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bisRepetitaon Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

If only there was no app stores... sigh... I would only download apps from the reputable company I like (myfavoritebigbank.com), trusting their brand and reputation for my security. If a client-side app can threaten their security, that's a weakness on their part.

And if a lone developer has a cool new idea, and its app is recommended by users I trust on an obscure specialized forum, then I'll decide to install their app from "coollonedeveloper.com".

If only we could invent some kind of "domain names" system that one would have control and responsibility over, instead of trusting some broken unscalable app stores...

bisRepetitaon Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

I find this such a strange comment, to be able to reach such a conclusion so quickly without any idea what my side project is, how much passion I have put into it, and how much still have in me, with no idea how many people I've helped already with it.

Like Kyle writes keep showing up to make it a little better every day. Today again I will show up, but today I'll think of him and it will help me.

What's your passion project? How do _you_ keep the motivation every day? How long has it been?

bisRepetitaon Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

Thank you so much Kyle for sharing all this. This is very inspiring. I will put a few more extra hours today in my project thinking about you.

I'd love to have some info about the hiring of Jon, anything you may feel like sharing, while I realize a lot of it is very confidential. For example:

- I am wondering how the working relationship got started since you write that he "spent a year contributing real value", and he was not asking for equity upfront. Did you hire him as contractor initially, did he volunteer his time?

- the structure of the deal with him, and of course the equity part, especially _if/while_ you are not planning to sell the business. Maybe you have some pointers on "possible deal structures" that you looked into without spilling the beans on the actual deal?

I know I am asking a lot, I hope it does not hurt to ask, so realistically I don't expect any answer, but any breadcrumbs would be so valuable/helpful! In any case, thank you so much already.

bisRepetitaon The Moat of Low Status

Yes. And this is very helpful. If you are young and you suck at something, more people will give you the benefit of the youth and envision you may improve. If you're old and you suck at something, many will think you're just old, and you just suck. "Don't hurt yourself!" So yes, not giving a shit is a very good way to make progress.

bisRepetitaon I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)

>it's comfortable to be homeless in a rich society

Do you know this first hand? Have you tried it?

bisRepetitaon I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes

Was it mandatory to be out of the streets, police enforced? Were the hotels free for the homeless population? Trying to figure out whether it was the increase of availability only, or combined of forced housing/low price point.

bisRepetitaon Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

Hong Kong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_light_bus

bisRepetitaon Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

>I'm not going anywhere, so you'll have two of us to put up with going forward :)

I thought that sctb was another one? No longer I guess?

bisRepetitaon Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence

I read that 9 European representatives, plus 12 assistants, plus 4 other members of the party were found guilty as part of a scheme to earn illegally EUR 2.9M for the party.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_des_assistants_parleme...

bisRepetitaon The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil

Then I'll claim Leonardo da Vinci almost did it with his aerial screw in the 15th century ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_aerial_screw

bisRepetitaon Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon

Kiplomo now has his sights set on the marathon, and said he will be resting until the London Marathon in April

I'd love to know what "resting" means for this guy practically.

bisRepetitaon Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

This is not so much than human are "really bad" at this. Here they're facing other human (scientists, psychologists, artists, marketers), computers, algorithms, spending all their waking hours devising scheme to make them addicted.

The C language may not help you much with clean memory allocation, but at least they are not using A/B testing and emotional appeal to coerce you into doing deadly memory management.

bisRepetitaon Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough

Reminds me of the people who looked for time travelers, hoping they would have betrayed themselves through chronologically wrong Google searches or tweets.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/google-search-fails...

bisRepetitaon How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”

Most iconic cheating I can think of is taking the subway during the NYC marathon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Ruiz

bisRepetitaon Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro

in full screen mode, even after people turn their phone 90 degrees, you have not much space for visible control on a 16x9 video.

bisRepetitaon Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro

> it obscures the actual content when you're interacting with the controls (a problem that's particularly acute on smaller screens)

What's the right trade-off here in your mind then? Leave the controls always-on/visible? On a small screen, it takes a lot of real estate (except in portrait mode), and small UI controls are a pain to use so you need to make them big enough. I struggle with this, I really don't know what is the right trade-off here.

bisRepetitaon Bees have an internal sense of time (2022)

And one still cannot in 2024 ;). Almost all red-eye flights go from east to west. There are none from Paris to NYC. There are some from America's west coast to Asia though, because those are super long flights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_flight

bisRepetitaon US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal

because if you are the single payer (govt), you can negotiate much much better rates.

bisRepetitaon Show HN: Construct Animate – our new browser-based animation tool

Thank you!

bisRepetitaon Show HN: Construct Animate – our new browser-based animation tool

Thanks for sharing this.

If I wanted to use one of those animations as overlay on a video I have (with transparency), what export would you recommend? Based on your intro video, is seems it would be a series of PNG, or is there some other option?

bisRepetitaon Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years

Even back then, you did not have to grow as fast as VC made you think. It was a choice by Zuck to grow fast and take a lot of investment, he did not have to grow that fast.

This is Zuck's interview in 2005 in Stanford: >So, I mean when you’re 16 running a site and your core people are the kitchen table, your operating expenses are relatively low.

>[...] we just kept our operating expenses low so far and by doing that we’ve been able to stay cash flow positive for basically the entire system’s company

>[...] we decided that it was ok to go a few months in cash flow negative while [...] like you know, using like $100,000, not like millions. So, um and then but, now were back. We do a lot of page views.

See page 26: https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/cyberhijack/2005-10-26-Zucker...

bisRepetitaon How far can you go by train in 5h?

Little usability nitpick: it is really hard for me to see the connection Paris - London (less than 2.5 hours in real life thx to Eurostar). You need to very precisely mouse over Gare du Nord, which is hard, since it seems hidden by the other train station and airport nearby.

Not sure if at a certain scale, one should see all the conenctions form all the train stations in Paris?

bisRepetitaon Gimp 3 Beta Released

Yes, but the website owner can change its source code at any time, and even serve differently JS for each user, puting the entire responsibility on the user shoulder to check the code behavior all the time.

It's not as demanding with an open source app with distributed source code and versioning.

So I don't understand the snark, and how it is helpful.

bisRepetitaon Heroku was Down

I had single dynos affected.

bisRepetitaon Heroku was Down

Some of my apps are back up. Others are not.

bisRepetitaon NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever

For metric system people, if the Sun and the Earth were 1 meter apart, the probe would get as close as 11cm from the Sun.

(site writes: "If Earth was at one end of a yard-stick and the Sun on the other, Parker Solar Probe will make it to within four inches of the solar surface.")

bisRepetitaon An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

Yes, they said it in 2011. With just one data point and no trend. Nothing shows here it exploded since. So the FBI and the whole society may have found somewhat effective ways without scanning phones.

bisRepetitaon An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

Are you falling into their trap knowingly or not?

There is a child molestation problem everywhere in the world, including online. I have seen nothing explaining it is getting bigger / worse. I have read that most of the cases are family members, in the real world.

So when I hear Apple and Government explain "because of the children" they want to monitor our phones more, in the context of growing assumed dictatorships, Pegasus, Snowden reveleation, do you really think that solving the child pornography issue will help refrain them, or slow them down? Open source hardware, political pressure, consumer pressure, and regulation, possibly monopoly break-ups. In the US, it starts with the people.

But doing better with child pornography won't change anything there, it juts moves the discussion to some other topic. Distraction. That is my point all along. There is no data that shows that all of a sudden child pronography has progressed leaps and bounds. So people suddenly concerned by that are most likely not truthful,a dn they have a very strong agenda. That's what we need to focus on, not their "look at the children" distraction.

bisRepetitaon An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

>if we care about privacy we have to accept that people other than ourselves think the problem is big enough to warrant these measures.

Not sure what you mean here by "accept". Accept the fact those people and opinions exist? Sure! Accept their opinion without challenging, without asking questions? No. Accept this opinion is big and rational enough for the majority to follow and make laws? No.

>You have already lost this battle

What makes you think that? That's just your opinion. You know, even when battles are lost, wars can be won later won. "Right to Repair", "Net neutrality", "Global Warming", and here: "open source hardware". All those battles have been fluid. Telling people it is over, it is too late, is a very common trick to try to influence/convince people to accept the current state. That certainly does not make it true.

I understand you may try to convince readers that it is over, because it may be your opinion. If that's the case, just be frank about it, and speak proudly for yourself of what you wish. Don't hide behind "politicians", "tech companies" and "other people".

bisRepetitaon An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

>you aren’t the decision maker.

That is only partially true. If we both write, other people may read, then you and me possibly influence people. Wa are social beings, we are influenced by people around us. So we're both a tiny part of the decision process. And you talk about political decision: politicians keep listening to people through polls, phone calls received, and other ways. Even dictators can be, when numbers are high enough.

So it does matter how rational we are. Over time and on average, people are more often convinced by rational discourse than irrationality. Probably because rationality has a higher likelihood of being right. But yes, we'll go through periods where irrationality wins... Still, it's very hard to be on the opposite side of logic and facts for a long time.

>If the Hacker position is "people shouldn’t care about child pornography"

I have not read that here. If you believe that child pornography is a massive issue, I respect that. I just would have hoped you could better describe the actual size of the problem and its evolution. You could have influenced me more effectively.