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<story><title>Apple’s announcement on artificial intelligence is a big shift for the company</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/13/apples-big-announcement-on-artificial-intelligence-is-a-massive-change-for-the-company/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-technology%3Ahomepage%2Fcard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s not so much about AI as it is about putting all services behind an Apple interface. &quot;Users will soon be able to use Slack, Uber, or Skype, by talking directly to Siri.&quot; That doesn&#x27;t mean launching the vendor&#x27;s app. It means bypassing it.<p>Apple is taking control of the user experience with third parties. It&#x27;s the next generation of the &quot;portal&quot; concept. Expect to see Apple standards on what your API needs to look like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>iOS apps have always been behind an Apple interface. I fail to see how registering a voice command is different from registering, say, a mailto: handler. There&#x27;ll be guidelines (hopefully) regarding preferred sentence structure, because it&#x27;s a basic need of such an interface.<p>Users may often not see the app – that&#x27;s kinda the purpose of voice commands. But the interface isn&#x27;t replaced by an Apple interface, its surface is simply reduced.<p>You&#x27;ll say &#x27;Facebook message mom&#x27; or something like it, and it&#x27;s going to message mom. You won&#x27;t see the FB logo, because you won&#x27;t see any logo. You may see more your mom, though.<p>In fact, third-party apps will profit, because they are no longer second-class citizen compared to Apple-provided apps.<p>There are certain tasks that are predestined for Siri – such as starting A Nike+&#x2F;Runkeeper&#x2F;etc. run: easy one-shot commands that replace unlocking, navigating, opening, menus etc. I&#x27;d suspect if this were a major conspiracy, Apple would have opened the API earlier.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple’s announcement on artificial intelligence is a big shift for the company</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/13/apples-big-announcement-on-artificial-intelligence-is-a-massive-change-for-the-company/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-technology%3Ahomepage%2Fcard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s not so much about AI as it is about putting all services behind an Apple interface. &quot;Users will soon be able to use Slack, Uber, or Skype, by talking directly to Siri.&quot; That doesn&#x27;t mean launching the vendor&#x27;s app. It means bypassing it.<p>Apple is taking control of the user experience with third parties. It&#x27;s the next generation of the &quot;portal&quot; concept. Expect to see Apple standards on what your API needs to look like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayd16</author><text>Homekit has worked like this for a while, hasn&#x27;t it? Seems like its pretty much Apple&#x27;s MO.<p>As an Android dev familiar with Intent style interoperability, I simultaneously detest and envy Apple&#x27;s hand built APIs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/01/zcash-an-untraceable-bitcoin-alternative-launches-in-alpha/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ctoth</author><text>Of course, once these techniques were in place, they conclusively destroyed the ability of governments to control the flow of electronic funds, anywhere, anytime, for any purpose. As it happened, this process had pretty much destroyed any human control at all over the modern electronic economy. By the time people figured out that raging nonlinear anarchy was not exactly to the advantage of anyone concerned, the process was simply too far gone to stop. All workable standards of wealth had vaporized, digitized, and vanished into a nonstop hurricane of electronic thin air. Even physically tearing up the fiber optics couldn&#x27;t stop it; governments that tried to just found that the whole encryption mess oozed swiftly into voice mail and even fax machines.<p>...<p>Alex did not find it surprising that people like the Chinese Triads and the Corsican Black Hand were electronically minting their own cash. He simply accepted it: electronic, private cash, unbacked by any government, untraceable, completely anonymous, global in reach, lightninglike in speed, ubiquitous, fungible, and usually highly volatile. Of course, such funds didn&#x27;t boldly say &quot;Sicilian Mafia&quot; right on the transaction screen; they usually had some stuffy official-sounding alias such as &quot;Banco Ambrosiano ATM Euro-DigiLira,&quot; but the private currency speculators would usually have a pretty good guess as to the solvency of the issuers.<p>- Heavy Weather</text></comment>
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<story><title>Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/01/zcash-an-untraceable-bitcoin-alternative-launches-in-alpha/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kleer001</author><text>I love the idea, but...<p>&gt; Zcash is launching as a for-profit company.<p>That&#x27;s their downfall right there. With someone visible to track they&#x27;ve given up the game before they started. Real people running real companies are really vulnerable. The real test of a security system is its weakest link. And that link is almost always a person. Right?<p>IMHO the subtle political reason Bitcoin has gotten as far as it has is because it&#x27;s creator has remained anonymous, and not tried to visibly profit from it.<p>Why do I think that? Because governments are very territorial about their money. Banks too. The regulations for banks are pretty tough, as you may know, Know-Your-Customer edicts and such.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"</title><url>http://blog.mattstuchlik.com/2024/02/16/counting-syscalls-in-python.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmwilcox</author><text>I&#x27;ve been writing python for going on 20 years now and while it was a good language to cut my teeth on thus sort of analysis brings only horror. Many thanks to the author for dropping into plain view.<p>I&#x27;m going to go back to learning more C and Forth... And shake my fist at passing clouds :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>Yeah. I recently worked on a small web project being developed at a university. The project is written in flask, and it presents a reasonably simple UI on top of some data living in a mysql database.<p>When I started on the project, page loads often took 10 seconds or more. The web application is used by about 20 people and that was enough to bring their single beefy server to its knees. Someone in NY tried scraping the site the other week and the site became completely unresponsive. They resorted to banning the IP to keep the website up. The reasons it was slow were all the usual culprits - a misused ORM being the main one.<p>It’s a nice language, but I really felt like I’d been transported back in time a few decades working in it. It feels like I’m using a computer from the 90s where performance choices matter again because the language is so slow. And where dependency management is a circus of half working tools and half hearted attempts at versioning. Packages conflict with one another. Some “pinned” package versions have apparently rusted and won’t actually install on my computer. And the system to install packages locally was obviously bolted on, badly, long after the horse had left the gate.<p>It reminds me of working in C in the early 2000s. I never thought I’d say this but it makes server side JavaScript with npm look positively modern and fast by comparison.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"</title><url>http://blog.mattstuchlik.com/2024/02/16/counting-syscalls-in-python.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmwilcox</author><text>I&#x27;ve been writing python for going on 20 years now and while it was a good language to cut my teeth on thus sort of analysis brings only horror. Many thanks to the author for dropping into plain view.<p>I&#x27;m going to go back to learning more C and Forth... And shake my fist at passing clouds :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuestHNUser</author><text>ImPlot is small and worth checking out if you don&#x27;t want to make the plotting functions yourself. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;epezent&#x2F;implot">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;epezent&#x2F;implot</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>NIST Privacy Framework</title><url>https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javier_e06</author><text>From their site:
&quot;The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy.&quot;<p>What is a voluntary tool? Beats me.
Who are the stakeholders? Beats me.
Help organizations to manage risk. What kind of risk? Whose privacy?
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My take away: NIST needs to hire writers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>If I may attempt to offer a translation:<p>&gt; The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool<p>This is something that organizations can choose to use. We are a standards body, not a regulatory agency.<p>&gt; developed in collaboration with stakeholders<p>We actually talked to people who need and use standards of this sort. We integrated their feedback.<p>&gt; intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk<p>The goal is to help organizations understand the chances they are taking with private data.<p>&gt; build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy<p>While still being able to actually make use of the data to accomplish goals that matter in some way.<p>----<p>Basically, this is completely comprehensible to most people and organizations who expect to be making use of this sort of standard. Like any technical document, it has a specialized vocabulary. It is not written for, and should not be judged by, the prose expectations of the general population.<p>NIST has writers. They are technical writers who are writing technical documentation intended for technical readers. We should calibrate our expectations accordingly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NIST Privacy Framework</title><url>https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javier_e06</author><text>From their site:
&quot;The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy.&quot;<p>What is a voluntary tool? Beats me.
Who are the stakeholders? Beats me.
Help organizations to manage risk. What kind of risk? Whose privacy?
yadda yadda yadda.. Run on sentence.
My take away: NIST needs to hire writers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stonogo</author><text>&quot;Voluntary tool&quot; means other federal agencies are not required to adopt it. &quot;Developed in collaboration with stakeholders&quot; means this was not 100% internally developed at NIST.<p>The rest of your questions are answered in the FAQ.<p>It&#x27;s not a run-on sentence; it&#x27;s just a long one, and if you&#x27;re looking for a way to ensure your users&#x27; privacy while building a computer-oriented service, that executive summary tells you enough to decide whether this is something you want to further investigate. Drive-by web forum commentators, in general, are not considered target audience for these documents.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet</title><url>https://consumer.huawei.com/en/tablets/matepad-paper/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rich_sasha</author><text>Phenomenal news.<p>I’m hoping competition drives prices down. Remarkable 2 looks neat but so expensive. Now there’s choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhl</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using a Onyx Boox Note 3 for a couple years now (I previously had a Remarkable 1 but it didn&#x27;t stick for me) - it has Android 10 (w&#x2F; Google Play support) and even an SDK for responsive writing for 3rd party apps. It&#x27;s been great for taking notes, and adequate for reading books and papers (although even a single color for highlighting would be a huge improvement).<p>Note, that Onyx is notorious for violating the GPL (it doesn&#x27;t release kernel sources), while reMarkable is not only compliant, but much more hacker friendly in general: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reHackable&#x2F;awesome-reMarkable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reHackable&#x2F;awesome-reMarkable</a><p>But there are also other companies&#x2F;products Boyue Likebook, Ratta Supernote, Quirklogic Papyr, Fujitsu Quaderno that compete in the e-ink notepad space as well. I&#x27;m keeping an eye on the Bigme Carve Color personally, which basically has all the hardware specs you&#x27;d want and color (Kaleido 2) to boot: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ydo5FtSt_qQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ydo5FtSt_qQ</a><p>For those looking at color, it might be worth waiting a few months to see if 1) if the Reinkstone R1 is actually vaporware or not (it has an alternative DES that looks like it provides better looking color, but is being developed by a questionable Chinese company that&#x27;s been best by delays) and if eInk&#x27;s Kaleido 3 is a significant improvement.<p>For those interested in the relatively niche world of e-ink devices, I highly recommend MyDeepGuide as a good place to start: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;MyDeepGuide&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;MyDeepGuide&#x2F;videos</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet</title><url>https://consumer.huawei.com/en/tablets/matepad-paper/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rich_sasha</author><text>Phenomenal news.<p>I’m hoping competition drives prices down. Remarkable 2 looks neat but so expensive. Now there’s choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;Remarkable 2 looks neat but so <i>expensive</i>. Now there’s choice.<p>R2 is $399, judging from the EUR retail price of €499 inc. VAT this will likely retail at $499 in US.<p>It is not cheaper than R2.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons</title><url>https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/66.0.4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f4stjack</author><text>Good move, congrats on surviving the second armag-add-on finally BUT I won&#x27;t be moving from chromium until Firefox (or Mozilla) explains:<p>- why am I opted-in to a Studies program in Firefox&#x27;s default state? (With no explicit information about what it is)<p>- what does app.normandy.enabled switch do and why is its default value is True and doesn&#x27;t change to false when I explicitly state I don&#x27;t want to be in the Studies program?<p>- why can&#x27;t we see any xpi&#x27;s installed by studies program unless we explicitly go to about:studies?<p>I don&#x27;t say chromium is better, but I think we deserve an explanation regarding these points.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sam_goody</author><text>Chromium is definitely worse.<p>While these deserve an explanation, you should not wait to move.<p>Chrome is spyware that does web browsing. It&#x27;s parent company also shows ads, all the time.<p>Chrome&#x27;s auto update not only allows them to silently update or change your browser, it allows them to silently install other software on your computer.<p>Firefox is a browser. It can auto-update in a way that may be questionable, but it also has a lot of cranky devs looking over their shoulder to call them out years later because Mr. Robot may have been able to show them an ad. FF deserves to be called out on their mistakes, and need offer an explanation. But perspective!<p>Why would you not move now?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons</title><url>https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/66.0.4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f4stjack</author><text>Good move, congrats on surviving the second armag-add-on finally BUT I won&#x27;t be moving from chromium until Firefox (or Mozilla) explains:<p>- why am I opted-in to a Studies program in Firefox&#x27;s default state? (With no explicit information about what it is)<p>- what does app.normandy.enabled switch do and why is its default value is True and doesn&#x27;t change to false when I explicitly state I don&#x27;t want to be in the Studies program?<p>- why can&#x27;t we see any xpi&#x27;s installed by studies program unless we explicitly go to about:studies?<p>I don&#x27;t say chromium is better, but I think we deserve an explanation regarding these points.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krageon</author><text>Chromium has a working exploit (AFAIK it still is not patched) that allows third-party code to masquerade as first-party code. Unless you run a special addon[1], you are vulnerable to this.<p>The fact that I still can&#x27;t find that it&#x27;s patched now tells me nothing good about the health of the ecosystem and who it is meant to serve. That should be all the reason you need to switch to Firefox, which admittedly also has huge warts but to my mind ones that aren&#x27;t quite so egregious.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;ublock-origin-extra&#x2F;pgdnlhfefecpicbbihgmbmffkjpaplco?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;ublock-origin-extr...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Please Pay for a Year of Nothing</title><url>https://joe-steel.com/2023-10-19-Please-Pay-For-a-Year-of-Nothing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasarmas</author><text>May I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; kids love repeat content<p>Then may I suggest a DVD player?</text></item><item><author>ryanisnan</author><text>One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids <i>love</i> repeat content. I don&#x27;t think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age.<p>I wonder how much Disney+&#x27;s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcr</author><text>You can do the same thing with a DVD if you have a needle and a steady hand.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Please Pay for a Year of Nothing</title><url>https://joe-steel.com/2023-10-19-Please-Pay-For-a-Year-of-Nothing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasarmas</author><text>May I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; kids love repeat content<p>Then may I suggest a DVD player?</text></item><item><author>ryanisnan</author><text>One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids <i>love</i> repeat content. I don&#x27;t think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age.<p>I wonder how much Disney+&#x27;s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>This sounds like creating an unauthorized derivative work, which is punishable by no more than life imprisonment!</text></comment>
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<story><title>To get good, go after the metagame</title><url>https://commoncog.com/blog/to-get-good-go-after-the-metagame/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Proziam</author><text>Getting good in almost all games is based on understanding and mastering the fundamentals to the extent that you can make consistently correct (or at least a high degree of &#x27;correctness&#x27;) decisions based on them. This is true for all esports titles, and probably all games in general.<p>Mastering the fundamentals will make you &#x27;good&#x27; to a level that very few people ever reach. It&#x27;s not until you reach a level where <i>everyone</i> around you has a mastery of the fundamentals, that the meta comes into play.<p>source: coached and managed professional esports players, in multiple games, who have competed in the world championship of their respective titles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>I disagree slightly. The metagame is relevant whenever you&#x27;re facing opponents of <i>similar</i> skill. If you&#x27;re way better than your opponent, you can use highly sub-optimal, non-meta strategies and win through sheer experience and skill. For instance, I could kill 50% of Starcraft opponents lower than me by building only one unit and even announcing which unit I&#x27;ll mass up.<p>However, if you&#x27;re making a similar number of errors as your opponent, then the meta does come into play. Regardless of the raw error rate, where pros make few and amateurs make many, if this rate is similar to your opponent, then it still matters if your opponent has a strategic&#x2F;meta counter to your strategy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>To get good, go after the metagame</title><url>https://commoncog.com/blog/to-get-good-go-after-the-metagame/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Proziam</author><text>Getting good in almost all games is based on understanding and mastering the fundamentals to the extent that you can make consistently correct (or at least a high degree of &#x27;correctness&#x27;) decisions based on them. This is true for all esports titles, and probably all games in general.<p>Mastering the fundamentals will make you &#x27;good&#x27; to a level that very few people ever reach. It&#x27;s not until you reach a level where <i>everyone</i> around you has a mastery of the fundamentals, that the meta comes into play.<p>source: coached and managed professional esports players, in multiple games, who have competed in the world championship of their respective titles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timerol</author><text>TFA definitely agrees with this opinion, but also asserts that learning about the meta teaches you what fundamentals are most useful to know.<p>&gt; Note what I’m not saying, however. I’m not saying that I should actively pursue the meta — this is ineffective, because I am not good enough to play. I cannot execute even if I know where the puck is going. But studying the state of the metagame as it is right now often tells me what I must learn in order to get to that point.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-white-shark-lair-discovered-in-13234068.php?t=5c043f9ce3&f?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>Sometimes I think it&#x27;s better if some mysteries remained unsolved; can&#x27;t wait until this is leaked to shark hunters and the &quot;secret&quot; habitat is decimated; humans are &quot;wonderful&quot; and &quot;surprising&quot; all the time...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>It is a huge area in the open ocean. And the sharks are very deep. Anyone looking to harvest them commercially is going to have a very tough time finding them. They are concentrated by open ocean standards, but there are infinitely more sharks per cubic mile of water in other places (seal habitats). If an sport fisher wants to drop a line 1000 feet down in the middle of the pacific, have at it. They will catch&#x2F;kill fewer at this cafe than they would off the coast.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-white-shark-lair-discovered-in-13234068.php?t=5c043f9ce3&f?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>Sometimes I think it&#x27;s better if some mysteries remained unsolved; can&#x27;t wait until this is leaked to shark hunters and the &quot;secret&quot; habitat is decimated; humans are &quot;wonderful&quot; and &quot;surprising&quot; all the time...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TarpitCarnivore</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry, the mass over fishing of oceans is way ahead of this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams</title><text>Hi everyone!<p>We’re Nick &amp; Omar from Flowdash (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com</a>). We help companies quickly build internal tools to track and execute human-in-the-loop workflows.<p>We’re built specifically for technology companies that have manual work behind the scenes. For example, a fintech that has a beautiful mobile-first experience for its end users, likely also has a risk team internally approving new accounts, or reviewing suspicious transactions for anomalies. These teams need tools to get their jobs done, but building those tools is time consuming and often means spending your limited engineering resources on internal tools when you’d much rather invest in building user-facing features.<p>What’s more, maintenance of these tools is an ongoing endeavor. As the company scales and the operations team identifies ways they can improve their workflow, they’re often bottlenecked on engineering availability, forcing the team to implement workarounds in the interim, such as working out of spreadsheets and Slack. These workarounds, while easy to implement, come with pitfalls such as tasks slipping through the cracks or data getting out-of-sync.<p>With Flowdash, we’re combining the best of both worlds. We want to enable the deep integration that comes from building custom software, while making it possible for operations teams to iterate and improve their workflow over time. We’re able to do this because we’re not trying to be a general-purpose low-code platform, but really focus on use cases where a team of humans works through a backlog of tasks.<p>Flowdash was inspired by our own experience. Omar and I were early engineers at Gusto and over the course of six years, built several internal tools to support our payments, risk, and payroll operations teams. We saw first-hand the benefits of equipping our ops teams with great tools, but also struggled to prioritize improvements to these tools against user-facing features.<p>We think of operations teams as unsung heroes. Their work is critical to the day-to-day operations of the company, yet few people externally know they exist. We want to give them better tools to get their work done.<p>Here’s how it works:<p>Flowdash’s core primitive is a Flow, which we define as a pipeline of work, where tasks move through a set of stages from creation to completion. Every Flow exposes an endpoint where developers can push new tasks with a single POST request. Users then claim tasks and move them along the pipeline. Additionally, actions can be customized in a number of ways, such as sending email, calling a third-party API, or talking back to your main application. Because stages and actions can be customized without code, the end-user can change how they work without requiring engineering intervention. From the developer perspective, you can think of it as a human-powered background job.<p>As a concrete example, let’s consider a fintech onboarding new clients. When a new client signs up, a task is automatically pushed to Flowdash. From there, a risk agent reviews the account and decides whether to Approve or Reject the client. In turn, that action issues a callback to the main application to complete onboarding. Here’s a 3-min video setting this up end-to-end: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com&#x2F;demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com&#x2F;demo</a>.<p>We’re excited (and a little intimidated) to be on HN today, and would love to get your feedback. Have you had to build similar tools? What were some of the pain points or challenges? Thanks in advance!<p>Nick and Omar</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erichocean</author><text>Good idea, works really well for companies with &quot;established&quot; operations.<p>However, the missing problem we&#x27;ve found (and are investing significant resources internally to fix) is that, in a lot of situations (especially in a startup), <i>you don&#x27;t actually know what you&#x27;re doing operationally</i> at a detailed enough level to have engineers write code for, or even humans to &quot;do&quot;. <i>You&#x27;re learning as you go</i>, but still need everything in the database as you do so you <i>can</i> automate thing sooner rather than later.<p>So, automation is still required. But not yet! You need a way for humans to do things, then automation, and back again...on a &quot;flow&quot; (to use your terminology) that is radically changing as you learn.<p>In our case, new business opportunities require creating and&#x2F;or updating tens of millions of rows in our Postgres database, but can start out very small as we learn—say, 5000 independent flows.<p>Oftentimes, we need to temporarily &quot;fix&quot; things that we&#x27;ve already done a lot of work on—again, with a mix of human and compute tasks, depending on what&#x27;s going on. Those fixes are temporary and we remove them once the data in Postgres is clean.<p>Another major area is, for lack of a better term, &quot;tech onboarding&quot;. There&#x27;s a lot of work that&#x27;s effectively one-off, needs to be done at scale, and yet each day it&#x27;s something different. (Imaging ramping up some service over four weeks—a literal situation we encounter regularly.) Being able to mix human and automation there is again critical, but really no tooling that I&#x27;m aware of exists to help with.<p>Anyway…congrats on the launch. I can definitely see it working for really well-defined operation systems that just need that extra touch of automation to reduce the busy work when humans are inserted into flows.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams</title><text>Hi everyone!<p>We’re Nick &amp; Omar from Flowdash (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com</a>). We help companies quickly build internal tools to track and execute human-in-the-loop workflows.<p>We’re built specifically for technology companies that have manual work behind the scenes. For example, a fintech that has a beautiful mobile-first experience for its end users, likely also has a risk team internally approving new accounts, or reviewing suspicious transactions for anomalies. These teams need tools to get their jobs done, but building those tools is time consuming and often means spending your limited engineering resources on internal tools when you’d much rather invest in building user-facing features.<p>What’s more, maintenance of these tools is an ongoing endeavor. As the company scales and the operations team identifies ways they can improve their workflow, they’re often bottlenecked on engineering availability, forcing the team to implement workarounds in the interim, such as working out of spreadsheets and Slack. These workarounds, while easy to implement, come with pitfalls such as tasks slipping through the cracks or data getting out-of-sync.<p>With Flowdash, we’re combining the best of both worlds. We want to enable the deep integration that comes from building custom software, while making it possible for operations teams to iterate and improve their workflow over time. We’re able to do this because we’re not trying to be a general-purpose low-code platform, but really focus on use cases where a team of humans works through a backlog of tasks.<p>Flowdash was inspired by our own experience. Omar and I were early engineers at Gusto and over the course of six years, built several internal tools to support our payments, risk, and payroll operations teams. We saw first-hand the benefits of equipping our ops teams with great tools, but also struggled to prioritize improvements to these tools against user-facing features.<p>We think of operations teams as unsung heroes. Their work is critical to the day-to-day operations of the company, yet few people externally know they exist. We want to give them better tools to get their work done.<p>Here’s how it works:<p>Flowdash’s core primitive is a Flow, which we define as a pipeline of work, where tasks move through a set of stages from creation to completion. Every Flow exposes an endpoint where developers can push new tasks with a single POST request. Users then claim tasks and move them along the pipeline. Additionally, actions can be customized in a number of ways, such as sending email, calling a third-party API, or talking back to your main application. Because stages and actions can be customized without code, the end-user can change how they work without requiring engineering intervention. From the developer perspective, you can think of it as a human-powered background job.<p>As a concrete example, let’s consider a fintech onboarding new clients. When a new client signs up, a task is automatically pushed to Flowdash. From there, a risk agent reviews the account and decides whether to Approve or Reject the client. In turn, that action issues a callback to the main application to complete onboarding. Here’s a 3-min video setting this up end-to-end: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com&#x2F;demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com&#x2F;demo</a>.<p>We’re excited (and a little intimidated) to be on HN today, and would love to get your feedback. Have you had to build similar tools? What were some of the pain points or challenges? Thanks in advance!<p>Nick and Omar</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dpcheng2003</author><text>Congrats on the launch guys!<p>Full disclosure, I worked with Nick and Omar at Gusto. I saw firsthand how much software can help an ops team. Since we didn&#x27;t have Flowdash at Gusto, we often scrambled for resources to empower our operations team. We also probably could&#x27;ve done a better job responding to user feedback since we were so resource constrained.<p>Having a tool that the Ops team can truly own is a game-changer for that iterative feedback loop and frees up the eng team. Really looking forward to seeing this product grow.</text></comment>
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<story><title>IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/ibm_aix_developer_jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>IBM over the last two decades really seems to be a story of managed decline.<p>Its proprietary systems were riding high in the 90s (even if market-share wasn&#x27;t the absolute largest, their &quot;Big Iron&quot; had a good reputation amongst &#x27;serious&#x27; IT folks), but were superseded by linux and commodity hardware at some point in the 00s. They sold off the thinkpad business as non-core, and they sold off their commodity server business (x-series) at some point too.<p>Both hardware and software solutions have been de-emphasised in favour of &#x27;services&#x27;, and while that&#x27;s fine in a business sense, it&#x27;s so sad from the perspective of all that big blue has done for our industry over the years.<p>Yes, they now own RedHat, but large acquisitions are part of this story. Each one stems the decline for a while, but cost-cutting and streamlining inside big blue eventually manages the new addition into a shadow of its former self. Maybe this one will be different ... I hope so.</text></comment>
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<story><title>IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/ibm_aix_developer_jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hlandau</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that IBM i has a kind of dependency on AIX. IBM i has an AIX binary compatibility environment called AIX. Think of it like WSL, but for AIX binaries and on IBM i. Of course if they created this compatibility layer today they&#x27;d probably choose to make it compatible with Linux rather than AIX, but they chose AIX and now they&#x27;re stuck with it.<p>This means AIX, or at least the AIX ABIs as supported by IBM i, has to be kept alive for as long as IBM i is alive. So either this bodes badly for IBM i or they consider the amount of ongoing maintenance that PASE needs to be so small it can be handled on an ongoing basis by the i or the new skeleton AIX team. I suspect the latter rather than them canning IBM i though.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A failed entrepreneur </title><url>http://www.growthology.org/growthology/2010/06/a-failed-entrepreneur.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/1210088963s1218/growthology+(Growthology)</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo</author><text>I wouldn't say the father failed at all. Nothing lasts forever and companies are no exception. Growing and leading a company for 20 years is a huge accomplishment, no matter what happens after that. Companies are not meant to last forever. We've had companies since the middle ages, and none of them exist now. Surely they're not all failed companies whose leaders all failed them?<p>Besides, there's no way bankruptcy wipes away all the value that has been created. If a company can support three dozen families over 20 years (figures from the story) that's a tremendous amount of value. The few million dollar the company was worth before it went bankrupt pales in comparison.<p>I understand why the father in the story would blame himself, it's only natural. It's a very human thing to second guess and blame yourself. My point is that people always find a way to blame themselves so I don't think somebody who successfully leads a business for 19 years is any more of a failed entrepreneur than a writer who writes bestsellers for 19 years or professor who does research and manages his group for 19 years or an actor who has 19 years worth of television and movies to his name.<p>Failed? Pheh.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A failed entrepreneur </title><url>http://www.growthology.org/growthology/2010/06/a-failed-entrepreneur.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/1210088963s1218/growthology+(Growthology)</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrvir</author><text>Seems like he was quite a champ. Far more precious if you can teach your kids to think for themselves and use their wings, than leave them a multi-million dollar company, me thinks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The secrets of body language</title><url>http://blog.bufferapp.com/improve-my-body-language-secrets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>But isn't giving respect low-power? If you're the alpha, others give <i>you</i> respect, and you do as you please. I'm exaggerating, obviously, but respect is a form of deference. Deference is low-power.</text></item><item><author>felideon</author><text>Good point. For example, I tend to lean forward (with forearms on the table) out of respect. It shows I'm interested but I can see how it could be misconstrued as a nervousness, or 'low-power'.</text></item><item><author>a_p</author><text>Body language experts are trained to look for <i>groups</i> of behaviors. Often, certain behaviors such as crossed arms could just mean the subject is cold. It is also hard to judge someone's body language after you have just met them; it is much better to compare their behavior to the "baseline" of their normal behavior. That is because certain behaviors are not innate but learned unconsciously from parents, relatives, close friends, and is also dependent upon regional culture. If you want to learn about body language, you should spend a lot of time practicing watching several different people and finding groups of behaviors that signal their respective moods before you start to start to make inferences with confidence. It is helpful to watch people from different cultures or different classes so that you may see how much variation there is. Otherwise, decisions made with little knowledge and practice is actually harmful because your inferences will likely be wrong. "You should never cross your arms again" may be good advice, but only because you can then guard yourself from people that overestimate their powers of observation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nodemaker</author><text>If you know what being alpha is and you are trying to be it, you are not alpha at all by definition.<p>In any case I think this alpha-male theory is pop evolutionary psychology that plays on the minds of insecure men.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The secrets of body language</title><url>http://blog.bufferapp.com/improve-my-body-language-secrets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>But isn't giving respect low-power? If you're the alpha, others give <i>you</i> respect, and you do as you please. I'm exaggerating, obviously, but respect is a form of deference. Deference is low-power.</text></item><item><author>felideon</author><text>Good point. For example, I tend to lean forward (with forearms on the table) out of respect. It shows I'm interested but I can see how it could be misconstrued as a nervousness, or 'low-power'.</text></item><item><author>a_p</author><text>Body language experts are trained to look for <i>groups</i> of behaviors. Often, certain behaviors such as crossed arms could just mean the subject is cold. It is also hard to judge someone's body language after you have just met them; it is much better to compare their behavior to the "baseline" of their normal behavior. That is because certain behaviors are not innate but learned unconsciously from parents, relatives, close friends, and is also dependent upon regional culture. If you want to learn about body language, you should spend a lot of time practicing watching several different people and finding groups of behaviors that signal their respective moods before you start to start to make inferences with confidence. It is helpful to watch people from different cultures or different classes so that you may see how much variation there is. Otherwise, decisions made with little knowledge and practice is actually harmful because your inferences will likely be wrong. "You should never cross your arms again" may be good advice, but only because you can then guard yourself from people that overestimate their powers of observation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>felideon</author><text>I know what you mean, but given the context of a job interview, by definition[1] you are in a lower power position.<p>I agree with sibling comments, though, that respectfulness is not mutually exclusive with <i>alpha</i>-ness. And if in general you are a respectful person, a high-power posture will probably not impact their opinion of your respectfulness too much.<p>[1] Assuming you really want the job and unless you are a hot shot who is gracing them with your willingness to work for them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What You Can't Say (2004)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amirkdv</author><text>&gt; Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed.<p>There&#x27;s some truth to this that&#x27;s worth pausing on.<p>But it&#x27;s a fallacy (probably with a fancy name) to say &quot;it made you mad therefore you worry it&#x27;s true&quot;.<p>A statement could be false yet incite anger because it&#x27;s demonstrably harmful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>escapedmoose</author><text>Also the statements that people “worry might be believed” may not intersect with the statements that could be judged as plausible by an intelligent, rational person. There are a loooooot of dumb people out there, with uncomfortable levels of individual and&#x2F;or collective power. When that cohort falls for something that smarter people see as blatantly false, it still can have nasty consequences. We should be angry at anyone who deliberately attempts to make them fall for it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What You Can't Say (2004)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amirkdv</author><text>&gt; Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed.<p>There&#x27;s some truth to this that&#x27;s worth pausing on.<p>But it&#x27;s a fallacy (probably with a fancy name) to say &quot;it made you mad therefore you worry it&#x27;s true&quot;.<p>A statement could be false yet incite anger because it&#x27;s demonstrably harmful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strogonoff</author><text>Anger is a manifestation of fear, which in turn stems from insecurity. If you are confident, there is nothing to be afraid of and becoming irate about.<p>This makes it a useful measure sometimes. If a thing you say causes anger, it may or may not be true—but it definitely indicates your counterpart’s sensitivity to and bias against it being true; the chance of it being false is thus elevated.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, and users didn't say a thing</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-neutered-ad-blockers-in-safari-but-unlike-chrome-users-didnt-say-a-thing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xodice</author><text>Because content blockers are fine for the majority of users, IMO. Of course there will be power users who are buggered, but things like Wipr on iOS and macOS work just fine for blocking ads.<p>I switched to Wipr on my devices and ads are still blocked, for basic ad blocking it gets the job done easily and quickly.<p>I also did not join in the Chrome bashing as I personally prefer the &quot;security&quot; of content blockers vs. extensions. (Tho, I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Safari&#x27;s content blockers are super easy to circumvent by anti-ad-blocking tech.<p>That many publishers don&#x27;t do that already is a mystery, probably because visitors with ad-blocking are still a minority and publishers don&#x27;t want to piss them off.<p>As a disclaimer I was in a team working on such technology. The hardest to beat is uBlock Origin, being the most capable from a technical perspective. And we left it completely alone, a good strategy for angry users having a last resort solution to migrate to instead of investigating why AdBlock Plus isn&#x27;t working.<p>And also by not having a company behind it, a partnership with uBlock Origin for &quot;acceptable ads&quot; isn&#x27;t possible. Which is why the whole industry, Google included, is scared of it and it&#x27;s no wonder that they&#x27;ve taken steps to kill it in Chrome for desktop ;-)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, and users didn't say a thing</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-neutered-ad-blockers-in-safari-but-unlike-chrome-users-didnt-say-a-thing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xodice</author><text>Because content blockers are fine for the majority of users, IMO. Of course there will be power users who are buggered, but things like Wipr on iOS and macOS work just fine for blocking ads.<p>I switched to Wipr on my devices and ads are still blocked, for basic ad blocking it gets the job done easily and quickly.<p>I also did not join in the Chrome bashing as I personally prefer the &quot;security&quot; of content blockers vs. extensions. (Tho, I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text><i>&quot;I also did not join in the Chrome bashing as I personally prefer the &quot;security&quot; of content blockers vs. extensions. (Tho, I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine.&quot;</i><p>Interesting, as the uBlock Origin author is pretty clear that uBlock Origin for chrome will cease to exist if&#x2F;when Chrome implements the manifest v3 changes that make it &quot;Safari like&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Automatically enable or disable end-to-end encryption</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135636</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>&gt; the world at large dismissed OpenPGP encryption on mail as pointless<p>This is quite amazing, if you think about it. I&#x27;m not one to promote conspiracy theories, but if you look at how we horribly botched all implementations of E-mail encryption over the years (that includes lack of development, terrible UI, delays, bizarre and unimplementable in practice standards like S&#x2F;MIME), it is quite an impressive story.<p>Meanwhile, the HTTP world mostly got things done, and instant messaging is in a pretty good shape (although I&#x27;m still amazed that so many people are willing to sync their entire phone book to Facebook for advertising purposes without a second thought).</text></item><item><author>noirscape</author><text>At first, a maintainer considered it to be a regression to implement (reading the bugzilla page), which caused it to be delayed for ~7 years. Then the issue went more or less inactive for almost a decade because the world at large dismissed OpenPGP encryption on mail as pointless (in part due to the complexity in actually getting it working since no mail client gave it a first class implementation, leading to a circular case of it not being implemented because nobody did it.)<p>2 years ago it was deliberately revived by Mozilla, then it devolved into bikeshedding about the design and now it&#x27;s finally shipped.</text></item><item><author>hmate9</author><text>Does anyone have a tldr of why it took this long?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Technotroll</author><text>I don&#x27;t think they were horribly botched. It&#x27;s simply a very hard problem to tackle, much harder than, say, end-to-end encryption over HTTP (which is of course HTTPS), simply due to the fact that the communication over HTTPS is one-to-one. Meanwhile, e-mail is often one-to-many, or even many-to-many. Not to mention that you can&#x27;t force encryption all the time over mail, since that would entail forcing the upgrade of all distributed e-mail servers and systems out there. I mean, how are you supposed to do that? The consequence of that is that even a safely encrypted e-mail may easily be leaked the second it is forwarded through an unencrypted server, which happens surprisingly often. And when that happens, it&#x27;s not just the one e-mail that is leaked, but possibly the entire thread of e-mails being sent with it previously, which kind of renders the entire point e-mail encryption moot.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Automatically enable or disable end-to-end encryption</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135636</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>&gt; the world at large dismissed OpenPGP encryption on mail as pointless<p>This is quite amazing, if you think about it. I&#x27;m not one to promote conspiracy theories, but if you look at how we horribly botched all implementations of E-mail encryption over the years (that includes lack of development, terrible UI, delays, bizarre and unimplementable in practice standards like S&#x2F;MIME), it is quite an impressive story.<p>Meanwhile, the HTTP world mostly got things done, and instant messaging is in a pretty good shape (although I&#x27;m still amazed that so many people are willing to sync their entire phone book to Facebook for advertising purposes without a second thought).</text></item><item><author>noirscape</author><text>At first, a maintainer considered it to be a regression to implement (reading the bugzilla page), which caused it to be delayed for ~7 years. Then the issue went more or less inactive for almost a decade because the world at large dismissed OpenPGP encryption on mail as pointless (in part due to the complexity in actually getting it working since no mail client gave it a first class implementation, leading to a circular case of it not being implemented because nobody did it.)<p>2 years ago it was deliberately revived by Mozilla, then it devolved into bikeshedding about the design and now it&#x27;s finally shipped.</text></item><item><author>hmate9</author><text>Does anyone have a tldr of why it took this long?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannob</author><text>No conspiracy needed.<p>HTTPS was already there and working more or less automatically, you just had to make it the default.<p>E-Mail end-to-end encryption is inherently more complicated to make work, as you need to put the user in charge of key management.<p>Browser vendors made a big campaign and invested effort into making HTTPS work. Noone did that for E-Mail.<p>Also it should be mentioned that the same level of security that HTTPS has <i>almost</i> exists in E-Mail. You have transport encryption, it is largely enforced on C2S connections. S2S is a bit more complicated, but even that is mostly solved by now via MTA-STS, which at least the larger mail providers support.</text></comment>
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<story><title>VanillaJSX.com</title><url>https://vanillajsx.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spankalee</author><text>Returning actual DOM nodes entirely blunts the big advantage of JSX (and non-JSX libraries like Lit) - which is their immediate mode style API, and UI=f(state) model.<p>You want to return a description of the DOM, rather than the real DOM, because you want to be able to reevaluate your templates repeatedly with new state, and efficiently update the DOM where that template is rendered to.<p>All the examples here use imperative DOM APIs to do updates, like with this:<p><pre><code> function TodoInput(attrs: { add: (v: string) =&gt; void }) {
const input = &lt;input &#x2F;&gt; as HTMLInputElement;
input.placeholder = &#x27;Add todo item...&#x27;;
input.onkeydown = (e) =&gt; {
if (e.key === &#x27;Enter&#x27;) {
attrs.add(input.value);
input.value = &#x27;&#x27;;
}
};
return input;
}
class TodoList {
ul = &lt;ul class=&#x27;todolist&#x27; &#x2F;&gt; as HTMLUListElement;
add(v: string) {
const item = &lt;li&gt;{v}&lt;&#x2F;li&gt; as HTMLLIElement;
item.onclick = () =&gt; item.remove();
this.ul.append(item);
}
}
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Avoiding those `input.onkeydown = ...` and `this.ul.append(item)` cases, and instead just iterating over items in your template, is probably the main benefit of a VDOM.<p>(The problem with VDOMs is that diffing is slow, a problem solved by using templates that separate static from dynamic parts, like Lit - a library I work on).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>francasso</author><text>From my experience creating complex web UIs, the performance angle of using a vdom is pure fantasy if your application is complex enough.<p>In fact I now strongly believe it&#x27;s counter productive, because most people come to it thinking &quot;I can just trigger however many re-renders of this large piece of UI as I like, the vdom makes it ok&quot; and it doesn&#x27;t, the performance sucks, but now you have architected the app in a way that requires a rewrite to make the app perform well.<p>I have seen this exact sequence of events four times, by four different teams. The second, third and fourth, as a principal architect consulting for the team I tried to intervene and advocate for a vanilla architecture that is mindful about performance, citing the issues they would likely experience with react, but to no avail. There was a lot of &quot;oh but there many ways to avoid those issues&quot; followed by a list of things I was presumably ignorant about.<p>I guess most of us need to learn things the hard way.</text></comment>
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<story><title>VanillaJSX.com</title><url>https://vanillajsx.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spankalee</author><text>Returning actual DOM nodes entirely blunts the big advantage of JSX (and non-JSX libraries like Lit) - which is their immediate mode style API, and UI=f(state) model.<p>You want to return a description of the DOM, rather than the real DOM, because you want to be able to reevaluate your templates repeatedly with new state, and efficiently update the DOM where that template is rendered to.<p>All the examples here use imperative DOM APIs to do updates, like with this:<p><pre><code> function TodoInput(attrs: { add: (v: string) =&gt; void }) {
const input = &lt;input &#x2F;&gt; as HTMLInputElement;
input.placeholder = &#x27;Add todo item...&#x27;;
input.onkeydown = (e) =&gt; {
if (e.key === &#x27;Enter&#x27;) {
attrs.add(input.value);
input.value = &#x27;&#x27;;
}
};
return input;
}
class TodoList {
ul = &lt;ul class=&#x27;todolist&#x27; &#x2F;&gt; as HTMLUListElement;
add(v: string) {
const item = &lt;li&gt;{v}&lt;&#x2F;li&gt; as HTMLLIElement;
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Avoiding those `input.onkeydown = ...` and `this.ul.append(item)` cases, and instead just iterating over items in your template, is probably the main benefit of a VDOM.<p>(The problem with VDOMs is that diffing is slow, a problem solved by using templates that separate static from dynamic parts, like Lit - a library I work on).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JasonSage</author><text>I agree with the sibling comment that this really depends on the user. To take a different approach: JSX is just a different DSL to the createElement function call pattern (see Preact.h for example) and all of the benefits you’re describing come from the framework and runtime.<p>More concisely: JSX is just an alternate function call syntax with some useful applications.<p>For example at my last company we used JSX to make test data factories that had an XML-like look but were using a builder-pattern in the element creation that was able to make contextual decisions about what was in the final data. Nothing to do with React, DOM, or inability to express the same thing declaratively without JSX.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fidel Castro has died</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erokar</author><text>On the contrary, it&#x27;s dangerous not to call out evil for what it is. Of course it might be wise to try to analyze what genetic&#x2F;family&#x2F;social&#x2F;economic&#x2F;political factors shape people like Castro, Gaddafi, Franco etc. — but if you think you&#x27;re dealing with people like you and me you fail to grasp the phenomenon.<p>Dictators that prosecute and murder their opponents, like Castro did, share a very predictable set of psychopathic&#x2F;narcissistic&#x2F;paranoid personality characteristics. They are, by definition, not normal.</text></item><item><author>jknoepfler</author><text>I would encourage the commenters in this thread who see Fidel&#x27;s legacy as a black-and-white matter of an &quot;evil dictator who did bad things and was wrong about economics&quot; to step back, bear witness to the objective facts about Fidel Castro&#x27;s life (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fidel_Castro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fidel_Castro</a>), think sincerely about what could lead a highly intelligent and charismatic person to become or follow Fidel Castro (as many have), and take a moment to reflect on the complexities of global politics in the 20th century.<p>I am not a fan of Fidel Castro - quite the opposite - but humans are cut from a common cloth. When we see revolutions turn into dictatorships, and idealism deteriorate into a cynical fight to survive, it is foolish and dangerous to dismiss the dictators and revolutionaries as &quot;evil&quot; or &quot;idiots&quot; or some similarly otherizing term. It is dangerous because it means we are refusing to learn from history, and to apply the lessons of other lives to our own. Fidel Castro&#x27;s mistakes are our mistakes to repeat, or to learn from.<p>If you hold yourself holier than Fidel Castro, and think that celebrating the death of someone you perceive as &quot;evil&quot; is prudent, take a deep long moment and try to learn something non-trivial from his life. &quot;Fidel Castro&quot; in the particular was not some kind of unique demon who plagued humanity. He was a charismatic revolutionary who occupied a very complex time. His life&#x27;s trajectory was in many respects one of tragic failure. He may have, in reality, occupied a very dark corner of history, but that is for us to learn and judge, not to assume.<p>If you think you&#x27;re better, then do better. Be better. Don&#x27;t refuse to acknowledge the humanity of another person because you believe you can totalize their entire life under a cheap tagline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krmboya</author><text>This makes me wonder of what one would say of the faceless individuals that worked behind certain governments to indirectly cause death and suffering of millions of people, say in a place like Africa.<p>Like the well-known western government(s) that deliberately destabilized The Congo early in its independence and installed a dictator, because they did not like the ideological leanings of whoever was in power then? A conflict that still continues 56 years later?<p>But then it becomes hard to pick out a specific person and say how evil they are, and how they&#x27;re different from me and you.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fidel Castro has died</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erokar</author><text>On the contrary, it&#x27;s dangerous not to call out evil for what it is. Of course it might be wise to try to analyze what genetic&#x2F;family&#x2F;social&#x2F;economic&#x2F;political factors shape people like Castro, Gaddafi, Franco etc. — but if you think you&#x27;re dealing with people like you and me you fail to grasp the phenomenon.<p>Dictators that prosecute and murder their opponents, like Castro did, share a very predictable set of psychopathic&#x2F;narcissistic&#x2F;paranoid personality characteristics. They are, by definition, not normal.</text></item><item><author>jknoepfler</author><text>I would encourage the commenters in this thread who see Fidel&#x27;s legacy as a black-and-white matter of an &quot;evil dictator who did bad things and was wrong about economics&quot; to step back, bear witness to the objective facts about Fidel Castro&#x27;s life (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fidel_Castro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fidel_Castro</a>), think sincerely about what could lead a highly intelligent and charismatic person to become or follow Fidel Castro (as many have), and take a moment to reflect on the complexities of global politics in the 20th century.<p>I am not a fan of Fidel Castro - quite the opposite - but humans are cut from a common cloth. When we see revolutions turn into dictatorships, and idealism deteriorate into a cynical fight to survive, it is foolish and dangerous to dismiss the dictators and revolutionaries as &quot;evil&quot; or &quot;idiots&quot; or some similarly otherizing term. It is dangerous because it means we are refusing to learn from history, and to apply the lessons of other lives to our own. Fidel Castro&#x27;s mistakes are our mistakes to repeat, or to learn from.<p>If you hold yourself holier than Fidel Castro, and think that celebrating the death of someone you perceive as &quot;evil&quot; is prudent, take a deep long moment and try to learn something non-trivial from his life. &quot;Fidel Castro&quot; in the particular was not some kind of unique demon who plagued humanity. He was a charismatic revolutionary who occupied a very complex time. His life&#x27;s trajectory was in many respects one of tragic failure. He may have, in reality, occupied a very dark corner of history, but that is for us to learn and judge, not to assume.<p>If you think you&#x27;re better, then do better. Be better. Don&#x27;t refuse to acknowledge the humanity of another person because you believe you can totalize their entire life under a cheap tagline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samirillian</author><text>&#x27;it&#x27;s dangerous not to call out evil for what it is&#x27;<p>Really have to question this reification of &quot;evil&quot; per se. Evil is most immediately a religious construct. Or, in the words of Hannah Arendt, it is &quot;banal.&quot; When did calling people evil ever lead to more justice in the world?<p>As if George W Bush having the courage to call Iran and Iraq and Libya the &quot;Axis of Evil&quot; led to the US promoting peace in those countries? No, there&#x27;s been a proportional increase in US-led suffering (death toll in Iraq post-invasion around .5 million).<p>I don&#x27;t honestly know too much about Fidel Castro, but take a minute to look at the US-installed Batista, who was overthrown. And, gawd, what about JFK? What about Kissinger These leaders had all the advantages of starting out in a relatively functional industrially-developed democracy, and they managed to do all kinds of evil, mainly to countries like Cuba.<p>Tangentially, IMHO, I don&#x27;t believe Castro was nearly as &quot;pathological&quot; a human being as a number of US presidents.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvmkdd/counterfeit-iphone-x-review-and-teardown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I think the part you&#x27;re missing is that unlike in the western cultures, there are places where relationships with your friends and family are far more important than anything else. Like think how to someone living in the US(usually) it&#x27;s inconceivable to live in one place with 3 generations of people, grandparents, parents and kids, friends nearby. But to these cultures that&#x27;s where the strength lies, you help them they help you.<p>But in these cultures it&#x27;s also incredibly important to be seen as &quot;doing well for yourself&quot;. You will see people from these cultures will frequently(for instance) drive a Mercedes, just because that means you&#x27;ve achieved something in life. Doesn&#x27;t matter the Mercedes in question is 20 years old and on bald tires, it&#x27;s a Mercedes, parents and grandparents can now say they are proud of you. It increases your social standing. Likewise, if you manage to buy an iPhone, that can be seen a an achievement(even if the iPhone is fake, what matters is people think you can afford an iPhone). Then in turn, if you are seen as successful(by the virtue of having those expensive things) you get better social opportunities, for employment, education, housing....it&#x27;s almost cliche, but in some places having an iPhone, a good car and a gold chain(all fake of course) can really and measurably improve your standard of life.<p>Like, have you never seen a movie where a person emigrates to a wealthy country, and writes&#x2F;calls the family back home saying &quot;oh yeah I have my own bed, a car, a TV and a mobile phone! We eat meat every night&quot; and like at home , that&#x27;s incredibly impressive, even though to me or you that&#x27;s just normal stuff.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_pdp09</author><text>&gt; this is an easy way to buy some status<p>This is going to sound weird but I&#x27;ve never found any relevance for symbols, nor any understanding of things like &#x27;status&#x27;. What you say is like words from another language, or even concepts I don&#x27;t have. So permit me: what does having status mean in practical terms, if any? Does the judgement of others matter if it&#x27;s based on, to be blunt, ownership of trinkets?<p>Not trolling, genuine question.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>Or, if you are like me from a country where a genuine iPhone 12 is worth about 3 months of average salary, this is an easy way to buy some status without actually spending quarter of your annual income on one. You could fool a lot of people with one of these. Same reason why fake anything exists - to sell to people who don&#x27;t have means to buy the real thing(and yes, I suppose to also scam some who think they are getting the real deal, but that must be a tiny portion of the money involved in making this).</text></item><item><author>tmikaeld</author><text>Looks like it&#x27;s designed for scammers who sell it to gullible people on the street, making them feel like it&#x27;s a &quot;once-in-a-lifetime&quot; deal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zerof1l</author><text>I understand that concept somewhat, however, I think that most of the people in western cultures are moving past this. The materialistic part. Most would not care about clothes or the phone you own. What matters is personality and what you believe in. For example, you have an old phone because you&#x27;re conscious of the environment. Or, you buy second-hand clothes because the shop donates money to some good cause.<p>The issue of using fake merch to show-off your status is that others will eventually catch up. Once every second person will have a fake expensive-looking phone, for example, it will lose its meaning. The rich and successful will find other ways to differentiate themselves. And I don&#x27;t believe that owning a fake phone is going to make you successful. Being successful is a mindset.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvmkdd/counterfeit-iphone-x-review-and-teardown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I think the part you&#x27;re missing is that unlike in the western cultures, there are places where relationships with your friends and family are far more important than anything else. Like think how to someone living in the US(usually) it&#x27;s inconceivable to live in one place with 3 generations of people, grandparents, parents and kids, friends nearby. But to these cultures that&#x27;s where the strength lies, you help them they help you.<p>But in these cultures it&#x27;s also incredibly important to be seen as &quot;doing well for yourself&quot;. You will see people from these cultures will frequently(for instance) drive a Mercedes, just because that means you&#x27;ve achieved something in life. Doesn&#x27;t matter the Mercedes in question is 20 years old and on bald tires, it&#x27;s a Mercedes, parents and grandparents can now say they are proud of you. It increases your social standing. Likewise, if you manage to buy an iPhone, that can be seen a an achievement(even if the iPhone is fake, what matters is people think you can afford an iPhone). Then in turn, if you are seen as successful(by the virtue of having those expensive things) you get better social opportunities, for employment, education, housing....it&#x27;s almost cliche, but in some places having an iPhone, a good car and a gold chain(all fake of course) can really and measurably improve your standard of life.<p>Like, have you never seen a movie where a person emigrates to a wealthy country, and writes&#x2F;calls the family back home saying &quot;oh yeah I have my own bed, a car, a TV and a mobile phone! We eat meat every night&quot; and like at home , that&#x27;s incredibly impressive, even though to me or you that&#x27;s just normal stuff.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_pdp09</author><text>&gt; this is an easy way to buy some status<p>This is going to sound weird but I&#x27;ve never found any relevance for symbols, nor any understanding of things like &#x27;status&#x27;. What you say is like words from another language, or even concepts I don&#x27;t have. So permit me: what does having status mean in practical terms, if any? Does the judgement of others matter if it&#x27;s based on, to be blunt, ownership of trinkets?<p>Not trolling, genuine question.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>Or, if you are like me from a country where a genuine iPhone 12 is worth about 3 months of average salary, this is an easy way to buy some status without actually spending quarter of your annual income on one. You could fool a lot of people with one of these. Same reason why fake anything exists - to sell to people who don&#x27;t have means to buy the real thing(and yes, I suppose to also scam some who think they are getting the real deal, but that must be a tiny portion of the money involved in making this).</text></item><item><author>tmikaeld</author><text>Looks like it&#x27;s designed for scammers who sell it to gullible people on the street, making them feel like it&#x27;s a &quot;once-in-a-lifetime&quot; deal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kenned3</author><text>What you describe is known as &#x27;give face&#x27;. I&#x27;m white, but my ex is chinese and so i have spent a lot of time in those circles and what you write is pretty accurate.<p>I knew a girl, who had a minimum wage job, but bought her boyfriend a $300 sweater simply to show his parents she had money.. I asked about it, and she pretty much told me it came down to &quot;give face&quot;.<p>i think it is this: &quot;面子&quot; and as others have written, one of the more difficult concepts for western culture to fully understand.</text></comment>
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<story><title>GNU Gneural Network</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_delirium</author><text>I agree with the general motivation that having too much AI research in the hands of software companies who keep it proprietary harms transparency and progress. But there is already a <i>lot</i> of neural-network free software, so why another package? For example, these widely used packages are free software, and seemingly more featureful: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torch.ch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torch.ch&#x2F;</a>, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deeplearning.net&#x2F;software&#x2F;theano&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deeplearning.net&#x2F;software&#x2F;theano&#x2F;</a>, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pybrain.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pybrain.org&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tensorflow.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tensorflow.org&#x2F;</a>, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leenissen.dk&#x2F;fann&#x2F;wp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leenissen.dk&#x2F;fann&#x2F;wp&#x2F;</a>, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chainer.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chainer.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simondedalus</author><text>I think the idea is to use awareness of GNU and also to focus the attention of people with the skill to contribute on neural-networks.<p>What I mean is, you&#x27;re right of course, there&#x27;s much better neural-network free software already available, but GNU endorsing an official package 1) could get people whose concerns are more strongly geared toward free software ethics to start paying attention to neural networks, and 2) get people, regardless of their ideological commitment to anything, to be more aware both of the ethical issues and of neural-network software--just in virtue of GNU&#x27;s mild fame.<p>and of course, unless the maintainer of this package makes weird choices and alienates other projects, there&#x27;s the other benefit of projects learning from each other and poaching code and strategies for the greater good.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster</title><url>http://news.php.net/php.internals/73888</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucb1e</author><text>&gt; Wordpress 3.6 – 20.0% gain (253 vs 211 req&#x2F;sec)<p>How do you generate 211 pages per second on Wordpress to begin with? My server does page generation for my own custom-built blog in ~15ms, but takes a whopping three seconds for a single Wordpress page. I know it&#x27;s somewhat offtopic and it&#x27;s about the relative results, but what hardware is this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrossman</author><text>My Linode VPS spits out WordPress pages in 33.811ms (via ApacheBench, concurrency=10 for a couple hundred requests). I don&#x27;t use any kind of content&#x2F;page cache. There&#x27;s no reason WordPress would be 200 times slower than your custom blog -- WordPress isn&#x27;t some kind of complex software. It&#x27;s a handful of very small PHP classes that choose a theme file based on the URL, include it, run a database query to select some posts, wrap the result rows in objects, and pass them to the theme to spit out. I&#x27;ve had hundreds of concurrent visitors on my blog without registering any load. If your site is taking 3 seconds to return a page, there&#x27;s something wrong and it&#x27;s not the choice of blog platform.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster</title><url>http://news.php.net/php.internals/73888</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucb1e</author><text>&gt; Wordpress 3.6 – 20.0% gain (253 vs 211 req&#x2F;sec)<p>How do you generate 211 pages per second on Wordpress to begin with? My server does page generation for my own custom-built blog in ~15ms, but takes a whopping three seconds for a single Wordpress page. I know it&#x27;s somewhat offtopic and it&#x27;s about the relative results, but what hardware is this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjbrunet</author><text>Could just be your hosting. For example, with Media Temple (years ago) I found it often took 7+ seconds just to redirect www to non-www, up to 12 seconds. Pingdom is a good tool to see where you&#x27;re getting stuck <a href="http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.pingdom.com&#x2F;fpt&#x2F;</a> Another common problem, your MySQL database could be overloaded (especially with shared hosting) and more caching won&#x27;t necessarily solve the problem.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fake News Challenge</title><url>http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>It makes me sad to see yet another tech team go down the road of &quot;machines will help us filter the truth&quot;<p>They will not, and the reason has to do with language. Ludwig Wittgenstein tackled this 100 years ago. The best that machines will do for you is to label something as true or not <i>as if you had consumed the article and decided on your own</i><p><i>That is a completely different thing from identifying fake news or truth</i><p>There&#x27;s some value here. There are also some hard stops. You&#x27;ll find them :) Best of luck, guys!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>euyyn</author><text>As an example, the fake news about the guy that found the warehouse full of fake ballot boxes for Clinton:<p>A Google Image Search of the picture in the fake article would have found the picture is much older, and isn&#x27;t what the caption described.<p>If I&#x27;m tech-savvy and skeptical, I might have done that when consuming the article, and decided on my own it was fake. Machines can do that automatically for people that aren&#x27;t tech-savvy, or that don&#x27;t start reading it with a skeptical mindset.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fake News Challenge</title><url>http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>It makes me sad to see yet another tech team go down the road of &quot;machines will help us filter the truth&quot;<p>They will not, and the reason has to do with language. Ludwig Wittgenstein tackled this 100 years ago. The best that machines will do for you is to label something as true or not <i>as if you had consumed the article and decided on your own</i><p><i>That is a completely different thing from identifying fake news or truth</i><p>There&#x27;s some value here. There are also some hard stops. You&#x27;ll find them :) Best of luck, guys!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it has to do with language (unless by &quot;language&quot; you mean what I mean, in which case sorry for duplicating). I think it has to do with that a lot of what people call &quot;truth&quot; is a product of their opinions, feelings, hopes, desires, etc.<p>There are facts of course - like such and such event happened or not, such and such statistical data is showing this number of not. But it is never served raw, it is always garnished with opinion. E.g. the fact is that Trump signed certain executive order. But you can say it&#x27;s &quot;Muslim ban&quot; or &quot;temporary restriction on admittance of nationals from terror-ridden countries&quot;. Not the same.<p>And various &quot;factchecking&quot; sites are fully complicit in this and inject opinion as often as not - to the point exactly the same thing said by two different people can be deemed &quot;mostly true&quot; or &quot;mostly false&quot;, moreover, exactly the same thing said by the same person can be &quot;mostly true&quot; and &quot;false&quot;.<p>You can&#x27;t hope to have robots make sense of it if we can&#x27;t. You can, of course, build a neural network and train it, but it would just put &quot;robot approved&quot; stamp on biases of whoever trained it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Learning to code vs. learning to automate</title><url>https://daedtech.com/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-automate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>I worked at a place where coding was not my job (it was technical support) but I wrote some scripts that automated some stuff. It was handy and everyone liked it.<p>Then someone in the process changed things that the scripts did not understand.<p>Management came running to me upset that this thing I automated didn&#x27;t work. Being technical support managers most didn&#x27;t understand (not all but most) that when you change things you need to tell people before the day of and they were quite upset with me.<p>I had saved them enormous time over several years ... but the result was I really just kept doing the same job I always was, not rewarded, and then the day they changed their processes without telling anyone they got upset with me.<p>My incentive to automate anything for them ever again was gone.</text></item><item><author>rurcliped</author><text>The problem often isn&#x27;t ability to automate. It&#x27;s that the workers
closest to the problem have an overwhelming disincentive to automate.<p>Suppose I have a low-level job in Peloton operations. Our Phalange
Team must ensure that, before a bike&#x27;s in-home delivery date is
confirmed, the delivery technician has placed an internal order for a
left phalange. Each of us spends all day navigating between the Sales
app and the Internal Order app.<p>My daughter tells me how I can automate this. But I never do it. Why?<p>1. Even if I were 100% sure the coding would be finished in one day,
the daily metrics for the Phalange Team would still signal a problem.<p>2. It introduces uncertainty. I can tell my manager exactly how long
the manual process takes, but I can&#x27;t tell her how long it takes to
write code.<p>3. It trades off the mean for the variance. Suppose it handles 99.44%
of the cases but there&#x27;s a rare bug where it never sends a delivery
date if the Internal Order backend has a timeout error. On average,
scheduling is 90% faster but some customers aren&#x27;t scheduled at all.
Not an acceptable outcome.<p>4. If I successfully automate it, all of my coworkers lose their jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnick</author><text>I always keep a manual safety step for unofficial automation for this exact reason.<p>Current example: I have a script I run for my wife that de-duplicates some data against historical excel files and submits it via an API to Mailchimp, to tag members for a triggered email. I run this manually for her about once a week. It does not alter anything unless I supply the &#x27;--go&#x27; option. That lets me check the output to see that it makes sense (sometimes they add extra data columns or she forgot to do contact&#x2F;tag setup on her end).<p>I absolutely never have the computer run stuff without me watching unless I control the entire process end to end, it&#x27;s non-critical, or management has requested it officially so I can point to specs when it goes wrong. Usually when I have a semi-automated process that is proven to work, then that&#x27;s the time to bring it up with management to try and make it more official (if they&#x27;re not the sort to drown it in red tape).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Learning to code vs. learning to automate</title><url>https://daedtech.com/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-automate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>I worked at a place where coding was not my job (it was technical support) but I wrote some scripts that automated some stuff. It was handy and everyone liked it.<p>Then someone in the process changed things that the scripts did not understand.<p>Management came running to me upset that this thing I automated didn&#x27;t work. Being technical support managers most didn&#x27;t understand (not all but most) that when you change things you need to tell people before the day of and they were quite upset with me.<p>I had saved them enormous time over several years ... but the result was I really just kept doing the same job I always was, not rewarded, and then the day they changed their processes without telling anyone they got upset with me.<p>My incentive to automate anything for them ever again was gone.</text></item><item><author>rurcliped</author><text>The problem often isn&#x27;t ability to automate. It&#x27;s that the workers
closest to the problem have an overwhelming disincentive to automate.<p>Suppose I have a low-level job in Peloton operations. Our Phalange
Team must ensure that, before a bike&#x27;s in-home delivery date is
confirmed, the delivery technician has placed an internal order for a
left phalange. Each of us spends all day navigating between the Sales
app and the Internal Order app.<p>My daughter tells me how I can automate this. But I never do it. Why?<p>1. Even if I were 100% sure the coding would be finished in one day,
the daily metrics for the Phalange Team would still signal a problem.<p>2. It introduces uncertainty. I can tell my manager exactly how long
the manual process takes, but I can&#x27;t tell her how long it takes to
write code.<p>3. It trades off the mean for the variance. Suppose it handles 99.44%
of the cases but there&#x27;s a rare bug where it never sends a delivery
date if the Internal Order backend has a timeout error. On average,
scheduling is 90% faster but some customers aren&#x27;t scheduled at all.
Not an acceptable outcome.<p>4. If I successfully automate it, all of my coworkers lose their jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ozfive</author><text>I can attest to this. I had similar experiences when I was in Aerospace. The complete incompetence of management is staggering and the mentality to stick with what has worked keeps efficiencies down. They instead went after the workers to &quot;work harder&quot; instead of allocating time and money to automation. I finally left and went to work on automation for industries that were receptive to creating tools that would make them more efficient. It&#x27;s exceptionally frustrating to be in such a position, and you are right, it&#x27;s better to do nothing and find yourself a place that fully understands what it means to save time and money by spending a fraction of it to fix while putting functioning processes in place to mitigate the risk of someone changing anything without going through the proper channels to ensure that the tools continue to work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work</title><url>http://fusion.net/story/325231/google-deletes-dennis-cooper-blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leonroy</author><text>Fully agree with your comments, but I fear we&#x27;re going in the wrong direction with the silo-ization of the web and the decline in open standards being ratified and used by large companies.<p>Just look at Google&#x27;s hostility towards maintaining standardized IMAP&#x2F;SMTP support for third party mail clients. Google Apps and Office 365 would drop IMAP access to their services in a heartbeat if they could.<p>Furthermore a lot of our online interactions are moving from open formats like Usenet, IRC, XMPP and SMTP&#x2F;IMAP to closed off walled gardens like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.<p>This artist&#x27;s online presence could have been entirely based on Instagram and Twitter for example and I bet many (younger than I) folks nowadays do eschew email for other forms of communication.<p>I don&#x27;t think self sufficiency in communication is a problem the end user can be realistically expected to solve. It&#x27;s up to engineers and technology stake holders to try and push us back to a more open way of using these apps and provide standards based communication.<p>I don&#x27;t know how the heck we&#x27;ll do that - I don&#x27;t see any user pressure for companies to even try, but news like this troubles me and I think it&#x27;s going to get much worse before people realize their data isn&#x27;t their own and push for it to get better.</text></item><item><author>a3n</author><text>The hindsight-prescriptive comments here focus on backing up, and that&#x27;s a sensible practice.<p>But there was another kind of damage done here, to the man&#x27;s identity, location and voice. His blog and his email address were his public persona. He used his blog and his address as identity, and as his channel of communication with followers, other artists, and I assume most of his general online communication.<p>That persona no longer exists. He&#x27;s been all but disappeared, and it&#x27;s going to take a long time for him to reconnect.<p>The technical lesson that should be learned here, beyond backups, is to have your own domain. You can still use services with your own domain. I&#x27;ve used many ISPs and email services, and I&#x27;ve had the same domain since about 2000. I used to use gmail (with [email protected]). I use fastmail now. I&#x27;ve never since 2000 had to tell anyone to change my email address, because it&#x27;s never changed, even though providers changed. The subject of this article would have a much easier time of reconnecting, had he used his own domain.<p>(Added to that, in the &quot;backup&quot; theme, download all your email as it happens. I use thunderbird, and it does that for me. I once resolved a dispute with a former employer because I had email that they had no incentive to find.)<p>Using your own domain is not absolute protection, because you don&#x27;t really own your domain, you rent it. Your registrar can decide to sell your domain to someone else, and if your consumer rights were violated it&#x27;s going to be difficult to reclaim your domain. In the future I think we&#x27;re going to need meta-domains that can&#x27;t be transferred, that <i>are</i> our identity, but I don&#x27;t know how that would be implemented.<p>I said this person has been disappeared, which was a provocative use of the word (this isn&#x27;t Argentina or Chile in the seventies). But thinking more broadly, consider that as our lives are lived more and more online, any government could compel a provider to remove you. Even if it was unjust removal, it could be so expensive to restore your presence that you just can&#x27;t do it. Harder to fight a government than it is to fight Google, if the government decides it won&#x27;t be moved. We have a no-fly list now that has no associated due process. I can imagine a no-communicate list.<p>Which is all to say, try to be as self-sufficient as is practical, and as is warranted by the importance of your communication.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrey_utkin</author><text>We need to follow Richard Stallman in his obsession with ehtics. &quot;Sorry mate, I find FB&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Skype&#x2F;etc. unethical, so I won&#x27;t get in touch with you using this, let&#x27;s better stick with email, phone call or meeting in person&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work</title><url>http://fusion.net/story/325231/google-deletes-dennis-cooper-blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leonroy</author><text>Fully agree with your comments, but I fear we&#x27;re going in the wrong direction with the silo-ization of the web and the decline in open standards being ratified and used by large companies.<p>Just look at Google&#x27;s hostility towards maintaining standardized IMAP&#x2F;SMTP support for third party mail clients. Google Apps and Office 365 would drop IMAP access to their services in a heartbeat if they could.<p>Furthermore a lot of our online interactions are moving from open formats like Usenet, IRC, XMPP and SMTP&#x2F;IMAP to closed off walled gardens like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.<p>This artist&#x27;s online presence could have been entirely based on Instagram and Twitter for example and I bet many (younger than I) folks nowadays do eschew email for other forms of communication.<p>I don&#x27;t think self sufficiency in communication is a problem the end user can be realistically expected to solve. It&#x27;s up to engineers and technology stake holders to try and push us back to a more open way of using these apps and provide standards based communication.<p>I don&#x27;t know how the heck we&#x27;ll do that - I don&#x27;t see any user pressure for companies to even try, but news like this troubles me and I think it&#x27;s going to get much worse before people realize their data isn&#x27;t their own and push for it to get better.</text></item><item><author>a3n</author><text>The hindsight-prescriptive comments here focus on backing up, and that&#x27;s a sensible practice.<p>But there was another kind of damage done here, to the man&#x27;s identity, location and voice. His blog and his email address were his public persona. He used his blog and his address as identity, and as his channel of communication with followers, other artists, and I assume most of his general online communication.<p>That persona no longer exists. He&#x27;s been all but disappeared, and it&#x27;s going to take a long time for him to reconnect.<p>The technical lesson that should be learned here, beyond backups, is to have your own domain. You can still use services with your own domain. I&#x27;ve used many ISPs and email services, and I&#x27;ve had the same domain since about 2000. I used to use gmail (with [email protected]). I use fastmail now. I&#x27;ve never since 2000 had to tell anyone to change my email address, because it&#x27;s never changed, even though providers changed. The subject of this article would have a much easier time of reconnecting, had he used his own domain.<p>(Added to that, in the &quot;backup&quot; theme, download all your email as it happens. I use thunderbird, and it does that for me. I once resolved a dispute with a former employer because I had email that they had no incentive to find.)<p>Using your own domain is not absolute protection, because you don&#x27;t really own your domain, you rent it. Your registrar can decide to sell your domain to someone else, and if your consumer rights were violated it&#x27;s going to be difficult to reclaim your domain. In the future I think we&#x27;re going to need meta-domains that can&#x27;t be transferred, that <i>are</i> our identity, but I don&#x27;t know how that would be implemented.<p>I said this person has been disappeared, which was a provocative use of the word (this isn&#x27;t Argentina or Chile in the seventies). But thinking more broadly, consider that as our lives are lived more and more online, any government could compel a provider to remove you. Even if it was unjust removal, it could be so expensive to restore your presence that you just can&#x27;t do it. Harder to fight a government than it is to fight Google, if the government decides it won&#x27;t be moved. We have a no-fly list now that has no associated due process. I can imagine a no-communicate list.<p>Which is all to say, try to be as self-sufficient as is practical, and as is warranted by the importance of your communication.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a3n</author><text>I have wished from the beginning that Twitter was a protocol, and not a business. (I wonder if Twitter investors wish that? :)<p>Fastmail et al. show that you can run a business on a protocol, even if it won&#x27;t necessarily make you a unicorn.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete</title><url>https://github.com/SharonBrizinov/slack-anti-delete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>There isn’t a jurisdiction on the planet that would reject a contract clause that the person hired to do a job cannot covertly outsource the work by providing their credentials to a third party. That’d likely be breaking multiple clauses of any sane contracting agreement.</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>You can put anything you want in a contract, the question is, is it enforceable?</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; independent contractors are free to sub out work. this is the law.<p>I’ve never seen a contracting agreement that didn’t specifically prohibit subcontracting without the explicit written consent of the client. It’s not that it wouldn’t be federally legal, it’s that it would violate the specific contract with the client.</text></item><item><author>a-dub</author><text>&quot;The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done.&quot;<p>independent contractors are free to sub out work. this is the law. they also probably should not be on your slack unless you&#x27;re considering the whole thing a consulting arrangement.<p>i understand where you&#x27;re coming from, especially in trying to make use of upwork in some actually useful way for your business. but you should also be aware of the law.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;small-businesses-self-employed&#x2F;independent-contractor-defined" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;small-businesses-self-employe...</a></text></item><item><author>jackconsidine</author><text>I hired a contractor on Upwork once and he worked alongside us in our Slack workspace. He did great work for a few weeks and then I suspected him of outsourcing his persona to someone else. The smoking gun was that the presumed guy behind the scenes sent a PayPal invoice via his Slack account and immediately deleted it. I have regretted not having fast enough fingers since then and wish I had this.<p>I did end up catching him- the app he was working on enabled geolocation and he went from Chatanooga, Tennessee to Romania in an hour. I&#x27;m surprised he accepted geolocation! I also later confirmed IP addresses via Firebase deployments in the same region.<p>EDIT: since a lot of people are commenting saying that this is fine by IRS laws of subcontracting etc I should clarify:<p>1. This wasn&#x27;t a legal matter, but a business matter. I needed to federate access to sensitive infrastructure for this project, and this person failed to disclose (or denied) any additional involvement.<p>2. The work was not up to spec which is why there was a problem.<p>3. The reason for using a 1099 as opposed to a w2 in this case had nothing to do with trying to flout benefit obligations. I don&#x27;t think saying you need to know who&#x27;s touching your codebase and hiring someone on a contract basis is trying to have your cake and eat it too. This type of contract is much more expensive for us than a full-time employee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phphphphp</author><text>The important caveat that is that in many jurisdictions, there’s a significant difference in the tax treatment of contractors vs. employees, and so by producing such a contract (that forbids subcontracting) you are plausibly creating an employment arrangement and are on the hook for tax consequences.<p>Here in the UK, for example, if you wrote such a contract, it would be enforceable… but you would be considered (by the tax authority) to be trying to evade employment taxes, and hit with something starting in the range of a low 5-figure financial consequence (assuming the contract was a few months at current average rate for tech workers).<p>All of my contracts explicitly allow subcontracting in order to comply with tax law.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete</title><url>https://github.com/SharonBrizinov/slack-anti-delete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>There isn’t a jurisdiction on the planet that would reject a contract clause that the person hired to do a job cannot covertly outsource the work by providing their credentials to a third party. That’d likely be breaking multiple clauses of any sane contracting agreement.</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>You can put anything you want in a contract, the question is, is it enforceable?</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; independent contractors are free to sub out work. this is the law.<p>I’ve never seen a contracting agreement that didn’t specifically prohibit subcontracting without the explicit written consent of the client. It’s not that it wouldn’t be federally legal, it’s that it would violate the specific contract with the client.</text></item><item><author>a-dub</author><text>&quot;The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done.&quot;<p>independent contractors are free to sub out work. this is the law. they also probably should not be on your slack unless you&#x27;re considering the whole thing a consulting arrangement.<p>i understand where you&#x27;re coming from, especially in trying to make use of upwork in some actually useful way for your business. but you should also be aware of the law.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;small-businesses-self-employed&#x2F;independent-contractor-defined" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;small-businesses-self-employe...</a></text></item><item><author>jackconsidine</author><text>I hired a contractor on Upwork once and he worked alongside us in our Slack workspace. He did great work for a few weeks and then I suspected him of outsourcing his persona to someone else. The smoking gun was that the presumed guy behind the scenes sent a PayPal invoice via his Slack account and immediately deleted it. I have regretted not having fast enough fingers since then and wish I had this.<p>I did end up catching him- the app he was working on enabled geolocation and he went from Chatanooga, Tennessee to Romania in an hour. I&#x27;m surprised he accepted geolocation! I also later confirmed IP addresses via Firebase deployments in the same region.<p>EDIT: since a lot of people are commenting saying that this is fine by IRS laws of subcontracting etc I should clarify:<p>1. This wasn&#x27;t a legal matter, but a business matter. I needed to federate access to sensitive infrastructure for this project, and this person failed to disclose (or denied) any additional involvement.<p>2. The work was not up to spec which is why there was a problem.<p>3. The reason for using a 1099 as opposed to a w2 in this case had nothing to do with trying to flout benefit obligations. I don&#x27;t think saying you need to know who&#x27;s touching your codebase and hiring someone on a contract basis is trying to have your cake and eat it too. This type of contract is much more expensive for us than a full-time employee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a-dub</author><text>here&#x27;s upwork&#x27;s suggested contract:<p>3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYEES AND SUBCONTRACTORS, INCLUDING AGENCY MEMBERS
If a User subcontracts with or employs third parties to perform Freelancer Services on behalf of the User for any Engagement, the User represents and warrants that it does so as a legally recognized entity or person and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Further, at all times a User that agreed to perform services under a Services Contract remains responsible for the quality of the services and represents and warrants that User has entered into agreements with any such employees and subcontractors on confidentiality and intellectual property at least as strong as those in these Optional Service Terms.<p>it&#x27;s a business to business agreement. a contractor is free to sub.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upwork.com&#x2F;legal#optional-service-contract-terms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upwork.com&#x2F;legal#optional-service-contract-terms</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted</title><url>http://www.detop-project.eu/news/the-first-dexterous-and-sentient-hand-prosthesis-has-been-successfully-implanted/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit uneasy about the fact that they are punching through skin. This always bears a big risk of infections as the skin is the #1 protection from bacteria. Even prosthetics fully under the skin have this risk, and septic shock is a possibly lethal threat. And we humans love to put our hands to various sometimes more, sometimes less, dirty places.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted</title><url>http://www.detop-project.eu/news/the-first-dexterous-and-sentient-hand-prosthesis-has-been-successfully-implanted/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>The video ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6WQiJPexEDM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6WQiJPexEDM</a> ) provides a bit clearer explanation of what&#x27;s going on. They&#x27;re actually sending signals directly through the percutaneous bone anchors, which is pretty rad in my book. Looks like the hand just snaps on to the anchors and you&#x27;re ready to go, albeit with years of retraining the nerve endings for the new signals.</text></comment>
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<story><title>50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced</title><url>https://gigaom.com/2015/08/24/hypertext-50/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andars</author><text>Perhaps someday the original vision of hypertext will become commonplace, rather than the watered-down version that we have.<p>&gt; So, I still have a dream that the web could be less of a television channel, and more of a sea of interactive shared knowledge...<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;quotes&#x2F;?author=Tim%20Berners-Lee" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;quotes&#x2F;?author=Tim%20Berners-Lee</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced</title><url>https://gigaom.com/2015/08/24/hypertext-50/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>What an interesting character. You can see his vision for the web at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xanadu.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xanadu.com&#x2F;</a>, it is quite unique. Seems to focus almost entirely on concepts of ownership, attribution, quotation, and composition.<p>Given how much the modern web has developed, without significant infrastructure arising to support any of these, I wonder what that says about their utility in our current society, compared to those features which <i>have</i> arisen in the modern web (hyperlinking, anonymity, ephemerality, independence, content-addressability).</text></comment>
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<story><title>πfs – A data-free filesystem</title><url>https://github.com/philipl/pifs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamgordonbell</author><text>I had an idea for a file transfer system based on digits of pi. You&#x27;d give everybody DVDs of digits of pi (or they could calculate them themselves) , and then transfer files faster by just sending them the offset into pi.<p>At the time I thought it could work with a big enough bank of digits of PI on both sides. If transfer was expensive, and calculating digits was cheap then you could give everyone an infinite supply of digits of pi and have a nearly infinite compression system.<p>I discovered that often the offset into pi is much larger than the data you are sending. Turns out it&#x27;s an expensive way to sent things.<p>Also, it turns out that this area was already well understood. There are no free lunches with entropy.<p>But it was a fun idea to kick around.</text></comment>
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<story><title>πfs – A data-free filesystem</title><url>https://github.com/philipl/pifs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevincox</author><text>I love the idea of this, it has certainly boggled my mind a handful of times when thinking of content-addressed storage. Obviously it can&#x27;t work, there is no loophole to infinite space or compression. Entropy is a very real thing. But it did lead me down an interesting train of thought.<p>&gt; maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π.<p>Ok, so we store a byte and look it up in π. Now we get an offset. The exact offset will depend on the byte of course. But to simplify let&#x27;s assume that π is &quot;optimal&quot;. We will assume that the fist 256 offsets contain the first 256 bytes.<p>So our offset will be in the range 0-255. Storing our offset will then take 1 byte of storage.<p>Oh, I have found the problem.<p>So yes, you can find any data in π. But storing the location of that data will on average take the same amount of space as the data itself.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/4gb-wasm-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xscott</author><text>I wish new platforms would embrace 64 bit as the default. C and C++ for all common platforms use 32 bit literals and prefer 32 bit operations (char * short =&gt; int). Rust made a similar mistake. Java arrays use 32 bit subscripts, etc... I don&#x27;t have a single computer (including my phone) using 32 bit pointers, but integers are stuck in the late 80s. (We already had 64 bit DEC alphas in the early 90s)<p>For a web page, 4 gig seems like a courtesy limitation to users, but that should be enforced by the browser refusing to suck up the entire computer rather than the language being unable to. I routinely write (non-web) applications which use arrays larger than 4 gigasamples.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpm</author><text>I, on the other hand, wish everyone would embrace 32 bit by default. Doubling the size of every index, integer, etc comes at significant memory cost for next to no benefit. Increasing the amount of memory used directly impacts performance considering how slow memory is and how important it is to keep commonly used items in cache.<p>If you&#x27;re seriously using more than 4gb in a web page... I wouldn&#x27;t mind a non-default wasm64 format. You should also be considering shipping a native app at that point, wasm is not free in terms of performance.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/4gb-wasm-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xscott</author><text>I wish new platforms would embrace 64 bit as the default. C and C++ for all common platforms use 32 bit literals and prefer 32 bit operations (char * short =&gt; int). Rust made a similar mistake. Java arrays use 32 bit subscripts, etc... I don&#x27;t have a single computer (including my phone) using 32 bit pointers, but integers are stuck in the late 80s. (We already had 64 bit DEC alphas in the early 90s)<p>For a web page, 4 gig seems like a courtesy limitation to users, but that should be enforced by the browser refusing to suck up the entire computer rather than the language being unable to. I routinely write (non-web) applications which use arrays larger than 4 gigasamples.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>Using 32-bit pointers can save a lot of memory in pointer-heavy data. Saving memory matters on mobile devices.</text></comment>
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<story><title>CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter (2015)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzV58Zm8FuBL6OAv1Yu6AwXZrnsFbbR0S</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c4obi</author><text>I put together a ebook on the internals of the python interpreter. Get it for free at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;insidethepythonvirtualmachine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;insidethepythonvirtualmachine</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter (2015)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzV58Zm8FuBL6OAv1Yu6AwXZrnsFbbR0S</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makmanalp</author><text>This is awesome - I wish every large software project had something like this that was a prep-course to be able to start contributing meaningfully!</text></comment>
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<story><title>How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)</title><url>https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/how-many-x86-instructions-are-there/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gbrown_</author><text>How about undocumented instructions? Sandsifter[1] is an interesting project and the video from BlackHat[2] is a good watch. There&#x27;s also a previous discussion of it on HN[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Battelle&#x2F;sandsifter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Battelle&#x2F;sandsifter</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18179212" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18179212</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)</title><url>https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/how-many-x86-instructions-are-there/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnklos</author><text>More than 1,500! Holy cow!<p>While having instructions for everything that are slow in early models but can be significantly improved in silicon over time is one way to look at CISC, I genuinely wonder how much silicon is spent on instructions that are so rarely used they&#x27;d be better in software.<p>Or to ask another way: how many instructions are in billions of x86 cores that rarely if ever get used? Hmmm...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Layer – Get a dozen staging servers per developer</title><url>https://layerci.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinchartier</author><text>Hey HN,<p>We&#x27;re Lyn &amp; Colin and we built Layer - It creates a unique staging server for every commit.<p>Before Layer, I was CTO of a startup with a 10-person developer team, and dealing with staging servers (and end-to-end tests) was one of the most annoying parts of our workflow.<p>Layer lets you define staging servers the same way you define Docker containers, and get a unique one for every commit going back a week. We run them in the cloud, so there&#x27;s no need to pay for AWS servers you&#x27;re not using.<p>Also, if you&#x27;re running a webserver, you get a unique URL for each unique server automatically so that you can post it to a slack channel and get feedback immediately.<p>When we&#x27;re setting up the staging server, we use the same sort of cache as Docker so that you can skip repetitive tasks like setting up a database or running database migrations if they haven&#x27;t changed.<p>Would love to get your feedback, it only takes five minutes to do the onboarding tutorial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defen</author><text>How would this handle external state? I realize in general that&#x27;s an impossible task, but specifically I&#x27;m thinking of something like a database. Is there a way for each &quot;server&quot; to get a private copy of the database? Otherwise it seems like if I create a non-backwards-compatible migration (let&#x27;s say I drop a table that&#x27;s no longer necessary) I could break servers that were spawned for other commits.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Layer – Get a dozen staging servers per developer</title><url>https://layerci.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinchartier</author><text>Hey HN,<p>We&#x27;re Lyn &amp; Colin and we built Layer - It creates a unique staging server for every commit.<p>Before Layer, I was CTO of a startup with a 10-person developer team, and dealing with staging servers (and end-to-end tests) was one of the most annoying parts of our workflow.<p>Layer lets you define staging servers the same way you define Docker containers, and get a unique one for every commit going back a week. We run them in the cloud, so there&#x27;s no need to pay for AWS servers you&#x27;re not using.<p>Also, if you&#x27;re running a webserver, you get a unique URL for each unique server automatically so that you can post it to a slack channel and get feedback immediately.<p>When we&#x27;re setting up the staging server, we use the same sort of cache as Docker so that you can skip repetitive tasks like setting up a database or running database migrations if they haven&#x27;t changed.<p>Would love to get your feedback, it only takes five minutes to do the onboarding tutorial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lyn_layerci</author><text>Hey HN!<p>I&#x27;m Lyn, co-founder of Layer. Here&#x27;s a quick 5 min demo video in case you don&#x27;t want to do the sign up tutorial (even though it takes 5 mins toooo): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PH-n70gPQgA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PH-n70gPQgA</a><p>Happy to answer any questions here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%</title><url>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-12-04/an-update-on-december-2023-organizational-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Reminds me of: &quot;Nobody ever got fired for buying cloud&quot;.<p>Spotify was a stand-out, almost no large tech company bought into cloud like they did, and everyone said the same thing: &quot;It&#x27;s not our core competence, it would require more people&quot;.<p>I get it, it&#x27;s not <i>sexy at all</i> to deal in infrastructure, but I&#x27;ve seen their cloud bill and it&#x27;s significantly higher than 1,600 peoples jobs, even with the discounts they got through committed use and even when considering the actual costs for infrastructure they need.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are inefficiencies everywhere, but this was the one that I talked about before and was talked down in a rather condescending tone. &quot;Nobody got fired for buying cloud&quot; is evidently a misnomer, because if you spend a lot of money and you don&#x27;t have a lot of income: something has to give. And cloud has a lot more lock-in than most employees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcinzm</author><text>It&#x27;s actually non-trivial to run an efficient cost center department that actually supports other departments properly. The incentive structures are just horribly difficult to align. Cloud&#x27;s selling point is that you won&#x27;t have to spend 6 months filling out forms to get a single out of date VM (yes, that happened to me).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%</title><url>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-12-04/an-update-on-december-2023-organizational-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Reminds me of: &quot;Nobody ever got fired for buying cloud&quot;.<p>Spotify was a stand-out, almost no large tech company bought into cloud like they did, and everyone said the same thing: &quot;It&#x27;s not our core competence, it would require more people&quot;.<p>I get it, it&#x27;s not <i>sexy at all</i> to deal in infrastructure, but I&#x27;ve seen their cloud bill and it&#x27;s significantly higher than 1,600 peoples jobs, even with the discounts they got through committed use and even when considering the actual costs for infrastructure they need.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are inefficiencies everywhere, but this was the one that I talked about before and was talked down in a rather condescending tone. &quot;Nobody got fired for buying cloud&quot; is evidently a misnomer, because if you spend a lot of money and you don&#x27;t have a lot of income: something has to give. And cloud has a lot more lock-in than most employees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blcknight</author><text>Finding people who can run infra at Spotify scale isn’t easy. Even if they could find those people, it tough to leave aws (by design).<p>They could’ve been more careful about avoiding lock-in by building more on something like kube but most startups don’t have that foresight, and the expense of moving to on-prem is compounded even more when they have so much wrapped up in the aws ecosystem.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/04/onedrive_to_acquire_copilot_skills/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattferderer</author><text>This is going to be very bad for anyone with multiple Microsoft accounts on one computer. I don&#x27;t see how Microsoft keeps OneDrive data separate.<p>Microsoft has not done a good job at keeping stuff separate. If you login to Outlook, Teams or any Office application with more than one account it becomes a giant mess. All of a sudden other programs like Edge will have one of your company policies like default home page applied.<p>Also authenticating with Microsoft accounts using Azure AD anywhere is a giant headache as Azure AD may have one login with multiple directories. So you&#x27;re constantly having to re-authenticate &amp; login with the proper AD account &amp; proper &quot;Directory selected&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m sure some older gray beards will respond with &quot;Never login to your personal devices with a work login&quot;. That&#x27;s great advice for plenty of situations but there are plenty where it doesn&#x27;t work. Have a personal account &amp; want to help your local church &amp; non-profits out? Offer consulting services to multiple small businesses? While the Matrix setup looks awesome, it&#x27;s not fun to login to 10 different devices or 10 different VMs.<p>I don&#x27;t see how Microsoft is going to properly do security to protect your data from going elsewhere even if you only have one account, let alone multiple.<p>I like CoPilot, I love ChatGPT &amp; overall I like most of Microsoft&#x27;s products. But they&#x27;re going faster then they can handle &amp; they&#x27;re very well known for not having great communication &amp; cooperation between their large divisions.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/04/onedrive_to_acquire_copilot_skills/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whalesalad</author><text>I absolutely do not trust Microsoft with file storage. For whatever reason their entire internal platform is behoven to Sharepoint and that is a no-go for me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gadders</author><text>And also hopefully reduce the need for abortion. Women would be able to &quot;donate&quot; the foetus to be raised in one of these bags and then adopted.<p>(Eventually, I realise this technology is not there yet).</text></item><item><author>gliese1337</author><text>The original source, with the actual science: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ncomms15112" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ncomms15112</a><p>It&#x27;s not quite a total replacement for a natural womb (and the Nature article only uses the word &quot;womb <i>once</i>, in the abstract), as it can&#x27;t grow a fetus from an embryo; you have to start with a pre-incubated fetus that already has an umbilical ford to plug into and a strong enough heart. But even though we won&#x27;t be growing test-tube babies 100% in-vitro with this thing, it is a major advance that could significantly push back the earliest time at which a premature baby could remain viable with artificial incubation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>upvotinglurker</author><text>The science fiction author Lois McMaster Bujold has this technology in her &quot;Vorkosigan universe&quot; books, depicted as sufficiently advanced that it is safer for the fetus than natural pregnancy. She presents such technology, should it exist, as a moral imperative for the health and safety of both the mother and the child in wanted pregnancies, as well as an alternative to abortion.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gadders</author><text>And also hopefully reduce the need for abortion. Women would be able to &quot;donate&quot; the foetus to be raised in one of these bags and then adopted.<p>(Eventually, I realise this technology is not there yet).</text></item><item><author>gliese1337</author><text>The original source, with the actual science: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ncomms15112" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ncomms15112</a><p>It&#x27;s not quite a total replacement for a natural womb (and the Nature article only uses the word &quot;womb <i>once</i>, in the abstract), as it can&#x27;t grow a fetus from an embryo; you have to start with a pre-incubated fetus that already has an umbilical ford to plug into and a strong enough heart. But even though we won&#x27;t be growing test-tube babies 100% in-vitro with this thing, it is a major advance that could significantly push back the earliest time at which a premature baby could remain viable with artificial incubation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fdsfsafasfdas</author><text>...because adoption is such a riotous success these days?</text></comment>
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<story><title>USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2021/5/25/22453936/usb-c-power-delivery-extended-power-range-epr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madsbuch</author><text>Or! We could go one step further, and change the connector to make sure that people use them correctly. Wouldn&#x27;t that be clever!?</text></item><item><author>grlass</author><text>I wonder if the the committee have looked at integrating colour or some other indicator into the standard so that cable&#x2F;port capabilities are clear visually.<p>Though ofc the design challenge is for users to feel comfortable that putting red into blue won&#x27;t break anything, it just might not give the expected features.</text></item><item><author>neither_color</author><text>And every time I buy a new device and <i>think</i> I&#x27;ll be able to use my existing USB-C cables I&#x27;m met with a new standard. Bought a new external GPU enclosure? My macbook charging cable wont work I need a 40gbps thunderbolt THREE(not 2) cable. Bought a new Oculus Quest? Neither my egpu or macbook cables work I need an $80 LINK cable.</text></item><item><author>grawprog</author><text>I haven&#x27;t had to delve into the world of trying to find an appropriate USB-C cable until fairly recently. I didn&#x27;t actually understand the situation thinking a replacement USB-C cable should just work.<p>Oh hell no and none of the packaging actually explains what features a cable supports, none of them actually explain what the cable is actually compatible with. The little android logo doesn&#x27;t mean shit. Sure, you might be able to slowly charge your phone with a particular cable, but it doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;ll do anything else it&#x27;s supposed to do.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>I look forward to USB 4.1a Type C.2 Phase iii.b Gen 3E and the 482646282 different cable capability combinations that all plug in and have no distinction of those capabilities whatsoever. I also look forward to all the necessary and helpful posts telling me how the identical ports on my laptop are in fact diffferent despite their identical appearance.<p>But at least everything uses the same plug, so that’s nice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>I don&#x27;t actually want this. I would rather have the problems that come with incompatible cables than the problems which come with incompatible ports.<p>In particular, if my Thunderbolt ports didn&#x27;t support bog-standard USB, that would suck. I would need special ports which weren&#x27;t as powerful, or even more dongles, or both.<p>As it stands, things are.. fine, actually. I have one TB cable that works on everything, and a small handful of USB-C cables which work on most things. and a USB-C-or-Thunderbolt-and-I-don&#x27;t-know-or-care to DisplayPort which stays plugged into my monitor. and a USB-C-or-Thunderbolt-etc to microHDMI for my camera.</text></comment>
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<story><title>USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2021/5/25/22453936/usb-c-power-delivery-extended-power-range-epr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madsbuch</author><text>Or! We could go one step further, and change the connector to make sure that people use them correctly. Wouldn&#x27;t that be clever!?</text></item><item><author>grlass</author><text>I wonder if the the committee have looked at integrating colour or some other indicator into the standard so that cable&#x2F;port capabilities are clear visually.<p>Though ofc the design challenge is for users to feel comfortable that putting red into blue won&#x27;t break anything, it just might not give the expected features.</text></item><item><author>neither_color</author><text>And every time I buy a new device and <i>think</i> I&#x27;ll be able to use my existing USB-C cables I&#x27;m met with a new standard. Bought a new external GPU enclosure? My macbook charging cable wont work I need a 40gbps thunderbolt THREE(not 2) cable. Bought a new Oculus Quest? Neither my egpu or macbook cables work I need an $80 LINK cable.</text></item><item><author>grawprog</author><text>I haven&#x27;t had to delve into the world of trying to find an appropriate USB-C cable until fairly recently. I didn&#x27;t actually understand the situation thinking a replacement USB-C cable should just work.<p>Oh hell no and none of the packaging actually explains what features a cable supports, none of them actually explain what the cable is actually compatible with. The little android logo doesn&#x27;t mean shit. Sure, you might be able to slowly charge your phone with a particular cable, but it doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;ll do anything else it&#x27;s supposed to do.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>I look forward to USB 4.1a Type C.2 Phase iii.b Gen 3E and the 482646282 different cable capability combinations that all plug in and have no distinction of those capabilities whatsoever. I also look forward to all the necessary and helpful posts telling me how the identical ports on my laptop are in fact diffferent despite their identical appearance.<p>But at least everything uses the same plug, so that’s nice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Klinky</author><text>People already incorrectly buy USB A when they should have bought USB C or visa versa. Changing the physical form-factor doesn&#x27;t solve this problem.<p>&quot;I thought I needed a USB cable&quot;?<p>Also it&#x27;s a huge waste if say an HDMI 2.1 cable cannot be used on an HDMI 2.0&#x2F;1.4 device. People would complain about that too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>To Make Police Accountable, End Qualified Immunity</title><url>https://thebulwark.com/to-make-police-accountable-end-qualified-immunity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awillen</author><text>Crimes should be charged more seriously, not less, when they&#x27;re committed by police. This is only reasonable - any crime committed by an on-duty officer is inherently more harmful that the same crime committed by a civilian, because in addition to the damage of the actual crime, the officer&#x27;s commission of it also does harm to the public trust in the police and our society.<p>Beyond that, the police should be held to a higher standard because we as a society acknowledge that they are trained well enough to walk around with guns and the ability to deprive people of their freedom (even those who are innocent - if you&#x27;re locked in a cell and later not charged, you don&#x27;t get that time you spent in a cell back). We should be able to charge Chauvin with first degree murder despite a lack of premeditation, because he was trained to know not to do precisely what he did. If I kneel on a guy&#x27;s neck and kill him unintentionally it&#x27;s manslaughter, but if a cop does it, it should be worse because that cop should be expected to know that doing so is not an acceptable form of restraint.</text></comment>
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<story><title>To Make Police Accountable, End Qualified Immunity</title><url>https://thebulwark.com/to-make-police-accountable-end-qualified-immunity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fosk</author><text>I am european, and police in the US really is something else: the mindset, the culture, the engagements. There needs to be a nation-wide police reformation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-cables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>I would just never buy their cables or chargers, as virtually every cable I have from them is wrapped up in electrical tape.</i><p>I ask this a lot of times that I see someone complain about the quality of Apple cables: what the hell are you doing to your cables? I&#x27;ve still got 30 pin cables with cracked plastic on the 30 pin end, but they still work. After over 10 years of buying Apple devices that have cables, I count one cable that has gone bad.<p>More of a rhetorical question I guess, as we&#x27;re just trading anecdotes. But I find it interesting that some complain about the quality of Apple cables, whereas I have piles of them that just refuse to die.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>As a loyal Apple user, I humbly suggest that maybe this would be a lot less of a problem if Apple itself sold better cables for a more reasonable price? I have no problem going into an Apple store to buy overpriced things. I would just never buy their cables or chargers, as virtually every cable I have from them is wrapped up in electrical tape. The funny part of this story to me is why people would buy even cheap cables that are branded Apple when you can get quality, very high-reviewed cables from vendors like Anker.<p>edit: In retrospect, I don&#x27;t have any complaints about the chsrgers. I&#x27;ve never bought a store charger because the ones that come with devices work just fine. It&#x27;s the cables that I have issue with. Even with things like the HDMI-lightning adapter ($50), they go to pieces without being under heavy use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oldmanjay</author><text>I see a lot of people unplug their MBPs at the end of the day, and wrap the cable so tightly around the power brick it&#x27;s like they&#x27;re trying to protect its chastity</text></comment>
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<story><title>More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-cables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>I would just never buy their cables or chargers, as virtually every cable I have from them is wrapped up in electrical tape.</i><p>I ask this a lot of times that I see someone complain about the quality of Apple cables: what the hell are you doing to your cables? I&#x27;ve still got 30 pin cables with cracked plastic on the 30 pin end, but they still work. After over 10 years of buying Apple devices that have cables, I count one cable that has gone bad.<p>More of a rhetorical question I guess, as we&#x27;re just trading anecdotes. But I find it interesting that some complain about the quality of Apple cables, whereas I have piles of them that just refuse to die.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>As a loyal Apple user, I humbly suggest that maybe this would be a lot less of a problem if Apple itself sold better cables for a more reasonable price? I have no problem going into an Apple store to buy overpriced things. I would just never buy their cables or chargers, as virtually every cable I have from them is wrapped up in electrical tape. The funny part of this story to me is why people would buy even cheap cables that are branded Apple when you can get quality, very high-reviewed cables from vendors like Anker.<p>edit: In retrospect, I don&#x27;t have any complaints about the chsrgers. I&#x27;ve never bought a store charger because the ones that come with devices work just fine. It&#x27;s the cables that I have issue with. Even with things like the HDMI-lightning adapter ($50), they go to pieces without being under heavy use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashark</author><text>Same question. I abuse the hell out of the half-dozen Apple cables in my house (2x macbook, a few ipad&#x2F;phone)—roughly bunch them up and toss them in a bag or drawer all the time, yank them out of walls with little care, <i>et c</i>. My usual position for my Macbook at home puts the cable at an awkward, crimped angle and I really ought to stop that.<p>Plus I&#x27;ve had my kids tripping over them, folding them, <i>playing tug of war with them</i>. At least once a week something happens to one of my cables that probably <i>ought</i> to break it. Not one has broken.<p>WTF are people doing with their cables that&#x27;s worse than what I do?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-18/tesla-faces-u-s-criminal-probe-over-musk-statements</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lgeorget</author><text>I guess I&#x27;m a bit off-topic but sometimes I really fail to understand the USA culture. You can make the most outrageous and racist comments because of &quot;freedom of expression&quot; but making speculators lose their shit with a couple of tweets is a &quot;textbook crime&quot; for which you should &quot;go to jail&quot;.</text></item><item><author>atonse</author><text>As sad as this makes me (because I want Tesla to be wildly successful), I have to agree. This is textbook and brazen stock manipulation, a flat out crime.</text></item><item><author>harryh</author><text>There are a lot of things to respect about Musk.<p>But he lied on twitter in a direct effort to cause financial harm to people shorting Tesla stock. You can&#x27;t do that. He should go to jail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>Although that is definitely an oversimplification (there are plenty of limitations to freedom of expression), why is your description particularly odd or difficult to understand? If an executive at a public company makes misleading public statements with the intention to cause certain transactions (which may or may not be the case here), that&#x27;s a pretty clear financial crime with clear victims. I don&#x27;t see why jail time would be out of the question.<p>If you just make &quot;outrageous&quot; comments on twitter, why is it weird that &quot;USA culture&quot; wouldn&#x27;t generally prescribe jail time? I&#x27;m from the USA, granted, but that sure seems like a reasonable protection of freedom of expression.<p>Racist comments are of course a trickier example, but I think it&#x27;s perfectly reasonable for there to be a legal distinction between (protected) tasteless&#x2F;offensive&#x2F;insensitive statements about race&#x2F;ethnicity and (not protected) statements that defame or incite violence.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-18/tesla-faces-u-s-criminal-probe-over-musk-statements</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lgeorget</author><text>I guess I&#x27;m a bit off-topic but sometimes I really fail to understand the USA culture. You can make the most outrageous and racist comments because of &quot;freedom of expression&quot; but making speculators lose their shit with a couple of tweets is a &quot;textbook crime&quot; for which you should &quot;go to jail&quot;.</text></item><item><author>atonse</author><text>As sad as this makes me (because I want Tesla to be wildly successful), I have to agree. This is textbook and brazen stock manipulation, a flat out crime.</text></item><item><author>harryh</author><text>There are a lot of things to respect about Musk.<p>But he lied on twitter in a direct effort to cause financial harm to people shorting Tesla stock. You can&#x27;t do that. He should go to jail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>The first amendment guarantees freedom of speech, but it has always had limits applied. Fraud is not considered a valid exercise of free speech.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rust 1.72.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/24/Rust-1.72.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>queuebert</author><text>The question is why do newer versions of Windows break compatibility so badly?</text></item><item><author>veber-alex</author><text>The tier 3 Windows XP target is no_std only, which makes it useless for the vast majority of developers.<p>For all intents and purposes Rust is dropping support for anything below Windows 10.<p>It is suggested in the MCP that a new target can be created for older versions of Windows if members of the community will step up to support it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;compiler-team&#x2F;issues&#x2F;651">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;compiler-team&#x2F;issues&#x2F;651</a></text></item><item><author>pie_flavor</author><text>Rust platform support is tiered[0]. Tier 1 targets are automatically tested, tier 2 targets are automatically built, and tier 3 targets are best-effort. Windows 7 is tier 1 and Windows XP is tier 3; what they&#x27;re going to do is change the tier 1 Windows build to 10, but the Windows XP support isn&#x27;t going anywhere.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nightly&#x2F;rustc&#x2F;platform-support.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nightly&#x2F;rustc&#x2F;platform-support.htm...</a></text></item><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why compilers drop old Windows compatibility. It makes no sense to me. They emit executable code which looks the same on Windows XP or on Windows 11.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacoblambda</author><text>It&#x27;s not that new versions break compatibility. It&#x27;s that old versions are missing features that new versions have.<p>Windows is actually astonishingly backwards compatible but the older you want to support in Windows, the more jank your code has to be.<p>Like for example, in the zulip chat (linked in the issue for this change) they mention that the next versions they may drop are those Windows 10 releases prior to May 2019 as that release finally made UTF-8 the standard text encoding and being able to generally assume UTF-8 simplifies a lot of things for developers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rust 1.72.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/24/Rust-1.72.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>queuebert</author><text>The question is why do newer versions of Windows break compatibility so badly?</text></item><item><author>veber-alex</author><text>The tier 3 Windows XP target is no_std only, which makes it useless for the vast majority of developers.<p>For all intents and purposes Rust is dropping support for anything below Windows 10.<p>It is suggested in the MCP that a new target can be created for older versions of Windows if members of the community will step up to support it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;compiler-team&#x2F;issues&#x2F;651">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;compiler-team&#x2F;issues&#x2F;651</a></text></item><item><author>pie_flavor</author><text>Rust platform support is tiered[0]. Tier 1 targets are automatically tested, tier 2 targets are automatically built, and tier 3 targets are best-effort. Windows 7 is tier 1 and Windows XP is tier 3; what they&#x27;re going to do is change the tier 1 Windows build to 10, but the Windows XP support isn&#x27;t going anywhere.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nightly&#x2F;rustc&#x2F;platform-support.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nightly&#x2F;rustc&#x2F;platform-support.htm...</a></text></item><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why compilers drop old Windows compatibility. It makes no sense to me. They emit executable code which looks the same on Windows XP or on Windows 11.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeremy_wiebe</author><text>It seems like the Rust team isn&#x27;t saying that compatibility is broken, just that there is no testing or effort to ensure compatibility. In the end it&#x27;s similar, but like any project, it comes down to allocation of time and resources. For something like Windows XP, I&#x27;d guess the pool of folks interested in targeting it is extremely small.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Thinking About Thinking (1999)</title><url>https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art4.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wingspar</author><text>A pdf version
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<story><title>Thinking About Thinking (1999)</title><url>https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art4.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>&gt; &quot;The reaction of the Intelligence Community to many problems is to collect more information, even though analysts in many cases already have more information than they can digest. What analysts need is more truly useful information--mostly reliable HUMINT from knowledgeable insiders--to help them make good decisions. Or they need a more accurate mental model and better analytical tools to help them sort through, make sense of, and get the most out of the available ambiguous and conflicting information.&quot;<p>I would think the key is the latter. That is, even if you get more data it does not become __useful__ information unless you&#x27;re willing and able to process it.<p>That aside, it&#x27;s difficult, if not impossible for us &quot;on the outside&quot; to judge the value of these concept to the IC as we only get to know what the IC wants us to know. They&#x27;re playing the long game. They&#x27;re playing chess. Maybe it&#x27;s just me but when I hear a news story (or a friend &#x2F; colleague) that says &quot;The NSA said...&quot; or the &quot;CIA said...&quot; I accept those as close to meaningless. The IC is, afterall, in the misinformation business.<p>p.s. I believe the proper term for tbinking about thinking is meta-cognition. I find it odd that the CIA would avoid using the proper term.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party</title><url>https://aftermath.site/lan-party-merritt-k-book-read-only-memory-rom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sshine</author><text>I remember showing up at my first LAN party, ~20 years younger than my online friends. They just couldn’t believe I was actually 13. They were really nice. One woman had a son my age that I went to a music festival with when I was 20. Another got me my first job as a programmer.<p>Somehow I just don’t see that kind of stuff happening nowadays; sending your kid off to some unknown destination with his PC to sleep in a gym hall with some strangers from “The Internet”. Either the world was smaller and simpler back then, or my parents were crazy, or both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobs</author><text>Haha I had this exact experience, we showed up for a Halo lan party (the original) and we were 15 and 16 thinking that we&#x27;d be driving out to the burbs to play some games with some people our age, we met on a local LAN forum board.<p>We rang the doorbell and an &quot;older&quot; man answered the door, and we were confused and said &quot;uh we&#x27;re here to see ____&quot; and he was like &quot;That&#x27;s me.&quot;<p>For context all of our lan parties up to this point were us schlepping tube tvs around to various basements of our friends houses, occasionally getting to mooch some pizza off of someone.<p>Instead, we walk into the huge suburban house and there&#x27;s four rooms with gigantic flat screen televisions setup for 16 player madness and the entire place is filled with adult couples, the men came to game and the women to socialize and cook and have fun.<p>They had an entire table of snacks and drinks and everything you could ever want as a wee gamer.<p>We were so blown away but they were super nice and didn&#x27;t make us feel too awkward. When the game started they asked us how good we were, &quot;uhh, we beat legendary&quot; - they laughed and put us on the same team for the first round.<p>The second round we were not allowed to play on the same team, turns out the kids can game :)<p>We made long term friends and ended up scrimming and hanging out with people 20 and 30 years our senior, a total blast and yeah, I don&#x27;t see me hanging out with 16 years today.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party</title><url>https://aftermath.site/lan-party-merritt-k-book-read-only-memory-rom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sshine</author><text>I remember showing up at my first LAN party, ~20 years younger than my online friends. They just couldn’t believe I was actually 13. They were really nice. One woman had a son my age that I went to a music festival with when I was 20. Another got me my first job as a programmer.<p>Somehow I just don’t see that kind of stuff happening nowadays; sending your kid off to some unknown destination with his PC to sleep in a gym hall with some strangers from “The Internet”. Either the world was smaller and simpler back then, or my parents were crazy, or both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; Somehow I just don’t see that kind of stuff happening nowadays; sending your kid off to some unknown destination with his PC to sleep in a gym hall with some strangers from “The Internet”. Either the world was smaller and simpler back then, or my parents were crazy, or both.<p>Parents were sane back then, it&#x27;s today that they&#x27;ve gone crazy. They watch too much news and keep their kids caged up, and end up doing far more harm than what they&#x27;re trying to prevent.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Internal emails cause more trouble for Facebook and its C.E.O.</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/facebooks-very-bad-month-just-got-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martinald</author><text>Agreed - though at least in my contacts in the UK, everyone uses WhatsApp (and whatsapp groups) instead of FB. People used to make a FB event for a party now make a WhatsApp group which everyone gets invited into.<p>I think what Facebook is very very good at is tracking the market and identifying potential competitors and buying them up.<p>My previous thoughts (and still are) was that FB would become a media holding company, similar to Comcast or Fox&#x2F;News Corp.<p>The problems I now see for them is they are really starting to piss off regulators, who will probably not look kindly to future acquisitions, especially larger ones.<p>They also have a problem that WhatsApp is IMO cannibalising their core &#x27;social media&#x27; offerings and I can&#x27;t see how they can commercialise that product without eroding the privacy and&#x2F;or simplicity aspects which make it so popular.<p>In hindsight I think Apple locking iMessage to iPhone was a mistake. If they&#x27;d released an Android version Apple would have surpassed WhatsApp in non-US markets where iPhone penetration is lower, and would have dominated the messaging space like it does in the US, as they&#x27;d be preinstalled on every iPhone to seed the market.</text></item><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>I wonder when Facebook is going to get disrupted. It seems to me their key feature is having everyone connected, and while anecdotal, my friends list sure hasn’t been affected by these scandals.<p>What has been affected is the perception. It’s no longer considered cool to have a Facebook account. Meet-ups and interest groups are still heavily used in my social circles, but it’s almost always with an apology for being on Facebook.<p>Instagram has suffered less, but instagram isn’t really useful for anything but wasting time.<p>Facebook on the other hand serves as a modern day yellowpages and meetup combined, but with its popularity dropping and people slowly adopting privacy concerns, it seems like the right company with the right business model could displace Facebook.<p>Of course you could say something similar about google and how it’s search engine is so terrible at finding anything interesting.<p>Maybe it’s my little anecdotal world playing tricks on my perception, but to me, the whole web seems ripe for another revolution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samat</author><text>iMessage (and more importantly, FaceTime) is the single most important reason why I buy apple devices for my whole extended family, so that we can communicate without ads, with privacy and with proper security in place.<p>So that&#x27;s pretty decent market strategy on Apple&#x27;s end, i&#x27;d say.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Internal emails cause more trouble for Facebook and its C.E.O.</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/facebooks-very-bad-month-just-got-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martinald</author><text>Agreed - though at least in my contacts in the UK, everyone uses WhatsApp (and whatsapp groups) instead of FB. People used to make a FB event for a party now make a WhatsApp group which everyone gets invited into.<p>I think what Facebook is very very good at is tracking the market and identifying potential competitors and buying them up.<p>My previous thoughts (and still are) was that FB would become a media holding company, similar to Comcast or Fox&#x2F;News Corp.<p>The problems I now see for them is they are really starting to piss off regulators, who will probably not look kindly to future acquisitions, especially larger ones.<p>They also have a problem that WhatsApp is IMO cannibalising their core &#x27;social media&#x27; offerings and I can&#x27;t see how they can commercialise that product without eroding the privacy and&#x2F;or simplicity aspects which make it so popular.<p>In hindsight I think Apple locking iMessage to iPhone was a mistake. If they&#x27;d released an Android version Apple would have surpassed WhatsApp in non-US markets where iPhone penetration is lower, and would have dominated the messaging space like it does in the US, as they&#x27;d be preinstalled on every iPhone to seed the market.</text></item><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>I wonder when Facebook is going to get disrupted. It seems to me their key feature is having everyone connected, and while anecdotal, my friends list sure hasn’t been affected by these scandals.<p>What has been affected is the perception. It’s no longer considered cool to have a Facebook account. Meet-ups and interest groups are still heavily used in my social circles, but it’s almost always with an apology for being on Facebook.<p>Instagram has suffered less, but instagram isn’t really useful for anything but wasting time.<p>Facebook on the other hand serves as a modern day yellowpages and meetup combined, but with its popularity dropping and people slowly adopting privacy concerns, it seems like the right company with the right business model could displace Facebook.<p>Of course you could say something similar about google and how it’s search engine is so terrible at finding anything interesting.<p>Maybe it’s my little anecdotal world playing tricks on my perception, but to me, the whole web seems ripe for another revolution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text><i>think what Facebook is very very good at is tracking the market and identifying potential competitors</i><p>Well, they did that with Onavo didn’t they? Snooping VPN traffic to see who else their users were using. It remains to be seen if they can be as astute without that backdoor.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Julius Caesar's Greatest Military Victory [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1Ej9Yqt68</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>This victory is among the top military engagements in all of history...it&#x27;s beautiful even.<p>But, I&#x27;d argue that Caesar&#x27;s crossing of the Rhine was his most impressive victory. He built a bridge over an impassible river, marched his army across, walked around a bit, crossed back over and dismantled the bridge.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RNPnBVHSeZc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RNPnBVHSeZc</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>I'm not a "curator"</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/03/12/not-a-curator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmccue</author><text>I think "via" is the original source, and "hat tip" is how you found it (i.e. another site that linked to it).<p>(Or the other way around. I agree with Marco on that one, I think it's confusing.)</text></item><item><author>zalew</author><text>&#62; I didn’t even know the difference between “via” and “hat tip” until today.<p>I still don't know. What is this hat tip?<p>Frankly I never understood the concept of 'stealing' links. Once ago a friend on fb got very offended that I posted a link which was on his fanpage without 'via', like everybody is obligated to advertise random sources for stuff that already have thousands of views/shares. Maybe back in the day linking was worth something and I remember all those linkblogs like halfproject, surfstation, k10k, etc., but today with all those tumblrs and other tools to aggregate, suggest, reshare, cross-post, I don't see any particular value in clicking 'share/repost/+1' that needs to be credited. I'm with Marco on this <i>But regardless of how much time it takes to find interesting links every day, I don’t think most intermediaries deserve credit for simply sharing a link to someone else’s work.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Steko</author><text>Curators Code wants it to mean this but that's not what it means in my experience.<p>In practice there is 90% overlap between these terms and both denote the tertiary source you became aware of the link through.<p>The difference when it exists is that "HT" is less likely to add anything you don't see in the source whereas "via" will sometimes be worth clicking through to see that person's insight.<p>Hat Tip:<p>A -&#62; B -&#62; Me<p>B added nothing, you should visit A for the source. Goodwill link to B, you should check out his site.<p>Via:<p>A -&#62; B -&#62; Me<p>B may have added something. You should visit A for the source and if you have time B might be worth it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I'm not a "curator"</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/03/12/not-a-curator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmccue</author><text>I think "via" is the original source, and "hat tip" is how you found it (i.e. another site that linked to it).<p>(Or the other way around. I agree with Marco on that one, I think it's confusing.)</text></item><item><author>zalew</author><text>&#62; I didn’t even know the difference between “via” and “hat tip” until today.<p>I still don't know. What is this hat tip?<p>Frankly I never understood the concept of 'stealing' links. Once ago a friend on fb got very offended that I posted a link which was on his fanpage without 'via', like everybody is obligated to advertise random sources for stuff that already have thousands of views/shares. Maybe back in the day linking was worth something and I remember all those linkblogs like halfproject, surfstation, k10k, etc., but today with all those tumblrs and other tools to aggregate, suggest, reshare, cross-post, I don't see any particular value in clicking 'share/repost/+1' that needs to be credited. I'm with Marco on this <i>But regardless of how much time it takes to find interesting links every day, I don’t think most intermediaries deserve credit for simply sharing a link to someone else’s work.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zalew</author><text>real world examples look like this<p>Flickr photo (ori) -&#62; example.tumblr.com -&#62; my blog "photo via example.tumblr.com"<p>Youtube clip (ori) -&#62; John Doe on FB -&#62; your FB "youtube clip via John Doe"<p>so 'via' is the place where you clicked repost/share not the original content</text></comment>
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Their OS didn&#x27;t have files. Their system was a replicated database running directly on the hard disk, with no file system.<p>There&#x27;s something to be said for this. Your files get ACID properties. If we were serious about file integrity, we&#x27;d have file systems that worked like this:<p>- Unit files. The unit of data is the entire file. Files are written once, and when closed successfully, the file transaction commits and others can read the file. Any update replaces the entire file as an atomic operation. (Many applications need this, and try to do it with various move and rename operations, usually leaving files behind if things fail at the wrong moment.)<p>- Log files. You can only add at the end. Writes are atomic. In the event of a crash, the file is valid up to some recently completed write. (On many systems, log files can tail off into junk or contain truncated records.)<p>- Temporary files. When the process or process group exits, they&#x27;re gone. Random access is OK. (You shouldn&#x27;t have to clean up junk temporary files.)<p>- Managed files. These support a database or something with complex structure. There are extra I&#x2F;O functions for locking, flushing and being sure a write has been committed to disk.<p>That covers most of the use cases for files. There have been file systems which did some of this, but not in recent years.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gron – Make JSON Greppable</title><url>https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barumi</author><text>&gt; In simpler words, as a user: The jq query language [1] is obtuse, obscure, incredibly hard to learn if you need it for quick one liners once in a blue moon.<p>I don&#x27;t agree that jq&#x27;s query language is obtuse. It&#x27;s a DSL for JSON document trees, and it&#x27;s largely unfamiliar, but so is xpath or any other DOM transformation language.<p>The same thing is said about regex.<p>My take is that &quot;it&#x27;s obtuse&quot; just translates to &quot;I&#x27;m not familiar with it and I never bothered to get acquainted with it&quot;.<p>One thing that we can agree though is that jq&#x27;s docs are awful at providing a decent tutorial for new users to ramp up.</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>In simpler words, as a user: The jq query language [1] is obtuse, obscure, incredibly hard to learn if you need it for quick one liners once in a blue moon. I&#x27;ve tried, believe me, but I should probably spend that much effort learning Chinese instead.<p>It&#x27;s just operating at the wrong abstraction level, whereas gron is orders of magnitude easier to understand and _explore_.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stedolan.github.io&#x2F;jq&#x2F;manual&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stedolan.github.io&#x2F;jq&#x2F;manual&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>theshrike79</author><text>From the FAQ, before someone asks the obvious:<p>Why shouldn&#x27;t I just use jq?<p>jq is awesome, and a lot more powerful than gron, but with that power comes complexity. gron aims to make it easier to use the tools you already know, like grep and sed.<p>gron&#x27;s primary purpose is to make it easy to find the path to a value in a deeply nested JSON blob when you don&#x27;t already know the structure; much of jq&#x27;s power is unlocked only once you know that structure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js2</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty good with regular expressions. I have spent a lot of time trying to get familiar with jq. The problem is that I never use it outside of parsing JSON files, yet I use regular expressions all over the place: on the command line, in Python and Javascript and Java code. They are widely applicable. Their syntax is terse, but relatively small.<p>jq has never come naturally. Every time I try to intuit how to do something, my intuition fails. This is despite having read its man page a dozen times or more, and consulted it even more frequently than that.<p>I&#x27;ve spent 20+ years on the Unix command line. I know my way around most of it. I can use sed and awk and perl to great effect. But I just can&#x27;t seem to get jq to stick.<p>Aside, but there&#x27;s a lot of times when &quot;I know jq can do this, but I forget exactly how, let me find it in the man page&quot; and then... I find jq&#x27;s man page as difficult as jq itself when trying to use it as a reference.<p>Anyway, $0.02.<p>Edited to add: as a basic query language, I find it easy to use. It&#x27;s when I&#x27;m dealing with json that embeds literal json strings that need to be parsed as json a second time, or when I&#x27;m trying to manipulate one or more fields in some way before outputting that I struggle. So it&#x27;s when I&#x27;m trying to compose filters and functions inside jq that I find it hard to use.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gron – Make JSON Greppable</title><url>https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barumi</author><text>&gt; In simpler words, as a user: The jq query language [1] is obtuse, obscure, incredibly hard to learn if you need it for quick one liners once in a blue moon.<p>I don&#x27;t agree that jq&#x27;s query language is obtuse. It&#x27;s a DSL for JSON document trees, and it&#x27;s largely unfamiliar, but so is xpath or any other DOM transformation language.<p>The same thing is said about regex.<p>My take is that &quot;it&#x27;s obtuse&quot; just translates to &quot;I&#x27;m not familiar with it and I never bothered to get acquainted with it&quot;.<p>One thing that we can agree though is that jq&#x27;s docs are awful at providing a decent tutorial for new users to ramp up.</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>In simpler words, as a user: The jq query language [1] is obtuse, obscure, incredibly hard to learn if you need it for quick one liners once in a blue moon. I&#x27;ve tried, believe me, but I should probably spend that much effort learning Chinese instead.<p>It&#x27;s just operating at the wrong abstraction level, whereas gron is orders of magnitude easier to understand and _explore_.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stedolan.github.io&#x2F;jq&#x2F;manual&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stedolan.github.io&#x2F;jq&#x2F;manual&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>theshrike79</author><text>From the FAQ, before someone asks the obvious:<p>Why shouldn&#x27;t I just use jq?<p>jq is awesome, and a lot more powerful than gron, but with that power comes complexity. gron aims to make it easier to use the tools you already know, like grep and sed.<p>gron&#x27;s primary purpose is to make it easy to find the path to a value in a deeply nested JSON blob when you don&#x27;t already know the structure; much of jq&#x27;s power is unlocked only once you know that structure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naringas</author><text>But I have tried to learn jq&#x27;s syntax (it&#x27;s pretty much a minilanguage) and it has been incredibly difficult.<p>I also remember what when I first tried learning regex it was also very difficult. That is <i>until</i> I learned about finite state machines and regular languages, after that CS fundamentals class I was able to make sense of regex in a way that stuck.<p>Is there a comparable theory for jq&#x27;s mini-language?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed-cps-son-walk-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoImmatureAdHom</author><text>This strikes me as crazy. Every interaction with any human or inanimate object bears the risk of death, it&#x27;s just so low it&#x27;s not worth thinking about it.<p>U.S. police kill about ~1000 people per year, and the vast majority of those aren&#x27;t at all questionable. If there are 330,000,000 people in the U.S., that&#x27;s 0.000303% of the population per year. Each person has, on average, maybe 10 contentious police interactions in a lifetime of 75 years? That&#x27;s 0.134 interactions per year.<p>So, given on this Fermi estimate, you have about a 0.00226% chance of being killed per contentious police interaction if we spread it completely evenly, or 2.26 in 100,000. And spreading it evenly doesn&#x27;t make any sense at all.<p>So, if you&#x27;re young, black, male, and running around Chicago dealing drugs carrying an illegal gun--yeah, maybe worry about it. For everyone here on HN, it&#x27;s a stupid thing to worry about. Worry about your sedentary lifestyle. Worry about driving safely if you drive a lot. Worry about diabetes. Worry about whether your relationships with friends and family are good. Worry about your diet. Worry about exercise. Worry about falling down the stairs. The cops aren&#x27;t going to kill you.</text></item><item><author>klyrs</author><text>Every police interaction in the US bears the risk of death. Police will stop kids on the street with or without being called. Ergo, it is unsafe for children to walk to school in the US.<p>Sure, that&#x27;s all a bit circular, but good luck breaking the spiral with a &quot;law and order&quot; mentality.</text></item><item><author>rlkf</author><text>In my twice-the-size European city, kids walk twice that distance to school and back home again, alone. Every. Single. Day. If this place isn&#x27;t safe enough for kids to walk by themselves, maybe the question should be raised whether the police and municipal government really is doing their job the way they&#x27;re supposed to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yunwal</author><text>The worry about police violence is really misplaced worry about the effects of a broken justice system. It&#x27;s not just that police kill unarmed, non-violent black teens. It&#x27;s that &quot;they&quot; (the justice system as a whole) also lock people up for non-violent drug offenses, put a felony on their record, condemning them to a life without job opportunities. Then &quot;they&quot; kick them out of their homes when they&#x27;re late on their rent. Then they forcibly break up homeless encampments so people without homes can never feel safe or settled or have somewhere to sleep.<p>Police shootings are just a potent symbol for a much larger issue with the Justice System. The problem is that conversations about complex systemic issues become circular and conversations about symbols often don&#x27;t.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed-cps-son-walk-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoImmatureAdHom</author><text>This strikes me as crazy. Every interaction with any human or inanimate object bears the risk of death, it&#x27;s just so low it&#x27;s not worth thinking about it.<p>U.S. police kill about ~1000 people per year, and the vast majority of those aren&#x27;t at all questionable. If there are 330,000,000 people in the U.S., that&#x27;s 0.000303% of the population per year. Each person has, on average, maybe 10 contentious police interactions in a lifetime of 75 years? That&#x27;s 0.134 interactions per year.<p>So, given on this Fermi estimate, you have about a 0.00226% chance of being killed per contentious police interaction if we spread it completely evenly, or 2.26 in 100,000. And spreading it evenly doesn&#x27;t make any sense at all.<p>So, if you&#x27;re young, black, male, and running around Chicago dealing drugs carrying an illegal gun--yeah, maybe worry about it. For everyone here on HN, it&#x27;s a stupid thing to worry about. Worry about your sedentary lifestyle. Worry about driving safely if you drive a lot. Worry about diabetes. Worry about whether your relationships with friends and family are good. Worry about your diet. Worry about exercise. Worry about falling down the stairs. The cops aren&#x27;t going to kill you.</text></item><item><author>klyrs</author><text>Every police interaction in the US bears the risk of death. Police will stop kids on the street with or without being called. Ergo, it is unsafe for children to walk to school in the US.<p>Sure, that&#x27;s all a bit circular, but good luck breaking the spiral with a &quot;law and order&quot; mentality.</text></item><item><author>rlkf</author><text>In my twice-the-size European city, kids walk twice that distance to school and back home again, alone. Every. Single. Day. If this place isn&#x27;t safe enough for kids to walk by themselves, maybe the question should be raised whether the police and municipal government really is doing their job the way they&#x27;re supposed to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>&gt; So, if you&#x27;re young, black, male, and running around Chicago<p>I did this without the drugs and guns part, and had guns drawn on me three times growing up in Chicago for the crime of walking. If I had been killed, I&#x27;m sure it would have been coded in a way for you not to see it as a problem.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/gas-plants-will-get-crushed-by-wind-solar-by-2035-study-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>I suspect that if variable electricity pricing for consumers, a great deal of the need for &quot;batteries&quot; will evaporate. Heavy consumer electric uses (charging the car, HVAC, hot water) can easily be time shifted. It isn&#x27;t time shifted today because consumer electricity rates are constant 24&#x2F;7.</text></item><item><author>batmansmk</author><text>Don&#x27;t get fooled by simple price comparison. It&#x27;s comparing apples and oranges.
Gas, nuclear, coal, reversible dams, geothermy... are all controllable energy sources: they produce when we need it.
Wind and solar are intermittent.<p>Equip fully the world with solar and wind and the trains will have to leave their stations when the wind blows and not at any other moment.<p>What&#x27;s happening is that countries migrating towards wind turbines like Germany also adds coal plant to the same capacity in order to compensate for when the wind doesn&#x27;t blow. For each GW of wind one can find a GW of coal or gas being installed.<p>Then, if we are talking about adding batteries into the mix to make it work, solar and wind become far from carbon neutral, and endangers us way more than nuclear.</text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>I hope this is a solid study and not just wishful thinking. I&#x27;ve been looking at pricing, and right now, fracked gas plants are running around $40&#x2F;mwh, with wind at under $50&#x2F;mwh and PV solar (no battery storage) at around $60&#x2F;mwh. Coal and traditional nuclear are running around $100&#x2F;mwh (these are all rounded numbers from memory, don&#x27;t get unhelpfully pedantic!).<p>These numbers are obliterating both coal and nuclear. Coal plants are shutting down as fast as replacements can be built, and nuclear plants are shutting down a decade or more before official end-of-life, because they&#x27;re losing major customers to cheaper alternatives that are available right now.<p>The cost of PV solar has dropped over 80% in the past decade, and wind like 50%, due to engineering improvements in operation and economies of scale in manufacturing. But it&#x27;s a reasonable question how much farther their prices will drop. It seems unlikely to me that we&#x27;ll see another decade of such radical price drops.<p>Gas, on the other hand, is vulnerable to markets and availability. How long will it stay so cheap? And what happens if a politically progressive government gets serious about carbon taxing? On the other hand, it&#x27;s a lot cheaper up-front to build a gas plant, and a lot less painful if it closes early.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>batmansmk</author><text>Electricity price is already adapted hour per hour on the European Market. When the wind blows in Germany, price sometimes even go negative: it costs operationally less to energy producers to pay people to use the energy than stopping equipment. No change has been noted on the electricity usage.<p>Electricity bill is on average $100 per household per month. People won&#x27;t shift their usage because electricity is too cheap anyway. 1.6% of your revenue === 1.6% of your saving effort.<p>Note that the periodicity of wind blowing is days and weeks, so it&#x27;s too long and too intermittent to align daily routines on it. Forget about charging your car or hot water aligned on it, the only solution we have scaled to use this wind energy is reversible dams &#x2F; potential energy, and of that we have no more unexploited geography to support wind turbines. Feb 2019 we produced in Germany 10,000GWh with wind versus 3,000GWh in July 2019. And between 2 consecutive weeks, it can be a factor of x10 of difference.
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<story><title>Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/gas-plants-will-get-crushed-by-wind-solar-by-2035-study-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>I suspect that if variable electricity pricing for consumers, a great deal of the need for &quot;batteries&quot; will evaporate. Heavy consumer electric uses (charging the car, HVAC, hot water) can easily be time shifted. It isn&#x27;t time shifted today because consumer electricity rates are constant 24&#x2F;7.</text></item><item><author>batmansmk</author><text>Don&#x27;t get fooled by simple price comparison. It&#x27;s comparing apples and oranges.
Gas, nuclear, coal, reversible dams, geothermy... are all controllable energy sources: they produce when we need it.
Wind and solar are intermittent.<p>Equip fully the world with solar and wind and the trains will have to leave their stations when the wind blows and not at any other moment.<p>What&#x27;s happening is that countries migrating towards wind turbines like Germany also adds coal plant to the same capacity in order to compensate for when the wind doesn&#x27;t blow. For each GW of wind one can find a GW of coal or gas being installed.<p>Then, if we are talking about adding batteries into the mix to make it work, solar and wind become far from carbon neutral, and endangers us way more than nuclear.</text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>I hope this is a solid study and not just wishful thinking. I&#x27;ve been looking at pricing, and right now, fracked gas plants are running around $40&#x2F;mwh, with wind at under $50&#x2F;mwh and PV solar (no battery storage) at around $60&#x2F;mwh. Coal and traditional nuclear are running around $100&#x2F;mwh (these are all rounded numbers from memory, don&#x27;t get unhelpfully pedantic!).<p>These numbers are obliterating both coal and nuclear. Coal plants are shutting down as fast as replacements can be built, and nuclear plants are shutting down a decade or more before official end-of-life, because they&#x27;re losing major customers to cheaper alternatives that are available right now.<p>The cost of PV solar has dropped over 80% in the past decade, and wind like 50%, due to engineering improvements in operation and economies of scale in manufacturing. But it&#x27;s a reasonable question how much farther their prices will drop. It seems unlikely to me that we&#x27;ll see another decade of such radical price drops.<p>Gas, on the other hand, is vulnerable to markets and availability. How long will it stay so cheap? And what happens if a politically progressive government gets serious about carbon taxing? On the other hand, it&#x27;s a lot cheaper up-front to build a gas plant, and a lot less painful if it closes early.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mruts</author><text>The price for electricity already varies hour by hour. Maybe not as much as solar would, but most people (including me) are not paying a pegged price for electricity 24&#x2F;7.</text></comment>
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<story><title>El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volcanoes to Mine Bitcoin</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005231250/el-salvador-plans-to-use-electricity-generated-from-volcanoes-to-mine-bitcoin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pocoloco</author><text>As a Salvadoran living abroad but keeping an eye on politics there, I feel the need to comment given the amount of skepticism shown here, which is understandable given the history.<p>I believe that what the president, Nayib Bukele, and his team have done is monumental. The reason is that I also believe that the financial system crashed back in 2008 and has been kept alive by central banks worldwide. Last summer we saw how Lebanon banks reneged to pay back their customers their holdings in USD. This seems to be increasing. The thirst for USD around the world is increasing and all the so called printing by the FED is not getting to the other countries and international companies fast enough.
El Salvador is in a though position since it does not control its main currency. The other one, the Colón, while still legal tender is for all practical purposes unusable. It would take too long to grow the economy enough for it to be valued appropriately against the USD. Mandating BTC as legal tender is an awesome move. To me the most important benefit is that the 70% of the population which was excluded from banking and relegated to use physical currency will now be included. If the economy is an engine and money is the oil, El Salvador, which had only some drops of oil, will now get a complete oil change with synthetic on top of that. Lets remember that the law obligates the government to instruct all citizens on the use of the technology and to provide the means if necessary. This means that the government now has to provide connectivity to all citizens and teach them. Nayib has shown that he’s up to the task. For example, El Salvador is providing every child in the public school system with a laptop and free internet connectivity.<p>So I think this is beyond if BTC goes up to 200k. It doesn’t matter. If it goes back to 10k is OK too. What matters is that every citizen will now be included as equal in this new financial system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnord123</author><text>&gt; Mandating BTC as legal tender is an awesome move. To me the most important benefit is that the 70% of the population which was excluded from banking and relegated to use physical currency will now be included. If the economy is an engine and money is the oil, El Salvador, which had only some drops of oil, will now get a complete oil change with synthetic on top of that.<p>You are 100% incorrect. Bitcoin is wildly deflationary. Therefore it does not encourage an economy to function, it encourages people to hold onto it with white knuckles. It&#x27;s not oil for the economy, it&#x27;s sand.<p>&gt; This means that the government now has to provide connectivity to all citizens and teach them.<p>And when they don&#x27;t provide connectivity and teach citizens?</text></comment>
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El Salvador is in a though position since it does not control its main currency. The other one, the Colón, while still legal tender is for all practical purposes unusable. It would take too long to grow the economy enough for it to be valued appropriately against the USD. Mandating BTC as legal tender is an awesome move. To me the most important benefit is that the 70% of the population which was excluded from banking and relegated to use physical currency will now be included. If the economy is an engine and money is the oil, El Salvador, which had only some drops of oil, will now get a complete oil change with synthetic on top of that. Lets remember that the law obligates the government to instruct all citizens on the use of the technology and to provide the means if necessary. This means that the government now has to provide connectivity to all citizens and teach them. Nayib has shown that he’s up to the task. For example, El Salvador is providing every child in the public school system with a laptop and free internet connectivity.<p>So I think this is beyond if BTC goes up to 200k. It doesn’t matter. If it goes back to 10k is OK too. What matters is that every citizen will now be included as equal in this new financial system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sanderjd</author><text>Without debating any of your points: bitcoin is a terrible choice for this. It is horribly volatile, it is incredibly expensive to transact in, it is an awful waste of energy.<p>Using a stablecoin on a proof of stake blockchain with high transaction rates would make a lot of sense.<p>But that wouldn&#x27;t help the officials who pushed this get rich from their stash of bitcoin...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Understanding the War in Ukraine</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2022/02/25/miscellanea-understanding-the-war-in-ukraine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jerry2</author><text>I&#x27;ve read a bunch of articles on this conflict and this video by Prof Mearsheimer from University of Chicago explained it the best to me:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jolux</author><text>I respect the difference of opinion but it&#x27;s hard not to think Mearsheimer has been proven wrong about Putin&#x27;s motivations by this invasion. It&#x27;s basically inconceivable that the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is really in Russia&#x27;s best interests. At this point it&#x27;s liable to destroy their economy and encourage the remaining non-NATO states that border them to join NATO. It has solidified and reinvigorated opposition to Russian interests in the West. As of now it looks like a blunder.<p>edit: to say nothing as well of the anti-war protests that are happening in the streets of Moscow and across Russia. If they continue and grow they will pose a risk to regime stability.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Understanding the War in Ukraine</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2022/02/25/miscellanea-understanding-the-war-in-ukraine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jerry2</author><text>I&#x27;ve read a bunch of articles on this conflict and this video by Prof Mearsheimer from University of Chicago explained it the best to me:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vore</author><text>While I haven&#x27;t watched the video, I did read the article posted earlier which I assume covers the same details: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mearsheimer.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;Why-the-Ukraine-Crisis-Is.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mearsheimer.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;Why-t...</a><p>I think it lays too much of the blame on the US and the West and ignores the fact that Ukraine itself is an entity with its own autonomy and not as simple as just being a US pawn. Mearsheimer&#x27;s analysis seems to dismiss it completely and assume that basically everything that occurs in Ukraine are just machinations of the US political machine, but very reasonably, since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, it is rational for Ukraine to seek closer ties with NATO.<p>That said, I do appreciate his perspective on why Putin might act like he does, but &quot;Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault&quot; is... interesting framing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Making More Outside The App Store</title><url>https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2017/02/10/piezos-life-outside-the-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rcarmo</author><text>I think there is an elephant in the room here, which is that app stores (Mac, iOS or otherwise), besides all the requirements for inclusion (sandboxing, approvals, etc.) have become massively unmanageable dumping grounds, full of junk that is very hard to sift through for the normal customer.<p>Yes, they afford some credibility, trust and security (even though evil devs are constantly pushing the envelope), but even simple mechanisms like search are fundamentally broken on Apple&#x27;s stores.<p>And it&#x27;s not just about devs gaming the keyword rankings (I see enough of that when my kids search for games). It&#x27;s just hopeless.<p>So no wonder RogueAmoeba makes more money off the App Store. Even discounting other factors, their (rather specialized and very, very cool) apps are just easier to find via web search.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Making More Outside The App Store</title><url>https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2017/02/10/piezos-life-outside-the-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>App stores for mobile phones were very convenient at start because they provided a safe gateway to curated content, and globally enhanced the quality of what independant developpers released. But now it&#x27;s clearly a hindrance. I wish the european union would force Apple to enable the installation of other app store (distributing legal software of course) on their device.<p>Actually, a good start would be to have the &quot;don&#x27;t distribute an app that has the same feature as a preinstalled one&quot; clause declared illegal.</text></comment>
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<story><title>66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/25/66percent-of-americans-say-they-want-extended-european-style-vacation-policies-at-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lionkor</author><text>&gt; While the average American is lucky to get 11 vacation days<p>WHAT? Does that count sick days as well, or is that a myth?<p>Here in Germany, I get 30 vacation days per calendar year, plus any sick days, and thats fairly normal.<p>Edit: Sure the absolute salaries here are lower, but the cost of living is vastly different and the social support structures and healthcare are different, too. That should definitely be kept in mind.<p>I dont need to drive my car a lot, because my city is fully walkable&#x2F;bikeable, and thats not a super rare thing here. There are a lot of factors.<p>I feel vacation days are just a basic requirement for happiness, whereas being rich maybe isnt</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cloogshicer</author><text>Exactly.<p>I live in a big European city. You basically don&#x27;t need a car - pretty much anything within the city is reachable in about 30min, and public transit is comfy.<p>Also, I have a public transit ticket that allows me to travel the entire country for a year, which only cost about 1000€.<p>Yes, salaries are lower, but I also don&#x27;t have to save anything to get my kids through university, or keep emergency funds for health issues.<p>Also, I can&#x27;t just get fired without cause. And if I do get laid off, I have 3 months of grace period, plus potentially years of unemployment money.<p>Also, the government even pays for certain courses so I can find employment again.<p>The social system in Europe is amazing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/25/66percent-of-americans-say-they-want-extended-european-style-vacation-policies-at-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lionkor</author><text>&gt; While the average American is lucky to get 11 vacation days<p>WHAT? Does that count sick days as well, or is that a myth?<p>Here in Germany, I get 30 vacation days per calendar year, plus any sick days, and thats fairly normal.<p>Edit: Sure the absolute salaries here are lower, but the cost of living is vastly different and the social support structures and healthcare are different, too. That should definitely be kept in mind.<p>I dont need to drive my car a lot, because my city is fully walkable&#x2F;bikeable, and thats not a super rare thing here. There are a lot of factors.<p>I feel vacation days are just a basic requirement for happiness, whereas being rich maybe isnt</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobgorm</author><text>When I first joined a US startup, they said &quot;you can take unlimited PTO -- we suggest starting with a week per year&quot;... I negotiated that up to the five weeks that are standard here in Denmark.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/docker_desktop_no_longer_free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>namdnay</author><text>That’s assuming some kind soul in engineering management has the patience and leverage to guide this through 10 layers of purchasing, procurement, finance, legal etc…<p>Another likely outcome is that it’s “easier” for teams to switch to another tool (easier in that at least they’re not waiting on a third party for approval) and everyone loses a lot of time<p>Big corporations are not the most efficient beasts for this kind of situation</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>So many people in this thread don’t understand how enterprise decisions get made.<p>The business license costs $21&#x2F;month, probably less in reality.<p>Do you really think that businesses are going to jeopardize the workflows of their $250k&#x2F;year assets over a very core piece of software for $250&#x2F;year?<p>Any alternative has switching costs and risks. Companies will just pay this. I see so many people saying “just do these 10 steps and it’s basically the same”. It just ain’t worth it for $250</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I&#x27;ve been fortunate enough to work at companies where engineers were trusted to make small purchasing decisions. It works well for a while, but eventually everyone accumulates a lot of random recurring charges and the company cracks down.<p>$21 is nothing for a one-time spend.<p>$21 per month per employee is now $252&#x2F;year per employee, but now you also need someone managing all of these licenses and accounting. Every new employee or team change requires some juggling of licenses with associated turn-around times before that person can get started.<p>It&#x27;s not bad when it&#x27;s just a couple key pieces of software, but it doesn&#x27;t take long before every engineer has some mix of 20 different subscription tools and platforms and licenses and you&#x27;re on the phone with a different vendor every week doing the annual subscription renewal pricing negotiation dance. The sales people know how this works and would prefer to wear you down with endless conference calls until you get tired of negotiating and just pay the new, higher price they&#x27;re asking.<p>Soon, all of those &quot;cheap&quot; tools have added up to $1000&#x2F;month or more per employee with a couple people dedicated to managing these licenses and negotiating with vendors all of the time. And it&#x27;s terrible.<p>When the tool isn&#x27;t easily replaceable, you deal with it. I&#x27;m not sure I see that with Docker Desktop, though. When you get a new hire, do you tell them to submit a ticket with licensing and wait until they can get their Docker Desktop license? Or do you simply write some documentation about how to accomplish tasks without using Docker Desktop so you can remove another external dependency? Teams generally gravitate toward the latter.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/docker_desktop_no_longer_free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>namdnay</author><text>That’s assuming some kind soul in engineering management has the patience and leverage to guide this through 10 layers of purchasing, procurement, finance, legal etc…<p>Another likely outcome is that it’s “easier” for teams to switch to another tool (easier in that at least they’re not waiting on a third party for approval) and everyone loses a lot of time<p>Big corporations are not the most efficient beasts for this kind of situation</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>So many people in this thread don’t understand how enterprise decisions get made.<p>The business license costs $21&#x2F;month, probably less in reality.<p>Do you really think that businesses are going to jeopardize the workflows of their $250k&#x2F;year assets over a very core piece of software for $250&#x2F;year?<p>Any alternative has switching costs and risks. Companies will just pay this. I see so many people saying “just do these 10 steps and it’s basically the same”. It just ain’t worth it for $250</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>This.<p>Buying anything on my organization costs something around $10k. Add your price to this to discover the total we are spending.<p>That&#x27;s on financial cost. The opportunity cost of stopping technical people to handle the technical details of an acquisition is just huge, and larger the most differentiation there is on the market.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Terraform 0.7 released</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-0-7.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AYBABTME</author><text>Shameless plug: we use terraform a lot within DigitalOcean and I made a resource provider for our recent release of block storage. It&#x27;s part of this release[1]! (I&#x27;m happy, sorry!)<p>By the way, contributing to the project was very straightforward and the participants involved are super nice. I recommend you send them a patch if you have an itch!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.terraform.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;providers&#x2F;do&#x2F;r&#x2F;volume.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.terraform.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;providers&#x2F;do&#x2F;r&#x2F;volume.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Galesburg has no money</title><url>https://inlandnobody.substack.com/p/why-galesburg-has-no-money</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rexreed</author><text>Many Roman roads have lasted a long while. Maybe we should move back to cobble stone? Certainly easier to patch and replace and open up for underground utilities.</text></item><item><author>KennyBlanken</author><text>The problem boils down to this: we&#x27;ve vastly over-paved and in general overbuilt our road network. We&#x27;ve paved all sorts of roads we should have left as dirt&#x2F;gravel, but they got paved because it&#x27;s a sign your neighborhood has &quot;made it.&quot; It&#x27;s a pretty high level problem a well; we built a ton of bridges starting around the 50&#x27;s, without anyone thinking about how we were going to pay for them. Well, those bridges are starting to crumble because repairing or replacing them would mean massive hikes in taxes, and no politician wants to touch that.<p>Ironically, the vast majority of vehicles purchased are SUVs and trucks to the point that Ford will stop selling sedans entirely. At least everyone is prepared for the coming changes?<p>If we hadn&#x27;t allowed the automotive industry to essentially dominate american society, we&#x27;d have neighborhoods with dirt&#x2F;gravel roads or narrow paved paths for walking and bicycles, neighborhood parking lots for those who own cars, functioning bus services, lots of passenger rail, etc.<p>Instead we have a country where we&#x27;re slaves to cars.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>This is basically what Strong Towns harps on: the infrastructure for super low density development is extremely costly relative to how much &#x27;stuff&#x27; you&#x27;re building the infrastructure for.<p>Initially it&#x27;s not so bad, because it takes decades before you need to do replacement-level repairs&#x2F;maintenance, but eventually it catches up with you. Some cities escape it (at least for a while) by building even more or by simply having a fantastic economy, but the ones that don&#x27;t...it&#x27;s not pretty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>occz</author><text>The roman roads didn&#x27;t have to bear the load that modern roads do. Road wear is approximately (weight^4 ), meaning that the only vehicles that even matter in the calculation are trucks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Galesburg has no money</title><url>https://inlandnobody.substack.com/p/why-galesburg-has-no-money</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rexreed</author><text>Many Roman roads have lasted a long while. Maybe we should move back to cobble stone? Certainly easier to patch and replace and open up for underground utilities.</text></item><item><author>KennyBlanken</author><text>The problem boils down to this: we&#x27;ve vastly over-paved and in general overbuilt our road network. We&#x27;ve paved all sorts of roads we should have left as dirt&#x2F;gravel, but they got paved because it&#x27;s a sign your neighborhood has &quot;made it.&quot; It&#x27;s a pretty high level problem a well; we built a ton of bridges starting around the 50&#x27;s, without anyone thinking about how we were going to pay for them. Well, those bridges are starting to crumble because repairing or replacing them would mean massive hikes in taxes, and no politician wants to touch that.<p>Ironically, the vast majority of vehicles purchased are SUVs and trucks to the point that Ford will stop selling sedans entirely. At least everyone is prepared for the coming changes?<p>If we hadn&#x27;t allowed the automotive industry to essentially dominate american society, we&#x27;d have neighborhoods with dirt&#x2F;gravel roads or narrow paved paths for walking and bicycles, neighborhood parking lots for those who own cars, functioning bus services, lots of passenger rail, etc.<p>Instead we have a country where we&#x27;re slaves to cars.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>This is basically what Strong Towns harps on: the infrastructure for super low density development is extremely costly relative to how much &#x27;stuff&#x27; you&#x27;re building the infrastructure for.<p>Initially it&#x27;s not so bad, because it takes decades before you need to do replacement-level repairs&#x2F;maintenance, but eventually it catches up with you. Some cities escape it (at least for a while) by building even more or by simply having a fantastic economy, but the ones that don&#x27;t...it&#x27;s not pretty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mitigating</author><text>Can you really drive on those at high speeds, is it dangerous?
There&#x27;s a few short blocks in NYC that are still cobblestone and even at 30mph it sucks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>France enshrines 'freedom' to abortion in Constitution, in world first</title><url>https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/03/04/france-enshrines-freedom-to-abortion-in-constitution-in-world-first_6584252_5.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silent_cal</author><text>This is always so interesting to me. Are you European? Or do you have any insight as to why this might be happening?</text></item><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>&gt; Almost half of the French population reported that they were Catholic<p>If you break that down generationally, you see 70% in 70+, scaling down to about 15% in young adults, with atheism mopping up the difference. The older people may have believed, the middle cohort were raised by believers and think of themselves as Catholic by creed, but they haven&#x27;t passed it on to their kids.<p>The same is generally true in the rest of Europe. The social contract that everyone goes to church on Sunday has broken.</text></item><item><author>jawns</author><text>This was a vote that had very little dissent; it easily surpassed the supermajority that was required to amend the constitution.<p>There was only one major group that spoke out against the decision: the Catholic Church.<p>Almost half of the French population reported that they were Catholic in a 2020 survey, but it&#x27;s clear that when it comes to abortion, almost no French Catholics are influenced by the Church&#x27;s strong opposition to abortion.<p>That&#x27;s in stark contrast to the US, where opposition to abortion, mostly among Christian denominations, has remained an intractable issue. People predicted that after Roe V. Wade was decided, opposition to abortion would fade away, but it never did. Indeed, for the better part of 50 years, opposition fluctuated only a few percentage points, unlike almost every other major social issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oliwarner</author><text>I am English, and spend a fair bit of time in France.<p><i>In France particularly</i>, the state is aggressively secular. They go out of their way to ensure no religion has any footing in any part of government and this occasionally makes it hard to be religious if you&#x27;re unable to wear the expected garb or paraphernalia at school or at your government job.<p>The French have a long history of not wanting a single unimpeachable ruler. God just isn&#x27;t welcome.</text></comment>
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<story><title>France enshrines 'freedom' to abortion in Constitution, in world first</title><url>https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/03/04/france-enshrines-freedom-to-abortion-in-constitution-in-world-first_6584252_5.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silent_cal</author><text>This is always so interesting to me. Are you European? Or do you have any insight as to why this might be happening?</text></item><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>&gt; Almost half of the French population reported that they were Catholic<p>If you break that down generationally, you see 70% in 70+, scaling down to about 15% in young adults, with atheism mopping up the difference. The older people may have believed, the middle cohort were raised by believers and think of themselves as Catholic by creed, but they haven&#x27;t passed it on to their kids.<p>The same is generally true in the rest of Europe. The social contract that everyone goes to church on Sunday has broken.</text></item><item><author>jawns</author><text>This was a vote that had very little dissent; it easily surpassed the supermajority that was required to amend the constitution.<p>There was only one major group that spoke out against the decision: the Catholic Church.<p>Almost half of the French population reported that they were Catholic in a 2020 survey, but it&#x27;s clear that when it comes to abortion, almost no French Catholics are influenced by the Church&#x27;s strong opposition to abortion.<p>That&#x27;s in stark contrast to the US, where opposition to abortion, mostly among Christian denominations, has remained an intractable issue. People predicted that after Roe V. Wade was decided, opposition to abortion would fade away, but it never did. Indeed, for the better part of 50 years, opposition fluctuated only a few percentage points, unlike almost every other major social issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dauertewigkeit</author><text>Being Christian in Europe and the US are two completely different experiences. The two chief differences that I notice:<p>1. In Europe it is sort of the default state. Everyone belongs to the same Church. It is not really part of one&#x27;s identity. American Christians are so splintered that being part of a Church means being part of a significantly smaller community and that plays a much bigger role in forming one&#x27;s identity. The community aspect of Church is similarly more pronounced in the US for this reason.<p>2. American Jesus is your personal trainer, your protector, your personal cheerleader, your forever companion. European Jesus is technically supposed to also be those things but nobody really buys into it. The fervent belief in the efficacy of prayer is completely lacking. That gives people less incentive to go to Church.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How grep got its name</title><url>http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/871533965/how-grep-got-its-name</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>judofyr</author><text>Wait, what? As a non-native speaker of English, I've always assumed that "grep" is a normal English verb.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How grep got its name</title><url>http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/871533965/how-grep-got-its-name</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nuxi</author><text>From Early history of UNIX: "When asked what that funny name meant, Ken said it was obvious. It stood for the editor command that it simulated, g/re/p (global regular expression print)."<p><a href="http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/history/early.history.of.unix" rel="nofollow">http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/history/early.history.of....</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Hidden features of C#</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jb55</author><text>One powerful feature I don't see being used very often is simulating typeclasses via contraints on generic types:<p><pre><code> public static IEnumerable&#60;CalculatedTax&#62; CalculateTaxes&#60;T&#62;(this T t)
where T : IOrderItems, IAddress {}
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This adds an extension method to any type that implements those interfaces. Using this technique I have been able to make my interfaces much smaller and have generic functions which apply to many different types.<p>Here's what it would might look like in Haskell:<p><pre><code> calculateTaxes :: (OrderItems a, Address a) =&#62; a -&#62; [CalculatedTax]</code></pre></text></comment>
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<story><title>Hidden features of C#</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rnemo</author><text>I would hope most C# developers are aware of most of these features and how they facilitate the writing of good C# code, but this article seems like a good jumping off point for gaining greater understanding of the nuances of C#.<p>A better title to this article would have been "Less Understood Features of C#," as things like nullable types, boxing and unboxing using as/is, readonly variables, Nullable&#60;T&#62;, type inferrence and most of the rest of the articles content should not be hidden to anyone who intends to have more than passing knowledge of the language. Most of the things mentioned by the post benefit from having the additional explanation so they can be understood well though.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cortex X2: ARM aims high</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/10/27/cortex-x2-arm-aims-high/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markhahn</author><text>So little about chip success is down to just the core. Sure, some basic performance aspects, clock range, area and thus cores&#x2F;chip. What about inter-core performance? Memory interface?<p>There&#x27;s still no real synergy between CPUs and GPUs, even though they get less different with time. No one seems to have a decent plan for how to balance local memory resources with cache-coherency over CXL. Inter-system networking seems to be frozen in 1980 (just with faster serdes). Does in-chip and inter-chip optical change anything, or does it just mean littering the place with tranceivers?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cortex X2: ARM aims high</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/10/27/cortex-x2-arm-aims-high/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geek_at</author><text>Are there any viable ARM Servers available in a homelab price range? Every time I look I only see the 2000$ enterprise 2U servers. I have outgrown the Raspberry Pis but still love the idea of moving my homelab to ARM</text></comment>
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<story><title>HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/29/hp-ceo-makes-up-a-whole-lot-of-bullshit-to-defend-crippling-printers-that-use-cheaper-ink/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wheybags</author><text>&gt; every time a customer buys a printer, it’s an investment for us. We’re investing [in] that customer, and if this customer doesn’t print enough or doesn’t use our supplies, it’s a bad investment<p>This is the problem. If they stopped trying to loss lead the printers, and just sold them for a healthy margin above cost of production, this whole issue would go away.</text></comment>
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<story><title>HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/29/hp-ceo-makes-up-a-whole-lot-of-bullshit-to-defend-crippling-printers-that-use-cheaper-ink/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerbear4328</author><text>&gt; Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party ink. Speaking to CNBC Television, he said, &quot;We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network.&quot;<p>I can&#x27;t stop laughing. He can&#x27;t be serious? If this was true, it would HP&#x27;s fault for putting a chip in the cartridges in the first place! A cartridge should just be a container of ink, there shouldn&#x27;t be a place to put a virus.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Cornell Note-taking System (2001)</title><url>http://lsc.cornell.edu/notes.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nvarsj</author><text>I tried the cornell system when I started back at school (OMSCS). I didn&#x27;t really like it. It felt overly tedious to me. I think it&#x27;s probably an okay starting point if you have no idea how to learn things. At some point you&#x27;ll figure out your own personalized way of learning and retaining information - at that point you&#x27;ll become a lot more productive than following some formula.<p>My approach is:<p>* Take lecture notes during the lecture, pausing the lecture to really understand everything (active listening). I never re-watch a lecture (takes too long), so I make sure the lecture notes have all info needed to review for an exam.<p>* Before an exam review all lecture notes.<p>That is about all I need to ace pretty much any exam that is about information retention.<p>If the exam requires real understanding and thought (algorithms, math), then the best way to prep is doing lots of practice. No note-taking system is going to help you there, it will only waste your time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Cornell Note-taking System (2001)</title><url>http://lsc.cornell.edu/notes.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tanin</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried this system before. It didn&#x27;t work well when using in a workplace. Mainly because the info&#x2F;knowledge in workplace is scattered and sometimes incoherent.<p>But, then, I&#x27;ve realised that this is from Cornell, and the note taking system here is for students noting lectures.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>audunw</author><text>Wait what? The nonprofit organisation thing seems very significant. That makes it fairly easy to get around if you’re just developing an app for fun, or for open source organisations to get apps distributed.<p>So what are we left with? Apps where users are the product, like Facebook, and freemium apps where you end up paying to get anything useful done with it anyway. Apps where the parent company is making millions if not billions. Is anybody upset that those guys have to chip in for iOS development?<p>I personally think Apples approach is the lesser of two evils. We don’t pay for OS explicitly anymore. But look at Windows and Android… you end up paying somehow in the end anyway. I’d rather it be through fees on apps than more insidious approaches.<p>And no. Paying for the phone is not a viable way to pay for the OS. That incentives the phone maker to ditch OS updates for old phones. And we know that’s a real issue. As long as we pay through app fees the phone makers are incentivised to keep releasing OS updates for old phones.</text></item><item><author>TillE</author><text>Yeah this is brutal for any truly free app that risks getting popular. The only exceptions are for &quot;Nonprofit organizations, accredited educational institutions, and government entities&quot;, so I guess at least Mozilla will find a way to distribute Firefox.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;core-technology-fee&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;core-technology-fee&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;fee-calculator-for-apps-in-the-eu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;fee-calculator-for-apps-...</a><p>2,000,000 installs acquires a minimum of $45,000 in fees, even if you don&#x27;t make any money<p>That&#x27;s up from $0 USD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t call that &quot;fairly easy&quot; in most senses of the term.<p>For instance I didn&#x27;t even have an idea of what&#x27;s required in my place to get recognized as non-profit. And it turns out it&#x27;s specific to each region, and I need to go ask for the paperwork in the first place.<p>If the requirement is really a non profit legal status, Apple just raised the bar from &quot;apps that just make no money&quot; to &quot;apps that registered to their local governing bodies that they have a goal of not making money&quot;, and that&#x27;s a huge leap with a crazy high barrier for a random dev (imagine a kid in uni) to push a free app.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>audunw</author><text>Wait what? The nonprofit organisation thing seems very significant. That makes it fairly easy to get around if you’re just developing an app for fun, or for open source organisations to get apps distributed.<p>So what are we left with? Apps where users are the product, like Facebook, and freemium apps where you end up paying to get anything useful done with it anyway. Apps where the parent company is making millions if not billions. Is anybody upset that those guys have to chip in for iOS development?<p>I personally think Apples approach is the lesser of two evils. We don’t pay for OS explicitly anymore. But look at Windows and Android… you end up paying somehow in the end anyway. I’d rather it be through fees on apps than more insidious approaches.<p>And no. Paying for the phone is not a viable way to pay for the OS. That incentives the phone maker to ditch OS updates for old phones. And we know that’s a real issue. As long as we pay through app fees the phone makers are incentivised to keep releasing OS updates for old phones.</text></item><item><author>TillE</author><text>Yeah this is brutal for any truly free app that risks getting popular. The only exceptions are for &quot;Nonprofit organizations, accredited educational institutions, and government entities&quot;, so I guess at least Mozilla will find a way to distribute Firefox.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;core-technology-fee&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;core-technology-fee&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;fee-calculator-for-apps-in-the-eu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;fee-calculator-for-apps-...</a><p>2,000,000 installs acquires a minimum of $45,000 in fees, even if you don&#x27;t make any money<p>That&#x27;s up from $0 USD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rany_</author><text>&gt; Windows and Android… you end up paying somehow in the end anyway<p>I&#x27;m not sure why I have to mention this, but you could be paying for something and get screwed over at the same time. The issue isn&#x27;t that Google&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;etc NEED to make money this way, but that this is legal to do.<p>Also, Windows isn&#x27;t exactly cheap and I personally couldn&#x27;t fathom paying more than 100 bucks for an OS and still get treated like crap. I&#x27;m sure Android at best only makes 10 bucks from their users with their current model throughout the device&#x27;s entire lifetime.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2016)</title><url>http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>q3k</author><text>Some other fun facts about JSON, its mainstream implementations and using it reliably:<p>1. json.dump(s) in Python by default emits non-standards-compliant JSON, ie. will happily serialize NaN&#x2F;Inf&#x2F;-Inf. You want to set allow_nan=False to be compliant. Otherwise this _will_ annoy someone who has to consume your shoddy pseudo-JSON from a standards-compliant library.<p>2. JSON allows for duplicate&#x2F;repeated keys, and allows for the parser to basically do anything when that happens. Do you know how the parser implementation you use handles this? Are you sure there&#x27;s no differences between that implementation and other implementations used in your system (eg. between execution and validation)? What about other undefined behaviour, like permitted number ranges?<p>3. Do you pass around user-provided JSON data accross your system? How many JSON nesting levels does your implementation allow? What happens if it&#x27;s exceeded? What happens if different parts of your processing system have different limits? What about other unspecified limits like serialized size, string length?<p>My general opinion is that it&#x27;s extremely hard to reliably use JSON as an interchange format reliably when multiple systems and&#x2F;or parser implementations are involved. It&#x27;s based on a set of underdefined specifications that leaves critical behaviour undefined, effectively making it impossible to have 100% interoperable implementations. It doesn&#x27;t help that one of the mainstream implementations (in Python) is just non-compliant by default.<p>I highly encourage any greenfield project to look into well designed and better specified alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>It’s a pyramid.<p>At the bottom you have CSV which is popular beyond belief, and has no real specification, with common cases wildly handled differently across libraries.<p>In the middle you have JSON which isn’t 100% interoperable, but goes 98% of the way.<p>And you have XML and protobufs at the top tip, who have strong mechanisms available for interoperability but at an operational cost that rarely justifies the upgrade from JSON.<p>I suspect it will take a lot more that “well designed” and “better specified” to justify moving away from JSON as the default stepup from chaotic CSV like formats.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2016)</title><url>http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>q3k</author><text>Some other fun facts about JSON, its mainstream implementations and using it reliably:<p>1. json.dump(s) in Python by default emits non-standards-compliant JSON, ie. will happily serialize NaN&#x2F;Inf&#x2F;-Inf. You want to set allow_nan=False to be compliant. Otherwise this _will_ annoy someone who has to consume your shoddy pseudo-JSON from a standards-compliant library.<p>2. JSON allows for duplicate&#x2F;repeated keys, and allows for the parser to basically do anything when that happens. Do you know how the parser implementation you use handles this? Are you sure there&#x27;s no differences between that implementation and other implementations used in your system (eg. between execution and validation)? What about other undefined behaviour, like permitted number ranges?<p>3. Do you pass around user-provided JSON data accross your system? How many JSON nesting levels does your implementation allow? What happens if it&#x27;s exceeded? What happens if different parts of your processing system have different limits? What about other unspecified limits like serialized size, string length?<p>My general opinion is that it&#x27;s extremely hard to reliably use JSON as an interchange format reliably when multiple systems and&#x2F;or parser implementations are involved. It&#x27;s based on a set of underdefined specifications that leaves critical behaviour undefined, effectively making it impossible to have 100% interoperable implementations. It doesn&#x27;t help that one of the mainstream implementations (in Python) is just non-compliant by default.<p>I highly encourage any greenfield project to look into well designed and better specified alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;My general opinion is that it&#x27;s extremely hard to reliably use JSON as an interchange format reliably when multiple systems and&#x2F;or parser implementations are involved.&quot;<p>I suspect one of the reasons that JSON has been so successful is precisely this fuzziness, though. Every language can do something a little slightly different and it&#x27;ll work at first when you send it to somebody else. You get up and off the ground really quickly, and can fix up issues as you go.<p>If you try to specify something with a stronger schema right off the bat, I find a number of problems immediately emerge that tend to slow the process down. It may be foreign to programmers on HN who have embraced a strong static type mindset, or dynamic programmers who have learned the hard way that sometimes you need to be more precise about your types, but there&#x27;s still a lot of programmers out there who will wonder why you&#x27;re asking them whether this is an int or a float is relevant. I came in to work this morning to an alert system telling me that a field that a particular system has been sending as an integer for a couple of months now over many thousands of pushes, &quot;number of bytes transferred&quot;, is apparently capable of being a float once every several thousand times for some reason. There&#x27;s a lot of programmers who will send a string, or a null, or maybe a float, or maybe it&#x27;s always an integer, and deeply don&#x27;t understand why you care what it&#x27;s getting serialized as.<p>And that&#x27;s just an example of some of the issues, not a complete list. Trying to specify with some stronger system moves a lot of these issues up front.<p>(If your organization has internalized that&#x27;s just how it has to be done, great! I bet you encountered a lot of these bumps on the way, though.)<p>This isn&#x27;t a celebration of JSON per se... this is really a rather cynical take. I don&#x27;t know that we need to type everything to the n&#x27;th degree in the first meeting, but &quot;why can&#x27;t we just let our dynamically-typed language send this number as a string sometimes?&quot; is definitely something I&#x27;ve had to discuss. (Now, I don&#x27;t get a lot of resistance per se, but it&#x27;s something I have to bring up.) I&#x27;m not presenting this as a good thing, but as a theory that JSON&#x27;s success is actually in large part <i>because</i> of its loosey-gooseyness, and not despite it, regardless of how we may feel about it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What "viable search engine competition" really looks like</title><url>http://blog.nullspace.io/building-search-engines.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>I enjoy hating on Microsoft as much as the next guy, but as far as I&#x27;m concerned Bing is basically as good as Google.<p>The problem for Microsoft is the same problem that faced Apple. Being &quot;as good as&quot; isn&#x27;t enough to get people to switch. You have to be 10 times better.<p>Back when Google launched, it was 10x better than Yahoo. Bing seems to have quickly gotten to 1x, but hasn&#x27;t moved much further.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What "viable search engine competition" really looks like</title><url>http://blog.nullspace.io/building-search-engines.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lazyjones</author><text>Short and very informative, though I wondered why patents are no concern for a competitor of Google (they have various broad and trivial patents on using historical data, user feedback, moderation for better search results).<p>As the author wrote, aiming at feature parity with Google is probably a bad idea. DDG seems to do this right: they have some better features and one distinct advantage over Google with their stance on privacy. Perhaps Google will reach a certain creepiness factor with all the collected data they&#x27;re factoring into search results (e.g. I have this suspicion that content from gmail is used too) and at some point it might work against them even for the average user (or am I just biased?).<p>One &quot;feature&quot; that Google has failed to do properly is custom &quot;site search&quot;, i.e. providing a search interface for arbitrary websites. Perhaps this is another opportunity for a new competitor or even Bing (though their &quot;site search&quot; was shut down in 2011 apparently), there is plenty of demand (and lots of crappy custom solutions).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey-area</author><text>The salient quote from Greenwald&#x27;s article on this:<p><i>They completely abused their own terrorism law for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: a potent reminder of how often governments lie when they claim that they need powers to stop &quot;the terrorists&quot;, and how dangerous it is to vest unchecked power with political officials in its name.</i> [1]<p>This is a great example of why we should treat terrorism like any other crime, and why the police should never be trusted with exceptional powers simply because we feel under threat. Give them the powers, and they will be misused - in this case they were used on a relative of someone nothing to do with terrorism purely for the purpose of intimidation. The security services even called Greenwald to give him the news that his partner had been detained.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;18&#x2F;david-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I wonder from how high up this order came. After all, it&#x27;s not like Greenwald is going to take this lying down and that&#x27;s something that they could predict quite accurately ahead of time. To abuse these powers on the partner of the journalist that is reporting the abuses is the worst tactical mistake made by any government to date, short of the diversion of a diplomats plane.<p>Taking into account that the UK law enforcement and Brazil have a bit of a history when it comes to labelling people terrorist wrongly makes it even worse.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey-area</author><text>The salient quote from Greenwald&#x27;s article on this:<p><i>They completely abused their own terrorism law for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: a potent reminder of how often governments lie when they claim that they need powers to stop &quot;the terrorists&quot;, and how dangerous it is to vest unchecked power with political officials in its name.</i> [1]<p>This is a great example of why we should treat terrorism like any other crime, and why the police should never be trusted with exceptional powers simply because we feel under threat. Give them the powers, and they will be misused - in this case they were used on a relative of someone nothing to do with terrorism purely for the purpose of intimidation. The security services even called Greenwald to give him the news that his partner had been detained.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;18&#x2F;david-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rolux</author><text>&gt; they were used on a relative of someone nothing to do with terrorism purely for the purpose of intimidation<p>Intimidation <i>is</i> the purpose of anti-terrorism legislation. This is not an abuse of some exceptional powers -- it&#x27;s their most common <i>use</i>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-judges-misconduct-specialreport/special-report-thousands-of-us-judges-who-broke-laws-oaths-remained-on-the-bench-idUSKBN2411WG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiodari</author><text>The whole thing there can be reduced to the observation: why does society let foster care and youth protective services exist?<p>You might say &quot;well to protect kids&quot;. Except, there&#x27;s a massive body of research proving that they make things worse, certainly on average:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1257&#x2F;aer.97.5.1583" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1257&#x2F;aer.97.5.1583</a><p>Massive negative effects, from reading scores, to later earnings, to subjective happiness (yes, really, kids report more happiness <i>while being abused</i> than in youth services), to later crimes.<p>So no youth protection is better for everyone. This is obvious in the case of scandals and the many &quot;accidents&quot;. But it is true in general. And it is true for everyone. No child protection is better for the kid, for families (obviously I guess), <i>and</i> due to the increase in crime if we destroyed youth protection causes, it is better for society itself. If you start checking, you will find that youth protection is involved in the raising of many of the worst criminals we&#x27;ve ever known.<p>Even child psychiatry and &quot;special needs schools&quot; ... well. Comparing symptoms upon entry and symptoms upon exit paints a very clear picture that really questions why they&#x27;re allowed to exist.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s00787-017-1048-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007...</a><p>And then of course there&#x27;s the many scandals that these people keep and keep and keep producing. Abuse within foster families is <i>higher</i> than in families in youth protection services. In institutions it is a <i>lot</i> higher.<p>So they don&#x27;t protect kids.<p>And crimes are astronomically higher in both foster care and institutional care (and youth psychiatry).<p>So they don&#x27;t protect society against those kids either.</text></item><item><author>ipython</author><text>Don’t forget the 2008 kids for cash scandal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kids_for_cash_scandal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kids_for_cash_scandal</a>. At least those judges were eventually tried and are serving time.</text></item><item><author>chidog12</author><text>&gt; Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide.<p>&gt; Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, state records show. Another was physically abused.<p>Speechless... Makes my blood boil</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>analyte123</author><text>Child protection is like a loaded gun sitting on a table waiting for someone to pick it up. Anyone who doesn&#x27;t like you or the way you raise your kids can phone in a trumped-up complaint and send investigators in your home to see if your child needs to be taken away and put into a lowest-bidder archipelago of foster homes and group facilities. Disgusting all around to me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-judges-misconduct-specialreport/special-report-thousands-of-us-judges-who-broke-laws-oaths-remained-on-the-bench-idUSKBN2411WG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiodari</author><text>The whole thing there can be reduced to the observation: why does society let foster care and youth protective services exist?<p>You might say &quot;well to protect kids&quot;. Except, there&#x27;s a massive body of research proving that they make things worse, certainly on average:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1257&#x2F;aer.97.5.1583" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1257&#x2F;aer.97.5.1583</a><p>Massive negative effects, from reading scores, to later earnings, to subjective happiness (yes, really, kids report more happiness <i>while being abused</i> than in youth services), to later crimes.<p>So no youth protection is better for everyone. This is obvious in the case of scandals and the many &quot;accidents&quot;. But it is true in general. And it is true for everyone. No child protection is better for the kid, for families (obviously I guess), <i>and</i> due to the increase in crime if we destroyed youth protection causes, it is better for society itself. If you start checking, you will find that youth protection is involved in the raising of many of the worst criminals we&#x27;ve ever known.<p>Even child psychiatry and &quot;special needs schools&quot; ... well. Comparing symptoms upon entry and symptoms upon exit paints a very clear picture that really questions why they&#x27;re allowed to exist.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s00787-017-1048-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007...</a><p>And then of course there&#x27;s the many scandals that these people keep and keep and keep producing. Abuse within foster families is <i>higher</i> than in families in youth protection services. In institutions it is a <i>lot</i> higher.<p>So they don&#x27;t protect kids.<p>And crimes are astronomically higher in both foster care and institutional care (and youth psychiatry).<p>So they don&#x27;t protect society against those kids either.</text></item><item><author>ipython</author><text>Don’t forget the 2008 kids for cash scandal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kids_for_cash_scandal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kids_for_cash_scandal</a>. At least those judges were eventually tried and are serving time.</text></item><item><author>chidog12</author><text>&gt; Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide.<p>&gt; Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, state records show. Another was physically abused.<p>Speechless... Makes my blood boil</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>remmargorp64</author><text>So where is a child supposed to go when their parents have died or been imprisoned? Should they just be homeless? What alternative do you envision?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00556-y</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mohammad_ali85</author><text>PhD student here. Aside from difficulty of accessing articles who don&#x27;t have institutional access, it&#x27;s significantly easier to obtain an article from sci-hub. Enter title or DOI - done. To get the same article using uni logins you need to search via database e.g. Medline, then click on the source button. This takes you to different resources you can download from. Once you click through, you can then download the pdf, unless they&#x27;ve decided ePub is the default option in which case you have change this. Rarely, I&#x27;ve had to sign up to attempt to download an article but find once I&#x27;ve done this, my institution doesn&#x27;t actually have access. The steps are reduced if you&#x27;re on campus but not much better to be honest. Absolute mess.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sci-Hub downloads show countries where pirate paper site is most used</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00556-y</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxmalkav</author><text>My opinion is solely based on my personal experience, so take it with a grain of salt.<p>I was enrolled in a PhD program (engineering) around the time Sci-Hub started, we were lucky enough to have access to most papers we needed thanks to the University agreements with Elsevier, IEEE, etc. I did not hear about Sci-Hub until a bit later, when I needed access to some academic papers but remote access to my university network was very cumbersome. I ended up downloading my OWN papers from Sci-Hub out of pure convenience. I have to say I always had mixed feelings (if not just hostility) towards the academic publishing industry, so I was actually happy my papers were available there.<p>During pandemic time I decided to enrol in a MBA in the fields of Humanities (because why not). My experience is that Humanity folks are not very aware of Sci-Hub, probably because they are not so tech-savvy in general, but those that discover it are more than happy to count with this extra resource.<p>Said this, my personal impression is that places like my country are not higher in the chart .. just because Sci-Hub is not better known yet.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/15/federal-reserve-slashes-interest-rates-zero-part-wide-ranging-emergency-intervention/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aazaa</author><text>The Fed can, and will do much, much more. The signal here should be read as &quot;whatever it takes to avoid a depression.&quot;<p>Among other steps, this is likely to mean:<p>- Negative-yielding long-term treasuries<p>- Direct purchase of stocks or ETFs, which would require congressional approval. Expect the discussions to start soon.<p>The steps already taken and the ones to be taken will create financial manipulation on a scale never before seen.<p>If the Fed loses this fight, game over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inferiorhuman</author><text><i>If the Fed loses this fight, game over. </i><p>This isn&#x27;t the Fed&#x27;s fight. Monetary policy won&#x27;t fix this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/15/federal-reserve-slashes-interest-rates-zero-part-wide-ranging-emergency-intervention/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aazaa</author><text>The Fed can, and will do much, much more. The signal here should be read as &quot;whatever it takes to avoid a depression.&quot;<p>Among other steps, this is likely to mean:<p>- Negative-yielding long-term treasuries<p>- Direct purchase of stocks or ETFs, which would require congressional approval. Expect the discussions to start soon.<p>The steps already taken and the ones to be taken will create financial manipulation on a scale never before seen.<p>If the Fed loses this fight, game over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dharma1</author><text>Direct purchases of shares will do little to alleviate this crisis.<p>The treasury purchases will fund the government to help industries which are badly affected from going under, companies with cash flow issues, and employees who need to take time off - which they already announced on Friday. I think $500b will be the beginning, will likely be much more needed</text></comment>
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<story><title>Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma</title><url>https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/israel-s-autonomous-robo-snipers-and-suicide-drones-raise-ethical-dilemma-44557</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbob2000</author><text>You could argue that the Iron Dome has allowed the Israelis to perpetuate the conflict. If Israel citizens were faced with actually dying, they might push for a peaceful resolution faster.</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>Reminds me in a weird way of this episode: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0708414&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0708414&#x2F;</a><p>A culture has computer simulated war and “casualties” must report to euthanasia chambers.<p>This was the end result agreed to to stop actual bombings.<p>Of course, the officers disrupt it in the end. But it’d be interesting if they returned and nothing was left but craters.<p>More on topic, iron dome is an automated missile interception system and works well to protect Israelis from missile attacks. Just because a system is automated doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad idea, but obviously there’s high risk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_Dome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_Dome</a></text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>So, I realize that lots of apocalyptic projections get made about AI that have a habit of not coming true, but this seems like an awful idea. Also, an awfully hard one to resist. If your opponent has fast-as-a-computer-can-pull-the-trigger firepower, it&#x27;s going to be pretty hard to resist the urge to get your own.<p>Once you have two sides with automated offensive capability, we are one bug away from the kind of mistakes that, during the Cold War, were intercepted by humans in the loop. I&#x27;m not sure how this can NOT end badly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Flamebait like this is totally unacceptable on HN, regardless of how you feel about the underlying topic. We ban accounts that damage the site this way. No more of this please.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma</title><url>https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/israel-s-autonomous-robo-snipers-and-suicide-drones-raise-ethical-dilemma-44557</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbob2000</author><text>You could argue that the Iron Dome has allowed the Israelis to perpetuate the conflict. If Israel citizens were faced with actually dying, they might push for a peaceful resolution faster.</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>Reminds me in a weird way of this episode: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0708414&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0708414&#x2F;</a><p>A culture has computer simulated war and “casualties” must report to euthanasia chambers.<p>This was the end result agreed to to stop actual bombings.<p>Of course, the officers disrupt it in the end. But it’d be interesting if they returned and nothing was left but craters.<p>More on topic, iron dome is an automated missile interception system and works well to protect Israelis from missile attacks. Just because a system is automated doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad idea, but obviously there’s high risk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_Dome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_Dome</a></text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>So, I realize that lots of apocalyptic projections get made about AI that have a habit of not coming true, but this seems like an awful idea. Also, an awfully hard one to resist. If your opponent has fast-as-a-computer-can-pull-the-trigger firepower, it&#x27;s going to be pretty hard to resist the urge to get your own.<p>Once you have two sides with automated offensive capability, we are one bug away from the kind of mistakes that, during the Cold War, were intercepted by humans in the loop. I&#x27;m not sure how this can NOT end badly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>On the subject of ethics - proportionate response, narrow targeting, and trying not to kill civilians are good things.<p>This topic is too political to have a nuanced internet discussion and quickly dissolved into weird anti-semitism most of the time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samharris.org&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;why-dont-i-criticize-israel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samharris.org&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;why-dont-i-criticize-israel&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>TCP Puzzlers</title><url>https://www.joyent.com/blog/tcp-puzzlers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>That is an <i>awesome</i> post. If you are thinking about writing distributed systems code you need to understand this behavior of TCP&#x2F;IP completely. Back when a 100 nodes was a &quot;big&quot; network these sorts of problems were so rare that you could be forgiven for not taking them into account, but these days with virtualization you can have a 500 node network all on the same freakin&#x27; host! And the law of large numbers says &quot;rare things happen often, when you have <i>a lot</i> of things.&quot;<p>Fun anecdote, at Blekko we had people who tried to scrape the search engine by fetching all 300 pages of results. They would do that with some script or code and it would be clear they weren&#x27;t human because they would ask for each page right after the other. We sent them to a process that Greg wrote on a machine that did most of the TCP handshake and then went away. As a result the scrapers script would hang forever. We saw output that suggested some of these things sat their for <i>months</i> waiting for results that would never come.</text></comment>
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<story><title>TCP Puzzlers</title><url>https://www.joyent.com/blog/tcp-puzzlers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richm44</author><text>There are some other fun edge cases - for example:<p>- If you have a port-forward to a machine that is switched off then you can get ICMP network unreachable or ICMP host unreachable as the response to the a SYN in the initial handshake.<p>This can also happen at any point in the connection. Other ICMP messages can also occur like this (eg. admin prohibited).<p>It&#x27;s always worth remembering that the TCP connection is sitting on an underlying network stack that can also signal errors outside of the TCP protocol itself.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Firebase’ Does for Apps What Dropbox Did for Docs</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/firebase/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgkimsal</author><text>I didn't dig deep in to the docs - just played with the demos - but if all data is exposed as 'just' a URL - what implications are there for security? Can someone mod the JS to grab someone else's data associated with my app? They probably have answers for this, but it wasn't apparent in the demos I looked at.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Firebase’ Does for Apps What Dropbox Did for Docs</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/firebase/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerguismi</author><text>I don't really get the benefits. You don't need servers, but you need to host the JS/html5 application somewhere, even if you don't need to configure the database server etc.<p>It is nice technology, but I don't really see if it is worth the price (vendor lock-in, technology lock-in, etc.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem</title><url>https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19009</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dnautics</author><text>&gt; Debugging the problem was significantly hampered by failure of tools competing over use of the now-congested network.<p>Man that&#x27;s got to suck.</text></item><item><author>carlsborg</author><text>I was curious to know how cascading failures in one region effected other regions. Impact was &quot; ...increased latency, intermittent errors, and connectivity loss to instances in us-central1, us-east1, us-east4, us-west2, northamerica-northeast1, and southamerica-east1.&quot;<p>Answer, and the root cause summarized:<p>Maintenance started in a physical location, and then &quot;... the automation software created a list of jobs to deschedule in that physical location, which included the logical clusters running network control jobs.
Those logical clusters also included network control jobs in other physical locations.&quot;<p>So the automation equivalent of a human driven command that says &quot;deschedule these core jobs in another region&quot;.<p>Maybe someone needs to write a paper on Fault tolerance in the presence of Byzantine Automations (Joke. There was a satirical note on this subject posted here yesterday.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abbeyj</author><text>This reminded me of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;1311_05-08_mickens.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;1311_05-08_mickens.pdf</a><p><pre><code> I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I’VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS.</code></pre></text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem</title><url>https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19009</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dnautics</author><text>&gt; Debugging the problem was significantly hampered by failure of tools competing over use of the now-congested network.<p>Man that&#x27;s got to suck.</text></item><item><author>carlsborg</author><text>I was curious to know how cascading failures in one region effected other regions. Impact was &quot; ...increased latency, intermittent errors, and connectivity loss to instances in us-central1, us-east1, us-east4, us-west2, northamerica-northeast1, and southamerica-east1.&quot;<p>Answer, and the root cause summarized:<p>Maintenance started in a physical location, and then &quot;... the automation software created a list of jobs to deschedule in that physical location, which included the logical clusters running network control jobs.
Those logical clusters also included network control jobs in other physical locations.&quot;<p>So the automation equivalent of a human driven command that says &quot;deschedule these core jobs in another region&quot;.<p>Maybe someone needs to write a paper on Fault tolerance in the presence of Byzantine Automations (Joke. There was a satirical note on this subject posted here yesterday.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>It isn&#x27;t a worst-case though. They should have had the capability to resolve this issue with <i>no</i> network connectivity, which would be the worst case failure of the network control plane.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Petition the Whitehouse to make unlocking cell phones legal</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamtj</author><text>This lacks vision. Petition to make locking cell phones illegal.<p>This is also misdirected. Legislators make and unmake law. Petition them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Petition the Whitehouse to make unlocking cell phones legal</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sinak</author><text>Hi everyone, I started this because I think the Librarian of Congress' decision is really bad for consumers.<p>The new petitions feature requires 100,000 signatures to be considered.<p>Please sign, and if you can tweet it out, share it on Facebook, or email it to a journalist, every little helps.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DBeaver – open-source database client</title><url>https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worble</author><text>I find it absolutely baffling how often the prettiness of UI comes up as a HN comment.<p>If you asked me objectively &quot;do you think it&#x27;s pretty?&quot; I&#x27;d probably say no, but never once has this even occurred me when using it since I&#x27;m usually just trying to get work done, which I find it very useful for. It&#x27;s a productivity tool, not an art piece I&#x27;m hanging on my wall.</text></item><item><author>dfee</author><text>I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus.<p>I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnBooty</author><text>I think it&#x27;s less about aesthetics and more about cognitive load.<p>Nonstandard UIs aren&#x27;t end of the world, but <i>if possible</i> I don&#x27;t want the extra cognitive load of interacting with 5, 6, 7, whatever slightly different GUI paradigms.<p>Like most developers I&#x27;m using multiple applications at once. Typically I&#x27;m using a terminal, text editor, browser, Slack, email, and maybe a database GUI.<p>A developer&#x27;s cognition and cognitive load are limiting factors. Increase my cognitive load by X% and there is going to be a Y% increase in how long it takes me to do something and&#x2F;or a Z% decrease in the quality of the work. Even if X% is small, it adds up pretty quickly. After all if we are employed full time that is 2,000+ hours per year of work.<p>Again, not just aesthetics. It&#x27;s little things like, &quot;does this software support the standard keyboard shortcuts for my system?&quot; If CMD+W closes a window in every app <i>except one</i> that&#x27;s kind of a pain. Etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DBeaver – open-source database client</title><url>https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worble</author><text>I find it absolutely baffling how often the prettiness of UI comes up as a HN comment.<p>If you asked me objectively &quot;do you think it&#x27;s pretty?&quot; I&#x27;d probably say no, but never once has this even occurred me when using it since I&#x27;m usually just trying to get work done, which I find it very useful for. It&#x27;s a productivity tool, not an art piece I&#x27;m hanging on my wall.</text></item><item><author>dfee</author><text>I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus.<p>I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al_borland</author><text>Some applications are designed so well, it makes me look for excuses to use them. Other times the good UI makes it faster and easier to get the job done. An ugly UI makes me less likely to want to use an application, and a bad&#x2F;confusing one makes it harder for me to get the job done, especially if it’s used infrequently.<p>UI and UX does matter, even when talking about productivity software.<p>There can also be an element of inspiration and influence. If all my tools are well designed, I’m more likely to set a high bar for whatever I’m building. If I’m using ugly and poorly designed tool. The bar for whatever I’m making will likely drop to the environment I’m around.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/hubble-back-famed-space-telescope-has-new-lease-life-after-computer-swap-appears-fix</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baggachipz</author><text>I remember when this telescope was first launched and deployed, and how its initial lackluster performance was a great source of mockery and derision of &quot;government overspending for nothing&quot; and a general disdain for space-based science. Since then, it has absolutely revolutionized our understanding of the universe and provided untold inspiration for millions (The famous Deep Field image being the prime example). It is a crowning achievement for NASA and should be used as an example any time some elected official questions the spending on research instruments like this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/hubble-back-famed-space-telescope-has-new-lease-life-after-computer-swap-appears-fix</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zinekeller</author><text>The link is fine, but here&#x27;s the news from NASA: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;feature&#x2F;goddard&#x2F;2021&#x2F;operations-underway-to-restore-payload-computer-on-nasas-hubble-space-telescope" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;feature&#x2F;goddard&#x2F;2021&#x2F;operations-underwa...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning</title><url>https://nanonets.com/blog/attention-ocr-for-text-recogntion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlarocco</author><text>Great article, misleading title. It&#x27;s not &quot;from scratch&quot; if it&#x27;s using OpenCV, TensorFlow, and a web service to do all of the work.<p>Imagine, &quot;Bake Cookies From Scratch,&quot; and step one is remove the Pillsbury cookie dough from the freezer...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning</title><url>https://nanonets.com/blog/attention-ocr-for-text-recogntion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ole_gooner</author><text>Hey,<p>This is an a DIY Article on building a license plate detector using attention OCR.<p>We deep dive in with this article on how you can automate your data entry work with the help of deep learning based OCR. It speaks about attention mechanisms, spatial transformer networks and how they are applied for any text recognition task.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations</title><url>http://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmlorenzetti</author><text>The author calls out med students for approaching physics through rote memorization. It reminds me of an experience my older brother and I had with a doctor friend.<p>Our friend, an OB/GYN, mentioned how hard her work is, because "the average baby is born at 3am."<p>We laughed, but then my brother asked, "What does 'average' mean when you have a 24-hour clock? It must mean the modal time or something like that."<p>I contributed that this is an issue in defining average wind directions, as well. The basic problem is that if you record times on a 0-24 hour scale, or wind directions on a 0-360 degree scale, and then naively average the numbers, you get meaningless results (for example, 180 degrees if the wind steadily rotates through every point of the compass).<p>A quick glance at our doctor friend showed she had checked out of the conversation entirely. Possibly she just felt slighted that we were not bowing down in awe at the terrible hours she keeps. But my main impression was that she lives in a world where one receives a piece of information, notes it, and stores it away. And when repeating that received information, one's listeners duly note and store it away.<p>Chasing down the source of the information, calling it into question, relating it to other things in the world-- these just weren't things she seemed to find pleasurable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations</title><url>http://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>I'd laugh a lot harder when people struggle for days and then reach a half-assed piece of some algorithm that's completely well know if I hadn't been there a dozen times myself.<p>Programmers are especially vulnerable to this. Who hasn't made a 4 page case statement when 3 lines of recursion would have done it, especially when starting out? Then again, I've never named my case statements after myself.<p>No matter how brilliant one is, its ridiculously hard to know what you don't know. In fact, sometimes being very advanced in one field makes it doubly hard to think of in one you're poor in.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Every pricing page should have GIFs</title><url>https://tdinh.notion.site/Every-pricing-page-should-have-GIFs-e74d6d363d4c4d33b5ff754452f7ab96</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>franciscop</author><text>Don&#x27;t use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead. They can be made to work in the exact same way as GIFs (autoplay, loop or not, etc) but are a fraction of the bandwidth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nfriedly</author><text>If you do this, please make extra sure there&#x27;s no audio track <i>at all</i>. (Not just silent audio.)<p>Browsers use the presence of an audio track as the trigger to decide whether or not to prevent Windows computers from going to sleep while a video is playing.<p>I filed a bug on Firefox, but they consider it to be pretty low priority: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1684718" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1684718</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Every pricing page should have GIFs</title><url>https://tdinh.notion.site/Every-pricing-page-should-have-GIFs-e74d6d363d4c4d33b5ff754452f7ab96</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>franciscop</author><text>Don&#x27;t use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead. They can be made to work in the exact same way as GIFs (autoplay, loop or not, etc) but are a fraction of the bandwidth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianh</author><text>This is exactly what we do on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soundslice.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soundslice.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;</a> (the minivideos below the main hero section). Would definitely recommend using MP4s instead of GIFs, for the bandwidth savings.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/housing-should-be-affordable-except-when-i-sell-my-house-for-a-million-dollars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>This is like women&#x27;s pants, and women complaining about the lack of pockets.<p>If everyone refused to buy with a HOA, then they would vanish in new builds, and could even be uniformly voted to disband in old builds.<p>But apparently some like HOAs (don&#x27;t ask me why).</text></item><item><author>dataflow</author><text>Sure if you have a separate home on your own dedicated land, but what about everyone with HOAs, property taxes, etc. to deal with? For many people they still have to pay &quot;rent&quot; and still can&#x27;t really do whatever they want with the land and roof, so they don&#x27;t see much of these benefits either, right?</text></item><item><author>notyourwork</author><text>Exactly, I just want my own place. The land and roof to do what I want with. It’s not monopoly for most people.</text></item><item><author>7speter</author><text>At this point, I think people of a certain age would just be happy to have a parcel of land with a roof over their head to call their own as opposed to buying a house as some sort of long term investment whose value keeps accumulating (and whose tax value will continue to increase as a result)</text></item><item><author>datadata</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood how real returns on house prices could be believed to be sustainable. If the value of a house appreciates in terms of purchasing power for some other good at a constant rate, at some point in the far future just a single house would become valuable enough to purchase the entire global supply of the other good.<p>The illusion of house price appreciation is due to historical population growth creating scarcity, and cheaper money allowing for higher and higher leverage. At some point the music has to stop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkrisc</author><text>Like most things in life: it depends. I live in an HOA. We pay about $150 a year, they keep the common areas maintained, coordinate with the county for road and other municipal work, and … that’s basically it. They’re pretty much otherwise invisible and are just my neighbors.<p>Sometimes I even break the rules and put my garbage bins out too early and leave them out too late and I’ve never heard a word about it.<p>There was even a foreclosed house in the neighborhood that was increasingly unmaintained, and the HOA hounded the bank and got them to take better care of the property until it was finally sold.<p>Overall, our HOA is a net positive.<p>I also was part of an HOA for 4-unit condo building I lived in previously. It was perfectly fine and its purpose and necessity was very apparent.<p>I’m sure there are nightmare HOAs out there, just like there are nightmare neighbors in places with no HOA.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/housing-should-be-affordable-except-when-i-sell-my-house-for-a-million-dollars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>This is like women&#x27;s pants, and women complaining about the lack of pockets.<p>If everyone refused to buy with a HOA, then they would vanish in new builds, and could even be uniformly voted to disband in old builds.<p>But apparently some like HOAs (don&#x27;t ask me why).</text></item><item><author>dataflow</author><text>Sure if you have a separate home on your own dedicated land, but what about everyone with HOAs, property taxes, etc. to deal with? For many people they still have to pay &quot;rent&quot; and still can&#x27;t really do whatever they want with the land and roof, so they don&#x27;t see much of these benefits either, right?</text></item><item><author>notyourwork</author><text>Exactly, I just want my own place. The land and roof to do what I want with. It’s not monopoly for most people.</text></item><item><author>7speter</author><text>At this point, I think people of a certain age would just be happy to have a parcel of land with a roof over their head to call their own as opposed to buying a house as some sort of long term investment whose value keeps accumulating (and whose tax value will continue to increase as a result)</text></item><item><author>datadata</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood how real returns on house prices could be believed to be sustainable. If the value of a house appreciates in terms of purchasing power for some other good at a constant rate, at some point in the far future just a single house would become valuable enough to purchase the entire global supply of the other good.<p>The illusion of house price appreciation is due to historical population growth creating scarcity, and cheaper money allowing for higher and higher leverage. At some point the music has to stop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway646465</author><text>Many local municipalities actually require the developer to include a new HOA as part of the permitting process for new development.<p>This is because small local governments are often too cash poor to foot the additional road maintenance, utilities, etc so they want to offload the cost to the developers&#x2F; the developers customers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The U.S.'s $13B aircraft carrier has a toilet problem</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a31929628/uss-ford-toilet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grandinj</author><text>Given the size and complexity of such a device, and the limited number of them that are constructed (which means they are always a one-off), it would be a miracle on the order of Moses parting the Red Sea for one of them to be built __without__ such mistakes happening.<p>In you are a developer, think of the number of times you have seen a successful SAP deployment i.e. on time, on budget, meets specs. Then multiply that by about 10k to reach the complexity of an aircraft carrier.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The U.S.'s $13B aircraft carrier has a toilet problem</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a31929628/uss-ford-toilet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that there&#x27;s so much focus on the toilet problem, and not the other $139 billion in unexpected maintenance costs</text></comment>
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<story><title>Unravelling Konami's Arcade DRM</title><url>http://mon.im/2017/12/konami-arcade-drm.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text><i>After 15 minutes spent trying to decipher this, I simply translated the code into Python and iterated infinitely. Turns out, this is how you perform big-endian addition without actually converting the number to little-endian. An odd way of doing it, but perhaps a compiler optimisation. It turns out they’re actually using AES_CTR, but instead of incrementing the entire counter IV, they’re only using the last 4 bytes. A little strange, but if your encrypted file is 232 </i> 16 bytes long, you have other problems to worry about.*<p>Not all that strange. The &quot;counter block&quot; is normally split into a nonce, which allows you to reuse the same key on multiple messages without generating a duplicate keystream, and a counter; an AES block is 16 bytes wide, so a 64 bit counter is more typical, but I&#x27;ve seen 32.<p>Doing that can even make sense, if you have bounded message sizes (&lt;64 gigs) --- the larger the space you allocate for the nonce, the safer it is to generate nonces randomly, rather than using a system to remember all previous nonces to avoid collisions.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Unravelling Konami's Arcade DRM</title><url>http://mon.im/2017/12/konami-arcade-drm.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>distantsounds</author><text>This stuff has been documented in private circles for over a decade now, and hasn&#x27;t been made public because these games aren&#x27;t available to play outside of owning a cabinet in Japan or acquiring the data via less-legit methods. While it&#x27;s a fun exercise to explore, the real-world application is sadly limited to grey-market implementations that Konami frowns upon, which reinforces why the exposure has been limited.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”</title><url>https://promarket.org/un-study-warns-growing-economic-concentration-leads-rentier-capitalism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>programmingpol</author><text>As a Republican elected official in a southeastern state, I have a front-row seat to what this article points at.<p>The road construction industry used to be a great opportunity for small business people to create for themselves a substantial income. These days, all the companies in our area are owned by conglomerates, backed by billion dollar financial institutions. If you were to risk a million or two or an asphalt plant, they will undercut your prices till you go bankrupt, then inflate their prices once again. The two companies in our area will bid on all of our projects, but it&#x27;s clear they are in cahoots when it comes to their pricing.<p>By our estimates, the taxpayers are overpaying by at least 15% - 20%. In my mind, this robs others of opportunity and transfers wealth from tax-paying citizens to billion dollar companies.<p>No one points this out because the road builders give a lot to politicians. Go against them, and they&#x27;ll spend enough to have the public label you a RINO which, in this neck of the woods, can get you booted from office.<p>I&#x27;ve wished for some time that someone could create a modular asphalt plant that can be packed up on trucks and taken to wherever the job site is. I think companies like this could help regulate prices and make a lot of money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fny</author><text>Your problem is that big business has conflated free-market capitalism with the right to monopoly and convinced your constituency that anti-trust regulation is destructive to a free market when, in truth, oligopoly leads to corruption of the free-market and a farce of capitalism.<p>You need to work on educating your citizenship gradually until they understand the conditions wherein capitalism actually works. That way they might see why breaking up big busines and preventing M&amp;A is often the Right Thing™️ and conservative to do.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”</title><url>https://promarket.org/un-study-warns-growing-economic-concentration-leads-rentier-capitalism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>programmingpol</author><text>As a Republican elected official in a southeastern state, I have a front-row seat to what this article points at.<p>The road construction industry used to be a great opportunity for small business people to create for themselves a substantial income. These days, all the companies in our area are owned by conglomerates, backed by billion dollar financial institutions. If you were to risk a million or two or an asphalt plant, they will undercut your prices till you go bankrupt, then inflate their prices once again. The two companies in our area will bid on all of our projects, but it&#x27;s clear they are in cahoots when it comes to their pricing.<p>By our estimates, the taxpayers are overpaying by at least 15% - 20%. In my mind, this robs others of opportunity and transfers wealth from tax-paying citizens to billion dollar companies.<p>No one points this out because the road builders give a lot to politicians. Go against them, and they&#x27;ll spend enough to have the public label you a RINO which, in this neck of the woods, can get you booted from office.<p>I&#x27;ve wished for some time that someone could create a modular asphalt plant that can be packed up on trucks and taken to wherever the job site is. I think companies like this could help regulate prices and make a lot of money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>How do you keep the big companies from making the contract awards process too difficult for entrant players. I&#x27;ve seeb see this, for example, in [TLA] contracting where in practice some players hire full time staff at 100k+ to even get all the forms correct.<p>And then if the contracting award process is too easy, how do you fix the problem of keeping fraudsters out and the contractors accountable?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow</title><url>https://jlericson.com/2023/07/26/not_understanding.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn.<p>More people needs to understand this. It&#x27;s fine being a small(ish) business that turns a profit and provides a service that&#x27;s beneficial to society. You don&#x27;t need to be a billion dollar company to be important or do great work.<p>DHH talked about this 15 years ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY</a></text></item><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>&gt; In May I wrote about Stack Overflow&#x27;s business, which lost $42 million over 6 months and had just laid off 10% of its employees. Since then, the company&#x27;s fiscal year-end results came out. Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023.<p>Thank god Wikipedia isn’t run like Stack Overflow. As an end user, they have pretty much the same value proposition: user generated answers to my questions. Wikipedia is still doing well, meanwhile it seems SO is constantly being driven off a cliff by bimbos in management.<p>Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn. SO is an information repository. They need to accept that stop trying to “enhance” it with more crap because they don’t realize their median user is a junior dev who really just needs to serialize a Java object and isn’t going to pay or put up with any LLM-generated nonsense.<p>SO doesn’t need large language models. What they really need is a better model of what answers are good, what answers are outdated, and what answers should be expanded to include more info (and sometimes, what answers should be slimmed down a bit). Turn the top answer to popular questions into a wiki so that everyone can update it. And then add backlinks for questions which were closed for being “duplicates”. It solves so many problems SO has.<p>Another thing. This “comments aren’t for extended discussion” nonsense needs to go too. Any question could easily include a Reddit-style discussion tab to facilitate discussion. I’m sure much of it would be at least as valuable as the answers themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>But the whole &quot;Tech&quot; economy is based on the premise that everything must grow indefinitely and indefinitely means that at some point will be a unicorn.<p>Europe is considered economical failure because there are not enough unicorns, there are lists on Twitter with list of unicorns per country that are supposed to show the decline of Europe. No matter if Europe has some of the best living condition for large group of people.<p>IMHO this thing is ideological, I even feel uneasy mentioning this because it is something we are not supposed to talk since it can start a flamewar and flamewars are how you get your account restricted.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow</title><url>https://jlericson.com/2023/07/26/not_understanding.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn.<p>More people needs to understand this. It&#x27;s fine being a small(ish) business that turns a profit and provides a service that&#x27;s beneficial to society. You don&#x27;t need to be a billion dollar company to be important or do great work.<p>DHH talked about this 15 years ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY</a></text></item><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>&gt; In May I wrote about Stack Overflow&#x27;s business, which lost $42 million over 6 months and had just laid off 10% of its employees. Since then, the company&#x27;s fiscal year-end results came out. Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023.<p>Thank god Wikipedia isn’t run like Stack Overflow. As an end user, they have pretty much the same value proposition: user generated answers to my questions. Wikipedia is still doing well, meanwhile it seems SO is constantly being driven off a cliff by bimbos in management.<p>Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn. SO is an information repository. They need to accept that stop trying to “enhance” it with more crap because they don’t realize their median user is a junior dev who really just needs to serialize a Java object and isn’t going to pay or put up with any LLM-generated nonsense.<p>SO doesn’t need large language models. What they really need is a better model of what answers are good, what answers are outdated, and what answers should be expanded to include more info (and sometimes, what answers should be slimmed down a bit). Turn the top answer to popular questions into a wiki so that everyone can update it. And then add backlinks for questions which were closed for being “duplicates”. It solves so many problems SO has.<p>Another thing. This “comments aren’t for extended discussion” nonsense needs to go too. Any question could easily include a Reddit-style discussion tab to facilitate discussion. I’m sure much of it would be at least as valuable as the answers themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>The problem is ambitious management on <i>all</i> levels. When you&#x27;re running a billion dollar business, you can extract far better compensation (base, bonus, stock options) than if you&#x27;re running a hundred million dollar business.<p>The obvious solution is a compensation cap, not just because CEO comp has <i>exploded</i> while lower rung compensation has virtually stagnated, but also because it might put an end to the constant drive of companies to just gobble up competitors.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epi.org&#x2F;publication&#x2F;ceo-pay-in-2020&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epi.org&#x2F;publication&#x2F;ceo-pay-in-2020&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Slack S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764925/000162828019004786/slacks-1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>It’s still mind boggling that all these unicorns haven’t found a way to make money even after being in business for years and having a mature product. It’s a strange world.</text></item><item><author>neom</author><text>&quot;Our revenue was $105.2 million, $220.5 million, and $400.6 million in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively, representing annual growth of 110% and 82%, respectively.<p>Our growth is global with international revenue representing 34%, 34%, and 36% of total revenue in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively.<p>We continue to invest in growing our business to capitalize on our market opportunity. As a result, we incurred net losses of $146.9 million, $140.1 million, and $138.9 million in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively.<p>Our net losses have been decreasing as a percentage of revenue over time as revenue growth has outpaced the growth in operating expenses.&quot;<p>Nice work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cupofjoakim</author><text>Well, these guys do have a good way to make money. Enterprise contracts are worth their weight in gold. As you could see from the quote, their revenue has increased more than their losses - which mean that they are on their way to become profitable. Arguably they could be now, if they didn&#x27;t invest in growth as much.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Slack S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764925/000162828019004786/slacks-1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>It’s still mind boggling that all these unicorns haven’t found a way to make money even after being in business for years and having a mature product. It’s a strange world.</text></item><item><author>neom</author><text>&quot;Our revenue was $105.2 million, $220.5 million, and $400.6 million in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively, representing annual growth of 110% and 82%, respectively.<p>Our growth is global with international revenue representing 34%, 34%, and 36% of total revenue in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively.<p>We continue to invest in growing our business to capitalize on our market opportunity. As a result, we incurred net losses of $146.9 million, $140.1 million, and $138.9 million in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively.<p>Our net losses have been decreasing as a percentage of revenue over time as revenue growth has outpaced the growth in operating expenses.&quot;<p>Nice work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonyedgecombe</author><text>I think it&#x27;s more mind boggling that people will continue to invest in them on the basis of a vague promise of profitability in the distant future. Turning a profit is much harder than buying market share.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Passwords For Your Facebook Account</title><url>http://www.labnol.org/internet/facebook-account-passwords/21241/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomkinstinch</author><text>This raises several questions:<p>Have they always done this, or is this new?<p>For those of us who haven't changed our Facebook password in years, does this mean that we don't get this option, or do we? And if we do, is Facebook storing our passwords in plaintext?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raquo</author><text>You don't need to store the password in plaintext, you can just capture the password from a successful login attempt and generate new acceptable hashes from different variations of it. That way you'd gradually add this feature for most of the active accounts.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Passwords For Your Facebook Account</title><url>http://www.labnol.org/internet/facebook-account-passwords/21241/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomkinstinch</author><text>This raises several questions:<p>Have they always done this, or is this new?<p>For those of us who haven't changed our Facebook password in years, does this mean that we don't get this option, or do we? And if we do, is Facebook storing our passwords in plaintext?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mille562</author><text>They are probably still storing hashed passwords. It would require hashing your login attempt 3 times: 1) exactly you typed it 2) forcing first character to be lower case 3) inverting the case of all letters.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/856685/10206d3c9d10daf2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullspace</author><text>The last email from Greg K-H is a gem for many reasons.[1]<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>And to be a bit more clear about this, having other subsystem
maintainers drop their unwanted code on this subsystem, _without_ even
asking me first is just not very nice. All of a sudden I am now
responsible for this stuff, without me even being asked about it.
Should I start throwing random drivers into the kvm subsystem for them
to maintain because I don&#x27;t want to? :)<p>If there&#x27;s really no other way to do this, than to put it in staging,
let&#x27;s talk about it. But saying &quot;this must go here&quot; is not a
conversation...<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>I deeply cherish the fact this stuff is out in public. It helps more junior software devs learn the softer skills.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;ml&#x2F;linux-kernel&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;ml&#x2F;linux-kernel&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Docker</title><url>https://computer.rip/2023-03-24-docker.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Julesman</author><text>I know I will get downvoted for this as off topic, but this is just the latest blog we&#x27;ve seen in this top 30 of many that show ZERO regard for legibility. Yes, I can zoom my browser, but c&#x27;mon.<p>A 13px font for paragraph text is nearly hostile. It&#x27;s not that legible to people with perfect eyesight, but then it&#x27;s not at all legible to anyone with imperfect eyesight. It&#x27;s like saying you don&#x27;t care if anyone who reads your blog would struggle doing that. And given how very simple it is to change, it&#x27;s kind of insulting, specifically given how many years usability has been a thing.<p>10 years ago I wouldn&#x27;t have written this comment. But now this isn&#x27;t how you behave if you have an audience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globular-toast</author><text>This website doesn&#x27;t even set a font size. The font size is just your browser&#x27;s default. You have your font size set too small. This website is one of the few examples of doing it right. How can a web developer know what your requirements are? Only you can know that. There are many bad things about the modern web but fortunately being able to set your own font size is still a thing.<p>Firefox even lets you set a minimum font size. And there is an option to stop websites overriding your choices which helps with sites like HN (but not the one you are complaining about) which explicitly set a small font size.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Docker</title><url>https://computer.rip/2023-03-24-docker.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Julesman</author><text>I know I will get downvoted for this as off topic, but this is just the latest blog we&#x27;ve seen in this top 30 of many that show ZERO regard for legibility. Yes, I can zoom my browser, but c&#x27;mon.<p>A 13px font for paragraph text is nearly hostile. It&#x27;s not that legible to people with perfect eyesight, but then it&#x27;s not at all legible to anyone with imperfect eyesight. It&#x27;s like saying you don&#x27;t care if anyone who reads your blog would struggle doing that. And given how very simple it is to change, it&#x27;s kind of insulting, specifically given how many years usability has been a thing.<p>10 years ago I wouldn&#x27;t have written this comment. But now this isn&#x27;t how you behave if you have an audience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prmoustache</author><text>Not sure what you are talking about, the font seems much bigger than the one on hacker news and pretty standard sized for a website or a desktop (which usually has default font size at 11 or 12px).<p>Besides:<p>- Nearly if not all desktops allow to scale. If your eyeseight is that bad you should set it at desktop level anyway.<p>- All browsers and terminal emulators allows one to use his own defined fonts and size.<p>- Nearly if not all browsers and terminal emulators now allows you to zoom dynamically for that odd website and keep that preference.<p>- Firefox has reader mode, I guess similar extensions exists for most browsers.<p>&gt; And given how very simple it is to change, it&#x27;s kind of insulting, s<p>Changing by which size? 16px, 32px, 64px? There is no single form of universality regarding eyesight. And I would argue that if your eyeseight is bad, the solution are prescription glasses, not websites with huge fonts.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Openwrt 18.06.2 released</title><url>https://openwrt.org/releases/18.06/notes-18.06.2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sexyrouter</author><text>After getting my TPlink router bricked and not having soldering skills for Serial UART. I got fed up and built my own router which never gets bricked:<p>I bought Orange Pi3 (38 USD) from AliExpress.<p>Orange Pi 3 H6 2GB LPDDR3 8GB EMMC Flash Gigabyte Ethernet Port AP6256 WIFI BT5.0 4*USB3.0 Support Android 7.0, Ubuntu, Debian
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s.click.aliexpress.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;bfPcZFXS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s.click.aliexpress.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;bfPcZFXS</a><p>It has Gigabyte ethernet Port and USB3 capable of delivering 5gbps. (Superspeed Mode)<p>And I bought 1300mbps WiFi dongle (15 USD) from AliExpress:<p>CF-WU782AC USB 3.0 1300Mbps Network Card Wireless WiFi Adapter+Dual Antenna High Speed 5Gbps Net card
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s.click.aliexpress.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;cGawgQRQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s.click.aliexpress.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;cGawgQRQ</a><p>I used this to build a router.
Setup Hostapd + dnsmasq<p>Alternatively run Pihole and your custom iptable rules<p>I get around 900Mbps (5Ghz AC network) on WiFi to all my rooms.<p>Build your own router!<p>Why do you guys still buy overpriced routers? What advantage do you&#x27;ve over my custom built one?</text></item><item><author>bubblethink</author><text>Openwrt is so nice. Despite small teams and budgets, they power so many routers and are also good at research and new features. The sqm&#x2F;fq_codel stuff alone makes it worth running openwrt. If you are not familiar with it, go to dslreports.com and run a speedtest. If you get a poor bufferbloat score, openwrt can help. A lot of vendors (even big enterprise ones) use openwrt builds for their products, but don&#x27;t provide updates, documentation or sources to their customers. You&#x27;ll see a lot of devices running old openwrt in the wild.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3xblah</author><text>This is a provocative comment although it begs the question:<p>Can you easily run OpenWRT on Orange PI 3 immediately after purchase?<p>If not, I think that could be a factor in why someone might pay more. They might want to leverage the work of OpenWRT developers.<p>I too recently picked up another pocket-sized SBC with Gigabit Ethernet. Compared to Orange Pi 3 it has two additional Ethernet ports, better antennas (no dongle needed), more TF card storage (128GB vs 64GB), well-tested OpenWRT support and everything to build from scratch is on Github. Like Orange Pi 3 it uses U-boot and one can easily recover from accidental bricking without opening it up.<p>Also has customer support, automatic updates and an additional GUI which are not things I needed but probably increased the price.<p>Orange Pi 3 has a GPU, HDMI port and jacks for audio and composite video. Is the buyer intending to &quot;build a custom router&quot; paying for specs she does not need?<p>What is the estimated power consumption for Orange Pi 3?<p>What are some examples of &quot;overpriced routers&quot;?<p>Imagine for the sake of argument we posted specs for various SBC&#x27;s here without giving the &quot;brand name&quot; and let readers bid on what they would be willing to pay. Assuming readers could not see each others&#x27; bids, how widely would the bids vary?<p>Is each spec worth the same to each buyer? Do all buyers have exactly the same needs?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Openwrt 18.06.2 released</title><url>https://openwrt.org/releases/18.06/notes-18.06.2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sexyrouter</author><text>After getting my TPlink router bricked and not having soldering skills for Serial UART. I got fed up and built my own router which never gets bricked:<p>I bought Orange Pi3 (38 USD) from AliExpress.<p>Orange Pi 3 H6 2GB LPDDR3 8GB EMMC Flash Gigabyte Ethernet Port AP6256 WIFI BT5.0 4*USB3.0 Support Android 7.0, Ubuntu, Debian
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s.click.aliexpress.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;bfPcZFXS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s.click.aliexpress.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;bfPcZFXS</a><p>It has Gigabyte ethernet Port and USB3 capable of delivering 5gbps. (Superspeed Mode)<p>And I bought 1300mbps WiFi dongle (15 USD) from AliExpress:<p>CF-WU782AC USB 3.0 1300Mbps Network Card Wireless WiFi Adapter+Dual Antenna High Speed 5Gbps Net card
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s.click.aliexpress.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;cGawgQRQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s.click.aliexpress.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;cGawgQRQ</a><p>I used this to build a router.
Setup Hostapd + dnsmasq<p>Alternatively run Pihole and your custom iptable rules<p>I get around 900Mbps (5Ghz AC network) on WiFi to all my rooms.<p>Build your own router!<p>Why do you guys still buy overpriced routers? What advantage do you&#x27;ve over my custom built one?</text></item><item><author>bubblethink</author><text>Openwrt is so nice. Despite small teams and budgets, they power so many routers and are also good at research and new features. The sqm&#x2F;fq_codel stuff alone makes it worth running openwrt. If you are not familiar with it, go to dslreports.com and run a speedtest. If you get a poor bufferbloat score, openwrt can help. A lot of vendors (even big enterprise ones) use openwrt builds for their products, but don&#x27;t provide updates, documentation or sources to their customers. You&#x27;ll see a lot of devices running old openwrt in the wild.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>A couple of reasons. First, up until recently you couldn’t buy good hardware to build your own router, that was cheap and had gigabit or faster Ethernet. Second, support. If something happens to me or I am traveling, I want others to be able to figure out wtf is going on. Third is that I might want more than one AP and I might want to install them in places that are not great for home built looking hardware.<p>My current setup is a TP-Link router with OpenWRT, and UniFi access points for Wi-Fi. The UniFis are really nice because they are PoE, so I only need to run a single wire to where they are installed.<p>That’s not to say that what you did was wrong. It’s super cool! Just not a one size fits all solution.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims</title><url>https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403191808</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyEgswuCsn</author><text>So it sounds like it&#x27;s Simpson&#x27;s paradox [1] at work. I had always wondered why many people are slow to accept self-driving cars despite the claims of them being statistically safer. I think that explains it --- to make consumers confident about the self-driving technologies, it is not enough for them to be able to handle the &quot;easy&quot; kind of driving (e.g. on highway and under relatively good visibility conditions) better than humans; they need to demonstrate that they can drive better than humans in the most challenging driving environments too.<p>I guess this is the classic scenario where human intuition is defeated by carefully presented statistics.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simpson%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simpson%27s_paradox</a></text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>Underlying study is here. [1] Full disclosure, I co-wrote the piece for The Daily Beast [2] that originally suggested that Tesla&#x27;s methodology was seriously flawed. I am not a Tesla-hater though — I just thought it was odd that the company was playing quite so fast and loose with their safety claims.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engrxiv.org&#x2F;preprint&#x2F;view&#x2F;1973&#x2F;3986" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engrxiv.org&#x2F;preprint&#x2F;view&#x2F;1973&#x2F;3986</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;how-tesla-and-elon-musk-exaggeraged-safety-claims-about-autopilot-and-cars" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;how-tesla-and-elon-musk-exagge...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oblio</author><text>The thing is, you don&#x27;t even need Tesla &quot;self driving&quot; for that.<p>Adaptive cruise control, tech we&#x27;ve had for what, 20+ years? is more than enough for most highways, it takes out ~80% of the stress&#x2F;boredom of driving, especially since lane changes are minimal and curves are gentle.<p>The hard parts of driving (aka not highways) are the real problem, as expected. We solved the easy parts in 2000 and who knows if we&#x27;ll solve the hard parts by 2050.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims</title><url>https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403191808</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyEgswuCsn</author><text>So it sounds like it&#x27;s Simpson&#x27;s paradox [1] at work. I had always wondered why many people are slow to accept self-driving cars despite the claims of them being statistically safer. I think that explains it --- to make consumers confident about the self-driving technologies, it is not enough for them to be able to handle the &quot;easy&quot; kind of driving (e.g. on highway and under relatively good visibility conditions) better than humans; they need to demonstrate that they can drive better than humans in the most challenging driving environments too.<p>I guess this is the classic scenario where human intuition is defeated by carefully presented statistics.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simpson%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simpson%27s_paradox</a></text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>Underlying study is here. [1] Full disclosure, I co-wrote the piece for The Daily Beast [2] that originally suggested that Tesla&#x27;s methodology was seriously flawed. I am not a Tesla-hater though — I just thought it was odd that the company was playing quite so fast and loose with their safety claims.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engrxiv.org&#x2F;preprint&#x2F;view&#x2F;1973&#x2F;3986" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engrxiv.org&#x2F;preprint&#x2F;view&#x2F;1973&#x2F;3986</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;how-tesla-and-elon-musk-exaggeraged-safety-claims-about-autopilot-and-cars" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;how-tesla-and-elon-musk-exagge...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wilde</author><text>I think traditional auto makers have done a much better job of communicating to consumers what the tech can actually do. We don’t have self driving cars (which implies that they can drive in those harder conditions). We have cars that are good at lane keeping on freeways.<p>I wish Tesla would celebrate that victory rather than double down on lies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Deno 1.9</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/v1.9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>When Node first released its biggest selling point was being able to reuse web APIs. It also filled in gaps for APIs that weren&#x27;t standard in browsers. Then browsers started to add these APIs, and some of Node&#x27;s implementations naturally diverged (aka the idiosyncrasies that you mention).<p>Deno has the advantage that they are starting from a clean slate without the burden of legacy APIs, but how long will that hold for?</text></item><item><author>maga</author><text>The often overlooked selling point of Deno that I find most compelling is the (re)use of web APIs. As a full-stack dev writing isomorphic code and libraries, dealing with ideosincracies of nodejs has been a pain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>JavaScript itself has gone through about a 10-year transition period from a toy language for writing quick scripts to a full-on general-purpose programming language. It didn&#x27;t even have a <i>module</i> system when Node launched.<p>So I strongly doubt the next 10 years will be anywhere near as tumultuous as the past 10. It&#x27;s very possible that right now is just a much better time to be establishing a JS runtime.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Deno 1.9</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/v1.9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>When Node first released its biggest selling point was being able to reuse web APIs. It also filled in gaps for APIs that weren&#x27;t standard in browsers. Then browsers started to add these APIs, and some of Node&#x27;s implementations naturally diverged (aka the idiosyncrasies that you mention).<p>Deno has the advantage that they are starting from a clean slate without the burden of legacy APIs, but how long will that hold for?</text></item><item><author>maga</author><text>The often overlooked selling point of Deno that I find most compelling is the (re)use of web APIs. As a full-stack dev writing isomorphic code and libraries, dealing with ideosincracies of nodejs has been a pain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bijection</author><text>You could argue that the apis in question are more mature now than when Node was first released.<p>Either way, if Deno is one day replaced by something else, say &#x27;Done&#x27; to keep the naming convention, that won&#x27;t refute the use everyone will have gotten out of Deno in the mean time, in the same way that Deno doesn&#x27;t refute the use everyone has already gotten out of Node.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Windows 8.1 Preview</title><url>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to see Microsoft unashamedly exercising what&#x27;s left of their monopoly power to force market share of unrelated products up. Defaulting storage to SkyDrive, integrating Bing as a default search every time someone does any kind of search, even tying the windows login itself to a microsoft account, integrating Skype as a default installed app and giving <i>no opt out</i> once you accept linking your Windows login. I notice they&#x27;ve made it extremely difficult to set Google as your default search engine in IE (no default search provider for it, can be quite hard to find in the search provider list).<p>It&#x27;s the kind of thing that used to get them in a lot of trouble. I wonder if they are past this or whether they will get rapped on the knuckles for this at some point?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Windows 8.1 Preview</title><url>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpursley</author><text>This is actually quite an impressive update.<p>People like to dismiss MS, but they really understand iterative development.</text></comment>
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<story><title>FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition</title><url>http://www.fizzbuzz.enterprises/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lotkowskim</author><text>I am surprised that the Enterprise edition is missing the option to export as an Excel file, eagerly waiting for future releases.</text></comment>
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<story><title>FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition</title><url>http://www.fizzbuzz.enterprises/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btown</author><text>AI-is-the-new-Java edition: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joelgrus.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;23&#x2F;fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joelgrus.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;23&#x2F;fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font</title><url>https://www.codingfont.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robertakarobin</author><text>Is it just me, or does it not appear to be working for anyone else? It just shows &quot;You have chosen the winner&quot; and none of the buttons seem to have an effect.<p>Edit: Clicking &#x27;Restart Tournament&#x27; seems to spawn a worker that pushes my CPU over 100%. Open source your code, perhaps?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wentin</author><text>Sorry I went to sleep and woke to the app not working. Stupidly used Google Fonts API when I really don&#x27;t have to, was being lazy. It is fixed now! Please try again?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font</title><url>https://www.codingfont.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robertakarobin</author><text>Is it just me, or does it not appear to be working for anyone else? It just shows &quot;You have chosen the winner&quot; and none of the buttons seem to have an effect.<p>Edit: Clicking &#x27;Restart Tournament&#x27; seems to spawn a worker that pushes my CPU over 100%. Open source your code, perhaps?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whalesalad</author><text>This is the ultimate troll - your winning coding font is times new roman!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cling: an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM</title><url>https://github.com/vgvassilev/cling/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rhapsodyv</author><text>I think every language would be more productive if it were interpreted at development and compiled at production.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cling: an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM</title><url>https://github.com/vgvassilev/cling/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buffportion</author><text>Link to previous HN submission 2 years ago (it has moved on since then):<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4373334" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4373334</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Hardening attack surfaces with formally proven binary format parsers</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/hardening-attack-surfaces-with-formally-proven-binary-format-parsers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dataangel</author><text>I find it very impressive that the work actually made it into the Windows kernel. AFAIK the Linux kernel doesn&#x27;t have formally verified parsers for any of the wire formats it deals with, this seems like an improvement on actually-in-use-outside-the-lab state of the art.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hardening attack surfaces with formally proven binary format parsers</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/hardening-attack-surfaces-with-formally-proven-binary-format-parsers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tbrownaw</author><text> &gt; <i>Software artifacts. The application of our toolchain to
Windows includes proprietary source code and is not publicly available. However, the 3D toolchain, including the EverParse libraries, the F programming language, Z3 SMT solver,
and the KaRaMeL C code generator are all open source and
developed publicly on GitHub. Documentation, code samples, and links to our latest tool releases are available from
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;project-everest.github.io&#x2F;everparse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;project-everest.github.io&#x2F;everparse</a>.</i><p>From the linked paper.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely</title><url>https://foodtank.com/news/2017/06/seaweed-reduce-cow-methane-emission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_X</author><text>It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because right now the West coast from San Francisco North to at least Fort Bragg, has been suffering a kelp die off of great proportions.<p>No one is quite sure whats going on, but apparently due to climate change, or at least warmer ocean water from further South that we&#x27;ve had for the last 5 or more years, has caused the kelp to die off at a rapid rate, to the point of denuding whole sections of ocean bottom.<p>The whole sea urchin industry has been devastated, and those folks received Federal Disaster funds last year to make it through this year, but things are still bleak.<p>It&#x27;s as big a catastrophe as the Australian coral die off, yet it&#x27;s not getting much press here in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>Per various articles I could find on the West Coast Kelp Die Off, it appears that multiple years of warm El Nino waters, a massive starfish wasting disease, and urchin boom resulted in a 3-pronged assault on kelp populations. Now that the El Nino waters have cooled, and the starfish population is returning to normal, 2 of the 3 stress factors are being reduced. The last--the urchin population--is being controlled through a combination of the regrowing starfish population and man-made efforts like urchin vacuums.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;science&#x2F;1357320&#x2F;scientists-and-fishermen-scramble-to-save-northern-californias-kelp-forests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;science&#x2F;1357320&#x2F;scientists-and-fisherme...</a>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely</title><url>https://foodtank.com/news/2017/06/seaweed-reduce-cow-methane-emission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_X</author><text>It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because right now the West coast from San Francisco North to at least Fort Bragg, has been suffering a kelp die off of great proportions.<p>No one is quite sure whats going on, but apparently due to climate change, or at least warmer ocean water from further South that we&#x27;ve had for the last 5 or more years, has caused the kelp to die off at a rapid rate, to the point of denuding whole sections of ocean bottom.<p>The whole sea urchin industry has been devastated, and those folks received Federal Disaster funds last year to make it through this year, but things are still bleak.<p>It&#x27;s as big a catastrophe as the Australian coral die off, yet it&#x27;s not getting much press here in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ransom1538</author><text>&quot;catastrophe as the Australian coral die off,&quot;<p>I went deep sea fishing in Florida a few months back. It took <i>forever</i> to get to a place where there were actual fish. I asked the captain why, basically, he knows where there are large shipping container wrecks and that is where all the sea life is.<p>Thing is, building coral and sea life is super simple [same with killing it]. You literally can just lay down wire grids and get things moving [1].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017-11-26&#x2F;scientists-discover-game-changer-for-great-barrier-reef&#x2F;9190200" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017-11-26&#x2F;scientists-discover-ga...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Substack is laying off 14% of its staff</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/business/media/substack-layoffs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonny_eh</author><text>I&#x27;m kinda surprised that a 13 employee layoff at a 90 employee company is newsworthy enough for the NYTimes.</text></item><item><author>andreyk</author><text>Some more details:
&quot;Substack laid off 13 of its 90 employees on Wednesday, part of an effort to conserve cash amid an industrywide funding crunch for start-ups.<p>Substack’s chief executive, Chris Best, told employees that the cuts affected staff members responsible for human resources and writer support functions, among others, according to a person familiar with the discussion.<p>Mr. Best told employees on Wednesday that Substack had decided to cut jobs so it could fund its operations from its own revenue without raising additional financing in a difficult market, according to the person with knowledge of the discussion.&quot;<p>So to be fair to Substack, while their valuation is crazy it&#x27;s not like they are burning through VC money with wild abandon. Nice to see some restraint instead of a CEO feeding delusional hype.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>The NYT editorial line despises Substack and prays for it to fail. It&#x27;s certainly important news for people who are interested in Substack that they&#x27;re failing to make money, though.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Substack is laying off 14% of its staff</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/business/media/substack-layoffs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonny_eh</author><text>I&#x27;m kinda surprised that a 13 employee layoff at a 90 employee company is newsworthy enough for the NYTimes.</text></item><item><author>andreyk</author><text>Some more details:
&quot;Substack laid off 13 of its 90 employees on Wednesday, part of an effort to conserve cash amid an industrywide funding crunch for start-ups.<p>Substack’s chief executive, Chris Best, told employees that the cuts affected staff members responsible for human resources and writer support functions, among others, according to a person familiar with the discussion.<p>Mr. Best told employees on Wednesday that Substack had decided to cut jobs so it could fund its operations from its own revenue without raising additional financing in a difficult market, according to the person with knowledge of the discussion.&quot;<p>So to be fair to Substack, while their valuation is crazy it&#x27;s not like they are burning through VC money with wild abandon. Nice to see some restraint instead of a CEO feeding delusional hype.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>Journalists at the NYT are probably feeling some schadenfreude about it because substack is often positioned as a kind of anti-mainstream-media website.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads and Node.js</title><url>http://betamode.de/2015/11/23/what-happens-if-your-wordpress-is-hacked/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshfraser</author><text>I have a Wordpress plugin with ~100k active installs. Recently I&#x27;ve started getting emails from people wanting to buy the plugin from me. I&#x27;m assuming they want it for a botnet or other nefarious purposes. I&#x27;m not sure if Wordpress have stepped up their monitoring of plugins or not, but in past there was little oversight of the plugins and adding a direct backdoor to those 100k servers would be trivial, not to mention the millions of people that could be reached via JavaScript injection.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads and Node.js</title><url>http://betamode.de/2015/11/23/what-happens-if-your-wordpress-is-hacked/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eljamon</author><text>tl;dr <i>Someone hacks WordPress websites and includes strange .js files that a) lead to fake Flash downloads that install a botnet on your PC and b) abuse your browser to get URLs from a Google search.</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>Kill Hollywood? Let's fix politics instead: kill lobbying.</title><text>I read the 'Kill Hollywood' RFC, gave it some thought and came to a conclusion that killing Hollywood is not a Value Adding Intention (tm). I understand that the RFC is a response to SOPA&#38;co which is obviously pushed by Hollywood.<p>My thoughts went: "Should we-the-people retaliate against some influential business (sector) every time they successfully lobby for their own interests against the interest of the wider public?"<p>On which I concluded: "No we should fix politics instead, that's where the problem originates, that's where we can fix it once and for all."<p>And the most obvious fix I see is to criminalize lobbying (= power to the wealthy) as it is against democracy (= power to the people) in its very nature.<p>Just to name a few sectors that successfully lobbied for changes that (imho) harmed the wider public: banks, car industry, big-oil, big-pharma, big-food, military contractors.<p>Some simple math: if business (sector) X puts in 5M for a lobby on issue Y; the probability of success on their lobby campaign is 0.5; then the payoff of the campaign is at least 10M. Now where do those 10M come from? From everyone that is not X. In other words: the honest people --who do not try to influence politics outside of the public discussion-- lose from the wealthy mega-corps.<p>Lobbying is currently a fast growing industry itself:<p>http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/01/washington-lobbying-grew-to-32.html<p>So please YC use your influence to fight the real bad, and "Kill the Lobby" with an RFC :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>JunkDNA</author><text>I recognize that Lawrence Lessig is beating this particular drum lately, and he's probably way smarter than me. However, I can't escape the idea that money is the mother's milk of politics. It's like water in that it always finds a way through an obstacle, no matter how much you put in its way. If you eliminate overt lobbying, organizations will find a way to route around whatever laws are in place to lobby covertly, in ways that are likely much harder for the average person to detect.<p>Furthermore, I'd point out that, depending on the form of a ban on lobbying, the recent SOPA protest might not have been able to happen. Google might have been prevented from blacking out their page as would Wikipedia, lest they run afoul of anti-lobbying laws. That's something worth thinking about.<p>It's also not just the business sector that has lobbyists. There are tons of other groups. The Sierra Club and NRA are two biggies that come to mind. As an individual, it's much more efficient for me to throw in with one of those groups to ensure my interests are protected than it is to do it myself. Both are exceptionally effective at getting what they want because they spend all day keeping an eye on elected (and unelected) government officials and their continued existence hinges on their success.<p>I'm not arguing that we have to <i>like</i> this current situation, but it's hard for me to think of a <i>better</i> scenario that doesn't infringe on the rights of people to assemble as a group and voice their opininon via financial support, advertising, etc... Just because some of the time we don't personally like the result of lots of lobbyists, doesn't mean this is the root of all evil. In the end, all the money in the world isn't going to compel ordinary citizens to vote for someone who doesn't have their interests in mind. Exhibit A would be John Corzine who had an incredible fortune at his disposal in his reelection bid as governor of NJ and <i>still</i> lost to Chris Christie in 2009.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peterb</author><text>Bad laws are stopped when citizens participate in the political process. I think people are realizing this. Social networks like twitter, facebook, reddit and hacker news makes organizing easier. They also make it easier to hear alternative voices (e.g. Lessig, Tim O'Reilly) and criticisms of the mainstream media. The best way to handle bad actor lobbyists is to counter them with large numbers of organized, informed citizens who participate.<p>I'm hoping Dodd was right and this was a watershed moment.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Kill Hollywood? Let's fix politics instead: kill lobbying.</title><text>I read the 'Kill Hollywood' RFC, gave it some thought and came to a conclusion that killing Hollywood is not a Value Adding Intention (tm). I understand that the RFC is a response to SOPA&#38;co which is obviously pushed by Hollywood.<p>My thoughts went: "Should we-the-people retaliate against some influential business (sector) every time they successfully lobby for their own interests against the interest of the wider public?"<p>On which I concluded: "No we should fix politics instead, that's where the problem originates, that's where we can fix it once and for all."<p>And the most obvious fix I see is to criminalize lobbying (= power to the wealthy) as it is against democracy (= power to the people) in its very nature.<p>Just to name a few sectors that successfully lobbied for changes that (imho) harmed the wider public: banks, car industry, big-oil, big-pharma, big-food, military contractors.<p>Some simple math: if business (sector) X puts in 5M for a lobby on issue Y; the probability of success on their lobby campaign is 0.5; then the payoff of the campaign is at least 10M. Now where do those 10M come from? From everyone that is not X. In other words: the honest people --who do not try to influence politics outside of the public discussion-- lose from the wealthy mega-corps.<p>Lobbying is currently a fast growing industry itself:<p>http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/01/washington-lobbying-grew-to-32.html<p>So please YC use your influence to fight the real bad, and "Kill the Lobby" with an RFC :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>JunkDNA</author><text>I recognize that Lawrence Lessig is beating this particular drum lately, and he's probably way smarter than me. However, I can't escape the idea that money is the mother's milk of politics. It's like water in that it always finds a way through an obstacle, no matter how much you put in its way. If you eliminate overt lobbying, organizations will find a way to route around whatever laws are in place to lobby covertly, in ways that are likely much harder for the average person to detect.<p>Furthermore, I'd point out that, depending on the form of a ban on lobbying, the recent SOPA protest might not have been able to happen. Google might have been prevented from blacking out their page as would Wikipedia, lest they run afoul of anti-lobbying laws. That's something worth thinking about.<p>It's also not just the business sector that has lobbyists. There are tons of other groups. The Sierra Club and NRA are two biggies that come to mind. As an individual, it's much more efficient for me to throw in with one of those groups to ensure my interests are protected than it is to do it myself. Both are exceptionally effective at getting what they want because they spend all day keeping an eye on elected (and unelected) government officials and their continued existence hinges on their success.<p>I'm not arguing that we have to <i>like</i> this current situation, but it's hard for me to think of a <i>better</i> scenario that doesn't infringe on the rights of people to assemble as a group and voice their opininon via financial support, advertising, etc... Just because some of the time we don't personally like the result of lots of lobbyists, doesn't mean this is the root of all evil. In the end, all the money in the world isn't going to compel ordinary citizens to vote for someone who doesn't have their interests in mind. Exhibit A would be John Corzine who had an incredible fortune at his disposal in his reelection bid as governor of NJ and <i>still</i> lost to Chris Christie in 2009.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiaro</author><text>The way I see it, the only reason political parties need such vast amounts of money is to spend it campaigning. If you reduce the need or ability to campaign, by restricting advertising or making voting compulsory, the demand for money is lessened, and some industry or another threatening to pull their support isn't such a big deal.</text></comment>
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