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> Ethereum Rollups are much more promising L2 solutions.

Your biases are blatant for all to see. But misinforming people to serve your interests is really uncalled for.

> Lightning has very little adoption, is hard to use because 1. you need to always be online to receive transactions and 2. routing is failure-prone, and costly in capital lock up - in an internet-connected hot-wallet no less - for payment channel collateral requirements.

Actually, Square via CASH App just enabled LN tx on it app to both iOS and Android users; so if you want to play the numbers game that is a significant onboarding--perhaps the largest in the entire ecosystem to date.

With that said, you don't have to run a node to take advantage of low tx fees: DL Muun wallet and you now have the ability to receive funds from both mianchain and LN without running a node.

FYI: Mempool on BTC mainnet is is clearing 1 sat/byte transactions (approx 5 cents.)
How does a correction help if the money has been stolen? Surely if it was that simple everyone could just “correct” legit transactions too?
Article looks and sounds like clickbait. One of the fundamental aspects of starlink is the internet access and speed you will get. That doesn't seem to be covered here. You took down your starlink because you couldn't transfer it to someone else, are afraid of the damage starlink is doing to astronomy, and you don't like the design decisions about the new dish that you don't even have? Sorry, this doesn't make any sense.
There are vocational nursing programs that are accelerated to just a few semesters. I think that’s about as close as it gets to a fast program that gets you to employable status.
The matplotlib documentation is very good, especially if you've used it before. However, it can be confusing when not using pyplot:

https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/index.html
IMHO at the margins, bad actors did make what was bad worse. But I think the crisis would have happened regardless.

> The bad actors being the people who did not do proper underwriting and verification (“liar loans” or “stated income loans”)

It's funny that somehow people want to hold people who lie on loan applications blameless. Aren't the victims of the bad underwriters the people they sold the loans to?

"You should have known I was lying and not lent me the money."

(I don't deny that predatory lending exists, but I don't think it was a major contributor to the crisis. I think home buyers and underwriters colluded because they were afraid of missing out on a hot housing market. And for many years this had been the right decision. And back to my original point, when it became the wrong decision, people looked for a simple answer, preferably a one in which they were blameless.)
I won't regret it, all of this is just more complicated ways of turning money into more money and is totally unnecessary. If working for a living isn't enough and I have to start spending time on DeFI or crypto to stay afloat then I would just rather die, this stuff is dystopian.
Myfonts.com WhatTheFont feature is incredibly useful. I've gone through the list of Garamonds before by hand and it's tedious work.
But isn't this over HTTPS? I know the DNS lookup may leak the domain, but that's heavily cached.

I think its just network analysis or possibly even those caching servers that are run by ISPs which hold onto content network's most heavily used files.
Mathematicians Prove 30-Year-Old André-Oort Conjecture
> Going from this hellscape to whatever is going on in Stockholm would definitely be an improvement

Are you sure?:

"Sweden has not built enough rental(s) ... meaning long queues for rent-controlled housing ... average waiting time was 9 years in 2020" [1]

"...fuelled a thriving sub-letting or "second-hand" market, with "first-hand" renters and owners alike offering apartments to tenants for very high prices, despite regulations designed to stop people being ripped-off." [2]

"70% of local authorities reported a housing shortage in 2020." [1]

"...strict rent controls discourage developers from building and individuals from renting out vacant properties..." [1]

"Generous mortgage tax breaks encourage households to buy property and the combination has forced up house prices and household borrowing to levels that threaten the economy" [1]

"Home prices have risen around 18% over the last year alone" [1]

"Regulations ... are also fuelling market instability" [2]

"'I have a lot of friends who are struggling - moving many times per year,' says Maria Grigorenko, a 29-year-old brand manager in Stockholm" [2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/sweden-housing/factbox-dysfu...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555
If the tech is good it will speak for itself, you shouldn't need to ask people to leave you alone....
You are right. But the reason is not because we are broken. It is because our tools are not intelligent enough to compliment our tendency to forget. I didn't find a single bookmarking system that reminded me of links I wanted to read later.

I wrote this as a manifesto - https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater and later went on to build a version of that vision not because I wanted to beat that idea to death, but just to scratch my own itch.
Why do we have to 'be in awe'? That sounds like marketing copy.
Delivers on the title, well done. Half the time on HN I am disappointed to find that I have mistakenly clicked on an article about some new software framework that has co-opted common words to make me think I’m about to read something more interesting.
It made me chuckle. What makes it funny is that it is almost a direct quote from Elon to investors this week.

It would have been less controversial if they added a link for context. Most readers here won't know that Elon just doubled down on his FSD claims.

"After years of delays and hype-filled tweets, Elon Musk now claims that Tesla’s full self-driving feature will release in 2022 and that the technology is safer than human drivers. The exact quote from the most recent Tesla investors call is,

“I would be shocked if we do not achieve Full Self-Driving safer than human this year. I would be shocked,”

https://mobilesyrup.com/2022/01/31/elon-musk-says-self-drivi...
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> participate in no-loss lotteries

This is such a charade. The money for the pool comes from somewhere: it's the returns you would otherwise accrue on the money you need to invest in the pool in order to play the lottery. There are definitely still losers; you're just losing your potential future interest instead of the money you have on hand today.

Things like this only serve to highlight that the principal interest of the vast majority of crypto/defi proponents is to make money for nothing (and chicks for free?) But there is no free lunch. Someone always loses, regardless of how clever we are at masking the loss.
$240 per month for internet, wow. I didn't realise things were that expensive for people living in remote areas.

I'm currently paying ~$40 (converted from EUR) per month for a 100Mb/s fiber connection.
I've had Starlink in Rural AR for 10 months now.

I have it currently set to "failover only" on my Ubiquiti device, as it's snowing sideways and there is a tremendous (read: 30%) amount of packet loss at the moment.

I don't yet know how to do automatic failover due to packet loss on a UBNT device, but that's what I'm looking up this afternoon.

Anyways - I have 3 ISPs, with two of them being LTE. One is the unlimited ATT iPad plan, since I have a router that currently identifies as an iPad (so modern) with the other being TMobile home internet.

Up until this snow storm, I had both of the LTE connections in failover only mode, using Starlink exclusively since about November, when there was an update that stopped the "disconnect all active sessions every ~45 minutes when I lose physical sight of the satellite I was connected to" problem. I guess that was when sat to sat communication came online in my longitude.

I will also note that my IP has been static on Starlink for about 2 weeks now, which is the longest it's ever been. It's still CGNAT, so multiplayer game hosting is mostly out, unless the game handles it. Most don't.

Overall it's a decent thing, but I would recommend at least one backup ISP for those rural or thinking of going rural. LTE Hacks group on Facebook can help you tremendously if you are considering buying a place outside the range of normal wired connections.

It's kind of funny that snow took it down 1 day after I started looking at the premium option, which I'm considering if I can get my workplace to pay $300 per month, with me covering the other $200. Kind of dulls the excitement for that...
BYOC :-(
I see what you're saying, but really the problem there is that Gates didn't even really get the internet (Microsoft was famously late to the party) and was a poor evangelist for it as a result. He wasn't good at explaining its benefits and Letterman was rightly skeptical. I'd have asked the same questions and I had used the internet in 1995!

There are a lot of people promoting Web3 who can't explain why it is any good in such a way that anyone can see the potential. That's on them, not the skeptics. If there is actually some real value to the concept, then someone out there should be able to explain it. And if that's impossible but the benefits are real, then who cares? It'll eventually make its value clear just like the internet eventually did and why care about that now? Oh right... because the scam doesn't work without the FOMO part.
That was a dumb prediction. Climate change is guaranteed to change which places are livable in the United States. It’s anyones guess how much of an affect it will have, though.
And does a scary warning come up when you first open one of the Apple apps to disallow cross app tracking?
You don't need this extension. You can use the search box on eatkind.co. No sign-in required.

The extension makes it simpler to see the whole recipe along with the instructions and video while you may need recommendations or suggestions to vegnaize it.
American friends, please note: excessive usage of 'awesome' really grates.
In terms of monetization, isn't it more profitable to sell ads to decision-makers aka older people, than to kids and teens?
> Why? If someone wants to use a phone number for their identifier, fine. But make it optional

Network effects.

If you’re only findable via custom handle versus the phone number your network already has, you’ve reduced the network’s value to your contacts. Put another way, if I join a messaging service and it says two of my contacts are on it (but many more may be), that’s close to a non-starter.
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For me it's the opposite.
It doesn’t feel dishonest to me - if the employee isn’t sharing company secrets and is doing what the employer asks of them, isn’t it the employer’s job to figure out what the employee should be capable of doing in 40 hours and handle performance review accordingly? To me it feels more like balancing the asymmetry between the employer/employee relationship. If the employer only owes money for results and is reasonably happy with the results, why would the employee owe anything beyond that? They certainly aren’t going to be compensated commensurate to the extra time spent, especially if they are intelligent enough to be 2/3/4x as productive as everyone else on their team.
Do arguments like this withstand any scrutiny? Recreational marijuana isn't some crazy idea anymore. Are families falling apart in states that have legalized pot?
I personally believe the vast majority of advertisements are nothing more than mental pollution. While there is a place and time for promotion, I feel like there should be spaces specifically designed for advertisements. I have no problem whatsoever with businesses trying to get my attention when I specifically look for some relevant service. I’m not talking about peppering my search results with interstitial content, but rather, going to a website designed to find and purchase products or to find services/contractors for hire.
It's only unusual if you make the mistake by thinking about it in terms of US $320 million hard fiat currency.

That's probably NOT what's going to happen.

It's most likely going to be 320 million USDT (Tether) or an equivalent amount of ETH (which was most probably purchased with Tether).
>But you'll be regretting that you didn't. I can tell you that for sure.

You have financial interest in spewing propaganda like this.
The blockchain is public. If the hacker(s) try that, it would be know and the funds will tracked as they move across coins and accounts .

They could use a mixer to launder the funds but that may make it even harder to cash out because exchanges will lock your account if u deposit from an address that's remotely related to a mixer output address.
Yeah, he was a reaal pain to work with and it made me completely abandon the project.
My biggest gripe is the fact I can't transfer it to my cousin, who lives on a farm with 300 Kbps DSL, 70 miles away.

Back when preorders started, it wasn't obvious how slow Starlink would be to expand, and it also wasn't obvious transfers wouldn't be a supported feature for many months.

Even so, my cousin also signed up in hopes to get Starlink, and 11 months later her date was moved from 'late 2021' to 'late 2022'.

And yes, I've tried many address hacks to see if I could get my dish moved there, none have worked.

They shouldn't have dropped the 'beta' moniker last year if the service is truly so far from its final state (IMO).
How did you get your friends to switch?

I have tried and, dude, my group will just not change from their pre-installed messaging apps, except for 2 of them. They don't care that it's more secure (arguably) or that you can pull it up on your computer (my main reason for using it), they just have no interest.
Have you had a look at Threema?
So far the best compromise I found (and I found it here on HN, btw) was historio.us, which I have used for a couple years so far, with fairly good results (for my use case, at least).
I do wish more services permitted annual or multi-year billing.
Threema is around and well, though it's userbase is relatively small.
Both companies have to keep evolving to stay relevant, yes.

One is declining and reviled, and the other is growing and seen as fun.

That’s the only difference.
>4. Be in awe that we can have such applications without any 3rd party.

You just have multiple random third parties.
The most people don’t understand their own requirements. For example before Apple’s privacy features, Facebook (Meta) could try to guess the message contents with certain probablity based on other app usage. (Facebook trackers on different apps and cross-app tracking)
There is an ongoing effort to port those games from David Ahl's book into modern languages. It includes Hammurabi, if you'd like to experience it on a modern system: https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/tree/m...

This was previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188324
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A well written article. I am looking at a copy of Minima Moralia on my bookshelf that I don't think I've opened since I was in my early 20s, 25+ years ago, and I might spend some time today flipping through it.

What I remember from it -- and the pieces of his book "Negative Dialectics" that I think it shares some content with -- is a deep and profound critique of Martin Heidegger, German pre-war existentialism, Romanticism, holism philosophy which left themselves open to impregnation by fascism. In Germany in the the 20s and 30s right wing authoritarianism freely absorbed adherents of the equivalent of today's "wellness" and "natural health" movements, who became allies in their opposition to modernism, communism, and the chaos of democracy. Heidegger himself was beguiled by the mystical quasi-spiritual language of the fatherland and blood and soil. Adorno saw this as it was happening and was disgusted.

So there are definitely parallels with today that are worth paying close attention to.
Right? All those people who spoke out about Madoff's scheme look like IDIOTS now, just one of the critics. It's the ones who were hyping him up even as federal charges were being laid that were real geniuses.

/sarcasm

"Web3" needs MORE critics, not fewer. With brand-new multi-million dollar consequence-free hacks, rug-pulls, and general pyramid schemery happening seemingly on the daily, the critics need to be _louder_ than all of the hucksters and deluded hopefuls.
Pretty sure this was known since last year[0], although it may be slightly different.

The smaller firms are just alphabet soup remixes of the larger ones. I wouldn't be surprised if they have the same owners, same staff, same offices -- just with a different logo at the top of a second set of business cards.

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium.HIGHL...
Yes, I understand. I set up my first AS in the 90's, back when you were considered a god if you had a T1 line. We had two T1's, one to MCI and another to BBN!
I said that in the most sincerity. I find of all the stoics, Seneca is by far the most based in the real world.

All I feel is your comment degrading me.

I recommend Seneca exactly because I interact with real people and feel his written thoughts express very well why there are many people who can work on a project worth millions and not steal anything.

Sorry if it came off any other way, really.
That's a different point than what I think the OP was making, and it's not entirely accurate either (except in a relative sense). For it to be completely correct, buying power would have to move identically with prices, and it does not. There have been many periods and places in history where the median income earner can afford a top 20% home (but may not choose to), and many other periods where the median income earner can only afford a bottom 20% home, and may instead choose to rent. What we've seen over the past decades is an acceleration of price ahead of buying power, pushing more people into renting, and leading to an accumulation of multiple properties in the hands of a smaller number of wealthier people (or institutions like Blackstone).
I don't know what you're talking about. It's always been commercially viable.
So basically I tried to solve the 'Bookmark Problem' by creating a simple user focused search engine, user builds a list of bookmarks, and the app, Mrkff, allows you to search your bookmarks as if it were google, but tailored to your own content.

If you would allow me to plug my own personal bookmarking app - Mrkff [0] - pronounced `Mark off`. I went through YC in 2019 for it, and I launched it in 2020.

I also built a cross-platform web-extension for it too using a small framework (Desolate-Zero) I made for the web extensions to make use of all the features of both chrome and firefox. It just a simple click extension and click bookmark and the server takes care of the rest.

Basically I opted to make a full-text searchable version of every webpage I bookmark. A copy is also stored on the server, I intended to paywall downloading the actual webpage text, but make it searchable in the free version. This way I can search for obscure words or phrases that were on the webpage that I remembered while not remembering the actual webpage. I had an auto tag system on it too derived from the actual text of the web page. V2 is set to expand from text to video, pdf, audio etc.

I had a lot of fun with it, but this version is lacking in certain aspects, and I've spent the last 6 months working on version 2 of this app. I certainly didn't know how widespread this type of app was to be honest. But I use my solution on the daily, so I'll probably continue working on it.

[0] - https://mrkff.com
Yes, but things we actually care and prove to be Turing complete are not. There’s no up front memory limitation in the lambda calculus or Javascript or Prolog.
So he says that he wanted to give the dish to his cousin. Then he describes all the bureaucratic barriers he faced in that plan. But what happens if he just places the dish there? Does it immediately give an error on first connection, or doest it get banned later?

I understand that the limit is because Starlink is oversubscribed in the cousin's area, I'm just wondering where the limitation is enforced.
im pretty sure that's just called an api
Listen, I'm a big legalization supporter, but comparing cannabis to tomatoes is silly and disingenuous. Tomatoes don't get you high.
What all of this points out is that Facebook never really solved the "MySpace/Friendster" problem, they just had the better product at the right time and were able to get a few more years of safety by acquiring threats (which is not a long term strategy).

It's wild that FB has become such a highly valued company despite the fact that they have always been resting on rather shaky foundations.

We can also start to see Goodhart's Law in action at scale. Running your company by constantly optimizing for metrics (as so many startups mimic now) eventually does catch up to you. The vitriolic content that initially got them massive engagement eventually gets more and more people repulsed by the service.

In the end, just like MySpace and Friendster, there is nothing that really prevents users from exiting from the platform extremely fast once the tide of the network effect turns the other way.
>If you only use your Quest 2 once a month you've demonstrated my point: there is a barrier to using it.

Which barrier? People can game twice a month due to lack of time, not because of a barrier from the device. And those two times a month they have the time to game, they want to jump into the game directly, not do OS/driver/game updates first.

That's one of the reasons the Quest destroyed the Valve index in sales and why consoles are more popular then PCs for gaming.
I get your argument but remember a lot of users aren't in the united states.

In India, Amazon prime is around $1.5/ month. Same $2.5 for Netflix mobile only basic plan.

My point is, $5/month might sound reasonable for most folk in the us but outside that, with purchasing power greatly reduced to a factor of 1:80 for example with India and USA conversion rate, these sound very expensive.

So my question is, should I pay netflix the privilege to enable me to not pirate because its easier or pay double to signal for something like matrix can give for free or self hosted at my own cost?

I don't pay for any of the said services because I find those prices too much so there is no way I could be bothered to use signal and pay for it.

I would rather set up a matrix server at a lowendbox vps, pay for annual subscription and get all my friends over. I pay for fun of learning about stuff, managing it and knowing I control the data