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

gobengoon Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

private equity + a whole lot of commons to encircle

gobengoon The unplanned impact of mathematics (2011)

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

gobengoon Tesla Has a Design Problem

> a country with essentially zero roundabouts

there are thousands of roundabouts

gobengoon Consensus: Use AI to find insights in research papers

... depends on who u ask

gobengoon How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole

This reminds me of the good book "Crucial Conversations"

gobengoon Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet

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)

gobengoon U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic

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

gobengoon U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic

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.

gobengoon Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave

> At what point do we consider this a mental illness

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

gobengoon Trendy “raw water” source under bird’s nest sparks diarrheal outbreak

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

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

gobengoon Universal Speech Model

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."

gobengoon Pentagon woos Silicon Valley to join ranks of arms makers

why did you put quotes around american enough

gobengoon Activity Pub vs. Web Frameworks

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

gobengoon I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to

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

gobengoon The age of cargo cult Agile must end

https://www.asyncagile.org/method-stack

gobengoon We chose NanoIDs for PlanetScale’s API

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)

gobengoon The AT Protocol

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

gobengoon EU Digital ID wallet is coming

lets go web5

If you wanna study this stuff, participate in

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

* https://trustoverip.org/

* https://identity.foundation/

gobengoon Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners

> 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...

gobengoon Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old

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

gobengoon Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old

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

gobengoon Product Management Is a LARP

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

gobengoon Bluesky – Authenticated Data EXperiment

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

gobengoon Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company

it's radical to equate dollar values with objective goodness

gobengoon The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity

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

gobengoon Cities should not pay for new stadiums

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

gobengoon Nyxt browser annotations beat pen and paper

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

gobengoon On the bare necessity of psychological safety

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...

gobengoon Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy

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-...