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Hi All,

I'm the founder of BookBoss, a new tool designed especially for book enthusiasts.

BookBoss aims to help new and starting book collectors with identifying rare and antiquarian books, provide price estimates based on thorough market research and historic sale data, and verify the authenticity of rare and antiquarian books, all with a scan of a cover and/or title page. Think of it as the Vivino for books!

However, before we dive into building BookBoss, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Is this something you would find valuable? Why or why not? What features is it missing, what feature is unnecessary?

Your feedback is incredibly important to us, and we'd love to start a conversation with you.
Xcode not being required doesn't mean Apple is required to provide alternatives. There are some alternative, compatible signing tools already out there for example. They'd just need to stop being control freaks for a little bit.
Google "direct primary care", chances are you have one nearby
And the US you'll die homeless. At least if I die waiting on the NHS, I'm at home.
Oh MAN this is one of those things many script writers do (especially in video games) that drives me nuts. You can tell from the actor's line reading that the script read, "Don't tell me what--" to indicate that the speech was interrupted. But the actor reading the line just kind of awkwardly stops speaking after "what," instead of continuing the line and actually being interrupted.

It seems to me, not being a script writer, like an incredibly obvious thing to avoid doing. Like if it's this obvious to me, then everyone who touches that script should know not to do that. How did it make it through so many people (writer, VA director, actor) with no one saying anything about it? But it keeps happening, over and over, so there must be something in that writing & acting process that I'm not aware of.
Aseprite is also open-source and free if you compile it yourself.
https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite
In my area I live near a Fred Meyers, a QFC and a Safeway. Soon enough, those are all likely to be owned under the same umbrella, so what real choice do I have if they're all under the same ownership?

Similar things have been happening to mechanics as well.
Ah yes, Soviet style, being held at gunpoint by a totalitarian regime seizing all workers' wealth and pocketing themselves, is definitely what socialism is all about, because that's what the USSR chose to call themselves. /s

I heard North Korea calls it's self a democracy too since it's in their name. Please tell me how democracy is a failure because of that.
What are the monopolies, price fixing, and price non transparency in housing?
The Five Stages of Vim (2023)
Amen to that. But in Gentoo this is handled in an even better way.
In theory you could also hack the many self driving trains that exists around the globe.
And the next republican president, Trump or otherwise, will undo it all on day one.

We need ACTUAL SOLUTIONS. Changes to existing laws, or new laws. Consensus governance, not just executive orders.
Arnold Kling:

The New Commanding Heights are education and health care, which are rapidly expanding sectors where credentials and regulation are important sources of rents.

http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/klassic-klingisms/

In Marxian economics, the "commanding heights of the economy" are certain strategically important economic sectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_heights_of_the_econ...
I guess the Danes are enlightened
There are other factors as well. For example,if a single restaurant or supermarket increases its prices, you can just go somewhere else. But switching doctors is much harder to do. And is made more difficult by insurance networks. And if you don't like your insurance, you can't really switch, without changing jobs or paying a lot more to get individual insurance instead of using discounted insurance from your employer and effectively giving up compensation.
To me, it was the biggest example of why we need at least partial (say 50%) domestic production and to require at least dual sourcing (which would require licensing). Which would have the side effect of at least some competition. I'm also less than convinced the term for Patents is appropriate for a lot of industries today in general.

Not to mention restrictions on negotiated rates by medicare and other agencies. I'd personally like to see all Govt employees, Veterans and Medicare replaced by a non-profit insurance corp, that is able to negotiate and establish baseline care, without eliminating private coverage, but anyone can buy the public plan (employers etc) as a way of leveling (some) competition.

As it is, the recent South Park special does a relatively good job of demonstrating how messed up the system is.
I'd like to see DSPy ported to Elixir, utilizing all of the best patterns available.
I heard from an expat local that one major issue is that there's no inheritance tax on property, so many buildings get passed down to a few children who can't agree what to do with it and don't have money for upkeep. Those buildings will sit idle since there's no cost to leaving it, which becomes the default option.
The other user has commented already, I don't want to bet against this craziness, and in a way, I'm certain that NVidia will continue moving up, until it isn't!
Same day Trump promises Musk the seat and to stop all EV Sales in USA, not to mention this gem https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1125072952783...

Its all nonsense.
This is not cringe at all IMO. It is the best thing that happened to me by far as well. Having someone to care about each other, feeling love and especially pure trust is really really priceless.

Hope you will be happy and together
Crypto mining? Faster graphics processing for media? More powerful or lower power consumption phones/tablets/laptops? Medical imaging? Military?

There was a tech world before AI!
Huh? I'm talking about being able to "dial in the effect." I read that as "dialing in the darkness" (as it relates to motion blur). That's what I'm talking about.

Obviously the sunglasses alone make the scene darker. You're the one who brought up dialing it in with polarized lenses.
I’ve never seen HN so thirsty over celebrity tea before.
How long ago? Nowdays most people dont use ISS for docker builds, it usually runs on Linux containers.
Medical schools need to be running their own finance/biz programmes coming up with their own models of how to run health care.

The current system outsources this thinking to b-schools and has become to dependent on unsustainable financial engineering dogma that flows out of there.
Construction is always the wrong metaphor for sw dev.

Think more like marketing campaign or product design.
"The model was trained on 8,266 Reddit discussions with 18,359 labelled comments from 850 communities."

Reddit.

You couldn't make it up.
Sure, but that's not a "both sides" problem. Lay blame where blame lies.
> But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

It does: Red Lobster, Fairway in the USA, Morrissons in the UK, some others [0].

[0] https://foodinstitute.com/focus/private-equity-bankruptcies-...
Better persistent KV store coming to Python stdlib
And what's his point? That he invented internet? Implementing a basic HTTP in C is like a first year CS lab (https://quip.com/Km9EAe5ARGZI). Without further information how do we know he is not inflating some toy week-end project any C programmer could have done back then? Also what's with specifying it's in C/C++? It was either that or assembly. Again hard to see his point. It gives me the same vibe than when he was proud of "direct flipping of CPU registers". All of this is very average if you were a hobby programmer at the time, we are not talking real world engineering like OS kernel (Linux/NT/...) or Game (Crash Bandicoot, RollerCoaster Tycoon, ...) just to name a few on top of my head.

My point is contrary to what he and his supporters claim he has has no deep understanding of the actual tech of his companies. I'm not arguing he doesn't know tech enough to run a tech company. It's common to find tech executives and VP that coded in their younger years. He might sit maybe a bit above a decent salespeople that has a good understanding of his product line, but below a Bill Gates and definitely not at the level of a ML researcher or Tech lead. He is maybe more invested that a typical CEO in day to day operations, but the aura of genius/inventor added on top is an illusion.
I am fine with your comment, but not happy about it.
I have had the inverse experience. Its been much easier to find information using AI compared to a traditional Google search.
mod_php does give you better response times for individual requests, but at the expense of being able to handle a higher load of traffic; you'll run out of memory and/or experience timeouts on mod_php way before you do with php-fpm.

With mod_php, every Apache process has the PHP engine embedded in it, even if PHP isn't needed, e.g., to serve a request for a .css file. When Apache gets a bunch of requests for flat files, it forks all those processes and fills up RAM with copies of the PHP engine that aren't used. That's not only wasteful, but it dramatically increases the chances that you'll run out of memory. You can limit the number of Apache children of course, but you'll see timeouts sooner when you get a traffic spike.

By having Apache proxy over to php-fpm for PHP requests, you can configure Apache to use mpm_event for serving static files, which allows for much leaner Apache workers (memory-wise) since they aren't carrying PHP around on their backs.

While you're at it, you can use haproxy on the same machine for TLS termination, then you can disable mod_ssl thus making Apache workers even lighter.
> Everyone "normal" just uses Excel for things that really need a relational database!

There's your answer. Excel is good enough for most people's needs, though I will admit that its failure mode is that people tend to get really good at it when they start pushing its boundaries to the point where a DB would serve them better.
This is why other goods you absolutely need, like clothes, shoes, and food, are ALSO some of the most expensive out there.
The government is you. It's a democracy you are living in. The root problem is greed. I am not American but it's also in my country. The government listens to companies that make sure they can keep squeezing us for more. I lost my faith in it all for some time now.
This.. AND… dev machines should be isolated environments via something like GitHub Codespaces, local docker containers or Google’s IDX.

You also shouldn’t be able to push code directly to anywhere other than a centralized repository. All the build stuff should happen in a dedicated and independent process.

From a security point of view you need to accept that the idea of running into a malicious package as a direct or indirect dependency is not only not zero but fairly realistic and you should try to limit the blast radius as much as possible for when that does happen.
Just so we're clear: You're agreeing right? You're irrational about this and as a result it's damaged your life.

You reached a situation where everyday things are "too dirty" and rather than realising that's a mental health problem and you might need to fix that, you... found an expensive and elaborate coping strategy which necessitates further crazy beliefs.
As a "citizen" of the EU you cannot even sue against the EU violating your rights. The flaws of the EUs are apparent. Not that nations outside of it necessarily fare better, just look at the UK, but this was done to not have any democratic input on surveillance.
So just regular work stuff, got it.
Why even is it an image? paulg pays for twitter, he could have just tweeted the whole thing. It's bizarre.
Need to forget this and feel trust at some point, this is the point of having a relationship IMO
World is changing too fast, Memberberries are strong. I get it that tuk tuks in Lisbon are horrible thinkg. There is lot of bad things happening with tourism. Built if you don't give people other opportunities to make money, they will choose easy ones, that are not the best. And I don't think rich people are going to lisbon, its the tastless mass that will chose the kitsch touristy stuff.
When I go to spain or portugal, I try to find the most authentic restaurants.
trying to solve org problems with tech just creates more problems, allthewhile not actually solving the original problem.
I founded and ran a non profit for several years while I worked for a startup. I am the polar opposite of an elite. That’s just how non profits work.
No "good driving" beats the laws of physics, the extra weight the batteries have will make that happen faster than an ICE.

Of course, battery tech can improve by becoming lighter, more efficient etc, then my argument would change, but without those improvements, I don't believe in it.
Hey, if Paul Graham can post an announcement on Twitter/X as an image with Courier monospaced font (left justified) instead of just typing the actual text, then who am I to judge people sending me Word documents, containing bitmap images of screen captures of a photo showing an image of a handwritten note :-)
> You have to ask yourself what makes healthcare unique to nearly every other well functioning market in the US. The bigger issue is there is third party paying for things. Try to ask your doctor how much something costs and they'll stare at you like you have two heads. Imagine getting your car fixed without knowing how much it's going to cost

Are other markets well functioning in the US? I'd argue Private Equity is ruining a lot of them.

Also, you're missing one big fundamental issue. Healthcare is not a good candidate for a "free market", because it's an inelastic "good". You can't choose when to get sick or have health issues. You can't change the fact that prevention saves lives and money. So, healthcare cannot ever be a free market and function properly. The only way to make it function is either by centralisation or heavy regulation. Curiously the US is practically the only country that managed to screw up and have a bad mix of both options while also having a broken market.
You obviously don't understand what the word realist mean, imagine being that poorly educated while thinking you are superior. That's not being a realist it is just being propagandized and brainwashed, western exceptionalism is a mental illness like all delusional supremacist ideologies.
Supply creates demand.
I think the argument should be about making people care, not the dashed unfairness of it all. I doubt more than 1% are aware or care.
Has anyone use graphql for service to service communication?

Seems really great to not have each service adhere to another service’s potentially unstable api contract.

Especially if that service is owned by another team.
I don't disbelieve that people have performance problems with Firefox, but I've been using it since before it was Firefox the entire time and I've never run into it being intolerably slow. Maybe it is because I never have more than a dozen tabs open at once, or maybe it is because I never use facebook or some of the other popular sites and maybe those are really heavy.

And yes, I do sometimes use Edge and Chrome, mostly for my work machine, because sometimes the company internal web products are developed on and tested only Chrome and on occasion things don't work for FF. Those don't feel any zippier to me.
I do. We have the Democrats who are mostly alright and well meaning, with exceptions but in practice are not capable of handling what the Republicans have become, which is theocratic-fascists. And the Republicans are filling the legislature with dipshits who scream about Jewish space-lasers and want to regress us socially to the 1920's.

They both suck, one side notably more so.
I wish I could appraise someone’s skill at something without that being considered as a general endorsement but I guess not.

I don’t think Sam Altman is probably that great at most of what he would like ppl to think he is great at. But he must be alright at marketing and getting into the right places because we are talking about him.
Except fast food has gone up 50-100% in the past 5 years. Groceries up 30-50% in the same time. Car mechanics, I can't speak to.

Not THAT well.
If you don't stop your side gig, we're going to have to part ways.

If you don't stop spitting in the food, we're going to have to part ways.

Sam didn't want to leave but had to leave.
Perhaps a habit from the days of more limited Twitter character counts.
But those are vastly more flexible. You can pick which clothes to buy from which store/vendor, you can buy second hand, you can get clothes donated. You can buy cheap filling food, in bulk, get by on rice and potatoes, etc.

You can't get get a second hand operation or medicine.
It is also happening to restaurants and HVAC installers and plumbing businesses. They just got around to buying those up a little more recently. We should expect the price and service consequences to start showing up in the next 5-10 years.
Panasonic apologizes after being caught using photo taken on Canon and Nikon kit
I mean, it sounds like a crime was committed to me. Reach out to law enforcement or a lawyer.
Ok but … that means Sam was still greedy and overconfident enough to try and run both OpenAI and YC until Paul/Jessica told him he had to choose.
I am pedantic, when I think it helps clarity and understanding.

Here it does not. The goal of a sale is to make money, if there was no deal, than it was no success by that metric.
I don't mind people not understanding how the finance industry has fucked up housing all over the Western world. It's complicated.

But the immediate illiterate defenses in the short time this comment has been posted are wild, if sadly expected.

Yes, for the love of all that's holy: private equity has fucked up housing across the planet. Learn about it a little before insisting otherwise!

This isn't simple supply and demand, nor is it all a big mystery. It's certainly not a 'bad example' of the finance industry fucking up a life essential to profit off it at our expense; it's a core, fundamental example.

People have done huge amounts of work exposing these shenanigans. All the information needed to educate yourselves is a few clicks away. Here's some titles to get you started:

"Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream" by Aaron Glantz

"Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street" by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt

"The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class – and What We Can Do About It" by Richard Florida

Stop letting the industry off the hook for the unimaginable damage they've inflicted on the heart of society. Step one: gtfo out of denial.
> I live in a big city (larger population than Phoenix) in the Uk

That’s an interesting way of saying you live in London ;)

(Phoenix urban area is more populous than every urban area in the UK except for London)
'I had fun': Alleged scammer takes credit for Graceland foreclosure upheaval
In the US Tree would face civil forfeiture
We'll Get a Laravel for JavaScript
> Bears repeating. This was true of a lot of "anti-communist" US actions: propping up a hated local elite who were in no way democratic.

Not wrong, but I'm curious to know how things worked out (so far?) over the long-term: a lot of non-communist dictatorial countries (that the US propped-up?) managed to move over onto more democratic systems eventually, whereas (AFAICT) communist governments have managed to hang on and are still single-party states.
This is brilliant. Would love to see more of this in the US education system.
The insurance industry in the USA is so screwed. A few years ago I had to go to the emergency room (turns out it was my gall bladder) and afterwards I got separate bills from the hospital, the anesthesiologist, and the mri. It was one hospital but it turns out it was 3 separate companies.

Of course I didn't get the bills right away. No I got them for months afterwards.

I got the main bill, I called up the hospital to pay and they said they would give me a discount for paying all at once. What? it didn't say that anywhere on the bill. So if I had paid it online I would have paid the full amount and not the discounted price which was a couple hundred less?

Another time I got a bill from the hospital and I didn't know what it was for so I called them and they said "ok. We'll resubmit it to your insurance." and I never heard about it again. If I hadn't called I would have paid a bill for over a thousand dollars.

I got one bill for $20 a year after. The address was in another city so I was skeptical. I went to their website and put in the account number and it said I didn't owe anything. Was it a scam? Who knows.

Another time I had an mri scheduled for something else and I get a call from the insurance company asking if I would be willing to reschedule to another hospital 90 minutes away because it was cheaper.

I can't imagine how terrible it would be if I had some serious or long term illness. Imagine if any other industry was this sloppy and confusing in their billing.
There's a lot of relevant differences between REST & GraphQL. It is possible to construct a REST endpoint that simply can't do any of those things, and such construction is a mid-level developer task at best. For instance, pagination of "all posts ever" is not uncommon, and clients won't be shocked to deal with it. GraphQL is enough harder to characterize the performance of that it definitely qualifies as a change in quantity that is itself a change in quality. Hypothetically, both approaches are vulnerable to all the same issues, but GraphQL is far more vulnerable.
Trying to get an overview of which languages allow for tiny implementations of their core features. Like, max. ~10KB binary size (but preferably a few KB's). This is assuming basic IO is trivial, like reading/writing to some memory location to get/print a character on text console.

Forth is an obvious one. Basic another. There's some tiny Lisps out there. And Tcl.

Any other languages that go that small?
Maybe it's to help distance one self from what you want to say or reverse seo thing?
"the comment ‘That’s gross!’ might be innocuous by itself, but its meaning changes dramatically if it’s in response to a photo of pizza with pineapple versus a person from a marginalized group."

Should boost the prospects of marginalised persons seeking employment influencing for gross pizza producers.

Presuming of course the "AI" can detect marginalisation by appearence alone..
> You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.

Beautiful. Leave this mark on someone.
> What does this mean? Are you saying mortgages are recent? Prices are a function of supply and demand, not of access to capital.

Access to capital influences how much money can be spent to satisfy a demand.
Why would you only look at the USSR? Look at the GDR, for example - it wasn't a monolith in the Eastern Bloc as far as socialism is concerned.
> the Frontend is allowed to send any possible query to the Backend

It's really not, it's not exposing your whole DB or allowing random SQL queries.

> It is far better for the Backend to provide the Frontend a contract

GraphQL does this - it's just called the GraphQL "schema". It's not your entire database schema.
Ruby 3.3.2 Released
Depends on what country you're in. In the US, it's going to be a while. In the EU, maybe not.
As a guess: It means he got to see his kids grow up instead of working 100 hours a week.

He handed off a lot of the day-to-day scut work. He didn't go "I'm just a shareholder who reads the annual report and counts my pennies from the DRIP."