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15,729,052	15,728,542	1	3	15,728,147	train	<story><title>Matrix Calculus</title><url>http://www.matrixcalculus.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lliiffee</author><text>For those who might not realize how amazing this is, take a look at how you can do these things manually:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tminka.github.io&#x2F;papers&#x2F;matrix&#x2F;minka-matrix.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tminka.github.io&#x2F;papers&#x2F;matrix&#x2F;minka-matrix.pdf</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Matrix Calculus</title><url>http://www.matrixcalculus.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Klasiaster</author><text>I can see that x&#x27; means $x^T$ (x transposed) but it&#x27;s not mentioned in the documentation — where does this notation come from?</text></comment>
28,834,185	28,834,192	1	3	28,831,828	train	<story><title>Is going to the office a broken way of working?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/is-going-to-the-office-a-broken-way-of-working</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I get a lot of what you say but this one drives me bonkers:<p>&gt; able to tap people on the shoulder for quick questions rather than having to ping them over chat<p>My work requires so much focus, having people randomly tap me on the shoulder to ask a question they could just drop in chat is debilitating.<p>I&#x27;m curious you phrase &quot;having to ping them over chat&quot; negatively? I would say the same sentence almost totally in reverse:<p>&quot;Now I no longer have to interrupt people to ask them a question, I <i>can just</i> ping them over chat for a reply when they are ready&quot;</text></item><item><author>gaoshan</author><text>I genuinely miss the office. Being in a different space for work (one that was pretty gorgeous), in a nice part of downtown, able to tap people on the shoulder for quick questions rather than having to ping them over chat, more spontaneous collaboration (right before we went remote again I overheard two people discussing an area I have some expertise in and was able to interject and provide useful insight), extra productivity (I do better when I&#x27;m around others working, worse when I am alone), the occasional happy hour, the occasional lunch with others, the not horrible drive where I can jam tunes or listen to podcasts and have some time to myself.<p>Not being able to do all of that has brought me lower and lower as the months go by. Made a similar comment on reddit and got downvoted into oblivion but this is really how I feel and it really does impact me negatively. I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only one, though it does feel like I might be in the minority.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>distrill</author><text>Even for something quick, I will type up a question and then go over it a few times, make some edits, probably provide some links for context. It just feels like a bigger deal than just asking someone next to you.<p>In person they can cut me off when they start to get it, or I can tell from their face that I need to keep going with more context, it&#x27;s just more more collaborative.<p>In chat I&#x27;ll either end up having to answer a ton of follow up questions for detail, or I&#x27;ll drown the question in context.<p>Yes, I can get better at asking questions. But tbh most of this complexity stems from me trying to ask questions well to begin with. IDK, pinging someone over chat seems like more of an intrusion than just asking a question.<p>Also, I won&#x27;t, like, ask someone to take off their headphones for this. I&#x27;ll ask them at lunch, or when we&#x27;re grabbing coffee &#x2F; snacks. Over chat there&#x27;s no coffee break, it&#x27;s all &quot;headphone&quot; time, from my perspective.</text></comment>	<story><title>Is going to the office a broken way of working?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/is-going-to-the-office-a-broken-way-of-working</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I get a lot of what you say but this one drives me bonkers:<p>&gt; able to tap people on the shoulder for quick questions rather than having to ping them over chat<p>My work requires so much focus, having people randomly tap me on the shoulder to ask a question they could just drop in chat is debilitating.<p>I&#x27;m curious you phrase &quot;having to ping them over chat&quot; negatively? I would say the same sentence almost totally in reverse:<p>&quot;Now I no longer have to interrupt people to ask them a question, I <i>can just</i> ping them over chat for a reply when they are ready&quot;</text></item><item><author>gaoshan</author><text>I genuinely miss the office. Being in a different space for work (one that was pretty gorgeous), in a nice part of downtown, able to tap people on the shoulder for quick questions rather than having to ping them over chat, more spontaneous collaboration (right before we went remote again I overheard two people discussing an area I have some expertise in and was able to interject and provide useful insight), extra productivity (I do better when I&#x27;m around others working, worse when I am alone), the occasional happy hour, the occasional lunch with others, the not horrible drive where I can jam tunes or listen to podcasts and have some time to myself.<p>Not being able to do all of that has brought me lower and lower as the months go by. Made a similar comment on reddit and got downvoted into oblivion but this is really how I feel and it really does impact me negatively. I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only one, though it does feel like I might be in the minority.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>QuercusMax</author><text>When I&#x27;m sitting in close proximity to other humans, I can often tell what they are doing. People can give signals that they are currently occupied; this could be things like putting on headphones, etc. It&#x27;s pretty easy to tell when someone is doing focused work vs. talking to a desk mate, etc.</text></comment>
7,046,564	7,046,625	1	3	7,046,193	train	<story><title>Money can buy happiness</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-chart-0?fb_ref=activity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leoedin</author><text>The income scale is logarithmic, so the apparently linear lines that you see are actually curved. The returns in happiness per $ earned fall off significantly towards the top of the scale (which incidentally is capped at a fairly low $128,000). I don&#x27;t really see how this new data contradicts the generally accepted view (mentioned in the article) that money increases happiness up to a point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rm999</author><text>&gt;I don&#x27;t really see how this new data contradicts the generally accepted view (mentioned in the article) that money increases happiness up to a point.<p>The article shows a logarithmic trend (i.e. doubling your income increases your happiness by a fixed amount), which is a straight line on the log plot. This insinuates (<i>if</i> the trend continues, which is assumed from the results) that there is no point at which increased income won&#x27;t make someone happier.<p>The traditionally-held view is that there is an income (I&#x27;ve heard something like 70k in the USA) where the plot should become a horizontal line, i.e. increasing your income increases your happiness by zero.<p>These are very different conclusions. The plot isn&#x27;t really falling &quot;significantly towards the top of the scale&quot;. Log is the correct way of looking at income, because people consider changes to their income proportionately to their current income (for example, a 5% raise to someone making 1M dollars a year is about as significant to his life as a 5% raise for someone making 100k, even though the actual additive amounts are very different).</text></comment>	<story><title>Money can buy happiness</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-chart-0?fb_ref=activity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leoedin</author><text>The income scale is logarithmic, so the apparently linear lines that you see are actually curved. The returns in happiness per $ earned fall off significantly towards the top of the scale (which incidentally is capped at a fairly low $128,000). I don&#x27;t really see how this new data contradicts the generally accepted view (mentioned in the article) that money increases happiness up to a point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jheriko</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t really see how this new data contradicts the generally accepted view (mentioned in the article) that money increases happiness up to a point.<p>It doesn&#x27;t - the title of the article and the interpretation provided with in is almost as misleading. They start off quickly by telling you about the &#x27;Easterlin paradox&#x27; - that is what they have specifically found evidence against. i.e. &#x27;more money makes you happier&#x27; is backed by evidence.<p>The fact that more money makes you happier does not mean that any amount of money can make you as happy as you want though...<p>This is not surprising - its probably common sense.</text></comment>
14,408,836	14,406,779	1	3	14,402,850	train	<story><title>Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking Cat?</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-17/why-did-a-chinese-peroxide-company-pay-1-billion-for-a-talking-cat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alnitak</author><text>How did you get to know all those things you&#x27;re talking about? Where does one even start decrypting finance jargon and &quot;possibilities&quot;?</text></item><item><author>sushid</author><text>Why couldn&#x27;t these companies issue more shares in secondary offerings at 100x their PE ratio, hoard all the cash, and wait for the crash to do a buyback?<p>Seems like a good way to hedge against a downturn. Of course, per usual, retail investors will lose out as usual, but the companies could end up just fine.</text></item><item><author>dannylandau</author><text>In short, pretty bizarre financial engineering going on with Chinese industrial companies buying western gaming start-ups for enormous sums in order to buttress their (chinese) own bottom line and keep the shares going up on the Chinese stock market. This is a type of pyramid scheme that is bound to come crashing down at some point, and bankrupt every single one of these companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>Read Matt Levine&#x27;s column on Bloomberg. All of them, and the ones from when he worked for Dealbreaker as well. He tells the stories in a clear way that makes sense, cutting through a lot of nonsense, and so you understand the key points even without getting the jargon, and then you gradually pick up the jargon too.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking Cat?</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-17/why-did-a-chinese-peroxide-company-pay-1-billion-for-a-talking-cat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alnitak</author><text>How did you get to know all those things you&#x27;re talking about? Where does one even start decrypting finance jargon and &quot;possibilities&quot;?</text></item><item><author>sushid</author><text>Why couldn&#x27;t these companies issue more shares in secondary offerings at 100x their PE ratio, hoard all the cash, and wait for the crash to do a buyback?<p>Seems like a good way to hedge against a downturn. Of course, per usual, retail investors will lose out as usual, but the companies could end up just fine.</text></item><item><author>dannylandau</author><text>In short, pretty bizarre financial engineering going on with Chinese industrial companies buying western gaming start-ups for enormous sums in order to buttress their (chinese) own bottom line and keep the shares going up on the Chinese stock market. This is a type of pyramid scheme that is bound to come crashing down at some point, and bankrupt every single one of these companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frgtpsswrdlame</author><text>If you&#x27;re serious about getting to know it, I would torrent some level 1 CFA study material and skim it in bits and pieces. Really though, I would avoid it. This jargon can rot your brain.</text></comment>
11,679,637	11,679,146	1	2	11,677,521	train	<story><title>Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/5/11/11653620/civilization-6-release-date-preview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilian</author><text>I&#x27;ve bought every Civilization game except the very first one. They&#x27;re good games, but the one I really love is Alpha Centauri. Maybe it&#x27;s a nostalgia thing--- I got SMAC when I was in middle school. But the faction design was phenomenal, and it was great how you actually had to play the factions differently, and knowing the other factions meant you handled them differently. I started playing University of Planet and just out-teching everyone, but learning how to play the other factions was very interesting and provided a ton of replay.<p>To me, Paradox&#x27;s Stellaris is more of a spiritual successor to SMAC than Beyond Earth is. You have empires that have radically different traits, values, and governments. You actually have to play to your strengths and think about your policies. (Disclaimer: I am extremely sleep deprived from playing Stellaris the last two nights.)<p>The Civs and Beyond Earth all play the same. The faction differences are superficial. It&#x27;s bleh.<p>&#x2F;&#x2F;edit forgive me HN, I commented before I read. The article does address my concern:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;We found that there was a bit of a sameness to leaders as opponents,&quot; he says. &quot;They didn’t really act as different personalities in terms of diplomacy. In Civ 6, every single leader in the game has a historical agenda. We look at something they did very well in history and we dial that up in the game world to make them a bit fanatical about it in Civilization 6.</i><p>But I have very little faith that they&#x27;ve solved it. Having a leader that is more fanatical about something isn&#x27;t the same thing as having to make hard deicisions about Values &amp; Government trade-offs!<p>For reference: The Alpha Centauri Social Engineering panel: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dailybeast&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;nerdiness-from-noah-alpha-centauri&#x2F;jcr:content&#x2F;body&#x2F;inlineimage_1.img.800.png&#x2F;45485743.cached.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dailybeast&#x2F;articles&#x2F;201...</a> And wiki for details: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strategywiki.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sid_Meier&#x27;s_Alpha_Centauri&#x2F;Social_Engineering" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strategywiki.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sid_Meier&#x27;s_Alpha_Centauri&#x2F;Soci...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Here&#x27;s a blog (that I found from an HN comment, interestingly!) where someone goes through and analyzes all the SMAC flavor text and writes about how well-done it was. It was interesting for me because there&#x27;s a lot more depth than I realized when I first played SMAC, and the different factions all seemed to me more like caricatures than real philosophical viewpoints:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paeantosmac.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paeantosmac.wordpress.com</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/5/11/11653620/civilization-6-release-date-preview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilian</author><text>I&#x27;ve bought every Civilization game except the very first one. They&#x27;re good games, but the one I really love is Alpha Centauri. Maybe it&#x27;s a nostalgia thing--- I got SMAC when I was in middle school. But the faction design was phenomenal, and it was great how you actually had to play the factions differently, and knowing the other factions meant you handled them differently. I started playing University of Planet and just out-teching everyone, but learning how to play the other factions was very interesting and provided a ton of replay.<p>To me, Paradox&#x27;s Stellaris is more of a spiritual successor to SMAC than Beyond Earth is. You have empires that have radically different traits, values, and governments. You actually have to play to your strengths and think about your policies. (Disclaimer: I am extremely sleep deprived from playing Stellaris the last two nights.)<p>The Civs and Beyond Earth all play the same. The faction differences are superficial. It&#x27;s bleh.<p>&#x2F;&#x2F;edit forgive me HN, I commented before I read. The article does address my concern:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;We found that there was a bit of a sameness to leaders as opponents,&quot; he says. &quot;They didn’t really act as different personalities in terms of diplomacy. In Civ 6, every single leader in the game has a historical agenda. We look at something they did very well in history and we dial that up in the game world to make them a bit fanatical about it in Civilization 6.</i><p>But I have very little faith that they&#x27;ve solved it. Having a leader that is more fanatical about something isn&#x27;t the same thing as having to make hard deicisions about Values &amp; Government trade-offs!<p>For reference: The Alpha Centauri Social Engineering panel: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dailybeast&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;nerdiness-from-noah-alpha-centauri&#x2F;jcr:content&#x2F;body&#x2F;inlineimage_1.img.800.png&#x2F;45485743.cached.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dailybeast&#x2F;articles&#x2F;201...</a> And wiki for details: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strategywiki.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sid_Meier&#x27;s_Alpha_Centauri&#x2F;Social_Engineering" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strategywiki.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sid_Meier&#x27;s_Alpha_Centauri&#x2F;Soci...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpeo</author><text>SMAC also had 10&#x2F;10 flavor text and setting overall. It&#x27;s a game that has a lot of character.</text></comment>
4,167,387	4,167,473	1	2	4,167,186	train	<story><title>Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vomtn/update_my_friends_call_me_a_scumbag_because_i/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eggbrain</author><text>For those of you who want the short version of his story, the OP wrote a password-protected program on company time that automated his data entry, and because he was so accurate, was getting most of the bonus money meant for the rest of his group (without anyone knowing he was automating it). He told his boss, who fired him, but then the boss and manager asked for the password to the program. OP refused, called up the boss's boss, OP was brought in to talk, and given a new job as a software engineer.<p>He negotiated for a salary as good as what he was making before (with bonuses), and negotiated for all the other employees who would be fired from data-entry to get other jobs in the company. OP's original scumbag boss gets fired, all the old data-entry employees/friends are better off, OP gets amazing new job.<p>Now that being said, perhaps I'm skeptical, pessimistic, or just being negative, but this story seems too perfect. Clever employee gets huge promotion, and negotiates for all of his coworkers to be better off as well. Scumbag boss who fires employee gets fired himself. All within the span of a month.<p>Perhaps I have a negative view of companies as well, but when he said he programmed it on company time, and wouldn't give up the password, I was surprised that the company didn't just sue him for not giving up company property.</text></comment>	<story><title>Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vomtn/update_my_friends_call_me_a_scumbag_because_i/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>I have a similar story which I posted on HN before, here is the repost:<p>A fair number of years ago I worked a non tech office job for a few months. Basically a large portion of the job was checking though a spreadsheet looking at figures and checking them against a corresponding row in another part of the sheet. Assuming the figures matched you would copy the figures elsewhere in the sheet, append some characters to them and mark ones that were wrong in red. The data I think came from some legacy database.<p>There were a few more steps that I don't quite recall but basically they provided a list of instructions on how to do this part of the job and I immediately recognized that this was basically psuedocode, there was nothing "human" required at all. They expected a human error rate of around 1% with this and sheets were often checked twice.<p>A few days into the job I decided to try writing a Macro to do this job, so that night at home I wrote my macro and emailed it to myself. Next day I loaded it up, ran it and then checked the results by hand. I did this until I was satisfied that the error rate was 0.<p>Next few days I just started running my macro instead of working by hand, meaning I got about 3 hours work done in under a second and could spend the rest of the day doing other (marginally less monotonous) work.<p>Now in this office they tracked people's productivity levels as well as their error rate, so naturally I end up with obscene performance stats and no errors.<p>So the team manager of course asks me to explain myself and I show her the macro and offer to show her how to set it up on other computers and explain how well I tested it etc. The response I got surprised me somewhat.<p>"You are cheating your stats!" was what I was told. Of course I explained that it wouldn't be "unfair" if everyone had the software. Now at the end of every month they had some (cheap) prize for the person with the highest productivity and lowest error rate and since other tasks were not so easily "scored" the spreadsheet task was a big part of the deal.<p>No matter how I tried to explain it was like hitting a brick wall, because in her eyes I was "cheating". They had been doing this monotonous work for so long and were so used to it that wasting probably hundreds of man months was preferable to questioning if there might be a better way.<p>Of course I offered to forfeit any "prize" I might win (despite potentially saving them thousands of pounds), but no we type figures and then somebody wins a prize at the end dammit!</text></comment>
29,366,709	29,366,460	1	2	29,366,032	train	<story><title>Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059413217/crypto-enthusiasts-want-to-buy-an-nba-team-after-failing-to-purchase-us-constitu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Correct me if I&#x27;m not understanding this DAO &quot;revolution&quot; correctly:<p>- A group of people pool some money together.<p>- The money is used to buy assets&#x2F;fund projects.<p>- Members vote on spending, governance etc., with their vote being proportional to their investment.<p>- They can raise money by issuing more &quot;tokens&quot; for new investors.<p>- Existing members can sell their tokens to someone else.<p>Like, congrats crypto community, you just invented a...public company?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimkleiber</author><text>Exactly, a public company that skirts KYC&#x2F;AML laws and securities laws.<p>I&#x27;m not saying I necessarily agree with those laws, I just see much of the &quot;DAO revolution&quot; as designed to &quot;free the people&quot; into investing anonymously and without accredited investor requirements, without directly trying to change the laws.<p>One thing I think it does that most don&#x27;t talk about: allows people to register a global company&#x2F;org. Right now, I think the highest level to register an org is the nation-state level, not much, if anything, exists at a global level.</text></comment>	<story><title>Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059413217/crypto-enthusiasts-want-to-buy-an-nba-team-after-failing-to-purchase-us-constitu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Correct me if I&#x27;m not understanding this DAO &quot;revolution&quot; correctly:<p>- A group of people pool some money together.<p>- The money is used to buy assets&#x2F;fund projects.<p>- Members vote on spending, governance etc., with their vote being proportional to their investment.<p>- They can raise money by issuing more &quot;tokens&quot; for new investors.<p>- Existing members can sell their tokens to someone else.<p>Like, congrats crypto community, you just invented a...public company?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SturgeonsLaw</author><text>It&#x27;s more like a co-op. The difference is that every participant has a voice. With the traditional public company - with few exceptions - decisions are made only by the board and the execs.</text></comment>
19,758,475	19,758,108	1	2	19,756,505	train	<story><title>Show HN: Sauron – A web framework in Rust that adheres to the Elm architecture</title><url>https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twoquestions</author><text>Between this and Blazor ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blazor.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blazor.net&#x2F;</a>, among other wasm projects I&#x27;m forgetting right now), I&#x27;m glad more complicated UIs are being once again designed on the backend and keeping bundle sizes (relatively) small, rather than making <i>everything</i> in JS on the frontend and expecting everyone to download megabytes of code to visit a website.<p><i>I&#x27;m looking in your direction Medium, at 6MB with a cold cache!</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfrydl</author><text>Large bundle sizes are not a consequence of creating UIs on the frontend, they are a consequence of bad practice. I have created plenty of purely frontend apps that don&#x27;t even approach 1 MB let alone 6 MB. In fact, most languages that can target WASM seem to produce enormous modules compared to a reasonable frontend JavaScript app. Rust is an outlier in my experience because of its minimal runtime.<p>It&#x27;s also worth noting for example that only 1&#x2F;5th of the data transferred when I load medium.com cold is their JavaScript, so WASM can&#x27;t really help them either way.</text></comment>	<story><title>Show HN: Sauron – A web framework in Rust that adheres to the Elm architecture</title><url>https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twoquestions</author><text>Between this and Blazor ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blazor.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blazor.net&#x2F;</a>, among other wasm projects I&#x27;m forgetting right now), I&#x27;m glad more complicated UIs are being once again designed on the backend and keeping bundle sizes (relatively) small, rather than making <i>everything</i> in JS on the frontend and expecting everyone to download megabytes of code to visit a website.<p><i>I&#x27;m looking in your direction Medium, at 6MB with a cold cache!</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostjohnny</author><text>Another lightweight contender, not WASM though, is Phoenix Live View[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phoenixframework&#x2F;phoenix_live_view" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phoenixframework&#x2F;phoenix_live_view</a></text></comment>
18,060,322	18,060,013	1	2	18,059,792	train	<story><title>Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint</title><url>https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1044265646739996673</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>The importance of using a reliable registrar can&#x27;t be overstated. tierra.net looks like a small company, without 24hr support, and with an abandoned social media presence. Why would a company with 40M users use a tiny registrar to save 2 bucks on a domain name?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>They probably registered the name very early in their corporate life. At some point, they had a real business, and a business critical domain name, but they didn&#x27;t realize they needed to do something different. My CEO registered our business names at network solutions, <i>sigh</i>.<p>Anyway, as a wakeup call -- if you have a business critical domain name, you need to find (and use) a registrar that has a registry lock procedure for the TLD you&#x27;re in. A registry lock means the registry won&#x27;t process changes from your registrar unless you authorize them, which makes it a lot harder to change things on purpose, or by an attacker. I imagine abuse takedowns could still go through though -- but there will at least be more people who know you care about your domain.</text></comment>	<story><title>Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint</title><url>https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1044265646739996673</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>The importance of using a reliable registrar can&#x27;t be overstated. tierra.net looks like a small company, without 24hr support, and with an abandoned social media presence. Why would a company with 40M users use a tiny registrar to save 2 bucks on a domain name?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svembu1</author><text>This was not the company used. The domain registrar market has gone through consolidation and it ended up here. We have been moving domains and this is a cautionary tale for us.</text></comment>
23,316,864	23,312,477	1	3	23,310,412	train	<story><title>Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/symbolic-mathematics-finally-yields-to-neural-networks-20200520/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>todd8</author><text>About 50 years ago I was fascinated to see a program that could do symbolic integration. Now, programs like Mathematica can do much harder, more complex integrals.<p>Professor Patrick Winston pointed out that most of the AI programs we were going to look at in his class (chess, natural language, 3D vision in block world, etc.) ended up, like integration, as simple code plus a database of facts.<p>Back then, there was general optimism about the future of AI. No one anticipated how slow progress would be while the capabilities of the hardware grew a million-fold.<p>The work referenced in the article is interesting. It appears to be another small step in advancing AI. It&#x27;s a small, but difficult, step like almost every other advance in AI, and I admire the work done by those working in this field.<p>The problems of solving simple differential equations and symbolic integration at the first year calculus level are not really advanced math. Humans solve these problems with a relatively small bag of tricks that transform a symbolic integral into a simpler form. A program can do the same thing with an even more detailed database of transforms that can be attempted at each point in the search tree until a simple solution is reached.<p>The article claims that the new program can solve difficult integrals. This is interesting because hard to solve integrals are often associated with real physical phenomena. See for example the triple integrals of W. F. van Peype which arose while he was studying magnetism in different materials. These, relatively, plain looking definite integrals stumped some of the world&#x27;s most famous mathematicians. See [1] and&#x2F;or [2] for their interesting history.<p>[1] Paul J. Nahin, <i>Inside Interesting Integrals</i>, Springer, 2015. Section 6.5, The Watson&#x2F;van Peype Triple Integrals.<p>[2] I.J. Zucker, 70+ Years of the Watson Integrals, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inp.nsk.su&#x2F;~silagadz&#x2F;Watson_Integral.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inp.nsk.su&#x2F;~silagadz&#x2F;Watson_Integral.pdf</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/symbolic-mathematics-finally-yields-to-neural-networks-20200520/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_0ffh</author><text>To me, the article somewhat misses the point of what&#x27;s interesting here. Using ASTs to represent equations, or even whole programs has plenty of precedents in ML&#x2F;AI. I&#x27;d have liked to know how exactly they translate these trees to a representation suitable for an ANN. Fortunately, the paper seems to be easy to find and access (it&#x27;s [1], I guess).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1912.01412" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1912.01412</a></text></comment>
37,666,712	37,666,422	1	2	37,662,510	train	<story><title>macOS Sonoma is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/macos-sonoma-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n8henrie</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos</a><p>The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I&#x27;ve really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn&#x27;t replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it&#x27;s getting closer every day.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>So it goes...<p><pre><code> Warning: You are using macOS 11. We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version. It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version. It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow. Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew&#x27;s GitHub repositories. Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated. Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response. Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media. You may ask for help in Homebrew&#x27;s discussions but are unlikely to receive a response. Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request. We will review it but may or may not accept it.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdaniel</author><text>I want to like Nix but those installation instructions for macOS (and their removal friend) are just crazypants as compared to the `sudo mkdir &#x2F;nix &amp;&amp; sudo chown $USER &#x2F;nix` from the Linux version<p>And that&#x27;s not even getting into the &quot;waaa?&quot; from `du -hs &#x2F;nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface</text></comment>	<story><title>macOS Sonoma is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/macos-sonoma-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n8henrie</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos</a><p>The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I&#x27;ve really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn&#x27;t replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it&#x27;s getting closer every day.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>So it goes...<p><pre><code> Warning: You are using macOS 11. We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version. It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version. It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow. Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew&#x27;s GitHub repositories. Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated. Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response. Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media. You may ask for help in Homebrew&#x27;s discussions but are unlikely to receive a response. Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request. We will review it but may or may not accept it.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxonia</author><text>Yes, the Homebrew message does seem unnecessarily hostile. Not everyone can afford to buy a brand new computer every year.</text></comment>
14,403,749	14,403,536	1	2	14,403,036	train	<story><title>Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bandrami</author><text>(Attribution is questionable, but as a geezer I feel the need to make sure the younger generations at least are familiar with this:)<p>ed is the standard text editor<p>Let&#x27;s look at a typical novice&#x27;s session with the mighty ed:<p><pre><code> golem&gt; ed ? help ? ? ? quit ? exit ? bye ? hello? ? eat flaming death ? ^C ? ^C ? ^D ? --- Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity. </code></pre> (As a geezer, I also have to say I really am impressed with ed in some ways, and you should never be afraid to try it when you have a specific and known edit you want to do.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waldir</author><text>After reading lots of similar anecdotes about Ed (Steven Levy&#x27;s &quot;Hackers&quot; dedicates quite a few words to it), I was quite sure it was pretty much unusable for today&#x27;s UI patterns, but also morbidly curious about how it might eventually work.<p>Then I came across &quot;Actually using ed&quot;[1], which did such a great job at explaining how to use the tool that I decided to throw in my 2 cents by submitting an entry to the tldr-pages project[2]. The rendered page looks can be found on [3]. Any feedback welcome!<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sanctum.geek.nz&#x2F;arabesque&#x2F;actually-using-ed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sanctum.geek.nz&#x2F;arabesque&#x2F;actually-using-ed&#x2F;</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tldr-pages&#x2F;tldr&#x2F;pull&#x2F;944" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tldr-pages&#x2F;tldr&#x2F;pull&#x2F;944</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tldr-pages&#x2F;tldr&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;pages&#x2F;common&#x2F;ed.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tldr-pages&#x2F;tldr&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;pages&#x2F;common&#x2F;...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bandrami</author><text>(Attribution is questionable, but as a geezer I feel the need to make sure the younger generations at least are familiar with this:)<p>ed is the standard text editor<p>Let&#x27;s look at a typical novice&#x27;s session with the mighty ed:<p><pre><code> golem&gt; ed ? help ? ? ? quit ? exit ? bye ? hello? ? eat flaming death ? ^C ? ^C ? ^D ? --- Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity. </code></pre> (As a geezer, I also have to say I really am impressed with ed in some ways, and you should never be afraid to try it when you have a specific and known edit you want to do.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>&quot;When I use an editor, I don&#x27;t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren&#x27;t even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;fun&#x2F;jokes&#x2F;ed-msg.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;fun&#x2F;jokes&#x2F;ed-msg.txt</a></text></comment>
11,512,011	11,511,964	1	2	11,509,461	train	<story><title>Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth</title><url>http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Lyft-gaining-on-Uber-as-it-spends-big-on-growth-7251625.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemo44x</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Lyft a few times recently. I&#x27;m a little suspicious Uber is using surge fair tactics on users that have agreed to the pricing in the past when there is in fact no surge occurring.<p>When traveling for work I often use Uber and recently there was consistent surge pricing. The first day it made sense since it was raining. But then the next few times I used it there was surge pricing - not much, like 1.1x or 1.3x. I agreed because it wasn&#x27;t too much more and I needed to get to my meetings and it can be expensed. I mentioned to my Uber driver there was a surge and he said it didn&#x27;t come up as a surge for him. The next trip later that day the surge was 2.2x<p>But then when I got back home I noticed every time I&#x27;ve brought the Uber app up there is a &quot;surge&quot;. Even during fine weather and non-traditional surge times. I look outside and there are taxis available (NYC) and I opened Lyft and there were plenty of options without any surge.<p>It was probably bad luck (I don&#x27;t really think they&#x27;d get that greedy that quickly) but it made me try Lyft and I had the exact same experience as Uber.<p>I suppose this is the market at work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twoodfin</author><text>I strongly suspect that Uber has (or will, depending on a particular market&#x27;s maturity) smooth the curve on surge pricing.<p>I think most customers are initially averse to ever paying more than 1x, but once you&#x27;ve gotten used to paying 1.1x or 1.2x, you realize it&#x27;s still typically much cheaper than a taxi. It&#x27;s ultimately in everyone&#x27;s interests for prices to adjust quickly and smoothly to demand.</text></comment>	<story><title>Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth</title><url>http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Lyft-gaining-on-Uber-as-it-spends-big-on-growth-7251625.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemo44x</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Lyft a few times recently. I&#x27;m a little suspicious Uber is using surge fair tactics on users that have agreed to the pricing in the past when there is in fact no surge occurring.<p>When traveling for work I often use Uber and recently there was consistent surge pricing. The first day it made sense since it was raining. But then the next few times I used it there was surge pricing - not much, like 1.1x or 1.3x. I agreed because it wasn&#x27;t too much more and I needed to get to my meetings and it can be expensed. I mentioned to my Uber driver there was a surge and he said it didn&#x27;t come up as a surge for him. The next trip later that day the surge was 2.2x<p>But then when I got back home I noticed every time I&#x27;ve brought the Uber app up there is a &quot;surge&quot;. Even during fine weather and non-traditional surge times. I look outside and there are taxis available (NYC) and I opened Lyft and there were plenty of options without any surge.<p>It was probably bad luck (I don&#x27;t really think they&#x27;d get that greedy that quickly) but it made me try Lyft and I had the exact same experience as Uber.<p>I suppose this is the market at work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>It&#x27;s highly dependent on the market. I rarely see surge where I live (Seattle), but I was in a different city a few weeks ago and only saw surge pricing the whole time I was there.</text></comment>
18,283,125	18,282,812	1	3	18,281,504	train	<story><title>We Are All Lawyers Now – The Rise of the Legalish</title><url>https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2018/10/23/we-are-all-lawyers-now-the-rise-of-the-legalish/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OliverJones</author><text>My spouse is a human lawyer. She&#x27;s working now for a software company; she did her part taking it public a few years ago. She knows our trade pretty well.<p>The difference between a lawyer on the one hand, and a &quot;jailhouse lawyer&quot; (an engineer who does legalish work) on the other, are these:<p>The lawyer knows how to get things done to support the business. It&#x27;s rare for a real in-house lawyer to tell the business, &quot;we can&#x27;t do that.&quot; More often, it&#x27;s &quot;here&#x27;s how we do that.&quot;<p>The lawyer knows how to write a form contract (sales, lease, nondisclosure, etc) so other lawyers will read it and say &quot;ok, that&#x27;s fair&quot; and sign it.<p>The lawyer knows how to read an incoming form contract to see if it&#x27;s fair.<p>The lawyer has real relationships with her counterparts at customer and vendor companies. When a vendor tries to change terms, she calls her counterpart and asks, &quot;what&#x27;s this about? My business has problems with this. How can we get to yes?&quot;<p>The lawyer knows that if a dispute gets to a judge, the remedy will be money. With very few exceptions there&#x27;s no way for a judge to repair a business deal that&#x27;s gone sideways. So the lawyer says, &quot;anything but court.&quot;<p>At some level, the law is like computer code. But the computer code has been around for many centuries and it has been patched over and over and over again as needed to solve real-world problems: in the US and English system that&#x27;s called &quot;case law.&quot;. There&#x27;s an adage that &quot;hard cases make bad case law.&quot; Lawyers know the ins and outs of this stuff.<p>In my experience as an entrepreneur, when I&#x27;ve played lawyer I&#x27;ve generally overdone things to my detriment.<p>The US is definitely litigation-happy. That makes things tough.</text></comment>	<story><title>We Are All Lawyers Now – The Rise of the Legalish</title><url>https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2018/10/23/we-are-all-lawyers-now-the-rise-of-the-legalish/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>batty_alex</author><text><p><pre><code> Nevertheless, the crossover between the needs of legalish and what we perceive as the legal field is remarkable. </code></pre> As someone who spent five years as a software developer in the legal industry, this whole article comes off as a lot of fluff to sell a product. I&#x27;m not even really sure what it&#x27;s suggesting aside from using them instead of lawyers, because the legal system is too conservative for automation... or something (not true).</text></comment>
9,130,006	9,128,637	1	3	9,126,734	train	<story><title>Document Storage Gymnastics with Postgres</title><url>http://rob.conery.io/2015/03/01/document-storage-gymnastics-in-postgres/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wekeroad%2FEeKc+%28Rob+Conery%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angersock</author><text>So, I love Postgres to death, but I&#x27;m a bit let-down by the json and jsonb stuff.<p>It&#x27;s really great for document storage and retrieval, but the fact that there doesn&#x27;t seem to be any story for partial updates kind of kills it for me. If it just had that, it&#x27;d cover every use case I could possibly want (except for maybe some of the Cassandra stuff).<p>It&#x27;s annoying, though, because clearly that&#x27;s what people often may want--just look at Mongo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomiko_nakamura</author><text>PostgreSQL does not have in-place update in the first place, on every UPDATE it does a DELETE+INSERT. So &quot;partial update&quot; does not make much sense, because you&#x27;ll create a new copy of the row anyway.</text></comment>	<story><title>Document Storage Gymnastics with Postgres</title><url>http://rob.conery.io/2015/03/01/document-storage-gymnastics-in-postgres/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wekeroad%2FEeKc+%28Rob+Conery%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angersock</author><text>So, I love Postgres to death, but I&#x27;m a bit let-down by the json and jsonb stuff.<p>It&#x27;s really great for document storage and retrieval, but the fact that there doesn&#x27;t seem to be any story for partial updates kind of kills it for me. If it just had that, it&#x27;d cover every use case I could possibly want (except for maybe some of the Cassandra stuff).<p>It&#x27;s annoying, though, because clearly that&#x27;s what people often may want--just look at Mongo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ahachete</author><text>Or ToroDB ;) <a href="https://github.com/torodb/torodb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torodb&#x2F;torodb</a></text></comment>
12,636,411	12,636,055	1	3	12,634,590	train	<story><title>I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>The only way to win is not to play. I&#x27;m past 50. I&#x27;m not overly fussed about dying, it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s avoidable. I&#x27;m not overly fussed about how either as I&#x27;ll get what I&#x27;m given. Of course I&#x27;d prefer a pain-free exit rather than a 2 year painful decline to incoherent as my father had. Unless you go in your sleep I suspect all routes have pain as the final memory. I have no fear of any of it.<p>The only thing actually on my radar is being aware I have limited time, and am past half-way.<p>For those who die slowly, or lose faculties, the process seems unfair. For those who have a sudden exit the event seems unfair and can leave much unresolved and unsaid.<p>Euthanasia, to me, seems to be the least worst option if I should ever find myself facing a drawn out exit. I get a bit frustrated those professing relgion like to play the &quot;you must not&quot; card. It&#x27;s not their business unless I share their belief, which I don&#x27;t.<p>So I&#x27;ll get the exit the universe decides. One day I&#x27;ll be part of a star.</text></item><item><author>arkades</author><text>&gt; hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc.<p>Hm. I wonder your age. Young folk seem to think death impossibly foreign, and fear it &#x2F; ignore it all equally. Older folk, that have had more first-hand experience with the decline of the flesh in themselves and those they grew up with, have more an appreciation for the difference between an abrupt death in a car accident, and a slow dissolution like cancer. Quite a lot of people fear dying more than they do death.</text></item><item><author>fsloth</author><text>We all die at some point. While I too abhor cancer I find hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc. The universe is out to get us - we&#x27;ve evolved into tough bastard but we&#x27;ve not defeated mortality.</text></item><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.<p>I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.<p>Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.<p>Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FireBeyond</author><text>I&#x27;m a geek, and a paramedic.<p>I entirely agree - prolonged suffering is not life, it&#x27;s misery. That decision should belong to people going through this, and not anyone else (they can discuss with those they feel appropriate).<p>One of the most memorable transports I ever did was for a woman with terminal metastatic cancer, taking her home where her husband had set up a bed in the living room so she could watch the sunrise.<p>To understand the amount of pain she was in - the movement of the ambulance driving her home about 20 miles exacerbated her pain such that her morphine dose which was already at 450mg&#x2F;day was pushed to 600mg&#x2F;day.<p>For comparison, if you&#x27;re a 200lb person with a broken bone, you will likely get 15mg.<p>I have seen the prolonged suffering patients, and their families. Whatever happens, it&#x27;s not easy.</text></comment>	<story><title>I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>The only way to win is not to play. I&#x27;m past 50. I&#x27;m not overly fussed about dying, it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s avoidable. I&#x27;m not overly fussed about how either as I&#x27;ll get what I&#x27;m given. Of course I&#x27;d prefer a pain-free exit rather than a 2 year painful decline to incoherent as my father had. Unless you go in your sleep I suspect all routes have pain as the final memory. I have no fear of any of it.<p>The only thing actually on my radar is being aware I have limited time, and am past half-way.<p>For those who die slowly, or lose faculties, the process seems unfair. For those who have a sudden exit the event seems unfair and can leave much unresolved and unsaid.<p>Euthanasia, to me, seems to be the least worst option if I should ever find myself facing a drawn out exit. I get a bit frustrated those professing relgion like to play the &quot;you must not&quot; card. It&#x27;s not their business unless I share their belief, which I don&#x27;t.<p>So I&#x27;ll get the exit the universe decides. One day I&#x27;ll be part of a star.</text></item><item><author>arkades</author><text>&gt; hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc.<p>Hm. I wonder your age. Young folk seem to think death impossibly foreign, and fear it &#x2F; ignore it all equally. Older folk, that have had more first-hand experience with the decline of the flesh in themselves and those they grew up with, have more an appreciation for the difference between an abrupt death in a car accident, and a slow dissolution like cancer. Quite a lot of people fear dying more than they do death.</text></item><item><author>fsloth</author><text>We all die at some point. While I too abhor cancer I find hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc. The universe is out to get us - we&#x27;ve evolved into tough bastard but we&#x27;ve not defeated mortality.</text></item><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.<p>I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.<p>Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.<p>Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frostymarvelous</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not their business unless I share their belief, which I don&#x27;t.<p>And even if you do share it, it&#x27;s not.</text></comment>
37,423,509	37,423,333	1	3	37,421,993	train	<story><title>25 Gbit/s at home, part 1</title><url>https://boredengineer.medium.com/25-gbit-s-at-home-part-1-98ff1013e32d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgtweak</author><text>Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem. In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps.<p>Steam - ~280MB&#x2F;s (2.2gbps)<p>Battle.net launcher - ~140MB&#x2F;s (1.1gbps)<p>25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB&#x2F;s (~560mbps)<p>2GB iso from github - ~80MB&#x2F;s (~650mbps)<p>fast.com - 1.4gbps<p>speedtest.net - 2.7gbps (using ISPs endpoint 2ms away)<p>Using a download manager like IDM or jDownloader will help for http downloads, but most hosts will limit your speed even with 16 connections open. I&#x27;ve managed to see 2gbps moving data to&#x2F;from servers (scp) with softether configured to use 16 connections. The reality is with a single connection (majority of ssl transfers) you&#x27;ll be limited by the sending side in almost all cases.<p>Overall it seems that while you can get connected and run an iperf to your ISP or multi-connection speedtest to a server hosted by your ISP or peered with your ISP, you&#x27;ll be pretty much limited to &lt;1gbps speeds regardless of your home network throughput.<p>Knowing this I would have simply went multi-gig (2.5g) for all in-home networking and saved a good chunk of change on networking equipment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virtuallynathan</author><text>I just upgraded to 10GbE service from Ziply Fiber in the Seattle area:<p>Speedtest.net - ~9.3Gbps symmetric<p>iperf to Denver: ~9.3Gbps symmetric (~8 threads)<p>iperf to Minneapolis: ~9.3Gbps symmetric<p>AWS S3 Download with small files: 1.3Gbps<p>Usenet download: 7-9.5Gbps<p>Mounting my ZFS pool to an AWS instance via SMBv3 in us-west-2: 3Gbps (not clear what the limit was here)<p>GitHub (400MB): 1 thread 400Mbps, 16 threads: 3.3Gbps<p>Fedora ISO from local mirror: 1 thread: 1.4Gbps, 16 threads: 4Gbps<p>Will try to test Steam and such.</text></comment>	<story><title>25 Gbit/s at home, part 1</title><url>https://boredengineer.medium.com/25-gbit-s-at-home-part-1-98ff1013e32d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgtweak</author><text>Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem. In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps.<p>Steam - ~280MB&#x2F;s (2.2gbps)<p>Battle.net launcher - ~140MB&#x2F;s (1.1gbps)<p>25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB&#x2F;s (~560mbps)<p>2GB iso from github - ~80MB&#x2F;s (~650mbps)<p>fast.com - 1.4gbps<p>speedtest.net - 2.7gbps (using ISPs endpoint 2ms away)<p>Using a download manager like IDM or jDownloader will help for http downloads, but most hosts will limit your speed even with 16 connections open. I&#x27;ve managed to see 2gbps moving data to&#x2F;from servers (scp) with softether configured to use 16 connections. The reality is with a single connection (majority of ssl transfers) you&#x27;ll be limited by the sending side in almost all cases.<p>Overall it seems that while you can get connected and run an iperf to your ISP or multi-connection speedtest to a server hosted by your ISP or peered with your ISP, you&#x27;ll be pretty much limited to &lt;1gbps speeds regardless of your home network throughput.<p>Knowing this I would have simply went multi-gig (2.5g) for all in-home networking and saved a good chunk of change on networking equipment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supergeek</author><text>The bigger benefit of all of that bandwidth is going to be multiple users. If you work from home and have a big family, or just live with a few roommates you&#x27;re going to be seeing huge quality of service improvements from one person not being able to tank the whole connection.</text></comment>
18,268,510	18,268,214	1	3	18,265,115	train	<story><title>Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s</title><url>http://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-virus-is-a-cause-104943</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kens</author><text>A good overview of different hypotheses for Alzheimer&#x27;s was published in Nature a couple months ago [1]. I recommend reading this before jumping on the latest HN theory. This article includes evidence for and against HSV.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-018-05719-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-018-05719-4</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s</title><url>http://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-virus-is-a-cause-104943</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runarberg</author><text>My former neurology teacher was working on finding a genetic model that could predict Alzheimer&#x27;s. They said that work was going well. However they were also finding strong evidence for these infection models. which seems to contradict their work. The disease couldn&#x27;t be both hereditary and infectious. Their answer were that possible we were looking at at least two different diseases that just so happened to attack the same neurons, and hence produce the same symptoms.</text></comment>
19,928,917	19,928,432	1	3	19,908,485	train	<story><title>The oldest vegetarian restaurant</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190513-the-worlds-oldest-vegetarian-restaurant</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>telesilla</author><text>Having been vegetarian since the early 90s, I can happily say the last few years has gotten amazing for eating out. 20 years ago I was in Hungary for a week and lived on salad and deep-fried camembert from the regular restaurants while my friends gorged on meat. The day before I left, I stumbled across a hidden buddhist restaurant in a basement - I believe I cried with relief. These days I can travel almost anywhere and be assured of filling my stomach with more than salad greens and cheese.</text></comment>	<story><title>The oldest vegetarian restaurant</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190513-the-worlds-oldest-vegetarian-restaurant</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>secure</author><text>I eat at Hiltl frequently and love it every time! Strongly recommended.<p>For a friend of mine, Hiltl’s presences in Zürich (and other vegeterian restaurants) was a big factor in moving to Zürich :)<p>I was on an airplane once where SWISS served Hiltl food. The person next to me was very positively surprised by the quality and asked me about details of the dish.</text></comment>
14,813,903	14,813,681	1	2	14,813,087	train	<story><title>Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down</title><url>https://www.politie.nl/en/news/2017/july/20/underground-hansa-market-taken-over-and-shut-down.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgotpwtomain</author><text>&gt; That database must be a wet dream for law enforcement.<p>Because obviously people buying a few pills of ecstasy or a tab of LSD are a serious danger to society and should be taken of the streets. &#x2F;s</text></item><item><author>5_minutes</author><text>The clever thing is that they took it over and for one month monitored it without the users knowing.<p>Everyone on obfuscating their persona with Tor and bitcoins, still had to enter their postal addresses on the website, to receive the goodies.<p>That database must be a wet dream for law enforcement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mfoy_</author><text>Because the police will totally arrest every single user and not focus on the high-volume buyers &#x2F; sellers. &#x2F;s</text></comment>	<story><title>Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down</title><url>https://www.politie.nl/en/news/2017/july/20/underground-hansa-market-taken-over-and-shut-down.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgotpwtomain</author><text>&gt; That database must be a wet dream for law enforcement.<p>Because obviously people buying a few pills of ecstasy or a tab of LSD are a serious danger to society and should be taken of the streets. &#x2F;s</text></item><item><author>5_minutes</author><text>The clever thing is that they took it over and for one month monitored it without the users knowing.<p>Everyone on obfuscating their persona with Tor and bitcoins, still had to enter their postal addresses on the website, to receive the goodies.<p>That database must be a wet dream for law enforcement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; Because obviously people buying a few pills of ecstasy or a tab of LSD are a serious danger to society and should be taken of the streets. &#x2F;s<p>Because obviously it&#x27;s impossible to express that one party might have viewed an outcome as favorable without agreeing with that view. &#x2F;s</text></comment>
24,010,909	24,010,723	1	2	24,008,557	train	<story><title>The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated</title><url>https://medium.com/young-coder/the-case-against-oop-is-wildly-overstated-572eae5ab495</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lgessler</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t speak to what I consider some of the most dangerous parts of OOP, which include the assumptions that tightly binding data and code is helpful, and that statefulness is fine to freely sprinkle throughout your program.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zozbot234</author><text>&quot;Tightly binding data and code&quot; allows you to maintain complex invariants via code, and to abstract away from the specifics of any single implementation. Statefulness per se is quite manageable; what&#x27;s not manageable is <i>shared, mutable</i> state that isn&#x27;t isolated to a single, modular, highly cohesive &quot;unit&quot; of code that can be understood in its totality. The real issues with OOP have to do precisely with things that <i>break</i> these principles, viz. implementation inheritance.</text></comment>	<story><title>The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated</title><url>https://medium.com/young-coder/the-case-against-oop-is-wildly-overstated-572eae5ab495</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lgessler</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t speak to what I consider some of the most dangerous parts of OOP, which include the assumptions that tightly binding data and code is helpful, and that statefulness is fine to freely sprinkle throughout your program.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>I was about to write exactly this. In 2014 I wrote an essay that has been discussed here on Hacker News several times [1]. When I re-read it now, parts of it seem very subtle, parts of it seem to be matters of opinion, but what jumps out is how really dangerous it is to tightly bind data with behavior, especially because this then leads to the problem of initiation (which I devote a lot of time to talking about in the essay).<p>[1] Object Oriented Programming Is An Expensive Disaster Which Must End<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smashcompany.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;object-oriented-programming-is-an-expensive-disaster-which-must-end" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smashcompany.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;object-oriented-progr...</a></text></comment>
2,494,632	2,494,602	1	2	2,493,889	train	<story><title>Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2011/04/28/removed-instapaper-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonLim</author><text>Many of my friends own iPhones, and many are flabbergasted when they find out that my phone is not jailbroken nor is it filled with free apps.<p>I happily pay for quality apps. Why? It's going to cost me anywhere from $1 to $10, and that is honestly chump change for an app that will provide much more in value.<p>For some reason, if you give away your work for free, all of the cheapskates and losers come out and start insulting the service and/or claiming they didn't get enough support.<p>What do people expect when they don't pay for a valuable app...?</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I second, third, and fourth the notion about pathological customers. iOS is practically training a generation of them. I'm glad they are far away from me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xuzz</author><text>As someone who works on software for jailbroken phones, I just want to make it clear that jailbreaking and piracy are <i>not</i> the same thing.<p>Yes, jailbreaking makes piracy possible, but Cydia has multiple warnings about adding the repositories required for piracy. In fact, our best statistics show less than half of all the jailbroken devices have pirated an app.<p>I agree with your points, but I don't want people to misunderstand the point of jailbreaking: jailbreaking is about controlling your own device and doing things the App Store doesn't even conceptually allow.</text></comment>	<story><title>Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2011/04/28/removed-instapaper-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonLim</author><text>Many of my friends own iPhones, and many are flabbergasted when they find out that my phone is not jailbroken nor is it filled with free apps.<p>I happily pay for quality apps. Why? It's going to cost me anywhere from $1 to $10, and that is honestly chump change for an app that will provide much more in value.<p>For some reason, if you give away your work for free, all of the cheapskates and losers come out and start insulting the service and/or claiming they didn't get enough support.<p>What do people expect when they don't pay for a valuable app...?</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I second, third, and fourth the notion about pathological customers. iOS is practically training a generation of them. I'm glad they are far away from me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbateman</author><text>I really hate the fact that you can't just straight up pay for more things and am deeply suspicious of free services. What benefit do you get from me using your service if I'm not paying you? In some cases, like Google, the benefit is that I can be sold to advertisers. Nothing is really free, and it's better, cleaner, and less scammy feeling to know and pay the cost up front.<p>If there's a free vs. paid app that I want I will always go for the paid app. I never tried Instapaper free.</text></comment>
12,877,107	12,876,293	1	2	12,874,798	train	<story><title>DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burke</author><text>&gt; When Google’s AI can beat a human at StarCraft, it’s time to be very afraid.<p>I don&#x27;t actually agree with this. Unlike Go, StarCraft is not only a game of strategy; &quot;micro&quot; (micro-managed tactics, basically) also plays a big role. An AI is going to be able to issue a LOT more commands per second than even the most skilled humans, giving them a natural tactical advantage.<p>Strategy is more difficult for an AI, but not the only deciding factor in StarCraft.</text></item><item><author>theptip</author><text>This is pretty interesting.<p>DeepMind’s last triumph (beating the best human Go players with AlphaGo) is impressive, but Go is a great fit for neural networks as they stand today; it’s stateless, so you can fully evaluate your position based on the state of the board at a given turn.<p>That’s not a good fit for most real-world problems, where you have to remember something that happened in the past. E.g. the ‘fog of war’ in a strategy game.<p>This is a big open problem in AI research right now. I saw a post around the time of AlphaGo challenging DeepMind to tackle StarCraft next, so it is very cool that they have gone in this direction.<p>When Google’s AI can beat a human at StarCraft, it’s time to be very afraid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theptip</author><text>Agreed that micro is a big advantage that AIs have held in previous AI vs. Human StarCraft contests, but the OP stated that the SC2 research environment will limit the AI to (elite) human APM levels, so that edge will be somewhat blunted. It&#x27;s probably fair to question whether all actions are counted equally; I could believe that an AI could allocate their action budget more widely than a human can, even while hitting the same total APM.<p>More importantly, in my opinion, I&#x27;m not aware of any other AIs that have been competitive at the StarCraft problem using a Neural-Net-based implementation; from talking to PhDs in the field (but not from direct technical experience, so take this with a pinch of salt), my impression is that state-of-the-art RNNs just don&#x27;t have the ability to encode the history of the game-world in a way that would enable them to be competitive. So it will require significant advances to the theoretical models to be able to compete using the sort of implementation that DeepMind will build.</text></comment>	<story><title>DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burke</author><text>&gt; When Google’s AI can beat a human at StarCraft, it’s time to be very afraid.<p>I don&#x27;t actually agree with this. Unlike Go, StarCraft is not only a game of strategy; &quot;micro&quot; (micro-managed tactics, basically) also plays a big role. An AI is going to be able to issue a LOT more commands per second than even the most skilled humans, giving them a natural tactical advantage.<p>Strategy is more difficult for an AI, but not the only deciding factor in StarCraft.</text></item><item><author>theptip</author><text>This is pretty interesting.<p>DeepMind’s last triumph (beating the best human Go players with AlphaGo) is impressive, but Go is a great fit for neural networks as they stand today; it’s stateless, so you can fully evaluate your position based on the state of the board at a given turn.<p>That’s not a good fit for most real-world problems, where you have to remember something that happened in the past. E.g. the ‘fog of war’ in a strategy game.<p>This is a big open problem in AI research right now. I saw a post around the time of AlphaGo challenging DeepMind to tackle StarCraft next, so it is very cool that they have gone in this direction.<p>When Google’s AI can beat a human at StarCraft, it’s time to be very afraid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticfox</author><text>I agree. I think you&#x27;d have to limit that machine&#x27;s APM to somewhere around the human limit, and make it choose which actions it wants to spend its time on.<p>Otherwise the AI is eventually just going to absolutely destroy humans with micro, which is not remotely interesting. We&#x27;ve known transistors were faster than fingers for ages.</text></comment>
18,850,331	18,850,310	1	2	18,846,830	train	<story><title>The melting pot of JavaScript (2017)</title><url>https://increment.com/development/the-melting-pot-of-javascript/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orangeeater</author><text>&gt; Js barely even supports reflection. This is a huge underrated shortcoming of js if you&#x27;re doing anything complicated<p>Can you explain what Java offers with regard to reflection that JS doesn&#x27;t?<p>My feeling is that reflection is almost moot in JS since you can inspect&#x2F;mutate objects at runtime however you like. But maybe I&#x27;m missing the point of reflection.<p>There is a Reflect object with a bunch of static methods on it in ES6. It mostly just replicates functonality that already exists in the language, and my suspicion is that it&#x27;s mainly there so it can be extended at a later date without breaking backwards compatiblity.</text></item><item><author>spricket</author><text>I really like the kind of sanity that TypeScript brings to JS, super well designed and usually a pleasure to work with. That said, I&#x27;ve worked in many languages and I can&#x27;t see any reason you would willing write your backend in JS or TypeScript.<p>Java, C#, Rails, and to some extent Python are much saner choices. The massive churn of the JS ecosystem bleeds through to the backend, hard.<p>JS could use a little more of the cruft and process that makes Java and C# especially so &quot;uninteresting&quot;.<p>Java especially is kind of a joy to work in if you ignore the cruft. Everything is generally well documented, the libraries are mostly very solid, code is almost always backwards compatible, there isn&#x27;t a zillion ways to do everything, frameworks tend to live for a decade or so.<p>And it&#x27;s faster than JS, and uses way less memory, and mostly solved dependency hell and bloat over a decade ago.<p>Java feels like it was designed, not grown. Everything follows similar convention so it&#x27;s easy to pick up new libraries. The advantages are many. The drawbacks are few as long as you use things like Lombok and code generation liberally. By the way; code generation using agents, annotation processors, and bytecode manipulation is pretty much standard and a godsend for doing interesting things (and getting around the cruft) .<p>In java, I can write code on the fly at runtime, or even during compile time using standard tools. Js barely even supports reflection. This is a huge underrated shortcoming of js if you&#x27;re doing anything complicated</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orf</author><text>&gt; Can you explain what Java offers with regard to reflection that JS doesn&#x27;t?<p>Among hundreds of other things, getting the return type of a method and getting the input parameter names (+ types) in a way that doesn&#x27;t revolve around literally parsing the functions toString() representation.<p>Oh, and typeof checking that isn&#x27;t disgustingly broken.</text></comment>	<story><title>The melting pot of JavaScript (2017)</title><url>https://increment.com/development/the-melting-pot-of-javascript/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orangeeater</author><text>&gt; Js barely even supports reflection. This is a huge underrated shortcoming of js if you&#x27;re doing anything complicated<p>Can you explain what Java offers with regard to reflection that JS doesn&#x27;t?<p>My feeling is that reflection is almost moot in JS since you can inspect&#x2F;mutate objects at runtime however you like. But maybe I&#x27;m missing the point of reflection.<p>There is a Reflect object with a bunch of static methods on it in ES6. It mostly just replicates functonality that already exists in the language, and my suspicion is that it&#x27;s mainly there so it can be extended at a later date without breaking backwards compatiblity.</text></item><item><author>spricket</author><text>I really like the kind of sanity that TypeScript brings to JS, super well designed and usually a pleasure to work with. That said, I&#x27;ve worked in many languages and I can&#x27;t see any reason you would willing write your backend in JS or TypeScript.<p>Java, C#, Rails, and to some extent Python are much saner choices. The massive churn of the JS ecosystem bleeds through to the backend, hard.<p>JS could use a little more of the cruft and process that makes Java and C# especially so &quot;uninteresting&quot;.<p>Java especially is kind of a joy to work in if you ignore the cruft. Everything is generally well documented, the libraries are mostly very solid, code is almost always backwards compatible, there isn&#x27;t a zillion ways to do everything, frameworks tend to live for a decade or so.<p>And it&#x27;s faster than JS, and uses way less memory, and mostly solved dependency hell and bloat over a decade ago.<p>Java feels like it was designed, not grown. Everything follows similar convention so it&#x27;s easy to pick up new libraries. The advantages are many. The drawbacks are few as long as you use things like Lombok and code generation liberally. By the way; code generation using agents, annotation processors, and bytecode manipulation is pretty much standard and a godsend for doing interesting things (and getting around the cruft) .<p>In java, I can write code on the fly at runtime, or even during compile time using standard tools. Js barely even supports reflection. This is a huge underrated shortcoming of js if you&#x27;re doing anything complicated</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spricket</author><text>Java uses reflection and annotations to support all kinds of language extensions. Js has a lot of nasty issues with the &quot;prototype chain&quot; and annotation support is still experimental. For example, in java, scanning your classes and their annotations to generate code for them at compile time is a standardized feature.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just complaining that JS is too dynamic, but being able to generate code at compile time with reflection and know it will generally work (type checked) is nice.</text></comment>
25,715,877	25,714,855	1	3	25,714,093	train	<story><title>Terms of Service; Didn’t Read</title><url>https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>II2II</author><text>On the first day of a university course, several hundred students asked to line up and sign a two page agreement in order to access computing resources necessary for the course. When my turn came, I asked where I could read it without holding up the entire line. They were shocked that anyone would ask such a question, though they provided me a space to read over the document.<p>If blindly signing a contract one of the first things that computer science students encounter, I&#x27;m not surprised that they simply put up those ToS without the expectation that they will be read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joekrill</author><text>It&#x27;s absolutely astounding to me how many folks blindly sign legal documents. Especially employment related. Whenever I&#x27;ve pushed back on an employment contract, NDA, or similar it&#x27;s always met with sudden confusion - as though this has never happened before. In fairness, it&#x27;s almost never met with negatively. But it shows that no one else has ever bothered to question it. And when I talk to colleagues I definitely get the sense that no one ever really reads these things or questions them.</text></comment>	<story><title>Terms of Service; Didn’t Read</title><url>https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>II2II</author><text>On the first day of a university course, several hundred students asked to line up and sign a two page agreement in order to access computing resources necessary for the course. When my turn came, I asked where I could read it without holding up the entire line. They were shocked that anyone would ask such a question, though they provided me a space to read over the document.<p>If blindly signing a contract one of the first things that computer science students encounter, I&#x27;m not surprised that they simply put up those ToS without the expectation that they will be read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexfromapex</author><text>I had a quiz in middle school where the end of the directions said to ignore everything and put down your pencil. Really wish all schools taught this.</text></comment>
8,627,228	8,627,020	1	2	8,624,160	train	<story><title>Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>&gt; Encrypted (Certified) COOL GREEN<p>I think we can agree that this case is correct. If you have a properly vetted cert, more power to you. The browser should tell your users that you do own this domain.<p>&gt; Encrypted (Self-Signed) EVIL RED<p>Not quite. Your user does have the ability to permanently trust this certificate. However, if I am trying to access gmail.com over HTTPS, I better not get this error. Otherwise, I know for a fact someone is messing with me.<p>&gt; Unencrypted NOTHING &#x2F; NEUTRAL CHROME<p>This case should be eliminated. We need to stop publishing stuff over HTTP. Period. The browsers should start fast tracking dropping support for HTTP altogether so we don&#x27;t even have to think about this case.<p>Now the solution for case #2 is that every time you buy a domain, your registrar should issue you a wildcard cert for that domain. Moreover, you should be able to use that private key + cert to sign additional certs for individual subdomains. That way we can eliminate all the CA&#x27;s. We would essentially use the same infrastructure that already supports domain name registration and DNS instead of funding a completely parallel, yet deeply flawed CA industry. As a bonus, this way only your registrar and you may issue certs for your domain.<p>This is all castles in the sky, but IMO that&#x27;s the correct solution.</text></item><item><author>rufb</author><text>So this is where we stand:<p><pre><code> Encrypted (Certified) COOL GREEN Encrypted (Self-Signed) EVIL RED Unencrypted NOTHING &#x2F; NEUTRAL CHROME </code></pre> I think there&#x27;s a pretty blatant antipattern here, and I&#x27;m not talking about colourblind-proofing the browser chrome.</text></item><item><author>pilif</author><text><i>&gt; A self signed certificate warning means &quot;Warning! The admin on the site you&#x27;re connecting to wants this conversation to be private but it hasn&#x27;t been proven that he has 200 bucks for us to say he&#x27;s cool&quot;</i><p>no. It means &quot;even though this connection is encrypted, there is no way to tell you whether you are currently talking to that site or to NSA which is forwarding all of your traffic to the site you&#x27;re on&quot;.<p>Treating this as a grave error IMHO is right because by accepting the connection over SSL, you state that the conversation between the user agent and the server is meant to be private.<p>Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that to be true if the identity of the server certificate can&#x27;t somehow be tied to the identity of the server.<p>So when you accept the connection unencrypted, you tell the user agent &quot;hey - everything is ok here - I don&#x27;t care about this conversation to be private&quot;, so no error message is shown.<p>But the moment you accept the connection over ssl, the user agent assumes the connection to be intended to be private and failure to assert identity becomes a terminal issue.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that the CA way of doing things is the right way - far from it. It&#x27;s just the best that we currently have.<p>The solution is absolutely not to have browsers accept self-signed certificates though. The solution is something nobody hasn&#x27;t quite come up with.</text></item><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>This certificate industry has been such a racket. It&#x27;s not even tacit that there are two completely separate issues that certificates and encryption solve. They get conflated and non technical users rightly get confused about which thing is trying to solve a problem they aren&#x27;t sure why they have.<p>The certificate authorities are quite in love that the self-signed certificate errors are turning redder, bolder, and bigger. A self signed certificate warning means &quot;Warning! The admin on the site you&#x27;re connecting to wants this conversation to be private but it hasn&#x27;t been proven that he has 200 bucks for us to say he&#x27;s cool&quot;.<p>But so what if he&#x27;s cool? Yeah I like my banking website to be &quot;cool&quot; but for 200 bucks I can be just as &quot;cool&quot;. A few years back the browsers started putting extra bling on the URL bar if the coolness factor was high enough - if a bank pays 10,000 bucks for a really cool verification, they get a giant green pulsating URL badge. And they should, that means someone had to fax over vials of blood with the governor&#x27;s seal that it&#x27;s a legitimate institute in that state or province. But my little 200 dollar, not pulsating but still green certificate means &quot;yeah digitalsushi definitely had 200 bucks and a fax machine, or at least was [email protected] for damned sure&quot;.<p>And that is good enough for users. No errors? It&#x27;s legit.<p>What&#x27;s the difference between me coughing up 200 bucks to make that URL bar green, and then bright red with klaxons cause I didn&#x27;t cough up the 200 bucks to be sure I am the owner of a personal domain? Like I said, a racket. The certificate authorities love causing a panic. But don&#x27;t tell me users are any safer just &#x27;cause I had 200 bucks. They&#x27;re not.<p>The cert is just for warm and fuzzies. The encryption is to keep snoops out. If I made a browser, I would have 200 dollar &quot;hostmaster&quot; verification be some orange, cautious URL bar - &quot;this person has a site that we have verified to the laziest extent possible without getting sued for not even doing anything at all&quot;. But then I probably wouldn&#x27;t be getting any tips in my jar from the CAs at the end of the day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kybernetikos</author><text>&gt;&gt; Encrypted (Certified) COOL GREEN<p>&gt; I think we can agree that this case is correct. If you have a properly vetted cert, more power to you. The browser should tell your users that you do own this domain.<p>Maybe. I just checked my browser and it already trusts more than 100 certificate authorities from all around the world, including some companies that I don&#x27;t trust, some governments that I don&#x27;t trust, but mainly composed of organisations I&#x27;ve never heard of. Even in a good system, there would occasionally be leaks etc, but this mess of promiscuous trust is clearly insane.</text></comment>	<story><title>Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>&gt; Encrypted (Certified) COOL GREEN<p>I think we can agree that this case is correct. If you have a properly vetted cert, more power to you. The browser should tell your users that you do own this domain.<p>&gt; Encrypted (Self-Signed) EVIL RED<p>Not quite. Your user does have the ability to permanently trust this certificate. However, if I am trying to access gmail.com over HTTPS, I better not get this error. Otherwise, I know for a fact someone is messing with me.<p>&gt; Unencrypted NOTHING &#x2F; NEUTRAL CHROME<p>This case should be eliminated. We need to stop publishing stuff over HTTP. Period. The browsers should start fast tracking dropping support for HTTP altogether so we don&#x27;t even have to think about this case.<p>Now the solution for case #2 is that every time you buy a domain, your registrar should issue you a wildcard cert for that domain. Moreover, you should be able to use that private key + cert to sign additional certs for individual subdomains. That way we can eliminate all the CA&#x27;s. We would essentially use the same infrastructure that already supports domain name registration and DNS instead of funding a completely parallel, yet deeply flawed CA industry. As a bonus, this way only your registrar and you may issue certs for your domain.<p>This is all castles in the sky, but IMO that&#x27;s the correct solution.</text></item><item><author>rufb</author><text>So this is where we stand:<p><pre><code> Encrypted (Certified) COOL GREEN Encrypted (Self-Signed) EVIL RED Unencrypted NOTHING &#x2F; NEUTRAL CHROME </code></pre> I think there&#x27;s a pretty blatant antipattern here, and I&#x27;m not talking about colourblind-proofing the browser chrome.</text></item><item><author>pilif</author><text><i>&gt; A self signed certificate warning means &quot;Warning! The admin on the site you&#x27;re connecting to wants this conversation to be private but it hasn&#x27;t been proven that he has 200 bucks for us to say he&#x27;s cool&quot;</i><p>no. It means &quot;even though this connection is encrypted, there is no way to tell you whether you are currently talking to that site or to NSA which is forwarding all of your traffic to the site you&#x27;re on&quot;.<p>Treating this as a grave error IMHO is right because by accepting the connection over SSL, you state that the conversation between the user agent and the server is meant to be private.<p>Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that to be true if the identity of the server certificate can&#x27;t somehow be tied to the identity of the server.<p>So when you accept the connection unencrypted, you tell the user agent &quot;hey - everything is ok here - I don&#x27;t care about this conversation to be private&quot;, so no error message is shown.<p>But the moment you accept the connection over ssl, the user agent assumes the connection to be intended to be private and failure to assert identity becomes a terminal issue.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that the CA way of doing things is the right way - far from it. It&#x27;s just the best that we currently have.<p>The solution is absolutely not to have browsers accept self-signed certificates though. The solution is something nobody hasn&#x27;t quite come up with.</text></item><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>This certificate industry has been such a racket. It&#x27;s not even tacit that there are two completely separate issues that certificates and encryption solve. They get conflated and non technical users rightly get confused about which thing is trying to solve a problem they aren&#x27;t sure why they have.<p>The certificate authorities are quite in love that the self-signed certificate errors are turning redder, bolder, and bigger. A self signed certificate warning means &quot;Warning! The admin on the site you&#x27;re connecting to wants this conversation to be private but it hasn&#x27;t been proven that he has 200 bucks for us to say he&#x27;s cool&quot;.<p>But so what if he&#x27;s cool? Yeah I like my banking website to be &quot;cool&quot; but for 200 bucks I can be just as &quot;cool&quot;. A few years back the browsers started putting extra bling on the URL bar if the coolness factor was high enough - if a bank pays 10,000 bucks for a really cool verification, they get a giant green pulsating URL badge. And they should, that means someone had to fax over vials of blood with the governor&#x27;s seal that it&#x27;s a legitimate institute in that state or province. But my little 200 dollar, not pulsating but still green certificate means &quot;yeah digitalsushi definitely had 200 bucks and a fax machine, or at least was [email protected] for damned sure&quot;.<p>And that is good enough for users. No errors? It&#x27;s legit.<p>What&#x27;s the difference between me coughing up 200 bucks to make that URL bar green, and then bright red with klaxons cause I didn&#x27;t cough up the 200 bucks to be sure I am the owner of a personal domain? Like I said, a racket. The certificate authorities love causing a panic. But don&#x27;t tell me users are any safer just &#x27;cause I had 200 bucks. They&#x27;re not.<p>The cert is just for warm and fuzzies. The encryption is to keep snoops out. If I made a browser, I would have 200 dollar &quot;hostmaster&quot; verification be some orange, cautious URL bar - &quot;this person has a site that we have verified to the laziest extent possible without getting sued for not even doing anything at all&quot;. But then I probably wouldn&#x27;t be getting any tips in my jar from the CAs at the end of the day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>There&#x27;s no such thing in X509 as a cert which is authorized only to sign certs within a certain subdomain. A CA is either trusted or not; if it&#x27;s trusted, it can sign off on a cert for www.google.com.<p>A system where there&#x27;s a .com root cert that can sign authority certs for .com subdomains, which themselves can only sign for their own subdomains - that&#x27;s a great idea. Not part of the standard, though.</text></comment>
24,644,418	24,644,009	1	2	24,641,441	train	<story><title>Linux under WSL2 can be leaking</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2020/9/30/linux-under-wsl2-can-be-leaking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>closeparen</author><text>A good reminder that you really want proxying done on a separate device (router, Raspberry Pi, etc) physically between the endpoint and the internet.</text></item><item><author>smarx007</author><text>The title is wrong. The VPN traffic does NOT leak. What leaks is the traffic that the VPN software tries to block when the VPN connection is not active. Mullvad uses Windows Firewall to block all internet access if VPN is not active (if the user configured so) and WSL2 bypasses this by not going through Windows Firewall. When the VPN is active, WSL2 traffic IS tunneled through the VPN.<p>UPD: The solution may be to have Windows Firewall rules apply to WSL2 or have Mullvad control Linux internet access through on-the-fly UFW settings update or completely disconnect internet (but that likely does not work nicely and is why Mullvad went for the Windows Firewall based solution in the first place).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerdesj</author><text>This sounds like working as designed and not a flaw. If your Linux box needs a firewall then put one on it. As the article says, the VM is using Hyper-V networking so it is likely that the connection is either bridged with a virty software switch or is NATted in some way but with a short cut through the host firewall. If the VM has an IP on your LAN it is bridged and if it doesn&#x27;t and you don&#x27;t have to fiddle with your internet router then NAT is in play.<p>Linux has lots of options for firewalling. For Windows sysadmins, firewalld with a GUI could be a reasonably familiar option. Failing that, ufw is quick and reasonably easy for simple use cases. If you are feeling macho, then roll your own with iptables or nftables. The last time I did that properly was with ipchains ...</text></comment>	<story><title>Linux under WSL2 can be leaking</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2020/9/30/linux-under-wsl2-can-be-leaking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>closeparen</author><text>A good reminder that you really want proxying done on a separate device (router, Raspberry Pi, etc) physically between the endpoint and the internet.</text></item><item><author>smarx007</author><text>The title is wrong. The VPN traffic does NOT leak. What leaks is the traffic that the VPN software tries to block when the VPN connection is not active. Mullvad uses Windows Firewall to block all internet access if VPN is not active (if the user configured so) and WSL2 bypasses this by not going through Windows Firewall. When the VPN is active, WSL2 traffic IS tunneled through the VPN.<p>UPD: The solution may be to have Windows Firewall rules apply to WSL2 or have Mullvad control Linux internet access through on-the-fly UFW settings update or completely disconnect internet (but that likely does not work nicely and is why Mullvad went for the Windows Firewall based solution in the first place).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>Does anyone have a raspberry pi hardened disk image for this? I just don&#x27;t have time to troubleshoot all these things anymore</text></comment>
35,353,103	35,328,313	1	2	35,325,488	train	<story><title>Jsonnet – The Data Templating Language</title><url>https://jsonnet.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSDude</author><text>We&#x27;ve been using Jsonnet to generate Pods for our complex DAGs at Opsgenie, wrote a similar one using Tekton: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mustafaakin.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-generate-dynamic-tekton-pipelines-in-kubernetes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mustafaakin.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-ge...</a><p>But if I was doing it again now, I would just use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cuelang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cuelang.org&#x2F;</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dagger.io">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dagger.io</a> Jsonnet is really hard to debug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ithkuil</author><text>&gt; Jsonnet is really hard to debug.<p>yes! As always, it&#x27;s mostly a tooling issue. Surely, some aspects of the language like lazy evaluation, make it even harder, but fundamentally there is no reason we cannot significantly improve on the overall experience.<p>And this is not just about debugging when things go wrong. It&#x27;s also hard to navigate the codebase and understand where are the templates that you care about. Things can happen at multiple levels (that&#x27;s the feature!) and so it can be quite hard to figure out which files you need to touch if you want to change something in the output. I&#x27;m working on a tool to answer that question: &quot;if I wanted to change this field in the generated out put, what are the places in the input files that contribute to produce this value&quot;<p><pre><code> $ ursonnet testdata&#x2F;child.jsonnet &#x27;$.deployment.spec.template.spec.containers[0].resources.limits.cpu&#x27; testdata&#x2F;common.libsonnet:27 testdata&#x2F;base.jsonnet:5 testdata&#x2F;common.libsonnet:23 testdata&#x2F;common.libsonnet:22 testdata&#x2F;config.libsonnet:5 </code></pre> The tool lives in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mkmik&#x2F;ursonnet">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mkmik&#x2F;ursonnet</a> . I got the basics working but it doesn&#x27;t work on my larger codebases due to some bug I didn&#x27;t have yet time hunting down. Having some interest&#x2F;feedback&#x2F;help from the community would help making this a reality.</text></comment>	<story><title>Jsonnet – The Data Templating Language</title><url>https://jsonnet.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSDude</author><text>We&#x27;ve been using Jsonnet to generate Pods for our complex DAGs at Opsgenie, wrote a similar one using Tekton: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mustafaakin.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-generate-dynamic-tekton-pipelines-in-kubernetes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mustafaakin.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-ge...</a><p>But if I was doing it again now, I would just use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cuelang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cuelang.org&#x2F;</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dagger.io">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dagger.io</a> Jsonnet is really hard to debug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sleepybrett</author><text>Agreed.<p>I dislike that it&#x27;s json to transform json, it becomes a rats nest. I had similar experiences with xslt back in the day.</text></comment>
30,856,764	30,856,572	1	3	30,855,624	train	<story><title>Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco</title><url>https://blog.waymo.com/2022/03/taking-our-next-step-in-city-by-bay.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jefftk</author><text>Ten years doesn&#x27;t sound sarcastic to me. With fully driverless operation starting in SF (and with several years in Phoenix), having it widely rolled out within ten years seems very plausible.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years<p>That&#x27;s sarcastic, right? Like &quot;we&#x27;ll have fusion power in 50 years&quot;? Except that we might actually have fusion power in 50 years and I don&#x27;t actually think we&#x27;ll have truly driverless cars within 50 years.</text></item><item><author>moritonal</author><text>I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years, and I know there will be benefits, but has any government yet started planning for the relatively near-instant transformation of the Trucker and Taxi industry once this &quot;works&quot;?<p>The fall-out is going to be intense:<p>* Fuel-stops are going to change completely, what&#x27;s the point of half of the motels on long-haul drives when your car can drive all night and likely recharge automatically at a stop-point.<p>* Reduced downtime on goods movement will impact uptime in every other industry.<p>* Autonomous-vehicle-only lanes that line up with traffic timings creating a two-tier driving experience<p>* Huge influx of unemployed drivers who I guess might get &quot;chauffeur&quot; style jobs.<p>* Security issues, complex legal issues when there&#x27;s accidents.<p>* Fake taxi&#x27;s that drive a customer into a bad experience for &quot;lols&quot;.<p>I know all this is extreme, but if history is studying the past to understand the present, science-fiction is studying the &quot;future&quot; to predict the problems of tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>They just announced 500k driverless miles in Phoenix. Over several years that sounds laughably small to me. For comparison, motor vehicle fatalities in the US are around 1.5 per 100 million miles. We&#x27;re several orders of magnitude away from even being able to convincingly demonstrate that these reduce (or at least do not increase) fatalities in the real world.<p>I&#x27;m glad that Cruise beat Waymo to driverless in SF because they are providing the swift kick in the butt that Waymo seems to require to actually make progress in a reasonable amount of time.</text></comment>	<story><title>Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco</title><url>https://blog.waymo.com/2022/03/taking-our-next-step-in-city-by-bay.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jefftk</author><text>Ten years doesn&#x27;t sound sarcastic to me. With fully driverless operation starting in SF (and with several years in Phoenix), having it widely rolled out within ten years seems very plausible.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years<p>That&#x27;s sarcastic, right? Like &quot;we&#x27;ll have fusion power in 50 years&quot;? Except that we might actually have fusion power in 50 years and I don&#x27;t actually think we&#x27;ll have truly driverless cars within 50 years.</text></item><item><author>moritonal</author><text>I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years, and I know there will be benefits, but has any government yet started planning for the relatively near-instant transformation of the Trucker and Taxi industry once this &quot;works&quot;?<p>The fall-out is going to be intense:<p>* Fuel-stops are going to change completely, what&#x27;s the point of half of the motels on long-haul drives when your car can drive all night and likely recharge automatically at a stop-point.<p>* Reduced downtime on goods movement will impact uptime in every other industry.<p>* Autonomous-vehicle-only lanes that line up with traffic timings creating a two-tier driving experience<p>* Huge influx of unemployed drivers who I guess might get &quot;chauffeur&quot; style jobs.<p>* Security issues, complex legal issues when there&#x27;s accidents.<p>* Fake taxi&#x27;s that drive a customer into a bad experience for &quot;lols&quot;.<p>I know all this is extreme, but if history is studying the past to understand the present, science-fiction is studying the &quot;future&quot; to predict the problems of tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hwers</author><text>They told us we were supposed to have driverless cars in 5 years 10 years ago.</text></comment>
22,806,566	22,803,356	1	3	22,802,675	train	<story><title>Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-so-bad-guys-cant/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeonM</author><text>For those not familiar with the corp.com situation:<p>Corp.com was (is?) the default example domain in many applications from Microsoft. As a result many badly configured networks are attempting to connect to this domain, often sharing credentials in the process.<p>He who owns corp.com will have access to tens of thousands of corporate networks. So the only move that MS had was to buy the domain, regardless of the price.<p>I guess mr O’Connor (who sold the domain) made a nice retirement today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewaylett</author><text>It&#x27;s more that `CORP` was the default short name for the AD domain, and also Windows ticks the &quot;try superdomains&quot; box in search domains by default.<p>So if you have your fully-qualified AD domain set to `ad.example.com`, that&#x27;s the default search domain too, and a DNS lookup for `corp` will first check `corp.ad.example.com` then `corp.example.com` then `corp.com`.<p>Now, if you&#x27;re using the AD server as your DNS server then it shouldn&#x27;t get that far -- `corp.ad.example.com` should resolve. But if for whatever reason a device connected to AD doesn&#x27;t use the AD server as its DNS server, for example if it&#x27;s a laptop and not connected to the corporate network, then you&#x27;ll be offered a _different_ search domain like `myisp.com`. Which probably _won&#x27;t_ resolve `corp.myisp.com`. So the built-in resolver will after all walk its way up the search domain and check `corp.com` QED.</text></comment>	<story><title>Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-so-bad-guys-cant/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeonM</author><text>For those not familiar with the corp.com situation:<p>Corp.com was (is?) the default example domain in many applications from Microsoft. As a result many badly configured networks are attempting to connect to this domain, often sharing credentials in the process.<p>He who owns corp.com will have access to tens of thousands of corporate networks. So the only move that MS had was to buy the domain, regardless of the price.<p>I guess mr O’Connor (who sold the domain) made a nice retirement today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swyx</author><text>always wish i could be a fly on the wall for these kinds of negotiations.<p>if O&#x27;Connor demanded something ridiculous like 10 billion dollars... how do you talk him down when the situation is this onesided?</text></comment>
29,137,310	29,137,168	1	3	29,136,820	train	<story><title>Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)</title><url>https://nora.codes/post/stop-making-students-use-eclipse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SPBS</author><text>I pity the student who only knows how to hit the compile button in the IDE and not `javac`. That&#x27;s a terrible thing to inflict on a beginner, everything will seem like a mystical black box to them with no way forward when they hit encounter their first compilation problem.</text></item><item><author>armchairhacker</author><text>I don’t agree with this perspective: why do entry-level students have to understand the internals behind compiling their code, and weird edge-cases like misspelling import? In my experience this is actually the stuff that hinders learning and confuses students.<p>The author claims that students won’t be able to do real-world programming without learning this esoteric stuff, but actually this is the exact stuff they don’t need to know: full teams can and have built huge java projects just by using the intellij project wizard and maybe a tiny bit of Gradle from stack overflow. Actually students can solve most of the author’s problems by spending 5 seconds on Stack Overflow.<p>I’m not saying that these more esoteric details are completely useless. Learning e.g. the difference between char and UTF8 “character” is actually pretty important so that emoji inputs don’t crash your website. But this is stuff that should come in later classes, particularly for students who are interested in those details. Not everyone needs to know it.<p>In fact my experience is that some colleges have the exact opposite problem: they teach students old tools and techniques which are tedious and not actually used much later on. Like writing code by hand and deducting points for syntax errors, or using some outdated framework e.g. jQuery. When I saw the title my first thought was literally “yeah stop making students use eclipse, they should be using IntelliJ!”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faizshah</author><text>I completely disagree, when I was a beginner programmer my only concern was “how do i make games?” i didn&#x27;t really care about the game engine, the compilation process, the algorithms even, my focus was on making a game. From middle school until early high school all my coding was in IDEs and I never really tried to use the command line it just wasnt my concern, it was much easier to hit the green run button. Throughout that time I was learning all the basic concepts of how a program is executed, what is control flow, how do you write good code, how does the program even run (i recall one time in middle school trying to figure out if all the lines in a program run at once or in sequence), how do you simplify booleans, how do you debug etc.<p>It was only later once I was interested in web development that I started picking up linux, learning more deeply about the compilation process, learning algorithms etc. For a beginner all that stuff is just more roadblocks to building your interest and foundation. But later I started hitting a wall when trying web development or 3d game programming where I didn’t have the fundamentals and thats when I started learning all the other skills besides just typing some code and hitting the green run button. In the transition from beginner programmer to Intermediate programmer is where I would say one should learn the behind the scenes concepts not while you’re still building an interest and foundation.<p>Also interesting aside the programming environment I started on was called “Kids Programming Language” it was like a kind of simplified blackbox environment that I compared to flash (but didnt cost money). Even today I prefer to introduce coding in such blackbox environments like processing.js maybe because of that.</text></comment>	<story><title>Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)</title><url>https://nora.codes/post/stop-making-students-use-eclipse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SPBS</author><text>I pity the student who only knows how to hit the compile button in the IDE and not `javac`. That&#x27;s a terrible thing to inflict on a beginner, everything will seem like a mystical black box to them with no way forward when they hit encounter their first compilation problem.</text></item><item><author>armchairhacker</author><text>I don’t agree with this perspective: why do entry-level students have to understand the internals behind compiling their code, and weird edge-cases like misspelling import? In my experience this is actually the stuff that hinders learning and confuses students.<p>The author claims that students won’t be able to do real-world programming without learning this esoteric stuff, but actually this is the exact stuff they don’t need to know: full teams can and have built huge java projects just by using the intellij project wizard and maybe a tiny bit of Gradle from stack overflow. Actually students can solve most of the author’s problems by spending 5 seconds on Stack Overflow.<p>I’m not saying that these more esoteric details are completely useless. Learning e.g. the difference between char and UTF8 “character” is actually pretty important so that emoji inputs don’t crash your website. But this is stuff that should come in later classes, particularly for students who are interested in those details. Not everyone needs to know it.<p>In fact my experience is that some colleges have the exact opposite problem: they teach students old tools and techniques which are tedious and not actually used much later on. Like writing code by hand and deducting points for syntax errors, or using some outdated framework e.g. jQuery. When I saw the title my first thought was literally “yeah stop making students use eclipse, they should be using IntelliJ!”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irl_chad</author><text>I’ve been programming in Java for about 10 years now. I would consider myself an expert - I’m not just some guy who built crud apps, I’ve gotten messy with Java. I came up programming for minecraft servers - lots of interesting challenges there.<p>The only time I have ever used javac was for fun. Not once professionally.</text></comment>
24,154,208	24,154,162	1	3	24,153,263	train	<story><title>Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>copp</author><text>The usual discussion on this topic goes like this:<p>Apple defenders - It is their right to do it, since Android store allows them.<p>Others - Apple is being a hypocrite. While they maintain that app store must be compensated for all the services they do to developers, When given a chance they do not agree with their above statement.<p>I feel w.r.t app stores, Google is User-centric, but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers. They use users as pawns, to bully the best for Apple, rather than their customers (you and I).<p>edit: To explain &quot;user centric&quot; better<p>Because of Apple&#x27;s rules, you cannot just sign-up from Netflix app in iOS. You have to sign up in their Browser and then sign in. And Netflix is not allowed to even specify that in the app. Absolutely confusing, for normal users. Very bad user experience.<p>That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. Apple is okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that users have to sign up in the browser.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Razengan</author><text>&gt; <i>but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers</i><p>Apple has done a lot to curtail scummy developer practices and protect users.<p>You could go over each of their App Store policies and see how few of them are &quot;at the expense of their customers.&quot;<p>Not the least are their privacy and anti-tracking protections. iOS 14 already caught many apps (including Discord and Instagram) stealing our clipboard data and secretly accessing camera, mic and location.<p>Claiming Google is &quot;user-centric&quot; and Apple isn&#x27;t, usually means taking the side of the corporations that are hurt by limited access to user data.</text></comment>	<story><title>Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>copp</author><text>The usual discussion on this topic goes like this:<p>Apple defenders - It is their right to do it, since Android store allows them.<p>Others - Apple is being a hypocrite. While they maintain that app store must be compensated for all the services they do to developers, When given a chance they do not agree with their above statement.<p>I feel w.r.t app stores, Google is User-centric, but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers. They use users as pawns, to bully the best for Apple, rather than their customers (you and I).<p>edit: To explain &quot;user centric&quot; better<p>Because of Apple&#x27;s rules, you cannot just sign-up from Netflix app in iOS. You have to sign up in their Browser and then sign in. And Netflix is not allowed to even specify that in the app. Absolutely confusing, for normal users. Very bad user experience.<p>That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. Apple is okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that users have to sign up in the browser.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyre</author><text>I would argue the reverse.<p>I have a HomePod and not an alexa or Google device because Apple has shown it cares about privacy. That&#x27;s user-centric. Sure, we could be incredibly cynical in saying that &quot;well because you buy it then it is actually Apple-centric&quot;, but they clearly care about privacy.<p>Google to me is entirely Google-centric, which means harvesting as much data about me as possible to sell to advertisers.<p>I&#x27;m fine with Apple&#x27;s walled garden. It works really, really well. People love iPhones for more than just marketing and status. They&#x27;re excellent phones. And a not-insignificant piece of that experience is an ecosystem fits together nicely, with central control. Infinite choice isn&#x27;t better for most people.</text></comment>
21,705,220	21,704,107	1	3	21,701,488	train	<story><title>Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries-removed-from-pypi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>This is why I don&#x27;t think this is an OS problem. I think it&#x27;s a developer mindset problem.<p>Dependencies are bad.<p>Every single dependency in your code is a liability, a security loophole, a potential legal risk, and a time sink.<p>Every dependency needs to be audited and evaluated, and all the changes on every update reviewed. Otherwise who knows what got injected into your code?<p>Evaluating each dependency for potential risk is important. How much coding time is this saving? Would it, in fact, be quicker to just write that code yourself? Can you vendor it and cut out features you don&#x27;t need? How many other people use this? Is it supported by its original maintainer? Does it have a deep-pocketed maintainer that could be an alternative target for legal claims?<p>Mostly, people don&#x27;t do that and just &quot;import antigravity&quot; without wondering if there&#x27;s a free lunch in there...</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>&quot;Solid SELinux policy&quot; is really the hard part there.<p>When I pip install paramiko, I do, in fact, want it to have access to my SSH keys. When I pip install ansible, I want ansible to be able to shell out to OpenSSH to use my keys. If I write custom Python code that calls gpg, I want that custom code to be able to load libraries that I&#x27;ve pip installed without the gpg subprocess being blocked from loading my keys. If I have a backup client in Python, and I tell it to back up my entire home directory, I want it backing up my entire home directory including private keys.<p>If I wanted an OS where I couldn&#x27;t install arbitrary code and have it get to all my files for my own good, I&#x27;d use iOS. (I do, in fact, use iOS on my phone because I sometimes want this. But when I&#x27;m writing Python code, I don&#x27;t.)<p>SELinux has been able to solve the problem of &quot;if a policy says X can&#x27;t get to Y, prevent X from getting to Y&quot; for years. Regular UNIX permissions have been doing the same for decades. (Yes, SELinux and regular UNIX permissions take a different approach &#x2F; let you write the policy differently, but that&#x27;s the problem they&#x27;re fundamentally solving; given a clear description of who to deny access to, deny this access.) Neither SELinux nor UNIX permissions nor anything else has solved the problem of &quot;Actually, in this circumstance I mean for X to get to Y, but in that circumstance I don&#x27;t, and this is obvious to a human but there&#x27;s no clear programmable distinction between the cases.&quot;<p>To be clear - I think there is potentially something of a hybrid approach between the status quo and what newer OSes do. For instance, imagine if each virtualenv were its own sandboxed environment (which could be &quot;SELinux context&quot; or could just be &quot;UNIX user account&quot;) and so if you&#x27;re writing code in one project, things you pip install have access to that code but not your whole user account. I&#x27;m just saying that SELinux hasn&#x27;t magically solved this problem because all it provides is tools you could use to solve it, not a solution itself.</text></item><item><author>XorNot</author><text>This is literally what SELinux does, and has been able to do for years. We don&#x27;t need &quot;default block lists&quot; - we need solid SELinux policy in all distros.</text></item><item><author>greggman2</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what the solution is but it feels like this is a much bigger issue and we need some rethinking of how OSes work by default. Apple has taken some steps it seems the last 2 MacOS updates where they block access to certain folders for lots of executables until the user specifically gives that permission. Unfortunately for things like python the permission is granted to the Terminal app so once given, all programs running under the terminal inherit the permissions.<p>Microsoft has started adding short life VMs. No idea if that&#x27;s good. Both MS and Apple offer their App stores with more locked down experiences though I&#x27;m sad they conflate app security and app markets.<p>Basically anytime I run any software, everytime I run &quot;make&quot; or &quot;npm install&quot; or &quot;pip install&quot; or download a game on Steam etc I&#x27;m having to trust 1000s of strangers they aren&#x27;t downloading my keys, my photos, my docs, etc...<p>I think you should be in control of your machine but IMO it&#x27;s time to default to locked down instead of defaulting to open.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>I strongly disagree that this isn&#x27;t an OS problem.<p>s&#x2F;dependency&#x2F;application&#x2F;g in your comment. Dependencies are just applications that are controlled through code rather than via a mouse&#x2F;keyboard. They&#x27;re not special.<p>I run a minimal Arch setup at home for my development machine, partially for security&#x2F;reliability reasons -- less software means fewer chances for something to go wrong. But this is a band-aide fix. A minimal Arch setup that forgoes modern niceties like a graphical file browser is not a general-purpose solution to software security.<p>When someone comes to me and says that an app is stealing their iOS contacts behind their back, my response isn&#x27;t, &quot;well, its your own fault for installing apps in the first place. Apps are bad.&quot; My response is to say that iOS apps shouldn&#x27;t have access to contacts without explicit permission.<p>The same is true of language dependencies. Both users and developers need the ability to run untrusted code. The emphasis on &quot;try your hardest not to install anything&quot; is (very temporarily) good advice, but it&#x27;s ultimately counterproductive and harmful if it distracts us from solving the root issues.</text></comment>	<story><title>Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries-removed-from-pypi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>This is why I don&#x27;t think this is an OS problem. I think it&#x27;s a developer mindset problem.<p>Dependencies are bad.<p>Every single dependency in your code is a liability, a security loophole, a potential legal risk, and a time sink.<p>Every dependency needs to be audited and evaluated, and all the changes on every update reviewed. Otherwise who knows what got injected into your code?<p>Evaluating each dependency for potential risk is important. How much coding time is this saving? Would it, in fact, be quicker to just write that code yourself? Can you vendor it and cut out features you don&#x27;t need? How many other people use this? Is it supported by its original maintainer? Does it have a deep-pocketed maintainer that could be an alternative target for legal claims?<p>Mostly, people don&#x27;t do that and just &quot;import antigravity&quot; without wondering if there&#x27;s a free lunch in there...</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>&quot;Solid SELinux policy&quot; is really the hard part there.<p>When I pip install paramiko, I do, in fact, want it to have access to my SSH keys. When I pip install ansible, I want ansible to be able to shell out to OpenSSH to use my keys. If I write custom Python code that calls gpg, I want that custom code to be able to load libraries that I&#x27;ve pip installed without the gpg subprocess being blocked from loading my keys. If I have a backup client in Python, and I tell it to back up my entire home directory, I want it backing up my entire home directory including private keys.<p>If I wanted an OS where I couldn&#x27;t install arbitrary code and have it get to all my files for my own good, I&#x27;d use iOS. (I do, in fact, use iOS on my phone because I sometimes want this. But when I&#x27;m writing Python code, I don&#x27;t.)<p>SELinux has been able to solve the problem of &quot;if a policy says X can&#x27;t get to Y, prevent X from getting to Y&quot; for years. Regular UNIX permissions have been doing the same for decades. (Yes, SELinux and regular UNIX permissions take a different approach &#x2F; let you write the policy differently, but that&#x27;s the problem they&#x27;re fundamentally solving; given a clear description of who to deny access to, deny this access.) Neither SELinux nor UNIX permissions nor anything else has solved the problem of &quot;Actually, in this circumstance I mean for X to get to Y, but in that circumstance I don&#x27;t, and this is obvious to a human but there&#x27;s no clear programmable distinction between the cases.&quot;<p>To be clear - I think there is potentially something of a hybrid approach between the status quo and what newer OSes do. For instance, imagine if each virtualenv were its own sandboxed environment (which could be &quot;SELinux context&quot; or could just be &quot;UNIX user account&quot;) and so if you&#x27;re writing code in one project, things you pip install have access to that code but not your whole user account. I&#x27;m just saying that SELinux hasn&#x27;t magically solved this problem because all it provides is tools you could use to solve it, not a solution itself.</text></item><item><author>XorNot</author><text>This is literally what SELinux does, and has been able to do for years. We don&#x27;t need &quot;default block lists&quot; - we need solid SELinux policy in all distros.</text></item><item><author>greggman2</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what the solution is but it feels like this is a much bigger issue and we need some rethinking of how OSes work by default. Apple has taken some steps it seems the last 2 MacOS updates where they block access to certain folders for lots of executables until the user specifically gives that permission. Unfortunately for things like python the permission is granted to the Terminal app so once given, all programs running under the terminal inherit the permissions.<p>Microsoft has started adding short life VMs. No idea if that&#x27;s good. Both MS and Apple offer their App stores with more locked down experiences though I&#x27;m sad they conflate app security and app markets.<p>Basically anytime I run any software, everytime I run &quot;make&quot; or &quot;npm install&quot; or &quot;pip install&quot; or download a game on Steam etc I&#x27;m having to trust 1000s of strangers they aren&#x27;t downloading my keys, my photos, my docs, etc...<p>I think you should be in control of your machine but IMO it&#x27;s time to default to locked down instead of defaulting to open.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman2</author><text>That sounds like a boil the ocean solution. We&#x27;re never going to get all developers to be perfect, and besides there are evil devs as well so the solution has to be elsewhere.</text></comment>
31,801,896	31,802,154	1	2	31,801,462	train	<story><title>“Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more idiots</title><url>https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/0952/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>I have a parallel term I use, jiggle programmers. They can jiggle code around until it works, often working off existing code. They may become obsessed with refactoring because it&#x27;s the only kind of programming they really understand.<p>They usually cannot write code from scratch, or when they do it contains a huge amount of plumbing copied from other familiar codebases without any reason for its purpose. It&#x27;s kind of like they can read a foreign language, but they cannot speak it. Or maybe a parrot who can produce the sounds without the meaning.<p>I do think Google has caused some of this. But the other secret, I think it&#x27;s how most people program by default. Animals largely learn by copying. The deconstruction of concepts to primitives, and synthesis of these primitives into new ideas if a very academic way to approach things. Centuries have proven this approach is superior, but it takes a huge amount of effort, and many things are lost in this process. (Ever do a physics problem with spherical cows?) With the rise of self-taught programmers, you will see more take this copying approach than the academic redistillation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>com2kid</author><text>As someone who has kicked off multiple &quot;from 0&quot; projects, including a startup and been on the initial team doing an entire embedded runtime,<p>Blank source files are scary yo.<p>There are a near infinite number of choices that can be made when confronted with a blank file. And the ramifications of those initial choices will live on, possibly for decades! (I spent 10 years at Microsoft where it wasn&#x27;t uncommon to come across 20+ year old code still in use.)<p>More than once I&#x27;ve initialized a new project, started at my blank folder structure, and spent a few minutes thinking &quot;here we go again&quot;.</text></comment>	<story><title>“Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more idiots</title><url>https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/0952/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>I have a parallel term I use, jiggle programmers. They can jiggle code around until it works, often working off existing code. They may become obsessed with refactoring because it&#x27;s the only kind of programming they really understand.<p>They usually cannot write code from scratch, or when they do it contains a huge amount of plumbing copied from other familiar codebases without any reason for its purpose. It&#x27;s kind of like they can read a foreign language, but they cannot speak it. Or maybe a parrot who can produce the sounds without the meaning.<p>I do think Google has caused some of this. But the other secret, I think it&#x27;s how most people program by default. Animals largely learn by copying. The deconstruction of concepts to primitives, and synthesis of these primitives into new ideas if a very academic way to approach things. Centuries have proven this approach is superior, but it takes a huge amount of effort, and many things are lost in this process. (Ever do a physics problem with spherical cows?) With the rise of self-taught programmers, you will see more take this copying approach than the academic redistillation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>at-fates-hands</author><text>&gt; They usually cannot write code from scratch<p>True<p>&gt; I do think Google has caused some of this.<p>I think it a lot of it is the frameworks and people constantly trying to shortcut the method of building something with code. We have so many frameworks, tools, plugins and other stuff that it makes it easier NOT to learn anything deeply any more. Pick a JS Framework and I&#x27;ll give you a dozen plugins or tools that have already been built to write your code for you. All you, as a developer have to do is string them together.<p>By building all of these shortcuts, no one <i>really</i> needs to learn Angular, you have their site as a reference and tons of material to help you. Developers actually learn in the absence of knowledge where they have to sit down and learn it without knowing there is a crutch or fallback if they get stuck. I think today&#x27;s developers just get as far as they can and then start googling for a solution because they know that someone has already built a date picker in ten different languages, thousands times already. Why go back and reinvent the wheel when you don&#x27;t have to?<p>Because it creates lazy developers.<p>An entirely other issue is why learn some framework inside and out if its going to be obsolete in a few years? Remember when everybody loved Backbone and Express? You tell someone in the Dev community today you use either of those and you&#x27;ll get laughed right out of the bar.<p>I think its just a lot of things that work against developers learning more than then they really need in any given situation.</text></comment>
41,621,910	41,621,531	1	3	41,620,304	train	<story><title>Uber charges more if you have credits in your account</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/uber-caught-overcharging-how-having-credits-in-your-account-might-be-costing-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>o999</author><text>I like how people in comments are keen to change the world, but I - more realisticly - only focus on gaming the system so I can actually save myself couple bucks right away.<p>I set pick up and destination, exit the app, open another rides app, wait few minutes for uber to notify me that the price went down.<p>I only give it initials (instead of full name) and phone number, not even my gender, I rarely rate drivers positively, if it is not a negative experience, I skip reviewing, so they don&#x27;t know I &quot;like&quot; the service.<p>When it takes more than a minute to find a ride, I cancel the ride and choose the &quot;others&quot; option, as this is the de-facto the option for &quot;I will just take a cab&quot;, so I get inserted on the &quot;churn risk&quot; list.<p>I use a virtual card that I some time leave empty so payment fail after the ride, and on the next ride I readjust my virtual card limit on the next ride and pay the last bill so I am added on the &quot;poor and miserable riders&quot; list.<p>I am well protected</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blendergeek</author><text>&gt; I like how people in comments are keen to change the world, but I - more realisticly - only focus on gaming the system so I can actually save myself couple bucks right away.<p>This type of attitude sometimes makes the world a worse place. If everyone has this attitude, the system can break down.<p>&gt; I rarely rate drivers positively<p>Drivers live or die by their rating. Refusing to give good reviews harms the drivers who are already barely scraping by. This is a very good example of how you can cause real world harm with by trying to game the system for yourself.</text></comment>	<story><title>Uber charges more if you have credits in your account</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/uber-caught-overcharging-how-having-credits-in-your-account-might-be-costing-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>o999</author><text>I like how people in comments are keen to change the world, but I - more realisticly - only focus on gaming the system so I can actually save myself couple bucks right away.<p>I set pick up and destination, exit the app, open another rides app, wait few minutes for uber to notify me that the price went down.<p>I only give it initials (instead of full name) and phone number, not even my gender, I rarely rate drivers positively, if it is not a negative experience, I skip reviewing, so they don&#x27;t know I &quot;like&quot; the service.<p>When it takes more than a minute to find a ride, I cancel the ride and choose the &quot;others&quot; option, as this is the de-facto the option for &quot;I will just take a cab&quot;, so I get inserted on the &quot;churn risk&quot; list.<p>I use a virtual card that I some time leave empty so payment fail after the ride, and on the next ride I readjust my virtual card limit on the next ride and pay the last bill so I am added on the &quot;poor and miserable riders&quot; list.<p>I am well protected</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magic_hamster</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this saves you money, but if it is, you are certainly working pretty hard for it.</text></comment>
5,836,400	5,836,447	1	3	5,836,299	train	<story><title>New York Times silently edits its "lost all credibility" line</title><url>http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/245566/245668/www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blinkingled</author><text>They just added "on this issue" to it. Doesn't seem to be a big deal - they are just making bit more explicit what was already implied. It would be different if they had removed the line completely or changed their stance 180 degree.</text></comment>	<story><title>New York Times silently edits its "lost all credibility" line</title><url>http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/245566/245668/www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vosper</author><text>I'm so happy that newsdiffs exists! I had come up with the same idea (and name) independently after noticing substantial edits to articles on a major NZ news website, but never got around to creating the tool. I'm excited to check out their github repo and see if I can setup tracking for the sites I'm interested in.</text></comment>
5,981,598	5,981,659	1	2	5,981,399	train	<story><title>Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/23/michael_hastings_sent_panicked_email_hours_before_car_crash.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DigitalSea</author><text>How does a 2013 model Mercedes Benz with a five star ANCAP safety rating (the highest rating you can get) scoring 35.51 points scored out of 37 (an Australian car safety rating for reference) with more airbags than wheels (8 airbags for those of you playing at home including a curtain airbag that drops in-front of the passenger and driver protecting the head and upper-body from impacting anything) crash into a tree without there even being another vehicle involved?<p>The car has stability control, traction control, ABS, EBD, brake assist and three-point pre-tensioning seatbelts. If you&#x27;ve ever driven a modern BMW, Mercedes or any other premium European vehicle than you&#x27;d know it&#x27;s impossible to crash these things unless you honestly wanted to crash them. I am pretty sure it has been standard on most cars in this price bracket for a while now to respond to impacts by shutting off fuel, disconnecting battery terminals and unlocking doors. It varies from model to model, but most premium cars react to emergencies by cutting off as many points of danger as possible. Something doesn&#x27;t add up here.<p>Was he drunk? Was he poisoned with a cocktail of drugs that perhaps made him lose concentration and crash into a tree? A new 2013 Mercedes don&#x27;t just malfunction and crash killing its occupants so easily. They build these cars to withstand a lot of impact, this isn&#x27;t the movies, new cars don&#x27;t just crash and explode on impact. You hear of gruesome accidents everyday in vehicles, but you rarely hear of them exploding, mangling in a ball of metal and plastic yes, but rarely exploding. Is there CCTV footage of the minutes before he crashed showing perhaps what happened?<p>Perhaps a recreation of the accident might help shed some light on what really happened. A computer simulation I am sure would be more than enough, coupled with CCTV footage and you should have a pretty close to accurate simulation of how it all went down and how the car would fare.<p>If the FBI were interviewing close friends and family, someone needs to come out at least dispelling the suggestion he went crazy or was suffering from paranoia. Because at present, there&#x27;s nothing to suggest foul play other than speculation. And as usual, we all point fingers and call someone crazy when they claim the FBI is watching them and after all of this PRISM controversy, claims like that don&#x27;t sound as crazy as they once did...</text></comment>	<story><title>Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/23/michael_hastings_sent_panicked_email_hours_before_car_crash.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrschwabe</author><text>This Hastings incident has interesting parallels to Andrew Breitbart&#x27;s death.<p><a href="http://rt.com/usa/coroner-arsenic-death-breitbart-456/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rt.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;coroner-arsenic-death-breitbart-456&#x2F;</a><p>Namely the fact that both of these men were prominent journalists, living in the US, each with &#x27;big stories&#x27; they were working on that have not seen the light of day due to their untimely death shortly after proclaiming they were working on said stories.<p>To compound the dire possibilities, in February the US Justice Department confirmed the existence of legal justification for the assassination of American citizens:<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/us/politics/obama-orders-release-of-drone-memos-to-lawmakers.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;obama-orders-r...</a><p>Not drawing conclusions here, but I think it&#x27;s important in this day and age to be diligent in connecting dots and evaluating ALL possibilities.</text></comment>
20,168,806	20,168,640	1	2	20,165,821	train	<story><title>As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Alarmed, Too</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/business/hong-kong-china-protests-business.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theslurmmustflo</author><text>Is there police from mainland China or are they local to HK? Would they always side with mainland interests?</text></item><item><author>kenneth</author><text>I&#x27;m in Hong Kong and went to the protests today. This feels like a continuation of the &#x27;14 umbrella movement, which was ended by police force, and which left up pent-up anger in the whole population. It&#x27;s the biggest protest since the march in &#x27;97 when HK was handed over to China from British rule.<p>When I was there, the protests were peaceful, but you could certainly feel a tension building up, with the crowds gathering metal poles and bricks. I spoke to the police a few times and they were nice and friendly, but were doing their job. There is absolutely zero question that almost the entire HK population opposes the extradition bill which sparked this whole mess. Unfortunately, there&#x27;s little that can be done… &quot;one country two system&quot; hasn&#x27;t been abided to by China for a long time, and there&#x27;s nothing the population or the Brits can do about it.<p>(My perspective is that of a foreigner who recently moved here, not a life-long hongkonger. Feel free to ask me anything.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spacehunt</author><text>Local HK police, of which most have a deep hatred towards the protestors since the 2014 Occupy and have been waiting for opportunities to carry out revenge. Such sentiments were on full display yesterday.</text></comment>	<story><title>As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Alarmed, Too</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/business/hong-kong-china-protests-business.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theslurmmustflo</author><text>Is there police from mainland China or are they local to HK? Would they always side with mainland interests?</text></item><item><author>kenneth</author><text>I&#x27;m in Hong Kong and went to the protests today. This feels like a continuation of the &#x27;14 umbrella movement, which was ended by police force, and which left up pent-up anger in the whole population. It&#x27;s the biggest protest since the march in &#x27;97 when HK was handed over to China from British rule.<p>When I was there, the protests were peaceful, but you could certainly feel a tension building up, with the crowds gathering metal poles and bricks. I spoke to the police a few times and they were nice and friendly, but were doing their job. There is absolutely zero question that almost the entire HK population opposes the extradition bill which sparked this whole mess. Unfortunately, there&#x27;s little that can be done… &quot;one country two system&quot; hasn&#x27;t been abided to by China for a long time, and there&#x27;s nothing the population or the Brits can do about it.<p>(My perspective is that of a foreigner who recently moved here, not a life-long hongkonger. Feel free to ask me anything.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>em500</author><text>Police from HK, military forces from China (though they&#x27;re not involved in these matters). But like in most civilized countries, the police is there to uphold current law and order, not to side with some national or political interest.</text></comment>
11,186,251	11,185,991	1	2	11,183,824	train	<story><title>After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher server is back</title><url>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/24019/Direct-your-gopher-client-to-gopher-gophermetafiltercom?utm_content=bufferaa556&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stuartaxelowen</author><text>Core problem is that creators of value want to be paid for it. The delivery medium doesn&#x27;t change that.</text></item><item><author>davb</author><text>I&#x27;d love to go back to the days where I didn&#x27;t have to endure the 20+ external scripts (mostly ads, analytics, social and &quot;optimization&quot;) that some crappy dev has crammed into their markup, just to read an article or browse a store.<p>Maybe we need a content oriented alternative to the web browser.<p>Maybe a modern Gopher.<p>Display preferences are handled by the client. Sure, support video and audio. Support tables. But keep it minimal. Put all the scripting on the server side, as it should be. Lock down the specification - do everything to stop it becoming web browser 2.0.<p>Then we wouldn&#x27;t need junk like AMP.<p>Maybe it would take off well in some nice to start with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marssaxman</author><text>Much value is created by people who don&#x27;t want to be bothered with payment because they are motivated by the social capital accruing from contribution to a community. Trying to pay for such gifts actually drives these contributors away, by devaluing their efforts - as though they were only doing it for the money. There is labor you literally cannot buy.</text></comment>	<story><title>After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher server is back</title><url>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/24019/Direct-your-gopher-client-to-gopher-gophermetafiltercom?utm_content=bufferaa556&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stuartaxelowen</author><text>Core problem is that creators of value want to be paid for it. The delivery medium doesn&#x27;t change that.</text></item><item><author>davb</author><text>I&#x27;d love to go back to the days where I didn&#x27;t have to endure the 20+ external scripts (mostly ads, analytics, social and &quot;optimization&quot;) that some crappy dev has crammed into their markup, just to read an article or browse a store.<p>Maybe we need a content oriented alternative to the web browser.<p>Maybe a modern Gopher.<p>Display preferences are handled by the client. Sure, support video and audio. Support tables. But keep it minimal. Put all the scripting on the server side, as it should be. Lock down the specification - do everything to stop it becoming web browser 2.0.<p>Then we wouldn&#x27;t need junk like AMP.<p>Maybe it would take off well in some nice to start with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&gt; Core problem is that<p>[some]<p>&gt; creators of value want to be paid for it.<p>The WWW has been a proof of concept of how much people will do _without_ direct monetary compensation. If you&#x27;re thinking who&#x27;s going to build Kayak on a glorified Gopher though, maybe you should start by asking where audiences will go when they find something that provides a better experience than Chrome.</text></comment>
33,954,340	33,953,713	1	2	33,946,933	train	<story><title>Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]</title><url>https://simon.peytonjones.org/assets/pdfs/haskell-exchange-22.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>These slides need a lot of work. I&#x27;ll read the paper later, but the slides really lack context and motivation.<p>* I&#x27;m a little disheartened to see &quot;Objectively: no. All languages are Turing-complete&quot; in the context of the question of needing another language. It&#x27;s a throw away comment and largely irrelevant when considering the actual use of programming languages. If one has to state this platitude, it is more accurate to say &quot;theoretically&quot; rather than &quot;objectively&quot;, as I think the latter is actually debatable.<p>* The utility of the choice syntax over comprehension syntax is not clear at all. The choice thing seems neat, but I don&#x27;t understand why comprehension semantics weren&#x27;t just extended. Every example of choice seems to refer to sequences and comprehensions anyway to make the meaning clear. Will have to see more examples. Right now, the syntax seems a bit quirky, especially with `false?` thrown in.<p>* Why is `fst` not named `first`?! The shortening is maddening to me. It saves two characters (negligible savings), decreases readability, and first is probably just as fast to type.<p>* I&#x27;m still not sure why they&#x27;re creating this language, what problems it solves, and what any of it has to do with a metaverse.<p>These are professors and language experts, so I&#x27;m a bit surprised by the presentation. Also, the idea that this language will be learnable as a first language is ambitious, if not naive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>&gt; These slides need a lot of work. I&#x27;ll read the paper later, but the slides really lack context and motivation.<p>SPJ is an exceptional public speaker, but that involves a lot of talking, a lot of context, audience participation, and a lot of wild gesticulating at slides.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if this talk was recorded, but I am sure if it was the recording will be much better than the slides, the slides are not really designed for consumption outside of the talk context, but rather as a reminder rather than taking notes. At least that&#x27;s my experience having seen a number of his talks over the years.</text></comment>	<story><title>Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]</title><url>https://simon.peytonjones.org/assets/pdfs/haskell-exchange-22.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>These slides need a lot of work. I&#x27;ll read the paper later, but the slides really lack context and motivation.<p>* I&#x27;m a little disheartened to see &quot;Objectively: no. All languages are Turing-complete&quot; in the context of the question of needing another language. It&#x27;s a throw away comment and largely irrelevant when considering the actual use of programming languages. If one has to state this platitude, it is more accurate to say &quot;theoretically&quot; rather than &quot;objectively&quot;, as I think the latter is actually debatable.<p>* The utility of the choice syntax over comprehension syntax is not clear at all. The choice thing seems neat, but I don&#x27;t understand why comprehension semantics weren&#x27;t just extended. Every example of choice seems to refer to sequences and comprehensions anyway to make the meaning clear. Will have to see more examples. Right now, the syntax seems a bit quirky, especially with `false?` thrown in.<p>* Why is `fst` not named `first`?! The shortening is maddening to me. It saves two characters (negligible savings), decreases readability, and first is probably just as fast to type.<p>* I&#x27;m still not sure why they&#x27;re creating this language, what problems it solves, and what any of it has to do with a metaverse.<p>These are professors and language experts, so I&#x27;m a bit surprised by the presentation. Also, the idea that this language will be learnable as a first language is ambitious, if not naive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TuringTest</author><text>I see using the choice syntax as PROLOG-esque, rather than Python-esque.<p>When you are building simple structures to iterate upon, it makes sense to use the more readable comprehension syntax, where you define a list or set of items and their desired properties.<p>Yet this terse syntax makes more sense for logic programming, where a lot of the domain logic is built upon generate-and-test patterns; you define a combinatoric search space which is the enumeration of all base value in pairs (or tuples), and check which ones are kept for the next processing steps. When using this pattern, it&#x27;s clearer to be able to express the space with the shortest syntax rather than the verbose one.<p>As for the adequacy and need for the language, I have my own ideas on what&#x27;s needed for the stated use case, and I do agree with the authors that this kind of language will really be easier to learn for people without a programming background; it looks much more like mathematics than the traditional von-Neumann-architecture, continuation-based languages, and its declarative nature may make it easier to approach without having a full understanding of runtime behavior.</text></comment>
17,643,361	17,642,342	1	3	17,639,617	train	<story><title>The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next?</title><url>http://approximatelycorrect.com/2018/06/22/the-blockchain-bubble-will-pop-what-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skewart</author><text>Here&#x27;s the big reason I&#x27;ve gotten skeptical about blockchain: it seems like very few people are excited about actually using it. Almost everyone talking about it is excited about getting rich from trading currencies or starting a blockchain-based company. And plenty of people are excited about a grand vision for how it might transform society one day, or how it might solve problems they think other people might have. But it seems like almost nobody is genuinely excited to use any blockchain product themselves purely because it does something useful or fun or cool, and with no monetary interest in the tech taking off.<p>This is all in stark contrast to the 90s internet boom when, sure, there were lots of speculators and lots of get-rich-quick dreamers, but there were also tons of random people genuinely excited about using the internet who never stood to make a dime from it.<p>A lot of the grand visions behind blockchain mania are indeed compelling, and I suspect something blockchain-ish will take off at some point in the future. But it will probably be a distant descendant of anything that exists today.<p>Am I wrong about this? Are there blockchain-based products that have lots of users who are using them because they like using the product and not just because they&#x27;re hoping to get rich off the hype?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>The Internet in some sense starts with, at the very latest, the Treaty of Bern in 1874. Because the Internet is just the current physical incarnation of the Network.<p>(The Treaty of Bern says how to make physical letter post work internationally the way we&#x27;re used to today, before that it was a colossal pain in the arse)<p>The Network is like the Word, it&#x27;s fundamental to what we are, the precise implementation may change, but the idea is forever.<p>Automobiles, T-shirts, babies brought up almost exclusively by their immediate biological parents, cow milk as a normal human beverage, portraits, funerals, the novel - these are all &quot;just&quot; culture and might become unfashionable and go away over the longer term or in other contexts - they&#x27;re not fundamental to what we are. But the Word and the Network are right at the centre of what we are, as people.<p>Blockchain is just a weird cultural blip. It&#x27;s not even T-shirts, it&#x27;s Pork Pie Hats. People keep trying to make it a thing, but it&#x27;s not a thing.</text></comment>	<story><title>The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next?</title><url>http://approximatelycorrect.com/2018/06/22/the-blockchain-bubble-will-pop-what-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skewart</author><text>Here&#x27;s the big reason I&#x27;ve gotten skeptical about blockchain: it seems like very few people are excited about actually using it. Almost everyone talking about it is excited about getting rich from trading currencies or starting a blockchain-based company. And plenty of people are excited about a grand vision for how it might transform society one day, or how it might solve problems they think other people might have. But it seems like almost nobody is genuinely excited to use any blockchain product themselves purely because it does something useful or fun or cool, and with no monetary interest in the tech taking off.<p>This is all in stark contrast to the 90s internet boom when, sure, there were lots of speculators and lots of get-rich-quick dreamers, but there were also tons of random people genuinely excited about using the internet who never stood to make a dime from it.<p>A lot of the grand visions behind blockchain mania are indeed compelling, and I suspect something blockchain-ish will take off at some point in the future. But it will probably be a distant descendant of anything that exists today.<p>Am I wrong about this? Are there blockchain-based products that have lots of users who are using them because they like using the product and not just because they&#x27;re hoping to get rich off the hype?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinni2</author><text>I thought the blockchain technology had the potential to help financial sector. Not the virtual currency itself but there are a lot of agreements, transactions and settlements which are done in a untrustworthy environment which makes it slow and resulting in settlements [0]. I thought this is also the reason why it takes so long to transfer money from one bank to another. I thought these processes could benefit from blockchains and smart contracts. Basically speeding up the whole process not requiring the banks to trust anyone [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Payment_system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Payment_system</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cjel.law.columbia.edu&#x2F;preliminary-reference&#x2F;2016&#x2F;developing-blockchain-real-time-clearing-and-settlement-in-the-eu-u-s-and-globally-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cjel.law.columbia.edu&#x2F;preliminary-reference&#x2F;2016&#x2F;deve...</a></text></comment>
22,230,920	22,230,755	1	2	22,227,860	train	<story><title>Microsoft's Three Browsers</title><url>https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/03/microsofts-three-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Edge, as-is, seems to offer me no reason to prefer it over Chrome, beyond privacy concerns with Google - and I’m unfortunately just not knowledgeable enough to know if MS is any better.<p>I personally use Safari. Because I’m on MacOS, I find Safari to certainly be the most immediately responsive, UI&#x2F;UX-wise, and that’s pretty much what matters to be, since it’s all WebKit under the hood.<p>I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sahaskatta</author><text>I switched from Chrome to Edge because:<p>* No Google tracking.<p>* Blocks 3rd party trackers.<p>* Zoom&#x2F;Scroll is smoother.<p>* Better optimized for touch screens.<p>* Longer battery life.<p>* Seems to use less RAM.<p>* All my Chrome extensions are compatible.<p>* I can watch Netflix in 4K. Can&#x27;t do that on Chrome or on a Mac.</text></comment>	<story><title>Microsoft's Three Browsers</title><url>https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/03/microsofts-three-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Edge, as-is, seems to offer me no reason to prefer it over Chrome, beyond privacy concerns with Google - and I’m unfortunately just not knowledgeable enough to know if MS is any better.<p>I personally use Safari. Because I’m on MacOS, I find Safari to certainly be the most immediately responsive, UI&#x2F;UX-wise, and that’s pretty much what matters to be, since it’s all WebKit under the hood.<p>I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eshyong</author><text>&gt; I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box.<p>That&#x27;s a <i>huge</i> benefit, considering &gt; 75% of the world still uses Windows.</text></comment>
8,009,579	8,009,468	1	2	8,009,251	train	<story><title>Military uniforms – Expense and stupidity too big to camouflage</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600700-expense-and-stupidity-too-big-camouflage-out-sight</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>This is the &quot;it doesn&#x27;t matter if it actually works&quot; factor rather than the &quot;CDI&quot; factor.<p>America is not fighting a war of national survival on a limited budget. It&#x27;s fighting some wars of choice and maintaining a defence procurement industry on a seemingly unlimited budget. There is no way even the total failure of the war will personally affect the people doing the producement, and there is no need for them to economise because they can&#x27;t run out of other people&#x27;s money.<p>So, everyone involved is free to have endless meetings. Senior management can commission studies at great expense then ignore the result on a whim. They can engage in turf wars and internal empire building; after all, the real enemy is the people you&#x27;re competing with for promotions.<p>The procurements that <i>have</i> been successful are mostly those resulting from urgent operational requirements, when losing to insurgents with a tiny budget became embarrassing.<p>(The UK is not immune to this; we&#x27;ve built an aircraft carrier that&#x27;s supposed to use the F-35, which may not be available and we can&#x27;t really afford)</text></comment>	<story><title>Military uniforms – Expense and stupidity too big to camouflage</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600700-expense-and-stupidity-too-big-camouflage-out-sight</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>People are scathing about the USMC&#x27;s desire to look distinctive, and about senior officers&#x27; desire for soldiers to look good.<p>Obviously fashion shouldn&#x27;t trump everything, but looking and feeling the part is a considerable part of the moral component of fighting power. I think denying that is denying some basic human psychology. Why do armies spend money on flags, dress uniforms, buglers, horses, mascot dogs, medals, bands and so on? It&#x27;s because the ethos they create is a seriously important part of building a group of men who can operate together in extreme situations.<p>The USMC and other branches are worried about how their uniforms look and how distinctive they are because it&#x27;s one essential part of preparing to fight a war.</text></comment>
34,105,653	34,105,539	1	3	34,104,530	train	<story><title>A simple guide on words to avoid in government</title><url>https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2022/08/16/a-simple-guide-on-words-to-avoid-in-government/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sjducb</author><text>I think this ignores the reason jargon exists. -- To demonstrate that the speaker is part of the &quot;in&quot; crowd.<p>If you stop using jargon then people assume you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re talking about. This affect is real. Your precieved credibility goes way down when you stop speaking in jargon.<p>It&#x27;s the reason that the speaker used all of the tech jargon (launching a website). If they didn&#x27;t do that then we would think they didn&#x27;t know about websites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; I think this ignores the reason jargon exists. -- To demonstrate that the speaker is part of the &quot;in&quot; crowd.<p>That&#x27;s unnecessarily cynical. It certainly can give off that impression. But it is also a shortcut for people who work together in a specific domain to be more precise (or more general) than would be implied by non-jargon speech. So to me those things in the sky are just clouds, but to a meteorologist they might be stratocumulus or cirrus.<p>Another case, a similar one, is the stickiness of obsolete language in a certain domains. I&#x27;ve never used the word &quot;cloture&quot; in a sentence,* but to use it is faster for those who need it than to spell it out. In law, some obsolete words not only carry specific meaning but can call back to existing case law.<p>For HN, CPU is a good example, being an old word whose precise meaning is quite fluid (used to be literally the cabinet with merely the ALU and some registers; instruction decode was just how it was wired together) and so is jargon too.<p>* until writing that sentence of course.</text></comment>	<story><title>A simple guide on words to avoid in government</title><url>https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2022/08/16/a-simple-guide-on-words-to-avoid-in-government/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sjducb</author><text>I think this ignores the reason jargon exists. -- To demonstrate that the speaker is part of the &quot;in&quot; crowd.<p>If you stop using jargon then people assume you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re talking about. This affect is real. Your precieved credibility goes way down when you stop speaking in jargon.<p>It&#x27;s the reason that the speaker used all of the tech jargon (launching a website). If they didn&#x27;t do that then we would think they didn&#x27;t know about websites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cafard</author><text>Twenty years ago or so I got a copy of <i>Database Design for Mere Mortals</i> to review for a users&#x27; group. The author spent several pages almost-but-not-quite defining Third Normal Form, without ever using the expression. I complained of this in the review.<p>That&#x27;s why jargon exists. It is much better to use 3NF or BCNF or simply normalize or denormalize than to bury the point in many words. .</text></comment>
35,346,091	35,346,277	1	2	35,342,691	train	<story><title>Apple introduces Apple Pay Later</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/03/apple-introduces-apple-pay-later/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwinnski</author><text>People keep saying things like this, and rarely offer up the name of any better card when asked.<p>Apple Card offers 2% cash back on all Apple Pay purchases, which... exactly matches my no-fee card from Chase. Except I have to choose how to use the 2% from Chase when it eventually is available, while I can spend Apple&#x27;s 2% the next day via Apple pay. I threw the metal card in a drawer when it arrived, so if your goal is tell people not to use the physical card, then sure, I&#x27;m with you. But I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the primary use of the card.</text></item><item><author>commoner</author><text>For US residents, the Apple Card is not a competitive credit card. There are enough credit cards with no annual fees offering at least 2% cash back on all purchases that the Apple Card&#x27;s 1% back on general purchases is not a good value. Just about every credit card issuer in the US supports Apple Pay as well, allowing these 2% cash back cards to match the Apple Card&#x27;s 2% on Apple Pay purchases.</text></item><item><author>bradgessler</author><text>Something to think about: if for whatever reason you can’t pay Apple, they will disable your iCloud account.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcurt.is&#x2F;apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcurt.is&#x2F;apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account</a><p>I refuse to get an Apple Card until they firewall the two and make them independent of each other.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roland35</author><text>Fidelity has a flat 2% card which has no annual fee. The cash back then automatically transfers to my brokerage account where it immediately loses money in the stock market, so maybe it works out to less than 2% :)<p>Citi also has a widely used cash back card for ~2%</text></comment>	<story><title>Apple introduces Apple Pay Later</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/03/apple-introduces-apple-pay-later/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwinnski</author><text>People keep saying things like this, and rarely offer up the name of any better card when asked.<p>Apple Card offers 2% cash back on all Apple Pay purchases, which... exactly matches my no-fee card from Chase. Except I have to choose how to use the 2% from Chase when it eventually is available, while I can spend Apple&#x27;s 2% the next day via Apple pay. I threw the metal card in a drawer when it arrived, so if your goal is tell people not to use the physical card, then sure, I&#x27;m with you. But I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the primary use of the card.</text></item><item><author>commoner</author><text>For US residents, the Apple Card is not a competitive credit card. There are enough credit cards with no annual fees offering at least 2% cash back on all purchases that the Apple Card&#x27;s 1% back on general purchases is not a good value. Just about every credit card issuer in the US supports Apple Pay as well, allowing these 2% cash back cards to match the Apple Card&#x27;s 2% on Apple Pay purchases.</text></item><item><author>bradgessler</author><text>Something to think about: if for whatever reason you can’t pay Apple, they will disable your iCloud account.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcurt.is&#x2F;apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcurt.is&#x2F;apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account</a><p>I refuse to get an Apple Card until they firewall the two and make them independent of each other.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>I never redeem points for purchases. I always apply them to a billing credit. If you redeem points for a purchase you don&#x27;t accrue points on that purchase.<p>Chase of course goes out of their way to make this as painful as possible. Currently their app is broken and points can&#x27;t be redeemed for cash. There is also no way to automatically apply all points to a statement credit. My perception that this is the best use of points is reinforced by how much effort they put into trying to convince me to do something else.</text></comment>
18,550,200	18,550,124	1	3	18,547,522	train	<story><title>FOSS is free as in toilet</title><url>http://unhandledexpression.com/general/2018/11/27/foss-is-free-as-in-toilet.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yason</author><text>I don&#x27;t see the relevance. Open source developers need not be burning themselves out, they can just choose to work on what they want.<p>If a big company uses an open source library there&#x27;s no contractual agreement that the developer must slave away for free and fix stuff for the big company. The developer, or the company that develops open source, can just essentially say &quot;fuck it!&quot; and do whatever they want.<p>Instead, the big company can take what&#x27;s available. If it&#x27;s not enough, they can contribute to the open source project (a wise move!), find a replacement project to ride on, or buy or write their own implementation.<p>Not all open source developers work for free but many do because they want to spend some of their time building something they care about. If the project has big impact sometimes the developers get hired to continue working on the software on a payroll. This is probably a win-win: the developer gets paid to do what he would be doing anyway and the company gets stability into future development.<p>If open source developers want to build a good, trusted brand of their software then it of course takes continuous involvement to support their users and can lead to burn-outs but that has <i>nothing to do with open source</i>. The exact same applies to building an established brand out of proprietary software.<p>And that effort only makes sense in the first place if there&#x27;s a chance for a significant financial payout in the end, or the developers really, really just want fame in which case they have their own priorities on how they want to resource the development.<p>Still, nothing to do with open source per se.<p>I bet a thousand-fold more developers are burning out in jobs working on proprietary software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>playpause</author><text>“Open source developers need not be burning themselves out, they can just choose to work on what they want. ” – that sounds nice, but you must be missing something, or we would not have the phenomenon of OSS developers burning out.<p>The observation that people in paid jobs also get burned out doesn’t give much insight into the curious, sad reality of the experience of an OSS dev working to to the point of burnout for a constant stream of non-paying clients who are often rude and unprofessional in their interactions with you.<p>Open source developers can’t ‘just’ choose what they work on, anyway. There are benefits in maintaining an OSS project (exposure, satisfaction at making something that a lot of people use) but these only apply if you focus your efforts on projects that become popular, which are exactly the projects that suffer the problems discussed in the article.</text></comment>	<story><title>FOSS is free as in toilet</title><url>http://unhandledexpression.com/general/2018/11/27/foss-is-free-as-in-toilet.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yason</author><text>I don&#x27;t see the relevance. Open source developers need not be burning themselves out, they can just choose to work on what they want.<p>If a big company uses an open source library there&#x27;s no contractual agreement that the developer must slave away for free and fix stuff for the big company. The developer, or the company that develops open source, can just essentially say &quot;fuck it!&quot; and do whatever they want.<p>Instead, the big company can take what&#x27;s available. If it&#x27;s not enough, they can contribute to the open source project (a wise move!), find a replacement project to ride on, or buy or write their own implementation.<p>Not all open source developers work for free but many do because they want to spend some of their time building something they care about. If the project has big impact sometimes the developers get hired to continue working on the software on a payroll. This is probably a win-win: the developer gets paid to do what he would be doing anyway and the company gets stability into future development.<p>If open source developers want to build a good, trusted brand of their software then it of course takes continuous involvement to support their users and can lead to burn-outs but that has <i>nothing to do with open source</i>. The exact same applies to building an established brand out of proprietary software.<p>And that effort only makes sense in the first place if there&#x27;s a chance for a significant financial payout in the end, or the developers really, really just want fame in which case they have their own priorities on how they want to resource the development.<p>Still, nothing to do with open source per se.<p>I bet a thousand-fold more developers are burning out in jobs working on proprietary software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setquk</author><text>Just as a point, I’ve helped with open source projects under commercial interest. I’ve fixed bugs and created documentation and all I got was a fuck off or silence from the maintainers.<p>So I don’t bother any more. Most of the time I build a new wheel that benefits no one.<p>Fostering a good culture requires lots of work from both sides, contributor and maintainer.<p>I’m not saying all projects are like this but I’ve waded into too many of these so far.</text></comment>
30,666,785	30,663,220	1	2	30,660,953	train	<story><title>EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items</title><url>https://www.eevblog.com/forum/dodgy-technology/not-dodgy-at-all-and-long-overdue-user-replaceable-batteries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasabali</author><text>Comments in the linked thread are spot on. Manufacturers would do anything to avoid abiding spirit of that law to keep their bottom line.<p>What&#x27;s more depressing is &quot;tech enthusiast&quot; circle (eg. in reddit or hardware forums) will be more than eager to rationalize, defend and disseminate any weak technical excuse made up by manufacturers for keeping their anti consumer practices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickysielicki</author><text>I hope you don&#x27;t take this the wrong way, but have you ever worked for a company where you were involved with making physical things?<p>Making things is an incredibly difficult dance between electrical engineers, purchasers, manufacturers, sales and product managers, and logistics teams. I think that people who work exclusively in software often trivialize how difficult it is to choose how many of something to produce, how many extra pieces to keep around for repairs, etc., because they took some EE classes in school and they think that they basically understand the process of making boards.<p>The reality is the actual engineering is usually the easy part. The hard part is logistics, and it&#x27;s not something that you can just outsource to a dedicated purchaser and be done with. Software people don&#x27;t actually have something analogous.<p>For everyone that works in hardware, the last 2 years has been hell in terms of quickly redesigning things around parts availability, often stripping functionality entirely and reevaluating how it can be done generically in software without a certain chip. We make PoE devices and we can&#x27;t get validated ethernet PHYs.<p>Basically, what I&#x27;m saying is this: as someone who sees how things are made, the idea that there&#x27;s some guiding principle of being evil or some principle of maximizing overall bottom line at all costs and making shit products is just so far from the truth that it makes my head spin. Things suck because it&#x27;s hard.</text></comment>	<story><title>EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items</title><url>https://www.eevblog.com/forum/dodgy-technology/not-dodgy-at-all-and-long-overdue-user-replaceable-batteries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasabali</author><text>Comments in the linked thread are spot on. Manufacturers would do anything to avoid abiding spirit of that law to keep their bottom line.<p>What&#x27;s more depressing is &quot;tech enthusiast&quot; circle (eg. in reddit or hardware forums) will be more than eager to rationalize, defend and disseminate any weak technical excuse made up by manufacturers for keeping their anti consumer practices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>Comments in the linked thread are what is annoying about nerd fights.<p>This is a good and necessary first step. Focusing on all the ways it could be circumvented isn&#x27;t a rationale for not doing it, they are all just rationales for strengthening it.</text></comment>
28,031,586	28,030,678	1	2	28,029,891	train	<story><title>L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source</title><url>https://twitter.com/dildog/status/1421830165911556099</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>Bit of related history about password-cracking tools...<p>A bit before L0pht was founded, one of the open source crackers for Unix passwords was called Crack.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crack_(password_software)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crack_(password_software)</a><p>At the time, SunOS was distributing the encrypted passwords for an organization over the LAN via YP (aka NIS). I worked for a company with lots of Suns and other Unix workstations, and I&#x27;d gotten almost all of the non-Suns also configured to use and trust the YP maps. (The goal was to reduce friction to engineering work, and we weren&#x27;t directly connected to the Internet.) So I ran my site&#x27;s passwords through Crack one evening, and it easily got many people&#x27;s passwords. (I don&#x27;t remember how many SPARCstations I threw at it, but it was probably only a few, less than 100 MIPS total.)<p>Things like running Crack were within the scope of the sysadmin side of my job at time, I dutifully reported the concerning results to the head sysadmin, engineers were asked to change weak passwords, and all was good.<p>Some people who ran Crack at some <i>other</i> companies, however, got in big trouble, when there was ambiguity or misunderstanding, about their authority or intent. Besides all the mischief-or-worse uses of Crack that presumably went on. (Disclosure: One of the net.famous people who got a career footnote by running Crack happened to be an acquaintance for a while, years later; I didn&#x27;t ask them about what must&#x27;ve been a pretty upsetting event, and I just now read on Wikipedia that their case was expunged in the end.)</text></comment>	<story><title>L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source</title><url>https://twitter.com/dildog/status/1421830165911556099</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MauranKilom</author><text>For context:<p>L0phtCrack -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;L0phtCrack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;L0phtCrack</a><p>DilDog -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Christien_Rioux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Christien_Rioux</a></text></comment>
28,506,493	28,506,675	1	3	28,504,943	train	<story><title>Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)</title><url>https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/adam-smith-and-inequality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BuyMyBitcoins</author><text>I’m not well versed in Smith’s writings and I’m not good at parsing older English. What are your key takeaways or epiphanies from what was quoted?</text></item><item><author>gunfighthacksaw</author><text>One of my favourite passages from Adam Smith, I believe it was from the Wealth of Nations, though I don’t remember the chapter. When I was underemployed I took the time to read it (skimming the obsolete chapters on colonial administration: the American revolution is referenced as an ongoing disturbance)<p>&gt;“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate…Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy till the moment of execution; and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people…” [In contrast, when workers combine,] “…the masters..never cease to call aloud for the assistance of the civil magistrate, and the rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacted with so much severity against the combination of servants, labourers, and journeymen.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>The ownership class are able to organize and conspire with one another to pool and promote their own mutual interests, and no one notices or bats an eye. When workers try to organize in order to promote their mutual interests, the ownership class uses the power of the state to crush them. They enact laws that make such organization illegal and then enforce the laws harshly and without mercy.</text></comment>	<story><title>Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)</title><url>https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/adam-smith-and-inequality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BuyMyBitcoins</author><text>I’m not well versed in Smith’s writings and I’m not good at parsing older English. What are your key takeaways or epiphanies from what was quoted?</text></item><item><author>gunfighthacksaw</author><text>One of my favourite passages from Adam Smith, I believe it was from the Wealth of Nations, though I don’t remember the chapter. When I was underemployed I took the time to read it (skimming the obsolete chapters on colonial administration: the American revolution is referenced as an ongoing disturbance)<p>&gt;“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate…Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy till the moment of execution; and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people…” [In contrast, when workers combine,] “…the masters..never cease to call aloud for the assistance of the civil magistrate, and the rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacted with so much severity against the combination of servants, labourers, and journeymen.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grapist420</author><text>Employers collude to lower the wages they pay to employees. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...</a></text></comment>
7,931,986	7,932,009	1	2	7,931,667	train	<story><title>Ask Stack Overflow for Atom</title><url>https://atom.io/packages/ask-stack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text>i guess the vim, sublime, etc people that don&#x27;t know it yet are gonna be happy, because it means that they&#x27;ll find out about howdoi now:<p><a href="https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gleitz&#x2F;howdoi</a><p><pre><code> pip install howdoi </code></pre> vim plugin: <a href="https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurentgoudet&#x2F;vim-howdoi</a><p>one of the emacs plugins: <a href="https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atykhonov&#x2F;emacs-howdoi</a><p>one of the sublime plugins: <a href="https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;azac&#x2F;sublime-howdoi-direct-paste</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Ask Stack Overflow for Atom</title><url>https://atom.io/packages/ask-stack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thegeomaster</author><text>I think this is less useful than it looks like.<p>When editing code, I&#x27;m not browsing StackOverflow or switching to StackOverflow so much that the actual Alt+Tab-ing to the browser window is the bottleneck. And when I do Alt+Tab to the browser window, I usually search Google for what I want to achieve, and yes, most of the times I end up on StackOverflow, but sometimes other sites, most notably Wikipedia, can help me better. Periods when I&#x27;m on StackOverflow are more of a small research session within a development session. Quick look-ups constitute a smaller fraction of my Google searches, especially when I work in an environment&#x2F;language I have grokked.<p>Pasting from the answers I see even less useful. What was the last time you actually pasted verbatim a code snippet from a StackOverflow answer? In 95% of the cases, I read the answer to get an idea and then implement it appropriately in my code. Such copy&#x2F;paste solutions are most often just hackjobs full of kludges that are worth marginally more than a pile of dog shit.</text></comment>
22,589,780	22,588,383	1	2	22,581,320	train	<story><title>The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CSITheCaseOfTheMissingWAVAudioFilesOnTheFAT32SDCard.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amluto</author><text>&gt; I didn&#x27;t want to take any chances to I picked up a 5 pack of 32GIG high quality SD Cards. [link to Amazon]<p>The lesson: never ever buy SD cards or USB sticks from Amazon. Buy them from a reputable company.</text></comment>	<story><title>The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CSITheCaseOfTheMissingWAVAudioFilesOnTheFAT32SDCard.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>solstice</author><text>Wow, what a ride. 7-zip is awesome. For anything involving (suspected) data loss or &quot;data disappearance&quot;, I usually try Testdisk&#x2F;photorec from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cgsecurity.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cgsecurity.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
23,472,760	23,472,819	1	2	23,471,433	train	<story><title>The Poetics of CLI Command Names</title><url>https://smallstep.com/blog/the-poetics-of-cli-command-names/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karatestomp</author><text>To `useradd` or to `adduser`: that is the question:<p>Whether &#x27;tis nobler in the mind to suffer<p>the slings and arrows of outrageous manpage,<p>or to take up `file` against the output of `which`,<p>and seek &quot;Perl script text executable&quot;?</text></comment>	<story><title>The Poetics of CLI Command Names</title><url>https://smallstep.com/blog/the-poetics-of-cli-command-names/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shitloadofbooks</author><text>Say what you will about PowerShell, the commands are really discoverable and intuitive. The list of approved verbs is helpful too when writing your own cmdlets: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;powershell&#x2F;scripting&#x2F;developer&#x2F;cmdlet&#x2F;approved-verbs-for-windows-powershell-commands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;powershell&#x2F;scripting&#x2F;develo...</a></text></comment>
18,769,984	18,769,953	1	2	18,769,485	train	<story><title>British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-doctors-may-soon-prescribe-art-music-dance-singing-lessons-180970750/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notus</author><text>People may be dismissive of this but this is one of the best things that most people who suffer from mental health issues can do. Every therapist I&#x27;ve seen over the years has constantly pushed me to exercise and&#x2F;or maintain a consistent hobby. I was historically very dismissive of this idea and my thinking was that my problems were unique (even romanticizing that idea somewhat when I was younger). As I got older I just felt more alienated, disconnected, and crazy. Certain medications helped but it was difficult to stay on them. It wasn&#x27;t until I was able to get into a workout routine and be consistent with it for a while that I started to feel mentally &quot;normal&quot; again or at least I stopped thinking that I was crazy and everyone else wasn&#x27;t. The thing that motivated me into this was pretty much terror and panic. I was convinced I was losing it and everywhere I&#x27;d go the walls would close in and I would freak out (pretty bad agoraphobia). Hopefully someone who is struggling with mental health issues reads this and decides to make a change now instead of waiting until it gets worse.<p>I know all of this sounds like some &quot;wow thanks i&#x27;m cured&quot; content and no it will not cure you of your afflictions, but it takes the edge off of them so you can actually focus on and confront your issues rather than barely holding on.</text></comment>	<story><title>British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-doctors-may-soon-prescribe-art-music-dance-singing-lessons-180970750/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>My initial skepticism based on the title was overcome by reading the actual article. Basically, it&#x27;s no good to sit around in a bed popping pills and wasting away. To that end, the UK is allowing GPs to more strongly encourage patients to get out and be active with things like free tickets.<p>This isn&#x27;t a terribly new idea, though it&#x27;s still a very good one.</text></comment>
2,250,603	2,250,298	1	2	2,250,037	train	<story><title>The obsession with next</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2782-the-obsession-with-next</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>macrael</author><text>This is the oldest bias there is. Singling out technology is a bit myopic, because as far as I can see, every field is obsessed with what's next. The sciences are an obvious example, the whole point is to discover something new and present it to your peers. Fashion is another easy example, no one cares what happened last year, they want to see this year's collection. Art was the first example I thought of: I once visited a museum in New Zealand filled with beautiful paintings by people no one has ever heard of. The main reason why? Their styles were not original. In each painting you could plainly see which master the artist took after.<p>Next is exciting and last is boring. That is how it will always be. Hoping that you are going to be written up in a NEWs paper for making your five year old product a little faster and more stable is wishful thinking.<p>This is not to belittle the importance of incremental improvements to existing products at all. Fixing small bugs and making your software more stable is incredibly important work that will make your customers happy, and make your software great. But it is not the New, so don't be surprised when most people don't care.</text></comment>	<story><title>The obsession with next</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2782-the-obsession-with-next</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twymer</author><text>This post seems inspired from a discussion DHH had on twitter with @obie (founder of hashrocket) yesterday about people in their positions moving on to new ventures or staying for the long term of what they helped start.<p>Obie's position was primarily that it's better to get out of your comfort zone and continue to create new things.<p>(Discussion starting from <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/obie/status/39778057610997760" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/obie/status/39778057610997760</a>)</text></comment>
26,133,503	26,133,386	1	3	26,132,801	train	<story><title>Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?</title><url>https://www.oxinabox.net/2021/02/13/Julia-1.6-what-has-changed-since-1.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomrod</author><text>I come back every so often to check out Julia again. I have hopes for it.<p>Some questions still in mind since I reviewed previously<p>(1) How is its database connectivity?<p>(2) Is there something like python&#x27;s `requests` lib?<p>(3) Are the features mature enough that I don&#x27;t anticipate major rewrites for code each year?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nosferican</author><text>(1) I have used Julia packages for connecting to PostgreSQL, mongoDB, and SQLite. It has been extremely solid. I still wish for the GIS components to be more feature extensive (e.g., writing multilayers features directly).<p>(2) The HTTP package (HTTP.jl) is great. You also have you HTML and CSS selectors (Gumbo&#x2F;Cascadia). Some of the the best JSON parsers across languages too. I also developed WebDriver.jl (you can use it with Selenium). Diana.jl is a solid GraphQL client&#x2F;server package. Genie.jl is a comprehensive web framework.<p>(3) Those packages have been stable for years. Web and databases are quite straightforward. The least matured one would be the web framework which published its current major version last summer.<p>Those two ecosystems might be the most matured ones in all of Julia and in most programming languages. I use have been using them extensively in Julia for several years.</text></comment>	<story><title>Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0?</title><url>https://www.oxinabox.net/2021/02/13/Julia-1.6-what-has-changed-since-1.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomrod</author><text>I come back every so often to check out Julia again. I have hopes for it.<p>Some questions still in mind since I reviewed previously<p>(1) How is its database connectivity?<p>(2) Is there something like python&#x27;s `requests` lib?<p>(3) Are the features mature enough that I don&#x27;t anticipate major rewrites for code each year?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxinabox</author><text>&gt; (2) Is there something like python&#x27;s `requests` lib?<p>For HTTP (etc) requests?<p>There is HTTP.jl which I have never had problems with; tons of packages use it. I have used it to wrap a ton of different REST APIs etc.<p>And in 1.6, as mentioned, there is the new Downloads standard library, based on libcurl. Despide the name, I believe it can be used more generally than simply downloading things. Can also be used as a normal library in Julia 1.3+ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaLang&#x2F;Downloads.jl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaLang&#x2F;Downloads.jl</a><p>And there are several other projects</text></comment>
37,647,443	37,645,689	1	2	37,644,506	train	<story><title>MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World</title><url>https://undark.org/2023/09/22/book-review-the-long-strange-history-of-mdma/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>empath-nirvana</author><text>I literally think that MDMA saved my life. I was absolutely _broken_ when I came out of high school -- bullied at home and at school just relentlessly for 12 years. Completely unable to relate to other human beings, afraid of being touched, never had a girl friend or any kind of real friendship.<p>Going to rave and having people -- strangers! -- just hug me, and listen to me, and I&#x27;d listen to them and we could just talk to each other like normal people without this undercurrent of constant anxiety and fear of rejection. It was a miracle to me. And I mean that in both the banal sense and the religious sense. It wasn&#x27;t just the interpersonal aspects of it, but like -- having these feelings of joy and happiness and seeing the beauty of the world wash over me in almost an overwhelming way despite the fact that absolutely _nothing_ had really changed about the world made me understand how much of my own unhappiness was internal, that i could _choose_ to see the world in a better light all the time -- not just when I was on drugs, but at any time, it was just a matter of perspective, and something that you have some level of control over.<p>I went from being someone who was almost completely isolated and withdrawn to learning how to DJ, to DJing at the _very same club_ that opened the world to me. I had a girlfriend within a few months, I had dozens of friends, I had a better paying job within a year, largely through connections I made at the club. I honestly think I&#x27;d have just turned into a homeless alcoholic or something without that experience. I have a hard time even imagining where I&#x27;d have ended up. I barely recognize the person that walked into that club the first night.<p>It&#x27;s a tragedy that this drug isn&#x27;t available to more people. I overdid it. A lot of people over did it, but 20 years later I don&#x27;t regret any of it for a moment, even the bad nights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>My experiences echo this nearly to a T.<p>I skipped a few grades in school and became a social outcast. I was hazed out of one school entirely and sort of gave up on understanding people for a while. My first experience on MDMA was like a physical light switch was flicked on inside of my body. I went from only wearing black&#x2F;white&#x2F;gray clothes to being the one known to wear loud colors and really putting myself out there visually and socially. I ended up feeling the need to move away from my home town because I felt &quot;too popular.&quot; I couldn&#x27;t go for a run without someone stopping on the side of the street to offer me a ride to wherever. This sort of behavior continued into music festivals where I learned to manage and lead large scale groups of ~strangers in tough environments&#x2F;confusing mindsets.<p>I thought these skills wouldn&#x27;t prove valuable in the work world, but, to my elation and surprise, it was the opposite. A lot of engineers are really smart but a bit weaker on the political and social side of things. I undoubtedly nuked a few brain cells acquiring all these experiences, but hey I can still code just fine <i>and</i> now I love getting in there, talking to people about their feelings and communicating about how I am feeling, and do so with a belief that others are interested in hearing&#x2F;seeing me.<p>10&#x2F;10 would do it all over again.</text></comment>	<story><title>MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World</title><url>https://undark.org/2023/09/22/book-review-the-long-strange-history-of-mdma/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>empath-nirvana</author><text>I literally think that MDMA saved my life. I was absolutely _broken_ when I came out of high school -- bullied at home and at school just relentlessly for 12 years. Completely unable to relate to other human beings, afraid of being touched, never had a girl friend or any kind of real friendship.<p>Going to rave and having people -- strangers! -- just hug me, and listen to me, and I&#x27;d listen to them and we could just talk to each other like normal people without this undercurrent of constant anxiety and fear of rejection. It was a miracle to me. And I mean that in both the banal sense and the religious sense. It wasn&#x27;t just the interpersonal aspects of it, but like -- having these feelings of joy and happiness and seeing the beauty of the world wash over me in almost an overwhelming way despite the fact that absolutely _nothing_ had really changed about the world made me understand how much of my own unhappiness was internal, that i could _choose_ to see the world in a better light all the time -- not just when I was on drugs, but at any time, it was just a matter of perspective, and something that you have some level of control over.<p>I went from being someone who was almost completely isolated and withdrawn to learning how to DJ, to DJing at the _very same club_ that opened the world to me. I had a girlfriend within a few months, I had dozens of friends, I had a better paying job within a year, largely through connections I made at the club. I honestly think I&#x27;d have just turned into a homeless alcoholic or something without that experience. I have a hard time even imagining where I&#x27;d have ended up. I barely recognize the person that walked into that club the first night.<p>It&#x27;s a tragedy that this drug isn&#x27;t available to more people. I overdid it. A lot of people over did it, but 20 years later I don&#x27;t regret any of it for a moment, even the bad nights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidguetta</author><text>Really good experience myself here.<p>The key overall is always to not abuse and that should be adressed by education, not just mindlessly prohibit everything (even tho it&#x27;s not too bad to forbid stuff somethimes).</text></comment>
22,056,752	22,056,769	1	2	22,055,479	train	<story><title>Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>The AMA isn&#x27;t limiting the supply of doctors. The actual limit is in the number of residency program slots funded by the US Federal government. If you actually want to increase the supply of doctors then lobby Congress for higher residency funding.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ama-assn.org&#x2F;press-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;ama-fund-graduate-medical-education-address-physician-shortages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ama-assn.org&#x2F;press-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;ama-fun...</a></text></item><item><author>univalent</author><text>Please lobby the AMA to not artificially limit the supply of doctors by creating regulations around residency. I personally know of many people with MDs from India who don&#x27;t work here as physicians because they could not get a residency &#x27;slot&#x27; in the Bay Area where their family lives. Relevant thread with links on StackExchange: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skeptics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;4561&#x2F;does-the-ama-limit-the-number-of-doctors-to-increase-current-doctors-salaries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skeptics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;4561&#x2F;does-the-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diplomatpuppy</author><text>The AMA backs the residency requirement. In my opinion it potentially gives doctors bad habits: Tolerating a miserable sleep schedule, placing too much value on quick diagnosis, equating long hours with effectiveness, and perhaps not placing enough value on teamwork with nurses.</text></comment>	<story><title>Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>The AMA isn&#x27;t limiting the supply of doctors. The actual limit is in the number of residency program slots funded by the US Federal government. If you actually want to increase the supply of doctors then lobby Congress for higher residency funding.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ama-assn.org&#x2F;press-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;ama-fund-graduate-medical-education-address-physician-shortages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ama-assn.org&#x2F;press-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;ama-fun...</a></text></item><item><author>univalent</author><text>Please lobby the AMA to not artificially limit the supply of doctors by creating regulations around residency. I personally know of many people with MDs from India who don&#x27;t work here as physicians because they could not get a residency &#x27;slot&#x27; in the Bay Area where their family lives. Relevant thread with links on StackExchange: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skeptics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;4561&#x2F;does-the-ama-limit-the-number-of-doctors-to-increase-current-doctors-salaries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skeptics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;4561&#x2F;does-the-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beambot</author><text>Apprenticeships in many (most?) fields are sponsored by the professional organization (akin to a guild) and paid for by laborers at lower-than-master wages. And yet, here is the AMA itself saying the problem lies with federal government funding. Curious. Seems like a convenient scapegoat.</text></comment>
15,643,111	15,641,988	1	2	15,641,274	train	<story><title>Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)</title><url>https://blog.abevoelker.com/sick-of-ruby-dynamic-typing-side-effects-object-oriented-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucaspiller</author><text>I switched from Ruby (after ~8 years) to JavaScript at the beginning of this year, and Ruby is a dream in comparison:<p>- Thanks to the proliferation of Rails and similar frameworks, most Ruby apps at least have something that resembles an MVC structure. With JavaScript, once you move past the basic TodoMVC examples you are pretty much on your own. It gives you enough rope to hang yourself, all you colleagues, and everyone in the building next door.<p>- The expect vs should change in RSpec is nothing compared to how fast things are changing in JavaScript. I think there are now 7 different ways of just defining a module.<p>- The stdlib of Ruby is pretty sensible. JavaScript has many inconsistencies (take Array.slice vs Array.splice - one modifies the original array, and the other does not), and you usually need to rely on third party libraries, or write the code yourself, to do pretty basic operations.<p>- The JavaScript community seems to have the opposite of NIH syndrome, so that even basic functionality is offloaded to a third-party modules (see leftpad). The project I&#x27;m working on has over 1000 modules in it&#x27;s dependency tree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbreckmckye</author><text>&gt; With JavaScript, once you move past the basic TodoMVC examples you are pretty much on your own.<p>This is a big problem that&#x27;s addressed quite rarely. There&#x27;s very few open JS codebases that cover the sorts of concerns most web developers face. There are open codebases for build tools, codebases for graphics editors and web frameworks, but few relevant to writing a typical frontend app and frankly few that are well written.<p>As a JavaScript developer myself I often wonder if there&#x27;d be demand for a &#x27;boring webapp&#x27; open codebase, something that could showcase perhaps two or three different ways of writing garden-variety JS applications.</text></comment>	<story><title>Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)</title><url>https://blog.abevoelker.com/sick-of-ruby-dynamic-typing-side-effects-object-oriented-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucaspiller</author><text>I switched from Ruby (after ~8 years) to JavaScript at the beginning of this year, and Ruby is a dream in comparison:<p>- Thanks to the proliferation of Rails and similar frameworks, most Ruby apps at least have something that resembles an MVC structure. With JavaScript, once you move past the basic TodoMVC examples you are pretty much on your own. It gives you enough rope to hang yourself, all you colleagues, and everyone in the building next door.<p>- The expect vs should change in RSpec is nothing compared to how fast things are changing in JavaScript. I think there are now 7 different ways of just defining a module.<p>- The stdlib of Ruby is pretty sensible. JavaScript has many inconsistencies (take Array.slice vs Array.splice - one modifies the original array, and the other does not), and you usually need to rely on third party libraries, or write the code yourself, to do pretty basic operations.<p>- The JavaScript community seems to have the opposite of NIH syndrome, so that even basic functionality is offloaded to a third-party modules (see leftpad). The project I&#x27;m working on has over 1000 modules in it&#x27;s dependency tree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gkya</author><text>Rails is crazy. If you know it well maybe it&#x27;s useful but it&#x27;s very unapproachable. A new project, empty, involves tens of directories and files and at least two languages (coffeescript). That&#x27;s been off-putting for me. But Ruby the language is quite pleasant IMO. I guess people confound their experiences of Rails and some other Ruby tooling with the language itself.</text></comment>
864,304	863,835	1	2	863,219	train	<story><title>Unit testing in Coders at Work</title><url>http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/2009/10/05/coders-unit-testing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>10ren</author><text><i>One day I hope Joel eventually realizes this. Programmers who say they don’t have time to write tests are living in the stone age.</i><p>This kind of attitude really pisses me off. It's so confident in its condescension and name-calling, I have a little wonder that they might be right. In fact, it's just dogmatic abuse, unencumbered by an objective factual appraisal of the issue at hand. Probably, I should just remember that dogmatism tends to be inversely related to wisdom.<p>For one thing, the purpose of the code makes a tremendous difference: e.g. unit-testing is great for maintainability, but terrible for evolving an API (as in prototyping or exploratory code).<p>And thank goodness for Knuth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>My position on unit testing is, "Have you tried it?", followed by, "No, seriously, have you actually tried to use it for a period of time, not just played with it for an hour?", which I will then follow by... wishing the programmer well regardless of how they now feel about it, because now they've at least got some experience.<p>Unit testing is a big deal. Everybody should try it. Ideally, you should try it with the next project you start from scratch (or subproject as the case may be) because trying to retrofit an existing code base does not give accurate impressions. I'd also point out that some things are easier to test than others, but that once you have a bit of experience sometimes even the hard ones turn out to be feasible. (For example, you shouldn't go straight to UI testing, but there are many other good testing starting points, like parsing or network communication.) You really should stick with it at least long enough for it to detect at least one bug that is a total surprise to you, because that will happen, it's only a matter of time. But once you've tried it, I respect your opinion after that.<p>I've also tried TDD, which I just could not get into, whereas unit tests I love.</text></comment>	<story><title>Unit testing in Coders at Work</title><url>http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/2009/10/05/coders-unit-testing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>10ren</author><text><i>One day I hope Joel eventually realizes this. Programmers who say they don’t have time to write tests are living in the stone age.</i><p>This kind of attitude really pisses me off. It's so confident in its condescension and name-calling, I have a little wonder that they might be right. In fact, it's just dogmatic abuse, unencumbered by an objective factual appraisal of the issue at hand. Probably, I should just remember that dogmatism tends to be inversely related to wisdom.<p>For one thing, the purpose of the code makes a tremendous difference: e.g. unit-testing is great for maintainability, but terrible for evolving an API (as in prototyping or exploratory code).<p>And thank goodness for Knuth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>I was amused by his comment on Knuth:<p><i>"So Knuth too disagrees with the notion that unit testing always makes you go faster. Maybe he too is living in the stone age."</i><p>This follows him describing writing a program, in pencil, in 1977.</text></comment>
14,621,179	14,620,652	1	2	14,619,725	train	<story><title>Indie games don't make money</title><url>http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2017/06/23/your-indie-game-will-flop-and-you-will-lose-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jharger</author><text>I always find it sad, and kind of ridiculous, when indie game developers quit everything and live on no money for years trying to make the next big thing.<p>Making indie games should be about doing something because you love it. Keep a day job (even part time), then design and build something cool in your spare time. Don&#x27;t worry about making money, worry about making something people want to play, and it will be much more fulfilling.<p>The game industry, just like any industry, is all about making money. It&#x27;s not fun. It&#x27;s not about self-expression... but doing it as a hobby is often both! Sometimes people who do it as a hobby end up making money, and that&#x27;s great, but don&#x27;t go in expecting that, because as the article states, it&#x27;s very unlikely to happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanHulton</author><text>It&#x27;s super, super hard to work a day job and then come home and work on your game. Not only the obvious mental difficulties that come from trying throw down 10-12 hours a day (8 at work, then 2-4 more on your game if your focus holds), but also just in opportunity cost.<p>Like, if you&#x27;re an indie game dev you obviously enjoy games, but making your game leaves precious little time left for <i>playing</i> games, and you can frequently feel like that time spent on games is a waste that could have been spent working - even if you <i>know</i> you&#x27;re feeling burnt out and just need a night relaxing.<p>I&#x27;m definitely not advocating bailing on your job and betting the farm and working through poverty while making Minecraft But With Cars or whatever, but I can totally see why it&#x27;s attractive.<p>Source: I&#x27;ve been working on an indie game for the last year and a bit (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatandslash.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatandslash.com&#x2F;</a>) and I&#x27;m currently trying to decide if picking up Nier: Automata on sale is worth it because I may not end up allocating time to play it before the next sale.</text></comment>	<story><title>Indie games don't make money</title><url>http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2017/06/23/your-indie-game-will-flop-and-you-will-lose-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jharger</author><text>I always find it sad, and kind of ridiculous, when indie game developers quit everything and live on no money for years trying to make the next big thing.<p>Making indie games should be about doing something because you love it. Keep a day job (even part time), then design and build something cool in your spare time. Don&#x27;t worry about making money, worry about making something people want to play, and it will be much more fulfilling.<p>The game industry, just like any industry, is all about making money. It&#x27;s not fun. It&#x27;s not about self-expression... but doing it as a hobby is often both! Sometimes people who do it as a hobby end up making money, and that&#x27;s great, but don&#x27;t go in expecting that, because as the article states, it&#x27;s very unlikely to happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>The amount of work to even build the simplest game is monumental. Saying that you should build something in your spare time is like saying that you should just make the days 30 hours long instead of 24.<p>I know of <i>one</i> person that&#x27;s done this and it was a brutal affair for them.<p>(Source: I used to work in the industry and stay on top of the indie scene)</text></comment>
11,414,357	11,414,100	1	3	11,413,530	train	<story><title>After WikiLeaks Revelation, Greece Asks I.M.F. To Clarify Bailout Plan</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/business/after-wikileaks-revelation-greece-asks-imf-to-clarify-bailout-plan.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdkl95</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in Greece and how they&#x27;ve been screwed b the ECB, I recommend a video[1] I posted[2] a few days ago. It&#x27;s a discussion from about a month ago with Mark Blyth (prof econ at Brown) and the former Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis. They discuss &quot;negotiating&quot; with the ECB, brexit, and the &quot;least worst&quot; ways to save the EU.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iMk6aVsl8Rs#t=66" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iMk6aVsl8Rs#t=66</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11398625" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11398625</a><p>(If you think Greece&#x27;s economic situation is anything other than a bailout for the major banks of the EU, then you haven&#x27;t been paying attention)</text></comment>	<story><title>After WikiLeaks Revelation, Greece Asks I.M.F. To Clarify Bailout Plan</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/business/after-wikileaks-revelation-greece-asks-imf-to-clarify-bailout-plan.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antman</author><text>tldr: International organizations refuse to take responsibility for the failure of the measures they imposed, but in the fear of BREXIT in June postpone GREXIT after July. In the mean time every party blames the others, leaking information to the press.</text></comment>
17,870,217	17,870,092	1	2	17,869,401	train	<story><title>How to Succeed with a Startup [video]</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/sam-altman-how-to-succeed-with-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rexreed</author><text>I&#x27;ll counter with some more basic and more broadly applicable advice.<p>1) Build a product people actually want and need and will pay money for<p>2) Promote yourself incessantly because others will be promoting themselves even more incessantly.<p>3) Spend your money wisely - focus on people, product, and marketing. Don&#x27;t waste your money on office trappings and stuff that makes you feel good. Save your lunch money.<p>4) Ignore Venture Capital. If you are actually selling something people want, you can grow on revenues. If it takes a lot of money to create what your customers want or if your growth is greater than revenue, then the VCs will want to talk to you anyways. Because a) you&#x27;re growing and b) customers actually want what you have. But don&#x27;t start by focusing on what VCs want. Focus on what your customers want instead.<p>5) Always be selling. To your customers. To the press. To your employees. To anyone who matters. Never stop talking about your company.<p>6) Always be listening. To your customers. To your employees. The easiest and best ideas come from others.<p>7) Re-invest. Plow your earnings back into the company and promotion.<p>8) It&#x27;s ok not to have a competitive advantage. What? Ok maybe you need to have some advantage but it doesn&#x27;t have to be nearly as significant as is stated in this video. You need to have some reason for your customers to buy your product or service instead of competitors&#x27;, so there&#x27;s always some advantage. It could be price. Features. better service. But it could also be just a better connection with your prospects. Or perhaps you manage to place yourself in the right place at the right time. Or maybe you&#x27;re just spending a lot on marketing. If you want to be successful, you need to identify at least one FAIR competitive advantage that your customers care about. And if you want to be super successful, identify one UNFAIR competitive advantage that locks out the competition. That could be an exclusive partnership, some intellectual property advantage, or connections with your customers that your competitors can&#x27;t easily obtain.<p>This applies no matter if you&#x27;re running a silicon valley style startup or a cybersecurity enterprise-focused government client startup -- both can make you millions or billions.</text></comment>	<story><title>How to Succeed with a Startup [video]</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/sam-altman-how-to-succeed-with-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sinatra</author><text>- &quot;Product so good that people wanna tell others about it&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean this is an excuse to hide in a corner and keep building the product. Product can&#x27;t be &quot;good&quot; if it&#x27;s not based on frequent and lots of conversations &#x2F; interactions with users.<p>- The point about &quot;exponential growth in market&quot; is very important if your startup wants to raise money from VCs and has similar goals. Otherwise, focusing on creating value even in mature markets can be a good choice too. Same point applies to the &quot;Huge if it works&quot; point too.<p>- His point about real trend vs fake trend is also a good point for your own product&#x27;s real usage vs fake usage. Are people &quot;really&quot; engaged and using your product or are they just thinking that it&#x27;s cool but not really using it?<p>- I have nothing to add to what he said about the team, but team is so important that I wanted to mention it as well.<p>- His point about optimism is another point where team (or advisors or well-wishers) help. A startup is a roller-coaster. You will have days of negativity and doubts. At that moment, a team member (or someone similar) who pushes you and encourages you is very important!<p>- Love the points about &quot;We&#x27;ll figure it out&quot; and &quot;I&#x27;ve got it&quot;<p>- &quot;Bias towards action&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean being busy for the sake of being busy. In my career, I&#x27;ve seen so many months wasted because action wasn&#x27;t based on well-thought-out logic. So, certainly keep bias towards action, but don&#x27;t use it as no excuse to not think. A good way to not move fast is to move fast in unnecessary directions.<p>- The &quot;Never lose momentum&quot; point is so difficult in real world (unless you&#x27;re lucky). But, good to be reminded about.<p>- The point about &quot;Distribution startegy&quot; is another great point. Every distribution strategy we are thinking of is going to turn out to be harder than we thought. Still, finding new &#x2F; unexplored distribution sources compared to your competition can be a great win!<p>- I am sure this wasn&#x27;t intentional, but I&#x27;ll say that the talk didn&#x27;t focus enough on users &#x2F; customers. In the end, it&#x27;s all about creating genuine value for the customers &#x2F; users.</text></comment>
7,906,152	7,906,121	1	2	7,904,509	train	<story><title>YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/17/youtube-indie-labels-music-subscription</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fpgeek</author><text>Upon reflection , I think this article (and others like it) are starting from the wrong place and end up confusing the issue more than illuminating it.<p>I think the right place to start is that Google wants to offer a premium, ad-free YouTube service. Given that, what happens to videos that are ad-supported today:<p>1. They participate and are ad-supported for free users and subscription-supported for premium users. Cool. Everyone&#x27;s happy.<p>2. They don&#x27;t participate and...<p>(a) Premium users see ads anyway. They&#x27;re pissed.<p>(b) Premium users don&#x27;t see those videos at all, but free users see them with ads. Might dodge the issue for a while, but when they find out they&#x27;d be even more pissed.<p>(c) You can&#x27;t offer ad-supported videos to free users unless you also offer ad-free videos to subscription users. Labels that like the ad-supported terms and don&#x27;t like the subscription terms are pissed.<p>Alternative (c) seems to be what Google has picked. Which seems logical if they&#x27;re launching a new service they want new users to like.<p>Corollary: Indie labels should still be allowed to post whatever non-monetized videos they want (subject to other YouTube policies like the terrible ContentId, of course). If that isn&#x27;t true, then we can talk about being &quot;kicked off YouTube&quot;. Otherwise, they&#x27;re choosing to leave because they don&#x27;t like how the monetization option is changing. That&#x27;s clearly their privilege, but, in the exact same way, it&#x27;s Google&#x27;s privilege to change the monetization they&#x27;re willing to offer (whether that&#x27;s as small as tweaking the payout formula or something larger like adding a subscription tier).<p>P.S. I found some of the Ars Technica comments (not the article) particularly helpful in terms of explaining how this must fit together: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/artists-who-dont-sign-with-youtubes-new-subscription-service-to-be-blocked/?comments=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;artists-who-dont-sig...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/17/youtube-indie-labels-music-subscription</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Shooti</author><text>Plausible breakdown of Google&#x2F;YT&#x27;s side of the story:<p>1. Youtube wants to offer users a subscription service with no ads.<p>2. Youtube needs to update its licensing&#x2F;terms with artists: If a video plays for a subscriber they see no ads, artist gets money from subscription pool. If a video plays for a non-subscriber they see ads, artist gets money from ads pool.<p>3. Artists need to explicitly agree to these terms because it changes how and how much they&#x27;ll get paid.<p>4. It doesn&#x27;t seem fair for a user to pay a subscription, expect to see no ads, and then see ads for some video&#x27;s because that artist&#x2F;distributor did not agree to new terms. This is why Google wants all or nothing.</text></comment>
40,990,259	40,989,579	1	3	40,989,069	train	<story><title>Little Languages (1986) [pdf]</title><url>https://staff.um.edu.mt/afra1/seminar/little-languages.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ashton314</author><text>We are absolutely swimming in little languages. Consider these languages:<p>- The language of regular expressions<p>- SQL queries<p>- In web frameworks, the language of routes<p>- etc.<p>Unfortunately we embed a lot of these languages as strings. This is problematic because the language usually sees just opaque strings—we can&#x27;t apply any of our lovely static analysis tools to these little embedded languages.<p>I&#x27;m doing some research in this area. We just got a paper published at ECOOP. The big idea is that, with a little bit of clever metaprogramming, we can help the type checker understand these little languages better and give us more helpful hints or execute more efficiently. This isn&#x27;t a new idea, but no one has given it a name before. Here&#x27;s the blog post version: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambdaland.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2024-07-15_type_tailoring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambdaland.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2024-07-15_type_tailoring&#x2F;</a><p>(HN discussion): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40990232">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40990232</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Little Languages (1986) [pdf]</title><url>https://staff.um.edu.mt/afra1/seminar/little-languages.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:<p><i>“Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (1986) [pdf]</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17881705">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17881705</a> - Aug 2018 (17 comments)</text></comment>
17,647,443	17,647,060	1	3	17,644,718	train	<story><title>One month from concept to $1000 in revenue</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/week-2-one-month-from-concept-to-1000-revenue-bb7c736b9e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BartBoch</author><text>Well, ok. I see you decided to attack me. OK. I am not interested in going into the fight with you, so I will answer just a few things I think people would like me to explain.<p>&quot;My idea is 50% accurate?&quot; - the question &quot;How accurately do you think this idea solves the problem?&quot; should explain that.<p>&quot;Sorry, I can guarantee you that&#x27;s not what you&#x27;re doing.&quot; - great, how?<p>&quot;but at the same time you&#x27;re introducing a non-response bias&quot; - so according to you paying to pretty much-untargeted people to answer questions is better than getting some of the relevant people to fill out the survey? Interesting.<p>&quot;you&#x27;re spamming hundreds of people to receive 25 survey responses&quot; - it seems you know things I don&#x27;t know then. I am not spamming people. I send them a request if they can fill out the survey to help a company. All of the people we contacted agreed to be contacted.<p>Only because you have not managed to figure it out, does not mean other people haven&#x27;t. I am OK with running at no profit, for now, to build the brand and get my name out. You can pretend like paid, barely targeted people are better than answers from real, targeted, unpaid people. But the reality is, that even if only certain % of people answer to our call, they are still targeted, and they beat paid survey takers by a mile.<p>Very classy of you to post this kind of biased and offensive comment.</text></item><item><author>niko001</author><text>I run IdeaCheck.io [0], a similar service. I appreciate competition, but this looks like a quickly thrown together MVP without a real product. Have a look at the graphs on the sample report [1] - it makes zero sense to present this information as a line chart. What is the significance of the 8 other data points on the chart that aren&#x27;t labeled? What kind of metrics are &quot;accuracy&quot; and &quot;feelings&quot;? &quot;My idea is 50% accurate?&quot;<p>From the landing page: &quot;Are you opening a burger joint around the corner? Let us talk to the people from the office building in front of it, your potential customers!&quot; Sorry, I can guarantee you that&#x27;s not what you&#x27;re doing.<p>IdeaCheck uses a professional panel provider to find respondents. We negotiated a contract with this provider to provide entrepreneurs with access to the same class of market research that Fortune 100 companies use. We don&#x27;t make any targeting claims that we can&#x27;t deliver on. Yes, respondents are paid, but that doesn&#x27;t incentivize them to be extra nice - they answer multiple random surveys each day (from different companies doing market research) and are paid for their time, not their opinion. In general, I like the idea of not paying respondents and actively searching for a small target niche, but at the same time you&#x27;re introducing a non-response bias (you&#x27;re spamming hundreds of people to receive 25 survey responses - those who reply aren&#x27;t an accurate representation of the target audience)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ideacheck.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ideacheck.io</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;afteridea.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;index.php?id=5b396a5f4eb37" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;afteridea.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;index.php?id=5b396a5f4eb37</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dumbfoundded</author><text>Here&#x27;s some feedback from someone who isn&#x27;t a competitor of your&#x27;s.<p>I&#x27;m guessing you&#x27;re using facebook ads to hand out surveys to targeted people. If that&#x27;s not exactly what you&#x27;re doing, you should be aware of the fact that your business model&#x27;s value is to bypass people from going into the facebook ad manager, creating a survey, selecting a few interests &#x2F; demographics and then hitting enter.<p>There&#x27;s not a lot of value in this business model, especially given that if I did this using facebook, I would have the actual audience instead of your summary of it.<p>Next piece of advice, be less emotional. Someone criticized you. Don&#x27;t take it personally, address their points or don&#x27;t, I don&#x27;t care, but as a potential customer, I look at this message and immediately am turned off by it. The message above does make some good points and you just try to drown it out with emotion.<p>Last piece of advice, I actually think there&#x27;s a lot of value in talking to people directly. If you could actually &quot;talk to the people from the office building in front of it&quot; and then scale it, that might have value but from your website, I have no clue if that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re doing and I actually get the impression that you&#x27;re not.</text></comment>	<story><title>One month from concept to $1000 in revenue</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/week-2-one-month-from-concept-to-1000-revenue-bb7c736b9e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BartBoch</author><text>Well, ok. I see you decided to attack me. OK. I am not interested in going into the fight with you, so I will answer just a few things I think people would like me to explain.<p>&quot;My idea is 50% accurate?&quot; - the question &quot;How accurately do you think this idea solves the problem?&quot; should explain that.<p>&quot;Sorry, I can guarantee you that&#x27;s not what you&#x27;re doing.&quot; - great, how?<p>&quot;but at the same time you&#x27;re introducing a non-response bias&quot; - so according to you paying to pretty much-untargeted people to answer questions is better than getting some of the relevant people to fill out the survey? Interesting.<p>&quot;you&#x27;re spamming hundreds of people to receive 25 survey responses&quot; - it seems you know things I don&#x27;t know then. I am not spamming people. I send them a request if they can fill out the survey to help a company. All of the people we contacted agreed to be contacted.<p>Only because you have not managed to figure it out, does not mean other people haven&#x27;t. I am OK with running at no profit, for now, to build the brand and get my name out. You can pretend like paid, barely targeted people are better than answers from real, targeted, unpaid people. But the reality is, that even if only certain % of people answer to our call, they are still targeted, and they beat paid survey takers by a mile.<p>Very classy of you to post this kind of biased and offensive comment.</text></item><item><author>niko001</author><text>I run IdeaCheck.io [0], a similar service. I appreciate competition, but this looks like a quickly thrown together MVP without a real product. Have a look at the graphs on the sample report [1] - it makes zero sense to present this information as a line chart. What is the significance of the 8 other data points on the chart that aren&#x27;t labeled? What kind of metrics are &quot;accuracy&quot; and &quot;feelings&quot;? &quot;My idea is 50% accurate?&quot;<p>From the landing page: &quot;Are you opening a burger joint around the corner? Let us talk to the people from the office building in front of it, your potential customers!&quot; Sorry, I can guarantee you that&#x27;s not what you&#x27;re doing.<p>IdeaCheck uses a professional panel provider to find respondents. We negotiated a contract with this provider to provide entrepreneurs with access to the same class of market research that Fortune 100 companies use. We don&#x27;t make any targeting claims that we can&#x27;t deliver on. Yes, respondents are paid, but that doesn&#x27;t incentivize them to be extra nice - they answer multiple random surveys each day (from different companies doing market research) and are paid for their time, not their opinion. In general, I like the idea of not paying respondents and actively searching for a small target niche, but at the same time you&#x27;re introducing a non-response bias (you&#x27;re spamming hundreds of people to receive 25 survey responses - those who reply aren&#x27;t an accurate representation of the target audience)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ideacheck.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ideacheck.io</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;afteridea.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;index.php?id=5b396a5f4eb37" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;afteridea.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;index.php?id=5b396a5f4eb37</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; &quot;Are you opening a burger joint around the corner? Let us talk to the people from the office building in front of it, your potential customers!&quot;<p>&gt;&gt; Sorry, I can guarantee you that&#x27;s not what you&#x27;re doing.<p>&gt; great, how?<p>Well...ARE you going to talk to the people from the office building in front of it?</text></comment>
26,598,532	26,597,630	1	2	26,597,419	train	<story><title>PlenOctrees For Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)</title><url>http://alexyu.net/plenoctrees/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ipsum2</author><text>There&#x27;s another real-time NeRF viewer that just came out here: nerf.live. For comparison between the two. Chair:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexyu.net&#x2F;plenoctrees&#x2F;demo&#x2F;?load=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;nerf_data&#x2F;plenoctree&#x2F;chair.npz" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexyu.net&#x2F;plenoctrees&#x2F;demo&#x2F;?load=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.goo...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phog.github.io&#x2F;snerg&#x2F;viewer&#x2F;index.html?dir=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;snerg&#x2F;750&#x2F;chair" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phog.github.io&#x2F;snerg&#x2F;viewer&#x2F;index.html?dir=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>PlenOctrees For Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)</title><url>http://alexyu.net/plenoctrees/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>Oooh exciting! NERF is a very interesting technique but last I heard rendering was taking 20 seconds per frame. This looks great. It says it can do 150 fps by translating the NERF to a more renderable format, which makes sense.<p>See an overview of NERF here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;LRAqeM8EjOo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;LRAqeM8EjOo</a></text></comment>
27,807,412	27,806,351	1	2	27,792,366	train	<story><title>A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution</title><url>https://blog.jreypo.io/2021/07/09/a-look-into-cbl-mariner-microsoft-internal-linux-distribution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vermilingua</author><text>A MS dev writing a blog on building MS’ own distro of Linux on his _Macbook_ must have Ballmer sweating bullets.</text></comment>	<story><title>A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution</title><url>https://blog.jreypo.io/2021/07/09/a-look-into-cbl-mariner-microsoft-internal-linux-distribution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>directionless</author><text>It&#x27;s neat to see this! But somehow, an RPM based distro, that solely documents its instructions for Ubuntu feels very something.</text></comment>
4,151,390	4,151,037	1	2	4,150,951	train	<story><title>Hate Mail and the New Religious Wars in Tech</title><url>http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/hate-mail-and-the-new-religious-wars-in-tech/?nl=technology&emc=cta2_20120621</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Interestingly, the same phenomenon that makes people write those emails can make them "double down" on a tech choice. A friend defaults anti-Apple so refused to buy the "Jesus phone". After four Android phones, each less reliable than the last while his sister's still rocking an iPhone 3GS, he switched last week ... To Windows Phone 7. He just paid $500 for a phone that, 3 days later, was announced would not be upgradable to Windows Phone 8. All because he is determined that Apple users are smug fanboys.<p>(Personally, I think he should have gotten a Google Galaxy Nexus if he wanted his sister's mockery about constant obsolescence and non working hardware to stop.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessedhillon</author><text>He detests Apple products because he feels that Apple users allow themselves to be defined by Apple through their purchasing decisions. So, he refuses to buy an Apple phone -- even going to ridiculous extents to exercise a non-Apple option -- ironically, allowing himself to be defined by Apple products!<p>If Apple goes left he will go right, if they go up he goes down; he is still deciding his tech choices based on Apple's choices, only he's navigating the whitespace where Apple fans navigate the blackspace. If he were truly free, he would simply choose the best phone for his needs and lifestyle. Instead he is as slavishly bound to Apple as the people he mocks.</text></comment>	<story><title>Hate Mail and the New Religious Wars in Tech</title><url>http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/hate-mail-and-the-new-religious-wars-in-tech/?nl=technology&emc=cta2_20120621</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Interestingly, the same phenomenon that makes people write those emails can make them "double down" on a tech choice. A friend defaults anti-Apple so refused to buy the "Jesus phone". After four Android phones, each less reliable than the last while his sister's still rocking an iPhone 3GS, he switched last week ... To Windows Phone 7. He just paid $500 for a phone that, 3 days later, was announced would not be upgradable to Windows Phone 8. All because he is determined that Apple users are smug fanboys.<p>(Personally, I think he should have gotten a Google Galaxy Nexus if he wanted his sister's mockery about constant obsolescence and non working hardware to stop.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>Casual Apple user here - it entertains me to no end how quickly everyone is to denote all Apple users to be fanboys to such an extent that they are downright anti-apple fanboys.<p>In reality I think more Apple users would ditch Apple as soon as something significantly better came along, than Android users (who chose to use Android, not people who bought a "generic smartphone") would ditch Android should something better come along.</text></comment>
5,976,174	5,975,993	1	2	5,975,001	train	<story><title>How We Hit $912 Million in Sales</title><url>http://www.inc.com/magazine/201307/christine-lagorio/jack-dangermond-how-he-started-esri.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npalli</author><text>He started with $1000 and grew to $912 Million over 43 years. That&#x27;s compounding annually at 38% percent. I was surprised that after 43 years it is still under a billion. Just goes to show how big a billion dollars is :-).<p>He must also really really love his space and company, nowadays when companies are flipped in 43 weeks, he is going on for 43 years. Wow, that&#x27;s some dedication and calls for a very difficult temperament and set of skills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobwaycott</author><text>&gt; <i>Just goes to show how big a billion dollars is...</i><p>As a boy, my grandfather once wanted to impress upon me the astronomical nature (or so it seemed at such a young age) of large numbers (especially in reference to government budgets).<p>At first, I couldn&#x27;t believe it when he told me that if I spent $1&#x2F;second, I&#x27;d blow through $1M in just under 12 days (11.5 to be more precise, with rounding).<p>But it was when he told me that spending through $1B at the same rate would take me nearly 32 years that I realized that was a ridiculously large sum of money.<p>I&#x27;ve never forgotten that lesson. I also walked away deviously thinking the best goal I could shoot for in life was to figure out how to earn $1&#x2F;second.</text></comment>	<story><title>How We Hit $912 Million in Sales</title><url>http://www.inc.com/magazine/201307/christine-lagorio/jack-dangermond-how-he-started-esri.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npalli</author><text>He started with $1000 and grew to $912 Million over 43 years. That&#x27;s compounding annually at 38% percent. I was surprised that after 43 years it is still under a billion. Just goes to show how big a billion dollars is :-).<p>He must also really really love his space and company, nowadays when companies are flipped in 43 weeks, he is going on for 43 years. Wow, that&#x27;s some dedication and calls for a very difficult temperament and set of skills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beachstartup</author><text>&gt; He started with $1000 and grew to $912 Million over 43 years<p>try measuring the cumulative revenue over those 43 years, i.e. the integral instead of the first derivative.</text></comment>
24,182,403	24,182,318	1	2	24,181,783	train	<story><title>Factorio and Software Engineering</title><url>https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>&gt; a certain component (electronic circuits) was being produced in 4-5 places. I eventually replaced them all with one centralised production array to simplify the factory.<p>Nah, electronic (green) circuits are high-volume but low-complexity to build. They are a good example of something that should <i>not</i> be produced centrally, because if you do, you have to invest a lot in high-volume transport to get them where they need to go. Much better to build dedicated electronic circuit factories wherever they are specifically needed.<p>Silly analogy to programming: Microservices. It makes sense to have a microservice to perform, say, user authentication, which is complex and only needed occasionally. It does not make sense to have a microservice to implement printf formatting, because you&#x27;ll be calling it way too often and it&#x27;ll waste a ton of network bandwidth. Better to import a string formatting library into each service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>Nah, as others have pointed out, green circuits are used everywhere. Since they meet that requirement, the only thing else to ask is, &quot;Do the materials take up more or less space than the item produced?&quot;<p>For green circuits, it takes less transport to move the green circuits than to move the materials to make them, so you should make them centrally and distribute the circuits.<p>Copper wire, on the contrary, is used in many things but takes up more space than copper plate, so you should make it locally.</text></comment>	<story><title>Factorio and Software Engineering</title><url>https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>&gt; a certain component (electronic circuits) was being produced in 4-5 places. I eventually replaced them all with one centralised production array to simplify the factory.<p>Nah, electronic (green) circuits are high-volume but low-complexity to build. They are a good example of something that should <i>not</i> be produced centrally, because if you do, you have to invest a lot in high-volume transport to get them where they need to go. Much better to build dedicated electronic circuit factories wherever they are specifically needed.<p>Silly analogy to programming: Microservices. It makes sense to have a microservice to perform, say, user authentication, which is complex and only needed occasionally. It does not make sense to have a microservice to implement printf formatting, because you&#x27;ll be calling it way too often and it&#x27;ll waste a ton of network bandwidth. Better to import a string formatting library into each service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeappell</author><text>Gonna disagree there: green circuits (and their descendents) are needed often enough and in high enough volumes that it absolutely makes sense to bus them. I&#x27;ve got four full lanes being almost completely consumed, much by red circuit production.<p>Certainly if you need a very small volume in one specific location and already have copper and iron present you can slap down an assembler making copper wire and another making the circuits, but that&#x27;s generally far less space efficient than just pulling them in from the bus.</text></comment>
34,908,685	34,908,132	1	2	34,901,703	train	<story><title>Poste.io – Complete Mail Server</title><url>https://poste.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foxylad</author><text>THIS.<p>Spam is a solved problem, thanks to SPF and DKIM. But despite doing all the right things, Microsoft and Google continuously block and rate-limit delivery.<p>Case in point: we deliver 20,000 booking confirmation emails every day, all requested by users and not spam. We have perfect Postmaster Tools metrics: absolutely zero reported spam, 100% IP reputation, high domain reputation, zero feedback loop spam, 100% encryption. But Gmail still rate-limits us daily, so their customers get their booking confirmations several hours late.<p>It&#x27;s getting to the point where running an independent mail server is impossible. Yet another part of the open internet bites the dust.</text></item><item><author>that_courtney</author><text>I feel like this solution is optimizing the wrong problem.<p>The bulk of work with managing a mail server (these days) isn&#x27;t software setup and admin. On the receiving side, it&#x27;s all the work dealing with abuse and attacks. On the sending side -- and this is the tough one -- it&#x27;s getting sites to accept your email. When I finally gave up managing my own mail server (about two years ago), I found that about every six months I was involved in some panic where some large mail provider (Microsoft and Google most frequently) decided they didn&#x27;t want to accept email from my server. Solving these issues is neither easy nor quick.<p>These days I&#x27;m very happy to pay somebody else to run email services using my provided domains.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fuzzy2</author><text>Most spam I receive (and that continues to somehow bypass my spam filters) originates from Gmail. So no, spam is not solved, not at all.<p>Spam is only “solved” on big providers because they mostly accept mails only from other big providers.<p>---<p>I would argue that “running an independent mail server” and mass-mailing are two entirely separate concerns.</text></comment>	<story><title>Poste.io – Complete Mail Server</title><url>https://poste.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foxylad</author><text>THIS.<p>Spam is a solved problem, thanks to SPF and DKIM. But despite doing all the right things, Microsoft and Google continuously block and rate-limit delivery.<p>Case in point: we deliver 20,000 booking confirmation emails every day, all requested by users and not spam. We have perfect Postmaster Tools metrics: absolutely zero reported spam, 100% IP reputation, high domain reputation, zero feedback loop spam, 100% encryption. But Gmail still rate-limits us daily, so their customers get their booking confirmations several hours late.<p>It&#x27;s getting to the point where running an independent mail server is impossible. Yet another part of the open internet bites the dust.</text></item><item><author>that_courtney</author><text>I feel like this solution is optimizing the wrong problem.<p>The bulk of work with managing a mail server (these days) isn&#x27;t software setup and admin. On the receiving side, it&#x27;s all the work dealing with abuse and attacks. On the sending side -- and this is the tough one -- it&#x27;s getting sites to accept your email. When I finally gave up managing my own mail server (about two years ago), I found that about every six months I was involved in some panic where some large mail provider (Microsoft and Google most frequently) decided they didn&#x27;t want to accept email from my server. Solving these issues is neither easy nor quick.<p>These days I&#x27;m very happy to pay somebody else to run email services using my provided domains.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>franga2000</author><text>How is spam related to SPF and DKIM? Those prevent forgery, but if a spammer actually owns a domain, they can send you whatever they want. That&#x27;s where the majority of spam comes from, so it&#x27;s far from a solved problem.</text></comment>
22,539,250	22,538,680	1	3	22,537,850	train	<story><title>Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread</title><url>https://www.flattenthecurve.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manojlds</author><text>I am sure it has crossed many people&#x27;s minds, but what if I want to get it before the medical systems are taxed? Like get it before the peak. I am sure it&#x27;s very bad thinking, but what are some solid points against such thinking?</text></item><item><author>chickenpotpie</author><text>It&#x27;s so nice to see someone who has the qualifications explain so clearly why the efforts we&#x27;re making are important. I live in Seattle and I have a hard time explaining to my mother why me working from home and avoiding public events is important right now. She just keeps stating that everyone is going to get it eventually and it won&#x27;t matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Regardless of the merits from an individually selfish standpoint, this kind of behavior would be extremely anti-social.<p>The overriding public health concern is slowing the spread as much as possible. Even if in the asymptote the same number of people are infected, spreading that burden out over a protracted time period minimizes overloading on the healthcare system.<p>If even a small percent of the population became &quot;bug-chasers&quot;, it would supercharge the rate of transmission. Especially because the incubation period is so long. The same unhygienic behavior of trying to acquire the disease, would very likely also spread the disease by the asymptomatic.<p>If you put any ethical weight on the consideration of other human beings, then the very minor plausible individuals benefits are more than outweighed by the massive social harm.</text></comment>	<story><title>Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread</title><url>https://www.flattenthecurve.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manojlds</author><text>I am sure it has crossed many people&#x27;s minds, but what if I want to get it before the medical systems are taxed? Like get it before the peak. I am sure it&#x27;s very bad thinking, but what are some solid points against such thinking?</text></item><item><author>chickenpotpie</author><text>It&#x27;s so nice to see someone who has the qualifications explain so clearly why the efforts we&#x27;re making are important. I live in Seattle and I have a hard time explaining to my mother why me working from home and avoiding public events is important right now. She just keeps stating that everyone is going to get it eventually and it won&#x27;t matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaron_m04</author><text>OK so you think the early &quot;slots&quot; are better. Maybe they are. If you manage to get in slot n anyone you infect will be forced to take n+1 (perhaps not as good) and the exponentially increasing set of people _they_ infect will be forced to take n+2, n+3, ...<p>Now there are a lot more people in those time slots all competing for the same doctors and hospital beds, etc.<p>Congratulations, you made the curve a little less flat :(</text></comment>
12,446,170	12,445,470	1	2	12,445,135	train	<story><title>Are Cities Too Complicated?</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/09/are-cities-getting-too-complicated/496556/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsunamifury</author><text>This is the fundamental premise that object oriented thinking was created to solve. You cannot understand a sufficiently advanced system from both an overview and granular view. You have to either see the overview and trust the granular objects, or specialize in one granular object and then trust your adjacent objects.<p>Its a problem written about in detail by Marcus Aurelius in Meditations when he comments on running an empire. He notes that the most difficult part is not having information in a timely fashion at scale -- you can either have timely information about a single place, or out of date information about the entire empire.<p>They key part in both is trust and responsibility. You must trust that granular objects can take responsibility for themselves. If each one requires knowledge of the entire system to function, then the weight of that will overburden any system over time.</text></comment>	<story><title>Are Cities Too Complicated?</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/09/are-cities-getting-too-complicated/496556/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wellpast</author><text>&gt; The Entanglement is a term from the computer scientist Danny Hillis, referring to a new era of technology that we find ourselves in, where no single individual can possibly understand what we ourselves have constructed. In other words, when even the experts are unable to fully grasp a system that they might have been themselves involved in the construction of, we are in a new era of incomprehensibility.<p>This is not a phenomenon of just cities or other large societal systems. In my experience, this is already true for many a single company.</text></comment>
38,190,655	38,189,667	1	3	38,188,162	train	<story><title>Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lvh</author><text>Based on my local big box store and garage installer availability, Chamberlain has a de facto monopoly. They also pulled the rug out from under customers: that behavior had been in Home Assistant since 2017, and it&#x27;s their own recent changes that caused the alleged &quot;DDoS&quot;. They say it&#x27;s to promote official products, but the company previously had a local hub that didn&#x27;t require their cloud service and discontinued it.<p>The API breakage coincides pretty well with their brand new CTO, whose objective is apparently &quot;transformation to a smart access software company&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s unclear if the CTO just doesn&#x27;t understand that &quot;DDoS&quot; generally implies malice, or if they&#x27;re intentionally using that language to blame users for using their product.<p>Good news: ratgdo, an ESP-based local solution works great. I hope the author is making a decent profit on the kits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s unclear if the CTO just doesn&#x27;t understand that &quot;DDoS&quot; generally implies malice, or if they&#x27;re intentionally using that language to blame users for using their product.<p>I&#x27;ve definitely seen &quot;DDoS&quot; used when there was no malice, such as when a developer accidentally releases a client that generates way more traffic than it was supposed to. Probably because we don&#x27;t seem to have a good term for &quot;event that at the server looks exactly like a malicious DDoS attack but was actually due to a mistake or to the server becoming unexpectedly popular&quot; :-).<p>My favorite example of whatever we are supposed to call this was John Carmack in 1997. From his 1997-12-09 .plan:<p>&gt; Cyrix has a new processor that is significantly faster at single precision floating point calculations if you don&#x27;t do any double precision calculations anywhere.<p>&gt; Quake had always kept its timebase as a double precision seconds value, but I agreed to change it over to an integer millisecond timer to allow the global setting of single precision mode.<p>&gt; We went through and changed all the uses of it that we found, but the routine that sends heartbeats to the master servers was missed.<p>&gt; So, instead of sending a packet every 300 seconds, it is sending one every 300 MILLISECONDS.<p>&gt; Oops.<p>&gt; To a server, it won&#x27;t really make a difference. A tiny extra packet three times a second is a fraction of the bandwidth of a player.<p>&gt; However, if there are thousands of network games in progress, that is a LOT of packets flooding idsoftware.com.<p>&gt; So, please download the new executable if you are going to run any servers (even servers started through the menus).</text></comment>	<story><title>Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lvh</author><text>Based on my local big box store and garage installer availability, Chamberlain has a de facto monopoly. They also pulled the rug out from under customers: that behavior had been in Home Assistant since 2017, and it&#x27;s their own recent changes that caused the alleged &quot;DDoS&quot;. They say it&#x27;s to promote official products, but the company previously had a local hub that didn&#x27;t require their cloud service and discontinued it.<p>The API breakage coincides pretty well with their brand new CTO, whose objective is apparently &quot;transformation to a smart access software company&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s unclear if the CTO just doesn&#x27;t understand that &quot;DDoS&quot; generally implies malice, or if they&#x27;re intentionally using that language to blame users for using their product.<p>Good news: ratgdo, an ESP-based local solution works great. I hope the author is making a decent profit on the kits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanklazard</author><text>That project looks great! Now the issue is finding a Chamberlain or Liftmaster opener without myQ built-in. Or maybe I just don’t have to activate it.</text></comment>
17,246,722	17,246,879	1	3	17,245,897	train	<story><title>Police broke into Chelsea Manning’s home with guns drawn in a “Wellness Check”</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/chelsea-manning-video-twitter-police-mental-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slfnflctd</author><text>&gt; &quot;The problem, mental health experts say, is that police should not be the ones to check on suicidal people in the first place.&quot;<p>This is a very uninformed statement. For 911 and&#x2F;or police calls, there is an extensively well-established (to put it mildly) precedent that the safety of an area must be secured by police before medical personnel are even allowed on scene. There are very good reasons for this-- you don&#x27;t want to have your primary emergency medical responders taken out by a delusional shooter when other emergencies <i>will</i> be coming up soon that require them, all too often for matters of life &amp; death.<p>&gt; &quot; &#x27;The moral of this story is don’t call the cops,&#x27; Cassandra said. “If you know someone who is having a mental health crisis, call a friend, a trusted neighbor, or someone close by who can safely intervene. Keep the number to a volunteer emergency medical service in your city or neighborhood that can be called directly&quot;<p>This I agree with. For people familiar with the situation and person&#x2F;people involved (if they exist), a much more appropriate response can be conducted. There are numerous accounts of these situations leading to the arrest of the individual in crisis, which of course can make things much, much worse for them. I know someone it happened to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;This is a very uninformed statement. For 911 and&#x2F;or police calls, there is an extensively well-established (to put it mildly) precedent that the safety of an area must be secured by police before medical personnel are even allowed on scene.</i><p>Here in the UK, the police would not routinely attend an ambulance call-out for someone experiencing suicidal thoughts unless there was specific intelligence to suggest that the patient might present a credible threat to an ambulance crew. Most British police officers are not permitted to carry firearms; armed officers would only be deployed to a mental health crisis if there was specific intelligence to suggest that the patient was armed and posed an immediate threat to life. All armed officers have specialist training, including crisis management and conflict de-escalation.<p>In 2017, six people were fatally shot by police in England and Wales. Since 1990, the average number of fatal police shootings was 2.46 per year.<p>Another way is possible.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inquest.org.uk&#x2F;deaths-in-police-custody" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inquest.org.uk&#x2F;deaths-in-police-custody</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Police broke into Chelsea Manning’s home with guns drawn in a “Wellness Check”</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/chelsea-manning-video-twitter-police-mental-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slfnflctd</author><text>&gt; &quot;The problem, mental health experts say, is that police should not be the ones to check on suicidal people in the first place.&quot;<p>This is a very uninformed statement. For 911 and&#x2F;or police calls, there is an extensively well-established (to put it mildly) precedent that the safety of an area must be secured by police before medical personnel are even allowed on scene. There are very good reasons for this-- you don&#x27;t want to have your primary emergency medical responders taken out by a delusional shooter when other emergencies <i>will</i> be coming up soon that require them, all too often for matters of life &amp; death.<p>&gt; &quot; &#x27;The moral of this story is don’t call the cops,&#x27; Cassandra said. “If you know someone who is having a mental health crisis, call a friend, a trusted neighbor, or someone close by who can safely intervene. Keep the number to a volunteer emergency medical service in your city or neighborhood that can be called directly&quot;<p>This I agree with. For people familiar with the situation and person&#x2F;people involved (if they exist), a much more appropriate response can be conducted. There are numerous accounts of these situations leading to the arrest of the individual in crisis, which of course can make things much, much worse for them. I know someone it happened to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>empath75</author><text>Leaning on precedent and &#x27;policy&#x27; to justify murderous behavior on the part of police is one of the more infuriating trends.<p>If your policies and precedent end with innocent people dying, then they need to be changed.</text></comment>
36,271,122	36,270,795	1	3	36,268,907	train	<story><title>French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/french-tax-officials-use-ai-to-spot-20000-undeclared-pools</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Solvency</author><text>Imagine an AI that instead finds potential infrastructure problems riddled across the country. Buildings, bridges, roads, you name it. Then the AI priorities them into a queue and generates cost&#x2F;resource estimates for repairs. Thereby helping the government improve the livelihood of its constituents!<p>Or wait, imagine if the AI were finding all the rivers and lakes that corporations are dumping trash, chemicals, and other waste products into!<p>Right? Right? Surely they&#x27;d do that with this great technology!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kwanbix</author><text>Imagine an AI that instead can find corrupt politicians, judges, and business men! That would be something!</text></comment>	<story><title>French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/french-tax-officials-use-ai-to-spot-20000-undeclared-pools</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Solvency</author><text>Imagine an AI that instead finds potential infrastructure problems riddled across the country. Buildings, bridges, roads, you name it. Then the AI priorities them into a queue and generates cost&#x2F;resource estimates for repairs. Thereby helping the government improve the livelihood of its constituents!<p>Or wait, imagine if the AI were finding all the rivers and lakes that corporations are dumping trash, chemicals, and other waste products into!<p>Right? Right? Surely they&#x27;d do that with this great technology!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkt</author><text>These are all things the state used to do without AI - people did it perfectly well. Regrettably it isn&#x27;t a matter of technology that prevents this sort of thing. It is the hollowing out of the public sphere, the shrinking of state workforces, and the diminishing horizons of what is considered to be &#x27;feasible&#x27; - where feasibility is often determined by consultants.</text></comment>
19,978,741	19,978,475	1	2	19,978,200	train	<story><title>Go is Google's language, not ours</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGooglesLanguage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pa7ch</author><text>Many like Go because it is an opinionated language. I&#x27;m not sure that a &#x27;community&#x27; run language will create something like that because there are too many opinions. Many claim to represent the community, but not the community that doesn&#x27;t share their opinion. Without clear leaders I fear technical direction and taste will be about politics which seems more uncertain&#x2F;risky.<p>I like that there is a tight cohesive group in control over Go and that they are largely the original designers. I might be more interested in alternative government structures and Google having too much control only if those original authors all stepped down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rob74</author><text>My thoughts exactly! It&#x27;s important to have a community and to work with it, but, especially for a programming language, there has to be a clear concept of which features should be implemented and which not - just accepting community contributions for the sake of making the community feel good would be the wrong way. Otherwise you end up with a feature monster like innumerable other programming languages, and that&#x27;s exactly what Go doesn&#x27;t want to be.</text></comment>	<story><title>Go is Google's language, not ours</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGooglesLanguage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pa7ch</author><text>Many like Go because it is an opinionated language. I&#x27;m not sure that a &#x27;community&#x27; run language will create something like that because there are too many opinions. Many claim to represent the community, but not the community that doesn&#x27;t share their opinion. Without clear leaders I fear technical direction and taste will be about politics which seems more uncertain&#x2F;risky.<p>I like that there is a tight cohesive group in control over Go and that they are largely the original designers. I might be more interested in alternative government structures and Google having too much control only if those original authors all stepped down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theshrike79</author><text>In my opinion the way they are handling adding Generics to Go is proof of this model working.<p>They are actually trying to pick the implementation that solves real world issues, not just trying to tick [x] Generics in the Go spec sheet.</text></comment>
21,731,114	21,731,278	1	3	21,729,451	train	<story><title>Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-management-shuffle-points-to-retreat-from-alphabet-experiment-11575579677</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text><i>&gt; innovation has slowed to a crawl</i><p>This is so typical of Apple criticism. They did do well with the iPhone and Mac that now any new innovations seem boring in comparison. It’s wrong.<p>The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more than an “accessory.” It’s a new platform, new OS variant, etc. It’s dominating smart watches.<p>The AirPods are pretty innovative in terms of the fine grained details that have made them super successful.<p>Latest OS builds included evidence of stereoscopic glasses in the pipeline.<p>Remember Apple isn’t always the first with stuff, even smartphones. Their innovations are more around key details and hardware&#x2F;software integration that makes the whole system work like magic.</text></item><item><author>mantap</author><text>That seems way <i>more</i> idealistic somehow. More likely, with a more standard corporate governance Google will begin to rot from within. Apple certainly made more profits under Cook than Jobs, but innovation has slowed to a crawl and he has failed to diversify Apple away from having one product (instead he just added a bunch of accessory products and services). The last thing Google needs is to double down on ads, it takes 2 minutes to block them.</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>As usual, I like Matt Levine&#x27;s take. [1]<p>Page and Brin ran Alphabet as a highly funded system of moonshot programs with near-infinite runway to make profits, which is unusual or unique. Basically it only worked that way because Page and Brin were idealistic visionary gazillionaires who were bored of thinking about the somewhat dirty business of selling targetted ads. With a more standard corporate governance under a common CEO with the google ad business, the expectation is a more standard corporate focus on making profits from its ventures in some defined timeline.<p>But read Levine&#x27;s version; it has detail and humor and insight I can&#x27;t convey in a summary!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-12-04&#x2F;alphabet-is-google-again" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-12-04&#x2F;alphab...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OnlineGladiator</author><text>&gt; The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more than an “accessory.” It’s a new platform, new OS variant, etc. It’s dominating smart watches.<p>The Apple Watch is literally designed to be an accessory to the iPhone - you can&#x27;t use most of its features without an iPhone. I wanted one for my Android phone but tough shit for me.<p>If you like it as a product that&#x27;s fine, but it is absolutely an accessory to an iPhone because you can barely use it without one.</text></comment>	<story><title>Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-management-shuffle-points-to-retreat-from-alphabet-experiment-11575579677</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text><i>&gt; innovation has slowed to a crawl</i><p>This is so typical of Apple criticism. They did do well with the iPhone and Mac that now any new innovations seem boring in comparison. It’s wrong.<p>The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more than an “accessory.” It’s a new platform, new OS variant, etc. It’s dominating smart watches.<p>The AirPods are pretty innovative in terms of the fine grained details that have made them super successful.<p>Latest OS builds included evidence of stereoscopic glasses in the pipeline.<p>Remember Apple isn’t always the first with stuff, even smartphones. Their innovations are more around key details and hardware&#x2F;software integration that makes the whole system work like magic.</text></item><item><author>mantap</author><text>That seems way <i>more</i> idealistic somehow. More likely, with a more standard corporate governance Google will begin to rot from within. Apple certainly made more profits under Cook than Jobs, but innovation has slowed to a crawl and he has failed to diversify Apple away from having one product (instead he just added a bunch of accessory products and services). The last thing Google needs is to double down on ads, it takes 2 minutes to block them.</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>As usual, I like Matt Levine&#x27;s take. [1]<p>Page and Brin ran Alphabet as a highly funded system of moonshot programs with near-infinite runway to make profits, which is unusual or unique. Basically it only worked that way because Page and Brin were idealistic visionary gazillionaires who were bored of thinking about the somewhat dirty business of selling targetted ads. With a more standard corporate governance under a common CEO with the google ad business, the expectation is a more standard corporate focus on making profits from its ventures in some defined timeline.<p>But read Levine&#x27;s version; it has detail and humor and insight I can&#x27;t convey in a summary!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-12-04&#x2F;alphabet-is-google-again" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-12-04&#x2F;alphab...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nvrspyx</author><text>I won’t speak to “innovation” because of how subjective that is. However, the quality has taken a serious downturn. MBP keyboard issues, MBP speaker crackling issues since 2016, iOS 13 bugginess (random FaceID locks, lock screen refusing to turn on, phone shut offs in the middle of the night, alarms randomly not going off, bottom “gesture pill” disappearing on the lock screen making you unable to swipe up to unlock your phone requiring a reset, apps killed in the background after just a few minutes, etc etc etc), macOS bugginess with Catalina, SwiftUI mess, iCloud corrupting files, and much more.<p>I’m at a point where I’m surprisingly preferring Windows and Linux for my desktop work. I just wish there was a better alternative in the mobile space than Android, which I feel is in an even worse state than iOS.</text></comment>
22,919,076	22,918,978	1	3	22,918,603	train	<story><title>Covid-19 Fast Grants recipients</title><url>https://fastgrants.org/#recipients</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dannykwells</author><text>I&#x27;m part of one of these! Very exciting. Overall fastgrants is a great organization. 48 hour turnaround is incredible and could be paradigm shifting for getting science done. Thanks pc and everyone else for the chance to get some science done!</text></comment>	<story><title>Covid-19 Fast Grants recipients</title><url>https://fastgrants.org/#recipients</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elric</author><text>This is a great initiative, and it&#x27;s heart warming to see that the list is getting quite long. Most of these go far beyond my level of understanding, so I&#x27;m guessing I&#x27;m not the target audience. Nevertheless, it would be great if they could a one or two line elevator pitch-style &quot;why this is important&quot; section to each recipient&#x27;s blurb.</text></comment>
37,174,428	37,174,519	1	2	37,171,955	train	<story><title>Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/microsoft-ai-suggests-food-bank-as-a-cannot-miss-tourist-spot-in-canada/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwthat1</author><text>Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;k5eL_al_m7Q" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;k5eL_al_m7Q</a><p>He put 99 smart phones in a wagon with all of them running Google maps in drive mode. Google interpreted this as a traffic jam, and made other cars avoid the area.</text></comment>	<story><title>Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/microsoft-ai-suggests-food-bank-as-a-cannot-miss-tourist-spot-in-canada/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwthat1</author><text>Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wishfish</author><text>During the solar eclipse of 2017, I drove to a small town in eastern Nebraska. The town had a 10k race that day. There were about 3 cars, including mine, on this stretch of road. Stop-and-going inbetween the runners. While my wife drove, I watched Google Maps. It accurately put a short red line on our part of the road. Amused me though that it only took 3 cars to accomplish that.</text></comment>
24,769,952	24,767,406	1	3	24,762,435	train	<story><title>Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky actions at a distance'</title><url>https://sciencex.com/news/2020-10-einstein-opportunity-spooky-actions-distance.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Toutouxc</author><text>The way I understand it, this is exactly the simplified (and incorrect) explanation.<p>Say SOMEONE ELSE puts the marbles in two envelopes and sends them to you and your friend in Australia. (it&#x27;s someone else because we don&#x27;t actually create the entangled particles, we just &quot;get&quot; them)<p>The marbles being red and blue (or both red or both blue, depending on what you&#x27;re measuring) from the beginning would be a LOCAL hidden variable. It&#x27;s local because it&#x27;s been predetermined at the moment of creation and the marbles carry the property on themselves and it&#x27;s hidden because you don&#x27;t know how&#x2F;why the person putting the marbles in those envelopes decided those colors and you can&#x27;t see them until you open the envelope (measure the particle).<p>This way if you don&#x27;t open your envelope, your friend&#x27;s envelope contains a marble that&#x27;s 50&#x2F;50 red or blue and the color will be the predetermined one no matter what you do with your marble at home. So whatever decides the marble&#x27;s color has nothing to do with your marble, it&#x27;s local to the friend&#x27;s one.<p>The actual measurements work differently. It&#x27;s been experimentally proven many times that at the moment you look at your marble, the other marble&#x27;s 50&#x2F;50 probability of being red and blue shifts substantially to, for example 75&#x2F;25. And that&#x27;s without it having any way of knowing that you&#x27;ve seen your marble. So there are hidden variables that we don&#x27;t understand, but they&#x27;re not local. They somehow affect both marbles.<p>In real life there aren&#x27;t only two colors and the probabilities aren&#x27;t those nice numbers, but you get the principle.</text></item><item><author>andomar</author><text>Say you put a red marble and a blue marble in two envelopes. You randomly post one envelope to Australia. One year later, you open the other envelope. You now know the color of the marble in Australia.<p>What&#x27;s the difference between this and quantum entanglement?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnoise</author><text>&gt; The actual measurements work differently. It&#x27;s been experimentally proven many times that at the moment you look at your marble, the other marble&#x27;s 50&#x2F;50 probability of being red and blue shifts substantially to, for example 75&#x2F;25. And that&#x27;s without it having any way of knowing that you&#x27;ve seen your marble. So there are hidden variables that we don&#x27;t understand, but they&#x27;re not local. They somehow affect both marbles.<p>This is completely incorrect, to the point where what you were trying to correct was actually more accurate, though incomplete.<p>The usual setup is that for any given axis, each person always measures 50:50. Measuring your own doesn&#x27;t change the odds of the other.<p>Knowing the _results_ of your own does. For the same axis, the correlation is exact. For axes with an angle theta between them, we get a correlation of R ~ cos(theta&#x2F;2).<p>The upshot is that there is no underlying (classical) probability distribution that can give rise to this that can explain things for all measurement axes. This is sometimes glossed as &quot;correlation without correlata&quot;.</text></comment>	<story><title>Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky actions at a distance'</title><url>https://sciencex.com/news/2020-10-einstein-opportunity-spooky-actions-distance.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Toutouxc</author><text>The way I understand it, this is exactly the simplified (and incorrect) explanation.<p>Say SOMEONE ELSE puts the marbles in two envelopes and sends them to you and your friend in Australia. (it&#x27;s someone else because we don&#x27;t actually create the entangled particles, we just &quot;get&quot; them)<p>The marbles being red and blue (or both red or both blue, depending on what you&#x27;re measuring) from the beginning would be a LOCAL hidden variable. It&#x27;s local because it&#x27;s been predetermined at the moment of creation and the marbles carry the property on themselves and it&#x27;s hidden because you don&#x27;t know how&#x2F;why the person putting the marbles in those envelopes decided those colors and you can&#x27;t see them until you open the envelope (measure the particle).<p>This way if you don&#x27;t open your envelope, your friend&#x27;s envelope contains a marble that&#x27;s 50&#x2F;50 red or blue and the color will be the predetermined one no matter what you do with your marble at home. So whatever decides the marble&#x27;s color has nothing to do with your marble, it&#x27;s local to the friend&#x27;s one.<p>The actual measurements work differently. It&#x27;s been experimentally proven many times that at the moment you look at your marble, the other marble&#x27;s 50&#x2F;50 probability of being red and blue shifts substantially to, for example 75&#x2F;25. And that&#x27;s without it having any way of knowing that you&#x27;ve seen your marble. So there are hidden variables that we don&#x27;t understand, but they&#x27;re not local. They somehow affect both marbles.<p>In real life there aren&#x27;t only two colors and the probabilities aren&#x27;t those nice numbers, but you get the principle.</text></item><item><author>andomar</author><text>Say you put a red marble and a blue marble in two envelopes. You randomly post one envelope to Australia. One year later, you open the other envelope. You now know the color of the marble in Australia.<p>What&#x27;s the difference between this and quantum entanglement?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayd16</author><text>This explanation seems like it can&#x27;t be correct and must be a simplification as well. If this was measurable in a way that&#x27;s described here you&#x27;d be able to transmit information.<p>I always imagined the two &quot;marbles&quot; as possibly being two similar but differing clocks instead. The clocks will align more or less often depending on how similarly they&#x27;re set and how fast each run. With this analogy you can come up with any distribution that fits your fancy.<p>Its probably a silly analogy but it lets me cling my notions of no spooky action.</text></comment>
10,563,218	10,563,263	1	3	10,562,679	train	<story><title>State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/13/shootings-reported-in-eastern-paris-live</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aikah</author><text>French and living in Paris here. I&#x27;m at home fortunately but I live nearby the places in the eastern side of Paris that were attacked.<p>Don&#x27;t know what to say , just that I hope everybody and their families are safe.<p>This is hard, a very hard hit on my country. Vive la France.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmastrac</author><text>This is such a terrible event. Our hearts in Canada go out to you. Be safe.</text></comment>	<story><title>State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/13/shootings-reported-in-eastern-paris-live</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aikah</author><text>French and living in Paris here. I&#x27;m at home fortunately but I live nearby the places in the eastern side of Paris that were attacked.<p>Don&#x27;t know what to say , just that I hope everybody and their families are safe.<p>This is hard, a very hard hit on my country. Vive la France.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>Vive la France, my friend!</text></comment>
40,041,014	40,040,587	1	3	40,040,100	train	<story><title>Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days</title><url>https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-cybertruck-production-halted-ac750c17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>M2Ys4U</author><text>Did anyone actually believe that any part of the Cybertruck was <i>high</i> quality?<p>From my POV outside of the Musk cult of personality it was painfully obvious that the thing was a dud from day one.</text></item><item><author>jprete</author><text>One of the great tragedies of the power of modern logistics - and technology, frankly - is that it&#x27;s ever-easier to disguise low-quality items behind a veneer of shiny chrome.</text></item><item><author>kubectl_h</author><text>So this is a chintzy clip on pedal cover that serves to give an aesthetic illusion that the pedal is made of stainless steel?<p>The Cybertruck is doomed. I&#x27;ll be surprised if it still being made in 3 years.</text></item><item><author>goodoldneon</author><text>Wonder if this is the reason: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;garageklub&#x2F;status&#x2F;1779571445930324456" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;garageklub&#x2F;status&#x2F;1779571445930324456</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjk2</author><text>Well the surface oxides are the finest oxides of any vehicle, possibly behind Datsun.</text></comment>	<story><title>Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days</title><url>https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-cybertruck-production-halted-ac750c17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>M2Ys4U</author><text>Did anyone actually believe that any part of the Cybertruck was <i>high</i> quality?<p>From my POV outside of the Musk cult of personality it was painfully obvious that the thing was a dud from day one.</text></item><item><author>jprete</author><text>One of the great tragedies of the power of modern logistics - and technology, frankly - is that it&#x27;s ever-easier to disguise low-quality items behind a veneer of shiny chrome.</text></item><item><author>kubectl_h</author><text>So this is a chintzy clip on pedal cover that serves to give an aesthetic illusion that the pedal is made of stainless steel?<p>The Cybertruck is doomed. I&#x27;ll be surprised if it still being made in 3 years.</text></item><item><author>goodoldneon</author><text>Wonder if this is the reason: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;garageklub&#x2F;status&#x2F;1779571445930324456" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;garageklub&#x2F;status&#x2F;1779571445930324456</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nasrudith</author><text>The promise of the truck was as is typical more &#x27;rugged&#x27; than &#x27;high quality&#x27;. I never considered myself part of the target market, so my reaction was more &#x27;bold choice, lets see if this pans out&#x27; unironically.</text></comment>
21,436,875	21,436,362	1	3	21,436,114	train	<story><title>Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat</title><url>https://www.ccn.com/billionaire-ray-dalio-world-economy-threat-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon1m0us</author><text>&gt;He sees “transferring money to people who are unproductive” [universal basic income, UBI] as less optimal than finding a way for them to be productive.<p>Why can&#x27;t we let the individual find a way to make themselves productive? And, why do they <i>need</i> to be productive? Some of my best times in life are watching and playing games with my friends. Socializing. Loving people.<p>I, and most people I know, can look around and see things that need to be done. If our lives aren&#x27;t so focused on paying the bills all the time, we can relax a bit and be creative.<p>I remember I used to get <i>great</i> school lunches. I knew the cafeteria staff by name and they knew me because I went back for seconds and thirds and fourths... skinny as a bean pole. Lunches were made fresh every day. The staff were there at 6am cooking for the kids. Fresh bread. I used to love watching that dough bounce around in the industrial mixer. It was bigger than I was.<p>A decade after I was out of school, I saw one of the ladies and asked how the school lunches were. She said they don&#x27;t get to make them anymore. The menus are decided in Washington DC now and they have very little control over what is cooked or eaten. Kids don&#x27;t come back for seconds and thirds and fourths anymore.<p>The federal government took local control away from the schools and homogenized everything and basically ruined it from what I remember.<p>Why do we think the federal government knows better how to manage our day to day lives than we do ourselves? Get out of our kitchens and homes.<p>The government doesn&#x27;t need to find a way for me to be productive. People who need to be productive to keep their sanity will find a way. They&#x27;ll clean their bedrooms, volunteer in their communities. They won&#x27;t be judged by what their job is, but rather, what they do for themselves and the people around them.<p>The need to grind out a day at the office or the shipyard or in the truck hauling cargo saps a person&#x27;s freewill.<p>We need more freewill in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>&gt;”The need to grind out a day at the office or the shipyard or in the truck hauling cargo saps a person&#x27;s freewill.”<p>I’m not sure of that.<p>Couple of things. I’ve worked with working class people. They may complain about the job or the boss, but if they didn’t do one of those jobs, they’d feel less empowered.<p>I’ve heard people essentially say I don’t want to be on welfare but I can’t get a job. So they&#x27;d prefer a job to being on the dole.<p>Two, people with lots of time and nothing to do tend to just while away time, either in the form of any kind of entertainment or some times in counter productive activities. Doing “make-work” actually gives people <i>some</i> purpose.<p>I’m saying UBI will bring other unintended problems. I think UBI could be like people who have dogs and give them all they need [like UBI] but don’t take them out for walks. Work, any kind of work is like taking the dog out for a walk.</text></comment>	<story><title>Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat</title><url>https://www.ccn.com/billionaire-ray-dalio-world-economy-threat-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon1m0us</author><text>&gt;He sees “transferring money to people who are unproductive” [universal basic income, UBI] as less optimal than finding a way for them to be productive.<p>Why can&#x27;t we let the individual find a way to make themselves productive? And, why do they <i>need</i> to be productive? Some of my best times in life are watching and playing games with my friends. Socializing. Loving people.<p>I, and most people I know, can look around and see things that need to be done. If our lives aren&#x27;t so focused on paying the bills all the time, we can relax a bit and be creative.<p>I remember I used to get <i>great</i> school lunches. I knew the cafeteria staff by name and they knew me because I went back for seconds and thirds and fourths... skinny as a bean pole. Lunches were made fresh every day. The staff were there at 6am cooking for the kids. Fresh bread. I used to love watching that dough bounce around in the industrial mixer. It was bigger than I was.<p>A decade after I was out of school, I saw one of the ladies and asked how the school lunches were. She said they don&#x27;t get to make them anymore. The menus are decided in Washington DC now and they have very little control over what is cooked or eaten. Kids don&#x27;t come back for seconds and thirds and fourths anymore.<p>The federal government took local control away from the schools and homogenized everything and basically ruined it from what I remember.<p>Why do we think the federal government knows better how to manage our day to day lives than we do ourselves? Get out of our kitchens and homes.<p>The government doesn&#x27;t need to find a way for me to be productive. People who need to be productive to keep their sanity will find a way. They&#x27;ll clean their bedrooms, volunteer in their communities. They won&#x27;t be judged by what their job is, but rather, what they do for themselves and the people around them.<p>The need to grind out a day at the office or the shipyard or in the truck hauling cargo saps a person&#x27;s freewill.<p>We need more freewill in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tarr11</author><text>&gt; Despite the sharp wrangling that the National School Lunch Program often stirs up, the meals coming out of it are more nutritious — and a lot more adventurous — than they were 10 years ago. “It absolutely is a brighter day for school foods,” says Bettina Elias Siegel, a lawyer turned advocate and author of the book “Kid Food.”<p>&gt; A major federal study recently came to much the same conclusion, finding that school lunches have improved significantly since implementation of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. And the schools with the healthiest menus have the greatest rates of student participation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2019&#x2F;food&#x2F;school-lunches-in-america&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2019&#x2F;food&#x2F;school-lun...</a></text></comment>
16,803,206	16,803,192	1	3	16,802,525	train	<story><title>Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-quitting-whatsapp-instagram-cambridge-analytica-report-2018-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leggomylibro</author><text>This is sort of surprising information, from my view.<p>The information about their business model and data practices which people seem to be so surprised by was&#x2F;is common knowledge among people who work with these technology stacks. Going to work for Facebook seemed like it would have meant supporting and abetting those practices; they were very clear about what they were doing, and the roles were in no way ambiguous.<p>The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, more than ethical or moral quandaries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>Exactly.<p>And I doubt it&#x27;s a mass exodus either.<p>If you read &quot;Surely you&#x27;re joking Mr Feynman&quot;, the author clearly states that when making the bomb, they had a lot of fun. Lots of budgets. Only smart people. Working on the coolest projects. He even plays with the censorship and security practices.<p>They never really thought too hard about the ethic part of it: they need to end the war, and that&#x27;s it. They really said &quot;oh we fucked up&quot; once the bomb exploded.<p>And we are talking about brilliant minds with very positive personalities.<p>While skilled, I doubt than more than a small fraction of FB work force is close to Feynman&#x27;s IQ. And they have a very arrogant culture. Somehow I doubt FB is going to bleed talent anytime soon.</text></comment>	<story><title>Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-quitting-whatsapp-instagram-cambridge-analytica-report-2018-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leggomylibro</author><text>This is sort of surprising information, from my view.<p>The information about their business model and data practices which people seem to be so surprised by was&#x2F;is common knowledge among people who work with these technology stacks. Going to work for Facebook seemed like it would have meant supporting and abetting those practices; they were very clear about what they were doing, and the roles were in no way ambiguous.<p>The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, more than ethical or moral quandaries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hayksaakian</author><text>&gt; The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, more than ethical or moral quandaries.<p>I think you hit the nail on the head. I doubt it has to do with moral qualms as employees. More to do with your friends and family giving you crap for working at a company that&#x27;s getting bad press.</text></comment>
24,645,973	24,645,743	1	2	24,643,830	train	<story><title>Say goodbye to hold music</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/hold-for-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>So why can&#x27;t we simply refuse to pay? We should be able to just cancel the payment and that should be the end of it. They&#x27;ll cancel the service for us when they see we didn&#x27;t pay for it. No user interaction necessary.</text></item><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>The whole point of not allowing you to cancel the account is twofold:<p>1. To make it difficult and frustrating to cancel by wasting the user&#x27;s time. 2. To allow the company the opportunity to haggle the price of the subscription down, convince you not to cancel, or worse, upsell you on other services.<p>I can totally foresee some kind of Google Duplex detection in the future intended specifically to ensure that they&#x27;re wasting the time of a human, not a pile of linear algebra in a Google datacenter. Or perhaps they play legal games with two-party consent states to try and find a way to sue Google into not offering the service.</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>Does anyone else find this to be a pretty hilarious example of a tech arms race? It solves a real problem, assuming it works, but what a strange, rube-goldberg-esque use of technology.<p>Service Provider buys voice recognition software and sets up complex maze of phone tree options to drive users away from the human support agents (even though the users can&#x27;t solve their problem without human intervention - if you don&#x27;t want to pay for enough support agents for your call volume, wouldn&#x27;t it just be simpler to let me cancel my damn account online??).<p>Now user can deploy their own speech synthesis bot to wait on hold, with what is presumably a complex system of AI decisionmaking to be able to navigate the maze and find a human support agent to connect you with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbcurtis</author><text>This seems like a great credit card benefit. CC&#x27;s offer all sorts of &quot;cash back&quot;, &quot;insured against loss&#x2F;damage&quot;, &quot;miles&quot;, and other things to attract customers. How about a &quot;no hassle cancellations service&quot;. How about: &quot;Switch your monthly Comcast bill to pay through us, and cancel any time with one quick call or do it online!&quot; CC company gets a nice stream of monthly charges out of it.</text></comment>	<story><title>Say goodbye to hold music</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/hold-for-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>So why can&#x27;t we simply refuse to pay? We should be able to just cancel the payment and that should be the end of it. They&#x27;ll cancel the service for us when they see we didn&#x27;t pay for it. No user interaction necessary.</text></item><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>The whole point of not allowing you to cancel the account is twofold:<p>1. To make it difficult and frustrating to cancel by wasting the user&#x27;s time. 2. To allow the company the opportunity to haggle the price of the subscription down, convince you not to cancel, or worse, upsell you on other services.<p>I can totally foresee some kind of Google Duplex detection in the future intended specifically to ensure that they&#x27;re wasting the time of a human, not a pile of linear algebra in a Google datacenter. Or perhaps they play legal games with two-party consent states to try and find a way to sue Google into not offering the service.</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>Does anyone else find this to be a pretty hilarious example of a tech arms race? It solves a real problem, assuming it works, but what a strange, rube-goldberg-esque use of technology.<p>Service Provider buys voice recognition software and sets up complex maze of phone tree options to drive users away from the human support agents (even though the users can&#x27;t solve their problem without human intervention - if you don&#x27;t want to pay for enough support agents for your call volume, wouldn&#x27;t it just be simpler to let me cancel my damn account online??).<p>Now user can deploy their own speech synthesis bot to wait on hold, with what is presumably a complex system of AI decisionmaking to be able to navigate the maze and find a human support agent to connect you with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>In most cases you can. If you&#x27;ve taken reasonable steps to cancel in good faith and the merchant is uncooperative then canceling the payment is the logical next step.<p>They can still send your account to collections or ding your credit record, but you can still refuse to pay; ultimately the only way they legally force you to pay is by going through the courts system but I expect that if you have documentation of your (unsuccessful) efforts to cancel the case should be in your favor (which is why this will never reach the courts in the first place).</text></comment>
26,647,827	26,646,471	1	2	26,644,216	train	<story><title>Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments</title><url>https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2021/03/30/apple-cooperation-with-authoritarian-governments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacemanmatt</author><text>&gt; Apple is not a government<p>It is a de facto government with assets <i>and</i> income that dwarf most U.S. states, as well as most foreign countries and many multinational companies.<p>Calling their legal compliance obedient is a cruel disservice to the facts of their constant political maneuvering.</text></item><item><author>ismaildonmez</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to pick on Apple, when you don&#x27;t know the history of these political issues. Not picking on Red Hat, but because I know this from the first hand it was 18 years ago that they removed the Taiwanese flag from KDE3 control center: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redhat-list.redhat.narkive.com&#x2F;b3p8HQaa&#x2F;bug-70235" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redhat-list.redhat.narkive.com&#x2F;b3p8HQaa&#x2F;bug-70235</a><p>Apple is not a government, it&#x27;s a business. They&#x27;ll either have to obey the local laws or they&#x27;ll lose business.<p>While we are here, checkout how Google Maps handles these issues: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;google-maps-political-borders&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;google-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jolux</author><text>Corporations are not “de facto” governments just because they’re large and profitable. They may have governance structure within themselves, but they don’t have a monopoly on the use of force anywhere, they don’t tax, and they’re not sovereign. Moreover, what de jure government do they functionally supersede in the places where they’re the de facto government? This is a tortured argument.</text></comment>	<story><title>Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments</title><url>https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2021/03/30/apple-cooperation-with-authoritarian-governments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacemanmatt</author><text>&gt; Apple is not a government<p>It is a de facto government with assets <i>and</i> income that dwarf most U.S. states, as well as most foreign countries and many multinational companies.<p>Calling their legal compliance obedient is a cruel disservice to the facts of their constant political maneuvering.</text></item><item><author>ismaildonmez</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to pick on Apple, when you don&#x27;t know the history of these political issues. Not picking on Red Hat, but because I know this from the first hand it was 18 years ago that they removed the Taiwanese flag from KDE3 control center: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redhat-list.redhat.narkive.com&#x2F;b3p8HQaa&#x2F;bug-70235" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redhat-list.redhat.narkive.com&#x2F;b3p8HQaa&#x2F;bug-70235</a><p>Apple is not a government, it&#x27;s a business. They&#x27;ll either have to obey the local laws or they&#x27;ll lose business.<p>While we are here, checkout how Google Maps handles these issues: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;google-maps-political-borders&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;google-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tamasnet</author><text>&gt; It is a de facto government<p>Say you&#x27;re a US citizen. You can choose not to buy an Apple product. You cannot chose to not pay your taxes.<p>This is just one of many distinctions between a government and a corporation.</text></comment>
13,260,056	13,258,138	1	3	13,258,063	train	<story><title>The little book about OS development</title><url>http://littleosbook.github.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samwilliams</author><text>As someone that has just spent the last 27 months building an OS from scratch in a University research environment (an OS that can survive catastrophic hardware and software failure [0]), I am very impressed with the quality of this document. I only wish I had found it previously!<p>OS dev can be great fun and gives you a level of understanding about how computers actually work that is hard to gain from other sources. I have frequently found myself using the knowledge I gained from building the OS when working on other projects. It has been particularly useful when it comes to understanding performance issues. I would highly recommend it to anyone that is even remotely interested.<p>Other superb resources to help you get started include the OSdev wiki[1], along with this document[2] from the University of Birmingham, UK.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hydros-project.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hydros-project.org</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.bham.ac.uk&#x2F;~exr&#x2F;lectures&#x2F;opsys&#x2F;10_11&#x2F;lectures&#x2F;os-dev.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.bham.ac.uk&#x2F;~exr&#x2F;lectures&#x2F;opsys&#x2F;10_11&#x2F;lectures...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>The little book about OS development</title><url>http://littleosbook.github.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DAllison</author><text>Original link [pdf]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littleosbook.github.io&#x2F;book.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littleosbook.github.io&#x2F;book.pdf</a><p>HTML version: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littleosbook.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littleosbook.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;littleosbook&#x2F;littleosbook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;littleosbook&#x2F;littleosbook</a><p>2015 Discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8866912" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8866912</a><p>reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;duplicates&#x2F;2rx3wq&#x2F;the_little_book_about_os_development&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;duplicates&#x2F;2rx3wq&#x2F;the_l...</a></text></comment>
28,717,290	28,717,421	1	2	28,715,218	train	<story><title>Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement</title><url>https://tipsnguts.medium.com/why-senior-developers-are-leading-the-great-resignation-movement-37b93ab9a634</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DougBTX</author><text>&gt; This is not to say Agile itself is bad - it takes effort and skill to use it effectively but managers seem to be taking the easy way out to create a factory line kind of setup where random requirements keep getting thrown and every two weeks you are supposed to roll out _a_ solution.<p>Scrum has outmarketed &quot;Agile&quot;, and swallowed it up wholesale. Agile was about putting people before process, Scrum is all process, no-wonder the people feel downtrodden.</text></item><item><author>blinkingled</author><text>&gt; Supervisory managers brandishing Agile + endless meetings<p>Personally for me - this led to burnout and I have quit last two jobs that used Agile faster than I have the 2 before that didn&#x27;t use Agile. Agile is very clearly being misused to turn developers into factory line workers whose productivity can be measured by number of commits, reviews and docs they put out every two weeks. And the meetings it takes to do Sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, demos, retros are really killing any possibility of developers having a flow of uninterrupted time to do what they need to.<p>And the burnout article linked in the OP makes a great point about inputs to development teams not being measured. At some places developers are left to spec out stories and others have Architects &#x2F; Tech Leads do it - in either case that in itself is a large chunk of work that takes up huge amount of time that no one is rewarded for in any way!<p>Mostly though keeping the churn going is what gets really tiring - do most orgs have work that a) needs to be done every two weeks and b) can be done in two weeks perpetually? The pressure leads to manufacturing bite sized requirements that can be demoed in two weeks - the real impact of that work is almost always never evaluated. Combine this pressure with time crunch that prevents people from spending quality time together to ponder bigger, high impact problems and collaborate on solving those within the meeting heavy Agile process and you are never going to get anything meaningful done.<p>This is not to say Agile itself is bad - it takes effort and skill to use it effectively but managers seem to be taking the easy way out to create a factory line kind of setup where random requirements keep getting thrown and every two weeks you are supposed to roll out _a_ solution. The trouble is software &#x2F; IT is not at all like rolling cars out on a factory line so it all falls apart.<p>Edit: By Agile I meant Scrum really.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nallerooth</author><text>&gt; Scrum has outmarketed &quot;Agile&quot;, and swallowed it up wholesale. Agile was about putting people before process, Scrum is all process, no-wonder the people feel downtrodden.<p>This.<p>I understand that some managers want graphs, points, velocity, etc. Those things makes it easy to point at something and tell the team to improve. A good (imo) manager on the other hand, would just ask the team how the sprint went and what problems needs solving.</text></comment>	<story><title>Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement</title><url>https://tipsnguts.medium.com/why-senior-developers-are-leading-the-great-resignation-movement-37b93ab9a634</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DougBTX</author><text>&gt; This is not to say Agile itself is bad - it takes effort and skill to use it effectively but managers seem to be taking the easy way out to create a factory line kind of setup where random requirements keep getting thrown and every two weeks you are supposed to roll out _a_ solution.<p>Scrum has outmarketed &quot;Agile&quot;, and swallowed it up wholesale. Agile was about putting people before process, Scrum is all process, no-wonder the people feel downtrodden.</text></item><item><author>blinkingled</author><text>&gt; Supervisory managers brandishing Agile + endless meetings<p>Personally for me - this led to burnout and I have quit last two jobs that used Agile faster than I have the 2 before that didn&#x27;t use Agile. Agile is very clearly being misused to turn developers into factory line workers whose productivity can be measured by number of commits, reviews and docs they put out every two weeks. And the meetings it takes to do Sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, demos, retros are really killing any possibility of developers having a flow of uninterrupted time to do what they need to.<p>And the burnout article linked in the OP makes a great point about inputs to development teams not being measured. At some places developers are left to spec out stories and others have Architects &#x2F; Tech Leads do it - in either case that in itself is a large chunk of work that takes up huge amount of time that no one is rewarded for in any way!<p>Mostly though keeping the churn going is what gets really tiring - do most orgs have work that a) needs to be done every two weeks and b) can be done in two weeks perpetually? The pressure leads to manufacturing bite sized requirements that can be demoed in two weeks - the real impact of that work is almost always never evaluated. Combine this pressure with time crunch that prevents people from spending quality time together to ponder bigger, high impact problems and collaborate on solving those within the meeting heavy Agile process and you are never going to get anything meaningful done.<p>This is not to say Agile itself is bad - it takes effort and skill to use it effectively but managers seem to be taking the easy way out to create a factory line kind of setup where random requirements keep getting thrown and every two weeks you are supposed to roll out _a_ solution. The trouble is software &#x2F; IT is not at all like rolling cars out on a factory line so it all falls apart.<p>Edit: By Agile I meant Scrum really.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jes</author><text>In the late 90’s, one of my clients was an ultrasound company in Seattle. I was on a small software team of five or six competent engineers. We gelled as a team, embraced Kent Beck’s Extreme Programming (XP) philosophy, and really kicked ass.<p>We were also writing code in C++ to run on an ARM 7TDMI core embedded in a custom ASIC. We used the Metaware C++ compiler and JTAG based debug hardware from a German company whose name I’ve forgotten.<p>Good times. The client company was successful and was sold to Fujifilm about 20 years later for $950M.<p>Edit: The JTAG ICE was Trace32 from Lauterbach.</text></comment>
12,757,246	12,757,107	1	2	12,756,950	train	<story><title>Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/20/weebly-hacked-43-million-credentials-stolen/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drusenko</author><text>Obviously, this is a very disappointing situation for us -- we&#x27;ve always taken security very seriously since day 1, it&#x27;s something that&#x27;s been core to who we are from the beginning.<p>That said, how you respond in this situation can be just as important, and so we are making sure to be incredibly proactive in addressing the situation &amp; transparent in how we communicate the details with our customers. Our top and immediate concern has been our users and the safety of their accounts.<p>A few days ago we became aware that an unauthorized party obtained email addresses&#x2F;usernames, last login IP addresses and bcrypt hashed passwords for a large number of customers (anyone who signed up prior to March 1 of this year).<p>At this point we do not have evidence of any customer website&#x2F;account being improperly accessed. It&#x27;s also worth noting that we do not store any full credit card numbers on Weebly servers, so any credit card information was not part of this incident.<p>We immediately starting working on taking steps to notify our customers, and were able to get this out in a matter of a few days. We&#x27;re initiating password resets as of this morning, and we&#x27;ve also made several improvements to the application including new password complexity requirements and a new dashboard that gives customers an overview of recent log-in history of their Weebly account to track account activity. We also increased our bcrypt work factor from 8 to 10, and all passwords will be automatically upgraded as of the next time a user logs in.<p>We&#x27;ve hired an incident response firm who is working with our internal team to complete a full investigation. In the meantime, we&#x27;re examining our stack top to bottom and taking many steps to enhance our network and application security. This is an area we take very seriously and we&#x27;ll be putting in tremendous effort to ensure this doesn&#x27;t happen again.</text></comment>	<story><title>Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/20/weebly-hacked-43-million-credentials-stolen/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>papayawhip</author><text>Responsible disclosure and proper handling of passwords as well as not storing credit cards. Barring no breach at all, this is about as well as something like this can go.</text></comment>
26,661,968	26,662,034	1	2	26,661,138	train	<story><title>Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-networking-data-breach-response-whistleblower-cybersecurity-incident</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwijamo</author><text>Yesteday I ordered new MicroTik gear to replace the last of my Ubiquiti gear only to find there&#x27;s a two week wait for it to be shipped! Looks like there&#x27;s been increased demand for products made by Ubiqiti&#x27;s competitors. Thanks Ubiquiti for a good few years but time to move on. You&#x27;ve lost my trust big time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wil421</author><text>MikroTik is always saying delayed shipping. Amazon has been the only place I’ve seen them in stock but from 3rd party sellers.<p>MikroTik isn’t even in the same league as UniFi. Their interfaces and docs are terrible. The only reason I ever considered buying something from them is because they had a good price for a 10gb switch. If you want a dumb device you can’t beat their price.<p>Check out a few of the reviews on Amazon. Seed and Don’s reviews are very critical.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B07NFXN4SS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B07NFXN4SS</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-networking-data-breach-response-whistleblower-cybersecurity-incident</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwijamo</author><text>Yesteday I ordered new MicroTik gear to replace the last of my Ubiquiti gear only to find there&#x27;s a two week wait for it to be shipped! Looks like there&#x27;s been increased demand for products made by Ubiqiti&#x27;s competitors. Thanks Ubiquiti for a good few years but time to move on. You&#x27;ve lost my trust big time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>posixplz</author><text>Are MikroTik access points still a royal pain to configure and maintain? I use their switches, but not their APs.<p>Decades ago, I was a network engineer working in production data centers. I’m used to setting up switches manually. But I have no professional experience with setting up meshed WiFi networks. I like that the Ubiquiti APs “just work” for the most part.<p>I’ve started to notice weird AP&#x2F;client failures with my ubiquiti gear and debugging is a nightmare. It seems that ubiquiti has hidden a lot of useful information in an overzealous effort to streamline UX.</text></comment>
17,244,549	17,239,296	1	2	17,237,510	train	<story><title>Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-domo-ipo-20180604-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pm90</author><text>Its a lazy way to jump on the SV bandwagon. So Austin is&#x2F;was known as Silicon Hills or something and there are many other Silicon Something monikers for other places.</text></item><item><author>dpark</author><text>&gt; <i>Domo actually is part of the Salt Lake City region’s “Silicon Slope,” one of several regional offshoots of Silicon Valley.</i><p>Going off on a tangent, this is really dumb. It’s not an “offshoot” of Silicon Valley. It’s a distant, unrelated region that happens to also have a tech industry. Are Austin, Seattle, and Portland also “offshoots” of Silicon Valley? How about New York? Zurich?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard it called Silicon Prairie, which it was called way back in the 70&#x27;s and 80&#x27;s. It does make sense though, since Texas Instruments and various computer companies were based there, which is the same reason Silicon Valley got its name.<p>If anything, Austin is more deserving of the &quot;Silicon X&quot; moniker than the Bay Area, as TI invented the silicon transistor and the integrated circuit.</text></comment>	<story><title>Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-domo-ipo-20180604-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pm90</author><text>Its a lazy way to jump on the SV bandwagon. So Austin is&#x2F;was known as Silicon Hills or something and there are many other Silicon Something monikers for other places.</text></item><item><author>dpark</author><text>&gt; <i>Domo actually is part of the Salt Lake City region’s “Silicon Slope,” one of several regional offshoots of Silicon Valley.</i><p>Going off on a tangent, this is really dumb. It’s not an “offshoot” of Silicon Valley. It’s a distant, unrelated region that happens to also have a tech industry. Are Austin, Seattle, and Portland also “offshoots” of Silicon Valley? How about New York? Zurich?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>retr0grad3</author><text>Silicon Hills actually refers to the boom in chip manufacturing in ATX in the 80s and 90s. After the dot-can boom and bust it now has the “like Silicon Valley but ‘weirder’” connotation.</text></comment>
34,108,825	34,106,224	1	2	34,104,204	train	<story><title>State of the Sanderson 2022</title><url>https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galangalalgol</author><text>I still remember when the kindle first came out, it would read to you. Before publishers threatened to sue. With modern text to speech getting so good, there really is no reason an inference model couldn&#x27;t run on every device to read to us. I guess book readers were the first to have their jobs replaced by AI, but contracts didn&#x27;t let it happen.</text></item><item><author>optymizer</author><text>I worked for a few years at Audible as a dev. Based on my experience, I&#x27;d say the culture at the company was good, in that we were not trying to exploit people, neither externally nor internally.<p>One thing that was pretty clear was that our audiobooks were at the mercy of publishing houses &#x2F; content owners, and a lot of restrictions came from licensing deals (geographic reastrictions, time-based, formats, etc), so I&#x27;m inclined to assume that the low cut for authors may be due to publishers wanting a big cut of the sales.<p>That said, there was a floor which we were not allowed on, and I believe that was the sales floor, so there could have been a whole other side to this company that I was not exposed to.</text></item><item><author>montenegrohugo</author><text>This is the stuff I love. Sanderson doesn&#x27;t _have_ to take a stand against Audible , and yet he does. Of course he is in a position of privilege to be able to do it, but so many other people are too and act very differently.<p>Audible giving creators only a 25% cut (or 40% if they sign an exclusive deal) is absolutely exploitative. For a DIGITAL product! That&#x27;s insane.<p>Props to Sanderson, and props to all the other people with integrity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>I don’t know. I’ve been listening to an unabridged audiobook of the Count of Monte Cristo. The single narrator has done a fantastic job of giving a different voice to every single character. Even if a particular character hasn’t appeared for tens of hours, when they do reappear, I remember who they are from their unique voice.<p>Plus, the narrator does a great job of pronouncing names with a french accent (at least, it sounds legit to me, a non-french speaking person). I wonder how a computer voice would do with speaking English with a distinct French accent. Would it understand when to go more heavily English vs French?</text></comment>	<story><title>State of the Sanderson 2022</title><url>https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galangalalgol</author><text>I still remember when the kindle first came out, it would read to you. Before publishers threatened to sue. With modern text to speech getting so good, there really is no reason an inference model couldn&#x27;t run on every device to read to us. I guess book readers were the first to have their jobs replaced by AI, but contracts didn&#x27;t let it happen.</text></item><item><author>optymizer</author><text>I worked for a few years at Audible as a dev. Based on my experience, I&#x27;d say the culture at the company was good, in that we were not trying to exploit people, neither externally nor internally.<p>One thing that was pretty clear was that our audiobooks were at the mercy of publishing houses &#x2F; content owners, and a lot of restrictions came from licensing deals (geographic reastrictions, time-based, formats, etc), so I&#x27;m inclined to assume that the low cut for authors may be due to publishers wanting a big cut of the sales.<p>That said, there was a floor which we were not allowed on, and I believe that was the sales floor, so there could have been a whole other side to this company that I was not exposed to.</text></item><item><author>montenegrohugo</author><text>This is the stuff I love. Sanderson doesn&#x27;t _have_ to take a stand against Audible , and yet he does. Of course he is in a position of privilege to be able to do it, but so many other people are too and act very differently.<p>Audible giving creators only a 25% cut (or 40% if they sign an exclusive deal) is absolutely exploitative. For a DIGITAL product! That&#x27;s insane.<p>Props to Sanderson, and props to all the other people with integrity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindvirus</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t publishers, it was the Author&#x27;s Guild, the union representing voice talent for audiobooks. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;amp.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2009&#x2F;mar&#x2F;01&#x2F;authors-guild-blocks-kindle-voice" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;amp.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;...</a></text></comment>
28,518,229	28,518,090	1	3	28,516,219	train	<story><title>Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B</title><url>https://www.investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2021/Intuit-to-Acquire-Mailchimp/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>This kinda feels like one of those acquisitions where all the special sauce that makes the acquired company a great company is the exact opposite in the acquiring company.<p>That is, from all I&#x27;ve heard, Mailchimp is a great company to work at, and the founders definitely had the &quot;scrappyness&quot; that let them become so successful without VC funding, and their customers really like them too.<p>Intuit, on the other hand, is basically the poster child for &quot;regulatory capture&quot; company. Also, since employees don&#x27;t have equity (though I&#x27;m assuming they&#x27;ll get fat bonuses for this), it&#x27;s bound to cause some level of strife in the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>contravariant</author><text>For anyone who (like me) didn&#x27;t know the first thing about intuit, I looked them up on Wikipedia. Some highlights:<p>&gt; Intuit offers a free online service called TurboTax Free File as well as a similarly named service called TurboTax Free Edition which is not free for most users<p>&gt; Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, has lobbied extensively against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) creating its own online system of tax filing<p>&gt; [I]nvestigations by ProPublica found that Intuit deliberately steered taxpayers from the free TurboTax Free File to the paid TurboTax Free Edition using tactics including search engine delisting and a deceptive discount targeted to members of the military.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intuit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intuit</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TurboTax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TurboTax</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B</title><url>https://www.investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2021/Intuit-to-Acquire-Mailchimp/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>This kinda feels like one of those acquisitions where all the special sauce that makes the acquired company a great company is the exact opposite in the acquiring company.<p>That is, from all I&#x27;ve heard, Mailchimp is a great company to work at, and the founders definitely had the &quot;scrappyness&quot; that let them become so successful without VC funding, and their customers really like them too.<p>Intuit, on the other hand, is basically the poster child for &quot;regulatory capture&quot; company. Also, since employees don&#x27;t have equity (though I&#x27;m assuming they&#x27;ll get fat bonuses for this), it&#x27;s bound to cause some level of strife in the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>Having worked at a company that was acquired by Intuit, they gave fairly substantial retention bonuses that vested over the 3 years following the acquisition that ended up being about 4x the value of my original pre-acquisition stock options, though the retention bonuses varied greatly and not everyone got that much. So I’d expect that Intuit is taking care of the employees that are considered key to Mailchimp’s business.</text></comment>
5,437,920	5,437,486	1	2	5,437,044	train	<story><title>How the kids stole the show: Young Coders tutorial at PyCon</title><url>http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-kids-stole-show-young-coders.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sophacles</author><text><i>“I don't think you'd ever see that kind of experimentation in a classroom full of adults, who would more likely do everything in their power not to break their computers,”...</i><p>I really think, more than anything, this is why we should be teaching kids to code and so on in school. Most of the good coders I know have been doing it from a young age, and I think a lot of it comes from the fearlessness of youth.<p>Personally, I know I owe a lot to this. I "broke" the computer more times than I can count, by just experimenting, playing and otherwise doing stuff that I now know to be "reckless". There was a guy in the IT department and my dad's work who gave me an absurd number of hours of free tech support and teaching, because I couldn't figure out how to undo some of those mistakes, and would patiently walk me through getting things put right before my folks came home from work. (In retrospect, I don't think they would have minded, but I didn't want to get in trouble for breaking the expensive toy!)</text></comment>	<story><title>How the kids stole the show: Young Coders tutorial at PyCon</title><url>http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-kids-stole-show-young-coders.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cwbrandsma</author><text>Just talking on the interest you can get from having kids give talks at conferences...<p>We just had Boise Code Camp 2 weeks ago. We had one talk on Kid Programming, which was given by two 11 year olds (using Scratch) and a 6 year old (using LOGO) -- and two of them were girls. We put the talk in one of our larger rooms and we packed it. People standing in the back and sitting on the floor.<p>As an aside, just about every year we have had a large number of parents attending who would bring one or two kids with them. Out of 400 people I could usually 15-20 people younger than 18. We have not had any trouble because of it.<p>I think there is a lot of interest, both from kids and parents, to learn about programming. A our code camp, I'm hoping to open up multiple sessions for kids (I'd like to have a multiple hour block). Some of those kids already have good resumes going. One I saw in particular was able to talk on Java and C without any difficulty (and he preferred vi as his editor) -- he was maybe 12.<p>For other conference organizers, (if you have room) please consider having talks aimed at kids. But also just encourage parents to bring their tech interested kids with them.</text></comment>
38,070,262	38,070,389	1	2	38,069,915	train	<story><title>The costs of microservices (2020)</title><url>https://robertovitillo.com/costs-of-microservices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nevinera</author><text>The right time to extract something into a separate service is when there&#x27;s a problem that you can&#x27;t tractably solve without doing so.<p>Increasing architectural complexity to enforce boundaries is never a solution to a lack of organizational discipline, but midsize tech companies _incessantly_ treat it like one. If you&#x27;re having trouble because your domains lack good boundaries, then extracting services _is not going to go well_.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arzke</author><text>&quot;The last responsible moment (LRM) is the strategy of delaying a decision until the moment when the cost of not making the decision is greater than the cost of making it.&quot;<p>Quoted from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oreilly.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;view&#x2F;software-architects-handbook&#x2F;9781788624060&#x2F;a844b94f-be9e-456d-8ef0-cd9b46b41c33.xhtml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oreilly.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;view&#x2F;software-architects-han...</a></text></comment>	<story><title>The costs of microservices (2020)</title><url>https://robertovitillo.com/costs-of-microservices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nevinera</author><text>The right time to extract something into a separate service is when there&#x27;s a problem that you can&#x27;t tractably solve without doing so.<p>Increasing architectural complexity to enforce boundaries is never a solution to a lack of organizational discipline, but midsize tech companies _incessantly_ treat it like one. If you&#x27;re having trouble because your domains lack good boundaries, then extracting services _is not going to go well_.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>insanitybit</author><text>&gt; Increasing architectural complexity to enforce boundaries is never a solution to a lack of organizational discipline,<p>And yet we do this all the time. Your CI&#x2F;CD blocking your PRs until tests pass? That&#x27;s a costly technical solution to solve an issue of organizational discipline.</text></comment>
40,404,885	40,404,508	1	2	40,403,221	train	<story><title>Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)</title><url>https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/mortgages-are-a-manufactured-product/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sanxiyn</author><text>I know this post is about money, but I want to talk about electronic flow meters than money so I will. The description of &quot;Japanese company making the best electronic flow meters&quot; strongly suggests it is Keyence. They are the best indeed.<p>Keyence is the 3rd largest Japanese company by market capitalization, next to Toyota and Japan&#x27;s largest bank (Mitsubishi). Larger than Sony, larger than Nintendo, larger than Honda, etc. Keyence does sensors and nothing but sensors.<p>If you want to learn about the science of flow meters, you can visit a site maintained by Keyence, Flow Knowledge. Where you read that electromagnetic flow meters (this is proper name for &quot;electronic&quot; flow meters, which may be used for lay audience) detect flow by using Faraday&#x27;s Law of induction.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyence.com&#x2F;ss&#x2F;products&#x2F;process&#x2F;flowknowledge&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keyence.com&#x2F;ss&#x2F;products&#x2F;process&#x2F;flowknowledge&#x2F;</a></text></comment>	<story><title>Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)</title><url>https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/mortgages-are-a-manufactured-product/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mvkel</author><text>&gt; If you replaced your current mental model for mortgages with “it’s like a paper electronic flow meter for money, possibly with less paper these days”, it would improve your ability to understand the mortgage industry.<p>I feel even more confused</text></comment>
14,140,851	14,139,578	1	2	14,138,274	train	<story><title>Street Fighter II's AI Engine</title><url>https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/the-ai-engine/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>billmalarky</author><text>&quot;When reacting to an attack the scripts are chosen based on something called a yoke. Each frame of animation for both avatars and projectiles contains a value for the yoke in the metadata, which the AI peeks at to select a script suitable for responding to that attack. The computer sees the yoke of your move as soon as you have input it, before the first animation frame has even displayed. As such it gets one more frame of advantage on top of your reaction time.&quot;<p>I KNEW IT!</text></comment>	<story><title>Street Fighter II's AI Engine</title><url>https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/the-ai-engine/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>indspenceable</author><text>&gt; These days, when most people talk about AI they’re talking about machine learning. There’s not any of that in SF2.<p>Actually, AI for games is pretty much never equivalent to AI for non-games. The end goal is different - games want to provide a non-optimal set of instructions, so that it&#x27;s challenging but not impossible to win. The goals are entirely different.<p>If you&#x27;re making a game, this is probably at least a useful example to look at, even if I don&#x27;t agree with some of the decisions they made (uninterruptible moves, for instance)</text></comment>
29,366,931	29,366,638	1	3	29,366,310	train	<story><title>Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus</title><url>https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-people-promoting-it-are-scammers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barbegal</author><text>Proof of work has always had an economic flaw that you could theoretically temporarily rent enough mining power to perform double spends of more value than the cost of renting those devices.<p>But this attack has never been performed because the reality of all these cryptocurrencies is that the security depends only relatively weakly on proof of work. Instead it relies on trust between the main stakeholders: miners, big nodes and developers. This is just like any other human organisation. That trust is only reinforced by proof of work, making it easier for new parties to become trusted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>betwixthewires</author><text>This attack <i>has</i> happened, at least twice to ETC and many others.<p>Proof of work networks with the same hash algorithm are a threat to one another, particularly, if a network exists that is profitable enough to have exorbitant resources dedicated to mining, those resources are available to attack a much smaller network if that becomes more profitable for some period than just continuing to mine the bigger one.<p>Proof of work then only protects the largest projects using unique hash algorithms.</text></comment>	<story><title>Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus</title><url>https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-people-promoting-it-are-scammers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barbegal</author><text>Proof of work has always had an economic flaw that you could theoretically temporarily rent enough mining power to perform double spends of more value than the cost of renting those devices.<p>But this attack has never been performed because the reality of all these cryptocurrencies is that the security depends only relatively weakly on proof of work. Instead it relies on trust between the main stakeholders: miners, big nodes and developers. This is just like any other human organisation. That trust is only reinforced by proof of work, making it easier for new parties to become trusted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazypython</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crypto51.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crypto51.app&#x2F;</a><p>To execute a double spend, you the one sending the transaction and the miner must coordinate.<p>For large transactions, it is recommended to wait for six confirmations. (six blocks that agree with the transaction and have not been 51%ed.)<p>The 1 hour 51% cost of Bitcoin is 1.9m$. However, you would need much more time than that to find six consecutive blocks alone, without the help of the network. So, while the network is 6 blocks ahead, you need to find 7 blocks. The network moves forward a block, you must move forward more than one block to catch up. This could take a long time, and longer the more confirmations required- each confirmation makes each previous transaction exponentially more secure. Simply controlling the mining power momentarily only puts recent transactions vulnerable.<p>However, that much hardware is available for rent-see “Nicehashable.”</text></comment>
26,586,547	26,586,264	1	2	26,583,791	train	<story><title>All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk</title><url>https://brianschrader.com/archive/why-all-my-servers-have-an-8gb-empty-file/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tehjoker</author><text>This reminds me of the reserve tank toggle on some motorcycles. When you run out of gas, you switch the toggle and drive directly to a gas station.</text></item><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>For everyone saying &quot;This isn&#x27;t a real solution!&quot; I&#x27;d like to explain why I think you&#x27;re wrong.<p>1) It&#x27;s not intended to be a Real Solution(tm). It&#x27;s intended to buy the admin some time to solve the Real Issue.<p>2) Having a failsafe on standby such as this will save an admin&#x27;s butt when it&#x27;s 2am and PagerDuty won&#x27;t shut up, and you&#x27;re just awake enough to apply a temp fix and work on it in the morning.<p>3) Because &quot;FIX IT NOW OR ELSE&quot; is a thing. Okay, sure. Null the file and then fill it with 7GB. Problem solved, for now. Everybody is happy and now I can work on the Real Problem: Bob won&#x27;t stop hoarding spam.<p>That is all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcthompson</author><text>Motorboat fuel tanks have a reserve as well. It&#x27;s just a raised area that splits the bottom of the tank into 2 separate concave areas. One of the concave areas contains the end of the fuel line, and the other doesn&#x27;t. When you run out of gas, you tip the tank up to dump the remaining gas from the other basin into the main one, and then you restart the engine (or keep it from stopping at all if you&#x27;re quick enough on the draw) and head for the docks.</text></comment>	<story><title>All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk</title><url>https://brianschrader.com/archive/why-all-my-servers-have-an-8gb-empty-file/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tehjoker</author><text>This reminds me of the reserve tank toggle on some motorcycles. When you run out of gas, you switch the toggle and drive directly to a gas station.</text></item><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>For everyone saying &quot;This isn&#x27;t a real solution!&quot; I&#x27;d like to explain why I think you&#x27;re wrong.<p>1) It&#x27;s not intended to be a Real Solution(tm). It&#x27;s intended to buy the admin some time to solve the Real Issue.<p>2) Having a failsafe on standby such as this will save an admin&#x27;s butt when it&#x27;s 2am and PagerDuty won&#x27;t shut up, and you&#x27;re just awake enough to apply a temp fix and work on it in the morning.<p>3) Because &quot;FIX IT NOW OR ELSE&quot; is a thing. Okay, sure. Null the file and then fill it with 7GB. Problem solved, for now. Everybody is happy and now I can work on the Real Problem: Bob won&#x27;t stop hoarding spam.<p>That is all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hprotagonist</author><text>The bikes I&#x27;ve had that have had reserve tanks have also been old enough to raise the disconcerting follow-on question, which is: &quot;is the reserve gas also full of sludgey crap that&#x27;s settled in the tank and hasn&#x27;t been disturbed really in a year, and am i about to run that through my poor carbs?&quot;</text></comment>

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