skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would YOU like to work with your manager looking over your shoulder at all times? A good manager builds trust, rather than needing to rely on control.
Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
Non-gun crime is a bigger concern in SF than gun-related violence.
You can also find it all over your car
Friction is signal.

I recall I used to individually send snaps to like 30 friends each time, back before Snapchat invented Stories. I had to think a tiny bit, and put a tiny bit of effort, for each person. We lost that when people started posting to stories only.
By that measure we'd still be using DOS these days (which was also productive and usable... and indeed the initial backlash against this nrefangled "Windows 95" thing kept going for a while, not very dissimilar to the X11 vs Wayland debates)
All sewers lead to Paris
I've been working on my project for "only" one year, so I feel I'm in great shape :) Kudos for pushing through!
Apple's hardware support timelines are 5 years from last sale date for "vintage" status, and 7 years for "obsolete" status. One should probably assume that firmware support especially and possibly software support will follow similar timelines.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240807170330/https://www.ndspr...

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Is Bitcoin a "public sync" application by the definition?
100% for saying it better than I did.
Been building subscription and billing logic for at least 15 y.

Boilerplate code can help.. learning from others is important.

Have you checked both videos on youtube and source code on Github?

Like you have said this is more about how to think about it and break it down before any technology issue.

My reccomendation is starting with a clean sheet of paper and learning the concepts in this area, how they could connect to help shine a light in the right direction.

You are asking two questions, the first about the customer and their subscription, and then the difference between landing and product pages is another. They are related but separate. Some people like feature flags to help handle it, but it might not be needed at all.

This becomes a bottleneck for startups, because the billing and account logic can hinder shipping code and features. So thinking about it from the start even a little more can go a long way.

You have two options, build, or buy and in both cases it's important to understand how it all works. Some people may or may not want to grandfather features and plans, for example.

1) Done for you: SaaS boilerplate can be useful, but it's important to understand the depth of the billing integration.

2) Do it yourself: I also use a series of tables in any database schema that has worked well for me in most situations, you have the right idea. It is a reflection of the reading and learning I have done and combining it into one.

There is a basic approach that if done well can grow to handle more complexity, and if you don't care, it's easy enough to include a few more tables.

Using the concepts you listed above, you can put together a rough sentence of what could be entities / tables in a database. Some may merge together, or need support tables, having the core story is important first.

A [Customer] has a [Paid Subscription], to a [Plan (Subscription)], which grants them [Permissions] to login with an [Account] to see certain [Plan Features] on the [Product Pages].

This is a basic example for your case, but it will click if you catch a few youtube videos that work for you to learn. After you've watched a few, Happy to chat here or connect offline to walk through.

To me, this is one of the single most important things a SaaS / Startup can do, it bakes flexibility into the bread.
You're liquidating the 800M and still owe your broker 200M, it's risk avoidance not a church full of forgiveness.
I am a musician. Among most musicians I know know I am also one of those with the least obsession with gear.

Gear is just that. Gear. Much of the sound in musical gear doesn't correlate with price. Sure when it comes to recording gear and studio equipment price tends to correlate with reliability, but we are living in truly magical times.

I gifted my brother a 160 Euro Harley Benton (Thomann's budget brand for guitars etc) Telecaster clone. That guitar in sound and playability easily could be the last guitar I would have bought. Amplifiers are similar.

Now I am playing the electrical guitar for 20 years and I online one electrial guitar. A heavily modded US strat that I bought 15 years ago.

Now the main difference between me and my peers is that I am a sound nerd and electronics afficionado — that means if I want to get towards a sound I know how to get there. And this is the crux. Many people (especially guitar players) chase some sort of sound that they never achieve, because they can't tell which part of the physical world maps to which part of the sound they get.

Depending on the style of music a lot of it in the end is in the fingers. But you can't buy enter fingers, you can just train. But that doesn't give you a dopamine boost.

For all people with GAS I recommend that less is more. Get to know ow your shit. It is capable of great sounds. You just need to put in the work.
I still can't get the "Walk" mode to work. (Firefox 129.0 on Ubuntu 22.04)
If it's important, I guess you could add some boreholes or sensors to check the groundwater level and see if it's creeping up over the years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

This article is one of my favorites on Wikipedia. The last bits are maybe the best for this question.

Somewhere in the very far future, time will lose all meaning. In that, the universe will be so big and so empty that if you ran time backwards it would not look meaningfully different than it running forwards. All matter that is left will have devolved to the basic particles and the universe will be in the maximally entropic state. So much so that the page correctly stops labeling time in any unit. It's not that if you could pop into this future and then look at your watch, that it would not tick. All laws of physics still apply, 'time' is passing still. It's that for the rest of the universe, 'time' has become something different. I'm not in the field anymore, but this maximal entropy and time's use are obviously linked.

A nanosecond or a gigayear are both essentially noise in the time spans that these events occur in. Time, very truly, is meaningless to our future dead universe.
Beware of buying some starter kit to do the job for you. You may end up spending more time massaging the starter kit to fit your use case vs. starting from scratch on your own.

You mention you work with frontend engineering and design, so I'll assume you will be more familiar with a Javascript stack.

The easiest way to get started these days is to use Supabase + Nextjs, using a free template like https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/subscription-starter (this is a very lightweight starter, not like the commercial ones)

Also, consider using LemonSqueezy instead of Stripe, read about what a "merchant of record" is and evaluate if you need it. It can save you a tax headache down the road.
The fever might help to fight infection, but I think sleeping well helps even more and fever-reducing drugs are useful for that
Supabase / Appwrite, etc can be solid choices, understanding how it works is important to.
What am I making if it was determined before I existed? It can't be a choice, because I don't actually have any other choice.
I think what we have here is a difference of values. I am not particularly precious about the word because definitions change over time with common usage.

The majority of people would understand, given context clues, what the phrase “the nazis ruining twitter” refers to. To those that were still confused, my examples of neo-nazi white nationalists with sizable followings (for example, the first one, who helped organize the Unite the Right rally[0]) should clear that up entirely. No one, literally no one at all would think that I meant that Herman Göring is retweeting Harambe memes.

The “are the nazis in the room with you?” joke isn’t really as much of an own as you might have thought. Instead of signaling “Get a load of this guy that thinks there’s ghosts in his computer!” you’ve kind of signaled “I would like to take this time to share with you all that, due to my specific and stubborn refusal to understand context clues or acknowledge that words can be used differently over time, whenever I see this particular word I can only envision a guy that thinks there’s ghosts in his computer! My mind can only summon the one image!”

0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
I sign of apnea is if you wake up from sleep with your heart racing for no apparent reason. It's become common to equate snoring to apnea but with the latter you start choking till your body is forced to wake you up, increasing stress, preventing restorative deep sleep and subsequently creating tiredness.
This is a variation on the "build vs. buy" question that has been active in IT for decades. And answered for decades, too. Building something yourself makes sense only when that something drives the unique value prop from your business. But if your needs are something that is more generic, buy it.

So it all comes down to what you said about operating in a specific niche. If that niche is your value prop, and the reason software is difficult for you, then yes, in-house it and build what you need.

As far as retaining talent, money talks. Put a number on the value that solid software would bring to your business, and if that number can support compensating a software team at market rates or higher, you have the potential to retain a team. However, it also needs to be a good team -- solid leadership, with a culture that matches what is expected by software devs: respect, autonomy, flexibility, and trust.

If all of that sounds reasonable, go forth and build. If not, accept the struggle of having to buy.
Dotlr – An Educational LR Parser Generator and Visualizer
The only joy I have found in riding an extremely shitty bicycle is cackling with disbelief at how unbelievably shitty it is.

Your maxim is probably more broadly applicable if you specify "serviceable gear".
Faster than climate change is development. The addition of impermeable surfaces like parking lots and buildings upstream causes more water to get to you.

Development happens faster than the flood maps get redrawn.
1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide
Europe's Fertility Crisis
Is it intentional that the 3D plan image doesn't show the positions of doors and windows? They seem kinda important to me.
It is possible to decrease entropy locally, but not globally. You can only push entropy somewhere else, and that pushing creates even more entropy.

This is why refrigerators keep food cold but heat up the room, and why it's impossible to "air-condition the outdoors"
Having seen the writing on the wall, I moved from ungoogled-chromium to Firefox a few weeks ago. At first, I missed Chromium, but after getting a few extensions installed, I am so happy in the firefox world. Because of sidebery alone, I can't go back to Chromium. I have also been using:

Multi-Account Containers

Cookie Quick Manager

Decentraleyes

Open External Links in a Container

Sidebery

SponserBlock

uBlock

Vimium
The Power of 1% (2009)
I dunno, I'd think car break-ins would at least be a very important statistic.

My wife and I will be spending a day in the Fisherman's Wharf area, and the statistics on car break-ins has me concerned, though a co-worker who lives in the Bay told me that if I'm parked in a parking garage, it's less likely I'll be a victim, as it's harder to smash-and-grab-and-go when you have to deal with a parking gate.
As a guitar player: Nobody wants strings that never break. How would we ever try new strings? ;)

But as much as this is a half-joke, it also encapsulates an attitude that Teenage Engineering caters to: A lot of musicians love new experiences, even if they are minute changes. Because music is ultimately about taste, and playing it is about finding just the right minute changes, and creating it is about finding just the right inspiration.

Yeah, it's a bit gimmicky, but that's the point: Novelty to stimulate new ideas.
I bought one for my father’s iMac in 2020 and they shipped me three of them, so I helped contribute to the depletion.
Pretty wild that you can intuit the city boundary by using the car break-in stat, it’s the most evenly and widely distributed one I saw.
Check out 3blue1brown, they have a series on transformers. Very approacheable. The randomness is very explicit in inference.
I can relate to this. I have 8TB of orchestral libraries and other virtual instruments (many, many, many thousands of dollars), but after a decade I still haven't been able to crank out 8 bars of convincing symphonic composition. On the other hand, I can crank out a convincing and interesting rock song on guitar in real time... but I don't invest in that because it's "easy."

Sounds similar to what you describe: we shun the things we're naturally good at because they feel trivial and don't provide a sense of accomplishment, meanwhile we bash our head against a wall for years because the accomplishment of breaking through would be so amazing.
If you live in a place with a lot of clay, geotextile fabric can certainly be problematic for simple residential settings.
there are disadvantages to using Steam
Neat, thanks for sharing! This just replaced "Characters" for me.

Seems really well done, and most importantly the search works well and it has "recents". I do wish it wouldn't automatically close itself after clicking/copying an emoji, but I try not to let perfect be the enemy of good :-)
Isn't this one the bluray one? https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MR3PBDR6XT/

It seems the one you linked to can only support DVD and M-Disc.

Sad that even now, the only way, to get high quality movies is by buying physical bluray discs since streaming media has vastly worse bitrate.
For anyone like me that wondered if "ReAct webapp" was a weird way of capitalizing the React webapp Javascript framework, it appears to be about a Reasoning and Acting methodology[0] with LLMs.

Maybe obvious for anyone with more of a pulse on the latest in the LLM space, but it was new to me and took some digging to get more context.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
Great work!

- The maps are pretty and scale nicely. The clarity and granularity of text is appreciated.

- The controls are excellent. I might put the copy and help in the same single title/menu panel (without "viewing:" as obvious)

Some other features I found myself wanting:

- Visually bound the map so you can see when it can't be moved in a direction. Think about what to do when the control panel is open and the user is trying to drag the map to see what's under the panel (instead of closing the panel).

- ability to sort data drill-down by number, to look at most prevalent

- using gradients for data starts to break down at low numbers. I wonder if you can start putting dots under some threshold

- time-range delta heat-maps: 2023 car break-ins vs 2022 (where green is improvement, red is worsening, and intensity is size of delta)

- surfacing qualitative aspects of data sources: one or many (only police?); and perhaps user feedback on quality of data

- curate super-categories, e.g., capturing all cocaine-related offenses, or distinguishing the stacked charges (loitering in the area of ...) from the operative ones (dealing), or crimes against (visiting?) strangers vs locals or friends. The data sources have their own arcane categorizing logic, and it's rarely what users actually want.

- color-code user-specified combinations: prostitution + drugs vs either alone

- Most of these relate to the kinds of questions users can answer with the maps, so if you have a (user-contributed?) panel with questions and their associated configuration sets, it would be very powerful and sticky.

- Then it would be nice to apply the same configuration-set to different cities, and perhaps to see some comparison across cities

Some things I wouldn't do:

- All-caps, tm? ok, but...

- I think putting safety under quality of life makes the product a bit less polarizing and hence more popular - which means adding other quality-of-life measures (e.g., zoning (residential/retail/manufacturing), cost/sf for housing, walkability scoring) E.g., it would be interesting to know which retail districts are super-safe.
I guess some people are just totally OK with a data collection device being in their home, as long as it looks cool.
> who I'm criticizing

Developers of wasteful software, such as unoptimized compilers. It's not an absolute criticism, just a call-out to keep performance in mind because of second-order effects.

> even though it's unclear compilers could be much faster

You've used languages with substantially faster compilers, right? The majority of the rust compiler's runtime isn't the borrow checker. Standard C++ compilers don't fundamentally do anything beyond what other systems languages do.

> intrinsically leads to e-waste

It's not _intrinsic_, but somewhere around 1/3 of computers are re-used or recycled. Most people, when upgrading, have done so because they perceive their previous computer as unsatisfactory for their normal tasks, and most people don't have background work or servers or whatnot to make use of old computers. Toss in the re-sale value of $100-$200, and it's not worth the time and effort for a lot of people to re-sell or recycle. Yes, they should do better, but with that reality in mind you can easily construct a _correct_ causal model of "if I write slow, popular software then I there will be much more e-waste than if I had not done so."
If you thought B&H is cool, you haven't met Sweetwater yet ;)

(B&H is great for photo/video, but for music, they're not it, IMHO)
Corning used to make these bowls (called "Grab and Go", I think) that were very difficult to break. You could cook in them, eat out of them with utensils that damage normal ceramic (like a Ti spork), and probably throw them out of your kitchen window onto cement and they'd be fine. They sold off the patent to some other company that couldn't afford the production and quality went way down -- I think prod required intense heat and/or pressure. Sad times.
Speaking of G.A.S., I just noticed that post about the new Teenage Engineering device: "Medieval". It's US$ 300 and very tempting. But I know I won't do anything with it so I won't buy it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41176831

https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-1320/
It depends how far back you go. Gaelic was spoken across the country, not just on the west coast. Nowadays it's been more or less eradicated, except from the Western Isles (where it's not that widely spoken - English is the main spoken language). And it's increasingly become a political football so you see untrue statements made about its history.
She mentions free will as an illusion. To me this is a purely philosophical question and I prefer Daniel Dennett's take on it.

He's saying it has nothing to do with determinism or indeterminism in physics and has a very good explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cbxi7ZZIoU
It was in a comment by darkerside.
As the other person wrote, I'd try to find another doctor and get another study done at a different sleep center. You can also get an at-home sleep study kit, though they're not nearly as accurate as the full study you'll get at a sleep center.

I had a bad experience at my own sleep study too. I sleep on my side, and I can't sleep without some kind of white noise like a fan or rain. But with all that tubing hooked up, it was impossible for me to turn onto my side, and there was no white noise available. So I ended up laying there on my back, like a vampire in its casket, for six hours straight while the sleep techs dutifully came in every hour to adjust wires and ask why I wasn't able to sleep.

Eventually I fell asleep about an hour before the study ended, and they told me I barely got enough data for the study to conclude. They weren't happy with the data, they wanted to do another one but I refused. What they did have was enough to get me a prescription for a cpap.

I'm not a doctor, it's possible that the unique environment just made you sleep differently that night. But despite all my trouble with my own sleep study, I swear by my CPAP. I don't even take so much as a 20 minute nap without it.
Googling for "bipedal walking is unstable" returns a plethora of articles whose abstracts suggest that yes, bipedal walking is physically unstable. To quote one [0] of them:

Robust walking on two legs has proven to be one of the most difficult challenges of humanoid robotics. Bipedal walkers are inherently unstable systems that are difficult to control due to the complexity of their full-body dynamics. Aside from the challenge of generating a walking motion itself, closed-loop algorithms are required to maintain the balance of the robot using foot placements and other disturbance-rejection strategies.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7029949
I owned an OP1 from the day it was released until 6 days after I discovered it rotting in a drawer, unused, in a room full of far better examples of synthesizer interface. I tried really hard to accept Teenage Engineering's priority of non-sequitur over functionality.

Sure, the OLED occasionally shows you a few things. But its completely useless compared to, say, the utility eked out of the display of the Deluge, or Bluebox. By comparison to either of these devices, the OP1 is unacceptably paltry for the price.

And then, there are the Pocket Operators. Don't get me started on just how useless that very expensive bespoke LCD print is to the musician...
the corporate descendants of Cray, now owned by HPE, still win the contracts to build a lot of supercomputers. but it's not like the days of Seymour Cray himself, hand-designing every aspect of the system. They use off-the-shelf parts mainly, it's essentially building out a highly-specialized datacenter. the main technology that Cray contributes is the specialized interconnect.
Uhuh. You can get a desk reasonably close to this for $80 at IKEA. I love TE, a lot, but that desk is just shamelessly milking the audience.

More power to them, they created an audience who wants to pay that, but you're not paying for engineering here.
Well I'm just thinking of concourse the same way it describes itself, "a continuous thing doer".

I want something that will run some code when something happens. In my case that "something" is a specific time of day. The code will spin up a server, connect it to tailscale, run the 3 scraping jobs and then tear down the server and parse the data. Then another pipeline runs that loads the data and refreshes the caches.

Of course I'm also using it for continuously deploying my app across 2 environments, or its monitoring stack, or running terraform etc.

Basically it runs everything for me so that I don't have to.
> I buy my computers to use them, not to be "efficienr"

Not every product is meant for you. I bet folk who cool their computers with HVAC and draw power by the MW do care about efficiency a lot.

Also, Zen 5 beats Intel in single thread performance while being efficient (by default). You could always change your bios to get even more perf using more power.