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by Nursie | 2025-04-01 04:09:15+00:00
> There doesn't seem to be a truly adfree option.

We're still talking about The Guardian?

They advertise a $20 (AUD) per month "All Access Digital" plan here - https://support.theguardian.com/au/contribute?pre-auth-ref=h... - which they say gives you access to "Ad-free reading on all your devices"

But that might be through their app rather than the browser. Hard to tell.
by wingworks | 2025-04-01 04:09:59+00:00
Damn Youtubers really make alot from affil links? I think I've only like once or twice used a link in the description. I usually don't bother, because nearly always the links in the description arn't relevant to the video. Just an ad link, and generic, my camera xyz links to some amazon page which usually out of stock/gone.

I always thought Youtubers made the bulk of their money with brand deals (like Honey), and some from youtube ads + light sprinkling on top from afill links.

Maybe I'm not the typical user.
by sky2224 | 2025-04-01 04:11:21+00:00
Using AI is risky since it's trained on data from sites like Chegg, StudySmarter (now known as Vaia), Brainly, etc.

Since those are user submitted answers, they sometimes get them wrong and so the AI models just regurgitate the wrong answer, especially if it's for a problem that's infrequently assigned by professors.

Nevertheless, I still use the AI models to try and aid in solving these problems, there's just always this gut feeling that I'm being guided in the wrong direction, but since I'm not versed in the subject I'm learning, I can't identify the hallucinations or inaccuracies.
by card_zero | 2025-04-01 04:11:22+00:00
No, there are different scales. For a start, you can play a minor scale instead of a major one, or you can play a chromatic one (all the notes, a semitone at a time). Sticking to the notes of a scale when playing a melody is playing in a particular mode, for instance the pentatonic scale is a blues mode. Several modes are from ancient Greece and create strange stiff-sounding moods. I can't claim great consciousness of the mode/scale used in any familiar songs (other than the pentatonic), but this is a thing and it goes on a lot. Popular in the technical end of thrash metal.

Edit: the minor scale doesn't count because C major = A minor if you start on A, fair enough, forget that one.
by mecHacker | 2025-04-01 04:12:02+00:00
yeah, so the people who would make time to grab a beer with me when I was visiting their town, would not respond to my texts. And that's why I asked for the specific language you'd use. I'm using something like:

"Hi XYZ... I've started consulting, and I'm looking for new business opportunities. I'd love to talk to you about this... could we catch up over a call sometime next week"

may be there is a better way to do that. I've limited 1st degree network, and I don't want to burn it all, so I stopped sending these messages after all the first 4-5 didn't seem to go as planned!
by zahlman | 2025-04-01 04:12:42+00:00
Python projects often need to share space with code written in other languages used for extensions - especially C traditionally, but now there are many competitors (and Numpy also uses Fortran for LAPACK and possibly also BLAS; I'd have to check).

PEP 518 gave the original definition for pyproject.toml contents, defining its use for describing build-time requirements. (PEP 517 appeared more or less in tandem, describing the hook to call an entry point for the build backend; later, PEP 621 standardized some metadata for the build backend to use.) Many other options were considered, including for the name: https://peps.python.org/pep-0518/#other-file-names
Show HN: Renault 25 – The 1980s Talking Car Experiment
by marctossip | 2025-04-01 04:12:46+00:00
In 1983, the Renault 25 rolled out with a feature straight out of sci-fi: voice synthesis. This French luxury sedan, designed to rival BMW and Mercedes, spoke to drivers with alerts like "door ajar" or "low oil" - a world-first for a production car, built with Philips tech. Beyond its talking gimmick, it packed a sleek 0.28 drag coefficient and engines from 63 hp diesels to a 205 hp V6 Turbo. Phase 1 (1983-88) was bold but buggy; Phase 2 (1988-92) refined it, hitting 780k units total. A car of presidents and tech pioneers, it’s a quirky footnote in automotive history. Full story here: https://www.missioniledelacite.paris/voiture-de-collection/h.... What do you think - ahead of its time or just a quirky fad?
by t-writescode | 2025-04-01 04:13:54+00:00
Even worse, when *those same people* finally figure out that there aren't many trans people in the first place, rather than thinking "oh should be easy to accommodate, then", they instead say "exactly, so we shouldn't have to care about them. They should just go away / be quiet / stop asking 'the whole world' to change for them."

At the end of the day, everything is just an excuse for people like that to either:

- hate - not do any internal searching that will reveal they're the ones that need to change - continue to hide in their self-hating shame (see: gay porn viewing rates in places with wildly lower, admitted-LGBTQ+ people)
by wingworks | 2025-04-01 04:13:54+00:00
Yeah this! The day that casey neistat started advertising nordvpn, I lost a lot of interest in his content.

I personally don't mind creators advertising VPNs, but just be honest about it. Don't pretend like it's your favourite VPN you've always used, and it's the bestest, most secure, will make you super safe..

If they'd say like, I've been paid to advertise xyz VPN, I've tried it for a few days, works as advertised. I can watch my US Netflex while traveling out of the US, or whatever. But keep in mind, instead of just your ISP knowing where you browse, now the VPN providers knows, and is probably selling your data. Like, cut the bs.
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-01 04:14:42+00:00
People rushed to get there orders in....3 months before the deadline all on the same weekend?

Highly implausible.

Also the terms of the rebate require finalized sales. The stores in question don't have the physical capacity to have made 8600 sales in 3 days. If they were batching earlier sales they shouldn't have used a later date as the sale date for the rebate.

So it's either fraud or sheer incompetence by Tesla Canada.
by ggm | 2025-04-01 04:15:36+00:00
> He's not chaotic because he sees it as an advantage.

Wasn't: But, having been accused of being chaotic, he "adopted" it as his vibe. The weave is bullshit. He's chaotic because he's chaotic. But how he messages it to his fanbase, is another story. It isn't an advantage but he sells it like it is and you know what? To the right people, it works.

I doubt it works for the Chinese, either to give them useful clues to his intent, or to impress, or convince them of a line of reasoning. What it does it make it plain there is only a transactional moment, and a risk it will be repudiated before the sharpie ink has dried on the symbolic signing.

In turn the chinese will adopt a posture which advances their cause. It may well be belligerent. It is unlikely to be supplicatory.

I would rather be in another timeline of the wheeler multiverse. If I can't have the one with unicorns and chocolate, I'll settle for the one with less chaotic negotiation approaches.
by its_down_again | 2025-04-01 04:18:22+00:00
People have had similar sentiments in tennis about how racket and ball technology has changed the game over the years. Moving away from wooden rackets led to a massive increase in power and a larger sweet spot, which transformed the game from finesse to powerful serve-and-volley play. John McEnroe began with wooden racquets, while Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi adjusted to carbon fiber frames. Then poly strings took things even further, players generated extreme topspin to deliver aggressive swings with much more consistency, pushing the game back towards the high-powered baseline style.

For me, Roger Federer's style represents tennis at its most beautiful. His all-court game feels effortless and graceful, almost like a dance. But from a court-level view, it's more of a high-speed chess match built on calculated aggression, constantly pressuring opponents and waiting for the slightest opening to strike a point-winning shot. That level of sophistication and precision wouldn’t be possible without modern racket technology.

I still feel emotionally tied to classic matches from my childhood, especially Federer versus Nadal. But there's no objective reason, because tennis keeps getting better. People worried finesse was disappearing, but players like Alcaraz have brought back drop shots and clever cat-and-mouse tactics against deep-baseline defenders like Zverev and Medvedev. It’s a technique that was once considered too risky to rely on consistently.

In golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, running, & any other sport will keep evolving as technology & athleticism improves. Clinging to older styles feels more like holding onto the past than genuinely appreciating progress. If you can’t enjoy Curry hitting daggers in the Olympic finals or Kiplimo breaking 57 minutes in a half marathon, maybe the problem isn't with the sport itself. Maybe it’s the comfort of past memories holding you back from appreciating what’s happening now.
by jjani | 2025-04-01 04:18:44+00:00
> They don't have a design system, don't know what that even means, and their sinful hands should not be tweaking any UI libraries, at most being limited to modifying a rich set of theme tokens that force consistency

I feel like the majority of shadcn users doesn't tweak it whatsoever though. In fact - I bet you a large percentage has never even considered the ability to tweak it, just seeing it as a plug-and-play set of UI components. Think old Android and iOS apps, where almost everyone just used the default components.
by t-writescode | 2025-04-01 04:19:43+00:00
Neither. They're describing the philosophical similarities of:

* "Has only been that way so far because that's how computers are" and * "I just want to center the damn content. I don't much care about the intricacies of using auto-margin, flexbox, css grid, align-content, etc."

Centering a div is seen as difficult because complexities that boil down to "that's just how computers are", and they find (imo rightful) frustration in that.
by rat87 | 2025-04-01 04:20:22+00:00
He has no idea how US foreign policy works. Or any US policy really. Because he frankly doesn't care. People who try to inform him have talked about how difficult it is to get him to pay attention, that it requires cutting it very short and throwing lots of colorful pictures. It's not a secret in Washington. You say he's a political obsessive but he pays more attention to various fox news rants (which are often conspiratorial) then to well sourced briefings.

He's smart at scams and self promotion, anything else he's intellectually lazy about.

He cares a lot about influence at least while he's in charge but he undervalues or ignores soft power and just tries to bully allies.
by EGreg | 2025-04-01 04:20:23+00:00
Look, if the visible universe is expanding, as we think it is, that is already a direction. Viewing galaxies “from the other side” is not the same in an expanding bubble. It’s like being surprised that many things are redshifted no matter where you look. As for rotations — you could perhaps have some local coriolis force.

The visible universe is redshifted and galaxies are getting further and further away. So jumping straight to “we are in a black hole” is weird

It is far more plausible that there is some coriolis like spinning effect in a higher dimension, even if the universe is flat it could have similar effects to how the earth’s spin makes cyclones all spin in the same direction.

Problem solved. Next?
by zahlman | 2025-04-01 04:21:39+00:00
pyproject.toml is still fundamentally intended to be an input file that describes abstract dependencies for a single package. Lock files describe entire environments, or at least entire change-sets for an environment, and specify everything - pinned versions, including for transitive dependencies, and also hashes and other expectations for the install artifacts.

Tools that use custom lock files are at liberty to switch over, and any concerns about migration, backwards compatibility etc. are up to them. Several major tool authors were consulted for the design repeatedly across the discussion thread, over a period of months (and this is just the latest attempt at the design task; the total history is much longer).

uv has an issue up already to track implementation: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/12584
by asdf6969 | 2025-04-01 04:21:48+00:00
So true. Imagine trying to explain a movie theatre to somebody who didn’t grow up going to one. Compare it to podcasts and you’ll see what I mean - why would everyone pay $15 to sit in a room and listen to a new podcast episode at the same time? Same thing. That’s how we’ll all sound to gen alpha. No more movies and thank God I don’t have to spend $20 on a $0.50 bucket of popcorn and $0.25 cent drink. Imagine your parents tell you that radio shows used to do this..
by mmooss | 2025-04-01 04:23:31+00:00
It says it focuses on e-ink screen integration. What are the unique challenges of e-ink screens for reading ebooks?

At least in the past, screen refresh was slower; the reflective, rather than luminescent screen changed contrast and color performance; resolution was well behind standard screens.

The first two seem easily solved; the third hard to mitigate beyond larger print and appropriate typefaces. What else?
Ask HN: Aren't Agents the Bitter Lesson?
by ahamilton454 | 2025-04-01 04:23:40+00:00
It’s been a while since I read the bitter lesson by Rich Sutton, with that said, the general “vibe” I picked up from the essay was “building human features and heuristics into a program will eventually be surpassed by general brutish methods”

So this poses the question. Orchestrating workflows using an agent frameworks seems like it goes against the gospel that hacker news users (like myself) preach all so often.

So what do you think about approaching problems with specialize agent flows? Is this something that will shine in many use cases, or become obsolete in the next few years of innovation?
by vaindil | 2025-04-01 04:23:43+00:00
I'm traveling to Europe right now and had to install WhatsApp, and this absolutely infuriated me. You cannot start new chats with anyone (on Android at least) unless you grant it the contacts permission. I'm sure other things are limited too, like you say.

Workarounds include having the other person message you first, or manually typing wa.me/+number into your browser.

Slightly more info: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/229390
by kin | 2025-04-01 04:23:54+00:00
YouTubers have no idea how much money they are losing due to last click attribution. They're mad that it could be a lot but in reality it is more likely very little.

MegaLag posted a VPN example, which was an edge case, but it was enough to spark outrage. Ironically, there are many YouTubers who have only Amazon affiliate links which Honey never touches.

Many YouTubers that Honey sponsored also didn't have conflicting affiliate links at the time of promotion.

Also, if you work with affiliate links, you should probably know how they work. IMO it'd be condescending if Honey tried to explain to every YouTuber how last click attribution worked.
by 0dayz | 2025-04-01 04:23:55+00:00
If you want to define having a larger expenditure than contributing to the budget[1] as parasitic relation, then no, you'll have to own that to yourself.

The point is as Poland gets developed enough to be a net contributer will Poland be a country that has smart financial policies that can continue to outpace the rest.

For instance Estonia is way ahead of the EU members in how digitalized their country is, which has made it an attractive startup hub, due to the efficiency the digitalization has brought.

[1]https://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/DB/2023/en/GenRev.pdf
by bb88 | 2025-04-01 04:24:35+00:00
I tried koreader on a kobo. I wouldn't call it trivially easy when I installed it last year, and I promptly uninstalled it and removed all the hacks so I could get back to a sane installation of the Kobo OS again.

I think maybe for a kindle it might be worth it, but the reality is for Kobo, it's probably more hassle than it's worth.

I found my time better spent setting up a calibre-web in a docker container and then having my kobo sync to that. And that was awesome.
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-01 04:24:48+00:00
> the minor scale doesn't count because C major = A minor if you start on A, fair enough, forget that one.

It might actually count since the harmonic minor exists. But this is just stressing the point that all of those "separate" scales might perhaps be best introduced as simple variations of the usual diatonic scale. Then sure, you might want to practice them a little bit, but at least you should have "learned" them in that you are not wondering what you're supposed to play.
by t-writescode | 2025-04-01 04:24:57+00:00
I see the ".fr" in your profile; but, in the United States, that activity would almost certainly be a conversation with HR.

If you really, really wanted help with a translation project and you didn't want to pay, professional translators (which you should do since translation-by-meaning requires fluency or beyond in both languages), then there are more polite ways of asking this information than cold-calling every person with a "regional" sounding name and saying "hey, you know [presumed mother tongue]?"
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-01 04:25:02+00:00
I disagree it's as obvious as you think. He could run for VP and then act as de-facto President. It says that "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice" - in that case, he would have been _elected_ Vice President, not President.

And as as far as the 12th Amendment goes, "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

The 22nd amendment doesn't explicitly say he cannot serve as President, it just says "no person shall be _elected_ to the office of President".

Yes, the spirit of the constitution clearly prevents a 3rd term, but it could be possible to employ a very literal interpretation that allows the above.
by dboreham | 2025-04-01 04:25:34+00:00
Some of the all time great bluesmen had fat sausage fingers so there's a bit more to it I suspect. After the same 40 years I got irritated one day and searched YouTube for "how do I play a C chord without muting strings" and found that my finger and wrist position was all wrong. Also spent a bunch of time watching Frampton, studying where his fingers go and what they look like.
by rayiner | 2025-04-01 04:25:36+00:00
> That is a problem, yet the law must still be enforced.

Tellingly, you’re phrasing that in the passive voice, as if “the law” is “enforced” by higher beings sitting outside the political process. It is not. The enforcement of criminal laws is a political act, performed by political actors. And it is an inherently discretionary political act. Prosecutors actually have no obligation to enforce the law in every circumstance.

> There is no perfect solution but that isn't an argument for lawlessness, especially for powerful political leaders.

It’s not an argument for lawlessness, but rather an argument for viewing the political act of law enforcement as being secondary to the ultimate political act of electing leadership in any scenario where those two things could be seen as being in conflict.

Put differently, you have to see prosecution and elections as political acts that both seek to vindicate the will of the people. After all, criminal prosecutions are brought on behalf of the People to vindicate the public interest in law and order, not private rights. So it’s perfectly legitimate to ask whether, under particular circumstances, it’s more important to enforce some criminal law—especially one unrelated to elections—or whether it’s more important to ensure the public can choose its leaders through elections.
by toasterlovin | 2025-04-01 04:25:49+00:00
I think what we’ll come to widely realize is that syncing state between two minds (in your example, the travel agent’s mind and your mind; more widely, AI agents and their user’s minds) is extremely expensive and slow and it’s gonna be very hard to make these systems good enough to overcome the super low latency of keeping a task contained to a single mind, your own, and just doing most stuff yourself. The CPU/GPU dichotomy as a lens for viewing the world is widely applicable, IME.
by mingus88 | 2025-04-01 04:26:03+00:00
Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things. That’s not a criticism, really, that’s their product focus

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/netflix-backlash-casual-vi...

I had been a Netflix subscriber since the days of DVDs by mail and finally cancelled last month. It’s not worth +$20/mo for casual viewing. And they have a bad track record of cancelling shows I actually liked and promoting hallmark quality programs instead.

I don’t think much needs to be said about movie theaters. When most shows are remakes, sequels, superhero movies or other franchises, it’s all so tired.

So sure, movie theaters might be dead, but they share a grave with Netflix.
by setr | 2025-04-01 04:26:24+00:00
I’ve been theory crafting around video games for children on the opposing premise. I think fundamentally the divide is on the quality of content — most games have some value to extract, but many are designed to be played inefficiently, and require far more time investment than value extracted.

Eg Minecraft, Roblox, CoD, Fortnite, Dota/LoL, the various mobile games clearly have some kind of value (mechanical skill, hand-eye coordination, creative modes, 3D space navigation / translation / rotation, numeric optimization, social interaction, etc), but they’re also designed as massive timesinks mostly through creative mode or multiplayer.

Games like paper Mario, pikmin, star control 2, katamari damacy, lego titles, however are all children-playable but far more time efficient and importantly time-bounded for play. Even within timesink games there are higher quality options — you definitely get more, and faster, out of satisfactory / factorio than modded Minecraft. If you can push kids towards the higher quality, lower timesink games, I think it’s worth. Fail to do so and it’s definitely not.

The same applies to TV, movies, books, etc. Any medium of entertainment have horrendous timesinks to avoid, and if you can do so, avoiding the medium altogether is definitely a missed opportunity. Screens are only notable in that the degenerate cases are far more degenerate than anything that came before it
by atonse | 2025-04-01 04:27:50+00:00
Oversaturation of unoriginal movies and sequels coupled with insanely overpriced tickets and concessions. A huge shock.

It costs us (family of 4) nearly $100 to go the movies. And that’s not even counting a meal (only snacks)

Or, we can spend $20 buying the movie (or $4 renting it), watch it on 4K OLED on our couches, pause whenever we want, etc, and have a nice dinner for less.
by cookiengineer | 2025-04-01 04:29:56+00:00
404? Is the repo still private?

Edit: Ah, the URL was wrong. It's cve-bench!

I couldn't find anything related MCP servers or tools that were offered to the agents. Wouldn't it be much more likely to succeed if there was e.g. a gdb server or an sqli/http server running for debugging purposes? That way the thinking process could succeed more easily, no?

[1] https://github.com/uiuc-kang-lab/cve-bench