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I understand the potential for abuse, but it is useful when I search for python and get programming languages and someone else gets snakes.

Didn’t Epstein get sent to prison?

SBF is a better example since he was actually sentenced and an actual billionaire (and did not get pardoned by Biden like the cynical "all politicians are equally corrupt" crowd on HN were adamant was a done deal, even though that theory never made any sense).

Not exactly a billionaire.

Not initially, no.

Doesn’t Musk’s twitter prevent you from saying ‘cisgender’?


Well, the Bible sort of compels you to share it, and in some societies you are economically and socially encouraged to do so.


I don’t know, I read this and think: if these unpredictable machines somehow get it into their heads to upload our source to a public space, or hack our competitors, or steal credit cards to buy more ec2 instances, all to fulfill some simple ask like “make this algorithm faster”, I’m not going to be happy.

I want tools that do not surprise me.


It’d be fairly easy to set up an experiment to validate if that were the case.


Or even setting bold would be nice.


Bizarre that a style sheet mechanism can't do do something that is it's primary function.


I’m guessing that due to the way highlights can cross element boundaries, it would be difficult to support any styles that could change the layout.


That seems like it could also mess with mouse selections if the text moved when selected. maybe even causing endless jitter.

I kinda wonder if "page scrolled 'cause X was selected" type data extraction attacks might play a slight role too. Although I suppose if you've managed to inject CSS all bets are off..


yeah, although text-stroke and text-shadow probably work even better with fixed width code since it avoids changing line lengths.


That’s the same as a pushbike right?


Plenty of other services (like Spotify) stop showing you ads if you pay them enough money.


Until they decide that ads can give some profit on top of your payment. See: youtube [0], Windows, Apple [1].

[0] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/416547/youtub...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322556, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433


Not to mention cable TV, the OG "ad-free" premium model.


I don't think that actually counts as "paying for content". The musicians make the "content", and Spotify pays all but the biggest ones a pittance.

That's more like "paying to not see ads" than "paying for content".


Spotify shoves podcast ads in your face.

Amazon does the same with product ads.


What do you think the constant reminders of "hey hey hey, use these autogenerated vibes based playlists that are more profitable to us because we filled them with AI generated fake artists" are?

Meanwhile spotify also has at least two autogenerated playlists of the songs you have chosen to play more than a few times. Literally "Here's the songs you recently took an interest in", and they do not fill your front page with that autogenerated playlist!

Because that copy they are shoving in your face is not Informing you of useful Features or Inviting you to try something we made, but is instead managed by the marketing department.


If such a plan exists its always just a temporary situation until they add ads back in to keep the line going up.


Splitgate matched new players with bots for the first few hours. It meant I had fun (then eventually I levelled up enough, matched with players, got stomped, and never picked it up again…)


Marvel Rivals quietly matched your team up with bots if you lost twice in a row. I think that was a good system.


Overwatch too, but it got boring after a while and their matchmaking was atrocious.


Exhaustive list of team-based PvP games where people don't complain about matchmaking:


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