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There is a good reason to do something and there is a real reason.

Coming from Niantic, who is a proponent of AR, it seems like the good reason is to care about building a better reality, but I'm curious if anyone knows enough to comment on their 'real' reason?
> what advantage is gained by having the validator be a deep-space probe

It's a (very!) scarce resource, and therefore if lots of people want it -- like for instance, if it's the base of a "currency" system -- they'll assign a lot of value to it. Just like craptocurrencies[1] get their percieved value from the necessary resource they're based on being scarce. In their case it's "proof of work", i.e. showing that you've squandered fucktons of computing resources on finding some magic number; in Stross' suggestion, it's the fact that space probes are few and hard to reach.

It even has the most famous trait of the Bitcoin algorithm, ever increasing scarcity, built in: with Bitcoin it takes ever longer to mine those magic numbers; in Stross' suggestion, it's the fact that space probes take ever longer to reach as they move away from Earth. (Though, hm, wait a minute: Come to think of it, as long as the probe can get signals, it should be able to reply to it the same number of them, although not in the same time? Replies should arrive back at about the same rate, only with ever longer latency. But maybe he meant that signal attenuation over these literally astronomical distances will slow down comms, Idunno.)

But, anyway: His "Spacecoin" will only have any value if enough people think / trust that it does -- just like craptocurrencies. That's what's so hilarious about those: Their fanbois rant and rave against ordinary currencies and deprecatingly call them "fiat"[2], and never seem to realise that their own nirvana-thing... is just as "fiat" as anything else. ALL currencies are. (Yes, including gold.)

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[1]: Thank you, user "Pigeon": http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/05/because-...

[2]: I wonder, BTW, if the reason they're so in love with using that as a pejorative is partially based on old "folk wisdom" seeing the Italian car brand as atrociously low-quality?
The NSA even pushed NIST into supporting a backdoored curve and bribed RSA to make it default in their software. Look up Dual_EC_DRBG.
>Bringing up owning a junk car is not relevant if there aren’t enough to make that feasible.

All cars go through that phase eventually. It's a simple problem of economic friction. If more people who could afford much nicer drove those kinds of cars more of those cars would be on the market because there would be demand and people would sell stuff private party rather than taking stupidly low trade in values.

> Junk cars do cost more to maintain

More than a car under warranty, sure. If you don't maintain them to "subdivision of McMansions in a good school district" standards they are quite cheap. <Insert pearl clutching and low effort comment about road safety here.>

If you wanna drive junk you have to go all in and really play the part. Driving junk and trying to maintain it like it's not junk is a fools errand. I don't really want to go into specific examples because people will just hand wave it all away as anecdotes but basically if you buy any old running and driving shitbox for $1k, keep all the fluids topped up and changed on some semblance of a schedule and only fix the things that will imminently (like next week) keep the vehicle from operating you'll probably be out no more than the purchase price in a given year. That leaves a hell of a lot of money to buy gas before you even get close to your $5k average number.

To put real numbers to things, a 90s/00s economy car that runs some sort of 14" tire will cost you under $300 to put new tires on. A transmission replacement (which you probably wouldn't do, you'd just get another shitbox) using a medium-low mile junkyard transmission (say $250 used) will likely be under a grand after shop labor (unless you live in a HCOL urban area). A lot of crap has to break to get you to your $1k/yr cost.
I’ll take freedom over a benevolent dictatorship, thanks!
One other thing I do not like about BW (but not enough to switch) is that when you click out of the bitwarden window, it disappears and loses your place so you have to navigate to the secret again. Kind of annoying if you are on a website that resists autofill or want to copy something from custom fields.
The metaverse is yet another thing no-one asked for but something we're still going to get.

It doesn't matter what anyone thinks or says. The higher-ups have decided it's going to happen, the puppets are going to dance and so it will.
Fortunately, you can. He's provided a list of alternate locations for his video. They just aren't YouTube.
> The question is, how much time do you spend on dev environment issues per year?

Definitely not little. But at the same time, I usually learn a lot about how stuff works during that. Which I like to think makes me better at helping other people debug weird shit.
>It’s going to have to be a part of our climate changed future to deter criminals.

How's that strategy working out for deterring murderers and drug dealers?
Whenever a company describes their vision of "the metaverse" (or I guess "reality channels" in this case) it's always exceedingly vague and never really explains in concrete terms what sort of utility or entertainment a person would derive from it.

I guess it's just the latest vehicle to get investors or stockholders excited without needing to rely upon any work or logic beyond the unclear promise of technologies that themselves haven't even been proven out yet. (And this is coming from someone who does think VR is really cool -- with respect to some of the discrete, packaged, and targeted immersive experiences that are already available.)
FPS can have great levels of strategy Quake Arena being a key example.

Map knowledge is a key in shooters along with aim and movement.
There's a whole list of LEAs here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the.... I guess laws that are specific to just one department of the executive branch have to be enforced by the corresponding LEA from that department?
I used to love AWS, now I'm ashamed that I use it professionally.
> The incentives, motivations, goals, costs, and resources for a foreign government fighting on your soil are all very different…

That really doesn’t explain anything at all. It’s another way of saying they aren’t the same in various ways.

> also unconvinced that they're more likely to be used to that end than in service of the precisely the opposite purpose

This is an interesting political idea that bears a lot more elaboration, but seems unconnected in principle to the other point.
So the whole proof is that he was there at the time? Shouldn't there be more proof especially that they are linking him to "all" the fires now?
I think android is a pretty good case study of this not happening (so far). Most people wouldn't bother downloading other app stores, and making your app much more confusing to find for the default experience is a costly endeavour.
Considered by who? Seasoned medical doctors cannot even have discussions amongst themselves on Youtube if their discussion even touches on a few specific areas. Their "misinformation" policy is INSANE on so many levels and it ensures misinformation will thrive for much longer than it otherwise would if they just let experts have honest and open dialogues. It would be a million times better if they at least allowed Medical doctors to have discussions amongst themselves without their draconian restrictions on what naughty phrases they're not allowed to utter.
Three bucks a month?

They just committed suicide.
Except you as an individual consumer have zero - ZERO negotiating power vis a vis whatsapp for example. So if WhatsApp makes you get their app through X, and skips all the protections apple offers - you are not getting them to budget.
I think it's pretty obvious. If you don't provide support when receiving subscriptions people will stop paying.
Cool, thanks for the writeup. Would you be able to suggest any books or other sources for further reading about this?
> We don’t notice this on the web, because Mozilla and Google (!) enforce terms for us (and most desktops don’t have GPS receivers).

I still tend to think the technical steering committees, operating out in the open, have done an unbelievably fantastic job of sticking to mission, of growing a user-centric pro-user web. They've abided by fantastically high standards, been unwaveringly unwilling to accept privacy or security compromises. Microsoft and Safari also exist here, and there are countless interested other small parties trying to enhance the web, to make it stronger, to make it more secure, and because this is happening in public, it is very very hard for even the product owners to take advantage.

The web is also Google's home: they exist because of the web, they existed for a decade having virtually no other presence than the web. The rest of public-facing computing remains locked up, truly & genuinely controlled by corporate titans. Their advantage is to grow a healthy competitor, one that is still diverse & ever more competitive, one that is ever more appealing to the user.

Look at the current fights. Current fights about specs are about a seemingly wild & wacky federalized learning algorithm (most hated by the ad industry above all & media outlets second), and then Apple and Mozilla who wage a campaign decrying how horribly bloody awful it is that there are Ambient Light and Web MIDI specifications, and boo hoo look how terrible & bad things are. There is enormous Fear Uncertainty & Doubt, extreme reactionary-ism happening against the web. But to me: the web appears very well protected; it's interests & citizens are extremely vigilant & vocal about what happens to their cherished public internet medium, and change is slow, well planned, & deliberate (ok so the recent cross-frame alert() getting dropped is an unfortunate but perhaps moderately understanding counterexample of that process & deliberation).

Sunshine really has been an incredible disinfectant.
>>I for one want to hear his expertise, even if it disagrees with the conclusions you've already made.

That's fine. YouTube doesn't want to host it, because in their view it's harmful. What's the problem?
My friend's grandfather worked as a meter reader for the electrical company, and maxed out at $30k/year back in 1990. He retired a millionaire by investing as much as he could and never buying anything on credit, even his house. Most of the growth happened in the electrical company he worked for who's stock didn't grow much, but paid great dividends, which he always turned into new stock purchases.
Between this and the infrastructure bill passing, are U.S. politicians actually starting to do their jobs (aka finding common ground, compromising, and passing meaningful legislation)?
We can disagree with what constitutes an insult. As for the data, I was just showing an example of the beginning of a potential process mining cluster. Alignment from govt, VCs, and Universities leading to academic research and new startups.
The blackouts aren't based on geography, they're based on media markets. A game is blacked out if it can be watched on cable, basically.
> This specific effort's main purpose is to counter ISIS social media recruiting.

I have a feeling these people aren't fighting us simply because of bad information somewhere. I also highly doubt spending $1 billion in this way isn't going to simply harden their resolve or drive them further underground.
Let me get this straight. People who are unqualified will always judge themselves to be qualified, and only people who are actually qualified will judge themselves to be unqualified.

It is never the case that someone finds themselves in a situation where they correctly judge that they're in over their head?
Netflix is fairly comparable to Disney in terms of business model and market cap.

Which isn't bad -- I assume Disney also has a number of highly-paid SWEs -- but for me the difference between FAAMG and Netflix is that (as far as I can tell) Netflix doesn't employee a giant pile of SWEs doing blue sky research / doomed projects only tangentially related to the core business.
I voted in the last general election and I couldn't tell you then or now who was the party leader of the party, that the candidate I voted for, represented.

I am somewhat in the minority on this, though.
Hate speech is not "wrongthink".

Don't defend racists by pretending they are just thinking outside the box.
I stopped sleeping, then I started hallucinating
They were, though now I feel Microsoft is actually a more diversified tech company than the FAANGs. Consumer software and hardware, enterprise software, cloud / Internet, gaming, open source (github, etc.)
I wonder how much of this is money and how much is because of time and inconvenience. A spot without any fee is the baseline for a lot of people. A spot with one of those dedicated meters that's at each space and takes it's own card or change is slightly inconvenient, but not too much. Those lots that have a central place to pay that takes a card are less convenient, but not too egregious. Those lots that require you go find the central box just to have it tell you a lot code, and then you have to go back and find the spot number, just so you can got to a website to enter the information (I hope you have a good memory, or took some pictures) and pay online are the bane of my existence, and I will happily drive around looking for any other option for a minute or two (FWIW, in my minivan most often, but I don't know how much of your perception is BMW assisted ;) ).

On the other hand, if you could just have it auto-deduct from the same account that pays tolls on the bridges in the bay area through license plate recognition with a similar level of "you park and walk away" automation, I think most people would happily just deal with it because of the convenience.
I'm a little surprised that Netflix is going to this amount of effort. I certainly understand why Netflix must take reasonable steps to enforce geo-restrictions. If they buy the rights to Star Trek Discovery for the UK, CBS doesn't want them letting Americans watch Star Trek Discovery when they're trying to sell Americans Star Trek Discovery on another platform. Whether you agree with this or not, if Netflix doesn't comply, they won't get content from third parties.

At the same time, one would think this would be an area where Netflix wouldn't care about a very small number of people bypassing restrictions. They need to be seen to be enforcing the restrictions and they need to actually enforce them to a large extent. I guess I'm puzzled as to why they are going above-and-beyond expectations. Are the expectations that high? Have more VPNs made it easy to get around geo-blocks by using residential IP addresses?

It seems like Netflix is potentially going to end up blocking IP addresses of customers while cutting down on a very small amount of people hopping their geo-fences. It also seems like their content providers would be placated by the pretty decent job they do of banning VPNs.
We don't have data to say that it's not working.
> Tech companies feeling competent to dictate truth is scary.

What's scarier, the fact that tech companies feel competent to dictate truth or the fact that we let them?
> Every other good that we consume with tends to go down in price (indexed to inflation especially when value is considered). Food, clothing, electronics, cars are all much better deals than they were 50 years ago. Housing is the opposite

Those things all get used up, worn out, or obsoleted over time. Land area does none of the above.
this is one of the most retarded things i have ever seen
So don't use other app stores, which I suspect a majority of people won't do. I doubt app developers are going to leave the apple app store in large numbers for some other thing you have to search for and install first (meaning your app also by default won't show up on search at all)
Difficult to hold a job with what is apparently untreated mental illness.
This somewhat sounds like https://mubi.com/ or https://www.criterionchannel.com/?
Whatever applies to engineering applies to the business end of tech as well - I've enjoyed considerable longevity in sales (management) by staying humble initially but displaying very forceful convictions once I've figured out the lay of the land upon joining new roles.

It really pays off to listen and stay open minded before you start enforcing best practices you've picked up from previous experience and assignments.

Give yourself the opportunity to actually feel like an impostor deliberately (if only for a brief period of time)! Really dig into the reasons why things are run a certain way before you propose changes: this will set you up for success and will attract a lot of goodwill.

I know this sounds trivial, but humility is an extremely underrated trait in tech, especially if paired with experience and the power to pull off change for the better.
Or better: support adsbexchange.com instead. They don't introduce the delay that flighttracker24 do and they don't hide military and business jets. They're really non profit.
Given that they apparently couldn't get their setup scripts in order[0] in 13 years I wouldn't get my hopes up.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28145556
youtube auto-identifies music and copyrighted material. It auto-demonetizes (meaning it makes them undiscoverable) a bunch of material from covid related to its favourite flavor of sexual activism, it removes a bunch of stuff after its own moderators review it, it removes another bunch of stuff that other users report, another bunch that various governments' trolls report, and i m sure i m also missing many other cases. Just because they offload a big part of their curation to users doesnt mean it isn't there. In no way can youtube be considered an open forum. There must be a hard threshold above which a platform stops being considered an open forum.

Indeed TV license is not the right word, i mean that they should be legally responsible for the content they broadcast the same way that classic broadcasters are. If not in the US, at least i would expect the rest of the world (which has stricter requirements for broadcast TV) to have done that already.
It will probably work as well as it does for murderers. There's not really a demand for murder so there's not continually new people filling their shoes when they get arrested.

Drug dealers on the other hand will never go away no matter how many you arrest. There will always be more people willing to buy drugs and a new dealer ready to step up and make a profit.
Exactly. Nuance is always missing because making nuanced decisions is hard
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XPath is like SQL, learn it once. Anything you write with Beautifulsoup will not translate to any other language or library.
Why is this better than having hardware on earth?
I'm fairly sure Mr Stross is erudite enough both to have done that on purpose and to not necessarily have meant it the same way Swift did.
It felt like an attempt to convince customers that their ISPs were reporting them to Netflix.
Hi, long-time user, customer, and word-of-mouth recommender of 1Password for the nine years my Hacker News account has been active (give or take a few months). This is a big announcement that I'll have to chew on to understand what this means.

Can you quantify the "needless development churn and hassle for both customers and our support team" in some way? Presumably, 1Password 7 and its ancestors used native macOS APIs, which meant some degree of that given you had to do something different on Windows and/or Linux. I don't know what your support team has had to endure, but as a long-time sample size of 1, I've been incredibly satisfied with the way you've designed and engineered the macOS application (and the iOS app too!) to date; I'd be hopeful that whatever tradeoffs y'all will be making moving to Electron, the "native" feel of the macOS client wouldn't be sacrificed. Is there anything you can speak to there that I should prepare for with 1Password 8?
They want to discredit mask mandates. Pointing out that they won’t work in practice, because people will mostly use these cloth masks that work poorly, is a perfectly legitimate basis for discrediting mask mandates that is also based on the science.

It’s like pointing out that an assault weapons ban won’t meaningfully reduce homicides because the vast majority of homicides are committed using handguns. That’s a perfectly legitimate argument.
Not a fan of VR or AR, personally.
Only slightly related, but how many real "call of the void" situations are really that? Most seem to be retrospective observations. For example, a criminal studying criminology because they like crime. Then when they are caught people suggest they were tempted by their studies, switching the causation.

The only situations I can really think of is more of like "stare long enough into the void and it stares back" where people fight an injustice long enough that they start to justify extreme measures to fight it. For example, like assuming all people accused of a crime are likely guilty so suspending privacy or searching people without cause is fine.
This is not the first time I see this exact pedantry on HN and I can't help but feel the same way as with people who immediately yell "it's not free! Nothing in life is free!" when you talk about free healthcare or free public transportation.

We know. We understand that it is technically correct. But it's completely useless in the discussion. You know perfectly well what the other person meant.
Oh, so what was the implication of your comment meant to be? Why is the government not going to end the pandemic measures anytime soon?
Some of this was done out of greed and political corruption so that developers could build more unaffordable housing for the wealthy - I would say the gp has some merit in their comment.
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No, just read it. That incident had nearby suspicious fire remants. Combined with his unusual behavior and similar car tracks being found at another fire was their basis for further tracking of the alleged arsonist.
What a bunch of gay-tards. Fuck that place.

Ultra super super gay.
Tell me more about his career as a physician specializing in infectious disease.
This whole dog whistle thing is just a way to put whatever interpretation on someone's words you feel like.
When murderers and drug dealers make centuries long and very undesirable changes in the global climate, let me know.
Huh, well this supports my decision to not get into MOBAs.
There would be Airbnb traffic would look different from a VPN.

For an Airbnb you’d have the accounts change frequently but seldom multiple account from the same IP. Whereas a BPN would see the same accounts frequently but with many overlapping accounts from the same IP.

Similarly with hotels you’d see the overlapping of accounts per IP but less regularity of the same accounts.

This feels like one of those problems machine learning could help solve. Though there is a lot you can deduce just from
good old fashioned rules. Eg some IP subnets are going to have a higher probability of hosting a VPN (eg those bought for AWS EC2) vs legitimate traffic over other IP subnets.
>No reviews, no rules? Much easier than the official store. Once you develop your app for the unofficial store, getting it into the official one would be like certifying a Mad Max vehicle at the Californian DMV.

but also not being able to be found by default at all, until your potential users download some other app store. I think android is a good example showing that most people probably will not bother to do that, and apple still has a large advantage, it just evens the playing field a little