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AT&T and the baby bells are not analogous to FB. The analogy is too generous to FB and overstates its importance.

FB is not a medium. It may be a de facto platform for social organisations and advertising, but it's still just an app.

Whilst FB made more money than MySpace and lasted for a longer time, its demise is inevitable for the same reason, and we're seeing the slide occur now.

FB, like AOL and MySpace before it, was fashionable when its feature provided new reach for participants. Sooner or later, these apps reach maximum cachet and after that, they are for "old people".

FB is for old people. And that's not even the worst of its problems.
>Continuing on this tangent, I am 50 and have been exposing my eyes to red light for 3 minutes a day for many months and feel like my night vision has been restored. If I wake up in the middle of the night I used to see gray noise and now I can see darker black with better contrast. But I may be kidding myself.

Maybe you can measure this with some placard on a wall with different shades of black strips (kinda like those old TV calibration screens) where you can see some of the black strips but not others and as time goes on measure if you can improve your visibility into it.

[1]:https://www.audioholics.com/home-theater-calibration/hdtv-ca...

Maybe some other chart like this might work better.
This is a bizarre comment. What does the efficacy of Canada's improvised mixed vaccination "plan" have to do with implementing a dictatorship? And have you noticed how big and poorly connected rural Canada is? It's pretty easy to get out of range of cell towers and effectively not be trackable. How is the Canadian government going to cover the country with enough infrastructure to monitor where every citizen is in a realistic time frame?
Have you considered that toxic workplaces shouldn't exist and should probably be shut down? What makes you think they're entitled to keep their business operating?
What's really needed is a legal requirement for open APIs and federation. The only reason why Facebook is so hard to drop once you've been on it for a while, is because they have your social graph locked in - either everybody switches together, or people get "left behind". If they are forced to interoperate with others, that's no longer an issue - and I suspect that this alone would be enough for healthy competition to shrink them down, without any forcible splitting.
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I prefer it over the old days, where it was "don't join our mailing list".
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The US at the time of those bans and the US now are practically different countries.
Canada's speed of vaccination (in terms of doses per capita) was in line with the EU, even though it was behind the US and the UK. Canada chose to delay second doses and mix and match, most EU countries chose to stick to the manufacturer recommendations. These results show that Canada's choice was a good one.
He and I have had a very close relationship for a very long time. That had a lot to do with him taking me seriously and me willing to spend the time needed to talk with him. While I call it a conversation, it was a lot of conversations over several months. And after many of them he wouldn't talk to me for a few weeks. It really was a process. Without the underlying relationship I suspect one or the other of us would have simply walked away from the other. But that is a hard thing to explain in a short HN post.
"Then I gathered supporting evidence to make the prediction convincing."

Above quote shows the problem with the system. The intention surely is to gather the evidence first, and use that to make the predictions. What he is describing is cherry picking evidence to support his belief. Were I him, I would have left that sentence out.

This is scam driven development. Wonder if everybody there is doing this? Yikes.
>>>but it's likely a direct consequence of the historical conflict in the region.

Yeah, the security situations in the 2 countries are VASTLY different. Lebanon has militant Palestinian refugees[1], Hezbollah, Israel, Syria, Iran, and ISIS-adjacent insurgents [2] all regularly killing each other (or Lebanese government forces) in their territory.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahr_al-Bared_refugee_camp#200...

[2]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-leba...
> There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework.

I know it feels this way but it was in fact a very long time ago. That was 2011-2012ish IIRC
It's 100% Nick Szabo with Hal Finney's help.

There's a non-zero chance that there's an NSA/IC employee who worked with them. Just based on the 1996 NSA paper "How to Make a Mint" and the potential that a government cryptocurrency is the ultimate solution for the inflation problem. Regulated stablecoins and/or a CBDC is the perfect way to disintermediate the banks from the dollar.

Source: speculation but I was around before bitcoin
Quite interesting that the article and the electrospaces.net website cannot be shared on Facebook:

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Myopia progression isn’t related to eye strain or muscle use. Over focusing on the peripheral parts of the retina tells the eye to grow longer because it thinks it’s over focusing, especially in youth. You should wear corrective lenses as little as possible especially if you do work that keeps your peripheral vision in focus like reading or using a screen.
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Delaying the second dose would have saved lives in other countries too. Many countries were in a desperate situation, including the US. People were dying everywhere.

But some countries were too inflexible to do the smart thing, so more people died.
We are all Satoshi Nakamotos.
Have you heard of these new e-Ink PC monitors coming out of China? They seem like a promising niche use case for computing without the eye strain.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Dasung-Paperlike-Front-Light-Touch-Mo...
It's not just WSL. There is "remote-ssh" for vscodium either.
... for some value of "ok", after the horrible redesign some years ago
I think one of the main problems is that when you install git for windows, the default setting is to convert LF to CRLF when checking out code. This can cause a bunch of issues if you later try to work with those files within WSL (especially when doing any git-related stuff). I don't really understand why that's the default, or even why it's presented as an option during installation, it's been ages since I actually had issues reading/editing Unix-style files in Windows.
Duh. I hope this is obvious.
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Every Christmas holidays, I buy all the national and local papers and read them every day. By the end of the holiday period, it reminds me why I don't bother reading newspapers throughout the year.
> Farmers are insistent that low wages are not the reason that meat processing plants are struggling to fill their vacancies. “We are still being represented as a low-pay industry, and we need to put the record straight,” said Tom Bradshaw, vice-president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), adding that meat processing plants are offering wages of up to £18 an hour, but are still unable to attract enough workers.

"Up to £18". That'll be for an experienced, skilled butcher. Starting wage for a factory hand, probably more like £6.
Those were added much later, and were why p 'i never write a line of code i don't have to' g made threads be closed to new comments after a while.
La Roux has been in custody since Satoshi disappeared.
> I still think it was Hal Finney

Finney didn't mix British and American English the way Satoshi did in his writing.

Finney was also an experienced and much better developer[0] than Satoshi[1]

[0] https://github.com/halfinney/bitcoin/commit/dc411b51e0a3cffc...

[1] https://github.com/Maguines/Bitcoin-v0.1/blob/master/bitcoin...
#maths or #math at irc.libera.chat is pretty active.

For CS / Physics, perhaps try asking there too, I usually hang out in #emacs and #vim. #emacs is super active, so if you ask there, you will get good pointers
None of this was really the case though; the Macintosh II shipped in early 1987 and was a fully 32-but system. People get confused about its support for 24-bit addressing, but with the ROM update that came out in 1988 with the introduction of the IIx (which was basically a II with 68030/68882 replacing the 68020/68881/MMU) it could even address up to 128MB of RAM.
For fun, I suggest getting some blue light blocking glasses - only a couple dollars - and wearing them a couple hours before bed.

Before you get in bed, look at a screen / light. Then take them off. For me, it wakes me right up.
That's an anachronism. We made handles be retroactively green only about a year ago, and it wouldn't have been green at the time. But it was morally green. (Edit: a la https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28816050)
Superhires sure works better with interlace and some overscan.

The "Productivity" modes (equivalent to hires+interlace, without the interlace, double line clock instead, are extremely useful, even if you don't have FAST and are thus limited to 2 color for performance.
> ... 99.999999% of the population will tell you they don't give a fuck ...

So only about 100 people on Earth care about internet connectivity in remote places?
> ...full China-style surveillance system tracking system that monitor where every citizen is...

Got any sources indicating that this is in the works?
I’m glad I wasn’t way off the mark.

I’m right in the middle of assessing opportunities so what you wrote is very timely and helpful. Thanks for taking the time to put this out in the world.
The story in the article (Sigurður being sent to prison) only happened two weeks ago.

The link you are posting is a summary of a previous article written by the same authors at Stundin.
1. They aren't implementing a dictatorship - Canada is a parliamentary democracy, they have regular elections.

2. The justification for the tracking system will be that the vaccine isn't good enough to protect people without mandatory vaccinations.

3. Why would there need to be tracking in remote parts of rural Canada? There is basically nobody there. It is rural. How many people do you even know who live outside the range of cell phone towers?
Maybe. I lurked for a long while before creating my account in 2012 so that sounds about right.
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Let's just say Bill Gates is already working on it...
No, we will not. The virus spreads when people are close and breathe. And then there are animal reservoirs.

This virus isn't going anywhere until we develop an actual vaccine that stops it. I, personally, bet on CRISPR-based or similar solution.

Filtering air will slow it down, but it cannot stop it.
Dynamic relocations are a solution in search of a problem. It's entirely possible to write truly position independent code (not the same as -fpic and friends, which just emit relocs). It's entirely possible for compilers to output such code. But GCC does everything in its power to force dynamic relocations in, so that there's additional justification for the dynamic linker.
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Discussed at the time:

How NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8680983 - Dec 2014 (60 comments)
Except they are willing, since fruit pickers and truck drivers were being offered £60k+ even a few weeks ago. So it's just a time lag until all the jobs are filled next.
I agree that the group increases the risk of someone talking.

Would having a spokesperson that knew the identity of group members be a significant risk once this amount of money is involved? It would surely motivate serious threats to the spokesperson and their family?

By the time there was media interest in the identity of Satoshi, what would have been the value of their holding? Even then, whoever it is had to have held to their privacy even in advance of Bitcoin being worth incredible amounts of money.
Perhaps Ken has already had spent 80 hours on a similar problem-solving, so this is why he got a smell of your problem. For you it looks like magic, because you went no same paths.

If you would spend 80 or 800 hours on some topic you will also become an expert "the Ken".
But at some point he had to gain this knowledge in this space, and it wasn't instantly that he might have thought to make a cryptocurrency. He didn't start from birth covering his tracks.
The issue there is, there are also no clear and coherent socio-ethnic borders within the country. Everyone lives mixed in with everyone else (mostly).

When other countries historically have ‘solved’ this problem, it ends up being pretty terrible for the minority groups who either have their land seized when they get displaced or get wholesale slaughtered (see partition when India and Pakistan were formed, Bosnia/Herzegovina and the Balkans War, Rwandan genocide, or the active issues in Israel), and in Lebanon EVERYONE is a minority group [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Lebanon#Reli...].

And if you’re going to say ‘Hey, but Muslims have 60%!’, the current Muslim group
are roughly 50/50 Sunni and Shia, which have similar history as Catholics and Protestants - aka they hate each other and have a history of bloody fights. That means each group is actually smaller than the Christians as a whole (who are more like 35-45%), but also larger than any one Christian Sect (which includes said Catholics and Protestants BTw).

So for the most part since no one has enough of a majority to assert who belongs where (and it certainly isn’t obvious to everyone else either) or who would be naturally ‘in charge’, it’s endless jockeying for position, extremist recruiting within their groups, corruption to benefit their minority group and screw over the others behind everyone’s back, and the occasional terrorist bombing.

Fun times eh?
Here are some resources:

1. The Lexham English Bible is a hyper-literal translation from 2010 that allows free non-commercial use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexham_English_Bible

2. The KJV is of course out of copyright. The KJV 1900 is quite good. https://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/john/1

3. The Berean Study Bible contains an English translation together with morphology under a permissive license, but not as permissive as LEB. https://berean.bible/terms.htm

4. You can find Hebrew morphology online at the openscriptures project. https://hb.openscriptures.org The license for morphology data is Creative Commons 4 but the scripture text is public domain

5. You can find Greek texts with morphology at the Society of Biblical Literature, which allows free non-commercial use of their greek new testmanent (sblgnt) https://sblgnt.com
SBL also publishes many of the most widely used greek and hebrew fonts and many ancient manuscripts (https://www.sbl-site.org)

6. You can find copies of many greek new testament manuscripts and a free apparatus online at https://greeknewtestament.net
Thank you for taking the time to explain your thinking to me.
Sometimes I can be thickheaded!
It's been leaking for some time...not sure how CNN linked in the manufactured container ship issue...sheesh.
I like the utility of small scraps of paper with custom printed designs on them. Tangible todo lists etc have a sense of existence that is quite different to pixels on a screen.

That said, don't these printers use the same rolls of thermal paper that leaks Bisphenol A (BPA) like all the other cash register/credit card receipt printers?

I'm assuming the levels are low but if youre using them daily maybe the levels aren't low anymore. On the other hand, people who issue CC receipts are also routinely handling these as well.

I wonder if there are recent studies around this.
> a16z is heavily invested in crypto.

This is clearly a solution in search of a problem.
Exactly; don’t.
More than our allotment.
Out of the three vaccines in use in both Canada and Europe, it appears that Canada entered agreements as follows:

Moderna: August 5th, 2020 [1]
Pfizer: August 5th, 2020 [1]
AstraZeneca: September 25th, 2020 [2]

Europe entered agreements as follows:

Moderna: November 25th, 2020 [3]
Pfizer: November 11th, 2020 [4]
AstraZeneca: August 27th, 2020 [5]

I couldn't immediately find data on the quantities ordered, but this doesn't seem to support the claim that Canada was slow in placing orders?

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-develop...

[2] https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2020/09/25/new-agreem...

[3] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...

[4] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...

[5] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...
I agree; I don't like that either. My own projects are using the IRC and NNTP instead, and I will not add Discord despite anyone else's suggestions (although there is a Matrix to bridge with the IRC). (Currently there isn't anyone else on; I have been told that it is because I do not publish binaries, but I don't know.)
Curious if they can also tap encrypted content? Maybe for high interest targets a certain amount of cracking power can be directed to it?
It’s a positive feedback loop. Introduce people to outrage. Spur them into “action” where they create more “outrage content” (comments, posts, … etc.) for you in return for attention and praise (Likes, upvotes, … etc.). Outrage content grows exponentially like the spread of an infectious disease or a nuclear chain reaction … as does the “engagement” of the site. The job of the site is just to get the outrage content in front of the viewers and keep the chain reaction going.

Basically the modern version of riling up a lynch mob … for profit.

To some extend, all social media use this feedback loop, even this site.

P.S. Yes, I realize the irony of this comment.
It is insane to me that git doesn't checkout/in as-is by default on Windows.
Very timely with the announcement of making your older hardware obsolete, Microsoft has also announced their commitment "Right To Repair" to "[...] end up ahead of the curve when it comes to reducing its products’ impact on e-waste and emissions".

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/7/22715241/microsoft-as-you...
What ever happened to the interplanetary highway idea?
In addition to the sibling commenter: AdMob SDK had support for ultrasonic data exchange for a while now, and it's heavily used in Europe while TV ads are running.

Safeguarding your phone from network communication wouldn't be enough, as you would have to prevent audio communication as well - which kinda defeats the purpose of it being a phone.

I'd recommend to use LineageOS or Graphene on any Android smartphone. Use RethinkDNS [1] as firewall and AppWarden [2] to identify spyware.

You can also double check the reports page of the exodus prvcy project [3].

[1] https://rethinkdns.com/

[2] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden/-/releases

[3] https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
There was a typo, with->without
> it’s even legitimately necessary

I do not believe that your morals and mine are compatible.
spot on, imo
Maybe something’s up with my phone (iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 15.0.1, Safari), but this is the second old.reddit.com link that I’ve clicked due to the main link being “broken” without the app, only for the old.reddit.com link to play a black video with sound.

I don’t see other reports, which is why I’m assuming it’s just me. But maybe somebody knows what’s going on.
Well they didn’t lie then when they said “nothing will change after the acquisition”.
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Not out of VAT though. They are deductible from your income, which is how you come up with how much profit you made (which is taxed).

With VAT, you can deduct from it all the other VAT that you paid. E.g. you bill someone 100 + 10% VAT for a total bill of 110. You receive 110. You are now supposed to pay that 10 VAT to the government. But before you pay it, you can subtract the VAT that you paid in the last month, so if you bought, say, scissors, that had a VAT of 2, and a pencil, with a VAT of 1, you have to pay a total VAT of 7 back to the government.
In most discussions around the decentralized apps of the future I fail to get any good answers who is actually paying for the compute power and who is maintaining it.

In short: who is paying for the Ramen?

Let's take a multi-user chatting app. The compute power necessary to serve 1000 users is X.
Running this costs us $Y.
Now we distribute this app, having the same features, I now need to spend X plus the overhead of storing data on-chain plus - likely - extra network hops since my users form a peer2peer network of sorts amounting to $Z.

So now the cost is $Y + $Z: Who is paying for that?
I don't necessarily see something wrong with having one for a project that follows the code of conduct, but a) making it the only means isn't acceptable and I'd argue b) bridging to Discord is possibly more harmful since it can implicitly be sending data where ToS cannot be declined by community members.
You and other commenters have mentioned Google, Facebook, and other silos, and I think your point is well taken. But nobody talks about another giant villain responsible for a pernicious centralization of information and partly responsible for the withering of the decentralized web of individual sites, and the individual responsibility that went with them: Wikipedia.
Most hackers I know write software for pretty much any other OS because of how much easier it is than writing software for Windows, not because they're uppity. Some may be ideological purists, sure, but I think you'd be very hard pressed to find a hacker that says the developer experience on Windows is easier/nicer/better than the developer experience on Linux or MacOS.
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Hi, I live in Lebanon

We're still getting electricity from the privately owned generators.
The main grid has always had shortage, it never provided 24/7,
the reliance has always been on the privately owned generators.

Due to the severe fuel shortages since the beginning of the year, the main grid provided very little hours, less than 2 hours per day in many cases.

The privately owned generators haven't been able to keep up either, we're getting power cuts for several hours during the day, every day. And the fees are increasing.

Here's a rundown of the current situation

- fuel is rare, queues at stations are horrible, it takes up to 6 hours to get some, violence and accidents there has killed many people

- fuel prices have increased 4x since the beginning of this year

- currency inflation from $1 = 1,500 LBP to $1=19,000 since late 2019, max reached 23,000, could reach more
>> Canada dragged its heels on pre-ordering vaccines.

No. Canada made some bad bets on where they would be getting vaccine. Canada assumed that a particular person would still be in the white house and that early US vaccines would not be available for export. So Canada threw in largely with European suppliers. That gamble was wrong. The certain person lost and US vaccination rates were lower then expected. US vaccines were available for export earlier than predicted. Canada had not pre-ordered sufficient US vaccines. A mistake? Yes, but still a reasonable judgement call given the US political situation at the time.
Just like Android telling me "you haven't used these apps in a while, let's remove them" while the apps are of the use-once-a-year or emergency kind of software.
If the elected officials & appointees actually cared for something like this, it would have existed already.

Ultimately, the problem is that the "res publica" is not actually for the public. The whole premise that a single person can meaningfully "represent" millions is so laughable, I don't know why we keep pretending it's actually democratic.