skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a compelling idea and have mapped out your business strategy. Now, the next step is to transition your venture online and establish a website that aligns with this pivotal phase of your business.

This is not about just unveiling a web-SaaS-product; it’s about engaging directly with users and learning diverse feedback to iterate effectively. You’re not looking for extravagance; instead, you seek the core features necessary for an initial launch, with room to expand as your business flourishes.

Where do you begin and what are the secrets?

Step 1: Begin by purchasing a domain. I recommend using GoDaddy because I have had positive experiences with their web hosting services. Before buying, search for coupons to save some money. GoDaddy offers a user-friendly interface for managing domains and hosting, making it easy to navigate. I have my complete AI tool hosted with them and have never faced any issues. Their support is also round the clock.

Step 2: Decide how you will build your MVP. If you’re not a software engineer, it’s best to use a website builder.

You have two main options:

Simple Website with a Contact Form: This can be used to collect leads or early access notifications. Platforms like WordPress, Squarespace, PagePalooza, and WIX are ideal for this purpose.

Functional MVP: Build a website that includes the main functionality of your SaaS idea. For example, if you’re launching a project management tool for freelancers, your MVP could either be a basic landing page or a simple version of the tool that allows users to sign up and track their projects.

Step 3: Choose Cost-Effective Development Tools. To create a functional MVP on a budget, consider using tools like Bubble, though this may cost between $250–$300 monthly. Alternatively, platforms like PagePalooza offer a more economical start. You can generate a website, perform common website editing (colors, text, and images), and then assign a software engineer for project tracking. Shared code access allows for monitoring progress and consulting with developers. It also will cost you a one time fee!

Step 4: Utilize Budget-Friendly Databases. Consult with software developers to identify budget-friendly solutions. Often, they recommend starting with a Google Sheet as a database, which is excellent for starting on a budget and saves a significant amount of money.

Step 5: Validate Your Idea and Gather Feedback. This way, you can validate your idea with minimal investment and gather early user feedback. By doing this, you’ll be able to iterate based on real user data and ensure that your product meets the needs of your target audience before investing heavily in development.

By following these steps, not only do you keep your expenses low, but you also position your SaaS for growth and scalability. This budget-friendly approach ensures you can launch a functional, user-validated product in a professional and efficient way, maximizing your chances of success in the competitive SaaS market.
AFAIK not if you don't turn this on, and not what you don't type in the box.

My big disappointment is that you can't use providers other than OpenAI. Stop this. It's like making a web browser that can only use Google. AI APIs are actually kind of simple. Make it so I can pick one including a locally hosted one (ollama etc.) if I want.
At this risk of anthropomorphizing too much, I can't help but see parallels between the "my physical form is the Golden Gate Bridge" screenshot and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet in humans --- both cognitive distortions caused by targeted exogenous neural activation.
Levi's stitched AI into its iconic jeans
Assuming you're unhappy with this (I am neutral on it), I'm actually curious: what do you lose by iTerm2 having an opt-in feature that you don't need to use? How do you replace all the lost features of iTerm2 that aren't in Terminal.app? And if there aren't any features you're losing out on, why did you even switch to iTerm2?
Debugging Postgres: Fixing a slow query using statistics
Back when dithering was standard and modem download times for a single image were measured in 10's of seconds.
FreeCAD suffers from a serious case of open source disease.

In theory it can do a lot. In practice its interface is 'unique', its cognitive model is a dog's breakfast, its CAM offering is weak, its command line automation is brittle and poorly documented, and you are going to spend more time solving problems for the code than for yourself.

I have directly managed teams of CAD people for most of the last decade. Mostly they use Solidworks, which has its own problems (exceptionally broken namespacing, poor performance especially for cables/fasteners, horrific RCS/VCS offering, ridiculous electronics offering, weak command line support, etc.). Personally, I often use OpenSCAD for simple models. I virtually never use FreeCAD, with few exceptions.

IMHO: (1) Blender is better modeler than FreeCAD in many cases, especially with some modern extensions such as https://www.cadsketcher.com/ https://blenderbim.org/ https://github.com/kevancress/MeasureIt_ARCH (2) It is far more useful to learn Blender than to learn FreeCAD, since that will allow you to achieve animation, parametric models, point clouds, geospatial modeling, etc. where FreeCAD is basically functionally limited to working with solids and the output of conventional artifacts such as STEP files and drawings. (3) Drawings themselves are becoming largely outdated as the leading edge of industry seeks to move from "CAD->drawing->CAM-based production" to "CAD->CAM-based production" to finally rid itself of human errors of interpretation. This is of course a long term goal, and will never wholly succeed, but the migration has begun and the writing is on the wall.
> you will LoL, and wake her up.

Ironically, I committed that mortal sin the other night around 1 am.

Guess I'll have to add this to a "morning" specific reading list.
Ask Uber. E.g. https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/31223/net-income-loss-of-...

Somehow people may finance an utterly losing operation for a decade or more.

I wish Backbkaze stays around though, even if they charge more. They'd still be charging less than AWS, and they seem to have a good culture / attitude.
would be awesome if this used a local llm. there are several open ones on hugging face fund for terminal command help with low parameters. I'm thinking something like llamafile would be awesome to ship with this app cross platform (though iterm2 specifically could probably assume apple silicon architecture support only). Benefits would be

- no external dependencies (OpenAI payment, network availability...)

- no data leaving my device

- it could deeply learn my configs and filesystem to give specific commands as opposed to general guidance (I know you can embed and send to OpenAI but I'd really not want to share all my hard drive)
I've been on a JavaScript purge recently. One of the underlying concerns is that giant companies can't even build the basics right, like this sticky nav. Front end developers can get JavaScript when they can build reliably. It's not like you need a sticky nav either, it's just extra page load time. Plain HTML just works.
Not really a new problem:

Take this quote from George Orwell on the Spanish Civil War

"I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories, and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’. Yet in a way, horrible as all this was, it was unimportant."
FreeCAD has improved immensely over the past 2-3 years in terms of stability and features. A decade ago it was not uncommon for me to experience crashes from it randomly losing its GLX context or the constraint solver segfaulting for some reason. Now it's rare for it to crash at all for me, though I still run into a lot of constraint solver errors that are a pain to deal with.

However, despite the recent improvements, I still cannot recommend it for new users compared to commercial solutions for the sole reason of the Topological Naming Issues: https://wiki.freecad.org/Topological_naming_problem

This issue has been probably the #1 problem I've had with FreeCAD since I started using it. And though I've learned how to design parts to get around the problem in most situations, it's a huge hurdle for newcomers to understand and get around. Luckily there's a fork that fixes a significant number of the issues: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3 and https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD

I've also heard of Ondsel, which is supposedly a much more user friendly version of FreeCAD that also includes some fixes to the issue: https://ondsel.com/

EDIT: Here's actually a better read of the topological naming issue, what's being done about it, and why it's difficult to fix: https://ondsel.com/blog/freecad-topological-naming/
Scary how fast I could create an AI generated artist
Except your debts start increasing even while you're continuously paying them off and investment becomes much more lucrative.

Deflation benefits those who have a lot of capital and can invest it into ~ zero risk instruments like government bonds the most (e.g. that's basically how the rentier/aristocratic class in the 19th Britain were able to maintain their lifestyle without doing anything productive, government bonds were yielding 4-5% while the value of their capital was going up due to near continues deflation throughout much of the century).

On the other hand if you're a heavily mortgaged farmer you were basically screwed if the price food went down (that's why free-silver/loose monetary policy was so popular amongst farmers back in the 1800s in the Midwest and in much of US).
All forms of predictive text do this even on a desktop. It's terrible.
'Vote Trump' spam that hit Bluesky in May came from decentralized rival Nostr
From the article:

> The maximum total length of a text line including the <CRLF> is 1000
Prompt-Based Feature Engineering (Part 2) – What Is My Purpose? You Clean Data.
That why you have to read the specs of the protocol you want to implement. Its a matter of engineering rigorousness. Brute-forcing until "it works" doesn't cut it.
>These conditions are unpredictable and have little warning.

Sometimes zero warning, and major harm, as in the current case.
> So long as it is not extreme, a decline in the price of goods means consumers have greater purchasing power, more financial security and

Deflation means that people's debt becomes more of a burden. I'd hazard to guess that poor people have more debt that rich, and so deflation would be worse for the poor.
A bit tangential, but I had a chemistry teacher in high school (~2007) who I liked a lot, but was not super tech-savy. I was staying after class to get some help with a homework assignment, but we ended up chatting a bit because he was funny and very friendly.

He mentioned how long grades took him to calculate because he had a lot of custom weighting for stuff, and he was doing everything with a Texas Instruments calculator, and he was dreading it because the semester was almost over. I said something like "Couldn't you do this with Excel or something?"

He didn't really know what Excel was, but my dad had like a week before taught me how to use it for basic number crunching stuff, so I loaded it up on his computer, and showed him some very basic arithmetic stuff, and how to use cells as variables and roughly how copying and pasting worked. He was immediately amazed and I left feeling super smart.

The next week, I chatted with him again, and he had completely overtaken my Excel ability. He learned a bunch of little tricks I was unfamiliar with, had redone all of the gradebooks with it, added a lot of conditionals, color coding, and I think might have even been using the VBA. He also added graphs to look at how much he had to curve things and to see if tests were fair. It was life-changing for him; a task that used to take him hours of manual work was reduced to about fifteen minutes of playing copypaste.

Excel is particularly interesting to me, because it's very immediately useful, but you can also go super deep with learning new features, and it keeps getting more useful!
its... wrong to use a disposable camera?
My personal problem with this is that I have no confidence in the answer provided by an AI. If I search the internet for help with some command line operation, I can try to find a reputable source that provides not only the command I'm looking for, but an explanation of the syntax that a) gives me confidence that it will do what I expect it to and b) allows me to learn how to construct that command so I can do it myself next time. This is, of course, less true today than it used to be, now that Google is likely to show me some convincing AI slop at the top of my results.
There was a story somewhere that a young person showed an ai version of grandpa to grandma and she loved it (or something similar).

People will like this feature.

I'm already intrigued by the post tbh.
I’ve created a few variants of a song for a singer/songwriter friend of mine using his lyrics. His mind was likewise blown, and it gave him some fresh ideas on how to improve his song
For those that need an alternate (and cross-platform) terminal:

- alacritty
- kitty

are decent alternatives I have found as a drop in replacement. Might need to add tmux if you were reliant on the window/pane management of iTerm2
They also bombed and leveled the AP building in 2021.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israe...
I've read it before my prior response and it ends off with:

"A little bit of deflation is a product of, and good for, economic growth. But, in the case of an economy-wide, central bank-fueled debt bubble followed by debt deflation when the bubble bursts, rapidly falling prices can go hand-in-hand with a financial crisis and recession."

This is what I'm saying.
I do not understand what you are asking. "$27.00" is a standard expense format.
Filesystems other than ZFS, anyway... ;)
> On the Koreader application, it has a dictionary function which makes it really nice to read with.

Do you use a Kobo with Koreader installed?

I've been using a Kindle Paperwhite for a few years and while I love the screen, I've gotten tired of being tied to Amazon and have started looking at alternatives.
I used one of those for work until last year, don't know what you call typical but it did last for 4 years without major problems so maybe that was atypical.
It made a noise like a hairdryer when starting Teams (but then, even my new M3 doesn't like Teams). Also, the spacebar did sometimes trigger twice but not often enough to make a fuss about. First MacBook Pro I've used that didn't need replacing something during warranty ;).
I've been using it to do some basic 3D printed designs, and it has all of the features you mention. I haven't had to write any Python so far.

The main issues with FreeCAD are those common to most open-source software applications like GIMP. You can accomplish almost anything that you can with professional software, but the UI is obtuse, at times buggy, and the process is going to involve way more steps, plugins, and hidden menus.

I use it because it's one of the few CAD packages that runs on MacOS and has a viable free tier. Most other CAD free tiers are crippled or have bizarre licensing agreements.

If you decide to give it a shot, I highly recommend using realthunder's branch, which massively improves the topological naming problem issue that the main branch struggles with. It also includes the plugin that adds the "assembly with constraints" feature. https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD

This YouTube channel has some great FreeCAD tutorialss. FreeCAD operates very much under a TIMTWOTDI philsophy. https://www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutions
> But some things you can’t automate. You can’t “automate” a knowledgable, friendly customer support team. You can’t “automate” responding to a complaint on social media. You can’t “automate” the recruiting, training, rapport, culture, and downright caring of teams of human beings who are awake 24/7/365, with skills ranging from multi-tasking on support chat to communicating clearly and professionally over the phone to logging into servers and identifying and fixing issues as fast as (humanly?) possible.

From what I can tell of the last 20 years of corporate strategy, they just decide to not do these things instead of automating them.

To the extent where I am unaware of a customer service process that is not a Kafkaesque call-tree at this point
> Israel justice system has put prime ministers and presidents on trial.

> Clearly unlike Israel there is no chance in *$#@ that Hamas would prosecute their own leadership for violation of international humanitarian law.

Huh, I almost forgot there were massive protests against the current PM when he set out to cripple the ability of the said Judiciary from trying him in court. But go on.
I don't know a lot about these tools, but I've used QCAD[1] for home improvement projects, drawing schematics and layout diagrams, and been very happy with it. It seems quite powerful. It's also open source, although not browser based.

I'm just wondering why QCAD doesn't seem to get much if any mention on HN when CAD tools and open source comes up.

1 - https://www.qcad.org/
Personal fusion360 left such a bad taste. I wouldnt mind some features locked, but when you realize they are not locking just "pro" features that were hard to code, but also just pure covenience tools (you manually select all edges, or upgrade and select all edges in one click), I just uninstalled.
Tons of strategy games don't need or even really 'allow' high APM, but people still act as if they don't exist.
I looked into the issue tracker and gosh, its getting so toxic there.

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470
My guess is that this could be used as a judge for censorship. So theoretically this could displace a lot of Chinese who have those jobs. And might be more strict.

Although, I am sure much of it is already automated. This would probably be able to handle more subtle dissent though.
> Apple takes an opinionated "we are right" approach to design, and it's typically an all-or-nothing thing. If Apple decides to allow choice, then you get choice. If they don't, then you don't.

How does this differ from any other company?
There is plenty of empirical evidence from the ~130 years or so prior to the Great Depression which shows why deflation (or rather restrictive monetary policy) was bad, stifled economic growth and lead to permanent boom and bust cycles and generally very high price volatility.
Yes, we could. However we specially commissioned this font from Monotype (creator of many famous fonts). It's called Bloomberg Fixed Unicode (you can search around for samples/copies which I won't vouch for here).

I also won't comment on the aesthetics of this font, but the choice is intentional and part of the branding of the Terminal product.
I'm sure it's possible to guide them to originality. And, in fact, even Suno at this very early stage in its development is capable of creating original music, sometimes even by accident.

I had wanted to coax it to produce structured/"melodic" dark ambient music like this: https://youtu.be/2L-lA0xqzKo?si=SESlJhPjKvRyUeTm&t=614

What it came up with was not much like what I had intended. It appears to have interpreted "ambient" in the alternative way -- as in ambient café noises and background murmurs. What it produced was a conventional hazy ambient track with what seems, in a dreamlike way that's hard to grasp, like a conversation running in the background. Quite unusual! https://suno.com/song/45b23814-59e2-480e-9a2a-7c7a895b3957
I recently switched from Fusion 360 to Onshape and it is so much better. Fewer crashes, better performance, and clearer errors when an operation can't be computed. Just wish it was less expensive for personal use.
Weird that

“Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator who also left
-in a destructive way that erased the value of his contributions, and
-that he was shown much generosity just makes it more painful.“

was changed to:

“Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator that has shown much generosity.”

Looks like the one making the change didn’t understate the original comments? They should have stopped at “brilliant innovator”
You mean you ordered the product advertised as "Magic Keyboard with Touch ID for Mac models with Apple silicon" and expected it to work?
Hopefully it won’t get Picasa’d
I feel you and agree, but there's a good argument to be made that BSSIDs are "public information".

It's a slippery slope to walk trying to regulate that one. One example: "No public citizen, you are not allowed to monitor our frequencies without paying our corporation a subscription fee."
Hi! I'm someone who generally hates the "shoved-down-your-throat"ness of AI, and who got pretty upset at the MDN saga (which we do not need to relitigate here), so I think we have something in common. I'm not bothered by this feature though, because it's totally optional and unobtrusive. Can I ask why this is important to you?
Even under Marshal Law?
For those unfamiliar, Ondsel is just a custom build of FreeCAD, with some different UI/UX and workbench defaults and their cloud oriented plugin/features enabled by default. They also have some features that haven't yet made their way into a stable FreeCAD release, but most likely will eventually.

I've got no qualms with anything Ondsel is doing, except that their "releases" are based off of the dev versions of FreeCAD, which are still in active development where things are rapidly changing and are poorly tested as a whole package. This leads to the situation where, for example, very basic sketches will cause the most recent Ondsel version to puke in odd ways, but it's a problem that's already been fixed in the FreeCAD dev builds.

So certainly give Ondsel a try; there a lot to like, and they're adding some much needed features to FreeCAD, but until their releases are based off FreeCAD stable, treat it like the unstable dev build it is.
> What type of "not profitable"? By itself that's not a useful statement.

They're a public company so you can check for yourself: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1462056/0001...
Thanks so much for the kind words and thoughtful comment.

Regarding the objective, it's targeting the most common understanding of "frog" and "toad", which for most people will be folk taxonomy, and they probably aren't aware that there's not a scientific taxonomic distinction. So from your list, I think most people will approach it as option "a". However you might be happy to know that when selecting species, there's a couple that are in there because they belong to taxa that contain both "frogs" and "toads", so "b" would be quite difficult!

In that it goes for "a", it's really intended to show that folk taxonomy, like most ways people categorise things, works until it doesn't. Really important to me to note that it's not trying to favour "scientific" taxonomy over folk, though. There's evidence that practicing folk taxonomy, by observing and categorising what you see in nature around you, helps build connectedness with nature, which has a lot of benefits, and making people aware of folk taxonomy as a thing that they contribute to is the ultimate objective.
But few people seem to find Japan’s past decades a desirable example because they had no growth either.
Think Jan Kara may have misread the part about generosity. But I imagine that’s okay.
Have you tried Solvespace (GPLv3)?

https://solvespace.com/index.pl

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace
The Future of Foundation Models Is Closed-Source