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Nice site, and good luck!

I used to run a book price comparison site, it was fun though I struggled to keep the price scrapers up to date. I wrote a small eulogy here: https://www.ajnisbet.com/blog/maintaining-a-zero-maintenance...

I've gotten a lot of work through the monthly freelancer thread.

SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area, CA | Remote

Hi HN, I'm Andrew. I have 10 years experience with Python web development. Some projects I've worked on recently include

• Turning machine learning notebooks into production http apis

• Building out SaaS websites with authentication, billing, subscription management

• Bringing old hard-to-maintain services up to modern standards with new stable technologies

• Performance optimization of django and flask apps to get below 100ms response time.

In addition to client work I also run some web apps including https://gpxz.io and https://redditreads.com, and I work as a Python code reviewer for PullRequest.

Past clients include Pepsi, Mercedes-Benz, NZ Metservice, and YC-backed Lob.com.

Technologies I work with include Python, django, flask, fastapi, docker, nginx, sql, Postgres, html, css, d3.js, tensorflow, scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, gdal, postgis, R, MLops.

Please get in touch via andrew@ajnisbet.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajnisbet with some information about your project, from there we can set up a call to talk in more detail.

There was a US remake of Taskmaster, which is like 50% a panel show. It was exceedingly terrible despite keeping 1 of the 2 UK hosts, and especially compared to the excellent New Zealand and Swedish Taskmaster remakes.

I agree about access though. I've introduced a bunch of US friends to Taksmaster who devour the seasons available on youtube, but are then out of options to see the rest.

Braking is the main reason I love gravel tyres for commuting: their increased size means a larger contact patch which directly translates into a shorter stop (as stopping on skinny tyres with disc brakes is typically traction-limited).

The tyres on my gravel bike look just like fat road tyres: no knobs.

I've been running it about 4 years now? It's very low maintenance (run process_new_comments.py every month and re-deploy). It also doesn't bring in much money: it's definitely a hobby rather than a business.

I don't do any marketing, most traffic comes from people mentioning it on reddit or from being included in "cool internet stuff" newsletters. I have some ideas for marketing, but I also hate marketing and do enough of it for my day job SaaS.

So I just run it because I really enjoy it! I used to have a newsletter but stopped that as it was too stressful having a regular deadline and dealing with email spam filters. Everything else about the site I enjoy: writing occasional blog posts, looking at culture through the lens of books, finding new books. I really like books: I used to own and run a bookstore, and a book price comparison website in the past.

Nice, I run https://www.redditreads.com which is similar but just for books.

Reddit really is great for recommendations: is less impacted by SEO and marketing that most of the internet, upvoting captures the wisdom of the crowd, and comments usually provide context for their recommendation.

HN is similar actually, though much smaller.

On both looria and redditreads I find it interesting how the products recommended reflect the culture of each subreddit.

My mistake, I do have a super old prescription in Warby Parker.

Zenni does let you buy "whatever you want".

Maybe their policy has changed, but I bought a pair last year and haven't had a prescription in 4 years. It is possible I uploaded that prescription when I first bought glasses from them rather than just entering the values I wanted, but it's for sure years expired.

Outdoor gear is the perfect onramp for sewing, and it's how I got started!

Function is more important than form outdoors, so compared to say your work clothes it's ok if stitching is messy or fabric doesn't match.

Repairs are an easier way to get started than creating something from scratch, and outdoor stuff breaks. I've fixed and patched lots of holes, replaced a few zippers. Most recently mended the strap on my hiking pole that a critter chewed through overnight.

Gear modification is another ease into sewing. Old gear can be modernised, features can be copied from friends' gear, and gear can be customised to your specific needs. I've added ice axe loops and hip pockets to a pack, made a frame bag the exact size of my mountain bike, added elastic to a drawstring bag that wasn't cinching properly.

I've never had issues ordering glasses from Zenni and I think Warby Parker too, you can just put in whatever values you want. Contact lenses on the other hand are regulated, I have to get those from overseas without a prescription.

Giving someone your bank account number (~EU ACH info) only allows them to send you money, not take it from you. It's not a secret, some retail businesses list it on their websites.

By mess do you mean scratching the glass surface? My ~$15 lodge cast iron has been fine on the electric stovetops in my last 3 apartments. They weren't super high quality cooktops either: the last nonstick pan I owned scratched the crap out of one of them in a matter of days.

I don't move the cast iron pan around a lot when I cook, but they're too heavy to do that anyway really, and unlike some thin stainless pans they don't warp so won't "walk" around the surface.

When I stopped using Google Voice a couple of years ago I still couldn't receive group photos, would only receive 50% of group texts, and (Swedish) accented letters were each replaced by a seemingly random selection of 1-4 ascii characters. Such a mess, I wish I'd never signed up.

SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area, CA | Remote

Hi HN, I'm Andrew. I have 10 years experience with Python web development. Some projects I've worked on recently include

• Turning machine learning notebooks into production http apis

• Building out SaaS websites with authentication, billing, subscription management

• Bringing old hard-to-maintain services up to modern standards with new stable technologies

• Performance optimization of django and flask apps to get below 100ms response time.

In addition to client work I also run some web apps including https://gpxz.io and https://redditreads.com, and I work as a Python code reviewer for PullRequest.

Past clients include Pepsi, Mercedes-Benz, NZ Metservice, and Lob.com.

Technologies I work with include Python, django, flask, fastapi, docker, nginx, sql, Postgres, html, css, d3.js, tensorflow, scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, gdal, postgis, R, MLops.

Please get in touch via andrew@ajnisbet.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajnisbet with some information about your project, from there we can set up a call to talk in more detail.

The VanMoof youtube channel releases a ~monthly video of the hunters in action. Sure it's marketing, but is an interesting watch. There's a few videos from SF, and one where they track a bike from Europe to Northern Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1oBcbRSK48&list=PLWwEynoexJ...

That’s probably legally true in the US, but is that the best we can do?

It’s valid to question the value of laws. Sometimes I wish I did have more privacy in public.

But more importantly, technology has completely changed what non-privacy looks like and is tragic to me that laws haven’t caught up.

There’s a huge practical difference between “someone within 100ft, probably a neighbour who I know, might hear me and probably instantly forget what I said, but 99% of the time no one is there” and “100% of your conversations are recorded, transcribed, and stored forever by a profit-maximising behemoth with various other unavoidable tentacles into my life, and also they might sell or give that data to other companies also the police”.

Satiety index is normalised by calories rather than weight [1]. If it were normalised by weight, calorie density would dominate any satiety effect.

[1] http://www.ernaehrungsdenkwerkstatt.de/fileadmin/user_upload...

I track my usage separately in a spreadsheet, which avoids the stress of streaks, but still lets me draw motivation from past effort: https://www.ajnisbet.com/blog/tracking-goals

Winging it with stripe is fine to get started quickly, but once you have a couple of customers switch to a Merchant of Record like Paddle.

On your end they work much like stripe: you get credit card input html and an api. But legally they are a reseller of your software so they handle all tax collection and payment, invoice formatting, plus some legal issues. In exchange they take a bigger cut than stripe, like 5%.

I believe the author means if you work at Apple or Google. So working ON iOS or Android, rather than working ON [top of] iOS or Android.

In case anyone else was wondering the aspect ratio of eyes: it's about 4:3 to 16:9 [0].

[0] https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5128/preferred-a...

I do think increased building standards and expanded city amenities explain some small part of price increases. But not like 10%+ increases over inflation year after year as is seen in many areas worldwide.

Rising prices are bad for all but the most wealthy

* It’s bad for people who don’t own a house, which disproportionately impacts the poor and the young.

* It doesn’t really help homeowners either: their property taxes go up but the increased land value will just be spent on the increased cost of a new property if they move nearby.

* So the only way to realise increased land value is to move outside the local market. This turnover reduces the community of a neighbourhood, and creates pockets of dull old homogeneous people with no shared history.

* The only real way to benefit from rising prices is to invest in property, further concentrating wealth among the wealthy.

* Treating one of society’s most important assets as an investment has a ton of negative side effects, like poor utilisation due to land banking, cheaply finished low quality buildings rather than ones that vest serve their occupants, evictions, further increased community turnover.

* It’s a self perpetuating cycle, as the wealthy investors vote, lobby, and just straight up are politicians.

That’s a surprising pair of crimes to equate, as to me they warrant very different police responses. Police violence ought to be a last-resort tool to e.g. prevent further crime or injury to innocents. Not as a punishment that scales with the abhorrence (or moral panic) of the crime.

There’s no need to send the swat team for a non-violent non-organised criminal, monster though they may be.

> I highly doubt

At least on paper UK police aim to take a more evidence-based light-touch community-building approach to policing, so I'd be curious what reasons you have to doubt this claim?

The assumption that US morality and culture applies globally is tiring and misses out on an opportunity for learning through comparison.

I run a one-person load-balanced SaaS on Hetzner. In the 2 years since I started I've had no customer-facing outages.

Over the same period, I think there's been two outages of AWS us-east-1 and a multi-region GCP outage. Plus weekly outages of a grownup unicorn SaaS like github or slack.

It's a tradeoff: the simplicity of such a setup reduces outage risk, and the costs saved can be spent on monitoring tools or extra redundancy.

By the same logic, income tax comes from working, which is how productivity gets done!

Besides, what are the wealthy going to do with their excess wealth except invest it?

Interesting! This was ~2018.

My memory is a little hazy, but I remember having the photo taken at USCIS, walking over to a photo booth which asked to confirm some information like name or number and maybe a fingerprint too? Anyway, it wasn't a polaroid paperclipped to my forms: it seemed like a different system that would have to be linked to my application.

The images are very different: same gender, but different race, and off by about 30 years and 1 head of hair!

Interesting, I didn't know about this.

I've wondered before if Airbnb could do a Guest Plus: instead of paying a massive service fee (which likely goes towards insurance and customer support) and cleaning fee, a guest could clean the house to its original standard, wash the sheets, put the bins out on bin day, sharpen the knives, etc. You'd also get a late checkout as the host wouldn't need to get a cleaner between guests.

See also: that Black Mirror episode where everyone rates each other.

Agreed. Though I recently helped my partner sign up for a bunch of these types of benefits at a new Big Corp job: it took half a day entering the same information in different portals from different providers, plus figuring out if a perk was even something they wanted or could use.

Employers need to start offering a perk where they enrol you in all the relevant perks.