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Ask HN: “Pay Whatever You Want" – has anyone tried?
Has anyone ever tried the “Pay Whatever You Want” model, particularly for B2B products?

We are trying this experiment for Arc (global talent recruitment):

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7229846364510203905/

So instead of requiring companies to pay 20% of salary as the placement fee, we allow clients to decide the amount they pay (hopefully) based on the perceived value they’d get after making the hire.

Interestingly, I decided to do this after my second 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat. I was deeply inspired by organizations that offer their services for free but accept voluntary payment or donation (if a non-profit) of any amount.

This was a decision based on intuition rather than detailed analysis. Now as we’re running this experiment, I’m curious if anyone has tried this before?

(I know Radiohead has done this decades again when MP3s were still novel)

Any insight + advice would be greatly appreciated Thank you!
Hey, that’s pretty much on par with how long it took for the initial release of the game to load, before From did a massive round of optimization!
Read my Wikipedia link. It was owned by Britain and the Shah - who was defacto ruler of Iran. Everyone else had been pushed out at that point.

Which the article you linked to doesn’t dispute. It also provides no examples of any other private owners, interestingly.

Can you provide any?

The talking point of ‘theft! Theft!’ was one justification the CIA used to overthrow the democracy. Which hey, usually most nationalizations are. And this one basically was.

But in context, it was kicking out abusive control. Which, for anyone familiar with abusers, is the worst thing someone can do. And so, the expected outcome occurred.

Then, when it got bad again, the Ayatollahs came in and counter-reacted. But have managed to keep control, albeit with some messy incidents.

And everyone has been angry since, with Iran working to sabotage US and British interests, and US and British interests working to sabotage the Iranians.
Really pointless article
There are trucks and there are truck shaped cars. The law should differentiate between them. You want a truck exemption from fuel mileage - then it better be a truck.

If it is a truck then dents from loading and hauling cargo are normal (though cargo should be tied down). Likewise scratched paint caused by off road driving are normal things for trucks with 4 wheel drive (buy a 2 wheel drive if you are only driving on road). If it is a truck you cannot consider cosmetic damage in the value, if it is road worthy then the value is about how many hours are on the engine and nothing else. (this just killed the used and trade in market for trucks so if you buy one you better keep it for 15000 engine hours)
> Hackers should not think of themselves as
"oh I am this little guy fighting Big Corporation" or whatever. [...] Instead become the corporation

Hacker culture is inherently antiauthoritarian. Wanting to become the big corporation is something you would expect only from "hacker" "news".
The least jarring method is to get enough sleep, food, water and exercise and don't set an alarm. I've started to use alarms when absolutely necessary recently, but since covid lockdowns I've been home based and either my kids wake me up or I naturally wake up in good time for work or whatever I have planned for the day. If this doesn't happen, you probably have some issues that you need to deal with. Of course I'll set an alarm if I have an important meeting or need to catch an early train or something, but that really hasn't happened that much in the last 5 years.
> ...it corresponds to the ability of a person to convince others that they are at that level.

One note on this: as your career progresses, your ability to convince others around you that you're at a certain level goes from being unimportant to important, and then from there to essential.

After all, you need to influence others to do just about anything that involves more than yourself - and developing that power of influence is very much a skill in and of itself (see [1] for instance: it takes a lot to deliver even a simple, clear decision effectively!)

[1] https://randsinrepose.com/archives/mandate-dissect/
> (strace on a Python program is fun, but our bugs are not that deep!)

They don't need to be deep to be useful. I once used it on nodejs on a hunch, looking for anything that felt "off", and discovered it was accessing settings files I had no idea even existed. Turned out the other dev was having problems because of one in his home directory the rest of us didn't have.
Sort of a related question: How many of you actually see your desktop on a daily basis? I feel like even with 3 monitors I have either tiled windows, or full-screen windows taking up the entire desktop. I oftentimes even forget what my wallpaper is.
> it’s kind of atrocious, right?

I can’t take an engineering article seriously when it leads in with bias-revealing invectives. Does EVERYTHING have to be politicized?
This reeks of "I went through struggle xyz so your generation should have to as well."

What if WFH is the best way for a company to operate?
Search and ontologies weren't the only goals. Microformats enabled standardized data markup that lots of applications could consume and understand.

RSS and Atom were semantic web formats. They had a ton of applications built to publish and consume them, and people found the formats incredibly useful.

The idea was that if you ran into ingestible semantic content, your browser, a plugin, or another application could use that data in a specialized way. It worked because it was a standardized and portable data layer as opposed to a soup of meaningless HTML tags.

There were ideas for a distributed P2P social network built on the semantic web, standardized ways to write articles and blog posts, and much more.

If that had caught on, we might have saved ourselves a lot of trouble continually reinventing the wheel. And perhaps we would be in a world without walled gardens.
> Semantic Web information on websites is a bit of a "living document". You tend publish something, then have a look to see what people have parsed (or failed to parse) it and then you try to improve it a bit.

Hm.
The fight is in your mind. I have shared the facts, the reasoning, which others can see plainly. Unlike you, I don't view it as an emotional decision, but a pragmatic one.
I think that the jury is still out on that one. Human judgement is too often colored by human incentives. I still think there's an opportunity for mechanical assessments of quality and pedigree to excel, and exceed what humans can do; at least, at scale. But, it'll always be an arms race and I'm not convinced that bots are in it except in the sense of lying through metadata, which brings us back to the assessment of quality and pedigree - right/wrong, good/bad, relevant/garbage.
I've tried whisper too. I made this: https://codeberg.org/ltworf/srtgen

Basically it's kinda useful to put time tags, but I need to manually fix each and every sentence. Sometimes I need to fix the time tags as well.

I just spoke about youtube because it's more popular and easy to test.
It's Python-like, but it compiles, so you get a stand alone exec like go, that you can copy on other machines without having to provide an interpretter.

It's better than bash for anything longer than 5 lines, works on Windows and Unix and has a lean syntax.

Now I would use Python for scripting, especially since uv and hatch have inline deps support now, so it's a blast.

But OP is looking for something new, so I list things he may enjoy learning, in a context that would make it enjoyable to learn.
An introduction to the remontoire
> several decades and still not incorporating uBlockOrigin as a native feature? really?

Might be better that way. AdBlockers are fast-moving, with a dedicated, diligent working community. Outside the browser, they probably can work better.
Squash Your Ruby and Rails Bugs Faster
Really pointless comment :P
ParadeDB founder here -- We migrated the pg_analytics project to its own repo and will be adding JSON support!
The Perfect Prompt
Bitcoin mining uses the same amount of energy as Argentina
what is UBI ?
But why would a country have to be "better" or "worse"? Why consider anything else besides stockpiling weapons, after all it's the key to peace, right?
The most game-changing thing for me about Arc has been Air Traffic Control. I have spaces set up my various web-based apps, and previously they would be scattered among my dozens of browser windows. Now, the tabs of each web app are beautifully contained in their own spaces, thanks to ATC.

Any idea if Zen supports this? And ctrl-tab for quickly cycling between recent tabs (even across Spaces)?
Free Tailwind Components – Tailbits
Yeah, finding them is difficult. Lots of Internet wandering. Mainly finding links through people's blogs.

I found this group recently: https://lmt2.com/

The author made a group: https://www.hackercoop.dev/

If you like fiddling with HTML, there's groups like the homebrew website club https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club or sunday sites https://sundaysites.cafe/.

A few open-source communities have forums/channels like #showcase, where it's easy to drop a screenshot and get feedback. I'm thinking of the Discord chats for Textual and p5.js, for example, if your project uses their libraries.

Or if you're the party planning type, perhaps consider forming your own group. Even ~6 people meeting once a week for a month works well.

Everyone works on their own things.
Remember what happened to Thunderbird, though. Mozilla dropped it, and it got better. There are good reasons to think that Mozilla - the corporate entity - is cancer.
I'm a firefox-only user, and I read your comment in two ways. It's grumpy, but also on the point! Thanks, I feel similarly. What is your main browser btw?

FF works for me in great ways, and I am highly productive with it, as long as some plugins still work: uBlock, tridactyl, foxyproxy. And for UI: sidebery, stylus.

From time to time I feel I should turn my back towards FF when they come up with new decisions in their UI, which I drastically reduce (no menu, no tabs,...), or new features, which are more disturbing than helping.

On android, I discovered 'kiwi browser' which is FF based but does not blacklist the plugins.
People post similar comments with opposite views as mine. So there must be something else going on. Maybe if a few people downvote you, HN downvotes you everywhere else. Or else, the site prefers a few viewpoints and has a way to detect negative responses to those views. Either way, it is very offputting. I don't appreciate someone putting their thumb on the scales. I can't even downvote at this point due to not enough points, and at the rate it's going I might be able to do it like next year.

Then there's the "You're posting too fast" thing. I think fast and people respond with predictable stuff to my comments. I can only respond to like 2 of them at once or I won't be able to comment on anything else for hours.

I don't think there's anything wrong with spirited discussions. If you don't want to participate, then don't. Simple argument does not make it a flame war.
Really should rename it tap-and-die.
Yeah same. Never see it. It kills me whenever I see people plastering their desktop with icons and stuff. I mean do you keep all your important stuff under a pile of papers on your physical desk?
> some people know exactly how to manipulate the google search due to years of experience debugging problems

this really rings true for me. especially as a junior, I always thought one of my best skills was that I was good at Googling. I was able to come up with good queries and find some page that would help. Sometimes, a search would be simple enough that you could just grab a line of code right off the page, but most of the time (especially with StackOverflow) the best approach was to read through a few different sources and pick and choose what was useful to the situation, synthesizing a solution. Depending on how complicated the problem was, that process might have occurred in a single step or in multiple iterations.

So I've found LLMs to be a handy tool for making that process quicker. It's rare that the LLM will write the exact code I need - though of course some queries are simple enough to make that possible. But I can sort of prime the conversation in the right direction and get into a state where I can get useful answers to questions. I don't have any particular knowledge on AI that helps me do that, just a kind of general intuition for how to phrase questions and follow-ups to get output that's helpful.

I still have to be the filter - the LLM is happy to bullshit you - but that's not really a sea change from trying to Google around to figure out a problem. LLMs seem like an overall upgrade to that specific process of engineering to me, and that's a pretty useful tool!
It’s different from ex post facto, but

The state can not pass laws that alter existing contracts or refuse to enforce them. That’s very explicitly prohibited under the contracts clause.

Very much unconstitutional
Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains
Come on. It's an open-source, community-funded, soft-launch of an alpha product. The cynicism on this site is really over the top sometimes.
So Science or Nature peer-reviews the home page and then links to it from their page. You get the prestige from being linked to by a major journal.

Everyone can publish anything, but the journals can lend credibility, which is all they do anyway.
Looks cool! I have been trying to do some rendering stuff in Python but never found a framework suitable for me
The reality is that many people with a Ram are towing toys (boats, ATVs, etc) or, as you say, a travel trailer, not a work trailer. Which brings us to the question of need vs want.

Plus, if work vehicles became lighter, work trailers would be forced to as well.
VideoLingo: Bridging Languages in Every Frame
As an avid non-consoler, I'm like why not? As I understood, the flagship game for the PS3 was GTAV

and also for the PS4

and also for the PS5
Ah. I ran into this last weekend when installing Linux to a secondary partition. I just disabled secure boot, good to know there is a proper workaround
Price “gouging” always ceases, virtually immediately, in an open market.

Only with government interference stopping new suppliers from entering the market (eg. making it illegal to protect your store from looters) can “gouging” persist.

Let the leftist silent downvoting begin!
I don't use this param at the moment anywhere to confirm experimentally, but I'm pretty sure it's same on Debian: https://salsa.debian.org/cryptsetup-team/cryptsetup/-/blob/7....
pet peeve: this blog seems not to have an RSS feed.
Privatized healthcare has the opposite incentive, whereby unhealthy choices may be ignored or even encouraged because they're a money-making opportunity.
Doesn't FF have them as well? Or maybe it's an extension.
I’ve come to the similar conclusion, and realized that I’m slowly learning how to wield this new tool.

The sweet spot is when you need something and you’re sure it’s possible but just don’t know (or it’s too time consuming) how. E.G. change the css to to X, rewrite this python code in typescript, use the pattern of this code to do Y, etc.

Reminds me of the early days of Google where you had to learn how write a good search query. You learn you need more than a word or two, but don’t write a whole essay, etc.
If JSON is enough for your use case, go ahead, use it. The big RDBM systems support it rather well now, so you can bring it straight into the SQL world too.

XML is for the non-trivial case, where having schemas and tooling around them for validation and code generation becomes useful. XML also has a default programming language for querying and transformations, allowing you to implement adapters from CSV, JSON or whatever into XML, and then between XML schemas.

XML can be used in a JSON-like way if that's what you want: XPath. When programming against XML it's usually not what you want though, in practice it tends to be nicer to use the schema to set up an object hierarchy native to the programming language and unmarshal into that. But there is at least one XPath oriented database, eXist, and it's pretty ergonomic if you find yourself with a lot of XML and isn't sure what it contains or what to use it for. I find it easier to work with than the NoSQL JSON varieties I come across professionally, and when I have Questions For The Customer it craps out PDF:s I can send them, which doesn't seem that easy to do with Mongo or Firestore.

As for SQL databases, they come in a lot of shapes and colours. I'm not so sure there is a JSON-first database equivalent of DuckDB, for example. Maybe I'm wrong, it's not a specialty of mine.
It's nothing even remotely like JSON. It doesn't encode the same information or semantics at all.

Your entire argument is "old stuff is bad and I like JSON".

And yes we should use XML. At least it has competent, verifiable, consistent schemas and contracts. At the very least, you can encode xs:decimal in it unlike JSON which is "oh it's some shit that looks like a number and we might stick in a double at the other end because we don't know our butt from our elbow".

I ask you with JSON, how do you encode "add a single item to the list attached to a customer"

I am so so so tired of dealing with this level of thinking on a daily basis.
That said, there's something to be said about being resistant to change; "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I don't know what "eFC" means, but "mobile application" implies they would need a new device with everything that entails.
Semantic web suffers from organisational capture. If there's a big org they get to define the standard at the expense over everyone else use cases.
I’d say generally they didn’t. The average person doesn’t have or know how to use photoshop. Applying a filter is hardly the same thing and completely changing elements of a photo. This is far more accessible.
Not a fan of the terminology that corporations are people, but stacks of free money will mess up a company much like it will a person.
Thank you! However I do disagree with one point you've made here; I do not consider my case an "extreme" case. It's just antithetical to the US' vision. Which is kind of my point.

Iran could say the exact same thing about why they would be stockpiling weapons. And we (west) call bullshit. I'm calling bullshit on both.
Coffs Harbour school students make rare discovery of pink mangrove lobster
It was quite obvious to me.
> suburban dads flipping the fuck out over their own notional masculinity drove the truck market off a damn cliff.

Is it really dads? I've seen claims that is actually moms demanding this, dads just go along. (dads would be happy in a minivan, but their wife won't let their husbands be seen in one)
There is a lot of value on Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, applying the semantic web standards into the "self-contained" world of enterprise data, there are many large enterprises doing it, and there is an interesting video from UBS on how they consider it a competitive advantage
250ms is significant in this context, and is a longer period than you evidently think.
If this reduces vehicle-vehicle collisions, that will be an improvement. However, much more needs to be done to prevent pedestrian-vehicle and cyclist-vehicle collisions, and installing transceivers in pedestrians is not a realistic option.
A group of nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism
> you are conflating each individual business profits and motives for the profitability of the economy and country

I think everyone does really. In fact, I'd say this is the "big idea" behind conservative fiscal policy as a whole. This assumption is the seed of it all.
Are you Phrack by chance?
When I saw the teaser to Force Awakens I was generally excited. I honestly thought Disney might be doing a good job with this.

It comes out. After watching the first 10 minutes I realised its just a remake of new hope. I guess shuffling characters and renaming planets would fool us. Oh, but don't worry... the starkiller is LIKE the deathstar, but bigger!

Other than Force Awakens and Rogue One, I have not seen any other Star Wars from Disney. If I did I honestly cannot remember it! I only watched Rogue One because a friend came round with it one day. It was "ok" but certainly not deserving of any praise. When I hear people say Rogue One is the best Disney Star Wars... it really does not say much about the others.

As for the TV Series, I have no interest in them, either. While I hear Mandalorian is good, I just dont want Disney to claim my view count.

As for the Acolyte, the clips I saw on youtube look really poor.

For context, I am very fortunate to grow up with the original trilogy.

As for the prequel trilogy, I have a love/hate relationship with it.

As for the sequel trilogy, or anything that came out of Disney, is non canon in my eyes.
Of course aggressors want their victims defenseless.
You mean "tell me what it does". Beautiful is what a thing is. And what a thing does follows from what it is.

Contrary to modern misconception, beauty is objective. Taste is subjective. What makes good taste is alignment of the subjective with the objective.

So, in this case, we can ask "what makes a browser beautiful?". Well, since it is a tool, then its usefulness is intrinsic to the kind of thing it is. So, how useful it is as browser is constitutive of its beauty, as beauty has to do with the perfection with which something realizes the kind of thing it is.
I did not know about Murex. This actually looks pretty cool! Or at least a definite improvement. How is it regarding using it as a scripting language in lieu of Bash?

The last shell I was intrigued by was es-shell which despite being old is still being updated and uses functional semantics while still looking like a shell language. I had chatgpt generate a comparison of all these with Bash (take with a grain of salt, I already had to correct at least one thing):

https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/b7bd1c270cb77005205bf91f80c...
Ask HN: How to emulate a smartphone on a computer for banking apps?
Until 2021, I never had a smartphone. While the "app" revolution unfolded around me, I happily stuck to using the internet on my computer. I navigated new cities by intuition, rarely asking for directions, relying on my good sense of direction. That changed when a European directive forced banks to require two-factor authentication, leaving me no choice but to get a smartphone. I bought a cheap one. Over time, I found myself using it for trivial things, like checking Twitter on the tram—moments of contemplation turned into information overload. Sure, having a map or buying a ticket on the fly is practical sometimes, but it hasn’t improved my life overall. Long story short, I've decided to remove the phone from my life again.

If I’m writing here, it’s because I need some ideas. Before buying a phone, I tried installing the banking app on an Android emulator (BlueStacks). However, the app recognized the emulator wasn’t a real phone and refused to work. My question is: how can I emulate a real phone on a computer? Does anyone have experience or references on this? It would be great to build a collection of ideas and references here in the comments that could be easily found by search engines for others with the same problem.

In summary: Have you ever done something similar? Any suggestions, ideas, or hacks?
femou, are you affiliated with Zen? Do you know if there are any plans to add support for ARM users running Windows or Linux?
Motorists need to understand that they cannot use their horn in close proximity of a cyclist, even if it is "at" a cyclist who has annoyed them. The noise is much louder when you're not inside a car, and it causes such a jolt that it's easy to lose control of the bike or stray into a road position you shouldn't be occupying.