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Show HN: bframe – An open source billing library based in SQL
Hey HN, I wanted to share bframe an open source billing library I've been working on. The business logic is primarily in SQL and the launch client is in python.

bframe is a wrapper around a duckdb connection which makes it easy to extend and understand.

The largest difference between bframe and alternatives is how we treat persistence. The library connects to an existing store (bring your own infra), while other solutions use their own storage.

This has several benefits if you are willing to provide your own store: a single source of truth (no weird syncing), the library can be directly used without a server (e.g. pip install bframelib), sources are generally fungible (use CSVs, JSON, postgres, etc).

bframe does a lot more which can be seen in our documentation: https://bframe.work

The github repository can be found here: https://github.com/bframe-work/bframelib

The project is still very much in development so I appreciate the feedback. If this project interests you and you'd like to chat more send me a message @ allan at bframe.work
>Often people will post photos or have profile pictures.

>Say you have a photo taken at a random mcdonalds. That'd be 36'000 locations. Imagine cloudflare location and timezone help you narrow it down to new mexico. That's 80 locations. Small enough that you can look at every single one using street view and check where the photo actually was taken.

Sounds like the bigger opsec failure is posting the pictures, and the leaking the cloudflare POP only makes the search slightly easier.
IIRC, the original ASCII standard had ↑ and ← but later changed them to ^ and _, respectively.
I completely agree with this.

It would be nice to try it with SAAS and then buy a local license.

It is similar to the Tydbit device [0] where you can program the device but it runs on their cloud. That is fine unless Tydbit goes out of business. That fear of loss stopped me from doing too much programming with it.

I think the same may be true here.

[0] https://tidbyt.com
Damn, still getting reposted a decade later lmao
HAHAHA glad we could help you live out your dreams of being called by Steve Wozniak
I would guess some are just jealous of his age, but some do find the claim of de anonymizing to simply be overblown given it doesn't tell you nearly enough to find anyone except in very niche cases. This "attack" is easily defeated with a VPN or living in any major city.
This seems like a great way to splinter your community.
He doesn't need to.

If retrospect exists to inform future decisions: getting to the GP's point in his business is a useful success signal.

Whatever it is that you're tracking seems less useful toward any question that isn't "am I rich from this right now?". The answer to which is "no". As-in "no shit". It's not useful.
Dokku's design is a little weird. Overcomplicated shell scripts and Go, with a weird command-line argument format. It's not apparent that this is simpler than Docker Swarm, or just plain Docker Compose. But I guess it adds more features.

It feels like a set of canned Docker Compose configs would do the same. If Docker would add a layer of abstraction on top of Compose, and a marketplace of shareable configurations, I bet that'd provide the same functionality as Dokku.
Because life is a cab array.
> The most basic rule of professional ethics for security research is actually quite simple: We work to protect users first.

lmao yeah sure, im sure you believe that. i think i do too, to a degree.

but anyone who's ever run a bug bounty (for example), knows that there are too many people who are looking for a quick payout, for clout, or even just to be annoying

i think this article is kinda naive in a lot of ways (there's just a ton i can poke at for something so short), but there definitely is a massive cultural problem in product orgs (researchers are often viewed as annoying), the security "industry" (so many researchers are actually annoying), and even propagated by the business side of things ("who would actually do something like this?")
A court order currently entitles them to exactly that.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/court-orders-mullenweg-and...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25451524-wp-engine-v...

"the Court finds that WPEngine is likely to succeed on the merits of its intentional interference with contractual relations claim"

"Within 72 hours, Defendants are ORDERED to... restore WPEngine’s and Related Entities’ access to wordpress.org as it existed as ofSeptember 20, 2024"

It seems you can't use your theoretically independent non-profit to extort your for-profit arm's competitor.
that's the macro change, yeah, but the rate of increase in obesity in the us got sharper after the 80s, so it doesn't feel like the complete picture to me.

we got the abundant food and the largely car bound live cycles and it still kept getting worse for decades after that point. I suppose it could be generations growing up only knowing this and so habituated to it more?
I can only give some Grug brained tips, that I do...

1. Buy a lot of things, and hope that not all of them will be lost at the same time. Every time I make an amazon order (about once a month), I buy an SD card and some rechargeable AA/AAA batteries, always. I have like 10 nail clippers, 8 scientific calculators. I have around 3 pens for every sqft of my home, sprinkled around everywhere. But with more expensive things this scales badly, gotta admit.

2. You know those gigantic keychains on the toilet keys? I try to do the same, with some of my things. Also, nail/glue them to a fix place. My AppleTV remote (that crappy Siri one) is lives on a clipboard with double-sided tape - I got bored fishing it out from between the sofa pillows. My USB current/voltmeter is tied to my desktop PC with a piece of string...
I am well aware of the current concerns around the incentives that exist in the medical industry when it comes to the treatment of gender dysphoric people. Some of it we should absolutely be concerned about, particularly when it comes to treatment of children.

Where the current public discourse on these issues goes off the rails is that we conclude that, because these concerns around improper incentives and improper treatment exists, or because there are some issues around social influence of children on social media, that "gender dysphoria" broadly is either not real or not a legitimate problem that people deal with.

> If someone was too short, or too tall, or thought they were black (even though they were unambiguously white)

If someone was 5'8" and underwent leg-lengthening therapy to become 6'1", would we not call that person "tall", or would we jump through strange mental hoops to justify antagonizing them based on their genetic makeup?

> Until a mind reading machine exists

Again, the problem here is that you are concluding that unless you can rationalize and validate someone else's thought process or mental condition through the lens of your own experience, then their experience is irrelevant to you, not real, and that they are worthy of mockery and derision instead of respect and consideration.

We don't need a mind reading machine to understand what gender dysphoria is, because gender dysphoric people tell us what they are thinking and feeling, not to mention they tend to know what will reduce their feelings of dysphoria.
I just got my first Garmin Watch (Venu 3) in December for Xmas. So far I'm enjoying it. I'm happy to see the company knows how to survive because my last few smart watches didn't fare so well, not exactly from market changes, but from acquisitions.

I had the original Pebble and Pebble 2. Loved them. Then one day Pebble was just shut down because of an acquisition by Fibit[1]. There was a group of people that started Rebble[2] to restore web services and support the watch but I was not interested so I switched over to Fitbit.

I had the Fitbit Versa 2 and Versa 3 watches and for a while they were great. Then Google bought Fitbit[3]. The impending "Killed by Google" was always in the back of mind, especially since they already sold smart watches. But I have been on Pixel phones for a while now and I thought maybe Google buying them would lead to good things. At first not much changed, but eventually I started having issues with the watch (more info about that below) and I got fed up with it and now I have a Garmin Watch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)#Closing_of_Pebb...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)#Rebble

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitbit#Google's_acquisition

The issues I was having with my Versa 3:

Daily I would notice I had missed a sms notification and realize that my watch was disconnected from my phone. I had to go in and manually reconnect it. I also had issues using the voice command feature. I used to be able to use my Google Assistant through the watch, but at some point it just said "check bluetooth connection", even after confirming that connection. So sometime last year I decided to see if a factory reset would work. I did that and did the whole setup process again which included upgrading to the latest firmware. This did not fix the issue and it came with the added bonus of completely disabling my sleep tracking. I think I was grandfathered in because sleep tracking became a premium service that I was getting for free but doing the reset lost that. So now I was out of sleep tracking, voice commands to any assistant, and a stable connection.
You also have the option to go somewhere with even more of a free market, like Somalia. Have you emigrated to such a country? It turns out that societies can write laws for mutual benefit.
I think its good for finding out if someone is still in a certain region. More like region identification not deanonymization.
Not one goal though, but a set of goals. Otherwise the random sampling of tokens wouldn't result in it outputting meaningfully different jokes.

I also think it's safe to assume that the set of goals isn't fully resolved, but it's harder to "prove" that.
No offense to you personally, but what kind of life does one live where one needs to glance at their partners' texts to shave off those ten precious seconds.
Meta lures TikTok creators with $5K bonuses, content deals, free verification
Big thread a couple of months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515101
You're being sarcastic when you're implying that any of those switches were worth it, right?
Digital passports among IDs to be available in UK government app
The information you are looking for can be found in the article.
Ozempic-style drugs tied to more than 60 health benefits and risks
Render raises $80M to try and make AWS obsolete
Two or three very small opsec failures equals one massive opsec failure.
Obligatory Slaughterbots link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
I tend to agree with you. But on the other hand, if true, this is the kind of crazy situation that could also lead to new mathematics where regimes considered unstable are revealed to have surprising stable nodes.

The big problem here is that it's described as a wall and not a progressively (quadratically) increasing field.

But what if there actually are network effects propagated by charge carrying particles in a suitably humid environment that turn the power of 2 into something else? Even a power of 3 could be perceived reasonably as a wall at human scale.

It's not "I want to believe" so much as "it feels like the maths might allow this under odd but reproducible circumstances" (my relevant background here is in math-physics and specifically analytic solutions to the relevant PDEs, which do have some very odd solutions). Would be nice to see people try.

There are differences between effects we can observe between ideal point charges and ones that only emerge as network effects when propagated across a network of less than ideal point charges that at least merit some investigation.
Oh, I'm a capitalist. I believe Churchill was right when he said that capitalism is the worst economic system ever invented, except for all the others that have been tried before.

I never said we should do away with a market economy. All I said is that market economies are not guaranteed to converge to optimal or even good outcomes.

Markets CAN lead to horrifically bad equilibria (extreme inequality, financial crises, recessions, depressions, etc.). There are no guarantees that they won't.

So let's be humble, open-minded, willing to rely on markets when they work, willing to try other things when they don't.

Please don't attack a straw-man.
It has been a very long time since I interacted with a webring. But my memory is that the webring link on a page in the webring should take you automatically to another page, not to some main index page which is what seems to happen here. Is this the correct behavior and I am just misremembering?
“ * NOTE: * The GO SMI binding depends on the following libraries:

- E-SMI inband library ("https://github.com/amd/esmi_ib_library")
- ROCm SMI library("https://github.com/ROCm/rocm_smi_lib")
- AMDSMI library("https://github.com/ROCm/amdsmi")
- goamdsmi_shim library ("https://github.com/amd/goamdsmi/goamdsmi_shim")”

First of all this link is dead: https://github.com/amd/goamdsmi/goamdsmi_shim

Second: these dependencies should all be packaged into deb/rpm

Third: there should be a goamdsmi package which has a proper dependency tree. I should be able to do ‘apt-get install goamdsmi’ and it should install everything I need. This is how it works with go-nvml.
Reminds me of blogscroll.com which was posted here a few days ago. Personal websites are the original decentralized web.
I completely agree, for my day-to-day use o1 isn't needed. I only use it for complicated solutions involving code.
The point is that decisions made by schools about which books they use or not are not equal to legally enforceable book bans for the general public. The article commingles these two ideas. That is the objection.
This robotic pollinator can barely even fly for 45 sec, they cannot scale it sufficiently they can just say minidrone but to even think about using it as an actual pollinator and the economics making sense is at the present far far away.
Is that better or worse than the traditional route, wealth by birthright?
I don't doubt that training an LLM, and curating a training set, is a black art. Conventional wisdom was that up until a few years ago there were only a few dozen people in the world who knew all the tricks.

However, that is not what we were discussing.

You keep flip flopping on how you think these successfully trained frontier models are working and managing to predict the character level sequences represented by multi-character tokens ... one minute you say it's due to having learnt from an onerous amount of data, and the next you say they must be using a split function (if that's the silver bullet, then why are you not using one yourself, I wonder).

Near the top of this thread you opined that failure to count r's in strawberry is "Because they can't break down a token or have any concept of it". It's a bit like saying that birds can't fly because they don't know how to apply Bernoulli's principle. Wrong conclusion, irrelevant logic. At least now you seem to have progressed to (on occasion) admitting that they may learn to predict token -> character sequences given enough data.

If I happen into a few million dollars of spare cash, maybe I will try to train a frontier model, but frankly it seems a bit of an expensive way to verify that if done correctly it'd be able to spell "strawberry", even if using a penny-pinching tokenization scheme.
Vision of a New World – Design Issues (2024)
So basically, they used them because they needed to assign them to something ang they knew type writers would have those characters due to their use in business & math.

I mean. Fair enough. I guess.
yeah I love that!
For my wife (type 1 diabetic), physical activity is the big one that throws off her calculations as a walk in a hilly area makes her blood sugar drop like a rock. Of course she always has something with sugar with her but then she has to figure out how much to consume.
Startup Liquidation Auctions
Why would an electrostatic force repel humans? We are neutrally charged.

And if anything, in metals I think (???) you can get attraction as free electrons in the neutral body are attracted/repelled towards the charge and the neutral body becomes a dipol (so eg. if the charged body is positively charged then the negatively charged electrons are attracted towards it, and vice versa). But that's weak and acts the wrong way.
> Belphegor (or Baal Peor, Hebrew: בַּעַל-פְּעוֹר baʿal-pəʿōr – “Lord of the Gap”) is, in the Abrahamic religions, a demon associated with one of the seven deadly sins. According to religious tradition, he helps people make discoveries. He seduces people by proposing incredible inventions that will make them rich.

Huh. Would feel right at home in our industry.

> According to some demonologists from the 17th century, his powers are strongest in April.

Any demo days or other significant VC stuff happening in April?

> The German bishop and witch hunter, Peter Binsfeld (ca. 1540–ca.1600) wrote that Belphegor tempts through laziness. According to Binsfeld's Classification of Demons, Belphegor is the main demon of the deadly sin known as sloth in the Christian tradition. The anonymous author of the Lollard tract The Lanterne of Light, however, believed Belphegor to embody the sin of gluttony rather than sloth.

Yeah, hits too close to home.

Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor
At least for ^ I was always told that the ADM3a terminal keyboard had a HOME key with ~ and ^ on it, which is why ~ means "home directory", and ^ means "home of the line".
Not the same idea, but the same category. You can Drag countries to different places on the Mercator projection to see how they warp and change size.

Classic example is moving Greenland onto the US. Or Russia. Russia isn't talked about much in this case, but its dramatic how it changes.

https://www.thetruesize.com/
You could though. Given a sufficiently strong enough positively (or negatively) charged electric field and yourself equally positively (or negatively) charged sufficiently you could have an 'invisible' wall that you couldn't walk through. Assuming that neither yourself or the field you're walking into has anywhere to discharge to.
The person receiving it chooses to download images or whatever automatically though.

I dunno, I'd still say the problem is at least 50% cloudflare. Why should they make which datacenters have a resource cached be obvious public knowledge? I do agree though, one could still end up inferring this information noisily by sending an attachment, waiting a while, and then somehow querying a lot of DCs and trying to infer times to see if it's cached or not.

Personally, I've never been a fan about so many things like URLs being so public. I get the benefits of things like CDNs and what not and the odds of guessing a snowflake value and what not, but still...all attachments in Discord are public. If you have a URL, you have the attachment. And they're not the only ones with this kind of access model.
Okay, but we're talking about flying airplanes. Literally everyone who has ever even remotely looked into flying airplanes in America will know that ATC asking you to copy down a number means "you messed up big time and are going to get lectured, chewed out, or worse".
Extinction, generally.

I'd rather have combat insects we can turn into pollinators once the ecosystem collapses than have nothing at all.
I'm all for people trying new [old] things, but I've been using the web since NCSA Mosaic and have never found webrings useful.
I wonder if there were any concerned engineers at IBM who tried to raise their voices over the tabulating machines being sold to Nazi Germany? If there were, I bet they heard similar things as today when they were brushed off.
> so now I just remember that "it's the opposite"

"No, the other left..."

For me it was easier to remember what ^ was, as it looks like a pointer of sorts, so felt natural it would be the beginning. Like how a string variable points to the first character.
Are solid state batteries the key to mass-market electric vehicles?
Higher driving range, lower prices, improved safety, and ever-growing charging speeds: Solid-state batteries could finally give electric cars mass-market appeal.
JEP draft: Stable Values (Preview)
Idk why anyone would ever "learn regex's" without the use of a look up table.
It's not like timestables where having it memorized will really accelerate other aspects of life. Knowing what ^ does by memory will almost never benefit you.
https://archive.ph/Z3cb6
I didn't know about that one, looks neat. Thanks.

Sums of cages and selected numbers (even outside of killer/sandwich) were a must have feature for me, so I implemented those features early. Also combinations are available for single cage or multiple selected cages and for selected sandwich.
I think if you want to defend Griswold you are forced to defend Lochner. If “emanations from penumbras” is a legitimate source of constitutional authority that can override democratically enacted laws, that has sweeping implications. Clearly the constitution has an overriding focus on property rights and economic liberty. What freedoms can you find in the “emanations from penumbras” of the contract clause or the takings clause?

I don’t think Griswold is wrong per se. Rather, I think it’s based on a libertarian view of the Constitution that almost none of Griswold’s proponents actually support.
you remember correctly. I clicked into a few links expecting to see the actual webring functionality but it doesn't seem to be there
Agree that there will be a revitalization of web gaming, here's a demo of Unreal Engine 5 running in WebGPU: (only runs on Windows atm)

https://play.spacelancers.com/
a past discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37629719
I'd echo others that you probably won't succeed, but there is still an action you can take, which is to create new communities elsewhere.

The success of newer social platforms like Discord is mostly people creating new groups there, rather than wholesale migrations. Facebook itself followed that pattern in earlier days.
feels^2

But also, profit margins of major industries; amount of wealth held liquid; and so on.

You might have a moral idea of 'effective' in mind, which may not be realised. I mean only that one does not find cash lying around the vautls of the ritch -- as in pre-modern times. People do not bury gold as jesus advised. Rather they dont keep gold, it is a line item held by a business doing something with it.
I agree, at first I thought gpt would be used by tech savvy folk, but now it is clear that it’s becoming a crutch. My friend couldn’t respond to an email without it.
Same thing in my small WV hometown. Gorgeous building, too.
sweet

htmx has as webring, hacked a little bit w/an iframe:

https://htmx.org/webring

bring back the open web!
It would be cool if links I had visited were colored blue, just like in the old days. Its impossible to keep track of what I have seen in my head.
Reminder to everyone to divest of your 3M stock. They lied about the dangers of PFAs for decades. Suppressing science to create the biggest mass poisoning in human history needs some pushback from reasonable people.
I believe most people (me included) dismiss the OP's claimed severity, as if it is being oversold. I see a balance of opinions saying "great find, but not as critical as claimed" so they don't seem dismissive. It is important to correctly classify the severity of issues. Proof of whereabouts is not deanonymization, especially when the abouts are so loose
Perhaps speak to the scientists who just updated its position and get them to update its position the other way?