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11,959,701	11,959,113	1	2	11,958,359	train	<story><title>Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/apple-unencrypted-kernel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kristine1975</author><text>&gt;altruism<p>Then why does Apple avoid paying taxes?<p>Let&#x27;s not kid ourselves: Apple is a company, and companies are only &quot;altruistic&quot; if they expect that it will help their bottom line.</text></item><item><author>headShrinker</author><text> A move like this fits with a more general ideology Apple has been advocating for the last three years. Privacy, security, and ultruism. Tim Cook has put is mark on the company. One of the first things he did was apologize, (for maps) something unheard of in Apple&#x27;s culture. I haven&#x27;t drank the cool-aid and Apple has a lot of issues. I do see they however are making attempts at differentiating from the general corporate behavior of the telecoms and Google. Cook is differentiating from Jobs as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Billings Learned Hand once said:<p>&gt; Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one&#x27;s taxes.<p>If we want companies to pay more taxes (which I think we do want) we should change the laws. You can&#x27;t blame anybody for only paying the legally required amount of taxes.</text></comment>	<story><title>Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/apple-unencrypted-kernel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kristine1975</author><text>&gt;altruism<p>Then why does Apple avoid paying taxes?<p>Let&#x27;s not kid ourselves: Apple is a company, and companies are only &quot;altruistic&quot; if they expect that it will help their bottom line.</text></item><item><author>headShrinker</author><text> A move like this fits with a more general ideology Apple has been advocating for the last three years. Privacy, security, and ultruism. Tim Cook has put is mark on the company. One of the first things he did was apologize, (for maps) something unheard of in Apple&#x27;s culture. I haven&#x27;t drank the cool-aid and Apple has a lot of issues. I do see they however are making attempts at differentiating from the general corporate behavior of the telecoms and Google. Cook is differentiating from Jobs as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amazingman</author><text>This is dogmatism. The FBI situation clearly demonstrates that Apple does not <i>only</i> act in the interest of the bottom line.</text></comment>
22,949,344	22,949,112	1	2	22,947,341	train	<story><title>Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5</title><url>https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/build-a-real-time-twitter-clone-in-15-minutes-with-live-view-and-phoenix-1-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcintyre1994</author><text>&gt; When I say perfect, I mean, there has been never once in my career where I hit a roadblock due to the language&#x27;s limitation or complexity or flawed assumption. I faced this with other languages, but not Elixir.<p>This is pretty amazing praise! Are many of the other languages you&#x27;ve used strongly typed? That&#x27;s the thing that gives me pause - I feel like I rely on the compiler a lot in languages where it can do a lot for me, and that I&#x27;d be really frustrated managing a large project without it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what other languages you have a lot of experience with, but does anything in Elixir stand out to you as the reason dynamic typing works well there? I think dynamic typing is the main reason I nod along with &quot;horrible programming languages like Javascript&quot;, for instance.</text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>I was a Rails user for almost a decade. I switched to Phoenix&#x2F;Elixir 3 years ago. Elixir is a super simple language. It has no OO concepts and everything is functions first. In fact, it&#x27;s so good that I started teaching it for universities. All my production web applications are now fully on Elixir.<p>Elixir is one of those languages where everything has been done perfectly as of the time of this comment. When I say perfect, I mean, there has been never once in my career where I hit a roadblock due to the language&#x27;s limitation or complexity or flawed assumption. I faced this with other languages, but not Elixir.<p>I&#x27;m currently a full time consultant writing, teaching and deploying production apps for clients in Elixir. Most of my apps have served my clients well beyond my contractual agreement. It&#x27;s almost deploy and forget because of Phoenix. It also scales amazingly well. It&#x27;s extremely performant.<p>I just re-wrote the entire crappy mess Wordpress core in Elixir and enjoyed the process. In any other language, I wouldn&#x27;t be saying the same. It&#x27;s really an enjoyable language that forces you to rethink the way you write code. Don&#x27;t be put off by this statement, I mean that in a really good way. And once you start thinking interms of functions, you just won&#x27;t touch any of those terrible OO programming paradigms (Eg. writing for loops, nesting conditionals, etc.). You will start writing maintainable, beautiful code.<p>You will appreciate Elixir a lot especially if you have a background in horrible programming languages like Javascript. You will literally start finding ways to use Elixir in your entire stack like I am. It&#x27;s that good.<p>Enough said. Give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neya</author><text>Before Elixir, I considered Scala because static typing was a strict requirement for me. After I tried Elixir, I found out that good, reliable and maintainable code doesn&#x27;t have to be necessarily static typed.</text></comment>	<story><title>Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5</title><url>https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/build-a-real-time-twitter-clone-in-15-minutes-with-live-view-and-phoenix-1-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcintyre1994</author><text>&gt; When I say perfect, I mean, there has been never once in my career where I hit a roadblock due to the language&#x27;s limitation or complexity or flawed assumption. I faced this with other languages, but not Elixir.<p>This is pretty amazing praise! Are many of the other languages you&#x27;ve used strongly typed? That&#x27;s the thing that gives me pause - I feel like I rely on the compiler a lot in languages where it can do a lot for me, and that I&#x27;d be really frustrated managing a large project without it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what other languages you have a lot of experience with, but does anything in Elixir stand out to you as the reason dynamic typing works well there? I think dynamic typing is the main reason I nod along with &quot;horrible programming languages like Javascript&quot;, for instance.</text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>I was a Rails user for almost a decade. I switched to Phoenix&#x2F;Elixir 3 years ago. Elixir is a super simple language. It has no OO concepts and everything is functions first. In fact, it&#x27;s so good that I started teaching it for universities. All my production web applications are now fully on Elixir.<p>Elixir is one of those languages where everything has been done perfectly as of the time of this comment. When I say perfect, I mean, there has been never once in my career where I hit a roadblock due to the language&#x27;s limitation or complexity or flawed assumption. I faced this with other languages, but not Elixir.<p>I&#x27;m currently a full time consultant writing, teaching and deploying production apps for clients in Elixir. Most of my apps have served my clients well beyond my contractual agreement. It&#x27;s almost deploy and forget because of Phoenix. It also scales amazingly well. It&#x27;s extremely performant.<p>I just re-wrote the entire crappy mess Wordpress core in Elixir and enjoyed the process. In any other language, I wouldn&#x27;t be saying the same. It&#x27;s really an enjoyable language that forces you to rethink the way you write code. Don&#x27;t be put off by this statement, I mean that in a really good way. And once you start thinking interms of functions, you just won&#x27;t touch any of those terrible OO programming paradigms (Eg. writing for loops, nesting conditionals, etc.). You will start writing maintainable, beautiful code.<p>You will appreciate Elixir a lot especially if you have a background in horrible programming languages like Javascript. You will literally start finding ways to use Elixir in your entire stack like I am. It&#x27;s that good.<p>Enough said. Give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>Static typing is far from a panacea. Don&#x27;t forget that the rise of Perl and PHP, and then later Ruby and Python was <i>in response</i> to statically typed languages like Java.<p>There are trade-offs.</text></comment>
17,648,470	17,648,659	1	2	17,648,104	train	<story><title>Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/ubers-self-driving-trucks-division-is-dead-long-live-uber-self-driving-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arijun</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt that self driving trucks make the most economical sense to automate. A self driving truck would get to its destination faster (saving money) and without the need for a driver (saving money). And the majority of their time is spent on relatively predictable interstate roads, not the chaotic roads of a busy downtown, so they&#x27;d be simpler to automate.<p>Otto (the self-driving truck company that Uber bought and is now shuttering) was the first I&#x27;d heard of that. It&#x27;s a bit sad that they&#x27;re shutting down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amarka</author><text>What do you mean by &quot;most economical sense to automate&quot;? It seems like everything about automating a truck would be more expensive (cost of 1 truck = 5-6 cars), the insurance and maintenance on the truck and hardware, the potential for catastrophic failure (1 runaway car doing 70 = bad, 1 runaway truck doing 70 = REALLY bad), the extra complexity of pulling a trailer and monitoring the trailer as well as the truck, monitoring the size and type of load of the truck and modifying the driving characteristics to match the load, the extra regulations that trucks are subject to (what roads they can be on, what loads they could cary on certain roads, what time of day they can drive on said roads, when they can or can&#x27;t use engine braking).<p>Edit: even on &#x27;simple&#x27; point A to point B route that involve 99% highway, what happens when a small part of the highway shuts down for whatever reason (flooding, multi-lan accident, fire, etc) and all traffic is routed on smaller adjacent streets, or forced to share a lane with oncoming traffic. Automating a truck is as hard or harder than automating a car, since you&#x27;re dealing with the same external variables but have more internal&#x2F;attached moving parts.</text></comment>	<story><title>Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/ubers-self-driving-trucks-division-is-dead-long-live-uber-self-driving-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arijun</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt that self driving trucks make the most economical sense to automate. A self driving truck would get to its destination faster (saving money) and without the need for a driver (saving money). And the majority of their time is spent on relatively predictable interstate roads, not the chaotic roads of a busy downtown, so they&#x27;d be simpler to automate.<p>Otto (the self-driving truck company that Uber bought and is now shuttering) was the first I&#x27;d heard of that. It&#x27;s a bit sad that they&#x27;re shutting down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hourislate</author><text>My brother in law works as a recovery driver for a very large trucking company 10000 + Trucks. He really doesn&#x27;t make that much (50k-65k)considering he is at the top of the pay scale, so I am under the impression that the driver costs are pretty low. Fuel, Insurance, Break Downs, Regulations, and just waiting for loads that are not ready are the largest costs.<p>Part of his duties is to fly out and bring back new trucks and he was telling me that some of the new trucks have lane assist, cameras, an automatic distance feature where his speed to stopping distance is calculated and the if he crosses that threshold the truck will apply the brakes to slow him down to a safe driving speed (I think he mentioned he can override this feature). He also said there are alarms to let him know when he gets to close to a lane line, etc. I imagine that eventually there will be sensors in the steering wheel that can measure his condition&#x2F;attention and relay that back to dispatch so they can monitor his wellness and how alert he is, etc.<p>Lots of interesting technology is making its way into the cab to help the driver be safer on the roads and probably is the result of some of this new self driving tech filtering it&#x27;s way down.</text></comment>
30,001,238	30,001,157	1	3	30,000,069	train	<story><title>Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?</title><text>I&#x27;ve been feeling off in several ways for a long time now, months if not more, and finally got around to seeing some healthcare professionals. &quot;Showing symptoms of severe occupational burnout&quot; is what I&#x27;m being told, and it rings true.<p>I know there are probably plenty of people on HN who have gone through the same. Reflecting back on your experiences, what are the sensible things to do next? Aside from continuing to listen to the aforementioned healthcare professionals, that is.<p>Some questions I&#x27;m wondering about, specifically:<p>- Should I tell my boss and&#x2F;or team? Should I tell them right away, or wait until I know what other steps I want to take? What should I expect their reactions to be?<p>- Should I take time off? How much? Or should I try to work reduced hours? I&#x27;m hesitant because I don&#x27;t have many hobbies (if any) and in the middle of the pandemic there isn&#x27;t much to do anyway. I don&#x27;t think running out of things to do would be any better for my health than continuing as-is. I&#x27;ve been there before and I don&#x27;t handle boredom well.<p>- If I continue working, is there something in my working environment I should try to change? Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.<p>- Is there anything specific to working in tech and burning out that I should know about? I feel like this isn&#x27;t exactly rare.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>&gt; Should I tell my boss and&#x2F;or team?<p>No, they will stab you in the back, no matter how much you think they won&#x27;t.<p>&gt; Should I take time off? How much?<p>Yes, if possible several months or a year so you have time to get fully away from the grind.<p>&gt; Is there something in my working environment I should try to change?<p>Probably reduce the volume of work you are doing or do something that you care about more.<p>&gt; Is there anything specific to working in tech and burning out that I should know about?<p>Yes, it&#x27;s a constant treadmill of work, and if you aren&#x27;t ready to never finish a project (all projects I&#x27;ve seen are in constant flux with constant changes) then get out now and find a career where you actually produce a finished product then move on to the next (like furniture building). The idea that software is a thing that is &quot;complete&quot; was a leftover from the 90&#x27;s and the constant treadmill makes some people (myself included) go nuts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastardoperator</author><text>I had an opposite experience. I went to my manager and described how I felt when I was feeling like OP early in the pandemic. I couldn&#x27;t tell if it was anxiety, burnout or both.<p>He recommended an immediate two week vacation to clear my head and told me to plan my next vacation for two weeks 6 months out from my last vacation so that there was a constant light at the end of the tunnel. He was empathetic, and explained losing me would be costly and that he wants to avoid that. Had I not spoken up I would have ended up giving up a great job at a great company for what was mostly inside my own head.<p>I also went to my doctor and got anti-anxiety medication and that seemed to help. Now that I no longer had physical manifestations of my issues, and that fact that I was getting feedback that I was valued and that my health mattered, it really calmed me down.<p>If you have decent manager, they want to see you succeed, and they care about your well being. If they don&#x27;t, bailing from the position is probably in your best interest anyways. Either way, it&#x27;s an opportunity to see where you stand. Letting go will feel good in the short term, but maybe not so good long term. Doing nothing and hiding it will likely exacerbate the issue. I would say something, I at the very least deserve to be heard. What they do with the details is on them, not you.</text></comment>	<story><title>Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?</title><text>I&#x27;ve been feeling off in several ways for a long time now, months if not more, and finally got around to seeing some healthcare professionals. &quot;Showing symptoms of severe occupational burnout&quot; is what I&#x27;m being told, and it rings true.<p>I know there are probably plenty of people on HN who have gone through the same. Reflecting back on your experiences, what are the sensible things to do next? Aside from continuing to listen to the aforementioned healthcare professionals, that is.<p>Some questions I&#x27;m wondering about, specifically:<p>- Should I tell my boss and&#x2F;or team? Should I tell them right away, or wait until I know what other steps I want to take? What should I expect their reactions to be?<p>- Should I take time off? How much? Or should I try to work reduced hours? I&#x27;m hesitant because I don&#x27;t have many hobbies (if any) and in the middle of the pandemic there isn&#x27;t much to do anyway. I don&#x27;t think running out of things to do would be any better for my health than continuing as-is. I&#x27;ve been there before and I don&#x27;t handle boredom well.<p>- If I continue working, is there something in my working environment I should try to change? Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.<p>- Is there anything specific to working in tech and burning out that I should know about? I feel like this isn&#x27;t exactly rare.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>&gt; Should I tell my boss and&#x2F;or team?<p>No, they will stab you in the back, no matter how much you think they won&#x27;t.<p>&gt; Should I take time off? How much?<p>Yes, if possible several months or a year so you have time to get fully away from the grind.<p>&gt; Is there something in my working environment I should try to change?<p>Probably reduce the volume of work you are doing or do something that you care about more.<p>&gt; Is there anything specific to working in tech and burning out that I should know about?<p>Yes, it&#x27;s a constant treadmill of work, and if you aren&#x27;t ready to never finish a project (all projects I&#x27;ve seen are in constant flux with constant changes) then get out now and find a career where you actually produce a finished product then move on to the next (like furniture building). The idea that software is a thing that is &quot;complete&quot; was a leftover from the 90&#x27;s and the constant treadmill makes some people (myself included) go nuts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sulam</author><text>&gt; No, they will stab you in the back, no matter how much you think they won&#x27;t.<p>At the end of the day, the business has to do the right thing for the organization, even when that&#x27;s not to the benefit of an individual in the organization.<p>That said, &quot;the end of the day&quot; is not the beginning. Yes, some people will behave the way you describe. It can be hard to be sure you can trust another human being who you know will be forced to fire you if you can&#x27;t do the work they hired you to do, at least on a long enough time frame. But not everyone will &quot;stab you in the back&quot;, I can promise that.</text></comment>
8,408,494	8,407,737	1	3	8,407,083	train	<story><title>When 911 calls fail</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/3/6414949/911-call-failures-fcc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nathannecro</author><text>Please HN, there are a few comments in this thread talking about &quot;taking action&quot; if you happen to be a bystander during an emergency.<p>Let me implore you. If the area isn&#x27;t safe, do not even attempt to enter the scene. Fires can instantly flare up and engulf a room in seconds. Rivers can be so cold they cause shock upon entering the water and, in some cases, they cause cardiac arrest. Tiny pieces of broken glass can cause deep, sometimes life-threatening lacerations. An accident on the side of the road can immediately escalate into a multi-vehicle incident if another driver doesn&#x27;t pay attention.<p>What we don&#x27;t want to happen is for you, the hero, to become another patient. Not only are you putting your life in danger, you&#x27;re also increasing the risk for your rescuers as well.<p>What you can do is this:<p>1. Secure the scene. If the accident occurred at the side of the road, park behind the accident and turn your hazards on. Wave at traffic to slow down and be cautious around the accident. If there is a house fire, try to find the gas shut-off valve and turn it off.<p>2. Assist the location of the scene. It&#x27;s often difficult for EMS to locate the scene of the emergency. Standing near the front of the building or the entrance to the parking lot and flagging the ambulance&#x2F;PD&#x2F;fire down helps a ton. Leading them directly to the scene is just as important.<p>3. Use your common sense. Don&#x27;t let the panic take hold of you. Be rational, reasonable. I&#x27;m not saying you should never try to help someone, just make sure that YOU are safe FIRST before heading in to assist.<p>I hold EMT&#x2F;Paramedic certs and volunteer in my spare time.<p>Thanks.<p>Edit: I also want to point out that there is generally very little anyone can do aside from basic management of the ABC&#x27;s (airway, breathing and circulation) without equipment. Some of that equipment is located onboard a fire truck or an ambulance. Most of that equipment is usually found inside the operating room of your local hospital. The faster the patient is moved safely to the local ED, the better it is.</text></comment>	<story><title>When 911 calls fail</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/3/6414949/911-call-failures-fcc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aloha</author><text>This is why some states have chosen to go with a single PSAP for the whole state - Cellular E911 has a couple problems, one - the geolocation features of cell phones is best effort, and if it fails, the best the company can do is guess from which site&#x2F;sector the call is coming in on to route them to the correct PSAP. Two - the cellular networks on whole are best effort, cellular as a technology cannot be as reliable as a wireline hookup, period.<p>In the future, I believe the move to VoLTE will make E911 more reliable, as it will enable more location data to be sent from the handset at the time of call, but until then, the most reliable way to get geolocation data to a PSAP is to use a landline, period, the landline telephone, is and will remain more reliable, consistent and predictable than any of the technologies replacing it.<p>As far as why the carrier couldnt be reached? likely calling the wrong place - Sprint FWIW is and has been in the midst of a forklift network upgrade for a couple years now, its just wrapping up now, but parts of the network have been partially non-functional for hours or days at a time - I know however that regular e911 drive testing is a part of test and turnup, and the planned maintenance process for Sprint.</text></comment>
27,405,470	27,404,237	1	2	27,403,352	train	<story><title>Google can't pass its own page speed test</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ns4t1z/oc_google_cant_pass_its_own_page_speed_test/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rasz</author><text>Im actually surprised how good YT comes out in this. The page is a dumpster fire:<p>Before Polymer (current YT framework) YT video page weighted somewhere around 50KB (10KB compressed) and was ordinary HTML + 1MB js player (400KB compressed). As soon as HTML part loaded the page was all there.<p>Now its 600KB (100KB compressed) JSON + additional 8MB desktop_polymer.js (1MB compressed) that needs to be compiled&#x2F;interpreted before it even starts building the page client side and anything starts showing up. 1MB js player is on top of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>It truly is a terribly site, in terms of performance. Streaming HD content used to be the &quot;hard problem&quot;, but now it&#x27;s displaying the site hosting the videos that the issue.<p>You can stream HD content on the lowest end device, or hardware almost 10 years old. The same hardware just isn&#x27;t powerful enough to let you use the YouTube website in a performant way. I cannot fathom how YouTube doesn&#x27;t see that as a problem.</text></comment>	<story><title>Google can't pass its own page speed test</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ns4t1z/oc_google_cant_pass_its_own_page_speed_test/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rasz</author><text>Im actually surprised how good YT comes out in this. The page is a dumpster fire:<p>Before Polymer (current YT framework) YT video page weighted somewhere around 50KB (10KB compressed) and was ordinary HTML + 1MB js player (400KB compressed). As soon as HTML part loaded the page was all there.<p>Now its 600KB (100KB compressed) JSON + additional 8MB desktop_polymer.js (1MB compressed) that needs to be compiled&#x2F;interpreted before it even starts building the page client side and anything starts showing up. 1MB js player is on top of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how much slower Youtube has gotten in the past couple of years. That fake paint stuff is terrible too.<p>Here&#x27;s something to try, resize youtube horizontally and watch your browser grind to a halt. At least in the case of Chrome for me.</text></comment>
14,575,256	14,574,456	1	3	14,573,643	train	<story><title>Wikileaks Documentary Makers Accuse Assange of Censorship</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-documentary-makers-accuse-assange-censorship-626613</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>19eightyfour</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why people still support Assange so clearly. It was interesting to me that people on &#x2F;r&#x2F;The_Donald love Assange so much. Before this documentary, I posted there criticising Wikileaks and it was totally hated on. I find that weird because the idea that Assange is unreliable and fake, was the kind of somewhat-counter-main-narrative idea that I thought people of T_D would appreciate. They seem to see him as some sort of hero. I wanted to point out that he seems to me to have once been good, but then he squandered by trading whatever his mission originally was, with some bullshit idea of being a martyr to serve his ego. I can&#x27;t respect someone who talks about curing the world of ignorance, and having the courage to tell the truth, but then cowers for 7 years in a embassy because he&#x27;s too afraid to stand up and tell the truth, whatever it was, about what happened. I mean, I know his existence is useful to the IC and various interests, but I personally just find him disgusting. And I genuinely had some belief in what Wikileaks could have stood for. But I don&#x27;t really see it as that now. To me, Wikileaks and Assange totally sold out. Sorry to offend anyone who feels very differently. This is just my opinion on it.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know why he was so hell-bent against the movie then noticed this side link in the article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newsweek.com&#x2F;documentary-inside-julian-assange-world-593037" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newsweek.com&#x2F;documentary-inside-julian-assange-wo...</a><p>Assange comes off as a real machiavellian style asshole with vanity and manipulation seeming to him at least as important as his cause.<p>Snowden and Assange often seem to get lumped together but there&#x27;s a world of difference in personal character, and also in mission. Saying such varied and complex issues are all just &quot;leaking&quot; does both their supporters and detractors a disservice. Details matter especially with so much at stake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>It seem political when people criticize Assange political refuge to a embassy. There need to be some insight to show why it is not political. It also need to explain from a historical (ie scientifically) why the actions are not rational.<p>I personally have collected enough reason to be very skeptical against such criticism. The first Swedish prosecutor dropped the case. When it was restarted by a second prosecutor, several uninvolved lawyers looked into the case on behalf on news agencies and conclude that the case had zero chance of going anywhere. When compared to rape cases in Sweden that get dropped, get not-guilty in court, and the small number that get a guilty verdict, you either need to have physical evidence of violence&#x2F;drugs where a medical expert use their experience to claim rape, a video recording, witnesses that strongly (and seems more common than not to fail here) to show that the victim was incapacitated when going to sleep, or a confession. In contrast to most cases all the details for Assange case has been leaked and it has shown none of those critical components for a successful case. In addition we get some more warning clocks ringing when the European arrest warrant made a record for the lowest number of potential year in prison. A second record was achieved by the the amount of money spent in regard to the number of potential year in prison.<p>It could be a unicorn, a one of the kind where all the stars align to a guilty verdict, but the case smells political. The rational behavior when the legal system turn political is to run and hide.</text></comment>	<story><title>Wikileaks Documentary Makers Accuse Assange of Censorship</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-documentary-makers-accuse-assange-censorship-626613</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>19eightyfour</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why people still support Assange so clearly. It was interesting to me that people on &#x2F;r&#x2F;The_Donald love Assange so much. Before this documentary, I posted there criticising Wikileaks and it was totally hated on. I find that weird because the idea that Assange is unreliable and fake, was the kind of somewhat-counter-main-narrative idea that I thought people of T_D would appreciate. They seem to see him as some sort of hero. I wanted to point out that he seems to me to have once been good, but then he squandered by trading whatever his mission originally was, with some bullshit idea of being a martyr to serve his ego. I can&#x27;t respect someone who talks about curing the world of ignorance, and having the courage to tell the truth, but then cowers for 7 years in a embassy because he&#x27;s too afraid to stand up and tell the truth, whatever it was, about what happened. I mean, I know his existence is useful to the IC and various interests, but I personally just find him disgusting. And I genuinely had some belief in what Wikileaks could have stood for. But I don&#x27;t really see it as that now. To me, Wikileaks and Assange totally sold out. Sorry to offend anyone who feels very differently. This is just my opinion on it.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know why he was so hell-bent against the movie then noticed this side link in the article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newsweek.com&#x2F;documentary-inside-julian-assange-world-593037" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newsweek.com&#x2F;documentary-inside-julian-assange-wo...</a><p>Assange comes off as a real machiavellian style asshole with vanity and manipulation seeming to him at least as important as his cause.<p>Snowden and Assange often seem to get lumped together but there&#x27;s a world of difference in personal character, and also in mission. Saying such varied and complex issues are all just &quot;leaking&quot; does both their supporters and detractors a disservice. Details matter especially with so much at stake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lingben</author><text>I&#x27;ve observed that Trump and his supporters live in a childishly simple world where anything and anyone who says &quot;good&quot; or supportive things is hailed and anyone who criticizes or questions Trump is derided and held in contempt, irrespective of any actual factual basis.</text></comment>
27,388,605	27,388,379	1	2	27,385,153	train	<story><title>Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases</title><url>https://google.github.io/opencasebook/patents/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VanL</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m the author of this chapter of the casebook. I didn&#x27;t expect it to show up here, but I&#x27;m happy to answer questions.</text></comment>	<story><title>Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases</title><url>https://google.github.io/opencasebook/patents/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>corroclaro</author><text>Sometimes I am grateful that I live in Europe where software patents are <i>not</i> a thing.<p>Ish. A shame the US courts chose to interpret the laws as licensing software patents.</text></comment>
24,754,618	24,754,652	1	3	24,753,283	train	<story><title>Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows</title><url>https://www.ajc.com/news/police-killings-more-likely-in-agencies-that-get-military-gear-data-shows/MBPQ2ZE3XFHR5NIO37BKONOCGI/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text><i>&gt; In Georgia alone, police departments and sheriff’s offices have received more than 2,700 military rifles, night vision goggles and laser gun sights, and literally hundreds of armored vehicles, including more than two dozen mine-resistant vehicles built to fight the war on terror abroad.</i><p>How else will they protect themselves in the dangerous minefields of Atlanta? &#x2F;s<p>I’m glad someone has put together the data on this, but it’s entirely unsurprising that police cosplaying as the military murder more people. It’s dystopian as hell, and it baffles me that it’s a contentious issue rather than being universally condemned.<p>Edit: added &#x2F;s to relevant paragraph. I know, Poe&#x27;s law, my bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opwieurposiu</author><text>Police in Georgia literally throw hand grenades into the cribs of sleeping babies and get away with it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;ex-georgia-deputy-acquitted-after-flash-bang-grenade-hurts-toddler-n479361" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;ex-georgia-deputy-acqui...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows</title><url>https://www.ajc.com/news/police-killings-more-likely-in-agencies-that-get-military-gear-data-shows/MBPQ2ZE3XFHR5NIO37BKONOCGI/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text><i>&gt; In Georgia alone, police departments and sheriff’s offices have received more than 2,700 military rifles, night vision goggles and laser gun sights, and literally hundreds of armored vehicles, including more than two dozen mine-resistant vehicles built to fight the war on terror abroad.</i><p>How else will they protect themselves in the dangerous minefields of Atlanta? &#x2F;s<p>I’m glad someone has put together the data on this, but it’s entirely unsurprising that police cosplaying as the military murder more people. It’s dystopian as hell, and it baffles me that it’s a contentious issue rather than being universally condemned.<p>Edit: added &#x2F;s to relevant paragraph. I know, Poe&#x27;s law, my bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>&gt; How else will they protect themselves in the dangerous minefields of Atlanta?<p>They could put the money into dealing with the social problems that cause it to be a &quot;minefield&quot;. Their job is to protect citizens <i>including criminals</i>. They&#x27;re not doing it properly if they&#x27;re shooting people. And they&#x27;re likely making people a lot more likely to shoot at them in the process.</text></comment>
469,940	469,973	1	2	469,831	train	<story><title>Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek</title><url>http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/8354//Why-Your-Startup-Shouldn-t-Copy-37signals-or-Fog-Creek.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>This guy has gone to the zoo and interviewed all the animals. The tiger says that the secret to success is to live alone, be well disguised, have sharp claws and know how to stalk. The snail says that the secret is to live inside a solid shell, stay small, hide under dead trees and move slowly around at night. The parrot says that success lies in eating fruit, being alert, packing light, moving fast by air when necessary, and always sticking by your friends.<p>His conclusion: These animals are giving contradictory advice! And that's because they're all "outliers".<p>But both of these points are subtly misleading. Yes, the advice is contradictory, but that's only a problem if you imagine that the animal kingdom is like a giant arena in which all the world's animals battle for the Animal Best Practices championship [1], after which all the losing animals will go extinct and the entire world will adopt the winning ways of the One True Best Animal. But, in fact, there are a hell of a lot of different ways to be a successful animal, and they coexist nicely. Indeed, they form an <i>ecosystem</i> in which all animals require other, much different animals to exist.<p>And it's insane to regard the tiger and the parrot and the snail as "outliers". Sure, they're unique, just as snowflakes are unique. But, in fact, there are a lot of different kinds of cats and birds and mollusks, not just these three. Indeed, there are creatures that employ some cat strategies and some bird strategies (lions: be a sharp-eyed predator with claws, but live in communal packs). The only way to argue that tigers and parrots and snails are "outliers" is to ignore the existence of all the other creatures in the world, the ones that bridge the gaps in animal-design space and that ultimately relate every known animal to every other known animal.<p>So, yes, it's insane to try to follow all the advice on the Internet simultaneously. But that doesn't mean it's insane to listen to 37signals advice, or Godin's advice, or some other company's advice. You just have to figure out which part of the animal kingdom you're in, and seek out the best practices which apply to creatures like <i>you</i>. If you want to be a stalker, you could do worse than to ask the tiger for some advice.<p>---<p>[1] The ants are gonna win. Hölldobler and Wilson told me so.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek</title><url>http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/8354//Why-Your-Startup-Shouldn-t-Copy-37signals-or-Fog-Creek.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TomOfTTB</author><text>This seems unrelated but I think it actually is a very good counterpoint so go with me for a sec. When Hitler was invading Europe at the beginning of World War II Ghandi gave the citizens of Europe this advice...<p>I want you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings... If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child to be slaughtered Now, I'm not as famous as Ghandi. But I think I'm qualified enough to say the above was stupid advice.<p>Mahatma Ghandi did a great thing for the world in that he popularized a very powerful tool: Non-violent resistance. But where he failed was in realizing his one tool didn't apply universally (in this case it only works if the person you are resisting is decent enough not to throw you in a gas chamber and kill you en masse)<p>The same thing is true with the author of this blog.<p>If I have any advice for him it's to see each "startup success story" as a tool that can create success in some situations. The responsibility of someone wanting to use that tool is to determine which situations that tool applies to.<p>So when contradictory advice comes along he should ask himself "why did that tool work for company X and not for company Y?" Then decide whether you are closer to company X or company Y.</text></comment>
19,073,565	19,073,504	1	2	19,069,440	train	<story><title>Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?</title><url>http://nautil.us//blog/studies-shoot-down-techs-harmful-effects-on-kidsso-now-what</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etiam</author><text>Tendentious language.<p>Who actually worries about children&#x27;s &quot;well-being&quot; (in the short term) being impaired by too much iDevices?<p>I&#x27;m concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world. The kids themselves may not be particularly <i>unhappy</i> about losing those skills as long as mummy and daddy earn the money, serve the meals and drive them to daycare, but long term it&#x27;s a major blow to their lives as independent individuals and the vitality of society, if the risk proves to realize itself to actual problems.<p>Weird stance to effectively advocate unfettered full-scale testing at high stakes just because the &quot;has never been conclusive evidence that screens are a direct cause of harm&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pithymaxim</author><text>Worth mentioning that their summary measure of well-being is more comprehensive than what&#x27;s typically asked of adults and probably does correlate with learning and development:<p>&quot;Data from 19,957 telephone interviews with parents of 2‐ to 5‐year‐olds assessed their children&#x27;s digital screen use and psychological well‐being in terms of caregiver attachment, resilience, curiosity, and positive affect in the past month.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1111&#x2F;cdev.13007" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1111&#x2F;cdev.13007</a><p>Still plenty to quibble with in the study though.</text></comment>	<story><title>Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?</title><url>http://nautil.us//blog/studies-shoot-down-techs-harmful-effects-on-kidsso-now-what</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etiam</author><text>Tendentious language.<p>Who actually worries about children&#x27;s &quot;well-being&quot; (in the short term) being impaired by too much iDevices?<p>I&#x27;m concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world. The kids themselves may not be particularly <i>unhappy</i> about losing those skills as long as mummy and daddy earn the money, serve the meals and drive them to daycare, but long term it&#x27;s a major blow to their lives as independent individuals and the vitality of society, if the risk proves to realize itself to actual problems.<p>Weird stance to effectively advocate unfettered full-scale testing at high stakes just because the &quot;has never been conclusive evidence that screens are a direct cause of harm&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world.<p>Correlation is not causation.<p>You&#x27;re taking it given that tech is a cause of that, but it may well be that other trends are driving kids to be indoors and separated from their peers (see various &quot;mother gets arrested for letting child walk half a mile to a park&quot; news stories), with tech merely filling the gap of lost activities.</text></comment>
7,213,124	7,212,451	1	2	7,211,341	train	<story><title>Why don’t software development methodologies work?</title><url>http://typicalprogrammer.com/why-dont-software-development-methodologies-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msluyter</author><text>It&#x27;s fun to watch observations like the following re-discovered again and again. From the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968:<p><i>Ross: The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be followed, that you are going to specify what you are going to do, and then do it. And that is where most of our troubles come from.</i><p><i>Fraser: One of the problems that is central to the software production process is to identify the nature of progress and to find some way of measuring it. Only one thing seems to be clear just now. It is that program construction is not always a simple progression in which each act of assembly represents a distinct forward step and that the final product can be described simply as the sum of many sub-assemblies.</i><p>(Full transcript of the 1968 conference here. <a href="http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk&#x2F;brian.randell&#x2F;NATO&#x2F;nato1968.PD...</a> It&#x27;s a really fun read!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jshen</author><text>Imagine you are a large company and there are 10 ideas for things you can build next, and you can&#x27;t do them all. You gather the people that build such things and ask them, &quot;how much will it cost to make each of these, and how long will it take&quot;. Do you think it is an acceptable answer if the builders reply, &quot;I have no idea how much it will cost, I don&#x27;t know how long it will take, and I don&#x27;t know what you will have at the end of the process.&quot; How should a business handle this problem?</text></comment>	<story><title>Why don’t software development methodologies work?</title><url>http://typicalprogrammer.com/why-dont-software-development-methodologies-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msluyter</author><text>It&#x27;s fun to watch observations like the following re-discovered again and again. From the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968:<p><i>Ross: The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be followed, that you are going to specify what you are going to do, and then do it. And that is where most of our troubles come from.</i><p><i>Fraser: One of the problems that is central to the software production process is to identify the nature of progress and to find some way of measuring it. Only one thing seems to be clear just now. It is that program construction is not always a simple progression in which each act of assembly represents a distinct forward step and that the final product can be described simply as the sum of many sub-assemblies.</i><p>(Full transcript of the 1968 conference here. <a href="http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk&#x2F;brian.randell&#x2F;NATO&#x2F;nato1968.PD...</a> It&#x27;s a really fun read!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DenisM</author><text>Having read &quot;the mythical man-month&quot; I came to conclusion that majority of the problems we have today were discovered an described by the 1970-ies.</text></comment>
2,963,887	2,963,808	1	2	2,963,733	train	<story><title>Seriously, stop with the booth babes</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rt452e6onIcJ:www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/09/seriously-stop-with-the-booth-babes/+http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/09/seriously-stop-with-the-booth-babes/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blahedo</author><text>I'm getting the impression from reading the other comments that most of the commenters just skimmed the article (or perhaps didn't read it at all, and drew assumptions from the title). If you need a tl;dr, or if you read it quickly, this is the most important line in the post:<p>&#62; <i>What you end up with is the situation where you, as a conference goer, walk up to a booth and, because you’re no stranger to how this works, ignore any attractive woman and talk directly to a male at the booth. You assume immediately that any attractive female is there simply for their physical appearance, not for the value that their knowledge brings.</i><p>This is not an abstract PC idea of feeling bad about objectifying the booth babe, or wishing to avoid temptation, or whatever. This is a very specific problem that is harmful to the industry and to all the <i>non-</i>booth babes out there. The OP goes on to make some suggestions on how to work towards fixing the problem, but please, if you're going to comment on this, make sure you understand the actual main point first.</text></comment>	<story><title>Seriously, stop with the booth babes</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rt452e6onIcJ:www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/09/seriously-stop-with-the-booth-babes/+http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/09/seriously-stop-with-the-booth-babes/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shawnee_</author><text>Learned this the hard way. Back when LinuxCon was still called LinuxCon, I made the mistake of making a beeline to the first "booth" I saw that was manned by a fellow female. I studied the setup, ascertained what kind of hardware being shown off by this particular vendor, and proceeded to inquire along the line of shop talk.<p>Although I don't remember exactly what I asked her, this was the gist of our exchange.<p>BB: "It's 2X faster!" (Vanna White, preening the chipset)<p>Me: "Faster than what?"<p>She appears panicked and quickly reads over the spec sheet behind her booth. Finally, after a minute, she looks up and says "It's just . . . faster."<p>Dear companies, giving the BBs a script isn't enough if they don't understand what the metrics on the script actually mean.</text></comment>
15,408,571	15,407,133	1	2	15,405,510	train	<story><title>Senator to Ex-CEO: Equifax Can't Be Trusted with Americans' Personal Data</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2017/10/04/555651379/senator-to-ex-ceo-equifax-can-t-be-trusted-with-americans-personal-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgustard</author><text>Is it a moral failing to be slow to update a Struts vulnerability? As an IT engineer that makes be nervous because I don&#x27;t know which of a hundred actions I take or don&#x27;t take in a given day will explode on me. Or was the moral failing to agree to build such a system in the first place?</text></item><item><author>Top19</author><text>This is the choice quote:<p>&gt; &quot;This simply is not a company that deserves to be trusted with Americans&#x27; personal data,&quot; said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio,<p>Obviously this quote leaves out a lot of nuance, but I like it and I like what Senator Brown has said in general. What Equifax has let happen is very bad, and I think moral judgments and perhaps even shame (which is how a society can enforce morality) should be brought onto its leaders individually.<p>I hate how businesses and business persons have been making horrible, destructive decisions for decades (not that humans in all fields weren’t beforehand) and have been escaping any kind of shame. Indeed they’ve been praised in many cases.<p>If you look at the top-level pages on Wikipedia (there are about 11 of them), one of them is for “Society”. About a third way down you’ll see “Business” listed under Society. I think this is a good reminder that business is a part of and functions for society, not the other way around.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Contents&#x2F;Society_and_social_sciences" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Contents&#x2F;Society_and_so...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ska</author><text>It&#x27;s a moral failing to be engaged in the collection of personal data of this type and scale without having a solid, well articulated, well communicated, robust and redundant plan for managing security and mitigating the impact of security issues.<p>It&#x27;s an ethical failure that this industry has so many examples of above.</text></comment>	<story><title>Senator to Ex-CEO: Equifax Can't Be Trusted with Americans' Personal Data</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2017/10/04/555651379/senator-to-ex-ceo-equifax-can-t-be-trusted-with-americans-personal-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgustard</author><text>Is it a moral failing to be slow to update a Struts vulnerability? As an IT engineer that makes be nervous because I don&#x27;t know which of a hundred actions I take or don&#x27;t take in a given day will explode on me. Or was the moral failing to agree to build such a system in the first place?</text></item><item><author>Top19</author><text>This is the choice quote:<p>&gt; &quot;This simply is not a company that deserves to be trusted with Americans&#x27; personal data,&quot; said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio,<p>Obviously this quote leaves out a lot of nuance, but I like it and I like what Senator Brown has said in general. What Equifax has let happen is very bad, and I think moral judgments and perhaps even shame (which is how a society can enforce morality) should be brought onto its leaders individually.<p>I hate how businesses and business persons have been making horrible, destructive decisions for decades (not that humans in all fields weren’t beforehand) and have been escaping any kind of shame. Indeed they’ve been praised in many cases.<p>If you look at the top-level pages on Wikipedia (there are about 11 of them), one of them is for “Society”. About a third way down you’ll see “Business” listed under Society. I think this is a good reminder that business is a part of and functions for society, not the other way around.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Contents&#x2F;Society_and_social_sciences" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Contents&#x2F;Society_and_so...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fish_fan</author><text>My issue is not that they had the vulnerability, but that the vulberability allowed full access to social security numbers and it wasn’t even the “critical” database!<p>You can take proactive efforts to minimize the risk of breaches; they appeared to store large amounts of unencrypted (or encrypted in aggregate) personally identifiably information together and allowed a single struts vulnerability unfettered access.<p>For instance, one could not duplicate social security numbers, or could allow you to encrypt your data so you need to provide a key for others to access it. The possibilities are endless.</text></comment>
26,115,170	26,115,386	1	3	26,114,194	train	<story><title>“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”</title><url>https://twitter.com/LucaBongiorni/status/1359560585990537216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curtis3389</author><text>We all know that you can&#x27;t trust Microsoft, but a lot of people blindly trust Canonical just because they create a Linux distro.<p>I haven&#x27;t trusted Canonical since I noticed their pattern of creating competing alternatives to new Linux standards instead of helping them (Mir &amp; Wayland, Snap &amp; Flatpack, Unity &amp; Gnome 3). It&#x27;d be one thing if they were bringing better ideas and long-term support to their alternatives, but they just seem to be half-baked copies. I appreciate all they&#x27;ve done for the Linux ecosystem, but I&#x27;ll stick with my Debian.</text></item><item><author>raesene9</author><text>The register article on this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;microsoft_azure_ubuntu_data_sharing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;microsoft_azure_ubunt...</a> has responses from Canonical and MS, which shed a bit more light on the situation.<p>The Canonical quote is the most illuminating :-<p>&quot;As per the Azure T&amp;Cs, Microsoft shares with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, the contact details of developers launching Ubuntu instances on Azure. These contact details are held in Canonical’s CRM in accordance with privacy rules.<p>&quot;On February 10th, a new Canonical Sales Representative contacted one of these developers via LinkedIn, with a poor choice of word. In light of this incident, Canonical will be reviewing its sales training and policies.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andagainagain</author><text>Mir and WAyland was because wayland couldn&#x27;t do what they wanted technically.<p>Snap came BEFORE flatpak. Flatpak was the &quot;new competing standard&quot; in that situation.<p>And Gnome shell, quite frankly, sucked. IMO it still sucks, but back then it sucked WAY worse.</text></comment>	<story><title>“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”</title><url>https://twitter.com/LucaBongiorni/status/1359560585990537216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curtis3389</author><text>We all know that you can&#x27;t trust Microsoft, but a lot of people blindly trust Canonical just because they create a Linux distro.<p>I haven&#x27;t trusted Canonical since I noticed their pattern of creating competing alternatives to new Linux standards instead of helping them (Mir &amp; Wayland, Snap &amp; Flatpack, Unity &amp; Gnome 3). It&#x27;d be one thing if they were bringing better ideas and long-term support to their alternatives, but they just seem to be half-baked copies. I appreciate all they&#x27;ve done for the Linux ecosystem, but I&#x27;ll stick with my Debian.</text></item><item><author>raesene9</author><text>The register article on this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;microsoft_azure_ubuntu_data_sharing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;microsoft_azure_ubunt...</a> has responses from Canonical and MS, which shed a bit more light on the situation.<p>The Canonical quote is the most illuminating :-<p>&quot;As per the Azure T&amp;Cs, Microsoft shares with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, the contact details of developers launching Ubuntu instances on Azure. These contact details are held in Canonical’s CRM in accordance with privacy rules.<p>&quot;On February 10th, a new Canonical Sales Representative contacted one of these developers via LinkedIn, with a poor choice of word. In light of this incident, Canonical will be reviewing its sales training and policies.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Debug_Overload</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how many times this needs repeating, but Snap wasn&#x27;t an &quot;alternative&quot; to Flatpak; the latter didn&#x27;t even exist when the former was created. Many people arguing about this issue don&#x27;t seem to get this.</text></comment>
18,077,172	18,077,233	1	2	18,076,485	train	<story><title>How China Systematically Pries Technology from U.S. Companies</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-systematically-pries-technology-from-u-s-companies-1537972066</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YorkshireSeason</author><text>There&#x27;s a gentlemen&#x27;s agreement between nations that this is permissible for poor nations. China is no longer poor and now must act like a wealthy nation and accept IP laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Leary</author><text>Francis Cabot Lowell, who was instrumental behind the industrialization of the US, visited textile plants in the UK and committed their designs to memory, which were later introduced to the famed Lowell textile plants in Massachusetts.<p>At the time (1826), America&#x27;s per capita GDP was $2,460, which is 68% of the UK&#x27;s per capita GDP of $3,600. Today, China&#x27;s per capita GDP is $16,000, or 29% of of the US&#x27;s per capita GDP of $55,000.</text></comment>	<story><title>How China Systematically Pries Technology from U.S. Companies</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-systematically-pries-technology-from-u-s-companies-1537972066</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YorkshireSeason</author><text>There&#x27;s a gentlemen&#x27;s agreement between nations that this is permissible for poor nations. China is no longer poor and now must act like a wealthy nation and accept IP laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>triangleman</author><text>According to Wikipedia[0] China GDP(PPP)&#x2F;capita is $16,624, just below Dominican Republic and Iraq. Not sure that&#x27;s &quot;wealthy&quot; quite yet.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...</a></text></comment>
10,768,262	10,768,223	1	2	10,765,148	train	<story><title>What RESTful actually means</title><url>https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/five/what-restful-actually-means</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixie_</author><text>REST is the definition of a buzzword. Vague. Useless. Everyone talks about it, but no one ever &#x27;understands&#x27; it. You make your API REST not because you think it&#x27;s good, but because everyone else does it. It&#x27;s instant karma. Like XML was 10 years ago. Who cares if you have to make a lot of ugly confusing endpoints - at least you can call your API RESTful.<p>I like how Dropbox bucked the trend and went with a simple POST based API. JSON parameters in. JSON response out. No complicated urls, strange headers, verbs, hateoas, etc..<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;developers&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;http&#x2F;documentation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;developers&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;http&#x2F;docume...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobfromhuddle</author><text>It&#x27;s really not, I&#x27;m sorry.<p>State is carried by the client, the client traverses links to find out what it can do, the responses are described by a published content type, and the content type defines the semantics of the protocol.<p>It&#x27;s not hard, but people like to pretend that it is. Nothing says you can&#x27;t stick to GET and POST, nothing requires weird headers.<p>&quot;ReST in Practice&quot; is a great introduction for engineers.</text></comment>	<story><title>What RESTful actually means</title><url>https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/five/what-restful-actually-means</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixie_</author><text>REST is the definition of a buzzword. Vague. Useless. Everyone talks about it, but no one ever &#x27;understands&#x27; it. You make your API REST not because you think it&#x27;s good, but because everyone else does it. It&#x27;s instant karma. Like XML was 10 years ago. Who cares if you have to make a lot of ugly confusing endpoints - at least you can call your API RESTful.<p>I like how Dropbox bucked the trend and went with a simple POST based API. JSON parameters in. JSON response out. No complicated urls, strange headers, verbs, hateoas, etc..<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;developers&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;http&#x2F;documentation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;developers&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;http&#x2F;docume...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jalfresi</author><text>REST is one of those things were if you don&#x27;t implement all of it, you won&#x27;t really reap the benefits of all those architectural constraints combined. In your Dropbox example, any client will be bound to the Dropbox API. Consequently, Dropbox are now bound to each and everyone of those clients; they cannot make changes on the server side without breaking every client. This is what REST aims to provide - a safe way for the server to change as needed without breaking clients.<p>Imagine if Dropbox registered a set of mime-types for each of the different resource representations. Those mime-type RFCs would describe how clients interpret the representations whilst simutainiously giving Dropbox the ability to change the server as they need without fear of breaking clients.<p>This would be because clients would be foxing on how to process the media-types, not the API. The various interactions a client can make with a representation (regardless of the URL it came from) would be bound to the media-type e.g. rel-types for edit, upload, create etc which the RFC would describe the appropriate HTTP interactions e.g. POST a media-type of x to the url at rel-type &quot;edit&quot;.<p>However, I think the real reason that REST hasn&#x27;t been adopted fully is that service providers like Dropbox have found that there advantages to binding client developers to their hardcoded APIs; the last thing Dropbox wants (and what REST would provide) is a standardised set of media-types and RFCs describing the interactions for a standardised way of interacting with an external cloud-based storage provider.<p>It&#x27;s just another form of lock-in, and reminded the cynic in me of the bad old days of MS Office document lock-in.</text></comment>
28,113,567	28,113,055	1	2	28,112,827	train	<story><title>Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/canberra-asks-big-tech-to-introduce-detection-capabilities-in-encrypted-communication/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>Related (maybe?)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-australia-48511217" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-australia-48511217</a><p>In 2019, Australian federal police raided the home of a journalist, in response to her reporting on secret government plans to enact warrantless digital surveillance.<p>edit: I think this is the report she was raided for,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailytelegraph.com.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;spying-shock-shades-of-big-brother-as-cybersecurity-vision-comes-to-light&#x2F;news-story&#x2F;bc02f35f23fa104b139160906f2ae709" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailytelegraph.com.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;spying-shock-shad...</a><p>&gt;<i>&quot;IF two Federal ministers approve, the emails, bank records and text messages of Australian citizens could be seen by digital spies. No warrants would be required and it would all be legal — and done so you’d never know.&quot;</i><p>&gt;<i>&quot;The power grab is detailed in top secret letters between the heads of the Department of Home Affairs and Defence, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, which outline proposed new powers for Australia’s electronic spy agency — the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).&quot;</i><p>(There haven&#x27;t been any HN threads about this, btw -- as far as I can tell).</text></comment>	<story><title>Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/canberra-asks-big-tech-to-introduce-detection-capabilities-in-encrypted-communication/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randomhodler84</author><text>Oh hey cool, apple, you know that new system you built? Well we now have 4 new classes of content we want to purge from people’s devices. The system is proposed and governments are already passing laws to exploit it. Fuck all consumer tech.</text></comment>
16,696,267	16,695,721	1	2	16,693,964	train	<story><title>Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/27/uber-will-not-reapply-for-self-driving-car-permit-in-california/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Consultant32452</author><text>I&#x27;m going to say something that I suspect many will quietly agree with but may not be willing to say out loud.<p>I&#x27;m confident that self-driving cars will eventually be safer than human driven ones. I&#x27;m not confident that this can be realistically achieved without killing some unfortunate bystanders in the process of getting to that point. That doesn&#x27;t mean we should accept these cars running amok killing people all over the place. It doesn&#x27;t mean I think this specific case involving Uber is &quot;reasonable&quot; either. I just think, in a general sense, a realist has to be able to try to find some balance between short term lives lost and long term lives saved.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Self-driving cars have to be <i>at least</i> as safe as human-driven ones for them to ever become accepted and thus widespread. Realistically, they need to be many times safer than human-driven cars for acceptance. It doesn&#x27;t matter who&#x27;s technically at fault; they cannot cause more deaths than human drivers. Everyone makes mistakes and they don&#x27;t deserve to be killed by an algorithm for it.</text></item><item><author>Rapzid</author><text>If Uber is not found legally at fault which seems likely given the circumstances and based on opinions from people with legal expertise in these cases, I highly doubt they will let themselves got derailed completely by this. Too much money is at stake.<p>Further, we don&#x27;t stop using trains, or buses when a pedestrian makes an error and gets killed because they &quot;could have not been hit, maybe&quot;. For those who have paid attention to those other accidents(even though the local transit isn&#x27;t as sexy to hate on as Uber, and they didn&#x27;t involve AI), it can actually be quite shocking how little of a blip it causes in the transportation system.</text></item><item><author>keyle</author><text>Well it&#x27;s not like they made a booboo, and some bugs caused some inconvenience to a few or many people. Someone died.</text></item><item><author>jballanc</author><text>I enjoy hating on Uber as much as the next person, but this honestly just sounds like shrewd focusing of effort in light of recent events on Uber&#x27;s part. Their permit was expiring, and there was going to be a load of paperwork along with probably lengthy boardroom meetings with authorities explaining what went wrong and why it won&#x27;t happen again, if Uber wanted to renew.<p>I see no reason (in this article, at least) to suspect that Uber won&#x27;t re-apply at a later date when they have a better handle on what went wrong in Tempe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>The thing is that any other industry that works like this(we have to accept some people will be hurt&#x2F;die to achieve progress) - like the medical testing industry - is extremely heavily regulated and most crucially, all participants in testing are consenting to being tested. Letting autonomous cars on public roads is testing it on people who have not consented being tested on. If I get hit by an autonomous car I really don&#x27;t care that thanks to this Uber&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Waymo&#x2F;Whoever gets to improve their algorithm. I don&#x27;t care how they want to do it - but I don&#x27;t want them testing this stuff on public roads.</text></comment>	<story><title>Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/27/uber-will-not-reapply-for-self-driving-car-permit-in-california/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Consultant32452</author><text>I&#x27;m going to say something that I suspect many will quietly agree with but may not be willing to say out loud.<p>I&#x27;m confident that self-driving cars will eventually be safer than human driven ones. I&#x27;m not confident that this can be realistically achieved without killing some unfortunate bystanders in the process of getting to that point. That doesn&#x27;t mean we should accept these cars running amok killing people all over the place. It doesn&#x27;t mean I think this specific case involving Uber is &quot;reasonable&quot; either. I just think, in a general sense, a realist has to be able to try to find some balance between short term lives lost and long term lives saved.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Self-driving cars have to be <i>at least</i> as safe as human-driven ones for them to ever become accepted and thus widespread. Realistically, they need to be many times safer than human-driven cars for acceptance. It doesn&#x27;t matter who&#x27;s technically at fault; they cannot cause more deaths than human drivers. Everyone makes mistakes and they don&#x27;t deserve to be killed by an algorithm for it.</text></item><item><author>Rapzid</author><text>If Uber is not found legally at fault which seems likely given the circumstances and based on opinions from people with legal expertise in these cases, I highly doubt they will let themselves got derailed completely by this. Too much money is at stake.<p>Further, we don&#x27;t stop using trains, or buses when a pedestrian makes an error and gets killed because they &quot;could have not been hit, maybe&quot;. For those who have paid attention to those other accidents(even though the local transit isn&#x27;t as sexy to hate on as Uber, and they didn&#x27;t involve AI), it can actually be quite shocking how little of a blip it causes in the transportation system.</text></item><item><author>keyle</author><text>Well it&#x27;s not like they made a booboo, and some bugs caused some inconvenience to a few or many people. Someone died.</text></item><item><author>jballanc</author><text>I enjoy hating on Uber as much as the next person, but this honestly just sounds like shrewd focusing of effort in light of recent events on Uber&#x27;s part. Their permit was expiring, and there was going to be a load of paperwork along with probably lengthy boardroom meetings with authorities explaining what went wrong and why it won&#x27;t happen again, if Uber wanted to renew.<p>I see no reason (in this article, at least) to suspect that Uber won&#x27;t re-apply at a later date when they have a better handle on what went wrong in Tempe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kayoone</author><text>The problem is that the general public will not accept deaths caused by machines even if they are statistically safer. As an example, the German government gave in to public pressure after Fukushima and decided to shut down all nuclear power plants even though total death rate of coal power is A LOT higher and this event did not even happen in their own continent.<p>If stuff like this continues to happen, i can see some government banning self driving tech for the foreseeable future.</text></comment>
40,150,640	40,150,384	1	2	40,148,998	train	<story><title>Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results</title><url>https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-First-Quarter-2024-Results/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Threads has also now rapidly grown to 150m MAU with higher DAU than X.<p>It&#x27;s an incredible achievement to bootstrap a social network to the leader in its category in less than a year. And it demonstrates the power of Facebook and Instagram in being able to drive traffic.<p>It must be comforting for Meta to know that if they wanted to build a leading TikTok competitor or any other social network in the future they can easily do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acchow</author><text>&gt; It must be comforting for Meta to know that if they wanted to build a leading TikTok competitor or any other social network in the future they can easily do it.<p>They already did. It&#x27;s called Reels.</text></comment>	<story><title>Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results</title><url>https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-First-Quarter-2024-Results/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Threads has also now rapidly grown to 150m MAU with higher DAU than X.<p>It&#x27;s an incredible achievement to bootstrap a social network to the leader in its category in less than a year. And it demonstrates the power of Facebook and Instagram in being able to drive traffic.<p>It must be comforting for Meta to know that if they wanted to build a leading TikTok competitor or any other social network in the future they can easily do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>The scaling aspect is indeed impressive but I have not seen anyone (exactly zero) that I want to follow on threads.<p>I want smart people and weird but interesting schizos, not my &quot;friends&quot; from Instagram and Facebook. I mostly like those friends but I know their opinions on most things already for example.<p>Also unless one is being particularly pedantic he already has the only tiktok competitor (Instagram reels).</text></comment>
17,024,654	17,024,427	1	3	17,022,215	train	<story><title>Amazon’s Fake Review Economy</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/amazon-fake-review-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BadCookie</author><text>You&#x27;d think that Amazon would have some technology similar to FakeSpot&#x27;s by now, but I&#x27;m not convinced that they do. I bought a product that had the special &quot;Amazon&#x27;s Choice&quot; label on it that turned out to be a dud. I looked up the product on FakeSpot just now, and FakeSpot (correctly, I believe) identifies the reviews on that product to be unreliable (grade level &quot;C&quot;). Just a single anecdote, but it&#x27;s clear to me that there&#x27;s a ton of room for improvement on Amazon&#x27;s part.<p>Another strange thing about the &quot;Amazon&#x27;s Choice&quot; label is this: I&#x27;ve seen a product get that label in part due to a low number of returns ... but the seller doesn&#x27;t accept returns! That should be a con, not a pro.<p>As you can probably tell, I have not been happy with the results of following Amazon&#x27;s product choice advice.</text></item><item><author>Judgmentality</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fakespot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fakespot.com&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s not perfect, but it&#x27;s something.</text></item><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goodhart&#x27;s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goodhart&#x27;s_law</a><p>&quot;When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know a way around this with Amazon but it is getting increasingly annoying using a site where everything is 4-5 stars with hundreds or thousands of reviews and you need incredible intuition to tell the fake reviews from the real ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanadium</author><text>Plenty of the &quot;Amazon&#x27;s Choice&quot; flags are...a little deceptive. Maybe not deceptive in a conventional sense, but say you see a product in the search results on Amazon and one has that flag. You click on it, because hey.<p>Then you notice the keywords attached to &quot;Amazon&#x27;s Choice&quot;. Oftentimes, they&#x27;re strange and esoteric. Oftentimes, that flag is put on what appears to be a random off-brand item sitting right next to a much, much better product more deserving of that &quot;Choice&quot; insignia.</text></comment>	<story><title>Amazon’s Fake Review Economy</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/amazon-fake-review-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BadCookie</author><text>You&#x27;d think that Amazon would have some technology similar to FakeSpot&#x27;s by now, but I&#x27;m not convinced that they do. I bought a product that had the special &quot;Amazon&#x27;s Choice&quot; label on it that turned out to be a dud. I looked up the product on FakeSpot just now, and FakeSpot (correctly, I believe) identifies the reviews on that product to be unreliable (grade level &quot;C&quot;). Just a single anecdote, but it&#x27;s clear to me that there&#x27;s a ton of room for improvement on Amazon&#x27;s part.<p>Another strange thing about the &quot;Amazon&#x27;s Choice&quot; label is this: I&#x27;ve seen a product get that label in part due to a low number of returns ... but the seller doesn&#x27;t accept returns! That should be a con, not a pro.<p>As you can probably tell, I have not been happy with the results of following Amazon&#x27;s product choice advice.</text></item><item><author>Judgmentality</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fakespot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fakespot.com&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s not perfect, but it&#x27;s something.</text></item><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goodhart&#x27;s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goodhart&#x27;s_law</a><p>&quot;When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know a way around this with Amazon but it is getting increasingly annoying using a site where everything is 4-5 stars with hundreds or thousands of reviews and you need incredible intuition to tell the fake reviews from the real ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rolandog</author><text>I would imagine any sort of product review classification system would be exploitable for abuse.<p>Anecdotal evidence: when my mother and her team were running for student council (in college), the opposing team introduced blatantly fake votes (photocopied) in favor of her team; my mother&#x27;s team got disqualified for cheating, and the opposing team won.<p>So I could certainly picture a way in which a mischievous seller could submit fake-looking reviews for another product and get it taken down.</text></comment>
40,880,942	40,880,954	1	2	40,879,541	train	<story><title>Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040</title><url>https://blog.brixit.nl/moving-to-a-rtos-on-the-rp2040/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>This author seems like they are expecting an RTOS to be the same as Arduino environment, or at least, susceptible to just hacking around and hoping it works. Most are not.<p>Given a lot of Arduino these days have mbed or freertos under the covers, with some way to expose it, that may have been a better route for the author&#x27;s style.<p>Zephyr is easy to use (Clion also has good support for it), but like, you can&#x27;t just choose not to install the toolchain and expect it to all work.<p>It also definitely supports the Pi Pico - i&#x27;ve used it on it before, no issues.<p>A simpler rundown of these RTOSen would be:<p>1. FreeRTOS - supported by roughly everything, but drivers and such are mostly per-SOC&#x2F;device, which is a pain in the ass. The APIs are not very user friendly, but you get used to it.<p>To give a sense of level - if you wanted to use bluetooth with FreeRTOS, you get to find your own stack.<p>2. Zephyr - supports real hardware abstractions and supports most SOC. You may have to do a little board work.<p>If you wanted to use bluetooth with Zephyr, it has a bluetooth stack you can use, you may have to add a little support for your HCI.<p>3. NuttX - not great support, but very cool if you can get it working - not really highly supported by industry yet.<p>I never got far enough into NuttX to try bluetooth in NuttX.<p>There is also mbed, but we&#x27;ll skip it.<p>In practice, people in the RTOS world will usually go with what the SOC vendor supports. So if you are using Nordic stuff, you are probably on Zephyr. If you are using NXP stuff, probably FreeRTOS, etc.<p>That is how they get good support.</text></comment>	<story><title>Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040</title><url>https://blog.brixit.nl/moving-to-a-rtos-on-the-rp2040/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bborud</author><text>Having toolchains installed system-wide in the traditional UNIX way is painful, and dare I say it, not the smartest of approaches. If it works for you: great, but if you work on a project with multiple developers, sometimes working on multiple projects that have different targets, you will spend a lot of time trying to figure out build and configuration problems.<p>It also doesn&#x27;t help that people keep using Python for tooling. Why would you want to insist on using a language that brings its own versioning problems and which will behave differently on each developer&#x27;s computer? I&#x27;ve done embedded development for about a decade now (both as a hobby and professionally) and it is puzzling that people think it is okay to spend a week trying to make everyone&#x27;s setup do the same thing on a project and then not see how this is a problem.<p>It <i>is</i> a problem. It <i>is</i> annoying. It <i>does</i> waste time. It <i>is</i> unnecessary.<p>Tools should be statically linked binaries. I don&#x27;t care what language people use to write tools, be it Rust, Go, C, C++. I just wish people would stop prioritizing ad-hoc development and start to make robust tools that can be trusted to work the same way regardless of what&#x27;s installed on your computer. Python doesn&#x27;t do that. And it doesn&#x27;t help that people get angry and defensive instead of taking this a bit more seriously.<p>That being said, things like PlatformIO are a step in the right direction. I know it is a Python project (and occasionally that turns out to be a problem, but less often that for other tools), but they have the right idea: toolchains have to be managed, SDKs have to be managed, libraries have to be managed, project configuration has to be simple, builds have to be reproducible and they have to be reproducible anywhere and anytime.<p>I wish more of the embedded industry would realize that it would be better to have some common efforts to structure things and not always invent their own stuff. I know a lot of people who work for some of the major MCU manufacturers and I am always disheartened when I talk to them because they tend to be very near-sighted: they are mostly busy trying to solve their own immediate problems and tend to not have a great deal of focus on developers&#x27; needs.</text></comment>
40,233,413	40,231,566	1	2	40,230,988	train	<story><title>Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements</title><url>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231906</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nevermark</author><text>I didn&#x27;t see any mention of having a spinning surface.<p>A tapered cylinder &quot;gravity gym&quot; with adjustable angled walls, and variable speed spinning, could smoothly create much greater &quot;gravity&quot;.<p>Spin gravity would also enable body weight exercises, core exercises, stationary or small area cardio like exercise bikes, VR games, yoga, etc. Even sleeping.<p><i>EDIT: I missed this:</i><p>&gt; but Moon-based centrifuges allowing locomotion inside would pose technical challenges<p>Still think it will be inevitable. Far more useful physically and psychologically. &quot;Spinning surface&quot; is a simple challenge, compared to &quot;low-g health deterioration&quot; and &quot;bored to death of running in circles&quot;.<p>Equipment like this might resolve issues with off-world childbearing. Time to &quot;spin up&quot; some space rabbits and see what we get! (Hopefully not tribbles.)<p>Spin areas will surely become ubiquitous in all low gravity colonies.<p>Startup anyone?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Wild idea: build one on earth to simulate 1.1G (or higher; whatever would still be comfortable) and put gyms, hotels, swimming pool, living quarters, etc. in it. Being in it for extended periods of time would build up muscles and bones. That would likely be something that fitness people and professional athletes would be interested in. And it&#x27;s a good dry run for building and operating these things on Mars and the Moon. If we can make these things work on Earth, making them work in lower gravity is only going to be easier as the g-forces would be lower.<p>A train or roller coaster on a slightly tilted circular track would probably do the job. A slight tilt would just move the gravity vector orthogonal to the floor.</text></comment>	<story><title>Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements</title><url>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231906</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nevermark</author><text>I didn&#x27;t see any mention of having a spinning surface.<p>A tapered cylinder &quot;gravity gym&quot; with adjustable angled walls, and variable speed spinning, could smoothly create much greater &quot;gravity&quot;.<p>Spin gravity would also enable body weight exercises, core exercises, stationary or small area cardio like exercise bikes, VR games, yoga, etc. Even sleeping.<p><i>EDIT: I missed this:</i><p>&gt; but Moon-based centrifuges allowing locomotion inside would pose technical challenges<p>Still think it will be inevitable. Far more useful physically and psychologically. &quot;Spinning surface&quot; is a simple challenge, compared to &quot;low-g health deterioration&quot; and &quot;bored to death of running in circles&quot;.<p>Equipment like this might resolve issues with off-world childbearing. Time to &quot;spin up&quot; some space rabbits and see what we get! (Hopefully not tribbles.)<p>Spin areas will surely become ubiquitous in all low gravity colonies.<p>Startup anyone?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallingsquirrel</author><text>You probably know this already, but for a while people were toying with the idea of a &quot;childbirth centrifuge&quot;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US3216423A&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US3216423A&#x2F;en</a><p>There&#x27;s probably a reason it never caught on.</text></comment>
27,960,733	27,960,044	1	2	27,959,428	train	<story><title>Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants</title><url>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edhelas</author><text>They can thanks Sweden, Finland, France and a few other neighboors to provide them with plenty of electricity and hydraulic backup when they need it (no wind at night).<p>France is sending around 2 to 4 GW of electricity (so mostly nuclear) to Germany all the time, &quot;except&quot; when there is plenty of wind, then France is buying for a really cheap price (sometimes negative) what Germany can&#x27;t use. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rte-france.com&#x2F;eco2mix&#x2F;les-echanges-commerciaux-aux-frontieres" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rte-france.com&#x2F;eco2mix&#x2F;les-echanges-commerciaux-...</a><p>2 to 4 GW is roughly 2 to 4 nuclear reactors at 100%, so one&#x2F;two nuclear powerplants &quot;on an average usage&quot;.<p>You can&#x27;t say that you exited nuclear (or any other kind of energy) when you&#x27;re massively, and really often, importing electricity from this source from across the borders.<p>And your graph is pretty clear. Germany didn&#x27;t &quot;removed fossil fuel&quot;, they replaced around 100GW of coal with 50GW of natural gas + renewable. To me natural gas is still a fossil fuel (with a lighter co2 impact than coal indeed).<p>And in the end the result is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electricitymap.org&#x2F;map" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electricitymap.org&#x2F;map</a> 5 to 10x more CO² impact than France per kwh, even with 2x the nuclear plants setup in France (60GW of nuclear in France against 60GW of wind turbines and 60GW of solar panels in Germany).</text></item><item><author>defaultname</author><text>Fossil fuel&#x27;s use in German power production is falling faster than their nuclear mix is. They never &quot;went back to coal&quot;. In reality renewables now account for almost double nuclear&#x27;s output at its peak.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanenergywire.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;styles&#x2F;gallery_image&#x2F;public&#x2F;paragraphs&#x2F;images&#x2F;fig2a-gross-power-production-germany-1990-2020-source.png?itok=i-kda7MS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanenergywire.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;styles&#x2F;g...</a><p>Germany is absolutely a great example, even if it somehow became the target for the weird cadre of nuclear boosters.</text></item><item><author>wrycoder</author><text>Germany was setting an example, until they shut down their nuclear and went back to coal.</text></item><item><author>jbotz</author><text>According to this article just 5% of the world’s power plants account for almost three-quarters of carbon emissions from electricity generation.<p>I think this may be one of the most encouraging bits of news about AGW that I&#x27;ve seen in a long time. 5% of electric power plants (about 1500 plants) is a lot, but it&#x27;s a manageable lot. This gives us a clearly defined area of attack with a very high ROI. It seems to say: if we&#x27;re going to get serious about saving ourselves, start here and go all in. The paper lists the top 10 polluting plants... unsurprisingly many of them are in China and India, but at least one is in Germany. If Germany wants to set an example, there&#x27;s where to start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cinntaile</author><text>Cross-border electricity is what the future will look like though, it&#x27;s not like it matters if the energy was generated in Germany or Finland when I turn on the lights at home.</text></comment>	<story><title>Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants</title><url>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edhelas</author><text>They can thanks Sweden, Finland, France and a few other neighboors to provide them with plenty of electricity and hydraulic backup when they need it (no wind at night).<p>France is sending around 2 to 4 GW of electricity (so mostly nuclear) to Germany all the time, &quot;except&quot; when there is plenty of wind, then France is buying for a really cheap price (sometimes negative) what Germany can&#x27;t use. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rte-france.com&#x2F;eco2mix&#x2F;les-echanges-commerciaux-aux-frontieres" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rte-france.com&#x2F;eco2mix&#x2F;les-echanges-commerciaux-...</a><p>2 to 4 GW is roughly 2 to 4 nuclear reactors at 100%, so one&#x2F;two nuclear powerplants &quot;on an average usage&quot;.<p>You can&#x27;t say that you exited nuclear (or any other kind of energy) when you&#x27;re massively, and really often, importing electricity from this source from across the borders.<p>And your graph is pretty clear. Germany didn&#x27;t &quot;removed fossil fuel&quot;, they replaced around 100GW of coal with 50GW of natural gas + renewable. To me natural gas is still a fossil fuel (with a lighter co2 impact than coal indeed).<p>And in the end the result is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electricitymap.org&#x2F;map" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electricitymap.org&#x2F;map</a> 5 to 10x more CO² impact than France per kwh, even with 2x the nuclear plants setup in France (60GW of nuclear in France against 60GW of wind turbines and 60GW of solar panels in Germany).</text></item><item><author>defaultname</author><text>Fossil fuel&#x27;s use in German power production is falling faster than their nuclear mix is. They never &quot;went back to coal&quot;. In reality renewables now account for almost double nuclear&#x27;s output at its peak.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanenergywire.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;styles&#x2F;gallery_image&#x2F;public&#x2F;paragraphs&#x2F;images&#x2F;fig2a-gross-power-production-germany-1990-2020-source.png?itok=i-kda7MS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanenergywire.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;styles&#x2F;g...</a><p>Germany is absolutely a great example, even if it somehow became the target for the weird cadre of nuclear boosters.</text></item><item><author>wrycoder</author><text>Germany was setting an example, until they shut down their nuclear and went back to coal.</text></item><item><author>jbotz</author><text>According to this article just 5% of the world’s power plants account for almost three-quarters of carbon emissions from electricity generation.<p>I think this may be one of the most encouraging bits of news about AGW that I&#x27;ve seen in a long time. 5% of electric power plants (about 1500 plants) is a lot, but it&#x27;s a manageable lot. This gives us a clearly defined area of attack with a very high ROI. It seems to say: if we&#x27;re going to get serious about saving ourselves, start here and go all in. The paper lists the top 10 polluting plants... unsurprisingly many of them are in China and India, but at least one is in Germany. If Germany wants to set an example, there&#x27;s where to start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pydry</author><text>The data shows natural gas usage has been pretty much static for a decade: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanenergywire.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;styles&#x2F;gallery_image&#x2F;public&#x2F;paragraphs&#x2F;images&#x2F;fig2a-gross-power-production-germany-1990-2020-source.png?itok=i-kda7MS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleanenergywire.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;styles&#x2F;g...</a><p>Germany is also a net exporter of electricity and exported 13.7Twh more than it imported from France.</text></comment>
34,280,080	34,277,598	1	3	34,276,519	train	<story><title>Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse</title><url>https://pws.byu.edu/great-salt-lake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deet</author><text>As a recent transplant from California to Utah, watching the discussions of this situation play out locally has been interesting.<p>If water were well managed here, the area is potentially blessed over the long term compared to most of the West because there are large amounts of precipitation that fall on the nearby Wasatch and Uinta mountains. These mountains and their snow melt combined with the Great Sale Lake form a somewhat contained water cycle. It&#x27;s a different situation than most southwestern metro areas (Vegas, Phoenix, LA) that rely on distant sources like the Colorado river, and the problems northern Utah faces are more amenable to local solutions.<p>The culture of water use in the urban areas really is surprising compared to say, Southern California or Arizona. There is plenty of water wasted, little restrictions on sprinkler use, etc. This is changing though and many of my neighbors are visibly switching to more sustainable landscaping, with local government incentives.<p>However, urban water use is not the problem even if it&#x27;s what people see every day. The cities do not really need to stop growing (as a NYT piece earlier this year seemed to suggest). The urban areas account for only 9% of diverted water (per the report).<p>The problem seems to be agriculture and trying to grow water-intensive crops in the arid areas west the Wasatch range. 74% of the diverted water is going to agriculture, and cutting that usage by 50% would basically meet the cited amount needed to restore the lake.<p>At this point, it seems to be just a political problem: can the state find the political willpower to force conservation on or buy-out the water rights of the agricultural sector?<p>I&#x27;m hopeful. Although the agricultural sector seems to have plenty of political power historically, other local industries have been growing far faster in economic influence and maintaining the health of the cities will hopefully take priority.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adastra22</author><text>Urban (and suburban) water use isn&#x27;t the problem anywhere. In California it&#x27;s about the same percentage. It is agricultural PR campaigns that try to make water conservation a personal issue, since this diverts attention away from wasteful agricultural water practices which are really to blame.</text></comment>	<story><title>Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse</title><url>https://pws.byu.edu/great-salt-lake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deet</author><text>As a recent transplant from California to Utah, watching the discussions of this situation play out locally has been interesting.<p>If water were well managed here, the area is potentially blessed over the long term compared to most of the West because there are large amounts of precipitation that fall on the nearby Wasatch and Uinta mountains. These mountains and their snow melt combined with the Great Sale Lake form a somewhat contained water cycle. It&#x27;s a different situation than most southwestern metro areas (Vegas, Phoenix, LA) that rely on distant sources like the Colorado river, and the problems northern Utah faces are more amenable to local solutions.<p>The culture of water use in the urban areas really is surprising compared to say, Southern California or Arizona. There is plenty of water wasted, little restrictions on sprinkler use, etc. This is changing though and many of my neighbors are visibly switching to more sustainable landscaping, with local government incentives.<p>However, urban water use is not the problem even if it&#x27;s what people see every day. The cities do not really need to stop growing (as a NYT piece earlier this year seemed to suggest). The urban areas account for only 9% of diverted water (per the report).<p>The problem seems to be agriculture and trying to grow water-intensive crops in the arid areas west the Wasatch range. 74% of the diverted water is going to agriculture, and cutting that usage by 50% would basically meet the cited amount needed to restore the lake.<p>At this point, it seems to be just a political problem: can the state find the political willpower to force conservation on or buy-out the water rights of the agricultural sector?<p>I&#x27;m hopeful. Although the agricultural sector seems to have plenty of political power historically, other local industries have been growing far faster in economic influence and maintaining the health of the cities will hopefully take priority.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>The question is: what do the agricultural business interests plan to do? They basically have two strategic choices: 1) try to fix things, taking a short term hit for long-term business sustainability, 2) obstruct fixing things, extracting as much value as they can before the collapse, and plan to exit as soon as the collapse really starts to hurt.<p>If the businesses go with option 2, you&#x27;re basically SoL unless someone attempts to stand up to them.</text></comment>
20,351,902	20,350,184	1	2	20,348,365	train	<story><title>Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen</title><url>https://grumpy.website/post/0S6F8ozn5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zoomablemind</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how much the UI is indeed at play here, rather than the User&#x27;s state. The keyword here is &#x27;rental&#x27;. This seems to just amplify grumpiness.<p>Picking a rented car, I normally don&#x27;t spend much effort trying to figure out all features. Just basics - adjust the seat, the mirrors, reset the trip, rarely link up the phone. Touch-n-go.<p>It always gets irritating later, as I would try to figure some needed feature while already on the go. Climate, radio, what&#x27;s that beeping, which side is the fuel port (while already pulling to the pump), the curiously long-lasting parfum on the seat-belt from the previous renter at times triggering unexpected memories...<p>I guess, it&#x27;s just a mild form of self-inflicted road rage. RTFM would be an easy answer, but we all know how that works out.</text></item><item><author>amatecha</author><text>Yeah, I&#x27;ve rented latest-model Renault and Peugeot cars in Europe and I cannot believe this stuff. It&#x27;s probably same in new North American vehicles, but I haven&#x27;t driven those.<p>This Peugeot 308 was trying to kill me with its &quot;lane assist&quot; in a construction zone, forcefully steering the car towards the concrete barrier because the painted lines on the road were tapering towards the concrete barrier (due to the construction). I finally found out how to turn that off _after_ nearly being killed.<p>Make my car less like a desktop computer, please.<p>My favorite is _waiting for the car to boot up_ so I can turn on the air conditioning in the sweltering heat :)<p>There&#x27;s also the joy of fumbling through terribly-designed touch screen menus so you can turn off the radio that for some reason auto-tuned to some nearby station. Since my FM transmitter wasn&#x27;t broadcasting audio I guess the car just decides it needs to get something pumping through the speakers ASAP.<p>The other hilarious thing is the cruise control pretty much slamming on the brakes because someone merged into my lane 300m+ ahead (not even slightly at risk of driving into them because they are about the same speed as me). I guess the system that detects an obstruction ahead cannot tell that it&#x27;s moving at the same speed as me. Not surprising, but regardless, can I please be the driver of the vehicle?<p>Oh yeah and how about those software-driven dash gauges that feel like they have a full second of latency? The ability to customize the UI skin is something I want for WinAmp, not my car&#x27;s tachometer and speedometer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quanticle</author><text>That reinforces the article&#x27;s point. Having a car as a rental allows you to see its UI foibles without the blinders that inevitably come down when people are forced to adapt to some problem over a long period of time. And like the OP says, the UI of most modern cars is <i>horrendously bad</i>. For example, my personal car is a 2019 Subaru Legacy. I rather like it. But there&#x27;s no way to make it start with the stereo off. If the car is on, the stereo is on. The only way to turn the audio off is to twist the volume knob all the way down to zero before you turn off the car.<p>When I first had the car, I found this to be totally ridiculous. Whoever heard of a car that automatically turns on the radio when it starts? But, after having had the car for a month, the problem is already fading, as I&#x27;ve developed a habit of turning the volume down before I turn off the car. At this rate, six months from now, like you, I&#x27;ll be <i>defending</i> this anti-feature. (Hey, you&#x27;re going to turn the radio on anyway when you drive, so why not have the car do it for you on startup?)<p>I agree that the key word is rental, but my conclusion is exactly the opposite of yours. The fact that this is an unfamiliar rental is what is allowing the OP to see the issues with the car&#x27;s UX clearly. If the car were his daily driver, he&#x27;d have adapted to it, and he wouldn&#x27;t notice himself getting distracted.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.subaruxvforum.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;interior-audio-hvac&#x2F;146089-turning-radio-off-so-will-stay-off.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.subaruxvforum.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;interior-audio-hvac&#x2F;1460...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen</title><url>https://grumpy.website/post/0S6F8ozn5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zoomablemind</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how much the UI is indeed at play here, rather than the User&#x27;s state. The keyword here is &#x27;rental&#x27;. This seems to just amplify grumpiness.<p>Picking a rented car, I normally don&#x27;t spend much effort trying to figure out all features. Just basics - adjust the seat, the mirrors, reset the trip, rarely link up the phone. Touch-n-go.<p>It always gets irritating later, as I would try to figure some needed feature while already on the go. Climate, radio, what&#x27;s that beeping, which side is the fuel port (while already pulling to the pump), the curiously long-lasting parfum on the seat-belt from the previous renter at times triggering unexpected memories...<p>I guess, it&#x27;s just a mild form of self-inflicted road rage. RTFM would be an easy answer, but we all know how that works out.</text></item><item><author>amatecha</author><text>Yeah, I&#x27;ve rented latest-model Renault and Peugeot cars in Europe and I cannot believe this stuff. It&#x27;s probably same in new North American vehicles, but I haven&#x27;t driven those.<p>This Peugeot 308 was trying to kill me with its &quot;lane assist&quot; in a construction zone, forcefully steering the car towards the concrete barrier because the painted lines on the road were tapering towards the concrete barrier (due to the construction). I finally found out how to turn that off _after_ nearly being killed.<p>Make my car less like a desktop computer, please.<p>My favorite is _waiting for the car to boot up_ so I can turn on the air conditioning in the sweltering heat :)<p>There&#x27;s also the joy of fumbling through terribly-designed touch screen menus so you can turn off the radio that for some reason auto-tuned to some nearby station. Since my FM transmitter wasn&#x27;t broadcasting audio I guess the car just decides it needs to get something pumping through the speakers ASAP.<p>The other hilarious thing is the cruise control pretty much slamming on the brakes because someone merged into my lane 300m+ ahead (not even slightly at risk of driving into them because they are about the same speed as me). I guess the system that detects an obstruction ahead cannot tell that it&#x27;s moving at the same speed as me. Not surprising, but regardless, can I please be the driver of the vehicle?<p>Oh yeah and how about those software-driven dash gauges that feel like they have a full second of latency? The ability to customize the UI skin is something I want for WinAmp, not my car&#x27;s tachometer and speedometer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RayVR</author><text>You&#x27;re really ignoring the main point that the tech in these machines makes them more difficult to use and less intuitive.<p>I&#x27;m wondering how many cars you drove that did not have any screens. Having grown up during a time when the most sophisticated display was the LCD for the radio station, I can assure you car interfaces are getting worse.<p>Japanese cars used to be my favorite because they had consistent manual interfaces across models. Perhaps Renault and Peugeot have always had bad design but the digitization of the interfaces and the software that&#x27;s now controlling some aspects of the actual driving makes them more dangerous.</text></comment>
8,695,787	8,695,724	1	2	8,693,767	train	<story><title>Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”</title><url>http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjt0229</author><text>DDG is excellent most of the time, but way behind when doing video or map searches. I have it as my default in most places, but sometimes I just have to fall back to Google.</text></item><item><author>robertfw</author><text><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>jotm</author><text>Saying &quot;just don&#x27;t use Google&#x2F;Bing&#x2F;search engines&quot; is like saying &quot;don&#x27;t use the airlines&quot;.<p>The security checks suck big time, but really, these services are must-have and there is no better alternative.<p>Complaining and hoping for some change is all that&#x27;s left.</text></item><item><author>xtracto</author><text>&gt; and it&#x27;s frankly very insulting and rather disturbing that they think someone who inputs &quot;unusual&quot; search queries, according to their measure, is not human.<p>Insulting? how is that insulting? You are entitled. You are entitled you block scripts, use Google&#x27;s FREE service to perform any search query to search the web while blocking any program that attempts to identify you as not a bot.<p>But if while using their free service they cannot identify you as a human given the factors they measure(becuase you actively disabled the programs that measure such factors), then I see nothing wrong in them trying alternative ways (which were a standard before).<p>I think you are making a storm in a teacup. If you feel offended by the way their website work, just don&#x27;t use them. I don&#x27;t see any red flags at all.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>&quot;If we can collect behavioural data from you, and it matches closely the behaviour of other humans, you are a human. Otherwise you&#x27;re not a human.&quot;<p>Does anyone else get that feeling from the description of what Google is doing? I&#x27;ve tripped their &quot;we think you are a bot&quot; detection filter and been presented with a captcha countless times while using complex search queries and searching for relatively obscure things, and it&#x27;s frankly very insulting and rather disturbing that they think someone who inputs &quot;unusual&quot; search queries, according to their measure, is not human. I have JS and cookies disabled so they definitely cannot track my mouse movements and I can&#x27;t use this way of verifying &quot;humanness&quot;, but what if they get rid of the regular captchas completely (based on the argument that eventually the only ones who will make use of and solve them are bots)? Then they&#x27;ll basically be saying &quot;you are a human only if you have a browser that supports these features, behave in this way, and act like every other human who does.&quot; The fact that Google is attempting to define and thus strongly normalise what is human behaviour is definitely a big red flag to me.<p>(Or maybe I&#x27;m really a bot, just an extremely intelligent one. :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>firloop</author><text>Agreed. Additionally, DDG is useless when searching for current news events. Google is great at flowing in headlines for recent events with searches, which often leads me to include the &quot;!g&quot; bang if searching for a recent issue&#x2F;store.</text></comment>	<story><title>Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”</title><url>http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjt0229</author><text>DDG is excellent most of the time, but way behind when doing video or map searches. I have it as my default in most places, but sometimes I just have to fall back to Google.</text></item><item><author>robertfw</author><text><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>jotm</author><text>Saying &quot;just don&#x27;t use Google&#x2F;Bing&#x2F;search engines&quot; is like saying &quot;don&#x27;t use the airlines&quot;.<p>The security checks suck big time, but really, these services are must-have and there is no better alternative.<p>Complaining and hoping for some change is all that&#x27;s left.</text></item><item><author>xtracto</author><text>&gt; and it&#x27;s frankly very insulting and rather disturbing that they think someone who inputs &quot;unusual&quot; search queries, according to their measure, is not human.<p>Insulting? how is that insulting? You are entitled. You are entitled you block scripts, use Google&#x27;s FREE service to perform any search query to search the web while blocking any program that attempts to identify you as not a bot.<p>But if while using their free service they cannot identify you as a human given the factors they measure(becuase you actively disabled the programs that measure such factors), then I see nothing wrong in them trying alternative ways (which were a standard before).<p>I think you are making a storm in a teacup. If you feel offended by the way their website work, just don&#x27;t use them. I don&#x27;t see any red flags at all.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>&quot;If we can collect behavioural data from you, and it matches closely the behaviour of other humans, you are a human. Otherwise you&#x27;re not a human.&quot;<p>Does anyone else get that feeling from the description of what Google is doing? I&#x27;ve tripped their &quot;we think you are a bot&quot; detection filter and been presented with a captcha countless times while using complex search queries and searching for relatively obscure things, and it&#x27;s frankly very insulting and rather disturbing that they think someone who inputs &quot;unusual&quot; search queries, according to their measure, is not human. I have JS and cookies disabled so they definitely cannot track my mouse movements and I can&#x27;t use this way of verifying &quot;humanness&quot;, but what if they get rid of the regular captchas completely (based on the argument that eventually the only ones who will make use of and solve them are bots)? Then they&#x27;ll basically be saying &quot;you are a human only if you have a browser that supports these features, behave in this way, and act like every other human who does.&quot; The fact that Google is attempting to define and thus strongly normalise what is human behaviour is definitely a big red flag to me.<p>(Or maybe I&#x27;m really a bot, just an extremely intelligent one. :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mod</author><text>I don&#x27;t disagree, but it did trump the point of the comment it replied to.<p>DDG will get the job done.</text></comment>
40,961,483	40,961,446	1	2	40,959,937	train	<story><title>Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets</title><url>https://longform.asmartbear.com/annual-prepay/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ttul</author><text>This works until it doesn’t. I have seen many startups raise a ton of cash from pre-payments, burn it on marketing and R&amp;D, and then find that the cashflow isn’t forthcoming as expected. I force my companies to clearly show prepaid revenue on their balance sheet and treat it as debt. Any discounts provided to win the pre-payment also have to be recorded as a financing cost - not a “sales discount” or buried in lower ARR. It might be borrowed from your customers, but it’s still debt and you have to “service” it by providing products and services that do have a marginal cost. Showing the financing cost achieves two things:<p>1. It allows you to run a higher EBITDA metrics because financing costs are backed out of EBITDA.<p>2. You record the non-discounted revenue for the customer, which is a truer representation of where the business could be one day when it’s no longer playing the pre-payment game to generate cashflow.<p>Generally speaking, it’s a good idea to generate cash from pre-payments, but don’t treat it as free no-risk money. You can get over your skis quickly, run out of cash, and then be in a world of hurt when you’re unable to service those customers.</text></comment>	<story><title>Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets</title><url>https://longform.asmartbear.com/annual-prepay/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I generally prefer to prepay a year. It tends to knock a bit off the price, and is less annoying, as I&#x27;m not constantly getting notices of withdrawal. Many companies will actually refund the unused portion, if you cancel early.<p>However, <i>lifetime</i> subscriptions seem to be almost worthless, as I have yet to encounter a company that doesn&#x27;t redefine &quot;lifetime,&quot; to mean the lifetime of the subscription, which ends, whenever they want.</text></comment>
37,821,266	37,820,872	1	3	37,819,114	train	<story><title>Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup</title><url>https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/10/09/zimaboard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alias_neo</author><text>We don&#x27;t all live in countries where electricity is near-free.<p>In the UK, it would cost more in electricity than the $200 Zimaboard to run one of those eBay machines for a single year.<p>e.g. 90W 24&#x2F;7 for a year is ~£212 (~$258 US), 60W 24&#x2F;7: ~£142 ($173 US)<p>In this price range, power-consumption is a _major_ decision factor.</text></item><item><author>justinclift</author><text>&gt; This variant of the board costs 200 USD ...<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound like a good deal when compared with 2nd hand microservers and small form factor PCs from Ebay.<p>Things like these:<p>∙ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;175917817224" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;175917817224</a> ⇦ 2x NVMe slots<p>∙ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;204477355543" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;204477355543</a> ⇦ 4x 3.5&quot; drives, ECC memory capable<p>Note - I don&#x27;t know those sellers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dominick-cc</author><text>If you want low power, check out the N100 systems that are out now. They use like 3W. I bought the N200 from this deal recently and it&#x27;s a great little machine that can handle a lot of Plex transcodes <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slickdeals.net&#x2F;f&#x2F;16934029-msi-cubi-n-adl-dual-nic-intel-n100-or-n200-mini-pc-nuc-newegg-119-99" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slickdeals.net&#x2F;f&#x2F;16934029-msi-cubi-n-adl-dual-nic-in...</a><p>It&#x27;s interesting that these N100 systems can cost less than some of the Zima products. So for me, I don&#x27;t see much of an upside of going with them.</text></comment>	<story><title>Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup</title><url>https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/10/09/zimaboard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alias_neo</author><text>We don&#x27;t all live in countries where electricity is near-free.<p>In the UK, it would cost more in electricity than the $200 Zimaboard to run one of those eBay machines for a single year.<p>e.g. 90W 24&#x2F;7 for a year is ~£212 (~$258 US), 60W 24&#x2F;7: ~£142 ($173 US)<p>In this price range, power-consumption is a _major_ decision factor.</text></item><item><author>justinclift</author><text>&gt; This variant of the board costs 200 USD ...<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound like a good deal when compared with 2nd hand microservers and small form factor PCs from Ebay.<p>Things like these:<p>∙ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;175917817224" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;175917817224</a> ⇦ 2x NVMe slots<p>∙ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;204477355543" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;204477355543</a> ⇦ 4x 3.5&quot; drives, ECC memory capable<p>Note - I don&#x27;t know those sellers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zetobal</author><text>It&#x27;s not the 00s anymore hardware can idle and handle light workloads without sucking the full tdp out of the socket.</text></comment>
18,129,091	18,128,674	1	3	18,128,063	train	<story><title>It doesn't have to be crazy at work</title><url>https://basecamp.com/books/calm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a tiny industry here and no-one is looking to build the next facebook, they&#x27;re just looking to do interesting work whilst also having a good life.<p>This is something I miss in all the &quot;Europe doesn&#x27;t have the next Google, Europe doesn&#x27;t have the next Facebook&quot; discussions: Is this really a problem? We could if we wanted, but why would we want? Working like crazy for .. what?</text></item><item><author>dominicr</author><text>The workaholic side of me used to like the crazy but the aging me likes a better work&#x2F;life balance.<p>I&#x27;m British but recently moved to Oslo, Norway. Until recently I worked at a start-up incubator where there was talk about the &#x27;extreme&#x27; start up work life. For Norwegians that meant that they left the office at 5pm instead of 3:30 or 4pm. By 6pm the hot desk office space was normally empty and the lights switched themselves off.<p>It&#x27;s a tiny industry here and no-one is looking to build the next facebook, they&#x27;re just looking to do interesting work whilst also having a good life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndyMcConachie</author><text>You may be surprised. I was talking to an American friend who works in the maritime industry and he was completely jealous of the Norwegian start up scene. In the maritime industry.<p>People make money doing things besides computers. Sometimes I think HackerNews folks forget that.</text></comment>	<story><title>It doesn't have to be crazy at work</title><url>https://basecamp.com/books/calm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a tiny industry here and no-one is looking to build the next facebook, they&#x27;re just looking to do interesting work whilst also having a good life.<p>This is something I miss in all the &quot;Europe doesn&#x27;t have the next Google, Europe doesn&#x27;t have the next Facebook&quot; discussions: Is this really a problem? We could if we wanted, but why would we want? Working like crazy for .. what?</text></item><item><author>dominicr</author><text>The workaholic side of me used to like the crazy but the aging me likes a better work&#x2F;life balance.<p>I&#x27;m British but recently moved to Oslo, Norway. Until recently I worked at a start-up incubator where there was talk about the &#x27;extreme&#x27; start up work life. For Norwegians that meant that they left the office at 5pm instead of 3:30 or 4pm. By 6pm the hot desk office space was normally empty and the lights switched themselves off.<p>It&#x27;s a tiny industry here and no-one is looking to build the next facebook, they&#x27;re just looking to do interesting work whilst also having a good life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rolodato</author><text>Those discussions&#x2F;articles are mostly started by Americans, not Europeans.</text></comment>
41,012,691	41,012,180	1	2	41,011,779	train	<story><title>Academics shocked after T&F sells access to their research to Microsoft AI</title><url>https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>Information should be free. We subsidize scientific research to the tune of trillions of dollars—not to support to livelihood of grad students; not to create jobs in the publishing industry; but on the theory the fruit of that research has planet-wide benefits. We throw money hand-over-fist at scientific research because we view that as <i>investing in civilization</i>. If we believe that, and we believe research progress builds on top of other research, then the conclusion is we ought to minimize the friction of discovering other groups&#x27; research results, and maximize their availability. Make the act of research as easy and painless as possible.<p>Scientific research output should be free, universally, without hindrance.<p>It&#x27;s myopic to try extract wealth from this public good by siloing it, by toll-gating access to it. Like barricading a public highway with toll-booths every 500 meters: it&#x27;s a myopia that&#x27;s blind to the public-good value of infrastructure—a myopia of greed that&#x27;s a universal drain on public wealth, for some petty local optimization.<p>If you obstruct ML models on some financial profit theory, you&#x27;re obstructing not only the ML entities; you&#x27;re obstructing the thousand researchers downstream who stand to benefit from them. You&#x27;re standing the in road blocking traffic, collecting tolls; you&#x27;ve not only stopped the vehicle in front of you, you&#x27;ve stopped a thousand more stranded behind it. It is a public nuisance.</text></comment>	<story><title>Academics shocked after T&F sells access to their research to Microsoft AI</title><url>https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>The only thing I&#x27;m &#x27;shocked&#x27; by is the idea that anyone needs to pay to access my academic writing for model training. I would hope that using my academic writing to train models would be considered fair use.</text></comment>
7,829,338	7,828,621	1	3	7,828,430	train	<story><title>Strongest chess player, ever</title><url>http://en.lichess.org/blog/U4mtoEQAAEEAgZRL/strongest-chess-player-ever</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfologist</author><text>This is extremely impressive - it&#x27;s cool that talented programmers are pushing the limits of computer science to advance the state of the art of chess engines.<p>However, I also wish that there were comparable efforts to create AIs that train humans. Basically, figure out a way to systematically, efficiently, and scalably train amateurs into masters. That IMO would be absolutely amazing (and something I&#x27;d gladly pay for).</text></comment>	<story><title>Strongest chess player, ever</title><url>http://en.lichess.org/blog/U4mtoEQAAEEAgZRL/strongest-chess-player-ever</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>note that it&#x27;s just a chess &quot;engine&quot; and doesn&#x27;t come with a human-usable front-end.<p>But it&#x27;s not hard to get the thing to use xboard in linux.<p>This is what i use to invoke it: xboard -fUCI -fcp stockfish -sUCI -scp stockfish&amp;<p>it&#x27;s very challenging - and in my experience, will unfortunately peg a core unless you explicitly pause the front end (the &quot;P&quot; button in between the two arrows in the upper right)</text></comment>
35,935,044	35,934,938	1	3	35,934,445	train	<story><title>FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)</title><url>https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/freebsd-13-2-on-thinkpad-t14-gen1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>7speter</author><text>The OpenBox desktop environment looks pretty sharp, is that what it looks like by default? I tried XFCE in OpenSuse and it was really barebones and much more... opinionated than I ever remember it being in Ubuntu or Fedora... maybe I&#x27;m just getting more impatient with configuring DEs and just want to get to doing things...<p>Also: &gt;As the ThinkPad T490 was released Lenovo needed to rethink their naming convention as the next one could have been ThinkPad T4100 (like 100 is after 90) or something different as T500 was already taken by older model … their new naming scheme is not bad – definitely better then their idea of newer keyboard layout after ditching the 7-row keyboard from 2011 and earlier models.<p>I&#x27;ve been wondering what Nvidia is going to when As the ThinkPad T490 was released Lenovo needed to rethink their naming convention as the next one could have been ThinkPad T4100 (like 100 is after 90) or something different as T500 was already taken by older model … their new naming scheme is not bad – definitely better then their idea of newer keyboard layout after ditching the 7-row keyboard from 2011 and earlier models.they either debut the generation after the presumable 90 series or increase their models by a magnitude of 10 with the presumable Path Tracing (PTX?) series... will the midtier card be the 10700 or the 10070?</text></comment>	<story><title>FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)</title><url>https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/freebsd-13-2-on-thinkpad-t14-gen1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aborsy</author><text>What’s the advantage of running BSD on desktop? Even, is it usable?</text></comment>
20,363,598	20,363,582	1	3	20,362,329	train	<story><title>Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/safer-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-way/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jabl</author><text>I&#x27;m slightly skeptical of accident tolerant fuels (ATF).<p>In terms of deaths per kWh generated, nuclear is already the safest form of energy generation we have.<p>Where nuclear fails, and where improvement is desperately needed, is ability to deliver on budget and within schedule.<p>What is NOT needed is minor incremental safety improvements at significant cost (e.g. ATF&#x27;s that the article discusses).<p>Now, more substantial improvements, e.g. non-LWR designs, passive walk-away safety, modular design, etc., I&#x27;m all for those.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>Hear hear! I think the nuclear industry struggles with finding a balance between sunk costs (e.g. TRISO fuel development under NGNP, the TREAT reactor, ATR, the BISON fuel performance code), and what advances the nuclear industry really needs to survive and thrive. At a NRC meeting a while ago, one of the members of the ACRS asked pointedly what regulatory relief they expect to get from ATF. No one knew. Is the NRC going to relax a bunch of regs when we have ATF and somehow allow nuclear to be cheaper without compromising safety? No way.<p>We need ways to minimize financing costs during construction, and get the number of staff required at operating plants way down to decrease O&amp;M. My favorite solution? Shipyard-constructed nukes on floating platforms, tugged to locations for power and tugged back to port for maintenance. Solves almost all problems assuming you can get them to operate largely autonomously. In attacks or ship collisions, design it to sink safely and cool itself with seawater. Build in a recovery operation to the design.<p>Also, the nuclear industry really needs to find ways to consolidate effort. There are literally 50+ SMR designs in work right now, and dozens more larger reactors. The industry is wayyy to small to be fighting over limited investor and government money to develop that many reactors in isolation.</text></comment>	<story><title>Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/safer-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-way/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jabl</author><text>I&#x27;m slightly skeptical of accident tolerant fuels (ATF).<p>In terms of deaths per kWh generated, nuclear is already the safest form of energy generation we have.<p>Where nuclear fails, and where improvement is desperately needed, is ability to deliver on budget and within schedule.<p>What is NOT needed is minor incremental safety improvements at significant cost (e.g. ATF&#x27;s that the article discusses).<p>Now, more substantial improvements, e.g. non-LWR designs, passive walk-away safety, modular design, etc., I&#x27;m all for those.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>That’s not accurate. “Rooftop” solar is minimally dangerous to install, but large scale solar fields on empty land is extremely safe per kWh.<p>PS: Nuclear also has many deaths not generally included in these statistics. As building and operating a power plant is not the only risky things you need to do to have nuclear power. Ex: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4164879&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4164879&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
23,547,708	23,547,818	1	2	23,546,604	train	<story><title>Canada extends financial aid for millions for two more months</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-extended-trudeau-1.5613782</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexashka</author><text>In the short term, it&#x27;s great.<p>It really doesn&#x27;t take much to tell banks to add numbers to people&#x27;s bank accounts.<p>What it&#x27;s really doing is subsidizing everybody that works in or is tied to non-essential face-to-face service industry, by everyone else.<p>It&#x27;s really not even that interesting, other than seeing how easily frazzled people are by the slightest calamity - why is non-essential services taking a vacation for a few months at the expense of everyone else supposed to be a major event with long-lasting consequences?<p>Imagine you have a family and you lose your job. If you have savings for a couple of years, you can take it easy for a while and then go look for a job and find one 6 months later. Was anything other than your ego bruised by the loss of the job? No, not really.<p>Why doesn&#x27;t this analogy translate to what&#x27;s happening with covid? I&#x27;m guessing because not only have you lost your job, but you owe tens of millions in gambling debts and spent half your waking hours convincing various factions to give you some extra time to come up with the money.<p>That&#x27;s what the economy looks like to me and I find it difficult to be sympathetic - people need a reality check and get back to living a simpler life with less shit being bought and sold all the time. It is within my lifetime that I&#x27;ve gone from owning 2 t-shirts to 20 and I have no idea why. I can go back to wearing 2 and my life will be the same - I just hope others can see the silver lining in all this and not go back to living frivolously.</text></item><item><author>lux</author><text>As a Canadian business owner, we&#x27;re super lucky to be in Canada right now, and for the supports that have been put into place for people and businesses alike.<p>Our company was luckily not hit badly enough to qualify for the 75% support on salaries (we did get a line of credit!), but I know several others who needed it and got the support they needed which is great!<p>It&#x27;s not perfect - rent supports for storefronts, restaurants, bars, etc. could be better, for example - and it won&#x27;t save everyone or every business, but it&#x27;s made a difference in many lives and helped us stay home and quarantine more effectively without so much worry about making ends meet.<p>I just hope more Canadians remember it was the NDP fighting for a lot of these supports come election time :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempestn</author><text>It&#x27;s reasonable for individuals to aim for a few months of emergency funds. It&#x27;s not reasonable to expect main street businesses to have cash on hand to cover many months of near zero revenue. Most small businesses just don&#x27;t have the margins for that to be viable. If you expect every individual restaurant to be able to weather a period of months when no one goes to restaurants without any kind of assistance, the only restaurants you&#x27;ll get will be large chains.<p>Much like running government &#x27;like a business&#x27;, the analogy of running a business &#x27;like a household&#x27; only takes you so far. They&#x27;re fundamentally different things.</text></comment>	<story><title>Canada extends financial aid for millions for two more months</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-extended-trudeau-1.5613782</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexashka</author><text>In the short term, it&#x27;s great.<p>It really doesn&#x27;t take much to tell banks to add numbers to people&#x27;s bank accounts.<p>What it&#x27;s really doing is subsidizing everybody that works in or is tied to non-essential face-to-face service industry, by everyone else.<p>It&#x27;s really not even that interesting, other than seeing how easily frazzled people are by the slightest calamity - why is non-essential services taking a vacation for a few months at the expense of everyone else supposed to be a major event with long-lasting consequences?<p>Imagine you have a family and you lose your job. If you have savings for a couple of years, you can take it easy for a while and then go look for a job and find one 6 months later. Was anything other than your ego bruised by the loss of the job? No, not really.<p>Why doesn&#x27;t this analogy translate to what&#x27;s happening with covid? I&#x27;m guessing because not only have you lost your job, but you owe tens of millions in gambling debts and spent half your waking hours convincing various factions to give you some extra time to come up with the money.<p>That&#x27;s what the economy looks like to me and I find it difficult to be sympathetic - people need a reality check and get back to living a simpler life with less shit being bought and sold all the time. It is within my lifetime that I&#x27;ve gone from owning 2 t-shirts to 20 and I have no idea why. I can go back to wearing 2 and my life will be the same - I just hope others can see the silver lining in all this and not go back to living frivolously.</text></item><item><author>lux</author><text>As a Canadian business owner, we&#x27;re super lucky to be in Canada right now, and for the supports that have been put into place for people and businesses alike.<p>Our company was luckily not hit badly enough to qualify for the 75% support on salaries (we did get a line of credit!), but I know several others who needed it and got the support they needed which is great!<p>It&#x27;s not perfect - rent supports for storefronts, restaurants, bars, etc. could be better, for example - and it won&#x27;t save everyone or every business, but it&#x27;s made a difference in many lives and helped us stay home and quarantine more effectively without so much worry about making ends meet.<p>I just hope more Canadians remember it was the NDP fighting for a lot of these supports come election time :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zrobotics</author><text>OK, expecting multiple years of savings is just flat-out unrealistic. Even the more hardcore financial advisers only recommend 9 months.<p>Plus, who owns 2 t-shirts? Are you doing laundry daily? Hate to break it to you, but that isn&#x27;t exactly great for the environment either. My father grew up poor as hell on a farm, and even he had 6 shirts. To this day he will comment that they were darned to the point of being patchwork, but owning 20 shirts doesn&#x27;t seem like a huge extravagance. Even with homemade clothing, that isn&#x27;t a ridiculous wardrobe.<p>There is definitely a consumerist culture and people buy stuff they don&#x27;t need, but in the context of this article &amp; the pandemic the people receiving this aid need it. I don&#x27;t mean to be negative, but there are 0eople making the decision between paying rent and eating; calling out consumerism for this is in poor taste.</text></comment>
32,723,374	32,722,437	1	3	32,712,368	train	<story><title>Johnny Mnemonic in Black-and-White</title><url>https://www.screenslate.com/articles/johnny-mnemonic-black-and-white-robert-longo-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>Robocop was hardly a cyberpunk movie</text></item><item><author>tmm84</author><text>I remember watching it in the theatre as a kid and was blown away by it. I find it interesting that it had Cronenberg&#x27;s editor working on it as well. Aside from stuff like Robocop and a couple of other things this was a cyberpunk movie I really got into. Ice T, Keanu and a dolphin all in one movie. I can wait for it to get released internationally so I can see it in my region in black and white.</text></item><item><author>cjk</author><text>It&#x27;s not hard to understand why some people think it&#x27;s terrible, but I&#x27;ve always adored this movie. I think it was maybe my first experience with anything “cyberpunk.”<p>Looking forward to watching this black and white version. (Note: available on Amazon for anyone else looking for it.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelCollins</author><text>The scene where you witness the protagonist&#x27;s conversion into a robot from his point of view could be straight out of Ghost in the Shell. Actually, I don&#x27;t think GITS is nearly so cynical; Robocop is nearly as cyber but even more punk. OCP and the government turn him into a machine with a callous disregard for his rights and wellbeing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2z8tQqZG8gI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2z8tQqZG8gI</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Johnny Mnemonic in Black-and-White</title><url>https://www.screenslate.com/articles/johnny-mnemonic-black-and-white-robert-longo-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>Robocop was hardly a cyberpunk movie</text></item><item><author>tmm84</author><text>I remember watching it in the theatre as a kid and was blown away by it. I find it interesting that it had Cronenberg&#x27;s editor working on it as well. Aside from stuff like Robocop and a couple of other things this was a cyberpunk movie I really got into. Ice T, Keanu and a dolphin all in one movie. I can wait for it to get released internationally so I can see it in my region in black and white.</text></item><item><author>cjk</author><text>It&#x27;s not hard to understand why some people think it&#x27;s terrible, but I&#x27;ve always adored this movie. I think it was maybe my first experience with anything “cyberpunk.”<p>Looking forward to watching this black and white version. (Note: available on Amazon for anyone else looking for it.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narism</author><text>I think quite a few people would say otherwise: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arrowfilms.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;features&#x2F;is-robocop-the-ultimate-cyberpunk-film&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arrowfilms.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;features&#x2F;is-robocop-the-ulti...</a></text></comment>
10,597,309	10,597,474	1	2	10,588,316	train	<story><title>Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)</title><url>http://chalain.livejournal.com/68788.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MAGZine</author><text>The EnterpriseQualityCoding version of FizzBuzz[0] is the ultimate (hilarious) version of this. Though, there is still some room for development of node, js, etc versions.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding&#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding&#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpris...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esaym</author><text>Ah you beat me too it. I used to have parts of that and the dailywtf version hanging in my office: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thedailywtf.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;The-Fizz-Buzz-from-Outer-Space" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thedailywtf.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;The-Fizz-Buzz-from-Outer-Spa...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)</title><url>http://chalain.livejournal.com/68788.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MAGZine</author><text>The EnterpriseQualityCoding version of FizzBuzz[0] is the ultimate (hilarious) version of this. Though, there is still some room for development of node, js, etc versions.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding&#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding&#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpris...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vcarl</author><text>I also love this one.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adamtornhill.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fizzbuzz.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adamtornhill.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fizzbuzz.htm</a><p>Fizzbuzz implemented as C++ compiler errors.</text></comment>
17,445,166	17,445,162	1	2	17,444,202	train	<story><title>SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners</title><url>https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2018-07/msg00000.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syntaxing</author><text>How does something like this work when there are parts of the code that is community driven. Do the volunteers get any share of the pie?<p>That being said, is there still a lot of people that use SUSE? I remember a lot of people used to rave (particularly academic) about it due to it&#x27;s stability. I remember playing with their distro builder a couple of years ago and you can choose the specific packages and settings to install which was super neat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ItsMe000001</author><text>Your question is from a long-gone era, when it was all about the &quot;Linux distribution&quot; as such (a time when I myself still worked for one of those big Linux companies). These days that&#x27;s just a necessary but in the end secondary item. Instead the business is all about &quot;enterprise stuff&quot;: clusters, storage, cloud, SAP, devops, HPC - i.e. &quot;solutions&quot;. The Linux distribution merely is the vehicle and the basis, the actual business is well on top of it though, on another level. Check out what redhat.com and suse.com present on their respective homepages (no need to go deep, just the headlines - the SuSE pages show it a bit better I think, open the &quot;Products &amp; Solutions&quot; menu on suse.com for an overview). I follow a few people I knew at SuSE and whenever they post something on social media it&#x27;s cluster these, high availability stuff that, distributed storage here, containers there. It&#x27;s never about the &quot;boring&quot; Linux OS level any more, always about software and solutions on top of it.<p>By the way, I just checked the job listings (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.suse.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.suse.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a>) to see what they are up to, and there are 320 open positions? Really? Did they grow that much? When I left the Linux world almost 15 years ago that was about the total size of that company, that was just a few years after Novell had acquired it. It confirms the impression I had from loosely following some SuSE engineer&#x27;s social media posts, getting handed over to new owners again and again does not seemed to have hindered them from growing quite a bit. Wikipedia says they have a thousand employees now.</text></comment>	<story><title>SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners</title><url>https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2018-07/msg00000.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syntaxing</author><text>How does something like this work when there are parts of the code that is community driven. Do the volunteers get any share of the pie?<p>That being said, is there still a lot of people that use SUSE? I remember a lot of people used to rave (particularly academic) about it due to it&#x27;s stability. I remember playing with their distro builder a couple of years ago and you can choose the specific packages and settings to install which was super neat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>v0lta</author><text>I use openSUSE Leap 15 as my daily driver.<p>Since I don&#x27;t want to tinker every weekend with my distro anymore I need something stable. openSUSE Leap, based on SLE, offers this. Additionally KDE is a first-class citizen and just works as intended.<p>There&#x27;s also a rolling release version, Tumbleweed, but I didn&#x27;t try it yet.</text></comment>
13,672,722	13,670,820	1	2	13,670,458	train	<story><title>LLD is included in the upcoming LLVM 4.0 release</title><url>https://reviews.llvm.org/D29539</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mioelnir</author><text>I&#x27;m just going to shamelessly quote the FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, Q4&#x2F;2016 that came out a few days ago.<p><pre><code> LLD developers made significant progress over the last quarter. With changes committed to both LLD and FreeBSD we reached a major milestone: it is now possible to link the entire FreeBSD&#x2F;amd64 base system (kernel and userland) with LLD. Now that the base system links with LLD, we have started investigating linking applications in the ports tree with LLD. Through this process we are identifying limitations or bugs in both LLD and a number of FreeBSD ports. With a few work-in-progress patches we can link approximately 95% of the ports collection with LLD on amd64. </code></pre> That is 95% of ~27000 ports. Which means for very many things, lld as linker will just work once those patches have been applied at the appropriate places.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.freebsd.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;freebsd-announce&#x2F;2017-February&#x2F;001781.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.freebsd.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;freebsd-announce&#x2F;2017-Fe...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>LLD is included in the upcoming LLVM 4.0 release</title><url>https://reviews.llvm.org/D29539</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndyKelley</author><text>Posting this news article is my way to get the attention of Debian, Arch, Gentoo, Homebrew, NixOS, and other package maintainers. As an upstream compiler developer [1], I want to depend on LLD instead of the system linker, and the sooner LLD becomes ubiquitous in the various package managers, the sooner I can depend on it. (Of course I could ask my users to compile it from source, but that increases overhead of people getting started.)<p>Further evidence that it is time for LLD to be distributed along with LLVM: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.llvm.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;llvm-dev&#x2F;2017-February&#x2F;110302.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.llvm.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;llvm-dev&#x2F;2017-February&#x2F;11030...</a><p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
26,122,414	26,121,067	1	3	26,119,380	train	<story><title>Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine</title><url>http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avalys</author><text>There are plenty of C&amp;H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;wgwm23u9k4sx.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;wgwm23u9k4sx.png</a><p>Kids are not stupid and you don&#x27;t need to insulate them from everything that isn&#x27;t 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&amp;H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and that things I do might annoy them.</text></item><item><author>ryantgtg</author><text>My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid.<p>Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew Calvin on a napkin for me. And... I can’t find that sketch! Each time I visit my parents I spend half the visit digging through boxes for it.</text></item><item><author>roughly</author><text>I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it&#x27;s not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.</text></item><item><author>chmod600</author><text>Read this series (click next a few times to see them all):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gocomics.com&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;1992&#x2F;05&#x2F;05" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gocomics.com&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;1992&#x2F;05&#x2F;05</a><p>It looks like it was written yesterday, but it&#x27;s 30 years old.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supernova87a</author><text>I love how in the middle few panels, just 2 little dots for eyes are able to convey the frustration about &quot;why am I wasting my life on paperwork when my real life is waiting for me?&quot;</text></comment>	<story><title>Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine</title><url>http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avalys</author><text>There are plenty of C&amp;H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;wgwm23u9k4sx.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;wgwm23u9k4sx.png</a><p>Kids are not stupid and you don&#x27;t need to insulate them from everything that isn&#x27;t 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&amp;H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and that things I do might annoy them.</text></item><item><author>ryantgtg</author><text>My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid.<p>Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew Calvin on a napkin for me. And... I can’t find that sketch! Each time I visit my parents I spend half the visit digging through boxes for it.</text></item><item><author>roughly</author><text>I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it&#x27;s not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.</text></item><item><author>chmod600</author><text>Read this series (click next a few times to see them all):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gocomics.com&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;1992&#x2F;05&#x2F;05" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gocomics.com&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;1992&#x2F;05&#x2F;05</a><p>It looks like it was written yesterday, but it&#x27;s 30 years old.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwenzel</author><text>Thank you. I channel this particular strip often during my times working from home with kids.</text></comment>
26,459,820	26,459,970	1	3	26,445,980	train	<story><title>Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ketchup-is-not-just-a-condiment-it-is-also-a-non-newtonian-fluid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shriphani</author><text>So we should be able to walk on the surface of a pool filled with ketchup?<p>I&#x27;ve seen this video of people walking on custard on brainiac: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Iz9KnPZWOgs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Iz9KnPZWOgs</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ketchup-is-not-just-a-condiment-it-is-also-a-non-newtonian-fluid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carols10cents</author><text>Through decades of experimentation, I have proven that hitting the 57 on the bottle is the best way to get the shearing force going.</text></comment>
30,762,045	30,761,847	1	3	30,755,861	train	<story><title>Why Don't You Use</title><url>https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2022-03-19/why-dont-you-use.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised at the ire around this question. &quot;Why don&#x27;t you do X&quot; is a great way to understand why someone did Y. A perfectly valid answer might be &quot;X might be better, but Y is fine and it&#x27;s not the highest priority at the moment.&quot; Or the answer might be any of the dozens Brendan Gregg gave (including &quot;for reasons I can&#x27;t disclose.&quot;). Any of these answers might be illuminating to the asker.<p>Now, admittedly, it&#x27;s very tone dependent. &quot;Why don&#x27;t you X&quot; can be asked humbly and with a truly inquisitive tone, or with a sneering tone whose obvious implication is that you must be either ignorant of X or too dumb to see its merits. But in writing, at least, I try to infer the more charitable attitude of genuine curiosity.</text></item><item><author>dasil003</author><text>There&#x27;s something infuriatingly help-vampirish about asking any question of the form &quot;why don&#x27;t you do x?&quot;.<p>The pithy answer is because of all the things in the world that someone might propose need doing, I can only do a vanishingly tiny fraction of them. Even the largest, most profitable company in the world can only do a slightly larger tiny fraction of them.<p>The reason we don&#x27;t do the things you ask about is because we are focused on doing the things which we&#x27;ve prioritized using our best judgement. The idea that we somehow owe an explanation to internet randos about everything we <i>don&#x27;t</i> do is indicative of a personality that must not be allowed anywhere near engineers with work to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goostavos</author><text>If you&#x27;ve say through enough conferences, the ire is because the question usually isn&#x27;t in good faith. More often than not, it&#x27;s someone with whatever you call the personality defect that leads them to constantly needing to &quot;show how smart they are&quot; to the room full of people by, presumably in their mind, dunking on the speaker with their wildly naive &quot;what didn&#x27;t you do X?&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve also say through Q&amp;A sessions where a guy got up to the microphone to recommend books for the guy giving the presentation to read. It was uncomfortable.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why Don't You Use</title><url>https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2022-03-19/why-dont-you-use.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised at the ire around this question. &quot;Why don&#x27;t you do X&quot; is a great way to understand why someone did Y. A perfectly valid answer might be &quot;X might be better, but Y is fine and it&#x27;s not the highest priority at the moment.&quot; Or the answer might be any of the dozens Brendan Gregg gave (including &quot;for reasons I can&#x27;t disclose.&quot;). Any of these answers might be illuminating to the asker.<p>Now, admittedly, it&#x27;s very tone dependent. &quot;Why don&#x27;t you X&quot; can be asked humbly and with a truly inquisitive tone, or with a sneering tone whose obvious implication is that you must be either ignorant of X or too dumb to see its merits. But in writing, at least, I try to infer the more charitable attitude of genuine curiosity.</text></item><item><author>dasil003</author><text>There&#x27;s something infuriatingly help-vampirish about asking any question of the form &quot;why don&#x27;t you do x?&quot;.<p>The pithy answer is because of all the things in the world that someone might propose need doing, I can only do a vanishingly tiny fraction of them. Even the largest, most profitable company in the world can only do a slightly larger tiny fraction of them.<p>The reason we don&#x27;t do the things you ask about is because we are focused on doing the things which we&#x27;ve prioritized using our best judgement. The idea that we somehow owe an explanation to internet randos about everything we <i>don&#x27;t</i> do is indicative of a personality that must not be allowed anywhere near engineers with work to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>It’s true. I built a robot intended to be open sourced and reproduced by others. I wrote the entire stack from scratch in Python. People on the forum asked “why didn’t you use ROS?” which is a perfectly valid question. My answer was that at the time I started the project ROS didn’t support Python 3, ROS is in many ways mostly a system for multi process communication which is something Python already does fine, and I wanted to avoid the learning curve of both learning ROS and learning our system. Also, I wanted to see if I could do it and what it would be like.<p>But ROS is indeed a popular framework for robotics, so the question is a reasonable one to ask.</text></comment>
26,819,130	26,819,126	1	3	26,818,774	train	<story><title>Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter</title><url>https://tips.ariyh.com/p/good-sound-quality-smarter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diarrhea</author><text>People vastly undervalue good audio quality. It also often makes the difference (given equal visuals) between <i>great amateur</i> and <i>pro</i> in e.g. the YouTube scene.<p>I didn&#x27;t have data to back this up before, but I bought a good microphone specifically for this purpose. People will simply like the audio, and by extension what I am saying and also me as a person, better.<p>Meanwhile, my ears will continue to bleed from the awful audio people broadcast into this world. I wonder, most people must notice how terrible everyone in e.g. video conferences sounds; why don&#x27;t they make the connection that <i>they themselves</i> have it in their hand to improve the situation? Maybe it&#x27;s like wearing masks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enragedcacti</author><text>In my discord calls we have effectively resorted to shaming people into accepting a gifted clip-on amazon mic if they have an awful microphone. $10 every couple of months and no ear bleeding.<p>That said, I really think some people are just immune to it. My mom for instance prefers to use the standard definition channels because the channel numbers are easier to remember and type. She says she can&#x27;t tell the difference between that and full HD so :shrug:</text></comment>	<story><title>Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter</title><url>https://tips.ariyh.com/p/good-sound-quality-smarter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diarrhea</author><text>People vastly undervalue good audio quality. It also often makes the difference (given equal visuals) between <i>great amateur</i> and <i>pro</i> in e.g. the YouTube scene.<p>I didn&#x27;t have data to back this up before, but I bought a good microphone specifically for this purpose. People will simply like the audio, and by extension what I am saying and also me as a person, better.<p>Meanwhile, my ears will continue to bleed from the awful audio people broadcast into this world. I wonder, most people must notice how terrible everyone in e.g. video conferences sounds; why don&#x27;t they make the connection that <i>they themselves</i> have it in their hand to improve the situation? Maybe it&#x27;s like wearing masks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>I think a lot of people get wrapped around the axle of having the &quot;right&quot; $500 microphone whereas there are a ton of decent USB mics under $100 that will make a big difference.<p>Also consider a good external webcam and doing <i>something</i> about lighting if you can. I realize that not everyone has a great physical environment to work with. But I&#x27;m struck by how many people who seemingly haven&#x27;t made any real effort after a year+.</text></comment>
31,290,730	31,290,736	1	3	31,290,566	train	<story><title>UK telecom EE blocks archive.org</title><url>https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2022/05/06/uk-is-over-the-edge-archive-org-blocked-at-the-telecom-level/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dlivingston</author><text>Looking into this a bit more, this seems like a classic case of “much ado about nothing.”<p>The situation as I understand it:<p>1. A UK telecom company, EE, has an optional (!!) parental control feature, which blocks websites based on a user-selected threshold [0]<p>2. Archive.org was added to this block-list. This makes sense at first glance: as an exercise to the reader, go to archive.org and type in the URL of your favorite porn website.<p>3. This is all user-controllable and is disabled by default.<p>Yeah, assuming I have my facts right, this seems like a big, fat, nothing burger. Please correct me if I’ve misanalysed.<p>[0] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ee.co.uk&#x2F;help&#x2F;help-new&#x2F;safety-and-security&#x2F;content-lock&#x2F;switching-content-lock-on-or-off" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ee.co.uk&#x2F;help&#x2F;help-new&#x2F;safety-and-security&#x2F;content-l...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>UK telecom EE blocks archive.org</title><url>https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2022/05/06/uk-is-over-the-edge-archive-org-blocked-at-the-telecom-level/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sevan777</author><text>archive.org is still blocked by 2 mobile telcos <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blocked.org.uk&#x2F;site&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blocked.org.uk&#x2F;site&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org</a> It was blocked by more around 2019, including by Three. Had to do the same dance to get restrictions lifted so that I could visit a library, then the rep offered me a special deal on increasing my monthly data transfer quota &quot;for streaming videos&quot;. Despite an &quot;unrestricted&quot; account, I still cannot connect to tor bridges and telegram (according to OONI tests <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ooni.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ooni.org&#x2F;</a>)</text></comment>
10,229,273	10,229,306	1	3	10,228,326	train	<story><title>YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-and-hispanic-founders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnathanNYC</author><text>As someone who is both (afro-latino), I&#x27;m really excited about this. After reading the majority of the comments, I&#x27;m a little disappointed. It seems that many do not understand that being white and male in the United States, by default, affords many privileges that monitories struggle to obtain. If there any questions about this, I&#x27;d be happy to answer.<p>Curious to why the word Hispanic was used instead of Latino. If you are unfamiliar with the difference, read here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diffen.com&#x2F;difference&#x2F;Hispanic_vs_Latino" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diffen.com&#x2F;difference&#x2F;Hispanic_vs_Latino</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tcdent</author><text>I&#x27;m curious what privileges you perceive, or know to be true, for non-minorities.<p>I absolutely agree there is a problem. I&#x27;ve heard many first-hand accounts of violence and disrespect from all races. I&#x27;m interested in a solution that doesn&#x27;t just take the labels from a pie chart and reinforce the dividing lines between what ultimately is one group.</text></comment>	<story><title>YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-and-hispanic-founders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnathanNYC</author><text>As someone who is both (afro-latino), I&#x27;m really excited about this. After reading the majority of the comments, I&#x27;m a little disappointed. It seems that many do not understand that being white and male in the United States, by default, affords many privileges that monitories struggle to obtain. If there any questions about this, I&#x27;d be happy to answer.<p>Curious to why the word Hispanic was used instead of Latino. If you are unfamiliar with the difference, read here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diffen.com&#x2F;difference&#x2F;Hispanic_vs_Latino" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diffen.com&#x2F;difference&#x2F;Hispanic_vs_Latino</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falsestprophet</author><text>There are 27 million white&#x2F;European Americans of Hispanic descent in the United States today.<p>There are over 200 million white people and over 4.5 million Asian people living in Latin America.<p>Do you mean Latinos of descent other than European and Asian?</text></comment>
24,497,407	24,496,995	1	2	24,494,347	train	<story><title>Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90549199/why-this-author-is-taking-a-stand-against-amazons-audiobook-monopoly</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sam_lowry_</author><text>I&#x27;ve long bemoaned the sorry state of English audiobooks in comparison to Russian audiobooks.<p>Audiobook interpreters like Игорь Князев or Александр Клюквин are household names to Russian speakers. Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook? Only when it&#x27;s the author himself, I guess. And only because of the abysmal quality.<p>There were once radio plays, but with the demise of radio, audio plays barely exist nowadays in English while they still strive in Russian.<p>This largely due to the difference in markets. English-speaking market is dominated by corporations and is severely policed.<p>Russian-speaking market is grassroots, uncensored and abundant in small producers &#x2F; new names.<p>P.S. Aside from the hard-to-find recordings from 1960..1990ies, French audiobooks are even worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aasasd</author><text>I fell like you&#x27;re kidding, since my experience is pretty much the opposite, and precisely for the reason that narrators in English are professionals. Some names: William Dufris, Wil Wheaton, Nigel Planer (namely his narrations of ‘Discworld’). Scott Brick, mentioned nearby, is good—but his narrations of Asimov have the spirit of 50s&#x27; over-the-top actors and TV announcers.<p>Also narrators in the West are often voice actors by trade, or just actors of theatre and film doing voice work on the side. E.g. Steven Fry&#x27;s narration of the ‘Harry Potter’ novels is gorgeous, Tim Curry&#x27;s of ‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ is also very good, Jeremy Irons&#x27; voice and demeanor is a perfect fit for Nabokov&#x27;s mood and writerly lyricism in ‘Lolita’.<p>Generally, I went through quite a bunch of unknown-to-me narrators, and had few qualms—whereas in Russian it&#x27;s a gamble whether a reading will be tolerable. ‘Grassroots’ narrators sometimes have quirks that they apparently consider charming, but in practice are off-putting. Or narrators break into stereotypical kitschy voices, especially with old-time material like Dostoevsky: e.g. for orthodox priest characters. Or the production is just crappy.<p>Notably, best narrators in Russian seem to be either professionals hired by proper publishers, or straight up actors. Namely, Mikhail Gorevoy, Alexey Bagdasarov, Evgeny Ternovsky (Михаил Горевой, Алексей Багдасаров, Евгений Терновский). And for example, the magnificent many-voices narration of ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’ by Bagdasarov, Alexey Kortnev and others. Vladimir Samoilov&#x27;s reading of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ is incredibly good and touching on a whole different level, and he seems to be an old-time Soviet actor. Klukvin is also a treat to the ear, but again when the production quality is there, like with ‘Master and Margarita’.</text></comment>	<story><title>Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90549199/why-this-author-is-taking-a-stand-against-amazons-audiobook-monopoly</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sam_lowry_</author><text>I&#x27;ve long bemoaned the sorry state of English audiobooks in comparison to Russian audiobooks.<p>Audiobook interpreters like Игорь Князев or Александр Клюквин are household names to Russian speakers. Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook? Only when it&#x27;s the author himself, I guess. And only because of the abysmal quality.<p>There were once radio plays, but with the demise of radio, audio plays barely exist nowadays in English while they still strive in Russian.<p>This largely due to the difference in markets. English-speaking market is dominated by corporations and is severely policed.<p>Russian-speaking market is grassroots, uncensored and abundant in small producers &#x2F; new names.<p>P.S. Aside from the hard-to-find recordings from 1960..1990ies, French audiobooks are even worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>&gt; Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook?<p>Loads of audiobooks of bestsellers in English are narrated by big-name actors. Often ones who also do a lot of theatre and bring that dramatic flair to their readings. Look at the Chronicles of Narnia, for instance: its narrators are Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Northam and Patrick Stewart, all known from stage and screen for their powerful voices.</text></comment>
748,558	748,393	1	2	748,322	train	<story><title>How Much Will the Post Office Put Up With?</title><url>http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>inaka</author><text>Moving to Argentina has given me a newfound respect for the USPS - their reliability, sense of duty, and their humanity. In many ways they are a representative slice of America - flawed but generally reliable, hard working, and flexible.<p>Losing things in the mail, spending hours waiting in line to pick up a package, christmas presents delayed for three months for no apparent reason, all of these experiences down here make me miss those guys.</text></comment>	<story><title>How Much Will the Post Office Put Up With?</title><url>http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mshafrir</author><text>"Helium balloon. The balloon was attached to a weight. The address was written on the balloon with magic marker; no postage was affixed. Our operative argued strongly that he should be charged a negative postage and refunded the postal fees, because the transport airplane would actually be lighter as a result of our postal item. This line of reasoning merely received a laugh from the clerk. The balloon was refused; reasons given: transportation of helium, not wrapped."</text></comment>
23,534,277	23,530,279	1	3	23,528,224	train	<story><title>After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-12/github-ceo-black-lives-matter-employees-demand-end-ice-contract</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rattray</author><text>That is true – businesses are legally allowed to refuse service to anyone (apart from protected classes like race or political affiliation, but that probably does not apply here). It&#x27;s an important right, and probably many businesses would be more profitable and happy if they exercised that right more often.<p>It&#x27;s still politically dangerous, and would earn a company a lot of enemies and mistrust (as well as some allies, though they may be the type to just ask for more, as others on this post have mentioned).</text></item><item><author>jobeirne</author><text>&gt; But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy.<p>Um, think you&#x27;ve got this backwards. Private entities shouldn&#x27;t have to take on <i>anyone</i> they don&#x27;t want as customers (for whatever reason - do you have to justify who you do or don&#x27;t want in your livingroom?), but publicly-funded institutions shouldn&#x27;t be able to deny service on political grounds.</text></item><item><author>rattray</author><text>What a bummer that workers are publicly demanding this, and (presumably) seeking press attention on it.<p>I&#x27;m no fan of ICE – a very large percentage of my friends in the US are immigrants, and I generally want my country to be a welcoming one. ICE has certainly committed unethical and probably illegal acts (probably true of most federal agencies).<p>But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. It&#x27;d attract extreme negative attention from the rest of the government, and great fear from all paying customers that an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time.<p>We should absolutely be lobbying hard for changes to immigration law, the restrictions placed on ICE, and justice for their wrongdoings.<p>But I can&#x27;t see how this helps improve immigration, and it certainly seems likely to cause a lot of negative consequences for GitHub. The employees are putting their employer in a &quot;damned if they do, damned if they don&#x27;t&quot; situation.<p>EDIT: Just to clarify, I love the vision of a world where executives don&#x27;t take actions their workers will protest. I think that in order to get there, the protests need to be reasonable, and I think this one isn&#x27;t.<p>EDIT DISCLAIMER: I own a small amount of MSFT stock, which was not on my mind as I wrote this. I use GitHub&#x27;s free service and have no other relationship I can think of with MSFT or GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; It&#x27;s still politically dangerous, and would earn a company a lot of enemies and mistrust</i><p>Yes, doing the right thing often is dangerous and earns you hatred from other people doing bad things who love the freedom of hiding amongst a herd of other equally guilty people.<p>The reason we have so much respect for people who take stand and do what they believe is right is <i>because</i> doing so is so hard. That doesn&#x27;t mean you shouldn&#x27;t do it.</text></comment>	<story><title>After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-12/github-ceo-black-lives-matter-employees-demand-end-ice-contract</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rattray</author><text>That is true – businesses are legally allowed to refuse service to anyone (apart from protected classes like race or political affiliation, but that probably does not apply here). It&#x27;s an important right, and probably many businesses would be more profitable and happy if they exercised that right more often.<p>It&#x27;s still politically dangerous, and would earn a company a lot of enemies and mistrust (as well as some allies, though they may be the type to just ask for more, as others on this post have mentioned).</text></item><item><author>jobeirne</author><text>&gt; But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy.<p>Um, think you&#x27;ve got this backwards. Private entities shouldn&#x27;t have to take on <i>anyone</i> they don&#x27;t want as customers (for whatever reason - do you have to justify who you do or don&#x27;t want in your livingroom?), but publicly-funded institutions shouldn&#x27;t be able to deny service on political grounds.</text></item><item><author>rattray</author><text>What a bummer that workers are publicly demanding this, and (presumably) seeking press attention on it.<p>I&#x27;m no fan of ICE – a very large percentage of my friends in the US are immigrants, and I generally want my country to be a welcoming one. ICE has certainly committed unethical and probably illegal acts (probably true of most federal agencies).<p>But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. It&#x27;d attract extreme negative attention from the rest of the government, and great fear from all paying customers that an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time.<p>We should absolutely be lobbying hard for changes to immigration law, the restrictions placed on ICE, and justice for their wrongdoings.<p>But I can&#x27;t see how this helps improve immigration, and it certainly seems likely to cause a lot of negative consequences for GitHub. The employees are putting their employer in a &quot;damned if they do, damned if they don&#x27;t&quot; situation.<p>EDIT: Just to clarify, I love the vision of a world where executives don&#x27;t take actions their workers will protest. I think that in order to get there, the protests need to be reasonable, and I think this one isn&#x27;t.<p>EDIT DISCLAIMER: I own a small amount of MSFT stock, which was not on my mind as I wrote this. I use GitHub&#x27;s free service and have no other relationship I can think of with MSFT or GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cameronfraser</author><text>How would businesses be more profitable if they exercised the right to refuse service more? You also realize the people who exercise this right the most do it for reasons you likely don&#x27;t agree with.</text></comment>
31,966,674	31,966,252	1	2	31,965,062	train	<story><title>They're made out of meat (1991)</title><url>https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>can16358p</author><text>I love how they&#x27;ve said &quot;constrained to C space&quot;.<p>Many people say speed of light is the absolute speed limit of anything or information can travel. Sure it is, which is easily proven by physics. But the physics we know of applies to what we know. There might be something completely different to what we&#x27;re seeing&#x2F;observing&#x2F;theoritising with our smartest people and best equipment.<p>I&#x27;m not saying we can just go faster than C by advancing technology: I know it&#x27;s limited by relativity and is not a matter of advancing tech.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is that there will probably be advancements in physics and technology so that C limit will of course stay the same, but it will be the physics <i>inside the box</i> whereas a complete new understanding of reality <i>outside the box</i> would be discovered, where things can travel &quot;faster&quot; than C using other dimensions or something that we even haven&#x27;t thought of yet &quot;outside the box&quot;, while still being perfectly compatible with the &quot;regular&quot; &quot;inside the box&quot; physics we love and use today, without violating and relativity rules of our classical physics.<p>Then they&#x27;ll probably look back and just laugh at the people who thought C was the absolute limit to everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>&gt;What I&#x27;m saying is that there will probably be<p>That doesn&#x27;t follow. We can always say there&#x27;s things we don&#x27;t know, sure, but it&#x27;s not reasonable to take that as a justification for saying &quot;Therefore maybe X&quot;, with the implication that X is somehow likely, or therefore even possible in reality. Maybe fairies. Maybe whatever. It&#x27;s not a technique that can lead you to any particular conclusion. It certainly can&#x27;t tell you anything about the probability of something.</text></comment>	<story><title>They're made out of meat (1991)</title><url>https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>can16358p</author><text>I love how they&#x27;ve said &quot;constrained to C space&quot;.<p>Many people say speed of light is the absolute speed limit of anything or information can travel. Sure it is, which is easily proven by physics. But the physics we know of applies to what we know. There might be something completely different to what we&#x27;re seeing&#x2F;observing&#x2F;theoritising with our smartest people and best equipment.<p>I&#x27;m not saying we can just go faster than C by advancing technology: I know it&#x27;s limited by relativity and is not a matter of advancing tech.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is that there will probably be advancements in physics and technology so that C limit will of course stay the same, but it will be the physics <i>inside the box</i> whereas a complete new understanding of reality <i>outside the box</i> would be discovered, where things can travel &quot;faster&quot; than C using other dimensions or something that we even haven&#x27;t thought of yet &quot;outside the box&quot;, while still being perfectly compatible with the &quot;regular&quot; &quot;inside the box&quot; physics we love and use today, without violating and relativity rules of our classical physics.<p>Then they&#x27;ll probably look back and just laugh at the people who thought C was the absolute limit to everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yafinder</author><text>The problem is, faster than light travel violates causality in some reference frames [1]. This is a big problem. Forget grandpa-killing travellers; even several bits of time travelling information allows one to easily solve NP-complete problems (it&#x27;s an even more powerful mode of computation, actually) [2]<p>Any new physics that allows for FTL must be very weird, even in a logical sense.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;52249&#x2F;how-does-faster-than-light-travel-violate-causality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;52249&#x2F;how-does-f...</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;democritus&#x2F;lec19.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;democritus&#x2F;lec19.html</a></text></comment>
13,974,301	13,973,410	1	2	13,969,557	train	<story><title>Canada to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-legal-marijuana-pot-1.4041902</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noarchy</author><text>&gt;But the provinces will have the right to decide how the marijuana is distributed and sold. Provincial governments will also have the right to set price.<p>I don&#x27;t look forward to the potential outcome of this. Most provinces have long been saddled with alcohol monopolies that keep prices quite high, particularly when compared to neighbouring US states. I can easily see provinces setting up similar, monopolized retail systems for weed.<p>Canada already has a huge black market in untaxed cigarettes, and if provinces are not careful with prices&#x2F;taxes, the already-existing black market in marijuana will live on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eyeJam</author><text>I can never find sympathy for people who complain about high alcohol tax in Canada. Is this something that really affects your quality of life? Or is it more of personal inconvenience? Alcohol taxes violate vertical equity. And they should. Lower income individuals should not be encouraged to purchase more alcohol, since they are more likely to be vulnerable to the negative social, mental and physical effects of alcohol consumption. Reducing alcohol tax leads to a greater burden on the healthcare system.</text></comment>	<story><title>Canada to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-legal-marijuana-pot-1.4041902</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noarchy</author><text>&gt;But the provinces will have the right to decide how the marijuana is distributed and sold. Provincial governments will also have the right to set price.<p>I don&#x27;t look forward to the potential outcome of this. Most provinces have long been saddled with alcohol monopolies that keep prices quite high, particularly when compared to neighbouring US states. I can easily see provinces setting up similar, monopolized retail systems for weed.<p>Canada already has a huge black market in untaxed cigarettes, and if provinces are not careful with prices&#x2F;taxes, the already-existing black market in marijuana will live on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwindwaves</author><text>the legitimate market will still have to compete with the black market. Many of my friends in BC prefer going to dispensaries because of the variety and consistency of the products as well as convenience vs. meeting your dealer and buying whatever he has. I also think the legitimate grow ops are going to end up being a lot more efficient because they won&#x27;t have to make any effort hiding from authorities.</text></comment>
29,880,870	29,880,377	1	3	29,876,742	train	<story><title>Deep Learning Interviews book: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions</title><url>https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcemilg</author><text>The ML&#x2F;DS positions highly competitive these days. I don&#x27;t get why ML positions requires hard preparations for the interviews more than other CS positions while you do similar things. People expect you to know a lot of theory from statistics, probability, algorithms to linear algebra. I am ok with knowing basic of these topics which are the foundations of ML and DL. But I don&#x27;t get to ask eigenvectors and challenging algorithm problems in an ML Engineering position at the same while you already proof yourself with a Masters Degree and enough professional experience. I am not defending my PhD there. We will just build some DL models, maybe we will read some DL papers and maybe try to implement some of those. The theory is the only 10% of the job, rest is engineering, data cleaning etc. Honestly I am looking for the soft way to get back to Software Engineering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uoaei</author><text>In part because ML fails silently by design. Even if the code runs flawlessly with no errors, the outputs could be completely bunk, useless, or even harmful, and you won&#x27;t have any idea if that is true just from watching The Number go down during training. It&#x27;s not enough to know how to build it but also <i>how it works</i>. It&#x27;s the difference between designing the JWST and assembling it.</text></comment>	<story><title>Deep Learning Interviews book: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions</title><url>https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcemilg</author><text>The ML&#x2F;DS positions highly competitive these days. I don&#x27;t get why ML positions requires hard preparations for the interviews more than other CS positions while you do similar things. People expect you to know a lot of theory from statistics, probability, algorithms to linear algebra. I am ok with knowing basic of these topics which are the foundations of ML and DL. But I don&#x27;t get to ask eigenvectors and challenging algorithm problems in an ML Engineering position at the same while you already proof yourself with a Masters Degree and enough professional experience. I am not defending my PhD there. We will just build some DL models, maybe we will read some DL papers and maybe try to implement some of those. The theory is the only 10% of the job, rest is engineering, data cleaning etc. Honestly I am looking for the soft way to get back to Software Engineering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hintymad</author><text>A reason for such requirements is similar to that that software engineers need to leetcode hard: supply and demand. Prestigious companies get hundreds, if not thousands, of applications every day. The companies can afford looking for candidates who have raw talent, such as the capability of mastering many concepts and being able solve hard mathematical problems in a short time. Case in point, you may not need to use eigenvectors directly in the job, but the concept is so essential in linear algebra and I as a hiring manager would expect a candidate to explain and apply it in their sleep. That is, knowing eigenvector is an indirect filter to get people who are deeply geeky. Is it the best strategy for a company? That&#x27;s up to discussion. I&#x27;m just explaining the motives behind such requirements.</text></comment>
37,920,765	37,920,452	1	3	37,914,243	train	<story><title>Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security</title><url>https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/17/small-business-owners-they-are-pressured-to-hire-off-duty-mpd-cops-for-security/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arthurofbabylon</author><text>Already, police do this exact shakedown on cities. There are numerous incidents (anecdotal) of US police threatening city officials to reduce enforcement during election cycles, demanding increases in police force budget.<p>Broadly, the US needs to eliminate corruption. There are many broken feedback loops right now from the grand (lobbying and campaign finance) to the minuscule (niche price fixing, bribery, police-ran protection rackets), all compounding unfavorably, all seemingly booming. It&#x27;s astonishing the degree to which the public tolerates such forms of ineptitude and subversion – it has a direct impact on everyone&#x27;s bottom line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>et-al</author><text>The SF Police Department <i>bombed</i> the mayor&#x27;s house in 1975:<p>&quot;In early August 1975, the SFPD went on strike over a pay dispute, violating a California law prohibiting police from striking. The city quickly obtained a court order declaring the strike illegal and enjoining the SFPD back to work. The court messenger delivering the order was met with violence and the SFPD continued to strike...<p>The ACLU obtained a court order prohibiting strikers from carrying their service revolvers. Again, the SFPD ignored the court order. On August 20, a bomb detonated at the Mayor&#x27;s home with a sign reading &quot;Don&#x27;t Threaten Us&quot; left on his lawn. On August 21, Mayor Alioto advised the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that they should concede to the strikers&#x27; demands.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_the_San_Francisco_Police_Department" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_the_San_Francisco_P...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security</title><url>https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/17/small-business-owners-they-are-pressured-to-hire-off-duty-mpd-cops-for-security/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arthurofbabylon</author><text>Already, police do this exact shakedown on cities. There are numerous incidents (anecdotal) of US police threatening city officials to reduce enforcement during election cycles, demanding increases in police force budget.<p>Broadly, the US needs to eliminate corruption. There are many broken feedback loops right now from the grand (lobbying and campaign finance) to the minuscule (niche price fixing, bribery, police-ran protection rackets), all compounding unfavorably, all seemingly booming. It&#x27;s astonishing the degree to which the public tolerates such forms of ineptitude and subversion – it has a direct impact on everyone&#x27;s bottom line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevenwoo</author><text>The Supreme Court is responsible for a lot of this, it has institutionalized immunity for law enforcement and prosecution and unlimited corporate money in politics so that it would require overriding that lever of power which doesn’t seem likely since democrats just rolled over when the gop wouldn’t allow Obama to appoint a Supreme Court justice.</text></comment>
12,486,027	12,485,029	1	2	12,484,568	train	<story><title>BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/12/blazingdb-uses-gpus-to-manipulate-huge-databases-in-no-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hendzen</author><text>This has been tried many times. Unless you are doing a computation with sufficient arithmetic intensity [0] the cost of shipping the data over PCIe and back dominates any gain you might get over a CPU.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nersc.gov&#x2F;users&#x2F;application-performance&#x2F;measuring-arithmetic-intensity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nersc.gov&#x2F;users&#x2F;application-performance&#x2F;measuring...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>felipe_aramburu</author><text>Seems kind of like a blanket statement to make if you have not investigated this for yourself. So let me give you some example use cases.<p>Decompression for processing: We can roundtrip decompress 8 byte integers RRleDeltaRle 4x on an AWS g2.2xlarge faster when we use the GPU. This includes sending the data TO the GPU and brining it back. Our decompression segments on CPU were set up so that every thread was processing a segment to be decompressed so we were using every avaiable thread at about 100%.<p>Sorting data: Here the difference can be startling. On an aws g2.2xlarge we are able to sort orders of magnitude faster than you can on GPU. Checkout thrust to run some exmaples <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.nvidia.com&#x2F;cuda&#x2F;thrust&#x2F;#axzz4K7CRY352" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.nvidia.com&#x2F;cuda&#x2F;thrust&#x2F;#axzz4K7CRY352</a><p>A few modifications there can let you run this with both and NVIDIA backend and one that runs on CPU threads. It will run orders of magnitude faster on GPU than CPU on a small gpu instance on amazon. Even a laptop gpu would still outperform the cpu sorting capacity by at least an order of magnitude.</text></comment>	<story><title>BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/12/blazingdb-uses-gpus-to-manipulate-huge-databases-in-no-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hendzen</author><text>This has been tried many times. Unless you are doing a computation with sufficient arithmetic intensity [0] the cost of shipping the data over PCIe and back dominates any gain you might get over a CPU.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nersc.gov&#x2F;users&#x2F;application-performance&#x2F;measuring-arithmetic-intensity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nersc.gov&#x2F;users&#x2F;application-performance&#x2F;measuring...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfody</author><text>Seems like a great application of AMD&#x27;s Fiji GPU w&#x2F;onboard flash: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;10518&#x2F;amd-announces-radeon-pro-ssg-fiji-with-m2-ssds-onboard" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;10518&#x2F;amd-announces-radeon-pro...</a></text></comment>
41,251,845	41,251,628	1	2	41,251,412	train	<story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>https://github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitbasher</author><text>The timing is pretty uncanny. I just deployed a github page and had a DNS issue because I configured it wrong. I hit &quot;check again&quot; and github went down.<p>Hope I don&#x27;t appear in the incident report.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunrunner</author><text>Perhaps this is a repeat of the Fastly incident with a customer&#x27;s Varnish cache configuration causing an issue in their systems (I think this is a rough summary, I don&#x27;t remember the details).<p>So, you&#x27;re both responsible and not responsible at the same time :)<p>&gt; Hope I don&#x27;t appear in the incident report.<p>Appearing in an incident report with your HN username could be pretty funny...</text></comment>	<story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>https://github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitbasher</author><text>The timing is pretty uncanny. I just deployed a github page and had a DNS issue because I configured it wrong. I hit &quot;check again&quot; and github went down.<p>Hope I don&#x27;t appear in the incident report.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RIMR</author><text>This will all clear up when it finishes checking your DNS configuration I bet.</text></comment>
35,769,726	35,769,823	1	3	35,769,203	train	<story><title>Indian government bans 14 messenger apps including Element, Briar and Threema</title><url>https://news.abplive.com/technology/india-ban-messaging-messenger-apps-mobile-pakistan-terrorism-connection-crypviser-enigma-safeswiss-bchat-1599074</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rogers18445</author><text>These things are typically bureaucratic security theater. Terrorists can sideload. The decision makers just care to be seen doing something, whether it&#x27;s useful or not is not their problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p-e-w</author><text>You severely underestimate the people in power, and the people who stand behind them.<p>Such bans are deliberate attacks targeting (parts of) the general population. Terrorists have nothing to do with this.<p>&quot;Hahaha those stupid bureaucrats, they have no idea what they are doing&quot; is a popular meme, but it couldn&#x27;t be further from the truth. They <i>do</i> know what they are doing, and it&#x27;s working. If you believe it isn&#x27;t, that&#x27;s only because you misunderstand what the real goal is.</text></comment>	<story><title>Indian government bans 14 messenger apps including Element, Briar and Threema</title><url>https://news.abplive.com/technology/india-ban-messaging-messenger-apps-mobile-pakistan-terrorism-connection-crypviser-enigma-safeswiss-bchat-1599074</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rogers18445</author><text>These things are typically bureaucratic security theater. Terrorists can sideload. The decision makers just care to be seen doing something, whether it&#x27;s useful or not is not their problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>I disagree. This may or may not be effective, but it&#x27;s not theatre.<p>Criminals, terrorists, dissidents, politicians, even intelligence people sometimes... they&#x27;re <i>users</i>. Just because they <i>can</i> sideload, or otherwise use more sophisticated methods doesn&#x27;t mean they will. The margins are wide.<p>Imo, same thing is happening in India as is happening in most places with an active security-intelligence service. They receive valuable intelligence from PMs. Then they fret about potentially losing access or want to increase access.<p>If you read HN&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;Twitter, you&#x27;d get the impression that all this stuff is fake. It&#x27;s not. Intelligence agencies in 2023 are all about these sources, and jelously guard them. Once they have a source, they&#x27;re not giving it up willingly.</text></comment>
41,804,107	41,803,150	1	3	41,787,041	train	<story><title>Proposal: JavaScript Structs</title><url>https://github.com/tc39/proposal-structs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afavour</author><text>I think in this specific case it&#x27;s JavaScript&#x27;s requirement for backwards compatibility that bloats it... but there&#x27;s a lot you can ignore. Like, you can declare a variable with var, let or const but there&#x27;s absolutely no reason to use var any more. I feel similarly about the proposals to introduce records and tuples: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-record-tuple">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-record-tuple</a>... in most scenarios you&#x27;ll probably be better off using records rather than objects, and maybe that&#x27;s what folks will end up doing.<p>But boy does it all get confusing.<p>&gt; Now, Typescript is on version 5.6 and there is so much stuff you can do with it that it&#x27;s overwhelming. And nobody uses most of it!<p>I&#x27;m not so sure about that. I think we end up <i>consuming</i> a lot of these features in the TS types that get published alongside libraries. We just don&#x27;t know it, we just get surprisingly intuitive type interfaces.</text></item><item><author>leetharris</author><text>I am not sure how to really refine this thought I have had, but I have this fear that every language eventually gets so bloated and complicated that it has a huge barrier to entry.<p>The ones that stand out the most to me are C# and Typescript.<p>Microsoft has a large team dedicated towards improving these languages constantly and instead of exclusively focusing on making them easier to use or more performant, they are constantly adding features. After all, it is their job. They are incentivized to keep making it more complex.<p>The first time I ever used C# was probably version 5? Maybe? We&#x27;re on version 12 now and there&#x27;s so much stuff in there that sometimes modern C# code from experts looks unreadable to me.<p>One of the reasons I have so much fun working in node&#x2F;Javascript these days is because it is simple and not much has changed in express&#x2F;node&#x2F;etc for a long time. If I need an iterable that I can simply move through, I just do `let items = [];`. It is so easy and hasn&#x27;t changed for so many years. I worry that we eventually come out with a dozen ways to do an array and modern code becomes much more challenging to read.<p>When Typescript first came out, it was great. Types in Javascript are something we&#x27;ve always wanted. Now, Typescript is on version 5.6 and there is so much stuff you can do with it that it&#x27;s overwhelming. And nobody uses most of it!<p>This is probably just old man ranting, but I think there&#x27;s something there. The old version I used to debate about was C vs C++. Now look at modern C++, it&#x27;s crazy powerful but so jam packed that many people have just gone back to C.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dunham</author><text>&gt; there&#x27;s absolutely no reason to use var any more.<p>So I also thought. And then I recently learned that typescript uses `var` internally for performance.<p>From src&#x2F;compiler&#x2F;checker.ts:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; Why var? It avoids TDZ checks in the runtime which can be costly. &#x2F;&#x2F; See: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;TypeScript&#x2F;issues&#x2F;52924 &#x2F;* eslint-disable no-var *&#x2F; var deferredDiagnosticsCallbacks: (() =&gt; void)[] = [];</code></pre></text></comment>	<story><title>Proposal: JavaScript Structs</title><url>https://github.com/tc39/proposal-structs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afavour</author><text>I think in this specific case it&#x27;s JavaScript&#x27;s requirement for backwards compatibility that bloats it... but there&#x27;s a lot you can ignore. Like, you can declare a variable with var, let or const but there&#x27;s absolutely no reason to use var any more. I feel similarly about the proposals to introduce records and tuples: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-record-tuple">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-record-tuple</a>... in most scenarios you&#x27;ll probably be better off using records rather than objects, and maybe that&#x27;s what folks will end up doing.<p>But boy does it all get confusing.<p>&gt; Now, Typescript is on version 5.6 and there is so much stuff you can do with it that it&#x27;s overwhelming. And nobody uses most of it!<p>I&#x27;m not so sure about that. I think we end up <i>consuming</i> a lot of these features in the TS types that get published alongside libraries. We just don&#x27;t know it, we just get surprisingly intuitive type interfaces.</text></item><item><author>leetharris</author><text>I am not sure how to really refine this thought I have had, but I have this fear that every language eventually gets so bloated and complicated that it has a huge barrier to entry.<p>The ones that stand out the most to me are C# and Typescript.<p>Microsoft has a large team dedicated towards improving these languages constantly and instead of exclusively focusing on making them easier to use or more performant, they are constantly adding features. After all, it is their job. They are incentivized to keep making it more complex.<p>The first time I ever used C# was probably version 5? Maybe? We&#x27;re on version 12 now and there&#x27;s so much stuff in there that sometimes modern C# code from experts looks unreadable to me.<p>One of the reasons I have so much fun working in node&#x2F;Javascript these days is because it is simple and not much has changed in express&#x2F;node&#x2F;etc for a long time. If I need an iterable that I can simply move through, I just do `let items = [];`. It is so easy and hasn&#x27;t changed for so many years. I worry that we eventually come out with a dozen ways to do an array and modern code becomes much more challenging to read.<p>When Typescript first came out, it was great. Types in Javascript are something we&#x27;ve always wanted. Now, Typescript is on version 5.6 and there is so much stuff you can do with it that it&#x27;s overwhelming. And nobody uses most of it!<p>This is probably just old man ranting, but I think there&#x27;s something there. The old version I used to debate about was C vs C++. Now look at modern C++, it&#x27;s crazy powerful but so jam packed that many people have just gone back to C.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>When they made class declarations imply strict, I thought that was a pretty wise move. But it might have been good if they applied more limitations than that, made them super-strict.<p>Such as for instance making &#x27;var&#x27; not work in class declarations.</text></comment>
3,294,507	3,293,346	1	3	3,290,884	train	<story><title>Show HN: Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch</title><url>http://wwww.getinpulse.com/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiloaper</author><text>Is ANT+ popular in the US? I see companies like Nike promoting it, but I've never laid hands on a device supporting it (I'm in Europe).</text></item><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>I've said it before, I'll say it again - build one with ANT+ and I'll buy a dozen. I don't see any reason why I'd want an adjunct to my smartphone strapped to my wrist, but I can think of countless uses for a tiny device that can read and interpret sensor data via low-powered wireless. ANT+ is the killer app for the "smartwatch".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>It's huge in Europe and the US amongst cyclists and triathletes. All UCI ProTour teams use it, with the exception of the teams sponsored by Polar. A good ANT+ system can do some very clever things that provide substantial competitive advantage. Many triathletes use the iBike Aero system, which in conjunction with a force-sensing power meter will calculate coefficient of drag in real time.</text></comment>	<story><title>Show HN: Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch</title><url>http://wwww.getinpulse.com/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiloaper</author><text>Is ANT+ popular in the US? I see companies like Nike promoting it, but I've never laid hands on a device supporting it (I'm in Europe).</text></item><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>I've said it before, I'll say it again - build one with ANT+ and I'll buy a dozen. I don't see any reason why I'd want an adjunct to my smartphone strapped to my wrist, but I can think of countless uses for a tiny device that can read and interpret sensor data via low-powered wireless. ANT+ is the killer app for the "smartwatch".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larsanders</author><text>Most of Sony Ericsson's Xperia line support ANT+, and I use it with a Garmin heart rate monitor transmitter.<p><a href="http://www.thisisant.com/pages/developer-zone/android-api" rel="nofollow">http://www.thisisant.com/pages/developer-zone/android-api</a></text></comment>
14,402,459	14,401,993	1	2	14,398,868	train	<story><title>Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?</title><text>Additionally, the project is on a new tech stack (for me). I would like to be productive as soon as possible and help the team move faster while adding quality and better engineering practices.<p>Any tips, help, books? Thanks.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubano</author><text>As I have written in previous post, this is where IMO a step-debugger earns its keep.<p>As an IC basically my entire life, I have joined large legacy projects many times, and my typical attack strategy always revolves around a large cup of coffee and my trusty debugger. Using 2 monitors, starting at main() or index.php (or whatever of course), I will execute as much of the entire codebase as possible line-by-line.<p>At first I will blast through the code looking at general structures and entry&#x2F;exit branches and the like, and note things and often breakpoint sections that seem hairy or where I can note inefficiencies or great design.<p>Then I slow down the stepping and really examine the heavy-lifting sections to try to become familiar with the style and abstractions being used.<p>This method has served me well, as more often then not, <i>by the first day&#x27;s afternoon</i> I can be having intelligent conversations with the existing team, almost always much to their confused surprised.<p>I suppose it matters much if you are going into the senior position as really strong head-down coder or as really more of a project management liaison.<p>Not being much into the management side of things, I don&#x27;t have much advice on that role, and your suggestions sound really smart.</text></item><item><author>Jedi72</author><text>I am 1 month into my new position, same position you&#x27;re in - new stack &amp; straight into senior role. My tips so far:<p>1) Take over all the admin stuff you can to free up your devs from distraction and pointless tasks. Productivity and morale will immediately go up. My guys were time reporting into 3 different tools (and this is a &lt;10 person startup!), I just started writing a summary of our standups and told them they didnt have to do it individually any more, it was appreciated and mgmt still get the info they need. 2) Start with infrastructure stuff - how do you deploy, what&#x27;s your build process, can anyone on the team draw an architecture diagram (mine couldn&#x27;t) 3) Write tests, it&#x27;s low risk changes to the codebase so you cant really break anything, but it&#x27;ll give you the black box overview of how everything hangs together, detail will come in time 4) Accept that there&#x27;s no way to immediately get to the level of familiarity the guys who built the system will have. I can spend 2 hours digging trying to find how widget x gets its props passed in, or I can ask my teammate who wrote it and immediately known which file and line its on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dntrkv</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried a similar approach in the past and it just does not work for me. Besides the fact that it is very tedious, I don&#x27;t retain any of the knowledge because it&#x27;s like reading a dictionary. It&#x27;s impossible to absorb that much information, for me at least.<p>My approach to learning a new codebase has always been to do a general overview of the structure while taking notes. Then just assign myself some easier bugs and start working on them, and then slowly moving up in complexity.</text></comment>	<story><title>Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?</title><text>Additionally, the project is on a new tech stack (for me). I would like to be productive as soon as possible and help the team move faster while adding quality and better engineering practices.<p>Any tips, help, books? Thanks.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubano</author><text>As I have written in previous post, this is where IMO a step-debugger earns its keep.<p>As an IC basically my entire life, I have joined large legacy projects many times, and my typical attack strategy always revolves around a large cup of coffee and my trusty debugger. Using 2 monitors, starting at main() or index.php (or whatever of course), I will execute as much of the entire codebase as possible line-by-line.<p>At first I will blast through the code looking at general structures and entry&#x2F;exit branches and the like, and note things and often breakpoint sections that seem hairy or where I can note inefficiencies or great design.<p>Then I slow down the stepping and really examine the heavy-lifting sections to try to become familiar with the style and abstractions being used.<p>This method has served me well, as more often then not, <i>by the first day&#x27;s afternoon</i> I can be having intelligent conversations with the existing team, almost always much to their confused surprised.<p>I suppose it matters much if you are going into the senior position as really strong head-down coder or as really more of a project management liaison.<p>Not being much into the management side of things, I don&#x27;t have much advice on that role, and your suggestions sound really smart.</text></item><item><author>Jedi72</author><text>I am 1 month into my new position, same position you&#x27;re in - new stack &amp; straight into senior role. My tips so far:<p>1) Take over all the admin stuff you can to free up your devs from distraction and pointless tasks. Productivity and morale will immediately go up. My guys were time reporting into 3 different tools (and this is a &lt;10 person startup!), I just started writing a summary of our standups and told them they didnt have to do it individually any more, it was appreciated and mgmt still get the info they need. 2) Start with infrastructure stuff - how do you deploy, what&#x27;s your build process, can anyone on the team draw an architecture diagram (mine couldn&#x27;t) 3) Write tests, it&#x27;s low risk changes to the codebase so you cant really break anything, but it&#x27;ll give you the black box overview of how everything hangs together, detail will come in time 4) Accept that there&#x27;s no way to immediately get to the level of familiarity the guys who built the system will have. I can spend 2 hours digging trying to find how widget x gets its props passed in, or I can ask my teammate who wrote it and immediately known which file and line its on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xemdetia</author><text>I just wanted to mirror this because often the entry points to various parts of the application is what defines seniority with the particular codebase. The challenges for building how the thing starts and stops as well as the build is something that everyone is currently relying on to do the good work they are doing now. A lot of hard won stability&#x2F;system issues are solved in that kind of area which dramatically affects what is in the possible vs. something from a wildly different tangent then what&#x27;s already there.</text></comment>
12,723,644	12,722,979	1	3	12,722,465	train	<story><title>A Tour of Python’s Data Visualization Landscape, Including Ggplot and Altair</title><url>https://dansaber.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/a-dramatic-tour-through-pythons-data-visualization-landscape-including-ggplot-and-altair/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>listentojohan</author><text>Starting out with R and later moving more into Python I absolutely hate the seemingly unnecessary complexity of matplotlib. Honerable mention is also bokeh - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bokeh.pydata.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bokeh.pydata.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a> which does a nice job.</text></comment>	<story><title>A Tour of Python’s Data Visualization Landscape, Including Ggplot and Altair</title><url>https://dansaber.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/a-dramatic-tour-through-pythons-data-visualization-landscape-including-ggplot-and-altair/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianratnapala</author><text><i>matplotlib: The 800-pound gorilla — and like most 800-pound gorillas, this one should probably be avoided unless you genuinely need its power...</i><p>Hmm, I never even considered that matplotlib was some sort of high-end powertool. At least not when using the old-fashioned MATLABish API. If the advantage of the competition is that they are supposed to be easier to use, then I will stick with matplotlib.</text></comment>
17,651,043	17,650,781	1	2	17,649,374	train	<story><title>Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times</title><url>https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/why-i-ripped-the-same-cd-300-times</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tambourine_man</author><text>Tangentially related: I think this is the first time I see an emoji URL “in the wild“, not as a proof of concept. I don&#x27;t know how to feel about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; Tangentially related: I think this is the first time I see an emoji URL “in the wild“, not as a proof of concept. I don&#x27;t know how to feel about it.<p>I&#x27;ve seen colour emojis used in emails to grab my attention (as opposed to something plain black on white)... And I <i>know</i> I don&#x27;t like it.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times</title><url>https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/why-i-ripped-the-same-cd-300-times</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tambourine_man</author><text>Tangentially related: I think this is the first time I see an emoji URL “in the wild“, not as a proof of concept. I don&#x27;t know how to feel about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Qwertie</author><text>Really not a fan. Makes the url impossible to type on desktop.</text></comment>
22,475,624	22,475,462	1	3	22,474,965	train	<story><title>Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-03/fed-cuts-rates-half-point-in-emergency-move-amid-spreading-virus</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>&gt; For those saying the Fed is running out of ammunition, study what the Bank of Japan has done.<p>Oh you mean the economy that has been stagnate for 20 years?</text></item><item><author>aazaa</author><text>For those saying the Fed is running out of ammunition, study what the Bank of Japan has done.<p>It owns close to 80% of the Japanese ETF market currently, with no end to the expansion of balance sheet in sight.<p>After buying long treasuries, it&#x27;s not unreasonable to imagine the Fed buying stocks, either individual issues or ETFs. The President would be for it, and it would be hard to drum up any opposition to it in congress.<p>Not only that, but rates on long treasuries have stayed negative for long periods of time in other countries. It&#x27;s an open question how negative long treasuries can go, but the evidence suggests we&#x27;re not even close to the limit.<p>Recessions are politically unacceptable in today&#x27;s world. Buy stocks. Buy treasuries. Do so with wild abandon, because the Fed has your back. Just watch out for the moment when the whole thing jumps into reverse and no amount of market manipulation will stop the bleeding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>GDP per capita doesn&#x27;t look stagnant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp-per-capita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp-per-capita</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-03/fed-cuts-rates-half-point-in-emergency-move-amid-spreading-virus</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>&gt; For those saying the Fed is running out of ammunition, study what the Bank of Japan has done.<p>Oh you mean the economy that has been stagnate for 20 years?</text></item><item><author>aazaa</author><text>For those saying the Fed is running out of ammunition, study what the Bank of Japan has done.<p>It owns close to 80% of the Japanese ETF market currently, with no end to the expansion of balance sheet in sight.<p>After buying long treasuries, it&#x27;s not unreasonable to imagine the Fed buying stocks, either individual issues or ETFs. The President would be for it, and it would be hard to drum up any opposition to it in congress.<p>Not only that, but rates on long treasuries have stayed negative for long periods of time in other countries. It&#x27;s an open question how negative long treasuries can go, but the evidence suggests we&#x27;re not even close to the limit.<p>Recessions are politically unacceptable in today&#x27;s world. Buy stocks. Buy treasuries. Do so with wild abandon, because the Fed has your back. Just watch out for the moment when the whole thing jumps into reverse and no amount of market manipulation will stop the bleeding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarmig</author><text>If I were a Japanese retail investor in 1990 in his 30s, what would have been the best strategy? Just stay out of domestic markets and focus on areas with potential for growth?</text></comment>
24,912,409	24,912,530	1	2	24,911,413	train	<story><title>A Guy Walks into an Apple Store</title><url>https://birchtree.me/blog/a-guy-walks-into-an-apple-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zak</author><text>I&#x27;m disappointed Apple hasn&#x27;t dropped Lightning and just made all their devices use standard USB-C. I could see their motivation for developing their own connector when everyone else was using micro-B, which has a number of disadvantages, but now USB-C is used to power virtually every other phone and tablet, and many laptops including Apple&#x27;s own.</text></item><item><author>samatman</author><text>Literally every one of the existing options still works.<p>Ok with charging at 5w? Plug your lightning-to-A cable into the little tiny cube charger they&#x27;ve been selling since forever.<p>Already have a faster USB charger? It works.<p>Ok with Qi at 7W? Works<p>Oh, you want the new shiny MagSafe puck system?<p>Great. Buy it.<p>This analysis completely ignores that the new shiny system is supposed to be a <i>better experience</i>. It&#x27;s completely additive to what we have now, nothing has been taken away: except the included charger and earphones, neither of which I would want to have.<p>I expect MagSafe will be quite popular. But that&#x27;s because it&#x27;s cool, not because anything about the new generation of phones compels users to buy it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>I&#x27;m indifferent.<p>On the one hand, yeah, USB-C works great, and everything else I own takes it. On the other hand, Lightning also works great, USB-C isn&#x27;t an improvement on the merits, and iPhone users have a bunch of accessories for it. Like in my car, I have a 12v charger with one USB-A port and a built-in Lightning cable, and I&#x27;d have to either junk it or just ignore the built in cable if they went USB-C.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure the writing is on the wall with MagSafe: Apple intends to ditch the port entirely. That makes me nervous, frankly, and there are people out there who use an SD card reader who would be furious.<p>But I think that future is more likely than one in which Apple ditches the Lightning port for USB-C. We&#x27;ll see.</text></comment>	<story><title>A Guy Walks into an Apple Store</title><url>https://birchtree.me/blog/a-guy-walks-into-an-apple-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zak</author><text>I&#x27;m disappointed Apple hasn&#x27;t dropped Lightning and just made all their devices use standard USB-C. I could see their motivation for developing their own connector when everyone else was using micro-B, which has a number of disadvantages, but now USB-C is used to power virtually every other phone and tablet, and many laptops including Apple&#x27;s own.</text></item><item><author>samatman</author><text>Literally every one of the existing options still works.<p>Ok with charging at 5w? Plug your lightning-to-A cable into the little tiny cube charger they&#x27;ve been selling since forever.<p>Already have a faster USB charger? It works.<p>Ok with Qi at 7W? Works<p>Oh, you want the new shiny MagSafe puck system?<p>Great. Buy it.<p>This analysis completely ignores that the new shiny system is supposed to be a <i>better experience</i>. It&#x27;s completely additive to what we have now, nothing has been taken away: except the included charger and earphones, neither of which I would want to have.<p>I expect MagSafe will be quite popular. But that&#x27;s because it&#x27;s cool, not because anything about the new generation of phones compels users to buy it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>Given the amount of discussion USB-C gets here on HN, maybe it&#x27;s not such a clear decision?<p>I think the biggest risk in USB-C, for me, it makes me really nervous when I buy a cable, and even then I&#x27;m not 100% confident. When I buy a lightning cable, I have no fears. And they&#x27;re not even more expensive anymore. Some of those USB-C cables are just as expensive.</text></comment>
40,234,242	40,233,890	1	2	40,231,563	train	<story><title>Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming</title><url>https://ret2pop.nullring.xyz/blog/cognition.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noelwelsh</author><text>Some advice to the author: you can considerably tighten up your writing by putting the most important things first. Take the introduction (which is, bizarrely, not the Introduction that comes three paragraphs later.) There are over 300 words before the actual project, Cognition, is mentioned (second sentence of second paragraph). All this stuff about Lisp is great, but is that the most important part of the project? Should it not be something about the project itself?<p>When I&#x27;m reading something informational (rather than recreational) I&#x27;m always asking myself &quot;is this worth my time?&quot; You should address this as soon as possible, by telling the reader what the document is about right at the start. &quot;Cognition is a new language exploring user modifiable syntax&quot; or something similar. I didn&#x27;t get past the first four paragraphs because I couldn&#x27;t determine it was worth continuing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ordu</author><text><i>&gt; When I&#x27;m reading something informational (rather than recreational) I&#x27;m always asking myself &quot;is this worth my time?&quot;</i><p>It doesn&#x27;t. You will not be using this language. And even if you will, you&#x27;ll get all the information from a documentation, not from this article. If your time is money you wasted your time reading the article.<p>Really why some people believe that all the content of Internet must be attuned to their personal quirks? Why they believe that it is better to change internet, than to adapt to what is already here? It is a text, not video or something sequential. You could scan it diagonally looking for something that is interesting for you. You could reject it if nothing was found. Or you could return to the beginning and read sequentially from there. And these features are available for a text structured in any way. I highly recommend to learn the technique, it could deal with whole books, by selecting useful pages to read and rejecting most of other pages, which tell you nothing new.<p>I&#x27;d argue that diverse article styles are much better, because they force you to consciously and actively sort through information you are consuming. You shouldn&#x27;t do it passively, becouse your mind becomes lazy and stop thinking while consuming.<p>OTOH I would agree with you if it was not a text but a video. I hate videos because you need to decide upfront are you investing time into watching it or not. 2x speed and skips by 5-10 seconds helps somehow, but do not solve the problem.</text></comment>	<story><title>Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming</title><url>https://ret2pop.nullring.xyz/blog/cognition.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noelwelsh</author><text>Some advice to the author: you can considerably tighten up your writing by putting the most important things first. Take the introduction (which is, bizarrely, not the Introduction that comes three paragraphs later.) There are over 300 words before the actual project, Cognition, is mentioned (second sentence of second paragraph). All this stuff about Lisp is great, but is that the most important part of the project? Should it not be something about the project itself?<p>When I&#x27;m reading something informational (rather than recreational) I&#x27;m always asking myself &quot;is this worth my time?&quot; You should address this as soon as possible, by telling the reader what the document is about right at the start. &quot;Cognition is a new language exploring user modifiable syntax&quot; or something similar. I didn&#x27;t get past the first four paragraphs because I couldn&#x27;t determine it was worth continuing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwd</author><text>The order seemed pretty rational to me. Describe the problem, then introduce your solution. I knew pretty much within a few sentences this was going to be some quixotic solution to a &quot;problem&quot; 99.999% of people don&#x27;t care about (including me, as I&#x27;ve heard of Lisp but never used it outside of emacs config files), but I kept reading anyway, because why not.</text></comment>
9,199,652	9,199,783	1	2	9,197,920	train	<story><title>When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared</title><url>https://paulbakaus.com/2015/03/13/when-ie-gave-us-beautiful-fast-touch-interactions-and-nobody-cared/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vdnkh</author><text>&gt;Literally caused me nausea<p>This is off topic but seriously? You actually felt like you were going to vomit due to a business tactic?</text></item><item><author>lectrick</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about other people, but as an early web developer who worked in an all-Microsoft shop, learning about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish</a> literally caused me nausea and I quit my job and became an open source developer very soon after and never looked back. There was something so entirely... wrong about that approach. And the browser that was involved with it. And the company that even conceived of it. I still harbor plenty of anti-MS anger as a result (well that, and having to do IE compatibility for many years!)<p>(I admit that also reading the books &quot;The Cathedral and the Bazaar&quot; and &quot;Hackers &amp; Painters&quot; influenced me a lot!)</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn&#x27;t that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn&#x27;t run on Mac OS or GNU&#x2F;Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at least of people who would use features like this) doing so on other platforms. Until IE is cross-platform, many developers will continue to ignore it because they have no reasonable way of using it and getting to know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lectrick</author><text>I am a really opinionated&#x2F;principled developer who cares deeply about my work.<p>I quit my last job because I could tell my boss had perverse incentives that he wouldn&#x27;t admit to. I knew the codebase needed a refactor desperately and he insisted I work on something else (because he was leaving and didn&#x27;t want to rock the boat). I can&#x27;t work under those conditions. Turns out I was right... After I left, he announced he was leaving... right after his RSU&#x27;s vested.</text></comment>	<story><title>When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared</title><url>https://paulbakaus.com/2015/03/13/when-ie-gave-us-beautiful-fast-touch-interactions-and-nobody-cared/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vdnkh</author><text>&gt;Literally caused me nausea<p>This is off topic but seriously? You actually felt like you were going to vomit due to a business tactic?</text></item><item><author>lectrick</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about other people, but as an early web developer who worked in an all-Microsoft shop, learning about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish</a> literally caused me nausea and I quit my job and became an open source developer very soon after and never looked back. There was something so entirely... wrong about that approach. And the browser that was involved with it. And the company that even conceived of it. I still harbor plenty of anti-MS anger as a result (well that, and having to do IE compatibility for many years!)<p>(I admit that also reading the books &quot;The Cathedral and the Bazaar&quot; and &quot;Hackers &amp; Painters&quot; influenced me a lot!)</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn&#x27;t that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn&#x27;t run on Mac OS or GNU&#x2F;Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at least of people who would use features like this) doing so on other platforms. Until IE is cross-platform, many developers will continue to ignore it because they have no reasonable way of using it and getting to know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgag</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about nausea but if that doesn&#x27;t cause some kind of anger or disgust you&#x27;ve got problems.</text></comment>
31,991,165	31,990,946	1	2	31,990,276	train	<story><title>NIST announces first PQC algoritms to be standardized</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/G0DoD7lkGPk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elromulous</author><text>PQC = post quantum cryptography</text></comment>	<story><title>NIST announces first PQC algoritms to be standardized</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/G0DoD7lkGPk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chasil</author><text>OpenSSH has already chosen NTRU-Prime. Will there be a retrofit of CRYSTALS-KYBER? Or has the market already chosen?<p>DJB is an author on the SPHINCS+ team; glad to see that his work will be part of the standard.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sphincs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sphincs.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
26,375,154	26,374,042	1	2	26,373,405	train	<story><title>Don’t use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.harold.thimbleby.net/cv/files/seven-segment.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>afandian</author><text>In Oxford city centre, and probably elsewhere, they replaced the live signage at bus stops. These tell you when the next bus is due, the time and date, etc.<p>They used to be amber LED matrixes. High contrast, high legibility, low resolution.<p>Now they are colour LCD panels. High resolution, high tech, probably high cost. Now they can show the logos of the bus operators, smooth scrolling text and any arbitrary images. None of which anyone really needs except perhaps the egos of the bus companies.<p>And they are <i>completely illegible</i>. The viewing angle is limited, the text is smaller, unnecessary stuff is there because the implementors can.<p>Careful what you ask for.</text></comment>	<story><title>Don’t use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.harold.thimbleby.net/cv/files/seven-segment.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exmadscientist</author><text>Many of the author&#x27;s points are worth consideration (especially regarding use of 7-segment displays for anything other than digits), but come on:<p>&gt; A bespoke display panel was used; itwould have been safer, easier to read, more versatile, andcheaper had a hi-res display been used<p>Obviously the author has never actually tried to design a product both ways. Displays are <i>expensive</i>, and I&#x27;m not just talking about the panel itself. Usually you must go up a level or two on your processor hierarchy: a 7-segment display or matrix can be driven by a 4-bit microcontroller. A VGA-resolution display will require a high-end microcontroller, usually a 32-bit Cortex-M3 or M4 these days. A true &quot;hi-res&quot; display, which has admittedly drifted up in quality since the author wrote this, will push you into application processor (i.MX) territory.<p>That may not sound like much, but typical costs for those levels <i>including supporting circuitry</i> are in the neighborhood of $1, $10, and $100. This is because the tiny microcontroller needs nothing; the fancy apps processor needs DDR SDRAM, NAND flash, a PMIC, and is probably a BGA you have to route on an 8-layer board, with GHz MIPI signalling flying around, and don&#x27;t even get me started on the software complexity.... You can do all of these things, and if it genuinely makes your product better, you <i>should</i>. But do not pay the cost if your product does not benefit.<p>A coworker of mine likes to tell a story about cutting the sales price of a medical device from $5,000 to $500. The main source of that savings would have been removing the display. (Yes, really. Medical displays are expensive.) This was rejected by product management, on the reason that &quot;The people who buy this stuff are not the people who use it. The people who buy it like shiny-looking things. It is much easier to sell a product that looks complicated and expensive to a procurement officer than one that looks simple and possibly less advanced, even if they are the same inside. That display does do something -- it sells units.&quot;<p>In operation, the display had a bunch of whiz-bang crap that could have been deleted with no consequence, and two touch buttons for &quot;arm&quot; and &quot;stop&quot;. Of course, you had to use a physical button to actually activate it; IEC 60601 wouldn&#x27;t allow using just a <i>touchscreen</i> to start or stop a medical procedure! So the display really didn&#x27;t do anything functional....<p>So, no, high-res displays are not always the answer. Think carefully about the cost!</text></comment>
16,149,590	16,149,338	1	2	16,148,395	train	<story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and the article says she&#x27;s a &quot;robot enthusiast&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hueving</author><text>Go find somewhere else to derail conversations with implied accusations of sexism. It&#x27;s ruined what could have been a nice thread about her awesome work with discussions about what we should refer to her as like we are classifying an object.<p>Her own YouTube page says this:<p>&quot;Maker&#x2F;robotics enthusiast&#x2F;non-engineer. Have become somewhat of an expert in shitty robots. Swedish but sound American just to confuse you.&quot;<p>Please post flamebait somewhere else.</text></comment>	<story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and the article says she&#x27;s a &quot;robot enthusiast&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>computerex</author><text>&gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics<p>To be honest, I can&#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and &quot;robot enthusiast&quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></comment>
17,923,204	17,922,727	1	3	17,920,720	train	<story><title>Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages</title><url>https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inetknght</author><text>I, personally, hate websites that serve different content based on what device I&#x27;m using. It makes it difficult to customize a device to view things the way I want to view them. All of the changes to navigation and features makes it difficult to navigate and use the site.<p>I do think there could be a case made for Google abusing their power here but frankly I&#x27;m on their side for this: one site, one representation.<p>If you want a lighter load for mobile users, provide a lighter version for <i>every</i> user. If you want to keep features available, allow users to opt-in or out to such features.</text></item><item><author>unethical_ban</author><text>&gt;So Google&#x27;s suggestion is that, if you&#x27;ve already chosen to offer an AMP page, that page shouldn&#x27;t have intentionally worse usability than the original?<p>Google is using its dominance in search (again) to force sites to offer AMP versions. Like a &quot;reader view&quot;, and lacking evidence at the moment, I bet many sites are building AMP versions with faster load times but reduced features to comply. Now Google is saying &quot;Build your entire site according to our spec, or we&#x27;ll de-rank you on search&quot;.<p>That is a very bold move, and one that would be making front-page news if they said it straight-up in a way that Buzzfeed could write about.</text></item><item><author>xg15</author><text>I don&#x27;t like AMP at all and fully agree with all the lock-in concerns - but I didn&#x27;t find this post particularly convincing.<p>This reads in places like a developer or publisher who has grown accustomated to stuffing his pages with gobs and gobs of javascript and questionable UI patterns and is now outraged at the prospect that someone wants to take that privilege away from him. I can&#x27;t agree with that.<p>Examples:<p>&gt; <i>The underlying message is clear: Google wants full equivalency between AMP and canonical URL. Every element that is present on a website’s regular version should also be present on its AMP version: every navigation item, every social media sharing button, every comment box, every image gallery.</i><p>So Google&#x27;s suggestion is that, <i>if you&#x27;ve already chosen to offer an AMP page</i>, that page shouldn&#x27;t have intentionally worse usability than the original?<p>&gt; <i>For years Google has been nudging webmasters to create better websites – ‘better’ meaning ‘easier for Google to understand’. Technologies like XML sitemaps and schema.org structured data are strongly supported by Google because they make the search engine’s life easier.<p>Other initiatives like disavow files and rel=nofollow help Google keep its link graph clean and free from egregious spam. All the articles published on Google’s developer website are intended to ensure the chaotic, messy web becomes more like a clean, easy-to-understand web. In other words, a Google-shaped web. This is a battle Google has been fighting for decades.</i><p>Sitemaps and structured data were the <i>non-proprietary</i> attempts to structure the web. Those could have made the web more accessible for everyone, not just Google. They are something fundamentally different than AMP.<p>Yet, he condemns them too? Why?<p>He seems to argue that the chaos and messiness of the web infrastructure is itself a quality that should be defended. Why would that be the case?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>I agree it&#x27;s not ideal to have different experiences. But this wouldn&#x27;t be true if Google didn&#x27;t start imposing AMP through their influence. This has been an elaborate attempt to push everyone into a requirements system so that they can control how websites are built. Like an app store policy for websites. That&#x27;s bad news, because their influence is real, businesses rely on search traffic to exist, and will have no choice but to comply.</text></comment>	<story><title>Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages</title><url>https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inetknght</author><text>I, personally, hate websites that serve different content based on what device I&#x27;m using. It makes it difficult to customize a device to view things the way I want to view them. All of the changes to navigation and features makes it difficult to navigate and use the site.<p>I do think there could be a case made for Google abusing their power here but frankly I&#x27;m on their side for this: one site, one representation.<p>If you want a lighter load for mobile users, provide a lighter version for <i>every</i> user. If you want to keep features available, allow users to opt-in or out to such features.</text></item><item><author>unethical_ban</author><text>&gt;So Google&#x27;s suggestion is that, if you&#x27;ve already chosen to offer an AMP page, that page shouldn&#x27;t have intentionally worse usability than the original?<p>Google is using its dominance in search (again) to force sites to offer AMP versions. Like a &quot;reader view&quot;, and lacking evidence at the moment, I bet many sites are building AMP versions with faster load times but reduced features to comply. Now Google is saying &quot;Build your entire site according to our spec, or we&#x27;ll de-rank you on search&quot;.<p>That is a very bold move, and one that would be making front-page news if they said it straight-up in a way that Buzzfeed could write about.</text></item><item><author>xg15</author><text>I don&#x27;t like AMP at all and fully agree with all the lock-in concerns - but I didn&#x27;t find this post particularly convincing.<p>This reads in places like a developer or publisher who has grown accustomated to stuffing his pages with gobs and gobs of javascript and questionable UI patterns and is now outraged at the prospect that someone wants to take that privilege away from him. I can&#x27;t agree with that.<p>Examples:<p>&gt; <i>The underlying message is clear: Google wants full equivalency between AMP and canonical URL. Every element that is present on a website’s regular version should also be present on its AMP version: every navigation item, every social media sharing button, every comment box, every image gallery.</i><p>So Google&#x27;s suggestion is that, <i>if you&#x27;ve already chosen to offer an AMP page</i>, that page shouldn&#x27;t have intentionally worse usability than the original?<p>&gt; <i>For years Google has been nudging webmasters to create better websites – ‘better’ meaning ‘easier for Google to understand’. Technologies like XML sitemaps and schema.org structured data are strongly supported by Google because they make the search engine’s life easier.<p>Other initiatives like disavow files and rel=nofollow help Google keep its link graph clean and free from egregious spam. All the articles published on Google’s developer website are intended to ensure the chaotic, messy web becomes more like a clean, easy-to-understand web. In other words, a Google-shaped web. This is a battle Google has been fighting for decades.</i><p>Sitemaps and structured data were the <i>non-proprietary</i> attempts to structure the web. Those could have made the web more accessible for everyone, not just Google. They are something fundamentally different than AMP.<p>Yet, he condemns them too? Why?<p>He seems to argue that the chaos and messiness of the web infrastructure is itself a quality that should be defended. Why would that be the case?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvector</author><text>&gt; I do think there could be a case made for Google abusing their power here<p>Which is the concern here. Abuse of power in order to push your own agenda could just as easily turn into abuse of power to push an agenda you despise.</text></comment>
29,060,528	29,060,084	1	3	29,059,785	train	<story><title>Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-offers-ibuyer-sell-phoenix-homes-at-a-loss-2021-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lumost</author><text>I suspect that the problem boils down to the following:<p>1) Zillow made a financial&#x2F;ML model which would predict the sell price of a home in N months.<p>2) Zillow leveraged dirt cheap mortgage rates + VC money to outbid other sellers to be able to sell the home in N months<p>3) Zillow drove property developers and house flippers out of the market.<p>4) The homes Zillow is looking to sell within N months don&#x27;t have the &quot;improvements&quot; to justify the increased price.<p>5) The Zillow financial model turns out to have been biased on historic trends.<p>As others have noted Zillow makes money on more than just the price delta, they are also deploying capital to acquire more of the market to collect fees from. They are also theoretically able to benefit from appreciating prices being much much higher than interest costs in 2021.<p>The con of all of this is that it&#x27;s a rent seeking business model entering markets that are already full to the brim with rent seekers. If Zillow acquires enough of the &quot;float&quot; in the market they can effectively set prices to be whatever the demand will bear. Surprisingly housing is so constrained at this point that in a major city like Boston you could purchase all outstanding homes for &lt;200 Million dollars.</text></comment>	<story><title>Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-offers-ibuyer-sell-phoenix-homes-at-a-loss-2021-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dralley</author><text>The &quot;disrupt&quot; mantra endorsed by Softbank et. al. has grown extremely old. Housing prices in my area have inflated 25% in the past <i>year</i> - one year - and real estate companies like Zillow immediately buying up everything on the market is a primary contributor.<p>This isn&#x27;t disrupting an industry, this is disrupting <i>people&#x27;s lives</i>, and for what? What good is supposed to come from Zillow (et. al.) oligopolizing the housing market, and driving up prices like this?</text></comment>
29,839,467	29,838,260	1	2	29,837,851	train	<story><title>Brian Kernighan's Home Page</title><url>https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmollis</author><text>I was at Princeton once (maybe 15 or 20 years ago) for a meeting with one of the startups that spun out of one of their graduate programs.. The guys asked to meet me at the CS building (which was pretty cool to actually be in because I could have never gotten into Princeton as an undergrad!). Anyway, I&#x27;m walking down the hall and I see a door that says &#x27;Brian Kernighan&#x27;.. I turned and asked them if that was &#x27;THE Brian Kernighan&#x27;? they chuckled and said &#x27;yeah..that&#x27;s him&#x27;. I couldn&#x27;t believe it.. I wish I had met him.. but it was pretty cool to see the guy just walking around.. talking in his office, etc. This guy had a huge part in inventing something that runs most of the networked world.. and there he was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubermonkey</author><text>For someone like Kernighan, the end of the inscription on Christopher Wren&#x27;s resting place -- ie, St Paul&#x27;s, in London -- is entirely appropriate:<p>SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE<p>&quot;If you seek his monument, look around you.&quot;</text></comment>	<story><title>Brian Kernighan's Home Page</title><url>https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmollis</author><text>I was at Princeton once (maybe 15 or 20 years ago) for a meeting with one of the startups that spun out of one of their graduate programs.. The guys asked to meet me at the CS building (which was pretty cool to actually be in because I could have never gotten into Princeton as an undergrad!). Anyway, I&#x27;m walking down the hall and I see a door that says &#x27;Brian Kernighan&#x27;.. I turned and asked them if that was &#x27;THE Brian Kernighan&#x27;? they chuckled and said &#x27;yeah..that&#x27;s him&#x27;. I couldn&#x27;t believe it.. I wish I had met him.. but it was pretty cool to see the guy just walking around.. talking in his office, etc. This guy had a huge part in inventing something that runs most of the networked world.. and there he was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mehdix</author><text>That&#x27;s something I really miss. Having studied and worked in a developing country, I learned too late about these giants and it took me years to grasp the philosophy behind their great works and literally _unlearn_ and _relearn_ things. It is IMO a privilege to be exposed to great minds early in your education and carreer.</text></comment>
16,279,967	16,279,741	1	2	16,277,465	train	<story><title>Mechanical Laser Show (2017) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtBUiaAqRE&feature=youtu.be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>debt</author><text>This is so damn cool my question is, why is this type of shit so damn rare?<p>Like why don’t we see more instances of cool, low cost, big value hackery? Is it just too creatively difficult to summon these types of ideas idk</text></comment>	<story><title>Mechanical Laser Show (2017) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtBUiaAqRE&feature=youtu.be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slackpad</author><text>Recently came across this DIY laser projector vid - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xszp5UQLB2g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xszp5UQLB2g</a>. It&#x27;s all mirrors and motors in there with some manual controls.</text></comment>
19,206,032	19,205,656	1	2	19,205,484	train	<story><title>Comcast modem activation bug potentially exposed customers’ private data (2018)</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbkgn8/dont-rent-a-modem-from-comcast</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Merad</author><text>I wonder how much longer we&#x27;ll even have the option to use our own equipment. Late last year I briefly tried AT&amp;T fiber, and it was required to use their hybrid modem&#x2F;router monstrosity. It didn&#x27;t even have options to disable the router functionality, the best you could do was turn off its WiFi networks and disable its firewall. Even after setting all of my own passwords on it it was still possible to access settings through my AT&amp;T account online, telling me that the thing is backdoored all to hell. TBH that thing was a big factor in me canceling the service after 5 days (also the service was mediocre and they tried to screw me on pricing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>I had a ginormous AT&amp;T router&#x2F;modem (pace 5268ac) with a set of static ip addresses and a few times, AT&amp;T just stopped routing traffic to it.<p>It had happened before and then magically fixed itself a few days later.<p>One time I had a week of outage with AT&amp;T basically said the problem was on my side. They could ping the modem, and then punted. I had several truck rolls. The techs were really nice guys, but were basically cabling guys, better for finding a bad cable than debugging a packet loss. The problem for me was that my ipv4 static ip addresses would not receive traffic.<p>I was at wit&#x27;s end after a week and I debugged the thing myself. By looking at EVERY bit of data on the router, I found mention of the blocked packets in the firewall log. I would clear all the logs, and found even with the firewall DISABLED, the firewall log would see and block incoming packets I was sending using my neighbor&#x27;s comcast connection.<p>I called AT&amp;T, but this time mentioning &quot;firewall is completely off, but packets are blocked by the router and showing up in the log&quot; was concrete enough for them to look up a (known) solution.<p>The fix was to disable the firewall, but to enable stealth mode. wtf?<p>To be clear, this was a firmware bug, and caused dozens of calls to AT&amp;T, lots of heartache and finger pointing always in my direction.<p>I should also mention at the start of this fiasco, I checked the system log and noticed they pushed a firmware update to the modem at the time the problem started. Strangely after one call to the agent, that specific line disappeared out of the log file, but other log entries remained. hmmm.</text></comment>	<story><title>Comcast modem activation bug potentially exposed customers’ private data (2018)</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbkgn8/dont-rent-a-modem-from-comcast</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Merad</author><text>I wonder how much longer we&#x27;ll even have the option to use our own equipment. Late last year I briefly tried AT&amp;T fiber, and it was required to use their hybrid modem&#x2F;router monstrosity. It didn&#x27;t even have options to disable the router functionality, the best you could do was turn off its WiFi networks and disable its firewall. Even after setting all of my own passwords on it it was still possible to access settings through my AT&amp;T account online, telling me that the thing is backdoored all to hell. TBH that thing was a big factor in me canceling the service after 5 days (also the service was mediocre and they tried to screw me on pricing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jweir</author><text>What is old is new...<p>You used to not be able to own your phone - it was leased from AT&amp;T. That was the only option until Ma Bell was broken up in the early 80s.</text></comment>
35,341,084	35,338,402	1	3	35,337,798	train	<story><title>Push notifications are now supported cross-browser</title><url>https://web.dev/push-notifications-in-all-modern-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noirscape</author><text>Annoying fact is that every major browser silently installs itself into the startup process when you enable any browser push notification on Windows (with Edge being enabled for this by default iirc).<p>If you&#x27;re wondering why your only 2-year old Laptop is slowing down when you boot it up - this is why. Chances are that Edge, Firefox and&#x2F;or Chrome all three decided that they should have the right to run a full instance of themselves when you boot up your PC because you enabled a notification for a site that doesn&#x27;t ever send any to begin with.<p>Browsers are heavy things to boot up (not to mention that in potato RAM environments, they eat through RAM like there&#x27;s no tomorrow). To be clear, browsers being heavy applications is fine, it&#x27;s one application where people tolerate it because of how versatile the browser is, but it is <i>extremely</i> frustrating when it results in the computer taking 5 minutes to sign in, when all they needed to do was quickly revise a Word document.<p>The result is that people end up writing off perfectly serviceable laptops for something that is easily disabled in the task manager.<p>This sorta thing really should get a big warning popup that if you enable it, it probably will end up slowing down your PC. I can&#x27;t exactly celebrate the fact that all three major browser engines now pester users into slowing down their PCs.<p>Otherwise, if your relatives&#x2F;friends are complaining their laptop is slow (and you&#x27;re the designated IT person), enjoy the free advice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>In the same vein, I feel like persistent web workers need to be surfaced to the user more visibly than they are now, perhaps as a primary settings tab or something, and with periodic clean-up prompts from the browser (“foo.xyz has been running in the background for Y days without being used, would you like to stop it?”) because it seems to me that as things are currently at up, they’re gonna pile up indefinitely since there is no management to speak of. It also just seems kinda nutty that something that started running without my explicit permission can just hang around however long it wants to.</text></comment>	<story><title>Push notifications are now supported cross-browser</title><url>https://web.dev/push-notifications-in-all-modern-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noirscape</author><text>Annoying fact is that every major browser silently installs itself into the startup process when you enable any browser push notification on Windows (with Edge being enabled for this by default iirc).<p>If you&#x27;re wondering why your only 2-year old Laptop is slowing down when you boot it up - this is why. Chances are that Edge, Firefox and&#x2F;or Chrome all three decided that they should have the right to run a full instance of themselves when you boot up your PC because you enabled a notification for a site that doesn&#x27;t ever send any to begin with.<p>Browsers are heavy things to boot up (not to mention that in potato RAM environments, they eat through RAM like there&#x27;s no tomorrow). To be clear, browsers being heavy applications is fine, it&#x27;s one application where people tolerate it because of how versatile the browser is, but it is <i>extremely</i> frustrating when it results in the computer taking 5 minutes to sign in, when all they needed to do was quickly revise a Word document.<p>The result is that people end up writing off perfectly serviceable laptops for something that is easily disabled in the task manager.<p>This sorta thing really should get a big warning popup that if you enable it, it probably will end up slowing down your PC. I can&#x27;t exactly celebrate the fact that all three major browser engines now pester users into slowing down their PCs.<p>Otherwise, if your relatives&#x2F;friends are complaining their laptop is slow (and you&#x27;re the designated IT person), enjoy the free advice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zagrebian</author><text>&gt; every major browser silently installs itself into the startup process when you enable any browser push notification on Windows<p>Don’t they already do that for automatic background updates anyway?</text></comment>
8,887,088	8,886,352	1	3	8,886,041	train	<story><title>The problem with Angular</title><url>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/01/the_problem_wit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonwocky</author><text>I don&#x27;t really follow many of the author&#x27;s objections. I think he or she left out a lot of reasoning.<p><i>&quot;This code reminds me of a simple server-side scripting language such as JSP or ASP that’s used to fill HTML templates with database content. These languages have their place in the web development stack — but on the server, not in the browser.&quot;</i><p>Says who? What&#x27;s the rationale for where a language belongs?<p><i>&quot;Although templating is the correct solution, doing it in the browser is fundamentally wrong. The cost of application maintenance should not be offloaded onto all their users’s browsers (we’re talking millions of hits per month here) — especially not the mobile ones. This job belongs on the server.&quot;</i><p>Again, based on what?<p><i>&quot;My point is that I expected far more front-enders to embrace Angular. I have the feeling their number is surprisingly low — see also the problems my clients had with finding good front-end Angular consultants. &quot;</i><p>More stuff based on feeling rather than empirical evidence. And clients have trouble finding good front-end developers these days no matter what the technology is.<p><i>&quot;A more important reason may be pushback from the JavaScript community. Angular has evoked some serious criticism.&quot;</i><p>Find me a framework that <i>hasn&#x27;t</i> evoked serious criticism from some corner of the Internet.<p>Look, I&#x27;m no fan of Angular. In fact I&#x27;ve never written a thing in it. It doesn&#x27;t really fit my style of front-end development (and I&#x27;m a Java programmer!). I&#x27;m more of a libraries-over-frameworks guy. But this article is not very well-reasoned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>Just thought I&#x27;d add a bit of meta context: PPK (the author of the article) is perhaps the first person in the js community to catalogue detailed per-feature cross-browser compatibility tables. You could say he&#x27;s one of the old timers.<p>PPK has a very strong background in cross browser testing and high level technology evaluation for non-techie audiences, but (from my impression of reading this article, at least), it doesn&#x27;t seem like he has much experience w&#x2F; Angular per se and sounds like he is writing his opinions more based on blogosphere echo than personal time spent with the framework (clue: lack of Angular-specific terminology criticism)<p>Some of the criticism is valid, I think: hiring &quot;Angular&quot; devs is hard, partly because of the over-engineered-Java-like feel. I&#x27;ve seen a few times overconfident frontenders think they could pick up Angular through Google-Fu just as they picked up jQuery, and then hitting a brick wall face first, with a looming deadline to add insult to the injury. The reality is that a lot of people (especially frontend people) don&#x27;t have the CS foundation to understand why and when the design patterns prevalent in Angular&#x2F;Java are useful (or even what patterns exist to begin with).<p>@jasonwocky The snippets you highlighted do seem a bit like a &quot;get-off-my-lawn&quot; reaction from the author. SPA architectures certainly have their places, and it does feel like the author hasn&#x27;t had experience w&#x2F; building heavily dynamic UI apps.<p>&gt;&gt; Find me a framework that hasn&#x27;t evoked serious criticism from some corner of the Internet.<p>I think the point is that Angular criticism is much more prominent (and sometimes vitriolic) than other frameworks.</text></comment>	<story><title>The problem with Angular</title><url>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/01/the_problem_wit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonwocky</author><text>I don&#x27;t really follow many of the author&#x27;s objections. I think he or she left out a lot of reasoning.<p><i>&quot;This code reminds me of a simple server-side scripting language such as JSP or ASP that’s used to fill HTML templates with database content. These languages have their place in the web development stack — but on the server, not in the browser.&quot;</i><p>Says who? What&#x27;s the rationale for where a language belongs?<p><i>&quot;Although templating is the correct solution, doing it in the browser is fundamentally wrong. The cost of application maintenance should not be offloaded onto all their users’s browsers (we’re talking millions of hits per month here) — especially not the mobile ones. This job belongs on the server.&quot;</i><p>Again, based on what?<p><i>&quot;My point is that I expected far more front-enders to embrace Angular. I have the feeling their number is surprisingly low — see also the problems my clients had with finding good front-end Angular consultants. &quot;</i><p>More stuff based on feeling rather than empirical evidence. And clients have trouble finding good front-end developers these days no matter what the technology is.<p><i>&quot;A more important reason may be pushback from the JavaScript community. Angular has evoked some serious criticism.&quot;</i><p>Find me a framework that <i>hasn&#x27;t</i> evoked serious criticism from some corner of the Internet.<p>Look, I&#x27;m no fan of Angular. In fact I&#x27;ve never written a thing in it. It doesn&#x27;t really fit my style of front-end development (and I&#x27;m a Java programmer!). I&#x27;m more of a libraries-over-frameworks guy. But this article is not very well-reasoned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robotkilla</author><text>Currently wrapping up my first commercial AngularJS project - I was outsourced by a client.<p>Prior to this contract I had no experience with it, now I&#x27;ve been using it nearly every day for the past month and a half, have run through the tutorials and implemented it on a side project of mine.<p>All that said, I will be stripping Angular out of my side project. It is something I am glad I learned for clients that demand it, but I wouldn&#x27;t recommend it.<p>IMO Backbone with underscore templates are much cleaner and seem to perform much faster for my needs (no benchmarks performed on my end, but as a user my site certainly felt snappier prior to implementing Angular).</text></comment>
36,837,745	36,837,349	1	3	36,836,530	train	<story><title>Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lawsuits.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>&gt;Supreme Court might be sympathetic to some of the industry’s arguments<p>No surprise here, the US Supreme Court is now just like the rest of the US Gov, they are very happy to take bribes. And due to how the US Gov is structured, no way to stop them from holding out their hand. So getting appointed to that Court is a great gig, you do not even have to care about the law these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrei_says_</author><text>“Now”? Seems like this has been going on for a very long time.<p>We started paying attention now.<p>As for the US gov and institutionalized corruption I highly recommend Lester Lessig’s work around political donations reform as the first step to democracy in the US.<p>We the people and the republic we must reclaim is an excellent summary of the issue and the solution: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim?language=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations-lawsuits.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>&gt;Supreme Court might be sympathetic to some of the industry’s arguments<p>No surprise here, the US Supreme Court is now just like the rest of the US Gov, they are very happy to take bribes. And due to how the US Gov is structured, no way to stop them from holding out their hand. So getting appointed to that Court is a great gig, you do not even have to care about the law these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>The gov should do what Singapore does: pay senior officials well but exterminate any sort of non monetary perquisites and impeach or fire violators. Also ban any gov person from trading on insider info.<p>Also, if I had it my way, no government person while in the employ of the gov, should be able to vote at the level they represent or work in. If they’re fed employees no voting in fed elections and so on. Yes, I know under our constitution this would violate their rights. But you know, one can wish. I see it as a conflict of interest.</text></comment>
16,732,613	16,732,503	1	2	16,732,436	train	<story><title>Tesla driver reproduces fatal autopilot accident [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCF8tVqM3I</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcell</author><text>I really dislike the marketing around &quot;autopilot.&quot; The common defense of Tesla&#x27;s autopilot is that there are disclaimers, and the driver should always be at 100% attention.<p>Well, look at this, copied from Tesla&#x27;s website:<p>&gt; <i>Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars</i><p>&gt; All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver. [1]<p>An average person is going to read this and think, &quot;This care drives itself, and it&#x27;s safer than me!&quot; The rest of the page describes space-age features like switching lanes to get to an exit faster and self parking:<p>&gt; All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go ... Your Tesla will figure out the optimal route, navigate urban streets (even without lane markings), manage complex intersections with traffic lights, stop signs and roundabouts, and handle densely packed freeways with cars moving at high speed ... and park itself.<p>They&#x27;re selling a car that full on drives itself. This is not being sold as adaptive cruise control.<p>FWIW, they included a weasel phrase by saying &quot;hardware&quot; is there, as opposed to software, but come on! An average person is not going to understand that distinction. I think they need to dramatically scale back the hype around this feature until it actually delivers what it promises.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m also confused by why they need to hype up autopilot so much. They are already selling more cars than they can make, and a sexy electric car appeals to lots of people. I think it would be enough to stick with that.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;autopilot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;autopilot</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Tesla driver reproduces fatal autopilot accident [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCF8tVqM3I</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jijojv</author><text>Really sad to see Autopilot is a joke and nothing more than adaptive cruise control found in common cars, despite Musk claming it was a year ago [1]<p>Any one who owns Autopilot knows the warning at :20 is NOT a crash warning at all and is just the usual warning every minute to jiggle the wheel if you don&#x27;t hold the wheel firmly enough when it can&#x27;t detect you holding it.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;823632597284691969" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;823632597284691969</a> &quot; Yes, safety should improve significantly due to autonomy features, even if regs disallow no driver present 23 Jan 2017&quot;</text></comment>
13,716,457	13,715,508	1	2	13,713,922	train	<story><title>Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/website-builder-wix-acquires-art-community-deviantart-for-36m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.deviantart.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;submission&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.deviantart.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;submission&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> 3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following things during the Term: a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in any format and by any means now known or not yet known or invented; b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and media now known or not yet known or invented ; c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described in Section 3(b); and ... </code></pre> The only thing a DeviantArt user can do is to delete their content, shut their account, and leave the site.<p>The policies only apply for the &quot;Term&quot; in which a user exists and the art exists on the platform.</text></item><item><author>blackhole</author><text>One potentially alarming sentence in this article is &quot;Wix will open up DeviantArt’s repository of art and creative community to the Wix platform, giving Wix’s users access to that work to use in their own site building.&quot;<p>Exactly what do they mean by that? Will it be opt-in? Will it only cover art that&#x27;s already under Creative Commons? Will be it all Creative Commons? Does a Wix site count as commercial use? I can&#x27;t imagine people would be very happy about their art suddenly being available for use elsewhere without their consent.<p>Hopefully, this is much ado about nothing, and Wix won&#x27;t do anything terrible, but we&#x27;ve seen technology companies do stupid things before. At the very least, it would be nice if they elaborated on their plans regarding this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdpi</author><text><p><pre><code> a) We can re-encode your images, to whatever format we need to make the website work. b) We are allowed to display the pictures online. If something happens and the internet stops existing, we&#x27;ll still be allowed to show people pictures where we go after the web. We are also allowed to display pictures not only by themselves but also as part of a gallery. E.g. in search results. c) We&#x27;re allowed to resize, convert to grayscale, etc so that galleries, search results, etc, all work the way a modern website is expected to. </code></pre> You need all those rights to be able to operate DeviantArt. You really don&#x27;t want the licence to become the limiting factor when you implement a new feature on the website, so you need to be quite broad.</text></comment>	<story><title>Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/website-builder-wix-acquires-art-community-deviantart-for-36m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.deviantart.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;submission&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.deviantart.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;submission&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> 3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following things during the Term: a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in any format and by any means now known or not yet known or invented; b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and media now known or not yet known or invented ; c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described in Section 3(b); and ... </code></pre> The only thing a DeviantArt user can do is to delete their content, shut their account, and leave the site.<p>The policies only apply for the &quot;Term&quot; in which a user exists and the art exists on the platform.</text></item><item><author>blackhole</author><text>One potentially alarming sentence in this article is &quot;Wix will open up DeviantArt’s repository of art and creative community to the Wix platform, giving Wix’s users access to that work to use in their own site building.&quot;<p>Exactly what do they mean by that? Will it be opt-in? Will it only cover art that&#x27;s already under Creative Commons? Will be it all Creative Commons? Does a Wix site count as commercial use? I can&#x27;t imagine people would be very happy about their art suddenly being available for use elsewhere without their consent.<p>Hopefully, this is much ado about nothing, and Wix won&#x27;t do anything terrible, but we&#x27;ve seen technology companies do stupid things before. At the very least, it would be nice if they elaborated on their plans regarding this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>I&#x27;m no lawyer, but it looks like that language grants the DeviantArt corporation rights to use submissions, which they need in order to provide basic search as well as marketing.<p>It would be a different thing to grant Wix users the right to take someone&#x27;s work over to their own sites, I speculate that would require an extension or transfer of copy rights in addition to the quoted policy.<p>I&#x27;d wait and see, I&#x27;d expect that Wix won&#x27;t just lay claim to all submissions without asking for permission or remunerating artists who&#x27;s works are sold.</text></comment>
15,500,424	15,500,354	1	2	15,498,767	train	<story><title>Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office</title><url>https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-you-can-focus-in-a-coffee-shop-but-not-in-your-open-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tritium</author><text>The power differential implicit in the voice of managers.<p>The competitive aspect of operating alongside co-workers.<p>The fairness of slacking off, letting one&#x27;s mind wander, contemplating a hard problem while staring off into space and refraining from typing at a keyboard, maybe running late in the mornings, versus doing &quot;<i>real</i>&quot; work, ass in chair, on time, contributing ideas in meetings and phone calls, producing visible progress...<p>Whether or not people (who can affect your ability to put a roof over your head) <i>ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE</i>.<p>This is what an open office is does to me. The anxiety induced by others, and their potential for influencing where the rubber meets the road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tapanjk</author><text>&gt; Whether or not people (who can affect your ability to put a roof over your head) ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE.<p>I think what matters is whether I think I am being watched by my coworkers (superiors or otherwise). This uses up some part of my brain that needs to focus on my &quot;visual performance&quot; and thus creates stress. But when I do not think I am watched, my creativity goes up and stress drops. For example, I contribute much better in an audio conference or Slack (just text) meetings, than in a video conference or a face to face meeting. In the former case, I am more relaxed and am able to focus on the problem being discussed and in the latter case, not so much. This might be specific to certain personality types but is true for me for sure.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office</title><url>https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-you-can-focus-in-a-coffee-shop-but-not-in-your-open-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tritium</author><text>The power differential implicit in the voice of managers.<p>The competitive aspect of operating alongside co-workers.<p>The fairness of slacking off, letting one&#x27;s mind wander, contemplating a hard problem while staring off into space and refraining from typing at a keyboard, maybe running late in the mornings, versus doing &quot;<i>real</i>&quot; work, ass in chair, on time, contributing ideas in meetings and phone calls, producing visible progress...<p>Whether or not people (who can affect your ability to put a roof over your head) <i>ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE</i>.<p>This is what an open office is does to me. The anxiety induced by others, and their potential for influencing where the rubber meets the road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scruple</author><text>The year and a half or so that I spent in a bullpen style open-office made me feel like I was an inmate in a panopticon style environment. I could constantly feel managements eyes on the back of my head even though I knew it wasn&#x27;t literally happening. It was miserable, I&#x27;m glad that I got away from it and I will hopefully never find my way there again.</text></comment>
12,860,438	12,859,908	1	2	12,858,627	train	<story><title>You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-without-fixing-the-technical-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balls187</author><text>Indians of Asian descent are a minority in the US, but well represented in Software Engineering. Further, there are plenty more Indian, Chinese, and Russian female engineers, than there are American (of european, aka White) female engineers.<p>I am less inclined to believe there is systemic bias against women, and minorities, and instead a culture difference between groups who are well represented in engineering, and groups which are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>T2_t2</author><text>&gt; I am less inclined to believe there is systemic bias against women, and minorities, and instead a culture difference between groups who are well represented in engineering, and groups which are not.<p>And that cultural difference is INDIVIDUAL CHOICE.<p>When people are free to choose whatever they like, because they aren&#x27;t scared of starving, which is true in Western countries, they overwhelmingly choose gender stereotypical professions. This is most true in the most gender neutral countries, Scandanavia basically, where the gap is the widest in traditional roles such as nursing. As you go down the GDP per capita list, the gender gap shrinks.<p>Indian, Chinese, and Russians are from cultures where ANY job is hard to get, and good jobs are very few and far between. Because jobs are scarce and a safe, middle class life requires sacrifice, people in these developed countries are more likely to choose jobs based on pay and availability than what they will enjoy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE</a> is a Norwegian documentary on this, in 8 parts, and it is well worth a watch.</text></comment>	<story><title>You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-without-fixing-the-technical-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balls187</author><text>Indians of Asian descent are a minority in the US, but well represented in Software Engineering. Further, there are plenty more Indian, Chinese, and Russian female engineers, than there are American (of european, aka White) female engineers.<p>I am less inclined to believe there is systemic bias against women, and minorities, and instead a culture difference between groups who are well represented in engineering, and groups which are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pj_mukh</author><text>That&#x27;s because Indian (particularly) men consider engineering to be a safe choice (source: am Indian). Anecdotally, speaking to women (esp American), they find engineering to be categorically unsafe from a career progress perspective. You may not &#x27;see&#x27; the bias, but they definitely feel it. The effect is measurable.<p>I am no expert, maybe it has something to do with maternity leave regimes or the interviews (like OP mentions)?</text></comment>
15,271,330	15,271,446	1	2	15,271,124	train	<story><title>The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/17/16315510/iphone-x-notch-kinect-apple-primesense-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supernumerary</author><text>Fun story... In December 2012 I bought a Prime Sense Carmine, The Kinect for near-distance objects like a face ... mostly to play around with Faceshift (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;faceshift.com&#x2F;studio&#x2F;2015.2&#x2F;introduction.html#introduction" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;faceshift.com&#x2F;studio&#x2F;2015.2&#x2F;introduction.html#introdu...</a>) and (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.ubc.ca&#x2F;~chyma&#x2F;publications&#x2F;ur&#x2F;2015_ur_paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.ubc.ca&#x2F;~chyma&#x2F;publications&#x2F;ur&#x2F;2015_ur_paper.pd...</a>)<p>Apple announced its purchase shortly thereafter and the Carmine got yanked from public sale ... thereafter Carmines were selling at a premium on Ebay, I suppose for competitors to reverse engineer.<p>Been waiting for this to crop up in an Apple product...<p>Incidentally it is a shame an equivalent device is not available to hack on...</text></comment>	<story><title>The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/17/16315510/iphone-x-notch-kinect-apple-primesense-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IBM</author><text>There&#x27;s probably a handful of acquisitions in this release cycle:<p>WiFiSLAM in 2013<p>PrimeSense in 2013<p>LinX in 2015<p>Metaio in 2015<p>Faceshift in 2015<p>Emotient in 2016<p>Flyby Media in 2016<p>RealFace in 2017<p>and probably more that isn&#x27;t obvious to me.<p>It was reported by Bloomberg, funnily enough in an article framed as Apple struggling in M&amp;A [1], that Metaio took a lowball offer:<p>&gt;Apple often refuses to work with investment bankers appointed by the seller, preferring to deal directly with company management, according to people who have been involved in such negotiations. Apple also dictates terms and tells targets to take it or leave it, betting that the promise of product development support later and the chance of appearing in future iPhones are alluring enough, the people said.<p>&gt;That was the case when Apple acquired Metaio GmbH in 2015. Bankers appointed by the augmented-reality firm to negotiate weren’t allowed in the room, and while Metaio executives felt the offer was low, Apple’s vision for the technology convinced them to sell, according to a person familiar with the discussions.<p>&gt;Apple’s current M&amp;A strategy works well for acquiring startups developing new technology that can be added to existing Apple products. It bought 15 to 20 companies per year over the last four years. But buying larger companies presents a different challenge, particularly if there are rival bids. Bankers often diffuse tension between bidders and targets, but Apple’s approach can make that process difficult.<p>&gt;“There’s a swagger -- you may call it arrogance -- about the culture there,” said Risley of Architect Partners. “They’re used to being able to muscle their way in and get attractive economics.”<p>Which seems completely logical on Metaio&#x27;s part. It&#x27;s obvious a lot of these startups working on fundamental technologies are just going to toil in obscurity, and selling to Apple is a chance to have your technology deployed and used in the biggest way possible.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-02-15&#x2F;apple-struggles-to-make-big-deals-hampering-strategy-shifts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-02-15&#x2F;apple-str...</a></text></comment>
8,090,872	8,090,820	1	3	8,090,493	train	<story><title>Don't Trust Google (2002)</title><url>http://idlewords.com/2002/12/don_t_trust_google.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>And 14 years later there still <i>&quot;is no evidence or even reason to suspect that Google is not being an honest broker. The searches give good results, the rankings seem fair, the service remains free, and we haven’t heard of anyone being arrested for running a dodgy query.&quot;</i><p>So while the author is right about potential dangers mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, it&#x27;s been more than a decade and those fears haven&#x27;t really materialized. The article sounds exactly like things that are being said in anti-Google threads in 2014.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angularfan</author><text>Here&#x27;s a few ways the post became true:<p>Tracking Google Apps for Education students and even paid Google Apps for Business emails to build ad profiles, making misleading statement to the public that they&#x27;re not doing so, and then when it finally came to statements to federal court, lacking the dare to continue lying and finally confessing the truth and then claiming the consumer Gmail policy applied to Apps for Education data. <a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edweek.org&#x2F;ew&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;26google.h33.ht...</a><p>Conspiring to kill SkyHook just with its outsized influence like Microsoft used to. <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-lawsuit-motorola-Samsung" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;05&#x2F;12&#x2F;google-android-skyhook-la...</a><p>Tracking the physical location of Android phones for ad purposes without properly informing users and disabling things like Google Now if you disable the tracking. <a href="http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiday.com&#x2F;platforms&#x2F;google-tracking&#x2F;</a><p>Google employee access personal information of others. Google says it has fixed the issue, but how do we even know? Is there any legal safeguard against someone at Google reading your email? <a href="http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gawker.com&#x2F;5637234&#x2F;gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...</a><p>Paid inclusion for shopping search results <a href="http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embraces-paid-inclusion-13138" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketingland.com&#x2F;once-deemed-evil-google-now-embrace...</a><p>Ranking Google+ reviews over Yelp results even if the user explicitly searches for Yelp <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-complains-outranked-google-local-listings/111539/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;yelp-complains-outranked-...</a><p>Decreasing contrast in the background of ads, this especially hurts older people as ability to see contrast decreases with age, and the FTC found that almost half the people fail to notice that there are ads on the page, thus forcing products that are first in the organic results to pay Google for ads.<p><a href="http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentionally-trying-to-minimize-the-fact-that-these-are-ads/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blumenthals.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;is-google-intentional...</a> <a href="http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ftc-googles-ad-practice-is-deceptive.html/?a=viewall" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wallstcheatsheet.com&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;ftc-googles-ad-practice-i...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Don't Trust Google (2002)</title><url>http://idlewords.com/2002/12/don_t_trust_google.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>And 14 years later there still <i>&quot;is no evidence or even reason to suspect that Google is not being an honest broker. The searches give good results, the rankings seem fair, the service remains free, and we haven’t heard of anyone being arrested for running a dodgy query.&quot;</i><p>So while the author is right about potential dangers mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, it&#x27;s been more than a decade and those fears haven&#x27;t really materialized. The article sounds exactly like things that are being said in anti-Google threads in 2014.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renlo</author><text>Uhmmm, nearly everything he described became a reality. Personalized search results, mass data gathering, filtering &#x2F; censorship of results, the growth of Google to megalithic proportions (&#x27;next Microsoft&#x27;), etc.</text></comment>
6,920,041	6,920,006	1	3	6,919,184	train	<story><title>Why Google isn't our Bell Labs</title><url>http://begun.co/why-google-isnt-our-bell-labs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>The Bell Telephone Company&#x2F;AT&amp;T was also a privately owned, publicly traded, company with an obligation to maximize profit to shareholders.<p>I think there are probably a lot of differences between Bell Labs and Google. Some of them are due to just differences in historical context between the 60s and the 2000&#x27;s, some are probably due to how Bell&#x27;s monopoly effected it&#x27;s R&amp;D approaches, sure. It would be interesting to delve into this.<p>But they are definitely not about the &quot;fundamental differences between a publicly traded company and a state-sanctioned monopoly,&quot; the OP is just confused. Bell&#x2F;AT&amp;T was a publicly traded company, as well as a state-sanctioned monopoly.<p>Also, in the histories of Unix that I&#x27;ve read, Bell&#x2F;AT&amp;T hardly <i>wanted</i> to contribute Unix to the &#x27;public domain&#x27;, they wanted to market&#x2F;commercialize it, they just failed -- and never really realized the potential market value of what they had. There were also issues of AT&amp;T being forbidden from entering some aspects of computer business by a 1950s antitrust consent decree. (The UNIX <i>developers</i> on the other hand definitely wanted to share it, and often had to act under the radar to do so. Another historical difference is that they could get away with that.)<p>I think the author is perhaps guilty of romanticizing Bell Labs as they are accusing others of romanticizing Google!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dn_Ab</author><text>Very true that AT&amp;T was no saint but it should come as no surprise that Bell Labs is romanticized when one looks at how Epic their <i>output</i> was. From a sample of their employees we have: <i>Information Theory</i>, karnaugh maps, the transistor, laser, photovoltaics, CCDs, C,R, Unix and for kicks - stumbling upon CMB hence enriching our understanding of the universe, it&#x27;s age and size. It&#x27;s mind boggling. No company today comes anywhere near that in terms of fundamentally rearranging knowledge and society.<p>I would argue that if Bell Labs was 8 or 9 on the Richter Scale then Microsoft Research, at a 4 or 5, is the closest we have today in terms of independence and diversity of research unfettered by profit concerns.<p>One guess for why Bell Labs was able to achieve so much is that on one hand they had decades of fundamental new insights by Brilliant physicists and mathematicians ripe for the picking (as evinced by multiple cases of identical independent inventions) and on the other hand they had the backing of a monopoly of incredible proportions. The planets don&#x27;t often align like that.<p>Monopolies and excess profit are almost always a sign of market failure. However, some have argued that one of the benefits of a monopoly is it allows firms to reinvest some of that beyond normal profits and reduced costs on R&amp;D (also typically argue monopolies are temporary because creative destruction). If you consider that only those like Google, Samsung, GE, IBM and Microsoft can even consider such broad-based research then it seems there is merit to the idea. Yet, the terrain of something so complex as innovative output should not have a single and global optimum.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why Google isn't our Bell Labs</title><url>http://begun.co/why-google-isnt-our-bell-labs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>The Bell Telephone Company&#x2F;AT&amp;T was also a privately owned, publicly traded, company with an obligation to maximize profit to shareholders.<p>I think there are probably a lot of differences between Bell Labs and Google. Some of them are due to just differences in historical context between the 60s and the 2000&#x27;s, some are probably due to how Bell&#x27;s monopoly effected it&#x27;s R&amp;D approaches, sure. It would be interesting to delve into this.<p>But they are definitely not about the &quot;fundamental differences between a publicly traded company and a state-sanctioned monopoly,&quot; the OP is just confused. Bell&#x2F;AT&amp;T was a publicly traded company, as well as a state-sanctioned monopoly.<p>Also, in the histories of Unix that I&#x27;ve read, Bell&#x2F;AT&amp;T hardly <i>wanted</i> to contribute Unix to the &#x27;public domain&#x27;, they wanted to market&#x2F;commercialize it, they just failed -- and never really realized the potential market value of what they had. There were also issues of AT&amp;T being forbidden from entering some aspects of computer business by a 1950s antitrust consent decree. (The UNIX <i>developers</i> on the other hand definitely wanted to share it, and often had to act under the radar to do so. Another historical difference is that they could get away with that.)<p>I think the author is perhaps guilty of romanticizing Bell Labs as they are accusing others of romanticizing Google!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UNIXgod</author><text>The parent is spot on. Bell Labs was the first to leave the Multics project.<p>It took several years for Thompson, Ritchie, McIlroy and Ossanna to get funding.<p>They did it under the radar with a PDP-7 garbage picked by Thompson while sending letter after letter to get funding for a DEC PDP-10 or Sigma7 which they would use to create the OS and play games&#x2F;simulations (i.e. Space Travel). Mind you computer time in the late 60&#x27;s was upwards to $75 and hour.<p>After all is said and done Bell Labs at the time was a government regulated national telecommunications monopoly and was not allowed to sell it. They could licenses it though and did. Berkeley only had to pay for the tapes since they where a school.<p>FWIW they didn&#x27;t get the funding based on asking to program an unspecified OS but to create system specifically designed for editing and formatting text. The big buzzword back then was &quot;word processing&quot;. Also the higher ups already knew by then that they had something which Ken and Dennis had done on their own. AT&amp;T bought them a PDP-11 and the first end user applications where for AT&amp;T patent dept. to be used by secretaries.<p><i>Thus, during 1969, we began trying to find an alternative to Multics. The search took several forms. Throughout 1969 we (mainly Ossanna, Thompson, Ritchie) lobbied intensively for the purchase of a medium-scale machine for which we promised to write an operating system; the machines we suggested were the DEC PDP-10 and the SDS (later Xerox) Sigma 7. The effort was frustrating, because our proposals were never clearly and finally turned down, but yet were certainly never accepted. Several times it seemed we were very near success. The final blow to this effort came when we presented an exquisitely complicated proposal, designed to minimize financial outlay, that involved some outright purchase, some third-party lease, and a plan to turn in a DEC KA-10 processor on the soon-to-be-announced and more capable KI-10. The proposal was rejected, and rumor soon had it that W. O. Baker (then vice-president of Research) had reacted to it with the comment `Bell Laboratories just doesn&#x27;t do business this way!&#x27;</i> --Ritchie 1979 <a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cm.bell-labs.com&#x2F;who&#x2F;dmr&#x2F;hist.html</a><p>Towards the end of the 80&#x27;s Berkeley students took a nod from Richard Stallman and put their distribution on the net (which was mostly rewritten at that point (It was Keith Bostic who proposed removal of non-AT&amp;T code)).<p>ATT UNIX was licensed at about $200k while the BSD patchset was just a piece of software you added if for anything the TCP&#x2F;IP stack, vi, job control, curses, mail services and csh.<p>I don&#x27;t for a minute believe that Google or ATT are in any way for the greater good of society and research any more than I would believe that apple or microsoft care about education and&#x2F;or removing vender lock-in. It&#x27;s not like any of the aforementioned monopolies have invested in real problems like cancer research and&#x2F;or a cure.<p>If you want to explore the innovators it&#x27;s best to look at the McIlroys, Thompsons and Ritchies, Bostics and Stallmans and so fourth who really did innovate and change our lives for the better.</text></comment>
9,821,038	9,820,991	1	3	9,818,996	train	<story><title>What was the technology stack driving the original Ultima Online servers?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-technology-stack-driving-the-original-Ultima-Online-servers?share=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Globz</author><text>Wow they didn&#x27;t use any DB at the start of UO, that is amazing haha<p>&quot;As Raph also notes, there were no databases originally involved in the storage of game state or player data for UO (disregarding analytics here), everything was kept in flat files. Backups worked by flagging a moment in time where no one was allowed to cross server-boundaries -- during that moment, each areaserver was commanded to fork(), essentially duplicating itself in memory (it&#x27;s more complicated than this, thanks to Copy-on-Write, but let&#x27;s simplify). After everyone had fork()ed, the &quot;lock&quot; preventing boundary-crossing was cleared. Then each areaserv began to dump out its huge chunk of memory-state into a file on an NFS server. Those files were then all tarred together and kept as a &quot;backup&quot; of the state of the server. These heavyweight backups happened at half-hour intervals, I believe.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>I&#x27;m not so shocked... I&#x27;m a web developer, not a game developer, but databases were avoided as part of production stacks in the 90s. Most people tried to stick to flat files. A database layer added complexity and decreased performance. Even most content management systems had an option to write everything to a flat file to serve via a web server. Those were the days that Apache servers and a huge pile of flat files was the norm.<p>Once web content began to be personalized, that was no longer realistic. Databases became a required part of the stack, web servers ran applications instead of just serving file, we gained massive amounts of functionality, and haven&#x27;t really looked back.</text></comment>	<story><title>What was the technology stack driving the original Ultima Online servers?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-technology-stack-driving-the-original-Ultima-Online-servers?share=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Globz</author><text>Wow they didn&#x27;t use any DB at the start of UO, that is amazing haha<p>&quot;As Raph also notes, there were no databases originally involved in the storage of game state or player data for UO (disregarding analytics here), everything was kept in flat files. Backups worked by flagging a moment in time where no one was allowed to cross server-boundaries -- during that moment, each areaserver was commanded to fork(), essentially duplicating itself in memory (it&#x27;s more complicated than this, thanks to Copy-on-Write, but let&#x27;s simplify). After everyone had fork()ed, the &quot;lock&quot; preventing boundary-crossing was cleared. Then each areaserv began to dump out its huge chunk of memory-state into a file on an NFS server. Those files were then all tarred together and kept as a &quot;backup&quot; of the state of the server. These heavyweight backups happened at half-hour intervals, I believe.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>Oh the days of the Chesapeake shuffle, what many us used to call the lag spikes and rollbacks the afflicted the game early on. You could tell your servers cycle time with little effort and there were days when everything was just out of sync and even movement from certain areas was not a certain event.<p>This model apparently allowed for quite a few dupe bugs, one of which I published on an old fan site. It was quite involved, in fact I wrote it up so deliberately convoluted that what you were doing was obvious. Did it work, I wasn&#x27;t quite sure but I did suffer both duplication of items and loss from their system through no effort on my part.<p>Its kind of funny to learn how they did it this late, reminds me of mechanisms we employed with some early multiplayer door games on BBSes. Supporting multiple players for some early titles was a bear, the least of which was the lack of stability of most connections just plain bad code that bit you in the butt more often than not.</text></comment>
22,503,264	22,502,413	1	2	22,496,736	train	<story><title>Beer Drinkers Guide to SAML</title><url>https://duo.com/blog/the-beer-drinkers-guide-to-saml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lvh</author><text>The biggest problem with SAML is probably XML-DSig. The spec is ridiculously complex, but unfortunately the implementations are no better. You&#x27;re de facto either using libxmlsec1 or the Java stdlib. libxmlsec1 is (anecdotally) a terrifying mess of C that most SAML integration libraries desperately want you to run in-process with your server.<p>There&#x27;s a totally palatable mini-SAML within SAML waiting to come out. It already exists informally: it&#x27;s whatever GSuite and Okta&#x27;s default metadata.xml will give you, and it summarizes to &quot;one signature, on the outside, no encryption&quot;.<p>You kind of need to do SAML, though, unless you don&#x27;t care about selling to companies at all. Smaller companies may or may not be able to do OIDC, but pretty much everyone can do SAML. You just want to have someone else be responsible for the SAML laundromat part (that is: ingesting gross SAML from the Internet and translating it to a friendly consistent format, which doesn&#x27;t necessarily have to be SAML too). For all its flaws, Cognito fits that bill, as does Okta.</text></comment>	<story><title>Beer Drinkers Guide to SAML</title><url>https://duo.com/blog/the-beer-drinkers-guide-to-saml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mirekrusin</author><text>Great article but if I wanted to explain it to somebody in one sentence I&#x27;d say &quot;It&#x27;s like sign-in with google, but for enterprises&quot;, by &quot;enterprises&quot; i mean &quot;more shit&quot; - xml&#x2F;soap&#x2F;overcomplicated kind of shit.</text></comment>
5,628,046	5,627,858	1	3	5,627,309	train	<story><title>Virgin Galactic goes faster than speed of sound in flight test</title><url>http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/momentous-day-for-space-travel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>Maybe the physics or the finances aren't there, but I would imagine that an excellent use for sub-orbital near-spaceflight would be to get between two distant cities (Tokyo and London) extremely quickly. Virgin Galactic would seem to be poised to execute on this, if there is a market for it.</text></comment>	<story><title>Virgin Galactic goes faster than speed of sound in flight test</title><url>http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/momentous-day-for-space-travel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>salimmadjd</author><text>I noticed the youtube video was removed? I wonder if it was a PR decision. Any ideas?<p>Also, I agree hitting speed of sound is not that of an achievement, but it' something given it wasn't bankrolled by limitless government funding. If they have any mishaps, their program is crashed. Where as government program can have many mishaps and it doesn't have the same impact as a consumer-oriented business.</text></comment>
19,871,376	19,871,022	1	2	19,870,406	train	<story><title>Open source firmware is important for security</title><url>https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/why-open-source-firmware-is-important-for-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acd</author><text>Agree with the author that UEFI is bad for security. You have this huge binary UEFI blob in a pre os boot environment that does not run open source. After the motherboard,laptop manufacturer looses interest and they loose interest as soon as the product does not sell more new products UEFI remains unpatched and insecure.<p>The boot loader should be simple and relatively dumb IMHO, then it is secure. If it should be bigger then it should be Open source.<p>Management processors like Intel ME built into the CPU, firmware another x86 insecurity.</text></comment>	<story><title>Open source firmware is important for security</title><url>https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/why-open-source-firmware-is-important-for-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>transpute</author><text>Videos from the 2018 Open Source Firmware conference are available: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osfc.io&#x2F;archive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osfc.io&#x2F;archive</a><p>See also &quot;Firmware is the new Software&quot; from Trammell Hudson, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.platformsecuritysummit.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;speaker&#x2F;hudson&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.platformsecuritysummit.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;speaker&#x2F;hudson&#x2F;</a><p><i>&gt; Secure firmware is the foundation of secure systems. If we want to build slightly more secure systems they will require open, auditable and measured firmware. If we can’t read and audit the firmware code, we can’t reason about what is going on during the critical phases of the boot process; if we can’t modify and reproducibly build the firmware, we can’t fix vulnerabilities or tailor it to our needs; and if the firmware isn’t measured and attested, we can’t be certain that our system hasn’t been tampered with.</i></text></comment>
28,183,386	28,182,400	1	2	28,181,575	train	<story><title>Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs</title><url>https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/08/14/10x10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>If you work for a corporation and feel overwhelmed try what the emacs people did, example for email: 1) select everything in your inbox, 2) mark as read, 3) archive. For bugs it would be unassign everything from yourself, or just close them without fixing.<p>I&#x27;ve done this several times and it&#x27;s magical how you end up losing almost nothing important in the end. I think it works because if something is important enough you&#x27;ll either remember it yourself or it will be communicated to you again, perhaps even via a &quot;higher priority channel&quot; such as the management chain.<p>And if you think I&#x27;m being extreme then yes, maybe, but maybe you haven&#x27;t yet drowned in the never ending stream of problems for a long time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waych</author><text>When doing this email trick I&#x27;d often broadcast the fact as I was &quot;declaring email bankruptcy&quot; to let others know I did this and may have missed their email.<p>I&#x27;ve also lead many mass bug closures. Most stale bugs just need a ping or a friendly closure message. The cost to reverse a wrongly closed bug from a bug cleanup sweep is zero, and in the off chance it ignites interest in some other party still paying attention it at least signals intent and starts a conversation.</text></comment>	<story><title>Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs</title><url>https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/08/14/10x10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>If you work for a corporation and feel overwhelmed try what the emacs people did, example for email: 1) select everything in your inbox, 2) mark as read, 3) archive. For bugs it would be unassign everything from yourself, or just close them without fixing.<p>I&#x27;ve done this several times and it&#x27;s magical how you end up losing almost nothing important in the end. I think it works because if something is important enough you&#x27;ll either remember it yourself or it will be communicated to you again, perhaps even via a &quot;higher priority channel&quot; such as the management chain.<p>And if you think I&#x27;m being extreme then yes, maybe, but maybe you haven&#x27;t yet drowned in the never ending stream of problems for a long time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>This is definitely a real phenomenon, there is a lot of &quot;work&quot; that if ignored long enough turns out didn&#x27;t need to be done at all. Lots of things get done which don&#x27;t need to, knowing which is which is a really valuable skill.</text></comment>
37,976,475	37,976,750	1	2	37,975,944	train	<story><title>Europe's largest copper producer is the victim of metal swindle worth $198M</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/09/20/europe-largest-copper-producer-aurubis-victim-metal-heist-worth-198-million-insiders-involved/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gpvos</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;OwcRL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;OwcRL</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Europe's largest copper producer is the victim of metal swindle worth $198M</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/09/20/europe-largest-copper-producer-aurubis-victim-metal-heist-worth-198-million-insiders-involved/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>not_your_vase</author><text>Reminds me of my first &quot;real&quot; job, many many years ago.<p>I was working at a metal pipe retailer, helping them switching from one ERP&#x2F;CRM to another. While moving the inventory between the systems we decided to also check the real inventory. It turned out that due to incorrectly using the previous system, there was quite a substantial shortage compared to the company&#x27;s turnover. Anyway, it had to be reported somehow to the shareholders... suddenly the management &quot;remembered&quot; that the previous team lead from the storage department has just left a few weeks ago, everything is his fault, they put all responsibility on him (without pursuing any further actions).<p>Ahhh, I really don&#x27;t like some thing.</text></comment>
33,925,726	33,924,980	1	3	33,923,537	train	<story><title>Vite 4.0</title><url>https://vitejs.dev/blog/announcing-vite4.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshe</author><text>Can someone explain or point to something about what vite is?<p>Is this very niche or something every web developer should be interested in?<p>Tried this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vitejs.dev&#x2F;guide&#x2F;why.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vitejs.dev&#x2F;guide&#x2F;why.html</a>, and the comparisons page and it&#x27;s all buzzwords.<p>&quot;Vite aims to address these issues by leveraging new advancements in the ecosystem: the availability of native ES modules in the browser, and the rise of JavaScript tools written in compile-to-native languages.&quot;<p>Corp PR speak is not the pinnacle, there is no reason to emulate it. To &quot;Address&quot; a problem means you haven&#x27;t solved it. &quot;Leveraging&quot; just means &quot;using&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reducesuffering</author><text>Vite is something every web dev should be interested in.<p>Say you want to create a new React frontend? Should you make directories, package.json, wire up the .html to ReactDOM, and all the other little things? Most likely not. Just &#x27;npm create vite&#x27; and select React.<p>It can be used for other JS like Vue, Svelte, and Preact.<p>For example, if you wanted to quickly make a UI, you don&#x27;t need to fiddle with webpack and other crazy build steps. This guy had just run &#x27;npm create vite &amp;&amp; npm install &amp;&amp; npm run dev&#x27; and starts creating UI right away: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;A0BmLYHLPZs?t=68" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;A0BmLYHLPZs?t=68</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Vite 4.0</title><url>https://vitejs.dev/blog/announcing-vite4.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshe</author><text>Can someone explain or point to something about what vite is?<p>Is this very niche or something every web developer should be interested in?<p>Tried this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vitejs.dev&#x2F;guide&#x2F;why.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vitejs.dev&#x2F;guide&#x2F;why.html</a>, and the comparisons page and it&#x27;s all buzzwords.<p>&quot;Vite aims to address these issues by leveraging new advancements in the ecosystem: the availability of native ES modules in the browser, and the rise of JavaScript tools written in compile-to-native languages.&quot;<p>Corp PR speak is not the pinnacle, there is no reason to emulate it. To &quot;Address&quot; a problem means you haven&#x27;t solved it. &quot;Leveraging&quot; just means &quot;using&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>o_m</author><text>Yes, every web developer should care about frontend build tools. Those who don&#x27;t use Vite, Webpack, or similar tools ends up with multi megabyte websites that are a mess.</text></comment>
28,682,491	28,682,496	1	2	28,679,761	train	<story><title>Fail2ban – Remote Code Execution</title><url>https://research.securitum.com/fail2ban-remote-code-execution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loudmax</author><text>This exploit is for a combination of fail2ban and `mail`. Reading how it works, it seems much more of a vulnerability for anything using the `mail` command than in fail2ban per se.<p>That ~! escape is really dangerous. What percentage of sysadmins are even aware of its existence? I can see how it can be useful, but there is a lot of potential for exploit if you aren&#x27;t extremely careful.<p>The `mail` command shouldn&#x27;t so easily accommodate executing arbitrary commands from input. The ~! escape should probably be either removed from `mail` entirely, or enabled only if you pass it a flag. It seems like a vestige from an earlier, more innocent time.<p>This isn&#x27;t to absolve sysadmins who fail to sanitize their inputs, but let&#x27;s not make their job so difficult.</text></comment>	<story><title>Fail2ban – Remote Code Execution</title><url>https://research.securitum.com/fail2ban-remote-code-execution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derobert</author><text>For extra fun, there are (or at least were) multiple implementations of the mail command. The arguments were similar enough, but an old (and replaced) system at a previous employer required Heirloom mail&#x2F;snail, not BSD because it actually intentionally used escape sequences like this.<p>In particular, it used one to add attachments (by giving the path).<p>We replaced it with Perl, getting rid of the shell script entirely (the whole stack was Perl).<p>Shell scripts really ought to use the sendmail command to send mail, but then you have to remember those obscure options to pass and generate the mail headers yourself, so it&#x27;s understandable why no one does. (And probably handle dot-doubling).</text></comment>
38,837,458	38,837,390	1	2	38,836,550	train	<story><title>E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents</title><url>https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/12/29/major-pornographic-blocks-users-nc-response-new-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I strongly disagree with this NC law, and others, your analogy is a bad one.<p>As a society I think we&#x27;ve accepted that some things (cigarettes, alcohol, sex, etc.) should be restricted from children. That&#x27;s a far cry from requiring ID every time I go to the grocery store. But, as long as I&#x27;ve been alive, you <i>have</i> had to show ID to purchase alcohol, and the sky hasn&#x27;t fallen.<p>Again, I think these types of laws are particularly poorly thought out, but I don&#x27;t buy the &quot;slippery slope into dystopia&quot; arguments, and I think there are better arguments against it.</text></item><item><author>mjevans</author><text>What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater? What if you were tracked each time you consumed a video, a still image, an audio clip, or even a text message?<p>What if the government kept a record of any or all of those checks? What if they arranged for third parties to commercialize that data so they could &#x27;legally&#x27; end-run any restriction on domestic spying with a small ad targeting data service fee?<p>This is the sort of dystopia that librarians and others focused on liberty have been fighting for what seems like forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LammyL</author><text>It is one thing to show ID. It is an other thing to show ID and have the details stored in a database in perpetuity by companies who don’t have huge budgets for data privacy and security.</text></comment>	<story><title>E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents</title><url>https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/12/29/major-pornographic-blocks-users-nc-response-new-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I strongly disagree with this NC law, and others, your analogy is a bad one.<p>As a society I think we&#x27;ve accepted that some things (cigarettes, alcohol, sex, etc.) should be restricted from children. That&#x27;s a far cry from requiring ID every time I go to the grocery store. But, as long as I&#x27;ve been alive, you <i>have</i> had to show ID to purchase alcohol, and the sky hasn&#x27;t fallen.<p>Again, I think these types of laws are particularly poorly thought out, but I don&#x27;t buy the &quot;slippery slope into dystopia&quot; arguments, and I think there are better arguments against it.</text></item><item><author>mjevans</author><text>What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater? What if you were tracked each time you consumed a video, a still image, an audio clip, or even a text message?<p>What if the government kept a record of any or all of those checks? What if they arranged for third parties to commercialize that data so they could &#x27;legally&#x27; end-run any restriction on domestic spying with a small ad targeting data service fee?<p>This is the sort of dystopia that librarians and others focused on liberty have been fighting for what seems like forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hattmall</author><text>You had to show ID to buy porn magazines, go in a strip club or even the adult video rental room.<p>It&#x27;s pretty insane that we have no check for an unlimited amount of free porn with all kinds of extremes.<p>It fucks up a lot of kids (and adults).<p>Showing porn to a random kid on the street would have you catch a charge if not something worse, but somehow on the Internet it&#x27;s just fine?</text></comment>
16,253,599	16,253,437	1	2	16,252,949	train	<story><title>With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit</title><url>https://theconversation.com/with-teen-mental-health-deteriorating-over-five-years-theres-a-likely-culprit-86996</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wutbrodo</author><text>&gt; the realities of student loans, an out of reach housing market, devalued college degrees, the gig economy, promises of no retirement, etc.<p>Have you ever met a teenager? Almost literally zero percent of them think (or need to think) about this stuff, with the possible exception of some of the very oldest teenagers (ie, people in their first or second year of college who are starting to think about the details of the start of their careers).</text></item><item><author>purple-again</author><text>Except from 2010 - 2015 many teens did feel a crushing sense of economic dread as they dealt with the realities of student loans, an out of reach housing market, devalued college degrees, the gig economy, promises of no retirement, etc.<p>The article just skims over it with a quick this is why economics couldn’t have been the reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>When I was a teenager I didn’t think further than 5 years ahead. I did however write goth poetry, become Wiccan (and thus got all mopey about being at a Catholic school), get upset how <i>unfair</i> it was that UK law looked down on my sexuality (it had not yet equalised the gay and straight ages of consent), and frustrated how <i>ridiculous</i> it was for the Prime Minister to veto every EU thing he could in protest against the BSE-related ban on British beef. Ended up writing loads of letters to newspapers about politics of the day before internet comments were a big thing, then going to university really worried if my student loan would cover everything.</text></comment>	<story><title>With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit</title><url>https://theconversation.com/with-teen-mental-health-deteriorating-over-five-years-theres-a-likely-culprit-86996</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wutbrodo</author><text>&gt; the realities of student loans, an out of reach housing market, devalued college degrees, the gig economy, promises of no retirement, etc.<p>Have you ever met a teenager? Almost literally zero percent of them think (or need to think) about this stuff, with the possible exception of some of the very oldest teenagers (ie, people in their first or second year of college who are starting to think about the details of the start of their careers).</text></item><item><author>purple-again</author><text>Except from 2010 - 2015 many teens did feel a crushing sense of economic dread as they dealt with the realities of student loans, an out of reach housing market, devalued college degrees, the gig economy, promises of no retirement, etc.<p>The article just skims over it with a quick this is why economics couldn’t have been the reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bduerst</author><text>Yeah, I feel like there&#x27;s some projection going on with GP and those issues. Teenagers don&#x27;t stress about mortgages or retirement.</text></comment>
16,454,115	16,453,652	1	2	16,453,150	train	<story><title>Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Annual Letter [pdf]</title><url>http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2017ltr.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladd</author><text>Warren included several gems in this year&#x27;s annual letter. Below, a small preview:<p>- discussion about December&#x27;s tax change (&gt;&gt; The $65 billion gain is nonetheless real – rest assured of that. But only $36 billion came from Berkshire’s operations. The remaining $29 billion was delivered to us in December when Congress rewrote the U.S. Tax Code &lt;&lt;)<p>- the new GAAP accounting standard that will produce huge quarterly swings in Berkshire reporting in the quarters to come.<p>- 2017&#x27;s frenzy in high purchase prices for American enterprises, and the side-effects of using debt to finance them. (&gt;&gt; If Wall Street analysts or board members urge that brand of CEO to consider possible acquisitions, it’s a bit like telling your ripening teenager to be sure to have a normal sex life. &lt;&lt;)<p>- payments made by Berkshire for hurricane insurance.<p>- strong discouragement to borrow in order to buy stocks (&gt;&gt; the strongest argument I can muster against ever using borrowed money to own stocks. There is simply no telling how far stocks can fall in a short period. Even if your borrowings are small and your positions aren’t immediately threatened by the plunging market, your mind may well become rattled by scary headlines and breathless commentary. And an unsettled mind will not make good decisions. &lt;&lt;)<p>- details about Warren&#x27;s bet against hedge funds when compared to S&amp;P indexing.<p>- risks in owning bonds versus stocks.<p>Overall, I found the letter to be a useful reading for those passionate about investing or financial self-sustainability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senthil_rajasek</author><text>&quot;- risks in owning bonds versus stocks.&quot; This article summarizes this point nicely, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;warren-buffett-says-famous-hedge-fund-bet-delivered-this-unexpected-lesson-2018-02-24" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;warren-buffett-says-famous...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Annual Letter [pdf]</title><url>http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2017ltr.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladd</author><text>Warren included several gems in this year&#x27;s annual letter. Below, a small preview:<p>- discussion about December&#x27;s tax change (&gt;&gt; The $65 billion gain is nonetheless real – rest assured of that. But only $36 billion came from Berkshire’s operations. The remaining $29 billion was delivered to us in December when Congress rewrote the U.S. Tax Code &lt;&lt;)<p>- the new GAAP accounting standard that will produce huge quarterly swings in Berkshire reporting in the quarters to come.<p>- 2017&#x27;s frenzy in high purchase prices for American enterprises, and the side-effects of using debt to finance them. (&gt;&gt; If Wall Street analysts or board members urge that brand of CEO to consider possible acquisitions, it’s a bit like telling your ripening teenager to be sure to have a normal sex life. &lt;&lt;)<p>- payments made by Berkshire for hurricane insurance.<p>- strong discouragement to borrow in order to buy stocks (&gt;&gt; the strongest argument I can muster against ever using borrowed money to own stocks. There is simply no telling how far stocks can fall in a short period. Even if your borrowings are small and your positions aren’t immediately threatened by the plunging market, your mind may well become rattled by scary headlines and breathless commentary. And an unsettled mind will not make good decisions. &lt;&lt;)<p>- details about Warren&#x27;s bet against hedge funds when compared to S&amp;P indexing.<p>- risks in owning bonds versus stocks.<p>Overall, I found the letter to be a useful reading for those passionate about investing or financial self-sustainability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thisisit</author><text>&gt; <i>The ample availability of extraordinarily cheap debt in 2017 further fueled purchase activity. After all, even a high-priced deal will usually boost per-share earnings if it is debt-financed.</i><p>There are lot of risky bets being made on back of cheap debt. I don&#x27;t know how long will this sustain - Tesla, NXP, Broadcom and Qualcom to name a few - It will be interesting to see how things turn once the rates start to turn.</text></comment>
35,273,148	35,272,199	1	2	35,270,877	train	<story><title>You might not need an effect</title><url>https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billllll</author><text>IMO if you need a long doc like this pointing out the sharp edges, then I think you&#x27;ve done a poor job in designing the framework.<p>I love the terseness, reusability, and typing of React hooks, but hooks have too many weird edge cases (this article, dependency list, order of hooks, etc) versus class components, whose design was simple and elegant.<p>I&#x27;m just an old man yelling at clouds though, the terseness of stateful components defined in a function, plus simple typing with TS (no defining proptypes) is too appealing to me personally. Maybe I&#x27;ll check out Solid next time, which seems to have less weird edge cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbovis</author><text>I actually disagree here pretty heavily and think that this doc is due to the bar for competent developers going down in recent years (due to the rise in necessity for more developers of course). There&#x27;s almost an expectation that powerful tooling should be dumbed down.<p>The entire doc is written around two common problems:<p>* You don’t need Effects to transform data for rendering * You don’t need Effects to handle user events<p>Both of these problems do not occur if you take the time to understand the tooling React gives you. The events point should be a given, that&#x27;s just React 101 (and yet they have to spell it out to people...).<p>You don&#x27;t end up using useEffect to transform props&#x2F;state and generate new state if you understand that those things are just variables and you can instantiate new variables using them inside the scope of the component function.<p>&quot;But that&#x27;s inefficient because of how re-rendering works&quot;.<p>Great, you understand how re-rendering works but haven&#x27;t gotten familiar with the useMemo hook. Come back when you&#x27;ve gotten familiar with the primitives available to you in React and how they can all work together in different ways, there&#x27;s not that many of them!<p>This doc reads to me like a DIY store publishing an article about how you shouldn&#x27;t hammer in screws even if it kinda seems like you could if you didn&#x27;t take the time to understand hammers, screws, and nails. It&#x27;s sad that it needs to exist but that&#x27;s the current state of engineering.</text></comment>	<story><title>You might not need an effect</title><url>https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billllll</author><text>IMO if you need a long doc like this pointing out the sharp edges, then I think you&#x27;ve done a poor job in designing the framework.<p>I love the terseness, reusability, and typing of React hooks, but hooks have too many weird edge cases (this article, dependency list, order of hooks, etc) versus class components, whose design was simple and elegant.<p>I&#x27;m just an old man yelling at clouds though, the terseness of stateful components defined in a function, plus simple typing with TS (no defining proptypes) is too appealing to me personally. Maybe I&#x27;ll check out Solid next time, which seems to have less weird edge cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davedx</author><text>No you&#x27;re right, I completely agree with you. It&#x27;s also very telling that there&#x27;s also this very long article about useEffect dependencies: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;react.dev&#x2F;learn&#x2F;removing-effect-dependencies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;react.dev&#x2F;learn&#x2F;removing-effect-dependencies</a><p>useEffect and dependencies are the worst part of React at the moment.<p>The reason is, you <i>do</i> need to use effects, <i>everywhere in your code, constantly</i>. And dependencies, and the linter rule that goes with them, are nasty ergonomics, and hard to reason about.<p>The article I linked does explain it all quite well, and most devs I work with do understand the dependencies rules, but the rule still needs to be disabled often. Why?<p>Often the lint errors really are just wrong. Just like ChatGPT is often simply just wrong, no ifs or buts. For example: you have a callback function declared as an expression, that the useEffect hook calls. The linter will say &quot;oh this is an expression, therefore it needs to be declared as a dependency&quot;. But it doesn&#x27;t, because <i>looking at the code as a human, you can immediately see the function never changes</i>.<p>If you follow the linter, you will inevitably end up going down a destructive and unnecessary refactoring. You&#x27;ll end up with unnecessary `useCallbacks` sprinkled everywhere that hurt readability for nothing. Often, you&#x27;ll have to refactor the dependencies out of the component entirely, splitting one cohesive component into two, <i>just to satisfy the linter</i> out of an abundance of caution.<p>Junior devs will be confused. Senior devs will be frustrated. Every react codebase I&#x27;ve worked on has gagged this linter warning.<p>So how <i>should</i> this work?<p>It shouldn&#x27;t be a a linter error in the first place. Linters should be used to enforce <i>coding standards</i>, not fix <i>application bugs</i>. I feel very strongly on this.</text></comment>
11,470,895	11,470,492	1	2	11,468,378	train	<story><title>What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/07/evicted-poverty-and-profit-in-the-american-city-matthew-desmond-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakobegger</author><text>Instead of giving money to poor people, who then have to spend it all on rent, why not provide affordable housing?<p>In Linz we have something called &quot;housing cooperatives&quot; (the German word is &quot;Wohngenossenschaften&quot;). These cooperatives build apartments, and to rent them you become a member of the cooperative. The goal of these cooperatives is not to make a profit, but to provide affordable housing.<p>And it&#x27;s amazing how well that works! Rents are typically 50% lower than average, and the buildings are always well maintained. In general, they also have better amenities (playgrounds for children etc) compared to privately owned apartment buildings. The only problem is that there are very long waiting lists (more than 5 years in some cases).<p>It&#x27;s amazing how cheap good housing can be when it&#x27;s not necessary to make a profit for the owner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madaxe_again</author><text>We used to have something like this in the UK, but then under &quot;right to buy&quot;, the vast majority of the council funded housing was sold off to private landlords (council tenants usually did not have the funds to buy themselves, so were offered deals by large private landlords like &quot;we&#x27;ll give you £10k, you can keep living there for 10 years, we&#x27;ll give you the money to buy it, you then sell it straight on to us&quot;), and they&#x27;re now doing a second round of the same to sell off what remains.<p>So - we now have large corporations like the Curo group who own what was once local authority housing and run it for profit - meaning that at any given time about 30% of their <i>13,000</i> properties are unoccupied, that their tenants never have any maintenance issues addressed, and the rents are high - and the waiting lists are worse than when it was publicly operated. Never mind the impact on the rest of the property market, with insanely inflated prices, as nobody wants to build anything new as it&#x27;ll decrease the value of their portfolio.<p>So - housing cooperatives&#x2F;local authority housing are great, but beware the state selling them to private profit-making entities. It hasn&#x27;t ended well here, and it <i>absolutely</i> is the case that poverty is profitable.<p>The poorer and more trapped they are the more secure your investment is.</text></comment>	<story><title>What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/07/evicted-poverty-and-profit-in-the-american-city-matthew-desmond-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakobegger</author><text>Instead of giving money to poor people, who then have to spend it all on rent, why not provide affordable housing?<p>In Linz we have something called &quot;housing cooperatives&quot; (the German word is &quot;Wohngenossenschaften&quot;). These cooperatives build apartments, and to rent them you become a member of the cooperative. The goal of these cooperatives is not to make a profit, but to provide affordable housing.<p>And it&#x27;s amazing how well that works! Rents are typically 50% lower than average, and the buildings are always well maintained. In general, they also have better amenities (playgrounds for children etc) compared to privately owned apartment buildings. The only problem is that there are very long waiting lists (more than 5 years in some cases).<p>It&#x27;s amazing how cheap good housing can be when it&#x27;s not necessary to make a profit for the owner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LoSboccacc</author><text>We have those in Italy, as a counter point: it&#x27;s amazing how fast those got occupied abusively and how local criminals use it to either hide their illegal workers or use it as bargaining chips to gain support and omerta from the population.</text></comment>
20,648,426	20,644,488	1	3	20,643,052	train	<story><title>The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>astine</author><text>I think that people tend to perceive HN as overwhelmingly believing whatever the opposite of their opinion is any time there is a significant debate on something. Unless there is overwhelming support for our own position, we feel that we are in a hostile environment.</text></item><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Yes, I agree with what you&#x27;re saying. But I&#x27;m asking why the person posting believes that the HN community overwhelmingly believes X and their evidence for that. I presume they do have evidence and conclusions and I&#x27;d like to know about it.</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>It’s a persistent Misreading of Internet forums as a mode of discourse, both in how people consume them and how people participate in them, that we tend to regard their discussion threads as a mechanism for determining group consensus on a topic. Cloudflare is dropping 8chan? Let’s get together and decide whether we collectively think that is a good thing or a bad thing. Once we’ve established that fact, we can move on and refer back to that decision in future discussions, like a mathematical lemma.<p>If you instead think of a forum thread as an airing of opinions - a chance to find out what is the range of perspectives on the topic that exist in the community, and be exposed to nuances you wouldn’t have thought of on your own, the exercise takes on a different tone. People who came to that thread thinking that it’s obviously a good thing are exposed to arguments that disagree, and vice versa; maybe some people are persuaded to shift their viewpoint, or maybe not, but everybody learns that a topic that they might have assumed was uncontroversial is <i>actually</i> one on which reasonable people might disagree.<p>It can be jarring for the nerd-inclined to accept that just because they have arrived at their opinions through, obviously, clear rational analysis of facts, that does not mean that everybody else, when presented with the same facts, will necessarily reach the same opinion. The illusion that you can read an HN thread and say ‘well, the pro arguments seemed more coherent and got more upvotes than the anti ones, so presumably the community consensus is pro’ ignores the fact that the anti arguments were also made by members of the HN community, and we’re not bound by collective decision making. You are allowed to read the thread and adjust your own priors and come to your own conclusions, having hopefully been exposed to some perspectives you might otherwise have missed.</text></item><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Could you clarify why you thought this? What evidence do you have that supports this? The big thread shows that the top comment agrees that 8chan should be left alone. [0] and the comment chain shows that there seems to be something like a significant minority against 8chan, but it doesn’t appear to be a prevailing majority.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395</a></text></item><item><author>azangru</author><text>&gt; HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-&lt;x&gt;).<p>Funny, I thought HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude in the case of the recent ban of 8chan was, hell yeah, good riddance to those reprehensible twats. (Which, personally, annoyed me, because I believe that even the deplored should have a space for communication.)</text></item><item><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>This article does seem to get at the essence of HN, appreciative of dang and sctb&#x27;s humanity while not ignoring the problems. Personally, I would actually consider it an excellent demonstration of the fallibility of one of HN&#x27;s favourite tropes, Gell-Mann amnesia.<p>If there&#x27;s one critique that I believe is paramount it&#x27;s that HN has, due to its readership, an ethical obligation that goes beyond making discussions all nice and civil.<p>Political issues are obviously divisive and it&#x27;s perfectly fine to keep stuff like the El Paso massacre of the front page. But when hot-button issues intersect with technology, the HN readership is in a position of power, and shouldn&#x27;t routinely be spared the anguish of being reminded of their responsibility.<p>Yes, articles about, for example, discriminatory ML do often make it to the front page. But in my impression, that topic (as well as employment discrimination, culture-wars-adjacent scandals in tech academia etc) are far more likely to be quickly flagged into oblivion than similarly political takes that just happen to be in line with HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-&lt;x&gt;).<p>The article impressively articulates what toll divisiveness takes on the moderators: Even if I read the same ugly comments, I am unlikely to experience the sharpness of emotion that apparently comes with considering the community one&#x27;s baby, and making it&#x27;s failures one&#x27;s own. When such divisiveness is then reflected in the &quot;real world&quot; of mass media, the pressure only increases.<p>But as this article shows, abdicating the responsibility by keeping the topics sterile is similarly suspect, in the sense of fiddling while Rome burns. I believe a willingness to confront the ugly sides of technology with some courage of conviction would eventually be recognised, even if it may occasionally involve a bit of a mess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hestipod</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting how one or two dissenting views amongst a majority neutral or even supportive results in &quot;This place is &lt;insert bias&gt; now!&quot; I wonder why absolute agreement is required for some people to not feel attacked or marginalized.</text></comment>	<story><title>The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>astine</author><text>I think that people tend to perceive HN as overwhelmingly believing whatever the opposite of their opinion is any time there is a significant debate on something. Unless there is overwhelming support for our own position, we feel that we are in a hostile environment.</text></item><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Yes, I agree with what you&#x27;re saying. But I&#x27;m asking why the person posting believes that the HN community overwhelmingly believes X and their evidence for that. I presume they do have evidence and conclusions and I&#x27;d like to know about it.</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>It’s a persistent Misreading of Internet forums as a mode of discourse, both in how people consume them and how people participate in them, that we tend to regard their discussion threads as a mechanism for determining group consensus on a topic. Cloudflare is dropping 8chan? Let’s get together and decide whether we collectively think that is a good thing or a bad thing. Once we’ve established that fact, we can move on and refer back to that decision in future discussions, like a mathematical lemma.<p>If you instead think of a forum thread as an airing of opinions - a chance to find out what is the range of perspectives on the topic that exist in the community, and be exposed to nuances you wouldn’t have thought of on your own, the exercise takes on a different tone. People who came to that thread thinking that it’s obviously a good thing are exposed to arguments that disagree, and vice versa; maybe some people are persuaded to shift their viewpoint, or maybe not, but everybody learns that a topic that they might have assumed was uncontroversial is <i>actually</i> one on which reasonable people might disagree.<p>It can be jarring for the nerd-inclined to accept that just because they have arrived at their opinions through, obviously, clear rational analysis of facts, that does not mean that everybody else, when presented with the same facts, will necessarily reach the same opinion. The illusion that you can read an HN thread and say ‘well, the pro arguments seemed more coherent and got more upvotes than the anti ones, so presumably the community consensus is pro’ ignores the fact that the anti arguments were also made by members of the HN community, and we’re not bound by collective decision making. You are allowed to read the thread and adjust your own priors and come to your own conclusions, having hopefully been exposed to some perspectives you might otherwise have missed.</text></item><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Could you clarify why you thought this? What evidence do you have that supports this? The big thread shows that the top comment agrees that 8chan should be left alone. [0] and the comment chain shows that there seems to be something like a significant minority against 8chan, but it doesn’t appear to be a prevailing majority.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395</a></text></item><item><author>azangru</author><text>&gt; HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-&lt;x&gt;).<p>Funny, I thought HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude in the case of the recent ban of 8chan was, hell yeah, good riddance to those reprehensible twats. (Which, personally, annoyed me, because I believe that even the deplored should have a space for communication.)</text></item><item><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>This article does seem to get at the essence of HN, appreciative of dang and sctb&#x27;s humanity while not ignoring the problems. Personally, I would actually consider it an excellent demonstration of the fallibility of one of HN&#x27;s favourite tropes, Gell-Mann amnesia.<p>If there&#x27;s one critique that I believe is paramount it&#x27;s that HN has, due to its readership, an ethical obligation that goes beyond making discussions all nice and civil.<p>Political issues are obviously divisive and it&#x27;s perfectly fine to keep stuff like the El Paso massacre of the front page. But when hot-button issues intersect with technology, the HN readership is in a position of power, and shouldn&#x27;t routinely be spared the anguish of being reminded of their responsibility.<p>Yes, articles about, for example, discriminatory ML do often make it to the front page. But in my impression, that topic (as well as employment discrimination, culture-wars-adjacent scandals in tech academia etc) are far more likely to be quickly flagged into oblivion than similarly political takes that just happen to be in line with HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-&lt;x&gt;).<p>The article impressively articulates what toll divisiveness takes on the moderators: Even if I read the same ugly comments, I am unlikely to experience the sharpness of emotion that apparently comes with considering the community one&#x27;s baby, and making it&#x27;s failures one&#x27;s own. When such divisiveness is then reflected in the &quot;real world&quot; of mass media, the pressure only increases.<p>But as this article shows, abdicating the responsibility by keeping the topics sterile is similarly suspect, in the sense of fiddling while Rome burns. I believe a willingness to confront the ugly sides of technology with some courage of conviction would eventually be recognised, even if it may occasionally involve a bit of a mess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Part of helping to work against this is to challenge and ask for genuine evidence with an open heart. I don&#x27;t want to assume that that is what the poster is believing, but it also clashes with my understanding of reality.</text></comment>
2,866,088	2,866,068	1	3	2,865,484	train	<story><title>Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/apple-tells-judge-intervention-against-lodsys-should-be-granted.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>A few thoughts:<p>1. Under Rule 24(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the court must grant Apple the right to intervene as of right if Apple can show: (1) that it has filed a timely motion to do so; (2) that it claims an "interest" in "property" that is the subject of the action; (3) that its ability to protect its interest in that property may as a practical matter be impaired or impeded if the legal action is allowed to be disposed of without its participation; and (4) that existing parties cannot adequately represent that interest.<p>2. Consistent with this rule, Apple's legal argument boils down to the idea that it has a license from IV to protect, and rights under that license, all of which will be impaired or impeded if Lodsys is allowed to pursue infringement claims against developers who develop apps for the environment to which Apple's license applies. Hence, Apple must be allowed to step in to defend the integrity of its license and to argue, based on that license, that Lodsys is barred by the doctrine of "patent exhaustion" from pursuing claims against the developers.<p>3. Apple thus argues that it needs to be in the case to protect its own interests, not those of the developers. Now, <i>de facto</i>, this might amount to the same thing since Apple does not want to face a revolt among its developers. But there is irony here in that Lodsys is arguing, as one of its major points on why Apple should not be allowed to intervene, that Apple has no obligation legally to hold the developers harmless (i.e., based on Apple's agreements, the developers are on their own). In seeking to intervene to argue the patent exhaustion doctrine, then, Apple is saying it will protect its license rights primarily and developers only incidentally and, again, without undertaking any legal obligation to indemnify any developer.<p>4. All that said, "patent exhaustion" is a potent defense, the effect of which (if upheld) would be invalidate the patent for misuse. "Misuse" here lies in the idea of extending the exclusive rights afforded by the patent grant beyond their legitimate scope. Apple's ability to prove misuse, though, is by no means easy. To show misuse, it will essentially have to show that the IV license was intended to cover separate products (apps) that did not even exist when the license was granted and that do not constitute an integral part of the Apple product when sold. This will be tricky at best and obviously will take a party of Apple's sophistication and wherewithal to marshal the arguments and factual development effectively. That, of course, is why Lodsys does not want Apple in the case. It would much prefer to bully smaller and less sophisticated parties because that is how patent bullying works best.</text></comment>	<story><title>Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/apple-tells-judge-intervention-against-lodsys-should-be-granted.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guildchatter</author><text>I hope the two-pronged defense works.<p>1) Apple tries to shield the iOS developers using its previous licensing agreement.<p>2) Someone else tries to get the patents invalidated. <i>Several companies whose clients were targeted by Lodsys have filed preemptive lawsuits requesting declaratory judgements that Lodsys' patents are invalid, and some independent developers led by former Apple engineer Mike Lee have formed a legal defense fund to fight Lodsys and other patent trolls. Even if Apple believes the patents wouldn't stand up to reexamination, it is suspected that the secret terms of the license agreement with Intellectual Ventures prohibits Apple from attempting to have the patents invalidated.</i></text></comment>
2,005,297	2,005,024	1	2	2,004,438	train	<story><title>Graphical Vim Cheatsheet</title><url>http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tumult</author><text>Important VIM tip that cheatsheets never mention for some reason: text objects. First, remember these two things: a for a, and i for 'inner'. 'daw' deletes a word under the cursor. 'diw' deletes the contents of a word (the 'inner' of a word) under the cursor.<p>What? How is that useful?<p>'das' deletes a sentence under the cursor. 'dap' deletes a paragraph under the cursor.<p>'da{' deletes the block of text that's currently surrounded by braces. 'ci(' deletes the inner content that's surrounded by parentheses and puts you in insert mode. 'gqap' reformats the contents of the paragraph under the cursor ('gqip' will end up leaving your cursor at the beginning of the paragraph instead of the end.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bostonvaulter2</author><text>Here's a great SO comment describing how to work with text objects:<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Graphical Vim Cheatsheet</title><url>http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tumult</author><text>Important VIM tip that cheatsheets never mention for some reason: text objects. First, remember these two things: a for a, and i for 'inner'. 'daw' deletes a word under the cursor. 'diw' deletes the contents of a word (the 'inner' of a word) under the cursor.<p>What? How is that useful?<p>'das' deletes a sentence under the cursor. 'dap' deletes a paragraph under the cursor.<p>'da{' deletes the block of text that's currently surrounded by braces. 'ci(' deletes the inner content that's surrounded by parentheses and puts you in insert mode. 'gqap' reformats the contents of the paragraph under the cursor ('gqip' will end up leaving your cursor at the beginning of the paragraph instead of the end.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grayrest</author><text>I consider text objects and the f/t motions to be the core Vim editing motions. I'm always annoyed that vim intros go through teaching the w/e/b motions when you can easily get by with f&#60;space&#62;/t&#60;space&#62;/T&#60;space&#62; and the search commands generalize to things like replacing the first part of a camelCase word (ctC) or the end of a string (ct").</text></comment>
3,617,448	3,617,449	1	2	3,617,144	train	<story><title>Canonical reveals Ubuntu for Android</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119031-canonical-reveals-ubuntu-for-android</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thechut</author><text>"The other problem is that while Canonical is pushing the build to hardware manufacturers and mobile carriers, it has no plans to release it to the general public for independent development."<p>It seems to crazy to me that Canonical is going to lock down this software and not let people try to install on their own devices for their own purposes.<p>While I couldn't be more excited by the idea of this project, that article made me very concerned about the future of Canonical and where they are going as a company.</text></comment>	<story><title>Canonical reveals Ubuntu for Android</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119031-canonical-reveals-ubuntu-for-android</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aberkowitz</author><text>Canonical has done many questionable things recently, but innovation like this is why they are going to succeed commercially.</text></comment>
19,938,318	19,936,278	1	3	19,932,918	train	<story><title>Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autopilot/third-fatal-tesla-autopilot-crash-renews-questions-about-system-idUSKCN1SM1QE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SOLAR_FIELDS</author><text>If Tesla backed down on the Autopilot branding and called the feature what it is, fancy cruise control (Cruise+ maybe?) they wouldn’t have to have a PR battle every time something like this happens. It’s way too late for that now though unfortunately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjwright</author><text>Imagine a driver driving down a parkway at speed and thinking &quot;I&#x27;m on a parkway, so I should shift the car into Park.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s how dumb this argument is.<p>If a driver ignores the requirements of their driver license AND the vehicle&#x27;s clearly worded warnings, then the driver is entirely responsible. Claiming that the driver is not at fault because they interpreted the word &quot;autopilot&quot; to mean &quot;I can disregard my responsibility as a driver and ignore the vehicle&#x27;s very clear warnings&quot; is deeply absurd.</text></comment>	<story><title>Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autopilot/third-fatal-tesla-autopilot-crash-renews-questions-about-system-idUSKCN1SM1QE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SOLAR_FIELDS</author><text>If Tesla backed down on the Autopilot branding and called the feature what it is, fancy cruise control (Cruise+ maybe?) they wouldn’t have to have a PR battle every time something like this happens. It’s way too late for that now though unfortunately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vl</author><text>Traditional autopilot is a fancy cruise control for the airplane, so name is actually pretty apt.</text></comment>

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