty clear indication of which companies don't bother with an email verification step.

At one time (may still be the case?) someone created a Facebook account with my email address and I was able to click on a link and be logged in as them.
Really enjoyed reading this
Just because whole new universes might fluctuate from spacetime patches, doesn't mean the non-fluctuating patches wont be in heat death forever in the far future.

In so far as we can talk about multiple universes in such a picture, "ours" will be in heat death and some daughter spacetimes will not be for some duration.

To say we can't predict more than 14b.y. in to the future seems at odds with most theoreticians and I've seen many predict much further with mainstream theories.

For BBs, yes the "tiny" ones will be exponentially more likely. But it seems like the 'medium to large' BBs in the heat death spacetimes will outnumber natural observers still, unless there are more spacetimes out of heat death comparatively. Some kind of measure of pre-heat death spacetimes vs far-into heat death spacetimes is needed to theoretically match our observation of no BBs. This is a multiverse.

A certain kind of multiverse does this, one where the odds to fluctuate new universes is high enough to outpace the ones in terminal heat death. I mean, we talk about inflation with little hope of the verification you talk about in your last paragraph. This is barely anything beyond inflation, it just sets the proper measure/odds among all the details to match observations. To say it does nothing, what of Susskind's video then? I'm just paraphrasing him. Carroll and Susskind both find it useful to talk of BB's, and use them to weigh on which theories to accept. That's all I was saying. Whether one has actually existed, don't know. Inflation might be so pervasive it makes BBs infinitesimal.
It only seems like that to people who don't know any better.

Do you ACTUALLY think you can communicate with people at Amazon who truly know what's going on? If so, why do we see countless stories about people who have problems with Amazon, Google, et cetera, who can't communicate with them? Do you know of some special, magic way to get the skilled people to talk with you that the rest of us don't?

You act like being able to call Amazon, even if you could get someone on the line who knows something, is somehow better than having even just one good systems administrator. All of your ridiculous assumptions go right out the window when you have a sysadmin build, test and deploy your own hardware that you (via your sysadmin) have complete control over.

Security? You can't secure Amazon. You literally can't. If you wanted to, you'd have to buy the company, then you'd have to evaluate your whole S3 staff. If you hire a systems administrator, you have to vet your systems administrator and anyone else who has admin access, not a collection of tens of thousands of employees across the planet, any of whom could be stupid enough to visit the wrong web site using the wrong browser on the same computer as their keys.

Availability? My side projects have better uptime than Amazon.

Durability? Two geographically disparate locations and LTO, plus many mirrors, make things plenty durable.

When you're not a systems administrator, you can be forgiven for not understanding the big picture, but not for acting like you do.
'Oh my Git'[1] gets close, but didn't allow you to run it on arbitrary repositories last time I looked (last year).

[1]: https://ohmygit.org/
I've read that the scam is that they will ask you to send the money back. If you do, you'll be out of the money because the money they sent you will disappear after a while because Paypal pulls it back (probably because they sent it to you from a stolen credit card or something like that)
I could have written your comment! Though I sold mine.

I followed pocket reform closely but the thickness of it, combined with the price, put me off. It’s not the same class of device as Psion, Gemini, or the UMPCs.
You can't say "Paypal has been more stable than banks" until you read the regulator's report.

Have you?
Question: why are they not regulated like banks? They look like a bank to me.
> what you have is a pyramid scheme.

Yes, that is exactly what we have. Our social security and Medicare systems are nearing insolvency because they are Ponzi schemes that rely on growth. Growth that didn’t happen. That pyramid is built on either increased taxes for the next generation or decreased benefits for the prior.

Most Americans’ net worth is predominantly composed of their house. Those same houses have had their values propped up by decades of poor financial policy (interest rates trending to zero) because it is politically infeasible that housing prices go down. That pyramid is built on the backs of future generations who are or will be unable to afford housing.

Equities and bonds are also a pyramid scheme, in the sense that the same financial policy has propped up asset values. The rise of passive investing, the surplus of cash, and financial policy have propped up asset values far beyond their natural equilibrium point, because it is politically infeasible that stocks go down. That pyramid is built on the lack of future returns coming generations will experience because the prices must eventually regress toward the mean.

Not to mention the massive debt bubble, whose interest is another pyramid scheme, wherein past and present generations have voted and continue to vote to saddle future generations with debt that they will not be able to pay.

At least here in the US, almost every major wealth creation or preservation system is a pyramid scheme where future generations are on the bottom, and the current generations are at various higher levels of the pyramid.
Also, I wouldn't give them direct access to my main bank account.

You don't want online fraud or some dotcom's Kafkaesque behavior to unexpectedly empty your main account of money that you need to pay rent, and have the dotcom simply refuse to talk with you.

In general, I try to minimize how much money I have sitting in dotcoms ('move fast, break things, disregard regulations, cash out' sociopathy). Relatively trustworthy are some traditional institutions (e.g., Fidelity Investments, some retail banks and credit unions).
They aren’t unless you’re willing to go significantly more complex than this naive translation suggests.

As an example, consider the index_mut function with signature

fn index_mut(&mut Vec<T>, ix: usize) -> &mut T

How do you represent this?

However, this insight holds for relatively common forms of ownership, and you can see this exploited in electrolysis: https://github.com/Kha/electrolysis
The reason git is hard to learn is because people when starting think it should be easy to learn from the commands, which it isn't. The way to learn git is to understand its data handling. Then you can group the commands. Once you have a mental model that closely matches how git works, things fall into place. Of course the learning curve could be made easier by naming some commands closer to the data that it handles, but I prefer short commands for common operations.

The best way I learned git was by browsing the files and contents of those files in .git/. That way I had an idea of what's possible and what I wanted to do and could find the command to do it.

How many git commands do I commonly use?

status, log, whatchanged, diff, diff --cached
add, reset HEAD, reset --hard, checkout, branch, commit, commit --amend
fetch, push, push --force-with-lease
stash, stash pop, rebase -i, reflog (escape hatch)

I hear similar difficulties from some who learn databases from using ORM syntax and don't have a mental model that matches how relational sets compose or how SQL is primarily declarative rather than imperative.
They say their model works for a hypothetical privacy preserving camera that masks 90% of the pixels.

I’m not sure there’s much more to it; I think you’re reading too far into it. It shows the power of their model and possible applications towards privacy.

It’s not a stance that that hypothetical camera is actually great for privacy.
I had the PayPal sender email and message me dozens of times begging me to return the money when it was sent in error. ($990)
Til the very next day ...
When I think of putting Elon Musk brain implant, it makes me think of his other project like his rocket project that he called a great success when it blew out its launchpad and exploded in the air. I wouldn't want my brain implant to be that kind of success.
This is theoretically true but not really true in practice right now.

If a CA misissues a cert for something major, like Facebook or Google Mail, and Google or Mozilla find out, my current belief is that they'd be in for a world of hurt.

But if a CA misissued such a cert for a single specific target, without a CT SCT, neither Chrome nor Safari will report that (currently, CAs are explicitly allowed to issue non-CT-logged certs; the check on that is that Chrome and Safari won't honor that certificate --- a reason, by the way, to reconsider Firefox). If Google found out that you'd misissued a non-logged Google Mail certificate, you'd get nuked. But there's nothing currently in place to make Google find that out.

It's clear what tweaks to the system would need to occur to make this work that way it would "ideally" work, and the problems are mostly not technical; you'd just have Chrome (or Safari, or Firefox) report certs without SCTs in its default configuration. But that kind of surveillance isn't really a thing right now.

I've been cagey about this in past discussions because my understanding was that the Chrome team did do some of this kind of surveillance informally. And I believe they did --- but I'm told that stopped being a thing years ago. Now they just don't accept certs unless they're logged, and that's that.
i would love to understand that as well. I am mainly a pc user (both desktop and laptop), but at any given generation macbooks have just better display "experience".Even when compared to the other top of the line devices (MSFT surfaces or dell XPS 13).
My guess is simply that other PC companies just don't care much about the display quality beyond head grabbing specs. That and i suspect MACOS is just better at text rendering and color repreduction on the desktop
Your government seems to want to make that as difficult as possible to do legally.
The thing about having children is as soon as you do it’s not just about you anymore.
Wouldn't the most obvious solution be to charge Apollo users for the API access?

This will spread the $ load down to peanuts per user and be similar to the original ($1/mo) WhatsApp pricing model.
Any percent control can be 100% control if OpenAI relies on Microsoft for something critical like compute, and is contractually bound to not go to anyone else for compute. If MS can threaten to take their toys and go home, they can get anything they want.
Louis Jolyon West
How did 2 happen? How do we fix it?
Lustration
A little more about the Cold War era traumas in Europe. While the half-baked article in Wikipedia is about the Central and Eastern Europe, the concept (as it is being weaponized) applies really to the whole Europe. Even nobodies are persecuted online, which is really counterproductive insofar as polarization and the war effort are considered.

Refer to the excellent threat by the military historian Dr. Jalonen (use Twitter's translate or something else) about the paranoia, false accusations, lawfare, and other things in some European countries [1]. The thread is an excellent example on how a securitization process evolves.

Here too the concept is heavily weaponized mainly by the right-wing parties and even their military lackeys [2]. But what they don't seem to understand is that (a) all political parties here were part of the same game and (b) it was equally damaging for democracy to use Western intel to interfere in domestic politics. What is more, (c) the new populist front seems to think they're immune, although their sympathies to the Putin's regime are well-documented. Then, (d) the accusations now seem to be selectively about the Nord Stream pipelines and their business arrangements, but these could be easily escalated to a whole lot of Western CEOs, including also those cherished by the right-wing parties.

[1] https://twitter.com/jojalonen/status/1663960590207811597

[2] https://suomensotilas.fi/2023/06/02/saksalainen-ex-tiedustel...
> Third party app users are far more likely to be 1% and 9% users. They're committed to the platform enough that they're willing to seek out or even make software to improve their experience on it.

You’re speculating at this while the Reddit team just has all of the data and knows exactly where traffic comes from.

Also maybe the 3p app user, while being the most prolific poster, is simultaneously a high % of toxicity.
Jonathan Rudenberg: “increase the value of your brand”
Yes, as we know from the history of electrostatic speakers, all you need to replace those bulky magnets is a sheet of mylar the size of a billboard, and also a regular magnetic voice coil for the half of the power spectrum that they can't handle.
I loathe the coming of common utterance of the word speciest.