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Show HN: I made a presentation video for my SaaS API. Here's what's looks like
Hi guys

I've been working on a new API for sending transactional emails for several weeks now.

In preparation for my ProductHunt launch in a few weeks, here is the video I made!

Share your feedback!
Amazing novel but this is neither a direct adaptation nor faithful to the novel's message and ideas. It's a modern walking simulator with a the most surface level veneer of what we now consider retro futurism but otherwise modern in its messaging. I'd rather they kept the core and modernised the paint.
Are there technically/legally any “tipped positions” in Washington? Since tipped minimum wage is not a thing.
You can run Linux servers on Azure (and Hyper-V), so it’s worth taking the ‘hate’ against Linux with a grain of salt.
> The thing is... if one dislikes or doesn't care about writing that they have basically forgotten how to, it is not spending money on a fancy writing implement that is gonna turn them into a medieval monk scribe.

The thing is, it does actually... Because it "forces" you to slow down and take time for it.

I hated writing (heavily dyslexic) but after getting a fountainpen and purposely slowing down I noticed it went better.
Now I write in my own language again, I spend whole evenings writing scenes, essays, debates and letters.

Sometimes it is the tool that forces a bit of change (if you want to change of course).
Slow means smooth, smooth means fast.
> My theory was that in the age of multimedia platforms, text platforms tend to attract folks who specifically want to use text over multimedia. Generally text forums will select for folks with social or self-esteem issues. These folks are the least likely to healthily deal with their emotions or disengage positively. This leads to higher toxicity on text based platforms.

Some people like to take time to compose thoughts in written form because that is generally the best way to communicate thoughtfully. You can say what you will about a lack of body language, but plenty of people get into verbal fights in person and it doesn't help that they end up talking over each other.

I think that your assertion that people who communicate via text have social issues is without evidence and is reductive.

You could say that people who enjoy looking at themselves and hearing themselves enough to edit their footage and post it online have ego issues and are less likely to listen to what others have to say.
Github: https://github.com/antononcube/RakuForPrediction-book/tree/m...
I always had the feeling MS was squeezing competitors and software vendors, not users directly.

The user hostility have made me move me to Linux systems.
I still feel burned by EESTOR.

It was probably the last time I allowed the, uh, implications of such a technology to overwhelm my judgment about whether or not it will actually happen.
Page source links to a DTD OEB 1.2 doc. Libre Writer does this from time to time when C-c /C-v/ing blocks of text special characters will be left over after the processor undergoes a similar transformation as it compiles Windows-1252, encoding text to ISO-8859-1.
It was a scary moment when Apple Notes corrected my writing in my own hand writing.
I really wish HN would have less of this negative bile you just spewed on someone elses work because it didn't conform to your every whim.
Ask HN: What do you "call" yourself if mentioning a side project in your CV?
Co-founder/CEO/etc is better suited for when a company is actually "founded" and a bit ick before then, no?

Author sounds nice, but it resembles creative work (writing, painting, ..).

Creator maybe?

Is there some more agreed-upon "title" for people with decent side-projects which are still "side" and not founded companies?

Thanks
> I don't think that excludes the possibility of Ramanujans or Dizzy Gillespies existing

I wholeheartedly agree with this.
The native date input is terrible. Not the actual native control, which is usually okay, but the field itself. You can't even format the date! That's the number one reason I always use some datepicker library in combination with a regular text input.
they can never catch Tesla

VW tried also and failed miserably

Ford and GM are truck companies; just look at what they actually sell and where they are actually getting margins

VW, Ford and GM operate their EV businesses now as a loss-leading marketing facade and not much else
Get a better password manager? I use Bitwarden and it has never failed to fill out the login forms for me.
No, I don't remember anything like that - there might be some tension when exploring things, but I remember no cases where things jump in your face.
> This gatekeeping is wrong, and is actually excluding a lot of good people and imposing a lot of arbitrary if not outright stupid requirements. In that case, there ought to be a huge market inefficiency. You should be able to build an elite university by finding all the smart people who didn't do a bunch of dumb signaling extracurriculars

The University you went to matter and the smart people know that. It would be dumb of them to go to your no-name, untested university. Smart people will do what is good for them and practically, doing those dumb signaling extracurriculars is better for their future then skip on them and bet on your new establishment.
> Pretty much all WiFi is password-protected nowadays

This is absolutely not true in the US. All major hotel chains have no encryption, airports do not, Starbucks doesn’t, etc.

It’s usually small businesses that opt for a WPA pass phrase because that’s easier to setup than the captive portal nonsense that all of the big companies use.
It's kinda interesting that macOS doesn't even care about this problem anymore. When moving or resizing windows on macOS the hardware mouse cursor slightly trails ahead of the window, it's not very noticeable because of the 120Hz refresh rate (meaning the framebuffer surface spends less time waiting for presentation, thus reducing rendering lag) - OTH the lag is still visible, and this sort of minor visual imperfection is quite un-Apple-like (at least for 'old Apple').

It's a bit similar to how high resolution displays make fancy subpixel font rendering tricks obsolete (e.g. high display refresh rates making tricks to hide presentation latency obsolete). Sometimes hardware progress makes complex software solutions obsolete, but usually still with one or another tradeoff.
I wonder whether the mental inhibition of the voices ends up strengthening them. If you drop the conscious inhibition, they fade through other means.
>specializing in online porn

Considering the abundance of porn piracy, a company specializing in DMCAing porn sites wouldn't be surprising to have notices ranking in hundreds of thousands.
> You can do most of the things the author showed with your craftfully set-up IDE and magic tricks, but that's not the point.

Wrong you can do most of the things the author showed with a fresh install of vim/emacs or by logging in to a fresh install of vscode/intellij - In other words no lifetime was spent on this, I like having as bare an experience as possible so I can use the same setup on any computer.

> I don't want to spend a lifetime setting up these things only to break when moving to another language.

Editor configs don't break across languages?

> For the chat and editing, I've gotten a pretty good sense as to when I can expect the model to give me a correct completion (all required info in context or something relatively generic). For everything else I will just sit down and do it myself, because I can always _choose_ to do so. Just use it for when it suits you and don't for when it doesn't. That's it.

A lot of people don't have this level of wisdom or the skills to pick and continue without AI. Would I be wrong for assuming you've been programming for at least 10 years? I don't think AI is bad for a senior who has already earned their scars, but for a junior/no skill developer it stunts their growth simply because the do expect the model to give them a correct completion, and the thought/action of doing it without an AI is painful (because they lack the requisite skills) so they avoid it.
The fancy part is how it is attached. The memory modules themselves are one of the cheapest kinds of commodity ram.

The cost to Apple for going from 16GB to 32GB is less than $40. So of course it's priced at $400.
The last example is bad. You shouldn't scream at your users before they even had a chance to enter the required information so the second password field should not be marked red until the user either is done entering text there (onblur) or tries to submit the form.
Counterpoint: learning to make better buggy-whips is fun but, in the grand scheme of things, also a local minimum.
I guess if you are talking about the customers then you technically might have a point…

tipped workers would probably be making considerably less on average than now if tipping just disappeared. Especially in states like WA, CA, NY etc. which don’t even have a tipped minimum wage
Hardcoded Secrets: From Development to Production
So what's your point, should he have tipped?
Even 'required' doesn't work properly. Browsers do very odd and inconsistent things when your required field is hidden when submitting. Like in a basic tabbed or multi-step form.
With ethernet you can probably run the car software in containers.

I can imagine a container to simulate each hardware unit, a small inter-contaner lan, and develop code that way.
I played the game and didn't like it, you're welcome to disagree and engage with me by showing examples that disprove my assertions from my original post.

I think I'm on safe grounds calling it a walking simulator. The gameplay is limited to walking down a linear path and clicking on things until all combinations are exhausted - western equivalent of a visual novel (but with less branching).
When I graduated (2006) it was still mostly that way, a few kids in it for the money tried to get a CS degree and failed out and changed majors.

Most of the people I've had the pleasure of working with have a love for the craft.

Sadly I understand that with how messed to the economy is now days, making a good living in a US costal city doing anything else but software is rather unrealistic...
HN is not a mass product and has no ambitions to become a social media for the masses. Mastodon is and does.
Ask HN: AI Supported Test Automation?
Hi!

At work I am looking at any AI-powered tools which can assist a QA team at their tasks - mainly test creation, analysis and planning.

We have a big backend (relatively large configuration space, Java) with a number of frontend apps on it (Legacy Vaadin / Angular).

We have looked at several vendors so far, but I am still not certain of benefits they might provide. The space is crowded with commercials and praises (many of which appear to be AI generated :) ) - so I'm having a hard time navigating it.

So, a shoutout here:
Are you using AI in the QA process? If so, do you have any positive experiences you might share?

(either dedicated commercial/open source tools, or ways to utilize general tools, such as ChatGPT etc)

Edit:
some Reddit threads I'm browsing atm:

https://www.reddit.com/r/softwaretesting/search/?q=ai

https://www.reddit.com/r/QualityAssurance/search/?q=ai
On what are fast and new LLMs created if not on a GPU?

The reason Nvidia dominates is that all the AI research is done on their GPUs for the past decade. That's why any new approach in AI will be on Nvidia's GPU and Nvidia will always fine tune their ecosystem based on research results.

That's why the 6 months of A100s used to traing GPT-3.5 become 10 days with Blackwell. That's why Nvidia dominates since nobody even considers alternatives in AI research validation than Nvidia. And one major reason is that CUDA is dominant and AI researchers have known it for a decade.

You see, Nvidia is talking about "all AI", so training, inferencing, networking, applications, everything. HW competitors only mean inferencing when they talk about AI and wonder why traction is so slow. Nobody on this planet would buy a Nvidia data center for research and training and then a competitor's data center for inferencing next to it. You simply extend your Nvidia data center seamlessly (thanks to Nvidia tools) and use it dynamically at full utilization for training, inferencing and whatever you need otherwise. To beat Nvidia, you have to beat them at everything, not just inferencing and even there on specific fields lol.
That's crazy, i didn't know that. That is a guy who is 2 orders of magnitude above a 'mere' billionaire. And for what? Because he was friends with bill gates at Harvard, and employee#30 at microsoft. Talk about capitalism's greatest mistakes.
I disagree with this so much for two reasons:

1. I shipped more than five Flutter web apps with actual users for a couple of years, and it's been a great experience so far.

2. "Native" web core should burn in hell, and I hope Wasm will finally contribute to it. Amount of developers who do not realize that "native web" is a typesetting engine from 80s with a pile of hacks on top of it, is too large to fight the opinion, of course. And yet, as a developer, I care about using the right tool for the right task, and no amount of browser engine optimization can change the fact that XML-based markup language is not the right tool for modern performant cross-platforms UIs.
BobMu left Microsoft because he was not sold on cloud, he was an advocate for 'on-prem' solutions (and for its time it made sense since enterprise customers were against cloud).
This is because classical gravity is wrong. The easiest way to notice this is to build an accelerometer, and show that while it is in freefall towards the Earth, it measures the same reading as it does while it is in space far away from any massive body. However, when it is resting on a table on the earth, it will measure an acceleration away from the table, upwards. The same direction of acceleration it will measure if put on a rocket in the direction of movement of the rocket.

You yourself are such an accelerometer. The feeling you get while falling is the same feeling you'd get if you lived on the International Space Station. If you wanted to add a module on the ISS to make you feel just like on earth, you'd a module that generates a force on your feet up towards you head, not a force that pushes on your head up towards your feet.

So, Newton's universal force of attraction is quite clearly wrong, and there is no equivalent force in reality.
Yes thats normally the main drive, cash is usually just annoyance and additional risk to business.

I wouldnt be too harsh judging that business though, quite a few restaurants are barely cutting it so this may help them stay afloat. Its this or generally higher prices in restaurants.
You can definitely request more than that with the right entitlements.
Tim - I know you’re here - please hire this person! :)
I've never had a problem with that myself. I guess people don't know you cab tap the year in the date picker to quickly go back a bunch of years?
Same here. And not only that, years of keyboard and mouse usage have done some damage to my wrists and nerves and it's actually painful for me to write.
> * https://github.com/openai/whisper

I would be very concerned about any LLM model being used for "transcription", since they may injecting things that nobody said, as in this recent item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41968191
Wow that's great! Thank you!
Seattle is allegedly about on par with London CoL wise.

Min wage for tipped workers is $17.25 per hour. London is ~$18. So with exorbitant tipping it should be considerably higher?

Also taxes might be lower.
Yes thank you, that's one piece of information that I examined. The font size of the footnotes is a little bit smaller but the difference is very narrow. On a given word it's not really obvious enough. But maybe by calculating the average height of a whole line it would be significant.
About your second paragraph, to be fair, most passive income schemes involve starting capital (a large amount). Then, this capital is invested into _relatively_ safe or low-vol assets (investment property, gov't bonds, utility stocks for divs), and passive income is received. Alternatively, you could buy something like a stable, middle-aged oil or natural gas rig. Or managed, commercial forest. Or rights to media to receive royalties. Yes, scams can exist in any investment scheme, but the previously mentioned ones are accessible, and safe for 1-5% of people with sufficient capital.

What bothers me the most about the endless YouTube videos and "financial advice" blog posts about passive income: They fail to explain how you acquire the initial capital! Frequently, they saved millions from a previous job, like a Wall Street trader/salesperson or a senior FAANG engineer.

I liked this video from Plain Bagel, "The Passive Income Scam": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZbO8Ojhmw
You shouldn't reject keystrokes as that can lead to silent errors when the user thinks they entered something that was not allowed.

And final validation needs to happen on the server side anyway - anything before that is just a usability helper.
I'm a man who once made medical software for pregnant women. There's no point being dogmatic.
Probably @threads.net becoming a "full" Mastodon instance (and in Europe too) will make a difference in the current situation.
I haven't looked at pihole once after I discovered adguard home.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/dns/adguard-hom...
The borrow checker is not "zero cost". That is a myth. It forces the use of non-zero overhead escape hatches (RefCell/Rc) almost every time when the code tries to do something nontrivial, that is, something actually worth doing.
For those who enjoyed "Code Three", the author combined it and its sequel into a fixup novel, also named Code Three.

* <https://libbyapp.com/search/lapl/search/scope-deep/query-Ric...>

* <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6337215W/Code_Three?edition=...>
They aren't actually killing the people responsible though, it's always a bunch of random innocent bystanders. People are just shit sometimes.
You are right, sheer popularity is not the argument for the quality of the framework. I wrote those two sentences separately for different purposes (the second was more of a reflection of other comments in the thread. I should've put it in a separate paragraph or elaborated more.
> will bring them up to $7-8/hour

Maybe 20 years ago? Almost nobody in the US is making that little these days regardless of the Federal minimum wage.

And in nicer states you get $15-20 + tips.
> but there is something so funny in our Americanised world where everything is reduced to "it's not you, you just need to buy the correct gizmo that will solve all your problems."

OTOH, it's an improvement over the other world of solving everything through "discipline" and other kinds of wishful thinking.

Like, you can complain and worry that your kid can't seem to learn how to cut things right with their scissors, try to force some discipline and conscientiousness into them - or you can stop causing them and yourself so much grief and realize that a left-handed person needs left-handed scissors, as using the wrong type for your hand works to prevent the cutting action.
This is surreal reading that this was 10 years ago - I'm sure we came across eachother on Facepunch back in the day and I remember all of the amusing threads. Congrats on this landmark.
>One other was to always copy books from back to front; very useful but somewhat outdated now.

What's so useful about that?
That looks pretty cool! Keep up the good work.

One thing I always wonder when thinking about creating something with books is, where does one get all the Metadata fir the books? How do you do that?
> There's an assumption here that a market economy is a competitive market economy.

Aside, there's also a fundamental trade-off been a competitive market and a market where individual actors have freedom.

For example, one model may assume that everyone has perfect price information and therefore the market is very efficient, while another assumes that everyone can make secret deals and keep prices hidden and therefore cartels are unstable.
They should change MSRP to $250,000 then discount it by 72% so you feel like you are getting a good deal.
Rather unfortunately, I happen to have a handful of files on my machine with newlines in them (the filenames were programmatically generated from a summary of their contents). I loathe the possibility that my shell tools are going to suddenly crash when confronted with these weird files, rather than just producing some slightly silly output. I wish we'd standardized the behaviour of just escaping such characters as `\n/\r` or `^J/^M`...
I'm sure all those devs working on fighter jet's software would love to but alas...
Built-in validation is pretty much the only reason I use forms.

Capturing input with frameworks is much simpler than pulling the values out of an event object, so I'd be okay with just using input and button elements.

Yet, that doesn't trigger the validation, so I end up wrapping it with a form element and using a submit button.
Do costumers in Washington, California, New York etc. tip less, the same or even more than in those other states?
Interestingly this idea of helping people to talk to the voices in their head is not new. The basis for IFS therapy (which emerged in the 80s) actively teaches people to have dialogue with their inner "parts". It is becoming one of the gold-standard therapies for CPTSD, anxiety, and a range of other trauma related conditions.

The core discovery of the therapy is that the human mind has an inherent multiplicity. Once you accept that and go from there, the rest of the technique emerges naturally. It's really quite amazing. I highly recommend the book "No bad parts" by Dr Richard Schwartz, the discoverer of the technique.

What really excites me here is the use of a virtual avatar that personifies the voice. That is really new to me and I can see all sorts of possibilities to link with IFS.
Still. I will always be notetaking (and doodling) during meetings as it helps me not fall asleep and makes it look like I am paying attention.
I'm not quite sure why this was downvoted. It's true.
The target audience is influencers that make the Apple look and feel of photos the default. They want pretty pictures and perfect scenes and then you have a bunch of teenagers going for the $1000+ iPhone instead of a Pixel for half the price with better AI but a different post processing pipeline
My comment is very specific about the ultra rich who use tax sheltering to reduce taxable burden on passive income from bonds: In the US, there is (was?) a special class of municipal (state/local) bonds call "triple tax-free"/TTF, where the owner can receive interest, but pay no federal, state, or local taxes. Of course, there are limits, but it is a big business, and the buyers are almost always ultra rich. To be clear, under the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) rules in the US, I doubt you can pay zero taxes, but you can certainly greatly reduce your taxable burden using TTF muni bonds.

Ref: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tripletaxfree.asp
There are plenty, though, and they work amazingly well on desktop: https://pub.dev/packages/syncfusion_flutter_datagrid
I am also Norwegian and I also dislike tipping culture, but when they have your daily ice tea ready for you before you come in I would say it would be strange to not say "ah, just keep the change" now and then to show that you appreciate (and essentially pay for) the extra service.
To be fair they've gotten way better at not breaking. I remember when dropping your phone seemed to be a coin flip of whether you'd crack the screen. I've dropped my phone dozens of times (I'm a fidgeter) with no ill results save for a couple of shallow scratches.