skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take on raising prices (ran this playbook twice now, once at my company, once with a company I'm an angel in):

- Grandfather in old users for as long as you can. Forever if it's feasible. More than likely future customer revenue >>> current customer revenue so it's not worth burning goodwill. Don't go past this point unless you have a really good reason.

- If you absolutely need to increase prices for current customers, the warning should be long (6mo+). If people want to leave, they shouldn't feel rushed, and they should have time to put migrating off on their roadmap. More time also helps goodwill.

- Give several automatic extensions of ~1 month after initial deadline. No matter how many times you email, some people won't read them. This has a few benefits. 1) extensions help pick up some users who would have churned. They might miss deadline 1, but you can pick up an extra 10-15% on an extension. 2) It give you something to point to when the price increase hits and they contact support ("we told you 4 times, and extended it twice already"). It's not perfect, but it helps. Be sure to send an automatic email when you extend. 3) People will leave it to the last minute, and migrating off might take longer than planned. Blanket extensions reduce the number of panicked manual extensions, and lower manual support load.

- Be willing to give a manual extensions of a fixed time for those who raise a stink to support. Messaging can be "we'll give you a 4th extension of 3 months, but this is really the last one". Let the support team grant these without any approval to lower management overhead. It makes most people happy, but more importantly, it spreads out the anger over a longer time.

Ultimately, the steps above will slightly increase uptake, but dramatically reduce the chance of ending up on the front page of hacker news. The latter is more important, it's burning chances with future customers.

Mailchimp's Mandrill is still the worst case I've ever seen. Cheap to host product, increased prices dramatically, with minimal warning, no opt in, and unsympathetic tone from C-suite. People don't forget when companies act like this. Also: don't use Mailchimp.
it's about deprofessionalizing it so cheaper people can do a "good-enough" job that you can't charge high prices for your service.

The loom and sewing machine didn't eliminate the seamstress, it just impoverished the profession.

It's like driverless trucks; what you'll actually see is mostly driverless outsourced and remotely monitored trucks where someone is making something like $1/day monitoring 5 trucks at once and switching it to remote control mode when needed.

We've proactively organized our economy to produce these kinds of outcomes. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's the unquestioned assumptions of how we've collectively presumed it will be used.
There might be similar or better phd research programs in india as well. However, there is a slim chance they can match the funding that western universities can
This is amazing, and scary (as a musician) but also reliably kills firefox on iOS!
> Your right to gamble with your health ends when you expect to be able to get treatment if the gamble comes out badly.

I wonder how that would apply to obesity and unprotected sex.
A MultiCloud Rant
Software engineers are not a group, there was no way "we" could decide not to do this.
…or not raise prices. I think the root cause of our broken economy is that way too much of gross margin has been flowing to owners/capital instead of workers.
I couldn‘t, but I could also not study many other things and not because of what you call difficulty. Quite simply different people are good at some things and less good at others.

Maybe you are better at CS than music and therefore perceive it as easy and the other one as hard.
Why Github? I'm assuming you mean their code review interface, which is so incredibly lacking I don't even bother with it anymore and I just pull the branch locally and use my IDE.
Hiding in plain sight: How Josephine Baker became a spy for the Allies
See also: "Power Up: What Keeps McMurdo Going?" https://scienceroadshow.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/power-up-wh...
Denmark doesn’t recommend COVID vaccines anymore to anyone under 50 who is not at risk or work in health sector [0].

> People aged under 50 are generally not at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill from covid-19. In addition, younger people aged under 50 are well protected against becoming severely ill from covid-19, as a very large number of them have already been vaccinated and have previously been infected with covid-19, and there is consequently good immunity among this part of the population.

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[0]: https://sst.dk/en/English/Corona-eng/Vaccination-against-cov...
Here are some of my unsolicited and harebrained climate startup ideas. I’m poor and I can’t afford to pursue any of these but I believe a carbon-neutral future will require these things:

* Cheap EV chargers for people who don’t own houses. Young people are the most likely to be open to EVs, but they’re also the least likely to own a house. Charging is a major barrier to entry. Create something so cheap and ubiquitous that charging is not a concern. For example chargers built into lamp posts.

* Figure out UHVDC to enable clean energy surpluses to be sold internationally. Reliable UHVDC networks will allow clean energy projects to service more geographic area, making them more competitive. Eventually, storage might not even be necessary, since dark/non-windy regions can always pull from regions with wind or sun. And when fusion power comes online in a few decades, huge energy surpluses will be very profitable.

* Passive carbon capture via nuclear barges. We’ve had nuclear reactors in the water for decades, let’s put them to use capturing carbon.

* Floatovoltaics. Land isn’t always cheap. Put solar panels in other places. There are other positive side effects as well, such as reducing algae blooms and reducing evaporation.
> I am cursed with a low IQ, with a low everything. I have lost all hope in myself.

Not a low everything, we are an accumulation of our experiences (both good and bad), what you choose to do with that is up to you. If you are able to recognize your shortcomings you're already better off than 90% of people.

Everyone has their shortcomings, confidence isn't an ignorance of those shortcomings (that's ego) it's joyful acceptance of them in a persistent manner.

I'm not an intelligent person by any means but I am a persistent one. I failed Spanish twice in high school but persisted and got it the third time with a C, in college I failed pre-calc, differential equations, and linear algebra all at least once but continued and eventually passed. For my first Internship I applied to over 180 different companies, only three gave me interviews, the last of which gave me an offer. The first 9 women I asked out said no, after that it got to be around a 50-50 shot as to whether they'd say yes.

Even if you fail at doing the same thing 99% of the time, if you try enough you can get your desired outcome. The thing about failing is that the better you are at it, and the more you do it, the quicker you'll find a way out.

If you legitimately believe that a "low IQ" is holding you back, you are wrong. You can blame the world or people around you all you want, and it might even be true, but at the end of the day the only person out there to improve your circumstances is yourself.
Java is a language built up of failed experiments in language design.

My full rant about it is https://blog.habets.se/2022/08/Java-a-fractal-of-bad-experim...

It's partially my subjective opinion, but it seems that almost every single language design decision that Java made was, in retrospect, a bad one.

Not that I could have done better. It's just that none of it panned out.
If you're over 80, you should probably get vaccinated.
I had a cousin who spent years in solitary for a wrongful conviction that was later overturned. She had a hard time re-assimilating and was overwhelmed by almost all social contact for a while. She was freed during covid so we did a drive by "welcome home" type thing, probably for the best because even then she was visibly overwhelmed with anxiety. To see a person freed from that scenario and still mentally and emotionally scarred, unable to enjoy seeing their loved ones, it's incredibly sad, horrifying to know this is happening to so many people right now. To think of how often it's happening for wrongful convictions is even sadder. The state of "justice" in the US is despicable.
To me that has always been the promise of the internet: to connect with people on topics I'm passionate about as such a thing is highly constrained in the real world. It's a brand new capability, a super power.

The opposite is true for generic chitchat online. Instead of more powerful, it is less powerful compared to the real world equivalent. You don't gain anything.
Because SQL allows you to better specify what data you're interested in? GraphQL and OData take a similar approach.
a little more difficult now that no one wears those wooden shoes anymore, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabot_(shoe)
Pac-Man in a kippah? Lost Jewish educational Apple II games salvaged
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems (2021)
Ever wonder what the Jewish version of Pac-Man might look like?

In the early 1980s, the Gesher organization in Israel began developing educational software for Jewish students. They recruited Jerusalem Post cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, who worked with them on four games for the Apple II: "Aleph Baiters," "Nosh Kosh," "Borders," and "The Georgia Variations."

These games were shown at conferences and profiled in newspapers and magazines. But Gesher didn't really know how to sell software. The games received little distribution and were lost to time.

... Until a few weeks ago when I published them on my website "Break Into Chat". I also recovered several other collections of software created by Kirschen (plus the histories behind them) for the Atari ST, Amiga, and IBM PC.
That isn't relevant because there is no evidence that the vaccine reduces your risk of suffering from myocarditis after infection. (It isn't even necessarily true, but that is a separate matter).
If you're just using the pre-compiled binaries, this Go patch is baked in. If you're building the CockroachDB binary from source, and are just following our usual build steps using Bazel, you'll get this stuff as is. There's no need to compile a custom Go first.
Want to make sure you're familiar with the Pangeo community: www.pangeo.io

I don't think any of these challenges are "solved", but there's a groundswell of technology that is well-situated to make a big impact in these domains. The largest barriers that still remain are the ownership of engineering processes/workflow to transform larger gridded datasets to ARCO (analysis-ready, cloud-optimized) formats, as well as tooling to mediate between heterogeneous datasets (e.g. combining regular vs irregular or arbitrarily gridded data, such as land surveys or ZIP codes).

There are definitely players in the space working on these, but much is left to be done here.
If he doesn't have a majority of the vote on his own, the only way it could have passed is if your other friend voted in favor of it, as the issuance of new shares/equity in an LLC requires a vote if the shares were not already authorized.

I'm guessing that the guy probably decided to waive some of his salary in exchange for equity-based compensation (possibly by increasing his salary, which wouldn't require a vote, and then swapping the monetary increase for shares of equivalent value, which also wouldn't require a vote if the shares were already authorized)...

When you talk to a lawyer about this, make sure to have a copy of your capital (/equity) table, and all resolutions about the authorized number of shares, and any documents you have related to the actual issuance of shares or capital.

Don't fire him or do anything else of that nature until you talk to a lawyer, as any sort of action could be construed as retaliatory and you'll want legal advice about that to make sure you do it the kosher way.
> a huge chunk of the population already got covid during the entire year no vaccine existed and have natural immunity, so that's not really a factor at this point.

The new variants are effective at evading immunity from earlier variants so, no, that's not moot. Even without evasion you'd still need to consider how quickly immunity wanes, too. The vaccines are holding up well for avoiding hospitalization but you're still looking at multiple per year given how much COVID has been mutating.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-new-covid-wave
You can still flash previous Libreboot releases

There are these guys that made some updates to coreboot
https://docs.dasharo.com/variants/asus_kgpe_d16/releases/
I just checked. I can find it on archive. I don't want to post that in a public board. Please do your due diligence
As a listener, I think you're probably still safe. Can you use this to help you though? Maybe.

It's impressive what it produces, but I think it probably lacks substance in the same way the visual AI art stuff does. For the most part, it passes what I call the at-a-glanceness test. It's little better than apophenia (the same thing that makes you see shapes in clouds, faces in rocks, or think you've recognised a familiar word in a foreign language; the last one can happen more often though).

So, I think these tools will be used to do background work (ie for visuals maybe help with background tasks in CGI or faraway textures in games). I know less about audio, but I assume it could maybe help a DJ create a transition between two segments they want to combine, as opposed make the whole composition for them, but idk if that example makes sense.

Now, onto a more human point: I think that people often listen to music because it means something to them. Similar for people who appreciate visual art.

I also love interactive and light art, and I love talking to other artists at light festivals who make them because of the stories and journeys behind their art too. Humans and art are a package deal, IMO.

Edit: typos and to add: Also, I think prompt authorship is an art unto itself. I'm amazed what people can craft with it, but I'm more impressed by the craft itself than the outputs. Don't get me wrong, the outputs are darn cool, but not if you look closer. And it's impossible to look beneath the surface altogether, as there is nothing in the output but the pixels.
The "vaccine mandates" that have been around since the 90s have been relatively weak or non-existent, via any number of possible exemptions.

Perhaps the military had some say but it's relatively easy to not accidentally enlist.
> PR != "made-up nonsense"

It really is. I've actually argued with people (multiple times in multiple companies) about the press release containing false information, and they told me "that's just what we do."

What do you think PR is if not making something up to present a positive story? There isn't even a law that says it has to be truthful, so long as you aren't soliciting something. I can make a claim that I developed a working nuclear fusion reactor and put out a press release for it. Anyone with a brain would know it's bullshit but it's still PR. It's completely legal and standard practice.

No offense, but I think you should educate yourself further.

https://www.bu.edu/prlab/2020/04/07/is-pr-inherently-unethic...
Well, you clearly have not experienced the housing market in my country, where you need to pay 30 year's labor for a small place of your own. It's the way it is, I cannot see it changing any time soon, that's why I feel I am not enough for life.

I know we're all just dirt in the sand, eventually, but "carpe diem-ing" through life seems for me to be impossible without a good source of income. Everything is expensive, everything requires money. That's why I cannot find happiness, I am too poor to afford to think about happiness to begin with.
> The unvaccinated were filling up the hospitals which was putting other people at risk.

> Your right to gamble with your health ends when you expect to be able to get treatment if the gamble comes out badly.

My right to choose my own treatment outweighs any right you have to feel safer. That includes you feeling safe that the local hospital system will not be at capacity if you have to be admitted.

It’s no different than having a bunch of chain smokers, alcoholics, or morbidly obese people clogging the medical system. People have the right to make potentially destructive choices that are not directly harmful to those around them.
Speaking as one of the outsiders that the other commenters warned you made SV/programmers look bad... yeah, you do look bad.
Where can I try Silphion? What 5-star chef has gotten hold of it already so we can taste this marvel.
You've been posting a lot of comments lately using HN for ideological battle. We ban this sort of account, regardless of what they're battling for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Moreover we've warned you before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33267564 (Oct 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29847640 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621408 (Dec 2021)

Besides that, someone has pointed out to me that your username is trollish (yes, I'm slow sometimes). We don't allow that - see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Between that and your comments that have been breaking the rules, that's too much. I've therefore banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Ask HN: Preferred Web Archive?
I’ve been using archive.ph since I set up autotext for it on my device. You can view archives of a page, or request a page to be archived, by opening https://archive.ph/<url>—eg, https://archive.ph/https://news.ycombinator.com/).

I have found archive.ph to be great. Pages I try to open—normally HN and memeorandum.com posts from paywalled sites—are almost always already archived, and if not requesting a new archive works well in a reasonable amount of time.

I know that there are many other similar web archives, and I’m sure folks here have opinions about them. Do you have a preference? Why?

Most importantly, when folks post archive links for HN posts, which archive(s) would you prefer people to use?
Materialized views enable you to "cache" the response, and only refresh it periodically.
The number of public instances appears to be small [1], though it is not really meant to be listening on a public interface. So maybe it's use is fading away.

[1] - https://www.shodan.io/search?query=ntop
Sorry, I mean a bibliography of research into SRS across the past 70 years.

I'm particularly interested in pre-1977 research that Steinem would have had access to.

In short I, want to use my annoyance at her non-apology apology to fuel my education in the history of trans research. :)
You didn't think this through. There is little charity in a private foundation: besides the immediate tax breaks the billionaires receive, the foundation is required to spend only 5% of its endowment on things that are remotely related to charity. The rest of the money is used like always: to buy assets, like stocks. These assets are in practice still controlled by the owner of the foundation. For example, Gates has for decades used his billions to invest in biotech that will ultimately benefit his personal investments. And I'm not event talking about the political power you can buy with your "charity giveaways".
Yes it's clickbait, so I didn't upvote it; an accurate title would have been "Lessons learned upgrading Lichess from Scala 2 -> 3 and the need to tune the JVM". A drama-free title like that would have been fine, and I would have upvoted.
If you're heating hot water you already have a problem ;) (I know, I know).
Every advancement in software engineering productivity throughout history has done the exact opposite. It increases the overall problem space for the profession and you need more and more programmers to meet the demand.
Copyright as we know it is, simply put: entirely broken.

There is no world imaginable where the concept of owning ideas should be protected. Imagine if chefs had to license recipes…

The arts communities need to take cues from the scientific community where citations are the cultural norm. And as a society we need to figure out how to protect artists by protecting and celebrating the expression of ideas. Not the ideas themselves.
I have tinnitus.For 23 years.

My hearing is no worse. It is actually very sensitive to noise. I need to use earplugs to be able to sleep. I am poor sleeper unfortunately, it could be the reason.

I got used to tinnitus. I think mindfulness meditation before bed could benefit you. I don't think there is much you can do, especially trying to fight it or think about it.
Is it though? The evidence suggests (caveat below) that most salary increases have been eaten up in inflation. In the meanwhile businesses are suffering and customers are getting poorer service.

Caveat: The actual numbers show that salary increases at the bottom have been slightly higher than inflation. However, food, energy and housing inflation have all been higher than overall inflation, which are items people at the bottom face more. So those who’ve seen their salaries increase the most have also almost certainly seen higher inflation than the headline number.

Also, wages were already increasing prior to the pandemic due to several successful efforts to increase minimum wages, etc. So even without the pandemic and the associated immigrant slowdown, there would likely have been some continued wage increases.
> You can attack a car on the only road from the airport for example if you know exactly when and where to attack.

Was this the case with the stalker? From what I can tell the airplane landed the day before, and I haven't seen any evidence that the incident occurred near the airport.
I think you're right, and an additional factor is that the vaccine is tangible and certain where the virus is invisible and may or may not be present in any given situation (and in unknown quantity).
> Bus lines instead tend to follow where the traffic wants to go. Around here, many shopping malls double as bus stations because the primary aim of transit seems to be circulating consumers around places they will spend money.

This is circular reasoning though. Bus lines go to the mall, but malls are built where the bus lines go. Malls use a lot of space, so carving out a little bit for transit is easy.
Once upon a time, there were computers made by IBM, Wang, and a few others that did nothing but word processing. They were massively expensive, and in the early 80's, were quickly killed off by the WordStar program running on the first wave of commercial desktop PC's.

I was contracted by a law firm to manage about a dozen temp workers to convert 1000s of Wang-formatted files to WordStar. Their IT people had us opening each Wang file with a conversion feature in WordStar, and then saving it. WordStar had to be opened and closed for each conversion. (The PCs got files from what was, essentially, a shared hard disk, but DOS and WordStar ran from floppy disks. I.e., it was all very slow.)

I spent my first few hours on the job figuring out what WordStar was doing. I discovered the conversion feature was a stand-alone program, and then worked out the syntax for feeding it a file. Then I built a batch file that would recursively convert entire directories. Needless to say, I was out of a crushingly dull job in a few days instead of a month or so.
Sure, but that's not what Twelve is doing or what the "I should start an oil company" comment suggested. They're talking about extracting CO2 to make fuel, and then burning it again in the same petroleum-based economy.