It is of course ironic since we're talking about Ryanair here but I'm genuinely curious as to why it's abusive to determine that your product/service must be sold via your platform?

Legitimately welcoming discussion here as I'm keen to hear the other side.

Yeah, generally speaking the last thing I want to do is to defend RyanAir but I don't see how what they're doing here is wrong.

I see no way in which this is abusing a "dominant" market position. If you only want to sell tickets via your own site, what on earth could be wrong with that?

Indeed.

Ryanair wins ‘screenscraping’ case against Lastminute in France

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/05/25/ryanair-wins-...

Complete side note but anyone else bothered by how they type? I guess email was being used much like texting here but still. Seems it's not just Epstein either.

> Hi Jeffrey long time now hear don't sweat Patterson was with trump last week small dinner he really would make a good financial steward no agenda woody is busting his ass for him Rudy too wiki leaks tonight on Hillary stopped caring fed wants to raise I guess terrible luck brexit Deutschebank then probably some terror thing smart to be out of it best jonathan

The above is from Jonathan Farkas

Wild guess: some kind of elite status signaling. “no time for punctuation im so busy very important u understand”

> Complete side note but anyone else bothered by how they type?

Every non-programmer I know north of 50 or so types like this. It's often the result of using TTS.

I believe this is from people using some speech-to-text mechanism who don't know or don't care that you can literally spell out punctuation.

Just skimmed the readme. What's the connection pooling situation here? Or is it out of scope?

this is really nice, thanks for sharing!

As a side point, some people here seem to think this post specifically came from 24 contributors. The text at the bottom seems to indicate this and I initially got the same feeling.

However, that's actually a description of the site itself, not the post. There are 24 essays, one per contributor.

Thanks for pointing that out. The text at the bottom is rather misleading.

That's what I thought, too - turns out this link is to just one of the essays.

This is definitely something we're considering. The initial use cases we saw were people using Skald to build AI features into their own apps based on content that was generated within their application, but we're now seeing more interest from companies wanting to import data that exists somewhere else into Skald, so this certainly would make sense to build!

Impressive! Very cool that it works on mobile too

It's easy to have strong feelings about this post because, well, we all have to pay bills and often times aren't the biggest fans of the means (work) we have to do that. My immediate reaction, like many here, is to just go "well tough luck kid".

But I'd like to offer some sympathy. I certainly have grappled with thoughts like these and have also been guilty of posting a rant on HN at a moment when I've been down!

I do wonder if part of this is influenced by the AI craze that has companies substituting junior engineers for LLMs and how hard it is to get hired fresh out of university these days. I do feel for those who genuinely want to grow and become better engineers since it does seem like companies are betting less and less on developing young talent.

Then there's the whole philosophical discussion about work and meaning and everything. Thoughts around this are certainly very present in our minds during our 20s (P.S. I'm still in this decade of my life too). There are many alternative paths, but they often aren't for everyone. I know people who live with very little, and don't consider steady work a high priority at all. Many of them are happy, but most of us couldn't cope with the lifestyle. You then have the path of starting your own thing, but that path is usually more painful and terrible for your finances too.

It's all tradeoffs. It sucks, it hurts. And I'm sorry that the market is terrible right now for those starting out. Good luck.

I think Futureme "letters" are actually emails, no? Or at least they do both. I've sent my future self emails via Futureme (and they called it a "letter" on the email). Nevertheless, this is still cool, congrats OP!

I highly recommend people try this exercise. I got an email this year which I sent myself five years ago. It was tiny, and still mind-blowing.

Ah also note that the one thing that would put me off from using this service is actually trusting that you'll (you as in Resurf) still be around 10 years from now to deliver the email.

Yeah great point... It's kind of a catch-22, in that resurf has to be around for a long time, for people to think it will be around for a longer time still, haha.

Right now though, I set the maximum date in the future as one year from now, so should be able to guarantee that at least.

It is indeed!