skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is it simply because no such product exists?

I feel like you answered your own question here. Self hosting your own blog + monetization is a high bar and even when you have those things, people generally don't like entering their credit card details into random sites. Patreon predates substack and didn't even provide publishing tools while taking 8%. There are plenty of 00s pornstars who had their own sites that make more on OnlyFans.

I think monetization is the primary draw, then publishing next. But I don't believe the product is just "monetization tools". You are right that isn't defensible; it's the substack brand. Consumers are comfortable paying for substack content and that kind of branding isn't easily built.
Its is a conspiracy to keep them alive, so the live longer, and need more services as the age. Muahahahahah
This makes sense, although if an alternative like Ghost supported Apple Pay then they could have the same benefit of reduced friction. I don’t need to re-add my credit card to every site where I want to use Apple Pay. I just add it once to my Wallet and then can use it anywhere.
What if your stable income stream was half as big as what you could make on a platform? How about one tenth? Everyone will draw a line somewhere.
Shit, that's on point.
Dude this is perfect. I’ve been looking for a modern image optim on and off for years. Thank you for putting in this effort, this will be a huge timesaver for me.
Still lots of dark areas [1] and lots of unnecessary allocated space to original adopters. I wonder if the Governments will ever exercise an Eminent Domain on IPv4 one day?

1. https://www.caida.org/archive/id-consumption/census-map/
Yup, but this was all customizable. In fact it even included the old icons in the box - they were used if you ever set it to use 8-bit color mode - so you just needed to point the shell at the right DLLs in the registry (for which there were third-party utilities).

It's so sad to look back and remember how insanely customizable desktop UI was back then, compared to what we have now. In Win11, you can't even have a vertical taskbar anymore.
I would argue that a core benefit of using Substack, beyond the easiness to write, publish, send emails, is trust for payments. I would be more reluctant at putting my credit card info in a random self hosted blog vs an established company's like Substack.
Very nice. The submission's main file (SmallestCSVParser.cs) is 3851 characters (of which 657 are commentary).

Mine, in C, is only 2807 characters (of which 198 are commentary):

https://github.com/semitrivial/csv_parser/blob/master/csv.c

Ahh, but the submission's main file is for parsing an entire .csv, whereas mine is only for parsing a single "line" (possibly including quote-escaped newlines). So the submission wins :)
Can't wait until we can make photo frames out of these for $20/ea
Proper security is when everything is closed off and inaccessible by default.

IPv6 where your home network or backend infrastructure is a transparent glass house is a failure by design. I hope I never get to be a DevOps and support that. Or have IPv6 in my home network. One bad firewall rule or insecure port open, and you get ransomware in your face.
Doesn't sound like you're an infrastructure engineer.
The Brain Forming a Memory
I had the displeasure to operate a sort of industrial/automotive rack computer running very simple Simulink data logging that booted only from a floppy, and I think it was bought around 2008. For a greenfield project.

Probably cost like hell and was decade or two behind in technology, but I didn't buy it and definitely wouldn't have. Salespeople get people to do stupid stuff.

I'd guess these are used a lot in industrial settings where the code and task is actually very simple. Would run no problem with a $1 microcontroller and a hundred lines of C and with a lot less hassle. Likely vendors have gotten a reputation and keep on selling them with FUD.
What about a blog that supports Apple Pay?
I've been doing it for a week on Suno, and hard disagree. There are legit use cases, and new possibilities it opens up. Haters gonna hate, but people that find it useful will find it useful.
Subscriptions have free and pair tiers (you get to see more posts, or in some cases, the same, with a paid subscription). Subscription also means you're getting the new posts via email as a newsletter (and the author has your email).

Following is just free and you aren't getting an email for each post, you just see a notification in the Substack app/website.
Thank you, that first link was great, setup looks very easy to do.
Idk what you're referring to specifically, but music discovery services are terrible across all of spotify, apple music, google music, tidal, etc. I don't expect these services to read your mind, but they also don't ask for many parameters to help with the search. Definitely a huge opportunity here for innovative new services.
I mean I guess but are people out there really optimizing their diets at the level of a drizzle/spray of oil or butter? The health difference can't possibly be worth it and barely moves the needle it's so little.

I know it's my French heritage talking but life without butter isn't.
I struggle to make the VC math work on Substack. They take a 10% cut on paid subscriptions. They need 1 billion in paid subscriptions to have a $100m revenue, which at a hopefully 30% ebit would put them in the $0.5-1 billion evaluation (maybe). Now, at an average of $200 of paid subscribtions, it would take 5m paid users to achieve a 1 billion revenue.

If we assume a very generous paid / non paid user ratio of 10%, it means Substack needs 50m total users to have 5m paid users.

You tell me, that with 50m users, Substack would be content to make “only” $100m per year?
Yes, loosely specified in practice. I made a CSV parser that tries to do something reasonable for many variants by default. When that's not enough, you can specify options. https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/csv-reading/
Once you have bayesian prior distributions (which it makes total sense for llms to estimate) you can do tons of nifty statistical techniques. It's only the bottom layer of the analysis stack that's LLM generated.
Ask HN: Do you assume Section 174 will be removed by the end of 2024?
Companies must make strategic decisions regarding hiring and growing. But Section 174 is quite a big question mark that changes the game's rules for us.

I can't seem to find much information about it, so do you assume it'll be removed when it comes to hiring software developers? Heard anything from your CPA about it?

From a fellow concerned startup bootstrapper.
'Double-entry bookkeeping is very easy to understand once you ditch the ridiculous "credit" and "debit" terminology.'

I love it, let's do it!

Thank you this is very helpful.

The whole credit/debit terminology usage here is incredibly confusing to someone who hasn't studied accounting and many of the comments and replies to people who are confused are, while technically correct, simultaneously, unhelpful - to those not familiar with the terminology.

I read a comment earlier: "Why would my bank account be debited when the balance went up? Is a debit not negative? Is the cash balance presented as a negative?" And thought: "Yes! Great question! This doesn't make sense..because debits are always negative right? A direct debit takes money out, you spend money using a debit card, a debit is a debt right? So debits are always negative and debiting is always minus-ing money..." - but the replies, while technically correct weren't satisfying at all because they assumed knowledge.

It's both amusing and frustrating to watch people effectively speaking past each other like they're talking a different language. Especially when you have the same perspective as the person who is confused and trying to seek understanding. It seems like people nitpick on small points of what was said seemingly in order to be right.
Agreed on providing a docker image. I made an issue to track it here: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/issues/78

I do want to make self-hosting as easy as possible. In my experience, there will still be enough folks who prefer cloud to make it work :)

There's a local .plandex directory in the project which just stores the project id, and a $HOME/.plandex-home directory that stores some local metadata on each project--so far just the current plan and current branch.
Its an interesting paradox, why yould piew piew make compelling television? It was always part of the scope of genres but some serious money and equipment was made available to portray the military favorably. It doesnt have to go towards this production to have an effect on expectations.

The series definetly portrayed an interesting future be it slightly simplistic. Is there anything else that isnt dystopia?

What harm is there if we turn the only non dystopian sf series into more piew piew? I dunno, but it seems it could turn out very expensive.
Reminds me of the day when RIPE NCC announced that they had run out of IPv4 addresses. [1]

[1] https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv4/ipv4-run-out/
> we'll be wet

Waxed cotton works well enough for me. Have also heard good things about boiled wool, but don't own anything like this.
There's an RFC that specifies a standard format for CSV. If you're smart you'd use it ^W^W… well, you'd probably not use CSV to start with.

The problem is that often, what you have to ingest is more properly described as "malformed CSV / bytes that loosely resembled CSV in some manner that I have no choice but to either try to shove into a parser, or write some custom junk for this hot garbage because it comes form a source that I cannot control".

A lot of parsers are fairly configurable precisely to account for the situation of "the other end is sending me ill-defined jank" and to be flexible enough that maybe, just maybe, it'll mostly work. But it's hardly "engineering" at that point.
I am absolutely not. :)
A few years ago, the PPM in my town's water was over 850 PPM, well above the recommended guidelines. Worse than that, it had a distinct sulfur-like smell.

So naturally we got a reverse osmosis water filter system and while the tap water has improved since then, I'm always reminded of the occasional accidents that can occur (e.g., lead, excessive chlorination, plain old entropy).

Plus it makes the water taste significantly better. Even if tap water was always perfectly safe to drink, I'd get one just for the taste alone.

Brondell Circle RO systems are my favorite because the filters are the easiest to change and when you have the same system for years, that ends up being the labor you repeat the most.
Compete and utter nonsense. You’d need 100+ gal/day to get the trace mineral content of a multi vitamin.

The rest is equally preposterous.
There are a small number of people/sites who I have given money/subscribed to on the internet.

Substack has never been something I wanted to help with. Anything with dark patterns to get you to subscribe completely turns me off. I respond to individuals or small groups saying "hey this stuff you like to read takes time to write, and for me to do this for a living and continue to create stuff, it would be really nice if you contributed a small amount of money"

For example:
https://kottke.org/members/
https://www.patreon.com/acegikmo/membership
I have used Spectrum and they gave me a v6 route without asking. Maybe your DHCP client or OS was to blame? I am not sure if it shook out via router advertisements or DHCPv6, it just worked with dhcpcd.
Try https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

I also learned from this one which I think is simpler but not as detailed

https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-3d-geometr...
Okay, but how do you put that up as a writer?

Is it harder than the <5 minute Substack signup process?

Because if so, I think you’ve got your answer
> This has the potential to turn into a reading positions subthread :)

Wish granted!

If I lie on my side for more than a minute or two, my hips ache. Only a little at first, but if I ignore it and fall asleep, I will wake up in writhing agony 30 minutes later. Been like this since my 20's. Reasonably healthy otherwise so I don't know what the deal is. Otherwise, yes, this would be the ideal reading position.

Extra credit: I can only FALL asleep on my stomach, but I can only CONTINUE sleeping on my back. Which means almost every night, I somehow flip myself over without waking up.
Do substack writers receive the email addresses of followers, as they do with subscribers, i.e. can they migrate their audience of subscribers+followers to another platform at any time?

Substack has long provided RSS. Do they offer RSS feed analytics to writers?
Steaming, grilling, baking, air frying (convection baking), roasting, boiling, stewing, frying in seasoned cast iron, etc all "require less fat to cook food"

If avoiding extra fat is one's highest priority, it's not like you're out of luck without nonstick pans.
I see, thanks for the explanation! If you're only storing a bit of data, removing the requirement for a local directory would make deployment easier; these could just go into the database.
> overly rosy picture of welfare programs

I agree (I couldn't edit it by the time the limit ended)!

The bigger issue is factory work is unappealing because working 10-12 hours a day under the table earning $250-300/mo doesn't make sense for most people.

Rural and lower class life does suck (heck my dad grew up in a jhuggi), but earning money for yourself is better than being at the mercy of a factory owner who can and often holds back your salary and doesn't provide housing.

That's a major differentiator between Chinese and Indian style factories - Chinese factories provide dormitories but Indian ones can't due to some regulatory issues.

Furthermore, most well paying factories aren't established in smaller towns or non-tier 1 metros, and the kind of demographic who would be open to working at a factory doesn't want to leave their hometown to take a massive risk living as a migrant worker in Chennai or Noida.

And that's why you see the boom in e-rickshaws in Tier 3/4 metros and small towns - it's an easy way to start your own business that's paying somewhat decently, and in most states welfare disbursement is "good enough" (as in better than 5 years ago).

That said, this is a localized maxima, and major reforms are needed, because this kind of an unorganized industry is going to eventually crash due to oversaturation.
Yeah good point - that would probably be ok for me actually.
Is this like the Scunthorpe Problem?
I’m having fun with this, made a real banger already. I’d pay to speed it up!
Suggestions:

- I needed to fix a few lyrics but wanted exactly the same style / song but this doesn’t seem possible? Setting remix similarity slider to lowest makes the exact same song. The remix UI I don’t really like because it isn’t clear and since it takes so long to generate that lack of clarity means I’m punished with a 5-15min delay if I don’t know what something is going to result in. Think of the feedback loop turnaround time when designing!

- it’s weird there’s no ui for favoriting a song. I found the choices available a bit odd. Copy Spotify?

- similarly, it generates some songs I didn’t like and they’re right along side the ones I really liked. Needs to have more distinguishing between ‘stuff I just got back’ from ‘good ones’

- would love a full screen song generator with more dials and knobs, including some sample sounds for keywords. I don’t love the small input box

- how do I press ‘make a longer version of this’ because that’s what I want for my banger song

- setup by email would be great
The market for human generated music isn't going away...
Proper security is when everything is closed off and inaccessible by default.

I have met a lot of infrastructure engineers who do that... then never give the people who need access access. So the system just sits and collects dust.

You have users. Acknowledge them. The network shouldn't even be the primary security boundary to begin with.

One bad firewall rule or insecure port open

Firewall !== routing. Nobody said you can't run a border firewall on your home network.
I use a mechanical arm mounted to a nightstand.
> Native widgets feel primitive and dated to me.

Compared to what? I honestly don't know what other people consider state of the art interfaces if native apps are excluded.
Seems to me that IPv4 was invented back when cybersecurity was much less of a concern.
like *.exe
Shoot, even the Wikipedia page is still titled "Twitter"
The stainless steel frying pan I use was purchased about 30 years ago as part of a set that included a couple saucepans and lids. I paid less than $50 for it new. That was a lot when I was a student, but not an out of reach luxury.

If it helped me avoid eating 20 meals out it easily paid for itself.
There's a finite amount of resources (including labor). Money is a proxy for that.
Trust essentially.

I don't trust random websites I've never used before, but I know Substack is a sure thing in terms of not excessively charging me money.
> I worry we’re losing all of this as we reinvent the UI without understanding what we’re rewriting.

It would get rediscovered in the future same way old ideas are recycled and are new again.
Military aircraft operators in the USA are pretty cautions about non-ADS-B Out or non-transponder operations. Air Force bases etc. will have active MACA (Mid-Air Collision Avoidance) programs, with aircraft and controllers working to reduce conflict potential with civilian traffic. Many bases will have MACA information on their web sites and staff to contact, and they are typically very responsive. Ironically the ones I have worked with were trying to encourage more civilian GA aircraft to adopt transponders, and to utilize the flight following services of their ATC/RAPCON.

TCAS uses active transponder interrogation from the TCAS unit interrogating a threat target's Mode-C or Mode-S transponder. TCAS only uses ADS-B In in an indirect way, in large part to acquire traffic in the area that is not yet a threat, and reduce it's RF congestion caused by excessive interrogation, especially of legacy Mode-C targets. A TCAS II system will fly you right into say a UAT out equipped aircraft without issuing an RA (resolution advisory) if that threat aircraft has no transponder or an inop transponder.

TCAS II only issuing an RA based on active interrogation of a threat aircraft's transponder is a kind of safety feature given the potential spoofing of ADS-B Out data.
I think you’re misinterpreting the reevaluation of fats in recent years. I’m not demonizing fats and saying they need to be avoided entirely. But I am saying people (especially in America) need to moderate their intake of calories in general and fats specifically as well (as they’re a vehicle for calories). There are also different varieties of fats with different health effects. Using nonstick cookware is an easy way to reduce the intake of fats (and therefore calories) even if you are not banning them from your diet entirely.

Let’s take a simple example: have you tried to make a fried egg in a cast iron pan and compared it to a nonstick pan? In a cast iron, you’ll need to use a pat of butter to get the egg to slide easily (around 100 calories). In nonstick you can get away with zero butter. It adds up.
Wasn't this also around the time of the "free speech ideals" incident? I wonder how the appearance or suggestion (accurate or otherwise) of supporting Nazis might also affect the platform.
Name and shame!

Also ask nicely, maybe today'll be the day they offer up a v6 route :p
Another alternative is enameled cast iron if you don't want to think about seasoning. My Le Creuset is one of my most treasured possessions.
> These are not strictly a result of targeting browsers for desktop applications, it's strictly down to design decisions that have nothing to do with how its implemented.

It's not "strictly" down to this; even if you want to implement interfaces that fit in with native ones, web browsers simply don't expose many native features via the DOM/CSS. It's a question of actual capabilities, not of this hypothetical design process that doesn't care about native integration.

(Of course, there will always be terrible native interfaces. Arguably Apple is the worst offender here!)
Glad the title wasn’t “IPV6 is all you need”
And certainly on local networks. It's way more convenient to work with.

The only thing I can see replacing it is if something I'll call "easyip" came around - something even more convenient than ipv4 for networks of under, say a few hundred devices
Recently came across something similar for Germany, although less versatile: https://dfiuhsfdfiu.neocities.org/
To clarify, I was stating it was engaged during the tests used to inform the test report and the campaign. The claim in the article is that "they never engaged FSD Beta during the test". That is demonstrably false.

You could state: "FSD Beta was not engaged during portions of the ad footage". That is well supported. However, Fred Lambert read the Safety Test Report [1], as he pointed to specific sections, but was apparently too busy to view the raw footage linked on page 5 (unfortunately that link is now dead, but did point to the same footage I linked previously) or accept affidavits sworn under penalty of perjury before affirmatively declaring that FSD was not enabled during the referenced tests. He did not even make minimal effort to ascertain the actual truth before spouting vile and false accusations.

To further add on to his point, he fabricated nonsensical justification for why it must have been disabled like: "The explanation is likely quite simple. Tesla FSD Beta still relies on map data, and this test was performed on a closed course at Willow Springs International Raceway in Rosamond, California."

As a "journalist", he made no effort to ascertain the actual truth before promulgating a story. The story was venomous, throwing around the most inflammatory and sensationalist accusations possible such as claiming it was a "smear campaign" and arguing that they were either intentionally lying about the system being enabled or too stupid to do so and thus should be completely ignored. The consequences of his "journalism" are that his false accusations continue to be successfully used as ammunition to quash whistleblowing and he has made no effort to remedy his errors, making only a limp-wristed reluctant, non-retraction when confronted with the magnitude of his error that is insufficient to dispel the clear disinformation he presented as truth.

As to the data in the safety report, it is corrected in the report here [2] which has live links to the raw footage. The discrepancies from the original report are immaterial as they are only slight differences in child collision speed, there exists no qualitative error, and the footage speaks for itself as a authoritative source.

In any event, you can just look to the more recent tests which completely invalidate these questions anyways. The system is clearly engaged, there is no driver input, the test environment is simple, and the error is egregious and reproducible.

[1] https://dawnproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The_Dawn_...

[2] https://dawnproject.com/the-dawn-projects-new-advertising-ca...
Once the fluorocarbons are made into PTFE, they no longer pose a threat. Teflon is so biologically inert that it gets used in medical devices implanted into humans. It isn't soluble in water or much of anything else.

The problem is with PFOA and related compounds, which are used to make PTFE and friends.
Also have the Note Air 3C (same screen iirc). Still getting uses to it (never have used eink before) but so far soon good. I don't think I'd want to switch to monochrome even if the contrast is better.