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Ask HN: Startup Devs: Roast our Landing page and tool
Hi all,

I need your help in understanding if the content on this page resonates with you or not. - https://www.facets.cloud/facets-for-startups

We are building a cloud deployment tool for startups. And I want to validate if we are on the right track.

So there are two questions really:
1. Does the content resonate with your pain points?
2. Which features would you like to see in the product?

Your feedback matters. Thanks
I haven't even spoken to an HR rep at my current employer. 15 months in. I love this place!
OEIS solves real-world problems! One time I needed to optimize accesses to a data structure in my code. By trying out a few examples, I found the optimal order of iterations followed a particular number sequence, but I had no idea on how it could be deduced or calculated analytically. I entered the few examples I had into OEIS and found the solution. The solution involves graduate-level combinatorics and there was no way that I could solve it.

Thanks Neil Sloane and OEIS.
Not on my notes, but I have used GPT4All to chat with the documents of dapr.
I downloaded the md files from the docs GitHub repo and loaded the directory in GPT4All.

It is not "training" a model but works pretty great.
That won't happen. That's not a priority for them and goes against their business interests.

In fact, there are already many intentional limitations that makes Next a very bad choice if you're self hosting.

proof: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/46722
How did you arrive to the conclusion that this is anti-human? I believe this technology to be helpful, not harmful for humanity. We need to improve our food synthesis mechanisms.
See also: extended cognition, cybernetic theory
Is it possible anything is Quake Proof
"You gotta tell people... The oceans are dying, plankton's dying... it's people. Soylent Green is made out of people."
https://www.facets.cloud/facets-for-startups
Re-reading your comment I think we actually have the same understanding of the dynamic, I think I misread "immortal" as "immoral" before which gave the comment a quite different vibe.

> "...in the political context the market is embedded in" is nonsense, especially when appealing to the "market sorting it out" in the next breath.

I meant:

complaining about (workers demanding higher wages instead of letting the market sort it out) is pointless

Not:

(complaining about workers demanding higher wages) instead of (letting the market sort it out) is pointless.

Agreed my wording could have been more precise there.
> I doubt many employees will report on their bosses for fear of getting fired

Employees can simply ignore their bosses emails/calls after hours. No need to report anyone.
> this isn't that easy to pull off,

How much does it cost in money? 400k? 600k? 1M? That's peanuts for any three letter agency from the US, UK, China, etc.
If all you have to do is render a form you don't even need HTMX. IF your project is just about rendering forms then fine.
Actually, thats a reason why I never even touched Nix. Besides, being functional and all the hype, but the syntax and naming of the language feels ad-hoc enough for me to never have caught on...
There is dumb high school kid OD, the drug they think is safe is actually laced with too much fent. I assume you aren’t going to let these kids buy from legit sources anyways, so I’m not sure how they are avoiding buying from the homeless encampment next to their city bus stop (something that actually happened here in Seattle). Then there are people that don’t care, and do as much drugs as they can get their hands on, the people who are in crisis all the time.

If you can’t go after the users, you have to find some other way to get to the dealers. Portugal has that problem, since they can’t go after use, the police aren’t finding an effective way to go after dealers either.
That’s a good start. In the long run probably three things are necessary:

1) wiring critical software in a language that protects better against such exploits. Might be Rust, Go, perhaps also C# and Nim.

2) Making reproducible builds the norm, that start from the original source code repositories (e.g., based on a Git hash)

3) making maintainers more resilient against social attacks. This means more appreciation, less demands, and zero tolerance against abuse. If the maintainer can be pressured, I am at risk.

The last one is probably the most difficult.
So what’s the solution?
Socialism is thoroughly materialistic. The socialist state regards itself as owning the productive capacity of its individuals, and tends to the distribution of wealth. The pariah in a socialist society is he who has the capacity for work, but instead lives off the state. Or he who dodges taxes.

Socialism is concerned with distribution of resources to satisfy human needs, and bring about an equitable society. But those needs are material needs, and the equality is material. It's not about redistributing spiritual or intellectual resources to make everyone equally spiritual or smart! It's purely about keeping everyone warm, dry, in good health and with a full stomach.

The only non-materialistic aspect of socialism is the meta level: choosing equitable materialism over inequitable. The idea that all people deserve to be reasonably well off is a different form of materialism from "I want me and my family to be well off, screw the rest" that represents much of capitalism. Socialists regard themselves as supremely virtuous due to clinging to this idea of equality. It is almost religious. There are obvious links between equality in socialism and in Christianity. The proper socialist is like a disciple of Jesus who has renounced everything spiritual, and just remembers the stories about healing the sick, feeding the multitude, and "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's".
You seem to think the government charging for something is them understanding the market. It's not.

It's just another way to prohibit. That's the whole basis of fines in traffic violations. Not to discourage, but to prohibit most people.

Sorry if you can't understand that even after all this.
That post is derived from my experience in video games and at Meta. There is a better way, and it already exists in some places! I'm shocked at how resistant people are to the idea that current popular workflows aren't actually that good and some places already do it better.
True! I'm autistic and when I hired on at Amazon, HR told me about all the support and programs Amazon provided for people with autism. When my boss started harassing me over it, though, HR did nothing. The HR representative couldn't even refrain from working on something else during a meeting between me, my boss, and HR.

HR in all companies are crap, but Amazon and its HR department are a special kind of hell. I'm glad I'm out.
What if it's through a USB c adapter to a usbA thumbstick?
Multiplayer embeds of any website
Cally: Accessibility Statement
There is always money for treatment, actually, just never enough money for an ever expanding problem. And it’s all locally allocated, while the problem is national, can Portland or even Oregon solve a problem that spans several states? Vancouver nearby (BC not WA) has similar problems, better funding (and more federal help as well), but it is still far from enough.
> And I doubt many employees will report on their bosses for fear of getting fired, or retaliated against in more subtle ways. Regardless of any anti-retaliation provisions.

Precisely. The people this would (but doesn't) protect are those who don't have a strong position or one would describe as meek. Most often it is the latter or both. Those in a strong position, who had no problem ignoring work messages when it wasn't convenient or telling their manager to shove it if necessary didn't have the problem this tries to solve.

The only time these employers really change their behavior is when they are so afraid of the legal repercussions, they make it a point to adhere to the regulations and then some.

It doesn't help that this is fighting culture (weak separation of work and life).
Any hobby will thrive.
Gianluca Nicoletti, an Italian journalist, writer and radio speaker, is training a LLM with all writings as a support for his autistic child for when he won’t be here anymore. The software will speak with his voice.

https://www.lospessore.com/13/07/2023/una-chatbot-per-contin...
would be interested in a write-up of this if you ever get a chance
I could understand what you do but a product video demo could be a nice addition
"the ‘evil’ company that poisoned every person on the planet"

Yes, the company as an entity was(is?) evil. But it's important to note that it was individuals within the entity that made the decision to use the chemical, to continue to use them and to cover up the problem with them. We need to acknowledge that ultimately it is the individual at the root of the problem. We need to work towards punishing the officers plus the directors who let this problem continue in addition to the company. Otherwise, there is no incentive to fix future problems. The people who could have stopped the problem at the root can just retire or get fired and continue with their lives while we all have to deal with the consequences over and over again.
Sadly, whoever takes the fleeing will likely have tremendous headaches in the future -to their own government- because of the people.

Jordan took a large number in the past and they were terrible guests -attempting to overthrow the sovereign government- and got expelled. Black September left a very bad taste in nearly everyone’s mouth. Governments friendly towards Palestine are very much against physically taking them after those events
I still don't get it. What was the USP here? What is the allure in it for the investors?
Now that we’ve run out of truly interesting hacks, the later episodes really aren’t too interesting.
Fav episode is Knaves Out.
> And I doubt many employees will report on their bosses for fear of getting fired, or retaliated against in more subtle ways.

The point is that when you quit you cite this as a reason and they pay severance.
Well, heat capacity of water is 1 calorie (4.18J) per gram. The interwebs hand-wavily say it takes about 25 BTU/hr to cool 1 square foot in a commercial HVAC system.

1 BTU is about 1kJ, so every 1 square foot of cooling (per hour) could theoretically be offset by 25,000J / 4.18J = ~5980g of water being heated 1 degree C. Density of water is 1g/mL, so it takes approximately 6L per hour per square foot if you assume that you don't raise the temperature of the water more than 1 degree C.

They're talking about 50 million square feet with this system, so that's 300 million liters per hour, or about 80 million gallons per hour, or 1.3M gallons per minute. For context, the third water tunnel project in NYC was supposed to deliver 1.3B gallons per day, or about 903,000 GPM assuming constant flow. That's a big pipe.

I tried to find actual citations of their flow rate, but haven't found anything yet. Regardless, I am skeptical of the claim that they aren't returning warmer water to the lake. I'm not worried about it (lake Ontario is gigantic), but I don't believe the article.

(edit: 1BTU is the energy required to heat 1lb of water by 1 degree F at maximum density, so you could work it out directly from the bizarro-world units of HVAC systems.)
Having just searched a little for this, to turn this on you need about:config.

Apparently about:config is still not available on Firefox Mobile main release it seems.

Supposedly available on Dev/Beta/Nightly or similar - unverified statement though.

Annoying.
I think Saffron is cultivated in all over Iranian Plateau which includes Iran Azerbaijan Afghanistan Turkmenistan Kurdish parts of Turkey and Iraq.
You can always use JPEG XL lossless JPEG1 recompression to get some savings in the high end quality, too — if you trust the quality decision heuristics in jpegli/guetzli/other jpeg encoder more than the JPEG XL encoder itself.

We also provide a ~7000 lines-of-code libjxl-tiny that is more similar to jpeg encoders in complexity and coding approach, and a great starting point for building a hardware encoder.
Risky Business is also great. Along with Malicious Life and Modem Mischief.
> If you supply your own encryption key, it's true that Backblaze can't read your data at rest.

It’s worse than this. The private key for data decryption is sent to their server by the installer before you can even set a PEK. Then, setting the PEK sends the password to them too, since that’s where your private key is stored. So you have to take their word not just that they never store the key and promptly delete unencrypted files during restoration, but also that they destroy the unprotected private key and password when you set up PEK. It’s a terrible scheme that seems almost deliberately designed to lull people into a false sense of security.
I've heard from a bunch of different sources that most land humans use for farming is specifically for animal agriculture and that if everyone went vegetarian, something like 20% of the land would be required.

I'm hoping that if lab grown meat takes off and becomes affordable for your average person, we might be able to give back some of the land that was de-forested for animal agriculture back to nature.
Assume the ban happened in 1995 when EVs would not have been price competitive at all with ICE cars. A ban here just means shutting down all vehicle production and people have to find a way to keep their old cars going. CO2 emissions likely do not significantly change. People likely wouldn't be happy and would (rightfully) turf any government that did such a thing.

Run the same experiment in 2035. Are EVs still significantly more expensive and lack utility / range? If so, it is some approximation of the 1995 experiment. If EVs are cheap and awesome (which will probably be the case), then no ban is necessary as no one would bother to buy an ICE car anyway.

In short, at best a ban makes no difference and at worst makes everyone's lives suck while having no impact toward the stated goal.
Amazon: Tech giant cuts jobs in cloud computing unit
The whole of desktop macOS has been steadily declining, so I‘m not surprised by this story in the slightest.

But hey, we get new emojis and moving desktop wallpapers…
> Ahh the eternal cycle of static vs dynamic linking swings around again.

Somewhat. Although it's agnostic to static vs dynamic linking. The philosophy goes a bit deeper than that.

> See? that saved 35739475749Kb of storage!

Storage capacity hasn't been relevant for over a decade.

Besides, we foolishly replaced "use shared modules to save storage space" with "build multi-gigabyte docker images because it's the only way to reliably launch a simple program without crashing on startup".
There's such a premium on outlining the crimes of the Nazis. Condemning eugenics and the culture of blind adherence to institutional norms is valuable. However the concerns ring hollow when we apply it in the retrospective or accusatory rather than the introspective sense.

For decades, Nazi-adjacency has been just another insult to be hurled at the political opponents we've othered. Depending on where you are on the political spectrum, "Nazi" could be synonymous with Elon Musk. In one breath we trivialize the evil humanity is capable of inflicting upon itself. In the next breath we exclaim, "Never again!"

The American Eugenics Society rebranded itself into, "Society for Biodemography and Social Biology". Ambiguous terms like, "bioethics" are used by eugenicist think tanks like "The Hastings Center" where explicit appeals to eugenics are undesirable. The Club of Rome evolved into the WEF. Paul Ehrlich's ideas are as popular as ever. The same eugenicist appeals for population control remain in the forefront of public discourse. Even here on HN, you will regularly find posters lamenting the impending doom of climate change. The answer, if you ask many here is the eugenicist policy of population control.

There are other themes in parallel, but I'll try to keep it somewhat concise and less controversial.

It isn't only the "Banality of Evil" or an engineer only who wants to go home to watch Netflix after designing a killer drone. Similar authoritarian ideas are celebrated in our popular discourse. Instead of examining these ideas critically, we accuse political others, dehumanize them and finally rationalize them into the Nazis.
The tiny urban forests bringing nature to the heart of the city – BBC [video]
At my current position, company policy says we're not supposed to answer work calls after hours. We also have flexible schedules, but we have to notify supervisors of the hours, preferably ahead of time. They use those hours to decide whether or not to contact us.

They make it clear that if we are off work, we don't have to answer any calls or respond to texts. Luckily, my supervisors are all about the policy and don't contact us during non-working hours.
I've never been able to make that work, but I respect that you have. Generally, that kind of select almost always grabs a bunch of substrings that aren't appropriate and I end up mangling my file.
I think this failing, and tesla failing to actually ship "self driving" is clear : machine learning definitely has complexity limits, that we are a long way off from perfecting or even getting beyond some reasonable threshold.
Russ Cox (who recently did a deep dive into the xz attack shell script[0][1]) of Bell Labs Plan9 and Google golang fame re-wrote the OEIS in golang in the summer of 2009[2][3] and now serves as the foundation's president[4]

> "Here, however, we ran into a very serious problem. In the summer of 2009, when we tried to get the OEIS working as a wiki, we discovered that the Mediawiki software was not capable of handling the kind of queries that arise in looking up sequences. This was a disaster."

> "It took us over a year to resolve this problem. In the end, Russ Cox completely rewrote all the programs needed to maintain the database and answer queries - a huge task! NJAS's colleague David Applegate has also been of enormous help in getting the new system working. As a result of their work, the new OEIS was finally launched on November 11, 2010. It is now possible for anyone in the world to propose a new sequence or an update to an existing sequence. To do this, users must first register. A group of about 130 editors has been formed, whose job it is to review submissions before they become a permanent part of the OEIS."

> "So, after nearly two years of struggle, the OEIS was finally able to operate without NJAS having to approve every change. After 46 years of running the database, this came as a great relief to him."[2]

> "It's true. The original software was an email auto-reply implemented in shell. The first web version of the software was CGI invoking roughly the same shell script. I didn't have anything to do with those. The next web version (which I wrote in ~2006) was CGI invoking C with an mmap'ed index file. The third web version (which I wrote in ~2010 and is the one running today) is a Go HTTP server, fronted by Apache."

> "Note that I'm only talking about the software for the "interactive" UI, not the database itself. The database itself goes back to punched cards and the original interactive UI was a pair of published books (first A Handbook of Integer Sequences, and then the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences)."[5]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902241

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903685

[2]: https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#OEIS:_Brief_History

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920020

[4]: https://oeisf.org/board/

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9927038

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rsc
A parfait made from Japanese quail cells has become the first Australian lab-grown meat to hit the world market.

Singapore's food regulator approved Vow's quail foie gras for sale in March, making it only the second cell-cultured meat product to become available in the island city-state.

Not exactly what I would call a parfait. Wikipedia is telling me this is a France/UK divide where it somehow refers to both creamy fruit desert and meat paste.
Apple Explores Home Robotics
OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and other companies who have existing products and added AI, such as Notion and Adobe.
The legislation runs off of what the employee's normal hours are. It doesn't forbid schedule shifting at the employee's discretion, and declaring 7am-10pm hours would not be recognized as legitimate unless the employee actually normally performs work during those entire hours.

If this passes and California aggressively enforces it (and they normally do), employers will not be able to weasel out of it by using blatant bad faith rectus. Some will try at first and regret it when CA hangs them out to make an example of.
They have this in Germany and France too.

It's a bit disingenious I think. I like working at flexible time. I'm not like the French sitting down for dinner with the family at 6pm, in fact I don't even have a family.

If there's something urgent at 11pm I'm totally fine handling it and I'll sleep in the next day to compensate. Forcing me to have a 9-5 life is not the solution.
On Windows it is hellish trying to copy across files like this due to weird permissions issues that crop up. A weird trick that has worked for me is .zip the files you want to copy, copy across the zip, then unzip that.
Michelle Obama flew under the radar a lot when she originally pledged to tackle childhood obesity

Then the sugar lobby waded in

Suddenly her tune changed from "eat less candy!/drink less soda!" to "exercise more, kids!"

As an immigrant to the US it's downright bewildering that the only fields on nutritional labels without daily intake percentages seem to be Sugar and Trans Fats [1]

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/US_Nutri...
Caution: restoring from Glacier can be hellishly expensive. Poke around at https://liangzan.net/aws-glacier-calculator/ and see what prices you see given your data size.
From what I can see from the demo that's a super simple application. It might make sense to use a tool such as htmx/unpoly/hotwire/etc.

What I don't get is people just blindly "following the hype" (as with anything else) and assuming it's a replacement for client side frameworks (react, vue, etc) for anything you might need out there. You already said this several times in some Podcasts I listen to, so I don't blame you. But people are just "hey bro just use HTMX and Go and done". And that might be fine if you're a backend developer that doesn't like JavaScript and have a very simple use case and probably don't have high UX standards or picky designers chasing you with every animation, loading state or performance issue.

There are many projects out there with pretty complex UX logic where this will just not work, and if it works the end result is going to be much harder to maintain. Let's not take into account finding people willing to work with these tools (already happened to us where we had to move a Rails/Hotwire project to Rails/Inertia) because no one could work on the frontend, initially created by a backend dev and that became such a mess not even him could maintain it anymore).

But again, it is not the technology to blame (it's great!), it is the usage of it. And people can misuse anything, as they misuse react/vue/etc when they're building just a landing page.
What an absurd and completely unenforceable idea. Its almost like California is intentionally trying to throw away their economic blessings…
I greatly enjoy the exquisite drawing and watercolours that people make of our nature. This nicely little service publishes once each day pictures from the USDA of apples and related fruits. (They are on X/Twitter but stopped the daily tweets last year). https://botsin.space/@pomological