skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media payment systems work best with a clear transactional boundary and gatekeeper. Bundling models are vastly more successful than unbundling ones.

In a tax-supported scheme, the tax collector serves that role. In a ticketbox, it's the literal gate or door itself. For advertising-supported media, it's the publisher or broadcaster, gatekeeping in a three-way branch between advertisers, creators/talent, and audience (similarly, cable providers). In donor-based broadcasting, the broadcaster intermediates between individual donors and content producers.

As an alternative to a governmental progressive-tax-based system, a natural gateway exists at the ISP level, for which a sufficiently effective gating, revenue-collection, and content-payment system might work. I'd outlined that about three months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893033

There are access-based royalty systems such as ASCAP / Harry Fox, though my sense is that for more substantial text-based content (similarly: data-backed reporting, deep analysis, and probably a fair bit of serial media of the video or podcast variety), linking payment to publishers or studios, who can support a staff of creators (writers, artists, actors, directors, support personnel) would be preferred to the music/broadcast model.

Your problem is you're trying to dam a flat plain. You need to find a suitable dam site, and it's probably the ISPs. On the other hand, they're going to need systems for that service: content negotiation, payment collection, royalties or subscription payments, etc.

The distinction my model has from a traditional micropayments or subscription model is that the provision level is universal. A service subscriber pays in a flat fee, they get an all-you-can-eat plan. The payment differentiation is between the aggregator and the creating studio (somewhat similar to current cable subscriptions).

Note that total OECD content spend is roughly $100/capita. Advertising runs many times that, at ~%$600 billion for the 1 billion inhabitants of the OECD, about $600/capita. "Free online content" costs the average household of 4 over $2,400 a year.
The executive described here is clearly a psychopath/narcissist.
I've known developers like that in their 20s. They get comfortable in their niche and have been doing it that way for so long they resist anything different.

Be wary. This can happen to us all.
The total of those two tables is dwarfed by the next table: cancelled projects.
Again, at the last moment, your primitive brain will disagree. Better make sure you can't back out heh.
After all, now that the NSA has all their spy networks set up they don’t need the tech companies to do the spying anymore. Time to crack down.

Makes me think of an abusive relationship where the abuser is very jealous and protective of the abused.

“If anyone spies on my citizens, it’s gonna be me!”
UY Scuti
"Universe Size Comparison 3D"

https://youtu.be/i93Z7zljQ7I
Isn't that exactly the reason they should be attacked?
> The owners won't get money from people who pirated content once they make their content available again.

1. Their own fault

2. It has been proven, time and again, that piracy goes down, significantly, once content is available.

So they will get their money even from people who pirated this content previously. Why? Because it's much easier to just pay Netflix and watch or re-watch.

> The only people responsible for pirating SG1 are the pirates. The owners of SG1 don't owe anything to Netflix viewers and they certainly didn't force the hands of anybody to pirate their content.

Ah yes. The poor owners who didn't anything at all and now are suffering. Except they did: they made their own content unavailable.

The person was willingly giving them money, legally. The owners made their content unavailable. Guess they didn't want money after all.

Edit. Oatmeal's evergreen take on this: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
I hope it’s real. We need modern anti trust laws, big tech is out of control. You’re right though.. sadly. Most importantly, we need to get money out of politics to free our government from the grips of these corporate conglomerates.
> And to put the nail in big tech's coffin, congress should pass a law forbidding the sharing of any personal information on any resident of the US for any commercial reason whatsoever.

At this point, a huge number (majority?) of Facebook et al users know what Facebook are doing. They value their own data less than Facebook do and are happy to trade it in return for free social media service. You may not like it, but free people should be able to engage in a transaction if it’s not infringing on other peoples’ rights.

I’m not sure why you would know what’s better for them than they would.
Atbash
Asking as a person who understands the fundamentals of all of the technologies involved but is horrified by much of what goes on in the minds of today's web developers and designers, what motivates the decision to make this repo use make, docker, yarn, npx, nginx, react, and jest rather than a bit of static HTML and css and something like qrjs2.js or VanillaQR.js with a simple canvas or datauri update in onInput?
When there is good public transportation the need for cars will decrease. Also when buildings increase in density, public transportation will become more profitable.

South Korea is a fine example where this worked. The cities are very compact but have excellent public transport. It will be difficult to achieve something similar in the US.
I wonder if they've done anything to rule out psychosomatic causes.

Pure conjecture here, but I wonder if it's something tied to their circadian rhythm and melatonin production (a hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles). In the normal case, the body creates melatonin naturally and its tied to light and circadian rhythm. I can imagine a case where their genetics are such that instead of a slowly ramping production that normally happens, they get a sudden spike? This would also explain why their timings change as daylight hours do as our body's sleep-wake cycles are affected by daylight hours.

Again, pure conjecture, but an interesting case nonetheless.
Do you mean they use the NFC tag or manually enter the username / password, or just that no one uses any of it?
SNAFU. Go to sleep before you do something that effs it up beyond all return.

On Monday, before you serve yourself up as toast, have a triple shot latte and take a long look at the hollow-eyed face in the mirror. Why is this person about to be spanked? Probably because this is a situation you have landed him/her in.

When someone (most times a moron in at least one respect) asks/tells you to do something, the proper response is not 'Yessir, I will do this or die trying because I am the best of the best of the best, sir!'

No, it is 'Why?! What EXACTLY is required? No, I mean EXACTLY!!! When do you want it? You know that I have this to do? And I have not taken leave for two years? Who is supporting me on this? You do know that it could need double that number of people?' Etc. And report every day about how crap your life is and that you are overworked and underpaid and saddled with unrealistic expectations.

Weirdly, this type of response a) builds respect from your seniors (particularly if you flag up all the failings in their thought processes); b) is ultimately more likely to get you promoted; c) means you will not get kicked like a beachball inch by inch to an early grave of overwork and slave labour.

Not everyone you will work with is a complete idiot, a narcissistic egomaniac or a psychopath, but until they have proven themselves to be otherwise it may be safest to assume that they are.
I feel there is nothing the government is going to do about that. This doesn't mean that I throw up my hands and say, OK, I'll let everyone have all of my communications logs since the government has them.
I just can't imagine why all threaded forums aren't structured like HN (and lobste.rs). For the life of me, neither slashdot nor reddit has ever made any sense to me. Everything else, less so.

The flat (non-threaded) forums have their place. For low traffic, low engagement blog comments feedback stuff.
Buy a print newspaper then.
uMatrix kind of does this. Once you forbid everything, requests will get filtered out.

I'm not sure if this affects service workers though.
No. DevOps will stay and there will be SREs as well and there will be a hybrid of this combination as well

DevOps actually didn't break the barriers at all. It just created more roles inbetween Developers, testers and operations and brought in more tools. So people in operations are asked to use the Devops tools as organization has already bought it.
At the end of the world, the climate will not care how many goods you moved.
Ah yes. As soon as, you know, the pandemic is over. And when, you know, I'm in New York. And in time for the exhibition. And have the time to visit the exhibition.
Cool! I might have experienced this before and mistook it for floaters. Thanks for the new knowledge.
While I detest bias in all media (Fox included but in no way do they have a monopoly on)…

Are you saying Hunter Biden (the son of, not just “a person related to”) hasn’t recently sold his artwork for $500,000 a pop to anonymous buyers?
Smithsonian Open Access – use millions of the Smithsonian’s images freely
This is by no means something I know much about, but I understood that disconnecting a panel causes it to heat up from sunlight to the point that it can reduce its useful lifespan.
Went looking for conclusions and found that:

>After nine months of compiling data, they found that China’s Great Firewall currently blocks around 311,000 domains, with 270,000 blocks working as intended, while 41,000 domains appear to have been blocked by accident.

and

>the research team said that the most blocked domains usually hosted business-related content, followed by domains hosting pornography, and then domains dedicated to information technology (IT).

Source: https://therecord.media/chinas-great-firewall-is-blocking-ar...
Allow 2-column format
"built on NT Technology" :)
At this point this is probably on page 21 of HN, making my comment somewhat pointless, but I have an itch to scratch.

As someone with ties to the region, I am always slightly confused by these articles because they are mostly an echo of the past. There is not much new here. You can place it at any point in the last 20 years and it would for the most part be valid. There's a lot going on in the world and I understand people don't have the attention span for all the details of the globe, but they don't even need to have. As a German newspaper, Spiegel could take a look at Germany's role, or even the EU's in what happened there. There are interesting topics even today, e.g. what is Gerhard Schröder doing there now and what was his role 20 years ago? As it is now, it's mostly just a stereotypical report that riles people up and kind of ends up amplifying those stereotypes. The article could be about some islands in the Pacific, but that's not true if you are a German newspaper!

The article touches upon some interesting developments related to the EU, e.g. that it's unfortunately not really a solution as it's mostly resulted in people leaving, but it lacks focus in general, and it holds no critical views. Another interesting angle could've been the conflicts that have been brewing internally for decades now that there are clearly separated nation states, and the enemies are for the most part behind clearly defined borders.

And lastly it could take an optimistic view that surely exists if for no other reason than that I'm an optimist, and I'm not alone. Not all people had severed ties completely even during the darkest times, and it's been a long time since. It's time for new perspectives.
Here's an article from the NYT about how they are trying to ethically sell Hunter Biden's artwork. "Ethically sell" was a term I chose specifically because Hunter Biden is not an artist, and the question of why his paintings are being sold for half a million dollars and to whom is substance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

Edit: Anyone can be an artist of course. Selling artwork for such a price would be quite an artist.
I think so. Why do you think we farm? For fun or to feed the population?
I actually agree with this, it is an abusive relationship. Only the abuser has a gun to your head so there's nothing you can do about it.
Only slightly tongue in cheek: Removing the ability to save workbooks would still allow people use excel where it shines while not allowing people and organizations shoot themselves in foot by using subpar processes for anything you actually need to be confident about.
Some is better than none.
> organized crime can be terrifyingly intelligent and resourceful. As another commenter mentioned, some of the Mexican cartels have their own IT departments and private cell providers

What is that based on? If they are so smart, why are they in a business where they're risking their lives, living under constant legal threat, and ruining the lives of millions of others? Lots of people get very wealthy without those risks, such as many in the Bay Area? Who is smarter?

Having your own IT department isn't a sign of genius.
> Of course, the buyer can just show them a picture of the painting in their house or whatever but that would be unethical.

Unethical, yes…something which a good chunk of society have no qualms with, especially those in the business of bribing politicians.
100%; and doing this correctly has the critical property of not causing your entire social circle to get destroyed because you decide you need to switch jobs for the good of your career.
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It doesn't guarantee it, but it sure helps! Thew world isn't perfectly just, but there is justice. It depends on you and me - are we making our immediate world more just?
But... we are, because we can pirate it if it's not available to us.

I suppose "entitled" isn't the correct word. Is there a word for "That's just the way it is"?

Basically, there exists a way to acquire entertainment. It's up to businesses to provide that entertainment to us at a reasonable market value. If the market value exceeds the threshold of reasonableness, then we downshift into torrenting the entertainment.

It's a business opportunity. The music industry learned this in 2008 or so.
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Your original reply was to this, and I'm commenting in this context:

> What are we talking about as far as going into space? This craft resembles a passenger plane more than a rocket.

Whatever plans they may have for international flights, they seem unrelated to the craft we saw today - the proposed design in the article you linked is for a new "conventional" supersonic plane, not going to orbit and back à la Starship with SpaceShipTwo.

Also, I thought Virgin Galactic was founded specifically with space tourism in mind, not transportation?
I agree. I heard good arguments in support of a lab leak origin but almost none from the other side. In fact, the latter just seemed to agree with most of the things the former was saying.
Developer experience? Learning project? For fun?

If the maintainer is comfortable using that technology, let it be. No need to rain fire on it.
I have no idea what you are trying to say. Were you talking about shipping molten salt using railroads from texas to singapore "at scale", because I'm not super convinced that would work.
Well they have to pay these salaries somehow
https://nonprofitlight.com/ca/stanford/stanford-health-care
We must free ourselves from censorship.
"Hearing aids cost thousands of dollars apiece, for no other reason than there is a cartel established by government that prevents firms from selling hearing aids without a prescription."

An example of how many (most?) monopolies are able to exist because of some sort of legal authorization or protection. Regulatory capture.

There are dozens of companies who would no doubt start making inexpensive hearing aids tomorrow. Absent government regulation, they already would be.
Did you miss this sentence at the top of the article?

> The imaginary all-staff memo of a highly paid CEO driven to distraction by his empty office

In any case, your conclusion is correct, in the fashion that a judgement on the ethics of Scrooge McDuck is correct.
I would rather ask for geographical and cultural diversity (irrespective of topic/field) to such a forum, or even HN.
I am trying to imagine the reaction an artist or musician would get to "Show HN: here is some art I do" and it is at least 50% "what is this doing here, HN is for programmer/startup stuff". I am pretty sure the HN for X, where X is "art" or "music", is not HN.

I am also finding myself tempted to do exactly this with regards to the graphic novel I drew a few years back, just to see how badly it performs.
The mental gymnastics needed to market Bitcoin are becoming more and more absurd.

Not sure how to convince maximalists that non-believers _actually_ do understand Bitcoin—they just don’t see any practical uses for it other than funny money.

Also, it’s kind of ironic that any anti-btc sentiment is seen as snarky, yet these awkward psychobabble think pieces are fair game. Oh well.
Cement curing only absorbs about 30% of the CO2 released.

The cement doesn't turn 100% back into calcium carbonate. Only the surface of the grains get exposed to the water and CO2 necessary to cure.
As I understand it from reputable reporting, all such sales are hypothetical.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/deal-of-the-art-whit...
You might enjoy The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile https://blog.mindlessness.life/2019/11/17/the-language-agnos...
This is already happening. Even existing employees who moved to a lower cost area during the pandemic have seen their salary cut at many employers.
Couldn't agree more. There are many interactions in how layout is calculated that become frustrating. I'm back to Hugo and CSS

My #1 is when you forget to change the current screen size, make a change, and now you have to hunt down why one screen resolution has one color and the smaller ones have a different.

It's definitely bloated and not suitable for any mildly complex websites. All "low-code" tools ends up that way it seems. My hunch is that the disconnect with developers reduces the market (of companies) which can use this and it ends up being citizen devs as the primary user.
Like with most things related to technology, they have no choice :). People can only choose from what's available on the market.
I'm usually reading the 'high quality' publications, but USA Today in the past (I haven't read it in years) had coverage the others lacked. They were (are?) a serious paper. They are also more succinct, which isn't a bad thing - many NYT articles could be shorter.
> motion detection that doesn't actually require decoding the packets but rather looks at the motion vectors to estimate motion.

There's a very cool package for the Raspberry Pi that does this: https://github.com/billw2/pikrellcam
The ISPs have been getting hit in this series of orders.

That said, yes, fintech and banking are conspicuously absent. Which kind of lets you know that they are just too powerful.
I just generate a QR code for my wifi login using libreoffice writer.

Edit: just use the built in QR code generator with a string in this format.

WIFI:T:WPA;S:$SSID;P:$PASSWORD
I'd once seen a show about a murderer in the UK that was caught partially due to his use of yellow cable ties that were exclusive to the Royal Mail.

A bit of Googling shows it came from the murder of Leanne Tiernan. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2116617.stm
Eh fair enough, I'm not satisfied with either side. Too bad either of us will ever know.

Do you have any good reading on the idea your postulating?

"A being that creates time has its own additional problems besides.. such as how could there be anything before time? What does that even mean?"

I can't answer. I have to go back to there being some all powerful god that had the power to create everything, so he has the power to transcend time. Or God could be an instantaneous and motionless creator, and could have created the world without preceding it in time.
How many drywall screws? How corrosion resistant must they be for any given environment? Why screws rather than adhesive or nails?
Honestly, I like Chomsky a lot, but I think this quote reveals more about Chomsky than about newspapers. Or, he was describing a very different WP from the one that exists today.
And there are massive bugs in programs that use these tools like the Linux kernel still.
No. In what world does buying setting from an adult relative consist of a donation?

And if a foreign government overpaying for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hotel stays in properties owned by the politician is not considered a donation, I can't imagine anyone thinking the painting thing would be.
It is infringing other's peoples rights. Shadow profiles are and even if you paid for subscriptions everywhere in the net, you could not get away untracked and being targeted for ads you neither want nor need.
Of course it was, also see “value based care”. It’s all bullshit.

Hospitals have zero incentive to be transparent, and all the incentives to be opaque. So long as you’re a non-Medicare/Medicaid patient you’ll continue to suffer.

The American healthcare system is completely fucked (there’s no better word).
And people say crypto is bad. Sad world we live in.
I think I understand the argument well, but I don’t see that there is much room for an ‘evil’ upon we could all agree given the observational reality we find ourselves in.

Leaving aside the religious matter of a higher power, I think it’s safe to say that evil in the general context means something more than merely undesirable; perhaps intrinsically wrong from all possible rational observers or something like that.

Finding that biological systems have desirable or undesirable situations and that they having higher order communication systems can agree on a set of shared undesirable outcomes still doesn’t quite get to that concept of evil does it? If not, then I think we can agree that hurricanes are bad for us in general, but not exactly evil unless there is some unobservable force acting upon us which sounds a bit like magic to me.
Big pharma is significantly less of a problem than the physician and hospital cartels.

I have no idea why these groups have survived scrutiny for their literal multi-hundred million dollar lobbying/bribery of politicians.

My closest guess is that we all know "My" physician or a well paid nurse that benefits from the bribery.
I don't get this comment. Not everyone can be a musician and if you want to go further in music like theory of the music it requires a good part of intellectualism