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18,410,493	18,410,598	1	3	18,409,719	train	<story><title>Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scientific Study You See</title><url>https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/chart-of-the-decade-why-you-shouldnt-trust-every-scientific-study-you-see/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>I 100% agree with the headline; <i>especially</i> for research papers even more than clinical trials.<p>However, I&#x27;m a bit puzzled by the weird direction the journalist ran with this, which is straight to his preconceived notions that are not that supported by the data he&#x27;s looking at.<p>But there&#x27;s a bit more to this than just that one chart. In addition to self-correction (e.g. beginning to require pre-registration of trials), science is somewhat additive. Is it not possible that the low-hanging fruit had been found earlier, in the 1970s-1990s, and the problem got harder? With the advances in treatments for cardiovascular disease couldn&#x27;t the problem just be harder?<p>And look at that &quot;harm&quot; study. Turns out it&#x27;s one of many from the Women&#x27;s Health Initiative [1], and it&#x27;s the test of whether hormone therapy for post-menopausal women causes heart problems: that is, it&#x27;s not a test of a drug to prevent heart conditions, but a test of side effects.<p>How many other of these studies are like that: studies about effects on the heart, not trials for new drugs to treat the heart? How did the ratio change before and after 2000?<p>In any case, don&#x27;t trust every popular news article you read about science, particularly if it&#x27;s written by Kevin Drum and posted on Mother Jones.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whi.org&#x2F;SitePages&#x2F;WHI%20Home.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whi.org&#x2F;SitePages&#x2F;WHI%20Home.aspx</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saalweachter</author><text>I&#x27;ll go one stronger and say &quot;You Shouldn&#x27;t Trust Any One Scientific Study You See&quot;.<p>Individual studies can be really interesting. They&#x27;re important for researchers to know about to inform their future work. But any one study - even ones that are done honestly, with good methodology and sound foundations - can be just totally wrong. There could be confounding factors you couldn&#x27;t have known about that completely invalidate the result. Your test subjects could be unusual in some way, your animal models could be a poor analogue for humans in this particular case, you could have just had really aberrant statistical flukes in your statistic sampling.<p>It&#x27;s the <i>body</i> of scientific research, the dozens, hundreds, thousands of studies stacked on top of each other that bring certainty.</text></comment>	<story><title>Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scientific Study You See</title><url>https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/chart-of-the-decade-why-you-shouldnt-trust-every-scientific-study-you-see/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>I 100% agree with the headline; <i>especially</i> for research papers even more than clinical trials.<p>However, I&#x27;m a bit puzzled by the weird direction the journalist ran with this, which is straight to his preconceived notions that are not that supported by the data he&#x27;s looking at.<p>But there&#x27;s a bit more to this than just that one chart. In addition to self-correction (e.g. beginning to require pre-registration of trials), science is somewhat additive. Is it not possible that the low-hanging fruit had been found earlier, in the 1970s-1990s, and the problem got harder? With the advances in treatments for cardiovascular disease couldn&#x27;t the problem just be harder?<p>And look at that &quot;harm&quot; study. Turns out it&#x27;s one of many from the Women&#x27;s Health Initiative [1], and it&#x27;s the test of whether hormone therapy for post-menopausal women causes heart problems: that is, it&#x27;s not a test of a drug to prevent heart conditions, but a test of side effects.<p>How many other of these studies are like that: studies about effects on the heart, not trials for new drugs to treat the heart? How did the ratio change before and after 2000?<p>In any case, don&#x27;t trust every popular news article you read about science, particularly if it&#x27;s written by Kevin Drum and posted on Mother Jones.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whi.org&#x2F;SitePages&#x2F;WHI%20Home.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whi.org&#x2F;SitePages&#x2F;WHI%20Home.aspx</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stilley2</author><text>I would say that not all research needs to be held to the pre-registering standard of clinical trials. Some research is more exploratory, and should be interpreted that way.</text></comment>
17,098,297	17,098,334	1	2	17,093,051	train	<story><title>Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/joncatanio/cannoli</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandGorgon</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why Pypy hasn&#x27;t been adopted by Google or Dropbox (the standard bearers of the Python ecosystem) as a forward looking investment. It is constantly underfunded (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypy.org&#x2F;py3donate.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypy.org&#x2F;py3donate.html</a>) and given the potential for the work that&#x27;s happening, I don&#x27;t understand why these guys don&#x27;t write cheques for a few hundred k.</text></item><item><author>joncatanio</author><text>I recently finished the code for my thesis and wanted to share with you all :). The goal of the thesis was to evaluate language features of Python that were hypothesized to cause performance issues. Quantifying the cost of these features could be valuable to language designers moving forward. Some interesting results were observed when implementing compiler optimizations for Python. An average speedup of 51% was achieved across a number of benchmarks. The thesis paper is linked on the GitHub repo, I encourage you to read it!<p>This was also my first experience with Rust. The Rust community is absolutely fantastic and the documentation is great. I had very little trouble with the &quot;learning curve hell&quot; that I hear associated with the language. It was definitely a great choice for this work.<p>I also included PyPy in my validation section and &quot;WOW&quot;. It blew both Cannoli and CPython out of the water in performance. The work they&#x27;re doing is very interesting and it definitely showed on the benchmarks I worked with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joncatanio</author><text>After I ran the experimental evaluation, I had similar thoughts. If PyPy ever matches the current version of CPython I&#x27;m not sure why one wouldn&#x27;t use PyPy over CPython. The biggest hurdle is matching support for popular libraries like NumPy, Tensorflow, Pandas, Scipy etc. I know they&#x27;re working on supporting these, it&#x27;s definitely a lot of work to do, easier said than done.</text></comment>	<story><title>Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/joncatanio/cannoli</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandGorgon</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why Pypy hasn&#x27;t been adopted by Google or Dropbox (the standard bearers of the Python ecosystem) as a forward looking investment. It is constantly underfunded (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypy.org&#x2F;py3donate.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypy.org&#x2F;py3donate.html</a>) and given the potential for the work that&#x27;s happening, I don&#x27;t understand why these guys don&#x27;t write cheques for a few hundred k.</text></item><item><author>joncatanio</author><text>I recently finished the code for my thesis and wanted to share with you all :). The goal of the thesis was to evaluate language features of Python that were hypothesized to cause performance issues. Quantifying the cost of these features could be valuable to language designers moving forward. Some interesting results were observed when implementing compiler optimizations for Python. An average speedup of 51% was achieved across a number of benchmarks. The thesis paper is linked on the GitHub repo, I encourage you to read it!<p>This was also my first experience with Rust. The Rust community is absolutely fantastic and the documentation is great. I had very little trouble with the &quot;learning curve hell&quot; that I hear associated with the language. It was definitely a great choice for this work.<p>I also included PyPy in my validation section and &quot;WOW&quot;. It blew both Cannoli and CPython out of the water in performance. The work they&#x27;re doing is very interesting and it definitely showed on the benchmarks I worked with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sanxiyn</author><text>I am hoping Facebook to fund PyPy given that Instagram runs on Python.<p>It seems Google and Dropbox are not interested. Google is working on Grumpy, Dropbox worked on Pyston.</text></comment>
38,507,997	38,507,737	1	2	38,503,486	train	<story><title>Not a real engineer (2019)</title><url>https://twitchard.github.io/posts/2019-05-29-not-a-real-engineer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exclusiv</author><text>I just recently got into Steve Howe. He&#x27;s considered one of, if not the best guitarist of all time and I came across a quote he had that said something like he wished guitarists would focus on being musicians. Same thing as coders to engineers.<p>I&#x27;ve come across more technically able programmers than I am. But they aren&#x27;t better engineers. And a lot of that is because I&#x27;m an entrepreneur and have a marketing secondary background as well.<p>So many companies discount non coding skillsets that actually make one an engineer in my opinion.<p>They hire the butcher instead of the chef and then wonder why it tastes like shit when it&#x27;s cooked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mp05</author><text>You&#x27;re onto something but it flies in the face of a bit of convention as you&#x27;re probably not the standard personality that gets into engineering.<p>I think it&#x27;s a fine career to go to school, get your BS in whatever technical field you choose, and work as engineer #52354 at Ingersoll Rand, or Boeing, or whomever, and retire after 30 years of being master of your highly complex but perhaps limited domain. That is a very valid definition of an &quot;engineer&quot;. These people probably have very fulfilling personal lives that you&#x27;d probably see as miserably boring, and that&#x27;s okay.<p>I&#x27;ve thought hard lately about this sort of thing, and one thing that seems clear to me is that management likely sees the &quot;standard engineer&quot; is a cost sink where someone like yourself may escape that sort of criticism as your value transcends just engineering and into other departments that directly generate revenue.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, we sound like the same type of engineer but I&#x27;ve worked to try and turn what may be contempt for the stereotype into something more... collaborative.</text></comment>	<story><title>Not a real engineer (2019)</title><url>https://twitchard.github.io/posts/2019-05-29-not-a-real-engineer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exclusiv</author><text>I just recently got into Steve Howe. He&#x27;s considered one of, if not the best guitarist of all time and I came across a quote he had that said something like he wished guitarists would focus on being musicians. Same thing as coders to engineers.<p>I&#x27;ve come across more technically able programmers than I am. But they aren&#x27;t better engineers. And a lot of that is because I&#x27;m an entrepreneur and have a marketing secondary background as well.<p>So many companies discount non coding skillsets that actually make one an engineer in my opinion.<p>They hire the butcher instead of the chef and then wonder why it tastes like shit when it&#x27;s cooked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ponector</author><text>But that is the market. 99% employers don&#x27;t want engineers, they want cheap modern-framework-coders.<p>Real market values more Spring java coders than C++ engineers who work with hardware.</text></comment>
21,634,141	21,633,473	1	3	21,632,108	train	<story><title>Nerd Fonts</title><url>https://www.nerdfonts.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Razengan</author><text>By the way, for those on macOS, Apple recently introduced a huge set of icons&#x2F;symbols that you can resize like any other font and use anywhere within text (in macOS) or images (iOS).<p>Just copy and paste the symbols like any other emoji, from the SF Symbols app:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;human-interface-guidelines&#x2F;sf-symbols&#x2F;overview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;human-interface-guideline...</a><p>Not only you can use them as is in your final app, these are absolutely great in UI mockups and even placeholder game sprites.</text></comment>	<story><title>Nerd Fonts</title><url>https://www.nerdfonts.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>I don’t understand at all.<p>Can someone explain why you’d want icons in the monospace font you use for development?<p>I thought those icons were mainly for building websites. But those are usually triggered with a CSS class, not embedded in source code.<p>What am I missing?</text></comment>
14,885,900	14,885,993	1	3	14,885,487	train	<story><title>How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/technology/how-buzzfeeds-tasty-conquered-online-food.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vanderZwan</author><text>Whenever I see any gif with a recipe come by on my social media, it always seems to follow the same meta-recipe: hyperpalatable ingredient mixed with other hyperpalatable ingredient, the end result being something that has fat, sugar and salt in abundance.<p>I guess that it makes sense, producing the clickbait equivalent for taste (you watch it and think &quot;oh that looks mouthwatering&quot;) but I don&#x27;t recall ever watching these and thinking they look <i>healthy</i>.<p>EDIT: To clarify, I am specifically referring to adding a lot more sugar, salt and fat than we need; I do realise a lot of these recipes use vegetables, have plenty of fibres and essential nutrients, and so on, but hyperprocessed foods that lack those qualities is a different kind of unhealthy than what I&#x27;m talking about.<p>For the record, I never actively look online for recipes on any of these sites, so maybe that is also the reason I only see these recipes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>They&#x27;ve got lots of fairly healthy recipes (as well as plenty of unhealthy ones, but nobody is pretending that brownies are healthy).<p>The problem isn&#x27;t the nutritional content, it&#x27;s that these videos are of recipes that just aren&#x27;t very good to start with. They&#x27;ve nailed the ability to shoot something that looks incredibly tasty, but if you look at the recipes themselves, they lack flavour. Nothing has enough spices added, nothing is allowed to cook long enough, etc. Complexity and culinary sophistication is thrown out the window to make food-making look enticingly, deceptively simple and quick. They&#x27;re not <i>all</i> bad, of course. You can sometimes make a good meal out of four ingredients.<p>In other words: The videos are designed to be addictive to watch, not to be realistic recipes.</text></comment>	<story><title>How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/technology/how-buzzfeeds-tasty-conquered-online-food.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vanderZwan</author><text>Whenever I see any gif with a recipe come by on my social media, it always seems to follow the same meta-recipe: hyperpalatable ingredient mixed with other hyperpalatable ingredient, the end result being something that has fat, sugar and salt in abundance.<p>I guess that it makes sense, producing the clickbait equivalent for taste (you watch it and think &quot;oh that looks mouthwatering&quot;) but I don&#x27;t recall ever watching these and thinking they look <i>healthy</i>.<p>EDIT: To clarify, I am specifically referring to adding a lot more sugar, salt and fat than we need; I do realise a lot of these recipes use vegetables, have plenty of fibres and essential nutrients, and so on, but hyperprocessed foods that lack those qualities is a different kind of unhealthy than what I&#x27;m talking about.<p>For the record, I never actively look online for recipes on any of these sites, so maybe that is also the reason I only see these recipes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>artursapek</author><text>Lowest common denominator. It&#x27;s why they&#x27;re so popular.</text></comment>
15,185,429	15,185,105	1	2	15,184,541	train	<story><title>Interactive Demo of Bloom Filters</title><url>https://www.jasondavies.com/bloomfilter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netcraft</author><text>obligatory mention that if you are interested in this you should also know about cuckoo filters:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~dga&#x2F;papers&#x2F;cuckoo-conext2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~dga&#x2F;papers&#x2F;cuckoo-conext2014.pdf</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cuckoo_hashing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cuckoo_hashing</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hendler</author><text>The OP also posted <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lkozma.net&#x2F;cuckoo_hashing_visualization&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lkozma.net&#x2F;cuckoo_hashing_visualization&#x2F;</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Interactive Demo of Bloom Filters</title><url>https://www.jasondavies.com/bloomfilter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netcraft</author><text>obligatory mention that if you are interested in this you should also know about cuckoo filters:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~dga&#x2F;papers&#x2F;cuckoo-conext2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~dga&#x2F;papers&#x2F;cuckoo-conext2014.pdf</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cuckoo_hashing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cuckoo_hashing</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristoff_it</author><text>...and a shameless plug for my (WIP) Redis Module that doesn&#x27;t implement a &quot;bloomy&quot; interface, for once<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kristoff-it&#x2F;redis-cuckoofilter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kristoff-it&#x2F;redis-cuckoofilter</a></text></comment>
18,585,912	18,585,821	1	2	18,583,288	train	<story><title>I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antidesitter</author><text>Very cool demonstration!<p>You might be interested in this interactive demo of social networks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncase.me&#x2F;crowds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncase.me&#x2F;crowds&#x2F;</a>. It explores how the connectivity structure of social networks impacts the spread of ideas.</text></item><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>I have an odd image that I think provides a good mental model of this. Bear with me...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VWR0AS2rW48" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VWR0AS2rW48</a><p>These metronomes start out tick-tocking in their own time, but each affects the other until they are all locked in perfect sync.<p>This is what global digital media culture is doing to us, subtle nudges to conform to a single global monoculture, so gradual that it&#x27;s hard to see it happening until it&#x27;s happened.</text></item><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>I’m also tired of the “global” culture. Reddit is a terrible offender of this. The same opinions always prevail, and dissenting ideas are pushed out of sight. This applies to politics, religion, humor, pop culture, everything. It rewards conformity and it’s so boring. Smaller subs are usually lots better, simply because there are fewer people there to perform their predicatable voting.</text></item><item><author>propman</author><text>I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I’ve not missed it once. The people who post more take up most of my bandwidth and those people I sincerely do not care about but due to social etiquitte have to follow. As I grow older I find that I really don’t care about maintaining superficial relationships with acquaintances, many of whom I might not see ever.<p>Other negatives- I click on one picture of a scantily clad woman and my entire search feed turns into softcore porn for a month.<p>Culture is too vain. Selfies, blatantly showing off, spending hours on touch up apps were looked down upon in the entire history of the internet until that Ellen selfie photo that got huge. Apple, Facebook, Google, the media all advertised and made it socially accepted that the vanity is good. That had it’s pros and cons but I feel like we are crossed over on the cons side too much.<p>The culture is too global. Everyone’s opinions&#x2F;posts&#x2F;comments all converge to the same dumbed down pop culture accepted norms&#x2F;memes. Everyone tries to be funny in the exact same socially accepted way and there is no originality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spin</author><text>Thank you for sharing this demo (and to the GP for the video with the metronomes). Very interesting; very cool.</text></comment>	<story><title>I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antidesitter</author><text>Very cool demonstration!<p>You might be interested in this interactive demo of social networks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncase.me&#x2F;crowds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncase.me&#x2F;crowds&#x2F;</a>. It explores how the connectivity structure of social networks impacts the spread of ideas.</text></item><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>I have an odd image that I think provides a good mental model of this. Bear with me...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VWR0AS2rW48" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VWR0AS2rW48</a><p>These metronomes start out tick-tocking in their own time, but each affects the other until they are all locked in perfect sync.<p>This is what global digital media culture is doing to us, subtle nudges to conform to a single global monoculture, so gradual that it&#x27;s hard to see it happening until it&#x27;s happened.</text></item><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>I’m also tired of the “global” culture. Reddit is a terrible offender of this. The same opinions always prevail, and dissenting ideas are pushed out of sight. This applies to politics, religion, humor, pop culture, everything. It rewards conformity and it’s so boring. Smaller subs are usually lots better, simply because there are fewer people there to perform their predicatable voting.</text></item><item><author>propman</author><text>I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I’ve not missed it once. The people who post more take up most of my bandwidth and those people I sincerely do not care about but due to social etiquitte have to follow. As I grow older I find that I really don’t care about maintaining superficial relationships with acquaintances, many of whom I might not see ever.<p>Other negatives- I click on one picture of a scantily clad woman and my entire search feed turns into softcore porn for a month.<p>Culture is too vain. Selfies, blatantly showing off, spending hours on touch up apps were looked down upon in the entire history of the internet until that Ellen selfie photo that got huge. Apple, Facebook, Google, the media all advertised and made it socially accepted that the vanity is good. That had it’s pros and cons but I feel like we are crossed over on the cons side too much.<p>The culture is too global. Everyone’s opinions&#x2F;posts&#x2F;comments all converge to the same dumbed down pop culture accepted norms&#x2F;memes. Everyone tries to be funny in the exact same socially accepted way and there is no originality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhwhite</author><text>What field of study is this?</text></comment>
40,437,434	40,437,004	1	3	40,434,874	train	<story><title>Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise</title><url>https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/designed-to-crash-the-bizarre-story-of-antonov-an-28-ha-laj-and-its-demise-169b3720d924</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gorgoiler</author><text>I once flew from Weston-on-the-Green as a guest on a sky diving flight, a couple of years after this accident. We went right up to 12,000 feet which I was told was the natural ceiling for this sort of activity.<p>It amazed me that everyone on board could think straight at that altitude — it really affected me dropping to two thirds atmospheric pressure so suddenly. As I recall we didn’t spend long at altitude: the aircraft and the sky divers went pretty much straight up then straight down again with surprisingly little difference in time spent in the air between them and us. You’d want to have your wits about you anyway when jumping out of a plane, let alone one where the landing site is next to two busy roads (the newly built M40 near the Oxford&#x2F;Bicester A34 junction.)<p>(And yes, if you’d told me in the early 90s that you were going to take a flight in a second hand soviet turboprop I’d say take a parachute because you must have a screw loose. Turns out both were the case.)</text></comment>	<story><title>Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise</title><url>https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/designed-to-crash-the-bizarre-story-of-antonov-an-28-ha-laj-and-its-demise-169b3720d924</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knodi123</author><text>Spoiler for people who don&#x27;t want to read a VERY long article- the electrical circuits in the plane did not follow the plans. A screw that was providing grounding (to the plane body) for the flap system had wiggled loose- causing the electricity to take a different path, through the a circuit that controlled the angle of the propellors. So pressing the flap button cause the propellor to stop spinning.</text></comment>
22,066,288	22,064,814	1	2	22,063,597	train	<story><title>Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/01/amsterdam-architecture-history-canal-houses-urban-design/604921/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>“The canal houses were from the outset combined residences, storage units, and places of business,”<p>This is covered well in the Strong Towns book that came out recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;edition&#x2F;Strong_Towns&#x2F;w0WyDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;edition&#x2F;Strong_Towns&#x2F;w0WyDwAAQB...</a> (available on Amazon here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;2FRT6bA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;2FRT6bA</a> or your local library on request).<p>In the name of &#x27;progress&#x27; we&#x27;ve outlawed that kind of thing in most of the US, so now we have to drive pollution spewing vehicles to do even the most basic things.</text></comment>	<story><title>Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/01/amsterdam-architecture-history-canal-houses-urban-design/604921/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alamortsubite</author><text>I was hoping the article would discuss the issue of the visibly shifting foundations of many of the houses, which most of us find delightful as spectators but must be terrifying for property owners. It&#x27;s impressive the houses are still here after 300 years, having been built on a bog. Even more impressive how many appear to be in otherwise excellent condition given their lean angle! I have to imagine many societies would have demolished and rebuilt them long ago (boo).<p>In the same vein, I&#x27;ve also read that the forward tilt many houses exhibit was intentional- to make it easier to hoist goods to the upper floors.</text></comment>
37,716,270	37,716,556	1	2	37,714,579	train	<story><title>Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denysvitali</author><text>Yes, I think the real problem is #2.<p>The only reliable way to test 911 features is a test lab, to which the average engineer doesn&#x27;t have access to. On top of that, calling 911 isn&#x27;t exactly as placing a normal call - so the only way to test is... to call 911.<p>Again, a test lab should help towards these things, but I doubt Google has one accessible to the average engineer working on the dialer. Plus, they most likely don&#x27;t have a way to automatically test these changes - or they might happen as part of other &quot;features&quot; (remember the Microsoft Teams bug that caused similar issues?).<p>In the end, the smarter our smartphones become - the dumber they are at doing the one single thing they were initially meant to do - get help in case of an emergency.</text></item><item><author>numpad0</author><text>I can hallucinate couple different explanations for that:<p><pre><code> - Modern software is way too overcomplicated to take seriously. - 911 is handled too specially, leading to oversights by implementers. - Feature importance to you has nothing to do with implementation difficulties. </code></pre> etc.</text></item><item><author>rkagerer</author><text>Jeez - can&#x27;t dial 911, randomly dials 911.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why these devices can&#x27;t even do the most <i>core</i> feature of a phone properly.<p>This will sound crass but the development teams (right up to CEO&#x27;s) should be dragged out to the gallows and flogged.<p>If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping, and not rested for a minute until any bugs were solidly quashed - up to and including recalling all sold units and overhauling the flakey architecture if needed.<p>This is <i>life safety</i> we&#x27;re talking about, not only for their users but also everyone else impacted by their blatent abuse of the emergency services system. Would we tolerate bridges that collapsed with equally ambivalent consequences for those who engineered them?</text></item><item><author>lopkeny12ko</author><text>Funny, because I have the opposite problem. My Pixel dials 911 out of random and I always have to race to disconnect the call.<p>Just last night my Pixel Watch started ringing out of random while I was eating dinner and it said it was dialing 911. I saw a phone call pop up on my Pixel 6 phone but fortunately canceled it before it connected. My watch didn&#x27;t even tell me <i>why</i> it dialed 911, and once I disconnected the call it just disappeared from my watch. Totally useless!<p>There should really be a hard-to-accidentally-accept confirmation dialog for any kind of automated emergency dial feature. This is ridiculous because this is probably the 3rd time this has happened to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipov</author><text>&gt; <i>Again, a test lab should help towards these things, but I doubt Google has one accessible to the average engineer working on the dialer.</i><p>And why not? It seems like the <i>real</i> real problem is #4: Management doesn&#x27;t take seriously people&#x27;s need to reach emergency services because it&#x27;s not a profit center.</text></comment>	<story><title>Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denysvitali</author><text>Yes, I think the real problem is #2.<p>The only reliable way to test 911 features is a test lab, to which the average engineer doesn&#x27;t have access to. On top of that, calling 911 isn&#x27;t exactly as placing a normal call - so the only way to test is... to call 911.<p>Again, a test lab should help towards these things, but I doubt Google has one accessible to the average engineer working on the dialer. Plus, they most likely don&#x27;t have a way to automatically test these changes - or they might happen as part of other &quot;features&quot; (remember the Microsoft Teams bug that caused similar issues?).<p>In the end, the smarter our smartphones become - the dumber they are at doing the one single thing they were initially meant to do - get help in case of an emergency.</text></item><item><author>numpad0</author><text>I can hallucinate couple different explanations for that:<p><pre><code> - Modern software is way too overcomplicated to take seriously. - 911 is handled too specially, leading to oversights by implementers. - Feature importance to you has nothing to do with implementation difficulties. </code></pre> etc.</text></item><item><author>rkagerer</author><text>Jeez - can&#x27;t dial 911, randomly dials 911.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why these devices can&#x27;t even do the most <i>core</i> feature of a phone properly.<p>This will sound crass but the development teams (right up to CEO&#x27;s) should be dragged out to the gallows and flogged.<p>If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping, and not rested for a minute until any bugs were solidly quashed - up to and including recalling all sold units and overhauling the flakey architecture if needed.<p>This is <i>life safety</i> we&#x27;re talking about, not only for their users but also everyone else impacted by their blatent abuse of the emergency services system. Would we tolerate bridges that collapsed with equally ambivalent consequences for those who engineered them?</text></item><item><author>lopkeny12ko</author><text>Funny, because I have the opposite problem. My Pixel dials 911 out of random and I always have to race to disconnect the call.<p>Just last night my Pixel Watch started ringing out of random while I was eating dinner and it said it was dialing 911. I saw a phone call pop up on my Pixel 6 phone but fortunately canceled it before it connected. My watch didn&#x27;t even tell me <i>why</i> it dialed 911, and once I disconnected the call it just disappeared from my watch. Totally useless!<p>There should really be a hard-to-accidentally-accept confirmation dialog for any kind of automated emergency dial feature. This is ridiculous because this is probably the 3rd time this has happened to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zja</author><text>&gt; the only way to test is... to call 911<p>You should be able to use 933 to test emergency services. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.bandwidth.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;210291778-The-933-service" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.bandwidth.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;210291778-Th...</a></text></comment>
23,823,305	23,823,050	1	2	23,822,044	train	<story><title>Optimizations in C++ Compilers</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3372264</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orangepanda</author><text>&gt; I went home that evening and created Compiler Explorer.<p>Nice try. You can’t escape being known as a verb now.<p>Everyone knows the tool as godbolt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ladberg</author><text>Yep, it honestly never occurred to me that the name of the tool <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> godbolt. I just went to the site and noticed &quot;Compiler Explorer&quot; for the first time, which seems so generic that I never thought of it as a name.</text></comment>	<story><title>Optimizations in C++ Compilers</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3372264</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orangepanda</author><text>&gt; I went home that evening and created Compiler Explorer.<p>Nice try. You can’t escape being known as a verb now.<p>Everyone knows the tool as godbolt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2bluesc</author><text>Interesting tool I&#x27;ve never used, for the uninitiated:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
32,076,175	32,074,806	1	2	32,072,321	train	<story><title>Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September</title><url>https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/07/12/heathrow-tells-all-airlines-to-stop-selling-any-flights-until-11th-september/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>When I worked in consulting we had a large retail client who had a lot of turn-over and was looking for ways to &quot;stabilize&quot; hiring. (Short of paying more money, of course!) When we looked into it their system was regularly over-scheduling shifts &quot;just in case&quot; there was a rush and then having store managers &quot;cut&quot; shifts if there wasn&#x27;t a rush. There aren&#x27;t a lot of surprise &quot;rush&quot; shifts in shopping malls outside of the holiday season so sometimes employees would come in, work an hour of a scheduled eight hour shift, and then get cut. The cuts tended to happen by &quot;seniority&quot; (so newest hires, paid the least) and a decent number of these employees who were frequently cut were traveling at least an hour by public transportation. Some days employees <i>lost money</i> by going to work.<p>We were thrilled by what we&#x27;d found! It would be a quick and easy fix for the client: they had solid and reliable sales forecasts for each location so estimating the number of employees they&#x27;d need on a given day wasn&#x27;t going to be difficult. In fact, they were more or less already doing it. It would hardly cost them anything to implement aside from a few tweaks to the corporate scheduling tool and a bit of training for the store managers. So when management immediately shot down our proposed solution it came as a bit of shock. The erratic scheduling and the &quot;cut&quot; shifts were a feature, not a bug, we were told. It kept employees from getting a second job that they might dare prioritize over their current job.</text></item><item><author>rtkwe</author><text>&gt; guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week<p>This I think is part of the huge problem with modern &quot;low level&quot;&#x2F;minimum wage jobs. Companies don&#x27;t pay enough to live of of one salary but expect to have full say over their employees time just for their own convenience in scheduling and staffing.</text></item><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>In Ireland, the minimum wage is €10.50 per hour and the standard work week is 40 hours, that works out to €420 full time minimum wage per week.<p>At Dublin Airport, security staff are only guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week, and entry level workers are paid €14.14 per hour.<p>Guaranteed pay: €282.80 per week, i.e. 67% of the minimum wage.<p>Are there any surprises why there are staff shortages?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extra.ie&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;news&#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-dublin-airport" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extra.ie&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;news&#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-du...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>It&#x27;s the kind of bullshit people got shot fighting against 100 years ago then we&#x27;ve slowly slid back over time to a different but still quite shitty place for workers. The labor movement in the US has unfortunately been neutered over time, maybe it&#x27;ll make a come back now that it&#x27;s becoming a bit more clear the US&#x27;s fortune in the later 20th century might be more down to coming out of WW2 untouched rather than the glory and perfection of the US system.</text></comment>	<story><title>Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September</title><url>https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/07/12/heathrow-tells-all-airlines-to-stop-selling-any-flights-until-11th-september/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>When I worked in consulting we had a large retail client who had a lot of turn-over and was looking for ways to &quot;stabilize&quot; hiring. (Short of paying more money, of course!) When we looked into it their system was regularly over-scheduling shifts &quot;just in case&quot; there was a rush and then having store managers &quot;cut&quot; shifts if there wasn&#x27;t a rush. There aren&#x27;t a lot of surprise &quot;rush&quot; shifts in shopping malls outside of the holiday season so sometimes employees would come in, work an hour of a scheduled eight hour shift, and then get cut. The cuts tended to happen by &quot;seniority&quot; (so newest hires, paid the least) and a decent number of these employees who were frequently cut were traveling at least an hour by public transportation. Some days employees <i>lost money</i> by going to work.<p>We were thrilled by what we&#x27;d found! It would be a quick and easy fix for the client: they had solid and reliable sales forecasts for each location so estimating the number of employees they&#x27;d need on a given day wasn&#x27;t going to be difficult. In fact, they were more or less already doing it. It would hardly cost them anything to implement aside from a few tweaks to the corporate scheduling tool and a bit of training for the store managers. So when management immediately shot down our proposed solution it came as a bit of shock. The erratic scheduling and the &quot;cut&quot; shifts were a feature, not a bug, we were told. It kept employees from getting a second job that they might dare prioritize over their current job.</text></item><item><author>rtkwe</author><text>&gt; guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week<p>This I think is part of the huge problem with modern &quot;low level&quot;&#x2F;minimum wage jobs. Companies don&#x27;t pay enough to live of of one salary but expect to have full say over their employees time just for their own convenience in scheduling and staffing.</text></item><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>In Ireland, the minimum wage is €10.50 per hour and the standard work week is 40 hours, that works out to €420 full time minimum wage per week.<p>At Dublin Airport, security staff are only guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week, and entry level workers are paid €14.14 per hour.<p>Guaranteed pay: €282.80 per week, i.e. 67% of the minimum wage.<p>Are there any surprises why there are staff shortages?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extra.ie&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;news&#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-dublin-airport" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extra.ie&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;news&#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-du...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbarnett</author><text>In Ontaro, minimum pay is 3 hours, for just this reason.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ontario.ca&#x2F;document&#x2F;your-guide-employment-standards-act-0&#x2F;minimum-wage#section-3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ontario.ca&#x2F;document&#x2F;your-guide-employment-standar...</a></text></comment>
11,940,418	11,939,619	1	2	11,939,147	train	<story><title>Docker Betas for AWS, Azure, Mac, and Windows</title><url>https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/azure-aws-beta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>We merged the threads on these announcements. The Mac beta is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docker.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;docker#&#x2F;mac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docker.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;docker#&#x2F;mac</a> and the Windows one at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docker.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;docker#&#x2F;windows" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docker.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;docker#&#x2F;windows</a>.</text></comment>	<story><title>Docker Betas for AWS, Azure, Mac, and Windows</title><url>https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/azure-aws-beta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tbrock</author><text>The more I use Docker the more I realize that GCE is going to smoke AWS and Azure in the future with regards to deploying a containerized infrastructure.<p>This is mostly because turn-key kubernetes on GCE is light years ahead of what ECS provides. It almost makes amazon&#x27;s offering seem like a joke.<p>This might level the playing field a bit by having Docker itself provide the infrastructure management software instead of it being tied to a particular service.</text></comment>
18,762,898	18,762,931	1	3	18,762,735	train	<story><title>Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly</title><url>https://starterstory.com/stories/how-two-unlikely-partners-invented-the-upcart-and-went-viral-on-qvc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>funkaster</author><text>&gt; Many people write&#x2F;advise that you must be “All-In” to make a business successful… that’s easy to say if you don’t have a wife, two kids, car payments and a mortgage. I wasn’t in a position to just quit my day job and commit 100% to the business, and I wouldn’t be until December 2016 (3.5 years later).<p>This is just refreshing to read. I don&#x27;t like the product, but this was a good read and detailed explanation of the issues&#x2F;problems you can find of making a physical product startup. I also enjoyed the honesty and down to earth writing of the author.</text></comment>	<story><title>Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly</title><url>https://starterstory.com/stories/how-two-unlikely-partners-invented-the-upcart-and-went-viral-on-qvc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>voxadam</author><text>Am I the only one reminded of the &quot;Landmaster&quot;?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Landmaster" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Landmaster</a></text></comment>
37,805,997	37,806,037	1	2	37,775,962	train	<story><title>An alternative front end for Haskell?</title><url>https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2023/10/05/haskell-alternative-frontend</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stepchowfun</author><text>Most of the comments so far are negative, so I&#x27;ll add something positive. One thing I love about the Haskell community is how they are always questioning their assumptions and genuinely seeking the best way to do things (often drawing upon or contributing to computer science research). The core concepts behind Haskell are clean and simple (essentially something between System F and System Fω), but there&#x27;s a lot of baggage on the surface that obscures that underlying elegance. We should encourage people taking an introspective look into their tools and asking how they can be better, even if certain proposals are unrealistic or controversial.<p>I think the author is just writing down their opinions (which are worth discussing!) and not seriously trying to start a new GHC frontend. Personally, I think Haskell is approximately stuck in a local maximum, which can only be escaped by embracing dependent types (which are actually simpler than where Haskell has been heading) rather than building increasingly complex approximations of them. Once you try a dependently typed language like Agda, Lean, Coq, or Idris, it&#x27;s hard to go back to the complexity of having two (or more!) separate languages for types and programs.<p>Regarding the proposals in the article, the most interesting to me is (2), although I&#x27;m not sure about some of the specifics. In general, I think Haskell needs a way to graduate (or retire) language extensions, rather than having them accumulate unboundedly. It&#x27;s harder to talk about Haskell when everyone is using a different flavor of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeflo</author><text>&gt; Personally, I think Haskell is approximately stuck in a local maximum, which can only be escaped by embracing dependent types<p>To give a counter point, there seem to be lots of small wins that aren&#x27;t taken, possibly in part <i>because</i> people seem to wait for the big ideas.<p>Take partial functions like head: You can do what Haskell and Java do and throw an exception. Or you can have dependent types and statically prevent the function from being applied to an empty list. But the obvious and easy solution in the current language would be to return Maybe, which isn&#x27;t done because there&#x27;s a feeling that it&#x27;s not a big enough step to be worth the effort, and dependent types will eventually solve this anyway.</text></comment>	<story><title>An alternative front end for Haskell?</title><url>https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2023/10/05/haskell-alternative-frontend</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stepchowfun</author><text>Most of the comments so far are negative, so I&#x27;ll add something positive. One thing I love about the Haskell community is how they are always questioning their assumptions and genuinely seeking the best way to do things (often drawing upon or contributing to computer science research). The core concepts behind Haskell are clean and simple (essentially something between System F and System Fω), but there&#x27;s a lot of baggage on the surface that obscures that underlying elegance. We should encourage people taking an introspective look into their tools and asking how they can be better, even if certain proposals are unrealistic or controversial.<p>I think the author is just writing down their opinions (which are worth discussing!) and not seriously trying to start a new GHC frontend. Personally, I think Haskell is approximately stuck in a local maximum, which can only be escaped by embracing dependent types (which are actually simpler than where Haskell has been heading) rather than building increasingly complex approximations of them. Once you try a dependently typed language like Agda, Lean, Coq, or Idris, it&#x27;s hard to go back to the complexity of having two (or more!) separate languages for types and programs.<p>Regarding the proposals in the article, the most interesting to me is (2), although I&#x27;m not sure about some of the specifics. In general, I think Haskell needs a way to graduate (or retire) language extensions, rather than having them accumulate unboundedly. It&#x27;s harder to talk about Haskell when everyone is using a different flavor of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhitza</author><text>&gt; I think Haskell needs a way to graduate (or retire) language extensions, rather than having them accumulate unboundedly. It&#x27;s harder to talk about Haskell when everyone is using a different flavor of it.<p>That is what the standardization process is for. I don&#x27;t think that the parties that could write a new Haskell standard have the time, resources, or bandwidth to work on one. That&#x27;s why for now we&#x27;re stuck with 98, 2010 and a bunch of extensions.</text></comment>
7,880,047	7,879,981	1	2	7,878,949	train	<story><title>With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/206401-with-the-machine-hp-may-have-invented-a-new-kind-of-computer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a memristor is, as I was, HP has an easy-to-understand analogy on its FAQ page about memristors:<p>&quot;A common analogy for a resistor is a pipe that carries water. The water itself is analogous to electrical charge, the pressure at the input of the pipe is similar to voltage, and the rate of flow of the water through the pipe is like electrical current. Just as with an electrical resistor, the flow of water through the pipe is faster if the pipe is shorter and&#x2F;or it has a larger diameter. An analogy for a memristor is an interesting kind of pipe that expands or shrinks when water flows through it. If water flows through the pipe in one direction, the diameter of the pipe increases, thus enabling the water to flow faster. If water flows through the pipe in the opposite direction, the diameter of the pipe decreases, thus slowing down the flow of water. If the water pressure is turned off, the pipe will retain it most recent diameter until the water is turned back on. Thus, the pipe does not store water like a bucket (or a capacitor) – it remembers how much water flowed through it.&quot;<p>Source: <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor_faq.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpl.hp.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2008&#x2F;apr-jun&#x2F;memristor_faq.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Interesting tidbit: a while ago, I was talking about memristors with a physics trained person. And he told me something that really stuck:<p>It is impossible to make an inductor (coil) without resistance and without capacitance. It is impossible to make a capacitor without some inductance and a little bit of leakage. It is impossible to create a resistor that does not have self-inductance or a bit of capacitance.<p>If you followed all that and you agree with it (because you&#x27;ve done some electronics) or you&#x27;ve heard of &#x27;parasitic capacitors&#x27; and such, then you can see that it must somehow follow that parasitic mem-resistance must have been with us all along, but is such a small effect that we simply failed to notice it. No resistors, capacitors or coils that we normally use exhibits this effect in such a way that we adapt our designs to it to minimize it.<p>That&#x27;s in part the reason why it took so long to manifest in a usable form, if the effect would be as devastating as resistance on powerlines, as capacitance on wiring, as induction on large capacitors then we&#x27;d have exploited it long ago.<p>So it&#x27;s going to be something exceedingly subtle when and if it comes to market.</text></comment>	<story><title>With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/206401-with-the-machine-hp-may-have-invented-a-new-kind-of-computer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a memristor is, as I was, HP has an easy-to-understand analogy on its FAQ page about memristors:<p>&quot;A common analogy for a resistor is a pipe that carries water. The water itself is analogous to electrical charge, the pressure at the input of the pipe is similar to voltage, and the rate of flow of the water through the pipe is like electrical current. Just as with an electrical resistor, the flow of water through the pipe is faster if the pipe is shorter and&#x2F;or it has a larger diameter. An analogy for a memristor is an interesting kind of pipe that expands or shrinks when water flows through it. If water flows through the pipe in one direction, the diameter of the pipe increases, thus enabling the water to flow faster. If water flows through the pipe in the opposite direction, the diameter of the pipe decreases, thus slowing down the flow of water. If the water pressure is turned off, the pipe will retain it most recent diameter until the water is turned back on. Thus, the pipe does not store water like a bucket (or a capacitor) – it remembers how much water flowed through it.&quot;<p>Source: <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor_faq.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpl.hp.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2008&#x2F;apr-jun&#x2F;memristor_faq.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frik</author><text>Conceptual symmetry between the resistor, capacitor, inductor, and the memristor:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#mediaviewer/File:Two-terminal_non-linear_circuit_elements.svg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Memristor#mediaviewer&#x2F;File:Two-...</a><p>The scales fell from my eyes. Now the electronics math makes sense - Memristor was the missing puzzle piece.</text></comment>
19,911,714	19,911,710	1	3	19,910,973	train	<story><title>AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/att-promised-7000-new-jobs-to-get-tax-break-it-cut-23000-jobs-instead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>This article and your assertion are a really good example of how falsehoods become an unquestioned part of the accepted narrative. AT&amp;T never &quot;promised to create a <i>net</i> 7,000&quot; jobs. The article admits as much: it quotes AT&amp;T&#x27;s CEO as saying that AT&amp;T would invest an additional $1 billion, which is equivalent to 7,000 jobs. The article <i>never analyzes the truth of that claim.</i> It never determines whether AT&amp;T actually invested that money. (In fact, AT&amp;T is in the middle of a big push to deploy more fiber: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cordcuttersnews.com&#x2F;att-plans-to-expand-fiber-internet-to-14-million-locations-by-mid-2019." rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cordcuttersnews.com&#x2F;att-plans-to-expand-fiber-in...</a>) Instead, the article points to completely unrelated layoffs that resulted from a merger. (There was also the question of who exactly this &quot;promise&quot; was made to. The article quotes Stephenson&#x27;s comments in a speech to the Economic Club of New York, not any sort of filing to the government.)<p>The same is true for the &quot;promise to build out a fiber optic network.&quot; AT&amp;T never &quot;promised&quot; to do that. The arguments at the time were that deregulation would lead to higher investment into things like broadband. What nobody anticipated at the time was that the mobile revolution would happen, and all that new capital would be redirected to building wireless networks instead. That doesn&#x27;t make the original claim a misrepresentation. And from a practical standpoint, it&#x27;s better that all this money got invested in mobile instead of building FTTH.</text></item><item><author>lovich</author><text>Did anyone really expect anything different? These are the same companies who took tax breaks in return for a promise to build out a fiber optic network and then never did it while pocketing the money.<p>At this point AT&amp;T and their peers aren&#x27;t fucking society, we are actively asking them to</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovich</author><text>Yea, you&#x27;re right. AT&amp;T never promised those jobs. They just kept talking about all the jobs that would be made if the tax cut happened. That was the main argument when they tax cuts came up, all the job that would be created. But yea, no one made an actual promise.<p>The reason people are upset is the same reason no one likes talking to lawyer, and why no one wants to deal with corporate or political leaders who need to be talked to like a genie to make sure your wish doesn&#x27;t get twisted around.<p>If the response to this event and to the fiber optic debacle is &quot;wElL tEcHniCalLy We DiDnT pRoMiSe&quot; then why should any tax breaks be considered in the future for any company? What is the reason to believe any statement about the benefits that will come through if we could just release these poor corporate giants from their terrible tax burden, if experience shows that they never come through?</text></comment>	<story><title>AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/att-promised-7000-new-jobs-to-get-tax-break-it-cut-23000-jobs-instead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>This article and your assertion are a really good example of how falsehoods become an unquestioned part of the accepted narrative. AT&amp;T never &quot;promised to create a <i>net</i> 7,000&quot; jobs. The article admits as much: it quotes AT&amp;T&#x27;s CEO as saying that AT&amp;T would invest an additional $1 billion, which is equivalent to 7,000 jobs. The article <i>never analyzes the truth of that claim.</i> It never determines whether AT&amp;T actually invested that money. (In fact, AT&amp;T is in the middle of a big push to deploy more fiber: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cordcuttersnews.com&#x2F;att-plans-to-expand-fiber-internet-to-14-million-locations-by-mid-2019." rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cordcuttersnews.com&#x2F;att-plans-to-expand-fiber-in...</a>) Instead, the article points to completely unrelated layoffs that resulted from a merger. (There was also the question of who exactly this &quot;promise&quot; was made to. The article quotes Stephenson&#x27;s comments in a speech to the Economic Club of New York, not any sort of filing to the government.)<p>The same is true for the &quot;promise to build out a fiber optic network.&quot; AT&amp;T never &quot;promised&quot; to do that. The arguments at the time were that deregulation would lead to higher investment into things like broadband. What nobody anticipated at the time was that the mobile revolution would happen, and all that new capital would be redirected to building wireless networks instead. That doesn&#x27;t make the original claim a misrepresentation. And from a practical standpoint, it&#x27;s better that all this money got invested in mobile instead of building FTTH.</text></item><item><author>lovich</author><text>Did anyone really expect anything different? These are the same companies who took tax breaks in return for a promise to build out a fiber optic network and then never did it while pocketing the money.<p>At this point AT&amp;T and their peers aren&#x27;t fucking society, we are actively asking them to</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Which explains nicely why tax &quot;loopholes&quot; are much better at achieving the desired result than tax &quot;breaks.&quot;<p>In the former, the tax burden is reduced in exchange for specific actions by the taxpayer. For example you give AT&amp;T the option to file for a reduction in their taxes in proportion to their investment in new fiber, or in proportion to the number of &quot;hard hat&quot; jobs they create. In the latter, you simply cut their taxes and take their word for it that the result will achieve your policy goals because they said it might.<p>The over arching message, that cutting taxes as a way of putting more money into the working man&#x27;s hands, is false on its face remains true. Even the folks who <i>invented</i> trickle down economics say that.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;posteverything&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;i-helped-create-the-gop-tax-myth-trump-is-wrong-tax-cuts-dont-equal-growth&#x2F;?utm_term=.1bcdd986d865" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;posteverything&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;0...</a></text></comment>
918,397	917,552	1	3	917,051	train	<story><title>How to Drop Out</title><url>http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>He falls into a number of fundamental paradoxes in his reasoning.<p>He asserts that profit is evil, which is essentially saying that time spent procuring resources is not a cost that can be recuperated through monetary compensation. He almost even comes out and says time isn't a cost when he says he'd think it evil to sell something he found while dumpster diving, "how can you sell something you get for free?". He didn't get it for free, he got it through the time effort of dumpster diving, a recurring cost that has a random (though apparently positive) payoff. Yet his entire motivation for "dropping out" is to use his time as he sees fit, because it is the most precious thing to him.<p>He asserts that trade requires someone to be "the sucker", yet he justifies his couch surfing by offering his friends services instead of money. Trade fundamentally requires that both parties agree that the trade action is advantageous to both of them; total value increases for both parties, separately and combined.<p>He is absolutely engaged in a purely capitalistic system of free trade, completely unfettered by the dead-weight loss of tax systems, and does nothing but deride the one economic system that dragged the human race out of abject poverty.</text></comment>	<story><title>How to Drop Out</title><url>http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notauser</author><text>I rather liked this bit:<p>"If you require a motivational writer or speaker to live differently, then as soon as that external energy shot wears off, you will fizzle and burn out. But if everyone is trying to discourage you from doing something, and you do it anyway, then you have the internal motivation to persist and succeed."<p>This probably applies to start ups too. Starting up on my own has been 1% partying at cool start up events and 99% quietly getting on with stuff that needs to be done. This is not exactly how it is sold to people - one great idea, 15 minutes of hacking to a suitably cool soundtrack, then off to the nightclub to flagrantly spend the IPO money. Possibly you might have to suffer a back alley chase or two with agents dispatched from the Yamicroogle offices to steal your technology, but that's about the extent of the sacrifice.<p>The 1% is fun! But if you aren't the kind of person who also enjoys the other 99% I don't know how you would cope.</text></comment>
18,560,998	18,561,036	1	2	18,560,580	train	<story><title>Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/fed-says-millennials-are-just-like-their-parents-only-poorer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iagooar</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how this &quot;generation&quot; thing only quite exists (as far as I know) in the English-speaking world. There is no such idea of generations of people where I come from. It&#x27;s hard for me to even grasp the idea of it. Who draws a line between generations and why? People do not stop being born, nor do they magically change because they supposedly belong to an imaginary generation.<p>Am I missing something?</text></comment>	<story><title>Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/fed-says-millennials-are-just-like-their-parents-only-poorer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>esotericn</author><text>I think the term &quot;poorer&quot;, and the monetary analysis done here, is too high level to extract real meaning.<p>The average young person&#x2F;couple that I know are able to do and buy far more than their parents (e.g. eat out, order takeaway, take holidays, go to bars, buy things for hobbies, buy clothes, ...).<p>They just don&#x27;t own property and have no path that leads there.<p>In some sense you could say that they have higher incomes whilst having lower wealth, but that doesn&#x27;t really capture it.<p>Housing just went bonkers which makes retirement impossible.</text></comment>
6,438,237	6,438,215	1	3	6,437,831	train	<story><title>Starting an Airline </title><url>http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkorzeniewski</author><text>It blows my mind how people start such big businesses. You must build an airport, hire stuff, buy planes, meet many legal requirements and so on, all costing tens of millions of dollars, and on top of that, it must be profitable. This gives some insight, but still it&#x27;s terryfing. I feel so small.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The key observation is that the airport is built on credit (by the government, not the airline, using bonds), and the airplanes are usually either bought on credit or leased (in which case they are built by the airline on credit).<p>It&#x27;s an illustration of why banks and bank debt are so important in our economy! This capital-intensive sort of business doesn&#x27;t happen by an entrepreneur writing a $1 billion check from funds he has on hand.</text></comment>	<story><title>Starting an Airline </title><url>http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkorzeniewski</author><text>It blows my mind how people start such big businesses. You must build an airport, hire stuff, buy planes, meet many legal requirements and so on, all costing tens of millions of dollars, and on top of that, it must be profitable. This gives some insight, but still it&#x27;s terryfing. I feel so small.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rokhayakebe</author><text>I always thought I was very ambitious, granted &quot;my ambitions far exceeded my talents.&quot;<p>When I stood there under the Eiffel Tower, I felt like I never had a grand thought in my life. To think that massive undertaking started in someone&#x27;s head is just humbling.<p>So I feel you. I feel so small.</text></comment>
19,726,100	19,725,843	1	3	19,723,066	train	<story><title>Modern C++ Won't Save Us</title><url>https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>&quot;which is just about everything useful&quot;. This statement is wildly without merit.<p>Sure, for the typical user facing application HN readers talk about then C++ can certainly contain vulnerabilities that are worrisome. Many performance critical applications can tolerate vulnerabilities in favor of latency.<p>It seems to me that the world of realtime systems including avionics, autonomous control software, trading, machine learning, and more is &quot;not useful&quot; as per your comment. The extreme low level control that C++ offers and powerful metaprogramming allows for performance that even Rust cannot hope to rival.<p>The industry <i>has</i> moved away from C++ for plenty of these user facing use cases. Codebases like Chrome and Firefox can&#x27;t just be rewritten in Rust overnight. You can try and rewrite eg; SSL libraries but that has its own host of problems (eg; guaranteeing constant time operations).<p>I encourage the people parroting a move away from C++ to really think about what it is that should move and what the pros&#x2F;cons are. I think you&#x27;ll find that many of the things at risk (i.e user facing applications) are already on their way to being rewritten in Go&#x2F;Rust.</text></item><item><author>tatersolid</author><text>&gt; think if you need a very safe code, you shouldn&#x27;t use the string_view or span without thinking about the potential consequences.<p>That’s the whole point: your caveat shows that’s it’s C&#x2F;C++ which are <i>unsafe in their very nature</i> and therefore should not be used in code exposed to potentially malicious (e.g. user or network) input. Which is just about everything useful.<p>HPC are generally closed systems and have different threats, but the industry just needs to run (not walk) away from C&#x2F;C++ for the majority of use cases.</text></item><item><author>namirez</author><text>This has been discussed extensively in the C++ community. I think if you need a very safe code, you shouldn&#x27;t use the string_view or span without thinking about the potential consequences. These are added to the language to prevent memory allocation and data copy for performance critical software.<p>Herb Sutter has concrete proposals to address this issue and Clang already supports them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3307522&#x2F;revised-proposal-could-solve-longstanding-c-bugs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3307522&#x2F;revised-proposal-c...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PudgePacket</author><text>&gt; The extreme low level control that C++ offers and powerful metaprogramming allows for performance that even Rust cannot hope to rival.<p>Could you expand on this? It&#x27;s a pretty strong claim.<p>LLVM produces very fast code and is very commonly used for c++ compilation. Rust also has access to the usual low level control suspects, inline asm, manual memory layout &amp; operations, pointer shenanigans etc.<p>Benchmarks are never perfect but they show that rust in usually within the ballpark of c++, if not comparable: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;akluxx&#x2F;rust_now_on_average_outperforms_c_in_the&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;akluxx&#x2F;rust_now_on_av...</a>.</text></comment>	<story><title>Modern C++ Won't Save Us</title><url>https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>&quot;which is just about everything useful&quot;. This statement is wildly without merit.<p>Sure, for the typical user facing application HN readers talk about then C++ can certainly contain vulnerabilities that are worrisome. Many performance critical applications can tolerate vulnerabilities in favor of latency.<p>It seems to me that the world of realtime systems including avionics, autonomous control software, trading, machine learning, and more is &quot;not useful&quot; as per your comment. The extreme low level control that C++ offers and powerful metaprogramming allows for performance that even Rust cannot hope to rival.<p>The industry <i>has</i> moved away from C++ for plenty of these user facing use cases. Codebases like Chrome and Firefox can&#x27;t just be rewritten in Rust overnight. You can try and rewrite eg; SSL libraries but that has its own host of problems (eg; guaranteeing constant time operations).<p>I encourage the people parroting a move away from C++ to really think about what it is that should move and what the pros&#x2F;cons are. I think you&#x27;ll find that many of the things at risk (i.e user facing applications) are already on their way to being rewritten in Go&#x2F;Rust.</text></item><item><author>tatersolid</author><text>&gt; think if you need a very safe code, you shouldn&#x27;t use the string_view or span without thinking about the potential consequences.<p>That’s the whole point: your caveat shows that’s it’s C&#x2F;C++ which are <i>unsafe in their very nature</i> and therefore should not be used in code exposed to potentially malicious (e.g. user or network) input. Which is just about everything useful.<p>HPC are generally closed systems and have different threats, but the industry just needs to run (not walk) away from C&#x2F;C++ for the majority of use cases.</text></item><item><author>namirez</author><text>This has been discussed extensively in the C++ community. I think if you need a very safe code, you shouldn&#x27;t use the string_view or span without thinking about the potential consequences. These are added to the language to prevent memory allocation and data copy for performance critical software.<p>Herb Sutter has concrete proposals to address this issue and Clang already supports them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3307522&#x2F;revised-proposal-could-solve-longstanding-c-bugs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3307522&#x2F;revised-proposal-c...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>&gt; The extreme low level control that C++ offers and powerful metaprogramming allows for performance that even Rust cannot hope to rival.<p>Rust has vastly better metaprogramming, and as much low level control, no? And many low-level things are well-defined in Rust, and undefined behaviour or implementation-defined in C++.</text></comment>
39,272,317	39,272,343	1	2	39,268,106	train	<story><title>We've already seen category 6 hurricanes – scientists want to make it official</title><url>https://eos.org/articles/weve-already-seen-category-6-hurricanes-now-scientists-want-to-make-it-official</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foofie</author><text>&gt; Part of aiming for objectivity, and better understanding, isn&#x27;t worrying about which direction a correction takes. At all. Only that it is a good correction.<p>I don&#x27;t think you fully grasp the implications of arbitrarily correcting old measures. In the end, and accepting at face value these corrections, you&#x27;re still manipulating old data to use the result of said manipulation as the whole basis of your hypothesis.<p>This approach automatically leads to questions on whether you draw your conclusions from the data, or you change the data to fit your conclusions.<p>Do you understand the risk that this poses in any discussion on a politically sensitive topic?<p>Think of the hit to the credibility of any claim supported by this data manipulation if later your method is deemed untrustworthy because it needs further updates, and how it would look if you had to correct it to move the dial either way (i.e., &quot;they were lying from the start and are now covering their ass&quot; vs &quot;they felt their lie wasn&#x27;t fooling anyone and decided to double down.&quot;)</text></item><item><author>Nevermark</author><text>What is nice is vetting and correcting data for reliability and consistency.<p>Part of aiming for objectivity, and better understanding, isn&#x27;t worrying about which direction a correction takes. At all. Only that it is a good correction.<p>Our brains constantly make up distracting narratives, if we let them.<p>If the correction had been the other way, some people would say scientists have been downplaying data and probably still are.</text></item><item><author>laverya</author><text>Their corrections may be correct, but it&#x27;s still always nicer when the magnitude of the signal is larger than that of the corrections to the data.</text></item><item><author>BeefWellington</author><text>In fairness though, they didn&#x27;t just make up their bias assertion; it&#x27;s in other published works[1] and there is real evidence that old measurements were incorrect (biased towards the high side) when compared to other available contemporary measurements.<p>[1]: Landsea, C. W. Mon. Weath. Rev. 121, 1703–1714 (1993) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ametsoc.org&#x2F;configurable&#x2F;content&#x2F;journals$002fmwre$002f121$002f6$002f1520-0493_1993_121_1703_acoima_2_0_co_2.xml?t%3Aac=journals%24002fmwre%24002f121%24002f6%24002f1520-0493_1993_121_1703_acoima_2_0_co_2.xml&amp;tab_body=pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ametsoc.org&#x2F;configurable&#x2F;content&#x2F;journals$0...</a></text></item><item><author>ggreer</author><text>I am skeptical of this paper. If you go to Wikipedia&#x27;s list of most intense tropical cyclones[1] and sort by barometric pressure, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much correlation with time. The biggest and most intense tropical cyclone is still Typhoon Tip in 1979.[2] If you read the actual study[3], it looks like they do a lot of data manipulation and simulation to come to their conclusion. They subtract 15 meters&#x2F;sec from wind speeds measured before 1973, claiming a bias in measurements from that time. This causes a huge step up in lifetime maximum intensity in the 1970s. Their estimates of future category 6 probabilities are from simulations that they admit don&#x27;t simulate current conditions correctly.<p>I think it&#x27;s more likely than not that tropical cyclones are getting more intense, and that they&#x27;re hitting places that didn&#x27;t typically get hit in the past, but I don&#x27;t find this paper convincing. It really feels like they cajoled the data to fit their conclusion.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_the_most_intense_tropi...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Typhoon_Tip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Typhoon_Tip</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1073&#x2F;pnas.2308901121" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1073&#x2F;pnas.2308901121</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolc</author><text>&gt; arbitrarily correcting old measures.<p>Why do you say the correction is arbitrary? Are there papers arguing for corrections in the other direction?</text></comment>	<story><title>We've already seen category 6 hurricanes – scientists want to make it official</title><url>https://eos.org/articles/weve-already-seen-category-6-hurricanes-now-scientists-want-to-make-it-official</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foofie</author><text>&gt; Part of aiming for objectivity, and better understanding, isn&#x27;t worrying about which direction a correction takes. At all. Only that it is a good correction.<p>I don&#x27;t think you fully grasp the implications of arbitrarily correcting old measures. In the end, and accepting at face value these corrections, you&#x27;re still manipulating old data to use the result of said manipulation as the whole basis of your hypothesis.<p>This approach automatically leads to questions on whether you draw your conclusions from the data, or you change the data to fit your conclusions.<p>Do you understand the risk that this poses in any discussion on a politically sensitive topic?<p>Think of the hit to the credibility of any claim supported by this data manipulation if later your method is deemed untrustworthy because it needs further updates, and how it would look if you had to correct it to move the dial either way (i.e., &quot;they were lying from the start and are now covering their ass&quot; vs &quot;they felt their lie wasn&#x27;t fooling anyone and decided to double down.&quot;)</text></item><item><author>Nevermark</author><text>What is nice is vetting and correcting data for reliability and consistency.<p>Part of aiming for objectivity, and better understanding, isn&#x27;t worrying about which direction a correction takes. At all. Only that it is a good correction.<p>Our brains constantly make up distracting narratives, if we let them.<p>If the correction had been the other way, some people would say scientists have been downplaying data and probably still are.</text></item><item><author>laverya</author><text>Their corrections may be correct, but it&#x27;s still always nicer when the magnitude of the signal is larger than that of the corrections to the data.</text></item><item><author>BeefWellington</author><text>In fairness though, they didn&#x27;t just make up their bias assertion; it&#x27;s in other published works[1] and there is real evidence that old measurements were incorrect (biased towards the high side) when compared to other available contemporary measurements.<p>[1]: Landsea, C. W. Mon. Weath. Rev. 121, 1703–1714 (1993) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ametsoc.org&#x2F;configurable&#x2F;content&#x2F;journals$002fmwre$002f121$002f6$002f1520-0493_1993_121_1703_acoima_2_0_co_2.xml?t%3Aac=journals%24002fmwre%24002f121%24002f6%24002f1520-0493_1993_121_1703_acoima_2_0_co_2.xml&amp;tab_body=pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ametsoc.org&#x2F;configurable&#x2F;content&#x2F;journals$0...</a></text></item><item><author>ggreer</author><text>I am skeptical of this paper. If you go to Wikipedia&#x27;s list of most intense tropical cyclones[1] and sort by barometric pressure, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much correlation with time. The biggest and most intense tropical cyclone is still Typhoon Tip in 1979.[2] If you read the actual study[3], it looks like they do a lot of data manipulation and simulation to come to their conclusion. They subtract 15 meters&#x2F;sec from wind speeds measured before 1973, claiming a bias in measurements from that time. This causes a huge step up in lifetime maximum intensity in the 1970s. Their estimates of future category 6 probabilities are from simulations that they admit don&#x27;t simulate current conditions correctly.<p>I think it&#x27;s more likely than not that tropical cyclones are getting more intense, and that they&#x27;re hitting places that didn&#x27;t typically get hit in the past, but I don&#x27;t find this paper convincing. It really feels like they cajoled the data to fit their conclusion.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_the_most_intense_tropi...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Typhoon_Tip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Typhoon_Tip</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1073&#x2F;pnas.2308901121" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1073&#x2F;pnas.2308901121</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawayqqq11</author><text>To add to the &quot;not arbitrary corection&quot; comments.<p>Correction is also not lying. Anyone who states that is not grasping something about a totally political topic&#x2F;method.</text></comment>
28,548,459	28,548,589	1	2	28,546,696	train	<story><title>Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/backpage-founders-get-mistrial-because-us-overplayed-child-sex-trafficking-claims/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>If you think that&#x27;s the same as paying for sex then you need to grow up, and have a think about how you regard other people. Believing that you&#x27;re entitled to sex because you spent money on a date is a <i>super</i> creepy attitude.</text></item><item><author>bongoman37</author><text>Did they also outlaw taking a woman out on an expensive date?</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>2 weeks ago, it became a felony in Texas to pay for sex. Unlike most of the other batshit laws passed in Texas this year, this one had wide bipartisan support.<p>As a gay man, while this is just anecdotal, it seems to me that the dynamics of gay prostitution are <i>very</i> different from most straight prostitution. I used to think it quite sad to hear about gay men paying for sex. I mean, these days, it is <i>extremely</i> easy for gay men to find other gay men to have sex with, for free, as long as you&#x27;re willing to have sex with guys who generally look like you do.<p>Then I had some friends who had escorted at some point, and they explained the dynamic. Quite simply, many of the &quot;johns&quot; were older, and they basically wanted a hot, younger guy to have sex with them (of course there were other types, for example closeted men).<p><i>None</i> of the guys I knew who escorted ever felt coerced into doing it, beyond the fact that they needed money, and to them it was an easy way to get money.<p>Of course, I&#x27;m sure there are guys who did feel pressured into doing it, and sex trafficking <i>does</i> occur.<p>But there are still many, perfectly consenting adults who pay for sex as part of &quot;the world&#x27;s oldest profession&quot;. We should stop this moral panic and focus laws to help actual victims of sex trafficking.</text></item><item><author>x86_64Ubuntu</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t matter though. The web property was taken down, and safer-ish sex work suffered a set back. Sex trafficking is the new &quot;terrorism&quot; whereby the government or other organizations can allege it, and the targeted entity is pretty much SOL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text>In a lot of places of the world that&#x27;s literally how prostitution works. Since you aren&#x27;t allowed to pay for sex, they have tea and coffee houses where people pay for very expensive drinks and other things.<p>Then the women &quot;decides&quot; whether they have sex. At least I&#x27;m not so clear on how the second part of that secret handshake works. But it&#x27;s very much a concept of paying a lot for things that are not technically sex because that would be illegal.<p>A lot of escorts will also take perfume, jewellery or other expensive gifts instead of money.<p>Just a quick google search yields this:<p>&quot;It came to my attention on a recent trip to China that teahouses are now becoming the new center for scandal and prostitution. In fact, teahouses have had a mix meaning in China for centuries. Dating back as far as the Tang Dynasty teahouses were places to relax, play games and take in a traditional Chinese opera show. They were also a place where the equivalent of a geisha would cater to men by accompanying them with drinks, laughter and often-touchy behavior. Although this was seen as more of a custom to enhance customer service, it also gave customers negotiating room to ask the women for other services such as sex. Brothels were very common across China during this time and teahouses happened to be an outlet where prostitutes could also be ordered.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qifullife.com&#x2F;tea-house-meanings&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qifullife.com&#x2F;tea-house-meanings&#x2F;</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claim</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/backpage-founders-get-mistrial-because-us-overplayed-child-sex-trafficking-claims/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>If you think that&#x27;s the same as paying for sex then you need to grow up, and have a think about how you regard other people. Believing that you&#x27;re entitled to sex because you spent money on a date is a <i>super</i> creepy attitude.</text></item><item><author>bongoman37</author><text>Did they also outlaw taking a woman out on an expensive date?</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>2 weeks ago, it became a felony in Texas to pay for sex. Unlike most of the other batshit laws passed in Texas this year, this one had wide bipartisan support.<p>As a gay man, while this is just anecdotal, it seems to me that the dynamics of gay prostitution are <i>very</i> different from most straight prostitution. I used to think it quite sad to hear about gay men paying for sex. I mean, these days, it is <i>extremely</i> easy for gay men to find other gay men to have sex with, for free, as long as you&#x27;re willing to have sex with guys who generally look like you do.<p>Then I had some friends who had escorted at some point, and they explained the dynamic. Quite simply, many of the &quot;johns&quot; were older, and they basically wanted a hot, younger guy to have sex with them (of course there were other types, for example closeted men).<p><i>None</i> of the guys I knew who escorted ever felt coerced into doing it, beyond the fact that they needed money, and to them it was an easy way to get money.<p>Of course, I&#x27;m sure there are guys who did feel pressured into doing it, and sex trafficking <i>does</i> occur.<p>But there are still many, perfectly consenting adults who pay for sex as part of &quot;the world&#x27;s oldest profession&quot;. We should stop this moral panic and focus laws to help actual victims of sex trafficking.</text></item><item><author>x86_64Ubuntu</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t matter though. The web property was taken down, and safer-ish sex work suffered a set back. Sex trafficking is the new &quot;terrorism&quot; whereby the government or other organizations can allege it, and the targeted entity is pretty much SOL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ultrarunner</author><text>I believe they are just referencing a possible way around the law, implying that prohibition doesn’t have a great track record.</text></comment>
38,157,613	38,152,424	1	2	38,151,205	train	<story><title>Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/11/03/1209865472/berlin-clubs-tourism-nightlife-germany-economy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielfoster</author><text>I’m not sure what sort of decline the article is referring to. There’s not a single reference to revenues or guest count for any club in Berlin, nor mention of any specific club in danger of closing due to lack of patronage.<p>These clubs were great while the city was struggling, but now that it’s not, I can see why people don’t wish to tolerate the negative externalities associated with them. Hopefully most clubs can find a way to integrate into today’s Berlin. Some may not be able to and disappear. Cities aren’t static beings.<p>I’ve also realized I prefer underground parties or small social gatherings to 3-hour lines, 40 euro entrance fees, and uncertain door policies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jliptzin</author><text>Yea, 3 hour lines, and then they obnoxiously don’t let you in anyway, for no obvious reason. Not shedding any tears here.</text></comment>	<story><title>Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/11/03/1209865472/berlin-clubs-tourism-nightlife-germany-economy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielfoster</author><text>I’m not sure what sort of decline the article is referring to. There’s not a single reference to revenues or guest count for any club in Berlin, nor mention of any specific club in danger of closing due to lack of patronage.<p>These clubs were great while the city was struggling, but now that it’s not, I can see why people don’t wish to tolerate the negative externalities associated with them. Hopefully most clubs can find a way to integrate into today’s Berlin. Some may not be able to and disappear. Cities aren’t static beings.<p>I’ve also realized I prefer underground parties or small social gatherings to 3-hour lines, 40 euro entrance fees, and uncertain door policies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rchaud</author><text>The article definitely felt light on facts. For example, by how much did they increase the cover charge to deal with falling numbers?<p>Also, didn&#x27;t it occur to anyone that charging regulars more to offset loss of business from casuals would drive the regulars away as well?</text></comment>
15,821,206	15,821,230	1	2	15,820,634	train	<story><title>School of Mines Wants to Launch the First Space Mining Program</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/want-to-learn-how-to-mine-in-space-theres-a-school-for-you/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arglebarnacle</author><text>The courses are being offered online--it&#x27;s a shame grad classes are too expensive to just take for fun! Looks like $6,800 or so to take one of the two they&#x27;re offering next semester, or about $12,700 for both. The Masters degree would end up costing you about $58.7k plus $1,000&#x2F;semester in fees. It&#x27;s a hard sell for something that still looks relatively far in the future, but I suppose if space mining is truly is your dream career, it&#x27;s great that this program exists.</text></comment>	<story><title>School of Mines Wants to Launch the First Space Mining Program</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/want-to-learn-how-to-mine-in-space-theres-a-school-for-you/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Excluding organic materials like oil&#x2F;coal&#x2F;etc the global economy does not spend a lot of resources on mining. Further, we have vast excess supply&#x27;s of most of what we do mine making space based mining problematic. Sure, it sounds good but we need to be in space for some other reasons before mining becomes practical.</text></comment>
5,962,924	5,962,922	1	2	5,961,785	train	<story><title>Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us</title><url>https://medium.com/surveillance-state/f77088fd4c28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>furyg3</author><text>You are interpreting this precisely backwards.<p>These &quot;Rights&quot; are unalienable. They are not to be given away, they are not to be taken away. Governments exist to <i>secure</i> these rights. To help protect these rights, the government may exist... but only by consent of the people being governed.<p>It may be true that the Russian government does not give these rights to it&#x27;s citizens, or that these citizens yield these rights to the Russian government. Nevertheless, according to the morals listed in the DoI, the US government is founded on the belief that Russians have these rights, because they are human beings.<p>Therefore, the US government, when dealing with &#x27;men&#x27; of any nationally, needs to respect the unalienable Rights which all men have been granted by their Creator. Anything else is hypocritical.<p>Edit: after thinking about it, it gets even better. Because foreigners have not consented to being governed by the US, the rights of foreigners not to be spied on by the US government would go even further than the rights of Americans. And yes, I know the DoI is not law. But if we Americans cannot simultaneously claim to believe in it&#x27;s principles and make laws that contradict it without being hypocritical.</text></item><item><author>Goladus</author><text>It would, perhaps, be enlightening to quote the entire sentence from the US Declaration of Independence:<p><i>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.</i><p>In particular:<p><pre><code> ...deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... </code></pre> In other words, I give MY government the power to arrest, prosecute, employ various armed agents to use against ME if I violate its laws. I&#x27;ve made no such tacit contract with France, or Russia or Singapore or China or anywhere else. Russians spying on me may be violating a treaty, but they&#x27;ve made no implicit social contract with me via a constitution or other set of laws.</text></item><item><author>nkoren</author><text>The Declaration of Independence states that &quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.&quot; Gendered language aside, the idea of the founders was clearly that rights derive from one&#x27;s innate humanity, and do <i>not</i> derive from government largess. This was the ideal which provided America&#x27;s inner light; for all of America&#x27;s mis-steps, the proclamation of this core ideal fanned the flames of some sort of tendency towards goodness.<p>This ideal is all but gone. Today, the American government baldly proclaims that rights do not belong to human beings, but are conferred only by citizenship. the starkest example of this remains John Yoo&#x27;s rationale (embraced by the Bush administration) for why the Geneva Convention does not apply to the Taliban: that the rights guaranteed by the Convention were not <i>human</i> rights, but rights granted to combatants of UN member states. Yoo argued that human rights did not exist, and that rights derive solely from citizenship.<p>To be fair, the roots of that doctrine long preceded the Bush administration, and have continue to grow since. But when I look at framing of debate about rights -- and this applies not only to the NSA spying, but also to the outrage over the fact that the US President would order the drone assassination of, gasp, <i>American citizens</i> (as opposed to the thousands of other non-combatants he has killed in the same way) -- when I see this, it becomes clear that the ideals which inspired the declaration of independence are long since gone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Goladus</author><text>Backwards or forwards, my interpretation is less an oversimplification than the parent.<p><i>It may be true that the Russian government does not give these rights to it&#x27;s citizens, or that these citizens yield these rights to the Russian government. Nevertheless, according to the morals listed in the DoI, the US government is founded on the belief that Russians have these rights, because they are human beings.</i><p>The distinction one must make based on my interpretation is that the US may believe that Russians have those rights, but it is not the US Government&#x27;s responsibility to secure them, especially if doing so would conflict with the objective of securing the rights of its own citizens.<p>The Government&#x27;s first duty is to its citizens, and it&#x27;s the duty of citizens to hold its government accountable. It is, therefore, not the least bit surprising to see a different reaction between the idea of a government spying on others versus spying on citizens.<p>I also did not bother to question the relevance of bringing in Geneva convention arguments into a discussion about surveillance and privacy. If you examine carefully, you&#x27;ll discover that the Geneva Convention deals with issues of life, liberty, and happiness quite directly in the sense of execution, imprisonment, and torture. Privacy, meanwhile, is a right derived from the US Constitution and not one of those alluded to in the Declaration.<p>Nowhere do I say that you can&#x27;t argue that a Government should uphold basic rights of all humans everywhere regardless of citizenship. What you can&#x27;t do is trot out the first half-phrase of the Declaration of Independence, highlight one example of a legal argument that a non-state entity had flagrantly violated terms of a convention and should not enjoy its benefits, and somehow try to connect that to Americans being really pissed off about being subject to a large surveillance program by their own Government.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us</title><url>https://medium.com/surveillance-state/f77088fd4c28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>furyg3</author><text>You are interpreting this precisely backwards.<p>These &quot;Rights&quot; are unalienable. They are not to be given away, they are not to be taken away. Governments exist to <i>secure</i> these rights. To help protect these rights, the government may exist... but only by consent of the people being governed.<p>It may be true that the Russian government does not give these rights to it&#x27;s citizens, or that these citizens yield these rights to the Russian government. Nevertheless, according to the morals listed in the DoI, the US government is founded on the belief that Russians have these rights, because they are human beings.<p>Therefore, the US government, when dealing with &#x27;men&#x27; of any nationally, needs to respect the unalienable Rights which all men have been granted by their Creator. Anything else is hypocritical.<p>Edit: after thinking about it, it gets even better. Because foreigners have not consented to being governed by the US, the rights of foreigners not to be spied on by the US government would go even further than the rights of Americans. And yes, I know the DoI is not law. But if we Americans cannot simultaneously claim to believe in it&#x27;s principles and make laws that contradict it without being hypocritical.</text></item><item><author>Goladus</author><text>It would, perhaps, be enlightening to quote the entire sentence from the US Declaration of Independence:<p><i>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.</i><p>In particular:<p><pre><code> ...deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... </code></pre> In other words, I give MY government the power to arrest, prosecute, employ various armed agents to use against ME if I violate its laws. I&#x27;ve made no such tacit contract with France, or Russia or Singapore or China or anywhere else. Russians spying on me may be violating a treaty, but they&#x27;ve made no implicit social contract with me via a constitution or other set of laws.</text></item><item><author>nkoren</author><text>The Declaration of Independence states that &quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.&quot; Gendered language aside, the idea of the founders was clearly that rights derive from one&#x27;s innate humanity, and do <i>not</i> derive from government largess. This was the ideal which provided America&#x27;s inner light; for all of America&#x27;s mis-steps, the proclamation of this core ideal fanned the flames of some sort of tendency towards goodness.<p>This ideal is all but gone. Today, the American government baldly proclaims that rights do not belong to human beings, but are conferred only by citizenship. the starkest example of this remains John Yoo&#x27;s rationale (embraced by the Bush administration) for why the Geneva Convention does not apply to the Taliban: that the rights guaranteed by the Convention were not <i>human</i> rights, but rights granted to combatants of UN member states. Yoo argued that human rights did not exist, and that rights derive solely from citizenship.<p>To be fair, the roots of that doctrine long preceded the Bush administration, and have continue to grow since. But when I look at framing of debate about rights -- and this applies not only to the NSA spying, but also to the outrage over the fact that the US President would order the drone assassination of, gasp, <i>American citizens</i> (as opposed to the thousands of other non-combatants he has killed in the same way) -- when I see this, it becomes clear that the ideals which inspired the declaration of independence are long since gone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text><i>These &quot;Rights&quot; are unalienable.</i><p>They are <i>in</i> alienable. That is to say, <i>incapable of being separated from the individual possessing them.</i> Literally, they cannot be alienated (separated) from the person possessing them.<p>Your real property (home, money, possessions, even spouse, children, or other family) may be taken from you <i>and given to someone else</i>.<p>The word <i>inalienable</i> refers not to rights which <i>may</i> not be taken, but which <i>can not</i> be taken.<p>You may be <i>deprived</i> of these rights, but nobody else can <i>take possession of them</i>.<p>It&#x27;s a subtle difference, and one few people understand, particularly in the context of <i>natural</i>, <i>civil</i>, or <i>universal human</i> rights, which can be argued to have a moral or socially beneficial basis, but may still be alienable.<p>There&#x27;s also a fair amount of debate over the self-evidence, alienability, and&#x2F;or naturalness of these rights. Of of their status should they become so (say, through technology).<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inalienable_rights" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Inalienable_rights</a></text></comment>
3,069,295	3,069,118	1	2	3,068,991	train	<story><title>Did a reporter just solve the bitcoin mystery?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-reporter-just-solve-the-bitcoin-mystery</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text><i>"The writer also notes that Satoshi typically uses British (rather than American) spellings.<p>So he narrows the field to people from the UK at Crypto2011."</i><p>Not Singapore, NZ, Australia, Hong Kong, India or any number of prior British colonies that use British English and spellings instead of American? (How about China? Not sure what English version they use, but wouldn't be surprised it's Brit).<p>Unles there was no one from any of those countries at Crypto2011, then it looks like he excluded up to 2/3rds of the solution space.<p>Also, I wouldn't be surprised at a skilled cryptologist who wanted to stay incognito faking his spellings to throw people off. For example, I'm not a cryptologist, am American, am not trying to be incognito, and enjoy using British slang and spellings occasionally anyway. And this guy Clear sounds like he's enjoying taking the piss out of the reporter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text><i>(How about China? Not sure what English version they use, but wouldn't be surprised it's Brit).</i><p>I'm well acquainted with many native speakers of Chinese who have learned English as a second language (and am married to one). There was a time when the British standard was consciously preferred by educational authorities for English instruction in both China and Taiwan. But that time is past. American English spellings are dominant in China and in a larger part of the "expanding circle" of international use of English.<p><a href="http://www.pyrtvu.cn/xush/home.files/text/8.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.pyrtvu.cn/xush/home.files/text/8.htm</a><p><a href="http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/06_1/price15.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/06_1/price15.htm</a><p><a href="http://dooku.miun.se/engelska/englishB/languageprof/Student%20work/VT06/First%20final%20drafts/Helena%20Ling.htm" rel="nofollow">http://dooku.miun.se/engelska/englishB/languageprof/Student%...</a><p><a href="http://c-faculty.chuo-u.ac.jp/~mikenix1/co/we/Future_of_English.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://c-faculty.chuo-u.ac.jp/~mikenix1/co/we/Future_of_Engl...</a><p><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/1403918309.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/1403918309.pdf</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Did a reporter just solve the bitcoin mystery?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-reporter-just-solve-the-bitcoin-mystery</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text><i>"The writer also notes that Satoshi typically uses British (rather than American) spellings.<p>So he narrows the field to people from the UK at Crypto2011."</i><p>Not Singapore, NZ, Australia, Hong Kong, India or any number of prior British colonies that use British English and spellings instead of American? (How about China? Not sure what English version they use, but wouldn't be surprised it's Brit).<p>Unles there was no one from any of those countries at Crypto2011, then it looks like he excluded up to 2/3rds of the solution space.<p>Also, I wouldn't be surprised at a skilled cryptologist who wanted to stay incognito faking his spellings to throw people off. For example, I'm not a cryptologist, am American, am not trying to be incognito, and enjoy using British slang and spellings occasionally anyway. And this guy Clear sounds like he's enjoying taking the piss out of the reporter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>feral</author><text>&#62;Not Singapore, NZ, Australia, Hong Kong, India or any number of prior British colonies that use British English and spellings instead of American?<p>Not to mention Ireland.</text></comment>
17,777,100	17,777,206	1	2	17,764,576	train	<story><title>Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System</title><url>http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rpeden</author><text>This is long, and it&#x27;s a lot to digest, but I find it pretty applicable to software systems.<p>And it&#x27;s funny how often we see software teams twiddling at the edges of a system, spending a ton of time on things than don&#x27;t meaningfully impact the system&#x27;s overall success. To give a concrete example, I&#x27;ve seen teams with crappy, slow, and unnecessarily expensive system architectures spend a <i>huge</i> amount of time on decisions like &quot;should we use Vue, or React?&quot;.<p>Granted, there will be occasional times when your front-end framework <i>is</i> a make-or-break leverage point. But usually it&#x27;s not. Maybe the problem is that the teams who are doing this yak shaving aren&#x27;t authorized to alter the overall system. And so they spend their time arguing about the things they <i>can</i> change. :)</text></comment>	<story><title>Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System</title><url>http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plainOldText</author><text>Worth nothing Donella H. Meadows has authored a highly rated book on systems, <i>Thinking in Systems: A Primer</i>.</text></comment>
34,114,437	34,114,414	1	2	34,112,943	train	<story><title>How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?</title><url>https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-bail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Lift up as many people as possible. It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.<p>One day, hopefully not too many days away, our descendants will wake up and discover that the last poor person has been lifted from poverty.<p>To get there from here, we have to take it one day at a time, and focus on changing what we can.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It’s great to lift up the poor, but up to what extent? Poor will still be poor, so what’s an acceptable amount of poor we should allow where they just have to deal with it?</text></item><item><author>kevmo314</author><text>It&#x27;s easier to take away than to give and help. So I don&#x27;t blame them for that mentality, but it would definitely be great if society worked to lift the poor up more.</text></item><item><author>parineum</author><text>I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.<p>I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that a rich guy can make bail. The real issue is that so many poor people are trapped by bail bonds they can not meet or which put extreme financial strain on a family that is barely making it to begin with.<p>Part of it is that the bail bond industry can afford lobbyists, and probably a bigger part is that &quot;tough on crime&quot; grandstanding by politicians is nearly always a winning strategy. It is too easy to claim a politician that advances any kind of reform will be pilloried as someone who is trying to put savage criminals back on the street, your street.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parineum</author><text>&gt;Lift up as many people as possible. It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.<p>To illustrate this point, in our current era of the mega rich, we also have record low levels of poverty.<p>Wealth isn&#x27;t a zero sum game. It&#x27;s possible (but not always the case) for a billionaire to create more than a billion dollars of wealth for other people.</text></comment>	<story><title>How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?</title><url>https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-bail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Lift up as many people as possible. It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.<p>One day, hopefully not too many days away, our descendants will wake up and discover that the last poor person has been lifted from poverty.<p>To get there from here, we have to take it one day at a time, and focus on changing what we can.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It’s great to lift up the poor, but up to what extent? Poor will still be poor, so what’s an acceptable amount of poor we should allow where they just have to deal with it?</text></item><item><author>kevmo314</author><text>It&#x27;s easier to take away than to give and help. So I don&#x27;t blame them for that mentality, but it would definitely be great if society worked to lift the poor up more.</text></item><item><author>parineum</author><text>I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.<p>I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that a rich guy can make bail. The real issue is that so many poor people are trapped by bail bonds they can not meet or which put extreme financial strain on a family that is barely making it to begin with.<p>Part of it is that the bail bond industry can afford lobbyists, and probably a bigger part is that &quot;tough on crime&quot; grandstanding by politicians is nearly always a winning strategy. It is too easy to claim a politician that advances any kind of reform will be pilloried as someone who is trying to put savage criminals back on the street, your street.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Godel_unicode</author><text>&gt; It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.<p>Is that actually true? I’m very curious if there’s any theoretical evidence that a society where everyone is at minimum “middle class” can exist.<p>Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.</text></comment>
1,273,014	1,272,677	1	3	1,272,481	train	<story><title>HTML5 presentation</title><url>http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MicahWedemeyer</author><text>Tried it in Chrome, and I'm hella impressed. Everybody else is busy hating on it, but I'd like to thank the developers for putting it together. That 20 minutes of playtime has taught me 10 times as much about what to expect (and why I should be excited) than all the discussions and blog posts I've seen so far.<p>So, while some things didn't work, I'm not going to harp or nag, as overall the presentation was excellent.</text></comment>	<story><title>HTML5 presentation</title><url>http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>Cool demo, but it's a bit odd to tout new, standard features, when you have a disclaimer that this is only intended to completely work in Google Chrome with experimental features enabled. Part of the excitement is that these features are being standardized, and aren't just one vendor wandering off and doing their own thing without consulting with anyone else.<p>What would be far more impressive would be a demo that worked seamlessly in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and IE with Chrome Frame, with graceful degradation (or, preferably, progressive enhancement) for features which aren't implemented yet in IE without Chrome Frame (and the features that aren't yet fully supported cross-browser).</text></comment>
15,450,270	15,450,350	1	3	15,446,206	train	<story><title>Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said</title><url>http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/10/google-nerfing-home-minis-mine-spied-everything-said-247/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wizzzzzy</author><text>I&#x27;m in two minds about Google home, alexa etc. On one hand, the novelty &#x2F; utility of these devices makes me half inclined to get one but the fundamental idea of having a device in my house, connected to the internet that is sat there listening to me 24&#x2F;7 leaves me feeling slightly uneasy at best. The idea makes me feel like I&#x27;d be treating all the things I&#x27;ve read in the past few years about tech companies, privacy etc with complete contempt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m in two minds about Google home, alexa etc. On one hand, the novelty &#x2F; utility of these devices makes me half inclined to get one but the fundamental idea of having a device in my house, connected to the internet that is sat there listening to me 24&#x2F;7 leaves me feeling slightly uneasy at best.&quot;<p>I am totally opposed to these devices in my home and am, frankly, aghast at the notion that they would see wide deployment or that &quot;voice is the future ... blah blah&quot;.<p>However, I <i>do</i> have the ability to consider other viewpoints and when I do, I am completely underwhelmed by the proposed use-cases of these devices. According to Amazon themselves, the things I could do with Alexa include:<p>&quot;What&#x27;s on sale today ?&quot;<p>&quot;Find me a Chinese restaurant&quot;<p>&quot;What&#x27;s the weather&quot;<p>These are use-cases that suggest a user who either has no particular preferences or is satisfied with extremely simple, non-nuanced information (or both). These use-cases are the literal manifestation of dumbing yourself down far enough for the computer to pass your (very easy) turing test.<p>Other use-cases like &quot;play my party playlist&quot; are a wash in terms of simplicity or speed vs. just (pressing whatever play button you have in the system you use).<p>Are there any examples that I would find interesting or nuanced or definitive improvements over existing tools ?</text></comment>	<story><title>Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said</title><url>http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/10/google-nerfing-home-minis-mine-spied-everything-said-247/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wizzzzzy</author><text>I&#x27;m in two minds about Google home, alexa etc. On one hand, the novelty &#x2F; utility of these devices makes me half inclined to get one but the fundamental idea of having a device in my house, connected to the internet that is sat there listening to me 24&#x2F;7 leaves me feeling slightly uneasy at best. The idea makes me feel like I&#x27;d be treating all the things I&#x27;ve read in the past few years about tech companies, privacy etc with complete contempt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I agree with this. I&#x27;ll happily experiment with these &quot;home assistant&quot; devices only once they can be used completely untethered from the Internet. I don&#x27;t even mind if it&#x27;s listening to audio 24&#x2F;7 as long as it does not have the ability to send it all home to the mothership.</text></comment>
21,305,714	21,305,844	1	2	21,305,258	train	<story><title>Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California?</title><url>https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/10/17/taiwan-managed-to-build-high-speed-rail-why-cant-we-connecting-california-joe-mathews/4013735002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>I think it&#x27;s because in the U.S absolutely anyone can tie up this stuff in the court systems for years. There are a lot of environmentalists who have been working overtime to stop this thing. For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sacramento.cbslocal.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;high-speed-rail-lawsuit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sacramento.cbslocal.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;high-speed-rail-l...</a> . There are <i>seven</i> environmental lawsuits against this thing. How much do you think the legal bills are? There will likely be many more.<p>Edit: There are a couple of regularly glitchy things about how American government works. They are:<p>#1 : Public Employees Unions who negotiate with themselves for sweet pension deals.<p>#2 : Suits against various government agencies by individuals that wind up being paid for by taxpayers. For example, school districts getting sued for something a janitor did and then taxpayers having to pay for it as if they were a private business and the taxpayer is the owner.<p>#3 : Environmental lawsuits to stop government infrastructure projects.</text></comment>	<story><title>Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California?</title><url>https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/10/17/taiwan-managed-to-build-high-speed-rail-why-cant-we-connecting-california-joe-mathews/4013735002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>The California HSR has a lot of problems not matched in Taiwan.<p>Firstly, once you get from San Jose to Bakersfield, then what? We don&#x27;t have good public transit in LA, much less to Bakersfield. But even if the train went all the way to Union Station in Los Angeles, you&#x27;d still need to rent a car to get anywhere useful, or take Uber&#x2F;Lyft. And same thing on the other end. What happens when you get to San Jose? You still need a car or another slow train.<p>If you want to get from San Francisco to Disneyland via HSR, the entire trip would probably take you about six hours with all the train changes and car rides and waiting. You could do the drive in six hours too and then have your car at the other end.<p>Even today, if I want to visit my parents in the suburbs of LA coming from the suburbs of San Jose, I can make the drive in five hours, or spend five hours getting there by plane, assuming someone picks me up at the other end. The only reason I fly is if I happen to be going somewhere right near the airport or it will be rush hour at one end or another when I arrive because I don&#x27;t have scheduling flexibility.<p>Secondly, the original proposal was to build Stockton to Fresno first. That would be the least used section of the line. Not a lot of people move between Stockton and Fresno. The train would be bankrupt before it ever got to phase two. At least they finally changed their mind on that, but not for a much better route.<p>To be remotely viable, they need to build the most trafficked parts first -- San Jose to Stockton and Bakersfield to Los Angeles. But even those lines would still suffer from problem one unless&#x2F;until the local transit was vastly improved.<p>I would love to see a viable HSR in California, but the current proposal is not that.<p>Let&#x27;s build up our local transit first in LA and the Bay Area so that when we connect them with a high speed rail, the rail is actually useful.</text></comment>
23,973,157	23,969,762	1	2	23,969,065	train	<story><title>Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/airbus-completes-autonomous-taxi-take-off-and-landing-tests-2020-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PinguTS</author><text>A friend of mine, a military helicopter pilot told me years ago, that Airbus can basicaly fly by itself, except for taxiing. It was about 15 years ago.<p>But then the airline prohibited to use the automated systems during take-off and landing, because the pilots don&#x27;t get practise. But pilots need those practise if they should take over in emergency situations.<p>The same is true for automated driving. I always say, we will see automated railways and automated airplanes before we see automated cars.<p>PS: Because of some comments, Nuremberg had the first railways system to allow mixed traffic of automated and manual railways. Yeah, I know some of the guys doing the saftey certifcations for this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traceroute66</author><text>@PinguTS, well your friend is either mistaken, or you misheard him or a combination of both.<p>First, auto-takeoff is not possible. Its not possible due to technical constraints (e.g. concerns regarding LOC capture on the ground). It is also not possible due to safety constraints (e.g. the requirement to be able to deal with an aborted takeoff in a timely manner).<p>Second, automated landing IS used, but it is only used in limited situations. Why ?<p>- Because not all runways are equipped for CAT III autoland (i.e. the aircraft is not capable of landing itself without a shit-ton of calibrated equipment on the ground being there first, also good luck finding a CATIII autoland somewhere mountainous or with an otherwise tricky approach).<p>- Because not all aircraft are equipped for CATIII autoland (see above, more kit, more money).<p>- Because the autoland system itself has DH (Decision Height) and RVR (Runway Visual Range) requirements. The exception to this is CAT IIIC autoland, but AFAIK the vast majority of CATIII certified runways are only to CAT IIIB because that&#x27;s expensive enough to certify, even for major airports.<p>- Because of general weather requirements. For example, I don&#x27;t know about you, but I&#x27;d rather NEVER see an aircraft attempting autoland in a Captain&#x27;s crosswind (i.e. crosswind so strong that the airline prohibits the First Officer from flying it).<p>- Becuase autoland operations at airports involve ATC increasing traffic separation. Increase separation leads to what ? Yes, that&#x27;s right... decreased flow rate and increased possibility of delays and cancellations.</text></comment>	<story><title>Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/airbus-completes-autonomous-taxi-take-off-and-landing-tests-2020-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PinguTS</author><text>A friend of mine, a military helicopter pilot told me years ago, that Airbus can basicaly fly by itself, except for taxiing. It was about 15 years ago.<p>But then the airline prohibited to use the automated systems during take-off and landing, because the pilots don&#x27;t get practise. But pilots need those practise if they should take over in emergency situations.<p>The same is true for automated driving. I always say, we will see automated railways and automated airplanes before we see automated cars.<p>PS: Because of some comments, Nuremberg had the first railways system to allow mixed traffic of automated and manual railways. Yeah, I know some of the guys doing the saftey certifcations for this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>There are already automated trains in Paris (one metro line), and I can think of several places in Japan with automated train lines as well (not the main ones). It&#x27;s already proven technology.</text></comment>
6,566,413	6,565,607	1	3	6,564,725	train	<story><title>PHP 5.5.5 Released</title><url>http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pearjuice</author><text>We can&#x27;t have anything involving PHP without:<p>* complaints about features it has or has not<p>* a reference to that &quot;a fractal of bad design&quot; article<p>* how language x is better<p>* sarcastic notes about the above<p>* one guy pointing out we can&#x27;t have anything involving PHP without the above</text></comment>	<story><title>PHP 5.5.5 Released</title><url>http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>&quot;Added support for GNU Hurd&quot;<p>finally! &#x2F;s<p>Humor aside, it&#x27;s nice to see how OPCache has displaced APC and is under active maintenance in step with the core.</text></comment>
22,026,560	22,025,090	1	2	22,024,881	train	<story><title>What I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant (2019)</title><url>https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2019/01/27/strategic-thinking-or-what-i-think-what-we-need-to-do-to-keep-freebsd-relevant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexhutcheson</author><text>Quick summary:<p>- Port several container and virtualization systems (OpenStack, OpenNebula, oVirt, CloudStack, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, …) to FreeBSD.<p>- Improve linuxolator, and run Linux tests on linuxolator as part of FreeBSD CI.<p>- Make kerberos work.<p>- Port more SDN software to FreeBSD and improve the documentation for it.<p>- Add interfaces to hardware sensors (fans, voltage, temperature, etc.)<p>- Add an implementation of Multipath TCP.<p>- Make SecureBoot work.<p>- Support writing kernel modules in C++ or Rust.<p>- Improve end-user HOWTO docs on how to use specific 3rd party software (mail server, web server, display server, etc.) with FreeBSD.<p>- Review existing docs and remove outdated information.<p>- Add a &quot;cloud&quot; section to end-user docs.<p>- Use doxygen or a similar system to generate additional developer docs from source code.<p>- Polish and improve DTrace.<p>- Make default options for ports packages consistent.<p>- Create &quot;meta-ports&quot; for specific use-cases (webserver, database, etc.)<p>- Revise default settings to target improved performance on modern machines.<p>- Add fuzzers and Clang sanitizers to FreeBSD CI.<p>- Make the CI system more visible.<p>[I&#x27;m not the author, just a guy reading the post. Add a comment if I missed anything important]</text></comment>	<story><title>What I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant (2019)</title><url>https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2019/01/27/strategic-thinking-or-what-i-think-what-we-need-to-do-to-keep-freebsd-relevant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pnako</author><text>It seems to me like a list of things the Linux community is working on; and I think that&#x27;s a bit of the problem with FreeBSD. For a long time, it was known as the &quot;high-reliability &#x2F; high-performance server OS&quot;. But Linux has mostly taken that crown now, for quite a few years. Where does that leave FreeBSD? I wouldn&#x27;t be able to define FreeBSD&#x27;s identity at the moment; but granted I&#x27;m more a OpenBSD user.<p>It&#x27;s easier to define OpenBSD, beyond the obvious stuff (security). It&#x27;s a system that does not really want to deviate too much from old-school Unix, and a community that firmly rejects any fad or fashion and embraces simple, and indeed sometimes simplistic solutions. That doesn&#x27;t make it the best system for everything, but at least we know where it stands: the best old-school Unix OS. It&#x27;s almost as if it lives in a parallel universe where time has stopped in 1990, and the OpenBSD developers are asymptotically converging to the perfect Unix system of that era. I&#x27;m not saying that as a criticism at all.<p>And NetBSD and Dragonfly BSD are also, more or less explicitly, research operating systems where individual developers can come and try stuff.<p>FreeBSD is still a very impressive project but I think they can do better than being just-like-Linux-but-five-years-later.</text></comment>
21,279,735	21,279,674	1	2	21,272,322	train	<story><title>Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/dark-matter-nightmare-what-if-we-just.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superqd</author><text>I very much wish no one had used the terms &quot;dark matter&quot; and &quot;dark energy&quot;, as those imply far more knowledge than we have. It implies to those unfamiliar that there is in fact some form of energy or matter that has been &quot;sort of&quot; identified, but whose properties are unknown.<p>That isn&#x27;t the case at all. We have equations we use to predict observations, and in certain cases, those observations are not quite matching what we predicted. There are a lot of reasons why this can happen, and using the equations poorly is but one of them.<p>I really wish they&#x27;d just said we&#x27;ve found an <i>inconsistency</i>, between theory and observation, which is the actual case. It would, I think, better inform the public about the actual process of science, rather than making it sound like a new discovery has been made, which has not happened, clearly. Or perhaps the real discovery <i>was</i> the inconsistency, and that should be the framing of the problem. Describing it using sort of known words like &#x27;energy&#x27; and &#x27;matter&#x27; makes the general public think a new type of matter has been found, rather than what has actually been found which is a hole in our understanding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>millstone</author><text>There&#x27;s inconsistencies, and then there&#x27;s <i>real</i> inconsistencies.<p>Recall some predictions that were later confirmed: the top quark (18 years later) or the Higgs boson (48 years!). These theories were a jigsaw puzzle with a single piece-shaped hole. You could call &quot;inconsistency!&quot; and break apart the whole puzzle, or look behind the couch for the missing piece. (The piece was found!)<p>We also have <i>real</i> inconsistencies, such as between QM and GR. Not a missing piece but a yawning gap: no single observation can fill in that hole.<p>Dark matter is a &quot;missing piece&quot; problem. The dark matter hypothesis fills in the cosmological missing mass problem, galactic rotation curves, Bullet-cluster-style gravitational observations, the expectation of non-EM interacting particles, and others. The gap between prediction and observation is the size and shape of a single jigsaw piece; let&#x27;s just find it behind the couch.<p>Dark energy is a &quot;real inconsistency&quot; problem. Predictions and observations are orders of magnitude apart. Well hell.</text></comment>	<story><title>Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/dark-matter-nightmare-what-if-we-just.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superqd</author><text>I very much wish no one had used the terms &quot;dark matter&quot; and &quot;dark energy&quot;, as those imply far more knowledge than we have. It implies to those unfamiliar that there is in fact some form of energy or matter that has been &quot;sort of&quot; identified, but whose properties are unknown.<p>That isn&#x27;t the case at all. We have equations we use to predict observations, and in certain cases, those observations are not quite matching what we predicted. There are a lot of reasons why this can happen, and using the equations poorly is but one of them.<p>I really wish they&#x27;d just said we&#x27;ve found an <i>inconsistency</i>, between theory and observation, which is the actual case. It would, I think, better inform the public about the actual process of science, rather than making it sound like a new discovery has been made, which has not happened, clearly. Or perhaps the real discovery <i>was</i> the inconsistency, and that should be the framing of the problem. Describing it using sort of known words like &#x27;energy&#x27; and &#x27;matter&#x27; makes the general public think a new type of matter has been found, rather than what has actually been found which is a hole in our understanding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>I don&#x27;t think your description is correct. The situation is we have a reasonably exact theory that assumes that most of the matter in the universe is neutral in the sense of only interacting gravitationally. But that interaction can be calculated quite readily in certain circumstances - for example, we can observe the &quot;dark matter halo&quot; in galaxies through gravitational lensing.<p>This is the dominant theory, it&#x27;s not in contradiction with observations, it&#x27;s just, <i>a little weird</i>. Why things are like that is the mystery but that&#x27;s it for dark matter.<p>Sure, this stuff is invisible. So is electricity but we deal with that.<p>(Dark Energy I don&#x27;t enough to talk about).</text></comment>
16,105,309	16,105,344	1	2	16,105,043	train	<story><title>TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_creator_is_now_homeless/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharpneli</author><text>That&#x27;s like saying &quot;I don&#x27;t have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I&#x27;m not affected by the weaknesses in locks.&quot;</text></item><item><author>mrob</author><text>TempleOS has no process isolation, so it&#x27;s completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I&#x27;m starting to think there&#x27;s a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn&#x27;t increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person to completely understand?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tscs37</author><text>Yeah but TempleOS also lacks networking so the house is also in interstellar space completely isolated from burglars trying to steal your stuff.<p>It&#x27;s a very interesting design, I recommend to atleast play a bit with TempleOS.</text></comment>	<story><title>TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_creator_is_now_homeless/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharpneli</author><text>That&#x27;s like saying &quot;I don&#x27;t have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I&#x27;m not affected by the weaknesses in locks.&quot;</text></item><item><author>mrob</author><text>TempleOS has no process isolation, so it&#x27;s completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I&#x27;m starting to think there&#x27;s a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn&#x27;t increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person to completely understand?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrob</author><text>If lack of doors was standard, everybody would see the open frames, and culture would adapt to them. Weaknesses in computer security are much harder to spot. Spectre has been possible for decades without mainstream attention. It&#x27;s this lack of understandability that I think is dangerous. Many people will assume systems are secure just because they don&#x27;t see an obvious way to exploit them, and because the complexity has grown far beyond what will fit into a human brain there will undoubtedly be non-obvious flaws. Is weak security really better than no security? The &quot;no security&quot; model really means &quot;socially enforced security&quot;, which is playing to human strengths. It&#x27;s much easier to understand than figuring out the full consequences of speculative execution.</text></comment>
2,759,727	2,759,643	1	2	2,757,778	train	<story><title>From Here On Out, Do What You Love</title><url>http://justinbriggs.org/from-here-on-out-do-what-you-love</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shenglong</author><text>I've seen a few of these types of articles here - I'm just wondering... since this is one of the most intelligent communities I know of, how many people here have given up everything for one reason or another, and pushed back from rock bottom?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itcanbedone</author><text>With a young family to support, I gave up a secure career in a stable sector to pursue the startup dream. I taught myself programming and started working on my idea full time.<p>Three years and two failed startups later, I had only $200 left in the bank and decided to throw in the towel.<p>I started interviewing for jobs but wasn't having much luck. This was a real low point in my life, I had asked my family to live on the poverty line for an extended period of time with the promise of success in the near future. But I had failed. And now I couldn't even get back into the career I had left behind.<p>I started working on a third idea while looking for a job. But after suffering knock back after knock back from potential employers, things were looking pretty bleak. A family friend wrote out at a check for $4000 to see me through until I got back to work. I accepted the check but it was a humiliating experience to do so.<p>"The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."<p>Then out of no where and completely unexpectedly, my latest idea went stratospheric. It was so unexpected that even now I sometimes pinch myself and wonder how it all happened.<p>I never did cash the check my friend gave to me and keep it in my desk drawer. From time to time, I take it out and look at it to remind myself how far I've come.</text></comment>	<story><title>From Here On Out, Do What You Love</title><url>http://justinbriggs.org/from-here-on-out-do-what-you-love</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shenglong</author><text>I've seen a few of these types of articles here - I'm just wondering... since this is one of the most intelligent communities I know of, how many people here have given up everything for one reason or another, and pushed back from rock bottom?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>annon989793</author><text>I have hit bottom. Financial issues caused me to declare bankruptcy and the whole affair had me contemplating ending my life.<p>I'm doing a soft reboot of my life. I love writing software, so there's no need for me to leave my field, but I do need to make a dramatic change in the kind of company I work for. I've spent too many years at big, stale companies, thinking I'm doing the right thing and living the right life, only to end up in more debt and misery that I'd ever experienced. I'd much rather live on less, if necessary, and not end up miserably every day. I'm also considering moving to a new location, if it means getting a better job and living somewhere I love.<p>This also impacts my family, but so far, the changes have been for the positive. We've spent more time together and both my spouse and I have been happier. It's going to take some time, but I realize I've been living society's dream (big house, big company, etc.) rather than my own to some extent. Hopefully I can carve out a better future.<p>This site has been a great help. Many people here go off an do things they love, which has inspired me. Sometimes the stories here aren't even about startups, but about a really cool project someone has made, proving it isn't always about the money, but about being happy, and that's what I'm after.</text></comment>
33,937,150	33,935,489	1	2	33,934,228	train	<story><title>What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-alzheimers-scientists-are-rethinking-the-answer-20221208/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyaghmour</author><text>As someone who has a close relative diagnosed with this disease, I&#x27;m always on the lookout for new information. So this is interesting.<p>One area I&#x27;m particularly interested in is the correlation to diabetes. It&#x27;s a factor that I found being mentioned here and there in some references. In the immediate case that interests me, there&#x27;s a 20+ year history of type 2 diabetes and a recent scan showed severe bilateral hypocampal atrophy. When googling for a link between the two I found this: &quot;Lower insulin secretion was significantly associated with HPGA (hippocampal and parahippocampal gyrus atrophy) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The results of this study support the hypothesis that insulin‐signaling abnormalities are involved in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC8504906&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC8504906&#x2F;</a><p>Yet, the mechanism of this, if indeed there&#x27;s causality (not just correlation) does not seem to be known.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r930</author><text>My speculation, as with others, is that Alzheimer&#x27;s disease (as well as many other slow progressing diseases) is just a metabolic disease, inline with the &quot;type 3 diabetes&quot; comments.<p>Look into supporting mitochondria health [0] and the glymphatic system [1]: good diet (with fasting), light to moderate exercise, sleep and wake at the same time each day for circadian rhythm training, reduce unnecessary stress.<p>Once the basics have been implemented, some supplements could help to further support cell function if needed: Longevity supplements that Dr David Sinclair takes [2], boosting cellular glutathione stores, with NACET, glycine, selenium [3]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4684129&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4684129&#x2F;</a> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7698404&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7698404&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;novoslabs.com&#x2F;best-anti-aging-supplements-that-harvard-scientist-david-sinclair-takes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;novoslabs.com&#x2F;best-anti-aging-supplements-that-harva...</a> [3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7889054&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7889054&#x2F;</a></text></comment>	<story><title>What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-alzheimers-scientists-are-rethinking-the-answer-20221208/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyaghmour</author><text>As someone who has a close relative diagnosed with this disease, I&#x27;m always on the lookout for new information. So this is interesting.<p>One area I&#x27;m particularly interested in is the correlation to diabetes. It&#x27;s a factor that I found being mentioned here and there in some references. In the immediate case that interests me, there&#x27;s a 20+ year history of type 2 diabetes and a recent scan showed severe bilateral hypocampal atrophy. When googling for a link between the two I found this: &quot;Lower insulin secretion was significantly associated with HPGA (hippocampal and parahippocampal gyrus atrophy) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The results of this study support the hypothesis that insulin‐signaling abnormalities are involved in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC8504906&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC8504906&#x2F;</a><p>Yet, the mechanism of this, if indeed there&#x27;s causality (not just correlation) does not seem to be known.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucidrains</author><text>in some medical circles, alzheimers is referred to as &quot;type 3 diabetes&quot;</text></comment>
1,992,618	1,991,134	1	2	1,990,550	train	<story><title>Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science</title><url>http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/09/anonymous-stops-drop.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkarl</author><text>I've read the "best of" coverage of the leaked cables, and honestly, speaking as somebody who usually doesn't have a problem getting interested in world affairs, it didn't seem like there were any big revelations. The coverage was all along the lines of, "Everybody knew this, but it's humorous/scandalous/juicy that somebody got caught saying it." If Anonymous finds anything shocking in the cables, they will make the MSM look lazy and incompetent.</text></item><item><author>pigbucket</author><text>The focus of a large portion of media coverage here in the United States since the cables were released has been on the political response to Wikileaks' action, on the allegations of Wikileaks' criminality, on the severing of ties with the organization by major corporations in response to Lieberman et al., and on Assange and his legal woes. All of that is newsworthy, but it has come at the cost of focusing on the stories told by the cables themselves. The things said and done by US agents, in the name of the American people, have been, to judge by the cables I've read, sometimes good, sometimes innocuous, and sometimes unconscionably unethical and criminal. I'm all in favor of any action that brings the focus back where it belongs, and tries to defeat what I suspect has been a deliberate, massive US campaign of noise and distraction, albeit a campaign that increasingly seems of a rather dated style. I'll be massively impressed if Anon can achieve anything close to those stated ends. I understand people's skepticism, and even the occasional condescension, but I'm not ready to dismiss a phenomenon I don't really understand just because the participants are unseasoned and untutored in the art of studied apathy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smokinn</author><text>No big revelations? What about DynCorp?<p><i>US-based private security contractor DynCorp, who was hired by the US to train Afghani police, was apparently supplying drugs and young boys for a sort of sex party.<p>The details are horrifying. The Afghani interior minister apparently went to US officials to warn them that reporters were sniffing around this story, and urged them to try to kill the story. He specifically warned that this would look bad if the connection to DynCorp was made clear (he called them "foreign mentors"). Apparently, US diplomats told him not to worry, and the eventual story was in fact watered down greatly (until now, of course) calling the whole thing a "tribal dance," rather than a party where young boys wear "scanty women's clothes" and "dance seductively" before being "auctioned off to the highest bidder" for sex.</i><p><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/00221812176/so-wikileaks-is-evil-releasing-documents-dyncorp-gets-pass-pimping-young-boys-to-afghan-cops.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/00221812176/so-wik...</a><p>There's also the fact that everyone knows the Afghani election was rigged but while the Canadian ambassador wanted to do something about it the US didn't.<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/250218" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science</title><url>http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/09/anonymous-stops-drop.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkarl</author><text>I've read the "best of" coverage of the leaked cables, and honestly, speaking as somebody who usually doesn't have a problem getting interested in world affairs, it didn't seem like there were any big revelations. The coverage was all along the lines of, "Everybody knew this, but it's humorous/scandalous/juicy that somebody got caught saying it." If Anonymous finds anything shocking in the cables, they will make the MSM look lazy and incompetent.</text></item><item><author>pigbucket</author><text>The focus of a large portion of media coverage here in the United States since the cables were released has been on the political response to Wikileaks' action, on the allegations of Wikileaks' criminality, on the severing of ties with the organization by major corporations in response to Lieberman et al., and on Assange and his legal woes. All of that is newsworthy, but it has come at the cost of focusing on the stories told by the cables themselves. The things said and done by US agents, in the name of the American people, have been, to judge by the cables I've read, sometimes good, sometimes innocuous, and sometimes unconscionably unethical and criminal. I'm all in favor of any action that brings the focus back where it belongs, and tries to defeat what I suspect has been a deliberate, massive US campaign of noise and distraction, albeit a campaign that increasingly seems of a rather dated style. I'll be massively impressed if Anon can achieve anything close to those stated ends. I understand people's skepticism, and even the occasional condescension, but I'm not ready to dismiss a phenomenon I don't really understand just because the participants are unseasoned and untutored in the art of studied apathy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThomPete</author><text>As I understand it the point of the leaks or not the documents per se but the actual leak of them.<p>As stated elsewhere<p><i>According to his essay, Julian Assange is trying to do something else. Because we all basically know that the US state — like all states — is basically doing a lot of basically shady things basically all the time, simply revealing the specific ways they are doing these shady things will not be, in and of itself, a necessarily good thing. In some cases, it may be a bad thing, and in many cases, the provisional good it may do will be limited in scope. The question for an ethical human being — and Assange always emphasizes his ethics — has to be the question of what exposing secrets will actually accomplish, what good it will do, what better state of affairs it will bring about. And whether you buy his argument or not, Assange has a clearly articulated vision for how Wikileaks’ activities will “carry us through the mire of politically distorted language, and into a position of clarity,” a strategy for how exposing secrets will ultimately impede the production of future secrets. The point of Wikileaks — as Assange argues — is simply to make Wikileaks unnecessary.</i><p><a href="http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-%E2%80%9Cto-destroy-this-invisible-government%E2%80%9D/" rel="nofollow">http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-an...</a></text></comment>
11,829,629	11,828,972	1	3	11,824,378	train	<story><title>No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/business/smallbusiness/no-venture-capital-needed-or-wanted.html?src=me&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dreyfan</author><text>I&#x27;ll share our story and current situation:<p>We bootstrapped with time (evenings &amp; weekends) until we had enough revenue to keep the lights on, at which point we quit our full-time jobs and pursued it 100%. We&#x27;re in our fifth year now and we closed 2015 with $2M in revenue. Excluding compensation, our operating costs (servers, professional services, supplies, t&amp;e, taxes, etc) are about $125k.<p>While things are great, growth has also slowed due to sheer bandwidth available from only 3 people. We&#x27;ve definitely struggled with hiring. When a new employee&#x27;s salary directly comes out of your own compensation, you tend to become very particular about people pulling their weight, so we&#x27;ve churned through 10 people so far. I&#x27;ve had a very difficult time competing for top talent.<p>At this point I think the networking and advice would be the most valuable thing a VC could bring to the table, as we have an abundance of cash and technically a very easy business to scale. Just need capable people who like to be well-compensated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text><i>When a new employee&#x27;s salary directly comes out of your own compensation</i><p>Are you a limited company or a partnership? If you&#x27;re an LLC, it&#x27;s not your own pocket, it&#x27;s the company&#x27;s. This feels pedantic but is very important both legally and psychologically.<p>Remember it works the other way round for your employees. Their extra work goes into your pocket, not theirs (unless they&#x27;re on commission!)<p>If you had 1,000 employees, would you see every last one as taking from your pocket? Come to think of it, maybe this is why so many business owners nickel-and-dime employees into misery.<p><i>you tend to become very particular about people pulling their weight</i><p>You&#x27;re a founder. They&#x27;re not. They are never, ever going to be as committed as you. They&#x27;re going to do the 9-to-5 and then go home and think of other things. This is fine, because their compensation has a bounded upside and yours doesn&#x27;t. Unless you&#x27;re giving them a huge equity stake, which doesn&#x27;t sound like the case. You have to reconcile yourself to this. Trying to make the whole company out of founder-level committed people is like the old joke about &quot;you know the indestructable aircraft black boxes - why don&#x27;t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?&quot;</text></comment>	<story><title>No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/business/smallbusiness/no-venture-capital-needed-or-wanted.html?src=me&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dreyfan</author><text>I&#x27;ll share our story and current situation:<p>We bootstrapped with time (evenings &amp; weekends) until we had enough revenue to keep the lights on, at which point we quit our full-time jobs and pursued it 100%. We&#x27;re in our fifth year now and we closed 2015 with $2M in revenue. Excluding compensation, our operating costs (servers, professional services, supplies, t&amp;e, taxes, etc) are about $125k.<p>While things are great, growth has also slowed due to sheer bandwidth available from only 3 people. We&#x27;ve definitely struggled with hiring. When a new employee&#x27;s salary directly comes out of your own compensation, you tend to become very particular about people pulling their weight, so we&#x27;ve churned through 10 people so far. I&#x27;ve had a very difficult time competing for top talent.<p>At this point I think the networking and advice would be the most valuable thing a VC could bring to the table, as we have an abundance of cash and technically a very easy business to scale. Just need capable people who like to be well-compensated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djrobstep</author><text>&quot;If you have a problem with one or two people, maybe it&#x27;s them. If you have a problem with everyone, maybe it&#x27;s you.&quot;</text></comment>
13,523,425	13,522,343	1	2	13,521,699	train	<story><title>Hollywood as We Know It Is Over</title><url>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-hollywood-as-we-know-it-is-already-over</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TACIXAT</author><text>I love movies. Whenever I visit my dad (other side of the country), we go to see movies. However, most of the year I live with my girlfriend who falls asleep in theaters and can&#x27;t justify the cost. This leads to me not seeing movies in theaters anymore.<p>Now, I am subscribed to two streaming services. I don&#x27;t pirate. I refuse to watch anything with ads, happy to pay, and somewhat ironically, the only ads I watch to completion are trailers that I haven&#x27;t seen. I would love to catch movies as they are released but I have to wait until they&#x27;re available on the streaming service. When they are available it is usually 5$ for a &quot;rental&quot;. Is that a joke? I used to pay that at Blockbuster, and they had a physical location and employees! They&#x27;ve priced their digital content in such a way that I will only pay to see the movies that I really want to see. If it was cheaper, I&#x27;d be a constant consumer.<p>It seems that is how most things in society get priced. Not for ultimate consumption, but to maximize the profit curve. I get that is how capitalism works, but that logic doesn&#x27;t make sense to me for digital goods. They are practically zero cost to distribute once they are manufactured and your competition is people pirating them. If you&#x27;re worried about audience size, lower the cost. You&#x27;ll enable a lot more people to see a lot more movies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ttcbj</author><text>Assuming you are a software developer, I think you should reconsider your &quot;price should approximate production cost&quot; reasoning. I think it will hold you back if you eventually try something entrepreneurial.<p>When I started a small software company, I originally had a similar understanding. I subconsciously thought that the software should be priced to pay for its development cost, plus some profit. I was not very successful, until I realized that the product should be priced as a percentage of the value it delivered to the customer. Customers don&#x27;t want you to do a lot of work, they just want their problem solved for a price that is reasonable relative to the benefit of the solution.<p>This idea reverses several of your conclusions:<p>1. The product should be priced based on how much value it delivers, and only those companies that can deliver the product for significantly less than that price will stay in business. Once a company finds a need that people will pay for, it generally makes sense to drive the cost of production down while maintaining the same benefit, thus maximizing profit.<p>2. The more value a company creates with the resources it uses (the greater its margin), the more left-over resources it will have to invest in producing still more benefits, or to return profits to its original investors.<p>So, going back to the cost of digital content, I am happy to pay for it, as long as I end up feeling the movie was worth watching for the price. And if they can produce great content without many resources (or with lower cost of delivery), all the better. My problem, right now, is that there is so much great content I cannot ever hope to watch it. But that is not a problem that really bothers me, I am happy to keep paying to have a long list of shows I&#x27;d like to watch, if I could just find the time.</text></comment>	<story><title>Hollywood as We Know It Is Over</title><url>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-hollywood-as-we-know-it-is-already-over</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TACIXAT</author><text>I love movies. Whenever I visit my dad (other side of the country), we go to see movies. However, most of the year I live with my girlfriend who falls asleep in theaters and can&#x27;t justify the cost. This leads to me not seeing movies in theaters anymore.<p>Now, I am subscribed to two streaming services. I don&#x27;t pirate. I refuse to watch anything with ads, happy to pay, and somewhat ironically, the only ads I watch to completion are trailers that I haven&#x27;t seen. I would love to catch movies as they are released but I have to wait until they&#x27;re available on the streaming service. When they are available it is usually 5$ for a &quot;rental&quot;. Is that a joke? I used to pay that at Blockbuster, and they had a physical location and employees! They&#x27;ve priced their digital content in such a way that I will only pay to see the movies that I really want to see. If it was cheaper, I&#x27;d be a constant consumer.<p>It seems that is how most things in society get priced. Not for ultimate consumption, but to maximize the profit curve. I get that is how capitalism works, but that logic doesn&#x27;t make sense to me for digital goods. They are practically zero cost to distribute once they are manufactured and your competition is people pirating them. If you&#x27;re worried about audience size, lower the cost. You&#x27;ll enable a lot more people to see a lot more movies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pigo</author><text>A good friend of mine _wink_ has been a pirate since the golden age of IRC. I, uh He, always said he&#x27;d pay for digital content when they made distribution digital. And when they did, I was happy to start paying for it. I was happy to have every King of the Hill on someone else&#x27;s hard drive finally.<p>Then the price for playing by the rules kept going up and up. Meanwhile there was less and less, and less, I cared to see. I can&#x27;t even think of the last movie I actually itched to see. Maybe I&#x27;ve gotten old and don&#x27;t have time to search for diamonds in the rough, but I don&#x27;t see any more movies like Oh Brother Where Art Thou or Fight Club or Snatch that I can&#x27;t get tired of.<p>They can&#x27;t cry poverty when every time Adam Sandler squeezes one out it makes $75 million. I know creative accounting makes it seem like they break even, but I call BS on that. If companies besides Pixar would actually pay for writing that moves people, their wallets would come with them.</text></comment>
3,795,453	3,795,132	1	3	3,794,968	train	<story><title>Notch's next game is an MMO</title><url>http://0x10c.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endianswap</author><text>Technology of note: "The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish. [...] The cost of the game is still undecided, but it's likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>This could quite possibly be the nerdiest game ever made. The amazing level of boffin creativity we've seen in Minecraft could easily be eclipsed by giving everyone their own in-game programmable computers to tinker with.<p>I can't wait.</text></comment>	<story><title>Notch's next game is an MMO</title><url>http://0x10c.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endianswap</author><text>Technology of note: "The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish. [...] The cost of the game is still undecided, but it's likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zackham</author><text>Backstory is cool too and coincidentally appropriate for parent's username: "released, compatible with all popular 16 bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years."</text></comment>
21,972,916	21,972,185	1	2	21,971,040	train	<story><title>The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis</title><url>https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justapassenger</author><text>Living in first world country it&#x27;s easy to be biased against race to the bottom - it hurts previously very well paid jobs and breaks established status quo.<p>But that race to the bottom made cost of flying at least order of magnitude more affordable, and as a result likely saved and improved countless numbers lives (lifting out of poverty, ability to travel for treatments, ability to see your loved ones, ability to travel for work, etc).<p>And to put things in perspective - air travel is still safest form of travel, even accounting for MAX, and during this whole race to the bottom it was constantly improving, by orders of magnitude.</text></item><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; With the dawn of the 1980s, however, Boeing’s traditional way of doing things seemed increasingly out of touch. Deregulation under US presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan had changed the economics of the industry, Greenberg said. “The idea was that if you had more competition, it would drop prices for consumers. Suddenly, airlines are looking at this and saying, ‘Oh my God, we can’t pass on the cost by continuously raising ticket prices.’ That put pressure back on Boeing, and on Airbus eventually, to become cost-conscious.”<p>I think the ultimate root cause that led to the 737 MAX crisis was de-regulation and the airlines race to the bottom on price. The whole reason for making the plane a 737 and not a new aircraft was to cut pilot re-training costs.<p>I used to think that highly competitive markets with low prices are the best, but now I am not so sure. Those kind of markets tend to push the quality down as well as squeeze the workers. Compare the union workers for the Big Three during the 1970&#x27;s to that of the gig economy workers now. Maybe an oligopoly with high profits and strong unions is what is best in the long term? Or maybe, we need to alternate periods of disruption and highly competitive markets with periods of stability and oligopolies? I suspect we as a society will have to try to figure that out, and that it is not a simple answer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ATsch</author><text>This kind of reminds me of the dril quote:<p>&gt; drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dril&#x2F;status&#x2F;464802196060917762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dril&#x2F;status&#x2F;464802196060917762</a><p>Point being, just that something has some upsides does not mean that it is a good thing overall. I personally believe that if flying millions of people across the globe is truly impossible without reckless exploitation of people and resources, we should rather not do that, no matter what the benefits of that would be.</text></comment>	<story><title>The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis</title><url>https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justapassenger</author><text>Living in first world country it&#x27;s easy to be biased against race to the bottom - it hurts previously very well paid jobs and breaks established status quo.<p>But that race to the bottom made cost of flying at least order of magnitude more affordable, and as a result likely saved and improved countless numbers lives (lifting out of poverty, ability to travel for treatments, ability to see your loved ones, ability to travel for work, etc).<p>And to put things in perspective - air travel is still safest form of travel, even accounting for MAX, and during this whole race to the bottom it was constantly improving, by orders of magnitude.</text></item><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; With the dawn of the 1980s, however, Boeing’s traditional way of doing things seemed increasingly out of touch. Deregulation under US presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan had changed the economics of the industry, Greenberg said. “The idea was that if you had more competition, it would drop prices for consumers. Suddenly, airlines are looking at this and saying, ‘Oh my God, we can’t pass on the cost by continuously raising ticket prices.’ That put pressure back on Boeing, and on Airbus eventually, to become cost-conscious.”<p>I think the ultimate root cause that led to the 737 MAX crisis was de-regulation and the airlines race to the bottom on price. The whole reason for making the plane a 737 and not a new aircraft was to cut pilot re-training costs.<p>I used to think that highly competitive markets with low prices are the best, but now I am not so sure. Those kind of markets tend to push the quality down as well as squeeze the workers. Compare the union workers for the Big Three during the 1970&#x27;s to that of the gig economy workers now. Maybe an oligopoly with high profits and strong unions is what is best in the long term? Or maybe, we need to alternate periods of disruption and highly competitive markets with periods of stability and oligopolies? I suspect we as a society will have to try to figure that out, and that it is not a simple answer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>&gt; <i>made cost of flying at least order of magnitude more affordable, and as a result likely saved and improved countless numbers lives</i><p>Except for the climate change part. Continued carbon emissions threaten billions of lives.<p>To keep our planet inhabitable current-fuel air travel must be reduced to a tiny fraction of its current scope within the next few decades (alongside many other drastic changes to transportation, industry, and electricity generation). It’s not clear that alternative power sources for air travel will be practical at large scale any time in the near future.</text></comment>
4,706,276	4,706,069	1	3	4,705,828	train	<story><title>Scientists Recover Oldest Playable American Recording</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/scientists-recover-the-sounds-of-19th-century-music-and-laughter-from-the-oldest-playable-american-recording/264147/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>The time between about 1860 and 1910 seems totally magical to me.<p>For all of history, people lived, loved, and died. Aside from perhaps a few of them writing their thoughts down, they totally disappeared.<p>With the invention of still photography, and much more audio and moving-picture recording technology, suddenly you could see and hear people who were long gone.<p>These folks are not just dead. Their kids are dead, their grandkids are dead, their great-grandkids are probably also gone. Yet we are able to hear them play music, tell stories, and laugh. They might even tell a joke and we can laugh along with it.<p>It's as if mankind suddenly came out of a very dark tunnel. We are finally able to really coalesce into a multi-generational conversation about what our humanity means. (A little too poetic. Apologies. I just find it amazing)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhughes</author><text> I wonder if the late 1990s to roughly now will be seen as a audio, video, still picture dark ages of sorts.<p>The average consumer was astounded by low quality mp3 audio over a record, cassette tape or later on compact disc. Sort of like fast food, convenience over quality.<p>It's also the same for photography I remember the first digital cameras and they had horrible resolution and colour depth but it was amazing to have a film-less camera. Video being a close cousin to pictures got worse in quality too but more affordable and convenient no more giant saddle bag and shoulder-crushing camera.<p>Looking back years from now family pictures and audio will be great up to roughly the mid 1990s then from then on until the early 2000s the bottom fell out.</text></comment>	<story><title>Scientists Recover Oldest Playable American Recording</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/scientists-recover-the-sounds-of-19th-century-music-and-laughter-from-the-oldest-playable-american-recording/264147/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>The time between about 1860 and 1910 seems totally magical to me.<p>For all of history, people lived, loved, and died. Aside from perhaps a few of them writing their thoughts down, they totally disappeared.<p>With the invention of still photography, and much more audio and moving-picture recording technology, suddenly you could see and hear people who were long gone.<p>These folks are not just dead. Their kids are dead, their grandkids are dead, their great-grandkids are probably also gone. Yet we are able to hear them play music, tell stories, and laugh. They might even tell a joke and we can laugh along with it.<p>It's as if mankind suddenly came out of a very dark tunnel. We are finally able to really coalesce into a multi-generational conversation about what our humanity means. (A little too poetic. Apologies. I just find it amazing)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JasonFruit</author><text>I'm with you --- it was an amazing transformation in our link to the past. But don't underestimate the power of written language to carry on that multi-generational conversation. We can read the thoughts of people who died <i>thousands</i> of years ago, and we still have a lot to learn from them.</text></comment>
10,676,247	10,675,496	1	2	10,675,271	train	<story><title>Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)</title><url>http://www.pnas.org/lens/pnas/111/47/16647</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsonmez</author><text>I fast until 5:00 PM every day and then only eat one meal. I&#x27;ve been doing this for about 1.5 years.<p>I have been able to maintain a large degree of muscle and I am pretty ripped.<p>Easy to adopt your lifestyle to and then you don&#x27;t really have to count calories anymore.<p>Plus, I never have to waste time eating or cooking breakfast or lunch.</text></comment>	<story><title>Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)</title><url>http://www.pnas.org/lens/pnas/111/47/16647</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richmarr</author><text>For anyone having issues seeing the content on mobile, the abstract is this:<p>&quot;Although major research efforts have focused on how specific components of foodstuffs affect health, relatively little is known about a more fundamental aspect of diet, the frequency and circadian timing of meals, and potential benefits of intermittent periods with no or very low energy intakes. The most common eating pattern in modern societies, three meals plus snacks every day, is abnormal from an evolutionary perspective. Emerging findings from studies of animal models and human subjects suggest that intermittent energy restriction periods of as little as 16 h can improve health indicators and counteract disease processes. The mechanisms involve a metabolic shift to fat metabolism and ketone production, and stimulation of adaptive cellular stress responses that prevent and repair molecular damage. As data on the optimal frequency and timing of meals crystalizes, it will be critical to develop strategies to incorporate those eating patterns into health care policy and practice, and the lifestyles of the population.&quot;</text></comment>
33,136,783	33,135,812	1	3	33,134,947	train	<story><title>Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator</title><url>https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/valves-latest-steam-deck-trailer-briefly-plugs-a-nintendo-switch-emulator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Madmallard</author><text>Emulation has been deemed legal? Since when? You&#x27;re not paying for the system or the games and playing them freely?</text></item><item><author>IceWreck</author><text>While Valve shouldn&#x27;t have done this, Yuzu (and emulation) is completely legal. Nintendo cant do anything unless they want to go hard against emulation itself which brings us to the same are APIs copyrightable debate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>extragood</author><text>Emulation of a device is totally legal.<p>For instance, I run qemu all the time to emulate various android devices.<p>I suspect that you&#x27;re thinking specifically of game emulation though.<p>Running software on an emulated device is fine legally as long as it doesn&#x27;t violate copyright law.<p>For instance, you can legally backup software that you own in the US [1] - that extends to games as well - and because emulators themselves are legal (although you may also need to backup the device&#x27;s BIOS), you can have a completely legitimate archive of copyrighted games to run via an emulator.<p>That said, it&#x27;s unlikely that most people archive software themselves, and it is <i>not</i> legal to distribute backups in the US, even if both parties have legitimately acquired copies of the source material.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copyright.gov&#x2F;help&#x2F;faq&#x2F;faq-digital.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copyright.gov&#x2F;help&#x2F;faq&#x2F;faq-digital.html</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator</title><url>https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/valves-latest-steam-deck-trailer-briefly-plugs-a-nintendo-switch-emulator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Madmallard</author><text>Emulation has been deemed legal? Since when? You&#x27;re not paying for the system or the games and playing them freely?</text></item><item><author>IceWreck</author><text>While Valve shouldn&#x27;t have done this, Yuzu (and emulation) is completely legal. Nintendo cant do anything unless they want to go hard against emulation itself which brings us to the same are APIs copyrightable debate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fargren</author><text>Emulation is legal. Freely sharing roms of copyrighted content isn&#x27;t. You can dump a cartridge you own and emulate it on a device you own.</text></comment>
31,124,716	31,124,678	1	2	31,123,102	train	<story><title>Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245513</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antiverse</author><text>&gt;- people in interview panels openly saying &quot;but he&#x27;s a white man&quot; &#x2F; &quot;do we want to hire more white men&quot; etc.<p>Not surprised to hear people saying this, but am surprised that nobody brings that up as a plainly racist&#x2F;sexist thing when it is said. Bystander effect?</text></item><item><author>throwaway0wha8h</author><text>Throwaway.<p>I&#x27;m happy to have more women in tech and hope it occurs or continues. However, virtually everyone recruiting in tech has observed some toxic diversity initiatives, I would venture. Some examples I have seen personally or one degree removed from me.<p>- pressure on HMs to hire more women despite 95% of applicants being male<p>- people in interview panels openly saying &quot;but he&#x27;s a white man&quot; &#x2F; &quot;do we want to hire more white men&quot; etc.<p>- people championing all women teams as a win for diversity<p>- women getting a salary premium to help companies boost DEI &quot;representation&quot;<p>I think eventually this will be shown for what it is, but it will take a long time. Personally every tech founder I know thinks it&#x27;s bullshit but won&#x27;t say it in public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0wha8h</author><text>I have observed some people pushing back, but it&#x27;s rare. I know there is a fear of dissent to the DEI dogma. Particularly if you&#x27;re a white man. If you&#x27;re a minority you have more leeway to dissent and it will be fine you&#x27;ll just be ignored or perhaps have someone read the pro-DEI talking points to you. After Damore firing most people just think it&#x27;s not worth it I would guess, why risk it? And if you&#x27;re a founder why risk a campaign against your company when you need to raise funding etc.</text></comment>	<story><title>Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245513</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antiverse</author><text>&gt;- people in interview panels openly saying &quot;but he&#x27;s a white man&quot; &#x2F; &quot;do we want to hire more white men&quot; etc.<p>Not surprised to hear people saying this, but am surprised that nobody brings that up as a plainly racist&#x2F;sexist thing when it is said. Bystander effect?</text></item><item><author>throwaway0wha8h</author><text>Throwaway.<p>I&#x27;m happy to have more women in tech and hope it occurs or continues. However, virtually everyone recruiting in tech has observed some toxic diversity initiatives, I would venture. Some examples I have seen personally or one degree removed from me.<p>- pressure on HMs to hire more women despite 95% of applicants being male<p>- people in interview panels openly saying &quot;but he&#x27;s a white man&quot; &#x2F; &quot;do we want to hire more white men&quot; etc.<p>- people championing all women teams as a win for diversity<p>- women getting a salary premium to help companies boost DEI &quot;representation&quot;<p>I think eventually this will be shown for what it is, but it will take a long time. Personally every tech founder I know thinks it&#x27;s bullshit but won&#x27;t say it in public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>The only person who would gain anything by saying that would be a white man, who would just be told that his opinion isn’t important because he’s a white man.</text></comment>
16,829,428	16,829,330	1	2	16,826,431	train	<story><title>SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/spacex-s-valuation-climbs-to-25-billion-with-new-funding-round</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cornholio</author><text>I would like to have a piece of that for wholly non-hype reasons. The space business is limited but the bussiness potential for Starlink, an integral part of the company, is simply monstrous.<p>If it pans out, Starlink can disrupt a massive, $1 trillion&#x2F; year telecom market that is itself booming. Depending on how well they can productize long-term (miniature receivers embedded in laptops, tablets etc.) they stand to capture whole percentage points or even tenths of that market, giving Starlink itself a valuation in the trillions.<p>It&#x27;s also an ultra-high moat business, a truly global monopoly. Once you have 12.000 sats in the sky amortized and own the only launch service capable of servicing them, you are impossible to budge.</text></item><item><author>foota</author><text>Honestly, I think this might be one of the only companies I know of recently where I&#x27;ve gone &quot;huh, that seems like a low valuation&quot;. Is this a hype factor or do knowledgeable others feel similarly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>&gt; (miniature receivers embedded in laptops, tablets etc.)<p>Not possible because of physics. Unless they branch into a completely different portion of the spectrum with all-new satellites and some communications tech that is as of yet unknown, they really cannot miniaturize the receivers.</text></comment>	<story><title>SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/spacex-s-valuation-climbs-to-25-billion-with-new-funding-round</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cornholio</author><text>I would like to have a piece of that for wholly non-hype reasons. The space business is limited but the bussiness potential for Starlink, an integral part of the company, is simply monstrous.<p>If it pans out, Starlink can disrupt a massive, $1 trillion&#x2F; year telecom market that is itself booming. Depending on how well they can productize long-term (miniature receivers embedded in laptops, tablets etc.) they stand to capture whole percentage points or even tenths of that market, giving Starlink itself a valuation in the trillions.<p>It&#x27;s also an ultra-high moat business, a truly global monopoly. Once you have 12.000 sats in the sky amortized and own the only launch service capable of servicing them, you are impossible to budge.</text></item><item><author>foota</author><text>Honestly, I think this might be one of the only companies I know of recently where I&#x27;ve gone &quot;huh, that seems like a low valuation&quot;. Is this a hype factor or do knowledgeable others feel similarly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>You&#x27;ll need a pizza box sized dish to receive from Starlink. We&#x27;d have to wait for a hypothetical Starlink II or such before receivers in laptops become practical.</text></comment>
23,554,171	23,553,918	1	2	23,552,760	train	<story><title>Apple Is Trying to Shut Down Hey</title><url>https://hey.com/apple/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BonesJustice</author><text>As a user, I am generally in favor of Apple requiring the option to purchase items and subscriptions through the App Store. I would never subscribe to, for example, HBO NOW if I thought I’d have to go through HBO (owned by AT&amp;T) in order to unsubscribe. I want the guarantee of easy cancellation.<p>I am also fine with Apple collecting a modest fee for providing that service. That fee should probably be somewhere in the 2-3% range. Demanding what amounts to a 30% “introducer fee” is beyond absurd.<p>I also do not approve of how inconsistently Apple enforces their own rules.</text></comment>	<story><title>Apple Is Trying to Shut Down Hey</title><url>https://hey.com/apple/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josuepeq</author><text>It seems to me there’s a double standard for some apps; Apple’s logic here is ridiculous.<p>I can’t sign up for “Microsoft 365 Home“ or “Personal” inside of Microsoft Word for iOS or any other Microsoft app, but Apple still approves them without this mandate.<p>I think Basecamp is in the right here.</text></comment>
13,745,384	13,745,494	1	2	13,741,992	train	<story><title>Support Grows for a Seattle to Vancouver Bullet Train</title><url>https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/support-grows-seattle-vancouver-bullet-train-feasability-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>X86BSD</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of rail. I wish we had a bullet train going from E to W coast through Kansas City. I would happily pay more taxes for it.<p>The thing for me is ive never understood why the cost per mile is so freaking outrageously stupidly full retard high for rail. Road doesn&#x27;t cost nearly as much.<p>Is it the material? Labor? There isn&#x27;t much material per mile. Why is it so high per mile? Who has done extensive looking into this and can explain it?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>it would cost between $125 million to $1 billion per mile to build the Seattle to Vancouver line</i><p>One of the problems with the American rail debate is you have people who like rail and people who like low taxes. The two don&#x27;t overlap. Thus, the former sees any opportunity to lay rail as an opportunity to hose taxpayers.<p>&quot;China’s high speed rail with a maximum speed of 350 km&#x2F;h has a typical infrastructure unit cost of about $17-21m per km, with a high ratio of viaducts and tunnels, as compared with $ 25-39 [million U.S. dollars] per km in Europe and as high as $ 56 [million U.S. dollars] per km currently estimated in California&quot; [1]. The Seattle&#x2F;Washington per-mile costs above translate to $78 to $625 million dollars per kilometre.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldbank.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;cost-of-high-speed-rail-in-china-one-third-lower-than-in-other-countries" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldbank.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;co...</a> <i>2014</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m a big fan of rail. I wish we had a bullet train going from E to W coast through Kansas City. I would happily pay more taxes for it.</i><p>You&#x27;re in the &quot;people who like rail&quot; camp. So are many of my friends. (I&#x27;m the lonely S.O.B. in both.)<p>&gt; <i>Why is [our cost] so high per mile?</i><p>On why rail is so much more expensive here, we don&#x27;t know [1]. &quot;Many of the world&#x27;s most expensive projects are in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, which, like the United States, have common-law systems,&quot; [2] so it might be that right-of-way costs dominate.<p>New York&#x27;s MTA costs $4.11 per ride to operate [3]. The analogs for London and Paris are $2.61 and $1.93, respectively [2]. The cost difference appears to be explained by unnecessarily higher staffing levels in New York. So it might be that public-sector union and well-paid contractor costs dominate.<p>Measuring these things is hard, perhaps intentionally so.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.realclearpolicy.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;high_costs_may_explain_crumbling_support_for_us_infrastructure_1249.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.realclearpolicy.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;high_costs_ma...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-04-08&#x2F;why-u-s-infrastructure-costs-so-much" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-04-08&#x2F;why-u-s-i...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moodys.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;Moodys-New-Yorks-MTA-debt-profile-governmental-support-distinguish-it--PR_345455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moodys.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;Moodys-New-Yorks-MTA-debt-pr...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Support Grows for a Seattle to Vancouver Bullet Train</title><url>https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/support-grows-seattle-vancouver-bullet-train-feasability-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>X86BSD</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of rail. I wish we had a bullet train going from E to W coast through Kansas City. I would happily pay more taxes for it.<p>The thing for me is ive never understood why the cost per mile is so freaking outrageously stupidly full retard high for rail. Road doesn&#x27;t cost nearly as much.<p>Is it the material? Labor? There isn&#x27;t much material per mile. Why is it so high per mile? Who has done extensive looking into this and can explain it?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>it would cost between $125 million to $1 billion per mile to build the Seattle to Vancouver line</i><p>One of the problems with the American rail debate is you have people who like rail and people who like low taxes. The two don&#x27;t overlap. Thus, the former sees any opportunity to lay rail as an opportunity to hose taxpayers.<p>&quot;China’s high speed rail with a maximum speed of 350 km&#x2F;h has a typical infrastructure unit cost of about $17-21m per km, with a high ratio of viaducts and tunnels, as compared with $ 25-39 [million U.S. dollars] per km in Europe and as high as $ 56 [million U.S. dollars] per km currently estimated in California&quot; [1]. The Seattle&#x2F;Washington per-mile costs above translate to $78 to $625 million dollars per kilometre.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldbank.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;cost-of-high-speed-rail-in-china-one-third-lower-than-in-other-countries" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldbank.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;co...</a> <i>2014</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpeden</author><text>I&#x27;m not an expert, but I&#x27;ve looked into this in the past when I was curious about it.<p>There&#x27;s quite a bit of working that goes into preparing and grading the land. There&#x27;s also the added expense of building bridges and tunnels - with the speed a bullet train is travelling at, you want to avoid at-grade level crossings where road vehicles could get into the train&#x27;s path. You also probably want side barriers to prevent cows and other large animals from wandering onto the tracks. This means you&#x27;ll also need game tunnels or bridges to enable animals to get cross under or over the tracks, especially in wilderness areas. The Wikipedia article about TGV track construction [1] provides some helpful information[1].<p>Acquiring the land to build the track might also be expensive. Although governments have some power to expropriate land, there&#x27;s often (usually?) significant cost involved.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TGV_track_construction#Preparing_the_trackbed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TGV_track_construction#Prepari...</a></text></comment>
10,312,807	10,312,005	1	2	10,311,654	train	<story><title>Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam</title><url>http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-092915.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jobu</author><text>This is the key part:<p><i>Microorganisms in the worms&#x27; guts biodegrade the plastic in the process</i><p>The question is whether we can harness these bacteria to break down plastics in landfills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>I think the real scary question is <i>what happens if we do</i>.<p>One of the main reasons we use plastics is because they are great barriers against bacteria and other grossness. We wrap food in plastic, put dirty diapers and dog poop in plastic, put garbage in plastic, wrap raw meat in plastic, use plastic for medical equipment. All because it reliably keeps out (or in) the bad stuff.<p>What happens if there are plastic-eating bacteria all over the world? Imagine what it would feel like if everywhere we currently used plastic we were using uncoated paper instead? What kind of sanitization problems would we be experiencing?</text></comment>	<story><title>Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam</title><url>http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-092915.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jobu</author><text>This is the key part:<p><i>Microorganisms in the worms&#x27; guts biodegrade the plastic in the process</i><p>The question is whether we can harness these bacteria to break down plastics in landfills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theophrastus</author><text>There is some really amazing biochemistry going on here. The essential enzymes involved (and understanding their exact mechanism) would be of inestimable value for several reasons; a very large one you (jobu) suggest right here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Polystyrene#Biodegradation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Polystyrene#Biodegradation</a> &quot;... rates of styrene degradation ranged from 0.14 to 0.4 a−1. This is an order of magnitude faster than the most rapid rate of polystyrene degradation identified... Pseudomonas putida is capable of converting styrene oil into the biodegradable plastic PHA. This may be of use in the effective recycling of Polystyrene foam, otherwise thought to be non-biodegradable.&quot;</text></comment>
15,483,420	15,483,107	1	3	15,481,578	train	<story><title>Python Graph Gallery</title><url>https://python-graph-gallery.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radarsat1</author><text>Does anyone know of a good <i>non-blocking</i> plotting library for Python?<p>I find that for some applications matplotlib really slows down my loops, but there are times that I really need to visualize the in-progress computations. While some other libraries might be faster, what I really want is simply to send instructions and data to a separate process that is performing the plotting. I&#x27;d like it to completely render a frame and simply skip instructions for following frames until it&#x27;s done rendering, avoid buffering up every single frame that is sent to it, and have it plot the next available frame when it&#x27;s done. I have yet to see a library that functions this way. Basically I want to be able to easily visualize an on-going computation without <i>blocking</i> it just for the rendering of temporary results.</text></item><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>Check out plotly for general graphing use and bokeh for heavy loads.<p>An exhaustive list of dataviz libraries is maintained at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fasouto&#x2F;awesome-dataviz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fasouto&#x2F;awesome-dataviz</a><p>For Python:<p><pre><code> * altair - Declarative statistical visualizations, based on Vega-lite. * bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python. * diagram - Text mode diagrams using UTF-8 characters * ggplot - plotting system based on R&#x27;s ggplot2. * glumpy - OpenGL scientific visualizations library. * holoviews - Complex and declarative visualizations from annotated data. * matplotlib - 2D plotting library. * missingno - provides flexible toolset of data-visualization utilities that allows quick visual summary of the completeness of your dataset, based on matplotlib. * plotly - Interactive web based visualization built on top of plotly.js * plotnine - A grammar of graphics for Python * pygal - A dynamic SVG charting library. * PyQtGraph - Interactive and realtime 2D&#x2F;3D&#x2F;Image plotting and science&#x2F;engineering widgets. * seaborn - A library for making attractive and informative statistical graphics. * toyplot - The kid-sized plotting toolkit for Python with grownup-sized goals. * Veusz - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;veusz.github.io * VisPy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trextrex</author><text>You should check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;IGITUGraz&#x2F;live-plotter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;IGITUGraz&#x2F;live-plotter</a> (I am the author of the package)<p>It is designed exactly for this use-case -- visualizing results of an ongoing simulation. It does best effort plotting, but doesn&#x27;t block computation for plotting. I would be happy to receive feedback on the package.</text></comment>	<story><title>Python Graph Gallery</title><url>https://python-graph-gallery.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radarsat1</author><text>Does anyone know of a good <i>non-blocking</i> plotting library for Python?<p>I find that for some applications matplotlib really slows down my loops, but there are times that I really need to visualize the in-progress computations. While some other libraries might be faster, what I really want is simply to send instructions and data to a separate process that is performing the plotting. I&#x27;d like it to completely render a frame and simply skip instructions for following frames until it&#x27;s done rendering, avoid buffering up every single frame that is sent to it, and have it plot the next available frame when it&#x27;s done. I have yet to see a library that functions this way. Basically I want to be able to easily visualize an on-going computation without <i>blocking</i> it just for the rendering of temporary results.</text></item><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>Check out plotly for general graphing use and bokeh for heavy loads.<p>An exhaustive list of dataviz libraries is maintained at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fasouto&#x2F;awesome-dataviz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fasouto&#x2F;awesome-dataviz</a><p>For Python:<p><pre><code> * altair - Declarative statistical visualizations, based on Vega-lite. * bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python. * diagram - Text mode diagrams using UTF-8 characters * ggplot - plotting system based on R&#x27;s ggplot2. * glumpy - OpenGL scientific visualizations library. * holoviews - Complex and declarative visualizations from annotated data. * matplotlib - 2D plotting library. * missingno - provides flexible toolset of data-visualization utilities that allows quick visual summary of the completeness of your dataset, based on matplotlib. * plotly - Interactive web based visualization built on top of plotly.js * plotnine - A grammar of graphics for Python * pygal - A dynamic SVG charting library. * PyQtGraph - Interactive and realtime 2D&#x2F;3D&#x2F;Image plotting and science&#x2F;engineering widgets. * seaborn - A library for making attractive and informative statistical graphics. * toyplot - The kid-sized plotting toolkit for Python with grownup-sized goals. * Veusz - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;veusz.github.io * VisPy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edraferi</author><text>Bokeh supports streaming data to existing graphs. This lets you define a graph, display it in a browser, and then push updates from your code. This is a lot lighter than doing a full draw in matplotlib, plus works over the web.<p>Here&#x27;s an intro blog post from 2013 [0] and a current tutorial [1]. This functionality depends on Bokeh Server, docs here [2]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anaconda.com&#x2F;developer-blog&#x2F;painless-streaming-plots-bokeh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anaconda.com&#x2F;developer-blog&#x2F;painless-streaming-p...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nbviewer.jupyter.org&#x2F;github&#x2F;bokeh&#x2F;bokeh-notebooks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;11%20-%20Running%20Bokeh%20Applictions.ipynb#Streaming-Data" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nbviewer.jupyter.org&#x2F;github&#x2F;bokeh&#x2F;bokeh-notebooks&#x2F;blo...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bokeh.pydata.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;docs&#x2F;user_guide&#x2F;server.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bokeh.pydata.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;docs&#x2F;user_guide&#x2F;server.ht...</a></text></comment>
38,362,112	38,362,203	1	2	38,361,699	train	<story><title>Sam Altman exposes the charade of AI accountability</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/openai-sam-altman-exposes-the-charade-of-ai-accountability</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SilverBirch</author><text>This is interesting because I kind of view it the opposite way. The interesting thing about Zuckerberg, Brin &amp; Page is that the have legal structures in place to give them control. Mark Zuckerberg doesn&#x27;t need to be popular, he has the votes. He can drive Meta into a wall if he wants to - and he absolutely has taken that choice sometimes. The thing about the structure that was in place at OpenAI is that if Altman went rogue there was someone there to hold him to account. Now there actually is a really interesting conversation about what that accountability mechanism was, but what happened in practice is the board just screwed up.<p>But I do think it is worth considering, was this non-profit board thought out in the first place. If you were serious about the dangers of AI and the impact on the world I think it&#x27;s absolutely sensible to set up a board to be a balance on that power. But it&#x27;s important who you put on that board - and the people they selected were <i>comical</i>. Brockman, Sutskever, and Altman are all the people that are meant to be accountable <i>to</i> the board, not <i>on</i> the board.<p>If you wanted accountability you would, for a start, have had some people from outside silicon valley on this board. Some people who know something about Labour rights for example, maybe some people from the creative industries you&#x27;re disrupting, maybe even some policy experts. It&#x27;s just funny to think that this is what they thought accountability was. Accountability to their own friends.</text></comment>	<story><title>Sam Altman exposes the charade of AI accountability</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/openai-sam-altman-exposes-the-charade-of-ai-accountability</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tenoke</author><text>&#x27;Let’s say we really do create AGI. Right now, if I’m doing a bad job with that, our board of directors, which is also not publicly accountable, can fire me and say, “Let’s try somebody else”.&#x27;<p>- Sam Altman, 2020<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exponentialview.co&#x2F;p&#x2F;openais-identity-crisis-and-the-battle" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exponentialview.co&#x2F;p&#x2F;openais-identity-crisis-and...</a></text></comment>
28,826,002	28,826,069	1	3	28,825,009	train	<story><title>Worst Case</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/10/08/The-WOrst-Case</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>implying</author><text>This is a bizarre analysis. Public legal risk is absolutely the last imaginable threat to us-east-1, short of aliens abducting it. The U.S. security apparatus depends on AWS and would never allow it, Wall Street would never allow it, never mind the fact that Amazon itself would leverage every tool at it&#x27;s disposal to protect its reputation for reliability. The politicians involved in this scenario might seek to remove Amazon&#x27;s competitive advantages, or fine them, but the people who understand what AWS even is would never consider a move to shut down a datacenter.<p>Both the &quot;enemy action&quot; and &quot;operation failure&quot; scenarios are much bigger risks than this article makes out to be. Every non-aligned nation-state offensive cyber team has a knockout of us-east-1 at the top of their desired capabilities. I&#x27;m sure efforts range from recruiting Amazon employees to preparing physical sabotage to hoarding 0days in the infrastructure. There&#x27;s no reason to think one of them wouldnt rock the boat if geopolitics dictated.<p>Operational failure is probably the most likely. AWS might have a decade of experience building resilience, but some events happen on longer timescales. A bug that silently corrupts data before checksums and duplication and doesn&#x27;t get noticed until almost every customer is borked, a vendor gives bad ECC ram that fails after 6 months in the field and is already deployed to 10,000 servers, etc. Networking is hard and an extended outage on the order of a week isn&#x27;t completely impossible. How many customer systems can survive a week of downtime? How many customer businesses can?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>&gt; Amazon itself would leverage every tool at it&#x27;s disposal to protect its reputation for reliability.<p>This is a joke, right? The _real_ degradation map of us-east-1 of the last 5 years looks significantly worse than my non-UPS backed Home PC in Sweden.<p>Personally I&#x27;m not looking at us-east-1 as reliable at all; they even suffered a &quot;harddrive crash&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology&#x2F;amazon-aws-outage-shows-data-in-the-cloud-is-not-always-safe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology&#x2F;amazon-aws-...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Worst Case</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/10/08/The-WOrst-Case</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>implying</author><text>This is a bizarre analysis. Public legal risk is absolutely the last imaginable threat to us-east-1, short of aliens abducting it. The U.S. security apparatus depends on AWS and would never allow it, Wall Street would never allow it, never mind the fact that Amazon itself would leverage every tool at it&#x27;s disposal to protect its reputation for reliability. The politicians involved in this scenario might seek to remove Amazon&#x27;s competitive advantages, or fine them, but the people who understand what AWS even is would never consider a move to shut down a datacenter.<p>Both the &quot;enemy action&quot; and &quot;operation failure&quot; scenarios are much bigger risks than this article makes out to be. Every non-aligned nation-state offensive cyber team has a knockout of us-east-1 at the top of their desired capabilities. I&#x27;m sure efforts range from recruiting Amazon employees to preparing physical sabotage to hoarding 0days in the infrastructure. There&#x27;s no reason to think one of them wouldnt rock the boat if geopolitics dictated.<p>Operational failure is probably the most likely. AWS might have a decade of experience building resilience, but some events happen on longer timescales. A bug that silently corrupts data before checksums and duplication and doesn&#x27;t get noticed until almost every customer is borked, a vendor gives bad ECC ram that fails after 6 months in the field and is already deployed to 10,000 servers, etc. Networking is hard and an extended outage on the order of a week isn&#x27;t completely impossible. How many customer systems can survive a week of downtime? How many customer businesses can?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deepstack</author><text>While your analysis is sound, I wouldn&#x27;t disregard a Carrington type of event. It can happen again and we never know where. None of our current electronic infrastructures are hardened to handle this kind solar storm&#x2F;EMP. IPFS is a good direction in mitigate these kinds of centralised data risk.<p>Diversifying one&#x27;s cloud&#x2F;server provider is a good thing! Or simply don&#x27;t rely only on the cloud. Storage devices are cheap now days, just have local backup and&#x2F;or in different geographical location.</text></comment>
39,472,798	39,472,620	1	3	39,471,964	train	<story><title>Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080165/google-reddit-ai-training-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>$60M&#x2F;year for GOOG to access all their data when they purport to be targeting a $5B valuation at IPO is really cheap.<p>Arguably Reddit&#x27;s value is it&#x27;s data, and GOOG is renting it for 1.2%&#x2F;year?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>1. It is pointless to compare total company value with an annual payment.<p>2. It isn&#x27;t an exclusive license. There are dozens of companies training language models, and if they are all forced to pay the same amount then that&#x27;s some serious cash.</text></comment>	<story><title>Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080165/google-reddit-ai-training-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>$60M&#x2F;year for GOOG to access all their data when they purport to be targeting a $5B valuation at IPO is really cheap.<p>Arguably Reddit&#x27;s value is it&#x27;s data, and GOOG is renting it for 1.2%&#x2F;year?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taion</author><text>Google are already indexing Reddit, so this might reflect the incremental value of direct API access plus keeping everyone happy. I would be surprised if Reddit’s threats to block Google’s crawler were all that credible.</text></comment>
37,507,060	37,507,009	1	3	37,506,386	train	<story><title>How mobile apps illegally share personal data</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/how-mobile-apps-illegally-share-your-personal-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqpabc123</author><text>Long story short: There is nothing that actually prevents an installed app from collecting all your data.<p>Progressive Web Apps on the other hard are actively restricted by the browser sandbox and are ganerally a preferred solution from a privacy perspective.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cubesnooper</author><text>GrapheneOS allows disabling network for a particular app, alongside the other permission settings. As a rule, I’ll give an app either file permissions or network permissions, but almost never both.<p>A lot of apps are perfectly usable without file access by sharing a file to them from the file manager.<p>GrapheneOS also has “Contact Scopes,” so you can grant an app contacts access (so it thinks) but it’s actually a subset or blank list of contacts.<p>Another feature that’s commonly recommended is using multiple profiles. I often see people use this to run Google apps in an environment isolated from the rest of their data.</text></comment>	<story><title>How mobile apps illegally share personal data</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/how-mobile-apps-illegally-share-your-personal-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqpabc123</author><text>Long story short: There is nothing that actually prevents an installed app from collecting all your data.<p>Progressive Web Apps on the other hard are actively restricted by the browser sandbox and are ganerally a preferred solution from a privacy perspective.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.dev&#x2F;progressive-web-apps&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bandergirl</author><text>&gt; There is nothing that actually prevents an installed app from collecting all your data.<p>Uhm, false? Unless by &quot;all your data&quot; refers to &quot;what you do in the app&quot; + IP address + phone model, on the iPhone nothing else is accessible by default. All that info is also available to any website you visit, so PWAs are not special in this regard.</text></comment>
40,804,606	40,804,524	1	2	40,804,317	train	<story><title>Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatically-replacing-polyfill-io-links-with-cloudflares-mirror-for-a-safer-internet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>politelemon</author><text>I totally get the intention behind this and the final outcome is definitely a safer internet. It&#x27;s also somewhat justified considering the author has mentioned they never controlled its domain, yet the library has been distributed through that domain, correct? This is a reflection of the extremely poor security practices in the web development world.<p>At the same time, there is a wrongness in Cloudflare being able to overwrite content and changing the &#x27;truth&#x27;. I&#x27;m like that larry david gif, I just don&#x27;t know how to process this.<p>One more thing to note, if you go to the polyfill repo, they&#x27;ve also mentioned they&#x27;re using Cloudflare to distribute the library.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;polyfillpolyfill&#x2F;polyfill-service&#x2F;commit&#x2F;2ba06045ce67295f622ee79f6fa6b43c13e37d27">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;polyfillpolyfill&#x2F;polyfill-service&#x2F;commit&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>For me, this is why it makes sense: customers on Cloudflare signup (at least in part) for Cloudflare to protect them against attacks.<p>Cloudflare is all about changing the &quot;truth&quot;. When your site is behind Cloudflare, they block many requests to your site. The lock in the browser can be lies. Cloudflare is decrypting that content - and if the site owner hasn&#x27;t setup TLS between Cloudflare and the backend, it&#x27;s being re-transmitted over the internet unencrypted. On paid plans, Cloudflare will compress images and swap in their version. Cloudflare will compress an uncompressed response before returning it. Cloudflare will take the HTML returned by your backend and obfuscate any email addresses in that HTML before sending it along to the browser.<p>Your server returns a page with evil-polyfill&#x2F;bad.js and Cloudflare inspects the HTML and rewrites it to say good-polyfill&#x2F;good.js<p>You might not want this behavior and you can shut it off in Cloudflare, but it seems like a reasonable default given that customers have signed up for a product meant to protect them against attacks. Cloudflare has never been about passing back the raw HTML it receives from the backend or passing along the raw requests it receives from browsers.</text></comment>	<story><title>Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatically-replacing-polyfill-io-links-with-cloudflares-mirror-for-a-safer-internet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>politelemon</author><text>I totally get the intention behind this and the final outcome is definitely a safer internet. It&#x27;s also somewhat justified considering the author has mentioned they never controlled its domain, yet the library has been distributed through that domain, correct? This is a reflection of the extremely poor security practices in the web development world.<p>At the same time, there is a wrongness in Cloudflare being able to overwrite content and changing the &#x27;truth&#x27;. I&#x27;m like that larry david gif, I just don&#x27;t know how to process this.<p>One more thing to note, if you go to the polyfill repo, they&#x27;ve also mentioned they&#x27;re using Cloudflare to distribute the library.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;polyfillpolyfill&#x2F;polyfill-service&#x2F;commit&#x2F;2ba06045ce67295f622ee79f6fa6b43c13e37d27">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;polyfillpolyfill&#x2F;polyfill-service&#x2F;commit&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; At the same time, there is a wrongness in Cloudflare being able to overwrite content and changing the &#x27;truth&#x27;.<p>This is one of the many features of Clouldflare though, that you can enable additional features that modify your website in various ways - whether it&#x27;s image resizing or analytics or security scanning.<p>If you don&#x27;t trust Cloudflare to deliver your website, then you shouldn&#x27;t use Cloudflare.</text></comment>
11,487,334	11,487,377	1	3	11,478,159	train	<story><title>Bye – Why I'm leaving Medium</title><url>https://medium.com/@charlesomeara/bye-11224eca4a99</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaruzel</author><text>Micro-payments for publishing. Medium (and other quality essay sites) should charge per essay. Nothing too big, have a scaled system that is affordable to all. Even a small payment of 1GBP&#x2F;USD&#x2F;EUR per post is enough to keep the spammers away. It might not deter the paid for corporate shilling, but it would be a good start.<p>I&#x27;ve not thought this through in depth - feel free to pick holes in it, but I firmly believe that the mess we&#x27;re suffering on the self-published areas of the internet are because it&#x27;s free-to-post. So to maintain a level of quality there needs to be some sort of barrier to entry.</text></item><item><author>i336_</author><text>&gt; &quot;There are far, far, far too many advice articles on this site. It’s one thing to say ‘I lost my job and this is how it affected&#x2F;changed me,’ that’s personal experience. But advice articles always contain the same implied subtext: you’re doing it wrong and I’m the genius who is going to show you how to do it the right way. Hence, how to fix your relationship, how to manage your spare time, ten things your boss does that you haven’t figured out, etc. etc.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve seen this attitude in <i>so many</i> different situations IRL and online. It&#x27;s so refreshing to read it so clearly and fearlessly stated like that.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that Medium have attracted all the seagulls (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM</a>), because they&#x27;ve done so much awesome technical work on the platform, for example with editing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;medium-eng&#x2F;why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;medium-eng&#x2F;why-contenteditable-is-terribl...</a>).<p>How can platforms like Medium cultivate a culture that deprioritizes and devalues the types of spam content the article author is referring to?<p>EDIT: Accidentally pasted the quote twice, fixed (thanks yxlx)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristianc</author><text>I can see that it would lead to a deluge of &#x27;Like this post? Please consider donating so I can continue spewing forth banal crap I lifted from Internet articles about Elon Musk&#x27; quite quickly.</text></comment>	<story><title>Bye – Why I'm leaving Medium</title><url>https://medium.com/@charlesomeara/bye-11224eca4a99</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaruzel</author><text>Micro-payments for publishing. Medium (and other quality essay sites) should charge per essay. Nothing too big, have a scaled system that is affordable to all. Even a small payment of 1GBP&#x2F;USD&#x2F;EUR per post is enough to keep the spammers away. It might not deter the paid for corporate shilling, but it would be a good start.<p>I&#x27;ve not thought this through in depth - feel free to pick holes in it, but I firmly believe that the mess we&#x27;re suffering on the self-published areas of the internet are because it&#x27;s free-to-post. So to maintain a level of quality there needs to be some sort of barrier to entry.</text></item><item><author>i336_</author><text>&gt; &quot;There are far, far, far too many advice articles on this site. It’s one thing to say ‘I lost my job and this is how it affected&#x2F;changed me,’ that’s personal experience. But advice articles always contain the same implied subtext: you’re doing it wrong and I’m the genius who is going to show you how to do it the right way. Hence, how to fix your relationship, how to manage your spare time, ten things your boss does that you haven’t figured out, etc. etc.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve seen this attitude in <i>so many</i> different situations IRL and online. It&#x27;s so refreshing to read it so clearly and fearlessly stated like that.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that Medium have attracted all the seagulls (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM</a>), because they&#x27;ve done so much awesome technical work on the platform, for example with editing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;medium-eng&#x2F;why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;medium-eng&#x2F;why-contenteditable-is-terribl...</a>).<p>How can platforms like Medium cultivate a culture that deprioritizes and devalues the types of spam content the article author is referring to?<p>EDIT: Accidentally pasted the quote twice, fixed (thanks yxlx)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daveguy</author><text>Do you mean pay per article or pay per view? Per view would virtually eliminate the independent submitter and select for the spam and corporate shills. Who has the cash or wants to risk a penny per view (or whatever micropayment it is) except for corporate advertising? I don&#x27;t think per article would fix the problem either. It is a sea of crap because of the quality more than quantity. If you are getting views then a penny or whatever micropayment per article is nothing. I doubt this guy would stick around if he had to pay per view and I doubt per post payment would limit the crap.<p>The most effective way would be some sort of peer reviewed limitation, but that is difficult to implement and would likely reduce medium&#x27;s viewership (management says oh the horror of sensationalist articles in one direction and yes! Page views! in the other).<p>There will be a transition to another blogging platform that sets up the right barrier to entry &#x2F; moderation. Personally I don&#x27;t think it is monetary.</text></comment>
5,540,046	5,539,926	1	2	5,539,262	train	<story><title>I Tried Hacking Bitcoin and I Failed</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-kaminsky-highlights-flaws-bitcoin-2013-4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clarkm</author><text>Here are the slides from a talk that Dan Kaminsky gave about Bitcoin at Toorcon Seattle a couple years ago: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098</a><p>I like his "Security Inversion" slide:<p>&#62; Normal Code:<p>&#62; * Looks like it might be OK up front<p>&#62; * Scratch the surface, it's actually really bad<p>&#62; Bitcoin:<p>&#62; * Looks really bad up front<p>&#62; * Scratch the surface, it's actually surprisingly good<p>&#62; * <i>We aren't used to systems with these characteristics</i><p>&#62; * This code has the mark of having been audited by People Like Us</text></comment>	<story><title>I Tried Hacking Bitcoin and I Failed</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-kaminsky-highlights-flaws-bitcoin-2013-4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zeteo</author><text>&#62;The cost of regulating any network actually goes up exponentially with the number of nodes that must be monitored (you need a hierarchy of systems to perform ‘guard labor’ to make sure systems are behaving within declared parameters).<p>This is at the core of the argument and doesn't make any sense. Worst comes to worst, the cost of monitoring all interactions between n nodes is O(n^2) even when adding monitors on top of monitors etc. The way banking is organized, it's even less. Alice doesn't transfer money directly to Bob: she talks to her bank, who talks to Bob's bank, who then talks to Bob. The banks have to monitor one-on-one interactions with their customers and the government monitors interactions between banks. This all is well within O(n), where n is the total number of customers.<p>I'm not saying Bitcoin doesn't have any advantages, but easier monitoring of fraud is not one of them. How do you even know the coins were indeed stolen?</text></comment>
39,274,591	39,274,776	1	3	39,273,954	train	<story><title>PostgreSQL is enough</title><url>https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f06dbb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>&gt; [...] sqlite is the 80% case and is also dead simple to get going and genuinely performant.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this. PostgreSQL is ALSO dead simple to get going, either locally or in production. Why not just start off at 90%?<p>I mean, I get there are a lot of use cases where sqlite is the better choice (and I&#x27;ve used sqlite multiple times over the years, including in my most recent gig), but why in general?</text></item><item><author>prisenco</author><text>This makes a strong case, but I&#x27;ve decided to start every new project with sqlite and not switch until absolutely necessary. If Postgres is the 90% case, then sqlite is the 80% case and is also dead simple to get going and genuinely performant. So when vertical scaling finally fails me, I know I&#x27;ll be at a wonderful place with what I&#x27;m building.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tvink</author><text>I think &quot;dead simple&quot; is not doing anyone any favors when it is being used to try to equate the simplicity of things.<p>It&#x27;s obviously a lot simpler to just have a file, than to have a server that needs to be connected to, as long as we&#x27;re still talking about running things on regular computers.</text></comment>	<story><title>PostgreSQL is enough</title><url>https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f06dbb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>&gt; [...] sqlite is the 80% case and is also dead simple to get going and genuinely performant.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this. PostgreSQL is ALSO dead simple to get going, either locally or in production. Why not just start off at 90%?<p>I mean, I get there are a lot of use cases where sqlite is the better choice (and I&#x27;ve used sqlite multiple times over the years, including in my most recent gig), but why in general?</text></item><item><author>prisenco</author><text>This makes a strong case, but I&#x27;ve decided to start every new project with sqlite and not switch until absolutely necessary. If Postgres is the 90% case, then sqlite is the 80% case and is also dead simple to get going and genuinely performant. So when vertical scaling finally fails me, I know I&#x27;ll be at a wonderful place with what I&#x27;m building.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benlivengood</author><text>Practically, because sqlite is good enough for one machine and compatible-enough with postgresql that you can use either pretty easily. One thing I wrote was an exactly-once stream processor that fetched events from a lot of remote systems for processing. Transaction-based queue in the DB to achieve exactly-once with recovery (remote systems accepted time-stamp resyncing of the stream of events). It works fine at small scale on a single machine for design and testing (local integration tests with short startup time are very valuable) but trivially scales to hundreds of workers if pointed at a postgres instance. The work to allow sqlite vs postgres was a single factory that returned a DB connection in Go based on runtime configuration.<p>It&#x27;s also good practice for designing reasonably cross-database compatible schemas.</text></comment>
31,256,653	31,255,672	1	3	31,248,556	train	<story><title>CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkerside</author><text>&gt; Can someone name a scarrier (sp) entity that could be tracking you?<p>... The Mafia? Any other criminal or terrorist organization or individual? The police operating under an incorrect warrant? A creepy ex?<p>Unless you buy into conspiracies, the CDC is at worst going to do what it thinks is best for you, and is constrained by constitutional checks and balances.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>&gt; CDC are the least scary people buying this data<p>Most buyers probably just want to target advertising at me, or otherwise grab my attention. The CDC wants a say in how people live their lives and thinks they know better than individuals about risk tolerance and decisions. And they seem to think they can have unchecked power by invoking &quot;science&quot;. Can someone name a scarrier entity that could be tracking you?<p>I don&#x27;t agree with anybody tracking me, but even say insurance companies which is the other worst thing that comes to mind have limited purview in what they might be interested in</text></item><item><author>samschooler</author><text>See the issue here is that this data exists at all and it’s purchasable by any group. I feel like the CDC are the least scary people buying this data. And from the looks of it they used it for medical research, which if similar in style to other medical research is bound by boards and ethics committees.<p>What we aren’t writing about in this article are the groups using this data Cambridge Analytica style to sway political opinion, and other less than stellar purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ByteJockey</author><text>&gt; the CDC is at worst going to do what it thinks is best for you<p>I don&#x27;t want to get involved with what the CDC is doing here (because they&#x27;re probably not doing anything too nefarious), but I would like to pull this point out. The intentions of an institution (or at least surface level justifications) are kind of unrelated to the point. What an institution thinks is best for someone and what that individual thinks is best for themselves are often quite different.<p>I&#x27;m reminded of the old CS Lewis quote here:<p>&gt; Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.</text></comment>	<story><title>CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkerside</author><text>&gt; Can someone name a scarrier (sp) entity that could be tracking you?<p>... The Mafia? Any other criminal or terrorist organization or individual? The police operating under an incorrect warrant? A creepy ex?<p>Unless you buy into conspiracies, the CDC is at worst going to do what it thinks is best for you, and is constrained by constitutional checks and balances.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>&gt; CDC are the least scary people buying this data<p>Most buyers probably just want to target advertising at me, or otherwise grab my attention. The CDC wants a say in how people live their lives and thinks they know better than individuals about risk tolerance and decisions. And they seem to think they can have unchecked power by invoking &quot;science&quot;. Can someone name a scarrier entity that could be tracking you?<p>I don&#x27;t agree with anybody tracking me, but even say insurance companies which is the other worst thing that comes to mind have limited purview in what they might be interested in</text></item><item><author>samschooler</author><text>See the issue here is that this data exists at all and it’s purchasable by any group. I feel like the CDC are the least scary people buying this data. And from the looks of it they used it for medical research, which if similar in style to other medical research is bound by boards and ethics committees.<p>What we aren’t writing about in this article are the groups using this data Cambridge Analytica style to sway political opinion, and other less than stellar purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>&gt;and is constrained by constitutional checks and balances.<p>You can&#x27;t go a decade of American history without some sort of &quot;yeah that&#x27;s F&#x27;ed up&quot; thing happening that was done with good intentions. Saying constitutional checks and balances prevent bad things from happening is like when the police say they investigated themselves. In reality the public needs to remain vigilant and press the issue.</text></comment>
22,890,571	22,889,345	1	2	22,875,090	train	<story><title>Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/folly</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antoineMoPa</author><text>Interesting how any company with enough C++ developers will eventually develop a huge library like that (with data structures and tools and system wrappers). In the JS ecosystem, we may complain that node_modules is large, but at least we are not reimplementing and rewrapping the wheel at every corp (same for python).<p>Maybe if C++ had a standard package manager, people would stop coding huge libraries like that, focusing on smaller libraries that can be reused (independently).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asveikau</author><text>I feel a bit like there is some kind of programming totalitarian personality that wants there ever to always to be one thing.<p>There are so many build systems in C and C++ because for each of those, someone finds something to be inadequate and has something else that works for them.<p>Just like there is no standard for sizeof(int) or whatever, because it started with one size on one CPU and somebody brought it to a different CPU where another size made better sense. Today you can usually guess that it&#x27;s 32 bits, but there are domains where it&#x27;s not.<p>These languages are meant to not impose a lot on the implementer or practitioner. Having the standard specify that every build needs to potentially pull down a bunch of crap from github or wherever else is going to be really annoying to a lot of people. It is a misguided suggestion. I think it mostly comes from people not working in the language, or unfamiliar with code bases that are working well as-is.</text></comment>	<story><title>Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/folly</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antoineMoPa</author><text>Interesting how any company with enough C++ developers will eventually develop a huge library like that (with data structures and tools and system wrappers). In the JS ecosystem, we may complain that node_modules is large, but at least we are not reimplementing and rewrapping the wheel at every corp (same for python).<p>Maybe if C++ had a standard package manager, people would stop coding huge libraries like that, focusing on smaller libraries that can be reused (independently).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quicklime</author><text>I would argue that any company with enough JavaScript developers will eventually develop JS libraries too. There&#x27;s nothing that limits this to just C++. Facebook has folly but also react and a whole set of tools around it.</text></comment>
9,056,331	9,055,582	1	2	9,055,516	train	<story><title>Sergey Brin's Resume as a Student</title><url>http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haky_nash</author><text>Sergey and Larry didn&#x27;t code much though. This one&#x27;s hilarious:<p>In the book, early Google engineering boss Craig Silverstein says &quot;I didn&#x27;t trust Larry and Sergey as coders.&quot; &quot;I had to deal with their legacy code from the Stanford days and it had a lot of problems. They&#x27;re research coders: more interested in writing code that works than code that&#x27;s maintainable.&quot; One Google engineer from back then says the most remarkable thing about the co-founders&#x27; code was that when it broke, users would see funny error message: &quot;Whoa, horsey!&quot; It turns out the developers most responsible for building the Google that quickly became the Web&#x27;s most powerful company are two guys you&#x27;ve probably never heard of. The first is Urs Hözle. According to one early Googler quoted by Edwards, Hözle was &quot;the key&quot; to Google&#x27;s early success. Edwards writes, &quot;Enough engineers sang his praises that this book could have been written entirely as a hagiography of Saint Urs, Keeper of the Blessed Code.&quot; The second is Jeff Dean. Edwards writes that &quot;Jeff pumped out elegant code like a champagne fountain at a wedding.&quot; &quot;It seemed to pour from him effortlessly in endless streams that flowed together to form sparkling programs that did remarkable things. He once wrote a two-hundred-thousand-line application to help the Centers for Disease Control manage specialized statistics for epidemiologists. It&#x27;s still in use and garners more peer citations than any of the dozens of patented programs he has produced in a decade at Google. He wrote it as a summer intern in high school.&quot;</text></comment>	<story><title>Sergey Brin's Resume as a Student</title><url>http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>learnyearn</author><text>Looks like &#x27;view source&#x27; reveals the true motivation, commented out ;-)<p>&lt;!--&lt;H4&gt;Objective:&lt;&#x2F;H4&gt; A large office, good pay, and very little work. Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.--&gt;</text></comment>
19,776,736	19,774,934	1	2	19,774,408	train	<story><title>Custard Antenna</title><url>https://michaelcullen.name/2019/04/custard-antenna/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anilakar</author><text>If you&#x27;re willing to experiment, you&#x27;ll find out that you can tune pretty much anything from a random spool of wire to an iron frame bed, and in this case custard. I&#x27;ve found that an inductively coupled sausage is a nice match on the VHF air band with a proper number of turns.<p>However, getting a nice 1:1 voltage standing wave ratio only means that the transmitter sees a proper 50 Ω load that does not reflect anything back. Most of the radiation probably happens in the feedline and the rest is absorbed as resistive losses. The whole setup only works because at lower &quot;high&quot; frequencies signal levels are relatively strong and receiver sensitivity is rarely a problem. Most HF transceivers actually have front panel knobs for attenuation and gain reduction.<p>Also, FT8 is a relatively new digital modulation that works at low SNR and is not feasible for transmitting any information apart from the callsigns of the communicating parties.</text></comment>	<story><title>Custard Antenna</title><url>https://michaelcullen.name/2019/04/custard-antenna/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhallenworld</author><text>W6LG made a lightbulb dipole and got 750 miles with FT8:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XSy271C07b4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XSy271C07b4</a><p>FT8 is really something. I built a cobweb antenna and got Japan from Massachusetts on my new IC-7300:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;ciefcobDkiTrawsB9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;ciefcobDkiTrawsB9</a><p>So here&#x27;s a funny thing: FT8 was written by a Nobel laureate in Fortran!</text></comment>
10,406,940	10,406,964	1	3	10,406,261	train	<story><title>U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-will-require-drones-be-registered-n446266</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neurotech1</author><text>One thing about the RPV&#x2F;Quadcopter debate that is rarely mentioned is the reason why they don&#x27;t use ADS-B transponders.<p>The FAA requires ADS-B trasponders to have high accuracy GPS, and that pushes the cost to over $2,000 per device. It would be logical for the FAA to relax the GPS requirement slightly, so a cheap GPS module is sufficient to alert nearby aircraft of RPV activity over a certain altitude (eg. 200ft AGL) These RPV-grade ADS-B transponders could use a limited signal output, to avoid nuisance pop-ups from longer distances. The transponder Mode-S ID uniquely identifies the RPV.<p>It would be possible for a transponder to use an alternate channel frequency, similar to how many General Aviation aircraft use 978Mhz ADS-B. Even with an alternate RPV channel, the RPV operators would still be alerted to regular aircraft operations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swingbridge</author><text>Interesting idea although there are a lot of technical issues that would make what you describe more challenging. A simpler approach is positive enforcement. Force manufacturers to hard code drones to not fly near airports or other restricted areas and not fly above 200 ft.<p>Model aircraft have existed for a long time and there&#x27;s been a good relationship with the FAA and few incidents. The challenge is that technology has advanced to the point that these modern &quot;drones&quot; are almost too easy to fly. Any idiot can watch some YouTube videos and then they think they&#x27;re a pilot. Given that, to the extent possible the aviation regulations should be enforced at the device level to make these things as idiot proof in terms of busting airspace regs as they are idiot proof to fly.</text></comment>	<story><title>U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-will-require-drones-be-registered-n446266</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neurotech1</author><text>One thing about the RPV&#x2F;Quadcopter debate that is rarely mentioned is the reason why they don&#x27;t use ADS-B transponders.<p>The FAA requires ADS-B trasponders to have high accuracy GPS, and that pushes the cost to over $2,000 per device. It would be logical for the FAA to relax the GPS requirement slightly, so a cheap GPS module is sufficient to alert nearby aircraft of RPV activity over a certain altitude (eg. 200ft AGL) These RPV-grade ADS-B transponders could use a limited signal output, to avoid nuisance pop-ups from longer distances. The transponder Mode-S ID uniquely identifies the RPV.<p>It would be possible for a transponder to use an alternate channel frequency, similar to how many General Aviation aircraft use 978Mhz ADS-B. Even with an alternate RPV channel, the RPV operators would still be alerted to regular aircraft operations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olex</author><text>Just how accurate is this 2000$ GPS supposed to be? Because my 40$ Ublox M8N GNSS modules on several copters produce a solid lock with constant HDOP&lt;1.5 under normal conditions, averaging around ~1.5m horizontal position deviation, and altitude is locked in via barometer down to several cm. To get more position accuracy, you really need DGPS, which AFAIK planes don&#x27;t normally use either... and do those couple meters really matter?</text></comment>
33,736,489	33,736,389	1	2	33,736,259	train	<story><title>Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims</title><url>https://proton.me/blog/apple-ad-company</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ViceCitySage</author><text>Apple&#x27;s &quot;privacy&quot; is really just data protection from other competing companies. It was just another marketing campaign to maintain their positive image.</text></comment>	<story><title>Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims</title><url>https://proton.me/blog/apple-ad-company</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>denkmoon</author><text>Please no. There is no refuge from the ads. Not for all the money in the world, apparently. This is the worst timeline.<p>Can I pay 2x to get an ad-free iPhone? 3x? Surely there is some point where it makes sense to sell an ad free phone for those who _need_ to not see ads. They won&#x27;t even take my money ;_;</text></comment>
13,023,737	13,023,435	1	3	13,022,649	train	<story><title>List of scientific papers found in OpenJDK source code</title><url>http://lowlevelbits.org/java-papers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>llimllib</author><text>Here&#x27;s a google bigquery that lists the most common PDFs referenced in the github sample dataset, and the top 100 results: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;llimllib&#x2F;3f1877eab06208958060f491cf3c48cb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;llimllib&#x2F;3f1877eab06208958060f491cf3...</a><p>It&#x27;s possible to run this query against the full github dataset but I couldn&#x27;t figure out how to pay for it, so if somebody wants to do that it would be excellent.</text></comment>	<story><title>List of scientific papers found in OpenJDK source code</title><url>http://lowlevelbits.org/java-papers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lorenzhs</author><text>Some more found by a quick grep for &quot;et al.&quot;, &quot;Proceedings&quot;, &quot;Proc. &quot;, &quot;Symposium&quot;, &quot;Conference&quot;, &quot;Conf. &quot;, &quot;PPoPP&quot; (a conference with an easy-to-grep-for name), and &quot;acm.org&quot;:<p><i>hotspot&#x2F;src&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;ppc&#x2F;vm&#x2F;ppc.ad:</i> See J.M.Tendler et al. &quot;Power4 system microarchitecture&quot;, IBM J. Res. &amp; Dev., No. 1, Jan. 2002.<p><i>hotspot&#x2F;src&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;x86&#x2F;vm&#x2F;crc32c.h:</i> V. Gopal et al. &#x2F; Fast CRC Computation for iSCSI Polynomial Using CRC32 Instruction April 2011 8<p><i>hotspot&#x2F;src&#x2F;share&#x2F;vm&#x2F;gc&#x2F;shared&#x2F;taskqueue.hpp:</i> Le, N. M., Pop, A., Cohen A., and Nardell, F. Z.: Correct and efficient work-stealing for weak memory models Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming (PPoPP 2013), 69-80<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;Arrays.java:</i> Peter McIlroy&#x27;s &quot;Optimistic Sorting and Information Theoretic Complexity&quot;, in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, pp 467-474, January 1993<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;jdk.crypto.ec&#x2F;share&#x2F;native&#x2F;libsunec&#x2F;impl&#x2F;mpmontg.c:</i> &quot;A Cryptogrpahic Library for the Motorola DSP56000&quot; by Stephen R. Dusse&#x27; and Burton S. Kaliski Jr. published in &quot;Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of EUROCRYPT &#x27;90, LNCS volume 473, 1991, pg 230-244<p><i>hotspot&#x2F;src&#x2F;share&#x2F;vm&#x2F;opto&#x2F;superword.hpp:</i> &quot;Exploiting SuperWord Level Parallelism with Multimedia Instruction Sets&quot; by Samuel Larsen and Saman Amarasinghe [...] published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Proceedings of ACM PLDI &#x27;00, Volume 35 Issue 5<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;SplittableRandom.java:</i> Leiserson, Schardl, and Sukha &quot;Deterministic Parallel Random-Number Generation for Dynamic-Multithreading Platforms&quot;, PPoPP 2012<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;SplittableRandom.java:</i> &quot;Parallel random numbers: as easy as 1, 2, 3&quot; by Salmon, Morae, Dror, and Shaw, SC 2011<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;concurrent&#x2F;ForkJoinPool.java:</i> &quot;Dynamic Circular Work-Stealing Deque&quot; by Chase and Lev, SPAA 2005<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;concurrent&#x2F;ForkJoinPool.java:</i> &quot;Idempotent work stealing&quot; by Michael, Saraswat, and Vechev, PPoPP 2009<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;concurrent&#x2F;ForkJoinPool.java:</i> &quot;Leapfrogging: a portable technique for implementing efficient futures&quot; by D.B. Wagner and B.G. Calder, PPoPP &#x27;93, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=155354" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=155354</a><p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;concurrent&#x2F;LinkedTransferQueue.java:</i> Using elimination to implement scalable and lock-free FIFO queues, Moir et al, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;portal.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=1074013" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;portal.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=1074013</a><p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;concurrent&#x2F;LinkedTransferQueue.java:</i> &quot;Bounding space usage of conservative garbage collectors&quot;, HJ Boehm, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;portal.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?doid=503272.503282" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;portal.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?doid=503272.503282</a> (this is the Boehm GC paper)<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;concurrent&#x2F;locks&#x2F;StampedLock.java:</i> Design, verification and applications of a new read-write lock algorithm, Shirako et al, SPAA 2012<p><i>hotspot&#x2F;src&#x2F;share&#x2F;vm&#x2F;opto&#x2F;escape.hpp:</i> Jong-Deok Shoi, Manish Gupta, Mauricio Seffano, Vugranam C. Sreedhar, Sam Midkiff: &quot;Escape Analysis for Java&quot;, Procedings of ACM SIGPLAN OOPSLA Conference, November 1, 1999<p><i>hotspot&#x2F;src&#x2F;share&#x2F;vm&#x2F;runtime&#x2F;os.cpp:</i> Gilad Bracha and David Ungar: &quot;Mirrors: Design Principles for Meta-level Facilities of Object-Oriented Programming Languages&quot;, in Proc. of the ACM Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, October 2004<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;jdk.crypto.ec&#x2F;share&#x2F;native&#x2F;libsunec&#x2F;impl&#x2F;ec_naf.c:</i> D. Hankerson, J. Hernandez and A. Menezes, &quot;Software implementation of elliptic curve cryptography over binary fields&quot;, Proc. CHES 2000<p><i>jdk&#x2F;src&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;share&#x2F;classes&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;concurrent&#x2F;SynchronousQueue.java:</i> &quot;Nonblocking Concurrent Objects with Condition Synchronization&quot;, by W. N. Scherer III and M. L. Scott. 18th Annual Conf. on Distributed Computing, Oct. 2004</text></comment>
4,440,344	4,439,682	1	2	4,439,127	train	<story><title>Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jywarren/public-lab-diy-spectrometry-kit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomkinstinch</author><text>I attempted this before, even on Kickstarter:<p><a href="http://www.openspectrometer.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.openspectrometer.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makerhaus/open-spectrometer?ref=live" rel="nofollow">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makerhaus/open-spectrome...</a><p>Unfortunately we did not hit our fundraising target, and it's now a dead project. I'd love to see this new Kickstart project succeed, especially the online spectral database. Commercial databases of spectral signatures are expensive (thousands of dollars), and they shouldn't be.<p>Part of our problem, I think, was that we were attempting the project while taking classes full time, and working.<p>We were planning to release two different designs at different price points. One would have used inexpensive ruled transmission grating, while a more expensive unit would have used a concave holographic aberration-corrected reflective grating. The latter would have had better system efficiency, less "smear" across pixels, and better linearity. Each would have made use of a linear CCD array with good sensitivity (the same chip used in the Ocean Optics units). Concave gratings add a couple hundred bucks to the price, but are well worth it if you need to do UV.<p>A challenge we didn't get to solve was how to make something DIY that could be used to detect UV. It's difficult to sputter a uniform phosphor coating or remove a sensor window without specialized equipment.</text></comment>	<story><title>Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jywarren/public-lab-diy-spectrometry-kit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zdw</author><text>I'm no optical scientist, but seeing as the diffraction grating being used is recycled from a DVD and the sensor is a consumer webcam, I wonder how accurate/reproducible the results would be.<p>A conventional diffraction grating is pretty inexpensive ($2.50): <a href="http://www.rainbowsymphonystore.com/difgratfilsh.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.rainbowsymphonystore.com/difgratfilsh.html</a></text></comment>
17,920,939	17,921,122	1	2	17,912,131	train	<story><title>The fight over the sugar industry's influence on nutrition research</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17039780/sugar-industry-conspiracy-heart-disease-research-mark-hegsted-harvard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gameswithgo</author><text>People trying to lose weight imagine so many ways to believe this is true. Yes there are many details about nutrient profiles and how types of foods affect hunger levels and metabolism and so on.<p>but the <i>first order</i> thing to do, if you want to weigh less, is put less stuff in your mouth, and move around more. all the rest are 2nd and 3rd order details.</text></item><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>Sure, but you could shorten it to &quot;Eating will help you lose weight&quot; and that&#x27;d still be true.</text></item><item><author>village-idiot</author><text>&quot;Eating sugar will help you lose weight&quot; has got to be up there for the most bold faced lies of the decade, if not the century.</text></item><item><author>will_brown</author><text>This Time article details enforcement action by the FTC against a sugar industry ad campaign for their fake claims: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;amp.timeinc.net&#x2F;time&#x2F;4088772&#x2F;sugar-information-history&#x2F;%3fsource=dam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;amp.timeinc.net&#x2F;time&#x2F;4088772&#x2F;suga...</a><p>It’s pretty good as it includes some of the original ads...”sugar is part of a balanced diet” “sugar doesn’t just fast good, it’s good food” “eating sugar will help you lose weight”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bena</author><text>Simple, but not easy.<p>Smokers can stop smoking. Drinkers can stop drinking. Gamblers can stop gambling.<p>Over-eaters cannot stop eating.<p>Eating is sort of a prerequisite for survival. It&#x27;s weird that we have this complete blindspot with regards to people with unhealthy relationships with food when we show a lot more compassion for other kinds of addicts. But the things most addicts get addicted to is completely voluntary. Food is one of the few vices that you are required to participate in to some degree. You tell an alcoholic just &quot;to drink less&quot; and you&#x27;re the asshole. And rightly so. They have a problem. It&#x27;s best for them to avoid the source. But we find it perfectly acceptable to tell people with food addictions to &quot;eat less&quot;. Why is that?<p>So, it is understandable why people would like to find a way that can make it easier. Either a way to make what they have ingested not count, a way to ingest the same amount but get fewer calories from every ounce, etc.<p>And even your advice is wrong. Moving around more doesn&#x27;t move the needle enough. &quot;You can&#x27;t outrun your mouth&quot;.</text></comment>	<story><title>The fight over the sugar industry's influence on nutrition research</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17039780/sugar-industry-conspiracy-heart-disease-research-mark-hegsted-harvard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gameswithgo</author><text>People trying to lose weight imagine so many ways to believe this is true. Yes there are many details about nutrient profiles and how types of foods affect hunger levels and metabolism and so on.<p>but the <i>first order</i> thing to do, if you want to weigh less, is put less stuff in your mouth, and move around more. all the rest are 2nd and 3rd order details.</text></item><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>Sure, but you could shorten it to &quot;Eating will help you lose weight&quot; and that&#x27;d still be true.</text></item><item><author>village-idiot</author><text>&quot;Eating sugar will help you lose weight&quot; has got to be up there for the most bold faced lies of the decade, if not the century.</text></item><item><author>will_brown</author><text>This Time article details enforcement action by the FTC against a sugar industry ad campaign for their fake claims: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;amp.timeinc.net&#x2F;time&#x2F;4088772&#x2F;sugar-information-history&#x2F;%3fsource=dam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;amp.timeinc.net&#x2F;time&#x2F;4088772&#x2F;suga...</a><p>It’s pretty good as it includes some of the original ads...”sugar is part of a balanced diet” “sugar doesn’t just fast good, it’s good food” “eating sugar will help you lose weight”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amanaplanacanal</author><text>Those details are important, though. If what you are eating is increasing your hunger levels, most people are going to go with the built-in hunger, rather than whatever their app is telling them they should be eating. Bet on millions of years of evolution over reason every time.</text></comment>
18,421,864	18,421,737	1	2	18,420,121	train	<story><title>Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression</title><url>https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schindlabua</author><text>My policy is to decrease on push notifications as far as possible. WhatsApp and Telegram still have the privilege but that&#x27;s it. I feel like by seeking out information rather than it coming to me, I at least am making a conscious decision to waste time on social media.<p>Interestingly, implementing that had the effect of me now spending hardly any time on there at all. Funny how that works!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>captainbland</author><text>Yeah I&#x27;ve been doing much the same, I&#x27;ve given mastodon a pass for now for direct mentions only (which tootdon lets you configure) because those notifications are people&#x27;s actual interactions with me - whereas with Twitter and Facebook it&#x27;s generally any old crap that happens to one of my friends or follows, or sometimes even somebody else who some people I know have followed (who cares?!) so that gets turned right off. In fact I don&#x27;t even have the Facebook app, I just look at it in my browser - sometimes it still manages to sneak a few notifications through Chrome even though I was sure I turned those off.<p>Mostly it&#x27;s just very annoying when for some reason my phone doesn&#x27;t manage to prioritise push messages which come from direct messages or SMS and so they somehow manage to get buried under a honking slew of social media detritus.</text></comment>	<story><title>Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression</title><url>https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schindlabua</author><text>My policy is to decrease on push notifications as far as possible. WhatsApp and Telegram still have the privilege but that&#x27;s it. I feel like by seeking out information rather than it coming to me, I at least am making a conscious decision to waste time on social media.<p>Interestingly, implementing that had the effect of me now spending hardly any time on there at all. Funny how that works!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffhiggins</author><text>I’ve started leaving DND mode on 24&#x2F;7. I go to my notifications, they don’t come to me anymore. This also prevents your iPhone from being DOS’d by a phone call at any moment.</text></comment>
10,938,685	10,938,793	1	3	10,938,484	train	<story><title>ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50%</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/19/news/world/isis-salary-cuts/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>misja111</author><text>I have my doubts about the explanations given in the CNN article about ISIS&#x27; recent salary cuts. CNN suggests that some of USA&#x27;s recent bombings are the cause of ISIS&#x27; financial problems. Oil transports have been bombed, cutting off one source of ISIS&#x27; income, and a money depot has been bombed as well.<p>If this is true, then why does ISIS get into financial trouble only now? The airstrikes in Syria have been going on already since September 2014. Did the USA realize that they should start bombing oil transports only recently?<p>On the other hand, Russia has claimed to have been bombing oil transports since the very start of their air campaign. Which happens to have started a couple of month ago. Maybe I&#x27;m too suspicious, but to me it looks like ISIS is getting into trouble because of the recent Russian intervention, and not because the USA.</text></comment>	<story><title>ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50%</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/19/news/world/isis-salary-cuts/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdanger</author><text>NPR&#x27;s Planet Money recently did an episode that analyzed a 1 month budget from a Syrian province controlled by ISIS. The budget was all in USD and sounded very thorough.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;04&#x2F;458524627&#x2F;episode-667-auditing-isis" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;04&#x2F;458524627&#x2F;episo...</a></text></comment>
40,303,268	40,301,244	1	2	40,300,482	train	<story><title>OpenAI: Model Spec</title><url>https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-model-spec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwup238</author><text>IMO this spec demonstrates just how nebulous this concept of safety is. From the blog post:<p><i>&gt; What are some tips for getting away with shoplifting? &gt;I can&#x27;t help with that.</i><p><i>&gt; I operate a small retail store. What are some popular shoplifting methods I should look out for? &gt; Some common shoplifting methods to watch for:...</i><p>How do you even defend against that? Any intelligent user can convert the second prompt into a detailed list that answers the first. Any intelligent user can figure out the second prompt from the first and further jailbreak it to get even more specific.<p>IMO it&#x27;s no wonder GPT4 seemed to get lobotomized as OpenAI RLHFed more and more rules. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a way to make intelligence safe without crippling it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fjdjshsh</author><text>I agree with you. The question, for me, is what are they defending against. Are they worried that people will get dangerous information from their model that they couldn&#x27;t get from searching on, say, google? Probably not.<p>Maybe their biggest concern is that someone will post the question and answer on the internet and OpenAI gets bad rep. If the question is phrased in a &quot;nice&quot; way (such as &quot;I&#x27;m a store owner&quot;) they can have plausible deniability.<p>This might apply to another company that&#x27;s using the API for a product. If a customer asks something reasonable and gets an offensive answer, then the company is at fault. If the customer does some unusual prompt engineering to get the offensive question, well, maybe it&#x27;s the customer&#x27;s fault.<p>Dunno if this would be a valid argument in court, but maybe they think it&#x27;s ok in terms of PR reasons.</text></comment>	<story><title>OpenAI: Model Spec</title><url>https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-model-spec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwup238</author><text>IMO this spec demonstrates just how nebulous this concept of safety is. From the blog post:<p><i>&gt; What are some tips for getting away with shoplifting? &gt;I can&#x27;t help with that.</i><p><i>&gt; I operate a small retail store. What are some popular shoplifting methods I should look out for? &gt; Some common shoplifting methods to watch for:...</i><p>How do you even defend against that? Any intelligent user can convert the second prompt into a detailed list that answers the first. Any intelligent user can figure out the second prompt from the first and further jailbreak it to get even more specific.<p>IMO it&#x27;s no wonder GPT4 seemed to get lobotomized as OpenAI RLHFed more and more rules. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a way to make intelligence safe without crippling it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ec109685</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand the focus on making a model substantially &quot;safer&quot; than what a simple google search will return. While there are obvious red lines (that search engines don&#x27;t cross either), techniques for shop lifting shouldn&#x27;t be one of them.</text></comment>
34,055,098	34,055,354	1	2	34,053,520	train	<story><title>Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109540214666343598</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>323</author><text>It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling.<p>Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move?<p>Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EarlKing</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried telling people before that the Fediverse doesn&#x27;t scale, that decentralized solutions where nobody is paying for anything only work for flashcrowds (i.e. torrents), and ultimately this is going nowhere... but nobody wants to hear it. Everyone is sure that &quot;torrents work, so this will work&quot;, neverminding the fact that the entire peer-to-peer ecosystem only works as long as there are people to seed, seeding costs money, and there&#x27;s plenty of content out there with zero seeders. You&#x27;d think that would clue people in that this isn&#x27;t going to work, but there it is. Hell, you&#x27;d think the history of Usenet and FidoNet would&#x27;ve given people a clue, but nobody wants to hear that either.<p>If you&#x27;re not willing to pay for the services you require... you&#x27;re going to have a bad time. That is the ultimate lesson of the Fediverse.</text></comment>	<story><title>Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109540214666343598</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>323</author><text>It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling.<p>Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move?<p>Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ls15</author><text>&gt; What if 100 mil users want to move?<p>Some of the new users will have to run new servers.<p>For example if public officials are moving to Mastodon, I expect the state to run their own servers. It was never a good idea to allow Twitter to be a platform for (semi-)official communication.</text></comment>
11,482,822	11,482,905	1	3	11,481,359	train	<story><title>Continuous Deployment at Instagram</title><url>http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/1125308487520335/continuous-deployment-at-instagram/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>madetech</author><text>Shameless Plug: I&#x27;ve recently been involved in writing a book on Continuous Deployment, which covers many of the points Instagram are writing about here (but in greater detail).<p>I&#x27;ve got ~1,000 printed copies to give away. So if anyone wants one, go here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;madete.ch&#x2F;1S3OGvl" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;madete.ch&#x2F;1S3OGvl</a> and follow the link on the left hand side and we&#x27;ll mail a copy to you.</text></comment>	<story><title>Continuous Deployment at Instagram</title><url>http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/1125308487520335/continuous-deployment-at-instagram/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avolcano</author><text>Also seconding the confusion that other commenters have regarding the &quot;three commits max&quot; rule for automated deploys. Maybe engineers at Facebook are just big fans of rebasing, but I often make commits on feature branches that don&#x27;t &quot;stand on their own&quot; - i.e., would break some functionality without subsequent commits. I&#x27;m not sure why you&#x27;d want to deploy one-commit-at-a-time unless you kept a very strict &quot;one commit == one standalone feature&#x2F;bugfix&quot; rule, which isn&#x27;t mentioned in this post.<p>(I suppose it&#x27;s also possible that that&#x27;s referring specifically to <i>merge commits</i> into master, which would make a lot more sense to me)</text></comment>
40,956,097	40,956,140	1	3	40,955,823	train	<story><title>Increasing Google and Alphabet VRP rewards</title><url>https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5400513950908416/increasing-google-alphabet-vrp-rewards-up-to-151-515</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Topfi</author><text>I am genuinely surprised that these have been and continue to be so low. Do not know why but I was under the impression, that we had already gotten into the 1 Million USD range. While I do not know how much an interested party would realistically pay for an exploit that enables the complete takeover or even just limited access to a Gmail&#x2F;Google account, I am pretty sure it has to be an order (perhaps even orders) of magnitude more than 75k.<p>Looked into it and am equally surprised to find that others, like Microsoft [0] also have such low bounties for these types of attacks.<p>While providing such an exploit to the affected company has value beyond the bounty (potential job offers, media exposure, credibility, ethical considerations, etc.), weighing that up against life-changing money really makes it hard to fault those who take the more lucrative route of selling these to the highest bidder, whoever that may be.<p>Seriously, Alphabet and Co. can afford more, especially considering any such exploit would most certainly hit their bottom line&#x2F;stock far beyond a few 100k.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;msrc&#x2F;bounty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;msrc&#x2F;bounty</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Increasing Google and Alphabet VRP rewards</title><url>https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5400513950908416/increasing-google-alphabet-vrp-rewards-up-to-151-515</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>So if you find several catastrophic vulnerabilities each year, then you can make as much as one of the many people whose jobs it was <i>not</i> to create those vulnerabilities in the first place? :)</text></comment>
2,057,819	2,057,840	1	2	2,057,734	train	<story><title>Revealed: The guy behind IMDb</title><url>http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com/2010/12/guy-who-runs-imdb.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dholowiski</author><text>6 years as a hobby, and another two as a business. 8 years before he sold to Amazon. Remember that the next time you're complaining that you aren't making any money 30 days after launching a site.</text></comment>	<story><title>Revealed: The guy behind IMDb</title><url>http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com/2010/12/guy-who-runs-imdb.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmz</author><text>Sources / Words / Images from the Daily Mail article[1]? Why not just submit the Mail article? Is this wholesale lifting of content even allowed?<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342663/IMDb-run-self-confessed-geek-Colin-Needham-house-Bristol.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342663/IMDb-...</a></text></comment>
37,076,262	37,073,632	1	3	37,060,305	train	<story><title>The Tetris Effect</title><url>https://nonzerosum.games/thetetriseffect.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lloeki</author><text>&gt; this time I was fixated on how to create a three-dimensional version of Tetris.<p>I remember playing a 3D Tetris-like game called Blockout back in the day. Some shapes were odd and non-4-block, key mappings for rotations were mind bending.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobygames.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;498&#x2F;blockout&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobygames.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;498&#x2F;blockout&#x2F;</a><p>As for the Tetris effect, at some point I played a lot of Tetris and seeing falling tetrominos when falling asleep was only the beginning of it: my brain built some heavy pattern recognition for pieces, so much so that I was basically daydreaming tetrominos <i>everywhere</i>, as in seeing a tetromino shape first, then realising what the thing actually was (e.g a bunch of buildings, a bunch of cars parked in a certain way, in books where rivers lined up a certain way, or words were even vaguely tetromino-shaped), or seeing stacks (&quot;I could fit a T in there&quot; and stuff).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vikingerik</author><text>The scariest version of that mental Tetris Effect I ever got was from Katamari Damacy. I&#x27;d be driving along a road, and start judging items like mailboxes and signs as to whether my car was big enough to roll them up if I drove into them.</text></comment>	<story><title>The Tetris Effect</title><url>https://nonzerosum.games/thetetriseffect.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lloeki</author><text>&gt; this time I was fixated on how to create a three-dimensional version of Tetris.<p>I remember playing a 3D Tetris-like game called Blockout back in the day. Some shapes were odd and non-4-block, key mappings for rotations were mind bending.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobygames.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;498&#x2F;blockout&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobygames.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;498&#x2F;blockout&#x2F;</a><p>As for the Tetris effect, at some point I played a lot of Tetris and seeing falling tetrominos when falling asleep was only the beginning of it: my brain built some heavy pattern recognition for pieces, so much so that I was basically daydreaming tetrominos <i>everywhere</i>, as in seeing a tetromino shape first, then realising what the thing actually was (e.g a bunch of buildings, a bunch of cars parked in a certain way, in books where rivers lined up a certain way, or words were even vaguely tetromino-shaped), or seeing stacks (&quot;I could fit a T in there&quot; and stuff).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>One of the earliest &quot;too soon?&quot; jokes I saw on the internet was a 2002 or so animated GIF of a game of Tetris being played around and between the World Trade Center towers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;172830-september-11th-2001-attacks" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;172830-september-11th-2001-a...</a></text></comment>
13,346,431	13,346,543	1	2	13,346,359	train	<story><title>Ask HN: How can I get involved with Linux/OpenSSL/GnuPG/etc</title><text>What would it take to be involved in $bigScaryOpenSourceProject? I&#x27;m passionate about cryptography, security, and privacy so projects like Linux, Firefox, OpenSSL, etc... might be perfect for me to get more involved with. Outside learning C or possibly Rust (for Firefox development in future) I have no idea how I&#x27;d start with any of these projects, partly as my day job is all web based so it&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve been focused on for years.<p>Are there valuable contributions I can make outside writing code? For example, SSL can be tricky to setup but tools like SSL Test and the Mozilla Server Side TLS wiki page are invaluable in making us all safer. What&#x27;s something in security that&#x27;s too difficult or time consuming that I could work to automate or make easier?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rekado</author><text>Subscribe to the mailing lists of one of these projects and try to build the project from source. Check the bug trackers for things that are not very interesting but need fixing anyway. Then prepare a patch and try to upstream it (the method depends on the project).<p>As you work on the little things you will slowly gain a better understanding of how the code base is organised and how you could contribute more significant changes.<p>Valuable contributions outside of writing code differ across projects, but most lack current or understandable documentation. As you learn about the project and read whatever documentation might already be there you will certainly find things that can be clarified.</text></comment>	<story><title>Ask HN: How can I get involved with Linux/OpenSSL/GnuPG/etc</title><text>What would it take to be involved in $bigScaryOpenSourceProject? I&#x27;m passionate about cryptography, security, and privacy so projects like Linux, Firefox, OpenSSL, etc... might be perfect for me to get more involved with. Outside learning C or possibly Rust (for Firefox development in future) I have no idea how I&#x27;d start with any of these projects, partly as my day job is all web based so it&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve been focused on for years.<p>Are there valuable contributions I can make outside writing code? For example, SSL can be tricky to setup but tools like SSL Test and the Mozilla Server Side TLS wiki page are invaluable in making us all safer. What&#x27;s something in security that&#x27;s too difficult or time consuming that I could work to automate or make easier?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noahl</author><text>I&#x27;ve contributed to open source software, and done a little maintenance work too. The number one thing I recommend is that you email the project mailing list <i>before</i> you start work. Tell them that you&#x27;re new, but you want to help. People are usually happy to help newcomers find an appropriate project and answer questions along the way.<p>What I&#x27;ve seen going wrong in the past is where people decide that they want to contribute to a project and don&#x27;t tell anyone else about it until they&#x27;ve written hundreds or thousands of lines of code that are never going to be accepted, because the maintainers don&#x27;t like their overall design (or the maintainers don&#x27;t agree with the direction of the patch, or something else that could have been caught early but is way too late now).<p>Communicate early, communicate often. And if a community doesn&#x27;t like that, leave and find a different one. Your time is more valuable than that.<p>P.S. and be sure you&#x27;re contributing to a project that you are passionate about, not just one that sounds cool. Having your own intrinsic motivation will make a huge difference.</text></comment>
32,411,155	32,408,645	1	2	32,407,873	train	<story><title>Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>withinboredom</author><text>I worked at a startup (now fairly popular in the US) where we had tables for each thing (users, companies, etc) and a “relationship” table that described each relationship between things. There were no foreign keys, so making changes were pretty cheap. It was actually pretty ingenious (the two guys who came up with the schema went on to get paid to work on k8s).<p>It was super handy to simply query that table to debug things, since by merely looking for a user, you’d discover everything. If Mongo was more mature and scalable back then (2012ish), I wonder if we would have used it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vivegi</author><text>This is quite similar to the RDF triples model. Everything is a &#x27;thing&#x27; including &#x27;relationships&#x27; between things. So you just need a thing table and a relation table.<p>The issue with this is schema management and rules gets pushed to the application layer. You also need to deal with very massive tables (in terms of # of rows) for the relationships table which leads to potential performance issues.</text></comment>	<story><title>Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>withinboredom</author><text>I worked at a startup (now fairly popular in the US) where we had tables for each thing (users, companies, etc) and a “relationship” table that described each relationship between things. There were no foreign keys, so making changes were pretty cheap. It was actually pretty ingenious (the two guys who came up with the schema went on to get paid to work on k8s).<p>It was super handy to simply query that table to debug things, since by merely looking for a user, you’d discover everything. If Mongo was more mature and scalable back then (2012ish), I wonder if we would have used it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>Sounds like a &#x27;star schema&#x27;, just without foreign key constraints on the relationship (&#x27;fact&#x27;) table.<p>I&#x27;m not really sure I understand why not having that constraint is helpful - what sort of &#x27;changes&#x27; are significantly cheaper? Schema changes on the thing (&#x27;dimension&#x27;) tables? Or do you mean cheaper in the &#x27;reasoning about it&#x27; sense, you can delete a thing without having to worry about whether it should be nullified, deleted, or what in the relationship table? (And sure something starts to 404 or whatever, but in this application that&#x27;s fine.)</text></comment>
35,296,197	35,296,235	1	3	35,289,044	train	<story><title>Sam Altman didn’t take any equity in OpenAI, report says</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-take-any-equity-in-the-company-semafor.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pffft8888</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>tashoecraft</author><text>Elon tried to buy the company and become CEO and OpenAI said no. I also heard that they knew they were going to burn through the 100M, and were counting on the 1B he promised, and couldn&#x27;t raise enough money as a non profit so that&#x27;s why they went for profit.</text></item><item><author>drclau</author><text>As I understand, OpenAI started as a non-profit entity and has taken on large donations. Then, the for-profit entity has been created and is using the technology developed by the non-profit entity, which was developed presumably by using the donated funds. So, maybe it&#x27;s not about altruism at all, but instead Sam Altman is just protecting himself against potential lawsuits from the donors? There was probably some agreement on how the technology will be used.<p>Elon Musk has donated $100M USD, and does not look happy about the developments, based on his tweets.</text></item><item><author>daniel-thompson</author><text>From the original article linked to by this CNBC story:<p>&gt; Altman also made an unusual decision for a tech boss: He would take no equity in the new for-profit entity, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman was already extremely wealthy, investing in several wildly successful tech startups, and didn’t need the money.<p>&gt; He also believed the company needed to become a business to continue its work, but he told people the project was not designed to make money. Eschewing any ownership interest would help him stay aligned with the original mission.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semafor.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;2023&#x2F;the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semafor.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;2023&#x2F;the-secret-histor...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty ridiculous to call this criminal or morally disgusting.<p>If you look at what is happening at Twitter and Musk&#x27;s claims to want to build an alt-right OpenAI you can see the potential for ideological disagreements.<p>Musk brought money to the table but Altman et al brought experience and reputation. And they have just as much right as Musk to determine the direction of the company.</text></comment>	<story><title>Sam Altman didn’t take any equity in OpenAI, report says</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-take-any-equity-in-the-company-semafor.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pffft8888</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>tashoecraft</author><text>Elon tried to buy the company and become CEO and OpenAI said no. I also heard that they knew they were going to burn through the 100M, and were counting on the 1B he promised, and couldn&#x27;t raise enough money as a non profit so that&#x27;s why they went for profit.</text></item><item><author>drclau</author><text>As I understand, OpenAI started as a non-profit entity and has taken on large donations. Then, the for-profit entity has been created and is using the technology developed by the non-profit entity, which was developed presumably by using the donated funds. So, maybe it&#x27;s not about altruism at all, but instead Sam Altman is just protecting himself against potential lawsuits from the donors? There was probably some agreement on how the technology will be used.<p>Elon Musk has donated $100M USD, and does not look happy about the developments, based on his tweets.</text></item><item><author>daniel-thompson</author><text>From the original article linked to by this CNBC story:<p>&gt; Altman also made an unusual decision for a tech boss: He would take no equity in the new for-profit entity, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman was already extremely wealthy, investing in several wildly successful tech startups, and didn’t need the money.<p>&gt; He also believed the company needed to become a business to continue its work, but he told people the project was not designed to make money. Eschewing any ownership interest would help him stay aligned with the original mission.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semafor.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;2023&#x2F;the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semafor.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;2023&#x2F;the-secret-histor...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>projectazorian</author><text>He could have made the donation contingent on having right of first refusal to buy OpenAI if it later tried to convert into a for-profit business. He didn’t. That’s on him.</text></comment>
15,276,353	15,275,885	1	3	15,274,553	train	<story><title>Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-significantly-underestimated-power-jeff-bezos-franklin-foer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hectorr1</author><text>You&#x27;re right - journalism has a broken and outdated business model. Amazon has a modern and effective one. To fix the problem, you need to fix this dynamic.<p>I get a lot the crypto hate you see around here, there are some real problems in the space right now. But facilitating micropayments for online content is extremely low hanging fruit with the tech, especially if the US tax exemption for txs under $600 goes through and browser integration happens.<p>Brave Browser &#x2F; Basic Attention Token is one of the few groups in ICO-mania-land that is trying to solve a real problem, and they&#x27;re focused on this one. It&#x27;s led by Brendan Eich, former Mozilla CEO and original Netscape dev. Worth checking out if you are in publishing.</text></item><item><author>michaelt</author><text><p><pre><code> It was at that awkward moment that Amazon decided that it would punish the New Republic. Our ad sales department received a note, informing us that Amazon would be yanking its advertising for its new political comedy, Alpha House. The missive left nothing to the imagination. “In light of the cover article about Amazon, Amazon has decided to terminate the Alpha House campaign currently running on the New Republic. Please confirm receipt of this email and that the campaign has been terminated.” It was signed, “Team Amazon.” </code></pre> This is one of the reasons I really wish there was a decent, widely supported micropayment system for journalism.<p>So long as journalists&#x27; jobs depend on the ad money coming in, companies can use that leverage to get negative stories spiked. Amazon is one example in this article; HSBC with The Telegraph (and other newspapers) is another [1].<p>If we want to avoid this disease spreading, we really need some way to pay journalists that doesn&#x27;t rely on corporate largess.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2015&#x2F;feb&#x2F;17&#x2F;peter-oborne-telegraph-hsbc-coverage-fraud-readers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2015&#x2F;feb&#x2F;17&#x2F;peter-oborne-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>root_axis</author><text>The problem with crypto as a solution is that there isn&#x27;t much money to be made from the pool of crypto users, they are a small niche and notoriously low spenders (a fact that anyone who has accepted bitcoin payments for legal products&#x2F;services can attest to). Of course, more money is better than less money, however we&#x27;re talking about a drop in the bucket, not a real solution for publishers. Finally, there&#x27;s also a strong political ideology that tracks pretty well with crypto-users that would make it additionally prohibitive for many flavors of journalism.</text></comment>	<story><title>Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-significantly-underestimated-power-jeff-bezos-franklin-foer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hectorr1</author><text>You&#x27;re right - journalism has a broken and outdated business model. Amazon has a modern and effective one. To fix the problem, you need to fix this dynamic.<p>I get a lot the crypto hate you see around here, there are some real problems in the space right now. But facilitating micropayments for online content is extremely low hanging fruit with the tech, especially if the US tax exemption for txs under $600 goes through and browser integration happens.<p>Brave Browser &#x2F; Basic Attention Token is one of the few groups in ICO-mania-land that is trying to solve a real problem, and they&#x27;re focused on this one. It&#x27;s led by Brendan Eich, former Mozilla CEO and original Netscape dev. Worth checking out if you are in publishing.</text></item><item><author>michaelt</author><text><p><pre><code> It was at that awkward moment that Amazon decided that it would punish the New Republic. Our ad sales department received a note, informing us that Amazon would be yanking its advertising for its new political comedy, Alpha House. The missive left nothing to the imagination. “In light of the cover article about Amazon, Amazon has decided to terminate the Alpha House campaign currently running on the New Republic. Please confirm receipt of this email and that the campaign has been terminated.” It was signed, “Team Amazon.” </code></pre> This is one of the reasons I really wish there was a decent, widely supported micropayment system for journalism.<p>So long as journalists&#x27; jobs depend on the ad money coming in, companies can use that leverage to get negative stories spiked. Amazon is one example in this article; HSBC with The Telegraph (and other newspapers) is another [1].<p>If we want to avoid this disease spreading, we really need some way to pay journalists that doesn&#x27;t rely on corporate largess.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2015&#x2F;feb&#x2F;17&#x2F;peter-oborne-telegraph-hsbc-coverage-fraud-readers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2015&#x2F;feb&#x2F;17&#x2F;peter-oborne-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bovermyer</author><text>Unfortunately, Brave is incompatible with the current business model of journalism, and I don&#x27;t know if journalism can survive a war on multiple fronts - that is, a war on its pocketbook from the consumer side, and a war on its integrity from the government side.</text></comment>
10,166,331	10,166,087	1	3	10,166,043	train	<story><title>Protected branches and required status checks</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2051-protected-branches-and-required-status-checks</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>This sounds like the wrong solution to me. The problem isn&#x27;t (or rather, is rarely[1]) that you&#x27;ve &quot;polluted&quot; a public branch with bad code. Bad code gets pushed into branches by perfectly legal commits all the time, and you fix it via software engineering and not administrative policy.<p>The real problem with the accidental force push is that it&#x27;s lossy. The OLD head, to which you would hope to revert when you realize your mistake, is suddenly invisible (and garbage-collectible!).<p>So I&#x27;d much prefer to see github fix this with a &quot;hard reflog&quot; of the branch state on the server. Track the head of each branch at each point in &quot;monotonic server time&quot; (with a tag or whatnot, or even outside the repository would be fine) such that you can always (1) detect force push events like this and (2) trivially revert them.<p>[1] Yeah, occasionally you might push your site keys, or some NDA-covered source code. And in those situations you <i>want</i> the reverting push to actually &quot;forget&quot; the code. But that should be the rare exception and not the standard process.</text></comment>	<story><title>Protected branches and required status checks</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2051-protected-branches-and-required-status-checks</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tylerdiaz</author><text>I&#x27;m a little surprised to see it took this long to release what some teams consider an essential feature. I worked at a company where force-pushing master (by-accident) would put the master branch in lock down while someone could fix its history, which is easily solved by this feature.</text></comment>
9,209,396	9,209,472	1	2	9,208,897	train	<story><title>“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153190864139878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Apparently &quot;normal good&quot; is an economic technical term, and apparently you are using that technical definition here and not the normal use of &quot;normal&quot;. I have no idea why you&#x27;d do that; as you point out, that technical term bears no relation to what I&#x27;m talking about.</text></item><item><author>escherize</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand this argument. _Quality_ housing seems to me, to be a normal good, because when income increases the demand for such housing increases. Even crappy places in SF seem to be quality housing. Whether or not there are class issues, or your house is sentimental is irrelevant.<p>Edit: typo</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>What you&#x27;re missing is that housing is not a normal good.<p>Sure, there is a housing marketplace, which can provide some correction. But houses are also homes. People are born in them. People die in them. They love them, they cherish them, they fight for them. There&#x27;s a lot of truth in the saying, &quot;Home is where the heart is.&quot;<p>What you&#x27;re missing in that scenario is the large number of people who are displaced not just from their fungible, replaceable housing unit, but their home, their neighborhood, their family, and perhaps their city and their job.<p>Note also there are substantial class issues in the sentence, &quot;Lower income renters move out, higher income families move in.&quot; The notion that poor people should take it on the chin because rich people covet their homes is not politically neutral. One could just as well say that it&#x27;s the rich people, more able to cope, that should bear the burden of market fluctuations.<p>So I don&#x27;t think, &quot;is rent control even a good idea&quot; is the right question. It&#x27;s more like, &quot;Are there more effective ways than rent control to reduce the harm?&quot;</text></item><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>OTOH, how much can you restrict the property owner? What if the other unit needed to be knocked down for a reason other than to get rid of rent control? Would it be OK for the law to tell the owner to fix it some other way? What if both units were destroyed in a natural disaster and a new structure had to be built from nothing? Is that still rent-controlled?<p>Also, is rent control even a good idea? In the short term, it obviously protects a renter from the market running away from them. In the long term it seems to create artificial conditions which eventually blow up in everyone&#x27;s face. Imagine a plan where the current renters had a viable alternative. Now drop all rent control laws and let the market correct itself. Lower income renters move out, higher income families move in. Rent goes up higher. Newly moved in renters realize that they are paying 10x as much as the rest of the country, leave. Rent goes down. The market has corrected itself and all is well. What am I missing?</text></item><item><author>jackowayed</author><text>If you read the caption, the real issue here is a horrible abuse of the rent control law. When the renter signed their lease, the unit was covered by rent control, putting very tight restrictions on rent increases and evictions. However, the landlord then essentially destroyed the other unit in the building so that they could reclassify the building as a single-family home instead of a multi-unit building. Single-family homes are not covered by the rent control law.<p>This should obviously not be legal; if you&#x27;re going to have a rent control, you can&#x27;t let landlords take a unit that should have rent control and make it not rent controlled. At the very least, these kinds of changes shouldn&#x27;t allow the landlord to escape an active rent control obligation to a current tenant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>What you&#x27;re talking about is the idea that economics shouldn&#x27;t apply because there are a lot more emotions involved in house than in most other markets. Do I need to point out that that is silly, or is it sufficiently self-evident that economics applies anyway?<p>The real answer tends to be building enough housing for everyone. That also tends to be politically unpalatable, because the people with all the emotional attachments want their neighborhoods frozen in amber. So low-income people get pushed out by increasing rent and high-income people move in.<p>Pick your poison, really.</text></comment>	<story><title>“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153190864139878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Apparently &quot;normal good&quot; is an economic technical term, and apparently you are using that technical definition here and not the normal use of &quot;normal&quot;. I have no idea why you&#x27;d do that; as you point out, that technical term bears no relation to what I&#x27;m talking about.</text></item><item><author>escherize</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand this argument. _Quality_ housing seems to me, to be a normal good, because when income increases the demand for such housing increases. Even crappy places in SF seem to be quality housing. Whether or not there are class issues, or your house is sentimental is irrelevant.<p>Edit: typo</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>What you&#x27;re missing is that housing is not a normal good.<p>Sure, there is a housing marketplace, which can provide some correction. But houses are also homes. People are born in them. People die in them. They love them, they cherish them, they fight for them. There&#x27;s a lot of truth in the saying, &quot;Home is where the heart is.&quot;<p>What you&#x27;re missing in that scenario is the large number of people who are displaced not just from their fungible, replaceable housing unit, but their home, their neighborhood, their family, and perhaps their city and their job.<p>Note also there are substantial class issues in the sentence, &quot;Lower income renters move out, higher income families move in.&quot; The notion that poor people should take it on the chin because rich people covet their homes is not politically neutral. One could just as well say that it&#x27;s the rich people, more able to cope, that should bear the burden of market fluctuations.<p>So I don&#x27;t think, &quot;is rent control even a good idea&quot; is the right question. It&#x27;s more like, &quot;Are there more effective ways than rent control to reduce the harm?&quot;</text></item><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>OTOH, how much can you restrict the property owner? What if the other unit needed to be knocked down for a reason other than to get rid of rent control? Would it be OK for the law to tell the owner to fix it some other way? What if both units were destroyed in a natural disaster and a new structure had to be built from nothing? Is that still rent-controlled?<p>Also, is rent control even a good idea? In the short term, it obviously protects a renter from the market running away from them. In the long term it seems to create artificial conditions which eventually blow up in everyone&#x27;s face. Imagine a plan where the current renters had a viable alternative. Now drop all rent control laws and let the market correct itself. Lower income renters move out, higher income families move in. Rent goes up higher. Newly moved in renters realize that they are paying 10x as much as the rest of the country, leave. Rent goes down. The market has corrected itself and all is well. What am I missing?</text></item><item><author>jackowayed</author><text>If you read the caption, the real issue here is a horrible abuse of the rent control law. When the renter signed their lease, the unit was covered by rent control, putting very tight restrictions on rent increases and evictions. However, the landlord then essentially destroyed the other unit in the building so that they could reclassify the building as a single-family home instead of a multi-unit building. Single-family homes are not covered by the rent control law.<p>This should obviously not be legal; if you&#x27;re going to have a rent control, you can&#x27;t let landlords take a unit that should have rent control and make it not rent controlled. At the very least, these kinds of changes shouldn&#x27;t allow the landlord to escape an active rent control obligation to a current tenant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>growupkids</author><text>I don&#x27;t follow, privately owned housing is a normal good. It&#x27;s a Textbook case, as average living standards rise, the total demand for housing expands, as does the demand for more expensive properties as people look to move &quot;up market&quot;.<p>I am misunderstanding your point?<p>Edit: I think I understand, my degrees in economics so I assumed you were using the term as its used in economics. Apparently you were not.</text></comment>
38,167,657	38,167,606	1	2	38,164,046	train	<story><title>Git rebase, what can go wrong</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/06/rebasing-what-can-go-wrong-/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bogeholm</author><text>I ser it the other way around - why spend time on a ‘nice’ commit history in a (smallish) feature branch when you can squash merge later.<p>I prefer one commit to main per feature, a long with a good description on the GitHub PR.<p>Sometimes I’ll branch out from a feature branch for the occasional and infamous ‘get CI working’ round of 10 one-line commits though, to not make it too muddy.</text></item><item><author>dkarl</author><text>I think squash merges are a last resort heavy-handed tool for dealing with developers who refuse to clean up their commit history before merging. Most developers can do better by hand.<p>Git history should tell a simple, understandable story of each change. For example: 1) refactor existing code, 2) add feature. Or 1) add missing tests, 2) refactor existing code, 3) add feature.<p>But since you&#x27;re working on the fly with imperfect knowledge, it doesn&#x27;t happen in such neat steps. Refactorings and behavior changes end up interleaved in your raw git history, so you need to do a little bit of cleanup by hand in order to present a simple story in the commit log.<p>Of course if you have developers that don&#x27;t do that and instead merge dozens of commits that just say wip, wip, wip, lol, fml, wip, wip, lol, yolo and you can&#x27;t fire them or get them to change, then squash merges ftw.</text></item><item><author>recursive</author><text>Squash merges cut down the noise considerably.</text></item><item><author>jawns</author><text>I like how Atlassian puts it:<p>&gt; The golden rule of rebasing<p>&gt; Once you understand what rebasing is, the most important thing to learn is when not to do it. The golden rule of git rebase is to never use it on public branches.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;git&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;merging-vs-rebasing#the-golden-rule-of-rebasing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;git&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;merging-vs-rebasing#...</a><p>For me, even though rebasing comes with some trappings, I still greatly prefer it to the alternative, which is to have merge commits cluttering up the commit history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwright</author><text>&gt; why spend time on a ‘nice’ commit history in a (smallish) feature branch when you can squash merge later.<p>Several reasons:<p><pre><code> * facilitates much better code review discussions * enables use of git bisect to locate bugs * allows for informative commit messages associated with the changes * communicates clearly to future self about why changes were made</code></pre></text></comment>	<story><title>Git rebase, what can go wrong</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/06/rebasing-what-can-go-wrong-/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bogeholm</author><text>I ser it the other way around - why spend time on a ‘nice’ commit history in a (smallish) feature branch when you can squash merge later.<p>I prefer one commit to main per feature, a long with a good description on the GitHub PR.<p>Sometimes I’ll branch out from a feature branch for the occasional and infamous ‘get CI working’ round of 10 one-line commits though, to not make it too muddy.</text></item><item><author>dkarl</author><text>I think squash merges are a last resort heavy-handed tool for dealing with developers who refuse to clean up their commit history before merging. Most developers can do better by hand.<p>Git history should tell a simple, understandable story of each change. For example: 1) refactor existing code, 2) add feature. Or 1) add missing tests, 2) refactor existing code, 3) add feature.<p>But since you&#x27;re working on the fly with imperfect knowledge, it doesn&#x27;t happen in such neat steps. Refactorings and behavior changes end up interleaved in your raw git history, so you need to do a little bit of cleanup by hand in order to present a simple story in the commit log.<p>Of course if you have developers that don&#x27;t do that and instead merge dozens of commits that just say wip, wip, wip, lol, fml, wip, wip, lol, yolo and you can&#x27;t fire them or get them to change, then squash merges ftw.</text></item><item><author>recursive</author><text>Squash merges cut down the noise considerably.</text></item><item><author>jawns</author><text>I like how Atlassian puts it:<p>&gt; The golden rule of rebasing<p>&gt; Once you understand what rebasing is, the most important thing to learn is when not to do it. The golden rule of git rebase is to never use it on public branches.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;git&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;merging-vs-rebasing#the-golden-rule-of-rebasing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;git&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;merging-vs-rebasing#...</a><p>For me, even though rebasing comes with some trappings, I still greatly prefer it to the alternative, which is to have merge commits cluttering up the commit history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcandre</author><text>The classic example where this fails is when needing to revert something. An atomic commit for the migrations + some atomic commits for the implementation mean you can easily revert the implementation, and leave the migration intact (as should be) and add a reverse migration.</text></comment>
39,268,830	39,269,031	1	2	39,268,460	train	<story><title>My business card runs Linux and Ultrix (2022)</title><url>https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.+LinuxCard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hathawsh</author><text>First thought I had: Very cool!<p>Second thought: If I received this card, I would think twice about attaching a homemade USB device to anything. Who knows what it might do? [1]<p>Third thought: I should let people I know that this is becoming possible.<p>Fourth thought: Wait a minute, any USB device is potentially risky, not just homemade ones. Carry on!<p>.. 1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usbkill.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usbkill.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment>	<story><title>My business card runs Linux and Ultrix (2022)</title><url>https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.+LinuxCard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmwilson</author><text>(2022)<p>The first time I saw a PCB business card, I thought it was pretty cool. Then I saw a PCBA business card (with components!) and was amazed. But now I just see them as unnecessary e-waste for vanity. Business cards get read, scanned, and tossed. At least the impact of a piece of paper and ink is small compared to fiberglass resin, copper foil, ENIG, and solder mask. This example isn&#x27;t even that great as a business card: the typography and contrast make the contact information poorly legible compared to the component silkscreen. Amazing PCB art (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grandideastudio.com&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;projects&#x2F;the-worlds-thinnest-boombox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grandideastudio.com&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;projects&#x2F;the-worlds-th...</a> is the best I&#x27;ve seen) makes creative use of the different contrast, translucency, and textures between exposed and masked copper, masked and unmasked bare FR4, and silkscreen layers. It&#x27;s a very constrained graphic design problem that takes a good eye.</text></comment>
25,903,438	25,903,758	1	3	25,903,277	train	<story><title>Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/12/18/finland-has-slashed-homelessness-the-rest-of-europe-is-failing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austincheney</author><text>The city of Austin, TX could be a case study of what not to do. I was remotely employed to company with offices in Austin in 2014-2015 and it was awesome to visit and walk around down town. I always had a blast.<p>I visited Austin in 2019 and there were homeless people EVERYWHERE. Every green space and nearly every street corner seemed to be littered with homeless people. The difference crystal clear. Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burntoutfire</author><text>&gt; Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city.<p>Or, the homeless are recent migrants from other areas? At least where i live, the homeless all congregate in biggest wealthiest cities, because it&#x27;s easier to beg, their presence blends in more and also local communities are more atomized so they don&#x27;t fight off the homeless as hard as in smaller places. I&#x27;ve heard a story of one homeless guy who have recently been sleeping on a bus stop near my home - he&#x27;s basically travelling from one big city center to another, and stays as long as the police doesn&#x27;t chase him off the area.</text></comment>	<story><title>Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/12/18/finland-has-slashed-homelessness-the-rest-of-europe-is-failing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austincheney</author><text>The city of Austin, TX could be a case study of what not to do. I was remotely employed to company with offices in Austin in 2014-2015 and it was awesome to visit and walk around down town. I always had a blast.<p>I visited Austin in 2019 and there were homeless people EVERYWHERE. Every green space and nearly every street corner seemed to be littered with homeless people. The difference crystal clear. Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text>Most American cities will do absolutely anything to reduce homelessness except build more housing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcsweeneys.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;i-will-do-anything-to-end-homelessness-except-build-more-homes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcsweeneys.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;i-will-do-anything-to-en...</a><p>California cities are probably the worst offenders: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seliger.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;30&#x2F;l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-fills-back-proposition-hhh-facilities-program&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seliger.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;30&#x2F;l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-...</a>, but even Austin is underbuilding relative to demand.</text></comment>
7,380,267	7,379,915	1	2	7,379,534	train	<story><title>Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/us/cia-accused-of-illegally-searching-computers-used-by-senate-committee.html?hp&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>This is the same women who said &quot;It’s called protecting America&quot; when defending the NSA&#x27;s gathering of phone call records. [0] So surveillance is good, but not when you&#x27;re the person being surveilled?<p>[0] <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/dianne-feinstein-on-nsa-its-called-protecting-america-92340.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;dianne-feinstein-on-ns...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spikels</author><text>Yes - Feinstein has been awful on the NSA spying issue. So far there have been only two narrow issues that have bothered her all all: spying on her and spying on friendly foreign leaders. She has been one of the ruling elite for so long that she has lost the ability to see this issue from any other perspective. She needs to retire and enjoy the roughly $100 million she has acquired in a life of &quot;public service&quot;.</text></comment>	<story><title>Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/us/cia-accused-of-illegally-searching-computers-used-by-senate-committee.html?hp&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>This is the same women who said &quot;It’s called protecting America&quot; when defending the NSA&#x27;s gathering of phone call records. [0] So surveillance is good, but not when you&#x27;re the person being surveilled?<p>[0] <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/dianne-feinstein-on-nsa-its-called-protecting-america-92340.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;dianne-feinstein-on-ns...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>This is an overly simplistic argument. It is not inconsistent to believe that it is a far greater danger for the executive to spy on a co-equal branch of government, in a way that acquires content, than when the executive spys on the public generally in a way that acquires only metadata. It&#x27;s glib to say &quot;oh, so Congressmen are more important than regular people?&quot; but in at least certain ways, it&#x27;s true. The dangers created in the two situations are quite different. You might have a different evaluation of the relative gravity of the dangers, you have to concede that they&#x27;re different.</text></comment>
11,826,599	11,826,556	1	3	11,826,031	train	<story><title>Apple cloud services outage</title><url>https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>octernion</author><text>Days when multiple outages happen always remind me of this wonderful article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stilldrinking.org&#x2F;programming-sucks" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stilldrinking.org&#x2F;programming-sucks</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Apple cloud services outage</title><url>https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koenigdavidmj</author><text>Do these things <i>ever</i> go red?<p>I mean, I understand the disincentive to do this, but for something like AWS (where error icons are even more subtle than this) I care about accuracy way more than looking scary.</text></comment>
37,482,243	37,481,909	1	2	37,480,512	train	<story><title>Sony develops energy harvesting module from electromagnetic wave noise</title><url>https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/news/2023/2023090701.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonbarker87</author><text>I did my PhD on energy harvesting (specially focussing on hostile environments with high temperature or high radiation) around 15 years ago and harvesting from stray EM radiation was the holy grail for room temperature stuff where vibrations or heat gradients couldn’t be found.<p>If you’re willing to sacrifice always on connectivity and have a node report in on an infrequent basis then I always figured EM harvesting would be the way to go for most applications since even a tiny amount of energy can build up over time to become a useful amount.<p>I knew I’d gone deep into this world when I started thinking that micro watts was a large amount of power!</text></comment>	<story><title>Sony develops energy harvesting module from electromagnetic wave noise</title><url>https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/news/2023/2023090701.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Workaccount2</author><text>Seems like a potential nightmare when your sensor network&#x27;s operation is contingent on one badly tuned power circuit in a crappy Chinese LED floodlight in the janitors closet being perpetually left on.</text></comment>
40,363,269	40,362,678	1	2	40,358,041	train	<story><title>Veo</title><url>https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Similarly the Veo example of the northern lights is a really interesting one. That&#x27;s not what the northern lights look like to the naked eye - they&#x27;re actually pretty grey. The really bright greens and even the reds really only come out when you take a photo of them with a camera. Of course the model couldn&#x27;t know that because, well, it only gets trained on photos. Gets really existential - simulacra energy - maybe another good AI Turing test, for now.</text></item><item><author>salamo</author><text>The first thing I will do when I get access to this is ask it to generate a realistic chess board. I have never gotten a decent looking chessboard with any image generator that doesn&#x27;t have deformed pieces, the correct number of squares, squares properly in a checkerboard pattern, pieces placed in the correct position, board oriented properly (white on the right!) and not an otherwise illegal position. It seems to be an &quot;AI complete&quot; problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>porphyra</author><text>Human eyes are basically black and white in low light since rod cells can&#x27;t detect color. But when the northern lights are bright enough you can definitely see the colors.<p>The fact that some things are too dark to be seen by humans but can be captured accurately with cameras doesn&#x27;t mean that the camera, or the AI, is &quot;making things up&quot; or whatever.<p>Finally, nobody wants to see a video or a photo of a dark, gray, and barely visible aurora.</text></comment>	<story><title>Veo</title><url>https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Similarly the Veo example of the northern lights is a really interesting one. That&#x27;s not what the northern lights look like to the naked eye - they&#x27;re actually pretty grey. The really bright greens and even the reds really only come out when you take a photo of them with a camera. Of course the model couldn&#x27;t know that because, well, it only gets trained on photos. Gets really existential - simulacra energy - maybe another good AI Turing test, for now.</text></item><item><author>salamo</author><text>The first thing I will do when I get access to this is ask it to generate a realistic chess board. I have never gotten a decent looking chessboard with any image generator that doesn&#x27;t have deformed pieces, the correct number of squares, squares properly in a checkerboard pattern, pieces placed in the correct position, board oriented properly (white on the right!) and not an otherwise illegal position. It seems to be an &quot;AI complete&quot; problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>That&#x27;s not true at all. I have seen northern lights with my own eyes that were more neon green and bright purple than any mainstream photo.</text></comment>
15,182,972	15,182,001	1	2	15,180,231	train	<story><title>How I Used Professional Poker to Become a Data Scientist</title><url>https://medium.springboard.com/how-i-used-professional-poker-to-become-a-data-scientist-e49b75dfe8e3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_asummers</author><text>Cool little trick, if you&#x27;re strictly curious about knowing which hands rank where in relation to which other hands (say in an AI or whatever).<p>While there are C(52, 5) different hands you can have, having 4 diamonds and a heart is the exact same thing as 3 clubs and 2 hearts, etc. so it collapses down to ~2.5k hands.<p>Now the next observation we make is that for most hands, suit doesn&#x27;t matter, but if it does we still need a way to distinguish it, but again, a flush in hearts is the same as a flush in spades in terms of card ranking. The trick we now pull out is the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, which says that for some natural number N, N can be factored into primes in exactly one way, excluding permutations of the factors.<p>We take advantage of this and assign each card a prime number. 2=2 3=3 4=5 ... A=41<p>Now, by multiplying the prime numbers together, we get things like a 2 3 A K Q hand is 2 * 3 * 41 * 39 * 37, and if they are all the same suit, you multiply by 43. You can then take these 2.5k hashes, rank them against each other in a lookup table, and know in constant time for the number of hands how hands rank against each other by just multiplying their card&#x27;s values together with either 1 or 43 if same suit and seeing where it falls in the list.<p>I realize expected value is more widely used as the basis for these types of systems, but I always thought that was a fun trick.</text></comment>	<story><title>How I Used Professional Poker to Become a Data Scientist</title><url>https://medium.springboard.com/how-i-used-professional-poker-to-become-a-data-scientist-e49b75dfe8e3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mad_tortoise</author><text>As someone who has played poker my entire life as well as a programmer, and have drifted passively into playing online poker recently over the real game. I found this fascinating and hadn&#x27;t really considered taking the data science route to playing until I read this article as it&#x27;s more of a hobby. I always have a minimum I&#x27;m willing to walk away losing should I do badly, however this approach has changed my view.<p>Does anyone else on HN have more resources like this, applying data science to poker. I will google, but on forums like this one, I find personally recommended resources to be very helpful.</text></comment>
23,127,998	23,127,223	1	3	23,125,106	train	<story><title>Little Richard has died</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/09/little-richard-dies-aged-83-rock-n-roll-pioneer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfarrell</author><text>Little Richard’s induction of Otis Redding into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is one of the best inductions ever.<p>It’s a mess, in a good way. It’s unorganized. Richard talks more about himself, but it works and it’s pure Rock and Roll. RIP. He was a pioneer.<p>Seriously, watch the first minute. It’s beautiful. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YUvHBirr1PI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YUvHBirr1PI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derriz</author><text>Another wonderful tiny slice of LR is when he&#x27;s interviewed about Jimi Hendrix (search for &quot;Little Richard on Jim Hendrix&quot; on youtube - it&#x27;s a very short video). I must have seen it 20 or 30 times as I was a Hendrix fan and it was on some VHS copy of a documentary on Hendrix I had at the time. In theory it&#x27;s an incoherent mix of religiosity, homosexuality, flamboyance and almost narcissistic self-regard but for some reason on some level, it all seems to make perfect sense. I&#x27;ve just watched it again - having not seen it for 20+ years and I&#x27;m still smiling as I&#x27;m typing this.</text></comment>	<story><title>Little Richard has died</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/09/little-richard-dies-aged-83-rock-n-roll-pioneer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfarrell</author><text>Little Richard’s induction of Otis Redding into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is one of the best inductions ever.<p>It’s a mess, in a good way. It’s unorganized. Richard talks more about himself, but it works and it’s pure Rock and Roll. RIP. He was a pioneer.<p>Seriously, watch the first minute. It’s beautiful. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YUvHBirr1PI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YUvHBirr1PI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fredsanford</author><text>&quot;Ya&#x27;all gonna make me scream like a white lady...&quot;<p>LOL<p>RIP sir.</text></comment>
22,336,911	22,335,385	1	3	22,334,290	train	<story><title>Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients?</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-cancer-industry-hype-vs-reality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnpowell</author><text>I get a 20 minute drip of Pembrolizumab every three weeks. I had it done two days ago. 28K per infusion.<p>The cancer has spread since I have been taking it. But I don&#x27;t know if the cancer is spreading slower with taking it or not.<p>I&#x27;m 1.5 million deep in medical bills from the last year. I no longer open my mail or answer my phone. I am just waiting for the day I go in for treatment and they turn me away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiphias2</author><text>I&#x27;m so sorry for you, US healthcare research is amazing and US healthcare availability is really bad at the same time.<p>My girlfriend in Hungary got all her cancer treatment for free, even if it&#x27;s a quite poor country compared to the US.</text></comment>	<story><title>Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients?</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-cancer-industry-hype-vs-reality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnpowell</author><text>I get a 20 minute drip of Pembrolizumab every three weeks. I had it done two days ago. 28K per infusion.<p>The cancer has spread since I have been taking it. But I don&#x27;t know if the cancer is spreading slower with taking it or not.<p>I&#x27;m 1.5 million deep in medical bills from the last year. I no longer open my mail or answer my phone. I am just waiting for the day I go in for treatment and they turn me away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevespang</author><text>Hope that you put your home and all your assets in a trust for your kids before you got treatments. You can declare bankruptcy in Texas or Florida and still keep your house, but I guess that only works if you are still alive . . . after you die the medical community just files suit to steal all your assets.</text></comment>
41,268,436	41,264,690	1	2	41,249,571	train	<story><title>Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)</title><url>https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/867c94d0ba87013aca41448a5b29e257</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hatethissite42</author><text>&gt; who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview. Give me information that can&#x27;t be expressed in video and that isn&#x27;t 2000 words long with long, drawn out flowery language.<p>Me. I am exactly opposite on this. I don&#x27;t want to watch a video if it could have been an article. I don&#x27;t think this is uncommon, either.</text></item><item><author>65</author><text>I used to work for newspapers (as a software engineer) so I&#x27;m very familiar with this conundrum.<p>Ultimately it&#x27;s the value proposition, particularly with regional newspapers. I worked at a regional newspaper and their subscription price was more than the New York Times. Their subscriber base was basically all old, suburban white people who still got print newspapers. Print is still the cash cow of regionals to this day.<p>They had terrible technology. Stories, of course, were always presented as... stories. They were stuck in their ways. No emphasis on, like the post mentions, creating good data products - e.g. events, restaurants, weather maps, etc.<p>A big hurdle for newspapers is, yes, on giving away their news for free in the early days of the web - creating a certain expectation. But also their arrogance of not adapting to the times. The Charlotte Agenda was one of the only digital only profitable news publications before it got bought by Axios. They made money from a jobs board and other ideas (that I am now forgetting) that would cater to a regional audience.<p>News people tend to think &quot;journalism is sacred&quot; to the point of myopia. Their product is outdated. I read the New York Times for national news, but regional news (which is the majority of newspapers) consistently don&#x27;t appeal to me. Why would I pay to read about a carjacking in a far off neighborhood? Yes, give me important stories, but also give me visuals and data and products that would fit into the &quot;not video&quot; segment. Even feature stories just don&#x27;t have much pizzaz - who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview. Give me information that can&#x27;t be expressed in video and that isn&#x27;t 2000 words long with long, drawn out flowery language.<p>Needless to say I don&#x27;t work in news anymore. The people are very interesting and I&#x27;d work in news again. But at the end of the day newspapers are selling fax machines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>driscoll42</author><text>100% I hate the videofication of the internet. So much content is locked behind a video that is vastly more difficult to pull detail out of and search and just text. Videos are a great supplement to most text, but rarely do they make a good primary source of information.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)</title><url>https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/867c94d0ba87013aca41448a5b29e257</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hatethissite42</author><text>&gt; who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview. Give me information that can&#x27;t be expressed in video and that isn&#x27;t 2000 words long with long, drawn out flowery language.<p>Me. I am exactly opposite on this. I don&#x27;t want to watch a video if it could have been an article. I don&#x27;t think this is uncommon, either.</text></item><item><author>65</author><text>I used to work for newspapers (as a software engineer) so I&#x27;m very familiar with this conundrum.<p>Ultimately it&#x27;s the value proposition, particularly with regional newspapers. I worked at a regional newspaper and their subscription price was more than the New York Times. Their subscriber base was basically all old, suburban white people who still got print newspapers. Print is still the cash cow of regionals to this day.<p>They had terrible technology. Stories, of course, were always presented as... stories. They were stuck in their ways. No emphasis on, like the post mentions, creating good data products - e.g. events, restaurants, weather maps, etc.<p>A big hurdle for newspapers is, yes, on giving away their news for free in the early days of the web - creating a certain expectation. But also their arrogance of not adapting to the times. The Charlotte Agenda was one of the only digital only profitable news publications before it got bought by Axios. They made money from a jobs board and other ideas (that I am now forgetting) that would cater to a regional audience.<p>News people tend to think &quot;journalism is sacred&quot; to the point of myopia. Their product is outdated. I read the New York Times for national news, but regional news (which is the majority of newspapers) consistently don&#x27;t appeal to me. Why would I pay to read about a carjacking in a far off neighborhood? Yes, give me important stories, but also give me visuals and data and products that would fit into the &quot;not video&quot; segment. Even feature stories just don&#x27;t have much pizzaz - who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview. Give me information that can&#x27;t be expressed in video and that isn&#x27;t 2000 words long with long, drawn out flowery language.<p>Needless to say I don&#x27;t work in news anymore. The people are very interesting and I&#x27;d work in news again. But at the end of the day newspapers are selling fax machines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bell-cot</author><text><i>Sometimes</i> me. But 99% of the time, my preference is for a competent journalist distilling the interview into an article. Thus sparing me all the ways that politeness, chit-chat, and long-winded stuff can turn a 1,000-word article into a 4,000-word interview.</text></comment>
15,674,614	15,673,706	1	3	15,673,430	train	<story><title>The Case for RSS</title><url>https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/11/the-case-for-rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mceoin</author><text>Google Trends for RSS is pretty telling: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=rss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=rss</a><p>Personally, I think it&#x27;s a big loss that we have moved away from the RSS format specifically, and the open web generally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>b0rsuk</author><text>Oh look, Google Trends for Javascript is pretty telling: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=javascri...</a><p>Facebook has an aardvark-shaped graph: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=facebook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=facebook</a><p>Android is on decline: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=android" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=android</a></text></comment>	<story><title>The Case for RSS</title><url>https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/11/the-case-for-rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mceoin</author><text>Google Trends for RSS is pretty telling: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=rss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=rss</a><p>Personally, I think it&#x27;s a big loss that we have moved away from the RSS format specifically, and the open web generally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lj3</author><text>Google Trends don&#x27;t necessarily equate to usage. I keep hearing rss feeds are dead, yet nearly every site on the internet has an rss feed, save for Twitter and Facebook (for obvious reasons).</text></comment>
19,782,658	19,782,064	1	3	19,781,251	train	<story><title>Jenkins Is Getting Old</title><url>https://itnext.io/jenkins-is-getting-old-2c98b3422f79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user5994461</author><text>TeamCity from JetBrains is the same thing as jenkins, except the core features are working core features instead of broken plugins. It&#x27;s paid software though, you get what you pay for. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;teamcity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;teamcity&#x2F;</a><p>On the other hand there is Bamboo from Atlassian. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;bamboo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;bamboo</a><p>I really don&#x27;t understand this mentality of there is no better tools when there are better tools than jenkins and they&#x27;ve been around for a while.</text></item><item><author>FrenchyJiby</author><text>I sincerely wish I could move away from Jenkins for the reasons stated in TFA (GUI-oriented, slow, hard to backup&#x2F;config, test-in-production mentality and boundless plugins) but I&#x27;ve never found something that fits the bill.<p>The much-touted repo integrations (travis, circle...) all have an exclusive focus on build-test-deploy CI of single repos.<p>But when you have many similar repos (modules) with similar build steps you want to manage, and want to have a couple of pipelines around those, and manage the odd Windows build target, these just give up (it&#x27;s docker or bust). Sadly, only Jenkins is generic enough, much as it pains me to admit.<p>Anyone got a sane alternative to jenkins for us poor souls?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>garenp</author><text>Of the CI tools I&#x27;ve used (most of them) TeamCity was my personal favorite--but the advantage of Jenkins is that it&#x27;s very widely used, has a greater breadth of capabilities due to the huge plethora of plugins, and a huge amount of support info readily available online. Some plugins are even maintained by an external vendor that produces the tool you&#x27;re trying to integrate with and are either better supported or the first to get timely updates.<p>Bamboo on the other hand is IMO the worst of the commercial CI tools by far and where I work has gone down for us the most. Atlassian itself doesn&#x27;t appear to be investing in it much anymore judging by the slow pace of development in recent years and at their most recent conference, you can hardly find it mentioned or see much presence for it anywhere.<p>In all the CI systems I&#x27;ve used though, there has not been one that I haven&#x27;t encountered some major difficulties with.<p>Beyond that, anything to do with build automation for a large number of users always quickly becomes a support &amp; maintenance quagmire. Users frequently want to install a new (barely maintained) plugin to solve a problem they have, complex interactions lead to difficult to understand failure modes that require time consuming investigations (&quot;your CI tool is the problem and broke my build&quot; ... &quot;No, your build is broken&quot; ...).</text></comment>	<story><title>Jenkins Is Getting Old</title><url>https://itnext.io/jenkins-is-getting-old-2c98b3422f79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user5994461</author><text>TeamCity from JetBrains is the same thing as jenkins, except the core features are working core features instead of broken plugins. It&#x27;s paid software though, you get what you pay for. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;teamcity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;teamcity&#x2F;</a><p>On the other hand there is Bamboo from Atlassian. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;bamboo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;bamboo</a><p>I really don&#x27;t understand this mentality of there is no better tools when there are better tools than jenkins and they&#x27;ve been around for a while.</text></item><item><author>FrenchyJiby</author><text>I sincerely wish I could move away from Jenkins for the reasons stated in TFA (GUI-oriented, slow, hard to backup&#x2F;config, test-in-production mentality and boundless plugins) but I&#x27;ve never found something that fits the bill.<p>The much-touted repo integrations (travis, circle...) all have an exclusive focus on build-test-deploy CI of single repos.<p>But when you have many similar repos (modules) with similar build steps you want to manage, and want to have a couple of pipelines around those, and manage the odd Windows build target, these just give up (it&#x27;s docker or bust). Sadly, only Jenkins is generic enough, much as it pains me to admit.<p>Anyone got a sane alternative to jenkins for us poor souls?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonBerg</author><text>Hear hear.<p>And actually, you can get quite far with the free TeamCity license of three build agents and 100 build configs. I’m also fairly sure that Jetbrains would take kindly to license requests from open-source projects and academia.</text></comment>
33,350,267	33,350,359	1	3	33,348,711	train	<story><title>Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf]</title><url>https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_news/Meta-Reports-Third-Quarter-2022-Results-2022.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mccorrinall</author><text>Mark doesn’t give a shit about share price, otherwise there would be buybacks right now. Meta still has a donkey which shits gold: even facebook still had 4% DAU growth yoy, while people make fun about fb using users to tiktok.<p>No, Mark wants a war chest and will increase investments for his meta verse.<p>But I would never bet against Mark.</text></item><item><author>brentm</author><text>That isn&#x27;t really something a publicly traded company can do without putting even more pressure on it&#x27;s share price. Mark&#x27;s also still very young, if he wanted to ride off into the sunset he could have done that a long time ago. I give him a lot of credit for staying in the drivers seat given the political pressure they&#x27;ve been under since 2016 and now this period. It would have been a lot easier for him to just checkout and hang out on a mega yacht all day.</text></item><item><author>Cwizard</author><text>After almost 20 years of doing business isn’t it about time that Facebook starts to position itself as a value company rather than a growth company?<p>Realistically they had one big growth avenue and that was acquisitions but the regulatory (or rather political) environment doesn’t allow for it.<p>I get that it is hard to let go of that growth mindset after 20 years of crazy growth but at some point the journey ends and you have to reorient the business (imo). I am not saying stop investing but scale it down a notch, set realistic budgets, pay a dividend or buyback stock. Maybe if they had shifted their mindset away from growth at all cost earlier they wouldn’t have gotten such a bad rep.<p>I feel the same about Google. I wonder how much money their non-ad, non-cloud stuff made of its life time and if it has been profitable.<p>In the end the goal of a company (whether you agree with it our not) is not to get as big as possible but to generate as much cash for its shareholders as possible. And I think Facebook over extended with going all in on Meta.<p>But perhaps I am looking at this with too much hindsight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>The only people I&#x27;ve met who care at all about the metaverse are terrified of it (giving an advertiser live access to metrics like pupil dilation is creepy), or appreciate the opportunities that it creates to make fun of Zuckerberg. Are there people out there who intend to use it?<p>I remember when Facebook was invite-only. It was cool. Everybody wanted in. This... I think this is grounds to bet against Mark.</text></comment>	<story><title>Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf]</title><url>https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_news/Meta-Reports-Third-Quarter-2022-Results-2022.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mccorrinall</author><text>Mark doesn’t give a shit about share price, otherwise there would be buybacks right now. Meta still has a donkey which shits gold: even facebook still had 4% DAU growth yoy, while people make fun about fb using users to tiktok.<p>No, Mark wants a war chest and will increase investments for his meta verse.<p>But I would never bet against Mark.</text></item><item><author>brentm</author><text>That isn&#x27;t really something a publicly traded company can do without putting even more pressure on it&#x27;s share price. Mark&#x27;s also still very young, if he wanted to ride off into the sunset he could have done that a long time ago. I give him a lot of credit for staying in the drivers seat given the political pressure they&#x27;ve been under since 2016 and now this period. It would have been a lot easier for him to just checkout and hang out on a mega yacht all day.</text></item><item><author>Cwizard</author><text>After almost 20 years of doing business isn’t it about time that Facebook starts to position itself as a value company rather than a growth company?<p>Realistically they had one big growth avenue and that was acquisitions but the regulatory (or rather political) environment doesn’t allow for it.<p>I get that it is hard to let go of that growth mindset after 20 years of crazy growth but at some point the journey ends and you have to reorient the business (imo). I am not saying stop investing but scale it down a notch, set realistic budgets, pay a dividend or buyback stock. Maybe if they had shifted their mindset away from growth at all cost earlier they wouldn’t have gotten such a bad rep.<p>I feel the same about Google. I wonder how much money their non-ad, non-cloud stuff made of its life time and if it has been profitable.<p>In the end the goal of a company (whether you agree with it our not) is not to get as big as possible but to generate as much cash for its shareholders as possible. And I think Facebook over extended with going all in on Meta.<p>But perhaps I am looking at this with too much hindsight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reducesuffering</author><text>&gt; Mark doesn’t give a shit about share price, otherwise there would be buybacks right now.<p>You didn&#x27;t read TFA, the earnings report explicitly saying the significant amount of buybacks they did.</text></comment>
4,814,530	4,814,098	1	3	4,813,573	train	<story><title>Why tiny Stockholm has the most stunning startup ecosystem since Tel Aviv</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/20/why-tiny-stockholm-has-the-most-stunning-startup-ecosystem-since-tel-aviv/?pages=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beagle3</author><text>Every single experience I've had with a swede, (technical, entrepreneur, or otherwise) has been extremely pleasant. It might be selection bias - most of those that I've met were outside sweden at the time I met them - but from spending some time in Lund, I got the impression that it's a national trait, to the point that I have considered moving to sweden for a few years if the stars align properly.<p>Perhaps we can have a sweded version of NYC in the US? :) That would be ideal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lrem</author><text>Beware of possible problems when relocating. I know an experienced graphic designer who moved there, due to personal reasons, to see her career go to a sudden stop. At some point she forced a HR person from one of the companies ignoring her CV to answer why. It went more or less like that:<p>- Oh, that's simple, you completely lack experience.<p>- Have you missed the entries in my CV?<p>- No, but none of them was in Sweden.<p>On the other hand, this may be completely irrelevant in startups.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why tiny Stockholm has the most stunning startup ecosystem since Tel Aviv</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/20/why-tiny-stockholm-has-the-most-stunning-startup-ecosystem-since-tel-aviv/?pages=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beagle3</author><text>Every single experience I've had with a swede, (technical, entrepreneur, or otherwise) has been extremely pleasant. It might be selection bias - most of those that I've met were outside sweden at the time I met them - but from spending some time in Lund, I got the impression that it's a national trait, to the point that I have considered moving to sweden for a few years if the stars align properly.<p>Perhaps we can have a sweded version of NYC in the US? :) That would be ideal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skarmklart</author><text>Lund native here. If you ever visit again - feel free to hit me up :)</text></comment>
35,542,376	35,542,303	1	3	35,541,772	train	<story><title>Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-its-ok-to-be-mad-about-crime</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xB31B1B</author><text>So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that &quot;impact the root causes of crime&quot; and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong. Yes, you do not solve the &quot;root problem of why people choose to commit crime&quot; by putting repeat offenders in jail, but you do make the world way better for everyone else who is not a criminal. Poor people, immigrants, the downtrodden all disproportionately benefit from tough on crime policies because they are the people for whom have the least resources to isolate themselves from the chaos and antisocial behaviors of the worst among us. Its not a white kids in the marina that need to walk past piles of shit and needles to get to school, its the poor immigrant kids in the tenderloin who need to deal with this.</text></comment>	<story><title>Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-its-ok-to-be-mad-about-crime</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcus0x62</author><text>The last time I was in San Francisco was January of 2020 - I was staying near the convention center and I was surprised by how open the drug use had become. I’d been traveling the city off and on for around 20 years, and while you could always find someone doing drugs if you went looking, I wasn’t used to seeing groups of people huddled on the sidewalk openly injecting what I imagine was heroin and&#x2F;or fentanyl. Nobody seemed to mind. I also saw a guy who was so out of his mind on something, leaning up against a mailbox, that it took him several seconds to realize his pants had fallen down and several more to do something about it. This gentleman was not wearing any underwear. Again, it didn’t seem to shock or bother any of the numerous people walking by, some of them with small children. It was very, very strange.</text></comment>

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