dabernathy89 (u/dabernathy89)

dabernathy89 commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell · Posted by u/cvbox

nspeller · 9 months ago

I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month.

I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives.

It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos.

I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that initial spike in traffic has been fairly consistent over the past 8 years.

It uses Stripe for payments and for the first few years it was only Stripe. 3 years in I decided to add PayPal support... revenue doubled overnight, mostly from international customers.

https://www.lightnote.co/

dabernathy89 · 9 months ago

Can this be gifted? Or will the purchase be tied to my email only?

dabernathy89 commented on New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns theverge.com/2024/3/8/240... · Posted by u/mryall

mryall · a year ago

> In a statement to 404 Media, the Times said:

> > The Times has no issue with individuals creating similar word games that do not infringe The Times’s “Wordle” trademarks or copyrighted gameplay.

Can you really copyright “gameplay”?

This seems like pointless bullying by the Times, who is probably just upset they haven’t got a positive ROI on their acquisition of a free game.

dabernathy89 · a year ago

You can patent game mechanics - famous example would be Legend of Zelda's targeting system. Apparently Nintendo is extremely aggressive about patenting game mechanics.

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-is-trying-to-patent-some-really-...

dabernathy89 commented on Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours discuss.httparchive.org/t... · Posted by u/nothttparchive

johnnyo · 2 years ago

Can you post what a $14,000 SQL query looks like?

If nothing else, it can be an example in my SQL 101 course.

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

This would make a great educational blog post

dabernathy89 commented on Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours discuss.httparchive.org/t... · Posted by u/nothttparchive

darth_avocado · 2 years ago

I am sorry but this seems to be more of a “TLDR; didn’t read;” situation. The http archive clearly mentions that the data is available for offline processing or for querying online on BQ. And in the “Getting started” section of the instructions, it is mentioned multiple times on how BQ will charge you. And even if it wasn’t mentioned anywhere, it’s a little presumptuous to assume a tool for processing data will not charge you money for literally processing TBs of data again and again.

> Note: BigQuery has a free tier that you can use to get started without enabling billing. At the time of this writing, the free tier allows 10GB of storage and 1TB of data processing per month. Google also provides a $300 credit for new accounts.

> Note: The size of the tables you query are important because BigQuery is billed based on the number of processed data. There is 1TB of processed data included in the free tier, so running a full scan query on one of the larger tables can easily eat up your quota. This is where it becomes important to design queries that process only the data you wish to explore

> When we look at the results of this, you can see how much data was processed during this query. Writing efficient queries limits the number of bytes processed - which is helpful since that's how BigQuery is billed. Note: There is 1TB free per month

https://github.com/HTTPArchive/httparchive.org/blob/main/doc...

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

I'm on OP's side - even if I knew I'd be paying to run some queries against this dataset, I never would have thought it could reach 5 figures in such a short time. And you can't argue that the billing is straightforward. The "Getting Started" guide for the HTTP Archive doesn't even describe what indexes are available/commonly used for limiting the scanned rows.

dabernathy89 commented on Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/forrestbrazeal

gregdoesit · 2 years ago

I tried to find it in this video, but failed. Could you please share a time stamp on where to look?

It’s a pretty big deal if Gmail migrated to GCP-provided Spanner(not to an internal Spanner instance) and sounds like he kind of vote of confidence GCP and Cloud Spanner could benefit from: might I suggest to write about it? It’s easier to digest and harder to miss than an hour-long keynote video with no time stamps.

And so just to confirm: Gmail is on Cloud Spanner for the backend?

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

Here's the link with timestamp (note that the speaker says it was a 2 year transition):

https://www.youtube.com/live/268jdNwH6AM?si=WkgnvqaIwFidt-hc...

dabernathy89 commented on Bun v1.0.0 bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0... · Posted by u/tuananh

Jarred · 2 years ago

We haven't added support for emitDecoratorMetadata yet but we have a branch that does most of the work. It just needs some more tests before we're comfortable merging it

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

Woohoo!

dabernathy89 commented on Bun v1.0.0 bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0... · Posted by u/tuananh

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

I have been testing out Bun w/ Nest JS, and oddly it can run a dev server but can't run my E2E tests (using the Bun test runner). I think this has something to do with Nest's heavy reliance on old-school TS decorators.

dabernathy89 commented on Pixel Tablet store.google.com/product/... · Posted by u/abawany

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

Android tablets generally feel overpriced right now for what they offer compared to Apple's ecosystem. There's one exception: Lenovo's last gen pro tablet got a small refresh. It's the "Lenovo P11 Pro Gen 2" and it's absurdly affordable compared to the competition right now (~$270). It's got a 120hz OLED display, great general-purpose performance (my previous tablet experience was Samsung's budget S6 Lite, which was a little sluggish and had a worse display.). I'm super happy with my purchase so far.

Downside: the compatible pen Precision Pen 3 seems to be unavailable right now.

[edit: looks like the price has gone back up to $399 in most places. I'd still consider it a good alternative at that price, but if you can pick it up on sale at under $300 it's a no-brainer]

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

Follow-up: the display on this tablet is not as good as I initially thought. It's great for media consumption but not great for text. Seems to have something to do with the subpixel layout required by the OLED display.

dabernathy89 commented on Pixel Tablet store.google.com/product/... · Posted by u/abawany

Frotag · 2 years ago

The specs are nice on paper but even at 60Hz and minimal brightness, the battery on my brand new one barely lasts 2-3 hours when just using the browser. It'll even drain completely if I leave it on standby for a few days.

There's also a serious red tint to the screen [0].

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Lenovo/comments/zmht0j/lenovo_p11_p...

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

Sounds like something funky is going on... I just flew to/from Europe and I watched many hours of HDR content on mine, and the battery was fine.

dabernathy89 commented on Pixel Tablet store.google.com/product/... · Posted by u/abawany

TechBro8615 · 2 years ago

Is that tablet a loss leader for lenovo? How can they possibly sell a tablet with a 120hz display at a fraction of the price of monitors with such a refresh rate? Would it be possible to remove the screen and plug it into an xbox?

dabernathy89 · 2 years ago

I think they're trying to dump their stock since the P12 is out now?