skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With stock images there is really only one question, commercial use or editorial use. This distinction is more often about the subject than any decision made by the photographer or platform. Like a photo of any famous person is going to be editorial, unless you get the subject's permission.

The license will be royalty free on even the cheapest microstock services
Show HN: Flight tickets for your passport and visa situation
Hello HN!

I'm Nicholas, founder and CEO of Passportal, a Ukrainian startup.

Passportal is a flights metasearch engine that shows travel requirements based on user's passport and visa situation. It allows to find routes through visa-free transit airports, see additional requirements and increase the chances of successful boarding.

Our team created this product inspired by problems that we faced ourselves - some of our team members lost money on flights through countries where additional documents are required. Later we discovered that many people encounter the same type of problems and questions about the flights.

We are actively working on improving the product, so any comments, feedback and suggestions are welcome.

https://passportal.org/hn
I think it depends on how 'easy' it is. If it was as simple as pushing a button and you knew it was instant and painless I can imagine many times in my life I would have pressed that button - and I'm sure a lot of people might do it in moments of great distress, when thoughts of the future aren't there. I think the issue isn't the "know how" as you mentioned, it's more the difficulty and uncertainty (of pain and success). Working in a place that has the tools and you know how to use them reduces so many barriers to entry so to speak.
It's not only the journalists that are in fault here.

There's a huge academic industrial complex generating this type of crap.
With CDK, I can get an ECS service up and running in the same amount of time it'd take to create a lambda function behind API gateway or triggered by SQS/cron. Deploys are easier, cost savings are real, permissions/configuration are the same level of complexity unless you're cutting corners. I'd only use ECS for stuff I know would be high sustained throughput, long duration(>15m) tasks, or things that absolutely need more persistence between executions.
> I think there are still a number if people who would euthanize their own animals.

I would lean towards agreeing with you. Anecdotes aren't data etc etc but my uncle couldn't bring himself to take his dog into a sterile and impersonal vet's office when it was his dog's time, nor could he bring himself to doing the deed himself, so he and my dad worked together to do it. For a stoic old logger, army mechanic, and construction worker, it broke him for a while.
It's surprising how Google have shot themselves in the foot with their short term thinking. Nobody trust them for anything that involves long term support on any new services/products(and several already existing products).
Tell HN: I'm creating a private group chat for solo founders
I'm thinking about creating a private group chat for solo founders as an experiment.

This whole journey is already quite challenging and lonely, especially when most people in your life don't understand what you're doing and you have no one to talk to about it.

I'm going to keep it completely free, but to vet applicants, I will ask for social/revenue proof.

You're welcome as long as you are:

* a solo founder

* have already launched a product/service

* have some customers (doesn't matter if it's 2 or 4242)

* in one way or another connected to technology (don't want to limit it to SaaS only)

There are several online communities for founders already, but:

* you don't always know who you are talking to

* there's a wild variance: some people learn programming, others are making $1M+

* it is not easy to keep in touch or keep up with particular members of that community

* some founders might be hesitant to share numbers/info publicly

* over time they tend to get overrun by marketers and spammers

If you are interested in being a part of this group (most likely on Telegram), feel free to email me: hn at jmstfv.com

Thoughts welcome.
> In the US, the latter is virtually nonexistent.

The state of Massachusetts has subsidized housing for the elderly. And they are closely monitored by social workers.

My uncle lives in one of these apartments, and whenever he goes out of town, he has to notify the social services office. Otherwise, they will open the apartment to see if everything is okay with him.

If he's gone for more than three months, he loses the right to use the apartment.

Edit: minor corrections.
Loading Llama-2 70B 20x faster with Anyscale Endpoints
Really informational for me as I was researching on the same topic now-a-days.
Lightweight is a misnomer. Running even the most basic of tasks requires an insanely complex setup with vxlan, unintelligible iptables and bridge rules, all taking up a great deal of resources on something like an embedded x86/arm devices
I really don't understand why anyone would become a vet. I love animals as much as the next person, which is why i don't understand why one would volunteer for this life.

When having the cat put down, my first thought was for the cat and my personal sadness. My second thought was, wait, you folks do this for a living?
I believe he's downloading png files from Meta, converting them to SVG, then creating the glyphs. I'm not sure what the law is on this, but there's no need for the font files to ever be on your computer. E.g., https://render.myfonts.net/fonts/font_rend.php?id=a6719376b9...
I love Rancher Desktop. Thank you!
Anybody know what bands they'll use? There must be FCC filings somewhere...
Maybe set a filter or a rule to send their emails to junk or another mailbox? Rules for email services are the best.
UBI is cannot be truly universal: you have to pay for it, which is sort of what I mean by saying it is means-tested isn't too far from the truth. Those who pay "into" UBI more than what they receive from it are "failing" the means-test here; those who get more UBI than they pay into it in taxes are "passing" the means test.

(Now, obviously, taxes are kind of a grab-bag: it is hard to see, directly, how much of your tax dollars go to any one particular appropriation. But the point stands, and I think an easy approximation would be taxes paid * (UBI paid out / total appropriations) or so.)

UBI is essentially equivalent to having a negative tax bracket, and that bracket would only apply to some people. Necessarily to compensate for that bracket, some or all of the upper brackets must go up, in order to fund the lower bracket.

I.e., if the government writes everybody a $10k check, but due to doing that I now owe $15k more in tax obligations each year … I've not in any material way received UBI, even if there's a $10k check in my account.

Like, if you just wrote everyone a $10k check per year the resulting national debt alone would be absurd…? How would that work?
Thankfully, in most cases the correct single space is rendered, regardless of what you typed.
Aside from the fact that I’m not a fan of piracy, you can’t claim something is legal when there’s a lot of wiggle room.

What it comes down to is what you can legally prove in court and that means having big foundries sue you and having to defend yourself.

Nobody wants to go through that just to use some fonts when there are open fonts available.

If you want something custom then pick a variable font, such as Roboto Flex, and customize it beyond recognition.

In fact that’s where I see the future is headed - “master” variable fonts with all the axis, variant glyphs etc. available to be tweaked.

The user then gets to play with dials and knobs and when satisfied recompile the font to be non-variable in order to shave down the file size.
Agreed. In their quest for efficiency, American roads have had some huge unexpected externalities. I love how the central areas of Europe chaotically blend pedestrian, car, and bicycle traffic which causes everyone to be more attentive and careful. In the US, our cities were built in the era of cars and not cows so conversion is cost prohibitive. For the US, I think "smart endpoints and dump pipes" (where self-driving cars are the endpoints, and existing roads the pipes) is the more promising way to a better future. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/running-conta...
I played the 5x5 and 7x7 versions on mobile (iOS Safari) and it worked pretty well; I don't remember having any issues with zooming. I switched to desktop for 20x20. I actually did have an issue with Firefox, where I could only zoom the whole page. I switched to Chrome and then I was able to zoom just the tiles.
Narwhal hopes to survive Reddit's app purge with subscription
What is the approximate value of Google's investment in SpaceX now? Would Google have to disclose if it bought more stake or sold any of its original stake?

https://spacenews.com/google-spacex-investment-is-900-millio...

(disclosure: googler, just something I've been curious about and figured someone here would have more insight on)
I got bitched out by my son from bringing home two Piers Anthony books from one of those little libraries, I told him that Anthony was pretty good before Xanth.
But I believe it's uneconomical more for licensing reasons than BOM reasons. Cellular baseband modems are an oligopoly, and so they attach all sorts of rev-share fees to use of their chips, beyond just the cost of the chip itself.
Massive price drops on Garmin Inreach?
Private equity is taking over vet clinics. In areas where they have the market locked, they raise prices
So what they used to need a pizza sized phased array antenna that draws 10 Amps for is now possible with existing hardware? A bit impossible to believe unless there's a major caveat. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to get the signal to the ground, but how can the satellites receive anything from the phone?

Regardless, if this works then infinite range robotics with just a 4G modem is now possible. Anyone wanna fly a solar powered RC plane across the Atlantic? :P
this is not a strong counter argument. Costs will come down.
When there is insanely high demand for a product (like there is here) and the thing makes people more productive, costs always come down due to pure incentives to make it cheaper.
This happened with electricity, the car, air travel, solar power, etc etc
Which insurance is it?

20000/25=800
800/12=66
Debt is fueled by greed, which human nature is prone to.
New iPhones include satellite SOS and location features. The monthly cost has not been announced yet, all phones with this feature are still in the 2-year free trial period.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213426

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/send-your-location-vi...
When the economic opportunity is so high, that is in no way an obvious answer.

The obvious answer is to change the environmentally and humanitarian disaster of no-growth politics of low-slung suburbs.
Is there any company even remotely close to competing with Starlink in the "global satellite ISP" space?

No, or anything similar with SpaceX and Tesla

But alas, I’m accused of being a Musk dick rider.
The most strange word in this short list is "vacuum", what SQL ideas might be expressed with this word?
I don't see any reason why the suicide rate among physicians and/or veterinarians would be wildly different in Austria than any other country, or globally. Even if there was, it'd have to very different to have it eliminate the 2x difference and on top of that actually make physician rates higher than veterinarians by any statistically relevant amount.
> stopping the wind with too many windmills

If you were wondering, the point at which adding more wind turbines slows the others by more than it generates (saturation wind power potential) is estimated to be about between 80 and 380 TW, depending on if you only include land but not Antarctica, all surface area including oceans and the jet streams.[1]

Total global electricity generation is currently about 3TW, and all energy is about 20TW, so there's quite some headroom there!

Also illustrates the massive civilisational scale undertaking to electrify the world: rebuild electrical capacity maybe 5 times over.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1208993109
" the caveat that "the time" was when she wouldn't eat for three days."

Same as my cat. We were trying to force feed her and eventually she couldn't breathe when she choked on her food.
Tried it out. Made an account. Looks like syncing between Mac and Windows at least isn't working correctly, on the same network. Really like the idea and am eager to hear about future development.
99.9% of my clang invocations are from the build dir of the git tree I'm working on, so I could be missing something known to others on the distribution side - but let me try my best answer.

Firstly, as you probably know the Clang/LLVM model is quite different to gcc/binutils in terms of build-time configuration. Any clang can target any architecture (unless it was disabled at build time) using --target=$TRIPLE (see <https://clang.llvm.org/docs/CrossCompilation.html#target-tri...>). In practice it's not as useful as it sounds of course because you need appropriate sysroots. You can control the default with LLVM_DEFAULT_TARGET_TRIPLE, but without patching clang it's going to enabled compressed for the riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu triple. I think the standard way of controlling other default flags would be to deploy a configuration file <https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#configuration-f...> - though I'd need to check which logic took precedent if you explicitly passed --target=riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu. Ultimately we'd need to change the meaning of the current linux triples, or decide upon new ones I think.

Thanks for sharing that doc - really helpful. I don't know if it's different with GNU as, but not that if a file contains `.option rvc` that _isn't_ sufficient to set the EF_RISCV_RVC ELF flag with LLVM. Additionally, I'd imagine in general that people using .option in inline asm may see different behaviour for Clang vs GCC. Clang doesn't generate assembly output that then gets passed to the assembly - ELF emission happens directly (of course, with the assembler being invoked as needed for inline asm blocks), and so it's rather difficult to replicate the effect you'd see with GCC generating a .s file that's then assembled.
Where is this happening? I can tell you in CA, new exurbs are coming online, not depopulating.
The reactions to this absolutely minimum possible move - "don't drive a specific kind of car in this tiny high street area unless you really need to" - are ranging from disingenuous to genuinely unhinged. I have no remaining hope for transit policy.
Webfont pricing is always so weird to me. No one sees a massive spike of traffic on their site and thinks "Oh no! My font license only allows 100K visits a month! Shut it down!".

However, as an art form, typographic design gets the short end of the stick in terms of protection and how people treat their work. There need to be a middle ground right? It's not exactly easy to make a GOOD font, and I'm happy to pay for one if I'm respected in the license.

I like the license Matthew Butterick uses for his fonts. [0] Some things are still a little... odd. (A word file using the font can't be seen by more than 20 people.) But the web font licensing is perfectly fair. (To be used on 3 publicly accessible websites, and embedded using WOFF2 only.)

[0] https://mbtype.com/license/
1. Only if we're talking about a big company being the source

2. How can a company prove that you were the one who leaked it? hell you can sell the code anonymously.

3. Unless the dev is a junior or sucks, he should have access to information about the strategic vision or the slides detailing this and other interesting info
https://www.sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html
I guess we'll know pretty soon, with the availability of the Intel Max with HBM whether it's that simple?
Albuquerque by Weird Al if you're wondering
Anyone know how this compares to odrive[0]?

[0]: https://www.odrive.com/homepage5b
> YOShInOn (my agent)

> and YOShInOn models my preferences.

I don't know what this means. What does this mean?
SOS only being a key point I missed in my first post. Yes, thankfully they are launching it, but SOS only is a drag.
I'm sorry, what? My TV is phoning home over the cell network?
The major caveat is extremely limited bandwidth.

They are basically putting an LTE cell tower on the satellites. This can be used for very low-bandwidth applications, starting with just text messages.

They are not providing 100MB+ broadband via this connection.
does that mean internet in plane ?
Capitalism at work yet again. Which requires informed consumers. Obvious response is to keep users in the dark.
Utilities, risk of vandalism/squatters (where depending on your location can be a real pain to get rid of), tax, mortgage payments. There are very fringe scenarios where using a such a facility as equity on another loan depends upon maintaining a certain occupancy rate in the building. I can imagine all of the above causing stress depending on your income situation, expense obligations, indebtedness, and proximity to the building in question.
RIP AST SpaceMobile
> But downloading the entire copyrighted font file, generating a character sheet from it and clipping the individual characters from that sheet

That's not what this project is doing. It's extracting the characters from already published pictures, without touching the original font files at all.
Ten Cents per Terabyte
That's an extremely easy thing to say from a place of privilege, and of course there is some truth to it. On the other hand, how many chronically broke and miserable people out there are only hanging on for love of a pet (perhaps the only consistent source of love and meaning in their adult or entire lives)? I'll bet its a lot. But fuck them, they're poor so I guess they should either tough it out alone or die.

Sorry to be so harsh about it, but your comment lacks basic empathy so I figured I'd give you a little dose of same.
I was under the impression that COBOL's English syntax was intended to be a more human-readable approach, not so much a workaround for character set limitations.
> Questions about the "harms" of unfiltered information access aren't reasonable

Can you clarify why they are not reasonable? Peer threads to this one provide examples of how speech can sometimes cause harm, and how some categories of speech are already regulated for that reason.

> The people asking those questions are being disingenuous

I don't doubt some have a hidden agenda. But I believe from my own experience many are trying to find new common ground now that previous assumptions have been thrown into question.

Twitter and Facebook, for example, aren't at all interested in regulating speech; they'd much prefer to be out of the business and continue the much easier task of "collecting attention rent by selling eyeballs to advertisers." But the messages that flowed over their networks during the January 6th attack were enough to make their leadership concerned that they could be hauled in front of Congress to testify about aiding and abetting treason. They want bright lines on this stuff because they don't want to be in prison.
When you load this page you are assaulted by a pop-up that states that healthy forests don't burn. This is categorically false. Healthy forests burn via frequent low-intensity fires.
Be there.

I have had a cat die unexpectedly (heart failure) and she was in the car on the way to the vet when she died. She held on in the back seat until I was able to pull over and be with her. She was looking for me. You owe it to be there.
TWELVE YEARS AGO! find a new complaint.
"Guns aren't lawful", after reading that line I thought she might be British, but it looks like she's American. Were gun laws stricter back then or something?
AWS is really no better. Both consoles are a mess in their own ways. CLIs are really what matters, though. In general, I have found the GCP command line (“gcloud”) easier to work with.
Microsoft takes another run at closing Exchange brute-force security hole
Don't start with Vulkan, it is extremely complex, and even seasoned graphics programmers have a hard time with it.

Its purpose is to give as much control as possible to 3D engine developers. If you don't want to use an engine and don't want to make an engine, OpenGL is still the answer, and I don't think it will disappear anytime soon.

If you want still want to learn Vulkan, at least use something simpler (like OpenGL) to get familiar with the basics, it is simply too much for a beginner.
It’s not SOS only. You can also update your location in the Find My app, so your friends/family can keep track of you on a backpacking trip.

With iPhone 15, they also introduced the ability to call for roadside assistance from AAA via satellite too. (I’m not sure if this is also available on 14 now or not.)
> "You can host the font file on your server (browser must obviously download it) but you cannot actually distribute it - whatever that means, it could be risky with open source apps for example"

I ran into this exact issue as well. I can only imagine that there's some obscure legal nuance to this where if the font is loosely accessible then somehow the enduser gains some sort of rights to it.

In some dialogue with the rights holder, they were perfectly cool with the font being embedded in the .exe itself, which makes the font trivially extractable - as they understood, but were simply insistent that the font not be directly distributed to users as a stand-alone file.
Sigh. Yes, I am aware of the technicalities you describe. I thought my point was clear without my needing to be pedantically accurate.

In many languages (even in JS!) you can just map a function point-free, rather than having to introduce a variable just because syntax demands it, or worry about which syntax to use depending on if the "function" you're calling is a method on the object being mapped or something else. It's all noise.

> you can do that without an expllcit block already, by using the Object#method method, which returns a Proc that is equivalent to calling the method:

> users.map &method(:do_something)

Again, I am aware, and the ugliness of that solution proves the point I was trying to make -- it is even worse than the block syntax with a variable.
I've been doing Android development since 1.0, many Android developers are unhappy with the abusive "relationship" they have with Google, because of their control over the Play Store, your developer account, and resolving things if they come up. I'd pick any non-Google tech if there was an alternative.
> But alas, I’m accused of being a Musk dick rider.

The fact that you feel compelled to add this unbidden disclaimer says more than the disclaimer itself.
Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy gave a speech 13 years ago saying Kashmir was never an integral part of India, and New Delhi just announced she is going to be prosecuted for her speech https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/booker-winner-a...
Yeah, they are slowly rolling out new features like this year they added roadside assistance requests.

Having a limited number of plain text message requests would be nice as well, maybe there will be more options once they add paid tiers.