gobengo

op isn't saying you shouldn't complain. op is saying you shouldn't steal instead of complaining

private equity + a whole lot of commons to encircle

This book is a good riff on "The Goal" but for software manufacturers https://itrevolution.com/product/the-phoenix-project/

> a country with essentially zero roundabouts

there are thousands of roundabouts

... depends on who u ask

This reminds me of the good book "Crucial Conversations"

I want the internet to be free/open to all as much as anyone. But specific websites aren’t the internet work itself. You aren’t entitled to them. many websites, most startup websites, are maintained by individuals or small businesses which aren’t inherently profitable. They can’t afford to deal with spambots, ad click through fraud, etc. It’s reasonable for them to deny-by-default and only spend time (money) dealing with user-agents that can pass this proof-of-personhood test (until there are better zip proof of personhoods, a huge opportunity atm)

from wikipedia “Barrack recommended that Trump hire Paul Manafort as his campaign manager. Barrack first met Manafort in the 1970s when they were both working for Saudis and living in Beirut. In 2007, Barrack had loaned Manafort $1.5 million to refinance a home in the Hamptons.”

some folks wish they were too big to fail but aren’t. they’re just small big failures

Anyone else notice how First Republic bank was bought a few years ago by Colony Capital co-managed by Thomas Barrack, who was a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign before being found guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for UAE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack

Probably nothing.

> At what point do we consider this a mental illness

usually when the patient complains or harms someone else, and not before

millenia is not very much time to be applying inductive reasoning about future odds.

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

yes "They've only ever done one thing well, from a business perspective - create a world class search algo, put it behind a minimalistic web page, and pay for it with ads. And they didn't even come up with that business model: they just did what the competition did, but made the idealistic-nerd version of it."

why did you put quotes around american enough

We need good patterns for ‘dereferencing’ dns-bound identifiers like many https://{dns} URLs into something like a multiformats/cid[1]

[1]: https://github.com/multiformats/cid

look into the software your HR dept uses to know how much to pay you

NanoIDs are shorter than UUIDs because they have a bigger alphabet. That's probably why.

It's not very important for putting IDs in URL paths. But it can matter when using them in DNS subdomains because often there are surprisingly short max character lengths for domain names in e.g. LetsEncrypt SSL certs (iirc 63 characters)

I believe it's not particularly standards-track at W3C. Is there a reason you think that it is?

lets go web5

If you wanna study this stuff, participate in

* https://w3c-ccg.github.io/

* https://trustoverip.org/

* https://identity.foundation/

> Can these computers actually do something better than their classical counterparts, right now?

The answer is yes. Sometimes this is referred to as 'quantum supremacy' and some researchers at Google declared it in 2019.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5 https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-pr...

maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Armenia_(antiquity)...

'eastern Turkey' aka Armenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

i think the 'problem' is payments/royalties without having to pay a lawyer

SGX is just some document that a Google employee authored and didn't build consensus enough to standardize (e.g. Firefox/Safari don't support it). It's now an expired ietf draft that appears superceded by a different thing. It's also newer than nearly all the technologies used by OP link.

> Such a damned pity that so much zealous & righteous energy ... shunted

You're projecting

it's radical to equate dollar values with objective goodness

I feel so lucky to have stumbled upon this book 10+ years ago, which introduced me to the topic of Kolmogorov Complexity, neural nets, and more. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/what-thought

public funding (and related: subsidies) is a part of market forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Let me know if you would be interested in developing a bit more to this nyxt browser feature to support persisting these extensions via the W3C Web Annotation protocol - https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/

I've been wanting to write an implementation of an annotation server, and it'd be cool to immediately interoperate with nyxt browser. Then I'd work on the same server supporting most other browsers (e.g. Firefox) via WebExtension API building on my old https://github.com/gobengo/web-annotation-extension

Everyone on Hacker News should read these "American Psychology Association Guidelines for Practice w/ Boys and Men" https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guideline...

This announcement from last October is a huge deal.

"Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the Web" https://webkit.org/blog/11312/meet-face-id-and-touch-id-for-...