skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first glance I thought this was a perfect definition (following the CHARGE MORE motto from patio11).
I realize now it's a perfect and easy definition BUT it does not cover all scenarios.

> price sensitive customers have the same demands as price insensitive customers

No, that is not always true even though I feel is true for more than 50% of cases.
Example:
On an airplane customers in the first class are demanding larger seats and amenities than other in smaller classes.

You are describing a specific scenario where all customers have the same cost per customer and so clearly serving the ones with higher margins is better.

You are also describing a situation where customers have different feature requests and so the smallest pool of customers makes the feature set smaller and the product more specific and efficient.
This is more generally true across most scenarios. In order to act on it as you said you should select higher paying customers. The problem is pre-pricing you don't know what each customer is willing to pay. So this is a good rule if you know a bit about the pricing offer but don't have complete dataset.
Once you do have complete data though the perfect solution would be something resemblembing a first degree equation. Because clearly is better to make 1000$ x 100 customer than 2000$ from 5 customers. So it boils down NET_PROFIT X CUSTOMER for each possible group.
Essentially there is not a generic solution of the argument QUALITY VS QUANTITY or MORE POOR CUSTOMERS VS LESS RICH CUSTOMERS.
It depends on how poor is the poor and how many and how rich is the rich and in which quantities. It's a first degree equation, not a yes/no answer.

To summarize CHARGE MORE offers tremendous value and insight for how compact a rule it is to memorize. There are specific scenarios where other strategies work better. Also the more people will apply blindly the CHARGE MORE the more that type of customers will be saturated with offers and serving other less paying customers will offer better opportunities for profit.
About people in math and the more technical parts of computing, I've guessed that poor socialization has played a role.

But when my career was okay, it was in computing, and I did well enough in the socialization.

Can consider these and those issues, but my experience was that "applied" optimization, as in the book title in the OP here, was too near the empty set.

It isn't just me: My professors in applied math and the ones in optimization were not getting much if anything in consulting. I've been recruited and hired, but never for optimization.

Here I'm trying to do a service to the readers: Be very careful about the idea that there is significant career help via "applied" optimization.
Office 97 works on Win11. No emulation needed.
This is not about impersonation, it's about having a similar voice while using it to create new things.
Does depend upon the project but I suspect this is far too low. Only thing you're likely to get in this price range is a small addition / tweak to an existing design.

A very minimal design from scratch that uses existing off the shelf hardware with no interfacing to anything remotely complex and no follow on support (pretty much developer hands it over showing some smoke test works and you're on your own from there) could also fit into this budget.
The original meaning of the word computer was a person who calculates.

Looks perfectly clear to me.
What a strange way to frame the issue. I am not afraid of keeping things running. Most of the time, it's simply not possible, specially when working with other systems and people, without ever increasing pain.

The world is progressing and software will be obsoleted. Yes, not all of it and not at the same speed (MS obviously being top of the line when it comes to compatibility and being able support it), but inevitably so.
And according to libertarian thought, ownership is the basis of ethics. I'm a bit surprised there isn't more of a libertarian backlash against the "you will own nothing and be happy" trend in our culture.
These types of clerical errors are easy to make. SpaceX workers likely assumed they owned the property. They own the two adjacent lots. It took cards against humanity more than 6 months to even realize it was happening.
> I remember when OpenAI practically cloned Scarlett Johanssen's voice

Except that never happened and the voice belonged to a completely different voice actress and Scarlett Johanssen had exactly zero right to prevent this person from making money as a voice actress lending it to AI.

These complaints remind me a little bit of the story that a man complained that his photo was used to illustrate the article about how all hipsters look the same and it eventually turned out it wasn't his photo.
The point is, it doesn't matter. They're selling a Locked iPhone instead of an Un-Locked iPhone.

Is the Locked Phone devalued because it is locked to AT&T or is the Unlocked phone at a premium because it is not?
This took me to http://www.pamperedpawsbristol.co.uk/ which is a broken link. Maybe filter those out?
Most vatniks have similar takes, sadly.

Remember folks, all Russia has to do is leave Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders and repatriate its citizens, and the war will be over at status quo ante bellum.
Because „value“ is defined relative to the competition. If someone manages to sustainably build and sell a car for $100, a used beater suddenly isn’t worth $1000 anymore. The value decreases because I can get a better thing cheaper now. A Mainframe that was worth a million in 1980 would be worth about 10k as a museum piece now, because nobody would use it seriously anymore (even if it works exactly the same as in 1980).

Some software had a high value at some point but is pretty worthless now because there is cheaper or even open source competition now.
She wrote a strongly worded tweet and people outraged for 0.03 ms and moved on to the next thing.
I built a CO2 meter around a SCD30 five years ago: https://bbot.org/blog/archives/2024/05/19/pocket_co2_meter_b...

My takeaway is that it draws a lot more power than you'd expect, thanks to the incandescent light source, and unless there's quite a lot of airflow over the sensor, it'll exhibit self-heating at any poll rate under every ten minutes.
Open Source software that enjoys continued development by the broader community obviously works differently; this is about proprietary software that will not be ported to new platforms, receives no security fixes over time, and will just stop evolving at a given point in the past.

TeX would not be as useful if the only version you had available would be one Knuth compiled himself in 1990, without the original source code; and the fact that TeX solves a contained problem,
he intended it to be a „finished“ project, and was an exceptional developer makes this a good example to prove your point, but a bad one to counter mine: most software is just not like that.

To the contrary; a lot of software is highly contemporary, depends on other, external things, and requires a constant stream of security updates to cope with the rest of the world. This causes software to loose value rather quickly.
But why isn't it like copyright?

Actually that's easy: it wouldn't be profitable, yet.
SpaceX offered fair market value for the property. The property wasn't worth much so "offering a pittance" is equivalent to "offering fair market value".
If it was an electronic component that would set the car on fire due to a short circuit, the maker of the electronic component would certainly be sued, and was the electronic component designed to be placed on car circuit boards in first place?
In my corner of EU, Office365 is the only thing I see everywhere(also in some government offices). I have yet to see/use GSuite anywhere yet. Also, M$-Azure is common on more ancient businesses, modern startups sometimes have AWS and hip startup in rare cases has GCP(when product does not involve personal data).
> where ukraine will end up being fed to the wolves.

the wolves came regardless. The west's help is no altruism, but it is also what ukraine would need (and more).

> Propping up a defense industry that's feeling the lack of demand; forcing europe to coalesce around the us instead of china; restricting european access to cheap russian gas

trying to frame it as some sort of american conspiracy to power grab is either you propogating mis/disinformation/propaganda, or just utterly stupid to the point of an own goal (assuming you're aligned with the west).
I would love for every tech to be this way but sometimes, there are recurring costs (for good reasons) for whoever provides the product. In those cases, I think subscription makes sense
> feels like the wild wild west of intellectual property and copyright law

Copyright seems to always have one or another wild wild west going on. Maybe you are in the wrong place if the world constantly jumps and kicks from under you trying to throw you off?
I'm looking here https://github.com/basecamp/kamal-proxy/tree/main/internal/s... which is the code for their v2 proxy. Notice there's a health_check.go which makes requests in a goroutine and sets the health to true/false based on the HTTP status, via a consumer interface.

As I said elsewhere in this topic, this is all too basic IMO, (disclaimer: I'm a Caddy maintainer) Caddy does this all in a more robust way.
I wish Windows was that snappy! Incredible work, kudos!
Plants produce CO2 as well, photosynthesis is only used to produce sugars, normal respiration (I.e. sugars + O2 = energy + CO2), is used by plants to consume those sugars.

Only a plant cells containing chlorophyll and exposed to sunlight will photosynthesise. Notably at night there isn’t much sunlight, so normal respiration dominates a plants gas conversion processes, and results in them producing net CO2.

Based on the graphs in the blog post, I assume GP is placing the CO2 production on plants because it the CO2 levels peak at night, then return to normal every morning.
Eh. I wouldn’t use GCP precisely for this reason if I was building something on cloud.

Customer obsession (ugh) is just not in their DNA. I can tell firsthand they care more about what they want to do than what the customers want.
I second this! Nicolas and I have been working hard lately to try to advance the field of scientific visualization in Python — stay tuned!
Or any other copyright, for that matter. What if you copied a CC licensed sound-alike knockoff of a pop song, but the owner of the original song's master thought it sounded more like the original? This is just a new expression of an old problem.
You wouldn't even be able to tell at the end of the day, that's the point they're making.
Is this the civilization we want? (2017)
The only feature I miss in ESS is the ability to save plots using a GUI. Saving plots from the CLI can be a little cumbersome.
It makes sense on some level, but it would be better for everyone if they instead mandated open source for all legally mandated and/or safety critical software and open schematics/specifications for all related hardware.
So don't buy phones from carriers? You can find a cheaper plan without a phone and then add a device you can use on any network, with the manufacturer's software.
OAuth is an internet standard and you can write a client in literally C if you in any way know HTTP, and I do mean YOU can do it.

I haven't been very deep in the .net ecosystem but haven't had any issues implementing an api woth auth and rate limiting etc using dotnet and nothing Microsoft licensed.
Even the best software has the world move on around it.

Has anyone documented the process of getting the original TeX82 source release to compile on a modern system? I imagine it would be an ordeal, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
By definition only a subpart of your fulltime users will convert to paying customers. So in order to be able to try the pricing I would say you must have at least 20+ fulltime customers and you should also be able to generate like 10+ fulltime customers a month.
If you have less than that I would say it's better to focus on making the product better and increase conversions from signup&disappear to fulltime users.
Once you have thise basic numbers it would good and brave to try the pricing.

1) Ask a couple of customers what is fair
2) See what competitors are offering

then just publish a pricing. You will learn a great deal and iterate.
Yep, ASAN to find use-after-free, and valgrind memcheck to find forgotten-to-free.
> AI is astonishingly good at laundering and remixing without exposing the training set

They just about manage to make a good multimodal transformer that can generate audio and you expect that right away they can also interpolate in latent space? How does that actually work? It's not so simple. What benefit do they have from training on Scarlett Johansson's data, because they sure as hell have a big risk. They clearly hired a voice actress and they clearly told her to sound like Scarlett Johansson in "Her", and the end result perfectly fits with that. The voice doesn't "uncannily sound like SJ", no it just vaguely resembles her voice and mostly just mimicks the mannerisms from the movie. For me this is a perfect example of Occam's razor. One explanation is simple and realistic. The other explanation requires significantly more advanced AI control than OpenAI has claim/demonstrated, and it requires Altman to be so obsessed with the SJ idea that he goes out of his way to secretly train on her voice, risking legal exposure, while still hiring a voice actress.
there's a setting in the developer options called OEM unlock which allows the bootloader to be unlocked

It is still shipped locked. Unlocking wipes the device.

It also doesn't work if your device is carrier locked.
Im not really sure what you're suggesting so I can't really evaluate whether it is plausible. What I meant by semantical byproduct was that a definition based on a waveform needs to be supplemented with an argument that the definition is independent of the choice of waveform, because multiple different waveforms can describe the same particles depending on which components of the system are considered as classical.
Yeah companies notoriously have to contribute back to the Linux kernel all the time, it is a massive success story for copyleft.
Interesting insight.
AI as noob
Last time I was in the same boat, I tried to identify the major components of the project and then fixed small bugs and/or implemented a small feature in each of them. You get basic exposure to everything and you can explore from there.

I’ve also asked to be notified of every code review for the project. It’s hit and miss, but you get some exposure to different parts of the project, what’s done where, and how they interact when your colleagues add functionality / fix bugs.

And use the project like a customer to get an idea of how it works and what you can do with it, what problem is solves, what works well and what doesn’t.
I agree that these things should smooth it out. But so far the reality shows they do not.
You're buying once for $300.
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If it's congested, then that's an indication that place needs Wired Broadband internet, preferably FTTH fibre but FTTN copper at the minimum.

FCC can use this as a gauge to force internet providers to offer services in these locations as part of their license, isntead of the current method which uses census blocks, iirc.
Where i am, video and audio are not admissible in court...'too easily faked'. A car bump i was in was dash-cammed, but all my team could do was second by second analysis of the video, and present that to the court.
I did win, but it was very costly to do so.
CEO wants to take it private and low ball board of directors and all of them resigned.
It is not 2015 anymore.

>is not-Windows your dev environment?

Rider & VS Code.

>do you plan to use another db than SQL Server?

PostgreSQL and SQLite are working great.

>do you plan to deploy with containers?

Did you try .net 8.

>do you plan to deploy outside of Azure?

All big cloud providers have their own docs for .NET
Im sure there’s good Starlink use cases in narrow circumstances (only alternative being HughesNet with massive latency and < 30 megabits down, Ukraine, apparently cruise ships) but the more I read about Starlink pricing and constraints (like the predictable latency spikes) I genuinely wonder who it’s for.
I mean, I wasn't the guy who you replied to initially. I don't know. I'm just saying that just because it's free doesn't mean it's worth the time and energy. There are countless excellent games that one could be playing, at any number of price points. There are a lot of games I wouldn't even play for free when I could be playing those games.
Jetbrains does this well. Pay for a year and then you fallback to that license/version forever
Conversely, it isn’t my problem to make a business model work.

Personally, I’ve decide if I can’t buy something and just have it I will do without. So be it.
Mozilla had an outage in 2022 when gcp deployed an unannounced change.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/retrospective-and-technica...
The opportunity cost is when playing the game. I'm just saying that free doesn't make up for a bad (or necessarily even a decent) game, if it is one. There's an incredible number of amazing games out there. I personally find it difficult to justify using my time on even decent games regardless of price when there are better games out there.
Agree. However the core problem with most SAAS products is: the companies are beeing greedy and the products fail to deliver enough value or keeep missing a certain quality bar to make you happy.

You could easily fix that by a base price and a maintenence fee (per year, since
first buy) which would make it easy to opt in/out of a subscription model. The fact that companies are beeing greedy and fail to deliver prevents this from happening.
The campfire model specifically is even worse; it becomes a liability to maintain that I can’t request of the vendor, but have to take care of myself. The burden of actively looking for vulnerabilities, and fixing them, is on me.

The idea may be venerable, but I don’t quite understand who would think you could consider a networked online chat server as finished…
A New Era of Writing Code
Yeah until the company decides to adopt a subscription model
In case the author sees this: The email popup needs to go. I'd love to see your conversion on just that popup, its most likely zero.
I guess something similar could be said about America’s intervention in WW2 (in Europe specifically).
i would say that smaller, independent enterprises/solo shops tend to not hate GCP.

Large shops - aka, a shop where you're not part of the controlling entity - tend to prefer either AWS, or Azure depending on how hard the CIO got wined and dined previously (and existing inertia - older shops that used AWS as an early adopter seems to stay with AWS).

> Their UX is not great though

i agree, but nobody really cares enough. On the other hand, i'd not pay more for better UX. Judging by the current state, i say a lot of customers fall into this category.
>There's already VTubers who's whole visual identity is synthetic

No. Their assets are synthetic. Their identity is not. Their value and identity is in the real relationship and trust the creator builds with the audience. And that is what the company in question here tried to imitate. They didn't copy Jeff for his angelic voice, they copy him for the trust implicit in his reputation, name and 750k followers. It's the same reason Chris Pratt still gets hired to do commercials for millions despite the fact that any acting student would do it for 500 bucks and why openAI tried to copy Scar Jo in particular.

All these performances can be done by anyone for nothing, but they have commercial value because of the reputation of the person that's lending their likeness to them. And that's of course also why this is blatantly illegal by the way, we have personality rights and you can't shill your product with someone's likeness without consent, whether that likeness is AI generated or reproduced in some other way.
> So OSS aside (which has its own complicated economics)

Assuming you're actually referring to free software and not open source software, it really doesn't, though. It's straight up better in every way than service-oriented software and commercial software in every way... except actually compensating developers. I'd work for a pittance writing free software if there were any institutional support for it. But who wants to kill the golden goose, even if it means our lives would all be greatly improved?

That's not "complicated", this is the opportunity to make a shit ton of money by charging people for software despite insignificant marginal costs. Even if it means humanity writes the same goddamn software over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, mostly shittier than the last iteration.
I already made one-time payments (aka "lifetime") for two softwares/services. Was great until the providers went out of business. Before that they treated me not so well in support. But, what should I do, end the contract?
Now I have the strict rule for myself not to use any kind of one-time payment options in this area (software/software based services) anymore.
I'm just putting this down here to shed light on the possible downsides.

Edit: now I realize this is not written clear enough. This rule applies to software/software based services I intend to use regularly to solve a specific problem, like office, storage, etc.
Stress-induced gastritis (or even plain old stress-induced GERD) is too real and downright miserable :(
Your sysadmin will indeed be confused, since ML-KEM public keys are not used for authenticating and are generated by the client and server automatically, analogous to Diffie-Hellman.

You can confuse them (albeit much less) when OpenSSH adds support for one of the PQ DSAs.
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I’m pretty sure that was a joke.
Every senior engineer I know, the dirty little secret they're afraid to admit is that they secretly really like C#
I hate saying that anything is no longer useful, but the commenter above has a point about how tech will get lost as it becomes outdated and useless. Your example, for instance, shows that those data structures were useful, because they were warehoused and saved in some way. You don't see people using a lot of magnetic core memory these days, even in space. Using a handsaw is still useful today, even for non-snobby furniture, because there are some cuts that a power tool cannot replicate accurately. A hand plane is still valuable in the workshop for many things. One thing you see less and less of today is a hand drill, however, because they are objectively less good at drilling accurate holes than a power drill of some type. I wouldn't call the users of hand drills snobs, because some people prefer hand tools for many reasons, such as being quieter, but they are definitely not using a hand drill to gain an advantage over power tools.
It is trivial to include .NET with your app since I think .NET 5.
Bioethics fall under the humanities!
Quite frankly, it’s hard to recommend any Cloud Service nowadays. Technical issues apart, the strategy _everywhere_ is to maximize picking the customers’ pockets. AWS is super expensive, Azure is super unreliable and GCP … well, it’s reliable yet features on it could vanish at a moments notice.

Where might one go?
It's been brought up elsewhere in the thread but GCP deleting an entire tenant's account rules them out entirely from any serious business IMO.
Also thinking machines corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation
Speaking as a SaaS company here: I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t really fair. We have ongoing development so sustain, financial planning to do, and investors down our necks. It’s hard to justify a business plan with lots of fluctuations and uncertainty, when we could also have a SaaS model instead.