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Hi HN readers,

I’m the CEO and co-founder of Appsmith. Appsmith is a 2020 open source project that aims to be a quick way to build apps that talk to multiple data sources. People use Appsmith when they need a CRUD app or an admin panel or a complex internal enterprise application. We are an open source alternative to Retool.

It’s hard enough to build a business model around an open source project and getting the pricing right is a critical step. So today, we’re announcing usage-based pricing for all Appsmith customers. Appsmith Business now costs $0.40 per hour per user, capped at $20 per user per month. The self-hosted community edition is still, of course, free and open source, and we still offer the Enterprise edition with custom pricing.

We strongly believe that user-based pricing, which most of the SaaS industry and most of our competitors use, is unfair to the customers, and that usage-based pricing is a much fairer alternative.

When it comes to coming up with the right price for using software, tech companies have traditionally leaned toward user-based pricing, where customers pay based on the number of people who have access to the software from their team or “workspace”. The truth is, user-based pricing tends to artificially limit the number of users who can experiment with the software, can lead to wasted resources, and therefore carries an awful lot of hidden risk for customers.

But we propose that there is an already-proven alternative! In fact, “adoption for usage based pricing has doubled over the past four years.” (https://openviewpartners.com/blog/state-of-usage-based-prici...)

We have seen a highly successful wave toward usage-based pricing in the tech industry from AWS to Snowflake that can and should also apply to internal app builder companies in order to create a better experience for developers and open the doors wider to continued innovation.

When we first started testing usage-based pricing eight months ago, internal app builder companies were still in the user-based phase (the overwhelming majority still are), including well-known names like our biggest competitor, Retool. As a result, Retool has no choice but to try to sign large enterprise contracts with the pricing locked up before the user sees any value. The prices range from $25,000 to upwards of $100,000. User-based pricing is an approximate way of measuring usage and value, but it’s simply not granular enough to accurately gauge the customer’s needs. They are paying for seats that never log in and Retool isn’t able to spend time promoting more usage and a better developer experience because they must move on to the next sale. We see this as a huge inefficiency in their pricing model that ultimately ends up being unfriendly to customers.

Software should exist to enable developers to create and innovate, not make them feel unfairly exploited. While we believe that usage-based pricing is definitely the right way to achieve that, we would love to hear from our community and beyond - what is the fairest pricing structure for software in your opinion?
How Russia uses nuclear threats to shape Western responses to aggression
it's orders of magnitude easier to regulate and observe large scale nuclear projects then thousands of hackers spread all over globe.
> As you say, I find the act of writing code is hardly the bottleneck to my productivity.

When people claim ChatGPT can replace software engineers because it can sort of code is always puzzling to me. 20 years into this career, and writing code is only a minor part of my day-to-day activities.

A part I do enjoy doing, but still minor part nonetheless.

> What if you design an organization so that coding is the bottleneck? How transformative would LLMs be?

The funny thing is that although ChatGPT has been an amazing coding assistant tool, it can't meaningfully write code beyond boilerplate to me. I use it more as search engine on steroids, rather than actually relying on the code it writes.

A few times it even got into a hallucination loop going through different flavors of uncompilable code when I asked "how to do X using library Y", and refining the question was getting nowhere.

ChatGPT is an amazing tool that provides me value beyond the 20 bucks per month I pay. But still has far too many limitations. It's sort of funny to see people LARPing that it will kill knowledge jobs in the near term.
Nice idea. I use Readwise in the river/shortlist mode and have a similar filter (not in shortlist, saved > x days ago), but I have to manually clear it out.
I'm using AI to make my AI prompt.

Money Please!!!
Yes of course? Not everything needs to go in an energy intensive dryer. It'll air dry just fine inside or outside
As a data point (another aFF on Android) I could scroll down, but the experience is painful. I am interested in SDRs and have a bunch of HackFRs and dongles, but the page was very off-putting. I suspect most tinkerers that would be interested in this hardware would love an option to see all this on a static web page.
I suspect that a lot of our tolerance of this stuff in prehistory stems from a combination of:

- spices and seasoning was a lot less common and meat was gamey, not the well-fattened meats we're used to. So this stuff already tasted bland and not amazing as a baseline

- it was preferable to starving, and hunger is the best spice of them all
Facebook Parent Meta Plans Lower Bonus Payouts
Wouldn't something like that be really hard to debug in real world scenarios ?
Now we need next gen GPT to automate "prompt engineering" itself. I guess this means being able to

1- Better "understand" your personal way/style of communicating and translate it to the model (maybe by being trained on your personal chats/emails/notes/docs?)

2- Ask you enough questions (like a consultant) to infer a clearer understanding of what you mean (by resolving unsaid assumptions, deciding between sub-choices...)
Unfortunately the person who only spends 1 hour working on a blog post, but can spend 100 hours cranking out 100 blog posts, wins out. See Simon Willison, for example.
That would be far more sensible (perhaps with different amounts based on co2 generation) - especially the crazy vehicle excise duty where two identical cars will pay the same, whether they do 3,000 miles a year or 130,000 miles a year.

But that would be far easier and cheaper than implementing some GPS tracking system in 31 million vehicles, where's the 9-figure contracts that can be given to the mate of a minister?
Don't get me wrong, Priuses are good cars, just that they have a stereotype associated with them these days given how successful they are in the ride share and taxi markets. I hope Toyota makes a good economy EV soon, but they've been obsessed with hydrogen for too long.
That guy didn’t do anything useful, he has money and some of his companies made a few successful products in spite of he being there.

You honestly couldn’t mismanage a company more than what he currently does with twitter - a goddamn cabbage would have done a better job, by literally not doing anything.
> You know very well

please don't assume that all languages have the same sneaky sub-meanings, or, if we speak the same language[1], don't assume that everyone is as ignorant or stupid as you are

[1] https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/farina/
Excellent description, just another gimmick
To me it sounds like an Accenture submarine. "Come and let us charge you for doing something you can do yourself". Maybe I'm just a cynical techie, but I don't think some guy who hasn't studied anything technical is going to provide any value in talking to the AI. Chances are you will do much better with domain knowledge, eg a dev asking it for code, or a lawyer asking it for legal precedents.
https://archive.is/tPYjs
But each of those is a separate thing. Gold the commodity is traded and regulated differently than a gold ETF. Just because they’re both related to the metal does not mean a single regulatory body has dominion over both.
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I also got a copy of VB (I think VB4) as a teenager and it was a perfect stepping stone into GUI programming. I had been writing DOS games in QBASIC for years, and some basic (heh) C/C++. But the leap to writing Windows apps in C++ was terrifying. There was so much more to learn. What the heck is an SDK and why does the Windows SDK contain like 5 trillion different functions, many of which have ALMOST the same name and method signature? What is an event? What on earth is a CORBA or an OLE? As a teen with no mentor and no resources besides books and the early web it was overwhelming.

But VB did so much of the work for you. And it was BASIC, which I already knew well. So it was exactly what I needed to understand the fundamentals without having to boil the whole ocean at once just to get a window with a button on my screen.

Agree it wasn't really suitable for large scale projects (although it got used for them anyway heh). Somehow VB apps always looked and felt "wrong", like they were a cheap knockoff. But for learning, and writing quick non-commercial apps, it was just right.

All that said, I feel no nostalgia or desire to go back.
Unfortunately, LLMs are still prone to make facts up, and very persuasively. In fact, most of non-trivial topics I tried have required double-/triple- checking, so it's sometimes not really productive to use chatGPT.

You are correct that I made an error in my previous response.

I apologize for the confusion I may have caused in my previous response

I appreciate you bringing this to my attention.

I apologize, thank you for your attention to detail!
I have know kids from the Washington, DC, area who went to McGill and who went to Reed.

Didn't Steve Jobs drop out of Reed?
A quirky product that succeeds would cease to be quirky. It would no longer stand out. Difference and rarity go hand in hand.
I briefly worked with a software engineer who was making about a million dollars a year.

I mentioned that an approach would be a lot of work. His response:

“It’s just typing. Typey typey type (makes fingers on keyboard gesture).” Absolute lightbulb moment for me.

To become a senior engineer is to realize that the code writing part is inconsequential as long as there are no technical unknowns in the work.

It’s freed me to try out huge sweeping changes just for fun and generally detach from my code. Sometimes I delete large, intricate changes so quickly and ruthlessly that my colleagues have to ask me to reopen them.

We aren’t paid to write working code. We are paid to grow harmonious systems. Working code is table stakes.
Statute of limitations exist for a reason.
Oi - where to start - let's go one by one.

>> Because US/western social media has same market access to PRC

I do not believe that the preferred platforms of the CCP, owned and operated by the same people, would not be favored in China. There is no open or transparent lobbying in China. Rather, overnight, someone from the CCP can decide that your platform should be shut down and your employees harassed, arrested and/or prosecuted. Yes, the market is huge, but why would any western company take that chance. For all its flaws, the US doesn't have these issues to this level. The TikTok debate is happening relatively slowly and a lot of it in the open (So our politicians can showboat, but still). TikTok also has access to the best lawyers, lobbyists, as well as grounds for appeal. Those in power will also be politically assailed by their opponents on behalf of those under 35 for shutting down their favored platform. People could conceivably lose office for the decision.

>> Forward to today, somehow TikTok operating in US while compliant to US laws managed outcompeted US platforms.

No argument here - TikTok has done amazing and has played by the rules (though if you have pile of nearly infinite money from a powerful government, you can do a lot). I'd argue that realpolitik, is alive and well, always has been and always will be. TikTok can both influence (which I'm less worried about thanks to the other avenues of free speech) but TikTok can also collect and retain the moral and legal trespass of the young for decades to then use it as blackmail when they are the ones seeking positions of power. You could argue the same for all the other socials, and I think their data retention is what should really be limited, but they are at least within the confines of a legal system, that yes, has flaws, but is open enough.

I'm not naive enough to believe the US is devoid of corruption, backroom deals, people whose rights are denied or trampled on etc. But compared to the CCP's framework, there is no debate.

Personally, I think TikTok has a first amendment right to exist regardless of who owns it. It's the data retention that really worries me, and unless you count data as property (which I could be convinced of), there is not right to data retention.
Coevolving with meat didn't stop saturated fat from raising our rate of cardiovascular disease.

Due to antagonistic pleiotropy and short term reproductive selection you could even argue that novel foods have an advantage over the foods we've "adapted to" since our bodies never learned to make short term trade-offs with those foods.

Those skeptics should also be skeptical of the naturalistic fallacy.
Achieving Next-Level Clouds in Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
It does really stand out from how documentation on a low level library has traditionally been presented.
Not to mention that English dictionaries have a definition for “cradle” like “a place, process, or event in which something originates or flourishes.” That river is literally that.
Yeah, I loved VB's drag-and-drop method of building a GUI. Are there any programs out there these days that will let you drag-and-drop components to build a web page?
I agree with the concept, but I tend to view my to-read pile more like a sushi conveyor than a river. Assuming I'm still interested later in what I have to read, then it can come round again.
I have too many good books queued for never-reading-before-i-die, but it makes me feel good, and feel phony knowledgeable.
> the hurdle of wearing something over your eyes for hours at a time

I agree. I think this is the main issue, actually. As long as that's required, VR will have limited appeal.
Tiptap Stable Release, Tiptap Collab and Hocuspocus 2.0.0 Are Out
It's Release Day: Tiptap Stable Release, Tiptap Collab & Hocuspocus 2.0.0 are out!

We set ourselves some bold goals this year and are delivering with our biggest releases yet.

Tiptap Editor Stable Release

We have released the 2.0.0 stable version of the Tiptap Editor. After 24 months in beta and a challenging last year, we have taken Tiptap to the next level! From now on, semantic versioning applies. The Tiptap editor is now an adult: https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Tiptap Collab Release Beta

After six months of work, we finally announce the launch of Tiptap Collab, the Plug'n'Play real-time synchronization and collaboration cloud for your app. It's Hocuspocus on steroids in the cloud: https://tiptap.dev/hocuspocus/server/cloud

All you need is a Tiptap Pro account and a few lines of code in your Tiptap editor, and everything is in sync. No matter what content you've stored in your Tiptap editor.

And guess what? You can use Tiptap Collab with every app! Since Tiptap Collab is based on Yjs, you can use it for every application, as long as you use Yjs. It’s done with a few lines of code in your app.

Hocuspocus 2.0.0 Release

After the stable release in January 2023, Hocuspocus gets its first major version update with the new core feature called “Multiplexing”. Multiplexing allows you to synchronize multiple documents over the same websocket connection. This is especially useful when working with multiple documents at the same time and will make this experience even faster: https://github.com/ueberdosis/hocuspocus/releases/tag/v2.0.0

We are excited to invest even more time and commitment into Tiptap and especially look forward to your contribution!

Tiptap is a product baked by and for the community and will be even more this year.
He was never “good”, he was/is just an egomaniac who need attention.
There is absolutely nothing misleading about the phrase "insect flour". And people are allowed to try to normalize things. See "part of a balanced breakfast" from cereal commercials.
That RLBox idea of compiling libraries to WASM and then back to native code to get memory safety is wild!
> "Exciting" "Unique" colors look a bit silly or non-unique when your neighbors have the same color.

Reminds me a lot of the orange Chevys Cruzing around.
With eye tracking they will be able to determine your interest level to allow additional targeted advertising of things that you eye lingers on. If you saw an alcohol ad and lingered on it because you're a recovering alcoholic they'll know to really ramp up the ads on that since they've identified you as having a weakness to them. Maybe they'll even use iris scans or databases of eye movement patterns to identify you as an individual for even better user tracking.
Disney Lays Off Ike Perlmutter, Chairman of Marvel Entertainment
There's some risk here, but there's also risk utilizing any third party services for key parts of your business. If OpenAI increased pricing significantly or eliminated access (both of which seem unrealistic), there will likely be plenty of alternatives soon to fall back on. I wouldn't avoid creating an AI product because of this remote possibility.
On Android, Chrome updates without a device restart, unlike WebKit on iOS, and updates are faster to roll out.
What I mean by "missing the point" is that you were addressing something completely out of left field and had nothing to do with what I wrote. Now you are doing it again.
They Built chatGPT too soon
"It’s important that we understand how it works so we can develop safer drugs with fewer side effects."

Allow me to translate: it's important to understand how it works so we can develop a patented drug that costs 100x more per dose, then we will work on getting aspirin banned due to its "side effects"
Probably the job posting was just to provide legal cover for some spectacularly indulgent act of nepotism, like hiring the CEO's otherwise useless frat boy son after he got kicked out of school for cocaine and sexual abuse. I'm surprised Truth Social hasn't hired Don Jr. to write conspiracy theories and press releases by whispering to ChatGPT3 yet.
The Lightest Paint in the World
But he's been consistently saying this for almost a decade, and thats one of the reasons he was involved in OpenAI in the first place (back when it was genuinely open)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/17/elon-musk...

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/openai-elon-musk-sam-altman-pl...
I've been working on a library that is basically what you're describing: https://github.com/nealfwilliams/style-kit-n

Feedback welcome
I am not vegan and I don't understand why you brought them up. I am not even arguing for vegetarianism, if we all just replaced beef with pork that would be a huge improvement.

Most deforestation of the Amazon is done to create more land for cattle, to give you one example. It is by far the largest driver of tropical deforestation, and almost all global deforestation is tropical. Grazing land that can't support anything else is by definition not included in statistics on deforestation or loss of biomass and biodiversity.

https://ourworldindata.org/what-are-drivers-deforestation

It's true that a lot of cow feed is stuff humans won't eat, but it's not true that it would all be wasted if we stop raising cows. We can grow less of it, we can throw the scraps in anaerobic digesters to generate power, we can simply feed it to other animals, as a last resort we can use it for compost.

I'm pretty sure vegans are less than 1% of the world, and I don't think they have some special influence over the IPCC and most climate scientists on the planet.
It's a shame AR technology is vaporware and doesn't really exist yet.
I'm no fan of Scoble, but among AI hypemen on Twitter, he's far from influential.
Twitter obtains subpoena forcing GitHub to unmask source-code leaker
I can easily see myself opening this more frequently than twitter. No more distractions!
> (Snap) may be the most used by virtue of being rammed down user's throats by projects with existing user capture (e.g. LetsEncrypt)

Care to expand on this? I'm not in Ubuntu-land but can't imagine how a service with an open protocol and multiple clients forces you onto Snap.
Thanks for the advice, I've just been able to resolve the trackpad issue on my XPS 9510 that's been driving me mad for over 1 year.
This is a great point. I haven't run into an easier visual prototyping system that's accessible and fairly close to what the end user would see from an interaction perspective. Did this way back in undergrad. Used VB to quickly visually prototype and then Visual C++ for the final project.
Believing in tightening immigration controls is a matter of policy that people can reasonably disagree on. "I'm going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" takes that policy and makes it populist vote-grabbing.

Likewise, there's plenty to be said about standards for food safety and quality, but legislating against lab-grown meat serves no practical purpose right now (it may in the future), other than pure political grandstanding.
You are comparing to different segments.

Sandero is 36 cm longer, 27 cm wider, 2 cm taller, and has 28L more of the trunk. So the difference will be even bigger.

For 20k you get Jogger, which is a wagon, even more space, and it can be a 7-seater.

And also real life range of Dacia Spring is around 160 km. So that is very little for 20k .€

Talking about Sandero, comparable in size Renault ZOE starts at 37k €
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - HENRY FORD

The world moves on. Dinosaurs either die or evolve.
LOL. I love this comment, although I think you are responding to the wrong person.
Pop really is a very pleasant experience, and probably the best I've had on a personal computer. 3/4 of my immediate family run it on Thinkpads; the only hold-out is a Gentoo teenager wanting to be "weird".
And Dad is a Law Professor. Hope he's not teaching the ethics course.
No problem. I am actually happy you asked instead of remaining convinced of your ideas.

I think if you and others ask these questions it means that there's room for improvement in how we should discuss EVs and renewables!
This is great news. The companies that are interested in controlling a new medium/platform to "extract value" from it should all get out.

This leaves space for those advancing the tech and content for it's own enjoyment. It might be slower than having everyone on the bandwagon but it develops closer to the desires of consumers than producers this way.
In her book "The Old Way", Elizabeth Marshall Thomas describes the Kalahari San who she lived with in the 1950s. Despite having bows and arrows some members of that group would persistence hunt.

Dmitriy Lykov(1940-1981) of the Lykov family living an isolated life in Siberia developed a method of persistence hunting, despite or perhaps because of, the absence of any sort of hunting culture in his tiny, isolated group.

Those are just two very recent examples off the top of my head of people persistence hunting for survival. Maybe you're out of your depth on this subject.
It could be that Chrome 106 on OS 2023-01-05 are protected, or just Chrome 108 on any OS is protected.

Or it could be sloppy reporting.
> name at least one specific event or group of weather events that have unambiguously killed thousands of people as a result of man-made climate change

Name at least one person who was unambiguously killed by smoking.
This was discussed here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946811
Is there any ecological concern re: water flow rate in rivers reducing over time? Akin to deforestation, extinction, etc.?
My dog's propensity for diarrhea makes me feel less inclined to state that she has any tolerance for it.