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I think there are nuances to the question of which services someone can support, which require deeper consideration than just "are they (involuntary) collective systems".

If someone gets heart disease because of a bad diet, you may not want there to be an involuntary collective system that covers the cost of their medical treatment, since you don't get any direct benefit from this. (For comparison, a voluntary health insurance based system, with multiple competing private insurers, wouldn't have the same concerns attached).

In contrast, if someone decides they are a pacifist and doesn't want to pay for the armed forces, but they live within the same borders as you, then they will gain the benefit of military protection that you are willing to pay for.

That's not to say I personally agree with that distinction, though. Ultimately a life is worth the same whether it is ended by heart disease or a foreign soldier, and I believe that people in a society owe each other a duty of care to spend "reasonable" resources on protecting each others lives.

However, I think that is a moral position, and someone with different morals could consistently draw a line between the necessity of involuntary military funding and the non-necessity of involuntary healthcare funding.
> Calculate how many transistors and watts of power you'd need to replicate that functionality.

I'm curious as to your answer. Because if one's building a purpose-built analog computer for the task, my estimate is a few hundred transistors, a few thousand passives, and ... an absolutely trivial amount of power on modern process.
You're assuming no data caps; lots of people are on uplinks that bill by the byte or after some limit
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In corrupt countries the laws don't matter two shits. What matters is what gets enforced. What matters is that the right cases go to the right courts. What matters is that people who press on these things get calls told to drop it, and if they don't drop it, they find themselves in accidents that no journalist is willing to touch with a ten-foot pole.

You're not going to find experiments quantifying this corruption; you'll find lived experiences and anecdotes coming from the same countries with the similar MOs.

Blockchains don't solve the problem of a police captain knocking at your door telling you that if don't go through with a shitty deal your son isn't coming back from school the next day.
Surprisingly, Algorand hasn't come up on Hacker News a lot judging by (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), only finding one previous submission with comments:

- Algorand Consensus Protocol - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24809391

A lot of critique against various blockchains seems solved with Algorand, including environmental damage, high fees for making transactions and slow block times. Thanks to the lightweight and cleverly designed consensus protocol, you can run nodes that participate in the consensus on just a Raspberry Pi if you want to.
Whenever Gemini is mentioned here in HN people will ask: "Why not a subset of HTML with HTTP" or some similar "Why not $SOME_OTHER_TECH" question. Which for me is the same as hearing "Why not chocolate cake?" after saying "I like strawberry tarts".

What people don't realise is that Gemini is a different thing for each person involved with the ecosystem. Some people are in it because it is easy to implement, something that can't be said about the recent specs of HTTP/HTML specs. Others enjoy having a spec that is easy to understand and absorb, even if they're not developing with it. There are those that like how clients decide how to present the content, and that some clients allow for a ton of customisation thus placing the user in control of the presentation. Each person is enjoying the ecosystem for their own reason, and that doesn't need to be a reason that serves as an answer to "why not HTML and HTTP?"

Mostly, people do Gemini stuff because they're having fun, and that is enough.

Lagrange is a great client. There are a gazilion others. Pick one up for a ride, have fun.
Old people can see with fresh eyes. I don't know why that's controversial.
> Similarly, seeing a list of past failures may inspire variations that seek to overcome the shortcoming without having to waste time first reproducing the same failure. One can try to learn _why_ it failed and use that to guide future attempts.

To me, this is a big thing that survivorship bias overlooks, to the detriment of us all. Taking Edison's "1000 failures to invent a lightbulb" can often be more instructive than the end result, even if you're not interested in inventing lightbulbs.

> The advice to be wary of experts reminds me of the advice to avoid criticism while brainstorming, the idea in common being that criticism and negativity supposedly stifles creativity.

I think the admonition to avoid criticism during brainstorming is so that any idea, no matter how infeasible, may be put forth. As I've understood it, this period of "unfettered criticism" should be markedly short, and while ideas will be recorded for future reference (and perhaps modification), they can safely be winnowed under the harsh criticism of reality after the brainstorming session.

That said, it has been common sense for quite some time that having a "box to think in" can help foster creative solutions to escaping the box.
I'm curious... how is cryptocurrency not just a big money laundry machine?

If you can put earnings from cryptocurrency trading into the banking system without explaining where the earnings came from, other than saying you bought bitcoin low and sold high, then how is this not a massive money laundry loophole?

I guess it's not trivial to buy bitcoin with a suitcase full of cash, but it's probably not that hard.

It's certainly hard/impossible to walk into a bank with a suitcase full of cash, without explaining where it came from.
For what it's worth, the Tesla wipers are by default in automatic mode. They work so well that I didn't even realize they were automatic until about 10 minutes of driving in the rain.

Unlike other auto-wipers I've used in the past, the wipers on my Telsa Model Y are fantastic. By that mean, in nearly a year of driving, I've never once manually adjusted the wiper speed (or even thought about it). That includes extremely heavy downpours. The only time I interact with the wipers on the touch screen is to disable them before going through a car wash.

I believe they use the optical cameras for rain detection, unlike traditional sensor-based approaches (which were genuinely terrible).
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I’d say there are three main fact scenarios I bring claims for:

1. Credit account are closed without a specific reason being given. (Banks have an obligation to give you a reason).

2. Debit card/checking account fraud. There’s a federal law specifically protecting consumers in those cases.

3. Credit card/. Again, a specific federal law for these cases.

What’s noteworthy for each one of these violations, or, more accurately, for each one of these causes of action, is that there is a right to recover attorneys fees. And whenever you have that, then the consumer has an opportunity to find a lawyer who will forgo any payment unless, and until, there is a recovery. That’s how I pursue the vast majority of my cases. I even cover the filing fee for the consumer.

So when I say consumers need to sue their banks, and they get this response of “well they can’t afford a lawyer,“ i’m pretty sure they can afford free. but this pessimistic mindset seems to have taken hold. And I’d like to try and undo it.
paywalled but these guys came out of nowhere. I saw the ad by matt damon for crypto.com where he likens buying cryptocurrency to exploring space, i guess you do have to be a brave individual to buy dogecoin or shiba, i'll give em that
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My only "problem" with Gemini is how people conflate the protocol with the documents served over the protocol.
Really man, if you think that me charging $20 for a unique product that you actually don't know anything about other than the few sentences I've explained here to you is preying on people, I don't care to bother discussing this any further. You're entitled to your opinions of course, but do note that I'm trying to provide a creative art project that would have been much more of a pain in the ass to create in web 2.

Please, just believe me when I say that I'm an engineer that is exploring the space to try and do something independent and something I personally find cool. If I wanted to make money quick, I would have made a shitty PFP apes collection 3 months ago and charged half an ETH per mint. I decided to try and create a unique product, and also explore an emerging space.
The impact of every character you posted, compounded over the years will have killed 4 kittens by 2075.
I suppose not checking whether syscalls work would indeed be faster than checking whether they work...
I don't think they literally mean "for immediate sending out to clients" right? Because that would block the worker thread for the duration of the download. It makes more sense to write the output to disk and serve it out as normal static content.
> If someone gets heart disease because of a bad diet, you may not want there to be an involuntary collective system that covers the cost of their medical treatment, since you don't get any direct benefit from this. (For comparison, a voluntary health insurance based system, with multiple competing private insurers, wouldn't have the same concerns attached).

I have no problem with anyone benefiting from the healthcare system regardless of their lifestyle choices. In the long run it benefits everyone to understand that their health and well being is not tied to a profit seeking system that views some people as less worthy of healthcare than others because it would be less profitable to provide care for them.
>does not mean an open source software is automatically more secure

well my point is that FSF never anywhere claimed otherwise. if they did THAT would be wrong and irresponsible

>It is conceivable for 2 comparable pieces of software to exist one open source and the other closed source and for the closed source one to be more secure.

sure. well a simple example is that security by obscurity is a valid concept in a right environment
The name is a bit unfortunate.
There's tons of research on consciousness in the medical field, as it's directly relevant for many disorders and conditions affecting it.
Dang. That's almost 1000 km in a day.
If you want to ameliorate inequality, don't pay people with nice jobs more - pay people without them more.
I said MOST Tesla fanboys, not all. Being intuitive in certain places doesn't excuse other areas from criticism, just like you seem to be doing now. Lexus having an awful infotainment, which every automotive reviewer on the planet would agree with, doesn't make Tesla immune to criticism for decisions like the wiper controls or their often shoddy build quality. Even my favorite cars have flaws that I will readily identify. I have a GT-R and it's one of the best all around daily drivers I've ever had, but the infotainment is incredibly dated and the interior is nothing to write home about. The transmission is jerky under 5mph. The paint is soft so I had to spend a lot to get a clear bra installed on the front 1/2 of my car. I bought it because of the way it drives, not for any other reason. I love a lot about it, but I'll be the first to admit all of its shortcomings when anyone is interested in buying one.
I've often wondered why WOL is so poorly designed. WOL should be a function of the NIC, completely independent of the OS and capable of returning status codes even if the computer is "off".
Someone should create a Pablo implementation that exists entirely with an .svg since they can contain and execute JS code when viewed in an HTML page by a browser (or sometimes PDF readers).
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A 100 year old knob is not a 50 or 25 year old knob. They're as different as the wheels on a horse carriage and the wheels on a Model T. They're not working from the same 100 year old design with the same expectations. Ford likely expected the crank handle knob to take some abuse.
Honestly it seems like if you don't pay a monthly subscription everything is stealing
I apologize as well for the invective tone; I was a little cranky earlier in the day when I responded to this. I have no problem with your beliefs re: meat, the subtlety did indeed go over my head, and this just seems like a textbook case of textual communication fundamentally dampening nuance.
Anecdotal, but I manage connections from AT&T and Comcast and both have had stable IPV6 prefixes since they were installed multiple years ago.
> I know more people with adverse effects from the vaccine than of COVID,

Unlikely, as we know that more than 5 millions of people suffered the annoying adverse effect of being killed by Covid, but if you have meet an equivalent number of people suffering a worse fate because the vaccines:

1) Congratulations, your social life is legendary and you must be the ultimate animal party. I'm really jealous.

2) Please write a scientific article in Nature, Science or whatever. I guarantee you that you will appear in all the breaking news from coast to coast in the entire planet if you can report a much minor number of cases.
> I prefer to pay 35-40% in taxes and not have to worry about that

The biggest irony is that’s in line with the taxes we pay in the US (probably more if you’re in tech and live in CA or NY), so it’s not like you pay lower taxes in the Land of the Free anyway.
Maybe. We’ve made other changes that didn’t have nearly universal support before (Emancipation, Civil Rights acts, forced integration of schools, women’s suffrage, and probably many others).

Sure, I’d prefer to wait a few years if that waiting would bring along willing participation. If we think it would only bring a larger number on the calendar and a slightly worse atmospheric carbon surplus, I’m not as inclined towards patiently explaining this again.
Nice article and all that. Except for one bit.

The lengthly part that talks about defeating SSH dictionary attacks through some fancy PF rules.

Why, in 2021, is anybody still writing articles talking about using passwords with SSH and saying the way to counter password attacks on SSH is to write firewall rules ?

SSH Certificates are the only method anybody should be implementing these days. Its not difficult to setup or maintain, its nothing put pure laziness that people don't do it.

I would have thought someone writing on an APNIC blog would know better.
This doesn't match my experience. I live in a small town in north Georgia, and I typically see 3-5 Teslas when driving nowadays, including small country roads.
> Please, just believe me

Yeah, see, this is why I can't take you seriously. Everything I ask for an explanation on is all "trust me bro, I can't explain because um...". Yeah, that's how scammers talk, buddy. You can't even tell me why and how are NFTs better than the alternatives. That seems like something any engineer should be able to do: explain the merits and reasoning behind their choices. I can only see two possibilities: You don't want to admit the answer, or you don't know the answer. You seem like a reasonably intelligent person, so I can only assume the former.

If you just use an NFT because you think it is cool, fine, whatever. Just don't go pretending it is revolutionary when you can't back up that assertion with any kind of explanation.
In our family it was a secret - my grandma died thinking she was 100% German and my great aunt still thinks that. They just think that’s what people from southern Germany look like.

However, my great grandpa didn’t inherit the farm he was supposed to because he married the “wrong” woman. That combined with how they look gave a hypothesis and DNA testing on me proved it.

So there’s no real documentation, and I don’t know for sure what tribe I descended from.

The point wasn’t that there was money set aside for Native Americans, but that it was set aside for anyone other than white people. That’s straight up wrong, and if black person could have checked a “white” checkbox to circumvent discrimination in the 50s I would have been all for it too.
But... he didn't? Most of the studies he found no fault with. This seems to be a striking example of alternate facts you have picked up from the same article...
An Apple II style of computer built around a SPARC would be a fascinating hobbyist platform.
We did. Lets get together and practice mock interviews. Msg me on twitter @AndreyKocevski
That’s not an accurate characterization.

E.g., they address Brook’s definition of basic arthropod intelligence, and are positive about it.

> We then summarise the highly useful definition of basic (arthropod) intelligence proposed by Rodney Brooks
How do you know you are on (exist)? This is the equivalent for computers trying to become sentient.
Economic theory says, more or less, that the restaurant should try to avoid the smell escaping, and if they don't do it they are really not that interested.

The OP history is the same tune: if you want your light and your wifi just for you, just install blinds and harden you router. And then try reach an agreement with your neighbor.
I don't spend much time gaming but the few hours I do spend here and there are on the Quest 2 which could also be categorized experiences than games though I play those too. I also play an RTS (starcraft2) on PC--it's not meant as a dedicated machine but being Windows is the only use it gets.
If it takes longer than the heat death of the universe to understand intelligence, does that mean it’s impossible?
Yeah I have a relative who renovated their kitchen recently and got a fairly high end induction range with touch controls...it was quite expensive and has possibly the worst user experience of any appliance I've ever used.

As the touch areas get wet or oily they start to act weird, and they're right next to the cooking surfaces so they always get wet and oily if you're actually cooking anything. You have to lock the touch controls after using it because even a single drip of water can make it think you're doing some kind of invalid input and it'll start beeping loudly in the middle of dinner. Sometimes if you don't lock it it will start beeping endlessly in the middle of the night. After lots of back and forth it doesn't seem that this particular unit is defective, just the product itself is badly designed.

I love cooking on it when it works properly–the induction technology is amazing, but I will absolutely never buy one with out real knobs.
Reading this article I just realized how much money large companies like Amazon must make off the interest from the money they've held until payday.

If they pay their workers every two weeks, then they've got a massive pile of cash sitting there waiting (on average) a week before being paid out. Now, a week's worth of interest isn't much to you or me, maybe, but multiplied by the number of workers they are paying it suddenly becomes quite a bit.

Why is it that if I work on a Monday, but you don't pay me until two weeks later, why do you get to hold the interest?
>Computers exist inside the universe so the universe must be able to compute things.

Yes - but there may be other mechanisms of translating information into outcomes that are possible in the universe as well. I don't know any though.
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Pad or android tablet. Icon pressing for video selection from plex or vlc or like will be easier than any other choice.
> Kind of like how when you get vaccinated you provide value to your community by reducing the chance that you’ll become a disease vector. So getting the vaccine improves the health of everyone around you. If we didn’t subsidize vaccines, fewer people would get them, and we’d all be worse off.

This was a story told to us in the beginning of widespread vaccination, but is disproven since we have evidence that vaccinated people can carry and spread the virus. The story changed to we are less likely to spread it, but there is also evidence for similar amounts of virus in vaccinated people, so I take it with a grain of salt given the history. (multiple reputable sources readily available on Google)

It's important to know and spread this information as it means that even though vaccinated people protect themselves from harsh symptoms they still have to be careful not to spread the virus.
Or for use on an Android phone. It is messed up.
That's besides the point. Why anything? I'm not gonna pretend to understand high-art, because I don't, but apparently some people see value in it, so who am I to question what they value?

To be honest, I don't see much value in the current Images-as-NFTs hype either, but again, who am I to judge what people spend their money on? I also thought the same about Bitcoin initially, but after a while saw value in it myself too.

When it comes to NFTs as a concept though, I think they can be applied better than what people are currently doing. SaaS licenses that can be resold for example is one interesting use case.
A bivvy, a phone and a drone: cycling home from China (2020)
Literally, just go fuck yourself. You're so completely full of shit I'm tired of interacting with you. At least you live up to your username.

Fuck off.
What do you think has been most helpful in keeping you in the field for so long, and how long have you been a developer for? Did you come at it later in life? Do you have a strategy for continuous learning? or any other advice?
I once did 250 km and change in a single day (a trip with Amsterdam as start and end counterclockwise around the IJsselmeer). When I was 21 and probably the fittest I've been in my life. Afsluitdijk seemed like it would never end, 30 km straight against a terrible headwind (but the whole trip has hardly any elevation change). I peed green stuff and had major skin damage on the inside of my thighs afterwards. Having to go up two flights of stairs with my relatively light racing bike at the end nearly did me in.

900 km in a day sounds like an incredible feat to me and I'm super impressed with it, but I would really wonder about the kind of impact that has on your body.

I slept for more than a day after that trip and I swore I would never do it again (and I didn't).
This isn’t correct. People outside the ‘community’ are using a long established meaning.

People within the community are using a meaning that has essentially none of the attributes of the conventional definition while claiming that the meaning is the same.

This isn’t a question of two sides disagreeing over meanings. It’s a question of a deceptive use of a very well established pre-existing term.
AFAIK, Gemini is the protocol and Gemtext are one of the types of documents. Be aware that you can transfer HTML documents over Gemini, and that many clients render more than just Gemtext. My own little client Fafi, built with Racket, can render Gemtext, images, RSS, and Markdown. If you attempt to transfer using HTTP such as having an HTTP link in a Gemtext, it will simply launch the default browser instead. I believe some clients will actually render the HTML in a webview.
but there are conceivable processes that are beyond computation, for example Busy Beavers - but could they manifest in the physical universe?
A canary is a safeguard against dangers. In my example, my daily emails from my investment account is my canary. When I stop getting emails, I know there's a problem.

I cannot remember the details, but one of my favorite canarys was a website that had a paragraph that basically stated we have not been compromised in the past 24 hours. It had a timer that had to be rest daily or the paragraph whould disappear from the website.