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Hi HN,

I've always found editing my blog via desktop editors to be inconvenient, especially when it came to keeping the repository in sync and trying to edit on the go, and relying on an external CMS or tools like the now-discontinued Forestry.io was complex to setup for simple cases and spread my website & workflow over multiple different apps. Around the same time, I discovered utterances [1] on here, a comments widget backed by GitHub for your website. Inspired by that project, I decided to build Penmark.

Penmark is an embeddable CMS for your Markdown-based, GitHub-backed sites. Penmark can be embedded directly into your website, allowing you to access a rich text CMS editing experience without external tools, and while keeping all your site's content in your repository.

It's simple to setup, embed the 3 components (Login, Drafts, Edit Post) that create the CMS experience within your site and add the GitHub app to your repository.

Once you've set it up on your site/repo, you can edit directly from your site, on the go and from any device, and let Penmark take care of all the operations needed to keep your site and repository in sync.

If you want to check it out, the code is open source on GitHub https://github.com/penmark-cms/penmark and I made a docs site to explain how to add it https://penmark.appsinprogress.com/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189923
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12023800
I know it's a joke, but I think if an SLA involved putting a CTO in stocks and throwing eggs at him then that'd encourage me to sign up for the service. Especially if the video of it were posted after every incident.

Instead we get refunded some pitiful amount when our business is seriously disrupted for an extended period of time.
Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.
Porn is legal in the same sense that Manifest Destiny, Blood Diamonds, Payday Loans, and Nike Shoes are legal.
I wonder if the internet will migrate to a radio spectrum allocation type system (I'm aware of APNIC - yes it's the same legally) where there's the Google spectrum, the MSFT spectrum etc...and they run all these enclaves but with their own credential tokens

In which case the internet we all grew up creating will effectively turn into the "Ham radio" of digital computer communications and will be effectively bandwidth throttled the way amateur spectrum allocation is

Doesn't seem crazy that something like this would be the end result
>Wind resistance increases EXPONENTIALLY with speed.

And the power required to move against the air is the cube, not the square!
That's a charitable reading given they literally wrote the latter, not the former.
My attitude with tests is not to write individual tests when I can write property-based tests. The payoff from the latter is considerable. Let the computer do the work of generating and running tests; its time is worth a whole lot less than mine.

For individual tests, say for coverage, these should also be generated automatically if possible, say by looking for inputs that kill mutants. I've backburned a Common Lisp system for doing this, generating mutants from Common Lisp source forms and automatically searching for and minimizing inputs that kill new mutants. Maybe one day I'll finish this and put it out there for general use.
Not much to chew on there tbh

I have a lot of friends in the music industry since I used to work there until recently, both back end eg A&Rs and agents as well as artists. The common sentiment is that nothing new has happened in the last decade, everyone’s wondering why, and increasingly exasperated.

So okay, hip hop.. US trap has been largely in stasis since 2008/2010 (lex lugar era). Uk drill has been in stasis since 2017.
Does 2023 Kendrick really sound much different to 2012 kendrick? Compare 2002 rap to 1992 rap.
Has someone figured out the ideal frequency / amplitude of the wave? Maybe the frequency that matches the strength of a one-brick straight wall? The pictures strike me as possibly wavier than needed.
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Ask HN: The most general, ideal strategy for SaaS success
Let's start by acknowledging that most SaaS products fail and there is no secret to success.

Irrespectively, if you were to start a new SaaS product in any industry, what's the most general advice you would give yourself in the past to succeed? Or if you think there is no general advice, pick a specific industry or niche you know really well, and explain how you would get started today.

I have a hypothesis that if you quickly gather analytics of the best performing SaaS products/services in your industry or niche and study them, you can learn how to either quickly catch up (i.e. a growing market that is not too crowded) or how to differentiate yourself.

Thoughts?
Building Robinhood's Non-Custodial Wallet While Auditing Smart Contracts
Firefox was slowly chipping away at IE market share before Chrome because IE sucked.

But Chrome was just better than Firefox when it launched so it accelerated the IE decline.
Unrelated but how do you like zeabur? Looks interesting but haven’t heard anything about it yet
The US has far more innovation than the EU. It’s likely primarily because of less corporate regulation. What would the modern world be like if we only had EU companies?
Parking assist is the very definition of bullshit convenience. In this case apparently it's dangerous as well?
I absolutely love my Model Y.

I do long road trips all the time with it. Best car I’ve owned ever by a mile.
What if an idea has value independent from an inventor e.g. someone invents it independently. Novel-ty of invention is hard to prove. There is a strong incentive towards rent-seeking beyond the collaborative value invention is supposed to provide.

There are "actual property rights" because an actual property is an actual property - owning one house doesn't mean you own them all. An idea is an abstract "property" that isn't like real estate at all, and most of the concerns highly subjective interpretation of scope and value.
I donno, Kagi has pretty much guaranteed google is now my third most-used search engine. I know I'm just one person, but I've nearly excised google from my life, and it's great.
I taught Ms Zdan's first-graders to empathize with a machine
I'm logged in, that might be why I don't see it. That's obnoxious.
Not sure I’m buying this given the complexity of Microsoft licensing tiers.

You’re arguing against bundling for dominant players. That seems pretty limiting wrt a common industry practice.

Also, Slack and Teams aren’t close wrt audience target. Business orgs won’t want slack.. dev/IS orgs will.
I found this about iceweasel, which inclines me to believe that you remembered it correctly, and the grandparent was just mistaken about the name:

> In August 2005,[11] the GNUzilla project adopted the GNU IceWeasel name for a rebranded distribution of Firefox that made no references to nonfree plugins.

> [...]

> The GNU LibreJS extension detects and blocks non-free non-trivial JavaScript.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat
Relief checks are a drop in the ocean compared to the pure, unadulterated fraud that was the PPP program and how much of that was forgiven.

I personally know companies that got 5-10 million dollars by lying about how many they employed. Any whistleblower programs out there with a reward for reporting them?
Supramolecular Chemistry
Wow I read this posted headline as general population falling, (and kind of assumed that was what many have predicted for the very elderly Japanese population etc, which partly it is) -- but the headline includes "as foreign population surges".

Should have figured out how to incorporate that into the post as it's an important additional angle in the story
Cool tech, very interested to try it out. How much 'influence' do users have on the labelling/nesting structure of the resulting JSON? Are pages parsed whole after a prompt has been fine-tuned or only scraped for the specific parts that users are interested in (i.e. selectors)? Is screen scraping possible of canvas based content?
> My 2016 ICE car's "miles left" meter is accurate to +/- 2 miles from the moment I top up the tank (80% highway driving, 20% hilly city and rolling country roads).

No way. That’d be accurate to under 1% - well within the variation you’ll get just from different air densities (temperature, pressure, humidity). Forget about A/C on or off, tire pressure, etc.

It’s gotta be tricking you somehow.
And everything was simpler, you could throw something up on a $10/month shared host. Now you need a full stack of services running in the cloud charged by the minute.
It is a startup wisdom that stagnation (i.e. no growth) means death.

The often stated reason why C-level executives are paid so well is that they have to be able to solve the insanely hard problem of finding new growth opportunities for the company over a long(er) period of time; something few people are capable of.

Well: by this criterion, many CxOs fail to deserve this huge pay (more precisely: they build Potemkin villages to pretend growth where in reality they burn the company's substance).
I'm sorry but I don't understand the malpractice here... Companies are not forced to use teams. Infact we have a dotnet house here but teams is not the communication tool. Even though it's an option..
If you find the corpse of an unlucky coyote at a crash site, you've found 'non-human biologics' and the headline would factually apply. Those words strike me as so carefully chosen as to mean absolutely nothing.
> The interpretation of interstate commerce is obviously wrong.

Eh... I mean, yes, but not in the way you want.

The constitution is clear about the federal government having the authority to regulate interstate commerce. Running a payment processor in, say, New York for customers (businesses) in California is very clearly interstate commerce. Your NY-based business is selling a service (payment processing) to another business in California. New York and California are difference states. You are engaging in commerce across state lines.

There's no consistent way to interpret "[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes" in any meaningful way that still a) gives the federal government any control over interstate commerce; and b) prohibits the federal government from regulating this kind of interstate commerce.

Wickard v. Filburn (which was overturned more than 25 years ago) was pretty obviously a stupid decision because there was nothing that wasn't interstate commerce under that ruling. I say it's stupid because why would the constitution give the congress the power to regulate specifically interstate commerce if it really meant they could regulate all commerce? That obvious contradiction is why it was overturned.

It sounds like you're asking for a Wickard v Filburn-style decision, but in the other direction: Nothing is interstate commerce. I guess they could do that if you take the Justice Thomas approach that all the rules are made up, but then what's the point? Let's just dissolve congress and the supreme court and just have the president rule as he chooses.
Room-temperature superconductor 'breakthrough' met with skepticism
If the predicted range occasionally decreases by 3km after driving 1km, well, that's the nature of battery discharge models. It's fine.

If the predicted range ALWAYS decreases by 3km after driving 1km, then the prediction is bs.
I still refuse to host HTTPS. I use HTTP.

Screw the post-1999 Internet.
Are there any material advantages gained by linux distributions by providing cli tools, vi less, entire shells? Do they gain an ability to enter and control new market segments, or ability to control standards than everyone else must follow?

Microsoft does gain an significant advantage by bundling Teams. Do linux distributions gain similar advantages by bundling shells? Do they even have similar impact on others in the industy (hh-score)? Bonus question: did they cross-finance from other sources to get the position there?
With tons of cheap energy, you can make better use of the land you have. The entirety of humanity can technically fit in Southern California. I’m imagining a swarm of construction robots running on dirt cheap power, excavating land and building beautiful AI-designed mid-rise apartments in all directions. Scarcity, what’s that? And once we have bonkers amounts of power, like from fusion, we can trivially extend cities out into the sea by adding to the landmass (though this won’t account for a majority of the scarcity reducing effect).
I don't use navigation, almost ever, after the first place I go somewhere. Therefore, the main battery estimator is just wrong. If it actually worked, as soon as you got to highway speeds you would see it half. Hiding the real estimation behind the navigation tool is cowardly
Not necessarily.

1. 18+website tells the browser age verification is needed, gives a random token

2. Browser signs a verification request with the local ID card (or a key temporality allowed to do so), forwards it to government server

3. Government server sees the request with random token, signs both, answer the browser

4. Browser forwards signed attestation to 18+website.

The government server only sees the random token. The website only has the attestation. There are other things that can be nitpicked against, but not this. For instance, can we require local ID cards? What about foreign visitors? Possibly an attestation from their passport? And of course, browsers sit in the middle and see everything.

However, this could be a useful mechanism to have. For age verification, nationality check, or even identity check on official websites. And if we have this, it's bound to be abused in some ways (Facebook could require an ID check).
Seems related to the reason Buddhism seeks to recreate the state of "Beginner's Mind".

I've found that the real emotional content is in going beyond your previous experience or comfort zone, regardless of skill level.

One thing I noticed after getting to the top international levels of alpine ski racing, was that listening to a novice-intermediate skier enthusiastically exclaim about a cool run or move that they had was nearly indistinguishable from the emotion and content of a fellow top racer telling of an exceptional run. The same enthusiasm, the same energy, and almost the same words, again and again.

While there were of course differences in the actual details, the common denominator was always having gone outside their comfort zone and succeeding. Of course achieving this after a decade+ of intense training requires much higher speed, energies, risks, skills, etc., but it still happens very regularly, and to some degree is what we did it for; competition is a continuous deliberate effort to push beyond your comfort zone every week.

But the article is right in that I'd have no clue how to achieve that again with wine/beer/food tasting, but then I'm no expert there...

edit: punctuation, para breaks, clarity
I'm saying that they weren't able to invent anything. Maybe they learned about new materials, but it's one thing to know the molecular composition of a material and another to actually make it. So, being selfish assholes, they want to keep it a secret. Government officials are more than happy to award sole source contracts when they're offered a cushy job after retirement.
The First Smart Gun Is Finally Coming to Market. Will Anyone Buy It?
And the lawns of today’s middle class are of course still about signaling, it being very humsn for people to try to raise themselves up by adopting and imitating the lifestyle and customs of the class above them. "Look, I have enough leisure time to spend on an entirely superfluous activity!" or "Look, I’m wealthy enough to pay somebody to engage in an entirely superfluous activity!"

Particularly in arid climates it’s also "look how much I can afford to waste perfectly good drinking water!"
What action specifically? A breakup? The entity that ends up owning Chrome would have to continue to pay for maintenance, at least to keep on patching security holes and responding to new laws and regulations. How is it going to get the money to do that? The Firefox way?
That's my point. I hear a lot of what you say, but I don't understand it.

In general, without some kind of qualification, deploying an image is way worse than a flat binary, or a tar from some interpreted language.
I was on the founding team of a transportation company. Personal transit is projected to be a much larger industry than what you are calling "transportation" which is actually "freight/commercial logistics", and is already growing faster.
When I looked, I got the impression that Guile didn’t run on Windows, and that’s a platform I needed to support.
https://archive.ph/d94ac
That's because, even today, gas stations are far more ubiquitous than charging stations. People who own IC cars don't pay that much attention to range because there's rarely a question that they'll find a gas station within their last remaining gallon. With electric, that's a bit of a different story, especially when you're driving a long distance, and to somewhere that's not a major metropolitan city with thousands of Tesla owners.
Clicked into this thread to post this and was amazed to find it already here. Awesome, fun channel.
This is why you have a human driver do the “busy local street” part and then have the truck drive itself for the “follow the speed limit on an almost-featureless highway for 16 hours” part.
Zero is probably not optimal but more competition isn’t always better than less.

For example there’s many more bike manufacturers than car manufacturers. But if anything cars have improved substantially more in price:features over the years.
Beyond the Apple cult, could you charge your Lenovo, Dell, etc notebooks with a standard mobile phone charger? Last time I tried with a 2022 Lenovo via USB-C it didn't work.
This page covers way more than just utility poles. Very cool page, on a strangely named domain.
I also use percentage. It's not something that I usually think about. I just know that my "real range" is 180 miles at highway speeds. That's not something they tell you when you buy a Tesla.

I also just don't use navigation if I've been somewhere more than once. Just navigate with my head..
Good link. That restricts certain specific records. I wonder if it has been challenged.

"... restrict public access of their residence address in tax appraisal records..."

If they took a mortgage on property, the document with their name is usually recorded by county clerk and recorder.
Wrong, it was bundled with software for instance. The average joe found that the launch icon of the original browser had been removed and learned that the internet had gotten a new icon. Google pushed it also via google results.

Btw, the EU has fined Google in the past for promoting their products over competitors in their search results. That was already the hint that google has gotten too big to be not in conflict of interest anymore.

The damage was done, people learned to "download the internet" from google first. And if they forgot, all Google services kept pushing them till they did.
They both write far fewer pieces. The times writes maybe one a week for the sunday review. Most of their op-eds are from individuals, and not all of those individuals are partisan shills.
I assumed that this is because this research is really intended for the benefit of marketers.
I think it'd be challenging to force anything without unwanted side effects, but there's a lot of merit to this.

Generalists tend to lack the specialized knowledge to diagnose certain things even when the evidence would be clear to a specialist.

NN based approaches have the potential to bridge a real gap here.
I've owned EVs from different brands, including Tesla. In my experience so far, only Tesla uses the naive and wildly optimistic EPA number for the range display. My wife drives a Bolt and it uses your moving average to calculate the range estimate, and it's pretty much dead-on accurate.

Tesla -could- do it but chooses not to. Put it in trip mode and it's pretty close to dead-on. Look at the consumption page and it's pretty accurate there too. Tesla elects not to use this already available information, because it would consistently show people a lower number than what the web page did when they ordered the car.
Patents need not prevent others from using a technique. Licensing is a perfectly valid option and the terms need not be onerous. Some even provide free licensing.

As a child I wanted to be an inventor when I grew up, and to me that entailed patents. While I have now learned that inventing isn’t a job so much as something that might happen along the way, filing for a patent is firmly on my bucket list. I think many people consider a patent proof of some level of novelty or ingenuity. It is some measure of achievement and a status symbol.
Are you seriously asking why they didn't immediately have every bit of information and then immediately act on it? These things take time. There are very specific procedures that have to be followed.
Chauffeurs tend to drive vehicles that are more comfortable than the back seat of a Tesla. Sitting in the back seat of any non-luxury sedan sucks.
> Require anyone who sells a new physical product have to accept returns of that physical product at the end of its lifetime

This is the correct solution
Resource extraction companies have huge investments in existing and future wells. They're not dumb -- they know that continued extraction of fossil fuels at today's rate isn't sustainable -- but they also know that their current stock price is propped up by the perception that it is.

The game here is to extend the period of time during which those resources can be plausibly exploited. Every additional year translates into trillions of dollars. Allowing the development of a popular consensus that global warming is "bad enough to spray stuff into the sky to cool the earth down" would be absolutely catastrophic, since it would also reduce the window they have to exploit those resources. These companies aren't good or evil, they're just amoral: and they'll do everything they can to prevent and delay that consensus from forming, even if (1) sulfur injection wouldn't directly hurt their business, and (2) opposing action kills us all.
Containers are virtualization without the machine part.
I feel the same way. Since the subject of this interest is alive, and endlessly diverse, the more I learn about nature, the more wonder I feel. Definitely not numb.

Maybe what needs to be a focus of this study is measuring "numbness" across different subjects of interest.
How is that any different from a ICE car?

How is the car supposed to know how much energy you might be using in the future?

Last time I checked, no ICE car has the ability to predict the future.