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Hey HN, Ethan here. Thanks for checking out Acedit!

Quick backstory: I jumped from odd jobs (lifeguard, travel agent, tax officer) to software engineering via bootcamp. Acedit was born when I watched my brother, a seasoned PR professional, freeze up during mock interviews for a career change. It really drove home how universal interview anxiety is, regardless of experience.

Building this while working full-time has been a wild ride. Lots of late nights, but totally worth it.

Happy to dive into tech details, startup struggles, or anything else. Fire away!
Thats funny, no business ever does anything for free.

People/businesses who do stuff for free, ask for donations.
> one of the most simple cloud infra services

Maybe compared to other AWS offerings S3 is a simple service. But on the scale of all services it's incredibly complex. There is no shortage of providers offering cloud storage that's actually easy to set up, and intuitive to set up correctly
> I don’t really see a trend of AI generated content getting better

You see that second link as the endpoint? That there's nowhere to go from there? How about you can have a holodeck type experience with Apple Vision Pro? Literally generate any scenario you want? Download generated scenarios and customize it however you want in real time?

Entire animation workflows changed from animating models to using voice and text to describe scenes and actions.

Lowering the barrier of digital film making to the same level and ease of use as photo editing apps today -- even easier.

You really think that the second link is the peak of gen AI? You really think that nothing else and no more major industry shifts are going to happen when gen AI gets cheaper, faster, algorithms get better, and hardware gets more powerful?
Try out cloud.doshare.me and blast your mind
Ask HN: How can I monetise an open source app of mine that has become popular?
One of my open source projects is starting to get a lot of traction (tens of thousands of users per month) without me realising. I built it a few years ago as a weekend project and promptly forgot about it.

I was contacted by a large company last week asking for changes to be made. This prompted me to go check the DB, analytics etc and I see its being used a lot.

I've (as of today) stuck a sponsorship link on it. Any suggestions as to how else I can monetise?
Isn’t all corporation tax a tax on the consumer? For the consumer what difference is there compared to a tax on revenue?

If there was a 20% tax on revenue, companies would increase prices in kind…
What fraction of crustal uranium would you estimate was sourced from the "late veneer"?
unlike dot-com which brought in ecommerce,
or smartphone which put info and entertainment in our pockets,
genai is not doing anything to our daily lives.

productivity improvements in certain usecases are about it.
it is not a giant leap which dot-com or smartphone enabled.
The Bellagio in Vegas is pretty awesome.
It's really funny because my dad (a chemical engineer) had a hobby interest in cosmology. He used to go nuts about people calling produce "organic" and would love to point out that all produce is organic in the sense that it all is made of carbon-based molecules. Yet on the other had no problem with the fact that cosmologists call just about everything in the whole periodic table a metal.
Not sure of the status today, but Slack is/was one of the most high-profile non-Facebook users of Hack, e.g. https://slack.engineering/hacklang-at-slack-a-better-php/
Even if there is an AI bubble and it pops, lowering the demand for GPUs, I don't see the overall demand for GPUs or even AI becoming less relevant. The lowering of demand would have mostly to do with folks getting off the hype train. Fundamentally, GPUs are about parallel processing, and that's not going obsolete. But if demand for GPUs goes down, that cam be a very good thing because that might also bring down their prices. I would call the end of this "brute forcing" more of a healthy market correction and less of "see, I told you AI is bullshit."
Ask HN: Is "Grant of Future License" of "Delayed Open Source" enforceable?
Given that licenses have to operate within the framework of copyright law, what is the mechanism that makes delayed rights possible in principle?

Is a DOSP "license" even a license or is it a contract that promises a future license?
I’d love to see this being adopted by research community. Right now these discussions are spread out EVERYWHERE, twitter, LinkedIn, OpenReview, etc.
I did replace the screen on it. I've replaced screens on several phones several times, including once before on this one. But for some reason it suffered a total collapse of functionality this time. Not only did the Home button stop working (and no, there was no damage to it, its ribbon cable, or connectors... I examined every millimeter with a microscope), but the speakers stopped working and maybe the mic.

I've been writing an application and jumping through hoops to make it work on iOS 15 simply because I wanted it to work on my own phone. And those hoops were a PITA because SwiftUI was full of absurd holes and defects until iOS 17 (yes, 17). So I guess I can go through and shitcan all the workarounds I had to implement, at least!
Will be interesting to see if diamonds with natural flaws end up becoming more desirable as a consequence. Like film grain in cinema, the flaws of the old process become romanticized.
Hi Adam,

It is great to know that there's a logical successor.

As I mentioned above, I work in a company that offers a SAAS that's based on the Device Sync solution. We were weeks away from announcing a collaboration-oriented product based on Atlas, but now these plans are in shambles.

We are actively looking into Ditto now, and the P2P approach to sync is genuinely impressive. So, a couple of questions for you:

1. Is there something in your platform resembling the Flexible sync functionality of Atlas?
2. Do you feel that the partner-first approach will open up some space for Ditto? Have you encountered any Atlas Device Sync functionality that would be impossible to replicate for Ditto in terms of integration with MongoDB?
Self-assembly of plant protein protofilaments into a ultra-low friction hydrogel
Makes sense for desktop software, less so for webapps and web services. I agree with the point that developers should profile their apps and for some apps having a bad computer is an implicit way of doing that. It doesn't mean it is a good strategy for everyone.
With FedNow instant payments now available, I would expect check volume to continue to decline, negating the need for physical transfers of instruments at banks (both checks and cash). Branches will end up as advisory and sales touch points; Capital One is marketing them as cafes, for example.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/06/the-real-problem-with-the-c...

https://www.capitalone.com/local/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkbeaEjH8JU
Blaze is essentially a task runner that is very inspired from tools like Nx, Turborepo, or Bazel.

It was made to be as simple as possible, and also technology-agnostic.

It supports parallel tasks execution, Jsonnet/JSON/YAML with great templating features, powerful cache features, user plugins written in Rust or Typescript.

It is written in Rust and is still under active development.

Hope you like it...

DISCLAIMER: this is not Bazel from Google, or their private tool also called Blaze.
I added it to our page https://pollinations.ai :)

I've always liked the idea but found it a little gimmicky. I would love to find a good use case for it, like in Pollinations' case, it could be a collaborative art-making game.
Well, lets get into it! Great question, because that's definitely how the word "AdX" is used by many players in the industry. Hilariously/embarrassingly, I worked there and still never really got to the bottom of these questions -- they have a strong "don't ask questions about what isn't broken" ethos there when it comes to terminology.

I posted this link above, which is a google-published doc that's much, much clearer than the usual "Help" pages: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...

The DoubleClick Ad Exchange is a real-time marketplace to **buy** and sell display advertising space.

Right off the bat, that's an awfully good sign that AdX is the exchange, not the publisher network. This also meshes with the image published by the DoJ[1] showing "DoubleClick for Publishers" as the pub network that you're referring to, and "Google AdExchange" as the omnipresent exchange that people who are neither buying nor selling through google must nonetheless go through if they want to leverage the wider ecosystem. It goes on like this, e.g.:

### Who Participates in the Ad Exchange?
1. The large online publishers (sellers)—websites like portals, entertainment sites and news sites
2. **Ad networks and agency holding companies** that operate networks (buyers)—companies that connect web sites with advertisers

Of course anyone, Facebook included, can setup their own walled garden for direct ad sales, and AFAIU big fish like NYT and CNN do that already, not to mention the separate search ads ecosystem. But to take part in the wider algorithmic Display Ad sales market, my understanding of the DoJ's complaint is that you're (de facto) mandated to use Google's exchange.

But, again; I struggled to understand these distinctions even with access to internal explainers, and the doc I linked is at least somewhat OOD (it mentions AdWords, which was retired in 2018[2]). So I could easily just be somewhat slow and mistaken on this complex issue :)

[1] https://www.justice.gov/d9/styles/d09/public/press-releases/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ads
I don’t know what Switzerland you are talking about, only 12% of the population is considered obese so I don’t see how over half the men here are obese.
Exploring the scalable matrix extension of the Apple M4 processor
I think so, specially with finetuning
A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
Plus we will re-crunch it a bajillion times and run inference a bajillion times.
>> I think Cale is an underrated vocalist

I totally agree and more so on ballards.

The hairs on my back of my neck always stand up when I hear I Keep A Close Watch (especially the M:FANS version [1], but the original Helen of Troy version is also great [2] and there's plenty of wonderful live versions).

[1] https://youtu.be/d7wBvyrao8I
[2] https://youtu.be/LoggPfL3dLU
This is a really cool project, but also way beyond the skills of an average person.

I don’t know If I am becoming old fashioned, but I feel things were simpler when I was a kid, we had DVD player and we would come over to a friends house and watch a movie. We even found someone’s porn collection!

I feel this issue is endemic through all of society - you have to spend more and more of your IQ points figuring out basic shit, and eventually it’s gets too much and you have no IQ points left to figure out big questions in life
Wow! I knew open source models are growing but didn’t expect by this much…
One of the most inspiring React Native animation developers and always fun to watch your talks!
I’ve loved the animations since I bought it a year ago. Thanks for continuously adding updates and new features!
See Huang's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%27s_law
I think http://11foot8.com/ proves all the signage in the world won't matter.
> Ads is the reason Dart is still around, they saved the team after the project folded,

Wasn't it Analytics which had Dart? But I do remember something about Ads saving it.

> they weren't into doing yet another rewrite.

It all depends on politics within the company. For example: youtube was hastily rewritten using alpha/beta versions of Polymer targeting Custom Elements v0. The moment they did that v0 was deprecated.

So within next 4 years they rewrote Youtube again with Polymer version targeting Custom Elements v1. The moment they did that, Polymer was deprecated and replaced with lit.

Even though they haven't rewritten Youtube, they've now spent time integrating Wiz, an internal Google framework (that also got merged with Angular).

The costs of rewrites don't matter at Google as much as promotions.
Even with advances in AI, I don’t think the cameras are good enough. They are prone to getting blinded by the sun due to poor dynamic range, and some of them have no way to clean themselves, and aren’t redundant for certain directions.

No matter how good the AI is, the car is not going to be able to drive if the image is a big white blob of blown out sun or bird poop, and there is no redundant sensor.
Yes. Which if you think about it, is doubly unfair. First Ireland reaped the benefits of keeping Apple in the country; then it gets paid Apple's taxes anyway.
Sure, this puts a stop to the practice and makes it much harder to sell such deals in the future, but for the moment Ireland had its apple cake and ate it, too.
Wrong, read again. No justification for buying natural diamonds. Just stating the facts: current market dynamics make the distinction that natural diamonds are a luxury product while synthetic diamonds are not. I clearly stated that people should buy natural vs synthetic based on those market dynamics and their own personal preferences.
If it's 3 years long? No. If your oldest kid is too old people often don't want to go back to having a baby. In what I've seen, families with lots of kids tend to have them fairly close together (2 - 3 years max). The moment your youngest turns 5 and things become easier, people stop wanting to go back to the baby phase (can't blame them).

Anyway, if we're talking about spacing 2 - 3 years apart, that means you're not working at all. At some point people will want to go back to work, and that may mean not having another kid.

I think flexible policies are great, but the long leaves I don't think are super useful. Kids are not some abnormal condition; they need to be integrated into a full life.

This is just my pet theory. I think places with overly long leaves (especially overly long paternity leaves) actually discourage men from wanting more children (And of course it takes two to tango here).
> She can't tell the difference between LCD and OLED nor would she notice Pro-motion.

Most people do notice a difference there, maybe not instantly with a few second glance, but using one over another is definitely visible. I do think it is not a reason to upgrade for most people.

I consider myself quite technical, and I also upgrade fairly rarely - with 14 Pro I will either wait for next year or the year after that.

I think there is a main point people usually forget - new phones are not for people who have bought an iPhone in the last few years, rather than people who have 5-6 year old phones, Android users, new people coming into smartphone market. That market is huge and the differences for those people is definitely perceivable. With non-pro version having a lot of the features from a pro version from the years before, it is a great time to buy the latest phone.
iPhone 16 to land in Japan without Apple Intelligence
Even more since migrating content from one CMS to another is a trivial engineering effort.
It's the same with hearing aids, they are finally getting around to understanding that people can figure out if a device is helpful to them or not without needing a licensed doctor involved.
A higher-end Rolex knockoff is indistinguishable from the real thing to the naked eye of a casual observer, and yet people still buy the real thing for 10 times the price.

Brands will make themselves known as the more expensive option. People don’t give cubic zirconia engagement rings as is because they’ll look cheap if they’re honest and be outed as a cheap fraud if it’s found out that it’s not a diamond when they pretended it was.

De Beers will find a way to make aspects of the jewellery other than the gem identifiably theirs. Then when you’re caught pretending a $100 lab diamond ring is a $6,000 natural diamond De fBeers ring you’ll be in just as much trouble as if you’ve given them a cubic zirconia.
This is an impressive project! Combining latest Next.js and Stripe for a no-db, open-source e-commerce solution is a brilliant choice. It simplifies development and boosts performance with modern tech. Excited to see where YourNextStore goes next!
Contract work is much harder to come by and requires a significant network. Most of the time I interacted with people doing contract work, it was because they used to be FTE at the boss’s previous company.

As far as pay goes, I don’t find many are making much more than faang pay. Most are making okay money but spending a lot of unpaid time on networking. I feel like the people I know who speak the most about contract work are those who are actually running contracting firms (not doing any work themselves), were underpaid and are now getting at market rate comparable to other FTE, and people not in the US where contract work is more typical.
I know of these as side effects but I don't know if they are ubiquitous and people prefer them to glasses or of they don't happen to everyone. Do you happen to know amd know about what the rate of regret is?
I remember when 'Linux doesn't get viruses' was a true statement. It did things well because it wasn't nearly as popular as WinNT (because it wasn't nearly as user friendly as WinNT) and you needed an experienced administrator to get anything important running..
They're now calling it "Google Workspace" for the moment.

Like Google Domains?

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6069226
Logically, ".." is a hard link to the parent directory. This may or may not actually be the case in the filesystem on the disk.
Elm debugger did something like this, but it's much more limited in scope.
> What the researchers found is that when police are stuck in the same law-enforcement agency, stuck with the same peers and commanding officer, they are also more likely to adhere to the “blue wall of silence”—an unwritten code to never implicate another officer of wrongdoing.

That's why other services have transfers and everyone changes posts every few years.
So they were aimed at boomer kids despite all 11 cartoons having been released before 1945? How odd.
If there was more material, you could do more with it - create a model of their house using photogrammetry. Create panoramic images if the pictures intersect. Try to spot interesting historical details that might not have seemed significant back then, etc. :)

You never know - I had some contact with people gathering old photos and post cards or people trying to piece together what a particular part of the town or their home village looked like say 100 years ago and surprisingly little information is sometimes available.
selfhost headscale or netbird or nebula for basically the same thing pretty fully in your control. The appeal is it's a an encrypted mesh network with a very performant point to point with relay if needed vpn backing it up. This lets you keep things reasonably private and much higher performance than the traditional vpn to the office router/infrastructure at office vpn. it lets you create an overlay network that matches your vlan rules keeping everyone segregated in their lane no matter where their devices are. Services on the internet with TLS are a bad idea for many, many things (both attack surface wise with everyone in the world being able to hit the service, but also with how questionably secure massive corporate technical projects often are, which can only change slowly due to business concerns (i.e. spending the dough to change this means no profit for the quarter and significant downtime because it was built wrong over a couple decades but manages to power the a lot of the business activity flow))
Just in case: the thing people often forget is to change regions when checking if something exists. Did you check us-west-1 when checking if this exists in CloudWatch?

Maybe try the aws cli to list and delete?
Nothing, but if you know perfect squares you will do 3 additions/subtractions instead of 2 products and 1 addition
There was so much violence 50,000 years ago that maybe humans started out with twice as many neurons as was optimal for genetic fitness and in case blows to the head didn't do the job, then starting in the individual's 20s the body naturally started killing off neurons.

I.e., what if heads were as big as they were 50,000 years ago to prevent blows to the head from driving IQ low enough to seriously interfere with survival and that on average by the time the average individual reached the age of 35 or 45, half of the volume of the cranium was cerebro-spinal fluid? And if violence didn't have that result, then the body produced that result on its own (because again neurons are so energetically expensive)?

If that is the case, then we would expect medical researchers to have uncovered evidence of a pre-programmed neuron-pruning process and in fact we have papers with titles like, "Could Alzheimer’s disease be a maladaptation of an evolutionary survival pathway mediated by intracerebral fructose and uric acid metabolism?" which postulates that the body perceives certain kinds of diets as a sign that famine is likely soon and responds to that sign by killing off neurons to make it more likely that the individual will survive the famine.

Note that people's cognitive abilities start to decline in their 20s (even now when famine is much more rare) and ther decline is so rapid that by the age of 40 it is very rare for any individual to contribute at the highest level in certain endeavors such as research math, theoretical physics, video game competitions and such.

Again: although we cannot have any high degree of confidence because the matter is very complicated, there are reasons to suspect that high IQ bears higher dividends nowadays in helping a person achieve a satisfying and successful life than it did 50,000 years ago in helping a person survive and raise healthy children.
"Firefox stopped using 'browser.newtab.url' long time ago"

That doesn't really mean anything to the end user (including me). If the implementation was flawed, the answer isn't just to abolish the entire feature.
The way the internet brings out these semi cultural collisions is still wonderful to me.
As a founder, I have found Twitter to be the most interesting so far and have met great people. Medium is a no go for me considering it is behind paywall. PH for me has always been about cool toys. Fun but nothing serious plus it is gamed these days anyway. IH had a promising start but the quality isn't the same anymore.
Extrapolation is dangerous. People tend to overestimate what's possible in a year while underestimating the possibilities next decade. So far we're mostly seeing huge investments hoping for a short term goals while we're not sure whether long term goals (like: Logic and Algorithms aka Planning and Optimization) would even benefit from more compute. Maybe, yes.

Shedding some hindsight on earlier extrapolations — The billions pored into the metaverse or self-driving didn't yield the results we expected in the period we expected.
Cost is all kind of inconvenience
If image sensor / lens system quality are orthogonal to the final megapixel output, why bother with 48MP output JPEGs? They take up more space, so the practical benefit to smaller files is there.
> Or you could do ((46+23)^2 -(46-23)^2) / 4

Sure, of course that works algebraically, though this method will always involve at least one bigger square, and division by 4, which, if working in base 10, can be implemented with exactly the computational complexity of multiplying by 25—so perhaps is also meant to be avoided, if we're trying to avoid multiplication! As you say, there are pros and cons of all approaches, including just doing the multiplication.