skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine it does some kind of atomic swap, where it's just force updating an existing cache and not actually flushing it.
This sounds like a case of a free plan makes sense when the target for the free plan is someone without purchasing authority looking for leverage.

> Would you rather have 10 users that pay $100 monthly, or 1,000 users that pay $1?

I think this question is meant as an illustration but perhaps it hints at a rule of thumb. Let me substitute a different question and see what you think:

Do you want 1000 users paying $500 a month, or 5 million users paying a $1 a month?

5 million suggests a broad but shallow appeal to the app, and I don't doubt at all that the author has seen customers exhibit all of the listed behaviors - and more. But perhaps an application with a narrow but deep appeal makes sense with a free tier. You can always expand the appeal of your product to reach more markets once you have a proven track record and word of mouth working for you.

I would also say that at a minimum, if you don't let people test drive your application, you have to be quite skilled at creating demos and walkthroughs, and encourage third parties to do the same. Growing that kind of talent in house is probably too slow and unreliable. You're going to have to pay for at least one person to give you good advice.
Ok, but then if everyone switches to BSD, won't it suffer the same fate? I.e. whenever something goes mainstream, corporations are drawn to it like insects to a lightbulb.
> If they did issue a pile of corrections and changes, this post would instead be "the thousands of errors the NYT has made."

Which would still be valid, because making tons of mistakes is still a sign of unreliability regardless of whether or not you admit to them.

Nobody is infallible but a larger number of mistakes is worse than a smaller number. And it is by no means impossible for a publication to have higher standards or a better record.
Kilroy was never here. He just thought he was.
Lately, whenever I've been wanting to make some changes to a site, I've been writing browser extensions instead of userscripts. It's only a little bit clunkier to get started, but the interface is a lot more supported and documented and has a ton more features. It's also much easier to use with source control, code editors, unit tests (well probably, haven't tried that yet), and other development tools. Plus if it ends up being really useful, you can publish it to the extension store for others to use easily as well.
I sat through three interview sessions a few months back. i can understand how you feel. not something i'm keen to repeat.
Male humans are evolving analogous tactics to evade being cannabilized for child support.
You aim for 3ms, 10ms can be described as annoying. 50ms is really bad.

In reality you either move to analog processing when you reach that much delay or design your creative workflow around it (learn not to expect immediate feedback) so you move towards offline processing.
> Should it empower you to bypass the terms under which content you're accessing were shared?

Yes

> Have you considered that maybe that's disempowering other people using the same tool?

I can't see why given xpdf with DRM and xpdf without DRM anyone would select the first.
In the aquarium hobby there is a niche of experienced fishkeepers who keep and breed species of fish that are endangered in nature through the CARES program[1]. (Note 'experienced', these are not the same people who walk into PetSmart on a whim and come out with six goldfish and a bowl.) With careful breeding and mixing of bloodlines, genetic inbreeding issues can largely be avoided.

That said, any species will thrive better in its natural habitat if that habitat can be protected. Continuation of the species in captivity, if it is even possible, should be seen as a last resort and not an equal substitute.

[1] https://caresforfish.org/
2015: White men [Jewish Americans, CIS immigrants, EU immigrants] are not diverse

2020: Asian men [Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and immigrants from all respective countries] are not diverse

2025: White and Asian women are not diverse

2030: ???
because by assuming blind trust (or your ability to discern who is trustworthy to interact with) with mean statistically you will get burned eventually.

Better to build systems that assume on untrusted actors as the default start state and not regret it after.
Do you even know who Deng Xiaopeng is?

Changing systems without a massive, disruptive loss of life is actually a huge accomplishment. No other nation has transitioned out of communism smoothly. It had the side effect of not changing names of various things.
Yes, those are good. But it would be so easy to have a GitHub-style change log, and/or a Wikipedia-style “talk” section where rationale for changes is discussed.

It could increase attention and time on the site as well, good for the bottom lines at the outfits too.
I’ve always wanted to try this on airplane wifi to (1) avoid the ridiculous charges and (2) see what happens when I share a MAC address with someone who already paid and is on the network ... I’m guessing nothing good.

Of course I need to first use wire shark or something to get a MAC address that’s already connected to the network. This is where I’m hazy.
Hey there! Glad to see you on HN. Here's an upvote :)
Companies like IBM would provide customers with sources of their software for.a long time, without any permission to use it as the customer sees fit, though. This has nothing to do with open-source or free software licenses.
Don’t be too hard on them. The Internet destroyed most reporting, because now all the primary source material is available to anyone. I say “most” because there is still plenty of space for deep investigative work.
Wow, I assumed the GP was talking about stars
I've been in open source for over 20 years now, Apache member, co-founder Jakarta Apache, blah blah.

I'm seeing a new era of Open Source reflected in DeFi. These projects are done in the open, with a group of eager young developers, just like I was 20 years ago.

The thing that is different is that people actually get paid for their work. These DeFi projects are minting so much money that they can actually afford to attract talent. The tooling is all there for them to use. A lot of projects are just based on existing codebases, re-using legos.

Everyone is "anonymous", code is of high standards, it is meritocracy driven and DAO based. Stuff moves fast.

Unreal. Never seen anything like it.
A million time YES! I hate doing this when I need to work with Charless on iOS.
Just tried it, still does.
I Switched to Lite After Using Visual Studio Code for 3 Years
3) is quite possibly the worst thing imaginable to a software person that doesn't like social networks, of which there is much more prevalence than the human baseline
Squishy or Solid? A Neutron Star’s Insides Open to Debate
Start writing code in the browser console. It's a Javascript REPL with full access to the DOM for the site and the browser API. Once you put together a few lines that do something useful, paste them into a new userscript for the page and clean it up a little.
This works on other system menu bar icons, as well as on menus in some apps. For example, holding option down with the File menu open in most Apple apps gets you the "save as" item.

Now you'll spend your next hour option-clicking random stuff. Sorry.
We had Stooges servers in the 1990s...
I'm not in the loop here. What's the "opt-out spyware" in linux distros the author mentions?
I think Qubes OS rendered the pdf into a raster image in a VM and then presented the image.
TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)
The Arch Wiki also has a pretty good overview of how to change your MAC address with a bunch of different tools, including randomizing it on reboot.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MAC_address_spoofing
There's a very simple reason companies like Google treat users like crap and kill good products: growth rate. Google & co's business models revolve not around meticulously building and charging for great products (classic business model) but controlling Internet marketshare. The more users reliant on them, the more money they make. Quality be damned, all they want is a bigger DAU metric. Good, maintained products? Customer service? Heck with it. That's not their business.

How did it come to this? Well, at least in the short term, this kind of business busts up traditional high-quality paid tools. If a Google-like business enters a market where a high-quality paid competitor exists, they will subsidize something similar with VC money and suck users away, bankrupting the competitor. Then, with the power they have gained they are free to focus on monetizing their users, which is a story for another time.

This is especially made easier by the fact that it is really difficult to get paid on the Internet: you are essentially selling access to information, not a physical good (all of this might not apply to businesses rooted in the physical world like Amazon and Airbnb). When an average user sees a free service and a paid service both offering what is essentially information, they will go free every day. Since the price of reaching people on the Internet is so low, and the difficulty of getting paid is high, freemium platforms emerge and can outcompete paid competitors by leveraging this fact.

As a consequence to this, quality tools have retreated into paid niches, driven to raise prices. We are essentially left with two product types: gigantic Google-like freemium platforms, and high-quality high-expense alternatives (e.g. Feedly in the Google Reader example). While the former might suck at serving their users and providing value/quality, they make so much money that a cheap, quality tool or a paid, large platform will be quickly snuffed out like a candle without huge investor subsidies.
Americans killed 99% of its indigenous population, alright robbed or bought under heavy pressure a large portion of its territory, it used 2 nuclear weapons which would be considered a crime against humanity if there were justice in the world, and barely anybody mentions it now. America is not yet 250 years old. China is 5000 years old.
I'm not on board with this. It highly depends on the type of software or service you offer. Anecdotal example: I've used a lot of "free for students" or "free for personal use" software during my university time and switched a lot until I found the product that was best for me. When I started working I wanted to use the same product because I was used to it. That's why the company I worked for payed several thousand Euros for JetBrains IDEs for example and I even have a personal license for freelance work.

Regarding the argument that free users don't convert: this does not mean the would have bought the product when there was no free plan. Maybe the product is not good enough, maybe it does not integrate in to the user's workflow, maybe they tried and moved on.

And if I offer a free plan people have to apply for, what happens if I spend more time reviewing those applications as I had to "support" users on the totally free plan?

If you offer a free plan: clearly state there is no official. Maybe offer a public forum where users can help each other. You'll probably find users using your product in a way you had not thought of and use this to advance your product.

If you don't offer a free plan, have a long enough trial period and totally consider this:

> Bonus points if you don't require payment details, as this may increase the friction of an employee of a larger business from trying it out without approval.

In my company I simply can't give payment details without going to the whole way via department head and accounting department which usually takes a couple of days and is an annoying hassle.
And privately am I extremely reluctant to give my payment data for a trial. I don't know how save it is, I don't know how easy it is to cancel my trial subscription and so on. Too many scams out there, can't be cautious enough.
Story of Soldat (short) video narrated by the creator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWuOOs0TMg
I'm just here to say that I took an exam for AWS Solutions Architect last week and I thought Aurora PostgreSQL was a made up service.

I feel like a fool.
It's always hilarious to read these posts by silver-spooned entrepreneurs complaining about those oh-so-horrible entitled users.

Well, and saddening that this drivel seems to be a reliable way to get on the HN home page.
Performative or the diversity candidate was a pretty girl?
CBS All Access is dead, long live Paramount+
Ubuntu at one point packaged in Amazon search by default.
What happened in the last 8 years? In 2003 there was the war in Iraq. The fallout from that was probably the lowest trust I had in journalism at any point in my life. I can't recall any significant events in the past 8 years that are even close to that failure.
I see you, Larry David.
> Reddit sponsored div's

This should be blocked by the default filter lists.

I have enabled 'Faboy's Annoyances' and 'uBo Annoyances' to remove cookie banners and 'install our app' banners
The archive.org entry for 2012 is orange, indicating it was a 404 back when it was archived. There's also archived pages for /index.php that resolve successfully all the way back to 2005. Maybe someone just manually asked archive.org to crawl that URL.
Racial discrimination is a legal concept. There is no racial discrimination if you lack the following:

- evidence

- witnesses who are willing to testify

- legal action

Whether it actually happened or not is irrelevant.
Is it proprietary? If not, can one use it in Chromium?
Reader distrusts media poll showing high distrust in media.
Restricting plain text copying on compliant readers isn't really preventing anything though. It's akin to unskippable copy warnings on DVDs, the only thing it does is inconvenience those using it legitimately.
Pipewire is becoming more common, although it is compatible with ALSA, JACK, and pulse clients so more unification than fragmentation.
I must be weird in that I like my free users. They’re often the source of decent insights about the product, and it fits with my values of running a company.

I do see some of the points of the article though. There are a handful of ‘entitled’ free users, but in my experience they are few and far between...
Operation mockingbird never ended.

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-...
> Proprietary operating systems like Microsoft Windows 10, Apple MacOS, and Google Android have become famous for their ill conduct...

I find it mildly ironic that MacOS was based on BSD.
I would hate to be a minority or woman in Silicon Valley--even if you're qualified, many of your colleagues would presume you "don't deserve" to be there (see the James Damore saga).
Most any homogenous group will become discriminatory to outsiders unless effort is taken to prevent it. It varies from subtle to overt but overall makes it very clear to outsiders that they are not one of the group and not really welcome. The group when called out will then usually blame it on the outsiders.

I feel forcing affirmative action is not the right move but claiming the group is blame free or shouldn't change anything is also I feel not right.
People need to learn to be okay with rejecting a diversity candidate in favor of a straight white male sometimes, or even most of the time if that’s the right call. Anecdotally, straight white males do tend to be strong candidates on average because their privileged backgrounds have given them superior preparation for the job.

Unfortunately many company cultures don’t create this space for people to make authentic decisions, everything is viewed through a lens of “Have I built up enough diversity points to favor a straight white male for this particular instance?”
> I pushed hard for an amazing candidate, the first to ever ace my interviews, whereas said other stakeholders wanted a certain diversity candidate

Your reading of this comment is "other stakeholders rejected an excellent candidate solely based on race". The actual information given was that the commenter really liked one candidate, and the other stakeholders preferred a different candidate who was somehow "diverse". While I think the commenter probably agrees with your interpretation, it seems equally likely to me that their candidate evaluation was bad, and that the other stakeholders did not use diversity as their sole criteria.
Yes, it does technically fit "racial discrimination." However, some people use that simpler term to talk about historic and current power imbalances. In the United States, there were a lot of extra barriers for non-white people. Some still exist, but there's also the self-perpetuating barriers, like how children from poor households are likely to be poor adults. So, if somebody wants to help solve "racial discrimination," being "race blind" would mean letting past wrongs stay wrong.
Minority groups are considered as such for a reason (numbers). Fortune 500 companies are not only investing in D&I efforts to bring those candidates in at top dollar. They are also training unskilled minorities into tech trades. How can your small business compete with that?
From the article, it sounds like it's that upstream systemd uses Google Public DNS as a default (if you don't configure a server or get one in your DHCP lease) and Firefox uses Cloudflare's DNS-over-HTTPS, which would allow those companies to see all your DNS queries.
https://twitter.com/jerrydunleavy/status/1308586151771549698

https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1239624136118468608

That's just dishonest stealth editing. Reuters in particular has been known to spread intelligence/CIA propaganda (particularly during the Turkey coup).
Ask HN: Free/low cost APIs to get data about US stocks and options?
Are there any data sources to get information about US stocks and options market at free/low cost? The data that includes technicals lik RSI, MACD, etc..
Not necessary to have real time information. End of day is also ok.
I whole-heartedly agree with this post! I like the emphasis on value vis a vis the free tier upgrade path. Here’s an anecdote about Notion that I posted on the related HN topic “Don’t offer a free plan” [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059517], [original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26060141]

—————

At Notion, we used to have a limited free plan where we only allowed users to create 1000 blocks (pages/paragraphs/embeds/checkboxes/database rows) before we directed them to upgrade to the "Personal Pro" plan. Supporting free users dealing with the block limit was a major headache, just as described in the OP, but more importantly the Personal Pro plan was kind of a dead end - few users converted to Pro, and those that did weren't worth much, since the Pro plan is pretty cheap and doesn't have much network effect.

We took a hard look at that free personal plan and how it worked with our goals. Instead of phasing it out, we decided to make it unlimited - now personal users can make as many blocks as they want [https://www.notion.so/personal]. But importantly, we also switched up our segmentation at the same time: we restricted the personal plans' collaboration model and created a new "Team Trial" plan, with the same 1000 block limit, but with all the teamwork features included. Another thing to note about our Team Trail is that it's not time-limited at all, teams can keep trialing Notion until it has clear value to them. We have many fewer users frustrated by the block limit, but those who are are much more valuable, and are getting a lot more out of Notion -- when they upgrade, it's to a Team plan with strong network effects and a path to future expansion.

And all those (now) very happy users on the free plan? They're like jonpurdy [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059666] - they'll take Notion into their (future) teams and workplaces, even though in the shorter term they're a strain on our systems.

My advice is - there's more nuance to this than "MAKE IT FREE" vs "DON'T MAKE IT FREE". Think about how you structure upgrade incentives around value, and about how your free plans fit into your overall market strategy.
To expand, I think the big issue was any time you searched your launch menu for your own machine's applications and files, the query was also sent to Amazon.
Thank you. I can’t believe how quickly people forget. Trump is the tip of the iceberg. The Iraq War. The plight of the Palestinians. Russians. Go look at the coverage of these issues, the bias and outright abandonment of facts — it’s disgusting and disgraceful.
This comes up from time to time, but it's pertinent to the discussion (more so on larger scales, but the reverse holds true], so in case you haven't had the delight of reading [1].

1. PDF download link: https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRig...
I find that if you squeeze one of these check-valve kinds properly, the airflow is just as good as with a free-flow one. And I don't have to put my tongue on a gross piece of plastic that's been in the attic/garage/basement for months.
You are correct but you are missing the key ingredient. Western media criticizes western and non-western governments all the same (to different degrees of course).But in other realms (things like cinema, sports, music,literature, videogames) the western people, their way of life, their worldview, and their history are lionized and romanticized while the non-western side of history is still presented as barbaric, brutish and retrograde. So not only Putin,Xi,Bolsonaro or Modi suck but the people "over there" are gangsters, killers, terrorists and the enemies to conquer and defeat. You need to be moved into tears by the story of a little kid from Kansas who went to Vietnam or Iraq though.
There’s also https://vim-adventures.com/ which is a neat way of learning Vim by playing a game.
I am skeptical that venues which exhibit a pattern of repeated "mistakes" with a common slant are in fact comitting simple accidents.
Where does education fit in in your assumptions ? Even poor people make it up the social ladder thru education. Most of our ancesters were farmers, and most of them very poor too.
Is DeFI decentralized finance? Where are all these open source projects and are they doing anything useful?
When and why did NYT turn to trash? It feels like they completely sold out for clicks. As if someone was watching the revenue above all else. At the same time evolved into a liberal echo chamber.

Was it a leadership change or an owners strategic vision or Trump or just a sign of the changing times.

And what do they do now Trump is gone ans there is no more outrage to sell if they were after clicks.
We'll then switch to something else, or maybe back to Linux.
Well I can share my individual perspective as a tall white guy. Sure, I've been through extraordinary struggles and life difficulties in my early adulthood, yet life is still pretty much easy mode just from the privilege.

If you've ever read The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, the best way I can describe it is it almost feels like being ta'veren. Even if I'm having an off-day, not performing well, doing the wrong things, saying the wrong things, I still get the results I need/want and it all works out.

If a company rejects me in favor of diversity, even my struggles are already relatively so easy to resolve that it's just like, good for them, I'll go to the countless other opportunities.

Not saying it's right or wrong, but I feel like the last person who needs a champion.
It’s funny that it’s too small for you, while others complain that it uses too much energy. I guess it can’t please everyone, but for me it’s perfect how it is right now.
And everyone in the company being Caucasian and Asian doesn’t count :)

Just like the photo of the C-suite of most companies being 99% male doesn’t count as sexism.