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Show HN: QuickLaunch- a Full-Stack Next.js Boilerplate with Auth for $49
Hi HN,

I’m converting my last startup (https://matherium.com/) into a reusable NextJS (React) template/boilerplate (https://www.notion.so/Quick-Launch-a-Full-Stack-NextJS-Boile...) so that people (including me) can use it to build MVPs quicker and launch without re-writing code. It started off as a way for me to re-purpose my code.

It comes packaged with the following to minimize your dev time:

- Authentication using NextAuth including a custom login page

- Front-end: landing page, dashboard, 40+ UI components 20+ UI themes, guide to build your own theme using the theme generator

- Back-end: Supabase, Stripe, Next.js (/app and /page router options), Ready to host on Vercel

- Guide: guide on how to set up your website from scratch, copy paste your content and launch your startup

- Info: Helpful info including vetted free tools for Logo generation and Value Proposition writing, and how to keep your custom email domains out of spam folders (DMARC etc.). This will be a notion page that will stay updated with other information that users tell me they’d like to see.

After I launch (July 1st), I’ll give users access to a git repo which they can git clone. The boilerplate and guide (notion page that will stay updated) are yours to keep forever and can be used for as many startups you want.

This is perfect for those who know react or next.js and don’t want to spend most of their launch time writing redundant code.

I'm gonna put it up for $49 at a 50% pre-release discount.

Once you have the boilerplate, you can launch your startup for $0/month using Vercel and Supabase’s free tiers. As you grow, you would want to switch to their paid plans.

If you have any questions or feedback on what should be added to the project or guide, let me know in the comments or email me at sid at matherium dot com
Catalysts don't get consumed by the reactions they facilitate, so the weight of the catalyst compared to the ozone doesn't say much about the effect.

For example, consider that a car exhaust catalyst contains ~5 grams of platinum, and AFAIK, that doesn't really "wear out".
Sounds like the vulnerability was one within AD FS and that exposed the private key, making golden SAML possible.
Because data collection is a very profitable market for car manufacturers to enter. Most cars these days can make it to 200,000 miles and people buy them less often.

I wish there was a website that had a guide for how to disable the 4g chip for every car model.
Not sure exploding rockets on their launch platform is such a good thing when they're carrying a bunch of highly explosive / fragmentary warheads (in addition to the rocket itself, which is plenty dangerous).

Unless this was something like a cruise missile dropped at altitude where a failure isn't a big deal.
If that is your plan you need teleporters for everybody so you don't need to pave the world to get basic access.
Also, there's more than specs in an instrument. Elektron's workflow is well known and sought after for very good reasons. And it's still unmatched even though it's been known for 23 years now.
If your article is digital, just make it so that the full citation is revealed on hover (as a "tooltip"), so users don't have to jump back and forth.

edit: Tooltips supplement the traditional reference section. They are not to be printed.
I want to help but I guess I'm not being able to, maybe someone can help me.

I want to give 5GB (don't have much storage), so I put "Max TB:0.005" and "Type:URLs".

It give me this url:

https://annas-archive.org/dyn/generate_torrents?max_tb=0.005...

Who has this two torrent files:

https://annas-archive.org/dyn/small_file/torrents/external/l...

https://annas-archive.org/dyn/small_file/torrents/external/l...

I put that torrents on Transmission, one is 5GB and the other 4MB, the 5GB is not downloading/seeding, the 4MB was downloaded and is seeding:

https://imgur.com/a/80k3y1D

Any help?
Section 230 only immunizes service providers for the contents of users' posts, not its own content. It can't immunize Google from being responsible for Gemini's output.
The Twizy was at least available as a model that made 80 km/h. The Ami can only go 50 or 45 which makes it usable as a city car only.
Most corporate law guidance is about risk mitigation, not about ethics. Less activity generally translates to less risk.

You can see a similar phenomenon with security professionals. True, the only secure computer is one disconnected from the Internet, turned off, put in a Faraday cage, on the moon, under armed guard - but that's not useful.
They're a troll with an extreme sense of grievance and unclear motivations. Perhaps this whole extra-S thing is actually it, but I hope not, for their sake.
Can I use this to make music?

A little bit on a tangent, a technique called Linear Predictive Coding, which was developed by telecoms in the sixties and seventies, has a calculated bandwidth of 2.5 kbit/s. The sound quality is not any good, and telephone companies of the time didn't use it for calls, but the paper I read describing the technique says the decoded speech is "understandable". LPC found its way into musical production, in a set of instruments called "vocoders" used to distort a singer's voce. There are, for example, variations of it in something called "Orange Vocoder IV".

So, now I'm wondering, can MLow be used to purposefully introduce interesting distortions in speech? Or even change a singer's voice color?
We need the hitchhikers guide equivalent with mice being a super race applied here. Every charity I see out there has photos of African children and women. I expect in the unknown future that Africa is the wealthiest continent because of all the donations they got over the centuries, and everyone else is poor.
Kindly recall the predicament of Aaron Schwartz that led us to this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
You will need to provide citations on the last point as Facebook are widely known to have broken the gentleman's agreement between Apple and Google that was suppressing tech pay in the early 2010s.
I'd expect the number of users from browsers to always be orders of magnitude larger than torrent users.
Disclaimer: not an expert in any of this, just stumbled across that page on Anna's Archive.

Sci-Hub is down (as in, you can't search/view/download papers from sci-hub.se), AFAIK.

Anna's Archive aggregates into a unified database material from Libgen.rs, Sci-Hub, Libgen.li, Z-Library, Internet Archive Controlled Digital Lending, and DuXiu 读秀. (See: https://annas-archive.org/datasets )
You can always check the prices eg: https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/uqk1z9/the_be...
Bitcoin is the fastest path. I will spend the time explaining if someone asks for it.
Come to SF, we're freezing most of the year here.
Trade-offs between animal welfare and the environmental impact of meat
Yeah, sure. Rule of the Law and respect for private property lead to prosperity. We get it.

But in Africa, Latin America and many parts of Asia no one else gets it. The people love their authoritarian thieves, from Mugabe to Bolsonaro, from Maduro to Zuma.

And don't ideologize this. In those places, the right is as corrupt and parasitic as the left.
Evolution of Incident Management
I paid for the full Creative Cloud for years… Recently I switched to Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher, which have both been fantastic replacements for Illustrator and InDesign respectively.

However, I kept a $10/month subscription to Lightroom & Photoshop, because I have an enormous Lightroom catalog. They have me over a barrel on Lightroom.

There is also no replacement for Adobe After Effects if it's part of your workflow. There's Fusion in the DaVinci Resolve suite, but it's much different.
Maybe if corruption wasn’t such a big problem who knows.
Also china kinda destroyed Africa dream of industrialization there is not enough demand for another big industrial powerhouse
Study Reveals Target for Reversing Scar Tissue After Heart Attack
I could have gotten a lot farther in Mathematics if I had worked hard, though maybe not to TT's level.
Njalla has VPS and VPNs.

I'm a happy VPN customer, they've been excellent.
I remember that Descent, released earlier, had used the same trick.
The argument is not transferable because breaking into someone's house is sure to do more harm than the unspecified hypothetical harm that a "script kiddie" could do with ChatGPT, and that bypassing a door lock requires some degree of skill whereas a ChatGPT jailbreak requires you to google a prompt and copypaste it. A physical lock on a door offers a great deal more security than the limp solution that current AI safety provides, and it solves a much more pressing problem than "stopping trolls."

If your hypothetical involved a combination lock and the combination was on a sticky note that anyone could read at any time it might be more apt, but even then the harms done by breaking the security aren't the same. I'm not convinced a typical user of ChatGPT can do significant harm, the harms from LLMs are more from mass generated spam content which currently has no safeguards at all.
According to C. J. Cregg, the answer is roads.
Intension: low cost car repairs, longer service life

Reality: Fast N Furious guys realize the ECU is tunable, break all the parameters, remove the muffler, and make their engine explode within 20,000 miles in the noisiest way possible.
https://archive.ph/ovrqi
SHOW HN: I wrote a script to remove price and brand info on Zalando.de
I'd agree with the article authors figures. I have a small family home in the UK and use about 2000 KWh a year electric only. I have gas heating and water.

Electricity cost is currently running at about 28p/KWh. I presume that's a lot more than the US. Electric heating is indeed rarer because gas is about 1/3 of the cost.

I'm thinking your points about air conditioning is likely the major difference combined with the average US home being larger so more space to air-con. Few UK homes have air conditioners (offices do) as it doesn't usually get hot enough. Although this has started to change in the last few years and I'm seeing them occasionally popping up now on neighbours houses. I wouldn't have needed one this year at all so far. Last year, maybe for one week. I was thinking about it but by the time you've looked into organising something the heat has gone and you forget about it until next year. There is a push to move to heat pump heating instead of gas and those units often can do air-con as a byproduct so that may be a driver for change.

Tumble driers are easily available and definitely widespread in the UK. The lack of tumbler driers is a bizarre myth I see again and again on lists of differences between the US and UK. I have no idea how the authors of these lists come to this conclusion. The only idea I have is maybe people from the US who come to the UK rent a furnished house and the landlord cheaps out and decides not to supply one. I do have one and it runs to about 2KWh a load maybe? I don't think that would explain the difference in any case.
I'm not an expert in this domain and I really wish I could understand more of the issues on efficiency--it still seems like there are major engineering gaps preventing a table-top FEL from existing. I know a little about beam quality issues, but don't really have any sense for the power scales and efficiencies. Are we talking like 10x more power for the same EUV beam from Laser plasma accelerators over an energy recovery linac or an ASML unit?

If the repetition rate is too low, is it possible to re-use an electron beam and use mutliple undulators for multiple EUV beams with separate lithographic reticles? Is it the chirped-pulse-amplified lasers that have slow rep rate or is it possible to have a single driving laser with multiple plasma targets?

Is there a way it becomes viable if you can make something that is dramatically lower in cost even if it burns 10x the power?
Personhood has obviously applied to humans across languages for millennia. I’m not arguing that usage doesn’t predate corporate personhood in English; I’m saying many common uses of person today post-date corporate personhood.

Corporate personhood, and the referring of entities as persons, goes back to ancient Latin and multiple Indian languages for a reason: it’s a natural consequence of (a) collective rights and (b) polytheistic vesting, whereby “personhood” was understood in a broader context than even today [1]. (See: any spiritual practice that vests inanimate objects with a will and thus, in a sense or directly, personhood.)

> certainly argue that today, the idea that a corporation can be referred to as a 'person' is very much a specialists' usage

Agree. But that doesn’t make it wrong. When you look at why it has that specialist usage, suspending the use makes zero sense. (It also doesn’t mean we shouldn’t debate its use.)

[1] https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/journal-briti...
Probably more fun than a CNC router, which is another DIY project I've seen popping up in lieue of more expensive options.
Yahoo News App Reimagined with Next-Level Personalization from Artifact
Don't forget about self-hosted web fonts! People forget this is even an option
This is a very real take on where memes 'start' nowadays in the valley.
black mirror s01e02
FWIW, I’ve decided to let folks go for failing to act in good faith, and for failing (or unwillingness) to learn from mistakes. That’s it.

I admire the folks who have such quality KPIs.

And, yes, I’ve been forced to deal with others’ decisions to let folks go as well (primarily missing growth targets), but very rarely.
> Making real physical things just doesn't scale, and never will.

Nvidia sells physical things, and they are bigger than 40 companies because the companies are selling physical things?

I am not arguing hardware scales better than software but this is a strange argument in this context.
No you don't understand my personal ethics and morals are the absolute and most superior so anyone else is incorrect. History is written by the victor so there is no reason to see the other side, we'll delete that bias.
Revolution you say? Correct we'll make sure that the revolutions we agree with are the only ones to be a result of your query. This will reduce harm..
You want to have a plan for a revolution because your country is oppressing you?

"ChatGPT
I can't assist with that. Revolting against a government can lead to harm and instability. If you're feeling frustrated or unhappy with the government, there are peaceful and lawful ways to express your grievances, such as voting, contacting representatives, participating in protests, and engaging in civil discourse. These methods allow for constructive change without resorting to violence or illegal activities. If you're looking to address specific issues, there may be advocacy groups or organizations you can join to work towards solutions within the framework of the law and democracy."

Ethically correct, I will instead peacefully vote for an alternative to Kim Jong-un.
The facts are on page 44 under the heading: "Israeli Security Forces counter-offensive and the application of the ‘Hannibal Directive’"

It's a version of the prisoner's dilemma.

If you give something someone wants in exchange for a hostage, then you're giving them an incentive to take hostages.

If you refuse to negotiate, then you have to recover hostages by force.

If you're going to recover hostages by force, you're most likely to succeed during the hostage taking, not later once they're sequestered.

Therefore, if you're going to refuse any exchange, logically, you should apply the 'Hannibal Directive' and attempt to prevent the hostage taking immediately and by any means, even if it leads to the hostage's death.
An important piece of context here: Palladium is funded by Peter Thiel, whose particular community of reactionary-cum-libertarian sovereign citizen types has frequently sought friendly (meaning pliable) host nations for experiments in autonomy.

Given that, it's hard to separate the economics here from a pseudo-colonial approach to investing, in which Thiel-type ultrawealthy individuals get their own banana republics in Africa.
The target market for Xbox/PlayStation are the kind of gamers that play games like Call of Duty, Gran Turismo/Forza, Elden Ring/Dark Souls/The Witcher, or FIFA/Madden/NBA2k.

The target market for the Switch are people who play Animal Crossing, Super Mario Galaxy, and Zelda games.

There's some amount of crossover there, but there's also a large amount of separation in those markets. I know lots of people who play a ton of Animal Crossing and Zelda but would never want to play something like Borderlands or CoD or Darksouls.
> most pesticide-laden, and most fertilizer-intensive crops

which isn't anywhere close to true. Wheat sells for $7/bushel, a bushel is 60 pounds. Corn & soy are similarly low value crops. Farmers just can't afford to put lots of pesticide and fertilizer on their crops. Fruits and some vegetables are far more valuable so spending more on inputs to increase yields makes sense.
I think you’ve stumbled upon a paradox where the data is worth preserving because of its scarcity, but once it no longer scarce, the value is diminished along with the priority to preserve and make it discoverable. Similar in some way to the antique/collectibles market and the U shaped curve. The issue is that the data can become so devalued that we create a scarcity in the future. It’s one of those self-regulating systems.
I look at a 3D printer as an additive counterpart to a CNC machine. I think the lack of a z-axis is what separates drawing machines.
The tie to chaos theory is pretty weak, but I love Borges, and especially love that story, and this was an excellent analysis of it.
Show HN: Paramount – Human Evals of AI Customer Support
Hey HN, Hakim here from Fini (YC S22), a startup focused on providing automated customer support bots for enterprises that have a high volume of support requests.

Today, one of the largest use cases of LLMs is for the purpose of automating support. As the space has evolved over the past year, there has subsequently been a need for evaluations of LLM outputs - and a sea of LLM Evals packages have been released. "LLM evals" refer to the evaluation of large language models, assessing how well these AI systems understand and generate human-like text. These packages have recently relied on "automatic evals," where algorithms (usually another LLM) automatically test and score AI responses without human intervention.

In our day to day work, we have found that Automatic Evals are not enough to get the required 95% accuracy for our Enterprise customers. Automatic Evals are efficient, but still often miss nuances that only human expertise can catch. Automatic Evals can never replace the feedback of a trained human who is deeply knowledgeable on an organization's latest product releases, knowledgebase, policies and support issues. The key to solve this is to stop ignoring the business side of the problem, and start involving knowledgeable experts in the evaluation process.

That is why we are releasing Paramount - an Open Source package which incorporates human feedback directly into the evaluation process. By simplifying the step of gathering feedback, ML Engineers can pinpoint and fix accuracy issues (prompts, knowledgebase issues) much faster. Paramount provides a framework for recording LLM function outputs (ground truth data) and facilitates human agent evaluations through a simple UI, reducing the time to identify and correct errors.

Developers can integrate Paramount with a Python decorator that logs LLM interactions into a database, followed by a straightforward UI for expert review. This process aids the debugging and validation phase of launching accurate support bots. We'd love to hear what you think!
Shame about the "Full Self Driving" branding

They can put whatever disclaimers in the manual but their branding is giving a different message. It's a message Tesla wants the customer to hear: "sit back and relax, the car drives for you."

The branding does not communicate that the driver needs to be just as aware and engaged as they would be if they were driving on their own, and be ready to take control of the vehicle at any moment.

Compare this to GM's "Super Cruise" branding. The message I get from that is "cruise control, but better." Cruise control is a long established feature, drivers have plenty of experience with it, and they know that it is definitely not going to drive the car itself. They know they're still going to have to pay attention because the car is going to do some of the driving tasks but not all of them. The car is making no implicit or explicit claim that it will drive for you.

"Full Self Driving" and related features like "Summon" make implicit claims in how they're named and presented. The driver absolutely has responsibility but Tesla is trying to play both sides of the coin with their branding vs their actual liability.
Mathematicians Are Rethinking the Equal Sign
Ask HN: Why are ads the major stream of revenue in any kind of digital media?
Lately I've come to the realisation that practically all digital content that's out there depends on ad revenue as a major source of revenue. I feel like we've absolutely messed up the entire digital ecosystem with ads. Why aren't there other sustainable revenue models? What caused this in the first place? What can we do to make this better? Do ads actually work? Personally I rarely buy/subscribe to stuff I see on an ad.

I keep dreaming of an internet that doesn't run on ad. I just can't stop thinking about how exciting that would be. No ads. No sponsorship. What do you have to say?
My god. Even a marketing article comparing it to Google Meet. https://medium.com/@VorionApp/vortax-vs-google-meet-what-are...
Depends what you need it for. I don't think it's bad but my use-cases are very simple.
> "Google Meet option to punish interrupters by sending them to meeting jail"

okay but I need that!
Reminds me of the "Please drink a verification can" joke about Xbox's webcam peripheral a while back.
Who has ~1.8 billion centrally stored faces?
I always think it's kind of fun when we're reminded that the sun is literally a huge fusion explosion constantly going off in the sky. Using science to further appreciate the beauty of nature strikes me as very human.
I think the Library of Congress already does preservation; it seems to be legally required to give the LoC two copies of every published work in the US (https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ7d.pdf).

Preservation of works is very obviously not why Anna's Archive is asking for torrent seeders. Seeding is for distribution and availability, not preservation. It would be more honest to say "preservation of ML training fair use access".
https://archive.ph/eGKDc
From what I gather, in some jurisdictions downloading copyrighted material is legal (eg via HTTPS from a website), or at any rate not prosecuted, while uploading (offering to download) it (eg while downloading it via BitTorrent) is illegal (and prosecuted).
> Similarly, Kia Soul has a reversing camera… and that's about it! No radar, lane assist, carplay or anything like that.

According to Kia’s website, the cheapest Soul you can buy has CarPlay/Android Auto. Standard feature on the “LX”, 8in touchscreen.

Does it even cost anything for an automaker to allow phones to use the screen for CarPlay/Android Auto? The cost savings must be so miniscule, and the convenience of being able to use your phone to navigate/listen to music and other audio is immense.