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> One way is to build your software on top of distributed/content-addressed P2P software (not Blockchain, but pure P2P). The angle of attack disappears completely then.

I can see how this works for some applications, but how would this work for SMTP and IMAP/JMAP?
Appropriate that a story about RSS is at the top of HN right now then
RSS is good because it removes people and behaviour, not because it attracts people.

Benefits of RSS:

+ Removing people who only read and discuss titles.

+ Removing reactionary first comments.

+ Removing posts that try to engage.

+ Removing people who come clicking trough Fb and Twitter.
New reddit has been going downhill for quite some time. Every day I see reddit push their tracker-filled mobile app on me more and more to the point where the website is almost unusable.
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This is one such an approach: https://www.concordia-h2020.eu/blog-post/setting-up-a-nation...
Just a reminder.

Medical consent is your right. And you have the right to say no.

Anyone using fear and negativity is no better than a sleazy pick up artist.
Love the ingenuity, but isn’t needing to develop new technologies to overcome a severe trade imbalance just ignoring the larger problem of why there is such lopsided trade? It can’t be healthy or long-term sustainable for the US to basically stop manufacturing, can it?
One thing that is stable is marking a function as cold which usually has the effect of marking the calling basic block as unlikely.
This is not what apple suggested.
Apple suggested preemptively notifying government of "illegal" material in a users device.
This is about facilitating an ongoing specific investigation after a car accident.
> "Download the latest version."

Yeah, and if you're running something like Debian 11, CentOS or Ubuntu LTS the answer will be, "Go compile the latest kernel".
It means prioritizing working over one's non-work life, i.e., ignoring the "balance" in "work-life balance" in favor of doing work for someone else.
So, when do we see some real fines for this type of behavior? I’m a shareholder of both companies (through index funds) but I want to see a Treaty of Versailles level punishment for both companies that pushes them to the brink of bankruptcy and incentivizes their management and board to actively police monopolistic behavior. I’m talking high 11 or 12 figures.
Which new context menu is that?
Thanks for your response -- I think you're probably right, but alot of JS's slowness seems to just be all the junk a typical page needs to pull in via HTTPS for all the ads, frameworks and what not. Also videos that autostart themselves, obnoxious pop-ups that take your full screen up after you scroll 20% into an article, etc. That's not necessarily JS's fault. Also algorithms wouldn't help there. :p
Just a friendly observation from a third party that this particular thread has in fact gone meta about HN, commenter behavior, and the site rules. Which are pretty clear.

I wonder if it may be the case that these rules have good reason to exist, and if so, then the discussion you are looking for seems to have happened at least once before, a long time ago.
Just to add a data point, I had trouble accessing fastmail early this morning (around 7 EDT). I haven't had any issues since then.
I was typing a comment and then got "You broke Reddit" when I tried to submit.

Edit: It's back for me.
I had a normal size cassette player built into my Commodore PET 2001 back in 1977/78. Tape speeds are slow, but then again most of my programs were under 100 lines with some outliers at 250 to 350. Not a lot even for a cassette drive. Nostalgia of having to hit 'Play' button to load the program!
I was debugging my apps monstrous memory leak. It took me quite a while to figure out that ‘useMemo’ was sneakily responsible for it. Currently the way this hook works is that it will hold references to all the objects that go through it. In most cases these objects are pretty small and trivially contribute to a leak, but in my case I was saving a giant class instance which was causing significant memory usage.

Just wanted to share this on how the simple looking hooks can hide some really hard to find bugs.
They play local ads? Google lets you advertise in an area, you see them in Google, in youtube, in facebook etc. And since these companies has much stronger local brand recognition than the American giants they win out in the local markets.

Also advertisements is more than just spending money, you need to mesh with the local culture as well. An American multinational doesn't really mesh well with most people and people reject their marketing, while local companies understand much better what the local people wants. In theory the giants could just hire locals, but in practice that has been really hard for them to do, as we can see every country has their own grocery store chains, brands etc.
But.. why? Am I out of touch to not see the humor here? Annoying the people who you intend to read your posts?
> That cookie banner is mostly corporations trying to be sneaky and trying to trick people into giving consent, or just flat-out misunderstanding the regulation.

If the cookie banner satisfies the regulations and is the path of least resistance, then companies are going to use it.

If the EU doesn’t want the cookie banner everywhere then the regulations need to not allow it.

It is much, much easier to put a banner up than to audit every application and technology used to ensure nothing tracks the user.
They may have a right to do so, but given the importance of social media this gives those companies immense power. For right-wing Americans, simply shrugging off blatant targeting like this is politically suicidal. At this point, their only recourse is to use government power to push back, so we shouldn't be surprised if moves like this push red Americans further from libertarianism into more authoritarian views of government. To not do so is untenable.
I would like to argue that point by saying these 100,000 are not separated in 100,000 vaccinated and 100,000 unvaccinated, but I am not sure.

Anyway: in Germany the numbers are: 4 times more probable for the unvaccinated. I all depends on how people protect themselves, and that is the reason for vaccination passes: less infections, much less symptoms, much much less hospitalisations, almost no deaths in otherwise healthy people under 80 = no lockdowns.
>deeply immoral, and continues to do what Facebook does for power and money

I have to say in interviews he doesn't really come over that way
They stated it operates at room temp so I am assuming that one could in fact pipe in CO2 from factory stacks once some processing of cooling the CO2 from the factory stacks has been implemented.

Give you an idea. Gen plant burning natural gas produces CO2, use some of gen electric to cool the emitted CO2 down then mine the result battery artifacts
That it does not even qualify as “info”…
A single instance is one thing.

A persistant clear inflammatory bias not so much.

Shit smells, there's no need to taste it.

The submission itself is generic disinformational flamebait.
Something like UBF might be interesting to you: https://ubf.github.io/ubf/
I guess that's another aspect that differs from what I heard, then. I don't think it's normal for customers to share their real identity or be required to do so.
> Why don't these companies just offer a paid version of their products?

Youtube is a great example of that. I see post after post of people here bragging about using ad blockers on Youtube -- rather than pay. Nevermind that the creators on Youtube get screwed by this behavior. Most people on HN can afford to pay the monthly fee (easily!) But somehow they think ad blocking is more "moral".

It's ads or subscription fees or all these services go away. Pick one.
P2P networks are on other hand very susceptible to spam attack.

You haven't seen Gnutella in its glory days.
"I've seen estimates that a panel in space around Earth can generate ~7 times the power it can on Earth"

Contrast it with the fact that that panel is 1,000x more expensive, and thats a net loss. We are constrained by capital cost, not lack of sunlight or anything else.

Also consider transmission losses, orbital solar collectors must convert that power into microwaves, which are made of photons, then they must be converted back into electrons on earth. That inefficiency is compounded by atmospheric water absorbing microwaves. (you are heating clouds) You have destroyed that 7x advantage.

If you can place a panel in orbit and deliver power to Earth, then you can put a million panels in Sahara Desert and relay that power anywhere on Earth. Solar panels are made of sand, we are not short on sand. If we covered 1% of uninhabitable deserts in panels, thay would produce more power than we could use, and it would be reliable.
Windows 7 has long been unsupported, Windows 8.1 support has recently been dropped by most OEMs as well since Microsoft has deprecated Windows 8.1 earlier than expected.

Four years ago anything you bought was fully supported by Windows 7 and 8.1 aside from lazy OEMs who refused to provide older OSes' drivers.
The banner bidding in the article was intended to level the playing field for advertisers and give sites the best price for ad space. There were always going to be ads, however, Google and Facebook sought to undermine that progress which may have allowed publishers to continue to produce advertising funded media. Now we see publishers are forced behind paywalls because online advertising was unable to keep the lights on. Meanwhile Google and Facebook were able to get richer.
Do they really need to know with which hand I am likely to wipe my arse with, though?

Smaller companies using the services provided by the bigger fish have caused a self-perpetuating circle of ever increasing imbalances in many areas.

The resources that are being spent on not only keeping this machine in tact, but as seen in the article, grow it even further, show that this machine isn't going to stop itself and that higher intervention is required.

This is going to be costly and hurt in other ways, but with it being a massive stap towards a sort of post-scarcity society as was shown in Star Trek and by the Venus project, it's worth every tear and every penny.
How can we reverse the trend that a wonderful piece of tech such as RSS is obliterated without any regard to implications? If you have been using RSS readers you'll have noticed that over time even quality sites (not ironic) slowly remove their RSS feeds and leave only the usual social media links.

This means that they are providing their audience with no option but to have a social media account (where their interests can be tracked and cross-referenced, data mined etc), not to mention that they endorse and promote particular for-profit private companies (which is in general not done lightly, unless there is a partnership or other disclosed interest)

New open source tools like this engine, especially if they integrate more with this other wonderful piece of tech, the email client could create a more healthy information retrieval environment. The time to think anew about how to evolve a positive digital life is now and the pieces of the puzzle are all around us.
>And without Twitter there would be no Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Whose ascension is a huge win for American democracy.

Every generation has their own version of AOC who makes noise for a few years than falls back into obscurity.

This concept doesn't really have anything to do with social media.
At my craziest startup, the charismatic CEO would occasionally yell "under 50 employees, no one has any rights!". It was a joke, but was it really?

Part of the small startup life is that most job don't last. Both because startups die young, but also because they can be crazy. My first dying startup was a disaster. I adapted my expectations, and now I see them as unplanned vacations.

I quit the crazy company above on my 1 year vesting day.
An excellent conversationalist, he was.
I am fully vaxed and plan on getting a booster shot next week. But I see where the anti-mandate crowd is coming from. It's about giving up freedoms that will never come back. In the course of a country's history the trend is more and more laws, which in my opinion cement the ruling class's power. I bet the trend is less upward mobility for the age of a county. What happens throughout history is that these laws keep people in power who are not beneficial to society and there is eventually a revolution where the laws are upended and a new county is formed with a blank slate of laws. Bringing it back to vax passports, I think it is another brick in the wall of laws keeping the current ruling class in power.
Newspapers inform people and aren’t free. They are available in the library though.
At this point, I don’t think they misunderstand. They try to be sneaky.

Thought experiment: if the cookie consent banner was a payment form, things would be A LOT easier to understand. They are ambiguous on purpose. From a UX perspective, most of them don’t make sense at all.
> are mildly effective

Are very effective in preventing serious disease

> target a disease which is not that dangerous

The 700k dead in the US might disagree (I mean, those that didn't die neck deep in the mud believing it to be a mere puddle)
Your obligation to provide source code comes from your agreement with the copyright owner of the source code.

You can make users agree via a EULA not to ask for the source code, but that does not change your obligation under your license from the copyright owner. If your user breaks the EULA and asks for the code you must provide it or you are in breach of your license and the copyright owner could come after you.

You could then also cancel that user's service, or do whatever else you normally do when a user breaks your EULA.
By that data we already build our planes like birds.

If a 10ft bird flaps its wings less than once an hour a plane sized bird would probably fly for days without flapping its wings
Yeah, that's a fair point. It's hard to evaluate such a decision without being in the spot. The only way I see of resisting such tempation would be to be fulfilled with working on your vision and have substantial amounts of money. I haven't done any of those things so it's hard to empathize and answer honestly.

At least we have warning examples such as Notch's situation. After making probably the most successful game of all time and selling it for billions, his life is (or was, has been, idk) reportedly pretty depressing.

I could say that it's better to not have depression than to have billions, but in reality it's not a zero sum game and you can probably have both. In the end, as always, it all depends on the person and their circumstances.
I'd far rather live in a country where the rulers choose not to start wars for territory, especially if we were the richest country in the World. I'd have guessed that would be common.

Indeed as one of the richest countries, with global climate change, the responsibility is to lower consumption (which many would see as reduce the standard of living). But maybe the analogy doesn't stretch that far.
Turf lawns started out being grazed, but very quickly transitioned into being maintained manually by humans. It took a while before became common because care was so time consuming and obviously expensive.

A turf grass lawn is incredibly practical. It aids with the control of bugs and rodents, it is easy to walk and run in without twisting an ankle because of a hidden hole, it great for sports like soccer, bad mitten, corn hole etc. You don't lose everything you drop, you can walk through it without getting ticks on yourself (try walking through a pasture in the NE during the summer). You can throw a towel down and sunbath. Infants can learn how to walk on one and play with minimal risks. They are great for water fights with your kids in the heat of the summer.

Turf lawns are incredibly useful.

Back to the original point - the problem with shutters today on most houses is not they exist, but they are such a low-quality effort. Superfluous items can have a place in design, but at least make an effort and show an ounce of care. Here is a video showing a minor detail that can make a big difference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI3bC0mRp2o&t=301s
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/doc/news/flash/23845/P9_P... votes
I'm working on an embedded vision/navigation system. The core app itself generates about 50mb a minute of metadata alone in the simplest scenario. It's supposed to be long running system. There is one case that generates just over a TB.

Now you may say we should optimize this or that but I'm not an architect and I have no say, and it's just what I gotta deal with:(
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I think that was their point (though I'm not altogether sure where they were going with it). Anyway, there's a case to be made that radio and television advertising are less malign by virtue of being less targeted. They can only run adverts which appeal to everyone in the region they cover, which is a much less powerful tool.
Literally all developed countries have had some of their hospitals swamped at some point during most flu seasons and yet we don't act like the world is ending every year.
In Ireland 92% of adults are vaccinated and 75% of the population overall. The "low" vaccination rate among children has more to do with the delays in approving the vaccines than any kind of resistance. I have been told this is among the best vaccination rates in Europe.

Despite this the government has just pushed back the return to normality yet again. They drafted a "vaccinate our way out" plan that would almost certainly fail because it allegedly requires some fraction of the populace in excess of 92% to comply. When it failed, they accused that fraction of spoiling their plans. And then, rather than accepting their failure and moving on, they began punishing the entire populace for it for an indeterminate amount of time.

Perhaps in other countries with higher rates of vaccine hesitancy the story is different. But in my mind, the responsibility here lies with those who made getting our lives back contingent on an outcome that was never realistically going to occur.
De Beers certainly had government help. The paper used by Wikipedia to support the claim that they are considered a monopoly[1] acknowledges this:

> In addition to the structure of the De Beers cartel, the main force behind this dominance for many years has been the role played by governments. It is possible for a cartel to continue if there is a governing body above that can enforce agreement. Through continuously changing its stance toward corporations, the South African government and other governments essentially protected the companies that were providing them with easily and centrally collected tax revenues. Governments have frequently imposed output quotas and have used legislation, such as the Illicit Diamond Buying laws (IDB), to protect these companies from black markets and their effects on pricing. (As a comparison, one of the weaknesses of OPEC is that it is a cartel of governments over which no other actor can impose control, whereas De Beers has formed a cartel of companies and has often successfully lobbied governments to enforce cooperation on its behalf).

> This argument of government-forced cooperation held while Africa was the dominant supplier of diamonds, but it no longer has the complete stranglehold that it once did. As the cartel has not yet disintegrated, however, other reasons must also exist. Researchers believe that De Beers exists as a monopoly to maximize profits, not just to maintain them. Hence, it is in the members’ interest to stay within the cartel rather than go it alone.

It's however conceivable that a monopoly like De Beers could survive even in a free market because they seem to be the optimal solution to a coordination problem where everyone's (including the consumer's and the prospective competitor's) incentives are aligned. The paper explains:

> Second, the demand for diamonds is not typical and must be analyzed using Veblen’s theory of conspicuous consumption. This theory replaces the traditional downward-sloping demand curve with one that is upward-sloping, suggesting that the higher the price of an item, the higher the demand. This phenomenon would imply that higher prices have a dual effect on the profits of a company, first, through higher margins and, second, through increased sales. Therefore, it is in a company’s best interest to maintain high prices. For diamonds in particular, this means that the perception of desirability associated with diamonds is critical to the life of the industry as a whole and that if the price of diamonds falls, the overall demand for them will follow. Therefore, it is again in the interest of the individual players in this industry to “play nice” and cooperate, since cheating the cartel will actually lower their profits instead of raising them.

[1]: https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfile...
> If the cookie banner satisfies the regulations

That's joke though. Most of them don't. And upon getting called out and/or fined, corporations right now just edge a bit further towards an actually compliant implementation - rinse and repeat. Currently we're in the state of "what if we made it really sloooow and convoluted to opt out?" - which is also not compliant because that makes not giving consent harder than giving consent.

At some point we're going to be there, but right now we're not.

The cookie banners as they are implemented right now are mostly wishful thinking by adtech: "Hopefully this will be enough?"

It's not. But nobody wants to be the first to stop widely tracking people and going back to good old contextual ads. They're going to wait until the EU turns the heat up to 100 and maybe even then wait for a competitor to blink first.
Because the goal of the site is things of intellectual curiosity and repetitive things are not that. Repeated stories are usually duped off the front page and meta about votes is far, far more repetitive than the occasional story dupe or story that's not interesting to some person or another. It would absolutely eat the place alive. If you're interested, though, there is years upon years of moderator and user commentary on this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The actual Brandon thought it was funny, as the chant probably aligned with his personal feelings.

In case anyone else doesn't get the joke, the reporter (as most reporters do) was covering for Biden when she pretended his noisy opposition was something else [1]. In other words, it was an unusually obvious attempt at a tawdry cover-up. Thus, the mockery in calling Biden "Brandon".

[1] It might remind some of this classic scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kpb8eu1pEY
You don't want that near your house unless you like pests and rodents.
> I would like to argue that point by saying these 100,000 are not separated in 100,000 vaccinated and 100,000 unvaccinated, but I am not sure.

That is exactly how they are separated. What else would "Rates among persons vaccinated
with 2 doses (per 100,000)" and "Rates among persons not vaccinated (per 100,000)" mean?

Evidently the vaccines in Germany are working more effectively. That's good news!
> "fraud: one person trying to convince another to give them money in exchange for something they may or may not need or want"

That is one bizarre definition for the word "fraud".