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Show HN: We ungated our product (no signup)–is it a good idea?
Users within our ICP were dropping off during or right after the signup process, never reaching that crucial “aha moment” where they truly see the value in our product. Typically, this moment happens when they’ve created an interactive demo they’re happy with.

We were like... "let's just do it". So, we decided to ungate our product—removing the signup step entirely at this stage of the user journey. Of course, users can still sign up if they want to continue using the product, but our aim was to reduce friction and align with the supposed future of product-led growth, where ungated experiences help users quickly grasp a product’s value.

We’re tracking key metrics—like increased engagement, faster time-to-value, and created demos—but it’s still early days, and the results are mixed. We’ve seen spikes in usage, but also some users creating “meaningless” demos, likely due to being overwhelmed by too many options.

I’m eager for your thoughts:
- What do you think of this specific ungated experience?
- Were you able to create your first interactive demo?
- Any other ungated product you really like, and why?

Open to any feedback or discussions!
It doesn’t matter how easy a job is to learn. What matters is how many people are willing to do it and how important it is to society. Trash collection may be mostly driving trucks and throwing bags in the back but very few people are willing to do it and society grinds to a halt without it so those folks should be making way more than some Facebook coder who adjusts ad pixels all day.

The problem is the US economic system is so backwards it values the ad pixel pusher more than the trash collector. At least until there’s a communicable disease going around and suddenly the trash collector is recognized as an essential worker and forced to come to work while the ad pixel pusher “works” from home.
I've been using Feedly on the free plan for years and I love it. What do you want that the free plan does not do?
Respectfully, i'm not sure you can both claim to be a critical thinker and make a falacious argumentum ad logicam argument at the same time. You kind of have to choose one.
>if the person doing it, quits

If the person doing it (and the role can make or break the business) quits on short notice, then the current wage is clearly not enough.
I believe post-monomorphization errors don't show in cargo check, and those are rather rare in Rust.
Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_bottle. Casually found in walls.
> Why are you treating any part of his interviews as valid information.

Why should I treat your comment as valid information?
There have been other murder/suicides of this kind (assuming that the theory is correct). Particularly SilkAir 185 and Germanwings 9525 (I think there is at least another one, but at the moment it is escaping me). In fact, my impression has been, for a long time, that MH370 is itself a copycat of SilkAir 185 where the suicide corrected the mistakes that led to the discovery that the accident was in fact caused by the captain.

I'm not particularly concerned about this, after the germanwings incident in europe and US (and possibly everywhere else as well) flight decks are required to always have at least two people: if one of the pilots wants or needs to leave one of the flight attendants must take his place.
Zen5 was released less than 2 weeks ago, so not a terrible delay.

If you already have Zen3, then yeah, probably not worth it. I like to wait 4-6 years so the upgrade feels more substantial. Every 2 years hasn't been necessary for at least a decade.
Ethical objections in this thread are a red herring.

Our brains are not that different than other primates' brains. We do abhorrent things to other primates that __demonstrably__ have similar experiential qualia as humans, mostly for the benefit of our species. But somehow objectioners are losing their marbles over a human cell cluster that has no more than a few thousand constituent cells.

The computational ability of human brains is an unintentional happenstance of billions of years of random-walk evolution; there's no reason to believe that we can't make systems that are even more efficient with intentional design. If these organoids get us there, I'm all for them.
This doesn't make a lot of sense off the bat, are there more details to the story that explain how CPU branch prediction performance depends on Windows behaviour somehow?
I've been enjoying Slint[0] lately. It is inspired by QML but is entirely implemented in Rust. From what I understand, it also transpiles the .slint files into Rust.

[0]: https://slint.dev
"There are sex workers on Instagram" is a far cry from "they all have a culture of onboarding young women into sex work"
If so, I'm disappointed. I thought one of the big reasons S76 was building a new desktop was to do things differently from Gnome.

That said I'm a former employee and while I worked there they were very privacy focused. I don't see why that would change and I bet we'll see this solved.
The job of the game engine is also to render the world given only the worlds properties (textures, geometries, physics rules, ...), and not given "training data that had to be supplied from an already written engine".

I'm guessing that the "This door requires a blue key" doesn't mean that the user can run around, the engine dreams up a blue key in some other corner of the map, and the user can then return to the door and the engine now opens the door? THAT would be impressive. It's interesting to think that all that would be required for that task to go from really hard to quite doable, would be that the door requiring the blue key is blue, and the UI showing some icon indicating the user possesses the blue key. Without that, it becomes (old) hidden state.
No, it implements a 3D FPS that's interactive, and renders each frame based on your input and a lot of memorized gameplay.
> What would that experience be like if a lab grown brain used as a computer developed consciousness? And what would happen to that consciousness?

That's my concern as well, because I think it would go insane almost instantly. This would also render the whole project useless, you can't reasonably expect an insane brain to yield correct results. Or would it be a double trapped brain existing as chip, unable to move or communicate, witnessing it's neurons being used as a computing resource, but without being able to do anything about it.

It's very very scary, and there needs to be a process for testing for any type of consciousness and a plan for what to do if it's detected, I recommend just killing it instantly to prevent any suffering.
"Plant arithmetic" is another interesting phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_arithmetic?wprov=sfla1
Aren't most people eligible for $150,000 loans to buy houses?
Sounds like you’re in the perfect place, changing will almost certainly put you in a worse position. Don’t worry, enjoy life and try to grow as an engineer outside of your work if that is what you desire.
What I wrote about Morris is factual, you can look it up.

His isn't an isolated case either. Women whose husbands choose to live out this fantasy often report very similar behavior.

I would recommend perusal of this site: https://www.transwidowsvoices.org/our-voices

These accounts are well worth reading for some insight into what it's like for the partners of these men, and how the "being a woman" fantasies of these men are so different from the actual lived reality of women.
CSS will continue to gain more function until it subsumes JS
There are several laws like that, for example for child support. But there isn’t one for minimum wage. You cannot however violate Federal minimum wage laws as enforced by DoL at the state or local level. So in effect that law spells out a pattern.

Having reviewed these laws in all applicable jurisdictions they do follow the same pattern: California’s tip credit is $0 as of right now. Oh and there is the Panera exception to its minimum wage law which is fairly novel.
What about grow as an engineer with a hobby and you're golden?
there are only so many questions you can ask about e.g.
how to write a CSS selector before all the others are
duplicates

Right, but there's a staggering number of permutations of other factors.

Think how many ways there have been to center a freaking HTML element over the years! There are, at a minimum, at least 10-20 "correct" answers to that question over the years.

Even today, that answer varies a lot. What is your render target? A state of the art desktop browser with automatic updates turned on? Browser in some locked down corporate/government/military environment that is 5 or 10 or 20 years old? HTML embedded in email? Some combination of those?

But Stack Overflow's design lacks that kind of specificity - there's no metadata associated with questions that would reliably specify the specific environment and software/library versions being targeted.

And even when the person asking that question does give that information, the moderators don't have the time or the inclination to manually and laboriously parse out those specifics and compare them to the specifics of the other possible dupe candidates... a comparison space which grows by zillions of candidates per hour.
> When people walk into a restaurant

No, we order first and then do it.
The venerable PDFedit[1] more or less forces you to confront the internal structure of the PDF file as well.

[1] http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html
Where does the UK top marginal rate start?
I still haven't seen anywhere reporting what, exactly, was the issue, and why would using the "true Administrator" account on Windows (or using Linux) avoid the issue.

My own uninformed guess, given that the "true Administrator" account avoids it, would be some sort of security mitigation, for instance flushing the branch predictor state when entering or exiting the kernel unless the current user is SYSTEM or Administrator.
There is quite a large amount of people believing that Telegram stores messages in plaintext. I would like to know how they got that idea.

So far the best I've got is something along the line of: if you can get your chats when you log in with a new device, then so can a Telegram employee. With no proof of the claim of course.
Where do you get this idea?

What generates more value - a good thought that can steer a product or a company in a better direction, or a pile of clean dishes? Value is disconnected to the difficulty involved in producing it.

In fact, this is a key part of the free market. Precisely because it's easy for people who can do your job to produce a ton of value and hard for dishwashers to do the same, the market tries to push as many people as possible away from dishwashing and towards whatever it is that you do.

The next thing to keep in mind is - if we trained up all the dishwashers, could they do your job? Perhaps we'll find your job is not that easy after all.
I like that approach of "not clicking any ads".

That said it could still land a message/spark interest.

And perhaps if it is worth investing your time in, you'll hear about it again, hopefully from a source you trust.
I live in Seattle, and you’ll be lucky to get someone for $49/hour. Obviously labor is more dear here, so the robot prices make more economic sense.
I don't think LLM's are like (complete) human brains, I think they vaguely resemble what we mean by language "intuition".

Brains need several other functions, too. Including search, some kind of motivator or initiator and probably several layers of coordination/orchestration.

None of which need to be strictly separated from the other layers.

Adding some kind of Q search on top of LLM's means they're not just LLM's anymore, but a composite model that has an LLM as one component.
This booster is the record holder.

I'm sure they expect that a long-lasting reusable rocket will eventually fail.

SpaceX must be eager to study the wreckage to see where to improve their reconditioning process.
Also they need to be cleaned. Not all dishwashers are created equal. Some leave gunk behind on the bottom. It could be drainage and or poor design. Some have a built in garbage disposal and you have to clean the bin out every once and awhile. If you have never done it. It is not a fun task.
Maybe they are now ( haven't used Whatsapp in a while ), but not 5-10 years ago
Yes, but because it was a toxic work environment.

If I was in your position I would not be concerned, I would be happy.

"Not growing" is subjective, the things I "grew into" 10 years ago are not relevant today.
> You have what I refer to as “root cause syndrome”.

This is an ad hominem fallacy/attack. Instead of discussing the actual argument, you instead attack the person making it.

> Likewise, the problem of wealth inequality can only be solved by reducing wealth inequality.

This is an opinion, completely non-factual and unjustified by any reasoning. And, the only possible underlying belief from this paragraph is "some people having more wealth is intrinsically bad" - completely separate from the negative societal effects of that wealth, and from any moral framework that even allows you to describe "bad". You just believe that it's bad.
I would argue it's not about censorship. Twitter's previous administration are also anti-censorship, and user can post already almost whatever they wanted as long as it's legal before Musk. And yet this problem starts to occur after Musk.

After Musk took over, not only he removed the moderation team, he also introduced many policies that encourages extreme content (well actually, it encourages encouragements, but extreme content draws the most encouragements, which is a well-know phenomenon). For example the blue checkmark for sell and encouragement based revenue sharing.

Current problem that Twitter suffering is the result of those policies from Elon Musk himself. A YouTuber John Harris suspected that Musk is doing this to mock something (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQxG4KEzvo), but I think it's just incompetent/lack of understanding, a bullied child turned an asshole, it often happens.
How do you think they should determine the threshold of consciousness?
Absolutely not. I have lost almost all trust (faith?) with medicine. FYI - I'm not doing/using anything wacky like homeopathy. I'm just simply not interested in anything related to medicine anymore.
Hopefully another perspective is interesting.
Yes, promises of promotion that never happened despite taking on more and more responsibility and delivering. It was my first job out of school and in my naivety, I believed my results would speak for itself and office politics didn't matter. I probably stayed about 2 years too long until I finally started applying to other jobs out of frustration and got a substantial pay raise.
From personal experience: if you’re looking to migrate from WP, I’d strongly recommend just extracting your posts via WordPress’s JSON API. I looked at several of these tools while planning a lift of a large blog to Hugo, and none of them ultimately worked as well as a small one-off Python script that pulled from the JSON API.

(Pulling from the API also means you won’t have to inject any code into your current WP instance.)
Don’t assume based on the personalities.

The right are currently targeting facebook and tech firms because they want to be able to influence the ‘algorithm’ to support their policies.

They are current churning out concepts such as the ‘censorship industrial complex’, and finding ways to publicize blame on “liberal Californian tech firms”.

The right wing think tanks are posturing about this from the perspective of free speech - while avoiding getting down into the weeds of trust and safety decision making.

I am on board with better freedom of speech protections - but not someone pontificating on principles, but ignoring the massive amounts of failure when you run moderation on “principles”.

This is where they lose credibility for me, and the power grab becomes apparent.

This letter is almost certainly to appease the Republican Party so that Meta is not dragged into hearings near the election.
Your last point is rarely discussed and incredibly unfortunate. We’re creating a lower class of citizen who must exist in the shadows, constantly fear being relocated, and can easily be exploited for labor or worse. Then somehow this is packaged as being humane in some way.
Fluent Reader is a nice FOSS reader
https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader
Imagine if YC didn't delete my comments and I was some Russian sock puppet.
I was in the exact same experience (and I'm also very risk averse), and I would say yes and no. Like most things it's complicated. But to keep it short I most certainly grew the most in my career – meaning in engineering, people, presenting, everything – by taking the plunge with a new role and the challenges it brings. You're forced to learn and adapt and taken out of your comfort zone.

I think even in a great company you are going to hit a ceiling that is hard to grow past even if the opportunity is there – there's politics, there's other priorities, there's always something that will get in the way. I found swapping job was the only way to "push reset" on that side of things enough to have that rapid burst of growth.

What I've very slowly learned is things tend to work out. If you've got some savings built up and not too much in the way of hard responsibility, I'd explore the option.
Thanks for the list, the idea behind my tool was to try to code something that might fit an analyst that would take a fast look at the PDF. I'm also trying to figure out some fast heuristics to mark/highlight some peculiar stuff on the file itself.

Now regarding the tools you mentioned, I haven't checked out all of them, but part of them are interesting (and more mature, speaking of testing and compatibility). However some (at least the ones I was trying) are very basic, and they don't allow the "Save object as.." or uncompress it. I like the feature of displaying the PDF for preview :)
I use https://github.com/Rongronggg9/RSS-to-Telegram-Bot/
Emil had already started egui long before we started Rerun. The immediate mode paradigm of egui also fits very well with how we wanted to archetype Rerun. In addition to that the GUI framework story in Rust is still quite immature which means you often need to be able to make changes to the actual GUI framework if you want to create a "cutting edge" UI heavy product in Rust. Not surprisingly you therefore see other Rust based apps build their own GUI frameworks for that same reason. There are some promising initiatives in the Rust world but we'd still make the same decision to build on egui today if we were to start from scratch.
The file export (xml based) can be pretty reliable too.
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He can't do it as efficiently as an organization can as it can see the bigger picture of what is needed where. He also probably doesn't want to spend hours of his life figuring out which people to give it to. Why duplicate effort?
I did a home inspection on my house and really appreciated the insights there - many hazards were identified and it makes doing a rational de-risking exercise possible.
Rerun is great. I wish they prioritize rerun_sdk build for iOS and/or Android - so that you can log remotely from mobile devices. Serializing and streaming images, depthmaps, sensors data in own code is a pain and rerun has done great work with that.

A little worrying for me that rerun seems getting more complicated and verbose and API changes frequently. The whole vizualization code can clutter algorithm/code that is begin debugged.

If rerun reading this maybe they can consider:

- integrating inkeep [0] "ask ai" (I found bun.sh use it and was useful for me)

- creating docset for Rerun for Dash.app [1]

[0] - https://inkeep.com/

[1] - https://kapeli.com/dash
> Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

Almost always
The Matrix Foundation tries to fund itself philanthropically by selling sponsorship and memberships at matrix.org/support, but it doesn’t remotely cover the full dev costs.

So there is absolutely no alternative but a) ensure the wider independent FOSS ecosystem can build general purpose apps (which they can and do - eg Cinny and FluffyChat), and b) have Element go off and build apps which people actually pay for (empirically that means govtech & enterprise).

The hope is that if/when Element is profitable doing the latter, then Element can get back to investing in the broader Matrix ecosystem again. (Separately, it’s fascinating to see how little much of the Matrix ecosystem seems to appreciate the $$M that Element has put in over the years. Funny old world.)

edit: oh, and the unable to decrypt errors should be pretty much gone now; we just spent the last 6 months on crypto doing nothing but killing them.
Awesome to hear it's working out for you!
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Accusing others of astroturfing doesn't help the quality of HN, or your case against the poster. Please respond in a chill manner. Use the downvote and flag buttons if people are breaking the HN guidelines.
So there is no interactivity, but the generated content is not the exact view in the training data, is this the correct understanding?

If so, is it more like imagination/hallucination rather than rendering?
History of the AI Winter
I would like to also point out that the decision to cut the development of scientific Linux came after pressure from fermilab administration. They had the classical, why not just rely on Redhat CentOS and save the efforts. Ironically after the plans were announced and the community was shocked. In less than a year RedHat announced that they will stop developing CentOS.

And now instead of making a review of their decision and see the actual needs and think about cutting the reliance on RedHat, they went fully dependent on RHEL (one can say that CERN takes part of the blame too).
The parent comment said nothing about the job, they commented on a full-time wage.

Their point stands.
Self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS works well, supporting OPML import/export, mobile clients, and a Reader-like theme. https://tt-rss.org
I literally did this. At the end of Chaos Communication Camp last year I had no reason to immediately leave, so I went to see if they needed some extra help and ended up drying and stacking dishes for an hour.
Also, the main languages:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
You could work at plenty of places that don't break 1 glass a day and the average could still be 1 glass/day.
I don't regret staying at my last role for 5 years but I do regret not spending more time looking and getting a better understanding of my value on the market while I was employed there. I wasn't underpaid but I certainly could've been positioned better to leave when I finally decided to. This is all recency bias of course but relearning how to interview was a difficult and humbling experience.
I’ve used pikepdf[1] for text processing before. To use it for the task you outline, you’ll probably need to thoroughly investigate how bitmaps can be represented in PDFs. (Or maybe not, if you only need to deal with a known finite set of PDFs or PDF producers.)

[1] https://pikepdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
A crackhead forgot his laptop at a repair shop and refused to collect it.
Thought Emporium on YouTube made a few videos utilizing organoid bio processors but iirc their neuron source is pig not human.

https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw?si=-YVEmZhSrkgBj3I9