skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What has happened to today's society

Our society has been doing this for a long time. My beloved Hardy Boy childhood books were actually the edited version - edited to remove racial stereotypes, says Wikipedia, and to target a different audience.

(Investigating now, the changes were extensive! Compare the 1927 "The Secret of the Old Mill " https://archive.org/details/the-secret-of-the-old-mill/page/... with the 1962 version at https://archive.org/details/secretofoldmil00fran/page/n15/mo... .)

The 1981 revised edition of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" was edited (posthumously) to remove sexist stereotypes, like replace "insurance man" with "insurance agent", and drop the section on dealing with one's wife.

> Should we only consume media that we agree with?

There are many reasons to edit a book. The Hardy Boy books were edited to generate profit from an existing franchise.

The editors of the 1981 edition of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" argue that keeping the 'quaint and dated' references weaken 'the important message and overall impact' of the book. https://archive.org/details/howtowinfriendsi0000carn/page/14... .

Neither particularly fit your description of "everything has to be sunshine and rainbows".
The "compressed" knowledge is fixed. But reasoning can create new knowledge, that's what humans do all the time.
I see your point but I respectfully disagree.

It seems to me you are taking only maximum absolute dollar into account. 50k€ or less in Europe is more like $100k in my experience.

Assumptions:

- Comparing salaries in absolute dollar amount, without considering other costs from taxes, social security and cost of living.

- Education cost.

- Not falling sick, rare or not. Or needing an ambulance.

TLDR. The worst case in Europe is better than in the US. The best case in the US is better than in Europe.
What competition is this preventing? Your complaint is similar to being angry you can’t sell beer in someone else’s bar.
> Why do they keep inventing new sweeteners...

Because nothing so far tastes as good as real sugar. The common practice in employing artificial sweeteners is to combine two or more in an effort to avoid the bitter aftertaste that you get from relying on just one.
The head of the SEC was asked by congress if Eth was a security, and true to form he refused to answer.

I don't understand how anyone can believe these people act in good faith.
Ask HN: How do you build relationships in a place where you don't know anyone?
as long as ubo integrates that functionality, then?
How does it compare to postmarketos?
Dry spring leaves Albertan farmers on the road to ‘zero production’
Alexa has nothing to do with it.

https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...

A driver accused an individual of racist harassment (which did not happen according to the individual) and Amazon chose to suspend that individual's access to services as a result.

I guess nuance and truth are hard to come by from a YouTube channel whose sole personality appears to be the tired "angry gamer" trope.
There’s a deeper question of altruism not being able to have a financial engine to fund it.

Learning about the different types of social enterprise, it’s not uncommon for for profit ventures to incorporate aspects.

Still, some of this can come down to sour grapes that earning money can disproportionately and more sustainably be used for good than normal.
They aren't just destroying hard drives. Companies are destroying iPhones too instead of reselling them. I know of at least one major tech company that is destroying several thousand old iPhones instead of letting my iOS automation company buy them from them.
This is definitely weird, it'd be like saying 79% of a meter instead of just 0.79m lol
Was this intended to be a positive anecdote? It doesn’t sound like one - how is removing a feature users care about and refusing to add it back any evidence of “utmost respect for the user”?
You can do that already with:
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Lets see if this will eventually take in VC cash. Bitwarden did the same thing.
Not sure if “the community isn’t interested” or “y’all are dogpiling the front page and the new page doesn’t get sampled enough to determine if the community is interested or not.” See

https://tildes.net/~hobbies/161y/any_boxers_out_there_that_c...

I think that one is exceptionally good but if you want to compare Tildes to Quora I'd compare it to Quora at the very beginning when somebody would ask a question about what Jack Welsh did at GE and they'd get an answer from Jack Welsh! (Which of course was not accidental at all)

Contrast that to the cynical Quora of today where if not logged in you get a page that looks a lot like a page from reddit where the answer is promised in a small part of the page and the rest is an irrelevant confusing mess designed to make you click randomly and hit an ad.

As for HN there is good discussion but frequently I see a subject where there might be three major viewpoints on the subject and one gets represented over and over. I'd point to

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36129991

in which the unbroken consensus seems to be that sexual satisfaction is only a function of l-arginine metabolism (e.g. the effect of drugs like Sildenafil) and not something that only starts with having an erection.
This is exactly the type of clueless low substance anti-crypto HN comment I created Zsync to avoid.

> "I don’t want anything to do with cryptocurrency"

That's fine. It's a completely optional feature.

> "Reddit incentivized good comments without ETH"

First of all Reddit comments are garbage. Second, Reddit only allows you to gift another user "Reddit gold" if you really like their comment. Your "gift" to the recipient is just paying Reddit, and the recipient doesn't get any of that money. In Zsync, you can directly tip the user whatever token you want, and no platform or middleman is getting any cut (ie. I make no money here). I guess theoretically this could be accomplished without crypto, but I'm guessing not every user wants to link their bank account with a social media site, nor do I want to deal with that headache of brokering international bank transfers.

I agree on the need to filter out out abuse and spam.

Thanks for your feedback.
Because you can use Terraform not only for infrastructure.
In our case, we use it also to setup GitLab and other services.
Eye laser surgery? (LASIK, PRK, etc.)

I thought the discussion here was about cataract surgery.

Australia has "free if you're poor and can wait" o/wise relatively cheap depending on your private health insurance.

https://www.finder.com.au/cataract-surgery-costs

Working vision correction to avoid glasses | contacts is purely elective in .au

https://www.finder.com.au/laser-eye-surgery
I think we collectively decided that we didn't want hot-swap CPUs and instead wanted inexpensive compute (so we could have a lot more of it) when we let SPARC die.
Well done you both.

Are you documenting/journaling your interactions and experiences in the various cities that you visit with a view to drawing any conclusions? Or just enjoying the ride?
Are you responding to me? Because I am responding to this:

> The world was better when there was a higher barrier to do things like, e.g., buying a plane ticket or getting on the internet.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/lucasfilm-fi...
Instead of getting hung up on what is or isn't altruism...

Until BeastHQ PR agency decides that it needs to plant stories in major news publications to counter the original narative and rebrand away from hacking: mastering all aspects of YouTube, every detail that attracts views to full fledged saint.

> thinks of well-known NGOs.

I have many uncharitable words for the vast majority of charities, workers, donors and charity galas - the problem with both cases is when people stop being honest and go from admitting the reality to claiming they are a saint.
What other response would you expect to someone complaining that people don't like him despise him having money ?
> people said that scraping/calling an API without service owners permission is not allowed

I think it is legal, the API is public data and accessing it should be protected by the First Amendment as far as I know.

Otherwise scrapping in general would not be allowed and search engines couldn't just crawl sites and list them as they'd need the permission of every site operator they list.

I don't see why APIs would be treated any different, and in Invidious' case they are actually scrapping the HTML page and not using the Android YouTube API. So it's a slightly different case but I do think that using that Android YouTube API should be OK as well, it's all public anyway.
I'm pretty sure that Kriesel said in his C3 talk that at least one company called and told him that they scan and dispose of the originals. You can't do anything at this point. You're probably right – they rather just want to forget about it because the only correct solution would be to scrap everything.

My original comment was more aimed at the point that damage would need to be admitted. But they did admit it, which makes it evermore confusing why nothing really happened after that, at least publicly.

I don't think that TMR or similar overhead would be practical. Just ban compression algorithms that do pattern matching and substitution for archival purposes (like the German BSI did).
If I follow your argument about 16 bit cameras, why are hundreds of earth sized planets detected with the transit method? (< 2R)
I said “feels like” not “is”. And you’ve also qualified your statement by saying you know half of these people in real life meaning it isn’t purely an online community.

So how do you know these people? And how do those people know the people you don’t know? How did everyone meet? What’s the organizing factor around this particular Discord? Is it purely topical and open to the internet at large or is it an extension of a friend group that met offline?
Congrats to you! Yeah it’s literally a miracle drug as far as I’m concerned. I was on Suboxone/Subutex for 8ish years, relapsed for a few weeks despite years of compliance on the program over the hell time that was COVID lockdowns, and so finally pulled the trigger and swapped to the injection.

It’s infinitely better not waking up every morning in mild withdrawals. It’s a godsend, and everything I’ve heard is coming off it is pretty easy, well as easy as it could really be anyway.
> I don't know anything about process-payments; it belongs to a completely different team. I wouldn't even know how to check it.

I get that the point of the article is to sell the value of run books, which are amazing, but are people really going on-call for the first time without any training or knowledge of the services they'll be supporting? Even with perfect run books that seems unwise.
Yes. But enabling mms is not intuitive at all.

In Phosh, the MMS server settings are store in Chatty rather than with the APN settings in the Network section of the System Settings app like in every other operating system.

And since Chatty only supports using one APN, if you switch APNs, MMS stops working. On normal OSs, you can set an MMS server for each APN separately. On Phosh, you can only do MMS on one APN.
> "All of this puts a limit in terms of frequency and core count. You will find that other server hardware in this price range significantly outperforms Apple silicon , save for those video workloads they're missing fixed function hardware for."

I think the power envelope, not the price tag, is the better metric when comparing how server-y or phone-y the silicon it.

> "M2 Ultra has some 134B transistors, when you compare with an equivalent chip like MI300 (146B), you find that really, in terms of raw compute, there is no comparison. We will have more details on MI300 today, watch out for the news cycle."

And unsurprisingly it will certainly come with an incomparable TDP.
Reminds me of Freeman Dyson's anecdote of Fermi:

"I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." [1]

[1] http://lilith.fisica.ufmg.br/~dsoares/fdyson.htm
Considering how popular instapots and pyrex products are, the company executives must have sucked the company dry. This can be a case study of corporate raiding from within.

"Credit crunch and high interest rates weighed on liquidity" is language usually attributed to extreme risk taking in financing, another sign of fraudulent intent-- short term focus, get what they can while they can, leave a carcass behind.
You see, that's the greenwashing bit.

It's not made from water, it's made from fossil gas.

All these schemes to increase demand aren't about making electrolysers to replace existing grey hydrogen, they're ahout selling grey hydrogen.
Yeah that makes sense, even if it ends up working out the same either way. If you blow up your life real good there's no safety net anymore hahaha
> crazy expensive stuff on the main channel that might break even but often loses money

I remember him bringing this up in the interview and it’s an odd statement. “Often loses money.”

It makes more money than it loses, obviously. So it’s weird to call out how some videos lose money. Yes, that’s how the world works. And some make make money. More make than lose, that’s just how everything works.

And then he donates some profits to charitable causes.

Im not sure if he’s not sure how business works or his audience doesn’t. Im not sure why this line about “often loses money” irks me.
That’s genuinely good to know! Cheers
Why must hot swap cpu inherently be expensive?
Ask HN: Strategies on Converting Free Users to Paid Users?
Hey HN!

A few months ago I launched a SaaS for Discord groups which has a newsletter as well. There is a basic plan and a paid plan for those who want to supercharge their discord community (think advanced access control, management, community perks, AI based help, etc.)

Since shipping, I see around 87% of customers (out of around 20,000+) are using the service for free and only about a small percentage ~12-13% are paying.

Is this normal when having a SaaS that there are a huge amount of free people? I'm glad free people see some value in my service, but the only worry for me is the server costs as this scales up.

What do you guys do in this situation for converting free customers into paying customers?

Thank you!
Fwiw, that huge font size doesn’t invite me to actually read the text. I’d rather have custom scroll bars than try to read when there literally are just three sentences that fit on my iPhone viewport.
On a PinePhone with suspend enabled, probably.

But battery life is a function of both OS and hardware. So this question really doesn't make any since.
We use Terraform but mostly because of its ecosystem. I was always tempted to use Pulumi, especially because they got something right from the beginning: pure declarative code is an illusion.

You always need loops, control structures, etc. and this is automatically a feature in Pulumi as it is in the language you use it with.

Terraform users hack it all the time (think of the "count" as if/else, for instance) precisely because it's never a purely a declarative config what you need, and the level of dynamism you need is not been semantically supported by Terraform.

So, we are stuck with hacks...
Because engineering effort is not free.
Direct: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872
I'm hopeful for SYCL [0] to become the cross platform alternative, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of uptake from projects like this, so maybe my hope is misplaced. It's an official Khronos standard, and Intel seems to like it [1], but neither of those things are enough to change things.

Someone who knows about this space that can comment on the likelihood that SYCL will be a good option eventually? Cross platform and cross vendor compatibility would be really nice, and not supporting the proprietary de facto standard would also be a bonus as long as the alternative works well enough.

[0] https://www.khronos.org/sycl/

[1] https://spec.oneapi.io/versions/latest/elements/sycl/source/...
It’s definitely not the worst thing.
Try signing up for some volunteer work. By having a shared goal, it will become easy to build a relationship with those you work with to achieve that goal.
No, in most cases, Congress makes laws that say things like “we delegate our rule making authority to the EPA with regards to air pollution” (Clean Air Act). The agencies then create the rules; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations

Sometimes the court system decides the agency’s rules exceed the authority granted to them by Congress.

Other times Congress uses the Congressional Review Act or new legislation to say “that’s not what we meant”.
Yeah sorry, I meant to respond to the other guy
Why wouldn't they? If a Sun Blade 100 is a workstation and I can do the same tasks faster on a Mac mini or Mac Pro why wouldn't they be workstations. Don't get too hung up on labels they can distract from what is front of you. If Apple Silicon actually is an entire motherboard shrunk to die size the shrunken die motherboard will be faster. Place that chip onto a larger motherboard and you get real efficiencies that are hard to compare.

Why worry it someone calls it a workstation. That has to be one of the world's most boring technical arguments.
> There are worrying signs about that we are about to repeat the 1920s, 1930s then the 1940s

The rest of this comment was not where I thought you'd go with this. You realize the creation of the SEC was a direct result of the stock market crash in 1929 ,due mainly to people's life savings being invested by commercial banks without regards for the underlying economics of the investments, exactly what the SEC is trying to prevent happening with crypto (by regulating it under the same doctrine)
I think it was, yes, and specifically for some embedded toolchain that required it. It would regularly lock up, crash, and lose my work. Though it’s quite possible the toolchain was at least partially the problem, and I wish I could remember which one it was. I might go digging through my old backups, I’m curious myself now
> a completely flawed comparison, not because of the matter but because unlike the hypothetical heroin case, the SEC did approve the listing

The SEC doesn't approve IPOs. In bold among Coinbase's S-1's cover pages: "Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense."

https://investor.coinbase.com/financials/sec-filings/sec-fil...
I have no idea how, and would like to know.

It may be that these are stars with smaller diameters, so the smaller planets occlude a larger fraction compared to sun-like stars.

Otherwise I suspect the required hardware is likely out of reach for amateurs with current technology.

Edit: Found these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEarth_Project

> The MEarth Project is a United States NSF-funded, robotic observatory that is part of Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, US. The project monitors the brightness of thousands of red dwarf stars with the goal of finding transiting planets. As red dwarf stars are small, any transiting planet blocks a larger proportion of starlight than transits around a Sun-like star would. This allows smaller planets to be detected through ground-based observations.

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/s...

> The mission for SPECULOOS is to detect terrestrial planets as they transit across small, cool stars in the solar neighbourhood

It seems the terrestrial planets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST detected are also around dwarf stars.

So I guess the summary is: finding and detecting earth-like planets around dwarf stars is possible, however around sun-like stars not quite yet using these two methods
Any chance I could get one too? Email's on my website: https://picheta.me
Idk many crypto firms did assist in the sale of heroin. Heck some even assisted money being transferred to known terrorists. With those funds used to kill civilians globally.
Yeah, that's what I thought this was at first.
When I’m driving I can determine the difference between a cardboard box and a plywood box. One of those objects I am perfectly fine to drive over. That’s just one of an infinity of embodied decisions I am able to make while driving. How does LIDAR help with that? Isn’t this a software problem?
But that's locallhost.com, not localhost.com (which seems to be down).
zeux posted this: https://gist.github.com/zeux/37f8f9dd7840ac0217ee862ba3a269f...
I think it creates social instability when power becomes too decoupled from hierarchy:

That’s the whole point of a hierarchy, to mediate disputes other than the raw exercise of power — and conflicts become sudden and unexpected if insufficient status is granted to those able to wield power. This is a corollary to your point about outsider bullies; if someone strong isn’t integrated into the hierarchy, violence isn’t predictable and hence survival less assured.

Outside of that, I can’t say that “The Game” has held any particular appeal to me — and I dislike many of the status seekers I’ve met.
Or Rugby, which I do.

When did you buy? The Guardian map is red or orange for Rugby and all surrounding areas.
> Can I give you, for example, Amazon shared and get a coffee or a pizza ? Directly, not liquidate it first.

No, this is specifically addressed by securities law. It's not impossible, but you have to do it properly.
Back when I don't even know what PHP is, i was dreaming of creating this Facebook like social media. Now 7 years later, I have the knowledge of creating. I was not even interested in creating another social media, just because I know I am nobody, I am not an MIT graduate, I don't have a network, my social/communication is terrible. Now I am settled on a working day job, those big ambitions are buried when I fully grasp the reality that I am not gonna be that one lucky enough to launch a successful billion dollar social networking app.
Maybe if you could tag the root comments the same way? So when you come from browsing #formula1 you see #formula1 tagged comments first? And when you start a new root comment it defaults to being tagged from where you came from? But you could also add #funny if it is a funny comment? That could be cool
He’s definitely said that. But there’s no confirmation or audit or accountability. It’s like crypto companies saying on multiple occasions that they were solvent.

The claim is also objectively disprovable since the man lives, has homes, etc. So he’s spending something on non-video things.

And that’s ok. It’s just that “100% into future videos” is clearly not true. Maybe it’s 99.999%. Maybe it’s 0.001%.

We don’t get to know unless he goes public or registers as a charity.
As a security consultant this boggles my mind. I push companies with much less sensitive systems to use better security practices. It's crazy that these foundational systems lack such controls, but I guess that's due to race to the bottom economic factors?
No, it's an adoption from "If you're reading it, it's for you" by The Last Psychiatrist. Not that I'm as clever as he is. Pointless seems in the eye of the beholder.

If you don't understand something, the easiest thing is to condemn it and call the person who made the comment stupid.
Maybe the “pro max” version of next September’s iphones. The iPad Pro versions have had TB3 for a while (though they ship with M2 CPUs, not the A series).

Not really sure how many ppl would use this but if apple switches to Type C connectors they’re more likely to strut it at the high end than just just mention it in passing.

The use case isn’t that clear to me. Perhaps a photographer, for a phone with a couple of TB of SSD.