skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HBO Max is $16 and is an entire world of ad-free quality movies HBO has to purchase. I have my doubts many will pay $14 for ad free Facebook and Instagram. $14 to not bother you with ads reminds me of protection rackets from organized crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

> The perpetrators of a protection racket may protect vulnerable targets from other dangerous individuals and groups or may simply offer to refrain from themselves carrying out attacks on the targets, and usually both of these forms of protection are implied in the racket.
Looks like Facebook drew inspiration from Unity's failed suicide attempt and wants to one up them.
Anecdotally, after a fresh pi-hole deployment, I am having trouble with PayPal loading on American sites. I am from Canada. It’s not just one platform such as Shopify but it seems to be PayPal itself because the popup window is the one that hangs.
Just off the top of my head: The prints might help identify you in case you adbuct a little kid
I don't think anyone equated being a kid to being an adult. Your experiences as a child shape the adult you might become. If you are used to a parental safety net always catching you or preventing you from harm, what will happen when the net is removed?
US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network
And the I stands for Internet. I guess we're considering local BT networks to be "the internet" now.

Perhaps the BT connection bridged the device to the internet, but we have no indication of that and the internet was used as the vector. It could have been a local wireless software update interface so maintenance doesn't have to open up each pump to apply the patch.
“Classic” related reading: “The law of leaky abstractions” by Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

And also Hyrum’s Law: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
Completely agree.

Also, volume is huge.

If a gas station averages 1 car at all times across a month, you’re talking 400,000+ gal. Even just 1 hour of pumping each day is 18,000 gal.

Are they really going to bother if one person swipes 20 gal a month?
I've never been clear on how HN unifies these posts; does it matter at all that WSJ is paywalled but this article links to a publicly available article?
Different tools with different uses. Sure, your Rolex won't ever be obsolete in what it does but given that no one needs a watch to tell time anymore it's really a symbol of your preferences and where you like to spend your money. It's wrist art.
I never really understood IPFS... It seems to be something similar to Torrents, but with a subtle smell if crypto bullshit smell attached to it.
Vacuum tube amplifiers and germanium fuzz pedals are simultaneously obsolete and timeless.
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> assuming a network size of ~25k DHT Server nodes

I guess they've given up on the idea of end users running full nodes.

There still might be some value in having a federated CDN service, but I think they will struggle to compete with centralized CDNs for all the same reasons other federated services have struggled.
> The idea of free speech is no longer upheld as something of an important idea

I don't think this is correct. Most people will tell you free speech is an important ideal to them, which can only be infringed upon in the most severe cases. The problem is that people on all sides of the debate now believe that the other is out to essentially completely and totally destroy their society and way of life.

For extremists on either side, it's actually true. The question is, are extremist opinions just disproportionally magnified? Or is this, as you often see claimed on social media, actually what a majority of <opposing side> really want?
Attosecond spectroscopy wins 2023’s Nobel Prize in Physics
Thank you! The number of times I've had to type 'Electrophoretic Display Controller,' >_< I have nightmares about it.

But that's a good suggestion, possibly having a page that details how E Ink works and include the acronym there.
I was literally going to suggest something like this… an “early adopter round” to grow awareness and get testimonials from people who don’t need the FDA certification and who will look at this and go “hell yes I have a thousand dollars to spend on yet another gadget to obsess over my personal fitness geek lifestyle”… there will be people experimenting in other countries… open data curious nerds, and lots of other people that would probably spend between $250 and $1000 on something like this… test the water with some signup forms and surveys and see what breakpoints you can hit with a small “hand made” batch without a full production run.

Look at it this way… your tech is cool, but you know you have to find the money for the FDA certification, you’ve filled out Kickstarter, keep going and see if you can charge twice the price and slowly make prototypes and send them to willing early adopters who want in on the ground floor and don’t care about the FDA part…
I’m not trying to access anything. It was advertised as 24/7 and no longer is. I’m aware of this change via Twitter and people who used to use that.
People pay money to get less ads and potentially more features all the time. See Kagi which is an alternative to Google and paid, or YouTube Premium.
You likely grew up in a period of more danger than your kid. Did you parents behave as you do now? Did you turn out okay?
Taxing mileage is not easy. Especially weighting it by tire wear (weight of vehicle etc.

Although we must also consider the location of the pollution. Particulate pollution in an empty desert has different consequences than the same in a school district.
I've been looking into mechanical watches. Not quite Rolex level, but Égard watches look interesting.

Maybe I'm just becoming a graybeard, but I'm tired of software updates, constantly charging devices, and throwing away good hardware because it's not supported by software anymore.
In hindsight, that's a massive premium on the value of the gold. It might even have been cheaper to commission your own.
If you're taken into jail, whether you're charged with anything or not and whether you're convicted of anything or not, they keep your fingerprints.
Kinda funny how it works well at this whereas diffusion models go to die when it comes to drawing text but of course it works in a completely different manner.
Maybe Syncthing would work for you? [1]

[1] https://syncthing.net/
how does hovering over your child prevent either of you being hit when a car mounts the pavement?
>Well, my Rolex and my Hublot

Nice flex, but you don't need to spend Wolf of Wallstreet money to enjoy the fun and diversity of traditional analog and digital watches.

You can build an entire watch collection for every occasion, of high quality Casios, that will last ~forever, for the price of one new Apple watch who's lifespan will be less than the CR2016 battery on those Casios, while having more features that a Rolex.

Casio even had the audacity to build an analog knock-off of the Apple watch and IMHO they nailed the design better than Apple (the moon phase indicator is a functioning complication, not a design element): https://down-th.img.susercontent.com/file/th-11134207-23030-...
They don't sell your data, the whole way they make money is by keeping hold of your data and selling targeted ads. Why would they sell away their competitive advantage?
Went ahead and ordered one. Thanks for the reply!
I'm from Romania actually, this isn't something tied to my upbringing.

Infanticide has been a cruel part of human life almost for our entire existence. You'd be surprised to find out how common it was before the universal religions pacified us.
The police have been subject to raiding of funds and budget cuts every election for the last twenty years. Rubbing salt into the wound by creating the capability for severe overreach is not the solution.
> Total inflation is up over 37% over last year and half

Mind telling me how you arrived at this figure?
I'm assuming the amount of road damage is proportional to the tire wear. You could probably have different scales depending on the characteristics of the tire in question. Metal saw blades vs. soft slicks.
They don't magically turn into adults the day they turn 18, you need to let them learn how to become one in small steps.

They learn in part by trying things out and messing up, and they won't do that if they're constantly being watched.
Funny thing is, last week I read an article about people hiriing "concierge service" for their children once they're in college, because their children can't function without handholding. I couldn't find the article I read but this is a similar one:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-the-ultimate-...
It looks like array/stack Brainfuck.

Previous uiua discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37673127

Brainfuck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
$6 is the average but the set of people willing to pay for add free are both the heaviest users and the ones with the most disposable income. Let’s say you offer this for $6, only the top 10% would pay for it. But the top 10% might generate $10. If you charge $10, only the top 5% would pay and they generate $12, and so on.
Nine is widely considered too young to stay home alone, let alone wander the world alone.
I sold all of my crypto positions last year. I don't think it will be around in another 10 years.
Rest of hurricane season in ‘uncharted waters’: El Niño, record ocean temperatur
Thanks for that! I'll take a look at it when I get home.

I believe the DNSSEC thing was just part of proving ownership while I was getting my letsencrypt SSL certificate, I think I can remove the DNSSEC entry now, since I've installed the certificate and don't get any certificate errors now.
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Experts fear an already active hurricane season could come to an eventful and exceptional end as unusually warm, storm-boosting ocean temperatures and a slow-to-emerge El Niño combine.
Yes, but having it be disjointed from the protocol adds friction. You can't just browse the files using native tools and gateways. I think it would be great to be built-in.

In fact I would argue that all data should be encrypted. But by default it could be encrypted with its own hash or similar so that it can still be deduplicated but has strong protection from people who don't already know the content (or hash) and can be pinned on untrusted nodes. This would resemble the Google Docs "public link" sharing. The only downside would be slight CPU overhead and longer keys.
I don't see affordances for operating at multiple levels of abstraction. The single example of another level is ccall to an LLVM instrinsic - that's not any different from inline assembly in basically any other compiled language. Supporting multiple levels would mean you can do all (or most) the same things with LLVM IR that you can do with Julia itself.
> In my opinion one of the biggest but under appreciated problems is that at every trial there is a prosecutor whose job is try to get you convicted whether they think you did it or not.

Once a case is under trial, that’s their job, isn’t it, just as it’s the job of the defense to get an acquittal, even if they think or even know you did it?

I think the problem is pre trial, with trials getting started even though there’s no good evidence.
Is ChatGPT even a year old? Why would you expect it to hype down already? Its like saying the Internet should be de-hyped in 1998 or people should stop making iPhone apps in 2010. Its a gigantic gold rush. People have already made millions off head-shot pro applications of AI-art -- Ai-art and LLMs is going to create 1000s of millionaires.
> If you can't handle refreshing or merely clicking it again, that's you having a problem, not the site having a problem.

No, it's the site's problem. The contrast between the blinding radioactive yellow background and the font is eye straining and doesn't meet the WCAG standards for accessible text. And the dark mode is unusable. The joke would be funnier if there was a real dark mode or if the light mode was readable.
In states with annual (or other periodic) safety inspection, taxing mileage is super-easy.
Is any of you currently using IPFS? What's your use-case?
I'd wager that 14$/month is actually really cheap given who will pay for it.

The average per user may be $5.96, but I imagine that the people who will pay 14 $/month have more disposable income and are therefore in the demographics that advertisers would pay a premium for.
Thanks, Kalpesh!
Pump then pay is the default in the UK, but card readers on pumps are becoming more common.
Agreed, but that doesn’t translate to profit universally.
I've never spotted one in the wild either, but, y'know, I like to not be the one who first finds one out... the bad way. ;)
Or just poor listening conditions. Everyone always talks about needing super high end setups to hear the difference, but it's actually the low end setups with wonky frequency responses that totally mess up the assumptions behind psychoacoustic masking.
Also interested in LatAm (same timezone) and the rest of the world.
I agree, I don't think a menace such as a drunk driver should have their fingerprints removed from a database. When you drive drunk on public roads, endangering countless lives, you forfeit a bit of your privacy.
Neither will my cheapo casio watch :)
Are you really going to commit fraud for AWS credits? Lying for a monetary gain does not seem like the start of a good partnership.
Potentially these paying users weren’t the market anyway. Someone willing to pay to not see your ads maybe hostile to any brand forcing them in front of their eyeballs.
I believe the only chance for EU to compete with China was to move all manufacturing to cheap post-soviet areas and build local Shenzhens there with high logistical integration. That ship seems to have sailed as wealth extraction was more important and now EU is falling into irrelevance globally (no meaningful GDP growth since 2008 whereas US and China's GDP exploded in the same timeframe).
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How do you fence stolen gasoline? Is there a black market for the stuff?

Even if you got away with this, you're looking at $2000-$4000 in profit? Seems hardly with the risk (even if you're not concerned with ethics). Not to mention you have to safely store 800 gallons of gas somewhere.
During the cold war, we (the US collectively) certainly didn't want to give the Russians credit for anything we didn't have to. But I still learned all about it in college in the early 90s at the latest. I don't think it's a great secret, their massive effort and sacrifice, and their role in the turning point for the Nazis.

"I said, 'You wouldn't have had much fun in Stalingrad, would you'?"
At some point this is banging-head-against-wall grade stuff, so I'll probably stop here. You're in the right area on the sales tax example, but it suffers from the same belief construction and expression issues.

Let's play your example out in a conversation:

1: "I don't believe anyone should pay sales tax!"

2: "But you (someone who is anyone) do pay sales tax, are you a hypocrite?"

1: "Of course not. I have to, it's the law."

2: "So you believe nobody should have to pay sales tax, but they must when legally required?"

1: "Yes."

2: "Oh good, that seems reasonable. I also hate taxes."
> It's a hard world out there, and you have to be educated to succeed at anything more than a trade or service industry job.

this is true.

The market isn't fair however, nor does it pay everyone what they are worth, and I would rather correct that common falsehood when I see it.
As an old fart who actually used a typewriter, I must point out that the bell does not ring when you press the carriage return. The bell rings when you are nearing the end of the line to warn you that you are bout to run out of paper.

On carriage return, the sound should be a slow swing of the heavy carriage physically returning.
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> “Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing”

Obviously the developers of Lisp Machine operating systems could not ignore the cost of the operations. Especially since they developed ambitious software (an operating system and its application) on relatively slow machines (a Symbolics 3600 was as fast as a 1 MIPS DEC VAX 11/780).
Does it come with a blue check mark?
I welcome this move, even though social media isn't really my thing, so I wouldn't really be the target customer. (I deleted my Facebook account in 2016 after it gave me a terrible bout of anxiety and depression.)

The tech industry has been dominated by a few players who primarily gain leverage by offering services for free, preventing the entry of smaller players as well as leveraging user data in ways that people would find abhorrent. When you can charge users, you can offer social media services that don't require dark patterns and depend on user addiction to turn a profit.
Sort of - the outsourcing problems are usually described as in descending order: cultural differences, timezone differences, language challenges, general communication overhead and talent availability.

All those could be true with remote, but that’s probably why most companies limit remote to same culture (eg nth am) , close timezone, same language.

You’re left with “just” general communication overhead in that case.
That, and also they might expect a user who buys ad-free to be a heavier user than average.
This was really irresponsible of the researchers who only wanted the prestige in the security community. The company played ball and patched the vulnerabilities. They should have waited at least 90 days before releasing a pOc.
There is a world of difference between poor enforcement and completely legalizing theft, which is what OP was advocating for.

Even if the police were perfectly moral and upstanding, relying on them to respond to an incident in real time is just a bad idea. But, if someone broke into my house and I got high res video of their face and license plate, that person would eventually be jailed and I would be able to collect damages from them. Maybe not in LA or NYC, but definitely where I live.
Here in NL it's 'pay inside' or 'pump then pay' by default unless you're in a border region where there are a lot of scammers. And judging by some recent foreign trips pretty much the same happens in other countries in the North of Europe.
Nah, it's pretty great TBH.

And honestly, if that post IS the worst, this must be your first page on this website.
> Or when a trial was unfair due to a judge's mistake. Effectively, it is meant to protect you against judge's mistakes and unscrupulous prosecutors. There is much less protection against experts that happen to be wrong.

IANAL, but I understand certain kind of "evidence" are inadmissible in court due to unreliability/being junk science (e.g. lie detector results). I think it should be possible to classify the admission of unreliable evidence as the judge's mistake, even if that evidence (or type of evidence) was found to be unreliable after conviction.

Basically, the standard should be that judges are supposed to be perfectly reliable when evaluating evidence, and should have been expected to catch any issue that was later discovered, so a later standard of inadmissibility is retroactive.

If it isn't the, the rules ought to be changed (and this change seems narrow enough to me that it shouldn't cause any problems).
Compromising in the short term to meet immediate needs isn't the same as forgetting. Once the tough times have passed, the memory rejuvenates and those who can do (i.e., leave).
This is a modern invention. Kids of that age routinely explored the world on their own in the before time. Then social media happened, and everyone thinks that everyone else is a risk. Everyone thinks they're doing good when they call the cops upon seeing a child by themselves.
You can't buy a toothbrush without calling a attendant where I live, no way they let you pump $100 of gas without paying first. Pay after was the norm when I was a kid though.
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So for $14 I get no ads but I'm still tracked?
> Most businesses will assume some amount of shrinkage

in the gas trade, they use the term "evaporation" ;P
I think this is a reference to "Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters", a submission a while back about someone training a ML model to generate lowercase/uppercase letters, and used it to uppercase letters already in uppercase. Quite fun https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667852
Have you thought about doing stealth marketing on social media? Go around on social media, make posts that are supposedly a question, but actually try and sell your product with your question. Then you could get a few other accounts to verify what you are doing, include some life story, and really try and gain traction this way.

Don’t make the product and sell it to the many people that are already apparently trying to buy it from you.
Sounds like a social media thing. He does it somewhere and tells folks about it because they start lining up there. Modern day Robin Hood, kinda.
Economics is a social study despite all the math
I don't believe the most profitable users care about ads.
If only! I've tried and given up. Nothing mutes them.
There's a journal [0] on infinitenegativeutility, discussed here 40 days ago, with a section called "What pushed me away from Haskell?". That author points at issues that are primarily cultural. One example is a relaxed attitude toward backward compatibility from the GHC team.

[0] https://journal.infinitenegativeutility.com/leaving-haskell-...

If I grab an old Haskell project, even one without any external dependencies, I can often safely assume that it won't build any more with any recent version of GHC because everything has been changed just a little tiny bit.

That's an issue that would more affect experienced/long-term users than newcomers to haskell. I haven't used it myself. I'm just pointing at one person's perspective - someone who professes to still like Haskell - about why it's no longer a first choice.
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That's what's missing. When I click on a pointer, its owner should have the article replaced with a "GAME OVER" message.
Yes it's definitely an idea that can be found here and there in Greg Egan's novels and short stories. Among other places, towards the end of Permutation City when it's suggested that the world beliefs of the inhabitants of Permutation City (humans vs evolved artificial species) are themselves shaping its reality.
Why should property tax payers of a town subsidize people who don't even live in your town? There is no right to an affordable apartment/home in a place you don't live. Local governments should focus on being small and efficient, not inviting cost to the current property tax payers.

And I do believe you have control over how your town is shaped. You can shape zoning and ordinance laws to prevent certain types of projects - whether it be fast food, drive-thrus, strip clubs, or dispensaries. Housing developers are trying to make money, and if you make it difficult to make a profit, they won't build.
A lens and the Fourier transform are directly related because the underlying physical process is being modeled. Matrix multiplication and the way our brain works are not close in the same way. The result is similar enough, but there’s no reason (that I know of) to believe that the underlying mechanism in our brains is matrix multiplication