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No one wants to wait for decentralized videos to load.

Sure, the hundred or thousand most popular videos will load relatively quickly, but some video I saw 10 years ago that is relevant to a conversation I am having would either take a very long time to load, or not load at all. And now you, the human, as a content producer, need to game the algorithm to be viral with every video.

Don't get me wrong I think YouTube and Google drop the ball constantly, but you can't decentralize content distribution and have the selection you do now. It'd be like going back to the 70s with broadcast television.
Reading this form an RSS reader!
Any interesting products using RSS? Maybe a monetized feed? gated substack's like feed?
Sadly, I don't know of any solution using RSS other than news feeds.
They are right, these aren't problems problems of online discourse but rather problems of lack of critical thinking, reflection and other education in general that has become visible with digitalization. The solution isn't to create a facebook that will regulate and rule the masses for good, but to gradually educate the masses into thinking.

This just seems as a natural side effect of the new production mode that we have had for some time now, selling adds as the main source of income.
My impulsive answer to this problem is "you had it coming for subscribing to a service with unacceptable terms".

For the non-impulsive answer, I don't really have anything of value to say.
I remember touring the sanitation plant when I was took an environmental science class in high school. They said they did fourth stage water treatment then injected the treated water into the aquifer. They are right near Talbert. It is going to be difficult to fight this tide.

Also if you are Mike Posey please blink once.
Well since SCOTUS has ruled that it's okay for private citizens to sue over abortion, just make it okay for everyone to sue Facebook at scale irregardless of the constitutionality of doing so. There's a lot they can do about this content and they choose not to do so because it costs money. Always follow the money.
What should the consequences be?

Removal of speech is not a consequence of speech -- it's preventing speech in the first place. That's what happens when Facebook blocks or deletes "misinformation" -- they are removing the speech itself. That's not the same thing as "consequences" for speech.

Look at what HN mods do -- they ban trolls, but they don't delete what the trolls posted. It's there for everyone to see -- in fact, if you look at "dead" comments you can see flagged stuff too. In terms of free speech, that's very different from deleting the comments entirely, which is what people seem to want Facebook to do.

And for the sake of argument, even if we accept that "consequences" ought to include the right to free speech being taken away from bad actors -- who can be trusted to decide who ought to be punished? Again, surely not Facebook. Surely not the government either -- the winners of every election would punish their enemies by taking away their rights. So even if we could tell, 100% reliably, who were trolls and who were not, we still should not give any corporation or government the power to take away the right of free speech.
Either side of the coin, it's still pretty wild to watch it happen. We live on a point in Baltimore harbor and had the perfect storm of both water being pushed up the harbor, big tides and sheets of rain. By the time the tide came in the second time, we started seeing water pushing up through the sump pumps in our basements. The pressure from the water table underneath our home was so great that water was pushing it's way through the floors. This was the first time we've ever seen this happen down here, this is an area with significant history. I would not be surprised if this became common place in the future.
It’s funny. Every human could tell you the things that make a place pleasant. (Walkability, cute shops and cafes, green space)
And yet we have people who’s whole job is “planning” and we get spaces that are aggressively unpleasant. No sidewalks let alone dedicated waking paths. Strip malls everywhere. It baffles me.
Ultimately, yes, but that's a rather short-sighted position to take when there's an cadre of psychologists and other highly-trained people who's entire job is to entrap you further, just so someone can make (more) money.

Eg when you buy items at the grocery store, do you consciously examine all options, including the items on the bottom shelf by your feet, or do you just go for the items at eye level, and are thus tricked by a similar group of psychologists into buying the product you've been trained to want. And even if you, personally, do, there's a reason why product companies pay supermarkets to have their products at eye/arm level - it works.
It’s better than Wordle, which is offering one word per day.

It’s not like he’s getting rich off three dollars a month. He’s providing a free service.

Does Wordle have a link to their inspiration?

I support people being creative, if he wants to earn a few bucks and disrupt the word game market with a new business model, fine by me.
In my very anecdotal observation – these small downtown areas don't rely on retail as much as food and entertainment. It's where the best restaurants, brewpubs, and general hangouts are.

If there is retail, it's _highly_ differentiated from Big Box.
The Thinking About Things newsletter was a great way to discover intesting content, but they seem to be on haitus.

[0] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/
Guy was trying to say "Greetings gentlemen, allow me to introduce myself" but all they heard was "Gweetings gentwemen, awwow me tuwu intwoduce mysewf".
Sure, I'm not suggesting that it's as easy or as comprehensive as UBI, of which I'm a strong and longtime supporter.

I'm saying that the existence of this weaker alternative is illuminating: there's a non-trivial subset of the population for whom this is an option, including many OSS maintainers, and they don't seem especially jazzed about the idea of making an income that's 10% of what their skills could bring in.
Part of the problem is tornado watches are very commonplace in the midwest. Business never close because of them. Little league games would be canceled, you'd keep an eye on the weather, would stay inside, etc., but its not like a hurricane.

If this was an atypical storm that meteorologists saw coming well in advance, then the emergency alert system should have been activated with a warning that made it clear that this was not like a normal storm--shelter in place or something like that.

But in the ~30 years I spent in the midwest we never had anything like that happen--preemptive shutdown for tornadoes.
The economics of climate change by William Nordhaus [video]
In the US, I assume administration and materials (vendors for everything from desks to books). The US teacher's unions have been regressive for decades, wherein costs have gone up without the union being able to get better compensation. Ofc the employment benefits that teachers get is no sneeze. Retirement, healthcare+for your children until their 20s is something special (at least it was when my mom was a teacher).
> Isn't this the same point as "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"? While that statement is objectively true, the fact remains that Facebook amplifies and benefits from sensational posts.

And yet simply looking at Switzerland or Vermont, countries/States with a high number of guns per capita and an extremely low rate of gun violence, tells us a different story.
> Spot on. False positives are part of the game when you're trying to improve on $1.3MM revenue/employee.

Algorithmic moderation will always have false positives. The question is how you deal with them: Do you have an appeals process that involves human review or do you just say "sucks to be you" and let the false positive be the user's problem?

In a similar way, car accidents will always happen. However the car industry decided (not completely on their own) to invest in safety so that when accidents do happen, they are less deadly.

> Anybody at any internal discussion would probably disagree with this, instead saying something along the lines of "there may be deficiencies with our support process but we can always improve them later on."

The mythical time of "later on". When exactly would that be?

And yes, you can always improve anything. This is a vaguely pleasant-sounding non-statement.
> There’s no reason to require every static site in the world to be encrypted in transit.

Yes, there is. Encryption doesn't just provide privacy, it also provides authentication. Being able to tamper with downloadable code (i.e. javascript) in transit is a nonstarter. Everything needs to be authenticated, and the way we authenticate data from a webserver in 2021 is by using TLS.

Ban port 80.
Why Tor over something like tailscale? Works out of the box, and they take care of all the fancy network traversal for you and you get essentially direct connection level speeds.
"Be yourself!" cried the attractive, socially adept and successful person to the pungent, unshaved, overweight college-dropout loser in a ratty Futurama t-shirt who lives in a friends' basement and struggles to pay the exceedingly lenient rent.

"On second thought," the savvy adept said, "Strive to become the person you wish you were and hope that people will like who that is."
> 4 & 5) They do work - I promise. Also consider a head covering (beanie/hat or something).

I'm not sure why it seems to be so common for people to be so persistent about increasing core temperature to make extremities comfortable. It's probably good advise for life and death scenarios to keep your extremities workable, but I can assure you that it's not an uncommon occurrence in the winter for my hands to be freezing while im sweltering elsewhere.

I usually have the opposite relation with core temp and extremities where covering my feet or hands makes up a much more significant temperature difference while inside. All else the same, socks vs no socks is a significant difference between being comfortable and not based on the temperature.
I wonder how much time he would need to set up npm+typescript+Babel+webpack workflow for a fullstack development with shared modules between the FE and the BE without copying someone’s repository.
Stay here on Earth and let us go.
FLCL was created by much of the same team as NGE, so that makes sense!
> do we trust governments to be arbiters of truth?

You already do, might as well accept it. The government funds science, makes some decisions about education, and makes laws based on what it thinks is true. Some of it is always wrong, but it's not as wrong as idiots on Facebook. And the goverment is something that is (somewhat) controlled by the people, more so than Facebook.
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That would be tax fraud in two separate countries, and depending on local laws, a crime in the country the individual is working from.

Connecting through a corporate VPN to the corporate network wouldn't shield your location, and I'm not aware of any company that lets employees connect using their own VPNs? With corporate VPN connections, it's usually pretty easy to trace back to the geographic area of the connecting IP, and IT generally keeps logs of these.

While most companies are cool with short term remote work in other countries (especially for employees who do not work on revenue-generating products or services), undisclosed long term remote work is generally grounds for for-cause termination.
Create sock puppets and promote through them..."organically."
Nonpartisan reporting about local election administration and voting access
We're talking about processors here, not random semiconductors that have no market incentives to move to newer process nodes.

Let's say you've got a team of engineers ready to design the next generation of their 64-bit RISC-V core. You've just completed your 12nm design, and are trying to target where the market will be in 24-48 months when your new design is finished. Are you going to:

a) design a new core targeting the same 12nm node your previous design was built on
b) target a newer 7nm node that gives you:
1) lower power from the node shrink
2) higher clock speeds thanks to the node shrink
3) higher performance thanks to increased execution resources made possible because of the node shrink
4) lower cost thanks to smaller die sizes made possible by the node shrink

Most teams of electrical engineers will select option (b).

I am not saying there is no value in older semiconductor fabs. I am saying that for CPUs, there is serious market pressure is to move on to more advanced nodes, and that for a company like GloFo it is becoming less competitive and falling behind in the market for CPUs. Personally, I consider this a bad thing for a fab that came into being in part because it was once a performance leader with high end AMD CPUs. Sure they can change what market they're targeting - that's just survival - but it's generally a bad thing to lose what was once one's greatest strength.
Exactly — this would require reprojecting on every frame, which is too expensive, while we designed the feature to only do this once when loading a tile.
Handsome people statistically make significantly more money than others. Statistically, people in jail are much less handsome than the general population. Salaries are statistically higher for taller people as well, by the inch.

Forcing Hollywood to hire fewer attractive actors and more unattractive actors will meaningfully transfer lucrative roles to less attractive people.
Brotli is heavily tuned for "web stuff". It's literally got a built-in dictionary full of commonly used HTML fragments:

https://gist.github.com/klauspost/2900d5ba6f9b65d69c8e
FLCL was a collaboration of Gainax (who made NGE) and Production IG.

Also, I feel that FLCL is a more true coming of age story than a commentary on teenage psychology. You're taken along for the ride too, so the viewer can connect on multiple levels if they're also coming of age. That's in part why I enjoyed it so much as a teen.
Maybe because it is in a lot of foods naturally?

https://foodb.ca/compounds/FDB003048#associated_foods

Supposedly, it tastes like cardboard.
This is very common in Japan, it is honestly very cringe-inducing to see Western males coming off this way, it seems needy and submissive more than anything.
That is the advertiser's fault. /s
I'm not convinced :)

Admittedly the largest project I'm working on is mostly in TS now, and I probably get most of the benefits of the import syntax even if require is used under the hood (including linters, which I think worked even before we switched to typescript).
Small towns in the US already work similarly to European towns, though a bit more straightforward (pun intended).

The town itself is pretty self-sufficient, usually has a co-op, general store, single main road going through downtown, sidewalks, etc.

Larger cities do have suburbs like you're describing, but generally they do have their own amenities like fast food courts / grocery stores / school systems near the entrances of the housing developments, the commuting is generally only because of work, which hopefully we can make more remote to ease traffic for physical workers.
I’m convinced
> Ultra dark gray and ugly aesthetics

> A GUI can follow 1995 principles without being an oppressive grey and ugly icons

> Compare the quality and thought given to Windows 98 dialogs and windows compared to this GNU software in 2021.

The NeXTSEP/GNUstep look is a little older than Windows 98, and I agree is a little less clean looking than Windows 98, but it's in no way ugly or oppressive. In fact it was a refreshing and highly acclaimed design at the time, and IMHO it still holds up pretty well three decades later.
Boz is 50% right but would be 100% right if they ditched the business model that leads them to be incentivized into spying on people and feeding them misinformation they'll click on.
Imagine getting a fine for speeding but without revealing the location where you were speeding. What size do these companies need to be before we get some consumer protection regulations
There are some problems even with dynamic asset loading in Unity that make creating a very smooth, very clean experience very difficult to achieve.

1) Asset bundles are the Unity "favored" means of supporting dynamic content. However, they are extremely heavy and have to be authored in the Unity editor. So you could do things like release new levels for an offline game, or new environments and items for a MMO, but user-generated content gets really hard to do. It's possible, with running the Unity editor headless, but that's so fraught with peril that it really shouldn't be considered.

2) Primitive, binary assets like textures and audio tracks are the easiest thing to load over the 'net in Unity, but last I checked, decoding them was still implemented on the UI thread. The download itself happens off-thread, but you'll have too large of a performance hit for devices like the Oculus Quest 2 with even a few textures: you will drop frames all over the floor. It's so bad that I had to find, fix, and compile in a full C# implementation of JPEG just to support dynamic texture loading without dropping frames on HoloLens 1, Oculus Go, and Quest 1. I quit using Unity by the time Quest 2 came out, but it's not so much more powerful that it would move the bar far enough.

3) Again, for primitive assets, the raw, decoded data may not be the final format that you want. To use memory efficiently, there are compressed texture formats that are supported directly in GPUs. Surprise, surprise, there is no 100% cross-platform format, so tool's like Binomial's Basis can transcode between formats. This is built into Unity's asset pipeline; if you start life with a PNG file for your image, statically loaded in your Unity scene, it will get transcoded into whatever compressed format the graphics APIs that your target operating systems support. Hence part of Unity's need to have target platforms specified.

4) For 3D models, you need to figure out where you want to lie on the spectrum of small, network-transmission friendliness vs. ease of parsing. That model will then need to be converted to Unity GameObjects and Meshes, which again, takes place on the UI thread. I know of no workaround for this, other than blanking the user's view out to black just before the object creation happens so they don't see the dropped frames.

If all you're making is a card game on smartphones, nobody is going to notice dynamic asset loading causing dropped frames because your "loading" screen isn't tied to their face. But in VR, it's basically table stakes, and Unity makes half of it very hard and the other half impossible.
Maybe you ought to pay more attention to what it actually says instead of getting upset at what is obviously a generalization about the overreaction to COVID when it comes to young children-

>A smaller subset of states reported on hospitalizations and mortality by age; the available data indicate that COVID-19-associated hospitalization and death is uncommon in children.

Here's a more accurate representation -

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Deaths-by-Sex-Ages-0-18-years/xa4b...

Now, go look up how many of those kids were already immuno-compromised.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937e4.htm?s_cid=mm...

That's just one report that mentions 75% with an underlying medical condition.

When people say it doesn't kill kids they're generalizing, flagging it as misinformation is completely silly. By percentages and how we react to every other virus this is NOT something we should be scared of when it comes to children. We certainly shouldn't be subjecting children to measures that may cause psychological and developmental harm for something that's VERY unlikely to be a threat to them.
What I've seen from others and what I've read in attempted quantitative reviews is that Kaiser quality, perhaps not surprisingly, varies by region and facility. I don't know if anybody has invented a management strategy which can truly remove this variance.

Qualitatively, as a patient, I'd say the biggest difference with Kaiser is that you engage something more like a government bureaucracy. You do not get complicated billing adventures when you go to your Kaiser clinics, hospitals, etc. But, you do get some long waits, occasional referral limbo, and sometimes indifferent treatment from overworked nurses or clerical staff. Of course, there are still individuals involved in each care event. I have seen two different family members have different levels of satisfaction and frustration from the same facilities, and my take is that the personalities of the patients had more to do with the different experiences than the facility or staff.

I liken Kaiser to going to the DMV for treatment. This is most true as a young to middle-aged person, where your common care needs might be for unplanned, urgent care rather than periodic checkups or predictable chronic care. I know others who have used Kaiser in the same regions for more chronic and acute conditions including psychiatric, metabolic, and geriatric care. I have been reasonably impressed and would like to keep myself in the same system when I retire and grow old.

I may be biased by having known the system since I was a child, but I prefer this to the non-HMO US experience I know mostly second hand. Instead of the DMV, I've had friends and relatives liken their healthcare to engaging a car dealership or some boutique investment firm, with every interaction transactionalized and tinged with financial worry.
RSS is obsolete because it does not enable tracking and advertisements.
Well, ideally, compilers should be compiling into CMOV vs Branching decisions much better.

I'm shocked, but not that shocked (https://tenor.com/view/shocked-gif-5787388), that compilers today still are weaker than a dedicated raw-assembly programmer in these kinds of microarchitectural decisions. Even with what should be normal 64-bit code with compilers that have very good modeling of throughputs / latencies per instruction.

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I'm now more curious as to which compilers can turn the raw C-code into a cmov and which compilers turn the code into the less efficient form (I assume branching??)
Tor is private and free and decentralized. Tailscale is none of those things, and requires signup.
Pretty sure they're mostly in the wallet.
> On 13 April 2019, two days after his arrest in London by British police, Le Monde editorialised: ‘Before we discuss the fate of whistleblowers battling secretive states, we must consider two self-evident facts. First, Julian Assange is answerable to the law, like anyone else ... Second, [he] is no friend to human rights.’ Why not? Because ‘this anti-American activist usually targets the secrets of democratic nations, rarely those of totalitarian states.’ In other words, he should target Russia more often, and go easier on the US.
“The results show that the total life cycle cost favors heating electrification in all cases and combining PV with heat pumps can reduce residential building GHG emissions by up to 50% immediately. This effect will grow over time, with over 90% reduction of building emissions if renewable energy targets are met. In using primary energy and emissions along with the multi-dimensional sensitivities, this study uniquely demonstrates the complex techno-economic interactions of PV and heat pumps. It is concluded that electrification is an economically viable decarbonization method for cold climates both now and in the future.”

This is expected but tremendous news, as it means no technical innovation is required, simply financial support and trades work to replace legacy HVAC systems with heat pumps to drastically reduce GHG emissions from building energy use.