skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But, as we’ll see below, a new investigation started by Italian researcher Enrico Mariutti suggests that the number is closer to between 170 and 250 gCO2/kWh, depending on the energy mix used to power PV production. If this estimate is accurate, solar would not compare favorably with natural gas, which is around 50 gCO2/kWh with carbon capture and 400 to 500 without.

Last time I checked, 250 was less than 400.

They could have compared solar against wind or nuclear on carbon, which it is generally held to be roughly equal with. Why did they jump straight to nonexistent carbon capturing fossil methane plants?
Yeah, but it's a bit like to refuse to work with someone who follows a different religion than you, or someone who is into astrology a bit too much.

Again I know it's not black and white and everyone has different red lines. If someone treats killing baby mammals as their favorite form of entertainment I probably can't work with them.
> Why would developers use this over just asking for money?

More people should want to pay if they use this system because if you just ask for money, you either don't give anything in return (donations) or you give access to your stuff, but with this system, the user gets access to everything that uses this system.

> What are you going to do about people asking for 1 cent to join the network?

Developers can sell subscriptions for 1 cent but since they have a limited number of subscriptions to sell, they will not make a lot of money that way.

If you mean 1 cent to join as a developer, that is free; it's about trust. This should be a cooperation between developers who trust each other.
I think the biggest problem is the financial infrastructure.

We pay for software almost exclusively through digital means, but the fees are too damn high.

Imagine if transaction fees were zero.

Imagine if a piece of software you used costed 10 cents per months. Or someone's patreon or github sponsor was 5 cents per month.

And then imagine if starting and stopping the subscription was intuitive and super easy with any digital payment method you happened to use.

I could see the flood gates open and now developers who got basically nothing will get a ton of small contributions that together would make up quite a nice lump sum every month
I am more worried that when I want to start selling them so I can retire coincides with the beginning of a long drawdown. I suppose one way to address this risk would be to save even more and don't retire until you have way more than you calculate you'll need.
It will be supported in Firefox 117, the latest release is 115 and needs you to manually enable a feature flag.

The center row of versions with the gold border is how caniuse indicates the current release.
(Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions
The traditional way to fund maintenance was to release a new and better version of the product. Example, all the releases of the various office suites from the days of MS-DOS up to Windows up to the cloud. If sales decline, sell to a competitor (good timing required) or close and switch to something else. A company that paid salaries for 5-10 years is still nothing to be ashamed of.

In the case of Apple, keep selling new hardware. I can't remember if they ever sold their software in the first years of Macs or if it was bundled with the hardware.
Strangely this is the same thing that happened to the music business. Maybe we need to start selling merch and going out on tour to make a living!
Here's the police chief's statement:

https://www.facebook.com/Texascitypd/posts/pfbid0hYERpcvXS26...

Here's the GoFundMe campaign for the guy's civil rights case:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lawsuit-expense-fund-for-civil-ri...

The popular YouTube channel Audit the Audit did a legal analysis of this case a couple of weeks ago, where it pointed out all the ways the officer violated the law and the constitution during this interaction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhU7PbvOKaI

The sad thing is that if the officer had not made a few key missteps (like explicitly indicating that he was retaliating against the man because he thought he might submit a complaint) he might have covered his bases well enough to avoid consequences.

Even so, he may be protected by Qualified Immunity, the legal principle that protects officers from being personally sued except under the most egregious circumstances.
I am super confused about the concept. I pay "someone", of my own choosing, and I get access to...what, exactly? "everything"? What is that? What incentive do the developers that I'm not paying have to give me something?

> Pay to download or for other services: Not worth it; users can find the software somewhere else and they don't need your other services.

I also reject this premise. My evidence being the trillions of dollars spent annually on software and other services.
Subscriptions just becomes unmanageable when you have to many. I do like your example of some software where you just need it for a month, but I don't think that should be a subscriptions then. That should just be paying for one or two months upfront.

The issue that I have with subscriptions is, as I said, they become unmanageable and they are frequently dishonest, betting on you to forget to cancel them. You do a one year subscription for something, forget to cancel in time, and now you're stuck paying for two years.

Both SaaS and many other type of subscriptions really need to drop the recurring part and just let you "rent" the product. That seems more honest to me.
> It also doesn't mean that the proposal is "done" and the proposal authors won't appreciate constructive suggestions for improvement. Different proposals may be in different stages of their development, and early stage proposals are often extremely malleable.

It's important to note that this is, as of now, much less "malleable" due to it being implemented in Chromium[0]. Personally, it looks like it's just been implemented and then someone has thrown together a standard later.

The same person behind the specification has also published a testing suite[1] for the API, too. Pretty damning, if you ask me.

[0]:
https://source.chromium.org/search?q=getEnvironmentIntegrity...
[1]: https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/wei-wpt/
During the cold war you would get similar stats amongst youth over fears of nuclear holocaust. (the risk hasn't gone away).

As a kid in Canada in the 80s I was taught to hide under a desk in case of nukes, and also I was taught about the greenhouse effect and it's relationship to our actions.
When I was first learning Linux around 2006 I somehow got the idea that Ctrl-Z was the way to exit programs. For maybe 3 years, I would just Ctrl-z my way out of programs.

Luckily I worked almost entirely over ssh so I presume the suspended threads died with my ssh session exiting each day.
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This is exactly what I thought the article would be talking about--people not knowing what is recyclable in the first place.
There's something to this.

But also... don't update drivers and accept you are missing out on updates that might also be useful.
> Outright bans on smartphones in schools are no different from the video game, TV screen time

Back then kids were not watching tv or playing video games in the middle of class.

I remember when I was in school people were texting on their flip phones, I can't imagine the extent of distractions in school today. I used to pay attention in class only because there was nothing more entertaining to do. If I had a phone and could play minecraft while my teacher lectured us on US history I would not have learned anything.
That's not a fair comparison, it would be more like if they run out of samples you can't demand more, or if you've already had 10 you might have to expect them to say no, or if you don't like the toppings, you can't really ask for substitutions.
Why should the US break up an asset like Google? Would be completely self defeating. This isn't like standard oil or at&t, that mostly had influence and market share inside the US. It would basically be handing power to foreign competitors who would pounce at the opportunity

And I'm not American so it's not even some sort of patriotic comment. If Europe , or anywhere else, had a Google sized Behemoth, they wouldn't mess with it no matter how "anti tech" they might seem now. If anything they are anti tech because they don't want foreign big tech to have massive influence over them. You'd bet they wouldn't cripple big tech if they were European. On the other hand, as long as they are American that massive power is a feature, not a bug for the US government.

The reaction to Tiktok is a good example of how nationalism/geopolitics shape the reaction to big tech, which is why google is probably safe.
Can you give me an idea as to why WEI is a bad idea for the web? Granted, it is morning, but as I am going through the notes linked ( https://googlechrome.github.io/OriginTrials/developer-guide.... ), I am not sure I understand why it is that bad.
its essentially the same rehash critique of capitalism that's been a thing for a while. he's just given it a fun name. "rent-seeking-behavior" is too sterile.
I think it’s fair though a space economy has more than lift capability companies. Landers, in situ production, habitats, etc, will require a large variety of companies with vastly different specializations. Perhaps blue origin is meant to focus elsewhere ? Reading their Wikipedia page sounds like their real success is in engines but their launch vehicles are delayed but on track for 2024 missions.
>> isn't this good? banks can raise security while we can still use any browser to check hackers news!

Are you okay with buying a new computer running the operating system and browser someone else wants to access your bank's web site?

You can still use you current computer and bowser to access HN.
uh huh, they need to hop to it
You just didn't provide any argument that piracy didn't cause the observed collapse of the music industry.
It’s time to have a higher standard of “technology”.

Phones aren’t some magical solution to better education. They are just a source of digital candy, digital crack, that pollutes minds with harmful or vapid ideas.

If you want an advanced teaching device, build one from scratch and make it nothing like a phone.
Hell, even sit-ups are largely useless. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/sit-ups-c...
Well, I'm not supporting this. Our society try to ban everything. I believe education is better than repression. Ok, it takes time but it worth it.
Again, I don't think this enough - because it's a well-acknowledged fact that people can't read[0] (as I said in my comment.) How many newbies are going to see a working solution, try it out, and immediately skip all the extra text that they don't think they need?

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...
Not great if your bank arbitrarily decides Linux isn't a supported operating system, for example.
IIRC those require addons to the browser and would fail attestation and get blocked.

Marionette is built into Firefox so that might work, except it would require Firefox to implement this as well so it can prove itself.
This isn’t up for debate; it’s been shown, time and time again, that timing the market is a bad long term investment strategy.
At the same time cost gates are quality gates quite often.
> You see 90% of people in the buses, trains looking their phones like idiots (including me).

Isn't that just making the best of a bad situation? I am guilty myself, but at the same time I forget that I even have a device when not subject to such drudgery. Addiction usually implies a greater compulsion.

Which, too, explains why this ban is only targeted at schools and not in general like drugs. While there are some skillful teachers, most aren't worth your time. As such, the phones come out as a distraction. In my pre-smartphone youth we were doodling in our notebooks, or what have you, instead but the motivation was the same.
That's going to depend on what sports each individual is interested in. For university level football in the US, probably a tie between "The band is on the field" and the Kick Six. Even then, most fanbases have their own version of the best moment ever ("trouble with the snap"), even if not many outside of their fandom agrees.
Why would you buy canned apples without sugar or vinegar as conservatives in the first place?

The pure apple in a can can't last for long.
The article covers a large enough chunk of time that it gets very awkward to talk about "colonialism" as such. One of the incidents the article describes was the Dutch Revolt, where the people of the Netherlands overthrew their oppressive foreign rulers and began to flourish as an independent country. A shining example of an anti-colonial revolt, except that for historiographical reasons we don't call it that.
TIL that pork is actually red meat! Interesting. I guess their ad campaign “the other white meat” worked on me. A google search does indeed confirm that pork is scientifically classified as red meat.
Okay, here's your alarm clock going off:

"FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/ftc-rewrites-rul...

"FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-prepares-the...

"The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon today, claiming the online giant violated US law by tricking consumers into signing up for the $14.99-per-month Amazon Prime subscription service and making it annoyingly difficult to cancel."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-sues-amazon-...

"FTC files to block Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition"

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/report-ftc-will-file-...

"A Federal Trade Commission lawsuit filed yesterday accused Ring, the home security camera company owned by Amazon, of invading users' privacy"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-amazon-ring-...

"Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle an FTC complaint that its Xbox platform illegally collected and retained information about children without their parents' consent"

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/xbox-coppa-violations...

And that's all just from one news source, in the last three months.
And to a first approximation. No one paid for Netscape then. I first downloaded it free in 1996 from their ftp server.
I've put a link to it on my other comment. Hope it helps.
I never said that companies weren't right to not hire me.

I personally think I'm just not a good fit anywhere.
It's a change to the browser that gives site-owners the ability to require a positive attestation of non-modification before running. The stated goal of this change is to make it more difficult for end-users to block ads. As the spec states, blocking ads violates the deal you make with content creators to use your attention to ads as a form of payment.

In practice, this will make it harder, but not impossible, to run ad blockers. Now instead of just finding and installing a plugin, you'll have to first find and install a forked browser that implements the attestation as something like 'return true'. This will predictably decrease the number of people blocking ads.

Personally, I don't object to this. The easy solution for most people is simply: don't consume the content. Or pay money instead of watching ads. Content creators, it must be said, also have the option of self-hosting and/or creating content as a hobby rather than a career. As someone who has grown more and more despairing of any paid-for speech, especially by ads, I welcome this change.

Far more troubling is the possibility of attestation for "important apps" like banking or government. In general this mechanism gives the org a way to prevent you from doing what you want with your data. For example, they can prevent you from scraping data and automating end-user tasks. This takes away your degrees-of-freedom, and using a modified browser will certainly become an actionable offense. In my view this is by far the more troubling aspect of this change, since it take away significant aspects of user autonomy in a context where it matters most.

Technically sophisticated users will note that it's not possible to secure a client, and foolish to try. This misses the point. These changes stochastically change behaviors "in the large", like a shopping center that offers two lanes in and one lane out, or two escalators in and one out. This represents a net transfer of power from the less powerful to the more powerful, and therefore deserves to be opposed.

EDIT: please don't downvote, but rather reply with your objection.
This tutorial addresses the practice: https://doordash.engineering/2017/05/15/tips-for-building-hi...

There's also a long, uh, spirited discussion about it here with some decent arguments going both directions: https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/why-do-we-need-apps/827/19
The hold-back feature is so extremely out of touch with reality

"There seems to be something wrong with your request, try reloading this page"

Good luck getting this ad infinitum you are on an environment that Google doesn't approve.
What are the concrete uses of phones in enhancing education? I've only seen

portable calculator: fair, but why write problems that rely on calculators
searching things up: just note it down for later
taking pictures of slides: teacher can just post the slides

Meanwhile, there's genuine and well-founded concern that smartphones lead to firsthand and secondhand distraction, which undermines the teacher and disrupts learning. The main thing I see phones enabling is rampant social media consumption.
> Outright bans on smartphones in schools are no different from the video game, TV screen time

The distinction is that tvs and video games are indeed banned in school. Banning smart phone usage outright is different from banning smart phones in school.
I don't get it. I also see other comments not getting it so I don't think it's just me.

Is this like Kindle unlimited where someone pays a single subscription and gets access to all content providers on the platform (in this case content is software), where creators get a proportion of the subscription fee based on how much a user used an app? So e.g. 10$ per month, I use FooReader 90% of the time, so they get 9$.

Idk, even if I am not getting the details, I don't think that any collective approach to app is going to work. Unlike with other industries like movies or music, products in software are very different from each other and is consumed in a variety of ways (library vs end-user app) that have a lot of complicated nuance (in terms of licensing and company goals).
>> For starters, separate AWS from retail/logistics. (There is something loosely analogous to dumping in a high-margin business entering a low-margin trade.)

> Thats where I'd go first - but I think it's also worthwhile to break the shopping side of the business up to

Splitting up the ecommerce side of the Amazon isn't just worthwhile, it's necessary.

> into amazon eCommerce platform, amazon the seller of goods, Amazon logistics, and amazon fulfillment services as well - that would still leave a bag of leftover parts and businesses.

There's more ways to do a break up than by business function. It might make more sense to just divide it all down the middle to create two successor companies (e.g. one gets half the warehouses, and the other gets the other half). Then you have two peer competitors with all the skills, knowledge, and culture to compete viciously against each other.

The biggest issue there is which one gets that branding, which I think should be solved by neither getting it. They should come up with new identities, and amazon.com becomes a simple ecommerce directory.
Are Apple selling ads on the web?
The problem is that this feature can and will be used to restrict the users, it doesn't offer any real benefit to you.

This will not increase security for the user either, it's just a new barrier at the risk of higher fingerprinting. Why should you care how your bank handles security? It's their responsibility, not yours to handle.
Do you have data supporting that it’s valid to suggest that only the worst people in society are still interested in being teachers?

I’m no saint; I work in tech for real money.

But the teachers I know -and I know many, of varying ages and tenures- overwhelmingly got into it because they wanted to make a difference in kids’ lives.

Do I know a few who were mainly into having summers off? Sure.

But even that doesn’t make that small subset ‘the worst in society’.
Show me some actual data supporting it and I’ll consider your perspective, but in the absence of that I feel like it’s just plain despicable to shit on teachers like that.
Future web will require you to have certified browser - Chrome ™, to access the web. It will require certified OS Windows™, running on trusted Hardware TPM™, running trusted firmware CIA™.

You'll have no choice and your love will be mandatory.

This won't stop malware of course. However a skull clamp will be installed to monitor your thoughts and you will be zapped if undesirable thoughts are detected.

Note: it's a hyperbole but if you want another OS, Browser or hardware you'll be forced to Homebrew it. Or use a compromised app.
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We are about to roll out version 2.0 — I have never done this before but I would like to invite whoever wants to learn about it or build on it, to a Zoom webinar where I will demo anything and answer any questions. Starting in Q3 this year all the webinars will take place on our own platform — no Calendly, no Zoom, no Google, just the free open Web.

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The difference this is supposed to make is that currently most people don't pay for free software. I don't for example. That is because I don't need to. This system is supposed to make more people pay, which should mean that all developers get more money. Giving access to someone who subscribes to someone else is part of what makes this work and if the developers can accept that, they should all benefit from it.
More like 'When Gene Simmons Waged War on the Cassette Tape During the 1980s.' It was as stupid as Lars Ulrich attacking Napster in the early 2000's. In both cases their respective bands, Kiss and Metallica, took a considerable hit in their popularity.

Treating all your customers as though they are criminals turns out to not be a very good business practice.
I agree with your assessment and I always suspected that would be the case, even when these decisions were being made.

Has there ever been a case of an underdog company/product actually gaining market share by becoming less different than the market leader? It always seems like a mistake from the outside, to me. I feel like an underdog is more likely to succeed by actually being different and attracting people who would prefer those differences. Why would anyone change from what they're currently using to an alternative that is almost exactly the same?
Aye, I even remember that sometimes my solution to boredom was to skip ahead to some farther chapters and look for new content to learn.

Kids these days suck.