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It's interesting... I've spoken with a few avid users, and they just seem to be people who enjoy writing and thinking. Usually such "seed" users have gotten one or two other people on who also enjoy corresponding in this fashion, and it's worked out well for them.

I frame he product as "mindful" because it's an well-applicable, widely-understood word, but to my surprise I've not had much traction with the mindfulness community in terms of people who actually use it. But my sample size should be bigger to really get a good feel for the demographics.

And thank you :).
Yeah typically companies get prosecuted for evading Iranian sanctions, rarely individuals, and rarely politically significant individuals. The additional layer of context is DoD started the China Initiative month before which explicitly called for extradition of Chinese nationals for tech espionage. As far as I'm aware, it's the first time US drafted policy to specifically target one country over something general like industrial espionage. So it would be like China getting a third party to arrest a US national under a nacent PRC's Extradite American Act. Then said third party pretend US should totally be OK with them executing PRC foreign policy because it was "legal". The main stream Canadia interpretation of Meng/Michaels drama has been utterly detached from geopolitical reality.
Only for the cases where vaccines are effective for life (tetanus is not, as an example).

And I don't think it is something to celebrate to force adults to live with the consequences of their parents decisions for life. I am not a parent, but would vaccinate my for all disease still endemic in my area. I would still worry that I might fuck them up permanently doing so.
All you're saying is that if you leave out a crucial word in the initial statement, the meaning changes. Fine, but so what?
>No one claims NFT proves ownership of entities outside of the used blockchain. But within the chosen blockchain, they do prove ownership of that particular NFT. That's a fact.

This is irrelevant to the wider world which doesn't even have basic infrastructure to support blockchain smart contracts. Without that infrastructure you have a curiosity, not an asset you can use as collateral with a bank.
PHEV means "Plug-in-hybrid Electric Vehicle" if anyone else was similarly confused.
There's no such thing as a bad thesis. It may be argued poorly but the thesis can't be bad. You're conflating the two.
> The fact is this privacy protection industry does not exist

The largest consumer hardware company in existence (Apple) makes privacy a significant part of its marketing. I’m not sure where you’re getting this idea from.

You state that there is no real pain point, but I would posit that the pain point is simply non obvious. People are definitely weirded out when they have a conversation with someone about a product that they’d never heard of and then it suddenly shows up all over their phone. They simply don’t comprehend how much the bits of data they are shedding could lead to that kind of prediction behavior from Google/facebook et al. And to be fair, I doubt that the engineers behind that could explain the behavior with exacting precision.

At the end of the day there’s no good lever for the typical consumer. It ends up being framed as a all or nothing decision, and so they throw their hands up and say they have no interest in living as a hermit.
> it seemed to be CPE like modems and sometimes wireless routers that were blocking packets

Agreed. I think D-Link devices were some of the most common we saw.
Gaming skins aren't assets, they're licensing/service agreements. Even if you have the option to resell, you're trading your rights not your "assets".

From a purely pragmatic ownership perspective, NFTs would only matter if ownership gives the owner exclusive rights to the property. Owning a physical Picasso is always going to be more valuable than owning a unique digital copy of anything (bcs it can only be unique based on a version in a specific network).
My 2017 Chevy Bolt still has some knobs and dials for things. There's also a big touchscreen with a bunch of A/C system controls on it, which is annoying. They're also persistent in that space on the screen, which makes me wonder why even bother having it be on the screen...
Did a few searches, and YouTube does seem to have great access for a lot of titles.

It's not always real economical though. One season of the Handmaid's Tale is only available to buy, not rent. And it's $25. I could pay for 2 months of "no ads" Hulu and get that season and everything else they have, for less.

So fragmentation is still an issue.
We agree there. The crypto ecosystem seems to be in a massive bubble, and Tether is a blatant fraud that’s contributing to wash trading on the unregulated exchanges, and NFTs are just a scam. But it bothers me when people use those facts to try to say that blockchain technology therefore doesn’t have a valid use case. It does, and proof of work was a monumental invention, but how blockchain ultimately will be used is unclear right now because the industry is so broken.
Not to divert from the subject of this post, but could anyone explain to me what a feature flag looks like? How do you go about implementing one? There was a post here about trunk-based development which mentioned feature flags quite a bit. They seem like they are quite useful but I've yet to encounter one.
> No one claims NFT proves ownership of entities outside of the used blockchain. But within the chosen blockchain, they do prove ownership of that particular NFT. That's a fact.

what if i steal your private key? what if i upload a different NFT smart contract that gives me an NFT of the same image you have?
One of my best friends owns a modeling agency specializing in new talent. As far as I can see, it's very hard work to find modeling talent, which I (stupidly?) think is not even "talent" in the same way that actors, writers, squash-players and programmers are. Also, it's a very very feast-or-famine business and the agency is taking most of the financial risk.

For the Hollywood case, I agree that my analogy weakens a lot when we consider all the people writing code for 10 years at a crack.

However my anecdata (basically, watching what jobs different friends have gotten) suggests that connections in software are at least as important as anywhere else for the top end, it's just that there's a vast middle that pays pretty well and doesn't actually care whom you know.

I read somewhere that Netflix says "we're not a family, we're a sports team," which I find quite interesting (and enticing!) but also seems to be an analogy in search of an agent?
If you click the link to the patch you see it was submitted by cloudflare.
Nailed it. A useful currency with a stable value is not a good vehicle for currency speculation.
I was kind of agreeing with the author, right up until he talked about setting up a pipeline involving Plex to have a good UX. Maybe I'm in the minority, and maybe I'll get downvoted, but to me, Plex has a horrific UX.

1) If I import something its scanners cant' scrape metadata for, it might as well not even exist. Its not displayed to me at all. I have to fiddle with title and re-scan until its metatdata scraper finally realizes what it is.

2) They've gone to some dark patterns to convince you to make a plex account and log in, just to talk to a server on the same LAN.

3) They now hide your content and promote their own streaming content in a tv-channels like grid. I don't want any of that, I just want my movie library, don't make me scroll for it.

There are other frustrations, but these are the high points. I need to find time to setup kodi again..
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Reading this, nodded along mostly in agreement until the author attempted to compare the crypto community to "Scientology and their beliefs about alien thetans and e-meters"... come on, that's a dubious stretch in logic and with that one mean comment makes his points, as a whole, much less credible.
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I read the parent/GP as simply saying that while tech doesn't have the same level of gatekeeping as white shoe law does or, for that matter, academia in general, if you have a decent GPA from Stanford things will be far easier than they will be for an equally skilled high school dropout with no connections.

The challenge (which has no easy answer) is that it's far easier for companies to focus on the Stanford grads with decent GPAs than all the high school dropouts who upload a resume, especially if they don't have an obviously interesting portfolio/presence in open source communities.
Water and pasta are not subsidised by highly progressive taxes.
I can't speak highly of the education system in Italy, it didn't change since the fascist era and it's still mostly a bunch of rote memorisation and teachers with sadist tendencies. I had to study Latin in a computer science focused high school, for **'s sake.
I found the education in Finland or in the UK to be way more reasonable in terms of load.

Italy is not overrepresented in the number of people in tech, as far as I can tell; the way in which the author was lucky, was that he had access to tech and was in a stable (familiar and societal) environment that allowed him to focus on computer science, which happened to be a good move, given the value of tech nowadays.

Besides "highly progressive taxes" just means that wealthy middle class are footing the bill with half their salary while millionaires use company loopholes to pay 0.

Taxes are never going to be fair, because the richest people in society will always have the greatest incentive (aka: a large potential tax bill) and the greatest skills (aka: a lot of bribes and lobbying) in changing the laws so that they're somehow exempt.
He’s solidly middle class. Not pulling in tons of money. But he doesn’t have crazy stress either. He doesn’t do insurance or Medicare, so his overhead and admin cost are really low.
> wasted a bunch of energy competing

A problem of PoW based consensus, and will not be relevant to PoS/X based consensus.

> absurdly inefficient distributed database.

A decentralized distributed database with read/append commands available to any participant.

> Patreon

A centralized company.

You're not wrong, but you aren't making any points that people who are interested in crypto don't already know, or care about.
They can't just declare the machine was broken. There is an entire gaming commission that specially makes sure the casino isn't cheating. Any time they fail to pay a win, they have to submit a report to the gaming commission and take the machine out of service until the commission can investigate.

And the player CAN challenge a loss. They too can file a complaint with the commission, who will investigate with video footage and any other evidence, and by mission is designed to be on the player's side if the evidence for not paying out isn't solid.

They aren't going to willy nilly void payouts because of the scrutiny it would bring.
It was fixed as a result of the article. Jakub opens with "About a year ago...." and closes with a link to the fix thread where he gets it accepted into the kernel back in July 2021.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Thanks again. I didn't know about persisted queries but that sounds exactly like the answer to my question.
The USSR/Russia had it's own many decades long R&D programmes.

We know for a fact SpaceX has benefited from NASA expertise because Elon has said so repeatedly and often, and the experienced designers and engineers he hired in the early days, some of whom are still there, cut their teeth in "old space". That's aside form the fact that much of what SpaceX has done has depended on NASA funding, including the couple of billion for lunar Starship.
> Do you believe race to be a real thing?

That's a very loaded question because the word has like six different meanings depending on who you're talking to.
Between privacy risks and road safety, I made my choice very easily. I can understand the nostalgia of old cars with very little electronics, a carburator, a starter with a battery, a mechanical dashboard,... But on a daily basis they are dangerous, smelly, expensive, and not that reliable.
Fair, but the article implied that it's a somewhat linear effect- you don't need absolute zero for it to make the cloud dim. The article didn't do a great job of saying what temps they were testing at.

Still, I'm not surprised. I doubt some armchair scientist is going to solve the riddle of dark matter. I was curious and got some good answers. Thanks!
If you look at twenty years ago, there's far more content available now, for far less money. Your minimum cable outlay back then would still cover the cost of a couple streaming services.

What there isn't is a good way to get a single subscription to watch anything you want. The cable bundle was close to that for TV content, but very lacking for movies. So if you want to watch a really wide sampling of TV content, it can feel like we're going backward, since there's no more one-stop-shop.

Careful what you wish for? The big desire then was a la carte, and right now you can bounce between streaming services at will, and they're all still far easier to cancel than cable.

Some things have fallen through the cracks, particularly long-running (going back to the pre-streaming era) major-network content like the aforementioned Survivor (a random missing episode seems like a weird problem, would love to know what was going on). And getting US content stuff internationally is often sub-par, although... I don't recall stories of this being easy at all two decades ago.

So consumers are overall definitely winning, but it's not a perfect victory for everyone.
I'm just waiting until we come full circle and can purchase a bundle of streaming services. Maybe it will come with phone and internet
Have you looked into Jellyfin? It's not got quite the same polish, but I've been using it pretty happily for about 7 months now.
Yup. If you don't desire ethics and/or won't act on it, well... don't complain when you don't like the ethics of the people around you.
I wouldn't vaccinate against polio, for the same reason I wouldn't vaccinate against smallpox: it is not relevant for people in my area, and mistakes have happened where polio vaccines have led to polio. Extremely rare, but when the benefit is zero, it still outweighs it.

If polio had been endemic in my area, I would have vaccinated.
Same for me, THC is bringing my whole being to life, my senses are enhanced, motivation rises, ideas start popping and my mind becomes awakened. I can definitely not go to sleep after that and if I do I have an agitated shallow sleep. I consume something close to micro dosing, maybe a tiny bit more but not on a regular basis. CBD does have the relaxing effect needed for insomnias but since I don't really have that problem I rarely use CBD.

The strain does not make a huge difference to me, Indica does not much make of difference, I still get somewhat energized by it. It is quite unusual that I get the opposite effect from other people but I know I'm not the only one.
> The predicted fracture has started, with different networks starting their own streaming services.

I do not understand why anyone would have expected any different. Is that not the beauty of the internet? That you can consume the content from anyone, regardless of the owner of the wire coming into your house? (which should not be a private entity in the first place, but that is a different topic)
Excellent use of "Yoink"
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I think you are misreading me. I am very clearly marking the difference between such a device and a camera which is NOT cloud connected. It’s the shuttling of the data that creates the privacy issue, not the mere recording.
They don't sell them in the US anymore, but I drive a 2019 Honda Fit and it's great. Very versatile (holds four adults, 8ft lumber, 36" doors, etc). The base trim is very tech-lite: bluetooth radio but nothing fancier than that, physically controlled hvac and chair controls, traditional key, basic LTMS (no dedicated chips in the tires, just a calculation based on different angular velocity across the wheels), etc. It's about as tech-lite as a modern car can be.

If you want a new car, instead of a used one, I'd try that same pattern: low end, low trim. Honda almost certainly sells a Civic without too many digital gimmicks, other automakers probably have the same.

It's a dying breed though, complicated "driver assist" systems are becoming standard or even mandated :(.
> If you sell an app on an alternative store, how do you get the average person to install it?

Usually a button next to the "Google Play Store" and "Apple App Store" buttons?

If the developer feels they have to support some store's users themselves with installation and troubleshooting, they should just get their own app side loaded and maintain a direct relationship.

I wouldn't expect Microsoft to give me directions to a Best Buy to pick up Office 365.
I like it.

I would evaluate it thusly:

a) Is it true?

I would say: overwhelmingly.

b) Is it necessary?

In an absolute sense: no.

In a relative sense (say, if one has a specific goal in mind): Certainly maybe, but I would predict: Extremely Likely.

> Is it kind.

I suspect not. But then, I think HN'ers can have thick skin when required (say, if you are trying to optimize The System that we all live within).
It's pretty much how most modern missiles work, as far as I can tell, and it's very natural to use it on missiles with passive guidance in particular (as opposed to for example missiles with control guidance, the oldest of which used beam riding). Maybe some super-advanced ones calculate optimal trajectories of some sort but that requires more storage, more computing power, and perhaps even a way of estimating distance, whereas proportional guidance only requires angles.
> Survivor (a random missing episode seems like a weird problem, would love to know what was going on)

Music licensing?
Anybody can get crap offers, the point of the agent is to get you good offers, because otherwise the agent doesn't get paid. My understanding of the system is that the final negotiation is on you in the film business too, but your agent is supposed to (be motivated to) help.

Has the secretary made a significant difference?
Easy, tiger - you may want to consider switching to decaf.

Each component of what I stated in response to the comment above is accurate, and an appropriate explanation of the implied assumption in it that suicide lies more commonly with men than women (a common misconception arising from what I explain).
I think lower-end cars with the base level infotainment option have the least amount of telematics.

Surprised car makers haven't started trying to get ad revenue from displaying ads on cars' touchscreens
Some people really feel it, I know a few long-term collectors. Some people are into the VR galleries they assemble, others buy non-standard sized displays fit for specific NFTs to display in their homes. It's definitely an odd little community of rich people collecting digital art. And more broadly people feel attachment to their Twitter PFPs and feel like they can't truly use it unless they own it. It's a new social convention that's very unevenly distributed.
I never got my hands on one of those. But I did get to play with Transputers, which was another interesting co-processor option.
Is that $3 on top of 4 streaming subscriptions you're already paying for?
What we need is a company to come together and make deals with all the different streaming services and put them into one interface. The could charge like $100/mo and share the fees with all the other companies.

This is obviously a joke, but honestly, it seems like the direction we are heading -- cable V2.

I really wish streaming video had a similar licensing model to audio -- pay a central licensing authority for the content, and it's the same price for everyone. Then the streaming services could compete on their UI and the content creators will compete on making popular content.
You're mentioning a lot of unrelated problems.

Not a single one solved by NFT.

I think your sentiment is phrased in the first sentence. "We are entering a crypto bull market", which is just greed. As usual.
Hulu, for Showtime and HBO pre-HBO-Max, had the best approach I've seen to bundling. Amazon offered the same stuff - and more add-ons, even - but their UI is godawful, while Hulu's has improved a lot since it's crazy redesign.

Disney doesn't seem interested in keeping a one-stop-shop, though. There's weird crosstalk where I can see NHL games from my ESPN+ subsciption on Hulu, apparently, now, but not Disney's own Disney+ stuff? And the HBO deal seems unlikely to live forever with HBO Max being its own thing now, with its own separate set of content.
Quick, find me the 90's era SNL character movie Bob Roberts, starring Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, and Gore Vidal. It's not available anywhere. Until obscure movies like this are a few taps away, streaming services will have not met their true potential.
He's not trying to replace theories, he believes he's created the underlying theory that allows other theories like relativity and string theory be able to be connected, which currently aren't.
Civil engineers come up with estimates for time and cost to complete projects or upgrades. These estimates are contractually agreed with provisions for delays and overruns. Developers are not doing engineering work?
They can be all kinds of things, at its most basic, its just a way to put features behind some kind of toggle, that are only shipped or enabled if something is determined to be toggled as "on".

For example, you can use `#ifdef` in some languages like C#, C++ and C to provide features based on platforms and/or language versions, so builds only contain code when those statements are true. With things like esbuild, webpack, or vite, you can use their `define` options or in the case of webpack, something like the `DefinePlugin` or `EnvironmentPlugin`, to turn `process.env (like `process.env.NODE_ENV` etc) or other synthetic globals to certain values, which enable features (and ideally, tree shake out unused ones for the build). These are typically done and used at build time.

These can also be done at runtime, by either hardcoding a feature behind some kind of statement to evaluate its usage, or using more sophisticated feature flagging systems, such as:

- Split IO[0]

- Launch Darkly[1]

which let you toggle the feature flags dynamically during runtime. This is how you can do things like A/B testing, for instance, or allow only certain users access to a feature.

These are the most common examples of feature flagging I can think of that I think most have seen, even when its not explicitly noted as such.

I'm not entirely sure that gating vs flagging should be defined differently

Note: I have zero affiliation with either of these products I mentioned, I've just used them before

[0]: https://www.split.io/

[1]:https://launchdarkly.com/
this is another instance of the phenomenon in tech and startup culture where someone claims to solve an already solved problem with a needlessly overly complicated technical "solution"
Presumably the idea is that this "movement" needs a comparable level of investment and energy as the movement to get women into tech, etc.
because the person making the accusation has been missing?
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