skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your free tier is too valuable people won't be compelled to upgrade, not valuable enough and people won't be compelled to give the product a try or stick around long enough to see or want the value of a higher tier.

This is my experience when trying pick a read-it-later/bookmarking app. I’m currently using the free tier of raindrop.io and I don’t plan to upgrade at all. The only features I need is bookmark storage and highlights. I don’t think it’s too valuable, but it’s valuable enough to satisfy all I want from a bookmark manager.

When I used Instapaper and Pocket in the past, because of their limited number of highlights in the free tier, I found myself peeking at the pricing page constantly and pondering whether I should upgrade. I didn’t have enough money to pay for yet another subscription, but the pressure to upgrade is there. I think I even subscribed for a month or two.

My other thought is on the granularity of upgrades. Probably for simplicity, both for the users and developers, upgrades tend to limited to maybe 2-5 tiers with the base tier being free. Raindrop.io, Instapaper, and Pocket’s page on the premium tiers tend to list a lot of features but I find myself skipping through most of them. When I see that list, I know they’re charging me for the whole feature set when I only need one or two. As a result, I’m quite hesitant to subscribe to any of them. The ratio of need vs offered is important to me; if those features were compiled into a checklist and I only check one or two, then I’m out of the premium funnel.

An example of decent intersection between what I need and what is being offered, is Tutanota’s private paid tier. Even though, there are still some features I don’t need, but the price is low enough that I can tolerate the feeling of not utilising my subscription enough. They also offer some other mini-upgrades and I can see why they’re an extension to the paid tier instead of being a part of it.
You're nitpicking one of the given examples without engaging the user on the point they were trying to make.

To be nuanced, maybe they might have said, "cobblers are less in demand now that many people have moved from owning fewer pairs of shoes they make last through repair to owning more pairs of shoes that they tend to get rid of when they are worn out due to changes in construction materials used in production," but if people have to write like that to make points, nobody will ever make a point.
Look at their investors. When interviewing, ask to speak to the investors. See what they say. When speaking with founders do they have numbers they can show or is it pure show-personship?
As a European, we know - we've already lost ~25% of the value of our savings and purchasing power between double-digit inflation and the Euro crashing >20% in less than a year.

But our governments are so committed to this path, there's no way back.

Personally I don't care whether it's Ukrainian or Russian oligarchs charging the gas transit fees, I just want peace and stability. Then we can invest heavily in nuclear fission and fusion and renewable energy sources.
However, doesn't this "IsFamous" label break down when multiple famous people share a name. No obvious example spring to mind, but it surely must happen...

Seems like it would be more useful to have some kind of more general labelling system, where you could be 'verified' as (say) a famous actor, and/or musician, or whatever. Then people could distinguish not only the famous Matt Smith from the unfamous, but also the painter Matt Smith, and so on.
Please write a blog on this
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-france-germany-glo...

The linked article is pretty matter of fact and I am quite disappointed that replies in this thread go off on weird tangents about "misinformation from the German greens" or "owning the nuke people". You might very well be correct in your argument, but the level of discussion is much lower than I would expect from HN.
Yeah, that will die off too. Many of us were trying to be mayors on FourSquare, but with time you realize the virtual accolades are a meaningless waste of time.
I'm Indian, not any of the groups mentioned by him, and I too found him way too cringe-inducing. He came across too strongly as trying to push some agenda. I did not feel like sticking around long enough to find out what the agenda was.
Won't fix. Working as expected. <ticket closed>

That wouldn't be a meme if it was something that doesn't happen
I know at least one tier 3 public tech company is paying $300k/yr usd ($200k base + 15% bonus + 70k in stock) for people with less than 4 years of experience + full benefits (401k, 18 days pto, etc.)
You can customize the RTH altitude each time you fly if it seems too high.
If folding phones take off (still too expensive for most), I could see wider web designs coming back, closer to desktop.

One huge problem with responsive design, especially mobile-first design, is that it largely killed the creativity of the old desktop web. Nobody is going to spend time developing 2 unique designs for 2 form factors. Everybody will go with the easiest option of RWD which is to stack elements on top of each other in the most boring layout possible.
> lack of water for cooling

That is largely a myth. They stop when the water level decreases for regulatory reasons, not physical ones.
> I support ButtFlare here - they should act as a utility, not as an arbiter of content.

So then advocate for them to actually be a utility. Right now they get to benefit from being treated like one, but not being held to the same legal standard of an actual utility.
That's the real heart of the issue. It was never a verification badge. It was always a popularity badge. Social media is garbage. We need to find a better way. Obviously having that many eye-balls means business opportunities for the gig-worker economy but this kind of restriction/status symbol is ripe for corruption and fraud by design.
There is technically one minor one, which really isn't one - but you should be aware of.

Someone can take your authorized keys and add them to a box they control, and trick you into logging in.

However, this would trigger the "new host" warning SSH gives you, and you can minimize this by minimizing which hosts you allow your private keys to be used on.

And if someone is so actively trying to attack you they probably have more direct methods available.
> But public health authorities in the US prioritized access to vaccines to racial minorities (who indeed had higher age-adjusted mortality rates than white people), while not doing the same for men. This is an ideological choice, driven by the idea that bad things that happen to men aren't worthy of social concern.

This would only be true if cities were largely sex-segregated, making it as easy both to target or ignore a particular sex as it is to target or ignore black people. Your ideology accusation is unnecessary, as there is a material difference between the specific situations of black people and males. In fact targeting aid towards black people consequently targeted aid toward black males (a subset of black people.)

And with that targeting, black people are still less likely to be vaccinated than white people, so black people clearly weren't targeted enough. Although it was nice to see white people having to come in from the suburbs for the first time in years to get a vaccination. It was like what black people in the city have to do to get to their "neighborhood" public school. It was sad that they set up networks to disproportionately take up early slots, though.

Take the likelihood of being vaccinated between black people and all males, against the disproportionate effects of covid on males vs women, the cost of specifically targeting men (by giving men a special app or something, or by prioritizing men over women?) vs the cost of specifically targeting black people (put the vaccination centers in or near black neighborhoods if possible.) Control for everything else. I'd bet if you calculated it out, you've saved a lot more person-years per dollar doing the plan they went with instead of your plan.

That's not even considering the fact that black people start in a median more precarious position than most other groups (other than maybe Native Americans and undocumented migrants), so between a black and non-black person, the median black person will have their mortality damaged more at the same severity of illness.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance_improvemen...

This is a really interesting, or rather terrifying part of that blog post. I thought I had a reasonably good knowledge about typical performance mistakes in .NET, but I never heard about this particular one.

If I understand it right, initializing a fresh JsonSerializerOptions object before each call to Serialize/Deserialize in System.Text.Json is incredibly expensive. It essentially disables the cache and means the serializer analyzes this case fully every time. And this is more on the order of 100x as expensive than using the cached version, so not a trivial amount.
"Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed"
Price of Law School Hits New High at Columbia ($110,450), Others Close Behind
It’s described in the first section of the article.
And? That doesn't make those sites pro-swatting unless they had no other legitimate reasons to allow this content, and as much as people hate doxxing it is clearly not only useful for swatting or other illegal activities.
> ...longstanding conjecture that BB(5)=47,176,870... Tristan and Damien still count 1.5 million (!) holdout machines...

I assume that if one tries all 1.5 million machines, they either (1) stop before 47,176,870 or (2) run longer, and don't stop for some observable time?
I've only got a very tiny and rudimentary homepage, but when I finally got around to adding some basic stylesheet to it, I almost immediately managed to run into an issue with Chrome(ium)/Blink.

I also managed to find another case where of all things Internet Explorer (!) was the only one (possibly EdgeHTML, too, but I don't remember that any more and now it's been replaced by Blink-based Edge, I can't easily check it, either) that got things right.
Stopping terrorist attacks is also how the NSA vindicates spying on every internet user. It's up there with "think of the kids!".

It's an excuse though - and people will extend "terrorist attacks" to include non-violent protests when it suits them.
Just say no unless they have an immediate and definitive way to bolster your efforts and energy. Life is too short. Intense focus is critical to success.
> What is permitted to say is something for the courts, not for the whims of private businesses, to decide.

To the contrary, in this case it's exactly for Cloudflare to decide. They're not a utility.
> I'm not pro-Russian.

For someone who is not pro-Russian, you're performing a remarkably good impression of someone who is pro-Russian, mr "Coup".
here's an archive of a tweet with replies from 2018 where the idea was being mocked, fun reading if you enjoy some schadenfreude. Plus the German delegation laughing at the idea

https://archive.ph/cLWvW

now Europe is staring down the barrel of a 25x increase in electricity cost this winter
SEAL applicants using Viagra to survive Hell Week
That’s a good point.

Well, the bottle is open, and the genie is flying around, so we’ll have to see what happens…
Just to clarify for other people who were confused, life expectancy increased until 2019 inclusive, then nosedived. So Covid (or higher-order effects of Covid and the response) must be responsible.
Outright corruption doesn't seem far-fetched: https://twitter.com/minna_alander/status/1561354139464044544...
More accurately, Europe is diversifying its energy sources at a very rapid pace. It imports a lot of LNG from the US for example.

FTA:
>Through these emergency measures, Europe looks to weather the coming winter, even if pipeline flows are 80 per cent lower than at normal times.
Some data: Per capita CO2 emissions in France are half than in Germany: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/germany?country=DEU~F...

(ps: I am an opponent of nuclear energy. But facts are facts.)
Final thoughts on Ubiquiti
Take a look at the brands for the most popular parts - almost all Chinese.
The LNG price graph shown a few minutes from the given timestamp is very relevant.
Improving the Kernel TTY Throughput
You can look at that footage without even tiptoeing the swamp. To read the comments might be a different story, although by the time I got here it was quite ease to stay on dry land, which may have been different for you.

Then again, it's not about China, it's about a country with a regime that gives zero transparency and seemingly gives little about privacy regulation, and which has brought forth at least one big electronics company that's being blocked from big parts of western markets for fear of information (in)security.

Now, all that might be up for debate by itself, but you can hardly blame people extrapolate from that.
If you do proper 2FA, always change the default credentials (including dev/test/temporary systems!) and test the recovery of your backups you're probably above the median already. Logging turned on, and preferably centralized is also low-hanging fruit.

For an early stage startup I feel that some unnecessary risks are caused by the lack of separation of privileges because a few people do have the rights to do everything. I'd recommend having your key people keep a separate account for privileged actions so that you're not reading your email with an account that has the access to the keys of the kingdom, that you're not doing stuff on your cloud provider with a user account that has the privileges to accidentally delete everything. Have the superuser accounts on all the third-party systems be something that you use rarely, make a limited account for your daily work.
Germany got Soviet gas reliably for 50+ years. Trump eanted to sell US LNG, nothong else to see here. And any news of Europes death in a blacked out winter are overstated.
Yeah. Do not delay maintenance because then it bites you in the rear. Also, it’s still better to do it in the summer: next winter will be terrible enough and we’ll need every generator we can get.
> The key is in the curation though, it is unlikely that your child will want to sort through thousands of blurry, duplicate, or unrelated photos. 100 really good and special photos/videos are better than a mixed up mass of 5,000.

Honestly, I would really enjoy sifting through 5,000 photos from my grandparents or parents. (Sometimes the best photos are the embarrassing or private photos, like the time my dad asked me to help back up photos and I saw my mother trying to recreate a famous album cover.)

I appreciate the curation too.
I guess, though to me that idiom inappropriately suggests that the actions are not understood. This is direct economic warfare and it sucks but it's got clear strategic objectives.
Europe has been warned constantly by internal and external folks. It's rather public knowledge how bad a situation they are in.

The best decision would be to get all the renewables done asap. Solar, wind, grid scale batteries. But they've had months and done what so far?

They need north american oil/gas right away. Luckily Trudeau/Biden have worked together to make sure that doesn't happen. Keystone XL, energy east. All cancelled.

Anyone monitoring the atlantic ocean for leaks and spills? They are boating that energy over.

Those european politicians are going to be paying the piper soon.
Nope. Starship will do that, not SLS. NASA already gave the contract for landing to SpaceX.

And as for later versions of SLS after that… I highly doubt they will ever fly, because the insanity of the cost and they non-reusability will become too glaringly obvious to everyone.
They're not uniformly distributed over the land. It's within a factor of 2, so 33% flooded is plausible.
How much does a used cruise ship go for? I want to create a cruise ship based incubator. If a startup succeeds they eventually get their own ship.
Show HN: Reddit's favorite products, extracted using deep learning
Many people add "Reddit" to their search queries to find authentic product reviews. We fine-tuned a BERT model to extract product mentions from over 4 million Reddit comments and posts with Named Entity Recognition (NER). The result is a list of the most mentioned products across many subreddits. Soon, we'll roll out a version that includes sentiment (positive/negative mention).

No platform (including Reddit) is resistant to fake reviews and spam, but we think it's happening less frequently here for various reasons:

- Redditors and other forum members are more interested in boosting their ego by showing their depth of knowledge on the topic (and correcting others on the topic), whereas corporate websites are more interested in raking profit by displaying (potentially) dishonest information.

- Enthusiasts in subreddits are pretty good at spotting dishonest or fake content, which results in immediate downvotes. The whole karma system helps with trustworthiness.

- Most subs are moderated well and spam gets removed quite quickly

That being said, good fake reviews are technically almost impossible to detect, even with sophisticated network analysis of the reviewer's profile.
And transitioned to a program manager, to say the least.
I haven't worked at a startup. I have worked at two FAANGs (F+G). So I can't speak to the actual experience of this but when considering options, startups, particuarly very early stage startups, seemed like such a terrible value proposition.

There could be qualitative benefits and I think this is why a lot of people go this route. Things like less structure and a bigger feeling of impact.

But your equity is most likely going to be worth exactly $0 and the upside isn't really that high. For every Craig Silverstein there are 100,000 people who got nothing. Look back at any HN thread where people are asked about their exits (as an employee) and it's sobering. $10-20k after 4-5 years is disturbingly common.

A first employee if they have a lot of pull might get what? 0.5%? Maybe 1% if they're a rock star? It gets worse than that because your equity and founder equity (let alone the investor's equity) aren't the same. Theirs will have things like liquidation preferences and participating preferred. Yours may well just disappear on dilution or the kiss of death: a down round.

If your startup gets bought in the sub-$100 million range, the acquirer might avoid paying out employees by giving signing bonuses to the founders to join as VPs and pay out the investors while paying pennies on the dollar to common shareholders. This may have changed but there were rules around acquiring companies for less than ~$60 million that meant it was much better to buy the company for $60m and pay founder signing bonuses for another $40 million rather than acquiring it for $100 million and that $40 million difference is coming out of your pocket.

On top of all that, you, as an employee, will have very limited opportunities to liquidiate your equity prior to an IPO that will probably never happen (you'll get acquired instead and that company may well be public). Founders and investors may sell some of their equity on future rounds. Sometimes employees will have access to this but often they won't.

Now compare this to the FAANG path. It's pretty easy to get to $400k+ total comp for really not that much stress and very little uncertainty. You'll never make $100 million this way (unless you become an SVP+) but let's face it, your startup isn't making you $100 million either.

Honestly, things like this read like VC propaganda just trying to keep the pipeline of warm bodies fed. Outliers are used to sell this well I have some outliers too: Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. None of them worked for a startup first.

The power of anecdotes and survivor bias.
Follow-up question, assuming we define BB(n) = max number of 1s written to tape for a halting machine of n states.

Does it make sense to compare BB(n) against A333479(n)?

It seems like A333479(n) grows much faster... my mind is jumping to the classic "problem" of being able to construct a lambda term of size O(2^n) using only O(n) steps. For a Turing machine, writing a symbol requires at least one step. But for lambda, you can generate large terms very quickly.

(Of course, this isn't a fundamental issue with lambda calculus, and there are other notions of size that are more "realistic". But focusing on just lambda calculus normal form sizes, how do we resolve this?)
Null isn't banning these people. He's encouraging them with a wink or a nod. It's like Nazis and bars. See a Nazi, 86 the Nazi or the friends will show up and make your bar a Nazi bar.
Unarmed police shootings are amazingly rare on a yearly basis.
You like this idea can you upvoted in the product hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/extension-hub/reviews/n...
Making more money?

It’s not like we won’t have heat at all. Bills and prices will just become super high. The fact that everyone knows this will blunt impact. I’m seeing lots of city lights out or turned down. Smart energy use will probably become a bigger topic.

I live in a big Polish city though, so someone will just take care of it and charge me. For people who own houses and live outside cities I have heard of friends’ parents stockpiling coal, fuel, wood etc. And that it can be difficult to buy those at reasonable prices.

However I think it is important to remember at moments like this that we live in the 1st world and in 2022. We have gotten used to cheap luxuries. Headlines would like us to have great fear in losing even a little tiny bit. But I don’t think this is the case. Normal people aren’t afraid at all, they’re just pissed that everything is expensive.

Everyone understands that there is a war going on, and that there are very important values which we represent as the EU. In this attack the enemy intends to cripple those beliefs by creating discomfort for us. They want to prove to themselves that we are these decadent materialists that go into a mass hysteria at first sign of trouble.

But we got hit by a huge wave of refugees, and instead of lashing out at them, we’ve made them feel welcome. I suspect something similar will be the case here - people will just do what they can to conserve energy.
The Original “Universal” Port by Atari
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/oct-17-coronavirus-and-pain-...
"adapt". There's decades of pain and death for millions in your use of the word, pain and death that could have been avoided, and will undo much of whatever the that 50+ year dependency produced.

Also say what you will about US policy, we may not be altruists but we're a far lesser evil than the Russians have ever been from a European perspective. Cheap energy from Russia has been a Faustian bargain for at least the last 15 years.