skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of capturing the carbon to make the methane ruins your idea.
Am I understanding correctly that the enterprise license allows offline scanning, but that it's not possible for the standard tiers?

I'm using one of the other commercial offerings for a side project, and the one we went with was largely chosen based on its capacity to work in dead zones in our service area. This looks like an interesting alternative if it's also able to scan when the internet drops out.
Ask HN: Bought a SaaS company, it's going down 2% per month
Hey folks,

For the last 10 years I've been following HN, and saw how people got great answers to some hard questions here. Hope I can get one for what I'm dealing with.

Background:
I bought a SaaS company with 2 Shopify Apps, Jan 2023 with my partner. We put all our savings in and got a 6x loan to buy it. Since then we brought the ongoing cost to almost $100/m, and income is about $7k/m now (just enough to pay the loan). Also we both have day jobs. We easily work 12-14 hrs/day every day of the week.

Customers Acquisition:
We don’t spend a dime on marketing. Basically we don’t know much and Shopify app ads are just a waste of money with no returns. Our installs are pretty organic/word of mouth. We have about 80 uninstalls and 60 installs per month. Basically loosing 2-4% of our customers per month.

Our tech stack:
We have fully re-written the apps to be modern (Shopify was also pushing us by saying they are going to delist us).

Question:
We are now lost. What we should do to at least stop losing customers. Any ideas, books, sites, articles welcomed :)
There's also the opposite effect. B&M stores have limited space, and most people prioritize price over everything else, thus most B&M stores thus stock mostly cheap junk that works just enough to keep them out of the court system and keep enough customers happy to keep them in business.

Sadly, if I want a quality item, or a specialty item, and I'm out of luck.
See the study linked to in my comment above. The one where I said "weirdly people keep disputing this".

In Europe there's some geography known as "the alps" which has been used for years this way by the countries surrounding it.

Poland's environmental record is atrocious on almost every level. I guess the coal lobby must run the government or something because nobody else in Europe that reliant on fuel that dirty. They're a model of how not to do anything right.
Steam does that well, but its recommended/not recommended system is a dark pattern IMO. People tend to choose recommended even for games they don't like on the basis that someone else might like it, or it might improve in the future. Virtually every popular game has 'Overwhelmingly Positive' or similar. To get useful data you need to read the not recommended reviews in detail.

A more honest system would be 'Bad', 'Average' and 'Fantastic' - then I bet you'd get a ton more 'average' reviews.
You are free to do what we tell you!
Only 900 mph? That's nothing! Have a look at the flashlights with 100k+ lm brightness. Those are the real deals!
People needed a new twitter because they hate Elon, which is just another fad. They eventually learn to ignore his antics and just enjoy everyone else’s tweets. They always come back. Just check out Threads timing, it coincides with max Elon hate, can’t be more clear.
Ublock Origin is baked-in, as far as I know.
that is a very California way of looking at it. Non-competes don't work that way in a lot of places, and few companies outside of the largest would deem to throw that kind of compensation at people if the stock falters -- and only for certain tiers of employees.

IBM would just fire you. Ditto for most of the other F500 sphere.
If you like drama that's what you'll get. I actively unfollow people I like if their tweets are too much about politics etc. Wish there was a better way of filtering individual tweets rather than people, but basically Twitter/X is completely what you make of it.
Another book you may find useful is “when I say no I feel guilty”. It has helped me with similar issues.
Completely Automated Public Turing test to train Computers to imitate Humans Absolutely
Articles written by an AI and then summarized by another program. Nothing can go wrong here.
That’s interesting to hear and I think I arrived at a similar homiconic IR state for my tool too. I think there are some problems you might run into if you’re doing any sort of relational cascading but this sounds sane and like a good approach. Thank you for sharing!
Good point. This is actually why it’s so concerning; it’s clearly a trend, which by some measurements appears to be exploding at this point.

Kind of brings me back to people totally misunderstanding why covid infection rate graphs were concerning. You know, 10 people in your city, then 30, then 100, 500, 2000, 7500, and for the first lower numbers people are like “what’s the big deal? 30 people? Out of 2 million? Big deal”.

The risk of spread doesn’t apply to climate change of course. It’s just a seriously alarming trend line that not enough people recognize as concerning.
Could you marry the mother in laws?
It usually means their product is cheap, not terrible enough to get <4 stars, and they paid for a high search position.
https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/releases/tag/12.5...
Just use Mastodon (?).
css-tricks.com seems like a working website
Some recent books that really enriched my life:

- "Ace: What asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex" by Angela Chen. Really helped me understand my ace friends better.

- "Complex PTSD: From surviving to thriving" by Pete Walker. Helped me recover from a lot of trauma that was causing me duress

- "The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C. Mann. Helped me recover from anxiety disorder caused by climate change.

- "The Inner Game of Tennis" by W. Timothy Gallwey. As a former competitive gamer, this really helped me step back from competition and just enjoy the game.

- "Neurotribes" by Steve Silberman. Great book about the history of autism. Extremely sad but hopeful book.

- "Different Loving" by Brame, Jacobs, and Brame. A fascinating look back in time to the kink world of the 90s.

For fun I recently read and enjoyed: Foundation, Project Hail Mary (who's cutting onions in here), Going Postal, God Emperor of Dune, and Heart of Darkness.
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The cost of an underground cavern for hydrogen storage is as little as $1 per kWh of storage capacity. So in an application where the charge/discharge power is small compared to the amount of energy you want to store, hydrogen will be among the cheapest storage options, far better than batteries.
> I was amazed when disabling airplane mode on your watch did the same on the phone. At least it highlights the absurdity of airplane mode.

Yeah, Apple perhaps more than anyone else will look at "Airplane mode" not as "turn off all radios" but rather "put device into a state compliant with various aviation regulations".
Reminds me a bit of the Onion clip "High Unemployment Rate Linked to One Man with 42,000 Jobs"

https://www.theonion.com/high-unemployment-rate-linked-to-on...

EDIT: or, more appropriately, the case of Prawo Jazdy: an alleged Polish national with hundreds of speeding tickets (Prawo Jazdy is Polish for driving licence)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7899171.stm
I don't think C2 or a $200 electric grinder are going to be great for espresso. I have a 1ZPresso JX-Pro I got for like $150 and at the time at least sounded like a much better option vs C2 and cheap electric. I'm happier with it than the C2 and cheap electric I've used.
Before social media I thought yes this was something we should do.

But now after being exposed to the true collective nature of mankind, it doesn’t matter. This species is a net negative for the universe. Just a bunch of monkeys squabbling over stupid things.
Good. We will see how many supporters of “stopping misinformation” are willing to be subjected to their own rules.
Okay, what's the cost of the machine?

Because with cheap solar power, I care relatively more about the cost of the machine than about efficiency.
I'm pretty sure all countries/ commercial zones regulate whatever they want, wherever it comes from.
I know the US (single entity) regulates much from outside its borders.

France isn't 'the' Eu.
There is a knee-jerk aversion to the word blockchain on hackernews, but crypto folks have been thinking a lot about decentralized sybil resistance. If the choice comes down to WEI or a blockchain based solution, how would you feel about that option?
Wow that's a huge crater. It's bigger than the Vredefort impact structure in South Africa. The Vredefort dome is the second oldest at 2 billion years old that can be seen here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Vredefor...

And the full-sized version:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Vredefor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredefort_impact_structure
Which is very surprising, considering we have well over a century of snake oil salesmen. And (poor choice of words, I know) God forbid, the centuries of a church dominated Europe with similar stories.
Not sure about the downvotes. I kind of agree that the platform has cleaned up in the past few months. It feels more generic, clean and flat than before but also less trolly. Better and worse depend on your tastes, but I don’t think too much has been lost in the past 6 months.
It’ll probably fail at some point, but the failure mode is probably a crack and a leak, especially on the threaded connections.

That said, making this out of steel would be much safer. Seems like the person that wrote this is pretty uniquely frugal, and doesn’t value their time, so I’m going to wager that will give them a happy chance to redesign the part.

They could have done some contract design work in the time they spent on this and bought a nice espresso machine plus had some money to stick in the bank, but I suppose that isn’t the point.
> Where?

Almost the entire world? The sun is up for less than 9.5 hours in winter unless you are very close to the equator.[1][2][3][4]

And that's assuming 0% cloud coverage. In reality, places like Germany only get an hour or two of real sunshine a day in the winter[5].

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york

[2] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco

[3] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/spain/madrid

[4] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/china/beijing

[5] https://www.statista.com/statistics/982758/average-sunshine-...
That's my take.

I do my research elsewhere (which has it's own problems), and then check Amazon for specific products (and these days, they often aren't any less expensive for name-brand items).
My $0.02: Junghans solar radio watch. Analog display, smartphone app. Runs up to 21 months when fully fed. Never buy a battery again.

https://www.junghans.de/en/collection/watches/junghans-radio...
Batteries can save the grid in the short term (all those unused EVs standing around) and more and more loads are designed to be controllable by power grid operators. You're making this a bigger problem than it is. In Germany, many households are currently replacing their old fossil heating with heatpumps, and many of the heatpumps are equipped with technology that allows the grid operators to switch them off remotely within seconds.
Shouldn't I be skeptical when there is an inclination to change more than necessary?

No you should not. This is not a website where they present a new web framework that respects your browser.
I agree that 'real' verification was useful, but on the other hand removing it had the nice side-effect of 'breaking the spell' of twitter's imagined importance. People take it way less seriously now which I think is positive.
Debian and Ubuntu have similarities, but keep in mind - Ubuntu is derived from Debian, not the other way around. However, they differ in areas like release cycles, package management, and default configurations.
> I tend to ignore the 1 star reviews because, in my experience, most are either from disgruntled people who wouldn't even try to open the manual first, or absolute binary thinkers.

Eh, not always. I was once searching Amazon for a cheap popcorn maker. The cheapest one on page 1 of the Amazon search results had mostly five-star reviews, except for a lone one-star review that said the popcorn make emitted a "tongue of flame" when plugged in.

That was sufficient for me to buy the second cheapest popcorn maker instead.
Sometimes doing nothing at all is better than doing a deliberately shitty job.
About 55% in Germany. Note it is only this low because Germany has a second, alternate system of higher education (the crafts degree system), which remains a viable avenue toward high-income jobs for many. If you put academic and professional education together, I think around 70% on average pursue higher education (over 80-90% in cities). Largely for free.

No system is perfect, but the idea of paying for university (or making young people pay for university) still strikes me as bizarre and preposterous. What's the point of organized society if not providing education to improve everything for everyone?
Twitter is great as long as you aren't following political accounts. I only follow the content creators I enjoy related to my hobbies, and unfollow anyone who tends to get into political slapfights too often.

That's been part of why I've been so surprised by the reactions of people to the changes. Most of the changes have at worst had no impact on my experience.

My opinion on them has largely been "at least they're trying something different", barring some decisions which seemed boneheaded for a platform that relies so heavily on linked traffic (eg when they outright turned off/broke tweet embedding and hiding all replies behind a login).

Some changes, like paid verification, have been a net positive in my opinion. No more of twitter picking favorites, particularly since the checkmark didn't mean much anyway.

This was especially meaningful for non-English speaking Twitter, as even Japanese Twitter, despite being their second biggest audience, often came off as being treated as a second class community when it came to things like verification.
Privacy aside if it's done server side, I think this crosses another dangerous line.

With this, Google controls how content you read is summarized, they could introduce biases, intentionally or not, and I'm not sure we should trust such an actor for this.
In fairness, you should probably also link Walker's response to Guzey and others.

Some of the criticism he rebuts and some he accepts and says he will deal with it in a future version of the book.
The s100computers Google Group is pretty active and there are new designs for boards that have compact flash etc.

As far as production use? Not sure since the S100 bus is less compact and more expensive than many newer designs.
I used to get Febreze air fresheners from Walmart. The type that plugs into a wall outlet, and you buy refills for.

A couple of years after getting my first one, I got a couple more for other rooms. Suddenly, one night I woke up and there was this bright blinking blue light in the room.

Turns out that they updated their Wall unit to have a blue indicator light when a refill is needed. I could imagine the rationalization for that product decision being that reminding users to refill would increase recurring revenue.

I have now replaced all my Febreze units with Air Wicks from Costco. Cheaper, more dispersal rate options, and no silly blue indicator light.
Review bombing is absolutely "a thing".
What if I want a platform without open antisemitism (or any for that matter), and that doesn't promote emotionally charged content as much?
They don't appear to artificially, no. But like any auction, when it's a good deal, a lot of people may watch and wait until fairly near the end. I've used them before and had a very positive experience.
>> meta-analysis of 46 case-control studies

A meta-analysis draws data from other studies. It does not (and should never) support conclusive evidence.

There was another "claim" regarding PPI and dementia possible link [1] which was a meta-study as well. At least their sample (N > 5000) was large enough to cause interest, but as I like to mention, correlation does not infer causation.

[1] https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2023/08/09/WNL.0000000...
Having heat in the winter is, in fact, a biggie.
They come halfway close, but not enough pressure in the end.

They are also not going to last you very long especially if you use it a lot.
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Exactly - espresso is good, but unless you're really into it, not worth the money and complexity to make at home, save it for a treat when you're out.
I realize why it failed (everything you just iterated, plus WASM was around the corner in earnest)

Simply as a thought exercise though, it would have been interesting to see a world where Dart did produce a specification and other browser vendors saw value in implementing and maintaining with it, is all.

Its a great language with a lot of good features
> Again and again the empirical outcome of tolerating bad faith weaponized speech is the sharp reduction in the diversity of ideas and perspectives actually present in speech, by violently silencing or eliminating those who hold other perspectives.

So the problem isn't 'tolerating bad faith weaponized speech' but rather tolerating 'violently silencing or eliminating those who hold other perspectives.'

The second does not follow on from the first.

Also, what is (and who defines) 'weaponized speech'?

Likewise, who defines 'bad faith'?
The best two books I read in the last year-ish are "The Golden Notebook" (novel by Doris Lessing) and "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.

Best tech book has been "Designing Data-Intensive Applications".
> what package do I install to get this file my program is demanding?

You can install apt-file, and then use `apt-file search`.
Captchas were doomed since the transformer AIs are invented anyway.
I'm seeing a lot of people here assuming that the purpose of green hydrogen is for fuel cells / automotive transport, but I don't see many people in this space talking about that anymore (except Toyota).

Instead there is a lot more interest in using green hydrogen for industrial purposes or as a key building block for cleaner fuels like methanol. Currently green hydrogen is expensive to make and sucks to transport. But it will likely get a lot cheaper to produce in the next 10 years and you can convert it into fuels that are easier to transport.

There is recent episode of Volts that interviews a startup trying to do this: https://www.volts.wtf/p/making-shipping-fuel-with-off-grid#d...
I like websites not filled top-to-bottom with spam though.
Open since 2016! https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/8124
Isn't San Francisco very hilly? That's pretty bad for biking, it's a waste to reserve lanes for bikes if nobody will use them.
> scare of systemd

Really? After 10 years of using distros with systemd, you'd consider switching because you're "scared" of it?
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Not going to go through point by point, because this isn't a great format for longer form discussion.

In general, the points you're raising apply to edge case use of WC.

Most of your gripes are around shadow dom, and I understand that and agree with you - CSS parts and all that stuff are pretty bad. However - I don't use shadow dom. It was intended to be low level API for when you need to author with complete encapsulation.

I've been doing native WC for years and I've never run into a situation where I need shadow dom. Or slots. Or any of that stuff.

The "attributes" vs "props" thing is a html/dom issue, not a WC issue, and again - just about any rendering library will deal with it for you, the same way react or vue or whatever does. It's an utter non-issue in normal development, I write WCs every day and haven't even thought about that in forever.

SSR and lazy loading are anti-features for me. If you really want them with WC the sure, jump into a framework like stencil, but I have zero use for them.

SSR is all about SEO and FCP, and I've never really grokked it's usefulness.

If I need SEO I don't do UI SPA stuff, I just write server side, and I don't need a component framework for that. FCP (first contentful paint) is already a gazillion times faster with WC than any framework I've ever used. The whole point of lazy loading is to defer work until it needs to be done, but you already get that with reactivity - you trigger your component data load on a property setter anyway if it needs to load, and if it's just rendering off properties there's no need for a lazy load.

The TLDR is that you're making this massive straw man argument about bad API with WC, but it's for this tiny edge case of use that's only intended for library authors and such.

The 99% use case will never encounter any of that.

I could build up a big(er) wall of text about the same sort of stuff for all of the frameworks too.

When you want to do complex things - it's complex.

In years of WC work, light weight components using light DOM and a little templating library - I've run into the issues you're talking about exactly zero times.

Also, you may want to double check your understanding of frameworks use and embrace of WCs.
What’s sad is, I’ve started to predict how dumb other humans are at filling in CAPTCHA’s. Often there’s a piece of motorcycle, stair, traffic light, fire hydrant, or non-bus picture that users will mis-select, and I’ll do what I think the masses do.

I used to choose correctly but being sent through 5 chains of CAPTCHAs is modern hell.
There are more homeless per capita in Paris than in SF.
Walker agrees with you! He has said[1] he's going to add a cautionary note at the beginning of the book in a future version to warn people of the risk.

[1]: https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-...
Yes, what Mozilla needs to do remove more support from browser development and debugging, to fracture their efforts even further, to continue the line of successes that began with Persona and continued with Firefox OS.
Because I'm pretty certain most people don't even realise they exist and it's easier to grab some from the local shop when your remote dies.
> Operational workloads have fundamental requirements that are diametrically opposite from the requirements for analytical systems, and we’re finding that a tool designed for the latter doesn’t always solve for the former.

We aren't even going to consider the other direction? Running your analytics on top of a basic-ass SQL database?

In our shop, we aren't going for a separation between operational and analytical. The scale of our business and the technology available means we can use one big database for everything [0]. The only remaining challenge is to construct the schema such that consumers of the data are made aware of the rates of change and freshness of the rows (load interval, load date, etc).

If someone wants to join operational with analytical, I think they shouldn't have to reach for a weird abstraction. Just write SQL like you always would and be aware that certain data sources might change faster than others.

Sticking everything onto one target might sound like a risky thing, but I find many of these other "best practices" DW architectures to be far less palatable (aka sketchier) than one big box. Disaster recovery of 100% of our data is handled with replication of a single transaction log and is easy to validate.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/h...
Solution: dont use google.
Linux distributions, including Debian, offer a variety of desktop environments, each with its own design philosophy and user experience. If one environment doesn't suit your preferences, others might be more to your liking. It's worth exploring different desktop environments to find one that aligns with your expectations.