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Show HN: I built a simple site to aggregate all the free marketing SaaS reports
While doing a lot of reading around marketing I noticed that many popular marketing tools and SaaS businesses provide really interesting data in free reports.

Mostly they do this to attract leads for their business - some do offer reports with no strings attached though. However I realised that quite often the data and research they provide in the reports is well worth giving an email address anyway.

These reports are a mix of data that pertains to how users use their platforms for their marketing purposes and survey research of their customers and general consumers.

For example large email marketing SAAS companies often release very interesting data on how their users are marketing, what the trends are in email marketing and what consumers are interacting with.

Marketing based SaaS companies across all the difference facets of marketing release these kinds of reports - so I thought I would aggregate them all in once place.

I also pulled an interesting quote from each report and summarised them briefly so interested readers can get an idea of if it’s a report they want to read.
The original comment doesn't show up so I'm not able to reread it but the relevancy of my bringing up Mearsheimer was purely in response to the mentioning of Russia invading a sovereign country, namely Ukraine, not to the Russian developers being removed by the Linux maintainers.
That's simply too big a screen to be sitting right in front of.

I do agree on the basic idea of not running two monitors tho. I used to, and I got neck pains eventually.

My current setup is a single 32" curved QHD monitor and I wouldn't change it for the world. It's just the right size so you can see the whole screen at once, yet large enough to run 3 browsers side by side.

Also, I want to suggest people to learn about virtual desktops rather than wasting money on bizarrely huge screens or multi monitor setups.
Who cares whether it's the MTA that does it or a collection of daemons invoked by the MTA? Just get things configured correctly, and you should be gold.

Now as far as every other mail operator setting up their stuff right such that From spoofing is no longer feasible, well... Can't help ya there. I don't run my email to make money, so the incentive to adopt pathological configs for the sake of maximizing the number of users/Domains who can send from one IP ain't there.
AMA: Former VMware leader here to help you navigate the Broadcom shift
The threat of anti-trust creates a win for consumers, this is an example of why we need a strong FTC.
cursor.ai lets you use any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, although not all features work. And continue.dev does too, iirc.
Github was an early OpenAI design partner. OpenAI developed a custom LLM for them.

It's so interesting that even after that early mover advantage they have to go back to the foundation model providers.

Does this mean that future tech companies have no choice but to do this?
Can you think of any examples where a company trying to sell you something made unfavorable comparisons between their product and a competing product?
That's a hell of a desk. And counter to the argument that "you could just have the one huge screen for entertainment AND work" because this is not a desk you can easily clear out from in front of the sofa when you stop working.

This is making me want to get some blackout curtains for my living room so I can go back to occasionally working with my laptop hooked to the projector, though. It's about the same resolution as my laptop but it's really nice to be focusing on something across the room for a change.
It's data. Creating a colorful dashboard turns it into information,
To get knowledge and action is another step.
The plug-in does what it says on the tin,
it's up to the user to make something of it,
or leave it as inert knowledge.
Reminds me of Michael Stapelberg's 8k Monitor Setup:

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2017-12-11-dell-up3218k

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-05-23-desk-setup
I upgraded recently, by buying a friends old Samsung Odyssey G9 49" curved monitor off him (he was emigrating). Before that I had 2 x 27" monitors, a setup I had used for ~10 years.

I honestly think the curve is essential when dealing with such a wide display. The alternative would be - as article states - to set it back a little and have a deeper desk so you can actually see the edge of the screen properly. I don't see the point in having a large screen with high pixel density if the edges are not actually easily visible to me without moving my head or body laterally.

The lack of bezels is great though - I'd definitely agree on that front, having 3 web browsers or editors open side by side suits me really well.
Common english lexicon should cut ties with the phrase "cut a deal"
Sure. It’s just going to be expensive.
Yes, there is an element of randomness. I was addressing the idea that if someone is nominally a great person, then it "doesn't count" as much if they were lucky enough to have good genetics or mentorship or circumstances or whatever, which is nonsense. The only reason to care about circumstances is so that we know what to encourage more of to shift that probability distribution (evidently I don't think "money" is the critical factor here).
> Pi owners should hardly notice any changes, though performance will improve.

Not really — tell that to anyone trying to use a VNC client. The Wayland-based server only supports RSA-AES auth, which not a lot of clients do.
The "ring me even if I'm not at home" feature has some value also.

And for people who do not live in high-crime areas, but might want the other features of a Ring camera, the value distribution would necessarily be different.
Sadly it's been common for USB hubs to be dodgy ever since the advent of USB 3. I rarely had trouble out of 1.x and 2.x hubs, but 3.x+ hubs are consistently trouble. The only ones that haven't been problematic are those integrated into Thunderbolt docks, probably because those undergo more stringent certifications.
Solving the Riddle of Ceres
I really appreciate your responses (and ones others have made elsewhere in this thread), they give much better insight into what someone is going through internally than the clinical definitions I see.
Keyboard layout integration should have been a day zero thing. Until now I see flatpak/snap packages that don’t use the correct layout for keyboard shortcuts under (X)Wayland. (The curse of TWO terrible new tech stacks meeting.)
That's hardly an objective source. She not only is in the C suite of a genAI company, she's the CFO of OpenAI itself. Everything she has to say is going to be a sales pitch.
these exist on amazon
GeForce Now https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/

nvidias cloud gaming offering. it works pretty well
Migrating My Turso DB to Cloudflare D1
An AI matchmaker for non-monogamy?
> It's will known that AccuWeather's president Joel Myers and his younger brother (now former) AccuWeather CEO Barry Lee Myers want to kill public domain weather report data.

John Oliver of all people had a segment on this:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11110660/

* https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/14/john-oliver-...

* https://time.com/5699545/john-oliver-weather-last-week-tonig...
Not for visual studio 2022 unfortunately.
I tried training some models using tensorflow-metal a year ago and I was quite disappointed. Using a relu activation function led to very poor accuracy [0] and training time was an order of magnitude slower than just using the free tier of Google Colab

[0] https://github.com/keras-team/tf-keras/issues/140
Thanks for the advice about the math thread! And a wise remark that I should be able to address as many people as I can.

However, the drama thing… if you’ll find time to read that one text below, you’ll see that maybe it’s not a matter of choice. To drama or not to drama - that isn’t even a question!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZtiEvB79aohVhWE1vGdNCuamqwz...
> The Harris campaign has proposed some price fixing legislation that is also pretty bad.

The scale is vastly different. "essential goods during emergencies or times of crisis" is vastly different than "20% on pretty much everything".
>As a personal note, I know I’m a bit of an exception ...That’s critical for me, and if an ISP filters based on source, it’s a deal-breaker—I’ll switch to a different ISP.

"...and obviously, Pennywise, I must spoof ingress and egress..."

"Of course, Agent Bond."
Designers that come from a background of human machine interaction care and will say that. Designers who come from a background of art don't understand what is being talked about and so don't say anything - they tend to only ensure it works on their one devices which they have selected to be the best and ignore everything else.

The second group does make things that look nicer, but the first ensures it can be used. You really want both, but then you need to be careful about who wins when they disagree.
Open source mapping meets open source street design
Haha. I kinda hoped that too but am still left wondering. I know back 20 years ago it was a CRM. I worked for at least one company who spent years and millions trying to replace their homegrown CRM with Salesforce. I know it can support customer help desk things too and even has a knowledge base feature.

I’m sure somewhere somehow it can probably do a bunch of other “enterprise” things and somebody somewhere is probably using it for their general ledger or doing payroll through it somehow… but I have no idea if that is true.
I don't know what my PM would say but to me this is "excellent and appealing design"
There is a long tail of consequences for short-sighted policies and people monitoring stock prices always seem to be taken by surprise by them when they occur.

You should include additional factors in your analysis.
Do NOT show this to most managers
Yes but why OFFLINE ? today's world is so super connected that I am wondering why is asking for this requirement.
Yeah I agree, could be confusing to non native speakers though. It's a weird idiom.
Only USB-C in the back front and back? I suppose this is a "BYOKVM" machine that is going to need a dongle to connect the keyboard and mouse...

Even the iKeyboard I bought from them last year was lightning to USB-A and needed a dongle to connect to my Apple laptop.

At least it has an HDMI port.
It is possible that they do everything they can on the decide, but still have to do lots in the cloud, right? For some definition of lots, at least…
I dislike TVs for their high input lag; bad image uniformity; unwanted post-processing and a high energy use (hot rooms).
Deploy Intelligence too cheap to meter $0.0001 per million tokens?
> Having seven evenly-spaced columns would be impossible on a dual 4K display setup due to bezels in the middle.

I know I'm getting into old man yells at cloud territory here, but nobody needs this. Code on a 1024×600 netbook display, it will build character.
I'm reminded of the Philosophy of Computer Science entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0], which briefly considers what it means for two programs to be identical.

"... it has been argued that there are cases in which it is not possible to determine whether two programs are the same without making reference to an external semantics. Sprevak (2010) proposes to consider two programs for addition which differ from the fact that one operates on Arabic, the other one on Roman numerals. The two programs compute the same function, namely addition, but this cannot always be established by inspecting the code with its subroutines; it must be determined by assigning content to the input/output strings"

"The problem can be tackled by fixing an identity criterion, namely a formal relation, that any two programs should entertain in order to be defined as identical. Angius and Primiero (2018) show how to use the process algebra relation of bisimulation between the two automata implemented by two programs under examination as such an identity criterion. Bisimulation allows to establish matching structural properties of programs implementing the same function, as well as providing weaker criteria for copies in terms of simulation."

(Of course, it isn't surprising that this would be relevant, because proofs and programs themselves are isomorphic).

This technique seems rather stricter than what Gowers has in mind, but it seems helpful as a baseline.

0. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computer-science/
It generally takes > 10 years before migrants can vote. If that's the Democratic strategy, it's a pretty poor one.
This seems like such a cool home server... BUT with all the disk encryption stuff, you'd need to be logged in to run things, right? If the power goes out, your server does too?

Does anybody have a guide or tips on how to make one of these better for hosting a website with cloudflare tunnel and being resilient to power outages?
I'm not a fan. Large ultra-wide curved screens are fantastic. With large flat screens that are meant to be viewed across the room, you get a distorted image when you sit up close. Your eyes have to focus further away as you look at things closer to the edge of your screen and the viewing angle for that part of the screen is different from the center of the screen. It also requires more effort for your eyes to look up and down rather than left and right. We're hard wired for that horizontal plane. This makes ultrawide screens a really comfortable option.
Splunk logs of traffic. It’s pretty common at the corporate level.
> How actionable will these insights be?

I mean, that's something you should try to answer yourself, if you think you can extract any benefit from having these stats.

To me it's similar to a fitness app that can tell you things like time, speed, distance, elevation, but won't really tell you how to run better.

I have a hard time coming up with ways this could help my coding habits right away, but I think this would be on the user to find these, not the stats reporting tool, no? And if you find no real use, then it's maybe just not for you.
If you want to destroy open source completely, the more models the better. Microsoft's co-opting and infiltration of OSS projects will serve as a textbook example of eliminating competition in MBA programs.

And people still support it by uploading to GitHub.
To me GP seems like an insane person with an out of whack understanding of what "white lies" are and what's going on in that social dynamic. I think they need to seriously get a grip. Normally I wouldn't write things like this on HN because it's rude and they're a complete stranger anyway and I don't know what's in their head, but I wouldn't want to "betray" them by not saying it.
AI Powered Search
Is the CMS from 1906 still useful today? I don't know who proportion of stylistic mores have changed since then.
I also find it fascinating how in almost every LLM-related discussion there are people always writing arguments to prove that LLMs do not work.

OK, I understand. Maybe they can't get much use of them and that's fine. But why they always insist that the tools don't work for everyone is something I can't make any sense of.

I stopped arguing online about this though. If they don't want to use LLMs that's fine too. Others (we) are taking their business.
No, but who is the one interested in your improving? :-)
People are willing to be uncomfortable to achieve their goals.

The first person interviewed is from China and it reminded me of an article I read in the English paper in Shanghai.

A government official was chatting foreign busy Bodies by saying that the comparison isn't to Western wealth, it's to itinerant Farmers sleeping in the fields at night.

For some people having a roof over your head and for solid walls is an improvement
Thank you for the rundown. Very interesting to get some ideas of spammer tactics.
Note that was my reaction 35 years ago - not necessarily what my old cynical self would necessarily think today...
I don't use it because I already use JetBrains (Pycharm, mostly). Hard to see any value add of Cursor over that.

For a lighter-weight IDE I use Zed
Seems to be part of Microsoft’s hedging of its OpenAI bet, ever since Sam Altman’s ousting: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/technology/microsoft-open...
Tried it again and it works!

I'm guessing that maybe I forgot to restart the machine to make sure everything got to read it. Or that whatever was broken long ago got fixed.

BTW, I can't reach my backup right now, but this seems like a good start to build up custom mappings in case anyone gets interested in this,
https://github.com/kragen/xcompose
I'm actually your target market here, but I want to replace my old exterior garage-door keypad with a (weather-protected) QR code. Same same, but text/twilio/home-assistant URL to allow me to trigger/confirm the garage door opening, probably IFTT.

Agree also with the "scan this code when you arrive to the party" => are you here? Y/N => notification. Pop a geo-permissions prompt and geo-fence "YES" in certain cases, and you're getting somewhere.
> I didn't even know it has an ecommerce function

It has at least two (2) ecommerce functions (more if you count B2B Classic / CloudCraze)

1. Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C - 2016 Demandware acquisition, somewhere in the spectrum of PaaS to SaaS, separate offering compared to the rest of the Salesforce platform. Customizations are done in ISML (JSP/JSTL/JSF-like) and an ECMAScript-like language in modern implementations (not going to cover SiteGenesis, Pipelines, and SiteGenesis Controllers for you old folks here). APIs are provided by the legacy OCAPI layer, and SCAPI layer, which has a thin Mulesoft API layer on top

2. Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2B/D2C - Salesforce-native platform (e.g. native Salesforce objects). Customizations done via Lightning (front-end) and Apex (Java-like language). More-or-less fully integrated into the Salesforce platform. More or less fully SaaS.

Demandware (and subsequently, SFCC) was one of the first ecommerce platforms to pioneer licensing a commerce platform based on revenue sharing (given the SaaS-like model), as opposed to legacy self-hosted platforms (ATG, Hybris, IBM WebSphere) which initially focused on licensing per seats or CPU.
The reason here is Microsoft is trying to make copilot a platform.
This is the essential step to moving all the power from OpenAI to Microsoft. It would grant Microsoft leverage over all providers since the customers would depend on Microsoft and not OpenAI or Google or Anthropic. Classic platform business evolution at play here.
I don't use VSCode or other user hostile programs like it so I don't care what kind of anti-features it enables. I don't want my actually useful tools hobbled in order to deal with such programs.
You can mill them off and replace them with supported nands. People have videos on YouTube but it’s not very accessible to do.

The issue is that Apple moved the storage controllers into their SOC. So they use raw nand chips, and you need to use ones that the SOC supports.
I recommend that naysayers for technologies like Cursor watch the documentary Jurassic Punk. When comparing the current AI landscape to the era of computer graphics emerging in film, the parallels are pretty staggering to me.

There is a very vocal old guard who are stubborn about ditching their 10,000+ hours master-level expertise to start from zero and adapt to the new paradigm. There is a lot of skepticism. There are a lot of people who take pride in how hard coding should be, and the blood and sweat they've invested.

If you look at AI from 10,000 feet, I think what you'll see is not AGI ruining the world, but rather LLMs limited by regression, eventually training on their own hallucinations, but good enough in their current state to be amazing tools. I think that Cursor, and products like it, are to coding what Photoshop was to artists. There are still people creating oil paintings, but the industry — and the profits — are driven by artists using Photoshop.

Cursor makes coders more efficient, and therefore more profitable, and anyone NOT using Cursor in a hiring pool of people who ARE using it will be left holding the short straw.

If you are an expert level software engineer, you will recognize where Cursor's output is bad, and you will be able to rapidly remediate. That still makes you more valuable and more efficient. If you're an expert level software engineer, and you don't use Cursor, you will be much slower, and it is just going to reduce your value more and more over time.
Page source is amazing. I can't remember the last time I've seen a serious YC company launch page with absolutely zero JavaScript. Even the CSS is just a single selector.

I'm a fan.
An critique of Intel's product development, 2012-present
There are initiatives like declarative Gradle or JetBrains' Amper. But I assume they'll hit a wall in real-life exactly like Maven does. Think about packaging for instance, I see at least 4 or 5 different ways that are fairly common, and that's for one target only.
They listed WoW, DotA and League of Legends—I’m guessing, but the last two seem likely to have anti-cheat issues, right?
It’s straight out of Neuromancer, though Gibson may have borrowed the idea from Japan.
One Indian State Went 100% Organic
This one’s on Jack Welch - a pioneer in short term gain over long term building. You absolutely can juice a company’s performance by going dog-eat-dog, but inevitably when the smoke clears you’re left with jackals and hyenas stretched too thin.

Always worth mentioning that this culturally altered America in a way that we’ll probably never unwind.
With educational pricing this thing starts as $500, and at 16GB of RAM (finally) I think this easily beats any sort of desktop PC you can buy at that price (let's exclude custom builds, they're not the same market).

I think this just became the go-to recommendation I'll give to anybody wanting an entry-level desktop computer of any kind. In fact I might buy one for my parents right now to replace the old mac mini they have. I really can't think of any reasonable competition for it at that price.
Enclosure:

https://www.unitek-products.com/products/solidforce-reefer-p...

The SSD:

https://www.crucial.com/ssd/t500/CT2000T500SSD5?_gl=1*1g4r3l...
Sort of.

The motivation here is that numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are used for a lot more than just weather forecasting - they're critical research infrastructure and tools. NWP allows researchers to simulate complex atmospheric flows and phenomena which might not be readily or directly observed - or to manipulate observed flows in ways to evaluate dynamical theory and the underlying physics. You can't really do any of this with the AI emulators, which output a tiny, tiny sliver of information relative to the vast array of data you can dump from an NWP system.

Regarding energy usage, you're right up to a point. Today's ML weather models are trained to emulate very large reanalysis datasets (e.g., ECMWF's ERA5) which are produced using the physics-based models. No one has yet to demonstrate an end-to-end AI/ML weather forecast which sidesteps these reanalysis datasets (in fact, the trend so far has been to include _more_ physics-based model datasets for fine-tuning, including archives of historical NWP forecasts or GCM simulations). So there's a massive sunk cost in energy usage to create those training datasets, and then there's the ongoing energy cost of training AI emulators from the ground up. And of course, there's the future energy cost of running more physics-based models to better support the development of AI emulators.

For pure inference/forecasting? Sure. Much faster to run AI models and much lower energy usage. But that's quite literally the tip of the iceberg when it comes to forecast model development.