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Show HN: Project X – The fastest time to market for your API
Hi all,

Project X is a turnkey monetization and consumption management solution for API providers.
It's like you got your own RapidAPI engine with 10x more features at a way lower fee rate.

Project X takes care of everything you need to sell an API: user registration, authentication, subscription management, subscription plans, limit enforcement, premium features, usage metering, billing, invoicing, payment collection, etc.

After setting up your API product with Project X, you get a checkout link for that product and can use it anywhere: on your developer portal, landing page, Reddit, Twitter, Indie Hackers, etc.

When your future customers click the link, they’re immediately taken to the self-service checkout portal where they can subscribe, pay and start using your API products.

In order to make the subscription process as smooth as possible, Project X offers a one-click login.

Create API –> Configure a product in the UI –> Get a checkout link –> Use it on your landing page or developer portal –> Cash in bank and happy customers.

It’s that simple. And no integration required.

Happy to get your feedback!
Show HN: Rolling my own website for a web novel about AI and climate
Since I'm trying my hand at a web novel about tech issues like AI and broader contemporary topics like climate change, I thought it would be appropriate to roll my own publishing system using Github pages and Python. The website also features some interactive components to engage readers in the world. (Also, making my own frontend gives me the chance to add a custom dark mode toggle)

I hope you guys find it interesting! Repo is here: https://github.com/aulddaegs/aulddaegs.github.io
Problem is with high empathy is that it affects you too. That might be pretty exhausting in a stressful hospital environment.
Yep. When they have bars, these bars are precisely meant to stop a car or motor bike from sliding under.

Bicyclists have way less momentum, so sliding under would be less of a risk, I think. They experience plenty of other risks though.
HSE has been one of the places which allowed a relative academic freedom - as soon as you don't criticise the government directly. These places existed for the whole duration of Putin's regime, and only after 24th of Feb 2022 the government declared zero tolerance to any dissent.
In that paper they use a "regular" high framerate camera. Those cameras are usually low resolution.

I guess what could be more interesting or practical: Low-res very high FPS, or very high resolution, and regular/high FPS (having more pixels would give you more sampling opportunities...).
Ahh, the old wisdom used to tell the oppressed to shut up and stay docile..

As a cyclist I hear this all the time. A thinly veiled threat, if you ask me. "Stop pointing out things that could've been better with our infrastructure or traffic culture, or I'll run you over".
Who are the companies renting out GPUs at scale? There is obviously GAFAM (which have their clouds basically), OpenAI and other startups with big contracts for said cloud services, but aside from them, which companies actually rent out dozens of GPUs to train their networks? And what do they bring to the table that makes them think they can archive better than OpenAI and GAFAM?

Serious question. I think most companies without the top talent would do better using an API product.
The blog mentions about java volatiles (but it would also apply to C++ atomic) to explicitly mention that volatile has no cache coherency implications on a typical MESI (and variants) machine. The fences required to maintain language level memory model guarantees act at a level above the L1 cache, once the data reaches L1 (i.e. the coherence point), the fences have done their job.

[I'm ignoring remote fences which are a specialized and not yet mainstream feature]
The joke was that you're not parsing the wifi frames, you're just looking at infinitesimal changes in the broadcast power/frequency. Of course I don't think this is viable in the real world but in a perfect environment it should work.
AIUI previously it required people to be logged in when doing global- or (multi-repo) organisation-scoped searches but would also sometimes show "0" or "?" in results for single repo-scoped searches via "/"--until the "Code" section was clicked.

But with all the A/B testing on sites these days it's entirely possible for two people to have very different site interactions, so... shrug
The drivers have actually nothing to do with any of what you said.
Environmental protection was historically a conservative thing. "Conservation" and all that. Free markets were a left-wing thing in the past. These things aren't set in stone.
>‘Legitimation’ of infantilism can also be related to its assessment as a protective mechanism, a way to overcome the difficulties in life. Nancy McWilliams, a psychoanalyst from the U.S., emphasized that the term ‘infantile personality’ is disappearing from the official list, which is logical; in modern terms, it’s just an alternative life course.

Fall of Rome vibes...

I'm sure the parents of e.g. "back to parent's house at 30 to find myself" types are also delighted for their alternative life course involving freeloading on them...
> pages infested with multiple video ads

I guess online ads do have a benefit for the user
I'll agree with the others that it really depends. I'm watching a family member who would like to work be unable to focus for long enough to get much work done. I suspect in his case it is pain mixed with the chemo and fatigue which makes good work difficult. Right now this is in the first couple weeks of treatment, I'm trying to be optimistic but also prepared for this to continue as treatment does. But now I have something else to watch out for I guess.

Either way, best of luck.
I'd suggest looking again - they might have lost the rest by now if you haven't been using it. They now delete all email if you haven't logged in for a year. I found out first-hand :(
They are supposed to no like things for kids and teens past 35. Or rather, past 18-20, but let's be generous.

But it's not like this is denied to them. If anything, it's too prevalent to be even shunned...
There is in software, but in hardware it's a chain with links and the weakest part will be the one to cause the chain to fail. Hence the focus on individual parts reliability and quality.
Did ChatGPT also perform the code review?
> How does that answer the question posed?

It is difficult to see a stable, liberal Russian democracy that America can and should respect without either changing its borders or massively empowering its non-ethnic Russians and peripheral regions. That’s the sort of power and wealth transfer that usually takes civil war or unconditional surrender to achieve.
How do you deal with customers that don't reply to email notifications and don't have a phone number on file?

I can appreciate how terrible must have been to suddenly find all your servers shut down, and I understand how easy it is to set up billing and forget, especially with the day to day stress of running a startup, but what would you have done if you were DO?

> our site was offline because of DO.

Or maybe it's because of the bank that expired your credit card?
> This framework for viewing ways of organizing society as equally valid and inconsequential defeats the purpose of what, I believe, social sciences are for. I don't need a taxonomy of options, I want actionable insights!

The article is describing academic research, not self-help. In this context it is perfectly reasonable to examine causes rather than consequences, and taxonomies rather than "actionable insights". Thats not to say that consequences etc aren't valid areas on inquiry, just that this article isn't examining them.
> I think this is more important to Reddit than ad revenue, as they could've simply built an SDK for probably less than this PR nightmare will cost us.

Who is "us"?
You did describe them as "dodgy" though.

Not proactively updating expired cards is dodgy. Supplying an unmonitored email address as a contact address is dodgy. Cutting service after non-payment, email warnings, and grace period is normal and expected.
SQLite seems to be gaining popularity with even larger projects which is surprising to me. As I see it, the big value prop of SQLite is that it runs in-process which, for a webapp, is almost nil?

Other than that, it's not like queries are any simpler and the "simple" type system is, in my opinion, not a feature. I get that some might disagree with that.

Is there some other reason why you would prefer it?
I use both vim and doom-emacs almost daily and jump between the two. I like using <spacebar> to call command mode in vim to do things like :tabe or :bd or
:ls etc. (I have <leader> set to , ). I have this remap in my .vimrc > cmap w<space> :w<cr>. This allows <space>w<space> to write the buffer. The second
space acts as <cr> meaning I don't need to press <enter>. Lovely.

Now, turning to doom-emacs, SPACE is the modal for getting the list of next available commands. To save a buffer in doom-emacs I use SPACE w SPACE. Et
voila, the same muscle memory works for both. BTW I also set up :ww to write/quit so SPACE W W does this in both editors. Well, it works for me!
The G-factor in IQ, even disregarding the discussion about how useful it is or isn't for humans, is not the only factor when considering non-humans.

An AI mind which can learn and intuit as well as an IQ 130 human (2σ, the tests become unreliable above that), but also comes with the speed difference between synapses and transistors (roughly the same as the difference between jogging and continental drift), has a chance to become expert at every subject.

Most of us have enough difficulty truly comprehending the domains of other single human experts; a human-upload with that much breadth of expertise will be incomprehensible by default even if they speak your language.
Reddit was born from protests and seems it could die by them. Digg users protested and migrated enmasse to Reddit. It might happen again.
Not to detract from your general point - I definitely see the value in using an IDE with a Vim plugin, and often do so myself.

> Vertical scrollbar? Plugin

If you want scrollbars, the right solution is IMO to use a GUI Vim. I often use MacVim which is great, GVim is the obvious alternative on Linux/Windows, and NeoVim has lots of options (including, arguably, VSCode-NeoVim which is also great).

With MacVim, I can pop around randomly in a terminal and open Vim instances that run in the terminal as usual - and if I start editing something for long, I can type :gui to pop up an actual MacVim GUI window. I believe the same works in GVim.

> * Autocomplete code using lsp? Dance with plugins or copy paste literal screens of configs for nvim

I was annoyed by this as well. I then discovered that ALE (the venerable pre-LSP plugin for async linting) now has full LSP support, and it all “just works”. Doesn’t require NeoVim either. Just install the ALE plugin and put LSP servers in $PATH. ALE will find and use them. (By default, it uses standard Vim bindings like C-x C-o for completion, but you can change it.)

> * Want nice looking theme? Plugin! (Gruvbox in my case)

Vim 9.x (not NeoVim) has added a built-in Gruvbox theme named “retrobox” (both light and dark variants based on your background setting). If you don’t have it yet, you can get it as a plugin from here until your Vim updates:
https://github.com/vim/colorschemes

> * Wrap long lines by whole words if possible? No default setting, I guess I need to search for plugin for that too.

There are built-in settings for this, but yeah it requires some initial fiddling to get it nice. (After that initial fiddling, I’ve been annoyed by how word wrap works in any other editor.)
> And today, no Russian nuclear weapons are targeted at an American city

>> Today, under NATO’s nuclear sharing program, the remaining bombs complement the alliance’s collective security deterrent against threats, principally Russia.

https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-u-s-nuclear-weapons...
In five years our budget-level Android phones will have both!
Yeah, Twitter is totally comparable in that case, $50 a month is exactly the same thing as however many Millions of Dollars Twitter is paying to GCS/AWS with presumably custom contracts. But just to humor you: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/twitter-is-being-evicted-f...
More a way for already engaged users to start another conversation while in the same channel. It doesn't serve the same purpose as reddit.

Regardless of anything discord does, the lack of searchability will always be a core problem compared to reddit.
> the US set the precedent for complete disregard of international (and even US) law for own benefit

Nobody followed the human rights or no-foreign military intervention chapters of international law, ever. Not in the Cold War [1]. Not in the 90s [2][3].

The one chapter that was held sacrosanct by the Great Powers was no annexing. There was Metternichean proxy governing. But no annexing. That is the red line Putin blundered through.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samashki_massacre

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novye_Aldi_massacre
We already do that during normal communication - people rarely say what they mean in the simplest way possible. We couch the message in all kinds of extraneous details. The tediousness of which is part of why some people want to use LLMs to generate messages for them in the first place.

Stripping that out might ironically reduce the need: Of people come to expect their messages to be automatically stripped of fluff, why include it in the first place?
That's true only for a very narrow definition of "tech". If I were to redefine "tech" to only include Formula-1 racing teams and constructors, then suddenly none of the top tech companies are from the US.

Am I right to assume you have never heard of companies like ASML, Spotify, Booking.com, Just Eat (takeaway.com), or Adyen?

And finally, large US companies use their capital to buy out European firms to keep pretending that all "tech" is home-grown. Skype, Nokia, ARM, NXP, SkyScanner, Shazam and Minecraft all started out in Europe.
Ask HN: The fees of talent platforms. Are they justified?
When you find someone through a talent platform like Toptal, Upwork, Fiverr, you have to pay fees. On one hand, yes "I couldn't have found the person without the platform" but on the other hand, paying again and again each time I work with someone seems old as a business model.

And I don't really care about the "help" with invoices and payment etc.

Where is this whole market/business going in the next few years according to you guys?
I can guarantee you they’re not ignoring emails from their providers, if this is the case.

Account management involves a lot of discussion and your account manager will keep the service running if they think the bill will eventually get paid.
> VisualDNA Personality - Personality - Openness - Intelligent

> VisualDNA Personality - Personality - Neuroticism - High

Damn, ok, good to know that advertisers are keeping track of how smart or messed up you are.
> Where I live (Japan) [...] the number of excess deaths in covid waves was negative.

Not in 2021 or 2022 according to [1]: "Japan had excess deaths of up to 113,000 in 2022, more than double the figure of up to 50,000 the year before, according to newly released health ministry statistics"

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/04/06/national/scienc...
It seems Intel is full of great engineers. I wonder why their latest products have been behind the competition for the last 5-6 years?
This and the commercial real estate walk aways are just wild. I never want to hear elites wringing their hands at individuals walking away from bad/upside down mortgages ever again.
2022 Silicon Valley Pain Index [pdf]
Funny to see this link here, just after I saw this site yesterday. I was forced to google how to disable custom scrollbars when I was reading the "A simple hash table in C" link from 2 days ago [1].
The site set the scrollbar width to 4 pixels which was so narrow I could just see it but couldn't grab it with mouse anymore. Totally unusable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36302552
30 years of change, 30 years of PDF
Also, I have the impression that movie making is a fairly cascade-like process. You pitch a movie, you make the movie, you deliver the movie. There are stories of extreme change in requirements, but they seem rare.

Meanwhile in IT, you pitch a movie, you find that the movie is solving the wrong problem, or doesn't have market fit, or the requirements were wrong, you adjust, repeat this a thousand times, and in the end you deliver a comic book with a qr code that links to a web series on YouTube.
Housing affordability is not an American issue though, it's happening in any major developed city across the globe. There is something else to it that isn't purely zoning laws, building codes or whatever.

My personal opinion is that it's the culmination of policies incentivising housing as an investment vehicle, I know plenty of people who bought a first house when interest rates were low (or negative like here in Sweden), taking a loan as large as possible, which in turn pushed prices up, with the assumption that house prices always grow in value. When they grow in value the plan is to sell the first house, use the gains as a down payment springboard for their next loan on a larger house, rinse and repeat until you've built wealth.

Cheap loans inflated the price of housing very fast, building new housing got anchored on that price point, and now loans are not that cheap and developers don't want to build more if prices are crashing.

I have no idea how to break this cycle without a crash/bubble popping. If a government intervenes to create cheap housing (such as Sweden's Miljonprogrammet in the 60s-70s [0]) it will crash prices. It's a massive political issue because no one who has bought on inflated prices want to see their assets devalue, no politicians would survive in their career by implementing policies that would crash house prices.

Corporate landlords are just another facet of this imbalance, they can play around with their stock of vacant homes to keep inflated prices (something that a private landlord with a few units on mortgage really can't afford to do for long), they have money to scoop up houses selling below their target price, etc.

It's happening everywhere I see, everywhere where my friends and family live at, in multiple continents... There's something broken, and the correction is going to be very painful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme
"Western decadence" isn't anything new. It's been a talking point in USSR just as much. It's a talking point in Europe. It's a talking point in the US too. The generic "${contemporary dominant / liberal culture} decadence" has been a staple of religion and philosophy since the ancient days.
These laws are usually for utilities providers to residential customers. The aim is to stop people in poverty freezing to death in winter, not to protect a business with poor operating practices.
> Why would the US want to do a Marshall plan?

Same reason we did in 1948: to preserve and strengthen a hard-won peace.

> was in full asset stripping mode in the USA itself in the mid 90s

I’ve never seen someone tie FDR’s New Deal to the Marshall Plan. Curious if there’s a substantiated link.
Well, they do solve a bunch of problems every company has, but introduce another set of problems those companies didn't have until that point.

As with anything, striking the balance and finding when to use a tool is the hardest question.
To avoid, well, this.

In general I think the west tends to underestimate how frail a young democracy is.

Western-style Democracy isn't something that spontaneously happens when a despot is removed. It takes a long-ass time for the institutions to establish legitimacy, and when installed in an environment when there's large inequalities from the get-go, things may change, but they will also stay the same.

Manufacturing prosperity through something like the Marshall plan is one way to actually let things settle in the right way.
How can I trust to put my API key ?
> People's life courses have become unpredictable. For example, people earn a degree, work, and then study again and change their profession.

When we moved to Italy me and my SO joked that people in the west have two youths: one for generally screwing around and the other for picking up their first jobs, making initial career choices etc.

Back home the age at which women give birth for the first time is lower than the EU average, but so is fertility rate - it's actually some of the lowest in the union.

And this was visible when we returned after four years - in the meantime some of our friends went the, as my aunt puts it, "marriage, mortgage, family" route, while others seemingly changed nothing in their lifestyles.

The best predictor of this that I can think of is whether someone's parents both expect grandchildren to appear eventually and are willing to provide support - be it by helping finance real estate or participating in care for the infant.
While I share a bit of this feeling, I think what he says is true. And he does bang the same drum as you say, but it doesn't change the fact that he is mostly right.
I worked for the most part in jobs related to trading - trading floors can be crazy. But once the mathematicians and modern quants arrived, suddenly everybody realized how much more powerful this slow, methodological approach is.

I think it's similar with investing - if you do it right, it's ... boring. It should be boring, long term strategy. So people feel the urge to act. Trade something. Tune your portfolio a bit. etc etc. Don't do it ! Just sit down on your ass and wait !
Oh, you can love fantasy and be highly professional, and you can be "adult" while being incredibly inmature, childish even. I prefer people that far in the first bucket.
Yes, I wasn't aware of it. Should have mentioned Banksy:(
The US, a sole world leader in the 1990s-2000s, had the responsibility and opportunity to uphold international law. Instead they chose to function as an imperialist power. Today they claim to protect international law.

EDIT: RESPONSE TO BELLOW

> Russia was already violating the human rights chapters in ‘95

Correction, Russia was already violating rights of its own citizens in 1993 [0] with full US blessings

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_cr...
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you. Quake 2 was the BEST Quake
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Musk is defaulting, student loan forgiveness is the taxpayer picking up the tab. A better question would be if those people think students should be able to default on their loans.
I'm not sure. I rather use a lightweight kubernetes or perhaps nomad than do everything that kubernetes does without it. It sounds even more complicated. But I agree that for one single postgresql isolated from everything, kubernetes is overkill.
Once Russian laughing gas stops flowing, things turn out to be really grim actually. The entire Germano-Russian Stasi-KGB swamp pulls bodies like a fierce deity.
>The answer is more, smaller, trucks / vans.

leading to more resource usage?
Coincidentally the only city in Germany that built skyscrapers.

Another exception.
> Can’t believe how pixelated OS X looks in retrospect

CRTs had a built-in anti-aliasing
I recently tried it on Quest 2 headset. Quite playable in VR!
I wonder if Apple's self-service repair program is sufficient for this?

I do like the idea of user-replaceable batteries, but I don't miss the build quality and size of those devices with easily accessible batteries.