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"That's capitalism, baby!"

That's how a company is "supposed" to act in a free market, right? They have all the only supply, and can thus "should" charge whatever the market on that street can bear.


 I mean, it even creates a perfect opportunity for someone to come in and undercut Charter, amirite?
> In France you can easily get 2Gbps for $60 / month.

In France I can get gasoline for $7 dollar a gallon. So save a bit on internet spend on different item and feel superior because EU is the best?
Will we see a world reshaped by climate change? Almost certainly. Is it completely futile to keep fighting to stop it? Absolutely not.

All the projections go to 2100, but do you think this magically stops there? Our actions today are going to determine the extent of the damage to the future. We've already baked in serious changes, but we can avoid a hellscape in 2150, 2200, etc. If we don't our descendents, what are left of them, will curse our memory.

The more damage we do to the earth, the harder we're going to make it for us to even develop the solutions to solve it. Lets be real, carbon capture on the scale to reverse global warming is going to require an advanced civilization, and that won't happen if we've regressed back to some sort of mad max hellscape.
>But then you imagine that they must be thinking the same thing.

I'm not so sure about that. There are some people who take seriously the fact that they could be wrong. They approach discussion with an open mind, listen to the other, look at evidence with a critical eye, and respond fairly.

Others come to a "discussion" from a totally different headspace. They are bitter, angry, and, to be frank, not very smart. It's not discussion they are after, because they aren't open to the possibility they may be wrong.

My theory is that this is the "rabble" that used to be led by the church, and then by mass media, and now by internet media. The internet is fractured into close-minded echo-chambers, and for many alive today, the classic error-modes of public online communication are new and exciting. The right is enamored with the brutal effectiveness of trolling. The left seems to prefer doxxing and blacklists. And internet companies care about metrics that don't capture any of the externalities of their platforms.

Hopefully they'll all grow out of it.
Well, only now is long-range wireless becoming a viable competitor. Kodak didn't see digital photography as meaningful competition, until customers switch en masse within months. Smith-Corona didn't see personal computers as meaningful competition, until customers switched en masse within months. Ditto MySpace, AOL, CompuServe, etc.

Wired monopoly-based ~50Mbps service had no meaningful competition - until wireless modest-activation ~500Mbps is individually available at comparable cost.

You haven't seen it because it wasn't here. As of a few months hence, it's here. Only reason I haven't dropped local wired service for Starlink is I get a substantial discount on the former; I'm looking for any excuse to switch.
I have a few WordPress websites. Loading them is as fast as it can be thanks to a good caching plugin correctly set up, and this is what I care about. No JavaScript except for things that are faster with it. 100% on Page Speed tests. They are easy to maintain and people not into computers can post things.

I'm attracted by static site generators essentially because I like the idea that no dynamic code is run when the website is visited, but WordPress almost gets you there after the first visit. Plus, you don't have to regenerate the whole website for each change, WordPress generates pages "lazily". So, maybe WordPress can be lighter in some cases than a statically generated website when considering everything if setup this way? It still requires a potentially stronger server than when everything is static.
I was happy to see ECC become popular because finally a bunch of Mathematics I learned in college became useful.
That's crazy talk from my point of view. The last time I moved home, it was a half-mile straight line distance and I'd as surely pay for movers to do that as move all the way across the country.

Getting sufficient boxes, tape, packing materials; wrapping items and putting them into boxes; loading boxes via elevators into a van, reversing the process; taking away all the packing materials ... so stressful and physically strenuous.

I'd throw money at that problem all day and all night.
synopsis: At the beginning of the pandemic, many evidenceless claims were labeled as fringe.

A year of evidence gathering produced some data to support one of the claims. That claim is no longer tagged as fringe.

OP's link is to a twit'r who examines this case - where media rejects claim when it is baseless and and later accepts it when it gains material support. Twitr's conclusion is this proves media bias.
I polled the OG fans to ask them what to call the all-new website: over 90% said “Turntable” and we had verified the naming rights — so that’s what the fans wanted. Fans decided.
>There are multiple documented cases where a person caught COVID twice

There have been far more breakthrough cases of fully vaccinated people than there have been confirmed reinfections.
"Twittest"
For the HTTPS thing, they’re suggesting client-side encryption. Which, to me, seems to be a combination of no real benefit and opens a window to introduce vulnerabilities if we get anything wrong.

Interestingly, I checked a few big sites, and while Google doesn’t, Facebook and Amazon both use client-side encryption. Is it just to provide some extra protection for pwned users who have trusted bad certs? I’m no security expert, and I’m struggling to think of any real benefit.

For the JS/CSS thing, I have literally no idea.
In fact, the US says "you can't come" to highly educated would-be immigrants who don't have a STEM designation.
"Because chances are the people who talk too much have no time to think about what they're saying."

Only if you are looking for deep thoughtful comments. Twitter need not be that place. It could be a place to amplify the voices of the oppressed some of which may sound like noise. This kind of voice has never been available through mainstream media like cable or T.V.
The abstract claims 2 orders of magnitude less "negative energy" than Ablucierre Drive. So... it's an improvement ?
The true value in a 3D printer lies in its ability to prototype a something that you cannot readily buy, something that only exists in your head.

Printing out random doodads from Thingiverse is not only wasteful but unfulfilling. You might as well go raid the dollar store toy aisle.

I would recommend spending some time and learning how to use a CAD software. Fusion360 is a popular choice, although with a bit of a learning curve. TinkerCAD is a good browser based option as well, excellent starting point for beginners.
By "Chinese created", most people likely refer to the subtext of a bioweapon.
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When I install Visual Studio.
> Seems unlikely that they're participating in a large scale fabrication like this but it's possible

There is no major military that hasn't participated in large scale fabrications as a concealment technique for their own operations or technological developments. The US military certainly has on multiple occasions.
The only good thing about Charter is:

* No data caps / usage-based pricing

* No termination fees

* No cable modem fees

These three points were a requirement of their merger and expires in May 2023. We need to stop allowing these mergers to happen, they are not good for the consumer in the long term.
Neat! It's definitely crashed right now. I think we hurt it.
We need to get real about how the pandemic will end
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Because we wanted to get ahead of it since our adversaries now have this technology too and it’s not that secret anymore?
As this becomes a bigger topic, I always wonder if there isn't an interesting technological solution to be had. Will there be a time in the future where we have satellite coverage of the globe, that has high-res real-time imagery? Could we attach cameras to Starlink satellites as an example? It seems like there would be a huge market for a service like this from governments and the like.
Big tech Co. deletes/censors half its users then scrambles to update to a freemium model to try and stay afloat.

That'll be $2.99 well-refused.
> Twitter without ads and a true reverse-chron view of the accounts that I follow.

I really expected Mastodon to get more adopted among the regular folks because these features that everybody wants are just the standard for Fediverse instances.
I would guess that the subset of users willing/able to pay for something like this is more valuable to advertisers than the average twitter user.

At this price point I wouldn't be surprised if they would lose money by offering no ads as part of the package.
So says the Bible, right before talking about Noah who goes on to live many centuries, apparently.
So do understanding the role of DNA and understanding it’s chemistry: necessary, but not sufficient.

I think mRNA production will help in quite a few rare genetic diseases, but also that we’re far away from being able to safely make the myriads of subtle changes needed to make otherwise healthy people live longer.

I compare it to heart surgery. It is quite a miracle that we can do it, but the risks are so high that we only do it when people’s hearts have lost significant portion of their pumping capacity. You don’t see cross-country skiers who are just not good enough get heart surgery to make it to the olympics, for example.
Hacker news is social media. Most of your suggestions aren't implemented here. Yet the discourse is generally ok.

The only thing that matters is the size of community. Beyond a certain scale, it always breaks down. Ultimately, the problem is the people.
As someone who argues for the H1b program, I wish the US opts for a points-based system (a la the Canadian system) and make the (current lottery) H1b a 5/10 year temporary green-card based on points.

* Points for education level MS/PhD,

* Salary indexed to COL,

* Job location (Kansas earns higher points vs SF),

* some points for scholarly merit (patents, peer-reviewed publications) and so on...

This would address the some legitimate concerns of US workers, make the process transparent and orderly, but also keep the tech economy rolling. The current system is asinine and needs serious reform.

This is one of the greatest things the US has - immigrant entrepreneurs == entrepreneur^2 - and would be foolish to shut it down.
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We just need to pray harder to the market god, and maybe we’ll get competition?
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There are tools that can help with reducing the amount of working memory you need, but it’s a bit like kerning, in that once you see it you can’t unsee it, and your peers won’t understand why you are upset with their work.
here is an idea: age weighted voting. starting at voting age, give every X years interval Y% votes.

if there is a lot of old people their vote matters less. if there is a whole lot more younger people their vote matters less.

i’m sure this would work great. also sure i’m the first person to have thought about this. /s
“No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed” (Isaiah 65:20 NKJV).

It’s happening just as predicted.
That was years until the Flood.

Had nothing to do with lifespans.

(Biblical characters — contemporary with when the passage was written — were living past 120.)
They still make a fish sauce in Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colatura_di_alici
I don't think so, this is just trying to monetize their most hardcore users beyond the fact that they click more ads.
I still don't think it can be stopped even if Govt wants to. Not denying your points but If it can be stopped it would have stopped by now. I will save this thread, we will came back a decade later to check :)
> lots of people can

Let’s see some links.
also just in - monopolies are bad and eliminate many of the positives in capitalism!
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Which part of 'highly toxic and mostly just produces shitstorms, lynchmobs, perpetually enraged morally superior idiots and professional victims' isn't perfect for monetization?

Mostly kidding, but, well sadly it isn't a joke.
The review is interesting but many people would find the claims that carrying a firearm or not swerving for a chicken are antiquated notions reveal more about the author’s bent than the true state of motoring even today.
But then how are we going to serve you ads
I feel this bug in my bones. I work a lot on WAMI/aerial imagery. I've dealt with this exact problem of timestamp-off-by-one-image. I have 9 cameras with different exposure times all triggered by the same hardware pulse. Fortunately my system is data-collect only so the worst outcome is some wrong filenames.

I learned only way too late in the project that most GigeVision cameras emit timestamps that can be synched using NTP and/or PTP. The camera specs/manual said nothing about this. Only found it by accident looking through the GeniCam XML API.

Moral of the story: ensure your cameras emit timestamps on device. Don't rely on system time.
This week I bought a gardening scissor ( to cut small branches ).

"Main" : modern looking, lots of plastic, maybe had 'advanced' features ( I couldn't imagine what those would be )

Close to € 25.

"House brand" : more or less the same as the main

About € 14

"Basic" or "Budget" : the exactly same scissor I remember my parents had, and everybody had in 70s & 80s.

€ 3,19
>Because chances are the people who talk too much have no time to think about what they're saying

There is a good reason they hid the tweet count, because most of the biggest names on twitter actually have Tweet counts that if you divide them by hours since their join date it would be as high as 0.8 to 1.2 tweets an hour every hour 24 hours a day for 11 years+

Once you learn this it puts those users in a very different perspective and they no longer seem like people you should be listening to.
I downvoted this because the guidelines [1] specifically state "Don't be snarky." There are plenty of outlets for snark. I like HN for thoughtful replies, even when I disagree with them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Ple....
>It’s pretty awful.

Speaking of awful: Something Awful is an example of a paid social club that flourished. It can work. Twitter is a bit large and comes with certain connotations of low-brow behavior (ie the very essence of only using 160 characters to convey a thought), so I'm not confident it will succeed. It'll be interesting to watch what comes out of the paywall though.
This is just the beginning. They could add more features right? Similar to how Amazon Prime began as free 2-day shipping and then added Prime Video and what not.
Ideally it would be $20 a gallon and the related taxes would go into replacing the outdated fossil fuel infrastructure
I've personally taken two properties off of DSL and onto cellular with pretty-respectable service quality. In both cases latency and throughput and cost improved. The competition from wireless is real and getting better all the time.

That said, I think that's often used as an excuse to not invest in wired infrastructure which should be dramatically superior, but often simply isn't.
>We are at the tail end of this thing _because_ we have a vaccination available.

Are you implying naturally gained immunity does not play a role in herd immunity? Is there any data which supports this hypothesis?
Interesting. Personally, I think that ALL powering mechanism should be standardized on laptops.

I would desire that I plug ANY laptop into any plug.

I have five laptops within 10 feet of me in my home right now: A dell, and HP, a MB Pro, (2) S76 Gazelles.

All have different power supplies, which is lame.

I used to typically have multiple chargers at home as well: one in the living room, office and bedroom and one in my backpack. So I didnt have to carry a charger with my everywhere... some of these chargers cost me $90! (Thats what S76 cost.

Also, I think that every power block on a laptop charger should also have a USB port. I have had some chargers in the past that had a USB port on them - and I think that Apple is /r/assholeDesign with all of their charging products (aside from the mag-safe connector, which is my favorite connector type...

chargers and usb cables are such wasteful products. Horrible for the environment, poorly designed, toxic in chemicals etc...

we should have a single charging standard for all laptops regardless of brand.
Isn’t this what Monero is?

Edit: looks like people don’t like that I said this but can anybody explain how Monero isn’t fundamentally identical?
I guess it is still a bit grey area. I guess most people enter the country just as 'tourist'. I'm also not sure what will happen if you have an accident while working time. What will the companys insurance say?
I have a reasonable twitter following (between 5-10k followers) and have recently realized that I needed to remove the app from my phone and only occasionally check it from time to time on a laptop. I'm considering giving it up all together.

I've struggled a bit with this decisions since I've made a fair number of real friends through twitter (people I keep up with in real life after) and come across a lot of interesting books, papers etc.

But I've come to realize that despite its benefits, twitter is ultimately toxic to your mind. I've seen far too many people I care about slowly dissolve into a fever of dopamine fixes as they slowly contort their personality into a stream of memes and rants looking to gain followers.

I always tried to fight the urge to post stupid shit just to grow followers, but anything genuinely nuanced or thoughtful you post will have virtually zero engagement. This is fine in isolation, but it leads all conversations to eventually degrade in to a miasma of garbage thinking that is just a mix of groupthink, rage and memes.

The final straw for me was finding myself angry about the vague opinions of people I don't really care about at all. This same type of thinking is what got me to drop facebook entirely years ago.
Yup. I think, as others like Chris Hedges have noted, individuals in Western society have become increasingly atomized and isolated, likely by design to sell more products and keep people feeling powerless/helpless: we're so close (in physical and online proximity), but so far (ideologically, wisdom, knowledge, and experience).

Instead of lionizing celebrities, money, infamy, or hyper individualism, maybe it would be worth respecting wisdom, mastery, expertise, monetary-agonistic accomplishment, and insightfulness.

The book The Mirror Effect by Dr. Drew comes to mind.
>I guess this is their admission that you cannot monetize engagement if your community is highly toxic and mostly just produces shitstorms, lynchmobs, perpetually enraged morally superior idiots and professional victims.

That's most "engagement" on the internet, lol. Twitter is bad but it's not like all the other social media platforms are that much better. It's just how some people behave socially (anonymous or not, it doesn't seem to matter), at least when they're not meaningfully focusing on some worthwhile goal or pursuit like most of us are here @ HN. And trying to stop it with heavy-handed authoritarian policies only makes it worse as people strive to abuse the policies themselves to troll and gain power over others.
> Also, some cloud providers aload Balancers (AWS) allow you to offer load HTTPS encryption/decryption - so there REALLY IS plain text stuff in the final leg of the journey

At first I thought this must have been what they meant; perhaps there was some configuration thing we got wrong.

So we asked for clarification and nope, the example given was that someone logging in from an office could have their credentials sniffed freely by anyone else on the office LAN.
I don't like the word "replacement" either. If something works, something works. Very often, it took a lot of time to polish the tool. It won't be easy to recreate all of the functionalities - even if using a new technology making it easier to develop software.

At the same time - I see the list as a testament to enthusiasm about Rust. People use it. People try to reimplement things. Also - it is likely that one day one of these reimplementations will take over (due to performance, functionality, or simply - because of being maintained).
Ah, i somehow read the subluminal as superluminal in the abstract and got all excited. But the subluminal restriction makes the paper's findings make more sense.
Yeah exactly, thanks. I think I should've said "and focus on the data structures" instead of "and see the data structures"
> greatest communication platform in the world

Define greatest
I agree. Jeremy definitely has his stance that bleeds through, as much as he tries to say he's undecided, but that's ok. Everyone can have their beliefs and we can respect that. I think Jeremy is also pretty combative and painting himself as "everyone always wants me to be wrong, everyone always attacking me". I haven't yet looked at him being him on his Instagram, so maybe it's true, but I don't think he needs to run that attitude in every interview. Like, George is not attacking him. It's like Jeremy's responding to the "haters in his head," in much of what he says. Which unfortunately I think twists what he says. But hey, everyone has their story, is different and has their past. I think JC is a very cool guy. A dedicated martial artist for a long time, then had an accident/health issue and focused on making films, and then got into this. I think he's a useful guy that people in the programs can use to push out some information, but he won't have legs to be part of the messaging in the long term if he keeps running his mouth the way he does. That's what I think :p ;) xx
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When you watch these reality shows built on the British Baking Show paradigm you can see how hard the contestants are often working to be polite during the mini interviews. Many are clearly thinking “get that camera out of my face and stop interrupting me, asshole!”
Hmm I try to stay on Twitter because it’s friendly and constructive rather than on Facebook. I guess it depends on who you follow. Unlike Facebook (where follows are social for better or worse) Twitter lets you set up a feed of interesting/friendly people and the (social) cost of unfollowing someone is usually zero.
Based on their recent acquisitions of

- Revue (email newsletter service similar to Substack)

- Scroll (subscription that shares revenue with news sites, and removes ads on said sites)

I highly doubt Twitter Blue will solely get you different app/icon colors, they're likely to roll those services into Blue.

This is somewhat similar to the Amazon Prime approach, where you pay for a premium version of a site/service, and get access to a portfolio of services like Prime Video, Music, 2 day shipping, etc.

Their aim seems to be "Twitter Blue is to consumption of online news as Amazon Prime is to shopping/media".

The way I see it, a subscription model = moving away from a system that incentivizes a platform to maximize engagement/ad views, and instead incentivizes the platform to provide a positive experience, so users stay subscribed.