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The article discusses two main points (apparently from a book, but I am not going to read that one before commenting):

* Infrastructure

* Services

On the infrastructure side it proposes community owned access to the internet as an alternative to few, often a single, commercial provider for access. These partially already exist (as discussed in the article) but not as widespread as people would want and, worse, got hampered by local laws forbidding these local organizations in many US cities (as far as I remember at least).

This seems relatively straight forward and with removal of those laws this could be practices fairly easily for the last-mile problem. For the backbone this is not a solution though. If that was to be "community owned" it would be equivalent to the government running it on the national scale and unclear on how to run the international connections and who shouold own and operate them. As far as I can tell, the privat sector doesn't do a too shabby job at running those (besides major security problems with BGP...).

On the services side, the article seems to take a "protocols over platforms" stance, that seems to be popular on HN, too. It leaves open some questions for me, though: What if people do not switch? How to handle existing platforms with severe vendor lock-in or network effects?

I think those open questions are not easy or straight forward to answer and that's why the article only goes for the anyways-popular approaches. Although, I don't think the north-korea and china examples are good "deprivatized internet" examples. I have no idea of the north korean internet, but for chinas great firewall my imperssion is it is an enforcement tool for locality and local laws, the internet itself is as privatized as it is outside of it - centralized platforms, some p2p things, ads, tracking and run by mostly private companies.

Maybe something like minitel and other original competitors are more of an example for state managed internet. I am by no means educated well on minitel, but afair companies had to register with a central authority to host a service, which cuased severe friction and protectionism problems.
> Instead, he presents a model of a “protocolized” social media with a proliferation of small communities that can interact with one another and where public funding is available for media.

Kinda like Mastodon, except you get to fight over who controls the government funds that everyone's supposed to depend on.
I did this same experiment to make my sourdough starter. Would recommend
> We're doing all we can

Except, you know, not kick people off your platform.
Not op but I’ve got 25 years of daily computer use under me. I’m tired of having to read manuals and try to figure out the latest popular app. Software should be better these days, more intuitive to use, more interoperability between applications, data should be even more portable.

This isn’t to say I don’t enjoy learning apps anymore, I just have to guard my time more wisely.
The important thing is that it be easily accessible...printed for example. No, you don't want all your passwords on a piece of paper. But pointers to where the passwords are, how someone can get emergency access to them, as well as locations of other accounts, documents, etc. is what's important.
That was exactly the kind of insight I was looking for, thanks!
Sadly, it is also deeply rooted.

The US is very highly propagandized. It is proving quite effective.
Were you around during the last recession in the field?
I am just wondering your experience
Yes. For some reason programming culture repeatedly fails to realise that if you want to group languages into two buckets by performance with one being "like C" and the other being "like Python" then all the languages you list (except maybe JS) belong in the "like C" bucket.
It vanishes much in the same way it is created -- just in reverse.
But we already have this technology in a far more efficient form. It's called a ticket.
It’s always bette for your reputation to cut a product entirely, than to come back and say it’s $1000 per support ticket when support tickets were previously free.
On the topic of tiling window managers, has anyone been using Qtile on Wayland extensively? Can't seem to get used to the i3/sway flow and Qtile looks promising in having a very flexible tiling model and being easy to customize, while working across X11 and Wayland.

This talk is from 2011 so that should hopefully make it pass the Lindy threshold ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_8om4dsEmw

EDIT: Wayland support seems to be on the way but there are some outstandings: https://github.com/qtile/qtile/discussions/2409
> I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted, this seems factual.

I’ll make a guess at why. Because some folks in the US who want universal healthcare have a misunderstanding of what that actually means to make it affordable. Any comment criticizing or expressing what might be perceived as negative of any aspect of “European style healthcare” (as if that is a singular thing) will get downvoted by these folks. They have a belief that the level of end of life care most folks currently receive in the US will continue. Their 89 year old grandmothers with cancer are still going to get experimental and expensive chemotherapy all the way up to her dying breath.

And don’t you dare suggest that she is not!
> But they're not the only problem.

No, but they're literally more than 50% of bugs, in my experience, so they're a bigger problem than all your other problems put together.
I was not familiar with the publisher posting this article, but briefly overlooked your comment before opening the link. At first glance, I was amused, genuinely thinking this article/website a interesting parody of making a website with all the dark patterns and implementation of sign-up-to-mailing-list/tracking/shopping/subscription/etc. and was excited thinking it was awesome someone was so aware of the problems with the internet today they encapsulated the issues into the website itself satirically.

But upon clicking around around further the author was indeed completely unaware of the irony of its own article.
I've heard that the Catholic Church considers baptism into the church to be for life, and can make it quite difficult for anybody to remove themselves from official registers. I don't know if there are any equivalent registers in Islam that you'd have trouble deregistering from.

Obviously, there are plenty of people around who consider themselves ex-Muslims or ex-Catholics, regardless of any such considerations. Likewise, for so-called cults, so I'm not convinced it's really a point of difference.
You drink close to a gallon of water a day. How often do you have to get IVs.
Doors. Get doors on the racks and screen print them with the company logo. It looks sharp, doesn't cost much, and hides a multitude of sins.
The 2.625% is capped at X spend, right? If not please please let me know
>No one is forced to be a Catholic.

Except for kids, and—historically—large swaths of various populations.
Another candidate to his list in place of the calc script is bc, which conveniently is 46 years old:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language)

I use it also for the most trivial stuff and is way more immediate than firing up any X based graphical calculator.
Please keep making Lua more relevant, I want to have more excuses to work with a scripting language that's popular in gamedev
You really think that HIPAA prohibits distributing any data at all, providing it has a fig leaf of being deidentified?

I mean, aside from Facebook, how do you think people do medical research? Data sets are available to the public.

Decades ago, somebody showed that deidentification was completely meaningless because with just a few data points almost everybody can be relinked.

You are probably the only person in your zip code, with your gender, and your birthdate (including the year).

Distributing that information with any medical record you ever had is not prevented by anything I know of. As long as your name and SSN is not with it.
For a personal project, the scope doesn't seem bad. There are a lot of edge cases in both e-commerce and food ordering, though. The delivery part is especially hairy.

For a commercial project, the client is making a huge mistake by hiring you to build something new. There are a dazzling number of inexpensive solutions that already do this and handle the edge cases. None of those would cost nearly as much as building and maintaining this.

There are also open-source options that would still be more expensive than using an existing SaaS, but still doable.
Cool project :-)
Not surprised by any of this. Feels like it comes from the top, culturally.

I had a terrible experience "onboarding" with Brex last year. They actually "approved" my bootstrapped startup and sent me a physical card only to rescind it a shortly thereafter, because--even though we met the funding minimum--it wasn't "professionally invested" on further review. Bootstrapping apparently required a $1MM minimum.

Here's what they told me:

"While being professionally invested is not a requirement for the Brex card with monthly payments, without professional investment, the minimum cash balance requirement shown in connected accounts is $1mm. If you're able to provide proof of XXXXX's professional investment, the minimum cash balance requirement shown in connected accounts is $50k."

Left a really bitter taste in my mouth. Won't ever use them.

Currently banking with Mercury and love it BTW.
> so those days are quite numbered now.

Yes, I've been hearing that for 14 years now about several workflows Wayland broke (remote clients, etc.) and it keeps not happening.
Banks that have their own banking license are better to work with imo. I hope you get one one day.
I wouldn’t use it in that case. I disable iCloud backups for iMessage, use Signal whenever possible, and encourage those I talk to to do the same. Privacy and security are important to me, and we’ve all seen how easy it is to fake an administrative subpoena.
Can't speed up nature

We can, with computers. Well, maybe not today, not at the atomic level, but quite possible in a few decades.
We’ve put $millions through Brex cash/cards and will leave over this. What’s the best deal Mercury can offer us to switch? yetis-extreme-0j@icloud.com
You should address the other points made in my response. And yet, you choose the last one and conveniently avoid everything else.

By the way, Godwin’s law[0]:
“Godwin’s law is the proposition that the longer an internet argument goes on, the higher the probability becomes that something or someone will be compared to Adolf Hitler.”

[0]: https://www.dictionary.com/e/memes/godwins-law/
They were extremely cheap, way more maneuverable and can be controlled right up to the moment of impact. A swarm of missiles can’t just hang around for something to happen.
Isn’t that the case with education in general. Most of it is online for free now. Why do we pay for college?
"Even in Google’s freewheeling office culture, which encourages employees to speak their own minds"

James Damore was fired for speaking his mind, he performed logical analysis, not hate speech and was fired.
> So given that most laptops sold by companies like Dell and Lenovo use soldered ram anyway, and that Intel and AMD both support LPDDR, then why are PC laptops with faster RAM so rare? I have no idea, maybe it costs a bit more and the manufacturers don't think they can market it as a benefit?

For consumers, the primary application that benefits from higher RAM bandwidth is real-time graphics rendering, and non-Apple PCs optimize for this by using discrete GPUs with their own onboard high-bandwidth memory.
This is called a guided missile, or a loitering munition, depending mostly on how quickly it gets to the target. They’ve been around for a while and are very useful but have not rendered tanks obsolete yet.
>One is run by the CCP

The CCP doesn't run 'the Chinese internet'. In many ways the Chinese digital sphere is even more privatized than its European or American counterparts given that its almost entirely built on the back of the vertically integrated private companies that the article attacks. It's why there's basically no comparable search giant to Google, not even domestic in China, everything is driven by proprietary platforms rather than protocols, as China largely leapfrogged over that phase.

Also discussed in the context of why there's so little long form blogging in China, here (https://yiqinfu.github.io/posts/walled-gardens-china/)
I'm one of those people who got similarly jerked around last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774174)
I'll take the random dice roll and my tax money.
And, right, this is why Wayland adoption is so low: the thought process is always "I don't use this personally so there's no point supporting it". And, I'll be the first to say: they're doing the work, so they get to decide what the product looks like. But this is why nobody uses it.
A Persistent Rope in Go
> Linux succeeded and defeated Microsoft in every single way that matters to open source people

I don't know, hardware still regularly does not support Linux, the Linux desktop has a risible fraction of the world's user base, popular apps still only exist for winmac.

It won on the server, sure, but that's hardly every single way that matters, at least from what I remember as an open source user in the '00s.
At a minimum, NFT's have facilitated the digitization of the art market. The digitization of film, books, music, games etc, has already happened. The art market was the last domino to fall, and it happened because of NFTs.

But PFPs of animals are going to zero.
I always just used my laptop.
It's a call to excise private ownership and replace it with government funding. That sounds like a "government takeover" to me.
This is it, a biz would never remove a customer otherwise
That is one interesting web site
Many providers assign IP addresses statically. In my country, many ISPs give you public static IP by default.
I don't know if you'll see this, but today I got a job offer for an 80% pay raise, and I get to take a whole month to rest before starting.

Coincidentally or not, this happened right after I decided to follow your advice and quit my job. Thank you.
Would it be bad PR? Then it could also make enterprise customers worry about the same happening in the future.

Love these strategy discussions
What is Brex?
hey, good luck with your first project

There are so many open source projects that would solve your problems.
Yes, setting up shopify for your client is one (easiest) way to go (at the expense of your client paying some percentage for every order)

Depending on your clients requirements, we can find a solution that works best for them

Reply here, ill try to help you
Moving between states is different from intrastate moves. What happens when you move within Houston?
Yeah but in nature these organisms are forced to adapt more as generalists to the large variety of environments they're exposed to

One of the most invasive species in the world is the argentine ant. Which evolved over many many years under a very specific set of conditions until one day they were exported by colonists and have basically taken over the world. It turns out that that intense Amazonian environment, one which is very rare to find anywhere else, just happened to be an amazing training ground to evolve certain traits that gave them the ability to take over the rest of the world

When you leave organisms in such specific conditions, there's always the chance that you're selecting for incredible fitness for a specific ability. A specific ability that might not evolve in a more diverse set of conditions because perhaps it doesn't pay off until it's sufficiently developed.

With argentine ants this might be how well adapted they are at having multiple queens and quickly reproducing to recover from any sort of damage
Yep, the credibility of the risk is in the wine suppliership, at the very least.
Last week they were demanding that dating sites be 'socialized'.

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/tinder-hinge-for-profit-dating-a...

It'll be interesting to see what must be 'socialized' next week.
I wasn't aware I was making any attempts to legitimize anything, I wasn't aware I had such authority in the subject. My intention was to make clear that I'm not a denier of this phenomenon.

Normally hypochondriacs are just mildly annoying, or at most waste some shared medical resources.

In this scenario they're likely making it substantially harder to identify root causes of long covid.

It's not helpful to act like they don't exist. I wonder what tools medical science has at its disposal to separate the noise from the signal, without getting into a situation John Snow must rescue us from.
It is not a "bad thing" per se.

But say, you meet up with someone and they say they watch plenty of baseball games. And you ask them, "who is your favorite baseball player?". If they answer, "can I answer with my favorite tennis player?" or they say "I don't have a favorite player", I would find equally bizarre and suspicious.

It reminded of an episode that happened to me a few years ago. A colleague was talking about a person we both knew (apparently) and he said, of course I know her, we spend time together, we went on vacation together, man, I don't remember her name now. Did they go on vacation together? Did they know each other? Did he have cognitive problems?

Now MA is a VC guy, a few decades ago he built Mosaic. I'm not saying he's not fantastic at building web browsers, he is a genius, but I find that if the same interview had been given by someone who gets less credit than the inventor of Mosaic, he would have been taken little seriously from that point on.

But I could say the same about Gross, who was interviewed along with Cowen during their "book tour." He has made tens of millions or more from technology, but during their interviews he appeared rather light on the intellectual side.
CDNs are already broken unfortunately. Both Firefox and Chrome use per-site caches [0].

But many sites serve their own resources via a CDN for performance and resilience reasons. The major CDNs have the capability to record a lot of history about where systems reachable at a certain IP address have been visiting online. And of course it's impossible for a site that works that way to ask your permission before doing so because it has no way to communicate with you first. The same is true for other services like DNS.

That's reasonable, and the GDPR doens't stop you from doing that, but it does mean that you must tell the user that you're loading it from a third party, ask permission to do so, and list the data that you're sharing with that party in exchange for them providing those resources.

Which is the problem. The logical end result would be like the "cookie consent" junk but much worse. Do we really want a WWW where every service someone encounters needs explicit permission to do its job even if that job is simply to send some generic information to the IP address that requested it? Are we all going to have to download the DNS records for the entire Internet to our local systems every few minutes as well? What about other things we do online that necessarily involving remote servers, like sending an email? Does every system involved in forwarding a message I send to a dozen friends now have to contact me (how?!) and obtain my permission before forwarding the message to the next link in the chain?

There ought to be some reasonable limits to protect privacy. I don't think a website for a medical facility should automatically use Google Maps to show a route from a patient's home address to their facility. But in that case the information request on the user's behalf is much more specific. It's not just the user at 127.0.0.1 visiting some (unknown) site that uses a popular web font for its text and the user's browser then fetches the relevant data from Google Fonts without asking first.
Why is the pricing so opaque? Lets say I have a small LLC with a couple of employees. Where do I see how much that costs?
Are you referring to me? My real name is linked in my profile and I can prove that:

a) I campaigned for independence in 2014

b) can prove that I was annoyed about the result

Of course, I cannot prove that I actually voted yes as it's a secret ballot. I can put you in touch with my mum though, who voted no. Perhaps she's lying too and she'll lie to you about what I said I'd voted for. She loves her son and we're into lying to people while using our real names… <insert relevant sarcasm emoji face>

Jesus wept. What is it with HNers who want to lie about others they disagree with politically, on HN? This isn't Facebook or Twitter.
On Lake Superior, a $1B eco-disaster is swallowing the coast
For all we know the manager could have even been a secret "Fellowship of Friends" member, or at least a sympathizer.
Simply not true. I own several Saturns and action replays since the 90's.

The Pseudo Saturn Action reply hack to circumvent disc checks was only within recent years released.
Ask HN: Is this a bear market for stocks or a correction?
The S&P 500 went below 2021 lows yesterday. Do you think we're in for a time of falling stock prices or will we get back to all-time highs soon like it has been happening for the last ~12 years?
The 1950s Medicine and Health: Topics in the News
You and roughly one-fifth of the Linux desktop userbase. And good for you! I'm really glad it works for your use cases. But when people say "Wayland isn't going to happen" they mean that one-fifth is going to asymptotically approach two-fifths, maybe, over time. Until Wayland has the capabilities of X ca. 2008 it's not going to replace X in actual use.
It seems like the system in fact pushed back on Martin's pricing
The client's requirements are pretty relaxed. Looking at pricing for shopify and stripe, they take the same transaction fees and shopify just adds a 29$/month charge, since the buisness is small enough I assume they would buy the basic plan.

The client is likely fine with either option, what I'm most interested in is getting a working result without getting stuck, while still learning as much as I can from this. I've had a lot of trouble finding a job so I am trying some solo projects to try to get my feet wet in the industry.
> Governments can barely manage a website,

I know, right? I mean, let's just compare them with leading edge telecoms/internet companies like Verizon, or T-Mobile, who for sure can demonstrate to all of us how to manage a basic internet task like "manage a website". Right?

Hmm, wait. What's that I'm hearing from the crowd? Verizon can't even make their login process work reliably? Their website is full of dead links and quite a few circular link chains? T-Mobile, surely they must be better? Well, less problems logging in, but the chat feature is often present and non-functional, information is out of date, and they can't ship anything to any address not directly served by the USPS (even though they do not use the USPS).

There's more. I've observed the basic, almost unbelievable website incompetence from cell/mobile companies in the UK, Germany and Spain.

By contrast, paying my taxes to the state government of New Mexico has become a remarkably efficient and actually pleasant experience, and across the Atlantic, the wonder that is gov.uk continues to improve.

So yeah, happy enough to give government a chance, just like we apparently have to keep giving chances to private corporations to figure this stuff out.
How much in fees do you have to pay? In a similar boat
Wealth went down, but you've only given one example.

Asset prices can change in response to asset values changing(like your example), estimates of asset values changing, liquidity problems, and risk preference changes. And it can feed on itself.

In some of those cases real wealth is lost, in others, it's just people throwing around different bids and offers.