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<story><title>ASML EUV lithography machine could keep Moore’s Law on track</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-na-euv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>esperent</author><text>&gt; <i>EUV necessitates an entirely new way to generate light. It’s a remarkably complex process that involves hitting molten tin droplets in midflight with a powerful CO2 laser. The laser vaporizes the tin into a plasma, emitting a spectrum of photonic energy. From this spectrum, the EUV optics harvest the required 13.5-nm wavelength and direct it through a series of mirrors before it is reflected off a patterned mask to project that pattern onto the wafer</i><p>This is incredible and feels like the most sci-fi sentence I&#x27;ve read in a long time.<p>It&#x27;s unbelievable to think that this works, not just in a lab, but in commercial systems that will produce hundreds of chip wafers an hour (&gt;100 anyway, they didn&#x27;t clarify further).</text></comment>
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<story><title>ASML EUV lithography machine could keep Moore’s Law on track</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-na-euv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>martin_drapeau</author><text>I worked at Imec back in 2005 alongside the teams installing and researching the first EUV machines from ASML. Never thought they’d get it to work given the technological challenges. Laser-pulsed tin plasma, mirrors instead of lenses and vacuum exposure just to name a few!
Glad they got it working so we can print smaller at scale.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Username cannot contain 'clyde'</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/ywjcep/cant_use_my_name/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>causi</author><text>At least in the naming, sure. Everything else, not so much. I had to switch my whole house over to Echos because you can&#x27;t change the wake word on Google Home. Every time I said, say, &quot;Hey Google, turn the bedroom lamp off&quot;, the Home in the bedroom would say ok and turn the lamp off, both phones in the room would activate and complain that they didn&#x27;t have a device named lamp listed, and every <i>other</i> Home in the house would start talking about how it couldn&#x27;t hear me clearly. Then you yell &quot;Hey Google, shut the fuck up!&quot; and the blasted things start whining about how they &quot;have feelings too&quot; and I shouldn&#x27;t be so rude. Few technological problems have made my fingers ache more for a sledgehammer.</text></item><item><author>boxed</author><text>Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.</text></item><item><author>Thorrez</author><text><p><pre><code> Amazon: Alexa
Microsoft: Cortana
Apple: Siri
Discord: Clyde
Google: Google
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Disclosure, I work at Google.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This is a good case for why system bots&#x2F;messages&#x2F;etc. shouldn&#x27;t be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead &quot;Username cannot contain &#x27;discord&#x27;&quot;, it&#x27;d be more obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>The developers of these things need to stop treating people swearing at them as a time to lecture them and instead realize that if someone is swearing at it then they’re probably not satisfied with how it’s functioning in the attempts before that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Username cannot contain 'clyde'</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/ywjcep/cant_use_my_name/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>causi</author><text>At least in the naming, sure. Everything else, not so much. I had to switch my whole house over to Echos because you can&#x27;t change the wake word on Google Home. Every time I said, say, &quot;Hey Google, turn the bedroom lamp off&quot;, the Home in the bedroom would say ok and turn the lamp off, both phones in the room would activate and complain that they didn&#x27;t have a device named lamp listed, and every <i>other</i> Home in the house would start talking about how it couldn&#x27;t hear me clearly. Then you yell &quot;Hey Google, shut the fuck up!&quot; and the blasted things start whining about how they &quot;have feelings too&quot; and I shouldn&#x27;t be so rude. Few technological problems have made my fingers ache more for a sledgehammer.</text></item><item><author>boxed</author><text>Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.</text></item><item><author>Thorrez</author><text><p><pre><code> Amazon: Alexa
Microsoft: Cortana
Apple: Siri
Discord: Clyde
Google: Google
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Disclosure, I work at Google.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This is a good case for why system bots&#x2F;messages&#x2F;etc. shouldn&#x27;t be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead &quot;Username cannot contain &#x27;discord&#x27;&quot;, it&#x27;d be more obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdsnape</author><text>That&#x27;s interesting, I did some digging into Apple device communication and it turns out they have a protocol called CompanionLink that handles this exact circumstance - devices can communicate securely with each other and decide who is going to handle the Siri activation - HomePod&#x27;s seem to get preference, then phones then laptops. I&#x27;m surprised Google hasn&#x27;t done something similar.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/28/feds-approve-44k-doctor-reimbursement-for-using-drchrono%E2%80%99s-ipad-app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LiveTheDream</author><text>I showed this to a friend who has created software for the medical industry and has close ties with/knowledge of the industry. He allowed me to copy his thoughts here, with some very minor edits for privacy:<p>Regarding Drchrono app:<p>&#62; a) [...] compared to PAPER it's pretty good! but its not built with speed in mind, iits built to tackle other things like billing, and assumes a more traditional practice. it aint gonna make you more $$ in an office as it does nothing to speed up the workflow and allow a doc to cut staff, which is THE overhead in a practice.<p>&#62; b) that 44k comes with a lot of strings. main one is that you have to have 30% medicaid patients. that alone can bankrupt a practice, as medicaid pays a fraction of what insurance/medicare pays for visits. an efficient practice, for example, would look at the 44k and say 'f that'.<p>&#62; other strings is what [some doctors] refers to as the 'thought police ' - you have to regularly submit reports on your patient stats to the gov't. not nec.a bad thing, but few doctors want some beauracrat to be eyeballing their stats without knowing anything about the actual patients. i'm not sure how the data will be used... i generally dont think "outcome based" compensation is a great way to pay either bc its hard to quantify health and management of chronic stuff etc.<p>And opinion on medicine more generally:<p>&#62; medicine has been, and ought to be, a relationship business - which defies a lot of efforts to quantify it. a lean practice [with] deep personal relationships with patients (as opposed to a clinic style 35 patients/day practice, which is mayhem and prone to problems) ought to be what ppl strive towards. thats not the trend... trend is towards big groups bc individual docs are dumb and cant run their practices well.<p>&#62; anyway, its' a long discussion... :-) not clear what the next 10 years will bring. hunch is we'll be big losers when primary care is mostly atrophied and big groups with salaried docs are common. remember how much innovation comes from large entities. [a certain private practice he knows of] is 10 years ahead of anyones bc [it is] lean and innovative.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/28/feds-approve-44k-doctor-reimbursement-for-using-drchrono%E2%80%99s-ipad-app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kyro</author><text>Nice going, guys. As a med student, this sort of stuff really excites me. It seems like the government is willing to incentivize the adoption of electronic mobile technologies in clinical practice.<p>To all who are making quips about the $44k incentive: the amount of money that is spent on resolving logistical, administrative, and medical errors because of disorganized, incomplete health records, yearly, is astronomical. Doctors are often very technologically stubborn and those who run their own practices will usually opt for implementing whatever traditional, paper-based system they're accustomed to as they have concerns that lie elsewhere. $44k (or less) in government incentives could prove to be an amazingly cost-effective investment if adoption of these technologies can truly reduce the risk of error.<p>I've been eager to play around with Dr. Chrono, but I'm not practicing yet, so is there a demo I can play with? I suppose I could just sign up for a free account.</text></comment>
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<story><title>SN Pro Typeface</title><url>https://supernotes.app/open-source/sn-pro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philefstat</author><text>The font this is based is based on Nunito, by Vernon Adams (as the article states). He&#x27;s responsible for many google fonts and other open source fonts which rack up billions of views every year. I just wanted to share his story:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisgliddon.com&#x2F;the-tragic-story-of-vernon-and-oswald-7540fa359509" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisgliddon.com&#x2F;the-tragic-story-of-vernon-and-oswa...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>SN Pro Typeface</title><url>https://supernotes.app/open-source/sn-pro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>latexr</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;ve carefully re-designed each character, improving support for Markdown and ligatures.<p>What does it mean for a font to “improve support for markdown”? Later on:<p>&gt; we included […] improved symbols for use within Markdown<p>Again, what does this mean <i>specifically</i>? Never have I had an issue with a font’s brackets or asterisks while writing markdown. Considering the page’s length, it would be useful if you’d taken a section to <i>show</i> what makes SN Pro better than other fonts for this use case.</text></comment>
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<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><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>I find Sam Altman&#x27;s advice on startup completely and utterly useless. They&#x27;re akin to the &quot;How to become a millionaire&quot; books. I&#x27;ve said this in the past [1] that providing generic advice doesn&#x27;t work for startups. Every company is unique and they have unique challenges. Instead, Sam should be focusing on bringing stories of various startups in light, interview their founders and have a focused discourse on what worked and what didn&#x27;t for that __particular__ startup.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17309725" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17309725</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rexreed</author><text>Amen. This barely (if at all) applies to enterprise startups (&quot;make something people want to tell their friends about&quot; doesn&#x27;t run up against internal decision-making and budgets very well... and &quot;something that&#x27;s easy to explain&quot; is something that&#x27;s only relevant in the right industry) and doesn&#x27;t apply at all to startups in particular industry sectors, government-oriented, or even many hardware oriented ones.<p>This applies to a subset of Silicon Valley-style, hyper consumer oriented, VC-backable startups that at the end of the day, are fairly interchangeable.</text></comment>
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<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><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>I find Sam Altman&#x27;s advice on startup completely and utterly useless. They&#x27;re akin to the &quot;How to become a millionaire&quot; books. I&#x27;ve said this in the past [1] that providing generic advice doesn&#x27;t work for startups. Every company is unique and they have unique challenges. Instead, Sam should be focusing on bringing stories of various startups in light, interview their founders and have a focused discourse on what worked and what didn&#x27;t for that __particular__ startup.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17309725" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17309725</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>projectramo</author><text>I sort of disagree in one important sense: all generic advice is pretty useless.<p>How to succeed in sports? practice, focus, take care of your diet and health<p>How to succeed in a large company? keep your boss happy, work hard, focus<p>etc<p>This is not Altman&#x27;s fault. I don&#x27;t think the videos can -- or are supposed to -- replace actual detailed daily advice on struggles which, presumably, you get if you join Ycombinator.<p>I don&#x27;t think that &quot;focusing on bringing stories of various startups to light&quot; is all that different from what he is doing. The same criticism applies: it is their story not yours.<p>And the same caveat applies: it is a sample of the kind of advice you will get.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Immortality Begins at Forty</title><url>http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/04/28/immortality-begins-at-forty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>I&#x27;m close to 40, and working in Silicon Valley it makes me feel old every day, but I&#x27;ll be damned if I&#x27;m ever reduced to this sort of narrow-minded pop-culturist bullshit mode of thinking.<p>What does <i>society</i> think of me? I couldn&#x27;t give less of a fuck. How about asking what the people around you think of you?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>If that&#x27;s all you got from the post, you either weren&#x27;t paying attention, or are not ready for it yet.<p>For one, whether &quot;you give a fuck for what society thinks of [you]&quot; or not, what society thinks of you has implications for you and your role in life. To put it jokingly, &quot;it&#x27;s not all about you&quot;.<p>Not to mention that far from &quot;narrow-minded pop-culturist bullshit&quot; the whole post drives endlessly the inverse notion.<p>&quot;what society thinks of you&quot; is what (according to the post) ends at forty: society doesn&#x27;t think anything of you, -- it could not give less fucks, to use your wording. And part of the idea is that you should care even less, and instead (cynically or not) become a culture-maker yourself, selling truth to the younger generations.<p>It doesn&#x27;t apply to everybody. In fact people content with work, family life, and 3 hours of TV&#x2F;browsing everyday until they die at 80 won&#x27;t even understand the thing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Immortality Begins at Forty</title><url>http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/04/28/immortality-begins-at-forty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>I&#x27;m close to 40, and working in Silicon Valley it makes me feel old every day, but I&#x27;ll be damned if I&#x27;m ever reduced to this sort of narrow-minded pop-culturist bullshit mode of thinking.<p>What does <i>society</i> think of me? I couldn&#x27;t give less of a fuck. How about asking what the people around you think of you?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgreensp</author><text>Exactly. I think the OP takes a wrong turn in thinking &quot;meaning&quot; arises in relationship to &quot;society&quot;, and declaring that &quot;meaning is a game.&quot; Society is a game. As people grow up and find their own individual meaning in their pursuits and relationships, they stop caring so much about society and may sign out of the game completely.<p>The majority of people over 40 are not out there &quot;making meaning&quot; (the author&#x27;s terminology for &quot;influencing pop culture&quot;), and that&#x27;s just fine.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/29/amazons-alexa-told-a-child-to-do-a-potentially-lethal-challenge.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>When I was around 5-6 I wanted to know what would happen if I put a hairpin into a light socket. It seemed a reasonable experiment beforehand; after I picked myself up after flying across the room I learned a valuable lesson. Around the same time I tested whether Santa existed by putting out food; when no one ate it I assumed Santa was fake. Children are not very experienced at knowledge and thinking and often do things that confound adults. Giving them access to something they do not yet have the ability to understand or discern can be both useful (learning) and dangerous and it&#x27;s up to parents and other adults to make sure it&#x27;s not going to kill them, yet at the same time not completely stifle learning.<p>I could say I eventually became a programmer because I nearly fried myself doing a test...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cecilpl2</author><text>Around that same age I also tested whether Santa was in fact secretly my parents. I decided that Mall Santa would be the only person I told that I really wanted an RC car for Christmas, and I steadfastly refused my parents&#x27; attempts to get me to tell them what I&#x27;d asked for.<p>Lo and behold, Santa got me the RC car I so desperately wanted, solidifying my belief in him for a couple more years.<p>Turns out the real lesson, which I was too young to grasp, is that at the RC car display at Costco a 6-year-old cannot contain his obvious excitement in order to run a properly blinded experiment.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/29/amazons-alexa-told-a-child-to-do-a-potentially-lethal-challenge.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>When I was around 5-6 I wanted to know what would happen if I put a hairpin into a light socket. It seemed a reasonable experiment beforehand; after I picked myself up after flying across the room I learned a valuable lesson. Around the same time I tested whether Santa existed by putting out food; when no one ate it I assumed Santa was fake. Children are not very experienced at knowledge and thinking and often do things that confound adults. Giving them access to something they do not yet have the ability to understand or discern can be both useful (learning) and dangerous and it&#x27;s up to parents and other adults to make sure it&#x27;s not going to kill them, yet at the same time not completely stifle learning.<p>I could say I eventually became a programmer because I nearly fried myself doing a test...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I was an ambitious optimist. I had extracted the motor out of my toy at age 5-6, and had learned to run it on batteries with some wire. Understood that one 1.5V battery made it go slow, and two made it fast. And the 9V even faster. Obviously, the wall socket would make it go even faster.<p>Well, besides the shock, I discovered that wire basically melts with large doses of electricity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Eddiots</title><url>https://eddiots.com/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Author here. Thank you my long time hn friend, jacquesm, for posting this.<p>I&#x27;ve been programming my entire adult life (and then some). I worked at many enterprises and SMBs. As the character who I live vicariously says on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eddiots.com&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eddiots.com&#x2F;1</a>, &quot;I love programming but I hate going to work.&quot; I&#x27;ll never stop programming but the people at work have worn me out.<p>I&#x27;ve been posting here for 16 years as well as several other sites. I&#x27;ve always had something to say but have found it increasingly harder to say what I&#x27;m thinking without sounding like I&#x27;m preaching. Thus the comics. Might as well get it off my chest in a way we can all have a little fun. If I wasn&#x27;t able to laugh all these years, I probably would have gone back to work at McDonalds.<p>It&#x27;s all software driven with only html, css, and svg. (I&#x27;ll have the markup on every page next week.) No images or media queries. I kept it simple and post something new every weekday. It&#x27;s just something I have to do. (And way better than all those CRUD apps and standups.)<p>Thanks to all of you for your kind (and other) words. My jokes are like the weather. If you don&#x27;t like one, just click for another. Maybe that one will connect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>What you&#x27;ve really captured is the banality and non-sequitur nature of corporate meetings where major participants are in charge of things well beyond their ken. Dilbert did it first, but you took it to new post-modern heights.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Eddiots</title><url>https://eddiots.com/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Author here. Thank you my long time hn friend, jacquesm, for posting this.<p>I&#x27;ve been programming my entire adult life (and then some). I worked at many enterprises and SMBs. As the character who I live vicariously says on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eddiots.com&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eddiots.com&#x2F;1</a>, &quot;I love programming but I hate going to work.&quot; I&#x27;ll never stop programming but the people at work have worn me out.<p>I&#x27;ve been posting here for 16 years as well as several other sites. I&#x27;ve always had something to say but have found it increasingly harder to say what I&#x27;m thinking without sounding like I&#x27;m preaching. Thus the comics. Might as well get it off my chest in a way we can all have a little fun. If I wasn&#x27;t able to laugh all these years, I probably would have gone back to work at McDonalds.<p>It&#x27;s all software driven with only html, css, and svg. (I&#x27;ll have the markup on every page next week.) No images or media queries. I kept it simple and post something new every weekday. It&#x27;s just something I have to do. (And way better than all those CRUD apps and standups.)<p>Thanks to all of you for your kind (and other) words. My jokes are like the weather. If you don&#x27;t like one, just click for another. Maybe that one will connect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>romwell</author><text>Hey, saw your comic from a comment you made on reddit recently, and glad to see it pop up here too. I felt that it was underappreciated, and glad to see it getting the recognition it deserves!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Released footage of the police raid on the Kim Dotcom mansion</title><url>http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-What-really-happened-in-the-Dotcom-raid/tabid/367/articleID/264651/Default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>I find it a little scary that Hollywood can order armed men in helicopters to raid a man's home, anywhere in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>synth</author><text><p><pre><code> INTERIOR, SOULLESS CORPORATE OFFICE. DUSK.
A dark, sleek office room, filled with cigar smoke, expensive
gadgets and designer furniture. The cigar smoke rises above
Hollywood executive GOLDBERG like a whirlwind, framing his
grinning face...
He dials his Blackberry phone to the hum of his $9000 Dell PC,
while leaning back into his chair a little.
GOLDBERG
(on the phone)
Is this The Agency?
UNKNOWN OPERATOR (v.o)
(in a clearly american accent)
How can I help you, Mister Goldberg?
GOLDBERG
I would like to order a raid.
UNKNOWN OPERATOR (v.o)
Yes sir, what do you want with it?
GOLDBERG
I want a heavily armed para-military squad,
carrying the latest gear. I want two helicopters,
half a dozen paddy wagons, the whole works.
UNKNOWN OPERATOR (v.o)
Would you like dogs with that?
GOLDBERG
Yes.
UNKNOWN OPERATOR (v.o)
Is the recipient an organization or an individual.
GOLDBERG
(smiles)
Both.
UNKNOWN OPERATOR (v.o)
Alright, sir. Must be quite a party you're planning.
GOLDBERG
(ecstatically)
Party? I'm about to destroy democracy as we know it!
Nobody, henceforth, will ever be able to make
millions off of stolen media without repercussions!
GOLDBERG
(looking at the viewer ominously)
Nobody.</code></pre></text></comment>
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<story><title>A deep dive into Multicore OCaml garbage collector</title><url>http://kcsrk.info/multicore/gc/2017/07/06/multicore-ocaml-gc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>axaxs</author><text>OCaml has always intrigued me as something to learn, but it seems I always read equally as many reasons that it&#x27;s not good, not ready, or why I should try Haskell instead.
Does anyone have experience to say yay&#x2F;nay on worthwhile learning, know of any companies using it heavily, or know of any large cleany written codebases from which to study?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbehrends</author><text>I think as a computer scientist you should really have at least some familiarity with both Haskell and one of the ML languages, just because it&#x27;ll expand your thinking. Whether to invest deeply in one of them is a matter of whether you have the time (especially if it&#x27;s just as a hobby) and how well one or the other matches your preferences.<p>I don&#x27;t generally evangelize OCaml – because as a language it can be a bit of a mixed bag – but end up using it a lot because in the end it&#x27;s a pragmatic language and a really solid workhorse. The niche that it fills for me is that of a statically typed language with native compilation and a GC, a niche that has historically not been served all that well.<p>Things I like:<p>* The language itself is not too opinionated. It&#x27;s a multi-paradigm, functional-first language, that allows me to use imperative or OO styles when that&#x27;s the best fit.<p>* The compiler is fast.<p>* While the ecosystem has some gaps, it&#x27;s very solid in those areas that I need (such as systems programming or language tooling).<p>* The language does not prioritize speed at the expense of correctness; this includes the compiler. There are languages where, let&#x27;s say, I have trust issues. Code quality is still pretty darn good.<p>* I really like ML functors for parametric polymorphism. While more verbose than other approaches, they are simple and powerful.<p>* Having a time-traveling debugger can occasionally be very helpful.<p>* For all their warts, the language and the compiler are mature.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A deep dive into Multicore OCaml garbage collector</title><url>http://kcsrk.info/multicore/gc/2017/07/06/multicore-ocaml-gc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>axaxs</author><text>OCaml has always intrigued me as something to learn, but it seems I always read equally as many reasons that it&#x27;s not good, not ready, or why I should try Haskell instead.
Does anyone have experience to say yay&#x2F;nay on worthwhile learning, know of any companies using it heavily, or know of any large cleany written codebases from which to study?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>OCaml has many of the good qualities people attribute to Go (simplicity, speed, relatively low-latency GC, well-engineered compiler&amp;runtime) and none of the downsides. Its weakness is terrible support for multithreading (like CPython it has a global lock, such that only one thread can execute OCaml code at a time), but there&#x27;s work in progress to fix that. Personally I&#x27;m of the opinion that if the developers had taken multicore more seriously a decade ago, and improved Windows support, it would&#x2F;could be used now for most of the things for which Go is used.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A turning point for GNU libc</title><url>http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/488847/cb91a5cc3d179f3c/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>luriel</author><text>&#62; The kernel may be the core of a Linux system, but neither users nor applications deal with the kernel directly.<p>The amount of complexity in a modern libc, glibc in particular, is mind-boggling.<p>One thing I love about Go is that it completely bypasses even libc, the Go runtime and stdlib use syscalls directly(well, except on Windows, for obvious reasons), in a way a Go program is "closer to the metal" than a C program.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A turning point for GNU libc</title><url>http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/488847/cb91a5cc3d179f3c/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>16s</author><text>These links (not mine) may help explain a lot to those who may be unfamiliar with Ulrich: <a href="http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/Ulrich_Drepper_Is_A_.html" rel="nofollow">http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/Ulrich_Drepper_Is_A_.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Deconstructing "K&R C"</title><url>http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/learn-c-the-hard-waych55.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tba</author><text>I'm confused. What is the "defect" in K&#38;R's "copy(char to[], char from[])" function?<p>The author notes that "the second this function is called...without a trailing '\0' character, then you'll hit difficult to debug errors", but no function with that signature could possibly work in this case.<p>The built-in "strcpy" function has the exact same limitation. Does the author have a problem with it as well? Null-termination is a fundamental concept of C strings; there's no reason to shield C students from it.<p>The other example of "bugs and bad style" in this "destruction" of K&#38;R C is a minor complaint about not using an optional set of braces.<p>I hope the remainder of the [incomplete] chapter demonstrates some actual bugs in the book's code, because it currently doesn't live up to the first paragraph's bluster.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Deconstructing "K&R C"</title><url>http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/learn-c-the-hard-waych55.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blix</author><text>I don't see what the big deal is here. He throws inputs at a function not meant to handle them and gets a segfault. Isn't this more-or-less expected from all C functions?<p>On careful examination of his example code, you can see that there's no attempt to terminate the buffer (though he misidentifies it as an "off by one" error). Throwing arbitrary buffers into functions meant for null-terminate strings will cause errors everywhere, not just in K&#38;R example code. In the next chapter, does he use strcpy in the same example and use that error to say that we should deprecate the entire standard library?<p>On a more nit-picky note, the 'triple-equality trick' the author derides is a common C idiom and one every C programmer should be familiar with. Perhaps it doesn't belong in the first chapter, but it definitely belongs in any C manual.</text></comment>
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<story><title>5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers</title><url>https://twitter.com/fall_of_civ_pod/status/1168101940758306817</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cheez</author><text>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;islam&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7go26a&#x2F;the_hour_will_not_begin_until_the_land_of_the&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;islam&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7go26a&#x2F;the_hour_will...</a><p>&gt; It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until the land of the Arabs once again becomes meadows and rivers.”<p>When I was a teenager, I was interested in what people used to say about the future in the past and this was the one thing that ever stuck out to me in my readings.<p>I guess it was common knowledge among the knowledgeable at the time that this was true but I was never able to corroborate it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers</title><url>https://twitter.com/fall_of_civ_pod/status/1168101940758306817</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adolph</author><text><i>Changes in the earth&#x27;s orbit known as its orbital precession, a change in tilt that cycles every 25,000 years, forced the African monsoon rains southward, and the Sahara became drier.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apsidal_precession" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apsidal_precession</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Milankovitch_cycles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Milankovitch_cycles</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/iota-cryptocurrency-shuts-down-entire-network-after-wallet-hack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>Yeah the pre-mined coins were sketchy, and the ternary was dubious.<p>I don&#x27;t want the innovation to get lost in the bathwater though: the tangle datastructure was novel. Not an expert, but it was designed to allow for minimal proof of work while retaining some hashed auditability and tamper resistance. I think the key idea would be that you help hash several other blocks into transactions and then your transaction will get hashed by a few other workers. It didn&#x27;t require heavy POW so it was more suitable for an embedded device to perform on the edge.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>For those who haven&#x27;t been following the previous episodes, IOTA is the cryptocurrency that uses ternary logic because it supposedly makes it more efficient (it very much remains to be proven). The idea is to bring cryptocurrencies to embedded devices, which IMO like much of the cryptocurrency space is very much a solution in search of a problem. Didn&#x27;t stop them from making a fortune with pre-mined coins during the cryptocurrency boom.<p>I remember that a few years ago there was a lot of debate about whether IOTA was truly decentralized. Advocates were arguing basically that &quot;it&#x27;s not completely decentralized now but it will be soon&quot;. Well I guess we know were we&#x27;re at right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pshc</author><text><i>&gt; 3 is closer to the universal optimum 2.71 than is 2. That is the absolute most simple elevator pitch for ternary.</i><p>- iota co-founder<p>Drivel like the above has long outed Iota as an absolute scam. The ternary business was some mixture of (a) bamboozling non-technical users, (b) distraction from its other failings, and (c) sheer delusion.<p>Iota pushers hand-wave with slogans like &quot;gets faster the more people use it&quot; and &quot;replace the central coordinator with voting (someday?)&quot; but without actual security. Whereas PoW has a well-understood security model (see 51% attacks) Iota hopes you won&#x27;t notice that basically nothing can be decided without the central coordinator.<p>And then it gets worse. Iota-without-the-coordinator washes its hands of consistency. Individual nodes would have to pray they are connected to good actors, and then through some unexplained governance scheme, deduce the consensus state.<p>In short: iota is unsuitable as any kind of distributed ledger.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/iota-cryptocurrency-shuts-down-entire-network-after-wallet-hack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>Yeah the pre-mined coins were sketchy, and the ternary was dubious.<p>I don&#x27;t want the innovation to get lost in the bathwater though: the tangle datastructure was novel. Not an expert, but it was designed to allow for minimal proof of work while retaining some hashed auditability and tamper resistance. I think the key idea would be that you help hash several other blocks into transactions and then your transaction will get hashed by a few other workers. It didn&#x27;t require heavy POW so it was more suitable for an embedded device to perform on the edge.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>For those who haven&#x27;t been following the previous episodes, IOTA is the cryptocurrency that uses ternary logic because it supposedly makes it more efficient (it very much remains to be proven). The idea is to bring cryptocurrencies to embedded devices, which IMO like much of the cryptocurrency space is very much a solution in search of a problem. Didn&#x27;t stop them from making a fortune with pre-mined coins during the cryptocurrency boom.<p>I remember that a few years ago there was a lot of debate about whether IOTA was truly decentralized. Advocates were arguing basically that &quot;it&#x27;s not completely decentralized now but it will be soon&quot;. Well I guess we know were we&#x27;re at right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s the greatest thing since the invention of the Fourier transform but talk is cheap and it looks like despite being many years into development and having access to more cash than most startup would dream of they still haven&#x27;t managed to make it work without a central node. Cryptocurrency startups sure seem to break things but they don&#x27;t move very fast.<p>I&#x27;ll add it to the list of absolutely revolutionary blockchain technologies that are going to change the world [working implementation is left as an exercise for the reader].</text></comment>
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<story><title>550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in High-Res Detail</title><url>http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/page.php?book=arch._b_b.10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggchappell</author><text>Amazing.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to see the typographical conventions. For example, the first sentence of Genesis (the first black sentence on image 15): &quot;In principio creauit deus celu et terram.&quot; meaning, if &quot;celu&quot; is really &quot;celum&quot;, &quot;In (the) beginning god created heaven and earth.&quot;<p>But look at all the oddities. The &quot;d&quot; and &quot;e&quot; of &quot;deus&quot; are run together. What&#x27;s up with that? The &quot;m&quot; in &quot;celum&quot; is missing, but there is a horizontal line above the &quot;u&quot;. I guess that means, &quot;Throw in the obvious letter after this.&quot; And then there is another word thrown in between &quot;celu(m)&quot; and &quot;et&quot;: &quot;dicim&quot;. This is in red, apparently marking it as going with the note above, and so not part of the flow of the text.<p>And &quot;creauit&quot; would normally be written &quot;creavit&quot;, but &quot;u&quot; and &quot;v&quot; used to be the same letter (along with &quot;i&quot; and &quot;j&quot;).<p>After that red &quot;dicim&quot; mentioned above is a little mark that looks like a raised &quot;9&quot;. That mark is all over. Does anyone know what it means?<p>Beginning at the end of the 5th line: &quot;Dixitqz deus. Fiat lux.&quot; I guess that little &quot;qz&quot; thing is an abbreviation for &quot;quoque&quot;? Thus: &quot;Dixit quoque deus. Fiat lux.&quot; &quot;Also God said. Let (there) be light.&quot;<p>Fun stuff &amp; a nice post. :-)</text></comment>
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<story><title>550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in High-Res Detail</title><url>http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/page.php?book=arch._b_b.10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>I expected to be impressed by the printing itself, but what startled me was what one sees on pages 2 and 3 of the original link (and what <a href="http://www.barbaradoyen.com/book-publishing/physical-anatomy-of-a-book" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barbaradoyen.com&#x2F;book-publishing&#x2F;physical-anatomy...</a> calls the &quot;Fancy End Paper&quot;). I&#x27;m assuming those are the original &quot;Fancy End Papers,&quot; but they look like something I&#x27;d expect in a 20th century modern painting, not on a 500+ year old book.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?</title><text>Hi Guys,
I have over 12 years of expertise in a particular domain. Now I recently switched to another company in a new domain (based on some overlapping technical skills and good recommendations from my past colleagues) as the jobs were far to come by in my old area of expertise. But, I&#x27;m finding it really hard to adjust in the new one.<p>The biggest challenges I&#x27;m facing are :<p>1. Looking at my years of experience my colleagues expect an expert level of performance. But being new to the domain, I&#x27;ve not been able to meet their expectations.<p>2. I&#x27;ve tried looking for non-tech roles PM, TL etc., hoping to leverage my management&#x2F;leadership skills, but my senior management aren&#x27;t buying it.<p>3. I feel isolated in meetings where everyone around me are talking the technology and I just take notes or stay silent mostly.<p>4. When I see guys half my experience are miles ahead of me in terms of the tech skills in the new area, I wonder if I even have a chance catching up ?<p>Any suggestions &#x2F; advice is welcome and highly appreciated. Thanks in advance !</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>thesumofall</author><text>Two to add:<p>5.) Ask a colleague to give you a dedicated intro session. Not just a random “I show you some stuff on my PC” but a real one. Typically a nice way for the colleague to reflect on their learning as well and&#x2F;or prepare a public talk :-)<p>6.) Be aware that almost no one really knows. They are all bluffing, they are all biased. There are exceptions but they are super rare. Even someone 2-4 years in a specific job will get his stuff done but still struggle with some concepts. On Management Level it gets worse as those guys tend to not have the time to digg into it</text></item><item><author>thesumofall</author><text>I couldn’t agree more. As a strategy consultant I do have to face new clients on a regular basis. Sometimes the industry &#x2F; topic overlaps with the previous engagement - often not.<p>1.) Really, really, really ask those dumb questions in the first week. Everyone will tolerate it and even expect it<p>2.) Learn the basics of your new domain &#x2F; industry top-down asap. Meaning: understand for what your company gets paid for, understand the basic process how it gets delivered, understand the strengths &#x2F; weaknesses of your company. Know who the key customers are and what they really want. It’s often the new guys who are empowered to challenge those high-level topics while everyone else takes it for granted (and often have the wrong idea in mind)<p>3.) Always ask a question &#x2F; say something during the first five minutes of a meeting. It just gets harder and harder afterwards. But as soon as you asked you’re in the game<p>4.) Bring in experience from the past but try to take the extra mile of translating it as much as possible to the new situation (“at my last gig we did... I understand that here we have... however I see further potential in...)</text></item><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>I&#x27;ve switched domains all the time (CAD&#x2F;CAM -&gt; Medical Imaging -&gt; Genomics -&gt; Web Development -&gt; Internet Security -&gt; VR -&gt; Fintech), things I&#x27;ve found helpful:<p>1. Ask a lot of questions at the start. People know you&#x27;ve switched domains and will tolerate dumb questions for a while.<p>2. Don&#x27;t ask the same dumb question twice.<p>3. Read a lot to get into the new head space. Set up google alerts for your company and its competitors. Join forums dedicated to your new tech and domain.<p>4. Offer learnings from your old domain, humbly. &quot;At my last gig, we approached this &lt;method&gt;. May not apply.&quot; This shows everybody you have things to offer but you are just getting your sea legs.<p>5. LEAVE THE OLD JOB. All of the above things you did for your old gig. Stop doing them, you don&#x27;t have time anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8ytecoder</author><text>Can&#x27;t stress (6) enough. Most people do stuff because that&#x27;s what they heard first or it&#x27;s a solution they found for a problem that existed years ago. Having a new perspective and questioning existing norms is healthy. You can add value there more than most of the existing &quot;tribe&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?</title><text>Hi Guys,
I have over 12 years of expertise in a particular domain. Now I recently switched to another company in a new domain (based on some overlapping technical skills and good recommendations from my past colleagues) as the jobs were far to come by in my old area of expertise. But, I&#x27;m finding it really hard to adjust in the new one.<p>The biggest challenges I&#x27;m facing are :<p>1. Looking at my years of experience my colleagues expect an expert level of performance. But being new to the domain, I&#x27;ve not been able to meet their expectations.<p>2. I&#x27;ve tried looking for non-tech roles PM, TL etc., hoping to leverage my management&#x2F;leadership skills, but my senior management aren&#x27;t buying it.<p>3. I feel isolated in meetings where everyone around me are talking the technology and I just take notes or stay silent mostly.<p>4. When I see guys half my experience are miles ahead of me in terms of the tech skills in the new area, I wonder if I even have a chance catching up ?<p>Any suggestions &#x2F; advice is welcome and highly appreciated. Thanks in advance !</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>thesumofall</author><text>Two to add:<p>5.) Ask a colleague to give you a dedicated intro session. Not just a random “I show you some stuff on my PC” but a real one. Typically a nice way for the colleague to reflect on their learning as well and&#x2F;or prepare a public talk :-)<p>6.) Be aware that almost no one really knows. They are all bluffing, they are all biased. There are exceptions but they are super rare. Even someone 2-4 years in a specific job will get his stuff done but still struggle with some concepts. On Management Level it gets worse as those guys tend to not have the time to digg into it</text></item><item><author>thesumofall</author><text>I couldn’t agree more. As a strategy consultant I do have to face new clients on a regular basis. Sometimes the industry &#x2F; topic overlaps with the previous engagement - often not.<p>1.) Really, really, really ask those dumb questions in the first week. Everyone will tolerate it and even expect it<p>2.) Learn the basics of your new domain &#x2F; industry top-down asap. Meaning: understand for what your company gets paid for, understand the basic process how it gets delivered, understand the strengths &#x2F; weaknesses of your company. Know who the key customers are and what they really want. It’s often the new guys who are empowered to challenge those high-level topics while everyone else takes it for granted (and often have the wrong idea in mind)<p>3.) Always ask a question &#x2F; say something during the first five minutes of a meeting. It just gets harder and harder afterwards. But as soon as you asked you’re in the game<p>4.) Bring in experience from the past but try to take the extra mile of translating it as much as possible to the new situation (“at my last gig we did... I understand that here we have... however I see further potential in...)</text></item><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>I&#x27;ve switched domains all the time (CAD&#x2F;CAM -&gt; Medical Imaging -&gt; Genomics -&gt; Web Development -&gt; Internet Security -&gt; VR -&gt; Fintech), things I&#x27;ve found helpful:<p>1. Ask a lot of questions at the start. People know you&#x27;ve switched domains and will tolerate dumb questions for a while.<p>2. Don&#x27;t ask the same dumb question twice.<p>3. Read a lot to get into the new head space. Set up google alerts for your company and its competitors. Join forums dedicated to your new tech and domain.<p>4. Offer learnings from your old domain, humbly. &quot;At my last gig, we approached this &lt;method&gt;. May not apply.&quot; This shows everybody you have things to offer but you are just getting your sea legs.<p>5. LEAVE THE OLD JOB. All of the above things you did for your old gig. Stop doing them, you don&#x27;t have time anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kangman</author><text>At our company when I was on boarded we had a process called boot camps. Which was basically a week set aside with meetings for each respective team&#x2F;department to get a high level over view of what they do and how they fit together with the company as a whole. This gave me some good insight on how I fit in as well as open up new dumb questions to follow up with.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/23/wary-of-sopa-reddit-users-aim-to-build-a-new-censorship-free-internet/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blhack</author><text>No offense to the "reddit meshnet project", but the last I checked (this could have changed) what they're proposing isn't possible with the team that they have right now.<p>There are a couple of problems:<p>1) They don't have a solid hardware platform to work on, and the feeling I've gotten from talking to some of the people on /r/darknetplan is that they <i>really</i> don't have the proper understanding of wireless tech to make something like this happen. People are proposing cheap commodity wifi gear for this.<p>While it's certainly possible to do a very high density area with that, it's <i>certainly</i> not feasible to cover an area like a city, at least not without a considerable investment, and an understanding that network performance is going to be abysmal. (And at that point, just use ham radio...)<p>(Something like what they're proposing might work in an office, not so much in a neighborhood).<p>So is a problem, but hypothetically you could just toss hardware at it until it went away.<p>2) It's the addressing, stupid. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/m2nd5/its_the_addressing_stupid/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/m2nd5/its_the_a...</a><p>I am <i>definitely</i> the last person to discourage people from "doing it wrong" (<a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/4372/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/4372/</a> - <a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/19766/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/19766/</a> - <a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/21434/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/21434/</a>), but people running this, prepare yourselves for the reality that you could fail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Locke1689</author><text>From what I heard in the IRC group when I was hanging out, the group is mostly made up of people who think it's a nice idea but have absolutely no idea what they're doing.<p>My prediction is this movement fails flat on its face, as the people with the knowhow to develop the <i>new</i> protocols for this network are uninterested in joining a mass of lemmings who are more interested about what the project is going to be called than if it will work.<p>Here's a fun issue: security and stability in BGP. As we've seen many, many times over BGP is a completely insecure protocol with persistant problems with blackhole and cyclical routes. Many people inside IRC have proposed BGP as the routing mechanism for the mesh network, but have no proposals on how to deal with a completely decentralized network of high latency connections.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/23/wary-of-sopa-reddit-users-aim-to-build-a-new-censorship-free-internet/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blhack</author><text>No offense to the "reddit meshnet project", but the last I checked (this could have changed) what they're proposing isn't possible with the team that they have right now.<p>There are a couple of problems:<p>1) They don't have a solid hardware platform to work on, and the feeling I've gotten from talking to some of the people on /r/darknetplan is that they <i>really</i> don't have the proper understanding of wireless tech to make something like this happen. People are proposing cheap commodity wifi gear for this.<p>While it's certainly possible to do a very high density area with that, it's <i>certainly</i> not feasible to cover an area like a city, at least not without a considerable investment, and an understanding that network performance is going to be abysmal. (And at that point, just use ham radio...)<p>(Something like what they're proposing might work in an office, not so much in a neighborhood).<p>So is a problem, but hypothetically you could just toss hardware at it until it went away.<p>2) It's the addressing, stupid. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/m2nd5/its_the_addressing_stupid/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/m2nd5/its_the_a...</a><p>I am <i>definitely</i> the last person to discourage people from "doing it wrong" (<a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/4372/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/4372/</a> - <a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/19766/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/19766/</a> - <a href="http://thingist.com/t/item/21434/" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com/t/item/21434/</a>), but people running this, prepare yourselves for the reality that you could fail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfeater</author><text>The problem we are definitely running into is that as a crowdsourced project, we have a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about. However, we have a small subset that do (myself not included, I'm more aiming to get the ball rolling than anything) and have been hard at work on the project. There is a lot more noise than signal right now, but that will change as a more solid technological platform for local mesh networks arises. Once we have a basic platform we will begin to address issues such as the addressing and other scaling issues.<p>So I guess my final point is that we ARE working on a hardware platform and then we will work to make this accessible to the average person on /r/darknetplan . There are hurdles, there are idiots, but we are working on it and I don't think it is safe to call the project failed until we've had a chance to actually try.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?</title><url>https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/29/atlantis-minoan-civilisation-santorini/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speak_plainly</author><text>The reason for the lack of Greek history on the topic is because it was a closely guarded Egyptian piece of knowledge, apparently.<p>The story of &#x27;Atlantis&#x27; as Plato knew it, came to him from Critias (the younger) through his father, Critias (the elder, also Plato&#x27;s great grandfather), who got it from his father Dropides who received it directly from Solon, who learned of the story from his time in Egypt, specifically via priests in Sais who supposedly maintained an artifact from this lost civilization.<p>It&#x27;s clear that Plato&#x27;s recanting of the story is embellished, he probably made up a great number or all of details to support his ideas and what he was trying to get across, but it&#x27;s also possible that there are germs of truth in the story, such an ancient civilization being destroyed that Egyptians were aware of.<p>It&#x27;s not a stretch to imagine that Egyptians had knowledge of ancient civilizations, or that secret knowledge was revealed to Greeks, and it&#x27;s not stretch that civilizations rose and fell all over the Earth. There isn&#x27;t much to hang your hat on but I think we can charitably assume there was some real basis to the story that Plato based his writing on.<p>Did ancient Egyptians poses knowledge of the Americas and encounter its population? Or was it a story about a local group of people? Or perhaps it was a general story of a pre-historic civilization and the associated cataclysms that ended it? Who knows, but I don&#x27;t think you can say with certainty that it existed, or it didn&#x27;t exist at all.</text></item><item><author>bazoom42</author><text>Worth noting Atlantis wasn’t some widely known legend like Troy. We literally only know it from Plato, who used it as a moral fable.<p>No Greek historian mention Atlantis. No Greek myth or epic mention Atlantis.<p>We might also ask where the fabled cave from The Republic is actually located.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>empath-nirvana</author><text>The ancient greeks (and romans) often claimed that some piece of writing was sourced from ancient knowledge -- the egyptians and the chaldeans (babylonians) being frequent purported sources -- sometimes they even sourced things to particular people&#x2F;gods (Hermes, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Zarathustra). Many (probably most) of those attributions were probably false.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?</title><url>https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/29/atlantis-minoan-civilisation-santorini/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speak_plainly</author><text>The reason for the lack of Greek history on the topic is because it was a closely guarded Egyptian piece of knowledge, apparently.<p>The story of &#x27;Atlantis&#x27; as Plato knew it, came to him from Critias (the younger) through his father, Critias (the elder, also Plato&#x27;s great grandfather), who got it from his father Dropides who received it directly from Solon, who learned of the story from his time in Egypt, specifically via priests in Sais who supposedly maintained an artifact from this lost civilization.<p>It&#x27;s clear that Plato&#x27;s recanting of the story is embellished, he probably made up a great number or all of details to support his ideas and what he was trying to get across, but it&#x27;s also possible that there are germs of truth in the story, such an ancient civilization being destroyed that Egyptians were aware of.<p>It&#x27;s not a stretch to imagine that Egyptians had knowledge of ancient civilizations, or that secret knowledge was revealed to Greeks, and it&#x27;s not stretch that civilizations rose and fell all over the Earth. There isn&#x27;t much to hang your hat on but I think we can charitably assume there was some real basis to the story that Plato based his writing on.<p>Did ancient Egyptians poses knowledge of the Americas and encounter its population? Or was it a story about a local group of people? Or perhaps it was a general story of a pre-historic civilization and the associated cataclysms that ended it? Who knows, but I don&#x27;t think you can say with certainty that it existed, or it didn&#x27;t exist at all.</text></item><item><author>bazoom42</author><text>Worth noting Atlantis wasn’t some widely known legend like Troy. We literally only know it from Plato, who used it as a moral fable.<p>No Greek historian mention Atlantis. No Greek myth or epic mention Atlantis.<p>We might also ask where the fabled cave from The Republic is actually located.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sprocklem</author><text>We also have no surviving Egyptian accounts of Atlantis. It was not uncommon, however, for Greeks to attribute fictional and fabricated information to the Egyptians due to how relatively ancient – and therefore, wise – they were believed to be.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Data science tips and tricks from the developer community</title><url>https://blog.algorithmia.com/becoming-a-10x-data-scientist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>It&#x27;s worth nothing that the article does not discuss the <i>reproducibility</i> of results (e.g. with a Jupyter Notebook) and the implementation of said results (e.g. deploying&#x2F;validating models), both of which matter <i>much</i> more than any code style conventions for data-related projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcanus</author><text>^ this.<p>I cannot describe how many times I&#x27;ve been shown results and when asking how to reproduce them, after several notes (and sometimes complaints to higher ups) I eventually get a series of command line arguments or a barely functioning R-script.<p>These conclusions are too important to be so sloppily produced. We need verification, validation and uncertainty quantification for any result provided to decision makers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Data science tips and tricks from the developer community</title><url>https://blog.algorithmia.com/becoming-a-10x-data-scientist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>It&#x27;s worth nothing that the article does not discuss the <i>reproducibility</i> of results (e.g. with a Jupyter Notebook) and the implementation of said results (e.g. deploying&#x2F;validating models), both of which matter <i>much</i> more than any code style conventions for data-related projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>QuercusMax</author><text>This 100%. I have read postmortems of some &quot;significant discoveries&quot; which have turned out to only be reproducible on a particular build or software on a single analyst&#x27;s machine. Or not at all. One &quot;result&quot; turned out to hinge on the iteration order of python dictionaries.<p>And this definitely didn&#x27;t happen after those working on tools to help said analysts make reproducible results encouraged the analysts to use said tools... No, that would be crazy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)</title><url>https://bruces.medium.com/homo-sapiens-declared-extinct-by-bruce-sterling-1999-cc8b0f94b195</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>I haven&#x27;t read or thought of this in a long time. It&#x27;s a really good short story. Thank you for sharing!<p>Some of my other short story favorites:<p>- The Egg, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.galactanet.com&#x2F;oneoff&#x2F;theegg_mod.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.galactanet.com&#x2F;oneoff&#x2F;theegg_mod.html</a><p>- MMAcevedo, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo</a><p>- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shsdavisapes.pbworks.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;Omelas.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shsdavisapes.pbworks.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;Omelas.pdf</a><p>- Last Contact, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zestfullyblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;last-contact-by-stephen-baxter-part-1.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zestfullyblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;last-contact-by-s...</a></text></item><item><author>mjfisher</author><text>Seems a good time to link to the well-loved short sci-fi story &quot;They&#x27;re Made out of Meat&quot; by Terry Bisson:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mit.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;dpolicar&#x2F;writing&#x2F;prose&#x2F;text&#x2F;thinkingMeat.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mit.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;dpolicar&#x2F;writing&#x2F;prose&#x2F;text&#x2F;think...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>networked</author><text>Since &quot;Lena&quot; (&quot;MMAcevedo&quot;) and &quot;They&#x27;re Made Out of Meat&quot; from this subthread are on my &quot;fiction recommendations&quot; list, let me share the list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbohdan.com&#x2F;fiction-recs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbohdan.com&#x2F;fiction-recs</a>.<p>I highly recommend &quot;Basilisk collection&quot; by Blackle Mori (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;suricrasia.online&#x2F;unfiction&#x2F;basilisk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;suricrasia.online&#x2F;unfiction&#x2F;basilisk&#x2F;</a>), a fascinating short story written as a fictional Wikipedia page, like &quot;Lena&quot;. It is about a partial hash inversion anomaly. Really! I would call its genre &quot;hard computer science fiction&quot;. It was a delight to stumble upon after I followed a link to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;suricrasia.online&#x2F;iceberg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;suricrasia.online&#x2F;iceberg&#x2F;</a>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)</title><url>https://bruces.medium.com/homo-sapiens-declared-extinct-by-bruce-sterling-1999-cc8b0f94b195</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>I haven&#x27;t read or thought of this in a long time. It&#x27;s a really good short story. Thank you for sharing!<p>Some of my other short story favorites:<p>- The Egg, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.galactanet.com&#x2F;oneoff&#x2F;theegg_mod.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.galactanet.com&#x2F;oneoff&#x2F;theegg_mod.html</a><p>- MMAcevedo, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo</a><p>- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shsdavisapes.pbworks.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;Omelas.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shsdavisapes.pbworks.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;Omelas.pdf</a><p>- Last Contact, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zestfullyblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;last-contact-by-stephen-baxter-part-1.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zestfullyblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;last-contact-by-s...</a></text></item><item><author>mjfisher</author><text>Seems a good time to link to the well-loved short sci-fi story &quot;They&#x27;re Made out of Meat&quot; by Terry Bisson:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mit.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;dpolicar&#x2F;writing&#x2F;prose&#x2F;text&#x2F;thinkingMeat.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mit.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;dpolicar&#x2F;writing&#x2F;prose&#x2F;text&#x2F;think...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dTal</author><text>Nitpick: the title of the qntm story is &quot;Lena&quot;, not &quot;MMAcevedo&quot; - the latter is the title of the fictional Wikipedia article that is the framing device :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ghostery exposed everyone's email address in its GDPR email by not using BCC</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8m45k6/ghostery_have_exposed_everyones_email_address_in/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>Ghostery is owned by Cliqz and Cliqz GmbH (which is majority-owned by Hubert Burda Media) is based in Germany.<p>CC instead of BCC has been a regulatory offence with fines up to 300000 EUR before GDPR. This is not a theoretical risk, companies have been fined for that in Germany.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ghostery exposed everyone's email address in its GDPR email by not using BCC</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8m45k6/ghostery_have_exposed_everyones_email_address_in/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>labster</author><text>I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m surprised that someone would do this. I had just written a breach policy that included &quot;Use the Bcc field to send notification, don&#x27;t make it worse than it already is.&quot;<p>Pedantry: title should use &quot;its&quot;, not &quot;it&#x27;s&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New UX for Jenkins: Blue Ocean 1.0</title><url>https://jenkins.io/blog/2017/04/05/say-hello-blueocean-1-0/#say-hello-to-blue-ocean-1-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piva00</author><text>The problem we are facing at my company is: we have a federated Jenkins setup where each team got their own instance and my team managing Jenkins updates, etc.<p>You don&#x27;t know the pain we suffer from this plugin ecosystem. Installing a bunch of plugins which depends on a bunch of other stuff, there&#x27;s no real dependency management for this and it&#x27;s thoroughly painful when one of the teams decide to upgrade one of their plugins and break their whole setup because of it.<p>It has happened before even with basic plugins like &quot;Git&quot;, one upgrade completely broke more than 50% of our instances (we are running about 50 instances right now) because a lot of other plugins relied on it and then needed to be upgraded, these upgrades then broke other plugins which depended on them and this started a domino effect.<p>Also, some plugins are just released and never taken care of, we have to maintain about 10 forks of plugins because there&#x27;s no curation about them.<p>We came to the point where Jenkins flexibility by itself is a liability.<p>I know that Jenkins is wonderful for smaller teams but there&#x27;s a point where the lack of governance really hurts and it&#x27;s the main burden about it.<p>But of course, that&#x27;s a given for any flexibility, too much of it and you have to design boundaries to contain problems... I&#x27;m just ranting because after this stint I&#x27;m burned about Jenkins, to the point where I don&#x27;t want ever in my life to have to work with or use it.</text></item><item><author>tokenizerrr</author><text>The point of Jenkins is the powerful plugin ecosystem. Installing a few plugins is IMO exactly how it&#x27;s supposed to be and not at all a burden.</text></item><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Hi James, good to see Blue Ocean entering GA :)<p>It has improved a lot since I last tried it. Although my team is moving towards Travis for everything except server deployments. Pains me to say since I especially appreciate self-hosting, but Jenkins is still massively behind in everything outside of Blue Ocean. :&#x2F;<p>For lots of things that are now basic in all CI&#x2F;CD systems (email&#x2F;slack&#x2F;irc notifications, github login, etc), Jenkins still requires external plugins and&#x2F;or a ton of setup from the really clunky UI. It&#x27;s too much :(<p>What&#x27;s the plan to resolve this? Is blue ocean going to spread to the other areas of Jenkins?</text></item><item><author>i386</author><text>I am the leader of the Blue Ocean project - feel free to ask me anything :)<p>This is just the first release of what we hope to be many more in the coming weeks and months. The surface area of Jenkins is _huge_ and we may not have all your use-cases covered - please send us your feedback and feature requests by signing up to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;issues.jenkins-ci.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;issues.jenkins-ci.org</a> and submit a new issue under the &#x27;blueocean-plugin&#x27; component.<p>A few things that are coming up soon:<p>- Support for Github Enterprise<p>- Full read&#x2F;write from the Visual Pipeline Editor for any Git
repository (Github is supported today!)<p>- Visual Pipeline Editor feature parity with Declarative Pipeline</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solatic</author><text>The core plugin system is painfully broken.<p>It&#x27;s like kernel panics: if an application causes the kernel to panic, then the more fundamental bug is in the kernel, not the application. If upgrading a plugin through the UI can cause other plugins to break because of mismanaged dependencies, then that&#x27;s not really a bug in the plugin, but in the plugin management scheme.<p>That Jenkins does not forbid administrators from upgrading through the UI plugins which are fixed dependencies of other plugins without <i>at least</i> a warning message about the possible damage to the instance, is a critical defect, one that has gone unfixed practically since the creation of the tool. And so it is a defect which should immediately disqualify the tool from consideration in any large environment where the need to maintain critical updates (security etc.) while keeping uptime high is crucial.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New UX for Jenkins: Blue Ocean 1.0</title><url>https://jenkins.io/blog/2017/04/05/say-hello-blueocean-1-0/#say-hello-to-blue-ocean-1-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piva00</author><text>The problem we are facing at my company is: we have a federated Jenkins setup where each team got their own instance and my team managing Jenkins updates, etc.<p>You don&#x27;t know the pain we suffer from this plugin ecosystem. Installing a bunch of plugins which depends on a bunch of other stuff, there&#x27;s no real dependency management for this and it&#x27;s thoroughly painful when one of the teams decide to upgrade one of their plugins and break their whole setup because of it.<p>It has happened before even with basic plugins like &quot;Git&quot;, one upgrade completely broke more than 50% of our instances (we are running about 50 instances right now) because a lot of other plugins relied on it and then needed to be upgraded, these upgrades then broke other plugins which depended on them and this started a domino effect.<p>Also, some plugins are just released and never taken care of, we have to maintain about 10 forks of plugins because there&#x27;s no curation about them.<p>We came to the point where Jenkins flexibility by itself is a liability.<p>I know that Jenkins is wonderful for smaller teams but there&#x27;s a point where the lack of governance really hurts and it&#x27;s the main burden about it.<p>But of course, that&#x27;s a given for any flexibility, too much of it and you have to design boundaries to contain problems... I&#x27;m just ranting because after this stint I&#x27;m burned about Jenkins, to the point where I don&#x27;t want ever in my life to have to work with or use it.</text></item><item><author>tokenizerrr</author><text>The point of Jenkins is the powerful plugin ecosystem. Installing a few plugins is IMO exactly how it&#x27;s supposed to be and not at all a burden.</text></item><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Hi James, good to see Blue Ocean entering GA :)<p>It has improved a lot since I last tried it. Although my team is moving towards Travis for everything except server deployments. Pains me to say since I especially appreciate self-hosting, but Jenkins is still massively behind in everything outside of Blue Ocean. :&#x2F;<p>For lots of things that are now basic in all CI&#x2F;CD systems (email&#x2F;slack&#x2F;irc notifications, github login, etc), Jenkins still requires external plugins and&#x2F;or a ton of setup from the really clunky UI. It&#x27;s too much :(<p>What&#x27;s the plan to resolve this? Is blue ocean going to spread to the other areas of Jenkins?</text></item><item><author>i386</author><text>I am the leader of the Blue Ocean project - feel free to ask me anything :)<p>This is just the first release of what we hope to be many more in the coming weeks and months. The surface area of Jenkins is _huge_ and we may not have all your use-cases covered - please send us your feedback and feature requests by signing up to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;issues.jenkins-ci.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;issues.jenkins-ci.org</a> and submit a new issue under the &#x27;blueocean-plugin&#x27; component.<p>A few things that are coming up soon:<p>- Support for Github Enterprise<p>- Full read&#x2F;write from the Visual Pipeline Editor for any Git
repository (Github is supported today!)<p>- Visual Pipeline Editor feature parity with Declarative Pipeline</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenizerrr</author><text>You can manage plugins by dropping jar files in the plugins folder. It sounds like you have 50 teams with their own Jenkins which they have administrative control over, leading to chaos. This doesn&#x27;t surprise me. Have you considered letting your team also manage the plugins and locking them all to a specific version?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator</title><url>https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>la_oveja</author><text>i do prefer kitty[0] if i want a modern terminal emulator<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;kitty">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;kitty</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivolimmen</author><text>Me too. Nothing beats the &quot;CTRL + SHIFT + G&quot; option (open last output in less); no other terminal has it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator</title><url>https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>la_oveja</author><text>i do prefer kitty[0] if i want a modern terminal emulator<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;kitty">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;kitty</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skywal_l</author><text>My understanding is that kitty has an automatic (opt-out) update feature [0][1]. I don&#x27;t really like the idea of a terminal doing that.<p>However I like the fact that kitty developer(s) actively improved the state of the terminal emulation with their new keyboard and graphic protocols [2].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2481">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2481</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;pull&#x2F;3544">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kovidgoyal&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;pull&#x2F;3544</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40378357">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40378357</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bem94</author><text>I have so many questions:<p>- Where can I get the ISA specification?[1]<p>- Where can I get a compiler?<p>- Is there a link to the &quot;softcore model&quot;?<p>With RISC-V you can start very simple and small (micro-controller) and work your way up in understanding and implementation to a very large core (application class). POWER is a monster of an architecture, designed more for &quot;big iron&quot;. I guess that might limit the &quot;hobbyist&quot; factor RISC-V has.<p>1. This I think, all 1200 pages of it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-vers...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kop316</author><text>I own a Talos II (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raptorcs.com&#x2F;TALOSII&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raptorcs.com&#x2F;TALOSII&#x2F;</a>) computer. It actually runs an official port of Debian (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;PPC64" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;PPC64</a>) on it, which includes a compiler.</text></comment>
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<story><title>IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bem94</author><text>I have so many questions:<p>- Where can I get the ISA specification?[1]<p>- Where can I get a compiler?<p>- Is there a link to the &quot;softcore model&quot;?<p>With RISC-V you can start very simple and small (micro-controller) and work your way up in understanding and implementation to a very large core (application class). POWER is a monster of an architecture, designed more for &quot;big iron&quot;. I guess that might limit the &quot;hobbyist&quot; factor RISC-V has.<p>1. This I think, all 1200 pages of it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-vers...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blattimwind</author><text>PowerPC and POWER are relatively mainstream. It&#x27;s supported by IBM XL, GCC, Clang and most major JITs (including luajit).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Instagram Is Facebook Now</title><url>https://embedded.substack.com/p/instagram-is-facebook-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomsearch</author><text>I think Facebook (meta)‘s key asset is now WhatsApp.<p>Facebook is practically dead. It’s just a stream of awful content that isn’t from your friends. It’s hyper advertising and desperate attempts to clone other platforms as it slowly dies. It’ll continue for a long time, eventually becoming yahoo like, but young people do not care about it at all.<p>Instagram has similarly been over monetised but in an earlier stage. It has been roundly defeated by TikTok, utterly destroyed by TikTok, in the battle for teens’ attention.<p>Oculus was a great buy but the gap (in terms of years) between instagram’s peak and oculus really coming online is just too wide to “save” the company.<p>In contrast, WhatsApp is still used across the generations. It’s the one platform where grandparents and grandkids are both active users.<p>If I were Zuck then I’d focus on turning WhatsApp into an Asian-style chat platform with integrated services. That I can’t wire money on WhatsApp in the U.K. is I think a very very big strategic error on his part.<p>It seems clear Facebook (meta) can’t build anything truly new, but they can certainly extend platforms - they should focus on WhatsApp. It has longevity, strong network effects, and huge potential. Just don’t use ads and destroy it.<p>Otoh Facebook deserves to die so I hope he continues to think oculus will save them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k_bx</author><text>Ukraine is of course no major market for Facebook, but it&#x27;s a good example that doesn&#x27;t match what you describe at all. In Ukraine, Facebook is the place where you follow top journalists, anti-corruption people, activists, and other public figures. It&#x27;s basically an extremely valuable addition to the media, where anyone can be lifted in popularity in a matter of hours if their content is truly important. Facebook has been an invaluable tool during the Maidan revolution in 2014 combining its social and video-streaming capabilities. It works in times where media is breaking down, being bought by oligarchs, and isn&#x27;t to be relied upon.<p>I don&#x27;t see any alternative that would replace it, in terms of being social, everyone being present on it, and allowing long text+image+video content to be posted and spread easily.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Instagram Is Facebook Now</title><url>https://embedded.substack.com/p/instagram-is-facebook-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomsearch</author><text>I think Facebook (meta)‘s key asset is now WhatsApp.<p>Facebook is practically dead. It’s just a stream of awful content that isn’t from your friends. It’s hyper advertising and desperate attempts to clone other platforms as it slowly dies. It’ll continue for a long time, eventually becoming yahoo like, but young people do not care about it at all.<p>Instagram has similarly been over monetised but in an earlier stage. It has been roundly defeated by TikTok, utterly destroyed by TikTok, in the battle for teens’ attention.<p>Oculus was a great buy but the gap (in terms of years) between instagram’s peak and oculus really coming online is just too wide to “save” the company.<p>In contrast, WhatsApp is still used across the generations. It’s the one platform where grandparents and grandkids are both active users.<p>If I were Zuck then I’d focus on turning WhatsApp into an Asian-style chat platform with integrated services. That I can’t wire money on WhatsApp in the U.K. is I think a very very big strategic error on his part.<p>It seems clear Facebook (meta) can’t build anything truly new, but they can certainly extend platforms - they should focus on WhatsApp. It has longevity, strong network effects, and huge potential. Just don’t use ads and destroy it.<p>Otoh Facebook deserves to die so I hope he continues to think oculus will save them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicce</author><text>While many are still using WhatsApp, it has taken significant reputation impact and users are dropping. Potential is only for the limited user group. It can be only changed by changing owner in general.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)</title><url>https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fconnor</author><text>&quot;When falling behind, the system fix is to hire more people until the team moves into treading water.&quot;<p>I actually disagree with this statement. Teams can be falling behind for a variety of reasons and throwing more people at the problem can often cause further issues especially if the domain &#x2F; technology &#x2F; code base &#x2F; system ..... Is complex.<p>Onboarding people into a team is an incredibly costly exercise, to do it while a team is already struggling will often create a worse problem. You need to be sure that the reason the team is struggling is purely an hour&#x27;s in the day and not due to other factors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>papito</author><text>It&#x27;s like every generation is determined to re-learn the Mythical Man Month - the hard way. You crack it open and boom, there is your anti-pattern right there, called &quot;Brooke&#x27;s Law&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)</title><url>https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fconnor</author><text>&quot;When falling behind, the system fix is to hire more people until the team moves into treading water.&quot;<p>I actually disagree with this statement. Teams can be falling behind for a variety of reasons and throwing more people at the problem can often cause further issues especially if the domain &#x2F; technology &#x2F; code base &#x2F; system ..... Is complex.<p>Onboarding people into a team is an incredibly costly exercise, to do it while a team is already struggling will often create a worse problem. You need to be sure that the reason the team is struggling is purely an hour&#x27;s in the day and not due to other factors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>This is the only point in the article I disagreed with as well. My suggestion for the &quot;falling behind&quot; phase would be to buy a few days to allow the team to decompress from whatever shit coaster they are currently riding. Letting people actually unwind can help bring strategic focus and calm back into the fold.<p>Otherwise, this read like a documentary about my current company and product.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/05/14/new-app-lets-you-boycott-koch-brothers-monsanto-and-more-by-scanning-your-shopping-cart/?partner=yahootix</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinpet</author><text>So you're telling me you get my email, my political inclinations, and my offline purchasing habits.<p>T&#38;C includes the "no class action" and binding arbitration clauses. Privacy policy doesn't actually mention anything about campaigns I use or products I scan, which makes my suspicious mind ... umm... suspicious. At least it omits the "or as otherwise allowed by law" blanket "we do whatever we want" clause.<p>They do say they won't sell or rent personally identifiable information. I'm not sure if they could weasel out of it by using some sort tracking cookie, but it looks like they seem to be limiting themselves to selling aggregate data.<p>I'm not a lawyer, of course, but I don't think I really said anything anyone else can't read for themselves.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/05/14/new-app-lets-you-boycott-koch-brothers-monsanto-and-more-by-scanning-your-shopping-cart/?partner=yahootix</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinthew</author><text>So what exactly makes the Koch Brothers and Monsanto worse than Facebook (also a horrible political lobbying monster corporation)? Because they're not tech companies who your friends work at?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover)</title><url>http://arantaday.com/the-modern-java-ecosystem</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hello_moto</author><text>I'd like to add a few things here.<p>Jersey is an implementation of JAX-RS. It has 3 major pieces: jersey-core, jersey-client, jersey-server. (The name should be obvious what they are for).<p>If you're writing JAX-RS services, you can return a few different formats: XML, JSON, ATOM. All you need to do is to annotate the method with the following annotation:<p><pre><code> // will return XML or JSON depending on the request from the client.
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This is a big win if you need to support both.<p><pre><code> - Object to XML conversion is done by JAXB.
- Object to JSON conversion is done by Jackson via JAXB.
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Jersey is part of JavaEE 6 standard (part of your Application Server if it supports it).<p>What's lacking from JavaEE 6 is an MVC framework which is targeted for JavaEE 7.<p>Another key feature is JAX-WS (the plain old SOAP WebService). The nice thing about JavaEE 6 is that the minimum differences in the programming style between JAX-RS and JAX-WS.<p>JAX-RS operates according to resources (e.g.: give me all students, give me student with id=1, delete student with id=1, etc). So some of the examples would be:<p><pre><code> // Rough pseudo-code, omitting a few JAX-RS annotation
public class StudentResource{
@Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
public &#60;List&#62; all(){}
@Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
public Student get(long id){}
}
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JAX-WS operates according to services (e.g.: initiateInvoiceWorkflow, performPayment, etc).<p><pre><code> public interface AccountingService{
@WebMethod(operationName="initiateInvoiceWorkflow" ...)
Invoice initiateInvoiceWorkFlow();
}
// have your implementation...
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So in theory, you can have something that's called StudentRepository where you can use that repository with both JAX-RS (REST) and JAX-WS (WebService) implementation easily (I've done this and it's quite straightforward) if your "Enterprise client" forces you to do so.<p>The important bit here is testing. You can easily test both JAX-RS and JAX-WS implementation in both unit-test or integration-test. You can easily do unit-test because you don't need to deploy them to the server: they're just normal Java classes. You can do integration test by deploying them to the server and generates the client implementation (in which I'll cover next).<p>The client-side implementation of JAX-RS is also similar to that of JAX-WS programming style.<p>In JAX-WS, you grab a WSDL, throw it to a generator tool that comes with JDK to generate the model (Invoice, Student, etc) and the proxy client-side to call the server-side. Very very straightforward, 5 minute job.<p>In JAX-RS, you'd use jersey-client to perform HTTP call as follow:<p><pre><code> // url =&#62; is a string that points to JAX-RS end-point e.g.: student/1
// header =&#62; json? xml? atom?
// type =&#62; (typeof Student) (well... it's Java).
Student student = Client.create().resource(url).accept(header).get(type);
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Keep in mind that in the client-side, your Student class must have roughly the same structure and must be annotated using JAXB XML annotation (the client-side also relies on JAXB -&#62; Jackson -&#62; Java object conversion for the case of JSON, or just JAXB -&#62; JAva object for the case of XML).<p>So no hacking using XPath or something like that (I work in Ruby once in a while and when I read some of the 3rd-party libraries/gems that implement client-side API against popular service provider, most of the implementations do brute force using XPath querying node element and stuff).<p>PS: Excuse me for the poor formatting, where can I learn to format my comment?<p>UPDATE: fix the format.<p>Oh and one more thing: JAX-RS (Jersey) is just an implementation on top of Servlet. So all of your previous knowledge regarding to Servlet (Context, deployment, URL, Filter) will be definitely useful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Best Books I Read in 2013</title><url>http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>&quot;But I read mostly nonfiction because I always want to learn more about how the world works.&quot;<p>Boy oh boy, if I had a quarter every time I heard that probably I could get a tall Starbucks latte. Many, <i>many</i> people are under the assumption that fiction is stuff that somebody made up and hence useless while non-fiction gives you information about the world; so if you&#x27;re a busy person, read non-fiction (it&#x27;s of, course debatable if such a neat classification even can be done). What these people do not realize is that great fiction can provide <i>more</i> information about the world, humanity in general, and what&#x27;s even more important, yourself, then you can ever glimpse by reading another Gladwell book.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>Well, if you compare the whole genre of &quot;great fiction&quot; to &quot;another Gladwell book,&quot; that gives the initial advantage to &quot;great fiction,&quot; for sure.<p>I read some of fiction and some of nonfiction, but definitely skew to reading more nonfiction. One nonfiction book, which I think someone on HN told me isn&#x27;t even the best book on its specific topic, was very meaningful to me and helped me learn a lot about myself. I read the entire book out loud to my dad when he was paralyzed, about three years after his paralyzing accident (which was about three years before he died). The book is <i>The Endurance: Shackleton&#x27;s Legendary Antarctic Expedition,</i>[1] entirely nonfiction, but nonetheless a way to be transported into an earlier time and a place that I am unlikely ever to see in my lifetime. The characters were all real, but they all got me thinking about how I think and about how I get along in life. Great nonfiction can can provide more information about the world, humanity in general, and what&#x27;s even more important, yourself, then you can ever glimpse by reading another science-fiction novel.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antarctic-Expedition-ebook/dp/B001O1O6PE/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antarc...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The Best Books I Read in 2013</title><url>http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>&quot;But I read mostly nonfiction because I always want to learn more about how the world works.&quot;<p>Boy oh boy, if I had a quarter every time I heard that probably I could get a tall Starbucks latte. Many, <i>many</i> people are under the assumption that fiction is stuff that somebody made up and hence useless while non-fiction gives you information about the world; so if you&#x27;re a busy person, read non-fiction (it&#x27;s of, course debatable if such a neat classification even can be done). What these people do not realize is that great fiction can provide <i>more</i> information about the world, humanity in general, and what&#x27;s even more important, yourself, then you can ever glimpse by reading another Gladwell book.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oskarth</author><text>This is a very common viewpoint among technical people, sadly. Kind of like how humanists think math is about counting things. I&#x27;m not implying Gates is of that variety, but, you know, his kind, <i>our</i> kind. Not that there&#x27;s much point in reading Shakespeare nowadays, anyway.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_cultures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Two_cultures</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Vanilla JS, fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework</title><url>http://vanilla-js.com/</url><text>Vanilla JS is a fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework
for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dag11</author><text>I'll take<p><pre><code> $('p').text('Hello.')
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any day!</text></item><item><author>dotborg</author><text>jQuery API is not pretty</text></item><item><author>ashray</author><text>Fast and lightweight, yes. But vanilla-js is certainly not cross platform ;) You see, that's actually one of the biggest problems with JS and one of the main reasons why people use things like jQuery (apart from the pretty API..).<p>That cross platform bit is the weakest link <i>sigh</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>v413</author><text>This enumeration is done the wrong way. You enumerate over a DOM node list which looks like an array, which includes enumerable properties like "length". This means that the variable "p" at some point will be "length" and "length".innerHTML = "..." will produce an error.<p>The proper way is:<p>for( var i=0, ps=document.getElementsByTagName('p'), len=ps.length; i &#60; len; i++) {ps[i].innerHTML = 'Hello.';}</text></comment>
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for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dag11</author><text>I'll take<p><pre><code> $('p').text('Hello.')
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any day!</text></item><item><author>dotborg</author><text>jQuery API is not pretty</text></item><item><author>ashray</author><text>Fast and lightweight, yes. But vanilla-js is certainly not cross platform ;) You see, that's actually one of the biggest problems with JS and one of the main reasons why people use things like jQuery (apart from the pretty API..).<p>That cross platform bit is the weakest link <i>sigh</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>The jquery version is easier to write, and less prone to error, but in the native version it's much more clear what's actually going on.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“We're Shutting Down Our 3G Network”</title><url>https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmar</author><text>I have an old OnePlus phone that still works fine, but it won&#x27;t work with AT&amp;T&#x27;s network changes. I called and AT&amp;T said I could get an iPhone SE for free, but when the contracts came for me to confirm, there was no mention of getting a free phone, and instead I was committing to paying $400 over three years. The AT&amp;T reps assured me I&#x27;d get be credited at some point in the future and that the phone would end up being free, but I just don&#x27;t trust them. It&#x27;s crazy to me that something that happens as frequently as upgrading a phone requires so much manual intervention from human support representatives and it still doesn&#x27;t work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quaintdev</author><text>Wow this is crazy. In India, operators have no incentive in what handset their customer uses so they cannot interfer with user&#x27;s choices.<p>Besides, they can&#x27;t disable 3G&#x2F;2G because of the sheer amount of people who still use these networks from villages.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2023/01/23/nyc-jail-rikers-mail-surveillance-securus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Even though I&#x27;m not a fan of private prisons, I wonder what would happen if they had a contract that gave bonuses for every year a former inmate stayed out of jail? Maybe that&#x27;s already been tried.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I feel like the prison system is the victim of perverse incentives.<p>The goal given to them is &quot;house this person securely for a specific length of time <i>at the lowest cost possible</i>&quot;. They are rewarded for cutting costs.<p>But the total cost <i>we</i> pay is the cost to imprison this person the second and third time when they re-offend. It&#x27;s the policing costs when they&#x27;re homeless because they can&#x27;t find housing or get a job. It&#x27;s the health care costs they can never pay for when all of the above inevitably leads to further problems.<p>To reduce the lifetime cost of this person on society (financially and otherwise) we should be incentivising prisons to actually rehabilitate.<p>But we won&#x27;t, because our society is largely based on Calvinist nonsense that says there are &quot;bad people&quot; and we should celebrate those people having bad things happen to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>Suddenly prisons are trying to incarcerate the factually innocent, since they&#x27;re the least likely to &quot;re-offend.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2023/01/23/nyc-jail-rikers-mail-surveillance-securus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Even though I&#x27;m not a fan of private prisons, I wonder what would happen if they had a contract that gave bonuses for every year a former inmate stayed out of jail? Maybe that&#x27;s already been tried.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I feel like the prison system is the victim of perverse incentives.<p>The goal given to them is &quot;house this person securely for a specific length of time <i>at the lowest cost possible</i>&quot;. They are rewarded for cutting costs.<p>But the total cost <i>we</i> pay is the cost to imprison this person the second and third time when they re-offend. It&#x27;s the policing costs when they&#x27;re homeless because they can&#x27;t find housing or get a job. It&#x27;s the health care costs they can never pay for when all of the above inevitably leads to further problems.<p>To reduce the lifetime cost of this person on society (financially and otherwise) we should be incentivising prisons to actually rehabilitate.<p>But we won&#x27;t, because our society is largely based on Calvinist nonsense that says there are &quot;bad people&quot; and we should celebrate those people having bad things happen to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffwask</author><text>The problem is more insidious, their incentives are to keep them incarcerated, not retrain them in any meaningful way, and hope they repeat.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The scourge of job title inflation</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2022/12/08/the-scourge-of-job-title-inflation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamH12113</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that &quot;engineer&quot; itself is a bit of title inflation. &quot;Software engineer&quot; was supposed to involve training people to apply engineering methodologies to software development. Today it&#x27;s just a fancy term for &quot;programmer&quot;.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>I have seen this happen more and more in tech as well. Engineers join a company right out of college, are promoted to &quot;senior&quot; in a couple of years, and &quot;staff&quot; another two or three years after that. Now because everyone is staff you have to keep making up fancier titles – senior staff, principal engineer, technical lead, architect, senior architect, chief of staff, partner engineer, distinguished engineer, technical fellow...<p>I asked a higher up why this was the case, and the response was simply that people quit if they aren&#x27;t promoted quick enough. Titles are free, and smaller companies have zero problems handing them out like candy to keep people happy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>denton-scratch</author><text>I have always referred to my trade as &quot;programmer&quot;. I&#x27;m not a trained engineer. My title-inflation path was something like this:<p>- Sales Support Analyst<p>- Sales Support Specialist<p>- Senior Support Analyst<p>- Software Engineer<p>- Senior Developer<p>I have nothing against the professionalisation of programming; it would be a good thing. But the fact remains that the great majority of programmers are <i>not</i> engineers. We are tradesmen, a bit like plumbers or domestic electricians. There&#x27;s nothing to be ashamed of in being a skilled tradesman; for a good part of my career, a plumber earned more than I did.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The scourge of job title inflation</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2022/12/08/the-scourge-of-job-title-inflation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamH12113</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that &quot;engineer&quot; itself is a bit of title inflation. &quot;Software engineer&quot; was supposed to involve training people to apply engineering methodologies to software development. Today it&#x27;s just a fancy term for &quot;programmer&quot;.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>I have seen this happen more and more in tech as well. Engineers join a company right out of college, are promoted to &quot;senior&quot; in a couple of years, and &quot;staff&quot; another two or three years after that. Now because everyone is staff you have to keep making up fancier titles – senior staff, principal engineer, technical lead, architect, senior architect, chief of staff, partner engineer, distinguished engineer, technical fellow...<p>I asked a higher up why this was the case, and the response was simply that people quit if they aren&#x27;t promoted quick enough. Titles are free, and smaller companies have zero problems handing them out like candy to keep people happy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>resonious</author><text>Yeah, I admit I&#x27;m a sucker for the &quot;engineer&quot; title but what I do makes me feel more like a tradesman then an engineer.<p>At the same time, I remember last year someone interviewed a bunch of non-software engineers who later got into software [1]. A good number of these folks actually do feel like software is still engineering.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hillelwayne.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;are-we-really-engineers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hillelwayne.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;are-we-really-engineers&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thinking Skills (2008) [pdf]</title><url>https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/wowcs08.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davekinkead</author><text>While I think programming can be a good way to teach general thinking skills like perspective, clarity, precision, and abstraction, I&#x27;m dubious about the claim that it is the best way to do so (§2.1).<p>Perspective - does learning multiple programming languages engender more awareness of different perspectives than say, learning multiple foreign natural languages?<p>Abstraction - does learning programming languages develop better use of conceptual abstraction than say, mathematics?<p>Precision and clarity - does learning programming languages develop better precision and clarity than studying philosophy and logic?<p>These are all empirical questions and no empiric data is provided. The lack of support in the argument for the conclusion given also hints that maybe learning programming isn&#x27;t _the best_ way to learn clarity &amp; precision after all.<p>Where I thinking learning to program stands out as superior is that it teaches a skill that is currently in high demand - programming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Well, I think practical experience in programming can be[0] unparalleled in teaching one <i>precision</i> and clarity of thought. One could think that any hard science or engineering discipline would do, but the truth is, programming is unique - because as they say, you can&#x27;t bullshit the compiler. You have to get the details perfectly right at all levels, or else your program either won&#x27;t compile or won&#x27;t work. In math, it&#x27;s easy to just not realize your reasoning doesn&#x27;t make sense. In science, it&#x27;s easy to bullshit yourself with data. In engineering, well... you can&#x27;t argue with nature, but your feedback loop is still much slower than in software.<p>I&#x27;d definitely say programming will teach you precision and clarity way better than logic and philosophy, because it&#x27;s grounded in reality. If you want to build something cool and&#x2F;or get paid, you have to <i>actually</i> think things through; the compiler won&#x27;t be impressed by your long paper loaded with smart-sounding words.<p>Also, a side benefit here is that some time spent thinking about representing real world in programs lets one discover just how imprecise, messy and ad hoc everything is - doubly so if it involves humans. I&#x27;m sure I wouldn&#x27;t internalize ideas like &quot;map != territory&quot; as well as I did if not for spending time thinking about modelling real world concepts in a computer program, and in the process realizing the &quot;territory&quot; they taught me in school was <i>just a map</i> (and a pretty shitty one).<p>&gt; <i>Abstraction - does learning programming languages develop better use of conceptual abstraction than say, mathematics?</i><p>I don&#x27;t know. I haven&#x27;t done much mathematics at the level when it gets interesting. I know algebra feels to me to require very similar kind of thinking as a lot of programming work.<p>--<p>[0] - I say &quot;can be&quot;, not &quot;is&quot;, because I&#x27;ve seen plenty of people who write code for a living, and yet their thoughts are as precise and reasoning as subtle as the Tsar Bomba. Somehow, some people don&#x27;t seem to realize that the cognitive discipline they use when programming can, and <i>should</i> be applied to &quot;normal life&quot; too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thinking Skills (2008) [pdf]</title><url>https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/wowcs08.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davekinkead</author><text>While I think programming can be a good way to teach general thinking skills like perspective, clarity, precision, and abstraction, I&#x27;m dubious about the claim that it is the best way to do so (§2.1).<p>Perspective - does learning multiple programming languages engender more awareness of different perspectives than say, learning multiple foreign natural languages?<p>Abstraction - does learning programming languages develop better use of conceptual abstraction than say, mathematics?<p>Precision and clarity - does learning programming languages develop better precision and clarity than studying philosophy and logic?<p>These are all empirical questions and no empiric data is provided. The lack of support in the argument for the conclusion given also hints that maybe learning programming isn&#x27;t _the best_ way to learn clarity &amp; precision after all.<p>Where I thinking learning to program stands out as superior is that it teaches a skill that is currently in high demand - programming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>It is difficult to gather empirical data on human behavior and efficiency, so I wouldn&#x27;t ding Rinard points for that (as a systems PL researcher from MIT, he surely knows how to measure numbers). You&#x27;ll find the lack of useful empirical data for most any pedagogic technique (what we can measure is performance in simple tasks, by this doesn&#x27;t scale up).<p>Math and philosophy are hella abstract, while learning through programming at least has the learner building something concrete that can be more gratifying. When maintaining the student&#x27;s interest is much of the battle, it might not matter as programming is not better than the other approaches, it only needs to be good enough.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations</title><url>https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilamont</author><text>Thanks for posting.<p>Question for astronomers: Based on the linked article from that blog post about the five LaGrange points relative to the Earth and Sun (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webb.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;about&#x2F;orbit.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webb.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;about&#x2F;orbit.html</a>) are there similar points associated with the other planets? If so, how does the heavier gravity of the Sun (for a planet like Mercury) or the gas giants and their large moons impact the points?</text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>I couldn’t find a permalink to the NPR article, but here’s the linked NASA blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nasa.gov&#x2F;webb&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;29&#x2F;nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nasa.gov&#x2F;webb&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;29&#x2F;nasa-says-webbs-exces...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Yes, Lagrange points exist for any two bodies in orbit so long as:<p>- The ratio of masses between the two bodies is sufficiently large.<p>- The mass of objects orbiting at or near the Lagrange points is sufficiently <i>small</i>.<p>There are Lagrange points in the Earth-Sun system (JWST will orbit near L2), the Earth-Moon system (the &quot;L4 Society&quot; is named for one of these, proposed as the location for permanent habitable space colonies), and the other planets of the solar system and the Sun.<p>For bodies of sufficiently <i>similar</i> masses, the Lagrange points aren&#x27;t well defined, as with Pluto and its comparatively giant moon &#x2F; sister-dwarf-planet Charon.<p>And there are limits to the mass of an object which can be orbited at a Lagrange point. It&#x27;s not possible, for example for there to be a &quot;twin Earth&quot; orbiting opposite the Sun from Earth, at the L3 point, as the mass of that object would destabilise the entire Earth-Sun-Twin system.<p>Lower mass of the secondary system would move Lagrange points closer to that body, higher masses would place Lagrange points at a greater distance from the secondary (lower-mass) body in an orbital pair.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what the situation is for highly complex orbital systems as with Jupiter and Saturn in which there are many moons which might peturb orbits near other planet-moon Lagrange points, though I suspect that these would still be reasonably well-defined for some of the larger moons of Jupiter and Saturn.<p>For a good visual explainer, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yewtu.be&#x2F;watch?v=Gu4vA2ztgGM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yewtu.be&#x2F;watch?v=Gu4vA2ztgGM</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations</title><url>https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilamont</author><text>Thanks for posting.<p>Question for astronomers: Based on the linked article from that blog post about the five LaGrange points relative to the Earth and Sun (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webb.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;about&#x2F;orbit.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webb.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;about&#x2F;orbit.html</a>) are there similar points associated with the other planets? If so, how does the heavier gravity of the Sun (for a planet like Mercury) or the gas giants and their large moons impact the points?</text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>I couldn’t find a permalink to the NPR article, but here’s the linked NASA blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nasa.gov&#x2F;webb&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;29&#x2F;nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nasa.gov&#x2F;webb&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;29&#x2F;nasa-says-webbs-exces...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlindner</author><text>The lagrange points exist regardless of the masses of the bodies. However the perturbing forces acting to pull bodies away from those points may be stronger or weaker depending on the masses involved. For Jupiter for example there are several thousands of asteroids that sit at it&#x27;s L4 and L5 points and make up a group of asteroids called the Trojans[1]. So it&#x27;s points are especially stable because of it&#x27;s large mass. The Earth-Moon Lagrange points for example aren&#x27;t very strong.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jupiter_trojan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jupiter_trojan</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/slashdot-founder-rob-malda-on-why-there-wont-be-another-hacker-news/?tid=rssfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text>Having to rewrite yourself constantly in order to fit your thought into a (let&#x27;s face it, fairly arbitrary) limit is not fun.</text></item><item><author>fyrabanks</author><text>&quot;I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I&#x27;ve never really been a fan of Twitter.&quot; &lt;-135 characters (+conveys the same info)</text></item><item><author>D9u</author><text>I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I&#x27;ve never really been a fan of Twitter or tweeting... (as this comment illustrates)</text></item><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&quot;I don’t think it’s going to work that way any more. I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what’s happening around the universe.&quot;<p>But then, I have to know to follow those people. And I get a load of crap from them about their lives and networks that I don&#x27;t want. Somehow having to &#x27;click through&#x27; 30 links on HN is too much work, but constantly keeping up with the latest hot people on twitter <i>isn&#x27;t</i> too much work? Makes no sense. Aggregators have served a purpose, and will continue to, for a long time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goatforce5</author><text>The 140 character limit was so that a tweet could fit in to an SMS message (160 characters) and have enough room left over to address it to @someone.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Format" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Twitter#Format</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/slashdot-founder-rob-malda-on-why-there-wont-be-another-hacker-news/?tid=rssfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text>Having to rewrite yourself constantly in order to fit your thought into a (let&#x27;s face it, fairly arbitrary) limit is not fun.</text></item><item><author>fyrabanks</author><text>&quot;I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I&#x27;ve never really been a fan of Twitter.&quot; &lt;-135 characters (+conveys the same info)</text></item><item><author>D9u</author><text>I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I&#x27;ve never really been a fan of Twitter or tweeting... (as this comment illustrates)</text></item><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&quot;I don’t think it’s going to work that way any more. I think that the power has decentralized. Successful people on Twitter basically can fulfill a lot of that same role. You can follow Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble and Tim Lee and you can get a pretty good summary of what’s happening around the universe.&quot;<p>But then, I have to know to follow those people. And I get a load of crap from them about their lives and networks that I don&#x27;t want. Somehow having to &#x27;click through&#x27; 30 links on HN is too much work, but constantly keeping up with the latest hot people on twitter <i>isn&#x27;t</i> too much work? Makes no sense. Aggregators have served a purpose, and will continue to, for a long time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binarybits</author><text>But it&#x27;s good for readers. And if you have a lot of followers your tweet will get read a lot more times than it&#x27;s written.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA</title><text>The application deadline for our winter 2016 batch is next Tuesday, and people frequently have a lot of questions about applying. Also happy to talk about anything else!<p>EDIT 11:15 AM PDT: I have to go. This was fun!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>Is there a place for Tarsnap at YC?<p>Applying for YC funding doesn&#x27;t make sense for several reasons:<p>1. I want to be king, not rich; everything I hear tells me that YC pushes companies to grow fast and increase their valuations, and that&#x27;s something I fundamentally don&#x27;t care about. I know that I&#x27;m stubborn enough that this would just result in a lot of frustration on both sides.<p>2. Tarsnap doesn&#x27;t need the money. It&#x27;s solidly profitable, and I honestly have no idea what I would do with investment money.<p>3. I don&#x27;t want to live in the bay area -- not even for 3 months. Granted, this seems like it may be less of an issue now that it&#x27;s possible for people with pre-existing conditions to get medical insurance; but the bay area is fundamentally not somewhere I can ever imagine myself wanting to live.<p>4. Converting Tarsnap into a US corporation would eat a lot of time and money. I completely understand why it&#x27;s necessary for companies YC is going to invest in; but it&#x27;s another reason why having YC invest in Tarsnap doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>I think YC and its portfolio companies are doing great and interesting things, and I&#x27;d like to be part of the community... but as explained above, taking funding doesn&#x27;t make sense; when I applied for the YC fellowship (I know it was a stretch) you told me to apply for funding instead; and you haven&#x27;t asked me to be part of YCR.<p>Is there some other option here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sama</author><text>None of our current programs sound like a good fit.<p>We&#x27;re considering doing something for later-stage companies that might be a good fit, though we haven&#x27;t sorted out details about the bay area for example. If it does end up as a &#x27;go&#x27;, we&#x27;d probably do it next year.<p>It&#x27;s also possible in future iterations of the fellowship we&#x27;ll be open to companies that are further along.<p>Hope we figure something out at some point!</text></comment>
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<story><title>I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA</title><text>The application deadline for our winter 2016 batch is next Tuesday, and people frequently have a lot of questions about applying. Also happy to talk about anything else!<p>EDIT 11:15 AM PDT: I have to go. This was fun!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>Is there a place for Tarsnap at YC?<p>Applying for YC funding doesn&#x27;t make sense for several reasons:<p>1. I want to be king, not rich; everything I hear tells me that YC pushes companies to grow fast and increase their valuations, and that&#x27;s something I fundamentally don&#x27;t care about. I know that I&#x27;m stubborn enough that this would just result in a lot of frustration on both sides.<p>2. Tarsnap doesn&#x27;t need the money. It&#x27;s solidly profitable, and I honestly have no idea what I would do with investment money.<p>3. I don&#x27;t want to live in the bay area -- not even for 3 months. Granted, this seems like it may be less of an issue now that it&#x27;s possible for people with pre-existing conditions to get medical insurance; but the bay area is fundamentally not somewhere I can ever imagine myself wanting to live.<p>4. Converting Tarsnap into a US corporation would eat a lot of time and money. I completely understand why it&#x27;s necessary for companies YC is going to invest in; but it&#x27;s another reason why having YC invest in Tarsnap doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>I think YC and its portfolio companies are doing great and interesting things, and I&#x27;d like to be part of the community... but as explained above, taking funding doesn&#x27;t make sense; when I applied for the YC fellowship (I know it was a stretch) you told me to apply for funding instead; and you haven&#x27;t asked me to be part of YCR.<p>Is there some other option here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>I think YC is the wrong place for this, for all the reasons you say. I don&#x27;t see any reason that Tarsnap fits in YC besides &quot;community&quot;, and even then it would be more of an outlier than a peer. It seems like it would fit in a community of people that are interested in lower risk, slower growing, but more personally lucrative businesses.<p>YC companies do technically interesting things for sure, but a lot of the community is probably more about hiring, office space, fund raising, financials, and that sort of thing. These are all different for high risk startups.<p>I heard about this &quot;Micropreneur&quot; thing several years ago. This is something that interests me, and I&#x27;ve been working part time on projects in this vein. It seems to me that people who want slower growth and less personal risk are inherently a little less &quot;collaborative&quot;. That describes me and there&#x27;s nothing wrong with it. Still, I understand the need to bounce ideas off of others, quickly fill in gaps in your knowledge, etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees</title><url>https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-copycat-layoffs-wont-help-tech-companies-or-their-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idopmstuff</author><text>I think the problem with this strategy is that it causes the wrong people to leave. If you&#x27;re a top performer, you&#x27;re going to feel like a 10% pay cut is very unfair, and you&#x27;re going to be able to get another job elsewhere fairly easily, even in this environment. If you&#x27;re not performing particularly well, it probably doesn&#x27;t feel as unreasonable, and even if you don&#x27;t like it, it&#x27;s tough to leave.<p>When done correctly, layoffs give 100% of the pain to 10% (or whatever) of the people, but you get to select the worst-performing people. Spreading the pain equally is much more liable to cost you your best-performing people.<p>I do think the one important thing to note is that the reference you quoted is to a manufacturer, where you&#x27;ve probably got more consistent performance across a given type of employee as compared to software developers.</text></item><item><author>tarr11</author><text>The professor recommends across the board pay cuts as an alternative to layoffs.<p>&gt; One thing that Lincoln Electric, which is a famous manufacturer of arc welding equipment, did well is instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.<p>Curious if there is research here on how this impacts the company? Seems like it would also increase stress and encourage top performers to seek new opportunities.<p>He also recommends hiring during a recession:<p>&gt; He actually hired during the 2000 recession and saw it as an opportunity to gain ground on the competition and gain market share when everybody was cutting jobs and stopped innovating.<p>I suppose this works when it works, and then fails completely when it doesn’t. In essence, this increases the risk profile on the company which seems problematic too. Would be curious if there are studies that show the outcomes of these strategies.<p>Perhaps there are no “good” strategies- just those that favor employees or those that favor investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blagie</author><text>Having seen both, I&#x27;m much more likely to leave &#x2F;after&#x2F; a layoff than after a 10% paycut.<p>In abstract, if there were a way to rank employees by ROI and contribution perfectly fairly, I might not worry about layoffs personally. However:<p>1) In my career, I&#x27;ve never seen layoffs which were at all good at selecting the bottom 10%. Who gets dropped is pretty random.<p>2) I care about other people I work with. A 10% layoff means a few of my friends were hurt.<p>When I had a 10% paycut because the business needed it, it felt a little unfair, but I didn&#x27;t leave. That same business raised my salary back up a year or two later. I&#x27;m still there, actually, and many people spend entire careers here.<p>I spend most of my hours working, and above some point, I care about having a humane employer, meaningful work, and a decent work environment much more than I do about salary.<p>Job stability also allows me to focus on my work over signalling. That works well if I value and enjoy my work (which I do).</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees</title><url>https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-copycat-layoffs-wont-help-tech-companies-or-their-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idopmstuff</author><text>I think the problem with this strategy is that it causes the wrong people to leave. If you&#x27;re a top performer, you&#x27;re going to feel like a 10% pay cut is very unfair, and you&#x27;re going to be able to get another job elsewhere fairly easily, even in this environment. If you&#x27;re not performing particularly well, it probably doesn&#x27;t feel as unreasonable, and even if you don&#x27;t like it, it&#x27;s tough to leave.<p>When done correctly, layoffs give 100% of the pain to 10% (or whatever) of the people, but you get to select the worst-performing people. Spreading the pain equally is much more liable to cost you your best-performing people.<p>I do think the one important thing to note is that the reference you quoted is to a manufacturer, where you&#x27;ve probably got more consistent performance across a given type of employee as compared to software developers.</text></item><item><author>tarr11</author><text>The professor recommends across the board pay cuts as an alternative to layoffs.<p>&gt; One thing that Lincoln Electric, which is a famous manufacturer of arc welding equipment, did well is instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.<p>Curious if there is research here on how this impacts the company? Seems like it would also increase stress and encourage top performers to seek new opportunities.<p>He also recommends hiring during a recession:<p>&gt; He actually hired during the 2000 recession and saw it as an opportunity to gain ground on the competition and gain market share when everybody was cutting jobs and stopped innovating.<p>I suppose this works when it works, and then fails completely when it doesn’t. In essence, this increases the risk profile on the company which seems problematic too. Would be curious if there are studies that show the outcomes of these strategies.<p>Perhaps there are no “good” strategies- just those that favor employees or those that favor investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msbarnett</author><text>If you’re a top performer you bail as soon as there are layoffs anyways. I certainly do. It’s rarely a sign that anything good is in your future, they’re often performed poorly, and the work environment post-layoffs is incredibly bleak and disheartening.<p>If you have options there’s no good reason to stay.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why are submarines demagnetized?</title><url>http://qi.epfl.ch/en/sondage/show/255/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zymhan</author><text>4,000 Amps is a ridiculous amount of current. Though when you have a nuclear power plant nearby...<p>Also, this line made me shudder:<p>&gt; &quot;...stringing an electric cable the length of the ship and pulsing 2,000 amps through the cable.&quot;<p>EDIT: Okay maybe not that ridiculous, apparently the Luxor hotel has higher-amp lightbulbs <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4000+amps" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4000+amps</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandmeyer</author><text>The degaussing facility uses shore power. They could mean 4000 ampere-turns, too.<p>Source: I went through one of these back in the day.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why are submarines demagnetized?</title><url>http://qi.epfl.ch/en/sondage/show/255/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zymhan</author><text>4,000 Amps is a ridiculous amount of current. Though when you have a nuclear power plant nearby...<p>Also, this line made me shudder:<p>&gt; &quot;...stringing an electric cable the length of the ship and pulsing 2,000 amps through the cable.&quot;<p>EDIT: Okay maybe not that ridiculous, apparently the Luxor hotel has higher-amp lightbulbs <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4000+amps" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4000+amps</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esaym</author><text>Well as far as energy, depends on voltage. That&#x27;s just 4000 watts if the voltage is just 1 volt.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/upshot/alcoholics-anonymous-new-evidence.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notafraudster</author><text>Do you think you could elaborate why you believe this is &quot;heavy-duty&quot; new research (or even new research at all, rather than a new meta-analytic synthesis of old research)?<p>My quick read of the study suggests that they examined several outcomes, got null or low powered results on most of them, and chose to highlight the single result which did show a significantly positive effect on recovery; that result was based on a meta-analytic estimate of the pooled sample of just two studies. In particular, my understanding is that this study found a null on &quot;percentage days abstinent&quot;, a null on &quot;longest period of abstinence&quot;, a null on &quot;drinks per drinking day&quot;, a null on &quot;alcohol-related consequences&quot;. For alcohol addiction severity they report the results of one study without doing any original analysis. And for &quot;rates of continuous abstinence&quot; they found a positive effect. In most cases these are graded as &quot;low certainty evidence&quot;. The positive effect is claimed to be &quot;high certainty evidence&quot;, but the CI &#x2F; p-value for the positive effect is not adjusted for multiple comparisons -- I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s fatal, but it does speak to the fragility of the outcome.<p>The other concern I have is that they separate &quot;manualized&quot; treatments (e.g. AA treatments administered according to a protocol) from &quot;non-manualized&quot; (e.g. ad hoc administration of the AA treatment) treatments. This is fine -- we would expect to see that if something about the protocol was useful, the non-manualized treatments would display an attenuated version of the same effect. Instead we get a null on the original positive effect, and a positive effect on one of the original nulls<p>Finally, the authors seem a little loose with what the comparison groups are. They claim they recruited studies which compared AA to no treatment, but the results are all motivated as being AA versus CBT. What happened to the no treatment studies? Perhaps these are buried in the full text. The rate of spontaneous remission of addiction is believed to be fairly high and most of the past criticism of the efficacy of AA has been motivated by comparison to spontaneous remission.<p>It strikes me that there is significant distortion of the study findings from the Cochrane write-up to the Stanford press release, and from the Stanford press release to the NYT piece, and that in both cases the distortion is in favour of claiming the study has found affirmative evidence that AA works better, rather than just no evidence to claim it works worse. For instance, one of the thrusts of the NYT piece is that the past Cochrane review was based on a limited number of studies... but the operative finding in this review is based on an even more limited number of studies, even if the pool of studies from which they drew has become larger over the last 15 years.<p>All of this is from a quick read of the review -- I am off campus right now and don&#x27;t feel like VPNing or pirating the full text to deep dive the analysis.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>So far the comments have been about people&#x27;s prior experiences with the topic (which is great), or prior opinions about the topic (which is ok). But the more interesting story is being overlooked: this is heavy-duty new research that overturns previous conclusions, including the prior expectations of at least one of the lead authors. It would be good to discuss the specifics of the article and the new study.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runarberg</author><text>&gt; And for &quot;rates of continuous abstinence&quot; they found a positive effect.<p>It’s been a while since I reviewed the literature for substance abuse disorder, but if I remember correctly it was highly disputed whether complete abstinence was necessary (or even beneficial) for treatment. Has this changed?<p>The argument was that by focusing on abstinence you are setting a significant part of your patience up for failure with all the psychological harm involved in knowing that they’ve failed, which might result in severe and frequent relapses.<p>EDIT: To conclude. I find it hard to draw conclusions if success is measured in “days of abstinence”. That means that a patient that has recovered from cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) that uses occasionally and non-detrimentally is not considered a success! Further AA or other 12-step programs do often stress abstinence while CBT does not, this creates a counting bias in favor of 12-step programs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/upshot/alcoholics-anonymous-new-evidence.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notafraudster</author><text>Do you think you could elaborate why you believe this is &quot;heavy-duty&quot; new research (or even new research at all, rather than a new meta-analytic synthesis of old research)?<p>My quick read of the study suggests that they examined several outcomes, got null or low powered results on most of them, and chose to highlight the single result which did show a significantly positive effect on recovery; that result was based on a meta-analytic estimate of the pooled sample of just two studies. In particular, my understanding is that this study found a null on &quot;percentage days abstinent&quot;, a null on &quot;longest period of abstinence&quot;, a null on &quot;drinks per drinking day&quot;, a null on &quot;alcohol-related consequences&quot;. For alcohol addiction severity they report the results of one study without doing any original analysis. And for &quot;rates of continuous abstinence&quot; they found a positive effect. In most cases these are graded as &quot;low certainty evidence&quot;. The positive effect is claimed to be &quot;high certainty evidence&quot;, but the CI &#x2F; p-value for the positive effect is not adjusted for multiple comparisons -- I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s fatal, but it does speak to the fragility of the outcome.<p>The other concern I have is that they separate &quot;manualized&quot; treatments (e.g. AA treatments administered according to a protocol) from &quot;non-manualized&quot; (e.g. ad hoc administration of the AA treatment) treatments. This is fine -- we would expect to see that if something about the protocol was useful, the non-manualized treatments would display an attenuated version of the same effect. Instead we get a null on the original positive effect, and a positive effect on one of the original nulls<p>Finally, the authors seem a little loose with what the comparison groups are. They claim they recruited studies which compared AA to no treatment, but the results are all motivated as being AA versus CBT. What happened to the no treatment studies? Perhaps these are buried in the full text. The rate of spontaneous remission of addiction is believed to be fairly high and most of the past criticism of the efficacy of AA has been motivated by comparison to spontaneous remission.<p>It strikes me that there is significant distortion of the study findings from the Cochrane write-up to the Stanford press release, and from the Stanford press release to the NYT piece, and that in both cases the distortion is in favour of claiming the study has found affirmative evidence that AA works better, rather than just no evidence to claim it works worse. For instance, one of the thrusts of the NYT piece is that the past Cochrane review was based on a limited number of studies... but the operative finding in this review is based on an even more limited number of studies, even if the pool of studies from which they drew has become larger over the last 15 years.<p>All of this is from a quick read of the review -- I am off campus right now and don&#x27;t feel like VPNing or pirating the full text to deep dive the analysis.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>So far the comments have been about people&#x27;s prior experiences with the topic (which is great), or prior opinions about the topic (which is ok). But the more interesting story is being overlooked: this is heavy-duty new research that overturns previous conclusions, including the prior expectations of at least one of the lead authors. It would be good to discuss the specifics of the article and the new study.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Thanks! That&#x27;s a fabulous comment. By &quot;heavy duty new research&quot; I was just referring to this from the article:<p><i>In the last decade or so, researchers have published a number of very high-quality randomized trials and quasi-experiments. Of the 27 studies in the new review, 21 have randomized designs. Together, these flip the conclusion.</i><p>That sounds impressive. If it turns out not to be so impressive, that&#x27;s definitely on topic.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Kubernetes Production Patterns and Anti-Patterns</title><url>https://github.com/gravitational/workshop/blob/master/k8sprod.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>Good news about zombies: Kubernetes will soon solve this by having the pause container (which is automatically included in every pod) automatically reap children. [1]<p>Note that this change depends on the shared PID namespace support, which a larger, still-ongoing endeavour [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;commit&#x2F;81d27aa23969b77f5e7e565b0b69234537b0503e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;commit&#x2F;81d27aa23969...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1615" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1615</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Kubernetes Production Patterns and Anti-Patterns</title><url>https://github.com/gravitational/workshop/blob/master/k8sprod.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twakefield</author><text>We&#x27;ve also published some other workshops for Docker and Kubernetes that we take customers through when onboarding (if needed): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gravitational&#x2F;workshop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gravitational&#x2F;workshop</a><p>Feel free to take them for a spin and feedback welcome and appreciated.</text></comment>
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<story><title>BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M</title><url>https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/31/blackberry-sells-mobile-patents-to-patent-troll-for-600m</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>&quot;BlackBerry&#x27;s sale is to what could be considered a &quot;Non-practicing entity,&quot; a company that doesn&#x27;t earn revenue from product or services sales, but is more likely to do so through asset protection. Many refer to these sorts of entities as &quot;patent trolls.&quot;&quot;<p>That looks pretty bad. Seems pretty obvious this is going to cost Apple &amp; Google some serious money, even if it&#x27;s just hiring more lawyers for the lawsuits from &quot;Catapult IP Innovations&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M</title><url>https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/31/blackberry-sells-mobile-patents-to-patent-troll-for-600m</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkramer</author><text>Patent trolls buy patents for $600m?! How the hell trolls amassed so much money? Are there investment banks and VCs which invest in patent trolls?</text></comment>
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<story><title>CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians</title><url>https://dekuliutesla.github.io/citygs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chpatrick</author><text>&quot;The average speed is 36 FPS (tested on A100).&quot;<p>Real-Time if you have $8k I guess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsheard</author><text>Good ol&#x27; &quot;SIGGRAPH realtime&quot;, when a graphics paper describes itself as achieving realtime speeds you always have to double check that they mean actually realtime and not &quot;640x480 at 20fps on the most expensive hardware money can buy&quot;. Anything can be realtime if you set the bar low enough.</text></comment>
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<story><title>CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians</title><url>https://dekuliutesla.github.io/citygs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chpatrick</author><text>&quot;The average speed is 36 FPS (tested on A100).&quot;<p>Real-Time if you have $8k I guess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rallyforthesun</author><text>As it seems the first 3DGS which uses Lods and blocks, there might be place for optimization.
This might become useful for use cases in Virtual Production, probably not for mobiles.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Game Design Curriculum</title><url>https://www.riotgames.com/en/urf-academy/curriculum-guide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>Game design (whether computer or even board games) is a valuable topic to learn even if you never make a real game. If you make any kind of <i>thing</i> that people use, learning a little about how to think like a game designer can help you make things that are more rewarding and pleasant to use.<p>One way to think of videogames is that they are <i>useless software</i>. Imagine a word processor that couldn&#x27;t save or print files. Or a compiler that didn&#x27;t generate executables that ran on any machine but your own. Why would anyone ever use such a pointless thing?<p>Well, games are in many ways exactly that. They don&#x27;t really touch any part of the outside world or produce anything materially useful. They&#x27;re self contained. So why do people sink time into them even though they can&#x27;t get anything tangible in return? It&#x27;s because the process of using the software itself—playing the game—is so <i>intrinsically</i> enjoyable.<p>If you can learn a little bit of that and apply it to software that <i>does</i> do something useful, you can end up with the kind of programs that build devoted fanbases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Danieru</author><text>Incredible how many posters are missing your point!<p>As a gamedev I 100% agree with your assertion that games are useless. An expression I use in game design is &quot;fictional friction&quot;. Nothing in my game is real. None of the struggle is essential. Every mouse click or decision was a fiction I designed for players.<p>Nothing prevents me from giving players infitnite money, in fact there is a dev cheat menu which does just that. Instead all my effort revolves around crafting fake value for otherwise meaningless bits.<p>Thus games are the peak of software design: people put up with other software to pay for chances to play mine.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Game Design Curriculum</title><url>https://www.riotgames.com/en/urf-academy/curriculum-guide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>Game design (whether computer or even board games) is a valuable topic to learn even if you never make a real game. If you make any kind of <i>thing</i> that people use, learning a little about how to think like a game designer can help you make things that are more rewarding and pleasant to use.<p>One way to think of videogames is that they are <i>useless software</i>. Imagine a word processor that couldn&#x27;t save or print files. Or a compiler that didn&#x27;t generate executables that ran on any machine but your own. Why would anyone ever use such a pointless thing?<p>Well, games are in many ways exactly that. They don&#x27;t really touch any part of the outside world or produce anything materially useful. They&#x27;re self contained. So why do people sink time into them even though they can&#x27;t get anything tangible in return? It&#x27;s because the process of using the software itself—playing the game—is so <i>intrinsically</i> enjoyable.<p>If you can learn a little bit of that and apply it to software that <i>does</i> do something useful, you can end up with the kind of programs that build devoted fanbases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meheleventyone</author><text>I take serious issue with the description of games as useless. They don’t do anything in the same way as reading a book doesn’t do anything. Or playing chess doesn’t do anything. You absolutely get something tangible in return. Whether it’s a new perspective, new friends or utter humiliation.<p>The idea we should capture the way games build tangible experiences and apply them to “useful software” is to misunderstand both what makes games useful and software that achieves a task. Gamification is swimming in the shallow end of game design. Swimming in the deeper end is beyond what most productive software should be doing design wise. The goals are different, the results are different and more importantly building software that fuses games and learning is different than either.</text></comment>
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<story><title>FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test</title><url>https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/product-and-innovation/detect-covid-19-in-as-little-as-5-minutes.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edouard-harris</author><text>Hi - I posted this submission to HN. Based on the comments I&#x27;m seeing, it might be helpful if I clarified why I think this news is of extreme significance.<p>The key facts are:<p>1. This is a test that directly detects SARS-Cov-2 virus. It can, if sensitive enough, tell you if you&#x27;re infected even if you don&#x27;t have any symptoms.<p>2. The detection time is <i>very</i> fast: 5 minutes for a positive result; 13 minutes for a negative.<p>3. The testing device is pretty compact. (Fits on a tabletop.)<p>If, in addition to the above, the following are <i>also</i> true:<p>4. The sensitivity of the test is high enough.<p>5. We can quickly scale manufacture of the testing platform and its reagents.<p>Then this development means the beginning of the end of the pandemic.* If all of the above are true, we can deploy fast testing to the entries&#x2F;exits of factories, offices, etc. Folks who test positive get sent home to self-quarantine; folks who test negative can go back to work. Everyone gets ~13 minutes added to their daily commute, but they can work safely without spreading the virus.<p>The specificity of this test almost doesn&#x27;t matter. Even if flu cases trigger a positive, those folks can still be sent to secondary testing or home quarantine. The government could pay them 100% of their salary for two weeks and it would still be a fantastic deal for the rest of us.<p>We can also ignore regulatory obstacles such as &quot;this is only allowed in hospitals right now&quot;. The wider this testing regime is deployed, the higher a level of economic activity we can sustain while keeping R0 &lt; 1. And given the scale of the stimulus efforts already underway, it&#x27;s clear the government will do anything it can to revive the economy. Administrative barriers will be abolished as needed.<p>Obviously this scenario is conditional on all the above actually being true. But this is the most hopeful development I&#x27;ve heard of since mid-February.<p>* To be absolutely pedantic, it probably means more like a 95-98% mitigation of the pandemic within a few months.</text></comment>
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<story><title>FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test</title><url>https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/product-and-innovation/detect-covid-19-in-as-little-as-5-minutes.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neuro</author><text>The technology below can do it in 15 seconds. An ingenious 18 year old glucoses meter company hacked a glucose meter to do it. Interesting past between them and JNJ. They submitted it for EAU.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pharmatechsolutions.co&#x2F;assets&#x2F;inserts&#x2F;20200318_GenViro!_PP.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pharmatechsolutions.co&#x2F;assets&#x2F;inserts&#x2F;20200318_Ge...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/20/gdpr-adtech-complaints-keep-stacking-up-in-europe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Veen</author><text>The same way publications made money for two centuries without tracking and “personalization”, by displaying advertising relevant to the content and the publication’s target audience.</text></item><item><author>judge2020</author><text>What is a reliable way to make money from free articles (other than NY times - style limited articles)? As in, what ad networks can you set up that only use the content of the page to target ads? At this point, if you don&#x27;t use Google Ads (adsense), your advertiser pool drops significantly and you&#x27;ll likely be making less money overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>earthboundkid</author><text>Here is a thing I think about a lot:<p>People like ads.<p>You know &quot;brand Twitter&quot; and how people like talking about the cheeky thing that Burger King said? That&#x27;s an ad.<p>The Super Bowl? People watch for the ads.<p>Magazines: people collect pretty ad series, like the old Absolute Vodka ones.<p>Podcasts? We all loved saying &quot;mail kimp&quot; like idiots for a couple months because of a popular ad.<p>People like ads! …Except on the web.<p>No one has ever liked a banner ad. Search ads people sometimes like, but no one has ever liked a banner ad. So, they kept adding more banner ads to try to make it up in volume and then they added a shit ton of tracking because they could, but guess what, banner ads still suck and no one likes them.<p>So, maybe stop trying to make fetch happen? If banner ads haven&#x27;t been successful for 20 years, maybe they aren&#x27;t going to suddenly become successful and it&#x27;s time to stop trying.</text></comment>
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<story><title>GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/20/gdpr-adtech-complaints-keep-stacking-up-in-europe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Veen</author><text>The same way publications made money for two centuries without tracking and “personalization”, by displaying advertising relevant to the content and the publication’s target audience.</text></item><item><author>judge2020</author><text>What is a reliable way to make money from free articles (other than NY times - style limited articles)? As in, what ad networks can you set up that only use the content of the page to target ads? At this point, if you don&#x27;t use Google Ads (adsense), your advertiser pool drops significantly and you&#x27;ll likely be making less money overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>You can&#x27;t talk about the past and just forget all the context. The scale in people, services, and speed of connectivity make a massive difference. It&#x27;s an entirely different world.<p>Also classifieds were a major source of revenue for many publications and it was destroyed by listing sites like Craigslist. Nobody talks about it but that was the first big blow to the old model.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)</title><url>https://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>news_to_me</author><text>This is why diversity is so important! Not only in business, but in general — everyone has huge blind spots, no matter what background they have. Life is much larger and more diverse than people usually imagine. Interacting and learning from people with different backgrounds than yours is a fundamentally rewarding experience, although it can be hard at times.</text></item><item><author>starpilot</author><text>My takeaway: there are huge potential markets in people who are not like me. The execs were probably completely unaware of this market, and it took an outsider to hold their hand and bring it to them. I love flaming hot cheetos and know tons of people who do, but there is no way I would have thought of taking the hot pepper &#x2F; other spices from a traditional Mexican food (elotes, which I had in LA) and adapting them in this way. The fact that everyone I interact with forms an upper class monoculture (white&#x2F;asian, college educated, 20s-40s, mostly US-born) means that I have huge blindspots. I wonder what huge businesses could be created catering toward senior citizens, for middle aged people working retail, recent Asian immigrants, working single fathers, and so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slimsag</author><text>I 100% agree.<p>But it&#x27;s important that diversity be considered in all forms, not just based on race&#x2F;sex.<p>If your &quot;diverse&quot; team is made up of different ethnicities and genders but only consists of ivy league members who grew up in California... well, not really diverse then, is it?</text></comment>
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<story><title>A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)</title><url>https://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>news_to_me</author><text>This is why diversity is so important! Not only in business, but in general — everyone has huge blind spots, no matter what background they have. Life is much larger and more diverse than people usually imagine. Interacting and learning from people with different backgrounds than yours is a fundamentally rewarding experience, although it can be hard at times.</text></item><item><author>starpilot</author><text>My takeaway: there are huge potential markets in people who are not like me. The execs were probably completely unaware of this market, and it took an outsider to hold their hand and bring it to them. I love flaming hot cheetos and know tons of people who do, but there is no way I would have thought of taking the hot pepper &#x2F; other spices from a traditional Mexican food (elotes, which I had in LA) and adapting them in this way. The fact that everyone I interact with forms an upper class monoculture (white&#x2F;asian, college educated, 20s-40s, mostly US-born) means that I have huge blindspots. I wonder what huge businesses could be created catering toward senior citizens, for middle aged people working retail, recent Asian immigrants, working single fathers, and so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ravenstine</author><text>It has to be taken seriously by management, however. I&#x27;ve worked at a few places where diversity was king but upper management continued to make the decisions of aging middle-class white folks. Not that I have a problem with that in and of itself, but it was funny how they would hire lots of women and minorities, say that they wanted to target undeserved demographics, but then never actually attempt to do it. Diversity is, more often than not, a veneer.</text></comment>
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<story><title>US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/16/ceo-versus-worker-wage-american-companies-pay-gap-study-2018</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>This is only the 350 highest paid CEOs in the US -- there are &gt;50k enterprises of substantial size in the US. The <i>median</i> pay for CEOs per the government is less than many medical professionals. Some CEOs receive lavish compensation but <i>most</i> work for wages of a Silicon Valley software engineer.<p>I&#x27;d much rather work as a software engineer than a CEO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gonvaled</author><text>You should also consider:<p>1) The percent of income that those 350 CEOs have of the whole employee&#x27;s income.<p>And more importantly:<p>2) The percent of wealth that those 350 CEOs have, compared to the whole US population.<p>And even more importantly:<p>3) How is wealth distributed in the US? Those CEOs are probably outclassed by other categories.<p>All this to say that trickle down does not work, at all.</text></comment>
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<story><title>US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/16/ceo-versus-worker-wage-american-companies-pay-gap-study-2018</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>This is only the 350 highest paid CEOs in the US -- there are &gt;50k enterprises of substantial size in the US. The <i>median</i> pay for CEOs per the government is less than many medical professionals. Some CEOs receive lavish compensation but <i>most</i> work for wages of a Silicon Valley software engineer.<p>I&#x27;d much rather work as a software engineer than a CEO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baursak</author><text>The BLS statistic isn&#x27;t filtering by enterprise size. Does it include self-employed guys who registered a company and named themselves CEO?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pixel Watch 3</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-watch-3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vially</author><text>For anyone considering buying the Pixel Watch 3, please keep in mind that Pixel Watch 2 has some long-standing issues where the GPS completely cuts out during runs or walks.<p>Some users believe it to be a hardware issue but it&#x27;s still unacknowledged by Google and the forum thread where people have been discussing it has just been locked recently. Just mentioning it for awareness and visibility.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.fitbit.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;Android-App&#x2F;Google-Pixel-Watch-2-GPS-data-missing&#x2F;td-p&#x2F;5476172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.fitbit.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;Android-App&#x2F;Google-Pixel-Wat...</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googlepixelwatch&#x2F;thread&#x2F;242833127?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googlepixelwatch&#x2F;thread&#x2F;242833127...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Pixel Watch 3</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-watch-3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>My Pixel Watch sucks and it&#x27;s not because the screen isn&#x27;t big or bright enough. The implementation of notifications is awful. It&#x27;s actually faster and easier in many cases to whip out my phone to see a notification than to see it on the watch.<p>Why? Because notifications are not shown by default. The watch vibrates but nothing is there on the screen but the watch face. To trigger a notification to actually show, you need to rotate your wrist down (if it is up) and then up again (impossible if you are carrying something). Then you have to wait for it to recognize the gesture. Then you have to wait for a fade animation to an intermediate screen that shows half of the information about the notification. Then you have to wait for a fade animation to the final screen that actually shows the notification text. And if you lower your wrist at all during or after this process, the notification disappears instantly and won&#x27;t come back without the use of both hands to activate the touchscreen or crown. And in many cases the information shown is useless, like &quot;so-and-so sent a picture.&quot; Show me the goddamn picture then!<p>It boggles the mind that anyone could think this is a good experience to ship at all, let alone for three generations! Especially when Pebble had it right 10 years ago. You show the notification on the screen <i>first</i>, <i>then</i> you vibrate the watch, then you leave the notification there for at least 30 seconds so it can be read. You show the whole notification at once (as much as possible on the small screen, of course), and you also show a small clock at the top so you can still see the time while the notification is shown. How hard is that?<p>Of course this isn&#x27;t the only way the Pixel Watch software sucks. The whole UX is pretty terrible, like they had some ideas and went straight to final implementation, never bothering to iterate based on user feedback. Low information density, low customizability, feature-poor, unresponsive interactions, blocking animations. It&#x27;s everything bad about modern UI in a tiny frustrating package.<p>I don&#x27;t know what is wrong with all the tech reviewers that fail to call Google out on this stuff. Maybe it&#x27;s better than Samsung or whatever but that doesn&#x27;t make it good. At least the hardware is nice. Though, like all smartwatches except the Pebble Time Round, far too thick.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Theranos Secretly Bought Outside Lab Gear, Ran Fake Tests: Court Filings</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-secretly-bought-outside-lab-gear-ran-fake-tests-court-filings-1492794470</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adventured</author><text>It&#x27;s a frequent fine line in tech.<p>To get a contract, Bob Noyce claimed for a buyer that Fairchild could produce &amp; deliver a new type of transistor, in a large quantity, without having any production capability for it yet, as it had never been built.<p>Excite bid on getting a place on Netscape&#x27;s browser, before having the money to actually pay for it (they figured they&#x27;d get it afterward):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bnoopy.typepad.com&#x2F;bnoopy&#x2F;2004&#x2F;09&#x2F;persistence_pay_1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bnoopy.typepad.com&#x2F;bnoopy&#x2F;2004&#x2F;09&#x2F;persistence_pay_1.h...</a><p>Microsoft on multiple occasions said or implied they had something they didn&#x27;t have at the time, in dealing with MITS and IBM.</text></item><item><author>exhilaration</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to fool yourself into believing that the fraud is just a temporary necessity while you work out the final kinks in your product.</text></item><item><author>Mz</author><text>Wow. Okay, this takes it from &quot;Shit happens and people can be totally deluded&quot; to actual, genuine fraud.<p>Edit: Also, how can people be that stupid? You have to know the truth will eventually come out? Right? Or, no?<p>I don&#x27;t get it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stanfordkid</author><text>I went to Stanford (hence the screen name) ...<p>Stanford students are generally sheep that know one thing for certain: That they are smart enough to get into Stanford and that they now have pretty much zero excuse to not be successful.<p>They assume that other things (vision, relentless lifelong obsession) are means to ends. It is a fertile breeding ground for what Trungpa Rinpoche most accurately describes a &quot;Spiritual Materialism&quot;<p>Their logical conclusion is that the key to success is not relentless pursuit of practice, but rather playing tricks like the ones you describe.<p>Bob Noyce, Bill Gates, Marc Andressen all succeeded as a result of their passion and relentless dedication to a narrow problem space over years of effort. They saw &quot;the truth&quot; and thus were able to make those leaps. &quot;Truths&quot; are always present in every society ... and are hidden. Unfortunately it requires dedication to uncover such truths and most stanford students would rather re-use the same hammer that got them into Stanford on real life than to truly seek &quot;truth&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s my 2 cents.<p>EDIT: I can see how this was condescendingly phrased and discriminatory towards a large group of people. We should all note that the person who outed Ms. Holmes was also a Stanford student and did something very brave. I was just annoyed with seeing this pattern everywhere and even partaking in it myself -- something that impacted me very negatively.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Theranos Secretly Bought Outside Lab Gear, Ran Fake Tests: Court Filings</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-secretly-bought-outside-lab-gear-ran-fake-tests-court-filings-1492794470</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adventured</author><text>It&#x27;s a frequent fine line in tech.<p>To get a contract, Bob Noyce claimed for a buyer that Fairchild could produce &amp; deliver a new type of transistor, in a large quantity, without having any production capability for it yet, as it had never been built.<p>Excite bid on getting a place on Netscape&#x27;s browser, before having the money to actually pay for it (they figured they&#x27;d get it afterward):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bnoopy.typepad.com&#x2F;bnoopy&#x2F;2004&#x2F;09&#x2F;persistence_pay_1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bnoopy.typepad.com&#x2F;bnoopy&#x2F;2004&#x2F;09&#x2F;persistence_pay_1.h...</a><p>Microsoft on multiple occasions said or implied they had something they didn&#x27;t have at the time, in dealing with MITS and IBM.</text></item><item><author>exhilaration</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to fool yourself into believing that the fraud is just a temporary necessity while you work out the final kinks in your product.</text></item><item><author>Mz</author><text>Wow. Okay, this takes it from &quot;Shit happens and people can be totally deluded&quot; to actual, genuine fraud.<p>Edit: Also, how can people be that stupid? You have to know the truth will eventually come out? Right? Or, no?<p>I don&#x27;t get it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhino369</author><text>Promising to do something you aren&#x27;t entirely sure you can do or haven&#x27;t done yet, isn&#x27;t fraud unless you lie about having done it before or being ready to go tomorrow or something.<p>Arguably, it is not even fraud when Theranos took samples and used a different method of testing (as long as the testing was just as accurate).<p>Therano&#x27;s fraud was then telling investors and potential partners&#x2F;clients that it had been testing using their test, when they really weren&#x27;t. That is a lie designed to get additional funding or contracts.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Preparing your game for deterministic netcode</title><url>https://yal.cc/preparing-your-game-for-deterministic-netcode/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hesdeadjim</author><text>If you want to not hate your life building a real-time multiplayer game, fully embrace data oriented design.<p>I took the gamble and picked Unity DOTS and NetCode for our current MOBA-esque game (not other packages, we bolt regular Unity visuals on much like the V in MVVM). Outside the headaches of using preview tech, it has been amazing what we have been able to do compared to regular OOP hell.<p>By not having hidden game state lurking in classes, lambdas or coroutines, we have been able to hide much of the networking layer as an encapsulated set of glue systems that shuttle <i>just</i> enough data across the wire that the view-layer can present the game to the user. Movement and other prediction has been much easier too, because the game state is just data and not intertwined with behavior, I just run most of the same algorithms locally as I do on the server — AI, steering, etc.<p>This technique still requires a lot of foresight and challenging architecture decisions of course. I forced our core gameplay logic to not know anything about the visuals, which has made some things harder. However when it came time to make a headless build with no graphics, it was as simple as flipping a switch. No changes in our gameplay code.<p>I have a principal engineer from Sea of Thieves on my team, and he has also breathed huge sighs of relief working on this project. Unreal is the complete antithesis to this design pattern, and is full of hidden state, magic behavior, and heisenbugs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Preparing your game for deterministic netcode</title><url>https://yal.cc/preparing-your-game-for-deterministic-netcode/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davedx</author><text>Nice article.<p>I implemented netcode for a canvas game I made a while ago over websockets. It used client-server with various RPCs from&#x2F;to the clients and worked pretty well. I’m just starting on a kind of follow up of that game that will have more discrete movement so it was useful to read this overview. I’d maybe like to add that often games make a distinction between “authorized” actions players take (eg spell casts that damage other players), that often use the client-server RPC mode, and the “p2p rollback” actions that are less strict but generate more traffic like player movement. I believe World of Warcraft uses this model, and I also worked on a FPS that IIRC also worked this way: a gun fire was RPC over TCP; movement was done via UDP broadcast.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war</title><url>https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/02/sarah-connor-in-hiding-before-war.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csours</author><text>&quot;Homeless&quot; is one of those catch all words like &quot;plastic&quot; or &quot;cancer&quot;, where the things being described only look relatively similar from the outside.<p>As the blogpost notes: &quot;There are already lots of hidden homeless passing for normal, couch surfing, etc. People tend to not realize it.&quot;<p>Fortunately right now, I&#x27;m at very low risk of homelessness, but I can imagine scenarios where it could happen. Some people don&#x27;t have family to fall back on. Some people&#x27;s family are terrible people and it&#x27;s questionable whether they are better off with them or living rough.<p>A lot of people live in their cars or vans for a while.<p>Here in Austin, urban camping was decriminalized (I am not an expert, this may not be entirely correct) and now there are quite a lot of tents popping up all over the place.<p>As a civilian, it&#x27;s impossible for me to tell what situation a person is in; are they potentially violent, do they live in the same world as me, are they mentally and physically capable but undergoing hard times? They are all people, and they should all be helped, but help for one person isn&#x27;t like help for another; and just lumping people together and parking them doesn&#x27;t help anyone.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war</title><url>https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/02/sarah-connor-in-hiding-before-war.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>According to established research, there are two types of homeless. 80% of the homeless recover within several months with the help of existing private and public social programs. They work. Unfortunately, they only work for normal people “down on their luck”<p>The other 20% is what is referred to as the chronic homeless. These are the ones we see on the streets. Very few of them recover if ever. This group is mostly made of the mentally ill, drug addicts, or most likely an individual suffering from both problems. Only federal medical institutions can help them. The problem is that they were expensive and extremely mismanaged (stacks of abuse) in the 20th century. Consequently, the Kennedy family waged a successful crusade in eliminating them. Sadly, given what we know now, instead of ending those programs; we should have reformed them instead.<p>What we have now is a bunch of cities playing a never ending game of “hot potato” with the mentally ill, using free bus and airline tickets that send them to another metro to deal with and vice versa.<p>Most proposed solutions like the ones outlined in the blog post only deal with the symptoms and not the root of the problem. It’s a mental health issue</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft continues right to repair about face, makes its hardware easier to fix</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/11/microsoft-continues-about-face-on-right-to-repair-makes-its-hardware-easier-to-fix/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prirun</author><text>When Microsoft does not have market-share lead, they are pro-customer in that market - hardware in this case. If Microsoft has the leading market-share and doesn&#x27;t feel threatened, they are anti-customer, ie, Windows.<p>This usually holds for any large corporation.<p>&quot;Elsewhere, Microsoft has been doing a better job ensuring that consumers have access to both service manuals and essential parts needed to independently repair the company’s hardware, ranging from its Surface tablets and laptops to Xbox game controllers.&quot;<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Surface tablets and laptops (I didn&#x27;t even know they sold laptops!) are a blip compared to Apple. Notably absent are Xbox <i>consoles</i>; they don&#x27;t have a market-share lead in consoles, although though with their recent acquisition, they might in a few years. So yeah, no console right-to-repair nonsense.<p>Corporations are just like people: they act in their own interest, with the big difference that most people are moral and will consider how their actions might adversely affect others while corporations don&#x27;t give a shit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft continues right to repair about face, makes its hardware easier to fix</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/11/microsoft-continues-about-face-on-right-to-repair-makes-its-hardware-easier-to-fix/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmikaeld</author><text>I&#x27;m not an English native speaker, but what does that headline even mean? &quot; Microsoft Continues Right to Repair About Face&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Shenzhen is a hothouse of innovation</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21720076-copycats-are-out-innovators-are-shenzhen-hothouse-innovation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>&gt; The common perception that China is incapable of innovation needs re-examining.<p>No one is saying Chinese people can&#x27;t innovate. The real question is whether Chinese people can innovate while inside China. (I wonder what percentage of current captains of industry in China studied abroad?) Why? Because innovation is essentially disrupting and rebelling against the status quo. ie breaking rules, disobedience, opposition to the norm<p>When you demand that your people bow and obey, and imprison people like A1 WW, this goes against promoting and nurturing innovation<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;06&#x2F;entrepreneurs-as-dissidents&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;06&#x2F;entrepreneurs-as-dissident...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@they_made_that&#x2F;innovations-secret-ingredient-73da24fdd775" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@they_made_that&#x2F;innovations-secret-ingred...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;never_before_published_isaac_asimov_essay_reveals_the_secret_to_true_creativity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;never_before_published_isaac...</a><p>When your culture is very antagonistic towards people who don&#x27;t like the status quo and forces them to carefully think about what they say and write, the culture itself becomes a big obstacle to innovation. When you run garbage likethe Great Firewall that limits the sharing of information, that&#x27;s another strike against innovation. (Of course one way to mitigate the effects of authoritarian rule is by being really favorable towards immigration from places with the opposite culture.)<p>I guess Shenzen is a place that&#x27;s figuratively where &quot;the mountains are high and the emperor is far away&quot;. I wonder how long before that changes?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Shenzhen is a hothouse of innovation</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21720076-copycats-are-out-innovators-are-shenzhen-hothouse-innovation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gjkood</author><text>I was in Shenzhen a few months back for the first time. I can only describe it as Disneyland for electronics enthusiasts.<p>Going into all the specialized malls in Huaqiang Bei and seeing the entire supply chain in one building is amazing.<p>Highly recommend that people interested in electronics hardware make a visit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/g3toiz/a_post_by_udr_midnight_collating_information_on/fnv8j69/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fack</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;alibreland&#x2F;status&#x2F;1252037486295031808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;alibreland&#x2F;status&#x2F;1252037486295031808</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/g3toiz/a_post_by_udr_midnight_collating_information_on/fnv8j69/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akersten</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty easy to understand this operation exists as part of an ongoing campaign to sow discord in the West. What better way to divide a nation than to encourage and exploit an existing polarization, rather than doing the dirty work yourself. Political subterfuge has evolved to be a lot more subtle - plant the seeds of discontent via Facebook events or meme factories, and watch groups take them up.<p>Similar to how completely baseless ideas that 5G causes cancer or coronavirus popped up out of nowhere - and you wind up with citizens destroying their country&#x27;s own infrastructure[0]. An adversary&#x27;s dream!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;uk-debunks-5g-coronavirus-link-after-conspiracy-theorists-burn-cell-tower&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;uk-debunks-5g-coronavirus...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin</title><url>https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470#note_1917647951</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cu3PO42</author><text>I feel really sorry for the developer. I&#x27;ve only been a casual observer, but from my view point the community&#x27;s reaction was... not great, to put it lightly.<p>I get that a lot of us are tired of &#x27;AI&#x27; being shoved down our throat at every possible turn. I get that a lot of us have privacy concerns. I get that maybe you don&#x27;t want it in your terminal emulator.<p>But iTerm is a free (both as in gratis and as in libre) open source project. The developer released a feature that they were probably happy and excited about. It was off by default and didn&#x27;t siphon data or do anything malicious. And a ton of reactions were as if iTerm had just added the devil incarnate or attacked people personally.<p>Disliking the feature is fine. Voicing your concerns and feedback is fine. But it should always be gracious and in good faith. I think this is a good change, if only to pacify the masses, and I applaud the developer for taking these steps, but I don&#x27;t like how we got here.<p>EDIT: gnachman, if you&#x27;re reading this, thank you for your tireless work on iTerm. It serves me extremely well whenever I&#x27;m on macOS and holds a special place in my heart. I bought a MacBook in 2013 and it was the first *nix system that I daily drove as a desktop for a long time. I installed iTerm 2 in my first week and it was a constant companion for many years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby_souffle</author><text>&gt; EDIT: gnachman, if you&#x27;re reading this, thank you for your tireless work on iTerm. It serves me extremely well whenever I&#x27;m on macOS and holds a special place in my heart. I bought a MacBook in 2013 and it was the first *nix system that I daily drove as a desktop for a long time. I installed iTerm 2 in my first week and it was a constant companion for many years.<p>I&#x27;d like to second this. I had to move to a mac for a bunch of reasons that I wasn&#x27;t super thrilled with and iTerm2 was one of the first things I installed. It made the transition much more bearable and the system just that much more comfortable overall.<p>I&#x27;m sorry that people didn&#x27;t take kindly to this feature. For what it&#x27;s worth, I find myself wishing that `Konsole` had a plugin on the side that would allow me to interact with chatGPT and the like. If I ever end up back on a mac full time, I&#x27;ll (probably) be a happy user of this new function!</text></comment>
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<story><title>iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin</title><url>https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470#note_1917647951</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cu3PO42</author><text>I feel really sorry for the developer. I&#x27;ve only been a casual observer, but from my view point the community&#x27;s reaction was... not great, to put it lightly.<p>I get that a lot of us are tired of &#x27;AI&#x27; being shoved down our throat at every possible turn. I get that a lot of us have privacy concerns. I get that maybe you don&#x27;t want it in your terminal emulator.<p>But iTerm is a free (both as in gratis and as in libre) open source project. The developer released a feature that they were probably happy and excited about. It was off by default and didn&#x27;t siphon data or do anything malicious. And a ton of reactions were as if iTerm had just added the devil incarnate or attacked people personally.<p>Disliking the feature is fine. Voicing your concerns and feedback is fine. But it should always be gracious and in good faith. I think this is a good change, if only to pacify the masses, and I applaud the developer for taking these steps, but I don&#x27;t like how we got here.<p>EDIT: gnachman, if you&#x27;re reading this, thank you for your tireless work on iTerm. It serves me extremely well whenever I&#x27;m on macOS and holds a special place in my heart. I bought a MacBook in 2013 and it was the first *nix system that I daily drove as a desktop for a long time. I installed iTerm 2 in my first week and it was a constant companion for many years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irskep</author><text>I wonder if a lot of the heated discussion is purely an emotional reaction to be hit with &quot;AI feature onboarding&quot; immediately after a normally-drama-free terminal emulator software update. If they had gone with a much more low-key way of notifying users of the feature, maybe folks would be more reasonable.<p>Not that I blame the maintainers for using the approach they did, though! Usually you do want to be super obvious about new things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot-copyright-commitment-ai-legal-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I suspect Microsoft would earn more money by doing this.<p>Their own engineers would get productivity boosts - with copilot already being familiar with data structures, code style, etc. would be a big boost to accuracy.<p>But also, third party code would end up being more similar. Code style of the whole world would be pushed towards &#x27;Microsoft style&#x27;, which probably makes hiring easier, less training time for engineers, etc.<p>And the downside, that is outsiders might learn tiny nuggets of info about microsoft sources, is probably irrelevant when outsiders can already decompile binaries and learn far more.</text></item><item><author>tremon</author><text>Let Microsoft first publish a Copilot model that&#x27;s trained on the internal codebases of Azure, Windows and Office. That&#x27;s the only way Microsoft can convince me that they truly believe Copilot is non-infringing technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>&gt; is probably irrelevant when outsiders can already decompile binaries and learn far more.<p>most, if not all microsoft products can have their sources be available for viewing, if you are one of those vip development partners. microsoft doesn&#x27;t really have any secret source (pardon the pun) of which the leaking would undo their value proposition.<p>In fact, if microsft opened up their system a bit more, they might even gain some PR or mindshare, and have no effect on, if not increase, their bottom line.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot-copyright-commitment-ai-legal-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I suspect Microsoft would earn more money by doing this.<p>Their own engineers would get productivity boosts - with copilot already being familiar with data structures, code style, etc. would be a big boost to accuracy.<p>But also, third party code would end up being more similar. Code style of the whole world would be pushed towards &#x27;Microsoft style&#x27;, which probably makes hiring easier, less training time for engineers, etc.<p>And the downside, that is outsiders might learn tiny nuggets of info about microsoft sources, is probably irrelevant when outsiders can already decompile binaries and learn far more.</text></item><item><author>tremon</author><text>Let Microsoft first publish a Copilot model that&#x27;s trained on the internal codebases of Azure, Windows and Office. That&#x27;s the only way Microsoft can convince me that they truly believe Copilot is non-infringing technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zargon</author><text>It would be surprising to me if their internal engineers don&#x27;t already have access to a model trained on internal Microsoft code.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them</title><url>https://www.economist.com/interactive/united-states/2024/08/31/americans-love-affair-with-big-cars-is-killing-them</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>I hate sounding like a broken record but my belief is that car makers are more excited about XXXXL cars in American than car buyers are. The media is consistently complicit in covering this up, sounding like the brainwashed soldiers in <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i><p>It&#x27;s not to say that we don&#x27;t like big cars because we do, but walk into a car dealership looking for a small car and they will tell you they are out of stock of new ones of the model you want because the factory washed out in a flood but then they have 100 SUVs in a row unsold that nobody wants to buy <i>made in the same factory</i>. Your only choice is a used return that somebody sold back to them <i>yesterday afternoon.</i><p>Go into a dealership looking for an S car and they will try to sell you an L, go in looking for an M and get an XL and so forth. If you drive out with a $25,000 car when you could could of driven out with a $50,000 car they perceive it as a $25,000 loss! No wonder mainstream car brands can&#x27;t sell electrics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tanoc</author><text>This is true to a ridiculous extent.<p>Ford has no compact hatchback or sedan in the U.S., only the Brazilian built EcoSport. They killed all their cars in favour of CUVs and SUVs. Chevrolet no longer has the Sonic, having nixed those in 2022. Honda no longer has the Fit as of two years ago. Mitsubishi no longer sells the Mirage as of last month. Dodge hasn&#x27;t had anything since the Dart died in 2016. The Jeep Renegade&#x27;s gone as of October of last year. Hyundai had the Veloster, but those are all sold as top trim Veloster Turbo Premiums or Ns even when they were being sold. The current Hyundai Ioniq 5 is more of a mid-size and is also expensive for the size. Kia has the Forte, but it&#x27;s dragging out a slow death this year. Toyota has the Yaris and Prius C, but the Yaris has grown quite large, and the Prius C is quite high priced. Nissan killed the Versa Note in 2022, so you can&#x27;t get those either.<p>It&#x27;s all been replaced with &quot;compact&quot; CUVs that have the exterior dimensions of a mid-size hatchback.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them</title><url>https://www.economist.com/interactive/united-states/2024/08/31/americans-love-affair-with-big-cars-is-killing-them</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>I hate sounding like a broken record but my belief is that car makers are more excited about XXXXL cars in American than car buyers are. The media is consistently complicit in covering this up, sounding like the brainwashed soldiers in <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i><p>It&#x27;s not to say that we don&#x27;t like big cars because we do, but walk into a car dealership looking for a small car and they will tell you they are out of stock of new ones of the model you want because the factory washed out in a flood but then they have 100 SUVs in a row unsold that nobody wants to buy <i>made in the same factory</i>. Your only choice is a used return that somebody sold back to them <i>yesterday afternoon.</i><p>Go into a dealership looking for an S car and they will try to sell you an L, go in looking for an M and get an XL and so forth. If you drive out with a $25,000 car when you could could of driven out with a $50,000 car they perceive it as a $25,000 loss! No wonder mainstream car brands can&#x27;t sell electrics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roughly</author><text>As folks elsewhere have noted, CAFE standards make &quot;light&quot; trucks substantially more profitable than other cars, and so yes, car makers have pushed them aggressively, including with strong marketing campaigns for the last 20 years or so.<p>All of the arguments from car manufacturers that they&#x27;re just &quot;answering consumer demand&quot; ignores the point that they manufactured that demand. Change the tax structures and incentives, make trucks as expensive for the manufacturer as they are for society, and you&#x27;ll see a renaissance of small cars, advertising extolling the virtues of small cars, and a societal shift towards small cars.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Collaborative international cost-of-living index</title><url>http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carbeewo</author><text>This looks very similar to <a href="http://www.numbeo.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.numbeo.com</a> which was also created in 2009. Is it the same data?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zhte415</author><text>When living in a city that has niche, but no general, name recognition, a friend and I were taken for dinner, a very nice dinner, by a lady who worked for an international relocation consultancy. This was in 2008&#x2F;2009. She politely, and professionally, refused to disclose the name of her company and of her company&#x27;s client. Her job was to fly somewhere twice a month, anywhere in the world, meet English speakers ovr dinner, walk around shops with a camera, and write quantitative and qualitative reports of her findings.<p>The questions and purchase options in this crowd sourced list are extremely similar to the &#x27;basket of goods&#x27; she was seeking. Prices are also pretty similar to 2008&#x2F;2009 but a bit askew from today (particularly food, which over the past 5 years has experienced significant inflation).<p>Was there a surge of this type of information collection at the time (I can&#x27;t recall anything of note online), or has a relocation &#x2F; relocation-type consultancy released past data?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Collaborative international cost-of-living index</title><url>http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carbeewo</author><text>This looks very similar to <a href="http://www.numbeo.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.numbeo.com</a> which was also created in 2009. Is it the same data?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pardo</author><text>The creator of Expatistan here. No, it is not the same data. Both sites follow a similar principle but we do not share data.</text></comment>
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<story><title>SHA-1 collisions now cost $45k [pdf]</title><url>https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Big discussion of the same material from 4 months ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21979333" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21979333</a><p>Please don&#x27;t editorialize titles. This one broke the site guidelines badly.<p>Cherry-picking the detail you think is most important from an article is editorializing. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions and the title is the dominant initial condition, so this is a big deal. Being the first (or luckiest) user to submit an article doesn&#x27;t confer any special right to frame it for everyone else. HN readers should make up their own minds about what parts of an article are important.<p>If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that&#x27;s fine, but do so in the comments. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else&#x27;s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=by%3Adang%20%22level%20playing%20field%22&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>SHA-1 collisions now cost $45k [pdf]</title><url>https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>As a reaction, Openssh will deprecate SHA-1 support in a future release: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openssh.com&#x2F;txt&#x2F;release-8.3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openssh.com&#x2F;txt&#x2F;release-8.3</a><p>The test fails on my OpenWRT 19.07.03 router&#x27;s Dropbear installation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>MVC Isn’t MVC</title><url>https://collindonnell.com/mvc-isnt-mvc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LudwigNagasena</author><text>&gt; Model updates View, View sees User, User uses Controller, Controller manipulates Model.<p>&gt; This makes a lot of sense to me, and I think I understand it pretty well.<p>It looks simple at first glance, but it actually makes zero sense under closer inspection.<p>Let’s take a simple example. A table of users. You take a table from the database and put it into an html tag table. Wait, who is “you”? The model? Do you want your model to know about html? The view? Do you want your view to know how to connect to a db? The glue code for them? If so, then it is the model-view-controller-glue, not model-view-controller.<p>This is why what the author calls Apple-MVC is far more common. It is just hexagonal architecture. You take different components that take care of their own area of concern and glue them together to fit specific needs of your app. That glue code is called “controller” in that case. It is intuitive and simple; and thousands of junior developers probably reinvent that type of architecture every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw310822</author><text>&gt; You take a table from the database and put it into an html tag table.<p>&gt; Do you want your view to know how to connect to a db?<p>I think this is where there&#x27;s a misunderstanding: you think of your model as &quot;a database&quot;. A database is not a model, a database is just a storage layer. A model is an object that provides an api with high-level business operations and views on data.<p>At that point, your view needs only to receive from the model the pre-digested data it provides and translate it into html. Similarly, the controller only needs to translate user input in terms of high-level operations on the model, without ever having to interface with a database.</text></comment>
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<story><title>MVC Isn’t MVC</title><url>https://collindonnell.com/mvc-isnt-mvc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LudwigNagasena</author><text>&gt; Model updates View, View sees User, User uses Controller, Controller manipulates Model.<p>&gt; This makes a lot of sense to me, and I think I understand it pretty well.<p>It looks simple at first glance, but it actually makes zero sense under closer inspection.<p>Let’s take a simple example. A table of users. You take a table from the database and put it into an html tag table. Wait, who is “you”? The model? Do you want your model to know about html? The view? Do you want your view to know how to connect to a db? The glue code for them? If so, then it is the model-view-controller-glue, not model-view-controller.<p>This is why what the author calls Apple-MVC is far more common. It is just hexagonal architecture. You take different components that take care of their own area of concern and glue them together to fit specific needs of your app. That glue code is called “controller” in that case. It is intuitive and simple; and thousands of junior developers probably reinvent that type of architecture every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fardo</author><text>The way I typically think of it is<p>• Model is “whatever you need to store persistently, how you represent that data, how should the data be structured and stored when it’s at rest (eg in a database, nosql environment, or big data query system), how you are expected to query that data when you need it, mediates common CRUD data query operations on the store, and broadly handles giving back the results of any stored data query. Intent of the model is to be a black box the controller can talk to whenever it needs something from “storage”. If you did it right, you can change the entire underlying data store and endpoint, and as long as the API for the model is preserved, the controllers don’t even notice.<p>• Controllers mediate “turning prepared or cached model data queries into something to give back to the user” and “listening for the user wanting to do something and responding appropriately by fetching needed model data or server resources”. Handles moving between pages, incoming API calls, last mile data filtration (where last mile is based on milliseconds to do it, &gt;25ish or so and it probably belongs on the model) and cleanup if any is needed, and is first line of contact (and defense) for anything a user’s triggered.<p>• Views are whatever the user can visibly interact with and see, and provide buttons, links and interactibles which hook into controller calls to change things or give back data<p>I’ve found the above model typically has good separation of concerns, usually avoids most fights of “does this belong on the model or controller”, and you can usually cleanly parallelize work between multiple people on a small team if you use ~~waterfall~~ scrum to agree on a data model for each endpoint and needed functions before starting.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Solar</title><url>https://patrickcollison.com/solar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justicz</author><text>Hope it&#x27;s cool for me to plug this here -- I&#x27;m one of the cofounders of a YC-backed startup working on robots that build large-scale solar farms!<p>We basically stick a bunch of industrial robot arms in a shipping container and use them to build solar fields out in the middle of the desert. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chargerobotics.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chargerobotics.com&#x2F;</a> (we have an open software engineer role for the factory, email in my profile if you want to chat! team is currently 7 people)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>Since you work professionally with robot arms...<p>I&#x27;ve always thought that it would be cool to run a robot arm museum, showcasing industrial robot arms from different periods - 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, etc. As far as I can tell the first one was Unimate in 1961: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unimate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unimate</a><p>But... I don&#x27;t have a feel for how many of these things actually exist out there. Do collections already exist? What happens to a robot arm once it becomes obsolete?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Solar</title><url>https://patrickcollison.com/solar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justicz</author><text>Hope it&#x27;s cool for me to plug this here -- I&#x27;m one of the cofounders of a YC-backed startup working on robots that build large-scale solar farms!<p>We basically stick a bunch of industrial robot arms in a shipping container and use them to build solar fields out in the middle of the desert. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chargerobotics.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chargerobotics.com&#x2F;</a> (we have an open software engineer role for the factory, email in my profile if you want to chat! team is currently 7 people)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this message is better suited for you or dang, but the capitalization of your hiring posts here has always been a little off:<p>&quot;Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring meches to build robots that build solar farms&quot;<p>Mechanical engineers would be better shortened to MechEs instead of meches, IMO.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/101012270</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>A large part of the problem is all the shitty <i>for profit</i> schools. They get students to take out large government backed loans, then are defaulting, since they can&#x27;t actually get a job.<p>I knew several people I grew up with who went to these schools. They took out huge loans, 10k plus, and they never landed any kind of job with their &quot;certificates&quot; &#x2F; degrees.<p>[1] Half of all defaults are from these kind of schools.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/career-education-corp-will-pay-9-million-to-students-after-allegedly-inflating-job-numbers-2013-8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;career-education-corp-will-pa...</a></text></item><item><author>msandford</author><text>It&#x27;s really too bad that the laws surrounding student loans make them artificially cheap. You can&#x27;t get rid of college debt through bankruptcy so you&#x27;re basically saddled for life.<p>Normally the interest you pay is the combination of three things:<p>1. The (inherent) time value of money<p>2. Expenses the lender incurs to keep up with the debt<p>3. The average default risk of those taking the loans<p>Student loans only price in 1 &amp; 2 because of the near impossibility of not paying the loans back. Which is great in the short term as it means that more people are able to go to school because the interest rate is lower and thus they can afford more debt.<p>But a college education is a lot like a house. The price of a house isn&#x27;t how much it&#x27;s &quot;worth&quot;, it&#x27;s an artifact of how much money you have to pay every month for the privilege of living there. A house of a certain niceness is (everything else equal) going to cost the same amount of money per month whether the interest rate is 1% or 15%. A $1500&#x2F;mo mortgage buys you $250k of house at 4% but only $150k of house at 9% and only $95k of house at 15% like in the early 80s. (<a href="http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/history-of-mortgage-interest-rates.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankrate.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;mortgages&#x2F;history-of-mortgag...</a>)<p>By removing all the default risk from the pricing of student loans, more students are able to afford college which is exactly the intended effect of the laws. But the size of most academic institutions doesn&#x27;t grow; most colleges don&#x27;t admit twice as many students just because more are clamoring to get in. This excess demand and fixed supply means that colleges can raise prices. And thanks to the lowered interest rates those who could have afforded college prior to the law (and lower interest rates) are still able to afford it because the lowered interest rate has increased their borrowing capacity.<p>Those on the margin prior to the change in the law still aren&#x27;t able to afford college once the price increases follow the increase in available money and additional demand for degrees.<p>The law was changed in 1978 and it&#x27;s taken quite a few years for this unintended consequence to play out. It&#x27;s really sad to see it happen. <a href="http://www.finaid.org/questions/bankruptcyexception.phtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.finaid.org&#x2F;questions&#x2F;bankruptcyexception.phtml</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>&gt;[1] Half of all defaults are from these kind of schools.<p>That means half of all defaults are from the &quot;other&quot; kind of school. And the loans from the &quot;other&quot; kind of school are much, much more than 10k +, and many of those students are &quot;never landing any kind of job&quot;, too.<p>Sounds like a LARGER part of the problem is &quot;conventional&quot; higher education.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/101012270</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>A large part of the problem is all the shitty <i>for profit</i> schools. They get students to take out large government backed loans, then are defaulting, since they can&#x27;t actually get a job.<p>I knew several people I grew up with who went to these schools. They took out huge loans, 10k plus, and they never landed any kind of job with their &quot;certificates&quot; &#x2F; degrees.<p>[1] Half of all defaults are from these kind of schools.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/career-education-corp-will-pay-9-million-to-students-after-allegedly-inflating-job-numbers-2013-8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;career-education-corp-will-pa...</a></text></item><item><author>msandford</author><text>It&#x27;s really too bad that the laws surrounding student loans make them artificially cheap. You can&#x27;t get rid of college debt through bankruptcy so you&#x27;re basically saddled for life.<p>Normally the interest you pay is the combination of three things:<p>1. The (inherent) time value of money<p>2. Expenses the lender incurs to keep up with the debt<p>3. The average default risk of those taking the loans<p>Student loans only price in 1 &amp; 2 because of the near impossibility of not paying the loans back. Which is great in the short term as it means that more people are able to go to school because the interest rate is lower and thus they can afford more debt.<p>But a college education is a lot like a house. The price of a house isn&#x27;t how much it&#x27;s &quot;worth&quot;, it&#x27;s an artifact of how much money you have to pay every month for the privilege of living there. A house of a certain niceness is (everything else equal) going to cost the same amount of money per month whether the interest rate is 1% or 15%. A $1500&#x2F;mo mortgage buys you $250k of house at 4% but only $150k of house at 9% and only $95k of house at 15% like in the early 80s. (<a href="http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/history-of-mortgage-interest-rates.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankrate.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;mortgages&#x2F;history-of-mortgag...</a>)<p>By removing all the default risk from the pricing of student loans, more students are able to afford college which is exactly the intended effect of the laws. But the size of most academic institutions doesn&#x27;t grow; most colleges don&#x27;t admit twice as many students just because more are clamoring to get in. This excess demand and fixed supply means that colleges can raise prices. And thanks to the lowered interest rates those who could have afforded college prior to the law (and lower interest rates) are still able to afford it because the lowered interest rate has increased their borrowing capacity.<p>Those on the margin prior to the change in the law still aren&#x27;t able to afford college once the price increases follow the increase in available money and additional demand for degrees.<p>The law was changed in 1978 and it&#x27;s taken quite a few years for this unintended consequence to play out. It&#x27;s really sad to see it happen. <a href="http://www.finaid.org/questions/bankruptcyexception.phtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.finaid.org&#x2F;questions&#x2F;bankruptcyexception.phtml</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jobu</author><text>Always ask if the school is Regionally Accredited in the degree you intend to take: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accreditation#Regional_accreditation_vs._national_accreditation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Regional_accreditation#Regional...</a><p>If not, the credits are generally non-transferrable and many businesses will simply toss your resume.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money</title><url>https://www.stevenbuccini.com/zillow-offers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skohan</author><text>&gt; They thought they needed to build a machine learning model when they really needed to build an entirely new organization, one that possessed the technical and cultural mindset necessary to succeed in this space.<p>I totally agree. It&#x27;s not impossible to imagine their model working: why couldn&#x27;t you serve as a market-maker for homes at a large scale, especially with the unique insights Zillow could have based on their datasets.<p>However I think where the hubris lay is in how they thought they could leapfrog all the way to an automated solution before building a competency as a house-flipping company.<p>From what I understand, where they failed was partly in building a rich enough model to properly account for the less easily quantifiable elements which ultimately account for a property&#x27;s value. I.e. the price per square foot might make a property look like a steal, while something like a sewer main nearby, or problematic neighbor could radically change the value proposition to anyone standing at the site. That&#x27;s a non-trivial problem to solve for even the best ML and it&#x27;s not clear how you would automate this.<p>If you ask me, instead of focusing on building an automated price discovery system, they should have started by trying to build a quality home-flipping organization, and figuring out how to super-charge manual work using their datasets. Over time you might find ways to optimize the process and increase the level of automation to scale output relative to head-count.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>I don’t think it’s just that they had a poor model, but the combination of that and adverse selection.<p>If you pledge to purchase at the Zestimate then people who reasonably think they can get more than the Zestimate on the open market don’t have an incentive to sell their house to Zillow (besides convenience). But people who think the Zestimate is an over estimate will of course sell to Zillow. So instead of a normal distribution of actual value:estimated value you end up with a skew towards the end where the estimate is over the actual value.<p>Trading housing is very different from normal market making because houses are not fungible commodities like most securities are. For most entities trading securities at low frequency it does not really matter whether a market maker skims off a few pennies on their trade; it’s worth it for the liquidity. Houses are less liquid (because they are non fungible) so the liquidity is more valuable, but the price improvement routing around a MM can also be many percentage points of a trade because there are not only so many factors affecting their valuation, but also just chance and random noise (bidding war, a particular buyer falling in love with the property, not-price-conscious buyers).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money</title><url>https://www.stevenbuccini.com/zillow-offers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skohan</author><text>&gt; They thought they needed to build a machine learning model when they really needed to build an entirely new organization, one that possessed the technical and cultural mindset necessary to succeed in this space.<p>I totally agree. It&#x27;s not impossible to imagine their model working: why couldn&#x27;t you serve as a market-maker for homes at a large scale, especially with the unique insights Zillow could have based on their datasets.<p>However I think where the hubris lay is in how they thought they could leapfrog all the way to an automated solution before building a competency as a house-flipping company.<p>From what I understand, where they failed was partly in building a rich enough model to properly account for the less easily quantifiable elements which ultimately account for a property&#x27;s value. I.e. the price per square foot might make a property look like a steal, while something like a sewer main nearby, or problematic neighbor could radically change the value proposition to anyone standing at the site. That&#x27;s a non-trivial problem to solve for even the best ML and it&#x27;s not clear how you would automate this.<p>If you ask me, instead of focusing on building an automated price discovery system, they should have started by trying to build a quality home-flipping organization, and figuring out how to super-charge manual work using their datasets. Over time you might find ways to optimize the process and increase the level of automation to scale output relative to head-count.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martincmartin</author><text><i>[W]hy couldn&#x27;t you serve as a market-maker for homes at a large scale, especially with the unique insights Zillow could have based on their datasets.</i><p>Indeed, I believe this is what OpenDoor does. From The Economist article [1],<p>&quot;They [OpenDoor] charge a fee for the services they provide: buying and selling homes immediately, with zero fuss. The quick in-and-out makes them more like marketmakers than property investors, who buy to hold.<p>...<p>&quot;A former Zillow employee told Business Insider that management had been hellbent on catching up with Opendoor, the front-runner. In order to compete, the employee alleged, the company pushed to offer generous deals to potential clients. It called this “Project Ketchup”. Now it has its own fake blood on its hands.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;finance-and-economics&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;13&#x2F;a-whodunnit-on-zillow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;finance-and-economics&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;13&#x2F;a...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising</title><url>https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/106424/windows-10-tip-turn-off-file-explorer-advertising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elementalest</author><text>I&#x27;m just curios, disregarding performance aspects, what is there to like about w10 over, say w7? Two things that have put me off upgrading to w10 is the inconsistency of the UI, and the fact the user has less control over the system in a variety of ways.</text></item><item><author>cheald</author><text>Totally agreed. I <i>really</i> like Windows 10 - and then you have things like the advertising, forced resets of default browsers, forced reboots, and other things which, as a power user, do exactly nothing except piss me off.<p>If they just focused on the feature delivery and stopped trying to push their crap, it would be a legitimately great OS. Every time something like this happens, I get a little closer to jumping to a Linux desktop for good.</text></item><item><author>muraiki</author><text>I&#x27;m so frustrated with Microsoft. I want to like them -- I&#x27;m using (and loving) C# and Visual Studio, I&#x27;ve used Visual Studio Code with Go and Typescript, I&#x27;m using whatever they call their cloud version control system, and I&#x27;m really enjoying these things... but then they pull moves like this and make me question as to whether I really want to invest my skills and money in their tech. Say what you will about Google&#x27;s data mining, but I think that putting ads right in the OS is in a whole other league. And as many of us geeks know, this is inevitably going to lead to calls from friends and family trying to figure out what the heck this thing popping up is, and if it&#x27;s a virus. &quot;Nope, it&#x27;s just Microsoft.&quot;<p>I feel bad for the MS employees who are making awesome products but then have to deal with all the ridiculous fallout of Windows 10 decisions. Sorry for the rant, but these actions are honestly making me think about discontinuing my use and support of Microsoft&#x27;s products, and I hope that someone somewhere is listening to us geeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lewisl9029</author><text>There are a lot of legitimately great features that have been added for power users and developers since Windows 7. To give a few examples of things I make use of literally every single day:<p>- Windows Subsystems for Linux. I don&#x27;t think this needs any further introduction.<p>- Client Hyper-V. It&#x27;s a type-1 hypervisor that just works out of the box with completely seamless GPU passthrough (only to the root OS, i.e. the Windows 10 instance with Hyper-V enabled, but it&#x27;s enough for gaming and running neural nets). Docker for Windows depends on this.<p>- Storage Spaces. A storage pooling system that supports thin provisioning, mirrored and parity redundancy, tiered caching, bit rot detection and correction (when used with their new ReFS filesystem), and works seamlessly with removable drives (I use a cluster of 2 2.5&quot; external 4TB drives in mirror mode because I travel a decent amount, and 2 2.5&quot; external drives are so much more pleasant to travel with than any NAS on the market).<p>- Huge improvements to window management, including virtual desktops, arrangement by snapping to all 4 corners on every monitor on multi-monitor systems, a super intuitive UI that lets you choose a different window to snap to the other side with 1 additional click, along with keyboard shortcuts for everything.<p>- First class pen support. I have a convertible laptop with a Wacom pen, and some of the features in the ink workspace like sketchpad and screen sketch have become indispensable to my workflow, and so damn convenient to use.<p>Windows 10 really is an excellent OS in its own right. It&#x27;s such a shame that they keep undermining all the progress they&#x27;ve made by pulling crap like this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising</title><url>https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/106424/windows-10-tip-turn-off-file-explorer-advertising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elementalest</author><text>I&#x27;m just curios, disregarding performance aspects, what is there to like about w10 over, say w7? Two things that have put me off upgrading to w10 is the inconsistency of the UI, and the fact the user has less control over the system in a variety of ways.</text></item><item><author>cheald</author><text>Totally agreed. I <i>really</i> like Windows 10 - and then you have things like the advertising, forced resets of default browsers, forced reboots, and other things which, as a power user, do exactly nothing except piss me off.<p>If they just focused on the feature delivery and stopped trying to push their crap, it would be a legitimately great OS. Every time something like this happens, I get a little closer to jumping to a Linux desktop for good.</text></item><item><author>muraiki</author><text>I&#x27;m so frustrated with Microsoft. I want to like them -- I&#x27;m using (and loving) C# and Visual Studio, I&#x27;ve used Visual Studio Code with Go and Typescript, I&#x27;m using whatever they call their cloud version control system, and I&#x27;m really enjoying these things... but then they pull moves like this and make me question as to whether I really want to invest my skills and money in their tech. Say what you will about Google&#x27;s data mining, but I think that putting ads right in the OS is in a whole other league. And as many of us geeks know, this is inevitably going to lead to calls from friends and family trying to figure out what the heck this thing popping up is, and if it&#x27;s a virus. &quot;Nope, it&#x27;s just Microsoft.&quot;<p>I feel bad for the MS employees who are making awesome products but then have to deal with all the ridiculous fallout of Windows 10 decisions. Sorry for the rant, but these actions are honestly making me think about discontinuing my use and support of Microsoft&#x27;s products, and I hope that someone somewhere is listening to us geeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text>As far as I can tell, 10 has no killer feature, but has incremental improvements in a few areas that will be more relevant to some than others. It has better built-in support for modern hardware: common examples are USB3, NVMe, high-dpi monitors and touchscreens. It has some improvements under the hood in terms of security. It has DirectX 12 for gamers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The problem with reinforced concrete (2016)</title><url>https://theconversation.com/the-problem-with-reinforced-concrete-56078</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>&gt; The present value of a building that lasts 50 years is not that much different that the same one that lasts 100 years.<p>That&#x27;s a problem in and of itself, IMO. Construction is tremendously resource-intensive. We should not be building &quot;throwaway&quot; buildings.</text></item><item><author>idoh</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it is really a problem, more like a tradeoff. Reinforced concrete costs less and enables shapes that are impossible without it, with the downside that the buildings last 50 years instead of 100+ years. The present value of a building that lasts 50 years is not that much different that the same one that lasts 100 years.<p>With that in mind, it makes perfect sense to make an office building out of reinforced concrete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackeraccount</author><text>That&#x27;s a bit like the one horse shay. It&#x27;s not how long it lasts but what are the costs associated with it lasting any given length of time. Nothing lasts forever but say buildings lasted 500 years - Suddenly 500 years from now all buildings have to be replaced? And what&#x27;s the cost of this 500 year building? Is it 10 times as much? Or is it 5 times as much?<p>Saying we shouldn&#x27;t have buildings that only last 50 years but rather they should last 500 is like saying they shouldn&#x27;t last 50 years but instead 5. Maybe. Maybe 5 makes sense.<p>My assumption would be - shocker - it&#x27;s probably a complicated trade off that&#x27;s best adjudicated by the people with the most skin in the particular game.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The problem with reinforced concrete (2016)</title><url>https://theconversation.com/the-problem-with-reinforced-concrete-56078</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>&gt; The present value of a building that lasts 50 years is not that much different that the same one that lasts 100 years.<p>That&#x27;s a problem in and of itself, IMO. Construction is tremendously resource-intensive. We should not be building &quot;throwaway&quot; buildings.</text></item><item><author>idoh</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it is really a problem, more like a tradeoff. Reinforced concrete costs less and enables shapes that are impossible without it, with the downside that the buildings last 50 years instead of 100+ years. The present value of a building that lasts 50 years is not that much different that the same one that lasts 100 years.<p>With that in mind, it makes perfect sense to make an office building out of reinforced concrete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idoh</author><text>A - The concept of present value isn&#x27;t a problem, it&#x27;s more like a fact, derived from the time value of money. It&#x27;s like saying gravity is a problem.<p>B - Construction is resource intensive, no doubt about it. Without this technique the costs and resources would go up, double?, more? Many structures we take for granted, like freeway overpasses, would be impossibly expensive.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Git's list of banned C functions</title><url>https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orwin</author><text>In my school, we had two days to understand the basics of text editors, git (add, commit, rebase, reset, push) and basic bash functions (ls, cd, cp, mv, diff and patch, find, grep...) + pipes, then a day to understand how while, if&#x2F;else and function calls work, then a day to understand how pointer work, then a day to understand how malloc(), free() and string works (we had to remake strlen, strcpy, and protect them). Two days, over the weekend, to do a small project to validate this.<p>Then on the monday, it was makefiles if i remember correctly, then open(), read(), close() and write(). Then linking (and new libc functions, like strcat) . A day to consolidate everything, including bash and git (a new small project every hour for 24 hours, you could of course wait until the end of the day to execute each of them). And then some recursivity and the 8 queen problem. Then a small weekend project, a sudoku solver (the hard part was to work with people you never met before tbh).<p>The 3rd week was more of the same: basic struct&#x2F;enums exercises, then linked list the next day, maybe static and other keyword in-between. I used the Btree day to understand how linked list worked (and understand how did pointer incrementation and casting really work), and i don&#x27;t remember the last day (i was probably still on linked lists). Then a big, 5-day project, and either you&#x27;re in, or you&#x27;re out.<p>I assure you, strings were not the hardest part. Not having any leaks was.</text></item><item><author>InvOfSmallC</author><text>I teach at university as external lecturer. Teaching strings in C is the hardest thing I have to do every time. The university decided to explain C to first year student without previous experience. My feedback was to do a precourse in Python to let them relax a bit with programming as a concept and then teach C in a second course.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Unfortunately, much of the pain with C surrounds dealing with strings. It’s been a bit of a theme on Hacker News for the past few days, but it’s actually a pretty good spotlight on something I feel is not always appreciated - strings in C are actually hard, and even the most safe standard functions like strlcpy and strlcat are still only good if truncation is a safe option in a given circumstance (it isn’t always.)<p>(~~Technically~~ Optionally, C11 has strcpy_s and strcat_s which fail explicitly on truncation. So if C11 is acceptable for you, that might be the a reasonable option, provided you always handle the failure case. Apparently, though, it is not usually implemented outside of Microsoft CRT.)<p>edit: Updated notes regarding C11.</text></item><item><author>paultopia</author><text>Its really wild, as a person coming from other languages who has written maybe ten lines of C in his life that the functions that seem to be massive footguns in C are, like, &quot;format a string&quot; or &quot;get time in GMT.&quot; That&#x27;s... really scary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>This heavily filters for people who have had experience with programming in high-school or even before that, there&#x27;s no way for a programming novice to pass that grueling routine.<p>And then people rhetorically ask themselves why students coming from economically disadvantaged households are under-represented in this industry (one of the best paying industries in this time and age). Stuff like that has got to change.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Git's list of banned C functions</title><url>https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orwin</author><text>In my school, we had two days to understand the basics of text editors, git (add, commit, rebase, reset, push) and basic bash functions (ls, cd, cp, mv, diff and patch, find, grep...) + pipes, then a day to understand how while, if&#x2F;else and function calls work, then a day to understand how pointer work, then a day to understand how malloc(), free() and string works (we had to remake strlen, strcpy, and protect them). Two days, over the weekend, to do a small project to validate this.<p>Then on the monday, it was makefiles if i remember correctly, then open(), read(), close() and write(). Then linking (and new libc functions, like strcat) . A day to consolidate everything, including bash and git (a new small project every hour for 24 hours, you could of course wait until the end of the day to execute each of them). And then some recursivity and the 8 queen problem. Then a small weekend project, a sudoku solver (the hard part was to work with people you never met before tbh).<p>The 3rd week was more of the same: basic struct&#x2F;enums exercises, then linked list the next day, maybe static and other keyword in-between. I used the Btree day to understand how linked list worked (and understand how did pointer incrementation and casting really work), and i don&#x27;t remember the last day (i was probably still on linked lists). Then a big, 5-day project, and either you&#x27;re in, or you&#x27;re out.<p>I assure you, strings were not the hardest part. Not having any leaks was.</text></item><item><author>InvOfSmallC</author><text>I teach at university as external lecturer. Teaching strings in C is the hardest thing I have to do every time. The university decided to explain C to first year student without previous experience. My feedback was to do a precourse in Python to let them relax a bit with programming as a concept and then teach C in a second course.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Unfortunately, much of the pain with C surrounds dealing with strings. It’s been a bit of a theme on Hacker News for the past few days, but it’s actually a pretty good spotlight on something I feel is not always appreciated - strings in C are actually hard, and even the most safe standard functions like strlcpy and strlcat are still only good if truncation is a safe option in a given circumstance (it isn’t always.)<p>(~~Technically~~ Optionally, C11 has strcpy_s and strcat_s which fail explicitly on truncation. So if C11 is acceptable for you, that might be the a reasonable option, provided you always handle the failure case. Apparently, though, it is not usually implemented outside of Microsoft CRT.)<p>edit: Updated notes regarding C11.</text></item><item><author>paultopia</author><text>Its really wild, as a person coming from other languages who has written maybe ten lines of C in his life that the functions that seem to be massive footguns in C are, like, &quot;format a string&quot; or &quot;get time in GMT.&quot; That&#x27;s... really scary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PoignardAzur</author><text>Ooh, the Epitech cursus. Nice.<p>Also, I&#x27;d say &quot;not having segfaults&quot; is the hardest thing to get right when you&#x27;re going through that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion</title><url>https://www.paypal.com/stories/us/paypal-withdraws-plan-for-charlotte-expansion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway5752</author><text>I will be super interested in Red Hat. They threatened to leave for Atlanta in the past five years. This could not be further from their corporate values, and they have a highly distributed workforce and a big base of operations in Massachusetts and a fair number of people in the Bay Area.<p>McCrory is a real idiot. The money in NC comes from the cities. They may have won a Pyrrhic victory in the gerrymandering, but now that the rural districts have this power to drive legislation, they are going to drive companies&#x2F;money right out of Asheville (brewing, tourism), Charlotte (finance&#x2F;finance tech), and Raleigh&#x2F;Durham&#x2F;Chapel Hill (software R&amp;D and biotech).<p>PayPal isn&#x27;t the first news. NC lost a startup incubator that was going to start a local presence already. There is more to this, and it&#x27;s going to end the governors&#x27; national political ambitions as well has harm the economy of NC for decades.<p>edit: if it doesn&#x27;t get overturned (in its entirety) immediately when the legislation gets back in session or through the courts, which is already in progress.</text></comment>
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<story><title>PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion</title><url>https://www.paypal.com/stories/us/paypal-withdraws-plan-for-charlotte-expansion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stblack</author><text>This is the first time I have ever read news that reflects PayPal in a positive light.<p>Never thought I would ever write these words: way to go, PayPal!</text></comment>
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<story><title>VPN Comparison Chart</title><url>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAeQjuQPU4BVzbOigT0xebxTOw/htmlview?sle=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gilrain</author><text>In addition to its excellent scorecard here, I can report that I&#x27;ve been extremely happy with IVPN. Very easy to deal with, even for detailed, technical support requests. I got an immediate response from an engineer which addressed my complaint in detail (poor port forwarding setup), and even gave me a timeline for when they were going to fix it. And they did fix it! The port forwarding is great, now.<p>Also, since this does matter a lot: I have a 100 Mbps connection, and I get between 50-80 Mbps through almost all of their servers, barring understandably slow countries like Hong Kong.<p>Oh, also, they have multihop, and you select your own entry and exit server from among their pool.<p>I have no relationship with them, just a satisfied customer, relieved to have found a reliable, consumer VPN after many attempts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globisdead</author><text>I&#x27;m on IVPN now as my primary mostly due to this chart and my only gripes are:<p>It&#x27;s expensive compared to the others, at $100 a year. I&#x27;ve never seen it go cheaper than this in any sales of any kind.<p>Some sites like Google will mark you as a bot and force captchas for searches, probably due to its userbase and their shared IPs.<p>Comparatively fewer servers compared to popular VPNs like PIA and TorGuard. This leads to me getting the same IP address for each server I connect to. Not sure if this is a pro or a con.<p>Otherwise, speed has been good, connection has been stable (a few disconnects here and there but it seems to have smoothed out for now), and I hope the chart is accurate in terms of security and privacy on their part.<p>I&#x27;ve tested many others including AirVPN and NordVPN as well but haven&#x27;t seen a definitive reason yet for the higher price tag on IVPN. Not that I&#x27;m not happy with IVPN, which I am, I&#x27;m just also an incredible cheapskate.</text></comment>
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<story><title>VPN Comparison Chart</title><url>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAeQjuQPU4BVzbOigT0xebxTOw/htmlview?sle=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gilrain</author><text>In addition to its excellent scorecard here, I can report that I&#x27;ve been extremely happy with IVPN. Very easy to deal with, even for detailed, technical support requests. I got an immediate response from an engineer which addressed my complaint in detail (poor port forwarding setup), and even gave me a timeline for when they were going to fix it. And they did fix it! The port forwarding is great, now.<p>Also, since this does matter a lot: I have a 100 Mbps connection, and I get between 50-80 Mbps through almost all of their servers, barring understandably slow countries like Hong Kong.<p>Oh, also, they have multihop, and you select your own entry and exit server from among their pool.<p>I have no relationship with them, just a satisfied customer, relieved to have found a reliable, consumer VPN after many attempts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newman314</author><text>Interesting.<p>I was checking various sites benchmarking VPNs and I remember them reporting IVPN speeds being around 3Mbps. Good to know that&#x27;s not the case.<p>Couple of things that are missing. I use IPSec&#x2F;L2TP. Does not seem to have columns tracking these. I did a bunch of sorting and filtering and the following seem to be the only providers that check all the marks for no logging and good business practices.<p>* AzireVPN<p>* IVPN<p>* SecureVPN.to<p>* Trust.Zone</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chinese banks cause alarm as capital flight measures intensify</title><url>https://www.asiamarkets.com/chinese-banks-cause-alarm-as-capital-flight-measures-intensify/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Are the increasingly tight capital controls a precursor to a war with Taiwan or because the CCP expects some other shock to occur? Is their economy expected to crash for some other reason or is this simply dictatorships love centralised control over everything especially capital?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chinese banks cause alarm as capital flight measures intensify</title><url>https://www.asiamarkets.com/chinese-banks-cause-alarm-as-capital-flight-measures-intensify/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adaml_623</author><text>I wonder what the billionaires do to get their money out? Do they pay people to travel with jewellery that gets sold for foreign currency once it&#x27;s outside China? Do they overpay for imported goods and get the difference paid into a Swiss bank account?
It&#x27;s always interesting to me how really wealthy people pay for loopholes</text></comment>
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<story><title>Picking Winners: A Framework for Venture Capital Investment</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04229</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chroem-</author><text>I feel like venture capital is a major choke point in our current implementation of capitalism, where &quot;the market will decide&quot; is really a euphemism for &quot;a small handful of extremely wealthy investors will decide.&quot; We&#x27;re paying a massive opportunity cost on all of those ideas that don&#x27;t ever reach the market because VC&#x27;s don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re easy money.<p>A good way to resolve this would be to reform the accredited investor laws into something more meritocratic. Instead of needing to own one million dollars in assets, there ought to be some sort of knowledge-based competency exam so that regular people can invest in ideas they think are worthwhile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tibbetts</author><text>If you want to increase good ideas getting to market, fund basic science, not startups. VCs might not be picking exactly the right companies, but it is hard to argue there isn&#x27;t enough private investment capital for high growth startups. The real missing link is support for new ideas long before they are startups.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Picking Winners: A Framework for Venture Capital Investment</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04229</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chroem-</author><text>I feel like venture capital is a major choke point in our current implementation of capitalism, where &quot;the market will decide&quot; is really a euphemism for &quot;a small handful of extremely wealthy investors will decide.&quot; We&#x27;re paying a massive opportunity cost on all of those ideas that don&#x27;t ever reach the market because VC&#x27;s don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re easy money.<p>A good way to resolve this would be to reform the accredited investor laws into something more meritocratic. Instead of needing to own one million dollars in assets, there ought to be some sort of knowledge-based competency exam so that regular people can invest in ideas they think are worthwhile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ojbyrne</author><text>Minor point - you can also be an accredited investor if you &quot;have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 combined income if married) and have the expectation to make the same amount this year.&quot; [1]<p>That feels somewhat more &quot;meritocratic&quot; to me.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Accredited_investor#United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Accredited_investor#United_Sta...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>List of games that Buddha would not play</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kpmcc</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see a list of games the Buddha would play, as I don&#x27;t think it would contain anything unless the game somehow pertained to discernment of the nature of suffering or the extinction of the cycle of rebirth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zyemuzu</author><text>I&#x27;m playing Returnal at the moment and I&#x27;m sure Buddha would have found it pretty rad.</text></comment>
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<story><title>List of games that Buddha would not play</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kpmcc</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see a list of games the Buddha would play, as I don&#x27;t think it would contain anything unless the game somehow pertained to discernment of the nature of suffering or the extinction of the cycle of rebirth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>Outer Wilds sounds kinda close actually. With the new DLC I think it might be the best game I&#x27;ve ever played.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nest thermostat teardown</title><url>http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/334</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsumnia</author><text>I currently work at an commercial HVAC optimization company and we've been eyeing the Nest pretty hard. We've built both our hardware and software so its a bit worrisome to see this, luckily they attacked residential. Our niche is controlling fast food and sit down restaurants over a ZigBee mesh network, which are a whole 'nother level of a beast. Remote temperature sensors, 25+ year old units, and don't get me started on duct work (had to deal with one of those today).<p>My shot in the dark guess on the optimization comes in determining what would be called 'ramp-up' time and operating a proportional–integral–derivative controller (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller</a>). The system uses the different sensors to determine occupancy times and then in turn determines the necessary amount of time needed to run the AC so when you'd transition from an unoccupied to an occupied state, you do so efficiently while maintaining thermal comfort(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort</a>), which is measured with light, temperature, humidity and potentially CO2 levels (I'd have to reread the article to see what the Nest actually has).<p>georgieporgie asked about access to thermostat information being accessible over wifi. My second stab is that the thermostat actually reports back to the Nest servers with their unique ID, you register the stat to your account and pushing the button sends a signal to the server confirming you are in fact in possession of device. From there, the thermostat sends periodic updates and receives messages about how it should be running.<p>The ZigBee support will most definitely be for future/additional appliance communication and total site monitoring (energy consumption, fault detection, etc).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nest thermostat teardown</title><url>http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/334</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MrEnigma</author><text>I really want to get one, but apparently there are issues when you don't have a C-wire. Basically a power wire from the furnace. I just finished my basement, and the house only came with 4 wire, and I didn't run 5+ wire before I finished the basement.<p>Marco Arment documented it here:
<a href="http://www.marco.org/2011/12/17/nest-incompatibility-without-c-wire" rel="nofollow">http://www.marco.org/2011/12/17/nest-incompatibility-without...</a><p>Although it may just be for boilers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptomining/just-137-crypto-miners-use-23-of-total-us-power-government-now-requiring-commercial-miners-to-report-energy-consumption</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Symbiote</author><text>Visa used 189GWh in 2017, worldwide, of which around half was data centres [1]. That handled 111.2 billion transactions, so about 1.7Wh per transaction (half for datacentres).<p>Bitcoin used 844670Wh per transaction [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;dam&#x2F;VCOM&#x2F;download&#x2F;corporate-responsibility&#x2F;visa-2017-corporate-responsibility-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;dam&#x2F;VCOM&#x2F;download&#x2F;corporate-responsibil...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiconomist.net&#x2F;bitcoin-energy-consumption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiconomist.net&#x2F;bitcoin-energy-consumption</a></text></item><item><author>digging</author><text>I&#x27;m not a crypto proponent per se, but I do feel the need to be reasonable about it, and this reads like pure emotional anti-cryptocurrency sentiment.<p>(edit: while I still can, I&#x27;m going to jump in and repeat that I&#x27;m criticizing this as a bad article which isn&#x27;t saying anything very meaningful on its own. Thanks everyone for doing the author&#x27;s work for them and gathering more data. I won&#x27;t be upset if it&#x27;s proven that crypto is intrinsically bad for everything I love - except insofar as I believe it can&#x27;t be stopped.)<p>1. There is no comparison made to the energy consumption of the traditional banking industry, which I am sure is not a <i>particularly</i> energy-efficient industry.<p>2. The title of the article is itself editorializing the content of the article and is <i>speculative</i> according to their own words. From TFA: &quot;[The EIA] released a study suggesting that cryptocurrency mining represents up to 2.3% of U.S. power demand.&quot; It could be less, much less, or <i>much</i> less, although I haven&#x27;t read the actual report yet (I&#x27;m criticizing this article only), because &quot;suggesting&quot; could be doing a lot of heavy lifting<p>3. &quot;Just 137&quot; isn&#x27;t meaningful AFAIK. Who cares if it&#x27;s 100 or 10 or 10,000 miners? The point is the <i>amount of crypto</i> being mined. (The number of miners will always be in flux by design anyway.) And the answer to that, from TFA: &quot;The EIA found that the global share of Bitcoin mining that takes place in the U.S. grew from 3.4% in 2020 to a whopping 37.8% in 2022.&quot; So roughly ~2% of US power is generating over 1&#x2F;3 of the world&#x27;s Bitcoin. This is only <i>obviously bad</i> if you believe Bitcoin is a <i>total waste</i> of energy, which I don&#x27;t, but I understand that some do.<p>4. Energy consumption is frankly not a phenomenon I give two shits about, as an environmentalist. Fossil fuel consumption is. From TFA: &quot;We intend to ... quantify the sources of electricity used to meet cryptocurrency mining demand.&quot; Meaning this has not been done, and publishing scary warnings is premature. If Bitcoin mining ends up using a higher proportion of renewable energy than, say, traditional banking, it could be seen as a net good for crypto use to rise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgv</author><text>I imagine much of Visa&#x27;s data centre capacity goes to serving web pages and all that. I know of a bank that would run millions of transactions per day in a couple of hours on an IBM mainframe (at night, after closing). While they are power hungry machines, I can&#x27;t imagine them using 1MW. So I think 1.7Wh per transaction is at least an order of magnitude too high.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptomining/just-137-crypto-miners-use-23-of-total-us-power-government-now-requiring-commercial-miners-to-report-energy-consumption</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Symbiote</author><text>Visa used 189GWh in 2017, worldwide, of which around half was data centres [1]. That handled 111.2 billion transactions, so about 1.7Wh per transaction (half for datacentres).<p>Bitcoin used 844670Wh per transaction [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;dam&#x2F;VCOM&#x2F;download&#x2F;corporate-responsibility&#x2F;visa-2017-corporate-responsibility-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;dam&#x2F;VCOM&#x2F;download&#x2F;corporate-responsibil...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiconomist.net&#x2F;bitcoin-energy-consumption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiconomist.net&#x2F;bitcoin-energy-consumption</a></text></item><item><author>digging</author><text>I&#x27;m not a crypto proponent per se, but I do feel the need to be reasonable about it, and this reads like pure emotional anti-cryptocurrency sentiment.<p>(edit: while I still can, I&#x27;m going to jump in and repeat that I&#x27;m criticizing this as a bad article which isn&#x27;t saying anything very meaningful on its own. Thanks everyone for doing the author&#x27;s work for them and gathering more data. I won&#x27;t be upset if it&#x27;s proven that crypto is intrinsically bad for everything I love - except insofar as I believe it can&#x27;t be stopped.)<p>1. There is no comparison made to the energy consumption of the traditional banking industry, which I am sure is not a <i>particularly</i> energy-efficient industry.<p>2. The title of the article is itself editorializing the content of the article and is <i>speculative</i> according to their own words. From TFA: &quot;[The EIA] released a study suggesting that cryptocurrency mining represents up to 2.3% of U.S. power demand.&quot; It could be less, much less, or <i>much</i> less, although I haven&#x27;t read the actual report yet (I&#x27;m criticizing this article only), because &quot;suggesting&quot; could be doing a lot of heavy lifting<p>3. &quot;Just 137&quot; isn&#x27;t meaningful AFAIK. Who cares if it&#x27;s 100 or 10 or 10,000 miners? The point is the <i>amount of crypto</i> being mined. (The number of miners will always be in flux by design anyway.) And the answer to that, from TFA: &quot;The EIA found that the global share of Bitcoin mining that takes place in the U.S. grew from 3.4% in 2020 to a whopping 37.8% in 2022.&quot; So roughly ~2% of US power is generating over 1&#x2F;3 of the world&#x27;s Bitcoin. This is only <i>obviously bad</i> if you believe Bitcoin is a <i>total waste</i> of energy, which I don&#x27;t, but I understand that some do.<p>4. Energy consumption is frankly not a phenomenon I give two shits about, as an environmentalist. Fossil fuel consumption is. From TFA: &quot;We intend to ... quantify the sources of electricity used to meet cryptocurrency mining demand.&quot; Meaning this has not been done, and publishing scary warnings is premature. If Bitcoin mining ends up using a higher proportion of renewable energy than, say, traditional banking, it could be seen as a net good for crypto use to rise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qqqwerty</author><text>That is bonkers if true. To put some context around that, our EV can drive around 4000 miles on that amount of energy. Meanwhile, I am not sure you could even unlock the car on 1.7Wh.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar</title><url>http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2011/10/we-taught-siri-to-add-tasks-to-remember-the-milk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbhacker</author><text>If I understand correctly, the have taught Siri nothing. What you see is task list synchronization between the iPhone and RTM.<p>You talk to Siri -&#62; Siri creates a task -&#62; Task is synced to RTM</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danilocampos</author><text>This comment demonstrates everything that has come to exhaust me about Hacker News.<p>There are myriad things to praise about this community, to be certain, but the only place with a bigger stick up its collective ass is Wikipedia.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar</title><url>http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2011/10/we-taught-siri-to-add-tasks-to-remember-the-milk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbhacker</author><text>If I understand correctly, the have taught Siri nothing. What you see is task list synchronization between the iPhone and RTM.<p>You talk to Siri -&#62; Siri creates a task -&#62; Task is synced to RTM</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Before: Siri doesn't send tasks to RTM.<p>After: Siri sends tasks to RTM.<p>Seems pretty reasonable to me. Is your quibble with the word "taught"? That seems pretty minor.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Simple Ways to Find Potential Customers Online</title><url>http://lukethomas.com/simple-ways-to-find-potential-customers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toumhi</author><text>"Customer Development [...] it's tough to get started" True!<p>A few helpful tips, such as how to speak the vocabulary of your customers, and monitor places they hang out at (author mentions Facebook, Twitter, but you could throw in specific forums, anywhere where your customers discuss and share advice, linkedin groups etc).<p>I think getting introductions is key too. Start with your friends/linked in contacts and ask them if they can refer to some people in &#60;industry&#62;. Then ask these people if they can refer other people too.<p>Otherwise, it's kind of difficult to cold call or cold email these people and have them agree to meet. I tried cold calling for a software product of mine (filesharing for small companies, in France) and it was quite difficult, especially considering I don't have a sales background. When you say "Mr X told me you could be interested" you get an almost-guaranteed meet.<p>Another way to do it if you picked an audience who's internet-savvy is to analyze conversations you find in forums, and find evidence of problems people have (that's the approach that Amy Hoy recommends in her online class 30x500), and create educational content for them: ebooks, screenscasts, podcasts, blog posts etc. as far as I understand, it's not exactly customer development though, as it doesn't get you in face of customers. Just a different approach to find potential customers :-)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Simple Ways to Find Potential Customers Online</title><url>http://lukethomas.com/simple-ways-to-find-potential-customers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordo37</author><text>Some of the advice in here is the usual solid advice, but that leads credence to his ideas and tools that I hadn't heard of or used before. Nice post.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-finds-safe-haven-in-iceland-switches-to-is-domain-130425/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spoiledtechie</author><text>What I wonder about, is they should be the "creators" and steering committee for the worlds own PnP DNS servers... I would gladly host a small portion of DNS spaces on my machines running at home...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-finds-safe-haven-in-iceland-switches-to-is-domain-130425/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sorenbs</author><text>I have been reading up on sub marine cables lately as the cable cuts in Egypt has reduced our international data transfer substantially here in Bangladesh.<p>This add from one of the companies in that market got me thinking that TPB should start a fundraiser to establish fiber connection to such an independent island and thereby gain greater independence.<p><a href="http://www.buysellbandwidth.com/groupbuying/deals_detail.php?deal=81" rel="nofollow">http://www.buysellbandwidth.com/groupbuying/deals_detail.php...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47830256</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unquietcode</author><text>This has been nagging me for weeks since I &#x27;discovered&#x27; that almost everyone around me can visualize things in their mind. Frankly, it helps explain a lot about my life. The inability to picture the face of friends, family, places I&#x27;ve visited, all contribute to a sense of isolation and distance that I feel daily. My strong preference for non-fiction, too, is likely an artifact of reading fiction word by word but &#x27;seeing&#x27; nothing interesting. My failed attempts at all sort sorts of meditation and mindfulness exercises are also now suspect. The anecdotes about being unable to understand the concept of &#x27;counting sheep&#x27; also resonate strongly with me. That face-blindness is also commonly co-morbid also helps me understand that aspect of myself better.<p>All in all, while I don&#x27;t feel &#x27;robbed&#x27; of this ability to visualize things, it does seem to lob off a chunk of things which are particularly joyful to the human experience. I can&#x27;t really visualize a future life for myself, let alone my current life. To discover all of this after decades of being alive is quite mind-blowing, and I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s getting the wave of media attention that it is now (or else I would not have known).<p>But then, perhaps, in this case, ignorance would be a bit more blissful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ux-app</author><text>I&#x27;ve got aphantasia too. When I first heard about it about a year ago I was surprised to learn that others <i>can</i> actually see things in their mind&#x27;s eye. Had to confirm with friends and family, with questions like &#x27;so you can actually <i>see</i> a ball if you think about it?&#x27;. Their answers blew me away.<p>So far I&#x27;ve boiled the side effects down to:<p>1. A complete and utter lack of direction. I literally get lost in suburbs surrounding my home (i&#x27;ll very often take an extremely sub optimal route home from a store that is just 10 minutes from my home - a bit embarrassing tbh, gives my wife a laugh though). These are streets I&#x27;ve travelled for over 30 years. Apparently quite common with aphantasia.<p>2. An almost superhuman ability to put bad experiences behind me. People with aphantasia don&#x27;t have the tendency to ruminate. I&#x27;ve had some traumatic experiences in my life and within a few months it&#x27;s as if the experience never happened. I can recall details of it but the recollection is as if the experience happened to someone else.<p>Regarding no.2, photos are super important. There was a period of 10 years or so where I didn&#x27;t take many photos, and that period feels like a black hole.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47830256</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unquietcode</author><text>This has been nagging me for weeks since I &#x27;discovered&#x27; that almost everyone around me can visualize things in their mind. Frankly, it helps explain a lot about my life. The inability to picture the face of friends, family, places I&#x27;ve visited, all contribute to a sense of isolation and distance that I feel daily. My strong preference for non-fiction, too, is likely an artifact of reading fiction word by word but &#x27;seeing&#x27; nothing interesting. My failed attempts at all sort sorts of meditation and mindfulness exercises are also now suspect. The anecdotes about being unable to understand the concept of &#x27;counting sheep&#x27; also resonate strongly with me. That face-blindness is also commonly co-morbid also helps me understand that aspect of myself better.<p>All in all, while I don&#x27;t feel &#x27;robbed&#x27; of this ability to visualize things, it does seem to lob off a chunk of things which are particularly joyful to the human experience. I can&#x27;t really visualize a future life for myself, let alone my current life. To discover all of this after decades of being alive is quite mind-blowing, and I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s getting the wave of media attention that it is now (or else I would not have known).<p>But then, perhaps, in this case, ignorance would be a bit more blissful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crimsonalucard</author><text>The picture we conjure up in our mind is also not the most detailed picture. It&#x27;s not exact. It&#x27;s a very blurry image but not in the same sense that an image is made blurry through a camera lens. It&#x27;s also not an image, but a 3D model and it usually sits in some sort of relevant but made up setting.<p>For example. If I was told to imagine a barn, the first image to pop up is the barn. For no apparent reason, the barn is red.<p>How many windows does the barn have? No clue, didn&#x27;t even realize that the barn had some windows. I can then sort of materialize the windows into a concrete amount (two for example). But do note that before I thought about the windows the 3D model of the barn existed in a state that can only be conjured by the imagination. The barn literally had an unknown amount of windows, not no windows or some windows, but I just wasn&#x27;t thinking about the windows. The other weird part of this is that we don&#x27;t consciously realize that the model is incomplete, yet if we took this incomplete model of the barn and put it in the real world we can then instantly identify this inconsistency and weirdness.<p>Also for no apparent reason the barn is sitting on a grass field and it&#x27;s dusk.<p>If you can dream, the image is exactly the same as your dream. Blurry three dimensional objects that can materialize in greater detail as you focus.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Officials arrest suspect in $4 billion Bitcoin money laundering scheme</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/officials-arrest-suspect-in-4-billion-bitcoin-money-laundering-scheme/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related discussion at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14858495" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14858495</a>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Officials arrest suspect in $4 billion Bitcoin money laundering scheme</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/officials-arrest-suspect-in-4-billion-bitcoin-money-laundering-scheme/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sjs382</author><text>The timing of this and the bitmixer.io [0] voluntary shutdown a few days ago is a bit strange.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14843373" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14843373</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/04/23/beta-qt-webassembly-technology-preview/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>Really surprised and saddened by the negative comments here. Qt is an amazing framework that has been around for nearly 30 years. Developing with it is a great experience, probably the most enjoyable coding I&#x27;ve done.<p>I have faith that the Qt project won&#x27;t spend time shipping this if it doesn&#x27;t offer advantages. Give them time, and a little benefit of the doubt based on a very long history of excellence.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/04/23/beta-qt-webassembly-technology-preview/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mappu</author><text>Note that Qt has two separate technology previews for porting Qt apps to run in the web browser:<p>Qt WebGL streaming (qplatform&#x2F;qpa plugin):<p>The Qt binary runs on your PC as normal, but instead of opening an X11&#x2F;Win32 window, opens a network port. You can open the URL in a browser to see the interface. Only one connection is allowed &#x2F; only one user can interact with the app at a time.<p>Technology preview since 5.10, will be &quot;TP2&quot; status in 5.11. See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.qt.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;14&#x2F;qt-webgl-cinematic-experience&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.qt.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;14&#x2F;qt-webgl-cinematic-experie...</a> and <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.qt.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;07&#x2F;qt-webgl-streaming-merged&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.qt.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;07&#x2F;qt-webgl-streaming-merged&#x2F;</a><p>Qt for WebAssembly:<p>The entire QtWidgets &#x2F; QML libraries are compiled to WASM and run clientside. There is no server-side component.<p>Will be released as a technology preview in the upcoming 5.11 release.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2019/08/23/monsanto-republicans-cancer-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaywindev</author><text>It’s an economic problem that boils down to not putting a high enough price on negative externalities.</text></item><item><author>NPMaxwell</author><text>Roundup, asbestos, leaded gas, and lots of other engineering products say to me that the industry&#x2F;culture of engineering has a problem. I think that problem is not engineering itself, but emerges when engineering is mixed with current MBA culture of stockholder value rather than stakeholder value. Obvious, and obviously worthless, strategies are to add BS &quot;ethics&quot; courses to engineering programs. It&#x27;s possible to turn this ship. I don&#x27;t yet have ideas for how it&#x27;s actually done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterStuer</author><text>The idea that a regulator can pre-run the economic actors to price in all known and unknown negative externalities before transactions occur is disingenuous. Competitively breeding an evolving species of ever more creative amoral actors seeking to concentrate benefits and externalize negatives and then somehow hoping you can contain them is madness. In an environment were the &#x27;guards&#x27; can and frequently do swap places with the inmates it is beyond madness.<p>Furthermore, even if that were true there is nothing to stop a malevolent actor, either deliberate, by ignorance, or by lack of better alternatives, to just eat the cost.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2019/08/23/monsanto-republicans-cancer-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaywindev</author><text>It’s an economic problem that boils down to not putting a high enough price on negative externalities.</text></item><item><author>NPMaxwell</author><text>Roundup, asbestos, leaded gas, and lots of other engineering products say to me that the industry&#x2F;culture of engineering has a problem. I think that problem is not engineering itself, but emerges when engineering is mixed with current MBA culture of stockholder value rather than stakeholder value. Obvious, and obviously worthless, strategies are to add BS &quot;ethics&quot; courses to engineering programs. It&#x27;s possible to turn this ship. I don&#x27;t yet have ideas for how it&#x27;s actually done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>52-6F-62</author><text>Agreed. This is a major problem in the energy sector as well. I regularly hear &quot;oil and gas are cheap energy compared to the alternatives&quot; but they&#x27;re really not. They&#x27;re just punting the real costs down a generation or two.</text></comment>
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<story><title>First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed</title><url>https://www.mpg.de/17223684/0719-evan-lethal-attacks-by-chimpanzees-on-gorillas-observed-150495-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>&gt;&gt; Declaring the cause must be food competition or climate change seems a bit hasty?<p>It&#x27;s not a declaration, but a hypothesis that attempts to explain the observations according to prior knowledge. It &quot;will now be investigated in more detail&quot; to try and disprove it. That&#x27;s bog standard scientific work.<p>What&#x27;s hasty is the easy dismissal of the opinion of experts on a subject most commenters here are probably unfamliar with (interspecies interactions between non-human primates) and the attemps to find an ulterior motive of some kind of political nature, in comments in this thread.<p>When did HN become so anti-science?</text></item><item><author>varenc</author><text>&gt; &quot;Whether this behavior is due to competition for food or to the decline of the rainforest&#x27;s productivity caused by climate change will now be investigated in more detail.&quot;<p>Declaring the cause must be food competition or climate change seems a bit hasty?<p>These are complex social animals. Given this is the only attack ever observed, it seems possible to me that there are a myriad of plausible one-off explanations. Perhaps a particular chimp or gorilla was having a really bad day and just went out looking for a fight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woofie11</author><text>Science is a process. HN isn&#x27;t anti-science.<p>The scientific establishment is a group of people in various organizational structures and alliances. I&#x27;m part of that establishment, and I can say that it lies, exaggerates, and has become increasingly untrustworthy in the past decade or two:<p>- The easiest way to get ahead in the scientific establishment is to fabricate politically-motivated results.<p>- Competition is intense, and the &quot;hard&quot; way is becoming impossible.<p>My general advice is to read source data -- even there with a large grain of salt -- but to definitely not trust &quot;expert&quot; conclusions. One of the easiest ways to have &quot;impact&quot; is to write newsworthy conclusions weakly supported by evidence. It&#x27;s not technically academic fraud, and gives you the visibility you need for academic job offers.<p>Science isn&#x27;t about authority or expertise. It&#x27;s about evidence, critical thinking, and the scientific process. If you believe science is &quot;opinion of experts,&quot; you&#x27;re doing it wrong.</text></comment>
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<story><title>First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed</title><url>https://www.mpg.de/17223684/0719-evan-lethal-attacks-by-chimpanzees-on-gorillas-observed-150495-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>&gt;&gt; Declaring the cause must be food competition or climate change seems a bit hasty?<p>It&#x27;s not a declaration, but a hypothesis that attempts to explain the observations according to prior knowledge. It &quot;will now be investigated in more detail&quot; to try and disprove it. That&#x27;s bog standard scientific work.<p>What&#x27;s hasty is the easy dismissal of the opinion of experts on a subject most commenters here are probably unfamliar with (interspecies interactions between non-human primates) and the attemps to find an ulterior motive of some kind of political nature, in comments in this thread.<p>When did HN become so anti-science?</text></item><item><author>varenc</author><text>&gt; &quot;Whether this behavior is due to competition for food or to the decline of the rainforest&#x27;s productivity caused by climate change will now be investigated in more detail.&quot;<p>Declaring the cause must be food competition or climate change seems a bit hasty?<p>These are complex social animals. Given this is the only attack ever observed, it seems possible to me that there are a myriad of plausible one-off explanations. Perhaps a particular chimp or gorilla was having a really bad day and just went out looking for a fight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>z3c0</author><text>I&#x27;ve noticed a tendency towards pseudo-intellectual snark amidst the comments these days. It relies a lot on misused logic and eloquence to present itself as a knowledgeable opinion, but often never goes deeper than a semantic nitpick. This whole comment thread wouldn&#x27;t exist if the author of the article had simply said &quot;or something else.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces</title><url>https://brandur.org/interfaces</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fpgaminer</author><text>I wrote a comment under a different post just a few days ago. My comment got _way_ out of hand and wasn&#x27;t as articulate as I had hoped. But the salient point I made with it is simple and applies equally well to this article.<p>UI is hard.<p>User interfaces seems really simple. Every programmer I know has looked at a UI and thought to themselves &quot;I can code that in an hour!&quot; and then ended up spending weeks, sometimes _months_ building the UI.<p>I believe UI is a big, unsolved problem in modern computer science. Just as hard as any other unsolved problem in our field. Right up there with general artificial intelligence and P=?NP. I&#x27;m not even joking.<p>We will eventually solve the problem of UI. But there are a thousand and one articles posted every day either A) complaining about existing UI or B) telling everyone the solution (without providing real, concrete new libraries, frameworks, code, etc). No one wants to admit that this stuff is just plain hard and we shouldn&#x27;t beat ourselves up over the fact that we haven&#x27;t solved it yet.<p>In other words, it&#x27;s easy to complain. It&#x27;s easy to display hubris. It&#x27;s hard to put forth real, practical solutions. Or at least be humble and admit that we _don&#x27;t_ have the solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>013a</author><text>I think that&#x27;s absolutely fair. The pace at which the industry is starting to solve really big, hairy problems in standard ways is ever accelerating; the devops space right now is undergoing massive solidification under the Cloud and Kubernetes. UI is one of those problems I hope we&#x27;re humble enough to admit that we got horribly wrong with HTML&#x2F;CSS, and maybe we need to go back to square one.<p>But at the same time, lets pick on Slack. There&#x27;s no good reason that it needs to take more than 5 seconds per team to load. Maybe its Electron, HTML, and CSS. Maybe they&#x27;re loading too much data at the start. Maybe their Ruby servers are a little slow.<p>All of that could be true, but one thing is <i>definitely</i> true: There&#x27;s a Product Manager or an Engineering Lead somewhere in San Francisco who looked at what their engineers had built and said &quot;Yup, this lives up to the quality our users expect, ship it.&quot;<p>Jira is the same way. Its dog slow. Its full of UI bugs and inconsistencies. But people still buy it, and someone at Atlassian has to have said &quot;we&#x27;ll worry about this UI bug later, we have more reports for middle management we want to add to the product.&quot;<p>Our best minds will solve the tremendously difficult UI problem one day. But today, the best thing most of us can focus on is the People problem. Expect and Pay for better. Reach out to leaders at these companies on Twitter. A core problem in the software purchasing process is that, often, the people who buy the software aren&#x27;t the people who have to use it day-in day-out, and often there&#x27;s obvious lost productivity between the feature bullets on the marketing page and an engineer on an old PC her company won&#x27;t upgrade for another year.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces</title><url>https://brandur.org/interfaces</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fpgaminer</author><text>I wrote a comment under a different post just a few days ago. My comment got _way_ out of hand and wasn&#x27;t as articulate as I had hoped. But the salient point I made with it is simple and applies equally well to this article.<p>UI is hard.<p>User interfaces seems really simple. Every programmer I know has looked at a UI and thought to themselves &quot;I can code that in an hour!&quot; and then ended up spending weeks, sometimes _months_ building the UI.<p>I believe UI is a big, unsolved problem in modern computer science. Just as hard as any other unsolved problem in our field. Right up there with general artificial intelligence and P=?NP. I&#x27;m not even joking.<p>We will eventually solve the problem of UI. But there are a thousand and one articles posted every day either A) complaining about existing UI or B) telling everyone the solution (without providing real, concrete new libraries, frameworks, code, etc). No one wants to admit that this stuff is just plain hard and we shouldn&#x27;t beat ourselves up over the fact that we haven&#x27;t solved it yet.<p>In other words, it&#x27;s easy to complain. It&#x27;s easy to display hubris. It&#x27;s hard to put forth real, practical solutions. Or at least be humble and admit that we _don&#x27;t_ have the solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sleepyams</author><text>Will we ever solve UI? UI is the meeting place of tech and user, and in a sense it is THE problem for humanity right now. UI informs how we tend to use the internet, and for example we are currently involved with UIs that tend towards consumption (e.g. discovery mechanisms, feeds, etc). To solve UI would imply a certain optimal way to live our lives, if that exists. I agree with you that UI is unsolved and extremely complex, but I don&#x27;t think it something to be solved as much as it is the political heart of technology.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Square responds to Verifone's allegations</title><url>https://squareup.com/letters/security</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rriepe</author><text>PR-wise, very well done on Square's part:<p>-Didn't mention the competitor by name, and stuck to addressing the arguments, without any messy ad hominem stuff.<p>-Set up a separate page to address this issue. They could have easily lost by simply shifting the focus of the discussion to questioning Square's security. Posting a message on their home page or their blog, for example, makes it an issue to people who had no previous exposure to the issue.<p>-Stuck to a basic analogy that everyone has experience with, and everyone can understand.<p>-Used the opportunity to discuss other aspects of Square without throwing it in the reader's face. I had no idea they had a partner bank.<p>Good on them. I feel Dorsey has a mind for this, but I also find myself wondering if they had any PR consultation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Square responds to Verifone's allegations</title><url>https://squareup.com/letters/security</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakewalker</author><text>I used to develop kiosks that accepted credit cards for a company I started. We purchased some $20-$30 USB card swipers in order to capture credit card numbers and process orders. When you swiped the card, it would return an ASCII text string with the credit card number, name, and some additional codes (CVV1 and CVV2, I believe). If I recall correctly, the magnetic strip has a number of tracks, and you could program the reader to read one or all of these tracks. If you submitted the full string from the swipe to your merchant, you got a much better rate on the transaction.<p>The device was something like this:
<a href="http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=usb+card+swipe+reader&#38;hl=en&#38;client=safari&#38;rls=en&#38;prmd=ivns&#38;resnum=3&#38;biw=1214&#38;bih=688&#38;bav=on.2,or.&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;cid=9253952205062488166&#38;sa=X&#38;ei=BoB4Tb7pJ5CWsgP4uqSDAw&#38;ved=0CF0Q8wIwAA#ps-sellers" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=usb+card+swipe+read...</a><p>Anyway, seems to me there's nothing new here... just the fact that people can now get a device capable of decoding the tracks on a magnetic strip for $0 instead of $30.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range</title><url>https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1551713024171548672</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>A year ago, I would have chosen a new Tesla, hands down (disclosure: I am probably not gonna actually <i>buy</i> an EV for as many years as I can eke out of my trusty Subie).<p>Nowadays, I have chatted with <i>numerous</i> folks that have purchased alternative EVs.<p>The Tesla owners still seem the giddiest (There&#x27;s a lot of &#x27;em around here), but I have not heard one ounce of buyer&#x27;s remorse from any of the other brands.<p>The one that brought the Rivian, is every bit as giddy as any Tesla owner I know.<p>I think that Tesla has managed to establish itself, and will last, but the free ride is over.</text></item><item><author>Enginerrrd</author><text>I&#x27;ll spare the moral judgements against Tesla for this:<p>The real moral of the story here is that if your business plan and practices is creating occasional weird issues and huge cognitive dissonance in your customers, it&#x27;s the wrong business plan. Also... the number of people this applies to is likely so low that Tesla really screwed up by not erring on the side of the customer. (They didn&#x27;t buy from Tesla, but they&#x27;re still a customer buying servicing from them.) If the bad publicity alone causes even a tiny fraction of the population to choose another manufacturer, the&#x27;ve lost their $4,500 and then some.<p>Harmony is a really underrated concept. When things are harmonious, you don&#x27;t have problems like this, and you can still make money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panopticon</author><text>I bought an EV earlier this year. I ended up with a LR Model 3 because the dealership model really sucks still. I called Hyundai and VW dealerships in the tri-state area around me, and none of them could say when I&#x27;d be able to actually get a car. Instead I went to Tesla&#x27;s website, placed an order, and got an ETA. Super simple; loved that experience.<p>If it weren&#x27;t for the crappy dealership model I probably would have bought the Hyundai Ioniq instead.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range</title><url>https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1551713024171548672</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>A year ago, I would have chosen a new Tesla, hands down (disclosure: I am probably not gonna actually <i>buy</i> an EV for as many years as I can eke out of my trusty Subie).<p>Nowadays, I have chatted with <i>numerous</i> folks that have purchased alternative EVs.<p>The Tesla owners still seem the giddiest (There&#x27;s a lot of &#x27;em around here), but I have not heard one ounce of buyer&#x27;s remorse from any of the other brands.<p>The one that brought the Rivian, is every bit as giddy as any Tesla owner I know.<p>I think that Tesla has managed to establish itself, and will last, but the free ride is over.</text></item><item><author>Enginerrrd</author><text>I&#x27;ll spare the moral judgements against Tesla for this:<p>The real moral of the story here is that if your business plan and practices is creating occasional weird issues and huge cognitive dissonance in your customers, it&#x27;s the wrong business plan. Also... the number of people this applies to is likely so low that Tesla really screwed up by not erring on the side of the customer. (They didn&#x27;t buy from Tesla, but they&#x27;re still a customer buying servicing from them.) If the bad publicity alone causes even a tiny fraction of the population to choose another manufacturer, the&#x27;ve lost their $4,500 and then some.<p>Harmony is a really underrated concept. When things are harmonious, you don&#x27;t have problems like this, and you can still make money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skykooler</author><text>Bit of buyer&#x27;s remorse from a Nissan Leaf now that most fast-charging stations don&#x27;t support CHAdeMO.</text></comment>
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<story><title>France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-introduce-controversial-age-verification-system-for-adult-pornography-websites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yomly</author><text>I agree - for many of people(including teens) circumventing restrictions is part of the thrill.<p>That said I do think there has been an escalation of porn over the years. It&#x27;s really apparent when you look at things from the 70s. Though apparently banning porn from cinemas shifted content to more &quot;trashy&quot; VHS&#x2F;DVD&#x2F;Online videos<p>I feel data-driven analytics has probably accelerated this, like a race to the bottom (pun unintended). Extremity probably drives engagement so the porn kids are exposed to today is much more extreme than what we may have been as up and coming internet users.</text></item><item><author>raxxorrax</author><text>A mistake many people do. Maybe there are people now wary of children being subjected to certain content on the net. They are forgetting at least three things:<p>They also were exposed and survived just fine<p>Their kids are probably going to be better with tech at some point.<p>The vast majority of pornographic content is available without being on the market which makes regulation nearly impossible. Yes, you can maybe attack the platforms hosting it, but I don&#x27;t see this going anywhere. You would punish commercial distribution on push other content underground. Many in porn are already directly financed by their viewers.<p>Wasn&#x27;t the Australia block circumvented within 24h by a ~14-year old kid?<p>Some people suggested to make brushing teeth illegal so that kids do it in secret in a dark corner.</text></item><item><author>Waterfall</author><text>As a kid, I was able to figure out limewire, Emule, torrents and I&#x27;m sure kids today will be able to download a free vpn or use similar tools I used as a preteen to figure out how to circumvent these pointless blocks. I started with free video samples and only moved onto methods by high school to get access to premium websites. As a human, our strength is not only the ability to do these things but to also teach others to do it. I was able to help my friends to get access as well. If one ape discovered fire it would die with them, but our ability to spread information, like a virus is what gives humanity intelligence. One kid like me at school is all it takes to make this stupid law useless.<p>Adult websites want brownie points and also don&#x27;t like nonpayers, but mess with their revenue and you&#x27;ll get a push back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>There has been an escalation of porn compared to the 70s, but so has also every from of consumption and consumerism. What is not clear is if peoples ability to adapt and filter out the extreme aspects has also increased.<p>Violence in movies are also more extreme. As is violence in music, violence in news flows, and violence in the messages of peoples social communities.<p>I am also always aware that here in Sweden there was a significant difference in cultural values around both violence and sex compared to the US during the 70s-90s. Casual nudity and minor sexual references were seen as something funny and embarrassing rather than taboo, while violence was seen as twisting the mind of children. In the US it was the opposite, with violence being perfectly fine but anything hinting towards sex was something that would corrupt children. At the later part of the 90s the culture in Sweden copied that of the US, with English became in practice a second language, so I am always a bit weary of claims that images of sex and nudity will corrupt people, teens and even children, while illustrations and reference to violence are given a wide acceptances as innocent to anyone until studies has proven it guilty.</text></comment>
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<story><title>France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-introduce-controversial-age-verification-system-for-adult-pornography-websites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yomly</author><text>I agree - for many of people(including teens) circumventing restrictions is part of the thrill.<p>That said I do think there has been an escalation of porn over the years. It&#x27;s really apparent when you look at things from the 70s. Though apparently banning porn from cinemas shifted content to more &quot;trashy&quot; VHS&#x2F;DVD&#x2F;Online videos<p>I feel data-driven analytics has probably accelerated this, like a race to the bottom (pun unintended). Extremity probably drives engagement so the porn kids are exposed to today is much more extreme than what we may have been as up and coming internet users.</text></item><item><author>raxxorrax</author><text>A mistake many people do. Maybe there are people now wary of children being subjected to certain content on the net. They are forgetting at least three things:<p>They also were exposed and survived just fine<p>Their kids are probably going to be better with tech at some point.<p>The vast majority of pornographic content is available without being on the market which makes regulation nearly impossible. Yes, you can maybe attack the platforms hosting it, but I don&#x27;t see this going anywhere. You would punish commercial distribution on push other content underground. Many in porn are already directly financed by their viewers.<p>Wasn&#x27;t the Australia block circumvented within 24h by a ~14-year old kid?<p>Some people suggested to make brushing teeth illegal so that kids do it in secret in a dark corner.</text></item><item><author>Waterfall</author><text>As a kid, I was able to figure out limewire, Emule, torrents and I&#x27;m sure kids today will be able to download a free vpn or use similar tools I used as a preteen to figure out how to circumvent these pointless blocks. I started with free video samples and only moved onto methods by high school to get access to premium websites. As a human, our strength is not only the ability to do these things but to also teach others to do it. I was able to help my friends to get access as well. If one ape discovered fire it would die with them, but our ability to spread information, like a virus is what gives humanity intelligence. One kid like me at school is all it takes to make this stupid law useless.<p>Adult websites want brownie points and also don&#x27;t like nonpayers, but mess with their revenue and you&#x27;ll get a push back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>&gt;Extremity probably drives engagement so the porn kids are exposed to today is much more extreme than what we may have been as up and coming internet users.<p>The front page of any given tube site these days is professionals pretending to be step siblings and content produced by the pornographic equivalent of YouTubers and Instagram influencers. I feel like the extremity peaked ~10yr ago.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Move Slow and Make Things</title><url>https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/move-slow-make-things/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solarmist</author><text>I’m sad this is an April fools joke because a lot of the sentiment rings true and I love the slogan “move slow and make things.”<p>Artisans make beautiful things and software artisans make beautiful software, but it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business.<p>And artisans moving slowly isn’t arbitrary. They move slow on the things that matter. The things that shine when attention was paid to the details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicbou</author><text>One of my favourite articles on the internet is &quot;an app can be a home-cooked meal&quot;. It&#x27;s something you can make for your own enjoyment, with no plans for scaling on monetisation.<p>I have started making this sort of software, and I thoroughly enjoy it. I target the platform I use, I solve the problems I have, and my only metric is pleasure.<p>I wish we all had more of such projects.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Move Slow and Make Things</title><url>https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/move-slow-make-things/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solarmist</author><text>I’m sad this is an April fools joke because a lot of the sentiment rings true and I love the slogan “move slow and make things.”<p>Artisans make beautiful things and software artisans make beautiful software, but it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business.<p>And artisans moving slowly isn’t arbitrary. They move slow on the things that matter. The things that shine when attention was paid to the details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiofih</author><text>Same feeling here - instead of laughing I was disappointed when the second paragraph laid out the April fools joke.<p>I would love to see “small batch data science” where people actually understand the results. Black box recommendations never feel really right.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not just in how we act</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/13/deterministic-thinking-dichotomania/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the8472</author><text>Some additional examples of people fixing instances of this problem<p><i>Dissolving the fermi paradox</i>[0], convolves distributions instead of multiplying point estimates of life&#x2F;no life.<p><i>How to NOT measure latency</i>, looks at CDFs instead of slow&#x2F;fast thresholds.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1806.02404.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1806.02404.pdf</a>
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<story><title>Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not just in how we act</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/13/deterministic-thinking-dichotomania/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesrcole</author><text>This post is about &quot;the compulsion to replace quantities with dichotomies (‘black-and-white thinking’), even when such dichotomization is unnecessary and misleading for inference&quot; -- I don&#x27;t understand why they&#x27;re calling this <i>deterministic</i> thinking!<p>As far as I can see the phenomenon they&#x27;re talking about has nothing to do with the quality of being deterministic, and I didn&#x27;t notice any explanation of why they&#x27;ve chosen that particular word. Is there some other notion of deterministic aside from the usual one?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/25/use-of-antibiotics-in-farming-endangering-human-immune-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>myshpa</author><text>Animal agriculture has too many shortcomings.<p>- Greenhouse gas emissions<p>- Deforestation<p>- Land degradation<p>- Water pollution<p>- Water overconsumption<p>- Loss of biodiversity<p>- Antibiotic resistance<p>- Ocean dead zones<p>- Inefficient land and resource use<p>- Ethical concerns regarding animal welfare<p>- Contribution to zoonotic diseases<p>- Air pollution<p>- Eutrophication<p>- Soil erosion<p>- High energy consumption<p>- Chemical runoff from pesticides and fertilizers<p>- Destruction of habitats and ecosystems<p>- Overfishing and bycatch<p>- Inequality in global food distribution<p>- Public health risks from foodborne illnesses<p>- Nutrient pollution<p>- Strain on waste management systems<p>etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JasserInicide</author><text>Many of these beyond a surface-level inspection break down upon a closer inspection<p><i>Inefficient land and resource use</i><p><i>Land degradation</i><p><i>Loss of biodiversity</i><p><i>Soil erosion</i><p>In the US, most of the land used for grazing is already insufficient for farming most crops. You take cows and such off of them, you&#x27;re left with near-useless land.<p><i>Chemical runoff from pesticides and fertilizers</i><p>Not exclusive to livestock and their feed, feels weird to attribute it to just them.<p>Widely-available meat in the Western world is a Pandora&#x27;s Box; it&#x27;s just not going away. It&#x27;s better to find ways to make it more efficient than to go all pissed-off-vegan and want to ban meat everywhere in favor of ultra-processed replacement monstrosities. You&#x27;ll win more people to your side too.<p>Furthermore, attacking the end-consumer does absolutely nothing. It&#x27;s like banning plastic bags&#x2F;straws, It just makes liberal lawmakers feel good about themselves. You want to really change our diets? Go after the billions in subsidies handed out to farmers for growing corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;dairy and such in order to stay competitive against cheaper products overseas. Good luck.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/25/use-of-antibiotics-in-farming-endangering-human-immune-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>myshpa</author><text>Animal agriculture has too many shortcomings.<p>- Greenhouse gas emissions<p>- Deforestation<p>- Land degradation<p>- Water pollution<p>- Water overconsumption<p>- Loss of biodiversity<p>- Antibiotic resistance<p>- Ocean dead zones<p>- Inefficient land and resource use<p>- Ethical concerns regarding animal welfare<p>- Contribution to zoonotic diseases<p>- Air pollution<p>- Eutrophication<p>- Soil erosion<p>- High energy consumption<p>- Chemical runoff from pesticides and fertilizers<p>- Destruction of habitats and ecosystems<p>- Overfishing and bycatch<p>- Inequality in global food distribution<p>- Public health risks from foodborne illnesses<p>- Nutrient pollution<p>- Strain on waste management systems<p>etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>Raising SOME animals in SOME places is an efficient way to produce protein, including dairy – like zebu cattle and goat, hardy animals that graze on land that will grow nothing. There are human populations outside the western bubble surviving with minimal resources for a long time thanks to that.<p>Raising large quantities of animals in the rhythm necessary to feed meat daily to a large population is irrational and creates these shortcomings.<p>IMO animal agriculture is just another one of those topics that, if you really deep-dive, turns into a discussion of overpopulation and capitalism.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/fcacc767-5f05-414e-bebc-61c737764e7b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinng</author><text>Are we reading the same sources? The ex-CEO, David Calhoun, has a degree in accounting.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boeing.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;bios&#x2F;david-l-calhoun" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boeing.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;bios&#x2F;david-l-calhoun</a><p>&gt; Calhoun has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Virginia Tech.</text></item><item><author>IshanMi</author><text>Personally, I think the issue isn&#x27;t one of degrees or qualifications, but rather one of values.<p>The CEO prior to this one (Muilenburg) also had degrees in Aerospace Engineering, but chose to value profit maximization over things like security and a good engineering culture. Innocent people had to pay the price for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IshanMi</author><text>You&#x27;re right about Calhoun- I was actually referring to Dennis Muilenburg, the CEO who was fired in 2019 after the two 737 MAX crashes and the subsequent groundings. My comment wasn&#x27;t clear enough- I&#x27;ll edit it for clarity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/fcacc767-5f05-414e-bebc-61c737764e7b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinng</author><text>Are we reading the same sources? The ex-CEO, David Calhoun, has a degree in accounting.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boeing.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;bios&#x2F;david-l-calhoun" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boeing.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;bios&#x2F;david-l-calhoun</a><p>&gt; Calhoun has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Virginia Tech.</text></item><item><author>IshanMi</author><text>Personally, I think the issue isn&#x27;t one of degrees or qualifications, but rather one of values.<p>The CEO prior to this one (Muilenburg) also had degrees in Aerospace Engineering, but chose to value profit maximization over things like security and a good engineering culture. Innocent people had to pay the price for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Andoryuuta</author><text>The former CEO does (Dennis Muilenburg), but not David Calhoun.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-27/free-calls-restore-inmates-ties-with-the-outside-can-they-reform-californias-prisons-too</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>This research won&#x27;t matter for prisoners in the US.<p>We (Americans at large) send criminals to prison for punishment, not rehab. It&#x27;s why we care so little about their treatment while in prison. Why we make rape jokes about prisoners. Why we rarely get angry about prisoners dying in prisons.<p>And that&#x27;s when they aren&#x27;t sources of revenue for private companies.<p>Yes, I&#x27;m to angry about this state of affairs to even begin to think it can be changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enlyth</author><text>I am always amazed at the amount of online discussions where masses of people cheer on about prisoners getting raped in prison, as if that is some logical consequence of getting incarcerated and should be the default punishment in addition to the time done.<p>These people want retribution, not justice. It&#x27;s scary and I don&#x27;t want to live with the same people in society who think it&#x27;s okay to think like this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-27/free-calls-restore-inmates-ties-with-the-outside-can-they-reform-californias-prisons-too</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>This research won&#x27;t matter for prisoners in the US.<p>We (Americans at large) send criminals to prison for punishment, not rehab. It&#x27;s why we care so little about their treatment while in prison. Why we make rape jokes about prisoners. Why we rarely get angry about prisoners dying in prisons.<p>And that&#x27;s when they aren&#x27;t sources of revenue for private companies.<p>Yes, I&#x27;m to angry about this state of affairs to even begin to think it can be changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Georgelemental</author><text>&gt; We (Americans at large) send criminals to prison for punishment, not rehab.<p>Mostly, we send them to prison so they are out of the streets and aren&#x27;t committing more crimes. Their fate doesn&#x27;t matter to us beyond that; out of sight, out of mind.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Standard Ebooks</title><url>https://standardebooks.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acabal</author><text>Editor-in-Chief here, happy to answer any questions!<p>Of interest might be my blog post on how SE runs on a small VPS using classic web tech: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexcabal.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexcabal.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-...</a><p>(This post is slightly out of date as there <i>is</i> a database now; but it&#x27;s used for managing Patrons - and soon a cover art listing and approval system - not for serving the actual ebooks, which are still served as described in the post.)<p>Our volunteers have spent the last few months preparing a few notable books published in 1928 to be released today, Public Domain Day. Those are the top 5 books in the ebook list, starting with <i>The Mystery of the Blue Train</i>. Check them out!<p>We welcome new contributors if you&#x27;d like to work on producing a new ebook. In the next week we&#x27;ll also have a brand new cover art database launched, so if you&#x27;d rather help by cataloguing new cover art for future ebooks, get in touch at our mailing list!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pauloxnet</author><text>Hi Alex, I shared the SE link here to help with donations and I hope it&#x27;s working.<p>Thank you for your beautiful project.<p>For a few years, every January 1st, for public domain day, I have been promoting SE on social media, the thread on Mastodon is the one with the most involvement.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosstodon.org&#x2F;@paulox&#x2F;111680544393923401" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosstodon.org&#x2F;@paulox&#x2F;111680544393923401</a><p>It would be nice to have an SE account on Mastodon that posts about every new book published, since IMHO it&#x27;s the social network more aligned with the spirit of SE.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Standard Ebooks</title><url>https://standardebooks.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acabal</author><text>Editor-in-Chief here, happy to answer any questions!<p>Of interest might be my blog post on how SE runs on a small VPS using classic web tech: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexcabal.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexcabal.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-...</a><p>(This post is slightly out of date as there <i>is</i> a database now; but it&#x27;s used for managing Patrons - and soon a cover art listing and approval system - not for serving the actual ebooks, which are still served as described in the post.)<p>Our volunteers have spent the last few months preparing a few notable books published in 1928 to be released today, Public Domain Day. Those are the top 5 books in the ebook list, starting with <i>The Mystery of the Blue Train</i>. Check them out!<p>We welcome new contributors if you&#x27;d like to work on producing a new ebook. In the next week we&#x27;ll also have a brand new cover art database launched, so if you&#x27;d rather help by cataloguing new cover art for future ebooks, get in touch at our mailing list!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkflame91</author><text>I have a suggestion: You could optimize the website to be easily readable and navigable on the Kindle&#x27;s web browser, and recommend it as an option. I&#x27;ve often found it to be the easiest way to get non-store books on my Kindle. I&#x27;ve also noticed that cover images are handled correctly when the ebook is downloaded straight onto the device, with no need for a separate image file.<p>A hurdle for this though, is that building a good website for the Kindle browser is a pain, as the browser&#x27;s support for various html&#x2F;css&#x2F;js features and standards is all over the place, with no debugging tools available.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Smartbolts</title><url>http://www.smartbolts.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blamazon</author><text>I’m a mechanical engineer - smartbolts are cool but rarely used in my experience. Much more commonly used are DTI washers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Direct_tension_indicator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Direct_tension_indicator</a><p>Due to the washer style can be used with a wide range of fasteners. The most common type, in my experience, due to the ease of use, has a little bit of colored goo inside the arched cells. The goo squirts out when the specified torque is reached.<p>That being said, there are a lot of approaches to this same problem. Another common technique is breakaway bolts that are driven with a piece that snaps away when a certain torque is reached: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lrCoi3gaLfU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lrCoi3gaLfU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lttlrck</author><text>Smartbolts seem to be useful in applications where there is an expectation the bolts will loosen over time&#x2F;the maintenance lifetime, reducing&#x2F;easing inspection time.<p>Similar to the tell-tales used on truck lug nuts: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dealsonwheels.co.nz&#x2F;trucks&#x2F;features&#x2F;1302&#x2F;new-tyres-check-the-wheel-nuts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dealsonwheels.co.nz&#x2F;trucks&#x2F;features&#x2F;1302&#x2F;new-tyr...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Smartbolts</title><url>http://www.smartbolts.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blamazon</author><text>I’m a mechanical engineer - smartbolts are cool but rarely used in my experience. Much more commonly used are DTI washers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Direct_tension_indicator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Direct_tension_indicator</a><p>Due to the washer style can be used with a wide range of fasteners. The most common type, in my experience, due to the ease of use, has a little bit of colored goo inside the arched cells. The goo squirts out when the specified torque is reached.<p>That being said, there are a lot of approaches to this same problem. Another common technique is breakaway bolts that are driven with a piece that snaps away when a certain torque is reached: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lrCoi3gaLfU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lrCoi3gaLfU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxmcd</author><text>Nice video of the colored goo in action: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5BMQE5XnKww?t=372" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5BMQE5XnKww?t=372</a><p>Breakaway bolts are discussed&#x2F;demonstrated a few seconds earlier.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021</title><url>https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-smartphone-market-q2-2021</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>senko</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a Xiaomi phone (Mi 10 Lite) and am pretty happy with it.<p>Hardware is great. Software (MIUI) is adware crap, which I knew when I was buying. I tweaked privacy settings as much was possible, and I use almost none of the builtin apps. Instead I use Firefox Focus+Mobile for browsing, Amaze for file management, Dropbox for file storage and PDF view, etc.<p>Overall the entire experience is comparable (for me) to a Samsung or Apple phone at 3x the price. The most annoying things are still Google and YouTube ToS accept dialogs I get all the time because I&#x27;m effectively using an incognito browser, and I&#x27;d get those on any phone.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021</title><url>https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-smartphone-market-q2-2021</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>Xiaomi is able to make their phones so cheap by making their software as crappy as possible. They collect a lot of data (yes, their calculator app has a privacy policy) and sometimes show ads. You need a Xiaomi account to enable debugging (adb).<p>Though they&#x27;re still immensely popular here in Russia.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poor New Yorkers Tend to Live Longer Than Other Poor Americans</title><url>http://nytimes.com/2016/04/11/upshot/poor-new-yorkers-tend-to-live-longer-than-other-poor-americans.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morgante</author><text>In addition to the investments in social services which the government provides, I suspect there&#x27;s also a psychological element as well. New Yorkers, rich and poor, share a common identity which I don&#x27;t see in a lot of other communities. There&#x27;s an understanding that everyone lives in one city (even if they live in different parts of it), and at least has a modicum of responsibility to each other.<p>Contrast this with other cities like Detroit where the rich and poor live entirely separate existences.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poor New Yorkers Tend to Live Longer Than Other Poor Americans</title><url>http://nytimes.com/2016/04/11/upshot/poor-new-yorkers-tend-to-live-longer-than-other-poor-americans.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Yet another reason to make it easier for the less well-off to live in places like NY and San Francisco by building more housing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks</title><url>https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-rnns/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stereolambda</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that apparently (as I learned lately) RNNs are going slightly out of fashion because they are hard to parallelize and have trouble remembering important stuff at larger distances. Transformers are proposed as a possible solution - very roughly speaking, they use attention mechanisms instead of recurrent memory and can run in parallel.<p>I have to say that while I understand the problems with recurrent nets (which I&#x27;ve used many times), I haven&#x27;t yet grokked the alternatives. Here are some decently looking search results for you as starting points. Warning, these can be longer and heavier reads probably not for beginners.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;the-fall-of-rnn-lstm-2d1594c74ce0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;the-fall-of-rnn-lstm-2d1594c7...</a> (there&#x27;s some sensationalism here to be fair)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mchromiak.github.io&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017&#x2F;Sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;Transformer-Attention-is-all-you-need&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mchromiak.github.io&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017&#x2F;Sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;Transformer...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.analyticsvidhya.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;understanding-transformers-nlp-state-of-the-art-models&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.analyticsvidhya.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;understanding-t...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tensorflow.org&#x2F;beta&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;text&#x2F;transformer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tensorflow.org&#x2F;beta&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;text&#x2F;transformer</a><p>That being said, I think that understanding RNNs is very beneficial conceptually and nowadays there are relatively easy to use implementations that should be pretty good for many use cases.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks</title><url>https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-rnns/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wish5031</author><text>Nice! I like that the author wrote the code by hand rather than leaning on some framework. It makes it a lot easier to connect the math to the code. :)<p>As a meta-comment on these &quot;Introduction to _____ neural network&quot; articles (not just this one), I wish people would spend more time talking about when their neural net isn&#x27;t the right tool for the job. SVMs, kNN, even basic regression techniques aren&#x27;t any less effective than they were 20 years ago. They&#x27;re easier to interpret and debug, require many fewer parameters, and potentially (you may need to apply some tricks here or there) faster at both training and evaluation time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Snowden given safepass to Ecuador [pdf]</title><url>http://s0.uvnimg.com/files/2013/06/13298/xc560-5b4f588.pdf</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chaz</author><text>From the WSJ:<p><pre><code> Late Wednesday, Univision Networks posted images of what it said
was a &quot;safe pass&quot; for temporary travel that had been issued to
Mr. Snowden [...]
But according to a senior official in Ecuador&#x27;s foreign ministry
on Wednesday, Mr. Snowden had no such pass. &quot;He does not have any
documents issued by the government of Ecuador, such as a passport
or a refugee identification,&quot; said Galo Galarza, a senior
ministry official. He didn&#x27;t provide additional details.
</code></pre>
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324328204578569270162405156.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;online.wsj.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;SB1000142412788732432820457856...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Snowden given safepass to Ecuador [pdf]</title><url>http://s0.uvnimg.com/files/2013/06/13298/xc560-5b4f588.pdf</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>denzil_correa</author><text>Ecuador denies giving Snowden a travel document: report<p><pre><code> &quot;That&#x27;s not true. There is no passport, no document that has been
given (to Snowden) by any Ecuadorean consulate,&quot; Galo Galarza said
in comments posted on the website of Ecuador&#x27;s Teleamazonas, a
private television station.
</code></pre>
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-denies-giving-snowden-travel-document-report-211115581.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.yahoo.com&#x2F;ecuador-denies-giving-snowden-travel-d...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system</title><url>https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>True, but he said he said that simply because Bernie did, and it played well against Hillary in the primaries.<p>He didn’t do anything that actually slowed the loss of our manufacturing base while president.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>Trump was the first president in my lifetime to even admit gutting our manufacturing base is a problem. Neither Democrats nor establishment Republicans did anything but line up for their shockingly paltry share of the loot while mouthing platitudes about efficiency.</text></item><item><author>downrightmike</author><text>This happened in part thanks to bain capital, those following the same business model of theivery, and the deregulation in the 80&#x27;s. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bain_Capital" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bain_Capital</a> Republican lawmakers and party members have been destroying America for generations. Goes back even further to 1971 when Nixon opened talks with the CCCP and then went there in 1972 cutting the ground out from beneath American workers. And now if we even wanted to rebuild our manufacturing base, we have to deal with the same problems the few remaining factories do, finding people not on some kind of illegal substance that can work. The bodies are there, but they aren&#x27;t in any shape to bring back what we had.</text></item><item><author>CoffeeDregs</author><text>&quot;Instead of drawing down our gold reserves, however, we gradually draw down our domestic manufacturing base and it gets replaced piece-by-piece in foreign countries.&quot;<p>To me, this is the money shot. I hadn&#x27;t seen this expressed before and it makes perfect sense. I&#x27;m baffled that we (the US) <i>caused</i> this to happen to the US. I&#x27;m (unhappily) registered Republican but I argued vociferously to a Dem friend in 2000 that our inability to manufacture critical components was going to kill us. Kind of literally: AFAIK, the last LCD panel manufacturer in the US closed around then and we could no longer manufacture LCD for our military vehicles... (Even if this anecdote is untrue, the point remains valid...) I argued that, even in the presence of free trade, a country should have the ability to tariff imports to the extent that that country could maintain a 25% (or something) domestic market share.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omgwtfbyobbq</author><text>He ended up reversing the steady gain we&#x27;ve had in manufacturing jobs since 2010, albeit indirectly, because he botched the response to covid.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.bls.gov&#x2F;timeseries&#x2F;CES3000000001" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.bls.gov&#x2F;timeseries&#x2F;CES3000000001</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system</title><url>https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>True, but he said he said that simply because Bernie did, and it played well against Hillary in the primaries.<p>He didn’t do anything that actually slowed the loss of our manufacturing base while president.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>Trump was the first president in my lifetime to even admit gutting our manufacturing base is a problem. Neither Democrats nor establishment Republicans did anything but line up for their shockingly paltry share of the loot while mouthing platitudes about efficiency.</text></item><item><author>downrightmike</author><text>This happened in part thanks to bain capital, those following the same business model of theivery, and the deregulation in the 80&#x27;s. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bain_Capital" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bain_Capital</a> Republican lawmakers and party members have been destroying America for generations. Goes back even further to 1971 when Nixon opened talks with the CCCP and then went there in 1972 cutting the ground out from beneath American workers. And now if we even wanted to rebuild our manufacturing base, we have to deal with the same problems the few remaining factories do, finding people not on some kind of illegal substance that can work. The bodies are there, but they aren&#x27;t in any shape to bring back what we had.</text></item><item><author>CoffeeDregs</author><text>&quot;Instead of drawing down our gold reserves, however, we gradually draw down our domestic manufacturing base and it gets replaced piece-by-piece in foreign countries.&quot;<p>To me, this is the money shot. I hadn&#x27;t seen this expressed before and it makes perfect sense. I&#x27;m baffled that we (the US) <i>caused</i> this to happen to the US. I&#x27;m (unhappily) registered Republican but I argued vociferously to a Dem friend in 2000 that our inability to manufacture critical components was going to kill us. Kind of literally: AFAIK, the last LCD panel manufacturer in the US closed around then and we could no longer manufacture LCD for our military vehicles... (Even if this anecdote is untrue, the point remains valid...) I argued that, even in the presence of free trade, a country should have the ability to tariff imports to the extent that that country could maintain a 25% (or something) domestic market share.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; He didn’t do anything that actually slowed the loss of our manufacturing base while president.<p>Come on now. Say what you will about the effect of the tax changes on inequality, they&#x27;re clearly designed to make it more attractive to do business in the US, e.g. lower corporate rates and allowing capital expenditures to be deducted immediately rather than amortized over a period of years. It&#x27;s hard to argue that tariffs on goods from China don&#x27;t make it less attractive to buy goods from China.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Challenges of micro-service deployments</title><url>http://techtraits.com/microservice.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>I&#x27;ve yet to see a big reason for this whole SOA &#x2F; microservices architecture other than in 2 specific instances:<p>1) massive projects with lots of developers&#x2F;teams that work on well-defined functionality<p>2) massive projects that need to have precise capacity at each service level rather than the application level<p>Other than these situations, monoliths (both in architecture and deployment) will likely be faster, easier, more reliable and more productive.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Challenges of micro-service deployments</title><url>http://techtraits.com/microservice.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>voodootrucker</author><text>The only good way I&#x27;ve found to do it is to have each service define it&#x27;s logical (network) dependencies in a formal way, just like it does with it&#x27;s GAV dependencies (including versions). This way the graph can be statically analyzed, cycles and transitive conflicts can be identified, deployment and roll back can be automated, the graph can be output to graphviz and visualized, and an automated tool can set up QA environments with a given vector of versions.<p>All that being said, the above setup only addresses about 1&#x2F;2 the problems mentioned in the post.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marricks</author><text>I find it hard to believe you&#x27;ve talked to any real anarchists, or at least listened to them. People like Noam Chomsky deal with that question extremely head on. Below is what I said on another comment...<p>&gt; Absolutely no form of government or system (anarchist 1000% included) will solve the problem of people being selfish or bad, all that anarchists contend (that I have seen) is that when there isn&#x27;t those built hierarchies bad&#x2F;selfish people don&#x27;t amass power so everyone else can actually handle them on equal terms.<p>&gt; Considering how Epstein was able to morph the whole political landscape to defend himself for over a decade, uh, any alternative can seem pretty reasonable.<p>Like half the comments on this thread are variations of &quot;well bad people exist&quot; and it&#x27;s maddening because bad people exist in this system! And they&#x27;re extremely powerful! We 100% do not deal with them largely because of the systems that are in place.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&gt; Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion.<p>This can sound reasonable when you think of it in terms of, &quot;<i>most</i> people behaving in a reasonable fashion, <i>most</i> of the time&quot;. But anarchists don&#x27;t want to eliminate hierarchical use of force for <i>most</i> cases, but for <i>all</i> of them.<p>Any time I&#x27;ve heard anarchists try to explain how they would deal with the subset of people who are just real shitty in various ways, the responses have been either, a) in our utopia, you wouldn&#x27;t have those problems, because hierarchy causes all of them, or b) increasingly convoluted and implausible-sounding ways to deal with crazy assholes without using force.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noodle</author><text> &gt; when there isn&#x27;t those built hierarchies bad&#x2F;selfish people don&#x27;t amass power so everyone else can actually handle them on equal terms.<p>This doesn&#x27;t really ring true to me. In a society where hierarchy is removed, the bad people will form a hierarchy to create power. It being &quot;not allowed&quot; in that society doesn&#x27;t mean it won&#x27;t still happen, due again to the people being &quot;bad&quot; in the first place. Two bad people will form a group and use that to derive power over any non-grouped individuals. Or 10 bad people over smaller groups, etc..</text></comment>
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<story><title>Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marricks</author><text>I find it hard to believe you&#x27;ve talked to any real anarchists, or at least listened to them. People like Noam Chomsky deal with that question extremely head on. Below is what I said on another comment...<p>&gt; Absolutely no form of government or system (anarchist 1000% included) will solve the problem of people being selfish or bad, all that anarchists contend (that I have seen) is that when there isn&#x27;t those built hierarchies bad&#x2F;selfish people don&#x27;t amass power so everyone else can actually handle them on equal terms.<p>&gt; Considering how Epstein was able to morph the whole political landscape to defend himself for over a decade, uh, any alternative can seem pretty reasonable.<p>Like half the comments on this thread are variations of &quot;well bad people exist&quot; and it&#x27;s maddening because bad people exist in this system! And they&#x27;re extremely powerful! We 100% do not deal with them largely because of the systems that are in place.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&gt; Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion.<p>This can sound reasonable when you think of it in terms of, &quot;<i>most</i> people behaving in a reasonable fashion, <i>most</i> of the time&quot;. But anarchists don&#x27;t want to eliminate hierarchical use of force for <i>most</i> cases, but for <i>all</i> of them.<p>Any time I&#x27;ve heard anarchists try to explain how they would deal with the subset of people who are just real shitty in various ways, the responses have been either, a) in our utopia, you wouldn&#x27;t have those problems, because hierarchy causes all of them, or b) increasingly convoluted and implausible-sounding ways to deal with crazy assholes without using force.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bufferoverflow</author><text>Hmmm, no, it&#x27;s a false equivocation. What do you do with really bad &#x2F; evil people who got caught doing evil things (there&#x27;s enough evidence to put them in prison). I never heard a good answer from an anarchist.<p>You have to realize there are truly evil people out there. People who will assault innocent people, who will torture, who will rape, who will murder, who will do all of the above to a toddler. And will force the parents to watch. I don&#x27;t want to live in a society where such people are simply let go, or get some bullshit therapy and let go.</text></comment>
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