skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been studies done (but not at extreme levels). They are with identical twins separated at birth and also with comparisons between adopted vs genetic children.

They definitely show a large nature component in that the identical twins tend to do more similarly. Nature seems to be a good deal greater than 50%.

However, as a society, we need to stop assigning the value to a person to their ability whether natural or developed. We also need to ok that there are some people that are better than others at certain things whether natural or developed.
Given that D&D started in the early-mid 70's I would think it was obvious.
The fact that I've seen this repeated so much tells me these SAASes are probably more reliant on the free users than they realize. Otherwise they wouldn't talk about it, because they'd have done it, and it wouldn't have been a big deal.
This is well understood to be a matter of naming convenience. The UK variant was first detected in the UK but may have first appeared elsewhere. Some suspect based on spread that the UK variant may have first appeared in the US.
Free plans can be a viral marketing investment.

This is a "never do X" opinionated click bait (click bait because we are always interested in a confident never do X expert opinion vs. the less interesting reasoned debate.).
> it's not fair to judge bodybuilding based on that

It's bunk, but if it represents a large portion of the population then I'd say it is fair to judge bodybuilding based on that; community and culture are part of the sport.

(I don't know any bodybuilders even from my gym rat days so I don't make any claims as to what the common dieting methods actually are; the ones I knew that did strength sports were pretty much focused on calories and protein and let the rest fall where it may)
The problem is that free users aren't a representative sample of people who'll pay. I remember a 37signals post that mentioned how something like 90% of their paying users were designers, but that was only 5% of their free users. If you optimize on a sample that's structurally bad, no matter how large it is, you'll end up building the wrong thing.
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Different anecdata here. Trial periods suck.

My experience is that I rarely have enough time to determine if I really like the service or if it's still just a shiny new tool to play with. I need more than 14-30 days to actually put in the work to understand a reasonably complex tool (say a CRM system) well enough to make a commercial recommendation.

Obviously this issue doesn't apply to all SaaS companies but it's probably common enough to be worthy of consideration.
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A lot of what I use (including as a paying user), I use because I was able to start on a free tier and then upgrade as my needs grew. DaVinci Resolve, Sublime Text, GSuite, WeTransfer, Dropbox, iCloud, Sequel Pro, etc. I didn't try Premier, Final Cut, various text editors or paid-only cloud services.
> Does everyone think most businesses are somehow ad supported?

Not necessarily ads, but they might assume most businesses will monetize whatever info they get their hands on however they can. Especially so for free offerings ("you are the product" etc.).
The subject of the article is legalized corruption in the American power structure. The person I'm replying to said, "why bring race into this". I explained why whiteness is a central fact of the American power structure, and maintaining white dominance one of its key activities.
Most carnivores are also prey animals, and have to worry about bigger carnivores.
both examples given specifically have free plans, not just trial periods. A trial period is useful for specific evaluation, but not for having experience with a tool and recommending it on that basis.
Agreed. I think free tier user limits (where appropriate) are much better than trial periods for evaluation. I'm busy, and if it's not mission critical, evaluating this piece of software may not be the only thing on my to-do list; I may hardly get around to it in 2 weeks.
That’s only part of the picture though. Customer service is expensive, and I’m sure those MBA programs you speak of acquaint students with the practice of a cost:benefit analysis.

I would also point out your logic about his revenue stream comparison falls apart when you double the numbers to 2,000 vs 20 customers.
Why on earth would anybody pay for LibreOffice? The only advantage it has is being free. I only reluctantly use it because of that.
Like with all things in life, it depends on the context and the use case.
If forces them to explain. They have no legitimate explanation so it will be restored.
Who funda public broadcasting in the US? Isn't PBS government-funded?
Yeah, I've worked at places with millions of users and product managers are drowning in data. It honestly doesn't really make it much easier to build features that actually drive revenue.

To a large extent, this is why advertising (and related data selling) is so widespread: because it is obvious how to make money from the data. Someone said they'll give you $1,000 for a list of all the users who are male, in Canada, and have typed in stuff about Python.

The parent's example about tag hierarchies... That sounds like exactly the kind of nifty feature I've seen launch a dozen times that has precisely zero impact on revenue.
The OP was not proposing a one world government. They were proposing that there be huge number of overlapping social organizations, based on natural similarities. The International Association of Basket Weavers is not even comparable to a one-world government.
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We also need to provide more equal opportunities.
Would be nice if they didn't stomp on real addresses.

> The blocks 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1), 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2), and 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3) are provided for use in documentation.

-- RFC5737 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737
Offer no free plan but releasing it as free software avoids your cost per user, prevents complaints about paid features, and allows you and your users to give back. Seems like it should at least be mentioned as an alternative.
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This is only true if you think there's absolutely no difference between any candidate in their stance on, say, campaign finance reform. That seems like an extreme claim.
At https://serpapi.com, we are actually aiming for the reverse. We don’t have a free plan at the moment only free trials with credit card validations and are going to introduce a small free plan soon-ish.

3 big arguments for a free plan from our perspective: Ease for marketing, allow Enterprise users to try out when giving up credit card info is a process for them, and lower Stripe dispute rates.
> Also, how is this better than existing ion thrusters? Isn't it just a bigger ion thruster?

Besides just operating on a different principle, the theoretical exhaust velocity is about ten times higher than the highest actually flown ion thruster.

So flying the same mission with this thruster would require significantly less propellant. But you don't get to throw something out the back of the spacecraft faster for free. Kinetic energy scales as the square of velocity, so ~10x exhaust velocity is going to mean ~100x power draw.
My father told me of once that when he was working at the RAF research Establishment at Farnborough, someone was was very pleased to have created a circuit which would plot a Chad on an oscilloscope. A little recursion...
He seems to confuse the idea with a legal duty and a moral one as well as failing to understand where his own responsibility lies in the grand scheme of things.

Even if there existed a highly questionable moral duty not to say copy and paste a quote from a document its hard to understand ethically why he imagines that he owes the author the duty to enforce this personally convincing others not to patch such a "feature" out.

He sounds like a highly detestable human being.
Depends who you're targeting with the paid plans, I think।

The OP sort of addresses this in 'won't I miss out on paid users', but it's sort of a cop-out/has some unmentioned assumptions। Anyone small wants to start off free and pay more as their usage (and own revenue) grows - enterprise may be willing to pay hundreds per month off the bat, sure, but are they your customer?
I think trials can be improved for services where you can discern whether the user is directly interacting with it. You give them 100 days of usage, and then decrement a counter when they interact with the site the first time each day.
I'd argue that talented and trained people in a field often see how big the gulf is while those who aren't talented and trained underestimate the gulf. Essentially the Dunning–Kruger effect.
Agree. I gave up using LibreOffice for anything but simple text documents. And carefully avoid using undo.
Email service would be cool to have on this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26034159
A domain name is ~$10/y. If you have a concept that you want to be able to link people to, it's more than I would pay, but I could see it being worth it.

(In many ways I prefer the opposite: by hanging everything off of jefftk.com people who come for one post or project may find others of mine they like.)
In Montreal

1) Would be a supper-club

2) Close enough to what we would call an after hours ; opens towards midnight closes at noon. Little to no alcohol, drugs readily available on premises, or pop yours before getting in. Typically has a techno area and a hip-hop area.

3 ) Club / Night Club here would be as @scraft describes in his reply.

4 ) @scraft > "Places you sit down at tables and drink are typically pubs or bars. These days the two are pretty similar, at a push the more traditional feeling places are more likely to being pubs." Same over here. Note the price discrepency with what OP describes in 1) and what this quote refers to ; beer, shooters, 100$ bottle of non-descript "booze".

[Edit] I might as well add 5 ) our world renowned strip-clubs. High-end no touching - down to sex on premises available. Stuff in between and probably ways to leave with a girl at any joint if you're nice, polite and pack $.

Disclaimer ; Intel valid as of 10-15 years ago ... probably much the same.
Why would a grower refuse to participate in either program? They wouldn't get the option to not not-get subsidies. Their incentive to participate in getting their products certified for SNAP and WIC is that their costs are now higher so they have to raise their prices, and so then it'd be more important for them to get their products certified so that SNAP and WIC recipients can purchase them (thus expanding/retaining their customer base).
Focusing on the negatives of your own country is fine because the readers have the ability to judge for themselves. Focusing only on the negatives of a foreign country is not unless the goal is to agitate the populace for conflict and war.

Take your imagined trilateral water war as an example, have you looked into how minor the supply is to India? Have you considered the fact that damming for electricity has little effect on total volume of flow? Otoh, when US dammed the Colorado the water was diverted for agriculture and urban consumption. The river basically dried up before reaching Mexico.
I'd strongly second resistance training, it doesn't really take that much time either.

A simple program like Starting Strength will have you train for not much more than 60 minutes three days a week and you'll make significant strength gains up to 1.5x body weight easily.
The article says, "Counter-intuitively, the less the user pays the more likely they are to need your help", but that's not so counter-intuitive if you invert it.

Cheap users tend to be inexpert users. Expert users who really value your offering enough to pay more are those who understand why it's worth the money. They likely understand the problem or use that your work addresses, and they have enough knowledge to know which knobs to turn to use your product and be aware of the limits of what it can and should do.

A cheap user is more likely to be one who isn't very savvy, doesn't understand the scope and limitations of your product, and thus thinks it should solve more problems than it does, or to put it another way, 'be a dessert topping AND a floor wax'
Ask people with foxp2 mutations whether or not genetics can convey insurmountable obstacles.
If those two can find friendship I am hopeful we can find unity in the USA.

Not sure this administration can make that happen, but I hope eventually it will be achieved.
What's bad about respecting the requests of the publisher of the file?

(which is another way to describe the flags)
When I was 22, I thought my criticism was very important. A few years later, I often find it overwhelmingly detracts more than it helps. Critique ahould be differentiated, in that there's a much better chance that you're actually contributing, rather than just being perceived as trying to draw attention to yourself. The less you tell people they're doing something bad, with no substantial addition, the less you'll be perceived as an asshole and the more will get done.
Again, either with drivers or geofenced.
I run deadmansswitch.net, and the free plan there only lets you send messages after two days, when people generally prefer much longer intervals.

This serves as a time-unlimited trial that lets you try the product before upgrading, and if some people are fine with super short periods, good for them. It's worked out very well.
This is actually a pretty simple burden of proof question. The burden of proof is on whoever wishes to persuade the other.

As in any other case, to persuade another person is to assert a claim. It doesn’t matter that you already have done the requisite learning to understand what you’re certain is the baseline set of facts. What matters is you want to change someone else’s beliefs.

As an example:

It would be preposterous for me to say “I am certain that biological sex is a spectrum, and binary sex is a simplification useful as a tool for some applications but inadequate for others” and just expect anyone who doesn’t know that to crack open a book or start googling my hypothesis credulously. Even though I’m certain it’s true.

I understand that while there’s sound scientific basis for the claim, it’s not a shared understanding of reality.

I also understand that it’s a claim that may be questioned, even though I’m certain it’s correct, and it’s my choice whether to give it more weight when challenged (attempt to persuade someone who doesn’t accept the claim l) or to carry on certain I’m right. But if I take the latter path, I have to accept that it’s really very unlikely the other party will learn what I’ve learned, unless they become curious and open to the possibility.

In other words, you can be right until the end of time and it wouldn’t ever matter to some people unless you give them a reason to want to be right too.
From the UK, I'd agree. Drinks before you go out, either at home with friends or at a pub, head to the club 21:00-22:00 ish

Drink and dance, there's a few tables about, but it's mostly standing space and a dance floor. Kicking out is like 01:00ish

Maybe I'm oblivious, but I'm fairly sure our clubs are way more alcohol than drugs.
Yunohost does comes with a complete stack of email services. Haven’t used in depth tho.
The "you are the product" assumption alone is probably the strongest reason to never offer a free service.
Remember "Japan, Inc." due to Keiretsus (and to some extent Chaebols in SK).
I have switched from finance to security ("Next Gen" IPS Company) two years ago and sadly I have to agree with most of the comments regarding the current state of the industry.

While I have heard good things about OSCP, I think CISSP is better known and it might be easier for you to get a foothold in a security position with this certification.

Pentest can be a good place to enter the field but from my experience it gets repetitive quickly. Also, while it's a good way to understand the vulnerabilities, you seem more interested in securing/defending than offensive security. Joining a SOC team might be a good starting point.
The article talks about the costs, suggesting the net result is often bad. Basically they are saying, "Ignore end users online because they are only seeing and talking about one half of the equation."

All you've done is essentially say, "I'm an end user online who only knows one half of the equation but you should ignore costs!"

It just feels like a failure to engage with the point the article is actually making.
I’m sure they do at the very very extreme of competitions, but even a tiny bit of testosterone has largely unwanted side effects for women. (I am hedging with “largely” there, as there’s a whole gender identity thing to wade into.)

More common:

Oral anavar. Frequently used. Easily available in 5mg pills, actively marketed as “lady Var”. Anavar is generally regarded as a “mild” steroid, and was actively and usefully prescribed for a time. However, I’ve known women who have done anavar, and there’s such a range of variability in how they respond. I know a woman who was taking the 5mg dosage and fairly quickly had her voice start to drop. (Caveat there: who knows if the underground steroids are properly dosed.)

Oral turanibol. Queue the East German national anthem, this was the drug of choice for the Lovely Ladies Behind the Iron Curtain. Though nobody actually told them it was a steroid. “Vitamins”, per the Soviets, vitamins that literally put hair on your chest. Same caveats as anavar, and I never actually see turanibol marketed for women now.

Nandrolone phenylpropionate (NPP). The short-acting version of deca, the very well-known steroid. This compound was actively developed for women, and truly successfully used in clinical scenarios, especially in regards to cancer-related wasting, and osteoporosis, before we had better drugs. Very low androgenic properties, but quite the literal pain the ass, as you have to inject every day.
Of the 28 mass shootings of 10 or more victims in the last 50 years, 14 of them list the use of a semi automatic rifle or carbine, so while I agree that changes the numbers a bit, I don't think 50% is as conclusive as you're letting on.

This is from wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt if you'd like.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United...
Time is not free. If it's too expensive that I won't use it for my own projects, I'm not going to even bother with a free trial. Same if you don't tell me your price up front, I'm not going to bother with the free trial. Tools that will get recommended at my workplace are more likely to be the ones that I use for my own side projects, since I already know them and they will allow me to move fast. And the tools I use at home are more likely to be the free/cheap ones than the expensive ones.

Of course specifics and circumstances matters. If a tool is critical for the business then we will review everything in depth and pick the best, regardless of trial/free plan/etc. And of course, sometimes the critical task is simply to ship ASAP...
I agree, free has extremely devalued software. I think though, refactoring his idea, a “trial subscription” for whatever, 3, 6, 12 months at a sweet price with the option to continue at the regular price.

I think author’s opinion about subscription fatigue is low-end market thinking or B2C. Most businesses actually making money are used to the subscription model now, Gsuite, Office 365, Adobe Creative Suite, NetSuite, etc. The trick there is to reduce the risk for them to try it on. Unless you want to pay an army of salespeople.
For naturals, there is significant overlap in the training style that produces maximum strength gains and maximum size gains. Larger muscles are stronger muscles. Studies have shown very similar size gains between groups performing high weight sets and more moderate "hypertrophy" style sets, though training with higher weight maximizes strength gains. One thing not revealed in short term studies, but which I have observed[1], is that training for strength early on eventually produces better gains in size, since when you do shift to "higher rep" training, you will be able to use more weight -> bigger muscles. Regardless, I don't think it's all that important to stress over these details, and progressively overloading (increasing weight/reps) the compound movements (squats/deadlifts/bench press/overhead press) over time is far more important than rep schemes and intensity.

For steroid users, the equation changes some, as they benefit more from very high volume, high rep training that pumps the muscles full of blood. Natural lifters cannot recover quickly enough from this sort of training.

[1]standard disclaimer about taking this with a grain of salt as I'm just some internet stranger, but I do have > 10 years experience with this
I'd argue you should measure how active does a user use a product and only charge them when you see they actually make reasonably heavy use of it.

An inactive user doesn't cost much and can convert into an active-and-paying user once. A slightly-active newcomer doesn't cost much either and can actually bring value by reporting bugs (incl. UX bugs like unintuitiveness).

I wouldn't pay for what I had no chance to try. A free month is also useless: I just sign up and then see it expire as I fail to find spare time to actually try it.

Just measure how active the user is and tell them they will have to start paying soon once they reach a certain threshold in median daily interactions or in storage/traffic/whatever. Don't forget to provide an option to export and delete their data.
They absolutely have been legally commercialized. In the United States (and presumably elsewhere) you can easily find a doctor who will legally prescribe you a host of steroids, growth hormones, and various other "anti-aging medications".

My understanding is that many of them don't do bloodwork to test existing hormone levels and many that do use very liberal interpretations of what standard levels in men should be at a given age, etc.

Think of the "pill mills" that lead to the opiod crisis where as long as you had the cash someone would write a prescription. Note that I'm not insinuating similar levels of risk or harm, merely pointing out the flexibility of medical ethics for some doctors in these areas.

Use your favorite search engine and search "anti-aging clinic". They're in many US cities, available online, and a popular medical tourism destination.

EDIT: I also suspect these kinds of medical "interventions" are prevalent in Hollywood and elsewhere. For example, Hugh Jackman in Wolverine. This guy was born in 1968, which puts him at ~44 years old during filming. Look at his physique as a 44 year old man and tell me that was just from broccoli and chicken (especially considering his physique in roles leading up to Wolverine).

I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying that the chances that so many of these mid to late 40s Hollywood actors have a physique that would be excellent on a 20-25 year old isn't likely due to just freak genetics, diet, and hard work at the gym. Especially when the budgets of these films can easily exceed $100 million.
I would suggest Zathura. It is minimal fast themeable, has configurable bindings and vim like bindings out of the box. It has marks and a binding to jump to marks that is similar in nature to vim marks and remembers your place in documents.

With the mupdf backend it also supports epub save for an bug in how it treats the table of contents which presently afflicts 0.4.7 which has already been fixed which will presumably be fixed in 0.4.8.

Come on guys cut another release!
Yeah, it's weird that Firefox sends a poorly rendered bitmap to print PDF.

Does that happen on all operating systems? With all printer drivers?
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Apart from the obvious consequences for bitcoin, what other typical services would be disrupted by this?