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Looks good! Thanks for sharing.

Shameless plug, but here in the UK we built Penny, which is an invoice factoring tool (U.K. only), i.e. You sell us your £1000 invoice that’s due in thirty days and we’ll buy it off you at a discount and pay it the next day.

We don’t have invoice templating but it’s a nice to have.

I’m still trying to crack the easiest way to reduce friction in entering enough but minimal data for us to be able to generate a usable invoice. Tough cookie to crack

I was running Frigate this way. Initially I had a 1030 without the USB TPU running fine, and have since added the TPU and another GPU. The guides out there will help you.
Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”? on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:12AM (#33921378)
I believe that use of “can read/write repos” was to demonstrate a lack of granularity rather than advice on what an appropriate level of access would have been. Therefore - in my mind, their logic stands.
Re:Openai AI Passes the Turing Test (GPT-3 Interview) on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:57AM (#28783834)
UncannyValley.HEIC
It’s not an outside investment though.
Don’t listen to this negativity. This is absolute narrow minded hogwash. I’ve been part of two profitable-without-outside-investment companies that have started in the last twelve months. The only secrets are to be - or work with, experts in the field, and solve a problem. It’s the usual adage.

An expert can mean you’re qualified in the field or you’ve been in the specific game a long time.

Just make sure it’s a real problem and that you don’t spend months beavering away at your secret project without speaking to people and validating.

Just don’t listen to people like this who tell you the hotels’s full. There’s always space at the Invention Inn.

Good luck.

Re:What podcast hosting provides the best analytics? on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:29AM (#26511433)
Check out captivate.fm

I’m not affiliated with them, but it’s my buddy’s business and they’re doing really great things over there.

Re:Responsible Use of Machine Learning APIs on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:58AM (#24155912)
Upvote for sed
Same. MacBook Pro 16 & iPhone 11 Pro.

Video source didn’t show up in Zoom but did in QuickTime, however there was no video - only a static turquoise image.

Had to faff about parsing the Mac installer with pkgutil once I decided to remove it as there were no uninstall instructions or mention of what was installed where.

Indeed. The only reason I discovered it was because of the muscle memory from using it with a browser!
⌘ + Down for dbl click to open ⌘ + [, ⌘ + ] to go back/forwards in finder history
Re:Ask HN: Using MacBook as Bluetooth Headset on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:11PM (#23968911)
Should do, but if not by default and you’re running Android 10 then you would use adb and sndcpy.
Re:Ask HN: Using MacBook as Bluetooth Headset on Monday July 27, 2020 @08:15AM (#23964334)
Connect the iPhone to your mac with the lightning to usb-c charging cable and enable it in the Audio Devices app on your Mac. You can then use the iPhone as you mentioned by selecting it as an input from the Mac’s Sound app.

I know OP mentioned Bluetooth, but as a work-around to not having audio cables. Hopefully this would fit the bill instead.

Re:Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:27PM (#23421357)
As a parent (there are a lot of them, but I only speak for myself), I'd much rather someone be annoyed and not try something because a trivial question gets in the way, than a child getting put in front of a predator so easily. EDIT: Potentially.
Re:Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:12AM (#23417680)
I agree.
Re:Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:08AM (#23417611)
To confirm, it’s not allowed by default, it’s set to always ask by default - which was just a case of clicking allow or not.

And it most certainly wasn’t in my history. I’d never heard of it before and it’s my work iPad which she doesn’t know the passcode to.

No, parenting is hard, especially so right now. Every day is a mix of work, and guilt that the kid of a full time working family isn’t getting everything she needs.

Never-the-less, devices are common place now. And it’s not uncommon for children to play on them.

She does have a device that only has age appropriate learning apps on, and parental controls. These apps have the above mentioned checks in place to stop kids getting into the settings.

This site has a very child friendly design; bright buttons, emojis flying around. Isn’t it at least responsible to make sure that young people can’t access it?

Re:Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:11AM (#23415559)
That’s not the problem though is it. I said I accept my lapse, but such easy access into a world of video sharing should have at least cursory controls for children.

My lapse isn’t in question, it’s the many other children around the world who will be shoved in front of a device and forgotten about, and how this site does nothing to protect them.

We’re in lockdown, myself and my wife work full time and then some. My daughter wanted to paint minecraft skins while I was sat with her. Within two minutes she was on this site somehow and sharing video with someone from the states.

That’s not cricket.

Re:Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:54AM (#23414960)
Don’t want to sully the conversation here, but I want to raise an important point - so @feross, please stick with it.

I gave my daughter (6) my iPad for ten minutes this morning and put her on a site to draw minecraft skins. I took a call and took my eyes off the device (but not daughter) for about five minutes while I paced around the room. When I sat back next to her, she somehow ended up on virus Café and was in a video chat with someone. This scared the absolute hell out of me as I knew nothing about the site, I wondered how on Earth she’d managed to stumble on it so quickly, how she’d been able to allow access to device cameras so easily and, ya know, “Virus Café”.

To get around it, I’ve default denied mic and camera access and had to have a serious conversation about stranger danger.

I accept my own lapse in this, but to mitigate it happening to other kids who don’t have helicopter parents, can you please put some form of test before you ask for camera settings? Some form of multiplication or division, or asking for the year you were born would be a massive boost to safeguarding young kids.

Yup. My advice was going to be “Delete it” .
Re:Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use? on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:28PM (#21922721)
I need this
Penny pays your invoices next day, but it's UK only. pennyfreedom.co.uk
Re:CIA’s Latest Layer: An Onion Site on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:05AM (#20051212)
The _prestige_ of working in the NHS?

It’s my experience that the NHS is taken for granted in the UK, and I can’t for one second believe that there’s ANY prestige there.

Re:Ask HN: How bad is freelancing? on Monday February 11, 2019 @10:55AM (#19135316)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

To just quickly address your suspicion - I’m not a recruiter (or a designer). I’m a software engineer who’s just had a few ups and downs since December.

Re:Ask HN: How bad is freelancing? on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:06AM (#19134129)
Completely agree with your thoughts around building a community.

Thanks for your input.

Re:Ask HN: How bad is freelancing? on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:05AM (#19134116)
software engineering
Re:Ask HN: How bad is freelancing? on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:05AM (#19134113)
UK, software engineering.
Re:Ask HN: How bad is freelancing? on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:02AM (#19134093)
I'd be interested to read that, for sure.
Re:Ask HN: How bad is freelancing? on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:01AM (#19134087)
Amazing! Thank you.

Ask HN: How bad is freelancing?

My working life changed recently after leaving my last role just before Christmas. I’ve done freelancing on and off for a few years and I just feel like the whole process of freelancing is fragmented and broken.I’ve started digging into the issues others are facing too.I’d be keen to hear what problems others have in this area? I put together a little survey here:...

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Re:The Psychological Trap of Freelancing on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:18AM (#19133850)
My working life changed recently after leaving my last role just before Christmas. I’ve done freelancing on and off for a few years and I just feel like the whole process of freelancing is fragmented and broken.

I’ve started digging into the issues others are facing too, and at the expense of getting berated for highjacking a thread, I’d be keen to hear what problems others have in this area? I put together a little survey here: https://adamfarah.typeform.com/to/abznqs

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