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Thanks for posting this list! As it happens I am working on organizing a conference in the coming months and I've been comparing a few similar platforms but there are several on your list and in the comments that I didn't know about.

If anyone has attended a conference recently using one of these platforms I'd love to hear how it went.

We also teach children (still, I hope?) to not say anything if you don't have anything nice to say, and to walk a mile in someone's shoes before judging them, and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. So yes, teach people not to take offense, and also teach people not to be offensive. Being offended on someone else behalf helped us get rid of slavery, helped end the holocaust, gave us many of our social programs that support the poor - it's not wrong to see injustice and call it out, even if it's not happening to you.

This is pretty much true, but with a catch - wifi is contention based. If two access points are close enough to hear each other's transmissions and they are operating on the same channel they will share that channel's bandwidth. Wifi was designed this way for exactly this reason, and it's probably why wifi still kind-of works even in large apartment buildings.

I would guess that all or nearly all residential IPs are marked as at least 'low proxy' risk because of the risk of malware on personal devices.

It's not just IPs that have reputation scores but IP ranges and AS entities. Residential IP ranges are often dinged by default because of the risk of infected home PCs sending spam.

The wireless distribution layer is really the only place mobile carriers are meaningfully bandwidth constrained. It's (relatively) easy and cheap to 10x or even 100x bandwidth available at a tower. The hard part is delivering that capacity to the end user. That's where 5G comes in.

> To achieve this though, it would require a massive investment, especially to circumvent network congestion.

AKA: 5G

The real motivation here is that mobile carriers want to take market share from cable companies. Mobile carriers want to be able to provide wireless to your phone that is good enough that you will pay more for an unlimited plan and cancel your cable subscription. 5G doesn't really do that much for garbage cans, they could already have 4G or wifi chips in them if anyone wanted that.

All search spaces are finite for a sufficiently fast brute force solution.

Same here. This is also the problem I have with podcasts.

> How do you propose you correct your kids?

It's not hard. You just talk to them. It takes a little bit of patience and self awareness. Sometimes they're still gonna fuck up. But then, so are you.

I'd say that true of almost all good advice. Good advice should probably usually be interpreted as "try to be the kind of person that would do this thing naturally."

Perhaps I'm being naive, but I don't think there are any application that ubiquitous gigabit to the home (or even to the phone) will enable alone.

Imagine for example streamed, 8K VR - meaning two individual 8k streams. Even that would only take 100-200mbps download speed, latency would be the real bottleneck and that's limited by the speed of light.

What things can a human experience that can be digitized but require continuous 1gbps to stream? I can't think of any.

The items you've listed don't appear to be things that would contribute directly to the size (in MB as installed on the device) of the app. I don't think GP was making a comment about the complexity of the product, just the size of the installed app.

It does at least mean that you're limited to discussing flat earth posts that were able to stay online and findable for at least 5 years, which is a subset of all flat earth posts. So that's good!

I thought it was more like:

Set a team of experts to find bugs independently for some specified amount of time. Then look at how many of the same bugs were found by multiple experts.

If most of the bugs were found by multiple experts, then there are probably not that many more bugs than the total number that they found. If most of the bugs were found by only one expert, then there are probably a lot more than the total that they found.

With some math you can pin down the 'probablies' to numeric ranges.

FWIW, The Salt Lake Tribune is a non-profit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21446317

I dislike tracking on the web as much as the next HN reader, but I can also understand how a small/cash-strapped local newspaper would be hard pressed to spend literally any time or resources making sure that they are compliant with regulations in countries on the other side of the planet.

There's a few here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/11/28/utahs-desert-obelisk-...

Do we have any reason to think it wasn't the artist or someone related to the artist who took it?

But why? If you're going to carry around a battery/screen/track pad anyway, why not just attach a CPU to it?

mtr makes for a pretty decent gtraceroute

Times are a' changing! I started a job in August and haven't physically met any of my coworkers. With a culture of 'video on during calls by default' it's actually not that bad, imo. Much better than would have been possible 10 years ago.

If you are interested in doing something like this I'd love to chat! I run a website about related topics[1]. I'm working now with a few different organizations on a kind of franchised ISP model.

[1] https://startyourownisp.com

The scientists and Hollywood folks are already represented, though - they can vote. The land itself can't. True that today our natural resources aren't our most valuable asset. That makes them easy to ignore and neglect, especially for city dwellers. However, in the event of a major war or natural disaster our natural resources will quickly become very important again, and we'll be glad someone was taking care of them, even if we (and I definitely do) staunchly disagree with their voting preferences.

I think of it as giving some representation to the land itself (and it's natural resources) as represented by the people who work and live there.

The most vocal of those minorities happens to be commander in chief of the world strongest, most heavily armed military. That makes the drama harder to ignore.

Might I recommend helping out by working on connectivity projects, even to the extent of starting a local ISP? Internet access in many parts of the U.S. is pretty bad, and improving it would open up many new opportunities for remote work, remote learning, and tele-health. Due to the pandemic there is increased availability of funding for these types of projects, even to the extent that for example some health-care providers are considering funding or directly running a local ISP just to support their tele-health customers, because otherwise they are totally cut off from their patients.

If you're interested in talking more about this check out my profile, I run a website about this kind of thing.

I think it might just be coastal US cities? I live in a flyover US state and my experience matches yours. Universally good, overall much better experience with products ordered on Amazon than purchased at the local Walmart. Not that Walmart is a particularly high bar, but still it sets an expectation.

Not really, actually. Pixelfed (and mastodon, at least the official instances) aren't at all anti-moderation, for better or worse. They're more about moderation at the local instance level. I don't run in to any alt-right content on either pixelfed or mastodon. Not that I'm a huge user of either.

Pixelfed is the instagram-esque incarnation of the fediverse.