But the comments here are the proof for xyzzy123 claim:

No one wants to upload an ID and instead is moving to a competitor!

To still suspect that this must be an evil genius plan by OpenAI doesn't make sense.

> No one wants to upload an ID and instead is moving to a competitor!

Comments on the internet is rarely proof of anything, even so here.

If no one wants to upload an ID, we'd see ChatGPT closing in a couple of weeks, or they'll remove the ID verification. Personally, I don't see either of those happening, but lets wait and see if you're right or not. Email in the profile if you want to later brag about being right, I'll be happy to be corrected then :)

The average HN user maybe, but elsewhere, I see people uploading their IDs without a second thought. Especially those in the "chromebooks and google docs in school" generation who've been conditioned against personal data privacy their whole lives

> According to the NOS, the man, who comes from Breda, began his morning yesterday by taking photos at a defence site near the Gilze-Rijen air base.

Drunk Russian James Bond?

Can one downgrade back from unlimited too 100?

I just checked my Starlink app and if I wanted to downgrade mine it says the change would be effective at the beginning of the next monthly billing period.

So looks like you can downgrade every month and upgrade any time. Sounds fair to me.

Thanks for this. I now withdraw my previous objections to the change. If we blow past the 100Gb, just upgrade, then remember to downgrade before the next month.

If I calculate correctly then 500 kbps is actually enough for Netflix in standard quality. If one wants to binge watch 4K (7 GB per hour) then the unlimited plan makes more sense anyway.

Do you have examples for good made up rules? I want to try it next time being with friends.

Some newbies seem to go for rules like: It is illegal to take even number as punishment. Or You can only play sevens in pairs. Or King skips next one.

Games between my brothers and me, rules such as: Specific card plays from next player. Or You are allowed to play +- 1 instead of exact same.

Nasty ones like: Third red is illegal. You are not allowed to put card, that would make sum of last three to be more than 15.

Those are quite fun. But probably my all time favorite is: "Eights live backwards"

I could live it at that, but the deeper explanation is that it is illegal to keep eights in had same way to other cards and it must be played up-side down.

This rule is the one my brother broke when he was shuffling the deck and got thought about "fixing" the eights.

Since some rules can be really rare and some really common, we started to do in expert games that the rule maker can set the card penalty. Multiple times per play? Basic 2 card punishment. ~once per game? 3-4

Rarer than that? +5, go wild as is the name of the game.

With newbies, standard 2 card punishment keeps things simple.

When each person have 2-4 rules from them and to keep all the other hidden rules in mind, the fun is chaos and chaos is fun.

It is also cool to debrief after and discuss with people if anyone managed to guess the others rules.

I used to play this a ton (often as a drinking game). The wiki does a good job of explaining the basics and I'd always do the no talking + point of order variants (+ a few others). My favorite type are:

1) rules requiring awareness of card order. "Have a nice day" is standard on 7, double 7's is "very nice" etc. Stack rules like that when combinations and/or cards of a suit are played and people have to remember 5 things they have to say or do after a card. Get's difficult over many rounds.

2) ice-breaking rules (if you're playing with new people). Friendly ones like "you must compliment _ when a _ is played." Great way to build/open someone up

3) rules changing play order. Aces reverse, add rules that e.g. skip a player and you'll have everyone waiting in suspense to see if the person who's turn it is actually knows its their turn. If not, "delay of game".

Play it with friends you'll be surprised with what people come up with!

Playing the 2 of clubs was a "total failure" and you would be handed the entire draw pile.

I searched every part on hacker news and the most comments a submissions had was only 2. Two!

I am puzzled why the parodies of bay area tech-culture fall flat here.

No need to be puzzled- occasionally a funny submission will live for a bit on the front page but in general the spectrum of acceptable humor around here is very narrow.

It's sort of a case of barking up the wrong tree on that front. Personally I've been enjoying laughing at the slickdeals forums such as https://slickdeals.net/f/19069660-16-5-ft-pancellent-snake-i.... Obviously it can't compete with higher brow humor, but at least the people are nice there.

I enjoyed summarizing this hilarious blog post with my Claude Code and I thank Scott for having his Claude Code write it!

Venezuelan social media. It is likely dominated though by opposition who left the country.

Methanes energy can only be converted about 50% into electricity though.

> Obviously they suggest you to instead get an Apple TV

I did the same last year though when I couldn’t find a good non-smart tv. Even if you don’t like the advice it is a practical solution for normies.

you can see no privacy differences between an appletv and a roku or fire stick?

There's a microphone in the remote control.