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> no micropayment system has ever really taken off

This is true, but it's not really the same thing as "we don't need micropayments" and "there's no configuration that would work for micropayments." Hell, ad networks are basically micropayment networks, just not for consumers, and the current economic configuration of "everything is free, we just sell all your personal data" is pretty new, so it's not like we haven't already invented new economics for the internet.

> All the enthusiasm for micropayments comes from people who want to collect them. Not from consumers wanting to send them.

Well, yes, but that's every kind of payment in the world - in just about every transaction in the economy, it's the people producing the thing that want money for the thing, not the consumers who want to pay them.

Less glibly, the current economic arrangement of the internet is eight shades of fucked. Nobody's getting paid for their work, content on the internet has sprinted to the lowest, shittiest, clickbaitiest denominator, social networks are incentivized to tear society apart so people spend more time hate-scrolling, and GenAI is coming to hoover up any of the remaining scraps individuals could've possibly been getting for their content. The fuckup of the last 50-odd years of economic policy is the monomaniacal focus on the individual as a consumer and the absolute exclusion of the individual as a producer from policy. If you want a good economy, you need to pay people for things.

The good news is there's a revitalization of just fucking paying people for things - Patreon's a good example, there's a whole lot of new writer-owned sites making good enough money to be sustainable (defector, autopian, 404media, etc), and generally there seems to be a much larger appetite for paying for things than the last 20 years of the internet would have lead one to believe.

I genuinely believe that a system in which users could easily pay small amounts of money for content they're enjoying and producers could easily get compensated for their work on reasonable terms without the friction of building a durable (subscription) relationship and without the machinery in the middle taking 30% from both sides would be transformative. We're nowhere near it, but man, we sure have tried the other ways, and they're all pretty crap.
For privacy reasons, it's kept out of Cloudflare's cache. But one could argue that it doesn't matter since traffic is flowing through Cloudflare anyways. What do you think?
I think we are talking past each other and it’s not worth continuing this discussion.

The reason why no fund will take that deal is the market for investments is much more favorable to managers than that.
Yes, at first it was an analog process with toll tickets making their way to your local business office who would prepare your bill, eventually it went to tabulation technology (punched cards) and then into the 1960's computers.

As far as the bill - you'd be billed for local service (either unlimited or metered rate), plus a phone rental, and then on top of that local toll and long distance usage. For this, you got a telephone, and the phone company was responsible for your inside wiring as well.
I never read Nietzche. Because of this, I refrain to criticize Nietzsche, or making assumptions about the meaning of ideas that I do not fully understand.
To be honest, the fact you've worked for 15 companies, and you're only 35 would be a red flag to us. (Assuming that's employment not consulting.)

People change jobs for 2 reasons. They leave, or were kicked out. Doing that 15 times in (say) 20 years is not a good look regardless of which camp you fall into.

I'll be honest, we wouldn't hire that. We're looking for 10 years plus, and your track record suggests we're not a good fit for you.

As you are a good developer, and smart to boot, you may find that starting your in gig is your route to long-term satisfaction. I say that as someone who works a lot with self-employed developers (most of them self employed because they'd be terrible employees) and indeed because I'm self-employed (again because I'd be a terrible employee).

I will caution though that being self employed means you take the blame for all your mistakes (and the success or fail every month I'd revealed by the paycheck or lack thereof.)
They don't know any particular specifics. Our understanding of human organization during the late pleistocene and early Holocene is poor, bordering on non-existent. However, I don't find it particularly hard to imagine humans as a major factor, even if I have some doubts about this particular argument.

First, you have to understand that about the late quaternary extinctions, we know not all quaternary extinctions were anthropogenic. Ecosystems were experiencing a lot of different stressors around that time, and by the time extinction actually happens there may have been only small populations left for centuries or millennia. Ecological resilience is also a bit of a funny thing. You might think that you make 10 species extinct has 10x more impact than just 1 extinction, but there isn't a linear relationship. In many ecosystems, there's very little impact from most local extinctions as the graph thins out until all the systemic resilience is gone and the whole thing suddenly collapses into a new state. Did that proximate cause(s) of the last extinction cause the rapid shift?

Fantastically deadly hunters like humans that are specialized to megafaunal hunting being able to push the most vulnerable and stressed parts of the ecosystem over the edge isn't an obviously absurd argument to me.
Ask HN: Are important topics welcome on Hacker News?
It seems like we should be able to have discussions about important topics. Topics important enough to have differing opinions seem to get flagged with regularity. It would be really nice if we could be allowed to discuss topics of importance where people can express non-politicized opinions and have discourse. The weeks' events seem significant, and we have not been allowed to have even non-political discussions about it. I don't have a political option to share, I'd just like to have a mature, respectful discussion with like minds. Curation is increasingly resembling censorship.
Ask yourself what kind of project you want to work on, and go from there.

You want to do web stuff? Learn Typescript + HTML + CSS

You want to do iOS apps? Swift

You want to do Android apps? Kotlin

You want to do AI stuff? Python

You want to do backend servers? Lots of options here, but Typescript, Python and Kotlin are well-supported on the backend too, so I'd go for one of those.

You want to do database work? SQL + whatever database you're interested in. If you don't know, go with Postgres.

You want to do games? Ask someone else, because I don't know lol
If the robots destroy infrastructure and displace populations there will still be casualties. Civilian casualties through disease, starvation and other preventable deaths often outnumber military casualties.
That sounds like the start of a story that ends up with wires made out of plutonium.
There are also habit trackers that help with repetitive tasks if you find routines too difficult.
If I were to take a guess, the reason you're seeing URL's not being indexed is Google only has finite indexing resources, yet AI content generators can generate a near infinite amount of content.

That makes your real content a smaller proportion of the whole web, and therefore less likely to meet the threshold for fitting inside googles finite indexing budget.
Diet's super important, but I feel like it's such a giant friggin' thing in our society that it's hard to put that at the top of the list. I subscribe to the "make a change that feels tractable, live with it for a bit, do it again, repeat" method for personal improvement, and I feel like if I'd tried to tackle diet first, I would never have gotten started.

Agree with the water, though - I've always got a big water bottle next to my desk.
Ask HN: The future is not equally distributed
They say the future is here, just not equally distributed. I saw this recently when I heard that someone's daughter invites their character.ai AI friend to group chats with their real life friends.

What have you seen recently, where you know you were seeing the future that other readers might not have experienced?
Yeah it's going through CF anyway. I also don't live near Europe or North America and noticed even small images take over a second to load, would be nice to have images cached locally after they are opened for the first time
I've definitely bought some that came without adapters.
Presumably, you and I care about the Truth though and coming up with the closest arguments to the Truth.

Otherwise, there's not much point in discussion or truth discovery.
Hey, I don't have any solutions for you, but wanted to share some camaraderie. I feel exactly this way. In fact, I could have written the post myself.
Do you do caffeine?
Thinking out loud… I wonder if it could still be true based on the fact that the larger the animal, the longer the gestation period.

For small animals like rabbits, it’s about 30 days - so their chances of “multiplying like rabbits” is obvious - you’re not going to wipe out rabbits faster than the supply.

As you move up the size scale, the gestation period gets longer and longer, and each kill gets harder to replace (wales come in at around 18 months!). Kill a mega-sloth and its chances of species survival dramatically drop!
yes. the cool thing is with tau servers can be in different locations.

looking at https://www.hetzner.com/sb/:

- you can build a beefy cloud for less than €150/mo!

- plus you can run LLM inference (check https://github.com/ollama-cloud) for another €150/mo per node

not bad!
You want to have non-political discussions about political events?
I am desperate for a coach. The therapists I’m currently seeing are not providing actionable advice. We spend most of our sessions introspecting and self-validating, which has run its course.

I’ve been on the hunt for a life coach of sorts who specializes in ADHD. Ideally someone who’s familiar with tech employees & entrepreneurs, but I’m probably chasing a unicorn.
> Have you been satisfied with the government during that period?

Quite frequently, especially when regulators are allowed to do their jobs.

Prominent examples:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-02/what-citi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fatalities_per_revenue_pa...

> Laws are written by teams of lawyers and subject matter experts, and then voted on by legislators.

You’ve forgotten “industry lobbyists writing the whole thing and giving to a pet lawmaker”. https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/model-legislation...
Fujifilm offers this functionality on newer cameras, intended to be used with Fujifilm PC AutoSave and Fujifilm Acquire desktop apps.
Thanks for the suggestions! Will implement these. Caching is a great idea.
I can't help but think that the idea is very pie-in-the-sky at this point, and the author is bike-shedding by thinking about how to deliver SD cards before having a product.

This is probably uncharitable. But it would be an explanation for the hand-wavy copy.
Got it. Thanks for your feedback. All servers and user content are hosted in the EU, so for some parts of the world, it may not perform as intended. I've also thought of creating replicas for latency reasons, but it does introduce extra costs.
they have servers in many regions
If one play/work with audio/video streaming. the <track> tag will be something that came across.

And if you deal with Japanese website development, <ruby> and associated tags will came across, though less often.
we actually also saw this historically with openGL.
openGL comes from an ancient company whispered about by the elderly programmers (30 + year old) known as SGI. Originally it was CLOSED SOURCE and SGI called it "SGI-GL" for a computer codename IRIS which was cool looking with bright popping color plastic and faux granite keyboard. Good guy SGI open sourced SGI-GL to become what we called "openGL" (get it, now it's open), and then it stuck.

That's all to say NVIDIA could pull a SGI and open their stuff, but they're going more sony style and trying to monopolize. Oh, and SGI also wrote another ancient lore library known as "STL" or the "SGI Template Library" which is like the original boost template metaprogramming granddaddy
https://github.com/upsman3099/dark-matter-market
YouTube is like the anti-Wikipedia. It’s easy to create videos and the only check are comments buried 200 comments down
Great feedback. We're working on some of these.
The message I'm getting though ("Please complete the security check to access archive.ph") is from CF, and I do not use their DNS or anyone who does.
Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's what people want.

Most people were hosting on AngelFire or Groceries back in the day, but as we see today that's not what people wanted.
Darwin (1) near consistently included each and every argument & counter-argument to the point where it becomes boring and unreasonable to go any further (2) was absolutely explicit of what was NOT included to the point that there were redunant remarks about that!

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The view of Smith is laughable, for the human population has changed by more than few orders of magnitude since those times.

Yet it would be plausible that a global MF ecosystem was distrupted somehow.

Another possible reason megafauna died: they eat plants and grew on top of an ecosystem where there was not much competition for plants, and then an increase in efficiency of bacteria, bugs, invertebrates and other compact herbivore species in consumption of the limited amount of plant food pulled the legs under them. Whales were not herbivores, and possibly therefore not subject to same mechanisms (though saying this sort of ruins the metaphor of pulling legs from underneath).
> Complicators gloves.

Er, what?
I firmly believe in what you would call my organized religion; but I’ll give you some food for thought on why I’m not sold on your vision.

The biggest problem, or negative, with unorganized religion or meditation is what I would call the excessive focus on oneself. What is good is what feels right to me as good; what is bad is what feels right to me as bad. This is very subjective and can easily go down a rabbit hole where your religion, is ultimately, your own ability to rationalize your own actions and perspectives. Meditation can also easily backfire into an exercise in forcing your conscience to conform to what you mentally want to believe, regardless of whether it is true.

I am not saying that “organized religion” does not have serious downsides - I believe that any objectively false religion will have enormous consequences. However, I think that almost all of them do recognize one fundamental principle: Good, and Evil, are external properties of us, and our own feelings or preferences or desires or inclinations, have no bearing on whether an action is objectively Good or Evil. It takes an external force (e.g. God) to define what it is, so that we may understand and conform to it - otherwise, we are God.

In a sense, everyone believes in a God. Everyone believes that somebody defines good and evil. Either it’s an external force to which we must logically conform, or it’s ourselves. This is also why people of extraordinary evil (Hitler, Mao, Stalin) are also worth critically examining - after all, the God they worshiped in themselves did not condemn their actions. Why is your personal God better than theirs?
For one, Snowflake is expensive (you pay for the convenience and simplicity) and the data in there is usually stored in S3 buckets that Snowflake owns (and they dont pass along any discounts that they get from AWS for the cost of that storage).
That depends on what your concern is. A half-naked photo (which wouldn't bother me, but for the sake of argument...) might be more damaging short term, but the other, when combined with all the other data collection, is more damaging long term.
The real problem imho is that Google's and other search engines' design are fundamentally flawed and can't be fixed.

They want a single box that can do everything because they don't think an user can be given a minimal amount of training to use a search engine, and they want all results ranked in a single, linear list similarly.

It's becoming increasingly clear that when you do that, all long tail results turn into garbage.

Google has become essentially a phonebook. If you type the name of a thing, Google can quickly find its official website. Anything more complex than that and it quickly derails.

A good example is reviews. Google literally can't find reviews if you type "reviews" in the query, because it can only find webpages that strictly contain the terms you typed. This means that for a review of something to be found, the writer would have to literally write "reviews" in their webpage, or Google would have to interpret the query non-literally and heuristically categorize webpages as reviews, which is error-prone, because then you'll have lots of webpages that aren't reviews appearing when you search for reviews and the word "review" you typed is apparently ignored completely.

The whole authority concept also feels fundamentally flawed.

If the most brilliant researcher in a field has a blog that is a gold mine of information, that blog is never going to appear in any search result because this person would be too busy doing their research to waste their valuable time building backlinks to rank.

There are too many cases where "ranking" will go wrong. It's wrong to assume Google can deliver the best result as the first result, as it has no way to make value judgements on the content of articles, but this assumption apparently drives Google itself to implement policies to hurt its own results. They seem to only care about the first result. They don't want users to browse a whole list of results. I believe "browsing" is the key word here. If it's not possible to browse, it's not possible to find it yourself, and you depend entirely on a machine that is a black box to do the finding for you. When the machine fails, there is no recourse.
I'm not sure OP was implying any claim that removing regulation would lead to a great healthcare system, just that the US regulations are bad and causing many of the system's problems.

In better-run nations, the healthcare systems are highly regulated, but the regulation is actually (mostly) intelligent and implemented to have a positive effect. For some reason, when the US tries to do regulation, it somehow manages to do a uniquely bad job at it, causing a negative effect.
1. have a serious look at your diet. This includes caffeine, meat, processed foods, etc.
2. Sleep Study
3. How much stillness do you have in your life? where you're not scrolling on a site or on your phone? Can you increase the amount of time you have to yourself where you aren't processing any incoming info?
It's Hacker News. Unless it's a technical topic, or fairly closely related to a technical topic, this is the wrong place.

There are plenty of other places to have discussions about non-technical things.
Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices
AUITestAgent: Natural Language-Driven GUI Functional Bug Tester
It's not a real option. You'll eventually get banned or forced to pay for an enterprise plan if you try to use Cloudflare's CDN for an image hosting site where the origin is outside of Cloudflare. They require you to use R2 or Cloudflare Images.

From their terms: (emphasis mine)

> Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.

https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...
A rare Stratospheric Warming event has begun over the South Pole
> The US healthcare system is terrible in big part because of regulations.

The US regulatory landscape is crippled by lobbying and fear of "socialism" -This is completely fixable by a competent regulator.
Love these 5 items.

Also worth mentioning how deeply they are all inter-related: diet will influence your glucose levels, metabolism and gut health. Metabolism and glucose is directly related to brain function. Exercise helps with sleep, reduce glucose levels, increases dopamine levels. Alcohol impacts REM and deep sleep, and your gut microbiome. The list of inter-relationships goes on and on.
There’s a lot of great answers here. See a doctor. But here’s a tip for memory.
Accept you can’t remember stuff and stop trying.

Externalize your memory and put it on other people. Here’s what I mean.

My wife calls and asks me to stop at the store and starts telling me a list of a few things she needs me to pickup. I say “Sure I’m happy to help. Can you txt me the list so I don’t forget? I’ll leave it unread to remember to look at it.”

I then read it and mark it unread. Over the next hours before I go to the store the little notification icon will bug me and I’ll go to read it only to realize it’s the grocery list. And then mark it unread. When I leave I’ll go to the store and look at the list while I get things. Then I double check the list and my cart before I checkout. Same with people I work with. “Sure I can send you that report and you shoot me an email so I don’t forget?” I’ll leave that unread or pinned till I do it.

When someone asks me to remind them of something I say “I’d love to but there’s no way I’ll remember to do that.”

I use kanban / trello to organize my work tasks and make notes immediately because I just accept I won’t remember tomorrow.

Once I started doing these things I have way less anxiety about forgetting. I think people rely on remembering stuff way too much. It’s like keeping your money in a pocket with holes in the bottom.

Bonus: remember names by making a big deal about it. “What’s your name?” I then use it several times. And when I forget then I just ask them “What was your name again?” I say the name that comes to mind when I see them “Your name was John right?” If they say “No it’s Steve” then I say “Ah Steve. I was so close!” And we laugh. Honestly they probably don’t remember my name so this whole schtick helps them too.
> hnchan.darigo.su

> NB: we've left a SQLi vuln in this site. If you're smart enough to find it, congrats: you're a mod.

That's certainly a creative approach.
I don’t follow. Even if the hemp product is still of sufficiently low concentration, eating enough of it will cause an effect.
The topic is very technical, actually. There were some significant statistical anomalies this week that both camps seem positioned to acknowledge.
Write more. Find an outlet that makes it worthwhile and just write (e.g. a 1000-word essay on a pet topic). It can be rough getting started, but it forcibly makes you do research and admit what you don't know. That will develop your mind and redevelop your sense of curiosity.
Strategy for EU Bootstrapping Hardware Startups: Don't Sell to Anyone in EU
There’s a great cartoon here which makes the case for “equity”:

https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/equity-vs-equality/

I find it compelling in the context of social services, but it’s no surprise that goal-oriented organizations are shifting away from this overtly redistributive focus.
Who/where/how does someone buy a laptop without an OS? I'm just not able to follow down this hypothetical path that you are insisting on blazing
It might not be economical to ship it back to Earth. But launching from the Moon is far cheaper than launching from Earth, so if there is ever a significant demand for materials in Earth orbit it makes sense to supply from the Moon.
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