skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying a new monetization on my almost 10yo website
I initially built my website on 2015. It's a Moroccan forum for legal questions and answers that quickly became a Q&A site where many people come to ask questions and a few answer their queries.

In 2017, I introduced Value-Added-Services. I thought since there is a clear imbalance between supply of answers and the demand of answers, a user should pay to get an answer within 24hours.

I signed with a full-time retired judge to take care of the paid questions for 50% of the price and occasionally answer some questions pro-bono.

I started getting some revenues but nothing to brag about ~ around $1K/month.
Ads were making extra $600/mo but I ditched them because they make the site slower and hurt SEO.

Traffic kept growing steadily and we're getting almost 500K visits/month.
Then I thought that this is where the real monetization is, so I introduced a service where the answers from the experts are locked and you have to pay $2 to unlock it and read it all.

I was seeing around 12 ~ 20 conversions per day. So I thought maybe that $2 should give you access to all unlocked answers on the site for 24H.

I implemented that but the conversions did not change. I did a lot of A/B testing, I even decreased the prices to $0.1 but did not see a substantial change so I confirmed this thing is not working.

So I left it as is for a couple of years and now I'm back with a similar idea but a bit different:

What we're about to launch is the following:
The expert will answer a few free questions, then lock the answer and we email OP to pay to read the full answer.

The key difference here is that the answer is YOUR answer and not another answer for a similar question.

I'm finalizing the Frontend now, I'm expecting to make $500/day out of this feature. I will keep you guys posted about how it goes.

Morocco is a tough market. generally in MENA content should be free and feel free to use our data to advertise.

Also, there is a law in Morocco that prohibits lawyers from running any kind of ads. That's a big L for my business as well.
Why would you put butter on salmon? Maybe on that farmed stuff? Wild fish have plenty of oil in them already.

I don't put anything on it but salt and pepper. Maybe some lemon wedges on the side.
Men, especially young men, do commit violence more than women. Perhaps "being a men is the cause of violence" is not correct, but "being a man makes you much more likely to commit violence".
> There was a story a few years back making the rounds on HN where an Apple employee had to turn in her corporate device due to some lawsuit against the company.

Smarter decision is for the corp to just buy your device for you. Then it's a personal device, and at least in some cases I'm aware of, not a government record at least.

Very doable for a phone where your "work" is limited to messages, webmail and calls.
My local BBQ place where I grew up -- Fincher's BBQ in Macon, Georgia -- sent some BBQ to space on STS-33 with Sonny Carter, who was from middle Georgia. Not quite the ISS but pretty close
Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it
Specificity aside, the fish available at markets across France makes the fish counter at a typical American supermarket look quite unappetizing.
As an anecdote, there may be one or two packages in openwrt that won't build by default because of a strange interaction between certain glibc headers and the behavior of _FORTIFY_SOURCE on some embedded platforms, but only on some versions of gcc.

Werror tends to be placed eagerly pass the buck along to anyone building it, not just CI or developers. I used to feel that Werror was a good thing, but nowadays anything with CI on merge requests will tell me about any warnings, and someone wanting to build the software shouldn't get penalized for having a different build environment: there's a reason they aren't thrown as errors to begin with. Does this make sense?
Yes, what do you think the pk trials and liver experiments would involve if not people who have a variety of phenotypes?
Bypassing Windows 11 Account Setup
I think I have the same kind of garden variety visualization experience that you have. There is bound to be a spectrum where some people's mental imagery is virtually non-existent on one end, and it's very lucid and persistent on the other. The people who come out of the woodworks online claiming they have a mental heads-up display, like AR superimposed on their vision, make me raise an eyebrow. I'd be more inclined to believe that a child had such an experience, but by the time we're adults, our brains have normally found it more advantageous to be squarely grounded in baseline reality.
So.. The answer is not giving women any choice and have them produce babies on demand?

Can you really not see how this doesn't work in modern society? Women fought hard to have rights.
Yes, this dumps recursively, so it also supports with nested ones.
Why I made this is written in my new comment.
Yes, I do

I dont personally eat nutella

I'm trying to tell you that it gets way worse than Nutella, Nutella is not poor people food here
> I tossed a link to my son, who at least reads some mandarin (is that the right word for the written language?)

It's the right word for the written language of today. Traditionally documents would have been written in Classical Chinese, which is not the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese indicates that literature was mostly written in Classical Chinese until 1919, though it is definitely true that there was a lot of vernacular literature before then. I don't know what language was used for government documents, but it seems like a good bet that Qing Dynasty documents are also written in Classical Chinese.
I attest the following usages:

* "a couple of things" _ is a general statement meaning, sundry articles

* "a couple of specific things" _ sundry but specific articles which the knight errant must not fail to fetch, e.g. dinner likely depends on it

* "a couple of apples" _ means two apples
I don't even bother with responding to recruiters any more unless they're an actual employee of the company they're recruiting for. Too much noise, too little signal. I wouldn't bother with using an agency as they're still the same big ol' ball of poor communications and lack of understanding what they're recruiting for as the ones who proactively reach out to potential candidates.
People regularly use “couple” to make it sound like less.

“I only had a couple of beers, officer.”

“Hey, can I borrow a couple bucks?”
I don't get
We have better food than France by any measure I could come up with. Despite this, the typical person living in France is eating far better foods than we are.
> If the posited database exists, then a citation ought to be straightforward.

my reading is that there are documents on taiwanese website, with letterhead of some database (Ming-Qing Historical Sources from the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica), and author of the book put the name from letterhead to citation why author of essay said he never heard of such database, and claims that database is non-existing.

Documents with letterhead certainly exist, we don't know about database.
I found this issue is very insignificant and low quality, which brought shadow on potential quality of essay.
> Only on HN is an invader morally comparable to the invaded.

You seem to have a very myopic view on the conflict, there’s a whole history leading up to the events in which the West carries a big part of the blame.

That said, I know whenever I post my views on this conflict I will get downvoted here (which I don’t mind). So in that regard it is certainly not true that the majority of HN supports my views on the conflict. Thus your “only on HN” statement misses the mark, I think.
> got hacked over the "free wifi" provided in the HQ

elaborate?
Good to hear. I was in the ER in March 2020 initially because I thought I was having a heart attack but ultimately with what I assume was COVID. It's been a journey but I am doing much better now too. For about 2 years I had bad palpitations too but they've mostly gone away and the fatigue is beginning to subside.

One thing I noticed which might have been completely anecdotal but I felt like my first vaccine jumpstarted my recovery. If you don't mind me asking: if you got the vaccine did you notice the same?
If there wasn't censorship and the regime that produced it, many of those people wouldn't need to be "lifted" at all. In a normal country, there's no special effort required from the government to "lift" people from anywhere. Surely, there are still poor people, but not mass poverty that requires heroic efforts to overcome. When did you last hear that Swiss government lifted people out of poverty, for example?
The problem is even more complicated than the author presents. Much of the chemistry that happens within the body happens within cells. Serum levels are a poor proxy for absorption into organ, tissue, and ultimately cell types. In fact, the problem is even more complex: the spatial organization of a cells within a tissue is heterogeneous; thus we can’t even reliably predict how well a drug will reach a particular cell type since it depends on the specific cell location. This is a reason why cancer is so difficult to treat: cancer cells often barricade themselves behind other cells and the tissue stroma, making it difficult to get a drug at a high enough concentration to kill the cancer cell.

Biology is fiendishly complex and empirical. One regularly sees Silicon Valley types come along and propose to ‘disrupt’ the field using the latest fad from the field of computer science, only to slink away years later having been humbled by biology. The current fad is AI, which despite having added some extraordinary tools to the biologist’s tool chest, will also not live up to its hype.
> How are you doing this? Dialing an emergency has never happened to me by accident on Android or iOS.

I wish I could tell you. As far as I can tell, there's no way, either on my watch or my phone, to figure out retroactively why it automatically dialed 911.

I know the Emergency SOS feature allows dialing 911 with some sequence of power button presses, but I don't think I was pressing the crown on my watch at the time.
You won't build technical or design expertise, but I can see it being something that's easy enough to do as a side gig or as an experiment to see what it's like to publish a game on Steam or wherever. You can use that to decide if you want to invest more effort into it, while also making a bit of money. Low risk, low difficulty, low reward; perfect for learning.

To be honest, "erotic city builder" is such a novel concept that now I want someone to tackle it.
I'm sure all the free software cheerleaders who were lauding the EU for requiring that Apple support side loading will be thrilled. Sauce for the goose and all that.
I’m deeply cautious of the argument that modern capitalism is reliant on an ever increasing population.

I think this perceived requirement is the result of efforts to undermine or corrupt capitalism to preserve the interests of incumbents at the expense of innovation.

Innovators are always starting at zero and have literally a world of opportunity ahead of them irrespective of whether the world population is growing or declining.

Apple’s growth and value creation was never about chasing user numbers as the first order priority. Instead they built an ecosystem where they delivered value to a small user base and then got that user base to buy into more product categories and services. Those users also evangelise to others more than most. That delivered massive growth that has been buffered against age/population demographics.

Alas Apple seems to be getting into maintaining value over doing real innovation now so maybe their decline is coming, but it’s interesting how the Japanese tech world has not been able to break out of the old ways of doing things and largely doesn’t seem to have learned from the advances in User eXperience that we’ve made in the past couple of decades.

As for PlayStation and Nintendo, true for now but that space is about to move to VR. Enter Meta and Apple but also DJI with interest VR headset control of their drones. I don’t see the Japanese with a credible response to these impending shifts either.
This comment was so obviously written by someone with no clue before I even saw the username
Suburbs get such a bad rap in certain online circles, and yet so many people choose to live in them. I'm from Europe and live in a flat in a historical city centre, but I think I'd prefer suburbs, if such a thing existed around here. Sure, historical city centre definitely has its charms and conveniences, but the peace and quiet of suburbs sounds amazing compared to the soundscape (cars, dogs, neighbors) I have to endure every day. I've even set my sleeping schedule to the schedule of the yappy dog in apartment below me - there's no point in trying to sleep till 8 am when the thing starts barking at 6:30 am anyway.
I know HN hates recruiters but my success rate with them is much much higher than any job post I’ve reacted to online.
Supermarkets are not a result of cars. They are the result of people not wanting to spend 3 hours in 10 different shops to get what they need. Your logic is all wrong.
As an American my family had very strict notions of this growing up.

Couple = 2, that's it.
Few = 3 75.000001% of the time. Otherwise it's 4.
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>it's my experience that the computer itself usually works correctly.

Oh you sweet summer child. Hardware has so many little "quirks' or hacks to make it work correctly and it often doesn't! It's often expected that really low-level, "touching the metal" software makes up for these little bumps that happen quite often.
Yes, there is an objective way to say that you don't have to institute a fascist totalitarian regime to make people not starve. It is witnessed by the fact that many countries do not have a fascist totalitarian regime, and still do not starve. In fact, mountains of evidence - including in recent Chinese history - point to the fact that a fascist totalitarian government is more likely to cause a mass starvation than to prevent one. Yes, the current fascist dictatorship finally learned how not to make people starve. It doesn't prove it is the only solution to starvation, and the choice is either starvation or fascism - it only makes this particular totalitarian dictatorship a bit less horrible. But still plenty horrible.
This. Thanks.

Also for the other regions that were routinely raided in the hunt for white slaves:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empir...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_slave_...
Put yourself in the shoes of a political dissident.

Would you rather be a citizen of China or USA?
Because that's all there is.

I'm not a fan of them myself, but in the example you listed you're comparing stuff that the US doesn't have and wondering why the thing the US does have is popular in the US.
CryptoRefresh seems to be a proposal for an update to PGP. Like its predecessor 4480BIS, it may not become effective.
Second best French would be in the UK, I’d say. Second best Indian food would depend on which regional cuisine but I’d say the UK or Malaysia would come before the US. Second best Turkish is probably Germany. Second best Thai and Greek is probably Australia. The US probably does have second best Italian though.
Maybe, I'm not sure; the trope of people coming here with pretty much nothing and being able to establish a life is a true one that plays out time and time again. My own grandfather came here from India with very little--literally few dollars to his name, had to live with someone he knew for a bit, ate "ketchup sandwiches" regularly, etc. So I think in his case he had the resource of a network, but not much financial resources.

And my dad came to the US for college from Pakistan, also with basically nothing--his family did not have much money.

But yes, I suppose there is literally the trip across the ocean that costs money.
Don't we want people in general to have more kids, not just middle-class people and rich people? And don't we want those kids to have healthcare and lunch at school?

Are you saying that middle class people are less able to afford children because they pay too much in taxes? Really? Taxes are a primary consideration, not the cost of housing and education?
Well I don’t think so, some people lived through terrible things. Half my family lost their entire life’s worth due to WW2 and had to leave Europe. Another relative was in one of the worst battles in known history in Asia and had life long problems from that. He would never get on a plane again and was terrified of them.

But they were happy.

So I disagree.
I thought it would be odd to use C++ as an analogy for C++ itself.
But it might be confusing.
I'll reconsider.
Thank your for the feedback!
Every time I'm in California I despair over the utter lack of southern barbecue. Y'all've got great Asian and Mexican food, but you're missing such a quintessential staple of the human culinary experience. There's nothing like a good fatty barbecue brisket.

The south has so much good food, and it's starting to garner increasing recognition. Michelin is announcing which Atlanta-area restaurants get stars in late October. I've dined a lot in LA and New York, and honestly the south has been overlooked.
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Perfect example. Mine too!

Trust me, go to Paris, or anywhere in France really, get some salmon from a local poissanerie, buy some local fresh veggies and make it how you normally do.

It will be amazing
The weird thing is going to other cities around the world after visiting NY / SF and such, is that even NY / SF feel overpriced and subpar. It's odd just how much better food is in Tokyo / Melbourne / other great cities around the world. And cheaper!
If you vent the smoke into outer space I guarantee you some hungry aliens will show up.
The meaning of several, as reinforced by community usage, to me means "<=10".

I may have several points to make, but I feel obliged to tell you specifically if I have 10 or a dozen or more to make so you can find a chair. ^_^

For >= 10, we have dozen, baker's dozen, score, and 20. This completes the set of conversational units of vague quantities.
This doesn’t really address my point.
Fair enough but you'd still need to compare to the actual experiences of the average American in a big city, not a wealthy person who can order takeout of a different cuisine each day.
A distro uses a consistent toolchain, but doesn't write most of the code. The projects writing the vast bulk of the code, like linux, git, firefox, gtk, qt, openssl, curl, etc, don't strictly control the toolchain, and it does vary between distros and distro releases.

Distros like Arch and Alpine keep the patching to a minimum, most packages need no patches. RedHat/Fedora and Ubuntu do patch significantly more. Debian is in the middle ... there was an infamous incident where they patched openssl to fix an uninitialized-memory warning, and caused a huge security issue for many people: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number... (yes, openssl sucks, but still.)
So this is why distros take their cleanup patches upstream. Distro patches are for real observed bugs that aren't fixed in an upstream release (or not in the desired major release branch), or to just disable -Werror in projects that don't know better.
This is the exact quote I came here to respond to, and it’s a shame you’re getting downvoted for it. Your average town of 10,000 people just about anywhere in the US will have a pretty decent Vietnamese or Korean restaurant, a great taqueria, a boba place, a craft brewery, a couple of hipster coffee joints, along with the stereotypical American fast food that you would expect. It’s not 1990 anymore. Immigration, internal migration, and the internet has made our palates pretty diffuse nationally.

That said, some of the statements in the blog post feel valid. The average American probably has access to a broader, more interesting, and arguably better variety of food than the average person in France, but the average eaten meal is almost certainly worse and less healthy, as we prioritize speed and convenience out of either necessity or preference.
Maybe we should start asking someone to grab a throuple of things from the store
You could just change your name, which seems like less of a burden than moving away from everything you've ever known.

If you want to replicate the way it used to be then instead of trying to censor the world, just have the government give you a new ID and social security number when you change your name without publishing any record associating the new one with the old one.
While this is a question of what the court should presume, should we ask what does a software developer presume or doesn’t:

A software developer would presume proper working of software if it is being
used widely. I would presume JavaSDK or pandas library to be working properly, inspite of the fact that pandas that 3.5K bugs file on GitHub issues. But if I am thinking about integration a less known library or using a less known software I am less confident about its working.
Lol they say their 3 ply cardboard is the important part.

I might have to make my own furniture. https://www.packagewarehouse.com/boxes/cardboard-boxes/corru...
For one, graphics in typst is no match for LaTeX with tikz. Typst is trying to integrate Penrose as an alternative. We definitely need a modern general-purpose diagram and illustration DSL. It's to be seen whether Penrose can fill that role.

Another matter is that there are many LaTeX templates for many academic journals. LaTeX will reign supreme until typst templates are created and adopted as an alternative.

Finally, there's on matter I don't know about. I've heard that the TeX engine solves some tough optimization problems on word spacing, line breaking and layout. I wonder how typst compares, given it's young age.
Seems like next time you should ask for an access to a cloud server. But wait... if they are fake recruiting cybersecurity experts you could end hacking someone else site.
Comparison

Prompt: An abstract visual of artificial intelligence

DALL-E 2: https://cdn.openai.com/labs/images/An%20abstract%20visual%20...

DALL-E 3:
https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-abstract-visual-of-art...
Same here, in Canada; it's a metaphorical use, by my reading, similar to '<blank> will only take a second'
The joke I remember had "the cooks are Italian, the lovers French", not the other way around. Are Italians known for love?
Hey since you want to throw slurs around, let's do it!

Lived in Melbourne for years and "Modern Australian" cuisine is frankly the joke, it's far less interesting than the cuisines of the American South and Southwest which are rooted in the local produce and native cooking traditions of the New World, whereas Aussies seem content to slap together their spotty understanding of a couple European cuisines and serve a pavlova for dessert. Anyone who's curious to try "modern Australian" need not bother, as they've already tried it without knowing it, there's nothing new or local.
Its a short story I wrote about how an AI might "recurite" people and try to convince them to help it defeat the "kill switch paradox". PDF is free (I will literally send you anyone a paperback if you want) and I just recently finished recording the audiobook myself. The first audiobook chapter is free and super short to see if you might like it: https://soundcloud.com/landgrant/blue-screen-chapter-1