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Seeking feedback: 10-day access to premium tools at a fraction of the cost
Hello HN community,

I'm working on a startup idea and would love to get your feedback. The idea is to provide users with access to multiple premium tools and services for 10 days under one subscription. This aims to reduce costs and simplify management for users who only need various tools temporarily.

Here's the problem I'm trying to solve:
As a startup founder, I often find myself needing multiple premium services for different aspects of building and scaling my product. This can quickly become expensive, especially when these services are only required for a short period. I imagine this is a common issue for many others as well.

My proposed solution:
A platform that offers a single subscription to access a variety of premium tools and services for a limited time. Think of it like a "premium pass" that lets you use multiple paid services without committing to full subscriptions.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this:

How do you currently manage multiple premium subscriptions for your tools and services?
Do you think this idea could solve a real problem for you or others in your network?
What features or aspects would you find most valuable in such a platform?
Are there any potential pitfalls or challenges you foresee with this approach?
Any insights, suggestions, or experiences you'd be willing to share would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
Waqar
Yes I saw the REPL in VS 2022 and Jetbrains Rider, but I still prefer having this utility at hand with a collection of scripts ready whenever I need to script up something, or experiment with a service or database, or learn something new in .NET.
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I want to improve my skills further so anything that's challenging and not limited to programming courses.
I wish she would just state the facts as it makes it hard to read.

For example, she says that EPA typically arrives unannounced but because the Apple EH&S team were present this is indicative of some conspiracy to allow Apple time to cover-up issues.

But this is just her opinion with a more logical explanation being that Apple Security simply contacted the EH&S team when the EPA arrived at the front door.
There’s no harm in specifying the unit though.
Please don't generalise. My partner still uses IPhone 7 today, and they are certainly interested in saving a few bucks. There are countries poorer than the US and not every Apple user is rich.
> The interface between a superintelligent AI and the physical world is a) optional, and b) tenuous.

To begin with. Going forward, only if we make sure it remains so. Given the apparently overwhelming incentives to flood the online world with this sh...tuff already, what's to say there won't be forces -- people, corporations, nation-states -- working hard to make that interface as robust as possible?
If externalities such as disposal costs are built in the price, it will be easier for people to decide...
You can fail open. The QR code contained a signed ticket ID and expiry. You locally validate the signature and expiry and remotely attempt to validate reuse. If the remote validation is slow or fails just accept the ticket and log it.
Apple Hit by Fresh EU Warning over Alleged App Store Abuses
Because usually people do not write critical/important software :)
I'd recommend doing cursory research before confidently claiming something as fact on the world wide web.

I learned about the dangers of spreading rumors from Veggie Tales when I was five. We all make mistakes, but there's really no excuse for peddling secondhand information when established facts are an internet search away at all times.
https://archive.is/DRrmW
I don’t see the future, but argument for Apple could go like this:

- it is Apple vs EU

- US gov has guns and influence and various levers

- US gov will definitely protect Apple from guns of EU (so regulator with guns is a bit mute point)

- Apple is important to americans (I think they feel it’s their symbol or something), so officials in US gov might think it’s good opportunity to grab some political points.

- US gov might act to help out Apple in this dispute (Nothing like a war, but some slight nod or handshake; maybe via diplomatic backwater; maybe in exchange for something)

Though most probably apple will give “something” even if minor change in the rules, at least just so EU would not loose face, to keep relationship friendly.
(But it will be move in the right direction)
Apple hasn't left China though, why would they leave Europe that has much less regulatory issues?
eventually, i hope the entire wall can be a high resolution screen so that whatever aspect the artist chose, can be represented in sufficient size, we shouldn't have to care about "wasted screen real estate", creators should be free to record their work in whatever aspect they feel conveys their idea the best.
So when do we address the elephant in the room and designate Apple a Criminal Enterprise™?
Delegate. Shorter meetings. Less meetings.

Have them do the evaluations and write you reports. Then have them revise the reports based on upper management responses.

Stop by engineering advisors in their area and not your office.
I wish we could volunteer to help Joe make LINQPad cross-platform, I'd definitely like to help with that.
Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organizations
The EU is much closer to the US than China is, however.
> I would happily snap this game up except for the fact that it's on Steam.

Opus Magnum is also available on GOG: https://www.gog.com/de/game/opus_magnum

EDIT: It is additionally available on itch.io: https://zachtronics.itch.io/opus-magnum
> Quality went down at every step along the abstraction train

Hard disagree. Abstraction by itself does not correlate with declining quality, you can be a very competent developer working in a high level language, or a crappy developer working in low level languages.
Ah, yes. The good old "It's the user's fault for holding it wrong."
They are, but only in that you would be surprised at how tiny the PC usage is to most online video streamers, it's even smaller than anyone would expect.
Jetbrains Rider, DataGrip, Podman, Minikube, and a local PostgreSql instance add up really quickly.

We’re an on prem shop and I’m not running stuff in the cloud for a reason.
You're referring to compartmentalized departments. No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine. This is by design.

Bankruptcy? There's indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt. This is why I'm telling you, nothing significant will happen. Don't be an contrarian, just think about it. "Too Big to Fail", it's a real thing bud.
actually the rules apply to everyone monopoly or otherwise, anti-competitive rules are not applied/enforced when there is a dominant market position only.
Sounds like we need some way for someone to display their charitable donation amounts that are public and verifiable. Then more people could use their donation amounts as status symbols.
Not really a comparable thing versus the morning/evening rush every single weekday when forcing people in-office. It's the scale that makes it an issue, 1000s of people is nothing and more of an occasional spike.

See how London deals with toob stations for pride, for example, by closing and controlling some, exit only periods close to the event, open ticket gates, etc.
The problem is that apple is going to continue malicious compliance while the EU is trying to be reasonable: "the EU hopes ongoing dialogue will lead to compliance rather than sanctions."
He acknowledges this is the paragraph above that quote. It's not written by a lawyer, but is limited by legal obligations as part of the settlement with Twitch.

So it's obviously because Twitch made confidentiality (of details) part of the settlement agreement in which Twitch paid Dr Disrespect.
A self-described “family friend” said that the Boeing whistleblower (1 of 60?) said that. Also, as anyone who works with mental patients can attest to, “if I die, I didn’t commit suicide” is not anywhere close to as ironclad as it sounds on the surface… (I.e. 99% of those claims were false)
That’s irrelevant. I was just responding to a comment saying that tests are a proof.
If this isn't domestic terrorism, I don't know what is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773151
Downvotes for an alternate viewpoint, what is this, Reddit?
I also do not see where else I can buy it, or prices of other shops for the same product. I also do not see products in shop A tell me I should go to shop B instead.

Wasn’t the shop model what they copied?
amateur astronomers are really into this kind of things actually
Issues surrounding the author's personality aside (that have been raised enough in other threads, and quite a few of them in a tone I'd say borders on unethical): in Germany, we have strict zoning rules for heavy industry - some particularly bad polluters have up to 1500m of required distance to residential use [1], even if the area they're planning on operating in is already zoned industrial.

Wonder how Apple got approved to even construct this facility so close to residential (or, if Apple was there prior to residential usage, why residential construction was allowed so close to them), in California of all places that's even known here in Germany to have really strict zoning requirements.

[1] https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?anw_nr=1&gld_nr=2&u...
nor have they left Russia despite sanctions (and have not attracted the opprobrium for that that companies like Unilever have)
Unlimited fares should be extra easy with a QR code. Just put a signed expiration date.

If course duplication is probably a bigger risk for these tickets as they case be simply locked to one use server side.
Why can't you sign up for Netflix on an iPhone?
They do.

Netflix has never streamed 4K content in h264 for example.
What are you talking about? This is well documented.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/30065

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/48810

https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/1609

https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/299

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/573

https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5276#issuecom...

https://isdotnetopen.com/

A Rider license costs $419 per year per seat and Jetbrains has a poor quality record by today's standards, and if you are a serious developer that has to use one of their products, you'll find yourself at the mercy of numerous YouTrack tickets that have been open for years. They have a habit of shipping integrations that are only partially working, and then calling it a day (or the better part of a decade).

By the way, Rider may have been cheaper if not for the above moves by Microsoft: https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505
You could write react in Lua for a while, for example for Roblox. And, it's very cool. There's also another project that compiles typescript to Lua: https://roblox-ts.com

And that one supports writing pretty much actual React tsx but with Roblox primitives.

One of my clients asked me to make a Roblox plugin, it was my first time, and I was very pleasantly surprised with this workflow. There are also tools to enable really high iteration speed. It felt nicer than Unity at some moments. I didn't really need to write or know any Lua at all!
> The question was, how you do that?

And I answered, we don't know how you do that which is why we don't currently.

> Personally I'm convinced that we'll never reach any kind of AGI with LLM. They are lacking any kind of model about the world that can be used to reason about. And the concept of reasoning.

Well, for some definition of LLM we probably could. But probably not the way they are architected today. There is nothing stopping a large language model to add different things to its training steps to enable new reasoning.

> What is my interpretation?

Well, I read your post as being on the other side. I believe it is possible to make a model that can reason about truthiness, but I don't think current style LLMs will lead there. I don't know exactly what will take us there, but I wouldn't rule out an alternate way to train LLMs that looks more like how we teach students in school.
Critical thinking or engineering ethics courses. Look up the required books and buy one of those.

Writing a few papers and critique reading a few on the subjects were helpful.
I really dislike savvy servers. In my regular trips to the US they leave me feeling quite unsettled. The best wait staff are the ones in Europe. They really hate you for being a customer. I respect that. The best system I've lived with is NZ: table service is less common, you often go up to the counter to order, you always go up to pay. There's less interaction which is fine by me, I'm there to have a nice meal, not have a relationship with the staff. Americans have a different attitude to the whole experience of eating out, I'm not convinced it's a healthy one.
Because it is cool to hate on React on hn. Write something in Rust and watch everyone swoon, but mention anything that uses React and the comments will be filled with people hating all over it. As is the way on hn.
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Very cool idea and project :)
I get what you're saying, but Apple are a group of people, so they are human.

Like the local book club, or Hamas.

Anyway, you don't have to look very far to see the many horrible things done to humans by other humans.

The word "humane", in my view, defines how we would like to be, not how we really are.
Agree entirely on principle, but nobody should be dehumanized, if nothing else because it is a very ineffective way to model your opponent.

And hurting other for greed is surely not humane, but it is very much human. Big difference that e at the end.
Interesting! It's a good way to test how successful the city is with their education systems. We could try it out one day a year at least.

Differentiate nomal daily sales rates within the test day, observe the trend year by year. Sounds naive, would be lovely if it works.
The chaos of React in larger web apps: has anyone experienced it differently?
If users don't want to go to other websites, then developers should notice they're losing sales and be incentivised to offer a more convenient option!

Maybe over time more integrated options could emergy that's as convenient, offers more features, and could be cheaper. Imagine if there was competition!
I took an advanced perl class at the local JC back in 2003.
Did the US attack China over all the regulations Apple and Google have to fall in line with to be compliant over there?
> You're referring to compartmentalized departments

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are literally above those compartments [1].

> No one person or internal unit can truly understand the inner workings of this machine

But they do! Not down to every nut and bolt. But we can say that about, like, a modern gaming console.

> indirectly trillions of dollars on the line if Boeing goes bankrupt

No? Silicon Valley tends to be naïve on how precise bankruptcy can be. Boeing going bankrupt doesn’t mean every supplier fails.

> Don't be an contrarian, just think about it

I assume you’re also personally familiar with the leadership of multiple Boeing suppliers?

I’m not saying that to dismiss you, but to give pause to your thinking anyone who disagrees with you just hasn’t thought.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff
Japan: Teriyaki McBurger

https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/products/4530/
Maybe they ought to fine Apple 50 cents per installed app from their App Store, since apparently they consider that perfectly fine and reasonable.
If you spend a few hours writing a bit of code that has to run for decades, millions or billions of times per day on hundreds of thousands or millions of machines it seems quite significant to use only the instructions needed to make it work. A few hundreds of thousands extra seems a lot. One would imagine other useful things could be done with quintillions or septillions of cycles besides saving a few development hours.
Transitioning from CentOS 7 to RedHat 8 and 9 at my former company's private cloud has smooth for most teams, pareto-style, with 80% of migration-related incidents caused by the 20% of the teams that did some really weird changes to the VM's OS that was no longer allowed under RHEL 8 or 9.

At first, I thought it was just to reduce the complexity of managing hardening rules for several OS and OS versions.
The US has filed an antitrust case against Apple, which pretty much denies this whole argument.

https://www.theverge.com/24107581/doj-v-apple-antitrust-mono...
> Who is "we" that gets to decides who gets punished

For starters, everyone that had to get involved the last time a dictator started gallavanting around Europe.
It's hard to draw analogies to the real world. It's like if you bought a dishwasher and Best Buy forced the manufacturer to force the user to buy detergent from their store, and forbid the manufacturer from telling the user they can get cheaper detergent elsewhere.
ML models intent is the reward function it has. They strive to maximize rewards, just like a human does. There is nothing strange about this.

Humans are much more complex than these models so they have much more concepts and stuff which is why we need psychology. But some core aspects works the same in ML and in human thinking. In those cases it is helpful to use the same terminology for humans and machine learning models, because that helps transfer understanding from one domain to the other.
Touch x against y versus line this weird printed shape up at just the right angle in good lighting conditions. I feel like NFC is much easier to tell older folks how to use as well.

I'm all for the "we have technology why tf don't we use it, why aren't we better at it" argument, but the truth is that a lot of tech/systems in transport & other areas are retro af and new stuff gets shoe-horned in with all the caveats of a shoe-horning in.

Stuff doesn't get upgraded often, because it's expensive, because all of us vote for politicians that grant expensive/overpriced gov contracts putting money into them and their mates' back pockets. We'd be able to refresh public use tech all the time if it was non or low profit, never gonna happen tho.

Look at how much it cost Wales to change 30mph signs to 20mph: 34m£! And that's just for a few small areas, not everywhere they wanted to do. How in the f u c k, do you spend 34m taking down and putting up some signs? Those are ludicrous prices & all of us just completely ignore it bc we're too busy arguing about skin colour, which sex the person I sleep with is, or trans people being in the bathroom they want to be in, etc. Honestly.
We do have various regulations. More of those come each year. Have nothing to do with communism. Alternatively - "capitalize profits and socialize losses" is just as bad I think and looks very "communistic".
@JumpCrissCross I can't reply to your sub comment, but yes, Boeing manufactures weapons systems. It's their bread and butter. You thought they only built airplanes and partially functional spacecrafts?
Careful, you're arguing across ancient demarcation lines there.
TFA tries to claim that this single paper misled the field for 16 years, but that’s an incredibly strong claim for which it offers no real evidence. In fact, in the first few paragraphs the author admits that there were many other papers that drove scientists to pursue this hypothesis. The fraud is clearly tragic, but the tenuous arguments made in this piece are pretty flimsy.

The nature of science is that there are a lot of papers. Not all are replicated but generally “we pursued this direction for 16 years” type of hypothesis are based on many results, which acts as an error correcting code on mistakes and fraud — and is exactly how the system is supposed to work.
The batteries shouldn't be taken apart without proper equipment and processes. Disconnecting them from the vehicle though is not that complicated. I think the decommissioned batteries are going to be sent to specialized facilities while the rest of the vehicles will go through the same recycling process as the ICE cars do now. Most of the battery material is going to recyclable and thus fairly valuable, so there's some economic incentive in there too.
> If you think that is bad, wait until we need to start decommissioning electric vehicles on scale.

There are plans on re-purposing these for grid storage or used-new packs for vehicles, or recycling them to make new batteries. Sadly Google is polluted with weird SEO blogs and other crap, so here's at least one report from a credible source [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/29/heres-how-ev-batteries-can-b...
Right - the word "hallucination" is used a lot like the word "weed" - it's a made-up thing I don't want, rather than a made-up thing I do want.
Unfortunately modern buildings in the city are designed for a 30 year lifespan, so there is always one being demolished and replaced.
I am not saying they will leave, I’m saving it’s for me anyway, no longer inconceivable.
Very bad example. Wall clock battery can last a decade. Any isolated power supply will waste much more energy. Also the clock will stop when the power is out.
You can't compare appstore with other shops, though. It's the only shop that can possible exist, so it faces no competition at any rate by design.
Seagate Teams Up with eBay to Expand Hard Drive Circularity Program
I don't have a number, and probably it's completely unintuitive, but at least as of today I'm more concerned about disposable stuff, like one-use vape devices and that stuff, where also there's like little incentive to recycle.

At least big (EV vehicle) batteries have a bigger value.

Around Europe I'm seeying a bunch of companies testing and selling second hand EV car battery packs that are at 60 to 85% of their capacity. Some can be used to repair a car, some other for projects that aren't that concerned by the energy density per kg of the batteries (stationary deployments, for example at home). And they're real cheap.
Specialised online gaming once per week, soya lecithin 3 per week, gingko on key days or max twice ler week. Other supplements in rotational basis. Only a supplement per day, only 3 days per week.
It seems that every single Symbian development team that I knew developed their own wrapper around the insane Bufs.

What a loss of productivity, to do the same thing again and again.
Apples AppStore isn't the shop, it's street where all the shops are. They have decided that no consumer walking this street should know which shops exist or what their prices are.

These analogies break down real quick, but the center of the argument is that companies that grow too large can become "the market" and not "one actor on the market".
> Netflix also auto-scales the quality they are sending based on their understanding of your connection.

This is the future. You can multiply a pixel as many times as you want.

They really managed to squeeze the sound quality to a minimum.
Interesting. I haven't really seen much into this space. But anything which can provably represent concepts and relationships without losing information can work. Devil might be in details; nothing is as simple as it looks on first sight.
Maybe worth adding to https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates
No one cares of complexity if it’s hidden behind a reasonable interface. RDBMS and the async coroutine module in your language runtime are the examples of insane complexity done right. Most of these frameworks contain a very reasonable interface, at least compared to r-nonsense. So glad that people start to awaken from this fever dream.
Debian 12, after a period of using Ubuntu that ended when Canonical decided to put advertising in the friggin cli. Oh, and pushing snap, but the advertising is what really nailed it for me. ;)
Exactly, the rules are meant to prevent monopolies from forming in the first place.