I've been running OpenClaw for 3 weeks and built this to manage it at scale. Currently running 5 masters + 10 satellites + 100+ cron jobs on Mac Studio M2 Ultra.
Key features: real-time session monitoring, LLM quota tracking ("fuel gauges"), topic organization via Slack threads, advanced cron with run-if-idle/skip-if-last-run-within.
The scheduler uses OS concepts (semaphores, greedy algorithms). On $200/month Claude Code Max, never hit overage — saves ~$10k/month.
If the news sites want to display a different version of their sites via logged-out experience, that's one thing.
If they are sending the full article HTML to your browser, allowing it to fully display for several seconds, before covering it up with a paywall div/iframes, it should be fair use for you to view what you've already downloaded to your computer.
The plugin simply acts like as a sieve on the client-side to filter the covered-up HTML to the front.
You can already circumvent paywalls by using text-based browsers like Lynx.
That's like if a magazine company sends you a copy of their magazine in the mail. You already got it in the mailbox. And they put on the cover of the magazine: "If you don't agree to subscribing, don't read this and throw it in the trash, or mail it back to us."
Many ISPs have recently started charging for bandwidth usage. I have to pay for the data that I consume. They are forcing me to pay unwillingly for data usage by click-baiting me into wanting to view the article, then displaying the full article for several seconds, then covering it up with HTML divs.
The companies have the technological capabilities based on browser cookie info to send me a redacted version of their site. They should just do that.
As I mention there, there was still a minute possibility that even if this didn't belong to Pinterest, it could have been an internal tool for a small team or an employee hack day/side project that got accidentally exposed.
I read through probably half of the comments and then skimmed the rest, so sorry if this was already mentioned:
What if Netflix streaming service improves A LOT, and their movie collection grows to encompass pretty much every movie out there? A lot of the discussion has assumed that Netflix would remain the same, but with their focusing exclusively on streaming, I could see how they would have more leverage to negotiate with content owners to license movies--for one, they could charge a higher subscription fee and offer more revenue share for streaming and a more comprehensive catalog, something that I'd be very happy to pay an extra $5 for (I currently only have the streaming plan)
I'm building a new website, and I know that I definitely want to use Jenkins for CI.
However, with all the infrastructure stuff that's needed for a software organization, having all of these services hosted quickly becomes a nightmare to manage in itself?
By infrastructure stuff I mean all of the following and more (and the decision to run it yourself or have it hosted):
- Hosting - Amazon EC2 or Rackspace
- Bug and Task tracking - Bugzilla
- Version control - Git (Github private costs $/month)
- CI - Jenkins
- Deploy - Heroku (hosted) vs Capistrano scripts (DIY)
Because I like to do pretty much everything myself and save money whenever I can (I have been hosting several websites from my home desktop on dynamic DNS w/ freedns.afraid.org for years)--I am just about to finally give in and actually rent a VPS from Rackspace.
Knowing that all of these are services will always be needed (or at least, should be best practices) for collaborative software building, I would much rather build these out and customize them for myself for the years to come.
The only reason I'd switch over to hosted solutions is if I or someone on my team got too busy to maintain it in-house, and if the cost savings were justifiable in switching over.
After using Jenkins CI at my last company, I really enjoyed that experience, and absolutely must have it for all of my future projects. On my list of infrastructure stuff, CI comes after hosting and source control as a basic necessity, so it should on average cost the same or less than those.
I hope I'm not being so cheap and parsimonious as to offend you, but I'd like to see a version of your service offered in the $15 price range without much sacrifice in quality/service.
> I hope I'm not being so cheap and parsimonious as to offend you, but I'd like to see a version of your service offered in the $15 price range without much sacrifice in quality/service.
There are two main reasons for high cost:
1. iOS / OS X projects have to be built on Apple hardware.
2. CI is resource intensive task, so not like very many users can share single machine.
I'll think on making a smaller plan though. Also for non-Mac projects $15 plan would work for me.
Oh, one more thing to add: Google Apps is free for up to 10 users, so arguably, email and collaboration is even more important than the other infrastructure stuff. Paying for a luxury when something even more basic is free? Hmmm...
I would have couches and sleep/napping areas--a lot of them.
I think the best and most essential things to quality of life are: air, water/food/drink, exercise, sleep. I find that there is an unsurprising correlation that when I am healthy and fit, I am also able to perform my best at the computer.
Don't know if it's really conquering, but here's a trend that I've seen:
In the past, American products were regarded as the best and Made in USA meant quality. Next were Japanese products and consumer electronics. Starting 5-10 years ago, I began to see the well-regarded brands like Sony and Toshiba become more of a boutique brand (overpriced compared to what it offered) as they focused more on style than functionality. Most recently, products from China and Korea-based companies (Haier, Samsung, LG, Hyundai) have started to become more mainstream.
This just shows that there will always be up-and-coming competitors who will out-hustle, out-engineer, and out-build the previous market dominators if they don't keep innovating and staying fresh. The smaller competitors, given enough time, will catch up.
It's strange that we see Asian brands as copy-cats all the time. Copy-cats just copy but a lot of upcoming Asian brand are improving. I think this is why Steve Jobs was inspired by Sony: making improvements.
But I have to admit there are also a lot of useless copy-cat products on the market (not only in Asia). Those 'brands' will not survive because they won't offer an improvement.
I don't know if there will "always" be up-and-coming competitors. There are only so many third world countries left to come up and "always" is a very long time. Hopefully, there are many models for "coming up", since making cooler gadgets probably won't work for everyone.
Of course, one could make the argument that current first world countries will decline to the point where they can begin to compete on price just as the up-and-comers begin to charge more. It's already happening, to a limited degree, in autos. Some manufacturing has come back to the US in places where wages and taxes are low. The recent economic downturn has caused quite a few kinds of work to return to the US, including manufacturing that was taking place in China.
From what I've seen, 5 years is about the amount of time for major changes in trends to take place. A lot of companies can rise and fall in 5 years, which is the same amount of time it takes for a startup to come out of nowhere and then dominate the scene.
We haven't really seen China and India explode yet. I would even dare to say that a lot of people on HN haven't taken a close look at Chinese websites. Rhygar's comment not only applies to Samsung, but a lot of other companies we haven't even heard of in other countries. There are Chinese travel websites (e.g. qunar and huochepiao), auction sites (taobao), search engines (baidu), social networks (renren), made by really smart engineers who understand their local markets and cost a fifth to a third of what US software engineers cost--and when those companies make boatloads of cash in their own country, guess where they will start pushing out to?
I laughed when I went to Shanghai several years ago and saw all the urinals and toilets in the airport with the American Standard brand. Now, I see a lot of Toto (Japanese) branded toilets in American restaurants and public restrooms.
"and when those companies make boatloads of cash in their own country, guess where they will start pushing out to?"
Nowhere. They're localized copies of services existing elsewhere. Their strength tends to be either localization or central government block on American competitors.
Sorry, in my previous comment I was talking about both the on-the-ground engineers and also the people running the companies at the top (e.g. Jack Ma). They will also have a lot of money to buy whoever and whatever they want.
Always is a long time, but who knows, China was the richest country in the world until around 1810. We still have 20 years until China really starts getting an ageing population. Africa has a long way to go still, so there is plenty of coming up. Default and devaluation help for price competition too.
In a world of equal wages, there are still going to be local specialisms though. Not sure that it is fair to characterise that the richer countries make cooler stuff. Apple and Dell both make their products in China. Japan makes cool stuff that is only popular locally. Cultures have different attitudes to cool. There will still be diversity.
After all, they manufacture tons of components that go into these devices. It's not hard to take a part that someone else designed and stamp your own brand on it.
