skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm willing to take until the end of summer working on it full-time and exploring other ideas adjacent to it, but I can not justify working a lot longer on it without any significant revenue.

If you’re picking up one paying user per week and there are what, 10 weeks of summer left, then you’ve kinda already answered your question.

If you enjoy doing it and have a vision, I’d recommend seeking a more reliable source of income and keep nurturing the project. The worst thing you could is put all of your eggs into that one basket now and not get the kind of sustenance that you need.
> Why do pedestrians in Sydney wait so long at traffic lights?

They don't immediately cross when they get a walk signal?
I saw a Javan Rhinos the other day. He seemed to be doing pretty good.
By the article's infographic, it's 4.6% of Android users. Anyone not using FireFox Mobile on Android 7.0 or earlier. Some, but not major.
Sickening is hardly the word for a comms lead of Stripe being the first reply to a post about a customers issue, complete with some informative context and saying they will double check the issue.
Rose: Open-source compiler infra for source-to-source and code analysis tools
I love this. There was a school that had this model, it failed, but it did try.
In my opinion these are largely things that the average UI designer should certainly be aware of, but should also not be concerned with reproducing or reinventing.

These low-level interactions are part of the operating system substrate for most applications. Like with the desktop UI before mobile, conventions have been established by the platform creators, and the application UI designer’s job isn’t to second-guess how a checkbox works or how pinch-to-zoom works. Adding your own unique personal animated touch might feel delightful and fun, but more often than not it’s just confusing to the user. (There are exceptions of course — some apps have a user base who thrive on discovering surprises and figuring out the unexpected. But the typical SaaS or mobile ordering app isn’t that.)

The word “design” itself has become somewhat misleading about what the purpose of this job actually is. “Information architecture” was always a better description of the actual bulk of the work.

Architects don’t generally spend any of their time inventing delightful door knobs that turn in unexpected ways. But user interface professionals tend to focus on the micro. Design systems often seem to be just another avenue to tinker with the details of button border styles and similar decorative flotsam.
> Holmes, who once boasted of having $4.5 million at the height of her supposed success, now claims to have no money

I believe her claim was “billion” not “million.” Although I suppose the distinction is irrelevant at this stage.
You mean Apple Vision SE
I love SyncThing and haven't even considered this as a use case! Thanks!
Re: #1. Found an example using complex numbers. Still can't think of one using the reals though.

EDIT: learned about "diverge to zero", where the product goes to zero but the series is still said to "diverge" (since the sum of logs diverges).
Thanks. Do you have info about requirements of the security audit and other prerequisites to get the PDKs?
I’m currently using iCloud. It’s great, but the E2EE comes with the huge caveat that they scan your photos before encrypting, against a giant unaccountable database of hashes for bad stuff.

Even though I totally believe that the current set of hashes really does represent truly horrible stuff, I also suspect that it will expand over time to include anything that threatens those in power. In other words: they are coming for your Bernie memes.

So I would like to have a more secure option that doesn’t depend on the whims of the powerful to decide which images I’m allowed to own.
building software moats for the current generation of B2B SaaS
Picasa could do that too 2014, single threaded. (And is probably still better)
Around the kick-off of the last big recession, articles started showing up about how refurbishing companies/liquidator were great investments during a down market. Same with the big recession before that, too.

I wonder if this is the trend is repeating... I don't know, but it makes me think it might be bad for a few years.
Based on their 2021 (most recent year available) Form 990 (nonprofit public tax filing) [0] they paid Identrust $434,000 for "Internet Services." Not sure if they are getting more than just the cross-sign from Identrust - but it seems likely that may just be what they are paying for the cross-sign.

In that same year, their total expenses were $5.1M - so that expense would make up almost 10% of their budget.

[0]: https://beta.candid.org/profile/9328188?keyword=46-3344200&a...
That purely depends on your service, how much it costs vs how much time and resources they waste with customer support. We've dropped clients that were morons in the past because it was cheaper for us, and sometimes just because it was just really annoying to deal with them. It depends where you draw the line and what you can afford.
> I have a hypothesis: this pattern is so common for the simple reason that Java doesn’t have first-class functions.

Exactly correct.

See also "Execution in The Kingdom of Nouns"
Betas don't need a rapid response; people running beta can wait.

Though for all you know this bug doesn't even exist in the newer versions. Or the mitigation was already in the beta but this rapid response required an extra day for testing as it is being shipped to users.
To be fair, at the founding it was 14+14, so 15 years absolute isn’t without precedent.

But I agree about the modern political situation around copyright.
Everybody discriminates against the middle class, the rich have bailouts, the poor have handouts, the middle class pays the taxes to help the other 2.
It's hard to make legitimate money from hosting porn. Most people don't want their ads next to porn, so you either need to have sex-related ads or a subscription fee.

Twitter and Reddit have kind of built legitimate businesses on porn hosting, but they also host a lot of non-porn that makes them seem more legit. Tumblr wouldn't have that.
Not a whole lot of point if you dont care about active attacks. Active attacks aren't that hard. With the exception of mass survelience in the usa almost all attacks you actually care about can easily be active.
For me it took some time. Finishing Nix Pills was enough knowledge to start looking into nix and nixpkgs manual and understanding it.

I still get frustrated that some new features that are being added are undocumented, though I also noticed that the nixpkgs documentation by default is set to last stable version. This means changes could be delayed by even 6 months. And given how rapidly nixpkgs change that could be the reason.
>> We do not collect name or any identity related personal information.... The rest of the demographic data like age, location, preferences, etc are used for users to be able to conduct segmented audience queries..... Example: I want to ask a parenting question, to women between 30 to 45 years of age on Chicago area...

Ok, so you able to identify user as living in Chicago area, by sex, by age, by email, but you still do not collect name or any identity related personal information? What kind of magic is this? Age, sex, area of living, email is definitely PII.

>> By the way, we do not intend to sell data or rely on ads business model.... So, the user data is safe and not going to be exploited like on many other social media platforms.

Many other social media platforms made this promise too at the start. Is there any reason to believe you that this will not change in a year, or after successful acquisition by some big player? Can you put it into ToS?
For many people, there won’t be a next time. I definitely wouldn’t recommend this SaaS product for any serious work load.

Maybe once they mature their ops, I may revisit them.
If you do, let me know how it goes. I've been working using photoprism, like it plenty, but would love a comparison.

Getting rid of all of the Google dependencies in my life is... Ugly. I would really like to still trust Google. I just can't anymore.
IANAL, but I read the openai api TOS earlier today, and they keep data for up to 30 days for "review" and multiple people can get access to it. If I had confidential data I would not send it to them. Microsoft on the other hand seems to have a option where absolutely no data is stored for their openai service.
> Let's take a second to remember

This is emotionally manipulative speech that provides no value to HN and only serves the purpose of bypassing peoples' logical reasoning circuits.

> ~every child doesn't have access to ~every book ever written

More manipulation - "think of the children!"

Copyright exists because people who produce content with low distribution costs (e.g. books) need some protection for their work being taken without compensation.

Fundamentally, you are never entitled to someone else's work.

There's already tens (hundreds?) of thousands of books in the public domain, and tens of thousands more under Creative Commons licenses (where the author explicitly released their work for free distribution). There's lectures on YouTube and MIT OpenCourseWare. There's full K-12 textbooks on OpenStax and Wikibooks. There's Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, the Internet Archive, and millions of small blogs and websites hosting content that is completely free.

There is no need for "a majority of the world had access to every book ever digitized" - and it's deeply morally wrong (theft-adjacent) to take someone else's work without compensating them on their terms.
Chinese, Turkish & Catalán. The marketing is awesome.
As someone who just started web dev management in my mid-20s, it's hard. It's hard to do _right_. It requires being able to support, build rapport, guiding but not nitpicking or micro-managing, etc. And it requires being able to work with people of different experience levels. I never want to go full manager, I love coding. But I do derive some pleasure from being a supportive manager. I think it's specifically because I've had some lackluster managers in my past.

A good manager will provide challenges to you. They will support you enough to allow you to grow while having the time and energy to do so. So many managers out there just dread their work and come to work for the paycheck. A paycheck is great, but loving your job is almost as important when it comes to being a good manager.
+1 for SyncThing. It (now?) works effortless on my phone and having your screenshots and snapshots automatically on your NAS and PC to process them there is fantastic.

Didn't use the "rolling trashbin" feature yet but need to look into that
Are you using SyncThing on iOS?
Mostly true, but you can do a lot of direct development work now with .NET hot restart:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/ios/hot-restar...
PhotoSync is pretty nifty where you can auto sync while charging at a location (ie home)
Except that composition doesn't give you polymorphism.

I always though that dichotomy missed the point. You can give-up inheritance for generics, for interfaces (as if those were a different thing), for type classes, or for type ducking; but you can't give-up inheritance for composition because the only thing composition solves is code reuse.
I always wonder if we could draw some parallels between an universe and a simulation.

Time -> reason why universe is expanding

Lots of quantum mechanic problems -> something that actually in theory could be simulated - but "lots of stuff is happening at the same time" (tons of fields and particles flying around, so things are "unpredictable")

Particles are not particles but manifolds

Time slows down around heavy objects like black holes - the same way servers slow down when they have this massive battle of thousands of ships in Eve online -> it is difficult to run a simulation

So the question would be, can we escape one layer up -> to the virtual machine what is simulating our reality? Same way some program can escalate privilege and see what is inside the system.
What would be a good way to escalate privileges and break free from a virtual machine? And by this, I mean the theoretical machine that runs our reality?
Good question.

The way the platform is designed makes it hard to implement ChatGPT or other AI services (at least on an automated manner) because the person that asks the question selects the media format he wants the answers back. On top of this, each person that answers does not pick the questions he wants to answer, we do the matching.
So one moment you're being asked to answer in text the next in voice and the next record a video. It's very human interactive.

As for filtering trolls and stupid people, you can upvote, downvote, and report 1)trash content or 2) offensive content.
Our algorithm constantly takes all of this and many other metrics to determine the better performing people and filter out the opposite.

The way the moderation system works is the following:

Any user may report content as 1) trash content or 2) offensive content.
A report immediately triggers a task that packages the reported question on a poll asking if the content is in fact what it has been tagged as.
The poll is presented to other users in the platform to validate if the content is or not what it was tagged as.
If it is, then the content is censored and the user faces consequences in his score up to eventually being banned.
It is ok to give your point of view even if someone does not agree with it. That is not trash nor an offense.
The purpose is to be able to be completely open and candid without being offensive.

Teenagers asking about sex... Well as long as its not offensive or disrespectful it is fair play. Even adults ask about sex and this is a place where you can do so comfortably and not be criticized.
Whats brittle about DNS? Caching?

BGP and us-east-1 fair :D
I feel like these posts should be disallowed. Seems like Stripe is using HN as a free help forum, and it's customers have accepted that this is the place to go when you need to talk to a human. I don't think HN should encourage it, and I don't know why we all play along. I've seen a solid handful or two of these posts, and most of the time users aren't looking for discussion, only enough attention to get the Stripe team to act. My opinion only, obviously I sympathize with OP whose just trying to get their money and this seems to be the tried and true way to get a response, but I definitely don't think it adds anything positive to the site other than a recurring warning to other would-be Stripe customers.
Yes agreed, tooling abounds, the work for anyone who's serious about this is customizing everything so it works with the idiosyncrasies of the documents and questions a customer has. I'm happy to talk to anyone who is interested, we are doing something like this for a company now.
Related: "Microvm, qboot and feature reduced qemu in ubuntu" https://cpaelzer.github.io/blogs/009-microvm-in-ubuntu/
They were only profitable in 2018 and 2019, all the other years, they were loosing money

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/
The Birth-Weight Pollution Paradox
What do you enjoy most about software dev? Open source is great for basically any area of software development, you could create some PRs to existing projects you find interesting. I'm a frontend dev but recently enjoyed learning about Deno and built a tiny blog using their Deno KV service, I'm now trying to built a super basic sandbox like codepen using Cloudflare Workers and KV.

If you're not a fan of serverless, fly.io or render.com are great for hobbyist projects.

Also ChatGPT can be great to help work out a project idea.
This is a logical error.

The benefit of automobiles is that people move across vast distances.

Wrong. People used to move across vast distances before, using horses. Yes, automobiles are better and now traveling is easier. But we have no ability to figure out how many people would travel on horses if there wasn't a better alternative. It's even possible, that banning cars could eventually lead to an even better method of transportation (escaping a local minimum kind of a thing).

Authors who write books have tools to protect their interests, so they do so. Without these tools perhaps there would be less authors. Or maybe there would be more authors: I think Windows and Photoshop are so popular because they were pirated a lot; returning to the context of books, less and less people read them, but maybe if books (attractive books, not old books in public domain) were free, then the trend would reverse, books would popularize, people would start enjoying deeper entertainment, get smarter, transform the society for the better, and support authors on e.g. Patreon… Or maybe not, I'm just mentioning some nuance.
There is an alternative rail of nutritional science, you might call it the alt-right of nutritional science, that is taking a second look at the research (or dearth of such) that was used to develop the current mainstream canon of saturated fats bad, statins good, etc.. and presenting a competing case - and cause(s) of obesity, metabolic syndrome, high cholesterol, CV disease, etc.

If you read enough you sort of absorb it, someone else can cite some good reviews I'm sure. I will just drop a few names here if you want to investigate - Rhonda Patrick, Eric Berg, Peter Attia...

Edit: here is a published review, just the tip of the iceberg https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.077
Reminds me of doing the same on a Commodore 64 with its 6502 processor in the mid-1980s. Typed in the program from a magazine. I don't remember if inner loop was in Basic or assembly language. Had to leave it running overnight to see a 160x200 image with 4 colors the next morning. I was surprised that this worked at all.
My grandfather's records were in there. We found out when he died.

Through his entire life, he always told us that he was "The company clerk, like Klinger" during his time in WW2. When he died we found his discharge papers, which among other things listed his two medals for valor. As far as we know, they don't give medals for valor for processing paperwork.

Sadly, we will probably never know what he did to earn those medals, as anyone who might have been around then would be nearly 100 years old or more, and as the article says, the records went up in smoke.
It really depends on what you mean by that. Plenty of people get bachelor’s degrees with little to no civics or history education included. And historically, college degrees were rare. Only 28% of the Silent Generation had any college. Now, 67% of Millennials do. Did democracy not function before?

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/02/14/millenn...

However, to the extent that education enables better income opportunities I agree. Education can reduce economic inequality which is a huge barrier to social cohesion and civic trust. However education isn’t the only path to better wealth distribution.
https://twitter.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/15806571095488225...

"RUMOR: Why Meta removed the Depth Sensor at the last minute

It allowed you to see people without clothes. It was not it's purpose, but during testing: someone noticed that by using the sensor someone could develop “creeper apps”

Privacy chaos, they prefered to skip the sensor
"
The Marine Corps minimum is 35.

And it isn't "x/100," i.e., got x questions right and everything else wrong. It's xth percentile, i.e., better than x% of graduating high school seniors.
> Nothing was stolen- just copied.

This typical semantic-pedantry line from piracy apologists misses the point - piracy is theft-adjacent even if you get to pick your use of "theft". Incidentally, my definition of "theft", and that of most content creators, includes the act of consuming something without compensating the creator on their terms - which includes piracy.
I really think it’s best to leave such metaphysical speculation out of it (or rather leave that to metaphysics.) Sure it could be right, and reality is definitely weird as hell, but it just seems like theology to me when you start pushing such things as fact when nothing says it is.

Don’t get me wrong I have weird beliefs about the universe too but I would always stress they’re my weird beliefs and not something we’ve proved. The many worlds interpretation is pretty mainstream at this point and it leads the masses to believe it’s either true or that scientists are batshit crazy. Not a good look imo.
I never encounter it -- so on some level, Twitter is managing it well. If people who don't want it aren't seeing it, and those who do, are, then it's working.
MEPS stands for "Military Entrance Processing Station" and it's where you go to do a bunch of checks to see if you're fit to serve. It's also often where things like the ASVAB (Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery) and DLAB (Defense Language Aptitude Battery), basically aptitude tests are held.

It's where you do testing, select your contract, swear in, leave for basic combat training or boot camp, and also do physical examinations, including some kind of odd ones, like duck walking across a room in your underwear with a bunch of other men.
PhotoSync does not have autobackup for iOS last time I tried. Did this change?
The reason this is tricky is that Wickard v Filburn is just a terrible, terrible decision. It massively expanded what the federal government can do, without a bright line of any sort to limit it.

These things, imho, are rightfully within the purview of the states to implement. However, should the federal government declare there is a national interest (justification) for national regulation, then per court precedent it would compel the state to change. I do not believe there is any sort of jurisprudence for "grandfathering in" existing state laws. Just as prosecutors have discretion over what cases they actually prosecute, the government may choose to look the other way when state laws overlap the feds jurisdiction.

If they tried, though, the state would still have the recourse of attempting to go before the supreme court, which would involve upending existing precedent. I suspect the current court would be about as favorable towards limiting the interstate powers clause as it gets, but it isn't a given by any means.