skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is any network externalization at all, you have to have a free plan, because 0.01 is a barrier.

Consumer services are like this.

But SaaS can be as well.

But it's true you don't need to provide businesses anything for free over time.

If a company can't pay you $20 a month, they are mostly useless to you.
Yes, there is a price and a sacrifice.
India is choosing different trade-offs.

Others' progress is our progress too.
Have you (or anyone else here) done that and succeeded at it? I can see why one would assume it could somehow be useful, but in the absence of someone accomplishing it I’m skeptical.
I used Volkov Commander when I needed long file names support.

What is M602?
Am I misremembering or did this character/message appear in Kurt Vonnegut book? Not Kilgore Trout, but actual Kilroy. This and Styx's Mr Roboto were the first 2 things that came to mind
You give a different vaccine to each person.
At a surface level, this may seem like a counter-example. However you are making a very strong statement about the particular quality you've identified as being critical to your success. You're also discounting the possibility that there is some other quality "B", which you may not possess, that would allow another player who lacks your chess memory to be competitive with you. You may be right, but your hypothesis is both clear and testable.

The best models I've seen proposed to explain the correlation of chess memory and chess knowledge/performance attribute the memory strength to the results of experience, rather than the other way around. The aspect of your abilities that led to increased motivation is not direct evidence for the direction of causality. In fact, studies on chess grandmasters suggest that they perform no better than novices on memory for randomized board positions. (Unlikely to be encountered in a game)

Here is an interesting study discussing the recent state of the literature which lends some credence to your ideas.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-017-0768-2
And no Hacker News comment about a Musk company is not filled with wild accusation accusing Musk of playing 4D Chess in 3D dimension, lying about literally everything and generally being a Bond villain.

The guy literally invested huge amount of his money into a scientific mission to mars and when he realized it wouldn't work he dedicated the next 20 years trying to build a company that could do it.

And he did all of this so he could have a good 'image' a small part of the population? That is just beyond stupid.
I don’t think she competes in a tested federation, so it’s not a problem.
Slightly unrelated, but the mantra "Charge More" should be applied in context. I have a friend who is currently selling a super beginner Japanese lesson (and by super beginner, I really mean super beginner) that she charges for $45 x 6 month === almost $300, yet the content can be found on $9 apps in the App Store. She is confused why, despite her 8k followers subscribed to her email, she can only convert a handful few to the lesson.
Yes, expected value must be measured against some reasonably risk-less rate of return (such as government backed bank accoutns, bonds, or similar).
I'm not the parent, but I use a debian VM inside of a proxmox cluster to run docker services. The config and data services for the various docker images are mounted via NFS, and live in a ZFS pool configured in RAID10.

For non-technical users I could see freedombox (or sandstorm.io) being useful, but if you have enough knowledge to manage a vm + use docker-compose, the flexibility is much better.
Bruce Blackburn, designer of NASA worm logo, has died
Apple blocked any Asian-related website since late 2019
I did google that and found nothing that said that steroids would cause a healthy 20 something man to lose a couple inches in height. Your quote is quite wishy washy and not really supporting evidence to your claim.
The developer hosts the game on a Polish domain (https://soldat.pl/), and even has a FAQ entry regarding the name: https://soldat.pl/en/page/faq

Q: What does "Soldat" mean!?

A: "Soldat" or "Soldaat" means "soldier" in the following languages: german, dutch, norwegian, swedish, danish, french, slovenian, afrikaans, russian, catalan and romanian.
If you work for nothing then you are signalling to the world that your work is worth nothing. So guess what: that is exactly what people are going to pay: nothing.
This would be ideal for me. I might not need to use your project every day, so only giving me 14 days that count down from my sign up is not ideal.

Also, please don't send multiple "You've only got X-N days left in your plan!" pressure-to-convert emails.
This seems to be an under rated/considered scenario.
The percentage goes up if you select more recent shootings (say, since 2000, inconveniently leaving Columbine behind), which makes sense, because semi-automatic rifles have become more prevalent since then. And 20 years is still a plenty long time ago.
I haven't been able to find much about whatever's going on in Xinjiang that I would regard as a fact. Mostly just unreliable and inconsistent accounts from parties with strong biases, on both sides.
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The causation flows the other way too. You're more likely to develop and sustain an interest in something that you're naturally good at.
Free plans are marketing, not that people on free plans will convert to paid plans en masse, but that people who will start out on paid plans hear about the product because of how many people are using the free plan. The blog posts, the twitter posts, the conversations over drinks.

How likely is the free plan to work to do that, how do you make it more likely? i don't know. I just recognize the products that have done it. There is of course still a danger in the free plan costing you more than the marketing is worth.

Of then of course, once you become a household term (which would have been hard to do without the free plan), the free plan can be an albatross you'd like to get rid of.

An example which comes to mind is travis, which I don't think would have become nearly as popular without the free plan -- in part because they were kind of introducing the whole market of cloud CI. And of course, the recent new private equity owners of travis just got rid of the free plan, although I don't know how generalizable that particular example is, private equity is almost always about slashing costs at the intentional expense of future growth.

In fact, this now reminds me of recent discussions we've had about open-source centered busineses, like perhaps ElasticSearch. The open source license is what gets you the market share, but then perhaps interferes with your desire to maximize exploitation of that market share. Similar perhaps to what free tiers, at their best, will do.
I wrote a SAAS pricing sheet last week, but I felt something was off.

Having read this article, I will replace free-tier with low-one-time-price / lengthy-but-capped duration / all-you-can-eat of somewhat restricted functionality. Where functional restrictions obviously correspond to our cost increasing linearly.

This approach seems especially pertinent to a service which has mostly one-time utility. ie few people would need a recurring subscription anyway. e.g. wedding planner for brides
Getting a compulsive shopper to buy another cute top seems about as useful to them as a smoker being convinced to switch to a new brand.
From personal experience I agree with this.

I have a friend who has played Go for years, owns a board, played online often and so on. The closest I've been to playing was reading a Go manga and ignoring all the panels about the rules. I never really played chess or other such games either. First four times we played he beat me soundly even with a handicap. Fourth time I had no handicap. Fifth time I won. And sixth time. And seventh time. His tactical moves were superiors to mine but I could intuitively see the strategic view in ways he simply couldn't. That depressed me for a while because by all rights he should have been winning and not me.
Just go to an "anti-aging" clinic and get testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). For $1000/month it's not hard to find a doctor who will find your test is low (below 95th percentile of a 25 year old man).
can you please explain how is this flexibility better?

Wont more apps be supported in freedombox? maybe it does not allow plugins?
I’ve been using Culture ship names for my personal machines for nearly as long as I’ve been naming machines.

Wikipedia’s decision to delete the list was utterly ridiculous, thankfully they all made it over to the fandom wiki.

Unfortunately they’re now a finite resource, RIP.
I’m not an attractive woman so I can’t say for sure, but I have been obviously “checked out” by women before, and it made an impact on my mental state. If someone were to become used to that, I’d imagine clear changes to that feedback would become noteworthy, especially in a confessional essay.
I steadfastly agree with the "don't require payment details for a trial period".

If I'm trialling this for usage in my workplace, I am not going to give you my personal credit card, and the business credit card is very rarely used for software subscriptions, and only if we have no other choice in payment options.

It's an immediate turn-off, plus it speaks of a slight lean towards dark patterns where my free trial turns into a paid account if I forget to cancel (because I wasn't using your service enough to think of it). I'm sure it looks good on your conversion rate Excel graph though.
I used to play this lunchtime at my old job, there was about a dozen of us that used to play. I wrote a log parser (in PERL!) that would generate stats of who was killing who the most, and who had the most kills with a particular weapon to display leaderboards. I'd run after a session and people would check out their stats.
Not Vonnegut to my knowledge, but Pynchon in _V_.
While I understand the points being raised, I disagree with the proffered solution

1) Some folks build a small SaaS product to sharpen their skills, learn new things and as a strategy to position themselves for a higher paying job (they can put it on their resume and discuss it during interviews)

2) It also depends on your target market. Some folks convert to paying customers (huge paying customers) because they have experimented extensively with your product. Take Google App Engine (GAE)- folks use it extensively for small websites, and then when they have something they think can be commercialized, they become paying customers.

3) You can do like GAE and have a daily free quota which is basically a freemium model

4) Regarding the complaint about the headache of supporting free customers - you can make it clear that the free plan doesn't come with support or it comes with limited support
They are. Every sat launched needs to have a plan for decommissioning. You need to have enough fuel at to de-orbit the sat at the end of life.

The problem is what happens if your sat breaks and you can't de-orbit it.

I'm not sure if a company could held liable or get fined unless they ignored the rules. I don't think currently you are held liable if its an accident.

Thankfully once we have Starship, the cost of taking space garage should start to be reasonable.
I've used pyinstaller. My experience was that pure Python was easy; things that needed to use C shared objects increased in complexity exponentially based on the number of C dependencies. If it's pure Python, you can basically run "pyinstaller <spec file>" and be done. I tried to make PyQt5 work in it, and it was extremely painful. I don't think I ever actually made it work, I think I just gave up. That being said, PyQt5 is probably the most complicated thing you'd ever package with pyinstaller, so it may not be a great test.

> All of the above are suitable for deployment on your cloud servers but not as distribution mechanisms to end users.

virtualenv's are also not a distribution mechanism because they aren't portable (unless that has changed). I can't "distribute" a virtualenv to a host. I can only use virtualenv's to change how pip (or poetry) installs artifacts. Pip is still your distribution mechanism, virtualenv is a runtime customization to change how your distributed artifacts are loaded.
The US has had a volunteer military for decades. People who would refuse to fight simply never volunteer in the first place.

Boycotting companies for extending a few minor courtesies to the troops is ridiculous and ineffective. If you want to make a difference then get active in politics.
The extended alternate version is that the SSN Jimmy Carter had been ghosting the Song 039 for <<undisclosed>> days.
An odd take on history. Evidently history began when the author started experiencing it. It doesn't mention anything about how so much of what software we have to day is descended from the DECUS tapes and BSD tapes that were circulating the 1980s and 1990s in addition to the FSF tape you could get. I used archie to download uuencded source archives of all kinds of "open source" development tools (the name hadn't been published and monetized yet, but the concept was in common use).

I think the post open source era started some time in the late 1980s when the internet started creeping into peoples homes.
On the other hand, there's something to be said for not using real identifiers in examples.
I think you are being a bit too nitpicky. When the author says open source, he clearly means non-copyleft open source.
Pipewire has been making great progress lately and is already successfully replacing Pulseaudio on my Buster allowing me to do stuff I could not before (like connecting Jack-only apps with Pulseaudio-only apps).

It's not perfect and still have bugs to iron out. I just can't wait for it to reach 1.0 ! Yet, I also hope that it does not get pushed too soon into distros as default ...
On a tangentially related note, I've noticed that many heterosexual men imagine the comedian Felix Kjellberg (AKA Pewdiepie) must be the height of attractiveness for women, while few heterosexual women find him particularly attractive. I found this very confusing, but after a few discussions with heterosexual female friends of mine we've come to the conclusion that the kind of playfulness and disinhibition this persona consists of is looks like vivaciousness in a woman but immaturity in a man. I imagine some similar dynamics must be in play there.
I used to name physical servers like pets (greek gods or whatever) and virtuals like cattle (function), with the idea that, yes, function of physical machines can change over time...

But the problem with that logic is that the name is not only attached to the metal, it's set (and mostly so, I'd argue) in software, as the OS hostname. And then what happens next is that the motherboard of that precious pet melts down and you scramble to move those drives to a spare, and now you have two metals with the same name.

It just doesn't work so well.

And your fancy random or pseudorandom looking naming scheme is cool and fun until someone new comes in and asks you wtf colchicifolium is...

Name machines on purpose. If the purpose changes, the OS will likely follow as well. If not, renaming shouldn't be that big of a deal, or, to put it another way: if you can't rename, you can't reinstall, and then you'll fail.

Now naming hardware is the "fun" part. when is the last time you did an inventory of your motherboards? or is it disks we're naming? the raid array or individual ones? how about memory sticks? or do you only name precious server cases? ;) after all, that is where the label ends up...
More important to what or whom? The immediate convenience of the consumer may have a different "more important" than the sustainability of human life on this planet as we drown in discarded $40 electronics and the byproducts of their production, that were "not important" to make non-disposable because it was so convenient to dispose of them.
For Safari users who use a native content blocker, we've done some similar testing to see the impact of our ad blocker.

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> only free trials with credit card validations

Yeah, this has stopped me trialling services several times in the past, because I don't want to use my personal credit card, and the hoops to use a business credit card are rather time consuming.
I don’t think this model aligns the incentives particularly well. If a business does a great job creating a piece of long-lived reliable software, they get punished by infrequent updates. If they ship a good-but-not-great product with some lock-in, need for frequent updates and an ecosystem of backwards-incompatible plugins and formats, then they get rewarded because you’ll end up buying it again next year.
BeyondCompare does this and I've been slowing decrementing my 30 day usage trial for almost a year. I'm likely going to buy when it gets near zero but I use it so infrequently it just hasn't caused justification to purchase. But if it wasn't for this extended usage decrement counter id have likely just gone with something else after 30 day trial of using it but 1 day
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To be the best at something, you'll need talent. Fortunately, very very few endeavors in life require being the best. Being good is good enough, and is attainable by most everyone with directed effort and practice.
This is a fantastic comment. I agree 100%. The smartest things I have achieved came from not giving up and not being too lazy to just do the hard work the hard way when I couldn’t find a shortcut.
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Turns out they are doing nothing illegal (at least in the first 70% of the article).

Thanks for wasting my time.
I definitely agree, I think the hard part would be educating end users though which version number goes where (i.e., human release number doesn't go in the Maven dependency).
Thanks!

I don't think the political correctness or other changes would have really bothered me, it was much more about structure. IIRC, there were some "chapters" in Dark Forest that were... over an hour?

In Chinese, does the third book also go back to a more ... narrative style? That is, did you consider the first and third books to be "similar in style" but Dark Forest to stand out?

Thanks again!

P.S. I struggled to decide between saying "Chinese" or Mandarin. I had thought there were also "word/regional differences" between Mandarin and Cantonese, not just pronunciation. Good to know that Chinese would have been correct!
I obviously don't agree with you here (I'd vote for basically any firearms restriction anyone came up with, though) but this is super interesting.
Not an answer to your question, but just a warning to anyone considering buying a Ubiquity Dream Machine. You can no longer set up or manage a Dream Machine locally — you must use Ubiquity’s cloud management. You could do everything locally in the past, but no longer with new Dream Machines. Another great product ruined by the trend in which every device has to phone home, be centrally managed, and report every action you take.
Funny how the conclusion that someone is "talented" or "naturally" good at something is always observed in retrospect. It's a mystical attribute we bestow on people after we see them excelling at something. You'd think, if talent was a real physical phenomenon, you'd be able to identify and measure it before it manifests in a skill, and use that measurement to predict future success at that skill, but it never happens this way.

When we say someone is talented, we're often overlooking the enormous amount of focus and practice the person did in order to reach their level, and instead just declaring that something supernatural was the cause. I'm a pretty good programmer. I didn't get that way because of some supernatural force or mystical spirit. I wasn't born knowing how to program. But I did practice over and over and over from a young age, spending tens of thousands of hours on it. If someone told me I was just naturally talented, I'd take it as an insult--it totally ignores the amount of hard work and practice I put into the skill.
Don't give away your source code either.
So... what happens next?

I guess that's when the fight breaks out, followed by a round of songs about gold.
I recently had to add a freemium tier to my Chrome extension, on account of Google getting rid of their built-in payments platform.

I have been surprised to see how many new users we have picked up in just the first few days since this change went into effect. We had fewer than 500 users (all paid) from over 5 years of being in the store. In the last two weeks, we've picked up another 500. Granted, most of the new users are not paid, but some percent are converting to the paid subscription.

Because this is a Chrome extension, there are no server costs. There are some purchase-related customer service inquiries, but these are mostly due to glitches in our new purchasing system, which will presumably go away over time. We've had no questions so far that are unrelated to purchasing (i.e., from unpaid users).
There's also yunohost which is pretty much along the same lines: https://yunohost.org/
Header only usually means terrible compile times. So what they are saving from writing a few lines of Makefile they will pay forever in far longer feedback loops during development. Also it's well known that if the compile time goes over a specific threshold the development productivity drops dramatically because you can't do interactive debugging and exploration anymore. It's really a terrible tradeoff.
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Legalist is hiring its first product hire (product lead). We're looking for somebody who is comfortable wearing many hats; has a data science/data analysis background; and who wants to help build products that support Legalist, a multi-hundred million dollar fintech startup, across a number of esoteric investment strategies. An interest in law and/or finance is preferred, and a curiosity and interest in working creatively with data is essential.

This is a US-based remote team, and post-covid it will continue to be remote.

Link: https://boards.greenhouse.io/legalist/jobs/4000419004
The problem is that he is playing fast and loose with definitions, and he is also playing fast and loose with history.

Copyleft started with GPL version 1, which was its first embodiment. Sharing source code in a permissive way started long before that. The term open source software came later, but people were doing this in the 1950s and 60s. His notion that permissive software licenses only started later, after copyleft, ignores actual history.
Disable his account.
In my (limited) experience, it all boils down to how well the services actually run in such solutions. Yunohost had many services that were completely broken and not well integrated (to be fair it's really complex to do it well) so the user experience at the end of the day will vary from one to another.
> Wont more apps be supported in freedombox?

I can support any app that I have either the source for, or a binary. I just write my own docker images [0] if one doesn't exist already on dockerhub, or install the binary directly on a VM or LXC as needed. For example, I set up Jellyfin on its own LXC.

For me, stuff like freedombox/sandstorm directly limit me as I would have to spend time learning their GUI, etc, for no gain. All I need is an ssh session into my docker VM and I can set up pretty much anything I need exactly how I want. This lets me be very particular about services accessing files, networking, versioning, and so on.

[0]: https://github.com/andrewzah/caddy-webdav