skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that Stripe is great for payments, Stripe Subscriptions and Stripe Billing were never really built specifically for SaaS.
The problem seems easy at first when you have just one plan at $100/month, you'll quickly have many more plans, all kind of discounts and special deals, custom "enterprise" plans for your larger customers and design partners, while having to grandfather your existing customer base and also allow easy upgrades/downgrades etc. A lot of SaaS pricing these days is built around tiers with certain usage limits on individual features, so you'll need to built that as well. And if you are working on an application with a fixed underlying cost for certain features (like genai tokens), you'll also have to implement metering. None of this is really part of your core product and yet most SaaS startups spent a lot of time building and maintaining (billing is hard!) the same functionality over and over again.

There are a few new modern players (disclaimer - I'm the CTO of one of them [0]) in the SaaS subscription mamagement and adjacent usage billing space now and I would highly recommend using such a solution while still relying on Stripe for just the payment processing part. It will save you a lot of technical headaches down the road and even should allow you to get started quicker (for example, we provide you with embedded pricing pages, quoting and sign up links, feature entitlements per customer, full metering support and much more out of the box) and iterate over your pricing faster as you grow.

[0] https://wingback.com
But you always need the second one to set it up for each service.

It's fine if you do that for two or three services. But my password manager has around 600 entries. If I would need to set up all of them on both keys and always switch the active one with the one in the safe location for setting up a new account I would go crazy. Having both of them in the same place kind of defeats the purpose of having two keys, as you would lose them together.

So better have a synced password manager and unlock the password manager with a hardware key.
Related. Others?

J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85 (1984) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25521617 - Dec 2020 (11 comments)

Banham avec Ballard: On style and violence (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22701113 - March 2020 (7 comments)
What's the recourse if the market isn't working correctly?
Oh man, wait until you hear how incompetent they are at messaging apps.
uMatrix-like extensions will stop this, making you explicitly allow the iFrame to run before it can happen.
To be fair, I just received an email from Google entitled "Google Podcasts is going away". Until I read your post I wasn't aware they were doing this.
The parent comment is discussing civil liability:

> ... then you as a company should be allowed to be sued into oblivion as well.
And health apps
Looks like it's been changed back! What was the "bland" title in the middle?
They _still_ don't support adding a custom feed?

That miss was what pushed me to google podcast in the first place, along with their absolute refusal to fix broken feeds for existing podcasts in their index.
LLVM Performance Improvements for WebAssembly
Customs already uses x-rays for this exact purpose.
Total aside, but if you have a Mac laptop and an AppleTV, you can easily mirror or extend your desktop to that apple tv over wifi.
Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs while Tim Cook is just...a friend of Steve Jobs....
Why would it be sarcasm? If I am root and want to write to /bin or /System, I should be able to, even if it might be dangerous. I get why Apple does it for normal consumers but for people who know what they're doing, it should be available, which it is by disabling it.
Hilarious and sounds like a username!
on the other hands, dating apps have made it easier than ever to find compatible partners, and technology means that even if your parents divorce there's no problem keep in touch with either parent which applies just as well to extended family/friends. It's a lot easier to keep in touch with friends after graduation than it was when your only option was often "pen pals". It's not all doom and gloom. In many ways we're more connected than we've ever been and we're just in an awkward state where we're adapting to all the changes.
How much do you personally shop at Amazon versus other outlets?
There needs to be an optional button that you hold while speaking and let go when you are done. If button is not held it should auto detect
Where is the best-in-class evidence that CBT is effective at treating long covid and chronic fatigue syndrome?
It was in the release candidate.

It was in the betas, too, and they submitted it as a bug early on, and it wasn't fixed in any of the betas or the first release candidate. This is covered in the article.
I'm a fan of the Do Why library out of Microsoft. Even as a novice in the field of causal modeling it can get you up and running by estimating the causal graph based on your data. https://github.com/py-why/dowhy
> with another human species

With several! Neanderthals, Denisovans, Floriensis, and a species recently found in the Philippines.
> say fresh water after a hurricane?

We know what happens. Filthy capitalist swine outside the blast area immediately load their pickups full of water, gasoline, food, and other supplies. They rush them to where the need is highest and sell them to the highest bidder. As more of these running dogs pour in, the supply increases and the prices come down. The goods pass to those most in need (i.e. willing to pay). There is no hoarding, as the prices are declining.

With rationing, nobody rushes in with supplies, because that would be illegal. (Of course there will be smugglers, but the prices will be much higher than that charged by the swine, as the legal risk carries with it a price premium.) The local supply will quickly run out. Since need varies from person to person, the ones who don't need it will hoard it to sell later at black market prices. The ones who do need it will face shortages as everyone else is hoarding it and the local supply ran out.

That's how rationing works in the real world.
Lord of the Rings has its roots in Norse mythology.
Amish country sure but Philadelphia accepts a level of risk europe wouldn't
I'm sorry to be that guy, but what is a "screen lock" button? Does the X220 have a button to lock the display, or (again, I'm sorry) are you talking about ScrLock (Scroll Lock)?

Writing this on a ThinkPad with great appreciation for them. And, in fact, I'm genuinely unsure what magical buttons a ThinkPad might have squirreled away.
The article is an ad, claiming that whatever they are selling will solve the problem.

What's needed for work/life balance is an 8 hour day, a 40 hour week, paid overtime, and a strong union.
Polish Senate: 2019 elections were not fair due to use of Pegasus on opposition
The same way they avoided paying state taxes for over a decade. Too big to sue
My teeth regrow. I've mostly kept it a secret to myself because people disbelieve me. Good to know there's evidence it can be done now, I feel vindicated.
This is a very, very tall claim:

this is one of the only treatments with best-in-class evidence

Firstly, one would expect to see indications of the evidence for cognitive behavioral therapy working for a complex long-term illness with multiple documented physiological issues.

Random paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732...

Second, which class of evidence are you referring to?

Third, to back the comparison in the claim you also need to present the lack of evidence for other treatments. This makes your claim very, very tall.
This is a cool idea and an impressive project.

At the same time, I don't truly understand why anyone would need to use it. If your preference is to totally work with macOS, then I'm sure this would be perfect for that. Otherwise, what's the advantage?

VMs have really come a long way. Every major OS today has a virtualization framework that makes running another OS extremely performant. Docker on macOS uses a virtual machine, but so what? Performance of individual containers, in my experience, isn't really a problem unless you're doing something with the GPU, and even then there are ways to deal with that. Even a fully-emulated VM using QEMU (without hypervisor or KVM) won't have any noticeable performance penalties in many cases.

IMO, there's a much greater advantage to sticking with Linux. Even if the host isn't Linux, developing and deploying with Linux guests provides a tremendous level of consistency and portability.

But maybe I'll be proven wrong by this project someday soon!
Ollama is fantastic. Thanks for building it!
You could download both binaries for that scenario.
I don't know how you arrived at that thought from what I wrote. Self-defense is an affirmative defense and has nothing to do with standing.
> 7 GWh, or about 400 million dollars

This implies a bulk cost of about $57/kWh which is slightly cheaper than present day LFP (the primary competitor for grid-scale battery storage). IMO, it needs to be no more expensive than LFP, because LFP cells can be spec'd for ~8 years and it's hard to get people to invest on timescales longer than ~10 years.
Yeah I found that priority mismatch out the hard way. My issue is I haven’t really been able to get a feel for whether that’s going to happen going into a job - I don’t see the writing on the wall until a month or two.
Release notes can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.19.268...

Some highlights:
* Broadcast input to all the panes in a tab
* Unfocused acrylic support
* A new suggestions menu, for intellisense-like completions
* moving the cursor with the mouse
* emoji in CMD (and any other application that uses the built-in COOKED_READ)
Yes, you can get rabbit, but it's not mainstream. Nobody offers bunny burgers.
Can you share more information? Did it happen on it's own or was there some pharmacology used?
Like a shark, constantly changing?
> Similar to the three-tier distribution system for beer in most states (a brewer cannot be a wholesaler or a retailer). This makes it easier for smaller players can compete with the big ones on quality at least, if not price or recognition.

This seems like a bad example given how its arguably led to massive consolidation in beer
The same story from free sources:

- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/meta-pays-149m-to-...

- https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/09/26/facebook-owne...

- https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-owner-meta-pays-149m-to-...
> permutations

I don't believe that AMD/NVIDIA is a low entropy bit so far as configuration permutations go. Although NVIDIA is far more widespread, AMD has significant market share. The Darwin bit you already facilitate for is probably lower entropy.
This is the 2nd time this week that I am posting about Google doing something like this. After totally destroying developer trust they are also rapidly eroding consumer trust.

Can someone from Google (or anyone) steelman how killing off so many product like this is smart?

I don't see any broad refocus in the company and their core products suck more now than ever. Even if they are more profitable I don't think thats because they redeployed talent and focus there.

Did they cut headcount too much to maintain this stuff?

Am I really misunderstanding how much a service like this costs to operate, even for Google?

I really am curious what the anti-cynical take is. I know what the cynics say, I am one. What am I missing where Sundar or management (smart people) look at these cases and do this?
I'm sorry, I just cannot fathom anyone having trouble sounding out "the" and recognizing the result.
You should really get into a habit of disclosing your biases, as you seem to make an appearance in every DuckDB related thread with the same comments:)

(Head of Produck and Co-founder at MotherDuck)
Some people have asked me about my team and I told them it was just me. I got the feeling that it may have turned them off

Repeat after me: emotional intelligence and situational awareness. You've been asked that question not for the answer but to see how you'd respond to it. He knows you're alone. So he asks. Will you loose your shit? Will you understand what he's trully doing? Have you prepared for it? How come you let such an obvious hole in your defense?

Dont ever ever make the mistake to think people are dumb. They play dumb. Most people are engineers just like you. Except they dont do the same engineering than you do. They do emotional engineering. People love it. They crave for it.

Do you get it? If you're not sure, then you dont get it. So get it. People dont trust an emotionally dumb person. Period. Trust me I know.

Thats your answers to all your questions but the product. You will sell once you're emotionally smart because of the strong effect it has on people.
> If you want to try this out, one big issue is that software support is hugely different on Instinct vs Radeon. I think AMD will fix this eventually, but today you need to use Instinct.

I'm really really worried about AMD, and whether they're going to care about anyone else. They might just care about Instinct, where margins are so high, and ignore consumer cards or making more friction and segmentation for consumer cards.

Part of what made CUDA so successful was that the low hardware barrier to entry created such a popular offering. Everyone used it. I really hope AMD realizes that, and really hope AMD invests in consumer card software too. Just making it work on the high end doesn't seem enough to get the kind of mass-movement ecosystem success AMD really needs. I'm afraid they might go for a smaller win, try to compete only at the top.
First off, hats off to you for speaking up about your challenges. Not everyone has the courage to do so. Given your expertise and strong technical skills, I believe there are many roles you could be a fit for, especially in the tech world.

Many companies and startups appreciate engineers who can deep dive into tasks without constant interruptions. Have you considered roles like a Backend Developer, Systems Engineer, or even Research positions in the tech field? These often require minimal interaction compared to some other roles, and you can predominantly rely on your technical skills.

Remote work has also gained a lot of traction over the last few years, and you could look for positions that allow for this flexibility. Being remote could reduce the number of meetings and allow you to focus on tasks. Also, written communication becomes vital in remote positions, which sounds like a strength of yours.

If you're open to branching out, tech writing or documentation might be a direction to consider. Here, your technical knowledge would be invaluable, and you'd be mainly communicating in writing.

Lastly, have you thought about freelancing or consulting? With your experience, you could take on projects that align with your strengths and set boundaries on your terms.

Whatever you decide, remember that everyone has their unique strengths and challenges. Finding the right fit can take time, but it's out there. Best of luck, and hang in there! :)
People didn’t have a reason to look at it, you gave them one.

Happens with employees too. You squeeze and squeeze and when times get bad they either leave in droves or worse, stay to watch you finally make the crater you have been fostering the entire time.
This is what really annoys me. For certain there will be people at g noticing this constant bouncing about so that some pointless product manager can get their promotion and bonus. They are noticing the damage this does to them. And it's even possible they are highlighting it. But they are completely unable to do anything about it.
What market would this be a good thing? Like Miami club scene?
When they are at full charge, they have H2 at 300PSI. Assuming they spend a significant fraction of a day at full-charge, after 10 years they will have totaled a significant fraction of 10 years at 300PSI.

GP's question is "Will the H2 migrate through the pressure tank after such a long time?"
Probably the important part of the announcement is:

Four of the major functionalities missing in the first official release of macOS Sonoma are:

Entire message data is not always passed to the extension making processing the encrypted message impossible
Reliably encrypted drafts
Support for setting the default state of the sign and encrypt button in compose windows which can lead to dangerous side-effects
Sign and encrypt button could go out of sync with internal state, if keyring changes are detected

Really hope this will be added to the API.
Show HN: One Task – A single task on your Mac desktop
The websites for podcasts often seen to hide the RSS feed/mp3 files while having giant buttons all over the place for Apple podcasts and spotify. They feed their listeners to those platforms on a platter.
The scariest part of this is that it appears to be country dependent how seriously it is taken and how those presenting with symptoms are addressed. I have no idea if I'm in a pandas-accepting country, but knowing this now I'd certainly find a jurisdiction willing to entertain it's existence if my kids had symptoms. It shows how subjective and uncertain medicine really is.
After the demise of Google Play Music, I wrote https://musicsync.ashishb.net

When the rumors of Google Podcasts being killed started circulating, I added podcast support to my app. In many cases matching or doing better than the Google Podcasts in terms of useful features.
Use of Weapons in particular
> What's needed for work/life balance is an 8 hour day, a 40 hour week, paid overtime, and a strong union

There are multiple equilibria. It sounds like this is your dream. Go find it. It sounds like hell to me, but I recognise that as a personal choice.

Find a culture that works for you and prioritises what you do. For me, that’s flexibility. Including to work a lot. But also, to not work a contiguous eight-hour block on a fixed schedule. (I also have no interest in being part of a union. I get enough drama hearing about friends’ HOAs.)
This project was made in 2012 when there weren’t that many languages, especially not ones that bind to C/C++ (and we’re type safe). LUA was the primary embeddable language back then, and C# wasn’t even open source yet :)
Because America is the best country in the world, at least in principal. We still have strong protections on speech, self-defense, homeschooling, and religion. We have actual and functional conservatives in the government and culture. The culture is still religious comparatively. I don't cannot foresee anything in my lifetime that would make me even consider leaving.
Their priority is to do what sells and that's very little when they have monopoly power at their disposal.
having multiple stores in itself is fine, but it's even worse worse. if you want to release your app on multiple app stores, you have to release on all of them at the same time. if you skip one they will not allow you to launch there later because you dared to treat them as second choice. imagine apple banning you because you dared to release on android first.
Yes, assuming this being is constrained to human senses + technologies. But why would we assume that?
It kind of is. Look at magazines like Monocle, and websites like Uncrate, Hiconsumption, and Gearpatrol.
I'm not sure how similar it is, but it's usually pretty easy to find goat at Halal butchers.
You can't offer lower prices directly so Amazon forces all your customers to pay for their services whether they get them or not.

Or you can not be on Amazon but "just don't sell Windows if you don't want to pay extra" didn't work for Microsoft...

Amazon charges for all of those things still. This isn't 50% off and we deal with everything it is ~50% but you still take all economic risk.
> How were the Luddites harming others by preserving their way of life?

Me and my pals have some skill that you can now buy a machine and replace so me my pals put on masks and come visit you to smash those machines. Me and my pals want to keep getting paid for the work the machine can do nearly free now. Are me and my pals not imposing costs on others?

> We're caring about money in a discussion about technology and culture? By that measure, the only cultures we should have around are the ones that cost the least.

What would you say to slave owners struggling to preserve their culture and way of life when slavery was being outlawed? Would you support them? Because to preserve their culture and way of life which imposes costs on others is ok?
It isn't "Scorched earth". It's boycotting by proxy.

>Unity themselves have given enough incentive.

Sure, if they change on their own volition, then I have no need to boycott those developers. This adds to that incentive should they not do so.

(copied from my other comment)

I.e. I have no real way to boycott Nestle, but if enough people stop buying their products, the stores will carry fewer of them. Yea, the stores (or devs, or cafes) will get hurt in the short term, but only if they're insistent on not listening to their users/the market.
> after REAL monopolies that actually hurt consumers, such as Apple and their closed App Store

I find this a funny comparison because Amazon and Apple are so similar in the business practices people complain about. Are you sure you're not just on the supplier side of Apple and the consumer side of Amazon?
Meth is a helluva drug..so is sugar..
Portals were (are?) an attempt to do this. Haven't heard much about them in a while: https://github.com/WICG/portals#summary-of-differences-betwe...
Why is it "sub-Plankian unknown" but "forbidden by gravity"? Are things smaller than the Plank unit not forbidden? I thought it was an absolute.
People are just pack mules and can be treated as such.

How odd we are.
IIRC EU/EUCLIDES exploration of EUV light source concluded synchrotron easier/cheaper to _technically_ operate long term, but exploration limited to 8W, compact designs. As far as I can tell, getting to higher power = scaling up size to 100s of m = made it logistically infeasible to build/plan fabs around. The Tsinghua SSMB design is 40m diameter, which is compact enough to be useful. Also ASML chose laser plasma because they thought synchrotron was too expensive to build, but years of technical challenges and a machine costs 200m, next gen will be 400m... that's already the price of multiple small synchrotrons. TLDR is laser plasma, works, is very expensive to operate, and ASML is probably locked in due to sunk cost.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638956

(252 points/1 day ago/69 comments)
This is not a strong case, is what a lot of us are asserting.

You can disagree there, but realize our disagreement here isn't that Amazon is a good company. It is on the strength of this case. It really feels like one that is being brought more for optics than otherwise.

I say this as someone that thought they should have had a strong case against Microsoft buying Activision. And yet, just look how that went. Maybe I'm wrong. Shouldn't take too long for us to find out, all told. I remember the stories of what Walmart did and still does in retail, though. It is obscene to see how that has played out in time.
I've had cavities disappear, and teeth recover. I've had before and after x-rays side by side taken by shocked dentists. It's not to hard to believe, children teeth grow.
I'm aware of most of the problems with the behaviour of Linus in the past, but reading over this post on the mailing list actually comes over pretty civilized. No name calling, no big drama (compared to the past), just giving some clear boundaries to someone who is not doing things like they should be done.
As someone said here, it comes of a bit infantile to expect special treatment for your project, IMO.