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Show HN: embolt.app – We Make Running Clubs Easier
Hey HN! Grant here, long time lurker and first time co-founder of embolt; we're the quickest way to bootstrap your next member-funded club, league, community, etc...

Running member-funded communities is a time consuming and tedious process. Figuring out who sent you money, who your members are, who needs to renew, and how your community has grown can become next to impossible over time without the proper tools.

My co-founder Gabe and I started embolt after our frustrating experiences serving on non-profit boards and the lack of available tools we had. Membership management is not a new problem, but the solutions out there today are too focused upmarket. The industry is very much positioned as B2B -- you contact a sales rep, schedule a product demo, negotiate a contract, and receive the software after making a month-to-month commitment.

What makes embolt different is we're focused on the top of the funnel, the leaders of tomorrow's communities. We've built our platform to make bootstrapping a new idea, or onboarding an existing one a seamless self-service experience. We've even partnered with PayPal through their partners program so you won't even need a bank account to get started.

We've officially launched this week but already have a handful of clubs using us to manage their members, I'd love to get some feedback or thoughts from the HN community, thanks!

[1] https://blog.embolt.app/p/embolt-is-a-member-management-plat...
I agree and think that 99% of people are stupid and evil lol
Microlensing events! (to be slightly more precise)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet#Microlensing

- "They found 474 incidents of microlensing, ten of which were brief enough to be planets of around Jupiter's size with no associated star in the immediate vicinity. The researchers estimated from their observations that there are nearly two Jupiter-mass rogue planets for every star in the Milky Way.[26][27][28] One study suggested a much larger number, up to 100,000 times more rogue planets than stars in the Milky Way, though this study encompassed hypothetical objects much smaller than Jupiter.[29]"
You are correct that I did not address the merits of the lawsuit. Reason is because I dont care about and also because a lawsuit means legal discovery, something OpenAI and Microsoft can't afford. The lawsuit can have merit but will be settled out of court...Mark my comment... :-)

Billionaires motives, their weird obsession of saving the world, and damaged psyche's that drive a never ending need, for absurd accumulation of health, have a direct impact on my daily life, and are therefore more interesting.
Ok, I confess, I'm not an npm user. If the answer to my question is obvious to npm users then please feel free yo ignore this.

I've read the article twice now though, and I don't understand the pain that jsr is out to solve. I read about design goals, how npm is old, and so on. And a list of features. But I'm not really seeing the "pain" - or perhaps its simply taken for granted.

I feel this is a common theme when programmers build things. See how many features we have. See its all nice and shiny. And that's great, but you haven't hooked me.

On the other hand when someone pitches paid, and i identify with that pain, its easy to get on board.

For example, Web Server certificates cost money, you have to manually waste time getting them every year. Getting them is jumping through hoops like a trained seal.

LetsEncrypt is a free, automated system that just works after a one-time configuration.

This is an easy sell (to me) because you've identified my pain and offered a solution.

In the JSR case its a good description of the solution, but I'm not yet feeling what the pain is.
> And don’t get me started on the terrible foray into the ethics of suicide that came out of nowhere.

More correct term would not be suicide, but euthanasia as it is 'assisted suicide' [0]. The Roman Catholic church (and iirc the larger Christian church historically, including Eastern Orthodox) teach both as evil. But I make the distinction because euthanasia - with its larger inter-personal concepts - is the more appropriate target for the story which is pretty focused on the interplay between Western Christianity and Western science.

Throughout the book society struggles with Christianity and church authority, with handling newfound physical power via tech and tools (that spring from the church's efforts), and with how society and the church handle large-scale societal pain. The handling of societal pain part is sometimes more alike between society and the church, sometimes - like with euthanasia you mentioned - more like battle lines.

So the 'foray into ethics' is like the very heart of the book. Not trying to persuade you to like the book, but hope it helps at least understand what you're disliking. If I sound passionate it's only because this is what I like about the book. There are parts I don't like and really don't even get, but at least I appreciate this sort of science fiction that deals with real stuff that I and others have to work through.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide#Definitions
This website is the one of the rare times where safari’s reader mode that changes the font was super nice to read.
What's weird is in my town prices skyrocketed at the Safeway but stayed low at the WinCo.
Unless KamilaLisp specifies exceptions to the GPL, it means that if you ship your own KamilaLisp program in a way that is combined with KamilaLisp (for instance compiled into one big executable that includes the KamilaLisp run-time) then the entire combination has to be distributed under the GPL, meaning that your program has have a GPL-compatible open source license.

Programs that are not combined with KamilaLisp, only requiring an installation of KamilaLisp for their execution, almost certainly don't have to be GPLed.
Don't forget that morse is still used by amateur radio operators worldwide.
I was looking at the EliteBook 845 G10 which has 32GB of DDR5, Ryzen 7840U and a SIM slot(!) that I could get locally for €1200 and potentially get a discount if I return my old laptop. I think it's a good value for the price. What else do you suggest?
Indeed - and the Oort cloud itself extends to about 1.5 light-years, which is a substantial fraction of the ~ 4 light-year distance to our nearest neighboring stars.
'It feels like we've been lobotomised': the possible sexual consequences of SSRI
Interesting take from the side of the receiver of the cold emails or DMs. HOpe you're doing good this fine day.
I also found reading books "backwards" is faster. So you start with the conclusions and main points then work your way backwards to understand how it arrives there. I wouldn't recommend it for beginners (those reading their first books), but for non-fiction I can digest any book in a few days.
Get a load of this guy.
Maybe this is more begginner than youre looking for, but I saw this one ("Lost at SQL") here on HN last year.
https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/
This is cool but have you seen barcode scanner music? https://youtu.be/2CvnajExX-A
A seemingly obvious question is whether dark matter could provide an equivalent result. I'm not really sure, but the paper's authors seem to be saying 'no' in this passage:

Equations (B2), (B5), and (B7) are the main results of this section. They provide an expression for the phantom mass that sources anomalous effects in the inner solar system. As discussed above, these effects are absent in Newtonian gravity and hence absent in any dark matter model.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could comment on this?
I find it awesome (not in the good sense) that the air my parents breathed as children contained substantially less carbon than the air I breathe today. I've also read that the weight of carbon we've released into the atmosphere exceeds the weight of all the built world we've created on the surface of the Earth.

That is to say that we've already altered the atmosphere immensely. Watching Carl Sagan or reading James Hansen's work the the 80's makes it clear that we had a good understanding of the consequences even then. The bill is now coming due and if we can't pay it, then obviously we need to find some way to dodge it.
It's missing the word "sum". Which apparently my brain auto-deduced for me because I didn't notice anything off in the sentence on the first reading.
I can attest to my cheap old plug-in alarm clock keeping time better than my cheap Casio watch.
It’s required by law in San Francisco
As a GCC user I know that GCC has a runtime library exception in the license. This doesn't.
Interacting with Facebook is always a losing proposition. This isn't the first time they have altered the deal with respect to the VR ecosystem they bought, rebranded and closed. They will alter it again. And all of that is mostly irrelevant because Facebook doesn't even make HMD VR displays anymore. They only sell smartphone computer equivalent standalones that introduce extra latency if you use it with a real computer.
Broken Arrows
> The use case of a scraper is to scrape data of web pages regularly.

That's not true, the use case of a scraper is to scrape data, it doesn't have to be regularly, it can be once, twice, frequently or infrequently

And the reason to use one is if you want to just quickly scrape some data without writing a scraper yourself.
Matrix theory by Franklin is a great, affordable book containing many interesting results such as this — can highly recommend for those interested in linear algebra.

https://www.amazon.com/Matrix-Theory-Dover-Books-Mathematics...
Just wondering, but is writing custom servers for commercial games still a thing?
I don't get this either. Doesn't the mesh become an scalability bottleneck just like load balancers?

On that scale I'd expect people to use client-selected replicated services (like SMTP), and never something that centralizes connections (no matter where it's close to).

You can always add observability at the endpoints. Unless your infrastructure is very unusual (like some random part of it costing millions of times more for no good reason, as on the cloud), this is not a big challenge; you add it to the frameworks your people use. (I mean, people don't go and design an entire service with whatever random components they pick, or do they?)
Waterfront is usually measured by shoreline length as we can't build in the middle of the ocean efficiency.
it read like a standard "MAGA / Qanon" two minute hate to me; perhaps one emitted from a more chemically elevated, less coherent state than usual.

Churches, tho? what did you read?
Also:

10x engineers: get hired by FAANG for "dev relations" projects that eventually get sunsetted

100x engineers: are unapproachable except through their OnlyFans accounts and their anonymous P.O. box where companies can send speculative gifts and offerings
In my case, I found R a better tool for learning DS, as it is more or less, a DSL for statistics, and feels more low level and fores you to learn more fundamentals than python. For production it is probably worse tan python, true.
Hi, your plans are capped at 2TB ($200/yr). Any chance to get higher tiers? Looking for 15tb...
Farther ahead. Musk has messed up so much it’s unbelievable. He promised $25K cars and FSD and instead got distracted by Twitter and instead shipped an overpriced truck. He’s suing OpenAI for going off-mission but that’s also exactly what he’s done.

He also keeps messing with the residual value of the cars people bought and I, for one, love my Model Y but would never buy anything from Musk again. That said, I would also not buy any EV that connects to any other charging network, so Tesla the company can build great stuff but he keeps the company off-kilter.
And that's what happens if you demilitarize and then put all your cards on consulting companies. I wanna see the KPMG, McKinsey battalion defending the Eastern border against a Russian invasion.
A negative power, i.e. 2^(-n) is just 1/(2^n). I'm surprised the author didn't remember that with their own 2^-1 = 0.5 example and eventually reached out to awk for it.
There is a set of radio buttons in the top right corner you can use to choose a different one :)
How open source tech can make Canada’s immigration system fairer
Yes, its fairly common in smaller startups that can’t justify a full time data employee. But the work will likely be more like business analytics than data science: figure out how to measure retention and extract it from transaction logs, generate a weekly report that gets emailed to the CEO, that sort of thing. Not, like, PhD stuff which generally has a much slower payoff.
I wish more groups would be as transparent.

Silos happen. I'm not willing to spread blame. I will aside some of my frustration if I know it's an acknowledged problem and there's willingness to address it.
Hamas's entire politico-military strategy rests on its tunnels
> that our observations are incomplete and our models are wrong.

I'd say that's a given regardless of the DM mystery.

It's consensus that QM and GR are incompatible and that we need a new theory out of which both of these come out as a special case. String theory was considered a hopeful contender for that for a while.

And that we haven't observed everything to a satisfying degree yet should be obvious.

> Isn't this essentially the same problem with Dark Matter though? They keep looking for it, not finding it and proclaiming "well, it must be somewhere else!".

No (unless you mean "where" in parameter space), we have a pretty good idea where it is thanks to gravitational lensing surveys. We don't what it is.
This reminds me of the Uxn from 100r. I'm always happy to see more FORTH-ish languages on my feed
Yeah, I don’t really understand the hype either.

Seems like a new registry with a few cool new features. Which is nice, but not something revolutionary. It’s just npm with some sugar on top.
Absolutely possible. There are DOS programs that did it, but the name escapes me right now.

But things like smoothly opening a menu are doable by just adding line by line, and dialogs can be animated by doing an animation that expands a window from the center.
If you don't move or delete old photos, all new photos will be written to a new cell. The writes add up for cells, not for the whole SSD...
The screenshot in the repo's README suggests this is not the case: Python doesn't have the "struct", "var", "fn", "inout", "trait", or "owned" keywords.
I don't even know what categorically means anymore. It's just used as "really really"
In development, or on publish?
You expect this to be cheaper and/or easier than cloud hosting?
I'll check out this, thanks!
Toyota says it would rather buy credits than 'waste' money on EVs
The sad thing about seeing new hosted photo services (like what we see when we click into the linked Ente site) is how I think they'll eventually fail the same way Picturelife did [1], or how they'll eventually get acquired, and their services/features nerfed by the whims of their new overlord.

I guess it's a good thing Ente might become a viable self-hosted option in the future. I haven't tried the hosted service, but a metadata export guarantee could be huge in attracting paying users for which this is a concern.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/22/12587656/picturelife-shut...
That doesn't sound right. Relativistic mass as a concept is avoided in modern physics because it doesn't yield much insight and is hard to keep consistent. Involving gravity only makes it worse, because it's very hard to consistently include gravity in special relativity. For one, does the relativistic mass gravitate or not?

And if you actually do go through the calculations, you find that you do not get the observed result. This paper[0] sums up a few of them.

0 (PDF): http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/examples/perihelion.pdf
The key point is that energy, momentum, and angular momentum are additive constants of the motion, and this additivity is a very important property that ultimately derives from the geometry of the space-time in which the motion takes place.

> Is there any way to deduce which invariance gives which conservation?

Yes. See Landau vol 1 chapter 2 [1].

> I'm looking for the fundamental reason, as well as how to tell what will be paired with some invariance when looking at some other new invariance

I'm not sure there is such a "fundamental reason", since energy, momentum, and angular momentum are by definition the names we give to the conserved quantities associated with time, translation, and rotation.

You are asking "how to tell what will be paired with some invariance" but this is not at all obvious in the case of conservation of charge, which is related to the fact that the results of measurements do not change when all the wavefunctions are shifted by a global phase factor (which in general can depend on position).

I am not aware of any way to guess or understand which invariance is tied to which conserved quantity other than just calculating it out, at least not in a way that is intuitive to me.

[1] https://ia803206.us.archive.org/4/items/landau-and-lifshitz-...
I think the instruction set, or the minimum number of primitives you need to implement in the "host" not the language itself is fascinating.

I've looked at a lot of implementations that have a DROP definition like this, for example:

: drop ( x y -- x ) dup - + ;

That works UNLESS your stack has only a single value on it. Things like this get simpler if you have a variable pointing to the top of the stack where you can just change that - but otherwise you end up having to implement DROP as a built-in.

You can obviously implement "<" in terms of ">", and if you can multiply by -1 you can implement subtraction in terms of addition, but at the same time writing "-" is no harder than writing "+", if you're not targeting a small CPU like a Z80.

I love to compare implementations, to see which core primitives they've chosen, and explore the consequences. These days I think my interest is more in implementing FORTH than actually using it, but I suspect I'm not alone in that regard!
So many people asked for a cheaper monthly plan and I listened to every reply.
So, here I am adding the most wanted monthly plan!!
OT: I'd already wised up to computer hardware and software, depending on a minimum of platform-dependent services. What I realized recently is that I'm not as aware in other areas. I'd been using Pioneer DDJ players/controllers and Rekordbox since ages. Version 6+ of the software requires subscription or a top-end/recent model of controller hardware to unlock. There were good reasons I picked Rekordbox when I did, but that was a long time ago and others have likely caught up and surpassed it in many areas, e.g parametric EQ. There is some vendor lock-in with tagging that I'd done on my library which would somehow need to be migrated.
> To many of these C-level executives base decisions off whatever CEO summit they recently attended. [...] Some of these aging dinosaurs need to be put out to pasteur

AFAIK, the virus of C-suite IT bad ideas doesn't discriminate on the basis of age.
At those kinds of speeds, the orbital paths have to be really improbably similar to not have "bullet" like destructive effects. The relative velocity will almost aways be in the same order of magnitude as the ground speed and definitely more than bullet speed which is super slow compared to the ground speed.

And calculating the collision speed is pretty complex while the ground speed is static so I can imagine the press just take that.

After all pretty much any speed will be destructive to a satellite that's not designed to be bumped around.
I once took a Lexapro and went a whole week not having sex, not thinking about sex, not even thinking I wasn’t thinking about sex, just thinking about other things.

My general experience of those drugs is that they do suppress the sexual response in a dose-dependent way, a little bit of that can be a good thing because many men would like to last longer, but it can progress to two hours of sex but no orgasm, which might not be bad if you have the chance for a short encounter first thing next morning.
I am guilty of violating rule 5.

To my defense, I bought my HP printer way back while a certain thing was going on worldwide and a HP one was literally the only model the store had on stock. (Yeah, I could have bought another one online, but I needed a printer asap. Still, bad planning on my side, tho.)

Can't complain about it as it does it's job fine, but your points made about inkjet printers are valid.
He is currently working on the 3rd evolution of the marble machine and posts build updates on this YouTube channel. Interesting intersection of music and machining content.
So like a DNS SRV record with multiple entries. Or Anycast, if you're being fancy
Abstract:
We introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual worlds described through text, synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches. At 11B parameters, Genie can be considered a foundation world model. It is comprised of a spatiotemporal video tokenizer, an autoregressive dynamics model, and a simple and scalable latent action model. Genie enables users to act in the generated environments on a frame-by-frame basis despite training without any ground-truth action labels or other domain-specific requirements typically found in the world model literature. Further the resulting learned latent action space facilitates training agents to imitate behaviors from unseen videos, opening the path for training generalist agents of the future.
The whole premise for this article is just wrong. The only way demand for deep learning chips will drop is if the current transformer model hits a theoretical ceiling. Otherwise you can always improve the models "for free" just by scaling compute, without any improvements in architecture or training algorithms. And since there is nothing in current research that would point to such a theoretical ceiling, everyone will be craving GPUs in the hope of beating the next guy's product in the AI race. If a paper comes out that says something like "yeah, we're no longer seeing improvements after X trillion parameters" then - and only then - can you begin to doubt the shovelmakers.
What exactly is private about Google? That trading and ownership by the public creates an overarching obligation for public governance (eg accounting, written justifications, the board, etc). Google has a larger bureaucracy than the typical municipal government, likely surpassing even some state governments. Its employees aren't a tight knit private club where everyone knows everyone, but well over Dunbar's number. Google has been granted a liability shield by the public, presumably because doing so serves the public interest. Market wise, Google provides its products and services to the public. And for surveillance companies like Google, one can't even say that the majority of what we'd traditionally consider customers (but now: data subjects) have private relationships based on voluntary association!

It seems this word "private" gets bandied about as an ideological assertion - insisting that we should treat this company as if it were private, completely rejecting the fact that its current form has vanishingly few private qualities.
I basically don’t use anything outside of tidyverse or base R because of the package dependency issues.
You're right, though it's worth noting that you can also use formal verification to verify properties about the specification! For example you can verify that a security system doesn't allow privilege escalation.
> As the responsible manager for IT (usually CTO - internal SOX was a different matter) I have been "asked"

I misread this as "reponsible manager for IT [at Wirecard]", hence the question.
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