Good thing Claude's a massive step forward.
Is there a good alternative available in the EU? Anthropic announced it was available in the EU last month, but it seems now that they've changed their mind.
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lucaspiller commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring
SEEKING WORK | EU or UK | Remote or potentially on-site
With over a decade of experience as a versatile full-stack software engineer, I bring a wealth of expertise gained working with small to medium-sized startups. Recently I've build a team based in Eastern Europe for a US startup, being responsible for the A-Z of hiring and management.
If you're an early-stage founder looking to establish a stellar development team, or an already established entity seeking an additional pair of skilled hands to propel your features forward, I'm here to help. I'm particularly passionate about collaborating with bootstrapped and non-VC funded companies. Let's build something extraordinary together!
Key areas of expertise: Retail, point of sale, payments, ecommerce
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lucaspiller commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell · Posted by u/folli
He posts and comment a lot (spam?) about it in a forum with potential customers: hackernews
I haven't seen any of OPs comments, but I remember when Checkly (also in this space) first launched the founder of that was posting a lot here and on Reddit.
I wouldn't say their comments were that helpful or insightful - mainly just advertising. Now they've raised ~$10m. It's spam, but it works ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
lucaspiller commented on 27% of New Cars in France Now Plugin Electric Cars cleantechnica.com/2023/11... · Posted by u/grammers
About 110€/MWh, and also the government is planning the nuclear reactors to produce around 70€/MWh from 2026 onwards.
That's the wholesale price paid to producers. Consumers are paying around 23c/kWh, however that (as with most European countries) has been subsided by the government - the real price should be higher.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-raise-regulated-...
lucaspiller commented on 27% of New Cars in France Now Plugin Electric Cars cleantechnica.com/2023/11... · Posted by u/grammers
The average age of a car on the road in the EU is 12 years, varying from 8 in Austria to 17 in Lithuania.
This may well increase with electric cars being more reliable, but other failures (rust, collision) won't change much.
So 99% is too high. VEH1107 shows that 22.5% of cars in the UK were 13 years or older.
[VEH1107] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-...
It's probably worth noting why cars are finally scrapped. It's usually not because of problems with the engine, but other issues that EVs also have. Rust (in Northern Europe this is a big thing), crash damage, generate state of disrepair. Of course EVs will remove some issues meaning the lifetime of cars may extend a little, but it's not going to increase it significantly.
lucaspiller commented on Preparing for the end of third-party cookies developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/mooreds
The point of killing third party cookies is to prevent a tracking identifier cookie that uniquely identifies your browser from being reused across different sites.
So you can of course host your own scripts and run them on your own origin, lets call it site1.com. But when your site1.com includes a third party iframe to e.g. googleanalytics.com, and that frame sets a cookie on itself, the cookie is now silently dropped. Then when site2.com later includes the googleanalytics.com frame, the frame cannot immediately link the two browsers. There are other ways to “link” browsers across origins, like browser fingerprinting or in many cases just IP, but they are not usually guaranteed to be 100% reliable.
Blocking third party cookies is standard obvious privacy functionality, but google has held out because it affects their bottom line. So IIUIC they had to wait until they implemented something that protects their bottom line (the chrome-only “privacy sandbox”).
Actually fingerprinting is pretty reliable:
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I'm sorry, but this has all the hallmarks of quackery.
I saw a similar technique posted here a few weeks ago [0]. This guy is even worse, as his blog sounds like the typical "five simple steps to loose 200lbs, only $99 a month!" (and he does actually charge $99 a month for coaching). I have a really high bullshit radar, so at first I was just "nope this is nonsense", but I saw past that (as it was mentioned here) and started reading more, and I'm starting to believe there is some truth to it.
The basic premise is that opticians often over prescribe glasses. I've had this personally, an optician prescribed me glasses that were 0.75 dipole too strong for computer use, as the way they test (unless you ask otherwise) is for long distance vision (i.e. driving), not for 50cm in front of your eyes.
The theory is that your eye muscles become lazy as they don't need to work so hard, and you get used to that, so you need glasses to see clearly. If you look at distance text that is ever so slightly out of focus, eventually your vision system will figure out how to correct for that blur, and you will be able to see in focus. If you rinse and repeat, changing ever few months to a slightly weaker prescription (e.g. a reduction of 0.25) you can greatly reduce the strength of glasses you need.
I've only just started, but there are other comments on HN about people who have done this.
lucaspiller commented on Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront sankalpjonna.com/posts/ho... · Posted by u/root993
For anyone thinking to simply host assets in S3 (i.e. skip the Cloudfront part), please do not. I'm not sure if it's my ISP throttling it, or the routing, but from where I am in Europe, accessing a file from an S3 bucket in us-east often results in speeds less than 100kbit/s. The same files served from Cloudfront will saturate my connection (gigabit).
We sell digital signage, and a host of related products, that create interactive retail experiences. This is powered by a small stick, that you plug into the back of any TV. That stick is Intel hardware, which runs Linux, various Docker containers, and the main UI for our service, through Electron.
The software that runs on it hasn't really been touched for a few years, and we are running into issues. The main issue is video decoding, where we cannot get hardware acceleration to work in Electron. For 1080p we've been able to ignore it, but we want to support 4K now, where things don't work without video acceleration.
We are looking for someone who is an expert with Electron + Linux + dealing with driver issues between them. If things go well, there will be more work down the line (and if you want, a full time position).
If you fit the bill, but are located elsewhere, please still get in touch. These locations are preferred, as it'll make shipping hardware for testing to you easier, but for the right candidate we can make an exception.
Email me to apply: luca@blissfulsystems.com