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You see the same effect with twitter's advertiser exodus since it was acquired. It was not long ago you'd see everything on twitter: prominent fashion brands, car companies, big name electronics, everything you'd expect from a healthy ad ecosystem. Now it's basically nothing but crypto scams, reverse mortgages, supplements, dude wipes and pills that make your dick work.

Like you can feel whatever you feel about that, but it's a clear, marked shift.
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This is deep. Thank you to share. Is it not possible to invite these staff to your country to live and work?
Fortunately for Russia & Israel, not to mention the US, there are no longer any earnest attempts to establish an architecture for enforcing the Geneva Convention, except as vengeance of the victors on the losers.
We're hundreds of miles off from going too far down this road. This is taking one step on a road that spans the globe.

It's about as relevant to bring this up now as it would have been to do so when people celebrated the death of Bin Laden, and I'm sure you didn't at the time. The latter even had an arguably better reason behind his acts that wasn't solely personal greed.
Freemium gets abused, just look at YouTube... give them money and they still run ads...
Lots of ads = zero $

No ads = $$$

Does it never make sense to have something in between?
There’s simply a lot of anxious people with a lot of imposter syndrome. Half of the company encourages it. Half of the company discourages it.
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Hello HN,

I launched a new project called "Fakerson.co". It helps developers and businesses simulate realistic user interactions by generating diverse user profiles from different nationalities. This can be particularly useful for testing user flows, developing new apps, or generating realistic data for various projects. You can download JSON results or just "copy paste" them

Why I made it: Most user generator providers are not maintained or have a too limited number of generations. So, I made an API that uses the RandomUser datas (open source) and created a cool front-end to allow people to select and generate users from a user-friendly form. You can use more providers than mine on the front-end if you don’t want to use my API.

It is free; I don’t want to implement a paid tier or anything. I just limited it to 1,000 user generations per hour for anonymous, and 20,000 for registered users.

Landing page: https://www.fakerson.co/ Generating page: https://www.fakerson.co/generate
What's your preferred solution for representing the CJK languages?
> That’s why newspapers had classified ads, even though they charged a nominal fee to subscribe.

Which leads to the conclusion that the company that most disrupted the newspaper industry was not Google or Facebook but Craigslist.
At least in beginner cameras, this makes shooting really slow and can become problematic for burst photo sessions

Also I believe some mobile phones can do exactly the same thing.
I tried with the wink emoji ;-)

And if you think you're speaking for "most" people here, what can I say?
Maybe when Musk is done with the govmint he can fix healthcare.
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What alternative do you propose? I mean personally I think that emoji don't belong in unicode, but at the same time it's been integrated into society for many years now and it's made communications platforms so much more streamlined.

But how else would you represent non-latin characters? More character sets?
Even with resistive heating you don't use 7kW 100% of the time unless you are an extremely rich person attemping to heat multiple rooms all the time.

480MWh with 2k inhabitants would be 240kWh per inhabitant per day, or 7200 kWh per month. With 0.25eur/kWh (hard to find an official source, but that's the figure that comes up - https://selectra.info/energie/electricite/prix ), this would be 1800 euros per month per person. This is more than the minimal monthly salary in France, so the 2k inhabitants figure does not look realistic.

I don't know much about who is using resistive heating, but I would bet on people in flats using resistive heating more (which have less surface area to heat) and houses using gas and biomass more.

I am not saying that this battery specifically will change anything at the country scale (having buffering capacity for 20k inhabitants for one day is nothing compared to 70M inhabitants total). I am just contesting a figure that I find very hard to believe.
> To maximize the resources of my Raspberry Pi 5s, I installed Raspberry Pi OS Lite

If kubernetes cluster was the goal, perhaps Talos Linux would have been the better choice:

https://www.talos.dev/v1.8/talos-guides/install/single-board...

https://www.talos.dev/v1.9/talos-guides/install/single-board...
Amazon prime video is also double dipping now. So annoying!

And they have the cheek to say ‘your program will resume uninterrupted’. You literally just interrupted it!

It’s like slapping someone in the face and then smugly exclaiming ‘and that’s the end of the slaps - you must be so happy, right?’
Sorry, this is folks logging in and changing the password. Should have seen this coming :hide:. Instance gets reset every 60min. Not great but something to improve
Depends on your appetite of course. But I think it's safe to say that if you're not satisfied at $10m net worth, you're never going to be, and you'll just keep on chasing til circumstances force you to stop.
Ha! They think we're getting married.
Agree. Mostly, the “rules” help a beginner to understand the levers they can pull to get the intended effect. Then they can experiment and develop the artistic taste & technical experience so they can choose what to apply.

But they shouldn’t be seen as dogma. (Well, unless you do it on purpose: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95 )
Thanks both; you've inspired me to push on with learning React (Native)! Gonna be a fun weekend
This is just more histrionic Russia hacked my brain nonsense.
The billions are just a drop in the Intel bucket.
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Computing did pretty well in the prior 50 years.
The article you quoted also states an estimate of ~1600 deaths from the evacutation alone, and widespread rise of depression, anxiety and stress disorders among the affected population (also suicides).

Also note that death per GWh on hydroelectricity are complete BS. This is easy to get wrong, but these are typically dominated by deaths from floods and dam failures (which would've happened regardless of hydroelectric use, and the dams would've been required for flood control without having turbines installed, too).

I think environmentalists do have a strong point here: If a country like Japan (known for stability and diligence) can not be trusted to be able to prevent meltdowns (flooding was a known risk after all), how could you ever suggest them as primary power source in countries where regulation and monitoring would be a corrupt shitshow, like Italy, Spain, Africa etc?
> I was thinking vaguely about investigating graphic-based programming, but it's probably worse, IDK. It could automatically assign arbitrary icons* instead of identifiers, and you could write tooltip-like comments to describe them as and when you want to, and everything could be laid out nicely with diagrams and different pages instead of like a text file.

Have you ever read large electronic schematics? That's basically it .. except all the important things have to be identified by text anyway, because it's a massive challenge to the imagination to come up with two hundred different pictograms.

Of course, if you really want your identifiers to be pictograms, why not just use kanji for your identifiers? The Japanese language and Unicode provide tens of thousands of ready made pictograms for your convenience!

The only nonlinear programming environments that have really worked are the spreadsheet (which is still linear within each cell) and Labview. Possible shoutout to Unity blueprints, but when those get too complicated sphagetti .. people rewrite them in linear text code.
Just for your knowledge, in french "bit" sounds exactly like the word for "dick" that is "bite"...
Adding search would be a nice value-add
The pics help to disambiguate some of the titles, but its nowhere near as lean as HN.
The correct amount of ads is one.

As an indie web developer, after trying many "ad policies", I believe the sweet spot (not the revenue optimal spot!) is one ad, clear, not intrusive and highly targetted to your audience. This ad will not annoy readers and will keep your motivation at a decent level (instead of a zero ads policy).

My take: https://www.slowernews.com/sponsor
To be fair the person tweeting does attempt to address this point:

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1864856197662122165

At the end they link to this journal article by the Journal of the American Medical Association:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Some one who works on the finance side of healthcare could help us better understand it.
You don't need precision with a herd. You need to send them in a general direction to "trample" and for just a few of the more skilled-competent ones to feel emboldened and righteous in their vigilante justice - not being competent enough to understand the vast complexities and nuances of every situation.
The dirty games Ukraine is performing are exactly the same as Russia is doing. Both countries are corrupt in an extreme fashion. Just check out how the Ukrainian TCC grabs people from the street and send them to the meatgrinders. Warcrimes are everywhere there.
In the wise words of Chesterton, "Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny, and of nothing else. The question of whether a man expresses himself in a grotesque or laughable phraseology, or in a stately and restrained phraseology, is not a question of motive or of moral state, it is a question of instinctive language and self-expression. Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or German. Whether a man preaches his gospel grotesquely or gravely is merely like the question of whether he preaches it in prose or verse."
They already do something similar called open connect https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
I am pretty sure the biggest cost is licensing. Also why you see Netflix producing so much original content.
Two years with Kagi, I never visit Google once.

When I install Linux on a new computer, I install Firefox from its package manager, log in with Firefox Sync, and this switches my default search engine to Kagi. So I never once visit Google, not even to download Firefox.

I just tried going to Google, and it is simultaneously satisfying and saddening to be met with a cookie disclaimer pop-up: Saddening because I'm reminded that ubiquitous search access comes at the cost of tracking, and satisfying because I never once visited Google on this one-year old computer (after which the pop-up disappears).
That's not an answer. Be specific. How do you want to represent the 97k CJK characters?
Spotify doesn't solve that problem at all, it just helps you avoid feeling bad about it. I know artists who sell their music on both Bandcamp and on Spotify, and they all say that their income from Spotify is utterly insignificant unless you are already a big and established name with lots and lots of streams.

You are not the only one consuming a given podcast or YouTube channel, and even if you don't subscribe to their Patreon, maybe someone who likes it even more will. Sure, some content creators will not get enough income to continue, but is that really a big problem? We have no shortage of musicians, blog authors and podcasters, and if you don't care enough about a podcast to give a little bit of money to it, then maybe you won't miss it that much if it disappears.

Advocating for a different market structure than the ad-tech fueled one will of course change the supply side and I am not claiming otherwise. I just don't think it's necessarily going to be a problem, on the contrary it will optimize for content that people love rather than content that just stimulates them.
Thanks for the detailed response! Have you used any of those tools yourself? Were there any that made the evaluation process easier, or were they all relatively complex in their own way?
> Remind me, who was tried for this?

I agree that the US / NATO has bent and crossed international rules (way) too much in the past and without consequences - the US didn't sign the ICC accords for a reason.
It is fairly common in a large number of industries that a large part of the valuable portion of the products get subsidized by underhanded "immoral" side of the same industry. A (in)famous example is the practice of paying for expensive ink with excessive anti-customer practices in order to keep the prices of printers low. The printing manufacturers get multiple revenue streams that are more stable over time, and printers become accessible to more people. What is there to not like about it?

The biggest problem is that anti-consumer behavior causes harm. With advertisement it brings disinformation, spying, abuse of the most vulnerable in society, general distrust, are often a crime (scams, fraud, targets children, and usually ignore local advertisement laws), and siphons money to a third party which usually is outside of the country and do not pay taxes. The benefits of anti-consumer behavior are generally not worth the downsides.
ChatGPT and GPT4o APIs have 128K window as well. The 32K is from the days of GPT4.
I like it. I think you need some kind of ... mascot. Like a town crier with a smart phone up by the banner.

Is this one scenario where perhaps you should reverse the order of the "tabs" along the top? Like put "Today" on the far right with "Yesterday", etc. following from right to left?

Or honestly ditch them altogether — adding "Yesterday" is more than enough. Who wants to go back several days to read old news?
Ask HN: What policies should Sachs pursue as the new US AI and Crypto czar?
It indicates how much does google search suck nowadays.
Iraq was much worse. I heard it first hand from a US veteran who served in Iraq and then volunteered in Ukraine. We were driving together through Kharkiv surveying damage and he said: the damage here is nothing compared to what we did to Baghdad.

Statistical estimates put civilian casualties in the Iraq war at about 10x the rate of the current Ukraine war.
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That's what I dealt with. It seemed like roughly 50% of the time I'd have to re-auth for private browsing searches. Across multiple devices this becomes even more of a pain in the ass.
A quick way to be skipped over for jury duty is to bring up jury nullification during jury selection. Which I think is horrible, obviously. I was very excited to exercise my right to say presumptively possessing weed isn't worth jail time.
Is this remarkable? I see "acquitted by lack of evidence" in India and think its the same.
Sigh

I guess you're right. This has been a dimly-felt wish of mine for some 25 years, but probably pie in the sky.

Edit: I see there are a lot of visual programming languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language
1. not annoy no one

2. neg (annoy no one)

3. neg (neg exist x : annoy(x))

4. exist x : annoy(x)

5. annoy someone
> and highly targeted to your audience

Just to be clear, are you ruling out user-tracking here, and is this ad meant to be entirely context-based?
That's intentional as well, because then you can label organized resistance as terrorism and get international support for genociding a country.
I must be missing a minimum team size? Because if there isn’t one then why would anyone pay for “individual Ultimate” over “Team Ultimate” when they are the same price but you get more with the Team version?
Wonder if that follows germanic languages. "Playmo" is well known in Norway.
Do you have any proof that this is not the case?
I've said it before, but I feel like I need to keep saying it: If the people actually using/consuming a product aren't willing to pay the cost required to make/produce said product, then that's probably a good indicator that the product doesn't have enough value to justify its existence. If the Verge can't convince enough people to pay for their output, I'd argue it's not worth keeping around. Advertising ruins the producer/consumer relationship and incentivizes behaviors that disadvantage the consumer and push the producer away from their original purpose. If the Verge wants to diversify income, then they should provide a product that has value to a wider audience.

That doesn't mean that every single person consuming/using the product needs to pay either. Patreon and similar services have proven that if what you make is of high enough quality and provides enough value, it's possible to convince a large enough subset of the consumers to pay enough to cover the costs of production. Especially with online services where the cost difference between producing for 1 person vs 1000 is nearly negligible. The few can, and often do, subsidize the many. And if that changes over time, then the product ceases to be valuable enough to be worth producing and should simply stop being made.

And I'd say this is even true of news and things that people might argue are for the public good. In my opinion, most "news" today isn't actual informative news and doesn't really serve the public. But of the vanishing little left that does, if it informs and educates the citizenry in a way that improves the lives and stability of the country as a whole, and if its natural cost is more than can be reasonably covered by willing consumers, then there's a reasonable argument for covering the cost with taxes. Put sufficient legal barriers between the government funding and the content being produced to prevent government manipulation/propaganda and make sure the press can operate unimpeded. My best idea for such a government funded news source is to write into law that said news source's budget is dependent solely upon country population and country GDP, all staffing decisions are made internally, and leaders are decided by citizen vote, but I'm sure there are other ways people can come up with for maintaining a free but government/tax funded press agency. But ad-funded (of which I think even public radio/tv has effectively become), creates perverse incentives that drive the mission away from actually informing and educating.

People can still pay for tech reviews, or travel advice, talking head current events opinion shows, or whatever news is in its current form if they want. Privately owned/operated press can still exist if it's useful enough for people to find it valuable and worth the cost. But advertising just ruins everything eventually.
The irony of a website telling the story of commercialization of climbing the Everest, and the risks involved, while bombarding you with full page ads to buy a climbing package every couple minutes…

I also wonder, with so much money going into these expeditions for many decades, how hard would it be to build some kind of safe house not too far from the summit, with oxygen / heating supplies delivered by drone?
I particularly like the Teams pricing model:

- Professional ($10/user/month): Unlimited search
- Ultimate ($25/user/month): Unlimited search plus LLMs

You can mix and match users on different tiers.

So you don't need to splurge on LLMs for everyone.

Still, I'm only using Kagi Search and not any of their LLM Agent stuff.

I am still waiting for better pay-per-use LLM access, rather than $15-20/mo subs.
> I don’t get why advertisers still advertise.

Because it works, and because as usual, HN users confuse their personal experience for being that of the masses when nothing could be further from the truth.
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The main takeaway is the difference between priority and importance. But why todo apps always use priority then?
Loads of companies out there rely on a single revenue stream. If you sell a single product you get a single revenue stream.

Having a company double dip and concluding that's somehow laudable is absurd.

>People won’t pay $5 a day to subscribe to a newspaper

Because the product isn't delivering $5 worth of perceived value per day. Trying to extract $5 anyway via stuff like this is the wrong answer.
The way the present their numbers is pretty hard to understand, at least for me, did they lose $28million or make $28million in that same quarter? Either way that seems insanely low, if they're expected to be worth $8billion. The gap between profit and revenue seems to high.

There might be some potential for Gitlab complement your other business, in which case you may not see the lack of profit as that big of an issue. The problem is that if you can't make those $8billions back in future profit, then you're going to start making changes to the Gitlab offerings until they do become profitable.

That might be what the new CEO is suppose to do, pump up those numbers, and make it look like a sane investment.
Doing the math - even a conservative estimate for 1983 to 2003 is eight doublings.

That would give us a hypothetical Pentium 4 at 768GHz today. Which, Netburst or no, would wipe the floor with the fastest available multi-core chip.

While also putting out enough heat energy to keep a small town in Northern Canada warm all winter long.
To be precise, it might indicate how much Google sucks specifically for the HN audience. I have never seen Kagi mentioned outside of HN. Not that I disagree that Google has ruined the web lately but let’s not assume that this means Kagi will eat their lunch just yet.
You have to look at fundamental books to get there like Designing Data-Intensive Applications or Software Development Pearls (Karl Wiegers)
Eventually media companies will force us all to wear smart glasses so they will know who to sue for royalties when we come up with anything new.
The English translation that Iverson mentions was in Harper's magazine. Iverson says it “was a report of an interview with Professor Weizenbaum,” so I’m not sure how complete it is.

In spite of having developed Harper’s first Android application, I no longer have a subscription to the back catalog, but perhaps I can put my library card to use!

Thanks for the link to the French article.
Hm, that is interesting. Penguins tend to live on solid ground though AFAIK.
"Less ads" is the easy way to describe what they're offering, but I believe what they're doing is not just 50% less ad spots, but rather paying will remove all third party ad networks from the site, leaving first party ads only.

> we’ll get rid of all the chumboxes and third-party programmatic ads, cut down the overall number of ad units, and only fill what’s left with high-quality ads directly sold by Vox Media

If you think all advertising is immoral, then this probably doesn't do anything for you. However, if you have privacy and performance concerns, this is a big win I think.

Generally I like what the verge does, and I would gladly pay if it included their podcast being ad free. The Verge’s podcast is the only podcast I listen to that I don’t pay for, and it’s full of repeating programmatic ads for crypto companies, sports betting, and cars.
No non-nuclear cruise missiles have the energy to pull this off.
I'd like to think so, but most likely not. This is an old idea of mine, I wrote a comment about it here on HN a few years ago, before ChatGPT was a think. But now that ChatGPT exists, I asked it what it thinks. And to my surprise, it mentioned solar shades, so there is a chance it found this idea in its training.
Funny - I'm using Firefox too and haven't had that issue for quite a while now. I don't search in private mode all that much though.