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kZardo commented on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years   non.io... · Posted by u/jjcm
root_axis · 2 years ago
Congrats on the hard work, and the idea is fine, but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network effect. Add in the upfront subscription model and failure to launch is basically assured.

When I visit the root domain I shouldn't be greeted with a marketing splash page, you need interesting content in the user's face right away, entice their curiosity and drive the user to explore the site... even as a fellow developer, my first instinct is to abandon the page as soon as I'm greeted with the cliche startup marketing page. Consider the user experience when I visit reddit.com or news.ycombinator.com or any other link aggregation competitor. What you have now is a tech demo, not a platform. Sorry if that's a little harsh, but I mean well! Good luck!

kZardo · 2 years ago
Indeed. At this point, you need a reason to not put that $2 in the ChatGPT subscription bin.
kZardo commented on Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8   ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
schoen · 4 years ago
Hey, I'm the lead author of this draft!

As I mentioned below, this is just one of four proposals that we're making at IETF about reclaiming unused IPv4 address space. The other three proposals are

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-unicas...

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-unicas...

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-unicas...

In each case, the address space in question was reserved a long time ago (during the 1980s) for reasons that have not proven necessary or that are no longer applicable.

It is indeed a big undertaking to change this behavior everywhere, but we propose that it will be a gradual process. It turns out that 240/4 is already widely supported (implementers liked the idea when it was previously proposed at IETF in 2008), while we've also gotten patches into Linux for the 0/8 and lowest address behavior, and now in FreeBSD for the lowest address behavior as well. (The lowest address was originally reserved for an "alternative broadcast address" because 4.2BSD chose it as the segment-directed broadcast address in 1983, before there was a standard to say which address to use for this purpose.)

There are lots of other complexities and history that I'm happy to talk about if people are interested.

The amount of IPv4 space still "reserved for future use" in 240/4 is 2²⁸ addresses, or 1/16 of all of IPv4!

Edit: people who are especially interested in this topic can also watch me presenting on this for 15 minutes at IETF112 last week.

https://youtu.be/cqPVdBvgiXI?t=409

kZardo · 4 years ago
So what you're saying is that the IPV4 internet has been placed under Business Rescue and as a result we're legally required to squeeze out every last drop of usable addresses.
kZardo commented on “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”   blogs.scientificamerican.... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
BostonFern · 6 years ago
I haven't read the article, and I'm not a party to the 5G debate, but what you're describing in your comment is a meta-analysis, which is a practice that has produced some of the most controversial findings in recent times. If anything is needed to clear up an inconclusive body of studies, it's better and more reliable studies and experiments, not meta-analyses.‎
kZardo · 6 years ago
Meta-analyses try to find the unknown common truth by reviewing multiple studies and their methods and weighing them accourding to their percieved (really, calculated) quality.

By combining the results of the best studies and giving us an overview of them, meta-analyses really are the best studies we have.

"In addition to providing an estimate of the unknown common truth, meta-analysis has the capacity to contrast results from different studies and identify patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or other interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of multiple studies." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis

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