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Opinions based on bigotry or reducing rights or "legalness" of a person based off of who they love, what skin color they have, what gender they have are all invalid opinions. I should not have to debate a bigot and act like their views are worth debating.
> $10/year YT subscription disappears into the background

I used to live off of $7,000 a year. $10/year is something I'd seriously think about.

I'd be careful about generalizing a fixed cost subscription's impact. Typically, it will hit poorer communities harder than wealthy communities.
A reasonable take would be asking “why are there stories of a giant bipedal ape told around the world by different cultures?” Could they be based on actual creatures like Gigantopithecus whose existence may have been recorded in oral histories for thousands of years? It doesn’t have to mean maybe they exist now but it can serve as a good motivation to do anthropological and archeological research.
Did you just nerd snipe all of HN?
They have a vouching problem, which Richard Feynman described the dynamic well in honor socieites, where once you were on the inside, most of the effort went into figuring out how to attract the people you wanted and continue to signal your status, while keeping others out.

I've been invited into quite a few exclusive social networks (scenes, clubs, societies, networks, etc.) and they all have a similar dynamic. There is a core group annointed by someone legendary who doesn't really participate much, a senate of old guard who run things in the background, some quirky legacies who are tolerated but marginal, a few social queen bee types who gatekeep and police the tone, and then a lot of social butterflies who promote and attract people into the gateway funnel. It's the model of leader/essentials/influentials/interchangeables model.

What I'd speculate happened (or will) is they didn't have a good funnel because the top influentials were too high stakes, and it creates the incentive for arrivistes to knock the ladder away behind them, which tanks growth. Clubhouse doesn't have enough privacy to invite your friend who might attract tone police attention, and growth depends on being able to select from those very people in a funnel.

Basically, the path from outsider to interchangeable to the more socially secure influential level is too unstable, and strivers won't invite their off-brand friends.

Where I have seen other networks and scenes grow is you need a lobby that is attractive to people, and then once you are on the other side of it, you are securely inside, at least the first level. It requires a layer of real privacy and privilege, and even relative secrecy. Maybe Clubhouse secretly has that now, but it's perhaps too secret, as this article is about how their funnel into their pipeline is drying up.
So the problem is poverty, not capitalism.
Seems like a silly idea, but thinking about it more deeply I'm not so sure. Uranium is almost 7 times as dense as even the densest magma, so it _should_ sink in theory. The only issue I can think of is that "maybe" isn't good enough when you're talking about risking a large amount of radioactive waste getting spread out over a large area in a volcanic eruption if it turns out you're wrong. But if we could figure out a way to do it reliably... maybe?

Another potential issue: is getting rid of nuclear waste _permanently_ really such a good idea? What if we discover some other use for it in the future?
Then you'll simply have to wait a few months.

They didn't reveal their true business model or pricing yet.

The $50 subscription is a way to simply not flood their servers while beta-testing them, and also getting a bit of money from rich/dumb early adopters.
The chart shows funny alignment issues. It's unclear what they are caused by.

I think you've found its heartbeat. :)
> The doc contains cheatsheets such as "Gleam for X users" where X is currently Erlang, Elixir, Rust and Python. I think this is a fantastic idea and could be adopted by other language communities!

The Rust ndarray library as a "ndarray for numpy users" [0] which I thought was a very nice idea to help people from the python world convert their numpy code to Rust.

[0]: https://docs.rs/ndarray/0.15.1/ndarray/doc/ndarray_for_numpy...
> Baudrillard himself freely admitted at the time that his work was not meant to be taken as "political analysis," or even poetry. He is quoted as suggesting it be read as a SF novel, even :)

Sounds an awful lot like Alex Jones. "I'm just asking a question, talkin about hypotheticals".

If you toss out a theory and then suggest it should be read as fiction then it's got about as much value to anyone as Klingon philosophy. And the Klingons are a lot more consistent than most Continental philosophy.
It isn't less valuable at the scale at which most human networks operate. People don't exclusively limit their online communications to one account on one platform, and most people aren't networking with millions of people at a time. If it were really impossible for effective political speech to exist outside of Facebook then Gab and Parler would never have been politically relevant for Trump supporters or the alt-right, when they demonstrably were.
I still have it, but never really "used" it.
1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.
plugging/checking for holes in the roof so there's no water infiltration in the walls (water in the wall will quickly degrade them, especially if temperatures to freezing levels)
Wouldn't it be funny if this was caused by some YAML configuration reading the country code "no" as "false".
> First, he clearly has too much skin in the game

That sounds like an odd use of "skin in the game". "Skin in the game" would be if that thing failed and then he gets skinned, basically. Being invested in something with potentially lots of upside and worst case a bit of lost investment isn't like that.
The todo keyword https://gleam.run/book/tour/todo.html is brilliant. Are there any other languages that have this?
> he earns over half a million dollars a year

nit: that's my family's joint income. My individual income is at https://www.jefftk.com/money

(I've been putting my income online since 2008 when my salary was $65k. https://www.jefftk.com/p/salary-publicy for why I think more people should share their incomes.)
And I bet the most common screen use is to consume social media, which is tailored to elicit strong emotions, thus keeping you awake and in a state of stress.
Are you finding that that is actually stopping other opportunities? Agreed that bad recruiters are spamming Salesforce professionals but is it impossible to get out of?
> Take your pick for where to source your news [actual answers]:

1. Newsletters. One basic example is Bitcoin Optech. I've always been the kind of person who looks at any newsletter just about long enough to put it in Trash. But I've come to understand there are plenty of greatly curated and/or written ones out there.

2. Podcasts. I can recommend Unconfirmed and Zero Knowledge, for example.

3. Discord (I know I miss out by not going here but the noise-to-signal ration and complete lack of privacy/anonymity/anything like that are both too much. It makes me a bit sad that this is where the action is even for infrastructure and supposedly open/freedom-asserting projects.)

Can be non-trivial to find the good ones for whatever angle/topic you are interested in, of course.

> The greed and FOMO on display in the crypto gold-rush is deeply depressing

Absolutely agree and I couldn't agree more with the comment you're replying to.
In terms of the tech, yes. But that doesn't give you any insight into the market, which is what the comment I was replying to was talking about.
As a result of the Chernobyl accident, Mushrooms and wildlife feeding on them are still showing elevated levels of radioactive Caesium-137 in the Bavarian Forest and other parts of Bavaria. These levels are still monitored closely, even though they aren't considered dangerous anymore. Still, they are beyond the levels required by food safety standards.
That’s the point though, isn’t it? Many people have devoted their entire lives to “exploring the options” and still come up with basically nothing.
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>"..reached out.."

When I'm king of the world. There will be public floggings for anyone using that puke-making phrase!
> imagine trying to guess if the person meant flower, flour or floor

I'd hope that w3w's word list is built to avoid this potential confusion, but I could be wrong.

> you can always find 10 or 100 very distinct words to replace digits or pairs of them

True, although if you wanted to spread news by word of mouth of a secret gathering in the woods, then having just three words for the location is easy to remember and transmit.

Beyond those very niche edge cases, I don't really see much point.
Is this what we’re reduced to?

No you didn’t.

Yes I did.

No you didn’t...

Talk about low bar to discussion.

They have been debunked; even if you refuse to believe that, the overwhelming body of evidence, statistically, shows no consistent conclusive evidence.

So, what do you want to believe?

That there are one or two pieces of “evidence” to prove “it’s all true”, or that there are thousands of pieces of evidence which have shown no evidence of anything out of the ordinary.

This is how conspiracy theory stuff grows; people hang on to the few outliers.

...now when its true, the body of compelling evidence grows over time (see COVID vaccine -> blood clots) and eventually there is enough of a body of evidence that it starts to be compelling.

...but no matter how “smoking gun” your one example is, it does let make it convincing even if it’s true.

What we haven’t seen is a growing compelling body of evidence for ufos.

That’s fair reason to believe that...

> No, you haven’t

Yes. I have.
does anyone know what happened to Evil Tetris, an old Mac game that had awesome sound effects (nice slide!)?
It will keep giving you that piece until you threaten to get a line using only that piece.
I'm happy to be corrected on this point, but actually aren't we talking about $300 of additional benefits on top of whatever the state is providing that is funded by the Federal government?
He is very much in the church of hand-optimized low-level programming and anything that abstracts over that being where computing is going wrong.
It's ridiculous in the first place that BioNTech received almost half a billion in public funding specifically to develop the vaccine and yet own 100% of the rights privately.
Wait, Mighty App is just a remote server running Chrome and then sending it to an on-device app? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds so dumb. I thought it was at least some recompiled version of chrome optimized for performance.
I don't think racist comments are welcome on HN and have flagged this.
It's not because it's funded by advertising that it's cheaper for the user, in the end, the consumer pays for the advertising when they purchase something
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>But to explain most of these hardest cases mainly in terms of practical jokes seems just a bridge too far. Really, thousands of disconnected people all around the world playing the same big scary jokes for decades, and then almost never breaking down and laughing and crowing about their jokes even decades later?

This is the justification for that. However, they don't "almost never break down and laugh and crow about their jokes". They do this all the time. It's just that when they do this, it moves from the category of "hardest-to-explain UFO cases" to the category of "known hoaxes". It's an obvious selection effect, not something that requires deeper explanation.
Is it possible that the popularity increase albeit being correlated to the syntax changes, was not caused by it?
I remember playing a game with the same principle; it was called `bastet'.
My superficial read of the Basecamp kerfuffle is that what people are really upset about is a lack of professional development, but it was expressed as a sort of aimless resentment of everything the founders are. If what the founders are is the most important thing in the company - if the company is thought of as their thing, and not a thing any other employee will ever have a hand in steering, it would be frustrating.

I think the walkout is a symptom of the problem you're pointing out, not the cause. People started to think of it as a dead-end job working on someone else's toy.
"involvement in something prima facie unethical" - except that it's not.

Ads are the consumers choice. Given a choice between paying for something or ads, they will chose the ads. So they get ads. That's mostly why we are where we are.

Many of the negative externalisatons are a matter of application, moreover, there are a variety of opinions on what is appropriate and not. For example, I don't care if Facebook uses my behaviour on Facebook to decide what ads to run, as long as that is otherwise anonymous, private and protected. Others will have differing opinions but I think most regular Americans, Europeans etc. have a variety of views but mostly not centred around the notion that ads are inherently evil.
it’s probably a switch on the index (or in this case you could actually have an array and use the index).

I don’t know my compilers that well but if I had to guess I would say there is a good chance this will be optimized away by the compiler.
Can you be more specific? There is a primitive type annotation checking system in there, kinds of mistakes not being caught will likely be of interest to Borkdude and others
Unpopular opinion: Ads by themselves are unethical. Whether targeted, contextual, or just randomly applied.

Ads are psychological warfare against a populace using their very nature against them. All in an effort to get them to change their behavior in a way that's going to be detrimental to them. Either they stop looking for alternatives, or they make purchases they don't need to (see: toothpaste consumption rates).

Ads are unethical, and are only considered acceptable because they have been around for so long, and because they're "easy" to use and supposedly ignore. Anyone working in the ad industry is directly supporting this unethical behavior. This isn't an "NTP is also used in cyber warfare" style of engagement, this is writing missile guidance systems levels of engagement.
Has there been any studies on the quantities of spectra your eyes would expect to get on a sunny day looking at grass or something? Then compare it to the spectra that comes off of a monitor and then you would have something to compare with.
So...exactly my point? Each niche has it's own idea of what the standard is.
So the point is not necessarily to convince people there was no Holocaust, Holodomor or Armenian genocide. It's to make some people doubt. In effect, they become neutral to the idea, and that's enough to enable fascists.
That seems kind of brilliant to me.
I read this article a few days ago, and the question I was asking myself was: how do people in these isolated communities support themselves? The article mentions people even moving back to these communities from the developed parts of the island. Is there some industry there to keep them employed, or do they live purely from benefits?
The issue fundamentally is that most people do not use this kind of knowledge on a daily basis - even those of us doing low level work, and when it is needed, it is a mere web search away - or if necessary I can reach for Knuth.

I think you misunderstand my notion of a "google gotcha" - I'm not proposing that interviews do not into rigorous technical detail. I'm proposing that interviews that test knowledge of easily-looked-up trivia rather than an understanding of engineering pragmatism and trade-offs are fundamentally flawed and yield markedly worse results than those that do not _regardless_ of company.
You spelled Monotonous wrong ;) It basically gives you the worst piece (Z) every time unless there's another worst piece. I got a 4 bar line OOOO and also an L once.

Overall I just wasn't impressed. It reminds me of the level of tetris you'd reach after beating all the easier levels only to find that you got to the level that the game creators decided nobody could ever win because they didn't write an ending sequence.
It is less delta-V to launch something out of the solar system than it is to drop it into the sun.

Assuming you're not worried about nuclear waste leaving our solar system and becoming a problem for others, it makes absolutely no sense to launch it into the sun.
I don't think many people would work for $400 a week when you can get $300 a week by not working.
I have been pushing for Push notification should be part of HomeScreen WebApp and not on Safari itself. No one likes them on Website, which is a valid argument. But I dont think Safari team sees the need for it.
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But so is essentially all interaction with your environment. Every interaction you have with essentially everyone might change your behavior. The only difference is the scale.

The problem is that the power of targeted advertising has been democratized (irony intended) to allow everyone to do it. It is capable enough that it can end peaceful democracies.
Sometimes crazy ideas like SSL aren’t so crazy. I wonder if the HTTPS failure is due to the Yahoo part of this?
Funny you should mention pallets. I have a couple in the shop waiting and ready to be reincarnated.
Only downside is you can't inflate the supply for unique purposes.

For example PeakD.com inflates hive to give content creators tips based on likes.

Edit: I thought this was legitimate reasoning behind having your own token. I don't mean it in an inflammatory way. Please explain why you disagree.
Nope, nothing particularly exotic in the raw materials. It's mostly a time issue, complex equipment can't be replicated overnight.
"Tetris 2020"
> their privacy is being violated and their metadata is being sold, in order for advertisers to track them everywhere they go online

This is exactly what I'm working on changing; have a look at the second half of the post?

(Or read https://github.com/WICG/turtledove)
Can you advocate for doing an ethical thing like that and not have it be considered bragging? I've often wondered about how to encourage others to give more, volunteer more.

If I don't do those things (or don't claim to), people will say, "Why should I do that? You don't do that! Hypocrite."

If I do those things, people will say, "You are just bragging/virtue signaling."
We used it at work to provide secure communications and file exchange. We're still using it for chat, but we've almost completely stopped using KBFS and we're looking into alternatives for chat. I think Matrix is the best option there.
No, it literally means "being invested in something" regardless of the rest.
Yep, but mostly for its original purpose, never got onboard with all the cool new features they released, unfortunately.
> Brexit and Trump are significant evidence of this

Brexit is the new heresy apparently. What if I told you the EU was the "false words"? The representation of Brexit as racist was certainly an emotive argument.
Stability in this context means "can make changes with confidence in the absence of tests". The more confident you can be, the more stable. Maybe not the right word though.

> Repl driven development is as much about exploring the problem than it is writing code.

Which is exactly what types give you. This even coined the term "type driven development" (same as "test driven development" on purpose").
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You can make similar arguments for almost all jobs.

You make cars? You focus on good things like driving to a vacation, but what about all the cars used in drive by shootings?

You sell cloud services? You talk about the great websites, but what about all the people who host scam sites on the cloud?

You write monitoring software? What about all the people who monitor ad services?
Jobs are not necessarily good for society, nor are cheaper goods. We could have dirt cheap asbestos and cigarettes, that's not good for society. We can have billions of jobs making and filling dirt holes, that's also not good for society.

That aside, the effectiveness of ads are orthogonal to the quality or "good"-ness of jobs and products. They just seem, to me, like more of an amoral thing that can be used to sell something else, good or bad.
That's a good start! I'd like to see banning of antisemitic JAQing of other topics such as:
- The USS Liberty Incident
- Holodomor
- Aliyah Bet
for starters.
I thought it said 2.5B, and thought “they’re finally enforcing the GDPR; great!”

Oh well.

(Edit: their revenue was $368M over the last 12 months, so €2.5B would be too high. The current fine is still an order of magnitude or two too low to change meaningfully change anyone’s behavior. It’s a couple of days of revenue. They could simply write it off as the cost of doing business, especially if they think the GDPR compliance will impact business growth)

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somewhere in north africa, a cat is really pissed off and doesn't know why.
Just allow push notification on WebApps but not on Safari.
Yes. They become really scared and go to a safe corner.

Steve/Source: my uncle had burglars while they were sleeping and the dogs never barked.
>a flat out dismissal of Ads in general.

Yes, I agree. That is indeed another unoriginal, stale perspective.

The question for me isn't so much whether hear from one side more than the other, but whether there is some new idea. For me, intellectual content matters much more than equal representation in (social) media.

By this measure, the OP's post is equally trite.

>In the context of Ads. Not all ads are large-scale collection of personal information.

We're talking about Google ads here. Let's stop pretending otherwise.

>Which is what FloC was ( AFAIK ) trying to solve.

Leaving my skepticism aside for a moment, this may have been an opportunity for OP to provide some insight into how the adtech market is evolving, and make the case that it is headed in an ethical direction. He did not. There is no insight here, either.

So again, I think a downvote is a pretty reasonable and measured response. The OP's post was unconvincing and cliched. No big deal. I've written plenty of stuff like that, myself.
> I see very little friction to any of them - $10/year YT subscription disappears into the background

So there are several problems with this:

1. You restated the above commenter's cost from $10/month to $10/year for some reason. For context, Google's annual revenue seems to be $180B. That makes $10/month far closer to the likely alternative;

2. That $10/year or $10/month "disappears into the background" for you. That's a far more significant cost for the majority of Internet users who are in the developing world. Cost aside, there may be issues with even having the payment infrastructure to actually pay for that (eg due to sanctions or US foreign policy).

I agree with the post's author: there are significant benefits to an ad-supported model and high on that list is low friction (paying for any service is a huge point of friction) and that those in the developing world get highly-equivalent services to the developed world.

There are definitely problems with advertising. The over-collection of data is of course one. But it seems convenient and disingenuous to overlook the benefits as they're inconvenient to a shallow anti-advertising diatribe.
Why doesn't Heroku simply give you a linux instance to do whatever you want like you'd do with EC2? Because it's easier for end users to deal with something that has a higher level of abstraction. Mighty is addressing an existing problem with a complex technology that seems simple on the surface.
I am using this one: "Learn concepts and practice for the Kubernetes Certification with hands-on labs right in your browser - DevOps - CKAD" by Mumshad Mannambeth.