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Show HN: Justvent – Anonymously vent to an AI for free, without downloads
If you're going through a rough moment and just need to talk to someone, but have nobody available, Justvent is made for you.

Instead of trying to provide therapy, Justvent is optimized for venting. It won't try to solve your problems or heal you. It does, however, give you a convenient avenue to vent your frustrations without fear of judgement and helps reframe your situation to make you feel better about it.
coastal regions face high heat and high humidity. Think of Persian gulf countries and southern Iran, or the likes of Djibouti.
Like most Java software, it's incredibly memory hungry.
> 2000 employees

Reddit software developers are maintaining at least 5 different user interfaces:

1. Old Reddit (old.reddit.com) (no longer maintained, I guess)

2. New Reddit (new.reddit.com) (also no longer maintained?)

3. New New Reddit (aka Twitter Reddit, sh.reddit.com)

4. Mobile browser Reddit

5. Mobile app Reddit

It takes a lot of work to keep all of those user interfaces crappy, slow, and hard to use.
You don't even need to download anything - if you're using a supported browser you can just use the web installer (you can even use another Android phone!): https://grapheneos.org/install/web
I've seen a lot of people quite rightly saying it isn't like stocks because you don't get dividends etc.

But there is another difference with stocks too. If a stock crashes the company can just go bankrupt and die for good, that stock is gone. Because bitcoin isn't company if the price crashes... no matter how hard, it will still exist , as long as few are holding, mining etc., and just sit there until the next time it repeats the cycle.

If a companies stock could do that, it would be far less risky to buy stocks in a failing company.. because eventually on a long enough time scale it would come back.

I won't say if that's good or bad as I am not sure. The energy use is scary.

It's almost meaningless to judge it's price crashes as failure or it's price rises as a success.
A nice writeup about the project can be found here https://reindernijhoff.net/2023/08/rijkscollection-a-persona...
Why in the world would I want anyone to dig through my private matters while I'm dead?
Ah, interesting. Thanks!
Bongs have been freely sold for decades despite being used for something illegal >95% of the time.

You can't make it illegal or restricted to sell something purely because it is primarily used for illegal behavior. Or well, you can, but liberal societies generally don't.

Note that there are good reasons to restrict sales. Enabling dangerous behavior would be one, which is why we restrict or outright ban the sale of some guns, chemicals, cars, etc.
Ask HN: No-code, simple-setup user management
Hi HN! I'm trying to allow users of my app to store some of their app data on my servers. The app is a local-first, edge app so it does not need to have user data stored on the server, ever, but I wanted to offer it to users that were trying to keep multiple instances of the app in sync.

What I have been looking for is some kind of github project or installable application that I could put on - say - a hostinger server. I would like to be able to SSH into the server and run some command line scripts (and enter the appropriate private data), which would - at the end of the session - allow me to register and login users.

I have been very unsuccessful in finding something like that. Most everything I have found has at least SOME more set up, and most of them try to lock you in to a service of some kind.

My current least-friction option that I can think of would be to do a one-click install for Wordpress (common for hosting services like hostinger or bluehost or ipage or whatever) and then either use any built-in user-management it exposes, or hack into the WP users with an additional API.

Given the scope of wordpress (necessitating size) and the lack of need for its other features, I hesitate to do something like that. But it does seem like every alternative wants you to go around and do actual developer shit, which is not something I'm interested in doing for a "Solved Problem" like user management. I can't think of any reason to reinvent that wheel unless it really is true that nobody has made a simple repository that I can pull, install, and publish which would yield a functioning user management API. But, honestly, it feels like that kind of thing is out there. And I figure, if it is, you guys would know about it.

So I'm open to suggestion, but the toplines here are "needs to manage users (including forgotten passwords, decent security, etc)", and "doesn't need me to develop for it". If anyone can suggest anything like that, I would be very very grateful!

Thanks!
The Android UI allows complete customization, you can even make it like iPhone if you want.
9's are useful when they're backed by an actual SLA - like GCP Cloud Storage and AWS S3 availability SLAs. Neither one commits to any durability SLAs whatsoever so I wouldn't put any stock into the 'eleventy nine nines' durability claims.
I agree. AirBNB was a mistake. It used to be that an apartment could be rented out for a decent amount above your mortgage, and expenses. But now there's no incentive to opt for long-term rentals, when a short-term one is more profitable.

Then the rich get richer and consolidate more properties under their companies, leaving the rest to fend for themselves. Think of people who had been making sacrifices so they could save up to purchase something, just to be outbid by collective groups of people just purchasing property to rent them out. There's no competing.
> The Romans, Mongols and Aztecs voraciously conquered new lands in search of power and wealth - not of knowledge.

The romans conquered greece and nearly adopted ancient greek knowledge and culture wholesale. The mongols were reknown for invading china, persia, etc and taking their best scholars with them. The mongol empire is responsible for much of the cross-eurasian transfer of knowledge. Along with the preservation of much knowledge and culture as they were multireligious and multiculturalists. It's why people in china still speak chinese and arabs still worship as they do. The mongols didn't wipe out entire cultures like 'european imperialists'.

> In contrast, European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories."

So wiping out entire continents of people ( their histories, language, culture, knowledge ) was in hopes of obtaining new knowledge. We can't even ascertain the etymology of many of the names of towns, cities, lakes, etc because we killed off entire native language families.
Raised from the dead, the biggest airplane ever built starts flying hypersonics
>>Rough back of the napkin math puts getting a home charger at around $20k... The payoff isn't even close yet.

Like the other comment said, you don't need a covered or heated space - the connectors are water tolerant, you can plug them in in heavy rain/snow without any issues.

You also have to think how fast you really need to charge - for a lot of people a basic 220V socket is fine, so you just need to pay an electrician to fit one in, then you can usually use the charger bundled with the car - as long as you only need about 20-30kWh replenished overnight then you're fine. You can fit a faster multi-kW charger, but the cost shouldn't be anywhere near $20k for that.
Russia's economy once again defies the doomsayers
It depends on how much of the income comes from the users.

Remember that 100% of the profit for the shareholders comes from the income, so the profit depends on keeping the payers happy.
It's likely pretty far from a 1:1 port, you'll be rearchitecting a lot of what you are writing. It's unavoidable due to the way Rust guarantees memory safety.
Don't worry, it's been noted!
Robert Forward wrote a series of sci-fi novels about life on the surface of a neutron star. The first was called Dragon's Egg [1] and is a decent, if tropey, read. Some of the same issues are addressed in his books, of course making a ton of assumptions about the properties of neutron star matter (we still don't know the equation of state for neutron stars).

The idea is very simply that combining abundant energy with something capable of holding structure in such an environment could in theory produce a persistent store of information. A leap, sure, but a fun one.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
What makes it nice?
That you equate video conferencing and social media with transformative technologies such as applications of electricity, transportation, air travel, computers etc indicate you are caught up in that common fallacy of believing that the times YOU live in must be the most important ever
Baserow is open-core, and some views and JSON-export are behind a subscription. Not a bad thing per-se but needs a mention.
> Coffee shops don't accept gold bars either, yet gold has certainly been money (not so much these days).

This is true but it's largely because of the logistics. It's not that coffee shops don't want gold, it's just that it's too inconvenient to accept it. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is incredibly easy to accept. And unlike gold, Bitcoin can't be counterfeited. I know, in the USA at least, "digital gold" is the current narrative. But "daily currency" is just around the corner.
Where I live it was a close call between rebuilding in modern layouts (car-friendly and that entire "block in a park landscape" approach that I consider the biggest failure of 20th century architecture, nobody likes these "parks" that are too close to buildings to feel public and too open to feel private) and rebuilding in the old layout, with houses on the edge of the street enclosing hidden backyards, roof lines closely matching pre-war roof lines.

Old layout won and today everybody is very happy about that. But wherever there are old stock buildings and post war reconstruction buildings in the same street, the old ones are considered much higher standard, despite best efforts to avoid modernism in the reconstruction. From today's perspective, the actual age difference between one group and the other is laughably small. But in the rush to rebuild post war, the "good enough" threshold was so much lower than pre WWI the difference echoes on through the renovations to this day.
Performing formalized risk assessments can provide you with insights about a risk you're thinking about taking. I think it helped me take the right risks and leave the workforce early.

Emotionally? Just* ignore them and pursue the thing that pays you the most. It's boring and it's unhealthy and it's hard and it's not romantic.
This is one of my favorite books to think about recently.

Technology augments us and removes our ability to do things any other way. This can be good, but it can also be bad. AI will be the drug that turns society into Charlie. I hope it will last.
> Drupal is already the default CMS in EU institutions and it can replace Sharepoint and Microsoft Word

Are you familiar with SharePoint? Drupal and SharePoint are not the same.

Word, especially co-authoring, can't be replaced. LibreOffice/OpenOffice are not alternatives.

> git (yes, git)

This is unfortunately what engineers think an appropriate UX is for end users. It isn't. git is far too complex, too convoluted, and doesn't bring SharePoint's strong advantages for Office-related content.

It isn't possible. Simply is not. Google demonstrates it isn't possible.

> The first move is to ban Active Directory. Without it, the house of Microsoft cards will fall apart in a decade.

AD is not required for M365.
Economy-minus section.
What makes it blazingly fast?
This is absurd. Worrying about water use of datacenters implies some sort of novel avenue of pollution or waste, when it's power generation at the root, and when you look at power consumption for compute adjacent and datacenter related costs, it's not all that much - roughly in the range of 1-2% of global power generation.

This seems part of a coordination between various legacy media interests (print organizations, academics and research journals, and others) aimed at running the AI is Evil narrative. There are many, many, things to criticize about the way the world works, water consumption by datacenters is tone deaf whinging about the thread count of your throne's seatcushion.

Datacenters and computers are some of the most highly efficient and effective uses of power humanity has ever come up with. That single, highly efficient use of resources is the basis of modern society. For all the ills and evils, it's allowed flourishing and coordination in the effective and efficient use of resources at a global scale, making life a lot better for a lot more people than at any previous time in all of human history. Life is staggeringly better than 100 years ago, with absolute poverty and quality of life reaching what would have seemed absolutely miraculous levels by any other historical standards.

They've got to find better stories to tell, or we might stop taking them all seriously. AI can't replace these second-handers soon enough.
i dont even think its just "AI content."

LLMs replace the command line and search. It doesnt need to return AI written content, although summaries are one of the most useful returns. The AI part can just be interpreting what was asked of it.

That said, if I can say "approximate a conversation between two film nerds" and the AI can summarize 100 film reviews on metacritic/rotten tomatoes and then convert them into a coherent dialog, with each party taking specific positions, the AI can replace the middle man reddit user that is regurgitating something they read.

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde.
Predictability and objectivity of a robot >>> charisma for most jobs. People prefer not to deal with people, to do stuff via web forms instead of phone calls etc.

In person charisma is also easily done via robots by just giving them an animated avatar, that robot will outperform 99% of humans easily since humans have a hard time faking emotions while a robot doesn't, they can fake being excited or sad or understanding every time and always be there for you unlike real humans. The only reason that is hard for humans isn't that it is hard to do the action, but that it is hard to control our emotions.
Assuming they're free: Essentially nothing. PRNGs are incredibly cheap.
It definitely is! Typesetting quality was the main reason we chose not to go down the Puppeteer/headless browser route but rather use a completely separate engine where typography is a first-class citizen.

We like LaTeX, but even for advanced users laying things out can be a difficult thing. Given that documents are a frontend, we wanted to bring the same tools frontend developers already use.
Great point, but I want to bring up another one I'm seeing all the time:

Maybe functions that don't have maybe in their name and just silently don't do something without informing the caller.

This is extremely common and the source of many bugs. If your function is a maybe function, name it accordingly.
By the same logic, one could argue that the government should ban fried foods, as the lost profits to the food industry would be outweighed by the medical benefits.

I don’t agree with that line of thinking.
Sdwdate – Secure Distributed Web Date
It's almost as though many of his companies succeed in spite of, not because of, his leadership. Get enough money and smart people on a problem and they can survive most leadership foot-gunnings.

He was very good at raising money when money was free. Unclear if all the other things about him add up to a net positive for his companies now.
Show HN: TUI Test – E2E testing for CLI / TUI apps
I built this test framework when working on inshellisense because I couldn't find a terminal testing tool with playwright level features: snapshots, rich locator assertions, etc. I'd appreciate any feedback on it!
Is there a website where you can search for packages for winget? Like homebrew.
probably thinking of mapping the API routes to folder structure? like customer/transactions/{id} mapped to similar folder structure with a file containing the source for the API call
They have an interesting idea of "achieved":

> Currently, only NVIDIA v100 GPU simulation is supported, and all GPUs mentioned later in this post are simulated v100s.

So unless they can reproduce this on a real cluster cluster of V100s, it should probably be taken with a grain of salt.
What I'm missing in the simulation is an accurate account of how the host-device barrier is sped up using this system. Reading the headline I was hoping they'd be using NVIDIA GPUDirect for accessing the storage directly from the devices but I believe you'd need very custom CUDA for that...
Musk is successful despite himself, not because of. When he doesn't have a whole team of people keeping him from making insane statements/promises/business moves, the image of a successful, shrewd businessperson really crumbles.

I'm not fooled by the illusion any longer, but I do understand it's hard to separate the things he's taken credit from other people for, vs the things he himself championed/implemented.
You may want to follow up with the developer on their GitHub page.
I don't know about OP but in Poland https://yanosik.pl/ offered such deals ( https://payhowyudrive.pl/ ). It is probably a bit self defeating - the app's main function is warning about speed traps, that means unsafe drivers as significant part of its users.
This is still nothing particularly heavy, I've run with systems with far more concurrent users a decade ago on a handful of servers.

Imho the real devil is the reliance on the suite itself, which is hard to replace, especially when you get mail/calendar/sharepoint/office/etc all bundled in one.
They either don't line up vertically, or take extra vertical space.
They are not true open source if they have a pricing page
Different narratives for different crowds.
12V DC-in Power, 36W.

Oh wow.
The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things
As someone prescribed a medication that affects the mind, I remember this book haunting me for some time after reading it in grade school. Skimming it again today, that same fear returns. Dementia and/or Parkinsons will eventually take my mind from me. After having two grandparents pass away in the last year, I've come to terms with that part. But when? Will it be worse for me?
Besides the giant smoke bomb of a title, and that it looks like something my 4 years old niece could bake, it's a cool name.
Super interesting and potentially a fit for a project I'm working on right now. What are the benefits of going this route vs styling your page for print (ex. tailwind print modifier) and relying on the browser's print dialogue?
Those posts are mostly more than a year old and many of those end up being VoLTE misconfiguration on carrier side which sadly affects many more phones than just pixels, e.g. iPhones too: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/ynuu6c/newer_iphone...

VoLTE in general is quite the trash fire.
Deterministic latency so you know the upper bound and lower bound
Windows has a native sandboxing tech now: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...
>which is also not what blameless fact finding is about, as other replies correctly pointed out

Blameless fact finding is for dealing with errors and failures made in good faith. Far too many things have happened for these to be "good faith" errors and evidence and attitudes which have come out have made this plain. You stop being nice about it when foul play is the most reasonable suspicion at this scale.

>You're advocating for punishing specific people before any evidence has pointed to their guilt

The Boeing board should be replaced for what is already public.

>executives probably need jail

Notice the qualifier "probably". What I'm saying is this is what criminality looks like, the exact nature is still being investigated, but it should and is now being investigated like a crime instead of the normal flow for accidents which is the blaming fact finding which is only useful when everybody is actually interested in safety.
For my Pixel 7a, I searched the Developer Options menu three times and couldn't find it. Searching for Memory Tagging Extensions in Settings says it's there. Is it hidden somewhere?

Edit: Nevermind, I seen it's only for Pixel 8 phones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38125379
This is nice to foster some competition in hardware for model training, but the availability of these machines seems very limited - I don't think there's any major cloud provider allowing per hour rental of Gaudi2 VMs and Intel's own site directs you to buy an 8x GPU provisioned server from Supermicro for more than 40k USD. Availability and software stack is still heavily in Nvidia's favor right now, but maybe by the end of the year that will start changing.
> It seems like one of Stable Diffusion’s most popular use cases is give me <situation> in the style of <famous_artist>.

You know what's the most popular <style> for Stable Diffusion? Photorealism. And the second most popular <style>? Anime. At the risk of stating the obvious, I will note that no artist can hold the honor of having invented generic "photography" and generic "anime".

But sure, I will give you 2 internet points for accurately spotting one of the extremely rare use cases of Stable Diffusion where an artists' style is copied. I agree with you that is not all kosher.

> I mean the whole point of using AI at all is to get something to give you high quality stuff for free, where the high quality has been lifted from a high quality training set.

No, it's not. It's a failure mode. It's called "overfitting". We went over this.

The vast majority of Stable Diffusion's usage is about producing something novel, and reproducing something that looks like a training image is considered a failure.
> It's also a safety issue, since the Cathode voltage might be substantial.

When I was a small kid, my father had a TV set repair side hustle. I was 7-8yo but I would sometimes be called to help him a bit. Once he asked me to clean a bunch of CRT tubes from substantial amount of dust. What he forgot is that he was just testing one of them and the charge wasn't properly dissipated and it did not have time to dissipate on its own.

I got hit with a spark so powerful, that it must have temporarily disrupted my brain because for a brief moment I was completely stupefied, and then I just resumed cleaning it. Then I got hit for the second time, then for the third time. Only after third time I realised that me cleaning the tube has something to do with it. Probably the discharge was much less powerful the third time and did not stun me completely.

I can tell you the voltage and amount of charge on these things is no joke. Multiple tens of thousands of volts is enough to stun you temporarily. Probably not enough to cause lasting damage unless you are extremely unlucky about where the discharge went (stun guns usually have higher voltage and capacity), but enough for you to lose control of your body, fall and hurt yourself.
The IFX team that produced the baseband firmware had never heard of Sicherheit. It was … riddled with trivially exploitable security issues.
Why would you care when you're dead?
I think the "heart condition" language is now explicit. The previous FDA approval[1] was for "management of obesity and at least one weight-treated condition"

1 - https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...