skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reasonable strategy might be to add a short preface to many works, explaining the historical differences between accepted practices (and acceptable fictions) when the work was created, vs. when the (explicitly dated) preface was added. In time, those prefaces would themselves become outdated and historical.

Of course, the lefties would want to add a 10-minute anti-gun diatribe before every 5-minute Bugs Bunny short in which Elmer Fudd and his (easily foiled) shotgun appears. While the right wingers would want to insert their own 10-minute pro-gun diatribes before...
By we, I didn't specify US citizens, but the collective western world. The situation isn't much different in EU.

Sadly, we can't wait for the train to stop at next station and get out, because it's the only train we have.
A big part of this is that there casual traveller will typically primarily interact with people who work in hospitality - hotels, restaurants, bars - for whom dealing with foreigners is a major part of the job and who will accordingly be heavily biased towards using English to any foreign customer.

Saw a couple of good examples of this on holiday in Rome a few years back - one sensible, one bizarre: first a couple of Scandinavians on the table next to us in a restaurant, talking to their waiter in english, which made total sense. The bizarre one was a French group walking into another eatery and negotiating for a table of five with the maitre d using the English word "five", even though the word in French and Italian is basically the same!
> it is unreasonable to live permanently in a country without speaking the local language

But what if there are countries where the 'local language' eventually becomes like Irish in Ireland?

Everyone who goes to school in the Republic of Ireland will learn some Irish at school. Almost every Irish person will know some Irish expressions, Irish songs, and be aware of Irish-language culture and literature as well as English-language Irish culture. If two native Irish people were in a hostage situation, held by English speakers who didn't know any Irish, and had to communicate without being understood, most would probably manage to do so.

And yet, you could live anywhere in Ireland your whole life and never be in a situation where you needed anything other than English to make yourself understood. No official purpose, and no business interaction would ever require Irish, even in the most rural and remote areas.

If you cared deeply about the Irish language, wouldn't it make more sense to support and honor Irish poetry, song, literature and theatre, rather than trying to coerce or force immigrants into learning a (reputedly difficult) language with around 1 million speakers, and less than 100,000 daily active users?

Some (not historically Anglophone) countries are getting close to being like this, in particular the Netherlands and Sweden. The metropolitan areas of those countries are much further down that path. If local culture is still preserved, taught and celebrated, is a really a problem?
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If you’re using Stripe for your SaaS product and if you have a usage based component in your pricing - this is for you.

Aggregating usage data into a digestible format for Stripe is a monthly chore no one likes to do.

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No more manual work. And no more billing errors.
> Pavel Durov, its CEO, is an absolute weirdo that tries to play god because he owns huge social media platforms, one of them being VK, which is heavily monitored by the Russian government.

VK was stolen from him and given to people who were friends with the regime.

So yes, VK is heavily monitored and controlled by Russian authorities and it seems a good deal of effort went into preventing that from happening again.
The pension system mathematics is based on a certain age pyramid. If that pyramid changes - which it did and does - you need to change something. So the French may go on the streets until forever, money in the pension system still cannot come out of the pen of the president. Now if they want to change the system itself including its mathematics, that's another story but I don't think it was even touched (and I'm not aware of any other alternatives some other place either)
Bad for _their_ business.
I can definitely see their point. Asking the government to gain and mantain such a deep insight into market dynamics is bound to fail time and time again. Private monopolies never persist for very long, any attempt to fix that non-problem via governmental interference is bound to produce opposite results.
The paddlepaddle project has nice models. Not well documented though and can be hard to use, so proceed at your own risk. But it is popular.
"Spontaneously" conflicts with "intentionally" in English. A spontaneous act is incompatible with having made a conscious decision about acting in that way. When something happens spontaneously, it happens by itself, without any intentionality.
You are powerless because there is no law that makes you right. Maybe find someone who can change that?
People prefer to hear what matches their expectations & wants, not what is accurate. And that's one problem with AI that keeps getting worse over time rather than better as AI evolves.
> Why have people become so afraid to speak their minds?

A sufficiently large group of people have realized that they can function legally as a social lynch mob.

A person can stand by their ideals all they want, but if their livelihood and/or social standing have been taken from them, then expressing those ideals doesn’t serve them very well.

Many people just find it easier not to engage.

History will not reflect kindly on these groups — they will be mocked (“crazy things people actually believed in the 2020s!”).

> We live in a democracy or not?

Regarding democracy, the most vocal zealots on both extremes of the political spectrum support decidedly undemocratic positions.
Anything to markdown is broader than part to markdown

Since pdfs are created so many different ways, do you have some examples and links of the pdfs that are awful?
Grotesque is an ugly word and more enormous than it needs to be at that.
Like when all the books say we raised the chocolate ration..

“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours?"
The speed of the response is impressive and the accuracy is very good as well. Great work!
I stopped using dropbox after finding it quarantines files. You won't know about this until you try to migrate off Dropbox. It just gives me the creeps now.
Use an open source Dropbox client such as https://maestral.app
“Plot a path to go” is controlling the vehicle remotely.
Do you think that a child won't know that "enormous" means "fat"? Or that "beastly" just means "ugly"?
Wow, you really were lucky, whew.
Torrent trackers are useless on long term because no one will seed for infinity.
That depends what telemetry though. Assuming this telemetry is purely about app's performance and behavior and is trully anonymous(I know that's big assumption, for sake of the argument let's believe it is the case), taking away from devs informations about whether or not the app is working well, is indeed quite unreasonable
We need to go beyond stopping mergers. Any company which sees itself as large or powerful enough to make unveiled threats against a national economy needs to be broken up.

For ultra-large companies (e.g. any company with a market cap over $100B at the moment), default-deny should be the position for any mergers from this point - the burden of proof should be on them to show why the merge would not only be non-harmful, but actually benefit the wider economy.
There has never been any language requirement for EU citizens to live in Germany or anywhere else, ever since freedom of movement was established.
> Why does this need a blockchain? Fon/BT has been sharing residential WiFi for years without blockchain

The difference is, as per the article, that the Japanese operator wants to re-imburse the WiFi hotspot subscriber. Something which is very much alien to BT's way of thinking.

Of course, whether blockchain is the right way do implement that aspect is a different question, and in terms of implementation I would agree that blockchain is un-necessary. But you know, blockchain bandwagon .....
For reference, it is referred to the first comment under announcement of Dropbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
FUTO Grants
> In fact, he was and is, seen numerous times in Russia.

Care to add some links?
Direct ancestors of King Charles owned slave plantations, documents reveal
I think there's some news agencies working on this, though they're mostly of the form "this digital file existed at this point in time" I think.
Two syllables less.
"I hope there isn't a time in the future when people see the current wave of anti-nude displays as just a silly fad we had in the early 17th century"

Proceeds to destroy hundreds of paintings by adding poorly drawn fig leaves and to censor masterpieces over tiny penises.

It is a fad; people will come to their senses and recognise the value of the original work; while accepting the fact that they were produced in a time where these behaviours were considered as acceptable but it's no longer the case.
> but it's legal to fiddle with a damn computer screen, because it's part of the car.

In Germany it is only legal to operate a touch screen while driving for essential functions with only a brief glance. For example, a judgement was handed down against a Tesla driver who tried to switch up the interval of the windscreen wiper via touchscreen and ran off the road in the process.

Source: https://www.burhoff.de/asp_weitere_beschluesse/inhalte/5723.... (in German)
IMHO the problem is that

1) too many people don't understand why they probably should use snapshot isolation (or stricter) and don't understand what guarantees they don't get when read committed is used

2) it's not the default, defaults matter, a lot

3) it makes transactions spurious fallible when the db can't make sure that committing two parallel write transactions won't brake the consistency guarantees, a lot of frameworks don't have the right tools to handle this, people don't expect it, it can make in the transaction interleaved interactions with other systems harder, etc.

(as a side not I assumed you meant REPEATABLE READ when you said snapshot isolation, as it's the least strict isolation level which uses snapshot isolation)
I’ve used this repo. It’s ok. For very simple layouts, it probably works fine. For more complex layouts it fails miserably. I’ve also had cases where it didn’t detect half the text on the page (machine generated text).
This obviously depends on the jurisdiction. Here in the UK:

There is a specific ban on using phones while driving.

There is an obligation to drive with "due care and attention" so taking your eyes and attention off the road to spend time fiddling with a computer screen can be an offence as well.
If drawing all 8000 nodes consumes less resources than rendering your average homepage, is it really wasteful? I understand it can be optimized, but that optimization often comes at a cost which may end up being even more wasteful.
But that only works for me and my kids. And for physical books, I am kind of doing it. Bill kids won't have that copy of Harry Potter.
If you prefer revisionist history, then Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Stay home and read a book.
Woodworking masks have exhalation valves.
Not revising a film "based on modern sensitivity" is one thing, but what about films being released in a multitude of different versions right from the start? It annoys me when I discuss a film with someone else who's seen it and I find that some of the scenes in the version I saw were not in the version they saw, and vice versa. If you see a recent film on TV you can be pretty sure that you're watching a version that was specially edited to be shown on that TV channel in that country at that time of day. Sometimes you can look at the Wikipedia pages about a film in different languages and see wildly varying running times.

Not a recent film, but a while ago I finally got round to watching "The Exorcist" (1973) because it was on UK television. The "spider walk" scene was omitted in that particular edit!
If you just need to convert the files have you thought about using Zamzar (https://dev.zamzar.com/)?

We have a file conversion API that supports DOC/DOCX/ODT/PDF/TEX to Markdown conversion in one line of cURL (or you programming language of choice).

(Disclaimer: I'm the product lead for the Zamzar API).
Police with guns are extremely rare everywhere in London, although yes, we do have some cosplayers in big stations and outside Parliament.
> The school should be providing phones if the students require them.

I agree in principle, but doubt that our reality matches up with that. It's easier for them to blame the minority of people, especially if nobody will stand up for them.

In their own words:

>> If your phone doesn’t support Microsoft Authenticator, you need to use “Call
to phone”, if you don’t want that method to use, you need to change your
phone, which support Microsoft.

They can just say: "Most people use phones with a mainstream OS, don't be a weirdo and just use a phone like that, like the rest of the people." Same unfortunate situation across the board, with plenty of software being Windows/Mac-only, drivers not being open source and for the most part almost nobody caring.

What's worse, in this case it seems like TOTP should be able to be supported, with relatively few issues, unless there is indeed something major I'm missing.
https://archive.is/0U1Qr
I use it to backup game saves from a Docker container. The binary is installed on the server but otherwise I just use the web interface to check on things.

It's pretty neat, but that's all I use it for these days. Still have my original 2GB account from when Dropbox was new.
Elizabeth Holmes delays start of prison sentence
While I love the blockchain-based solution which also probably handles payments (a nice use of crypto instead of many scam projects that give it a bad reputation), if they don't scale on a L2 network scalability will be a huge issue.
So, this is how the German transition to Swedish grammar begins! Not the with a bang but with a lade den gratisbakgrund.
> Isn't BT WiFi something in the UK like this? When someone has a BT router in their home you seem to be able to connect to it via the phone app.

Well, yeah, it is "something like" ... until you get to the part where the Japanese operator talks about financially re-imbursing the homeowner for the unwashed masses using their WiFi.

Greater chances of pigs flying than BT doing that !
Well, quite. But it seems that, for whatever reason, the migrant workers (or, you know, expats as we'd say if it were the English going abroad) tend to be lower-skilled and, as you say, often their command of the local language is questionable.

It's not a dig at people from Africa and Asia in any way, but the selection bias is obvious.
He knew his style of films were over, so he sold the franchise and let Disney take the burn for it.

It's difficult to see this as a political event, where he was outplayed.

He's worked with and against the big cats in Hollywood his whole career, he specifically made career decisions to 'get away' from Hollywood meddling in his work.

He knew what he was doing and this mythical George Lucas character, who is victim and hero in one man, is getting a bit long in the tooth.
I switched away from Dropbox to Syncthing https://syncthing.net/ a few years ago.
Running it on Windows, Mac and Linux (I don't use it on mobile) to keep all manner of files in sync across a bunch of machines. While it doesn't have all the shell integration and end-user friendliness of Dropbox, it also doesn't have the pitfalls like (non-optional) telemetry and constant up-sell.
I really thought we all got off the blockchain bandwagon.
The bigger problem is that they've used "anglosaxon" to use what we would probably refer to as neoliberalism, acting as if a controversial policy setting is somehow cultural or racial. You can be a good anglosaxon who opposes neoliberalism. You can be a good English speaker and oppose neoliberalism - whether from the right or the left.
If Microsoft being angry shows that it was the right decision, what would it look like if an actually unjust decision was made?
Yes, French has some remnants of a base-20 system that was there in one of the languages that went before. Interestingly, this only manifests for numbers greater than 60; so while numbering from 0 to 60 looks mostly like in English, the numbers 60-79 are essentially "sixty - sixty-ten (70) - sixty-eleven(71) - sixty-nineteen(79)" (soixante un - soixante dix - soixante onze - soixante dix neuf), and then for 80-99 you have "four twenties - four-twenties-and-10 - four-twenties-and-99" (quatre vingt - quatre vingt dix - quatre vingt dix neuf).

Other European languages also have interesting numbering, such as Danish, with constructions such as 50 being "three less a half [twenties]" (halvtreds).
Yep also:

> Mr Smith said the CMA's decision market "probably the darkest day in our four decades in Britain".

I assume they meant to say "marked" rather than "market". The editorial standards are frankly a disgrace at the BBC these days, these errors are common.
What happened to Anglo-American anyways? Substituting that term with the wildly incorrect but similar sounding Anglo-Saxon is quite literally a linguistic attack, unfortunately one that seems to occasionally get picked up by people meaning no harm because of how "more historic" is often conflated with "more sophisticated" even if it's the exact opposite when the assumed historic implications are wrong.
I think they’re referring to the remastering of the original trilogy, long before Disney got involved.
So people like to speak about freedom but are afraid of actually living in freedom?
> That's a problem. Why have people become so afraid to speak their minds? We live in a democracy or not?

Always was, IMO what you're experiencing with this is just the Overton window shifting around you.

Goes both ways: People hardly ever discussed trans topics when I was a teenager and I don't know if that was a taboo or merely lack of awareness, but I do know that lesbian gay and bisexual topics were tabooed.
> Puffin has hired sensitivity readers

Anyone worried about losing their job to ChatGPT? Worry not! Plenty of work for sensitivity readers
One can install and use nextcloud. You get similar client and similar experience. You need to care about your data and server though.
I HATED having to do anyting with oauth back when I did more web work. Think it actually gave me PTSD.
backspace: duckface + double blink

oh god haha
Oh they increased to 2TB? (Seems it was around 2019... wow I am not up to date! https://venturebeat.com/business/dropbox-increases-plus-plan... )

Back when I decided which cloud storage to use, all the big ones were at 1TB and dorpbox was the most expensive with the least features, while microsofts offer included office 365 for nearly half the price.

Right now it seems:
MS 6$/mo for 1TB + Office (https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/onedrive/compa...)
Dropbox 10$/mo for 2TB (https://www.dropbox.com/plans)
Google 12$/mo for 2TB+some smaller things like calls (https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html?utm_source=drivefo...)

There obviously are smaller companies offering storage too, which seems to be around 4~5$/(mo and TB), eg https://www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html?peri... https://icedrive.net/plans https://www.sync.com/pricing-individual/

Overall I'd say its not a terrible offer after the increase to 2TB, but on the expensive side compared to competitors.
Ask HN: How do I cope with stress and axiety caused by big change in life?
I decided to quit my job, and go travel while exploring things I love, and working on my side projects.

It's the first time in my adult life that I won't have an income. I don't own an apartment and so I'm selling most of the stuff that I don't plan to take with me.

And I'm terrified. I have savings to finance that style of life, but I'm afraid that I'm doing a big mistake and a financial suicide. I'm afraid that it will set me back financially. I'm afraid that I won't be able to eventually return to the same lifestyle I have now.

I can't stay at my current job, nor look for any other job. I have severe burnout, and for a long time I wanted to focus more on myself and my hobbies, so I feel that this decision is the only one I have. I realize, rationally, that I can always stop the experience, come back, and find yet another job in tech. But my monkey brain is detached from it's rational part. And so I experience a lot of stress and anxiety. Especially when the apartment is becoming emptier, and this brings me closer to the realization that this is real, and is going to happen soon.

How do I cope with that feeling?
Burger King Used Netflix’s “Beef”
> "You ended up with Trump because elites in Russia wanted him elected more than elites in the US wanted Clinton"

This is so detached from reality, that is not even trying to understand why trump happened and why it may happens again.
Dropbox became popular because, from the perspective of 99% of users, it provides an incredibly simple and effective UX for syncing files across devices and locations. And better UX is enough to be a billion-dollar company.

Of course you can use whatever you want.
i wish it holds backspace until you open your eyes haha
I am not in favour of monopolies and large acquisitions, as I think those are ultimately detrimental to the economy.

Regulators should take a closer look at Tencent, they have been on an acquisition spree during the last few years, with little resistance, including in the UK.

I am not sure the UK is making the best move here, strategically.
And more rich people from outside move in, everything changes into a more boring, but expensive new reality.

At least Berliners revolt all the time and the government is so dysfunctional. Change in the city will take a few lifetimes. It might feel like a good idea to invest, but then you face the German and especially the Berlin bureaucracy and how slow it works. Everything takes forever to finish.

I hope this will save Berlin from becoming the next New York. It still is so much more colorful than any other German city.

P.S. the running joke amongst my friends is how CDU will finally make the ringbahn go on time...
I mostly agree, but I'd caution against the label of hypocrisy. I think it was in "diamond age" that Stephenson wrote something to the effect that hypocrisy is the only remaining taboo when all morality is relative because the only moral standard you can hold someone to is the one they eapouse themselves. This leads to people espousing no standars of behavior at all, when the best standard of behavior of all is one you know you won't be able to quite live up to.

I want to never be cruel or cowardly, but I know I will mess up sometimes, hopefully I will make amends, but I probably won't always. I don't think that is hypocrisy, just fallibility.