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I seem to remember MOOC platforms with different monetization schemes are not without their problems either.

With this model, you can actually expect you will be listened to ( as a course offerer ).
> this company Netscape had been selling its Navigator browser (to businesses;
> it was free for personal use), and then Microsoft entered the market with its
> completely free Internet Explorer browser, and then Microsoft had the
> audacity to bundle IE with Windows. Can you imagine?

I believe the larger problem was that Microsoft offered companies and OEMs discounts on their Windows license fees if they agreed to stop purchasing any Netscape software, client and server, thereby collapsing Netscape's revenue from both ends.
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They are. They can choose not to install the game (which obviously has several parts, of which the anti cheat is one).

I’m sure if someone feels tricked into buying it as they disagree with that part and only found out at install time, they can ask for a refund.

Users are free to block the anticheat from running - but obviously the game should then not allow them to enter an online server.

I mean how is this different from say, the users tampering with the game files? Of course no one stops users from manipulating the texture files in the game. It’s their system. They do what they want. But obviously the user that tampered with the textures will be blocked from joining the multiplayer game.
To me it feels like another example of men making rules for women that women have to abide by. From what I read on Twitter, a lot of women aren't having it.
You said earlier:
> I think most people don't fully understand the implications of things like this

The "things like this" of which you speak were presumably to do with the topic at hand, which is a legal text.

You didn't provide any reason to suspect that your complaint was generally about OS security. But sure. It would be great if desktop OSes were capability based.

It just doesn't seem relevant to the issue at hand.
Not just psychological but convenience, reliability and status all of which can apply to oss consulting/patronage
Especially becoming a prof at a top tier school like Berkeley. Part of the compensation is generally thought to be the ability to have that school on your resume. Its like getting a job at FAANG but instead of tech for resume passing in academia
> Whose fault is it then? I believe that it is the society’s fault, the system’s fault, no matter how abstract or vague that sounds.

I find it interesting that the author wasn't willing to call out Capitalism by name.
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This has been my issue too, and for a long time.

I've been betting on creating good software that survives for decades, but most people just want quick fixes and new features, and few are willing to put in the time to "do the homework" (that is, clean up the code, debug it, benchmark it, reduce it, modularize it, etc.). Over time, with more and more fixes and features, code rots and the maintenance burden increases.

People seem to be creating open source like it's free, with no regards for the time and effort put before. Every solution we create adds to the global maintenance burden of the community. We need to set processes in place that make open source code better over time, not bigger.
> If I do this while refusing to show any real proof of it and, when cornered by the truth, I claim that it was just my opinion and should be respected... well, this is a different issue.

If that 'public figure' is the government itself, or a member thereof, then making 'false' statements was, at one point, criminalized in the Sedition Act of 1798 [1]. This was extremely unpopular, and while never directly ruled upon in the Supreme Court, is roundly assumed to be unconstitutional [2].

Making up shit about the federal government is simply a protected right of free speech in the USA.

> > You would say other thing if it was somebody from "your party"

Not sure where this is coming from, but I think you are responding to someone else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts#cite_n...
Did some high level research. Looks like the data sharing is of the Blockchain itself which when decentralized saves storage for nodes, but is a limited use case. Torrents do decentralized storage too.

The shared compute I saw was Golem, which is pretty neat actually. Not sure how you join the network without either sharing compute or buying into ETH with a traditional currency, bringing us back to square 1.

But as a speculative asset crypto is great! Many a mansion and Corvette have been bought with crypto gains while I'm on the sidelines wondering what the hell is going on, every yesterday being a great time to buy and every today seeming like tomorrow's the day I'd be left holding the bag.
Foreground or background I can agree with, but there's definitely a different level of trust involved if Riot wants to run something in the kernel instead of just userland.
the comments saying they get any and every vaccine implying each one is like a new superpower lmao.. society is in for a wild ride the next 100 years
I hope this is satire. The medical industry doesn’t always have your best intentions at heart. From talcum powder to thalidomide. Be careful.
Severe D deficiencies is the 'why', while this paper deals with part of the 'how'.

Since D is fat soluble, all D goes into the fat cells first, but so much fat cannot be easily filled, so while leaving the free-floating blood & organs completely unprotected, even many fat cells are still largely empty & unprotected too!

D is the critical immune hormone traditional Equatorial tribes, like the Maasai, continue to make naturally in their skin, outside under their year-round UVB. With little exercise, they stay thin, healthy & happy their whole lives with D maintained at 45-55ng/ml!

Obese suffer much higher rates of most modern diseases because of ever lower D, becoming diabetic, cancerous, heart-diseased, and/or auto-immune. But cheap & safe supplementation to evolutionary repletion >50ng/ml, (though requiring much higher dosing for obese), is just as protective for the obese as for any healthy or other CovidComorbid person.

A recent PubMed peer-reviewed Meta-Analysis showed the complete inversality of D & Covid. They surmised that 50ng/(or 125nmol) would have ZERO CovidMortality! REGARDLESS OF ALL CovidComorbidities!

Even General Powell's Multiple Myeloma (& Parkinson's), causing median severest D deficiencies below 5ng, would not have killed him if his D had been quickly raised above 50ng/ml!
That’s exactly what it is. An insidious resurgence of a vicious strain of misogyny that we probably thought had been stamped out. But I feel the pendulum is swinging back, as you’ve noticed on Twitter.
I think comments like the one at the top of this thread ultimately hurt open source more than it helps it.
> decline in property tax revenue

Wait property tax is a percentage of assessed value - not a fixed amount. Property tax revenue has increased pretty reliably since 1978.

https://dailybruin.com/2017/01/11/ucsa-campaign-aims-to-refo...
I like the videos of the Amoeba Sisters. I’m not a biologist, but I feel they go really deep in the subjects while still being relatively easy to understand.
Immune system:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEFXl2XQpc
Vaccines:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVUf_pt7Sh0
Someone I know met Simon one day and thought I’d like his autograph, since I was working in security at the time. I had in fact introduced that team to PuTTY, though this friend didn’t know that.

So I own a postcard that says words to the effect, “nobody has ever asked me for an autograph before”. It is framed.
Because the licenses often do not use the established legal language, or are not formulated with respect to existing legislation or international agreements.
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Or anything to do with cars, urban planning, real estate prices, etc., etc. Just because HN is probably frequented by "smarter" (whatever that means exactly) people, doesn't mean there isn't a considerable opinion bubble on certain topics.
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The idea is that we learn what to do and what not to do from our elders. The older people are, generally they get more stuck in their ways. Most effective way to pivot generational thinking is with turnover (until we can modulate our brain function better, then all bets are off)
> presence of an 'evict the troll' button that disallowed further comments on a thread if enough users press it about a given comment/user.

Such features will be abused by trolls, and that sooner than later. Case in point: Twitter's recent new policy about doxxing, that was instantly (as in, not even 24 hours after release) abused by a bunch of far-right mobs to silence BLM, antifa and feminist accounts.

Systems that ban people without a human (with decent training, context awareness and time to properly judge) in the loop should be straight out banned because of the abuse potential.
Yeah, and apparently the load is such a problem for them, their web server will permanently autoban your IP if you load too many articles at once, say 10-15 that you were planning to save and read offline.

Then if you email to ask 'Wtf', tiny violins will play as they explain they are too broke and impoverished to afford bandwidth enough to not do this, while helpfully suggesting you go to a different internet connection to fill out a form to unblock yourself.

Must be tough times at YCombinator, spending all those billions on junk Web Bubble 2.0 companies and none left to spare for HN bandwidth, or say a proper index so you can look up old articles.
Greetings Greg, really great work. Thanks for sharing this.

Now my greedy request: if you could take all this technology and make a blogging platform for developers, I would be greatly appreciative! And happy to pay a monthly fee!

I really need a coding blog platform where I can write interactive blogs for my readers.
There was a community on Reddit created for the purposes of discussing these heated “culture war” topics in a rational manner. It’s called “The Motte” and largely grew out of other communities that had started banishing culture war topics.

And it’s universally terrible. It turns out when you dedicate a forum specifically to open debate of hot-button issues, you attract a lot of the participants who have been driven out of other communities for their views. Even when the discussion is dressed up in a veneer of formal discussion, the topics and comments are such that most people with moderate views have zero interest in being part of such a forum.
Blaming "society" is a nothingburger. It doesn't point towards any solution. Ditto "capitalism" (although the OP doesn't go there) --- people pursue desires and respond to incentives; you can call those effects "capitalism" if you like but you'll struggle with them under any kind of economic arrangements.

My self-diagnosis as an unpaid open source maintainer (rr) is that we like to share, the marginal cost of sharing with potentially everyone is close to zero (at least early in a project), so throwing code on Github with a liberal license feels good. It also benefits the project to some extent because some improvements may come back. But then we see rr creating huge value for people, some of whom are very well paid for their work, and none of that is coming back to us, and that seems unfair even though we did technically agree to it --- sure, you don't have to give back, but it would be the nice thing to do. But in software it's very easy to extract a ton of value from dependencies without really noticing, and very hard to give back systematically. So it's the same old story --- perfectly good human instincts aren't a 100% fit for our modern environment.

What if we made it easier to identify the value we're all extracting and contribute back systematically? If we did, maybe we could build social norms around that. E.g. imagine we had tools that monitor your software development workflow, identify the tools and libraries you use, and quantify your usage via some heuristics. Then imagine you integrate something like Github Sponsors so you can allocate $X to support all your dependencies and make that happen at the press of a button. Then imagine we advocate for professional software developers to allocate 1% of their income that way, and agitate for Big Tech companies to make that a policy.
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Not at all an expert in the space, but Flexport comes to mind.

https://www.flexport.com
Tivoization doesn't violate GPLv2. It was one of the major motivations for GPLv3.
If you really want to change the world, your online community is just one piece of the puzzle. It has to drive actual action - for example, regulatory and policy change within your government, campaigns to contact politicians, etc. If something IRL does not follow from the online community, you end up just being a loud vocal online presence... and nothing changes.

By all means, start a community... but have a call to action to go with it.
But how do you know where the limit is? Isn’t it a bit like asking why the planets move in epicycles and the response being “it’s just the way it is”?
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> Our country needs a fierce but ethical right wing news source,

I can not produce it, but I made a list of at least 6 links to different news sources, mostly newspapers, that had varying degrees of conservative Right leanings and yet were fundamentally ethical publishers. I imagine if you look you will find or duplicate my lost list. I mean to say our country already has fierce but ethical right wing news sources, they're just probably not broadcast news sources, they're print and web sources.

I wanted to further comment that your statement is really only true of broadcast television if the size of the viewing audience reaches a threshold that attracts advertisers. I reference your initial self-declaration, because I expect it includes support for free-market capitalism, so you should already understand why you're not seeing the broadcast news service that you want. Good on you for seeing some of the issue, regarding all the nonsense, and yet, hard-right conservative libertarianism is, itself, I'm afraid, nonsense. This is reflected in the fact that you're not seeing a broadcast news source of which you approve, and yet neatly and ironically you do approve by, admittedly I assume a small included detail of your stated ideological leaning, which is a strong insistence on free market-capitalism.

One might say a similar ideology in synchronicity with libertarianism is Rand's Objectivism, which similarly does not cut the mustard to be a philosophy. Notably, Rand said, All kinds of people today call themselves "libertarians," especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies who are anarchists instead of leftist collectivists; but anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet libertarians combine capitalism and anarchism. That's worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It's a mockery of philosophy and ideology. They sling slogans and try to ride on two bandwagons. They want to be hippies, but don't want to preach collectivism because those jobs are already taken. But anarchism is a logical outgrowth of the anti-intellectual side of collectivism. I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding, and with much greater respect. Anarchists are the scum of the intellectual world of the Left, which has given them up. So the Right picks up another leftist discard. That's the libertarian movement.

Rand's Objectivism is utter nonsense, her novels unfortunate implementations of her nonsense, but I don't give her enough credit, because that's not half bad.
Yeah, why be immuned when you can be invincible. Keep us updated when you gotten all the vax injected. How you plan to deal with recurring one that become ineffective fast like the rabbies vax. You scheduled every couple of weeks? Maybe an online blog and checklist to motivate others to compete who get jabbed the most.
> His "agenda" is likely a strong philosophical belief that it's more important to base policy on a solid scientific foundation than to reach an apparently preferred conclusion, because this is more likely to reliably reach a long term positive result. At least, that's what it feels like internally for me.

I don't disagree...but I think it's much more concrete than this. At the scale of 330M people (let alone 7 billion), tiny risks matter. The OP simply cannot see past the emotion of the debate to the idea that even a few hundred-thousandths of a percent of additional mortality risk means that 100 people will die in the US.

If those 100 people were otherwise healthy and at no risk from Covid, that's a disaster. If the OP wants to take the tiny risk, that's fine, but it's a different matter to encourage other people to do it without evidence.
Vaxx regret? Nah, I’m good.
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Not to start a flame war - but I wonder if this is one those cases where their vision based system failed to reconstruct the 3d scene. And if that's true, wouldn't having Lider helped here?

In the long run I agree that vision based system can perform just as good, but I think the deep neural networks Tesla are using is not there yet, and could use supplementary sensors such as Lidar data to improve the training set of the model.
Clearly, the the decision not to reproduce is not going to be lost by following through on it. Anybody who decides not to reproduce is existence proof of the potential for the decision to emerge after countless generations of decisions to the contrary.

I think that very few interesting behavioral traits are so simple as to have a binary presence depending on one mutation. Instead, we inherit complex systems of behavioral tendencies which can be actively expressed or silently carried depending on circumstance. Similarly, epigenetics have been demonstrated to even carry some memory of circumstances requiring trait expression across generations. This further "smears" adaptation over time. Also, these notions of adaptation and evolutionary pressure are statistical concepts applied whole populations, not some morality play embodied by individual actors who evolve or perish.

For nearly every situation where one can worry about valuable traits dying out due to non-reproduction, can we not just as easily imagine that it is expression of well-tested, adaptive traits already present in our broader gene pool? It is quite arbitrary to embrace evolutionary ideas and yet decide that one's impulses and inherited tendencies are somehow maladaptive and must be denied.

The impulses could be a refined adaptive trait which serves to protect the broader gene line of families and communities. Why should one level of meta-analysis be granted a higher value? Perhaps the pure impulse without meta-analysis is the real value. Or perhaps it is two levels: first considering to procreate in spite of the lack of desire, then realizing that this second guessing is unnecessary...
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Nice. Can you provide a raw download link such as:
https://www.pastesafely.com/pastes/P73?format=raw

So I can curl it in a script?
To put that in perspective, in 2019 we generated a total of 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste.[0] By 2050, we expect to be generating 6 million new metric tons of e-waste from solar panels alone.[1]

[0] https://ewastemonitor.info/gem-2020/
[1] https://grist.org/energy/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-wh...
I find that "test" is sometimes broken by ad block. Which makes me worry what else is going on with that captcha.
So people using excessive amounts of coupons and/or change at checkouts should be sanctioned as well?
OOTL? Do you have a link? Would love to read more about this.
Uhm, I know many people who have that exact stated opinion and watch OAN now.
A side note: we change our diets automatically when we start or stop exercise routines (usually)
We're pretty damn good at maintaining homeostasis, so you probably did alter your diet a bit unconsciously
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> I want to say what I want to say; I've always been that way, and I think people should not self censor. I'm "disgusted" by it and that's the word I want to use. I don't want to sugar coat it. But these feelings occur before even getting to controversy. They exist beyond myself here even in hacker topics.

Sugarcoating tends to be a euphemism for being rude though. This tends to evoke an emotional response back and down we go. Even if it's not a euphemism there is a big advantage imo. It's an efficient way to rein in your own emotions because it forces you to write a thoughtful response, this leads to a higher chance of getting a thoughtful response back.
I think sugarcoating posts is a borderline necessary requirement to have any meaningful discussion.
Do you have any literature backing this up? It all sounds like pseudoscience to me, but I could be wrong.
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I sometimes think applying Matt Levine's Certificate of Dumb Investment, discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24285305, would be relevant to the massive-graduate-student-loans process.
> IMHO the probability is a little less.

Exactly, Rust simply eliminates a certain class of bugs. You can still make some really major mistakes in the absence of these bugs, e.g. "goto fail" could have easily been written in Rust.
fair point, i was thinking about tailwind actually .. i guess it just provide shorter encoding and a few shortcuts to get done quickly (at the cost of ad-hoc names)
Could you expand on this for someone unfamiliar with the reference you're making?
Not really mandatory. Check out whatever jobs you are interested in if they ask for React or Vue learn one or the other. MDN is the single best source on learning web dev, so trust it over stackoverflows etc.
I gotten off the frontend train ten years ago. Then just the other day I decided that generating some stuff for printing in HTML should be way easier than fussing around with spreadsheets (and was right)—so finally looked up how one positions things with the flexbox. Where back in the day things were like literal masochism and still even selling your soul wouldn't get you far, now it's just ‘put these properties on your divs to tell the browser which way each of them goes’. Whoa daddy.
You misunderstand the recent RCE in log4j. It has nothing to do with memory safety and can be implemented in Rust without any difficulty.
I'll cautiously recommend tildes.net.
Lots of behaviours of mammals seem to assist the propagation of parasites. For example sneezing seems to have very little biological need, yet is incredibly good at distribution of airborne pathogens.

The sneeze reflex is complex, and clearly not encoded in the very small and simple viruses that trigger it.

I have a hypothesis that many undiscovered pathogens in fact have a positive impact on survival rates of their host, which is why behaviours that deliberately spread (some) pathogens are so common.