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<story><title>Norway to switch off FM in 2017</title><url>http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordlarm</author><text>Although this perhaps makes sense from a technical, maintenance and cost perspective it&#x27;s, contrary to the NRK owned radio.no&#x27;s opinion, an absolute horrible deal for a large part of the users.<p>«55 per cent of households have at least one DAB radio, according to Digitalradio survey by TNS Gallup», which leaves 45% not currently having access to a DAB radio. Many of the having _one_ radio has this in their home and perhaps not in their most important place: the car.<p>In order to elegantly implement a DAB radio in your car you need to attach a dongle to your window and run cables into a (sometimes) new radio altogether. Whilst this may be a simple procedure for _some_ it&#x27;s for the vast majority a huge burden - both in terms of time and money (often costing around 3000NOK - 380USD).<p>It&#x27;s well and fine that they started the implementation of DAB in Norway in the mid-90s, but it&#x27;s just in recent times that we&#x27;ve seen cars come with DAB reception by default. They should at least wait until 80-90% of all cars have access to DAB before switching over - which could take I&#x27;m guessing up to 10 years.<p>This is like only supporting Chrome on important governmental sites - which would rightly cause an uproar on HN. Radio should be about accessibility and content, not the medium - which should change naturally and over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goodmachine</author><text>Bad luck, Norway.<p>The UK is in a roughly similar position, but our govt is unlikely to switch off FM until 2020-ish at the earliest (was 2015, then 2018... now &quot;whenevs&quot;).<p>It&#x27;s sad to consider how governments foisted DAB on listeners exclusively for the benefit of state broadcasters - the list of fails is extensive here: DAB gives you demonstrably worse reception, poorer sound quality, more expensive hardware, added costs to replace old hardware, added costs to run (4x power consumption), etc.<p>The magic carrot of &#x27;more channels&#x2F; more choice&#x27; thing never happened either: thus, a bum deal all round.<p>I would guess the upside for broadcasters (cheaper infrastructure, more listeners) may have been significantly overstated too.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;digital-radio-sales-dab" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;digital-radio-s...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;dec&#x2F;16&#x2F;digital-radio-switchover-2020-ed-vaizey" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;dec&#x2F;16&#x2F;digital-radio-s...</a><p>24 problems with DAB (2010)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2010&#x2F;apr&#x2F;12&#x2F;dab-radio-problems" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2010&#x2F;apr&#x2F;12&#x2F;dab-r...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Norway to switch off FM in 2017</title><url>http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordlarm</author><text>Although this perhaps makes sense from a technical, maintenance and cost perspective it&#x27;s, contrary to the NRK owned radio.no&#x27;s opinion, an absolute horrible deal for a large part of the users.<p>«55 per cent of households have at least one DAB radio, according to Digitalradio survey by TNS Gallup», which leaves 45% not currently having access to a DAB radio. Many of the having _one_ radio has this in their home and perhaps not in their most important place: the car.<p>In order to elegantly implement a DAB radio in your car you need to attach a dongle to your window and run cables into a (sometimes) new radio altogether. Whilst this may be a simple procedure for _some_ it&#x27;s for the vast majority a huge burden - both in terms of time and money (often costing around 3000NOK - 380USD).<p>It&#x27;s well and fine that they started the implementation of DAB in Norway in the mid-90s, but it&#x27;s just in recent times that we&#x27;ve seen cars come with DAB reception by default. They should at least wait until 80-90% of all cars have access to DAB before switching over - which could take I&#x27;m guessing up to 10 years.<p>This is like only supporting Chrome on important governmental sites - which would rightly cause an uproar on HN. Radio should be about accessibility and content, not the medium - which should change naturally and over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caf</author><text>Right - I think this stat is the killer one right now:<p><pre><code> - 20 % of private cars are equipped with DAB radio
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Surely the car the last redoubt of radio.</text></comment>
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<story><title>YC startups that are hiring</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/ycombinator-startups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qq66</author><text>Reminds me of the puzzling: &quot;If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) 50% C) 0% D) 25%&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)</title><url>https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devnulll</author><text>One day I&#x27;ll retire and go back to school. The idea of learning Math - really learning &amp; understanding Math - as a fun pastime is so appealing.<p>What&#x27;s stopping me now? That sweet overpaid SDE salary and the endless obligations that come from being an adult. I suspect I am not alone...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stult</author><text>I’ve had a very similar experience and my solution was to incrementally move into more and more math intensive jobs, starting from regular old SWE working on a web app to working on an aerospace-related web app that involved lots of physics and geospatial calculations and then moving toward MLE&#x2F;DS jobs. All without a STEM degree, teaching myself the math as I go. It hasn’t been easy but I enjoy what I do more and more over time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)</title><url>https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devnulll</author><text>One day I&#x27;ll retire and go back to school. The idea of learning Math - really learning &amp; understanding Math - as a fun pastime is so appealing.<p>What&#x27;s stopping me now? That sweet overpaid SDE salary and the endless obligations that come from being an adult. I suspect I am not alone...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hebrox</author><text>I&#x27;m actually looking into this. Just an hour ago I mailed the local university that I won&#x27;t be doing any courses there. My initial plan was to do a bachelor at around 50% speed. But working and having to girls (1,5 years and 3 weeks) makes that quite impossible. And looking at photos of myself at 17 makes me feel rather out of place at a university at age 42.<p>The Open University has an AI master that I&#x27;m thinking about right now.
It has about 25% of the math that I want to learn, so that would be a good start.
I did some prep work (an official high school math certificate) last few months and I noticed that I need a schedule to keep me going.<p>One thing that I&#x27;m quite certain about, is that <i>doing</i> math is the most important thing. And doing math leads to more doing math.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi</title><url>https://www.livehistoryindia.com/cover-story/2020/09/18/nanda-devi-nuclear-device</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wewake</author><text>Last week, I went into the rabbit hole and researched about the whole incident as my drinking water comes from one of the tributaries of Ganga river and this device has polluted a source glacier of the river - with plutonium. Great.<p>One of the climbers, Jim McCarthy claimed he got cancer due to the time he spent in close proximity of the device and according to him, the local people who helped them in the trek are long dead because they spent much more time huddled close to the device. They were not cautioned about the dangers as the mission was &quot;top secret&quot;.<p>When this story came to light back in 1978 after an article was published in a magazine and someone in US congress wrote a letter to the president, Indian govt. finally felt the need to assess the consequences of their blunder.<p>Researchers <i>hypothesized</i> that the device melted through the snow before reaching the mountain rock surface where it remains stuck to this day. They tested water samples from the river for a year or two while the story was hot and public pressure was on. Ideally, they should have continued periodic testing forever and annual search missions to locate the device.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (2012)</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/design/2012/01/why-portlands-public-toilets-succeeded-where-others-failed/1020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>So how do you solve the heroin junky passing out&#x2F;projectile vomiting&#x2F;falling asleep&#x2F;dying&#x2F;leaving needles around&#x2F;defecating everywhere but the toilet with the door locked problem?<p>On the streets of San Francisco I have seen several passed out heroin junkies lying flat on their back right there on the sidewalk, needles nearby, perhaps passed out or worse with some sort of projectile body effluent leaking out of them or trailing behind them. This is probably an average day at Starbucks for a non-discriminatory bathroom in a high addict area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt; So how do you solve the heroin junky passing out&#x2F;projectile vomiting&#x2F;falling asleep&#x2F;dying&#x2F;leaving needles around&#x2F;defecating everywhere but the toilet with the door locked problem?</i><p>Universal healthcare, harm reduction and rehab services, comprehensive welfare, affordable housing and a sufficient number of properly trained and resourced social workers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (2012)</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/design/2012/01/why-portlands-public-toilets-succeeded-where-others-failed/1020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>So how do you solve the heroin junky passing out&#x2F;projectile vomiting&#x2F;falling asleep&#x2F;dying&#x2F;leaving needles around&#x2F;defecating everywhere but the toilet with the door locked problem?<p>On the streets of San Francisco I have seen several passed out heroin junkies lying flat on their back right there on the sidewalk, needles nearby, perhaps passed out or worse with some sort of projectile body effluent leaking out of them or trailing behind them. This is probably an average day at Starbucks for a non-discriminatory bathroom in a high addict area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willvarfar</author><text>In big european cities many fast food places have weird blue lighting in the toilets; apparently it makes it hard for junkies to find their veins or something.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The married couples in Hong Kong who live apart</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190903-the-married-couples-in-hong-kong-who-live-apar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I&#x27;m from Europe and I also live apart from my long term SO.
The reason being our job commutes.<p>We work in completely opposite parts of town and due to the city lacking fast public transport and her job lacking flextime she has to wake up way earlier than I&#x27;m use to if I want to be productive at work and so far we haven&#x27;t found a middle ground where one doesn&#x27;t have to compromise too much.<p>Honestly, remote work would ease a lot of modern urban problems like traffic, rents, relationships, childcare, etc. If only our corporate masters would allow it.<p>World governments need to start incentivizing employers to offer remote ASAP as infrastructure in the cities is not keeping up with population growth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xwolfi</author><text>I&#x27;m from Hong Kong, funnily enough, and what we do with mine is that we switch every 2 years. Renting here is easy (albeit expensive), so we just move to a flat near her work, spend 2 years of me having 3 hours of bus, and then we move near mine, when I am 10 minutes away by foot and she has the 3 hours of commute per day.<p>What&#x27;s nice is we can pay the 4000 euros per month of rent. If not we&#x27;d find a 2000 euros flat mid-way. The main issue is that hker are either too stingy to rent, or really don&#x27;t earn enough to spend that much on it. Don&#x27;t underestimate the number of people here who can&#x27;t pay rent by sheer ideology, and live at their parents while extremely overpaid compared to Europe.<p>Also, as a side note, city incentives to companies come either from your salary (via taxes on companies) or your taxes, not the sky, so it&#x27;s not a solution. Real solutions are sacrifice, like changing job, changing girlfriend or changing flat. Would you ask for the country to give incentive to companies to help you work 300 km apart your gf ? Sometimes life&#x27;s unfair and the government isn&#x27;t your mom, you&#x27;ll have to solve the problem yourself.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The married couples in Hong Kong who live apart</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190903-the-married-couples-in-hong-kong-who-live-apar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I&#x27;m from Europe and I also live apart from my long term SO.
The reason being our job commutes.<p>We work in completely opposite parts of town and due to the city lacking fast public transport and her job lacking flextime she has to wake up way earlier than I&#x27;m use to if I want to be productive at work and so far we haven&#x27;t found a middle ground where one doesn&#x27;t have to compromise too much.<p>Honestly, remote work would ease a lot of modern urban problems like traffic, rents, relationships, childcare, etc. If only our corporate masters would allow it.<p>World governments need to start incentivizing employers to offer remote ASAP as infrastructure in the cities is not keeping up with population growth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfortuny</author><text>But the problem the article tries to explain is that they live apart because they cannot afford a house <i>at all</i> (both live at their respective parents&#x27; and their child spends time with either alternatively).</text></comment>
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<story><title>How the new Threads app is made</title><url>https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>HN is downright quiet on the topic, with only 21 posts over 20 comments since the launch (2023-07-05), 4 posts per day. Compare that to the Reddit blackout posts which seem to be closer to 8 posts per day. Only 8 posts with over 100 comments, whereas it&#x27;s hard to find even a single Reddit blackout post at less than 100 comments. My friends in every other community are buzzing about Threads, but here on HN someone comes into every thread to remind me that Mastodon doesn&#x27;t need growth to be a success, whether the thread was about Mastodon or not.<p>Just gives me more of that feeling that the community here is becoming more detached. Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I&#x27;m watching The Great Fragmentation with open eyes to see what comes next.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>I&#x27;m kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more &quot;submarine&quot; marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You&#x27;re not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta&#x27;s clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It&#x27;s really impressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afterburner</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s because HN is more like Reddit than Twitter&#x2F;Threads, so there&#x27;s more reasons to care about it. And a lot of Redditors probably came to talk about it here, some because their favorite subreddit was on strike.<p>Also the Reddit situation was very dramatic and adversarial, Threads is just a new boring product with a clean launch.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How the new Threads app is made</title><url>https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>HN is downright quiet on the topic, with only 21 posts over 20 comments since the launch (2023-07-05), 4 posts per day. Compare that to the Reddit blackout posts which seem to be closer to 8 posts per day. Only 8 posts with over 100 comments, whereas it&#x27;s hard to find even a single Reddit blackout post at less than 100 comments. My friends in every other community are buzzing about Threads, but here on HN someone comes into every thread to remind me that Mastodon doesn&#x27;t need growth to be a success, whether the thread was about Mastodon or not.<p>Just gives me more of that feeling that the community here is becoming more detached. Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I&#x27;m watching The Great Fragmentation with open eyes to see what comes next.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>I&#x27;m kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more &quot;submarine&quot; marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You&#x27;re not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta&#x27;s clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It&#x27;s really impressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badrequest</author><text>I think it&#x27;s more that the HN crowd cannot stand to think, much less utter the phrase &quot;you&#x27;ve gotta hand it to Mark Zuckerberg and crew.&quot; That&#x27;s at least the feeling I have to get over when I praise Threads.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elizabeth-holmes-sentence-theranos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryoshu</author><text>FTX is over $1 billion and the table maxes out at $550 million, so that should be fun. Lawmakers should revisit that.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>In a previous thread, I had this at &quot;more than 10 years, less than 60&quot; (yeah, that&#x27;s an easy bet to make!). The core driver of the sentence is probably the guidelines 2B1.1 table, which scales sentencing levels by economic losses. She was convicted for something like $140MM in fraudulent losses, which by themselves ask for a 24-level escalation (the table maxes out in the mid-40s).<p>By the numbers, the court was probably quite lenient here. Not to say that&#x27;s an unjust outcome; the &quot;lenient&quot; option for sentencing on serious federal felonies is still quite harsh.<p><i>Edit</i><p>I tracked down the prosecutor&#x27;s sentencing memorandum; they asked for 15 years. So I guess maybe not that lenient.<p><i>Later edit</i><p>The PSR (the court&#x27;s own sentencing memorandum, which the prosecution and defense respond to) had Holmes at level 43. I hereby claim that I called this. :P<p>But the PSR looks at the guidelines level table, which suggests 960 months for level 43, and instead recommends 108 months. So the court imposed a sentence higher than the PSR, lower than the prosecution asked, and all parties asked for much lower than the guideline maximum for the level.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29790880" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29790880</a><p><i>Later later edit</i><p>I&#x27;m doing the math wrong; the guidelines range at that level is 240 months per charge (usually served consecutively). Still much higher than the ultimate sentence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>That&#x27;s true, and it does mean that once you hit $550MM, you might as well keep going, but on the flip side, the full sentence accelerator for 2b1.1 at $550MM gets you above 20 years by itself.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Snap Misses User-Growth Estimate as Facebook Copying Takes Toll</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-10/snap-falls-after-daily-active-users-miss-estimates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capkutay</author><text>Totally anecdotal story, but I&#x27;ve been trying to promote my music as a hobby. The main social channels that independent artists use are facebook&#x2F;instagram and google&#x2F;youtube. There&#x27;s almost no reason to use snapchat for promotion. There&#x27;s no straight forward way to engage a new audience and broadcast your content.<p>Snap as it is today seems to be for already established entities to further engage their existing audience. I don&#x27;t see a big market opportunity there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pryelluw</author><text>That&#x27;s on point. By being overly closed they have pushed away the demand they have for advertising. I wish I could buy ads on their content based on location but cant (I buy media for others).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Snap Misses User-Growth Estimate as Facebook Copying Takes Toll</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-10/snap-falls-after-daily-active-users-miss-estimates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capkutay</author><text>Totally anecdotal story, but I&#x27;ve been trying to promote my music as a hobby. The main social channels that independent artists use are facebook&#x2F;instagram and google&#x2F;youtube. There&#x27;s almost no reason to use snapchat for promotion. There&#x27;s no straight forward way to engage a new audience and broadcast your content.<p>Snap as it is today seems to be for already established entities to further engage their existing audience. I don&#x27;t see a big market opportunity there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whipoodle</author><text>It seems to be more for brand advertising. Meaning you&#x27;re not trying to convert people right from the ad.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google’s top search result is Google</title><url>https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fractionalhare</author><text><i>&gt; A trending search in our data for “myocardial infarction” shows how Google has piled up its products at the top. It returned:<p>- Google’s dictionary definition.<p>- A “people also ask” box that expanded to answer related questions without leaving the search results page.<p>- A “knowledge panel,” which is an abridged encyclopedia entry with various links.<p>- And a “related conditions” carousel leading to various new Google searches for other diseases.</i><p>I don&#x27;t know, I&#x27;m conflicted on examples like this. I see the point the article is going for, but I think it&#x27;s better exemplified by the fact that there&#x27;s a lot of advertising space taken up at the premium, top of the page on search results.<p>This example is not Google advertising itself so much as Google changing the features of the search engine itself. It&#x27;s not emphasizing its own search results over &quot;organic&quot; search results, it&#x27;s deemphasizing search results altogether in favor of quick, curated answers. Most of the time I can quickly tell what the &quot;organic&quot; source of the direct answer is.<p>I like that. Is there a way we could get quick curated answers like this without deemphasizing search results? Is that something most people would actually want? I feel a better point of contention is the number of ads, which I care more about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cowpig</author><text>You like it in the myopic sense of the word. In the way you like a big cake that sits in front of you, even if eating that cake is going to be bad for your health.<p>Google&#x27;s monopolistic business practices are the same: they are convenient in the short-term for you, but they are destroying healthy industries. Over time the result won&#x27;t be something you like.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google’s top search result is Google</title><url>https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fractionalhare</author><text><i>&gt; A trending search in our data for “myocardial infarction” shows how Google has piled up its products at the top. It returned:<p>- Google’s dictionary definition.<p>- A “people also ask” box that expanded to answer related questions without leaving the search results page.<p>- A “knowledge panel,” which is an abridged encyclopedia entry with various links.<p>- And a “related conditions” carousel leading to various new Google searches for other diseases.</i><p>I don&#x27;t know, I&#x27;m conflicted on examples like this. I see the point the article is going for, but I think it&#x27;s better exemplified by the fact that there&#x27;s a lot of advertising space taken up at the premium, top of the page on search results.<p>This example is not Google advertising itself so much as Google changing the features of the search engine itself. It&#x27;s not emphasizing its own search results over &quot;organic&quot; search results, it&#x27;s deemphasizing search results altogether in favor of quick, curated answers. Most of the time I can quickly tell what the &quot;organic&quot; source of the direct answer is.<p>I like that. Is there a way we could get quick curated answers like this without deemphasizing search results? Is that something most people would actually want? I feel a better point of contention is the number of ads, which I care more about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevingadd</author><text>The definition of &quot;search&quot; or what it means to type something into the google search input field has changed over time, and that&#x27;s probably the root of this.<p>It used to mean &quot;show me web pages related to this input string&quot;, and some of those search results were sponsored (ads). Now it&#x27;s interpreted more as &quot;inform me about this input string&quot; or &quot;please help me with this&quot;, like a Siri or Google Assistant (though not necessarily in natural language).<p>When you view it as a &quot;please assist me&quot; query it makes sense to introduce things like answerboxes, related queries, embedded images or translations, etc. But that is VERY MUCH not &quot;search&quot; anymore.<p>It&#x27;s quite possible that most people using a search engine actually want an Assistant, so google&#x27;s new behavior is ideal for them. But where do you go when you actually want a search engine? You see people complain that over time Google has become worse as a search engine - using it to search for programming topics is definitely worse than it used to be, and its search results in general are often full of astroturfed pinterest or stackoverflow pages.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Restoring YC's Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed with random data</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-how-our-boot.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>russellsprouts</author><text>The shift-xor &quot;random&quot; number generator described actually has an interesting property. The algorithm looks like this:<p>1. If the value is 0, output the magic number.<p>2. If the value has only its high bit set, output 0.<p>3. Otherwise, shift the value to the left<p>4. if there was an overflow (the high bit was 1 before the shift), xor the value by a magic constant.<p>For certain values of the magic constant, this has the property of generating every integer in the range exactly once.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Restoring YC's Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed with random data</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-how-our-boot.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vcarl</author><text>I love these posts. I don&#x27;t properly understand the majority of what&#x27;s being done, but a step by step of somebody solving a difficult problem in a space I know nothing about is so fascinating.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Articles on Cyber-Warfare from the Modern War Institute at West Point</title><url>https://mwi.usma.edu/full-spectrum/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ya_throw</author><text>&gt;&quot;Ignore the Human Factor at your peril&quot;<p>Indeed. Why bother with weapons (kinetic AND cyber) at all, when the both the spread and the pseudo-anonymous nature of online communication has left the thoughts, desires and opinions of the Western world wide open for study and manipulation.<p>I used to have strong opinions about the necessity for a fully free, open, anonymous, untracked, etc etc, internet. However, from a national security point of view, countries like Russia and China have it right. Why would you allow the above to happen to your citizens?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Articles on Cyber-Warfare from the Modern War Institute at West Point</title><url>https://mwi.usma.edu/full-spectrum/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cdiamand</author><text>Looks like the USMA has taken defensive action against all the HN visitors pummeling it&#x27;s website. (pages loading slowly, if at all)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Many who crafted regulations after the 2008 crisis now work for Wall Street</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/many-lawmakers-and-aids-who-crafted-financial-regulations-after-the-2008-crisis-now-work-for-wall-street/2018/09/07/50f63a1e-b075-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I mean the man who wrote the CBA for the NHL owners now works for the Toronto Maple Leafs.<p>If you were regulated and you had to hire someone to help you understand what you are and aren&#x27;t allowed to do by these regulations wouldn&#x27;t the first person you look to hire be the person who actually wrote the rules?<p>&gt; Seventeen of the 40 most senior staffers who served on the House Financial Services Committee in August 2008, as well as 15 of the 40 senior staff who served on the Senate Banking Committee at that time, later joined or took jobs representing a large financial institution.<p>So you train for many years and acquire knowledge of a particular area and then what? You can&#x27;t actually make money from the skill you learned?<p>People get angry when tech companies try to limit people mobility, you really have to work hard to contort your view to see this as being any different.<p>Most governments actually spend alot of money on programs to get people from private industry to do a year stint with the government and then go back to private industry. They do this because everyone sees value in people moving from government to private industry.<p>If you are against this what measure would you consider to be fair that doesn&#x27;t limit a person&#x27;s mobility, wrt work, and helps get people who worked in government into private industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>It’s a major conflict of interest to go from writing the regulations to being paid by the companies you regulated. What if it becomes understood that you get a high salary for an easy job if and only if you write regulations that are favorable to the companies?<p>How do you stop this without limiting fundamental human freedoms? I have no idea. But that doesn’t mean this situation is good or that we should stop pointing out the problems. The lack of a solution does not imply the absence of a problem.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Many who crafted regulations after the 2008 crisis now work for Wall Street</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/many-lawmakers-and-aids-who-crafted-financial-regulations-after-the-2008-crisis-now-work-for-wall-street/2018/09/07/50f63a1e-b075-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I mean the man who wrote the CBA for the NHL owners now works for the Toronto Maple Leafs.<p>If you were regulated and you had to hire someone to help you understand what you are and aren&#x27;t allowed to do by these regulations wouldn&#x27;t the first person you look to hire be the person who actually wrote the rules?<p>&gt; Seventeen of the 40 most senior staffers who served on the House Financial Services Committee in August 2008, as well as 15 of the 40 senior staff who served on the Senate Banking Committee at that time, later joined or took jobs representing a large financial institution.<p>So you train for many years and acquire knowledge of a particular area and then what? You can&#x27;t actually make money from the skill you learned?<p>People get angry when tech companies try to limit people mobility, you really have to work hard to contort your view to see this as being any different.<p>Most governments actually spend alot of money on programs to get people from private industry to do a year stint with the government and then go back to private industry. They do this because everyone sees value in people moving from government to private industry.<p>If you are against this what measure would you consider to be fair that doesn&#x27;t limit a person&#x27;s mobility, wrt work, and helps get people who worked in government into private industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jondubois</author><text>&gt;&gt; If you were regulated and you had to hire someone to help you understand what you are and aren&#x27;t allowed to do by these regulations wouldn&#x27;t the first person you look to hire be the person who actually wrote the rules?<p>That&#x27;s just the kind of story that people tell themselves and others while they&#x27;re making a ton of money by screwing over society; that way not only can people get rich doing horrible things, but they can also look their victims straight in the eyes and smile while they&#x27;re doing it. It&#x27;s a win-win! (in the sense that one side gets to win twice).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Ambition</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-09/more-venture-investors-are-sitting-on-the-sidelines</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delecti</author><text>It&#x27;s really weird how this article tries to frame the situation. It&#x27;s almost like the startups feel entitled to the funding.<p>The point of funding should really be to enable faster growth than they might otherwise have been able to achieve, but if a business can&#x27;t at least survive without huge influxes of investments then is it really a business that they should be investing in in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>Here&#x27;s the somewhat ironic &quot;catch 22&quot; to the whole thing:<p>If you&#x27;re a startup and you <i>don&#x27;t</i> take VC funding, then you have the luxury of simply enjoying organic growth and funding expansion by re-investing profits into the company. Well, as long as you can do that in the face of competitive pressure. Strictly speaking, unless it&#x27;s a &quot;network effect&quot; situation like a social network, you probably don&#x27;t <i>need</i> to grow fast.<p>Unless you take VC money. Then, the simple act of taking their money now means there <i>is</i> pressure to grow fast, but it comes from the investors and not from the market per-se. And this is because VC funds are time-boxed and, by definition, have to generate whatever return they&#x27;re going to generate by a fixed point in time. And the older a fund is (eg, the nearer it is to the end of it&#x27;s life) the greater the pressure.<p>This is something I think more entrepreneurs should think long and hard about. Don&#x27;t raise VC money just for the sake of doing it. Even if you can. Do it IF and only if it&#x27;s the only (or at least surest) way to reach your goals. And always remember that the VC&#x27;s interests do <i>not</i> necessarily align with the founders (at least not 100% so).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Ambition</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-09/more-venture-investors-are-sitting-on-the-sidelines</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delecti</author><text>It&#x27;s really weird how this article tries to frame the situation. It&#x27;s almost like the startups feel entitled to the funding.<p>The point of funding should really be to enable faster growth than they might otherwise have been able to achieve, but if a business can&#x27;t at least survive without huge influxes of investments then is it really a business that they should be investing in in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>It&#x27;s a reasonable question, but consider three things:<p>One, part of the VC model is relatively frequent fundraising. You take some seed money, prove the model a bit, take an A round, prove it some more, etc. It&#x27;s in nobody&#x27;s interest to give all the money necessary to get to break-even at once; investors would rather make smaller bets, and founders want to sell as little equity as possible when uncertainty is high.<p>Two, if your goal is to never actually need another round of funding, then you&#x27;ll be very conservative in how you spend your money. Bolder competitors will spend money with the expectation of getting more soon, allowing them to outpace you. So there&#x27;s a strong incentive to spend as fast as possible, trusting that you&#x27;ll get good enough results to earn the next round of investment.<p>Three, there are many interesting businesses that are only possible with huge investments. In the Internet world, Twitter and Facebook are good examples. Most ad-supported businesses really only work at scale; ditto network-effect businesses. For physical goods, Tesla&#x27;s a good example: you have to sell a lot of cars to justify building a factory. Pharma, too; your second pill might cost $1 to produce, but that first pill can cost $2 billion.<p>I agree there&#x27;s a lot of entitlement in the industry, but I think some of it&#x27;s reasonable here, in that when you talk to a VC firm, they&#x27;ll sing you a great song about how they are there to support you, that they&#x27;ll back you all the way, etc, etc. People who haven&#x27;t experience a downturn can be genuinely shocked at how fast supposedly bold, independent investors suddenly all stampede in the same direction.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The coming IP war over facts derived from books</title><url>https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/02/11/books-facts-ip.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeterisP</author><text>There&#x27;s no IP war coming over facts derived from books because copyright doesn&#x27;t cover facts derived from books and the other forms of IP (trademarks, patents) are even less relevant.<p>I&#x27;ve done some work with corpus linguistics and quantitative linguistics, and large parts of these disciplines essentially are about facts derived from books in some manner. Modern approaches tend to involve machine learning, deep neural networks and other things fashionable on hackernews, but in general that&#x27;s an old, traditional area that was working on facts derived from books for decades before the &quot;ML era&quot;.<p>To work on facts derived from books, we&#x27;re sourcing all kinds of books and other written language, such as newspapers. Some publishers and authors are cooperative and helpful for such research, some are uncooperative and prefer to intentionally make working on their sources difficult - but in any case, even in the case of disagreement and conflict there&#x27;s no &quot;<i>IP</i> war&quot;, the conflict in our case tends to be about practical convenience of access, not about IP, because they don&#x27;t really have a leg to stand on in claiming a copyright violation. They hold the copyright on the original text, which gives them certain exclusive rights, there&#x27;s a bunch of intermediary data that we can&#x27;t make available to public without their permission, but these rights don&#x27;t extend to facts derived from that text, and we legally don&#x27;t need their permission to work on, analyze, transform, publish and use stuff based on facts in the text or facts about the text, we can do that openly even if they&#x27;ve explicitly made it clear that they don&#x27;t want us to do that. That&#x27;s nothing new, that&#x27;s established law that probably predates modern computers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>I found it interesting from a legal point of view when someone pointed out that the recent &quot;AI dungeon generator&quot; that was using BERT to act like a game master was in some occurrences basically copying (relevant) excerpts from books.<p>Can an AI commit copyright infringment? BERT probably &quot;knows&quot; that Cthulhu is a giant thing evoking squids, tentacle and non-orthonormic dimensions. These are facts based on books, but you can produce copyright infrigement based on those facts. It is called &quot;producing a derived work&quot;.<p>In the past years I never managed to get anyone with legal knowledge interested in what they saw as a totally impossible scenario: the idea that AI could one day produce original work y learning its craft, like human do, from copyrighted works. Their criterion was &quot;if you fed copyrighted work into an algorithm to produce a new work, then that&#x27;s a derived work&quot;.<p>Humans are somehow imbued with a magic property that allows them to watch read WH40K books, alien and predator movies, then produce the Starcraft universe, and have it count as original work.<p>We do have a philosophico-legal discussion to have there. And way overdue, if I may. The state of copyright is already late in acknowledging internet, DL-generated work will be even more of a conundrum for it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The coming IP war over facts derived from books</title><url>https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/02/11/books-facts-ip.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeterisP</author><text>There&#x27;s no IP war coming over facts derived from books because copyright doesn&#x27;t cover facts derived from books and the other forms of IP (trademarks, patents) are even less relevant.<p>I&#x27;ve done some work with corpus linguistics and quantitative linguistics, and large parts of these disciplines essentially are about facts derived from books in some manner. Modern approaches tend to involve machine learning, deep neural networks and other things fashionable on hackernews, but in general that&#x27;s an old, traditional area that was working on facts derived from books for decades before the &quot;ML era&quot;.<p>To work on facts derived from books, we&#x27;re sourcing all kinds of books and other written language, such as newspapers. Some publishers and authors are cooperative and helpful for such research, some are uncooperative and prefer to intentionally make working on their sources difficult - but in any case, even in the case of disagreement and conflict there&#x27;s no &quot;<i>IP</i> war&quot;, the conflict in our case tends to be about practical convenience of access, not about IP, because they don&#x27;t really have a leg to stand on in claiming a copyright violation. They hold the copyright on the original text, which gives them certain exclusive rights, there&#x27;s a bunch of intermediary data that we can&#x27;t make available to public without their permission, but these rights don&#x27;t extend to facts derived from that text, and we legally don&#x27;t need their permission to work on, analyze, transform, publish and use stuff based on facts in the text or facts about the text, we can do that openly even if they&#x27;ve explicitly made it clear that they don&#x27;t want us to do that. That&#x27;s nothing new, that&#x27;s established law that probably predates modern computers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brlewis</author><text>A single fact isn&#x27;t protected by copyright, but if I understand correctly, collections of facts are, if creative work is involved. The article seems to describe digesting all the facts in a book, and making them available to third parties in a way that competes with the book itself. I can see copyright being an issue there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Polar Express – How Airlines are plotting a new-route to Asia</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/north-pole-air-route/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acwan93</author><text>Does this mean Anchorage&#x27;s airport is going to get increased traffic again? I&#x27;d imagine planes today have the range to not need a stopover compared to the Cold War era.</text></item><item><author>Svip</author><text>SAS was the first airline to introduce a polar route in 1957 to avoid Soviet airspace, making a stop in Alaska on its way to Japan.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airwaysmag.com&#x2F;today-in-aviation&#x2F;worlds-first-com-trans-polar&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airwaysmag.com&#x2F;today-in-aviation&#x2F;worlds-first-com-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>&gt; Does this mean Anchorage&#x27;s airport is going to get increased traffic again?<p>Anchorage is already one one of the busiest airports in the world for cargo. During the beginning of the pandemic, it became the busiest airport in the world for that reason (while people weren&#x27;t flying, cargo still needed to be flown).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Polar Express – How Airlines are plotting a new-route to Asia</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/north-pole-air-route/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acwan93</author><text>Does this mean Anchorage&#x27;s airport is going to get increased traffic again? I&#x27;d imagine planes today have the range to not need a stopover compared to the Cold War era.</text></item><item><author>Svip</author><text>SAS was the first airline to introduce a polar route in 1957 to avoid Soviet airspace, making a stop in Alaska on its way to Japan.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airwaysmag.com&#x2F;today-in-aviation&#x2F;worlds-first-com-trans-polar&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airwaysmag.com&#x2F;today-in-aviation&#x2F;worlds-first-com-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>Anchorage still gets a lot of freight flights stopping for more fuel. It’s an interesting airport to plane spot at since it is quite busy with large planes despite having so few (relatively) passengers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Prosecutor as bully</title><url>http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbateman</author><text>From the link in the article:<p><i>Depending on how many of the counts Swartz is found guilty of, the sentence could conceivably total 50+ years and fine in the area of $4 million.</i><p>What an absurd and unreasonable level of punishment. Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor who was behind this[1] needs to be publicly shamed.<p>[1] (source: <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/" rel="nofollow">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-c...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>She has been rumored as a candidate for Governor or Senator, but denies interest (such denials often mean nothing).<p><a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/01/carmen_ortiz_rules_out_gov_senate_run" rel="nofollow">http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/01/...</a><p>The Boston Globe named her "Bostonian Of The Year" in 2011.<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/12/30/bostonian_of_the_year_carmen_ortiz_2011/" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...</a><p>Like most things, it seems complicated. She's done a lot of good for society, but it looks like she really screwed up in this particular case.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Prosecutor as bully</title><url>http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbateman</author><text>From the link in the article:<p><i>Depending on how many of the counts Swartz is found guilty of, the sentence could conceivably total 50+ years and fine in the area of $4 million.</i><p>What an absurd and unreasonable level of punishment. Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor who was behind this[1] needs to be publicly shamed.<p>[1] (source: <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/" rel="nofollow">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-c...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agwa</author><text>This is business as usual. Naming the prosecutor isn't going to accomplish anything - the whole system needs fixing.<p>Just a week ago this was on HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003335" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003335</a>
I don't think they seized Swartz' assets in this case but they didn't need to - they made his defense as expensive as possible and bled him dry.</text></comment>
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<story><title>World without antibiotics</title><url>http://www.publicbooks.org/world-without-antibiotics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moppl</author><text>There exists an alternative to antibiotics since it&#x27;s very beginnings. It is the bacteriophages therapy:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phage_therapy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phage_therapy</a><p>It is practiced since the 20ies in Tiblisi Georgia. TED talk about it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sjH6m5VuR6I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sjH6m5VuR6I</a><p>So it is not all doomsday.</text></comment>
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<story><title>World without antibiotics</title><url>http://www.publicbooks.org/world-without-antibiotics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>There was an interesting piece on BBC radio 4 a few months ago looking at the problems with the market when it comes to developing new antibiotics and I suspect government intervention will be needed to help the market along.<p>The usual model of drug development is<p>Spot opportunity &gt; spend lots on R&amp;D &gt; Go into production &gt; maximise sales &gt; recoup money as soon as possible &gt; Profit!<p>However, with new antibiotics we, as society absolutely do <i>not</i> want them to maximise sales. Ideally we don&#x27;t want any production at all. At worst, we&#x27;d like it to be used in a handful of cases for 5, 10 or 20 years, keeping it as a treatment of last resource.<p>In such circumstances you can see the problem for the pharmaceuticals. Personally, I think there needs to be some kind of prize fund that can let the companies recoup (and make a decent profit) from antibiotic discoveries. Either that or public-sector research.</text></comment>
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<story><title>5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Caching-Time-Block-IO</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zwieback</author><text>Title should be &quot;Six years of thinking allow programmer to solve problem in 5 minutes&quot;.<p>I remember contracting for IBM in the 90s and we had a huge performance boost due to caching and, like the anecdote in this post, there was a slight chance of something going out of date. The IBM guys said &quot;no thanks, IBM prefers bullet proof over fast&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Caching-Time-Block-IO</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>droningparrot</author><text>It may have taken 5 minutes to write the code, but it sounds like they spent years thinking about the change to make.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System</title><url>https://www.snort.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yabones</author><text>To any NIDS newbies out there... Please don&#x27;t deploy this in-line. Ever. You should always have your IDS out-of-band. Software like Snort is great for detecting threats, but if you block every &quot;threat&quot; you&#x27;re going to have a bad time. Not to disparage the quality of their rulesets, they are very high quality, but there absolutely will be false positives. I&#x27;ve spent many evenings and weekends troubleshooting IPS problems, 0&#x2F;10 cannot recommend.<p>The best option is to mirror all traffic from switches directly to capture boxes where the detection and logging happens. This should be sent to a central system that has a full picture of the network and traffic patterns. That central system should be the one making the decisions, and it should be very smart. Automatic firewall rules should be close to the source, and shutdown switchports should be close to the client.<p>For safe IPS operation there needs to be several layers of filters, not just a list of &quot;allowed rule IDs&quot;. This is the sort of project that takes at least a year to fully roll out - it&#x27;s not the kind of thing a &quot;security whiz&quot; can set up in an afternoon.<p>At best, it can be a very useful diagnostic, logging, and threat detection tool. At worst, it can cause very difficult to predict and troubleshoot network problems.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System</title><url>https://www.snort.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smashed</author><text>How relevant is a rule based IDS in today&#x27;s environment?<p>With most everything fully encrypted, what&#x27;s left for the rules to detect? If I remember correctly, one of the first performance optimization recommended by snort&#x2F;suricata is to detect and skip encrypted traffic, to not waste cpu cycles on random bits.<p>If a malware wants to exfiltrate data or receive commands from a remote command and control, won&#x27;t they simply masquerade their traffic as regular outgoing https requests and bypass the IDS easily?</text></comment>
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<story><title>SocketStream: a real-time web framework for Node.js</title><url>https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>silentbicycle</author><text>Do people not realize that "real-time" actually <i>means something specific</i>, you can't just claim something is "real-time" because it's fairly fast?<p>Nothing against this project, specifically, but I've seen this a lot lately (<i>especially</i> among Javascript programmers).</text></comment>
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<story><title>SocketStream: a real-time web framework for Node.js</title><url>https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fdiotalevi</author><text>Just seen the live presentation in London and it really looked interesting, even if really in its early stage.<p>Two demos available so far: <a href="https://www.socketracer.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.socketracer.com</a> and <a href="http://ssdashboard.com" rel="nofollow">http://ssdashboard.com</a>.<p>Also interesting that AOL is officially putting money in the project, and with the intention to keep it under the MIT license.</text></comment>
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<story><title>German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/german-credit-agency-earns-millions-through-unlawful-customer-manipulation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>formerly_proven</author><text>High taxes with no matching value behind them is undeniably a negative.</text></item><item><author>ciclotrone</author><text>I find it quite disturbing that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe. I lived in Italy, France and Germany, and I enjoyed public healthcare and education of very high standard at very affordable prices, and free in the limit that one cannot afford to pay for them.<p>As a relative of a person with a chronic disease I can tell you that on the one hand if we are not bankrupt it is because of public healthcare, and on the other I&#x27;m proud of contributing through my taxes so that anybody in need can have the same treatment irrespective of their economic situation.</text></item><item><author>ArmandGrillet</author><text>Finally. Germany combines some of the worst aspects of the US (credit ranking, complicated abortion process, private healthcare if you want decent treatments) with the worst aspects of Europe (low digitalization, high taxation, recursive federalism: within the country and within the EU).<p>A country like the Netherlands has its own issues (mainly housing) but doesn&#x27;t have the myriad of pain points you can find in Germany like Schufa, anti-customer contract rules, or public healthcare inaccessible despite paying more than 400€&#x2F;month for it as a single individual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s my problem with high taxation, as someone who got burnt by it by virtue of living and paying taxes in the UK.<p>I don&#x27;t mind paying my fair share of tax if it means I get good value out of it, but the state of our healthcare here means that in practice the public healthcare system is no longer fit for purpose, so we are being forced to pay for a system that doesn&#x27;t work and end up having to go private (and thus pay again) when we do need timely healthcare.<p>I am generally in favor of fair, progressive taxation to ensure everyone has a good social safety net, but the taxation should be fair (it&#x27;s no longer the case in the UK, since tax brackets haven&#x27;t been adjusted for inflation) and the services paid for by those taxes should provide good value.<p>The danger with services funded by taxes as opposed to a private enterprise operating in a free market is that private enterprises are bound by competitive pressure - if they are delivering terrible service and stuffing their pockets with the money, you are free not to do business with them and a potential competitor (that stuffs their pockets a little less) can come along and get your business instead.<p>With tax-funded services, this pressure doesn&#x27;t exist, so there&#x27;s no incentive for politicians (and everyone else in the value chain) to deliver good service, since people generally can&#x27;t opt out of taxes. This means that even if a service is <i>currently</i> good, there&#x27;s no guarantee it will remain so since the pressure for it to remain isn&#x27;t there. Thus, when you see high taxation, it&#x27;s reasonable to be worried whether the service provided by those taxes is any good and whether it will remain so in the future.</text></comment>
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<story><title>German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/german-credit-agency-earns-millions-through-unlawful-customer-manipulation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>formerly_proven</author><text>High taxes with no matching value behind them is undeniably a negative.</text></item><item><author>ciclotrone</author><text>I find it quite disturbing that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe. I lived in Italy, France and Germany, and I enjoyed public healthcare and education of very high standard at very affordable prices, and free in the limit that one cannot afford to pay for them.<p>As a relative of a person with a chronic disease I can tell you that on the one hand if we are not bankrupt it is because of public healthcare, and on the other I&#x27;m proud of contributing through my taxes so that anybody in need can have the same treatment irrespective of their economic situation.</text></item><item><author>ArmandGrillet</author><text>Finally. Germany combines some of the worst aspects of the US (credit ranking, complicated abortion process, private healthcare if you want decent treatments) with the worst aspects of Europe (low digitalization, high taxation, recursive federalism: within the country and within the EU).<p>A country like the Netherlands has its own issues (mainly housing) but doesn&#x27;t have the myriad of pain points you can find in Germany like Schufa, anti-customer contract rules, or public healthcare inaccessible despite paying more than 400€&#x2F;month for it as a single individual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcmcmc</author><text>Unless you want to get into the nitty gritty of economic policy analysis and measuring market externalities, value of public goods is pretty subjective. A healthy person might not see much value in public healthcare and a single adult with no kids might not care about education. Just because you don’t value something in the same way doesn’t mean it’s not highly valued by the people who voted on and implemented the policies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A list of places to post about your startup/launch</title><url>https://sizle.io/how-to-maximise-traffic-to-a-bootstrapped-product-hunt-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LeonB</author><text>No, no no.<p>Post to people who will value your idea and give you valuable feedback.<p>Just trying to get &quot;traffic&quot; is a wasteful and distracting vanity metric. The feedback you get from such traffic will take you further away from building something that really connects with the right audience.<p>(In the case of the list itself, it <i>is</i> worth posting it to those sites, as the audience at those sites <i>is</i> the target audience for the list itself. Which makes it hard to point out why the list is misguided.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>A list of places to post about your startup/launch</title><url>https://sizle.io/how-to-maximise-traffic-to-a-bootstrapped-product-hunt-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeremysizle</author><text>Here is a list that I made for my own Product Hunt launch in December for www.sizle.io after going through a lot of the old lists that exist online and finding the most up to date ones. There is probably a much better way to format this but hopefully it helps! If anyone has any suggestions to improve the list that would be great :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits</title><url>https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21740873-argument-universal-health-care-clear-getting-there-difficult-says-john</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>merpnderp</author><text>If you think the private healthcare system is immoral, you should take a look at the 100% government ran healthcare system that is the VA. You literally couldn&#x27;t make up worse things than their administration has been caught doing with little or to consequence.<p>If the VA is the best the US government can do, with some of the most sympathetic citizens, then it is incapable of doing better than our private system.</text></item><item><author>sykh</author><text>When a person gets a life threatening disease they ought not worry about whether or not their treatment will leave their family in penury. This is especially so in a nation as wealthy as the U.S. The American healthcare system is immoral and I hope it drastically changes.<p>Americans need to change their underlying notions of what it means to be a society. An author was once made fun of for suggesting that it takes a village to raise a child. When it comes to public funding for public goods we tend to worry about some poor person getting something they don’t deserve. The go it alone I’ve got mine, fuck you attitude is unhealthy.<p>Until we change our collective view in what the purpose of a government and society is things won’t change significantly. Even so called champions of progressivism in the U.S. Senate voted against allowing the importation of medicine from Canada. It seems the public interest is subordinate to private interests and often times with immoral consequences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>&gt; You literally couldn&#x27;t make up worse things than their administration has been caught doing with little or to consequence.<p>I literally could. The scandals you&#x27;re referring to basically come down to them having been cooking books about care records. Bad, but not exactly in the realm of &quot;literally nothing worse&quot; hyperbole.<p>In fact the VA tends to produce health care outcomes that are well within the range of US citizens in the same income bracket (which is to say, not great relative to the rest of hte industrialized world, but not bad) at a cost that is <i>much</i> less than that of private insurance.<p>Really, you could do a lot worse. The criticism of the VA tends to be very similar to the criticism of the NHS in the UK. It&#x27;s valid as far as it goes, but... neither UK citizens nor US vets are suffering serious catastrophes here. They&#x27;re <i>getting care</i> and living decent, healthy lives by any reasonable standard.<p>Literally.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits</title><url>https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21740873-argument-universal-health-care-clear-getting-there-difficult-says-john</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>merpnderp</author><text>If you think the private healthcare system is immoral, you should take a look at the 100% government ran healthcare system that is the VA. You literally couldn&#x27;t make up worse things than their administration has been caught doing with little or to consequence.<p>If the VA is the best the US government can do, with some of the most sympathetic citizens, then it is incapable of doing better than our private system.</text></item><item><author>sykh</author><text>When a person gets a life threatening disease they ought not worry about whether or not their treatment will leave their family in penury. This is especially so in a nation as wealthy as the U.S. The American healthcare system is immoral and I hope it drastically changes.<p>Americans need to change their underlying notions of what it means to be a society. An author was once made fun of for suggesting that it takes a village to raise a child. When it comes to public funding for public goods we tend to worry about some poor person getting something they don’t deserve. The go it alone I’ve got mine, fuck you attitude is unhealthy.<p>Until we change our collective view in what the purpose of a government and society is things won’t change significantly. Even so called champions of progressivism in the U.S. Senate voted against allowing the importation of medicine from Canada. It seems the public interest is subordinate to private interests and often times with immoral consequences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fomite</author><text>For a <i>large</i> number of different outcomes, the VA is superior to private care. It has a disproportionate footprint because &quot;The VA does something bad!&quot; is national news, while &quot;SmallSizeMidwestCity Memorial does something bad!&quot; isn&#x27;t.<p>It&#x27;s not perfect, by any means, and struggles with cost constraints (veterans are sympathetic, but sympathetic doesn&#x27;t mean well supported), but many of its quality outcomes are superior.<p>See, for example, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamainternalmedicine&#x2F;article-abstract&#x2F;2618816" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamainternalmedicine&#x2F;articl...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Global recession fears grow as factory activity shrinks</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-economy/factory-activity-shrinks-across-asia-global-recession-fears-mount-idUSKCN1T40EI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coolaliasbro</author><text>These considerations are requisite only in a capitalist system. In other economic models it is not a given that ”[i]nvestors...need to decide which businesses are viable... Workers need to consider career changes.&quot; In fact, the division between investors on the one hand and workers in the other is a large part of this problem. If we socialized gains and privatized losses (in the sense of never bailing out those agents that got themselves into bad situations), these cycles would at worst be much less severe and frequent.</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Whether or not this is the start is not so important, but remember it&#x27;s been a while since the last one, and it&#x27;s a common thing to occur in the economy, or any other ecological system.<p>It&#x27;s also something that has an important role. Investors at some point need to decide which businesses are viable, which are not. Workers need to consider career changes. Corporate entities need to consider which projects are worthwhile. All those kinds of decisions are put to the test when not everything can be given a long horizon.<p>Finally, there is a twist this time. We&#x27;ve been running a financial experiment with few parallels over the last decade or so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shanusmagnus</author><text>If we socialized gains and privatized losses, there&#x27;d be less severe cycles because there&#x27;d be less economy to have cycles on.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Global recession fears grow as factory activity shrinks</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-economy/factory-activity-shrinks-across-asia-global-recession-fears-mount-idUSKCN1T40EI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coolaliasbro</author><text>These considerations are requisite only in a capitalist system. In other economic models it is not a given that ”[i]nvestors...need to decide which businesses are viable... Workers need to consider career changes.&quot; In fact, the division between investors on the one hand and workers in the other is a large part of this problem. If we socialized gains and privatized losses (in the sense of never bailing out those agents that got themselves into bad situations), these cycles would at worst be much less severe and frequent.</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Whether or not this is the start is not so important, but remember it&#x27;s been a while since the last one, and it&#x27;s a common thing to occur in the economy, or any other ecological system.<p>It&#x27;s also something that has an important role. Investors at some point need to decide which businesses are viable, which are not. Workers need to consider career changes. Corporate entities need to consider which projects are worthwhile. All those kinds of decisions are put to the test when not everything can be given a long horizon.<p>Finally, there is a twist this time. We&#x27;ve been running a financial experiment with few parallels over the last decade or so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>navigatesol</author><text>&gt;<i>If we socialized gains and privatized losses (in the sense of never bailing out those agents that got themselves into bad situations), these cycles would at worst be much less severe and frequent.</i><p>You should look at the severity and frequency of economic cycles around the world throughout history and I bet you&#x27;d reconsider this position. Often times they lead to the collapse of entire nations or worse, war.<p>Is that worth it to teach an overleveraged business a lesson? Remember, &quot;businesses&quot; don&#x27;t make these decisions in a vacuum; they are run by and consist of people. People win and people lose in every cycle (just not always the same or most deserving groups).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>If I had a little robot riding in the passenger seat that could tell me whether to go left, straight, or right, and it was correct 90% of the time, I&#x27;d think that was pretty great. I&#x27;d get where I needed to be, even with a couple mishaps.<p>ML code suggestions are the same thing to me. If I don&#x27;t know where I am going, I can just ask it for suggestions. And it&#x27;s probably going to be what I want.<p>In both cases, I am annoyed with myself for having started before I knew where I want to end up.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>Surprising. If only there were a way that we could have foreseen that an AI trained to write code in part by looking at people who, self-admittedly, don’t know how to write code, and people who write code for others with minimal context (Stack Overflow), would produce buggy code. It is a case of GIGO.<p>Most developers do not learn much from Stack Overflow. Why do we expect AI to fare better? In my experience, one in ten (optimistically) Stack Overflow answers give anything more than a code snippet with enough information to get the asker through their immediate issue. It can be beneficial if you have the necessary understanding already and only want the code snippet, but this is no way for humans or machines to learn.<p>Also, having an “AI Assistant” must lower programmers’ guards against buggy code. After all, it is an assistant - it must assist you, right? Subordinating humans to machines will not work in this domain until there is better training data and the machines can be taught the reason they are writing specific code. Until then, I have low hopes for AI-generated code.<p>Even if AI could generate correct, bug-free code the majority (say 99.9% of the time), I expect finding and correcting bugs will be difficult for humans. For example, how many bugs are found and corrected by the author of code during development, versus how many in peer review? I’m reminded of a saying akin to “ask someone to review 5,000 lines of code: no bugs. Ask someone to review 5 lines of code: 5 bugs”. We are poor critical reviewers, and AI cannot fix that. AI assistants probably worsen reviews, because reviewers will expect high-quality code from their AI assistants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Salgat</author><text>The problem with ML is that it&#x27;s pattern recognition, it&#x27;s an approximation. Code is absolute, it&#x27;s logic that is interpreted very literally and very exactly. This is what makes it so dangerous for coding; it creates code that&#x27;s convincing to humans but with deviations that allow for all sorts of bugs. And the worst part is, since you didn&#x27;t write the code, you may not have the skills (or time) to figure out if those bugs exist, especially if the ML is extremely convincing&#x2F;clever in what it writes. I would argue that this overhead is even worse for productivity over just writing it yourself.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>If I had a little robot riding in the passenger seat that could tell me whether to go left, straight, or right, and it was correct 90% of the time, I&#x27;d think that was pretty great. I&#x27;d get where I needed to be, even with a couple mishaps.<p>ML code suggestions are the same thing to me. If I don&#x27;t know where I am going, I can just ask it for suggestions. And it&#x27;s probably going to be what I want.<p>In both cases, I am annoyed with myself for having started before I knew where I want to end up.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>Surprising. If only there were a way that we could have foreseen that an AI trained to write code in part by looking at people who, self-admittedly, don’t know how to write code, and people who write code for others with minimal context (Stack Overflow), would produce buggy code. It is a case of GIGO.<p>Most developers do not learn much from Stack Overflow. Why do we expect AI to fare better? In my experience, one in ten (optimistically) Stack Overflow answers give anything more than a code snippet with enough information to get the asker through their immediate issue. It can be beneficial if you have the necessary understanding already and only want the code snippet, but this is no way for humans or machines to learn.<p>Also, having an “AI Assistant” must lower programmers’ guards against buggy code. After all, it is an assistant - it must assist you, right? Subordinating humans to machines will not work in this domain until there is better training data and the machines can be taught the reason they are writing specific code. Until then, I have low hopes for AI-generated code.<p>Even if AI could generate correct, bug-free code the majority (say 99.9% of the time), I expect finding and correcting bugs will be difficult for humans. For example, how many bugs are found and corrected by the author of code during development, versus how many in peer review? I’m reminded of a saying akin to “ask someone to review 5,000 lines of code: no bugs. Ask someone to review 5 lines of code: 5 bugs”. We are poor critical reviewers, and AI cannot fix that. AI assistants probably worsen reviews, because reviewers will expect high-quality code from their AI assistants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Marazan</author><text>90% right is superficially impressive but in actual practice is abysmal.<p>Voice recognition software needed to get to 99.9% accuracy to be actually useable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components</title><url>https://glimmerjs.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k__</author><text>I used Ember for about 2 years and thought so too.<p>Now I&#x27;m using React and I think it&#x27;s approach is much better.<p>The API is tiny compared to Ember and there aren&#x27;t much concepts, still it accomplishes everything Ember did.<p>I feel bad to say this, but in the modular, library heavy, NPM based JS world of today, React (and other component frameworks like Cyclejs or hyperapp) fits just in. While Ember feels like a anachronism of the big framework days of Rails. :&#x2F;</text></item><item><author>EvilTrout</author><text>As a long time (5 years full time) Ember developer, this is quite interesting to me philosophically.<p>I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time trying to tell people that all the stuff in Ember is there for a reason; for example, you&#x27;re going to need a router, you&#x27;re going to need support for controllers, etc. I still feel strongly that if your app is large and serious you are going to need that stuff.<p>But.<p>A lot of people just want to jump in and start building. React&#x27;s immense popularity has shown the value in creating a view layer framework without all the extra stuff. It&#x27;s great for onboarding new developers since there is less surface area to familiarize yourself with, and you can add in extra stuff (work your way towards full Ember) as you go.<p>It also comes with the added benefit of being able to add small components to a page without running the whole thing as an application, which is a use case Ember was not so great at before.<p>Overall I think it&#x27;s a great announcement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_____s</author><text>With Glimmer as a standalone library, I think ember&#x27;s going in the right direction. There&#x27;s been some excellent work on Fastboot and Engines in the last year or so and I really like the approach ember&#x27;s team is taking with this.<p>React, for me, still offers better composability. You deal in plain JS objects, pass them around, and can build really complex UIs on top of that. I also really like redux. I still use ember heavily though; I think we&#x27;ll get there as well!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components</title><url>https://glimmerjs.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k__</author><text>I used Ember for about 2 years and thought so too.<p>Now I&#x27;m using React and I think it&#x27;s approach is much better.<p>The API is tiny compared to Ember and there aren&#x27;t much concepts, still it accomplishes everything Ember did.<p>I feel bad to say this, but in the modular, library heavy, NPM based JS world of today, React (and other component frameworks like Cyclejs or hyperapp) fits just in. While Ember feels like a anachronism of the big framework days of Rails. :&#x2F;</text></item><item><author>EvilTrout</author><text>As a long time (5 years full time) Ember developer, this is quite interesting to me philosophically.<p>I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time trying to tell people that all the stuff in Ember is there for a reason; for example, you&#x27;re going to need a router, you&#x27;re going to need support for controllers, etc. I still feel strongly that if your app is large and serious you are going to need that stuff.<p>But.<p>A lot of people just want to jump in and start building. React&#x27;s immense popularity has shown the value in creating a view layer framework without all the extra stuff. It&#x27;s great for onboarding new developers since there is less surface area to familiarize yourself with, and you can add in extra stuff (work your way towards full Ember) as you go.<p>It also comes with the added benefit of being able to add small components to a page without running the whole thing as an application, which is a use case Ember was not so great at before.<p>Overall I think it&#x27;s a great announcement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elwayman02</author><text>Why would you want to build a bespoke React-based framework for every app you make? Why not simply have everything you need out of the box, plus the ability to easily integrate any npm library into your app via first-class build tooling that is miles easier to use than something clunky like Webpack?</text></comment>
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<story><title>I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)</title><url>https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qikInNdOutReply</author><text>My dream was always to be hired into obscure government bureaucracy and automate the data entry job away, while hiding it. After that, you basically exist in a free incubator.<p>Imagine the software you can write, if freed from societies expectations of sweat, tears and busy work. Not to be rich, just to be technical excellent, productive and at peace.<p>I wonder why this has not yet happened with open source. If a sufficient enough part of the public uses your software, the state offers you a maintainer role. Nothing big, but enough to life on and do work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)</title><url>https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>labrador</author><text>When he describes what he does he&#x27;s describing a 10x engineer. 10x doesn&#x27;t mean you write 10x more code, it means you deliver 10x more problem solutions</text></comment>
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<story><title>San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-epidemic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tayo42</author><text>Don&#x27;t let the doom porn get to you. I lived in bernal for 5 years and never had a problem. Cole valley is right next to haight ashbury which attracts a fair amount characters. There&#x27;s other neighborhoods that aren&#x27;t in the middle of everything. Bernal heights, glen park, noe valley, pacific heights, the richmond and the sunset will be a little less crazy.<p>I think any American city will have some culture shock compared to Japan or Singapore. Just don&#x27;t leave stuff out in the open, lock your stuff and maybe don&#x27;t drive a prius, people like to steal the catalytic converters.</text></item><item><author>greggman3</author><text>I&#x27;m planning to move to SF for a job. A friend told me to sign up for a neighborhood facebook group to one of the nicer neighborhoods in SF, Cole Valley, because I might see a message about a good place to rent. Cole Valley is a small neighborhood on the south east corner of Golden Gate Park.<p>In the 3 weeks I&#x27;ve been on the list 5 cars have had their windows busted and things stolen, 2 garages have been broken into and things stolen. 2 garages have had their doors damaged from attempted break-ins costing the owners hundreds to get fixed. There&#x27;s been videos of people staking out places to rob (people walking from house to house inspecting garage door locks and trying to peak inside the garages). And ~10 or so posts about various other thefts or results of thefts.<p>This sounds more like one of those lawless 3rd world countries than a major city in a first world country. And worse, many people on the list just react as &quot;that&#x27;s life in a big city&quot;, no big deal.<p>It&#x27;s not, having lived in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Singapore were property crime is extremely low. People get defensive whenever I bring this up, making excuses why crime needs to be high where they live. It doesn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aksss</author><text>&gt; Just don&#x27;t leave stuff out in the open, lock your stuff and maybe don&#x27;t drive a prius, people like to steal the catalytic converters.<p>IME this is becoming an increasingly common attitude in many cities besides SF. And it’s a problem of social decay - fear of being considered an asshole by calling some behaviors just unacceptable. Americans are (somewhat ironically) terrified of being perceived as assholes, and we’re letting our social standards erode more and more each decade.<p>We don’t have to relent to this. Expecting to be able to leave something out and it not be stolen is not unreasonable. Expecting not to be assaulted is reasonable. Expecting people to not shoplift is a reasonable expectation in any civilized society.</text></comment>
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<story><title>San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-epidemic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tayo42</author><text>Don&#x27;t let the doom porn get to you. I lived in bernal for 5 years and never had a problem. Cole valley is right next to haight ashbury which attracts a fair amount characters. There&#x27;s other neighborhoods that aren&#x27;t in the middle of everything. Bernal heights, glen park, noe valley, pacific heights, the richmond and the sunset will be a little less crazy.<p>I think any American city will have some culture shock compared to Japan or Singapore. Just don&#x27;t leave stuff out in the open, lock your stuff and maybe don&#x27;t drive a prius, people like to steal the catalytic converters.</text></item><item><author>greggman3</author><text>I&#x27;m planning to move to SF for a job. A friend told me to sign up for a neighborhood facebook group to one of the nicer neighborhoods in SF, Cole Valley, because I might see a message about a good place to rent. Cole Valley is a small neighborhood on the south east corner of Golden Gate Park.<p>In the 3 weeks I&#x27;ve been on the list 5 cars have had their windows busted and things stolen, 2 garages have been broken into and things stolen. 2 garages have had their doors damaged from attempted break-ins costing the owners hundreds to get fixed. There&#x27;s been videos of people staking out places to rob (people walking from house to house inspecting garage door locks and trying to peak inside the garages). And ~10 or so posts about various other thefts or results of thefts.<p>This sounds more like one of those lawless 3rd world countries than a major city in a first world country. And worse, many people on the list just react as &quot;that&#x27;s life in a big city&quot;, no big deal.<p>It&#x27;s not, having lived in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Singapore were property crime is extremely low. People get defensive whenever I bring this up, making excuses why crime needs to be high where they live. It doesn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>busterarm</author><text>I can think of like 5 different cities in Mexico that are safer than SF. Merida might top the list.<p>Californians should be ashamed but they continuously vote for this shit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/03/technology/ap-us-tec-facebooks-hardware-ambitions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JustSomeNobody</author><text>&gt; Oculus has potential to be as profitable as Apple if they absolutely nail the execution and the experience.<p>No. VR won&#x27;t be that popular. I know that&#x27;s hard for people on HN to hear, but it&#x27;s true. Sure it&#x27;ll make money selling to geeks and nerds, but that&#x27;s all.</text></item><item><author>KaoruAoiShiho</author><text>Hardware is commoditized but brands are not. Anyone can make handbags but only some can sell them for $5000. Oculus has potential to be as profitable as Apple if they absolutely nail the execution and the experience. But it remains to the be seen if the Rift is an iphone or a newton.<p>Being tethered to a high end gaming pc &quot;dooms&quot; it to be a niche product. How soon can Oculus either ally with a console or make a console?</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>FB&#x27;s hardware strategy is confusing.<p>Oculus was their first, real consumer hardware release and effort.<p>The rollout was amateur hour between delays, customer service, etc, but that&#x27;s forgivable and understandable at some level for a first major release.<p>But then Vive showed up to the party, shipped nearly on the same time frame, and delivered a product that&#x27;s in striking distance of headset quality and WINS in interactivity.<p>This underscores how commoditized hardware is and will continue to be.<p>But then FB doubles down on protecting their &quot;hardware play&quot; and fucks everybody over with their bizarre Oculus &quot;store&quot; experience which launched with a ridiculous walled garden approach and an experience that&#x27;s far secondary to Steam.<p>Meanwhile FB and Zuck keep making noises about wanting to support VR in general to bring about critical mass on VR as a platform so they can take the obvious step and execute THE killer-app for VR, - a truly connected social metaverse.<p>I get that having a hardware lab provides an incentive to new VR devs to come on board, and lets them press the medium forward.<p>But if owning that &quot;metaverse&quot; is the end game why bother dickering around with consumer hardware and pissing off &#x2F; breaking trust with devs &amp; consumers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hawski</author><text>I think that I partly agree with you on it. It is not hard to imagine two iPhones per person - private one and company one. And yet I doubt that more than one VR in household will be that common. Probably in case of smartphones cost hiding thanks to carrier plans helped in making it popular. Can similar mechanism work for VR? It is true that nowadays you can get additional things with your mobile plan - laptops and tablets for example. But in case of VR you have to consider also beefier machine. GearVR would probably have advantage in this case.<p>Then it is the issue of having something on your face and not being able to hop-in and hop-out of the experience in case of a second. It makes the experience deeper, but that means you need more time and people don&#x27;t have time. Even if you play with someone on a console you can, in split second, see them smiling or see that you need to turn off cooker under rice. Never mind about actual appearance of having something on someones pretty face. VR devices are looking probably too Sci-Fi than somewhat elegant iPhone to appeal to public. Elegance appeal to rich people and what appeals to rich people appeals to everyone that would like to be rich. One thing that overcomes elegance is price and it does not apply to VR.<p>It is deeper experience so it may be closer to cinema than to TV. TV is certainly more popular. I hope that it will enable not only great gaming experiences, but also remarkable development (or professional) environments. Current gen VR is probably not yet there to be used in professional setting, but maybe subsidized by gaming - same as with GPUs - it will get there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/03/technology/ap-us-tec-facebooks-hardware-ambitions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JustSomeNobody</author><text>&gt; Oculus has potential to be as profitable as Apple if they absolutely nail the execution and the experience.<p>No. VR won&#x27;t be that popular. I know that&#x27;s hard for people on HN to hear, but it&#x27;s true. Sure it&#x27;ll make money selling to geeks and nerds, but that&#x27;s all.</text></item><item><author>KaoruAoiShiho</author><text>Hardware is commoditized but brands are not. Anyone can make handbags but only some can sell them for $5000. Oculus has potential to be as profitable as Apple if they absolutely nail the execution and the experience. But it remains to the be seen if the Rift is an iphone or a newton.<p>Being tethered to a high end gaming pc &quot;dooms&quot; it to be a niche product. How soon can Oculus either ally with a console or make a console?</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>FB&#x27;s hardware strategy is confusing.<p>Oculus was their first, real consumer hardware release and effort.<p>The rollout was amateur hour between delays, customer service, etc, but that&#x27;s forgivable and understandable at some level for a first major release.<p>But then Vive showed up to the party, shipped nearly on the same time frame, and delivered a product that&#x27;s in striking distance of headset quality and WINS in interactivity.<p>This underscores how commoditized hardware is and will continue to be.<p>But then FB doubles down on protecting their &quot;hardware play&quot; and fucks everybody over with their bizarre Oculus &quot;store&quot; experience which launched with a ridiculous walled garden approach and an experience that&#x27;s far secondary to Steam.<p>Meanwhile FB and Zuck keep making noises about wanting to support VR in general to bring about critical mass on VR as a platform so they can take the obvious step and execute THE killer-app for VR, - a truly connected social metaverse.<p>I get that having a hardware lab provides an incentive to new VR devs to come on board, and lets them press the medium forward.<p>But if owning that &quot;metaverse&quot; is the end game why bother dickering around with consumer hardware and pissing off &#x2F; breaking trust with devs &amp; consumers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blahi</author><text>VR is the next on the shelf next to Segway and smart bands and watches.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Deno Deploy Demo: a multi-datacenter chat, client+server in 23 lines of TS</title><url>https://dash.deno.com/playground/mini-ws-chat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>This is such a neat demo. I wrote up an annotated version of the code while I was figuring out exactly how it worked. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;deno&#x2F;annotated-deno-deploy-demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;deno&#x2F;annotated-deno-deploy-dem...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Deno Deploy Demo: a multi-datacenter chat, client+server in 23 lines of TS</title><url>https://dash.deno.com/playground/mini-ws-chat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vnglst</author><text>What I really like about this is that you open the dependency in a web browser and see the human readable source code. No transpiling! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.land&#x2F;std&#x2F;http&#x2F;server.ts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.land&#x2F;std&#x2F;http&#x2F;server.ts</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1</title><url>http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/04/steve-jobs-response-on-section-3-3-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lispm</author><text>I'm not talking about programming on the Mac, I'm talking about the iPhone OS and devices like the iPad.<p>I need a Mac to program the iPad? Why?<p>We needed a LISA to program the Mac in 1984. The Mac had 128kbyte of RAM and couldn't do much.<p>The iPad has 256MB RAM, a multitasking OS based on Unix - I want to see end-user programming on the touch screen. Not a generation of link clickers.<p>We have 2010.<p>I want a better EMAIL program for my iPhone (or something like the iPad). I don't get it. Apple does not allow that. WHY? It can't even filter mails. We had that twenty years ago.</text></item><item><author>rimantas</author><text><p><pre><code> With the Mac everybody got a copy of HyperCard
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Here we go again.
I got a free copy of Xcode, IB and Dashcode with every release of OS X I had. I can
code in C, C++, Objective-C (with a choice of compilers gcc or clang), PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (including RoR), Java right out of the box. SQLite is also there and maybe some stuff I don't even know I have.<p>Existence of iPad (and iPhone) does not hinder innovation — it fosters it. Three years ago
there was no iPhone, no iPhone OS, no App Store. Now we have a new platform with not far from 200 000 (just think about it) applications written for it. iPad gives an opportunity
truly explore what's possible on multitouch device with dedicated UI.<p>I am a web developer, but I do not complain that I cannot easily write my code in the browser itself. Nor do I want to.<p>Just think about it: if there were no iPad you could not code for it even in Obj-C.</text></item><item><author>lispm</author><text>When Steve Jobs got a demo of the graphical user interface and object-oriented software at Xerox PARC, he saw a computer that could be interactively programmed. In Smalltalk.<p>When Steve Jobs started with NeXT in the mid 80s he got a demo of a novel program that can be used to interactively design general user interfaces - the first program of its kind.<p>It was written in Lisp by Jean-Marie Hullot. It was called SOS Interface, marketed also as Action! by the company Expertelligence.<p>Steve Jobs hired him and Jean-Marie created the Interface Builder - which became one of the most important tool on NeXT OS. Then for Mac OS X and now for iPhone OS.<p>This innovation is now hindered by Apple. The innovative software may not be written in Lisp anymore, but it is not necessarily Objective-C either.<p>With the Mac everybody got a copy of HyperCard - everybody could write and design programs in a simple way - using the built-in HyperTalk. Xerox had such a software years before - called NoteCards and written in InterLisp-D.<p>With the iPad, which is much more capable than the Mac where SOS Interface and HyperCard were developed, everybody is degraded to be a consumer. The goal is no longer to be a maker, a creator, a programmer. You can't even use a shell to connect to your own iPad.<p>There is huge domain of visual programming and end user programming to be explored on touch screen devices. Maybe Apple is working on that and hiding this (like Jobs claimed that 'nobody reads anymore' and some time later Apple now sells iBooks) - from what we see now Apple hinders innovation and innovators in these areas.<p>I want a 'DynaBook' and not a media player.<p>Steve Jobs did not really understand what he saw at Xerox PARC when he got the demos of the Smalltalk system. He got the idea of the graphical user interface. But what he overlooked was the concept of object-oriented programming. He later with NeXT understood that. But what he never really got was the importance of interactive programming, end-user programming - the role of the user being able to program his computer in a straight-forward way. The cultural importance of being able to write, understand and change software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alanthonyc</author><text><i>"I need a Mac to program th iPad. Why?"</i><p>Holy moly! Are you mad because a TV isn't a video camera? Are you mad because a plate isn't a frying pan?<p>The iPad is a <i>consumption</i> device. It's a new thing. I've had it for a week now. I know that it's not going to replace a real computer. But it is absoulutely great for what it is. I wouldn't want to program <i>on</i> it (as things stand). It's acceptable for writing short texts, that's about it for now.<p>And this has nothing to do with the 3.3.1 controversy. There are a number of things that you can take Apple to task for, but this isn't one of them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1</title><url>http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/04/steve-jobs-response-on-section-3-3-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lispm</author><text>I'm not talking about programming on the Mac, I'm talking about the iPhone OS and devices like the iPad.<p>I need a Mac to program the iPad? Why?<p>We needed a LISA to program the Mac in 1984. The Mac had 128kbyte of RAM and couldn't do much.<p>The iPad has 256MB RAM, a multitasking OS based on Unix - I want to see end-user programming on the touch screen. Not a generation of link clickers.<p>We have 2010.<p>I want a better EMAIL program for my iPhone (or something like the iPad). I don't get it. Apple does not allow that. WHY? It can't even filter mails. We had that twenty years ago.</text></item><item><author>rimantas</author><text><p><pre><code> With the Mac everybody got a copy of HyperCard
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Here we go again.
I got a free copy of Xcode, IB and Dashcode with every release of OS X I had. I can
code in C, C++, Objective-C (with a choice of compilers gcc or clang), PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (including RoR), Java right out of the box. SQLite is also there and maybe some stuff I don't even know I have.<p>Existence of iPad (and iPhone) does not hinder innovation — it fosters it. Three years ago
there was no iPhone, no iPhone OS, no App Store. Now we have a new platform with not far from 200 000 (just think about it) applications written for it. iPad gives an opportunity
truly explore what's possible on multitouch device with dedicated UI.<p>I am a web developer, but I do not complain that I cannot easily write my code in the browser itself. Nor do I want to.<p>Just think about it: if there were no iPad you could not code for it even in Obj-C.</text></item><item><author>lispm</author><text>When Steve Jobs got a demo of the graphical user interface and object-oriented software at Xerox PARC, he saw a computer that could be interactively programmed. In Smalltalk.<p>When Steve Jobs started with NeXT in the mid 80s he got a demo of a novel program that can be used to interactively design general user interfaces - the first program of its kind.<p>It was written in Lisp by Jean-Marie Hullot. It was called SOS Interface, marketed also as Action! by the company Expertelligence.<p>Steve Jobs hired him and Jean-Marie created the Interface Builder - which became one of the most important tool on NeXT OS. Then for Mac OS X and now for iPhone OS.<p>This innovation is now hindered by Apple. The innovative software may not be written in Lisp anymore, but it is not necessarily Objective-C either.<p>With the Mac everybody got a copy of HyperCard - everybody could write and design programs in a simple way - using the built-in HyperTalk. Xerox had such a software years before - called NoteCards and written in InterLisp-D.<p>With the iPad, which is much more capable than the Mac where SOS Interface and HyperCard were developed, everybody is degraded to be a consumer. The goal is no longer to be a maker, a creator, a programmer. You can't even use a shell to connect to your own iPad.<p>There is huge domain of visual programming and end user programming to be explored on touch screen devices. Maybe Apple is working on that and hiding this (like Jobs claimed that 'nobody reads anymore' and some time later Apple now sells iBooks) - from what we see now Apple hinders innovation and innovators in these areas.<p>I want a 'DynaBook' and not a media player.<p>Steve Jobs did not really understand what he saw at Xerox PARC when he got the demos of the Smalltalk system. He got the idea of the graphical user interface. But what he overlooked was the concept of object-oriented programming. He later with NeXT understood that. But what he never really got was the importance of interactive programming, end-user programming - the role of the user being able to program his computer in a straight-forward way. The cultural importance of being able to write, understand and change software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Twenty years ago you did <i>not</i> have a handheld device that read your emails.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament</title><url>https://www.innovationaus.com/extraordinary-new-hacking-powers-pass-parliament/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Teever</author><text>Has the government of Australia given any rational for banning Australians from leaving? What is the public discourse like over this?<p>I also heard that Australia was making it very difficult for Australians who were abroad prior to COVID from coming back, is that true? Has that changed much? Again, does the government give a rational for this decision? And the discourse?<p>I think that Australia and NZ were right to lock down hard and stamp out COVID but I&#x27;m a bit baffled by the fact that it has managed to get in a few times and more specifically how it has managed to get in.<p>It seems to be that once if you&#x27;re an island the size of Australia and you&#x27;ve eliminated domestic transmission the simple solution is to route all international flights to an airport in remote location (not one in a large city) where absolutely everyone involved in the process be they passangers, crew or quarantine staff must stay for two weeks with zero exceptions.<p>If you did that then you could easily repatriate Australians living abroad.</text></item><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>The tech industry in Australia has for some time existed in an impossibly hostile climate, with onerous tasks to betray their own users able to be handed out <i>to individuals</i> at any time, with virtually no oversight. [1]<p>This has all happened under the auspices of the most overtly corrupt and authoritarian government we’ve had in my lifetime, within four years.<p>If I had the option, I’d pack up and move, but having written this and other anti-government sentiment, it’s entirely possible that they stop me at the border. [2]<p>Combining this with the political apathy of nearly everyone here that I know, the current vilification of protestors (not entirely wrongly given the circumstances), and the utter spinelessness and complicity of the “opposition”, I don’t see a future for my country that doesn’t involve violent revolution (we’ve tried it before [3]) or tyranny.<p>But it gets better: the tech industry is not only under attack, they’re complicit. Beyond even the ordinary run-of-the-mill scumbaggery we see from tech companies, a number have recently formed the Tech Council of Australia [4], aiming to make Australia a startup capital of the world. Scroll down that page and you’ll see a list of member corporations, several of which sent opposition to the AABill when consultation was open. Now, apparently, they’ve decided that it’s too hard to beat ‘em, so they’ll join ’em.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parlinfo.aph.gov.au&#x2F;parlInfo&#x2F;download&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bills&#x2F;r6195_aspassed&#x2F;toc_pdf&#x2F;18204b01.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parlinfo.aph.gov.au&#x2F;parlInfo&#x2F;download&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au&#x2F;leaving-australia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au&#x2F;leaving-australia</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eureka_Rebellion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eureka_Rebellion</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcouncil.com.au" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcouncil.com.au</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccakes</author><text>&gt; I also heard that Australia was making it very difficult for Australians who were abroad prior to COVID from coming back, is that true? Has that changed much?<p>As an Australian living abroad - nope, nothing has changed. It&#x27;s near impossible for us to get back although at this point, why would I want to..<p>&gt; And the discourse?<p>Australians overseas are distraught with many being forced to watch friends and family go through tragedy from afar. The ones living at home don&#x27;t seem to give a crap at all - &quot;you left, serves you right&quot; isn&#x27;t an uncommon sentiment.<p>It&#x27;s been discussed in other posts recently on HN about Australia - life there is pretty good and Australians are generally laid back to a fault. If a problem doesn&#x27;t affect an individual on a personal level, it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament</title><url>https://www.innovationaus.com/extraordinary-new-hacking-powers-pass-parliament/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Teever</author><text>Has the government of Australia given any rational for banning Australians from leaving? What is the public discourse like over this?<p>I also heard that Australia was making it very difficult for Australians who were abroad prior to COVID from coming back, is that true? Has that changed much? Again, does the government give a rational for this decision? And the discourse?<p>I think that Australia and NZ were right to lock down hard and stamp out COVID but I&#x27;m a bit baffled by the fact that it has managed to get in a few times and more specifically how it has managed to get in.<p>It seems to be that once if you&#x27;re an island the size of Australia and you&#x27;ve eliminated domestic transmission the simple solution is to route all international flights to an airport in remote location (not one in a large city) where absolutely everyone involved in the process be they passangers, crew or quarantine staff must stay for two weeks with zero exceptions.<p>If you did that then you could easily repatriate Australians living abroad.</text></item><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>The tech industry in Australia has for some time existed in an impossibly hostile climate, with onerous tasks to betray their own users able to be handed out <i>to individuals</i> at any time, with virtually no oversight. [1]<p>This has all happened under the auspices of the most overtly corrupt and authoritarian government we’ve had in my lifetime, within four years.<p>If I had the option, I’d pack up and move, but having written this and other anti-government sentiment, it’s entirely possible that they stop me at the border. [2]<p>Combining this with the political apathy of nearly everyone here that I know, the current vilification of protestors (not entirely wrongly given the circumstances), and the utter spinelessness and complicity of the “opposition”, I don’t see a future for my country that doesn’t involve violent revolution (we’ve tried it before [3]) or tyranny.<p>But it gets better: the tech industry is not only under attack, they’re complicit. Beyond even the ordinary run-of-the-mill scumbaggery we see from tech companies, a number have recently formed the Tech Council of Australia [4], aiming to make Australia a startup capital of the world. Scroll down that page and you’ll see a list of member corporations, several of which sent opposition to the AABill when consultation was open. Now, apparently, they’ve decided that it’s too hard to beat ‘em, so they’ll join ’em.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parlinfo.aph.gov.au&#x2F;parlInfo&#x2F;download&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bills&#x2F;r6195_aspassed&#x2F;toc_pdf&#x2F;18204b01.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parlinfo.aph.gov.au&#x2F;parlInfo&#x2F;download&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au&#x2F;leaving-australia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au&#x2F;leaving-australia</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eureka_Rebellion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eureka_Rebellion</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcouncil.com.au" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcouncil.com.au</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vermilingua</author><text>The rationale for preventing citizens leaving is that they may catch COVID abroad then rely on govt. intervention to get back home as a &quot;stranded&quot; Aussie. This is of course nonsense, as govt. intervention to get home has been worth exactly fuck all over the last 18 months. An acquaintance of mine went overseas for his mother&#x27;s funeral, was told he wasn&#x27;t allowed to return, managed to get back on the constraint that he flew business (we want rich people back here, after all), then had to fly to South Australia (we are in NSW), quarantine for two weeks, hire a car, and drive back to NSW where he was required to quarantine for two weeks at the border before returning home.<p>Whether all that was indeed necessary to prevent the spread of COVID (despite several negative tests and all but total isolation in that time) is up for debate, but yes the government certainly makes it as hard as possible to enter the country, virtually impossible unless you can purchase upper-class tickets (bribe the border force).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-floated/suez-canal-says-traffic-in-channel-resumes-after-stranded-ship-refloated-idUSKBN2BL1S9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipsambos</author><text>Agree it&#x27;s incalculable, I don&#x27;t mean that in the &quot;it&#x27;s too big of a number&quot; sort of way but in the &quot;we can&#x27;t possibly know&quot; kind of way:<p>1) The scale and depth of the disruption makes it impractical to figure in any kind of accurate way and<p>2) The disruption will have introduced hypotheticals that nay spiral out themselves (butterfly effect style) e.g. some retailer may have lost a customer who went elsewhere, some supplier may have lost a retailer who went elsewhere, etc</text></item><item><author>ufmace</author><text>Probably the actual cost will require an army of accountants and lawyers at a dozen major logistics corporations arguing with each other for months to even try to compute. I doubt us regular uninvolved people will ever get a &quot;real&quot; number.<p>How do you even try to calculate and reveal the cost associated with say a manufacturer in the middle of a supply chain deciding to source their parts from a different vendor for this run because their usual source was delayed due to the Suez blockage and they didn&#x27;t want to leave their factory idle?</text></item><item><author>JosephRedfern</author><text>Lots of articles quote a $XXX billion dollars per day figure, but those numbers are normally for &quot;worth of goods delayed&quot; which, while interesting, doesn&#x27;t tell the story to me.<p>Are there any estimates as to the actual cost of this &quot;mishap&quot;, due to e.g. spoilage, financial&#x2F;contractual repercussions of late deliveries, personnel&#x2F;fuel costs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawayfire</author><text>&gt; The disruption will have introduced hypotheticals<p>In general, temporary disruption has some long-term positive economic effects (which is directly why &#x27;disruption&#x27; is valued in Silicon Valley).<p>For example, during London Tube Strikes, commuters find different and more efficient routes and 5% ended up permanently changing their route on public transport: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business&#x2F;news&#x2F;tube-strike-good-economy-study-finds-10499926.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business&#x2F;news&#x2F;tube-strike...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship-floated/suez-canal-says-traffic-in-channel-resumes-after-stranded-ship-refloated-idUSKBN2BL1S9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipsambos</author><text>Agree it&#x27;s incalculable, I don&#x27;t mean that in the &quot;it&#x27;s too big of a number&quot; sort of way but in the &quot;we can&#x27;t possibly know&quot; kind of way:<p>1) The scale and depth of the disruption makes it impractical to figure in any kind of accurate way and<p>2) The disruption will have introduced hypotheticals that nay spiral out themselves (butterfly effect style) e.g. some retailer may have lost a customer who went elsewhere, some supplier may have lost a retailer who went elsewhere, etc</text></item><item><author>ufmace</author><text>Probably the actual cost will require an army of accountants and lawyers at a dozen major logistics corporations arguing with each other for months to even try to compute. I doubt us regular uninvolved people will ever get a &quot;real&quot; number.<p>How do you even try to calculate and reveal the cost associated with say a manufacturer in the middle of a supply chain deciding to source their parts from a different vendor for this run because their usual source was delayed due to the Suez blockage and they didn&#x27;t want to leave their factory idle?</text></item><item><author>JosephRedfern</author><text>Lots of articles quote a $XXX billion dollars per day figure, but those numbers are normally for &quot;worth of goods delayed&quot; which, while interesting, doesn&#x27;t tell the story to me.<p>Are there any estimates as to the actual cost of this &quot;mishap&quot;, due to e.g. spoilage, financial&#x2F;contractual repercussions of late deliveries, personnel&#x2F;fuel costs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>You can get a rough idea by thinking of this as if it were a natural disaster, and from that perspective I think the toll is probably not too bad. No casualties, very little property damage, and a week is not really all that long.<p>However... that is no excuse to shrug this off. We were very, very lucky that it was only a week. The ship could easily have broken in two, which would have been a catastrophe of the first order and likely shut the canal down for a year. The world dodged a major bullet here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Seashore: Easy to use Mac OS X image editing application for the rest of us</title><url>https://github.com/robaho/seashore</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vladstudio</author><text>I sincerely recommended Pixelmator Pro to anyone for image editing on Mac. if you are coming from Photoshop, some parts of interface will make you puzzled, but if you free you&#x27;re mind, got will enjoy it greatly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Seashore: Easy to use Mac OS X image editing application for the rest of us</title><url>https://github.com/robaho/seashore</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>torstenvl</author><text>I tried Seashore a few years ago but it was completely unstable. The link says they&#x27;ve done a lot of bug fixes to make it work on more recent macOS releases so I&#x27;m looking forward to checking it out.<p>EDIT: Downloaded and tried it. Glad that the UI is simpler than Gimp but it&#x27;s actually <i>less</i> obvious how to use it. Sad, because I think there&#x27;s real promise here. Hopefully Glimpse comes to macOS.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57608585-93/is-google-building-a-hulking-floating-data-center-in-sf-bay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numbsafari</author><text>Something similar is being outfitted in Portland, ME.<p><a href="http://www.pressherald.com/news/Clues_emerging_about_mystery_structure_on_barge_in_harbor_.html?searchterm=barge" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pressherald.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;Clues_emerging_about_mystery...</a><p>The OP is a much better article (The Press Herald is garbage).<p>My original guess for the barge-building in Portland was a ocean-based prison facility for the government to use for interrogations. But it&#x27;s seeming like the floating data center idea is much more likely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgreco</author><text>&gt; <i>My original guess for the barge-building in Portland was a ocean-based prison facility for the government to use for interrogations.</i><p>Not a bad guess at all, since it <i>really does</i> look like a modern prison ship: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vernon_C_Bain_Correctional_Center.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Vernon_C_Bain_Correctional...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57608585-93/is-google-building-a-hulking-floating-data-center-in-sf-bay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numbsafari</author><text>Something similar is being outfitted in Portland, ME.<p><a href="http://www.pressherald.com/news/Clues_emerging_about_mystery_structure_on_barge_in_harbor_.html?searchterm=barge" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pressherald.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;Clues_emerging_about_mystery...</a><p>The OP is a much better article (The Press Herald is garbage).<p>My original guess for the barge-building in Portland was a ocean-based prison facility for the government to use for interrogations. But it&#x27;s seeming like the floating data center idea is much more likely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjolk</author><text>This is somewhat of a tangent, but how is the tech scene in Portland, ME? It&#x27;s my hometown and I&#x27;ve had thoughts at various times about returning and setting up shop.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain</title><url>https://capx.co/friedrich-hayek-and-the-collective-brain/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismealy</author><text>Having read a ton of Hayek I thought I&#x27;d share what the real Hayek is like, not the libertarian poster child. Actually existing Hayek would probably disappoint most libertarians. He’s against corporate personhood, skeptical about patents and copyright, and for urban planning, unemployment benefits, public health, socialized medicine, and inheritance taxes. It seems like what gets him really riled up is setting prices for cucumbers or state-owned hat factories.<p>His contribution to social science is his focus on distributed information in economic production. Think about how decision-making is distributed in capitalist economies: bankers, investors, asset managers, producers, distributors, retailers, brokers, executives, corporate planning departments, middle managers, marketing departments, advertising, etc. Just imagine trying to replicate all that effort with a few office buildings&#x27; worth of planners in Moscow (Compare that to just Wall Street!). You can&#x27;t run an economy without enough planners.<p>Hayek never tells jokes. I think if he had any sense of humor at all it might have occurred to him that designing the perfect society without planners (or much democracy) was certainly a kind of planning. He&#x27;s like the whiteboard in &quot;Office Space&quot; that says &quot;Planning to Plan&quot; except it says &quot;Planning to not Plan&quot; and it&#x27;s three books and 700 pages long (&quot;Law, Legislation and Liberty&quot;).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain</title><url>https://capx.co/friedrich-hayek-and-the-collective-brain/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertoG</author><text>&quot;[..] Exchange, as practised by people for about the last 100,000 years [..]&quot;<p>We know that exchange is just one more activity that humans do, but, historically, in the thousand of years context, it was not fundamental.<p>We could argue that in the palaeolithic the social organization had little to do with markets. We could argue that in the neolithic, the social organization was, in most cases, hierarchical and top-down.<p>So, the implicit assumption of markets as the &#x27;natural state&#x27; of human organization has not real basis. Even money is an invention of the state.<p>The idea that markets are powerful tools don&#x27;t need to be defended. It&#x27;s the idea that markets know what is better for us what many reject.<p>It&#x27;s like saying that we should just start the lawnmower and leave it to decide what to cut. Then, when we don&#x27;t like the garden, we have to accept it&#x27;s for the best, because if a better garden was possible is what we would have.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/15/amazon-will-soon-sell-its-own-private-label-groceries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyr</author><text>I&#x27;ve inadvertently purchased a lot of low quality junk from Amazon lately propped up by fake reviews and shady third-party dealers peddling counterfeit goods. If they want to sell me vitamins and food, they need to fix their brand. Are they a supermarket that is in control what they sell, or are they a back-alley bazaar that&#x27;s strictly buyer-beware?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>massysett</author><text>Unfortunately now you can&#x27;t even dodge this by making sure the things you buy are sold by Amazon. They deem many products to be interchangeable so they will take &quot;Fulfilled by Amazon&quot; stock and commingle it with stuff from third-party sellers.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;help&#x2F;customer&#x2F;display.html?nodeId=200243180" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;help&#x2F;customer&#x2F;display.html?nodeId=2...</a><p>I use Amazon a lot but I do not trust them at all.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/15/amazon-will-soon-sell-its-own-private-label-groceries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyr</author><text>I&#x27;ve inadvertently purchased a lot of low quality junk from Amazon lately propped up by fake reviews and shady third-party dealers peddling counterfeit goods. If they want to sell me vitamins and food, they need to fix their brand. Are they a supermarket that is in control what they sell, or are they a back-alley bazaar that&#x27;s strictly buyer-beware?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joesmo</author><text>Be careful if you return too many of those shitty products, they <i></i>will<i></i> close your account, even if you have a Prime membership. Amazon is shady as fuck and an untrustworthy retailer. The way they treat employees is beyond atrocious. Amazon makes Walmart look ethical and honest in comparison.</text></comment>
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<story><title>World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor</title><url>https://www.yourworldoftext.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>Everything world-editable is eventually filled with depictions of genitals and N-words. Must be a theorem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Laremere</author><text>Reddit&#x27;s &#x2F;r&#x2F;place is perhaps an interesting counter example. It started that way, but as space on the image grew tight and contested, all of that kind of stuff went away. Towards the middle and end, the only significant images were those which could get enough people on board to maintain, and people tend to care more about other stuff, it seems.<p>I&#x27;d say it comes down to the balance of (# of people who make a positive impact * difficulty of positive impact) vs the same for negative impact.<p>Wikipedia is another example. Sure plenty of people make stupid edits, but enough effort is put into detecting and immediately reverting the vandalism that the effort required to properly vandalize it quickly goes beyond the effort most people will go for a stupid joke.</text></comment>
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<story><title>World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor</title><url>https://www.yourworldoftext.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>Everything world-editable is eventually filled with depictions of genitals and N-words. Must be a theorem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kabdib</author><text>Quick story.<p>As I understand it, the UI folks at Nintendo who were working on the Wii controller did user testing, of course. In one test, they would hand a new user a controller wand with instructions to &quot;Just draw stuff on the screen&quot; using a simple drawing program.<p>The metric Nintendo came up with was called TTP, or the how long in minutes and seconds -- sometimes, only seconds -- before the user drew the inevitable male genitals. &quot;Time To P-n-s&quot;. Averaged something like two or three minutes.<p>Every new vista humankind opens will be so decorated. And so, World of Text: QED. :-)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/twitter-has-officially-changed-its-logo-to-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Everything Musk does looks a lot like some of my high-level, successful, Mary-Sue-like RPG characters I had. Including desogn rooted in what influenced my childhood, in Musks SpaceX case it seems to be th 50s SciFi. Well, I never had the money to try that in real life, and anyway I outgrew it before I got my drivers liscense. Looking at it from that perspective, it is borderline pathetic and just sad.</text></item><item><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>so Elon can use a domain he&#x27;s sat on since &#x27;99 seems exceedingly foolish.</i><p>As far as I can tell, it&#x27;s the domain of the company he co-founded (X.com), that merged with the company that became PayPal (Confinity), that led to him briefly being CEO before Thiel took over and pivoted to focus on the PayPal service.<p>2000 - 2017, X.com was property of PayPal.<p>Musk then buys it back in 2017... and then here we are.<p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal</a></text></item><item><author>heyjamesknight</author><text>I&#x27;ve been mostly ambivalent about the Musk-era at Twitter—mostly because I just don&#x27;t care enough to have an opinion.<p>This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed.<p>Twitter has had such a solid brand for so long. It&#x27;s accomplished things most marketers only dream of: getting a verb like &quot;Tweet&quot; into the standard lexicon is like the pinnacle of branding. Even with all of the issues, &quot;Twitter&quot; and its &quot;Tweets&quot; have been at the core of international discourse for a decade now.<p>Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he&#x27;s sat on since &#x27;99 seems exceedingly foolish.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>Anybody who&#x27;s read their Heinlein and is aware of Musk and his father&#x27;s fandom of Heinlein books can see the obvious inspiration here. It&#x27;s not just the private technological innovation, it&#x27;s also the libertarianism, the obsession with interplanetary colonization and a relatedly natalist form of free-love.<p>edit: and in the case of Errol Musk, a very genetics-driven opinion on the morality of incest, see Heinlein&#x27;s &quot;Time Enough for Love&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/twitter-has-officially-changed-its-logo-to-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Everything Musk does looks a lot like some of my high-level, successful, Mary-Sue-like RPG characters I had. Including desogn rooted in what influenced my childhood, in Musks SpaceX case it seems to be th 50s SciFi. Well, I never had the money to try that in real life, and anyway I outgrew it before I got my drivers liscense. Looking at it from that perspective, it is borderline pathetic and just sad.</text></item><item><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>so Elon can use a domain he&#x27;s sat on since &#x27;99 seems exceedingly foolish.</i><p>As far as I can tell, it&#x27;s the domain of the company he co-founded (X.com), that merged with the company that became PayPal (Confinity), that led to him briefly being CEO before Thiel took over and pivoted to focus on the PayPal service.<p>2000 - 2017, X.com was property of PayPal.<p>Musk then buys it back in 2017... and then here we are.<p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal</a></text></item><item><author>heyjamesknight</author><text>I&#x27;ve been mostly ambivalent about the Musk-era at Twitter—mostly because I just don&#x27;t care enough to have an opinion.<p>This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed.<p>Twitter has had such a solid brand for so long. It&#x27;s accomplished things most marketers only dream of: getting a verb like &quot;Tweet&quot; into the standard lexicon is like the pinnacle of branding. Even with all of the issues, &quot;Twitter&quot; and its &quot;Tweets&quot; have been at the core of international discourse for a decade now.<p>Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he&#x27;s sat on since &#x27;99 seems exceedingly foolish.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>Elon Musk is what happens when an 8-year-old boy is the richest man in the world. He builds cars and trains and tunnels and flamethrows and rockets.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Craigslist Lawsuit</title><url>https://3taps.com/the-craigslist-lawsuit.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; As the EFF argues in the linked brief, there shouldn&#x27;t be any &quot;civil cause of action related to unauthorized access&quot; when the data in question is made publicly available on the internet.<p>Why?<p>The principle underlying the Craiglist lawsuit is centuries old. Craigslist is like a shop open to shoppers. The shopkeeper makes the premises open to the public, but the scope of that access is limited by the shopkeeper&#x27;s purpose in granting that access. If a member of the public accesses the property for improper purpose, a civil action for trespass arises.<p>The fact that the premises is an Internet website changes nothing.</text></item><item><author>gojomo</author><text>As the EFF argues in the linked brief, there shouldn&#x27;t be <i>any</i> &quot;civil cause of action related to unauthorized access&quot; when the data in question is made publicly available on the internet.<p>Craigslist was abusing the CFAA with an expansive interpretation – treating unapproved <i>use</i> as if it were the same thing as <i>unauthorized access</i> – similar to that of overzealous federal prosecutors. Craigslist&#x27;s argument, if embraced by the courts, would make other cases imposing penalties on the reuse of otherwise-public data easier.<p>The reference is fair to make these points to a mass audience, although a bit macabre.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text><i>the same statute that led to the demise of Aaron Swartz</i><p>For fuck&#x27;s sake.<p>CFAA criminal sentencing guidelines may very well have contributed to Swartz&#x27;s suicide. They incentivized prosecutors to create complex, showy indictments cross-linking multiple felony charges (because exploiting unauthorized access in furtherance of other felonies is an accelerator in the CFAA). CFAA may be broken in several ways.<p><i>But CFAA is also the sole federal statute governing unauthorized access</i>. In civil litigation, CFAA is the only statute that provides a civil cause of action relating to unauthorized access to computers of any sort.<p>People like to write about civil CFAA as if it was some sort of nuclear option. But civil and criminal cases are worlds apart. If you&#x27;re going to sue someone for misusing your computer systems, or even just violating your terms of use, CFAA is merely the statute that enables that. That has nothing whatsoever to do with overzealous prosecution.<p>Invoking Aaron Swartz in an argument over who&#x27;s allowed to show apartment ads where is manipulative and grotesque.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitrogen</author><text><i>The fact that the premises is an Internet website changes nothing.</i><p>It absolutely should. There is no <i>accurate</i> physical analogy for an HTTP server that responds with &quot;200 OK&quot; and valid data for a given set of &quot;GET <i>whatever</i> HTTP&#x2F;1.1&quot; requests. Rather than contort existing trespass law to match the Internet, we have to derive meaningful boundaries for the Internet from ethical first principles if we want the conclusions to be remotely sane.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Craigslist Lawsuit</title><url>https://3taps.com/the-craigslist-lawsuit.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; As the EFF argues in the linked brief, there shouldn&#x27;t be any &quot;civil cause of action related to unauthorized access&quot; when the data in question is made publicly available on the internet.<p>Why?<p>The principle underlying the Craiglist lawsuit is centuries old. Craigslist is like a shop open to shoppers. The shopkeeper makes the premises open to the public, but the scope of that access is limited by the shopkeeper&#x27;s purpose in granting that access. If a member of the public accesses the property for improper purpose, a civil action for trespass arises.<p>The fact that the premises is an Internet website changes nothing.</text></item><item><author>gojomo</author><text>As the EFF argues in the linked brief, there shouldn&#x27;t be <i>any</i> &quot;civil cause of action related to unauthorized access&quot; when the data in question is made publicly available on the internet.<p>Craigslist was abusing the CFAA with an expansive interpretation – treating unapproved <i>use</i> as if it were the same thing as <i>unauthorized access</i> – similar to that of overzealous federal prosecutors. Craigslist&#x27;s argument, if embraced by the courts, would make other cases imposing penalties on the reuse of otherwise-public data easier.<p>The reference is fair to make these points to a mass audience, although a bit macabre.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text><i>the same statute that led to the demise of Aaron Swartz</i><p>For fuck&#x27;s sake.<p>CFAA criminal sentencing guidelines may very well have contributed to Swartz&#x27;s suicide. They incentivized prosecutors to create complex, showy indictments cross-linking multiple felony charges (because exploiting unauthorized access in furtherance of other felonies is an accelerator in the CFAA). CFAA may be broken in several ways.<p><i>But CFAA is also the sole federal statute governing unauthorized access</i>. In civil litigation, CFAA is the only statute that provides a civil cause of action relating to unauthorized access to computers of any sort.<p>People like to write about civil CFAA as if it was some sort of nuclear option. But civil and criminal cases are worlds apart. If you&#x27;re going to sue someone for misusing your computer systems, or even just violating your terms of use, CFAA is merely the statute that enables that. That has nothing whatsoever to do with overzealous prosecution.<p>Invoking Aaron Swartz in an argument over who&#x27;s allowed to show apartment ads where is manipulative and grotesque.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>You can read the brief for their full argument:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3taps.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;pics&#x2F;430_Amicus%20Brief.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3taps.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;pics&#x2F;430_Amicus%20Brief.pdf</a><p>Their analysis may allow for something like what you propose – a purely <i>contractual</i> cause-of-action for damages. But the EFF et al are objecting to criminal liability based on CFAA&#x2F;CPC §502 (computer fraud statutes).<p>I don&#x27;t believe your shopkeeper analogy quite applies, though. Let&#x27;s say the shopkeeper opens their shop, but puts a sign over the door to the effect &quot;by entering, you promise to keep my prices secret&quot;. If someone enters, leaves, then later spills the pricing beans, it&#x27;s not clear to me that traditional, non-computer law would allow the shopkeeper to retroactively characterize the visit as &#x27;trespass&#x27;.<p>That&#x27;s a major problem the EFF brief identifies with the Craigslist interpretation: it lets vague or arbitrary private conditions be creatively recast as criminal violations with more significant penalties. As a matter of fair law and the public&#x27;s interest in clarity and the free-flow of true information, they argue that such application of the CFAA (and its California equivalent CPC §502) to be dangerously incorrect.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Highest Forms of Wealth</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-highest-forms-of-wealth/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acituan</author><text>What is trying to be expressed by &quot;highest form of wealth&quot; is usually about agency.<p>The problem with agency, unlike what &#x27;power&#x27; connotes you to believe; you can&#x27;t just have and store it for later. Like others rightly point out in this thread, there are many avenues in life you want to be agentic but cannot solve with anything you <i>possess</i>, but only through <i>becoming</i> a required thing through transformation; examples are health, skillfulness, being understood in a relationship, an equanimous existence etc. Even then, you&#x27;re to an extent up to the whims of misfortune and fortune, or if you&#x27;re not allergic to that word; to fate. There is at least one thing you can&#x27;t be agentic about with any wealth, and that is your fatality; which connects to the original meaning of fate.<p>But that&#x27;s not even the only problem with agency; most of the time you don&#x27;t even know when you have it and also when you don&#x27;t have it. This is the bread and butter of psychotherapy; you either misattribute blame where it doesn&#x27;t belong or fail to hold people&#x2F;yourself accountable when you should; or you miss what and how you could solve a problem but instead invest your energy and emotions in an avenue that just won&#x27;t work.<p>Which means agency, capability of doing things that get you towards your <i>real</i> goals, whether you&#x27;ve realized them or not, is deeply tied to <i>wisdom</i>; knowing in which manner you&#x27;re deceiving yourself be it through buying things instead of being things, or getting out of being confused about whose agency exactly lies where and where is the way out of an agentic entrapment.<p>Which ultimately means, there is one and one only form of wealth, that thing you constantly need to aspire to build, and that is wisdom.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Highest Forms of Wealth</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-highest-forms-of-wealth/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philosopher1234</author><text>It’s noteworthy that relationships are entirely left out of this article.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We need to talk about funding</title><url>https://octoprint.org/blog/2023/10/26/we-need-to-talk-about-funding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently learned a somewhat uncomfortable truth: pretty much every nonprofit needs to <i>constantly</i> be spending effort wrangling up funding <i>or it will die</i>. It&#x27;s annoying and uncomfortable truth, but it&#x27;s true. The money won&#x27;t find its way into the door on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koreth1</author><text>And a tricky part of this, for certain kinds of nonprofits, is that you&#x27;ll be penalized for it because your efforts to raise more money will be classed as overhead and will lower your efficiency rating on various charity-rating lists.<p>A nonprofit that spends 1% of its funding on fundraising and barely scrapes by each year will be rated as more cost-effective than a nonprofit that spends 10% of its funding on fundraising and grows its donations by 15% a year, even though the latter is ultimately going to be able to devote far more resources to its programs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We need to talk about funding</title><url>https://octoprint.org/blog/2023/10/26/we-need-to-talk-about-funding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently learned a somewhat uncomfortable truth: pretty much every nonprofit needs to <i>constantly</i> be spending effort wrangling up funding <i>or it will die</i>. It&#x27;s annoying and uncomfortable truth, but it&#x27;s true. The money won&#x27;t find its way into the door on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burnte</author><text>For-profits have to spend money to keep bringing it in, too. Every company has an Accounts Receivable person, even if it&#x27;s a one-person business you spend a lot of time bringing in business and bringing in payments. Everyone&#x27;s quick to buy, few are quick to pay.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ZeroVM: Smaller, Lighter, Faster</title><url>http://www.rackspace.com/blog/zerovm-smaller-lighter-faster/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>psycr</author><text>I like this alternative to titling.<p>The original headline is preserved, and clarified by the editorial clarification in square brackets. It would be great for HN to adopt this as a solution to the modified headline problem, with the provisio that editorial comment must only be used for the purposes of clarification.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ZeroVM: Smaller, Lighter, Faster</title><url>http://www.rackspace.com/blog/zerovm-smaller-lighter-faster/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VanL</author><text>Van Lindberg here from Rackspace. If you have any questions, I am around to answer.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An iOS app update that annoys me</title><url>https://jpmens.net/2021/05/16/an-ios-app-update-that-really-annoys-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>&gt; with anything else meaning “upgrade to PRO” which, by the way, costs EUR 0.99 monthly or EUR 8.99 per annum.<p>This is exactly what I expected to read when I started reading. So many apps have done this to me that I&#x27;m now hesitant to install, and become dependent on, any new apps.<p>I&#x27;m genuinely sorry, but I&#x27;m not paying a subscription for an app that doesn&#x27;t do a lot of back-end work (that&#x27;s valuable to me). No, syncing doesn&#x27;t count; I have iCloud and Nextcloud and the share sheet functionality for that. No, social features don&#x27;t count either. This goes quadruple for apps that have a feature enabled and then sneak it behind a paywall many updates later.<p>And when I write that I&#x27;m genuinely sorry, I really am! I know that developers need to earn a living but I&#x27;m not willing to sustain it on the back of 10 or 20 or 30 &quot;low annual price of just $9 or $15 or $25 or $49 per year!&quot; subscriptions. If that means fewer apps or fewer people making their living at being app developers, that is bad and I hope that applies pressure on Apple and Google to add features to their app stores that make a better balance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Apple clearly must have some strategic reason for continuing to resist this model year in and year out, but there is a proven middle ground between subscription-only and one-time-purchase licensing. Software in a handful of fields (Sketch in UX design, Bitwig Studio in music production, Jetbrains in software development) has adopted it, and it&#x27;s simply where you gate <i>updates</i> rather than <i>access</i> by subscription.<p>It&#x27;s the fairest model there is: Developers get a recurring income stream so long as they maintain the software, while customers aren&#x27;t forced to rent software ad infinitum.<p>I wish there were some way Epic V. Apple could force Apple to implement this. It would solve so many problems on the App Store.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An iOS app update that annoys me</title><url>https://jpmens.net/2021/05/16/an-ios-app-update-that-really-annoys-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>&gt; with anything else meaning “upgrade to PRO” which, by the way, costs EUR 0.99 monthly or EUR 8.99 per annum.<p>This is exactly what I expected to read when I started reading. So many apps have done this to me that I&#x27;m now hesitant to install, and become dependent on, any new apps.<p>I&#x27;m genuinely sorry, but I&#x27;m not paying a subscription for an app that doesn&#x27;t do a lot of back-end work (that&#x27;s valuable to me). No, syncing doesn&#x27;t count; I have iCloud and Nextcloud and the share sheet functionality for that. No, social features don&#x27;t count either. This goes quadruple for apps that have a feature enabled and then sneak it behind a paywall many updates later.<p>And when I write that I&#x27;m genuinely sorry, I really am! I know that developers need to earn a living but I&#x27;m not willing to sustain it on the back of 10 or 20 or 30 &quot;low annual price of just $9 or $15 or $25 or $49 per year!&quot; subscriptions. If that means fewer apps or fewer people making their living at being app developers, that is bad and I hope that applies pressure on Apple and Google to add features to their app stores that make a better balance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>You don&#x27;t have to apologize for that.<p>Everyone has to figure out a marketable skill until their rate of labor is exceeded by their rate of capital. If they fail they fail, whoops.<p>I make no claims about how anything should be. This is what it is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data</title><url>http://www.govtech.com/analytics/Harvard-Converts-Millions-of-Legal-Documents-into-Open-Data.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JackC</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m a project dev. In case it&#x27;s helpful, there&#x27;s lots of Q&amp;A in this previous thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18330876" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18330876</a><p>I&#x27;ll try to answer any questions that pop up here as well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Serde Rust Framework</title><url>https://serde.rs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UK-Al05</author><text>I think in most ecosystems it&#x27;s easier to use a prebuilt serializer&#x2F;deserializer than your own format.</text></item><item><author>roca</author><text>serde is one of the best things about Rust in practice.<p>It is more convenient to use serde to serialize&#x2F;deserialize to some standard format like JSON or YAML than it is to write your own half-baked format and serialization&#x2F;deserialization code --- even for the simplest tasks --- so you just stop doing the latter. This is a fundamental shift, and very good for your software.<p>&quot;Convenience&quot; here actually covers a lot of ground. The APIs are convenient. Boilerplate code is minimal (#[derive(Serialize)]). serde&#x27;s attributes give you lots of control over the serialization&#x2F;deserialization, while still being convenient to use. cargo makes importing serde into your project effortless. All of these are necessary to achieve that shift away from custom formats.<p>Before Rust I used to write a lot of one-off half-baked formats. Pernosco uses Rust and serde and it uses no half-baked formats. Everything&#x27;s JSON, or YAML if it needs to be more human-editable, or bincode if it needs to be fast and compact and not human-readable or extensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jweb_Guru</author><text>Nah, not like it is in Rust. For the vast majority of projects, serde makes parsing &#x2F; serializing something they <i>don&#x27;t even have to think about</i>, without having to sacrifice type safety to get there. Until you experience that in a large project with a lot of moving parts and developers, it&#x27;s hard to appreciate just how many developer cycles you were wasting before on stuff that can be totally automated. It&#x27;s format-agnostic, it&#x27;s really fast (not the absolute fastest, but fast enough for most situations), it&#x27;s insanely customizable for even the weirdest use cases, it&#x27;s absolutely everywhere, it incorporates proper error handling, and adding it to your own types is trivial.<p>Is there any actual reason something like serde couldn&#x27;t exist in other languages? None that I know of, but it <i>doesn&#x27;t</i>, at least not when you consider just how pervasive serde is in the ecosystem (almost every library that stores things you want to serialize will have it). I really hope every language can standardize on something similar; it just makes development so much nicer and faster when you don&#x27;t have to worry about this stuff.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Serde Rust Framework</title><url>https://serde.rs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UK-Al05</author><text>I think in most ecosystems it&#x27;s easier to use a prebuilt serializer&#x2F;deserializer than your own format.</text></item><item><author>roca</author><text>serde is one of the best things about Rust in practice.<p>It is more convenient to use serde to serialize&#x2F;deserialize to some standard format like JSON or YAML than it is to write your own half-baked format and serialization&#x2F;deserialization code --- even for the simplest tasks --- so you just stop doing the latter. This is a fundamental shift, and very good for your software.<p>&quot;Convenience&quot; here actually covers a lot of ground. The APIs are convenient. Boilerplate code is minimal (#[derive(Serialize)]). serde&#x27;s attributes give you lots of control over the serialization&#x2F;deserialization, while still being convenient to use. cargo makes importing serde into your project effortless. All of these are necessary to achieve that shift away from custom formats.<p>Before Rust I used to write a lot of one-off half-baked formats. Pernosco uses Rust and serde and it uses no half-baked formats. Everything&#x27;s JSON, or YAML if it needs to be more human-editable, or bincode if it needs to be fast and compact and not human-readable or extensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roca</author><text>Fair enough. I have not found that to be true in C&#x2F;C++, which is my main point of comparison. For very simple cases it&#x27;s generally easier to write a few lines to a text file, maybe with some whitespace separators in the lines, than to use an &quot;real&quot; format.<p>For JS and Python, JSON.stringify&#x2F;parse and json.loads&#x2F;dumps are a step up, but you still end up with an untyped mess with no schema validation, which makes them only halfway solutions to me. I&#x27;m a static typing guy at heart, sue me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Introducing rkt’s ability to detect privilege escalation attacks on containers</title><url>https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-detect-privilege-escalation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>catern</author><text>I don&#x27;t have the inclination to write a long comment about this. But reading sections like this:<p>&gt;This state can then be verified whenever a process performs an action requiring a permissions check. For example, when a process requests that a file be opened, the kernel now calls out to the hypervisor. The hypervisor is then able to examine the process state and ensure that it remains consistent with its internal representation of process state.<p>Makes me very uneasy. You&#x27;re making the hypervisor more complicated, duplicating the logic in the kernel, because you feel the kernel is insecure. The only argument for doing this, AFAIK, is that the hypervisor is still simpler overall, and therefore more secure. But when you start introducing these kind of complications, that argument becomes kind of farcical... Adding another layer on top of the kernel and duplicating your permissions checks in there, I do not think that will end well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible</title><url>http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_solenoid</author><text>I think if you try to extrapolate your or my willingness to repair something to the overall market for the iphone, it would be an error.<p>What are the tradeoffs for a user replaceable battery? (really, this is something we should all know if we are arguing FOR replaceable batteries - maybe it&#x27;s not the best idea?<p>I would wager 99%+ of sales go to people who never want to touch the innards of a phone.<p>And anecdotally, my SO&#x27;s father got a cheap battery for his iphone and it ballooned up and almost destroyed his phone.<p>He also asked me if he should get a 3rd party power adaptor for his macbook (I said no, he ignored me because his wife is cheap), and it was this cheap POS that actually ended up forcing him to doa $600 repair AND get an apple power supply.<p>I spent years working on consumer PCs - normal people dont have time or inclination to deal with all this crap, just like they don&#x27;t want to learn to repair their own air conditioner.<p>Consumers who want&#x2F;need easily replaceable batteries already don&#x27;t choose an iPhone, so all this in mind, I suspect the numbers don&#x27;t add up for this argument.</text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>You know what helps products last longer and reduces waste at the same time?<p><i>Repairability</i>.<p>The repairability of apple products is so poor that even Apple can&#x27;t fix most of their own products without replacing surprisingly large portions of any given Apple device. End user repairability has been utterly neglected. Disassembly is frequently impossible without causing damage, and components such as batteries are frequently soldered on.<p>Are other manufacturers better? They <i>used</i> to be. Apple leads the way, and now the average phone is nearly as difficult to repair as an iPhone.<p>Hey, it&#x27;s great that they managed to get iOS 12 to run on a 5S. It probably runs like an absolute dog, but it runs! Just wonderful. How easy is it for end-users to replace the battery in that off-warranty 5S? Oh. I see. Well, running iOS 12 on a 5S isn&#x27;t so practical then, is it?<p>Repairability. I&#x27;ll believe point #2 when Apple stops making every succeeding generation of their products harder for end-users to repair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logfromblammo</author><text>Repairable devices create a market for third-party device repair.<p>When something on my car breaks, I take it to a person that has no direct affiliation with the company that built my car, and it is always cheaper than taking it to the local repair shop that the manufacturer runs. <i>Always</i>.<p>I can also replace the parts in it with parts manufactured by yet another third party. Again, the parts of equivalent quality are nearly always cheaper than the original manufacturer&#x27;s replacement parts. You can also spend more on premium aftermarket parts, if you like.<p>I don&#x27;t even want to change the oil in my car. But I can pay someone who wants to service and repair cars all day, as their job, to do it for me, rather than sending the car back to the factory to have its engine replaced every time the oil gets dirty.<p>If I like tinkering with electronics, I could swap my own iPhone battery, and then I could also do that for other people. The problem is that Apple, Samsung, et al do not wish to share the repairs market, or allow repairs to eat into new sales, and therefore do not sell repair parts at reasonable prices or release part specifications so that third parties may produce repair parts of equivalent quality.<p>So the only way to get cheaper than an official first-party repair is to get crappy grey-market parts. Proprietary and patented connectors that don&#x27;t get licensed on reasonable terms make things worse. This stuff doesn&#x27;t need to be repaired by everyone, but it needs to be repairable by <i>someone that isn&#x27;t beholden to the original manufacturer</i>. Repairability is the consumer check on planned obsolescence.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible</title><url>http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_solenoid</author><text>I think if you try to extrapolate your or my willingness to repair something to the overall market for the iphone, it would be an error.<p>What are the tradeoffs for a user replaceable battery? (really, this is something we should all know if we are arguing FOR replaceable batteries - maybe it&#x27;s not the best idea?<p>I would wager 99%+ of sales go to people who never want to touch the innards of a phone.<p>And anecdotally, my SO&#x27;s father got a cheap battery for his iphone and it ballooned up and almost destroyed his phone.<p>He also asked me if he should get a 3rd party power adaptor for his macbook (I said no, he ignored me because his wife is cheap), and it was this cheap POS that actually ended up forcing him to doa $600 repair AND get an apple power supply.<p>I spent years working on consumer PCs - normal people dont have time or inclination to deal with all this crap, just like they don&#x27;t want to learn to repair their own air conditioner.<p>Consumers who want&#x2F;need easily replaceable batteries already don&#x27;t choose an iPhone, so all this in mind, I suspect the numbers don&#x27;t add up for this argument.</text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>You know what helps products last longer and reduces waste at the same time?<p><i>Repairability</i>.<p>The repairability of apple products is so poor that even Apple can&#x27;t fix most of their own products without replacing surprisingly large portions of any given Apple device. End user repairability has been utterly neglected. Disassembly is frequently impossible without causing damage, and components such as batteries are frequently soldered on.<p>Are other manufacturers better? They <i>used</i> to be. Apple leads the way, and now the average phone is nearly as difficult to repair as an iPhone.<p>Hey, it&#x27;s great that they managed to get iOS 12 to run on a 5S. It probably runs like an absolute dog, but it runs! Just wonderful. How easy is it for end-users to replace the battery in that off-warranty 5S? Oh. I see. Well, running iOS 12 on a 5S isn&#x27;t so practical then, is it?<p>Repairability. I&#x27;ll believe point #2 when Apple stops making every succeeding generation of their products harder for end-users to repair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lentil_soup</author><text>You don&#x27;t necessarily have to fix it yourself, though. You could get it serviced by a professional, just like people do with a washing machine or a fridge.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps</title><url>https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>It&#x27;s very common for people to learn assembly using x86(-64) but this ISA is so messy, complicated and layered that it always seems like the bad choice to me. It&#x27;s like teaching an intro programming course using C++, I understand why it&#x27;s practical but it seems like it will be more trouble than it&#x27;s worth.<p>I&#x27;d probably recommend getting some ARM or ARM64 board and starting with this, most of the concepts will carry over to other assemblies anyway. Writing a simple CPU emulator for some simple architecture and then coding on it can also be a great teaching experience, if a little more involved.<p>I find this tutorial a bit oddly structured too, but that may be because I&#x27;m from un*x world and I don&#x27;t have the Windows mindset. It basically goes from &quot;int3 ret&quot; to &quot;The PE Format and DLL Imports&quot;. That seems like quite the jump, and not necessarily super relevant to learning ASM IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>Kind of disagree, but just because the literature for ASM for x86 is that good. What I am missing most of the time is declaration of the platform. In most cases &quot;learning ASM&quot; means x86&#x2F;Linux or x64&#x2F;Linux, this time it is x64&#x2F;Windows. Because you will quickly get to a point where you want to do system calls and that can vary from platform to platform.<p>If you like an easy instruction set and don&#x27;t care about platform specific syscalls, I would recommend an 8bit µC. An Arduino for example.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps</title><url>https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>It&#x27;s very common for people to learn assembly using x86(-64) but this ISA is so messy, complicated and layered that it always seems like the bad choice to me. It&#x27;s like teaching an intro programming course using C++, I understand why it&#x27;s practical but it seems like it will be more trouble than it&#x27;s worth.<p>I&#x27;d probably recommend getting some ARM or ARM64 board and starting with this, most of the concepts will carry over to other assemblies anyway. Writing a simple CPU emulator for some simple architecture and then coding on it can also be a great teaching experience, if a little more involved.<p>I find this tutorial a bit oddly structured too, but that may be because I&#x27;m from un*x world and I don&#x27;t have the Windows mindset. It basically goes from &quot;int3 ret&quot; to &quot;The PE Format and DLL Imports&quot;. That seems like quite the jump, and not necessarily super relevant to learning ASM IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roel_v</author><text>One of the main reasons for learning assembly today is to do reverse engineering, for which the plumbing is just as important as the concepts.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)</title><url>https://crimereads.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bank-robbery-capital-of-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conception</author><text>Just a point of clarification for those not familiar with the heist, the weapons used were -not- legal in CA or the US. It was also during the time of the Federal Assault Weapons ban. They were not owned nor able to be owned legally during that time.<p>It was also the inspiration for Heat’s shootout!</text></item><item><author>Melting_Harps</author><text>Yeah, many of us that grew up in SoCal recall the heist that led to the so called &#x27;assault weapon&#x27; ban, it was completely legal to have a long barrel rifle with 30 round magazines in CA prior to that--they could be open-carried if not loaded back then if I recall correctly, too.<p>This was around the time of the LA riots in the 90s, too... which in my mind all happened at the same time as I recall being a kid sat in front of the TV not far from it all and being shocked at the level of wanton destruction.<p>California was always a wild place since its inception and before it was ever a part of the US--many who live here don&#x27;t even realize that California (both alta and baja) pre-dates the existence of the US and British colonialism by a significant margin.<p>LA in the 80s was also Ground Zero for Gang warfare in the US, so us multi-generationals lived through that and adapted and we are am entirely different breed to the transplants and the rest of the US as fires and earthquakes were also taking place alongside those events, as those didn&#x27;t stop either.<p>And while I personally have no desire to live in CA anytime soon, except the occasional visit, I&#x27;m glad so many decided to leave since COVID. In a decade or two it may look like and feel as it did when I was a kid in the 90s and I may be tempted to go back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>So to clarify that...the federal Assault Weapons Ban applied to semi-auto rifles with certain ergonomic features, including pistol grips, flash hiders, and folding stocks. (Semi-auto is one bullet per trigger pull, full-auto means you can hold the trigger down and spray bullets.)<p>The North Hollywood robbers had illegally modified their weapons to enable full-auto fire. Since well before 1997, modifying guns like this has been a federal felony that gets you a ten-year prison sentence. That&#x27;s a prohibition that predates the Assault Weapon Ban, which had nothing to do with full-auto weapons.<p>The AWB has since expired, and doing your own full-auto conversion will still get you ten years in the slammer. You <i>can</i> buy a full-auto weapon, but only after an extensive background check and approval of your local sheriff, if your state allows it, and only if the weapon was manufactured before 1986.<p>The movie Heat, of course, also had its robbers using full-auto. Incidentally, the movie came out before the North Hollywood robbery; many people have actually blamed the movie for inspiring the real robbers, one of whom owned a copy of the movie!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;North_Hollywood_shootout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;North_Hollywood_shootout</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Heat_(1995_film)#Impact" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Heat_(1995_film)#Impact</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)</title><url>https://crimereads.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bank-robbery-capital-of-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conception</author><text>Just a point of clarification for those not familiar with the heist, the weapons used were -not- legal in CA or the US. It was also during the time of the Federal Assault Weapons ban. They were not owned nor able to be owned legally during that time.<p>It was also the inspiration for Heat’s shootout!</text></item><item><author>Melting_Harps</author><text>Yeah, many of us that grew up in SoCal recall the heist that led to the so called &#x27;assault weapon&#x27; ban, it was completely legal to have a long barrel rifle with 30 round magazines in CA prior to that--they could be open-carried if not loaded back then if I recall correctly, too.<p>This was around the time of the LA riots in the 90s, too... which in my mind all happened at the same time as I recall being a kid sat in front of the TV not far from it all and being shocked at the level of wanton destruction.<p>California was always a wild place since its inception and before it was ever a part of the US--many who live here don&#x27;t even realize that California (both alta and baja) pre-dates the existence of the US and British colonialism by a significant margin.<p>LA in the 80s was also Ground Zero for Gang warfare in the US, so us multi-generationals lived through that and adapted and we are am entirely different breed to the transplants and the rest of the US as fires and earthquakes were also taking place alongside those events, as those didn&#x27;t stop either.<p>And while I personally have no desire to live in CA anytime soon, except the occasional visit, I&#x27;m glad so many decided to leave since COVID. In a decade or two it may look like and feel as it did when I was a kid in the 90s and I may be tempted to go back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Melting_Harps</author><text>&gt; Just a point of clarification for those not familiar with the heist, the weapons used were -not- legal in CA or the US. It was also during the time of the Federal Assault Weapons ban. They were not owned nor able to be owned legally during that time.<p>Only semi-correct, they had full-auto AK47s and extended mags, all of which at the time could be purchased and legally owned with a special stamp by the ATF [0]. As a child a friend&#x27;s father had one he would bring out on new years to only short lived amusement in the neighborhood as we all lived in a densely populated suburb near a major freeway.<p>But without them, yes, you couldn&#x27;t just go to a store and buy one off the shelf.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legalbeagle.com&#x2F;8731203-class-three-stamp-through-atf.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legalbeagle.com&#x2F;8731203-class-three-stamp-through-at...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>AWS Snowcone</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-snowcone-small-lightweight-edge-storage-and-processing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aketchum</author><text>I must not interact with big enough data to understand, but what is the point of this? I have watched&#x2F;read several of the Snow product descriptions from AWS and I am still not quite sure I understand the point.<p>It seems like a way to sync local big data to AWS cloud storage for data that is too large to realistically transfer via the internet. So is this simply a sneakernet external harddrive because physically shipping an 8TB hard drive has better bandwidth than using the internet?<p>I would love it if someone could explain a couple of use cases for the Snow family of products to someone that has never had to handle 100 GB of data much less terabytes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Twirrim</author><text>I can speak to part of the rationality around Snowball:<p>The old method of customers sending in hard disks and AWS importing them turned out to be _incredibly_ high touch.<p>* Customers would put the wrong labels on the wrong drives. Given they were encrypted, and the label details were critical to matching the right disk with the right encryption key, that was a big issue.<p>* Imports would routinely fail due to all sorts of driver bugs both on the AWS side, and on the customer side. The number of fringe NTFS quirks was phenomenal, let alone all the wide range of other formats that had to be handled<p>* Encryption tooling still really isn&#x27;t all that user friendly. Too many opportunities for mistakes.<p>* Drives would get damaged during shipping.<p>* Stuff would go missing in shipping.<p>It just didn&#x27;t scale as a solution, and caused unending customer pain and frustration.<p>Snowball solves _all_ of that, by taking out of the equation almost anything about the process that customers could get wrong. It handles all of the encryption stuff, is extremely ruggedised, has basic tracking. The label is an e-ink display that automatically contains all the right information. It becomes a &quot;just works&quot; solution.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AWS Snowcone</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-snowcone-small-lightweight-edge-storage-and-processing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aketchum</author><text>I must not interact with big enough data to understand, but what is the point of this? I have watched&#x2F;read several of the Snow product descriptions from AWS and I am still not quite sure I understand the point.<p>It seems like a way to sync local big data to AWS cloud storage for data that is too large to realistically transfer via the internet. So is this simply a sneakernet external harddrive because physically shipping an 8TB hard drive has better bandwidth than using the internet?<p>I would love it if someone could explain a couple of use cases for the Snow family of products to someone that has never had to handle 100 GB of data much less terabytes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thoraway1010</author><text>Lots of potential uses:<p>Imagine Amazon was bidding on a big Department of Defense contract ($ in billion). DoD let&#x27;s say wants to send drones &#x2F; UAV&#x27;s whatever to do big sensor passes out in far off areas &#x2F; imagery, wideband radio etc). There is NO fast internet for the TB&#x27;s generated. You pop this out of the drone, put it on the next resupply mail flight out, and ingest into Amazon cloud on far side for analytics.<p>Let&#x27;s stay a store wants to collect 30 days of customer video related to all traffic in their 100 stores to do some sort of AI analysis on how folks use the stores. Again, some poorly paid store staff person can unplug this after a week and ship it off.<p>Let&#x27;s say I generate data but instead of wanting to do a snowmobile every year, I want to do more granular moves. Again, I could do a weekly or whatever ship, and again from maybe a few locations.<p>I think especially in places with lower high speed internet penetration (africa, china etc) there is room for something &quot;snackable&quot; like this.<p>Let&#x27;s say I distribute movies to movie theatres. Again, do a weekly ship in&#x2F;out.<p>It&#x27;s $60&#x2F;job. Not bad. No data IN fees.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-secrets-manager-store-distribute-and-rotate-credentials-securely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whateveracct</author><text>This looks like an AWS equivalent of the Amazon-internal secret management tool called Odin. Which is very nice because Odin was pretty much universally loved from what I saw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanianian</author><text>There&#x27;s still a bootstrap issue with AWS Secrets Manager - you have to set up enough tooling to be able to call the API.<p>The killer-app of odin imho was&#x2F;is the on-machine http server that let all manner of applications very easily get credentials.<p>You could just do something like<p><pre><code> MY_API_KEY=&quot;$(curl http:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost:5000?key=my-api)&quot;
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<story><title>How one guy ruined Hacktoberfest (2020)</title><url>https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intsunny</author><text>..... never underestimate people&#x27;s desperation&#x2F;shamelessness for free t-shirts.<p>8-9 years ago, at DigitalOcean&#x27;s first SXSW booth, we were giving out free t-shirts that had DO&#x27;s Sammy shark logo, and Linux&#x27;s Tux penguin logo. The catch was people had to name the penguin on the t-shirt. The vast majority could not name Tux, and pled to get the t-shirt anyways.<p>It was a very surreal experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfdm</author><text>This is what I don&#x27;t understand, though. If you only want to meet the requirements with low quality PRs, you&#x27;ve always been able to achieve that with your <i>own</i> public repository.<p>I&#x27;ve mostly used Hacktoberfest as an annual opportunity to learn some new tech that I&#x27;ve read about but haven&#x27;t yet had a chance to try. I start a new public repo and work through their tutorial doing PRs to commit chunks for each major section etc.<p>Open source. No spam for anyone. I learn something. Free shirt.<p>Practicing PR hygiene on your own repo if it&#x27;s something you&#x27;re not already familiar with is also a benefit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How one guy ruined Hacktoberfest (2020)</title><url>https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intsunny</author><text>..... never underestimate people&#x27;s desperation&#x2F;shamelessness for free t-shirts.<p>8-9 years ago, at DigitalOcean&#x27;s first SXSW booth, we were giving out free t-shirts that had DO&#x27;s Sammy shark logo, and Linux&#x27;s Tux penguin logo. The catch was people had to name the penguin on the t-shirt. The vast majority could not name Tux, and pled to get the t-shirt anyways.<p>It was a very surreal experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiph</author><text>I think your question was a pretty low barrier to winning, but I guess not. That&#x27;s about when SXSW became more of a circus, filled with lots of &quot;fake it &#x27;till you make it&quot; types. I would overhear people practicing their pitches (usually in an elevator!) and they were all different combinations of the same phrases that were trendy that year: &quot;We offer crowdsourced coupons via influencers to create brand awareness..&quot; &quot;We work with influencers in offering coupons, to crowdsource brand awareness..&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made</title><url>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/india-garment-factories-sumangali</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>Come on, ladies and gentlemen, the fine submitted article is about stark conditions in <i>India,</i> where &quot;Western capitalism&quot; was specifically rejected, and socialism embraced, as an economic model after independence in 1947. The comparison with Taiwan (where I have lived, twice) is instructive. Taiwan too, under the China Nationalist Party (KMT) dictatorship, had a period of governance that accepted Sun Yat-sen thought and dabbled with a lot of socialism. (That the field of Taiwan&#x27;s flag, formally the flag of the Republic of China, is red is no accident. The KMT was very much part of a worldwide socialist movement when it was founded.) Meanwhile, as the mainland fell to the Commmunist Party of China and then Stalin&#x27;s invasion of South Korea from the north began, the United States felt constrained to prop up Taiwan, and one way it did so was by promoting land reform in Taiwan and local free and fair elections. Gradually, Taiwan became more &quot;capitalist,&quot; and it went from stark poverty (being poorer in my wife&#x27;s birth year than some newly independent countries in Africa) to prosperity. Taiwan hasn&#x27;t had a garment industry like that described in the submitted article for a long, long time. Essentially everyone who gets online to discuss issues on Hacker News probably uses an Internet device with multiple components made in Taiwan and traded in international trade.<p>Trade is the foundation of capitalism, not exploitation. (The references for this, of course, are the writings of Adam Smith and David Ricardo.) India (and also much of South America) specifically rejected this wisdom during much of my lifetime, and now those countries have to play catch-up. They still have time. They won&#x27;t have stark poverty forever if they learn from the examples of other countries, just as Taiwan did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oskarth</author><text>Thank you for being a voice of reason and empiricism in this thread. Seems like too many people took a class in marxist sociology and all of a sudden see the whole world in terms of The Capitalists and The Exploited Class.<p>EDIT: Taking a class in economics and thinking everything has a monetary value attached to it, or that homo economicus actually exists would obviously be just as bad.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made</title><url>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/india-garment-factories-sumangali</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>Come on, ladies and gentlemen, the fine submitted article is about stark conditions in <i>India,</i> where &quot;Western capitalism&quot; was specifically rejected, and socialism embraced, as an economic model after independence in 1947. The comparison with Taiwan (where I have lived, twice) is instructive. Taiwan too, under the China Nationalist Party (KMT) dictatorship, had a period of governance that accepted Sun Yat-sen thought and dabbled with a lot of socialism. (That the field of Taiwan&#x27;s flag, formally the flag of the Republic of China, is red is no accident. The KMT was very much part of a worldwide socialist movement when it was founded.) Meanwhile, as the mainland fell to the Commmunist Party of China and then Stalin&#x27;s invasion of South Korea from the north began, the United States felt constrained to prop up Taiwan, and one way it did so was by promoting land reform in Taiwan and local free and fair elections. Gradually, Taiwan became more &quot;capitalist,&quot; and it went from stark poverty (being poorer in my wife&#x27;s birth year than some newly independent countries in Africa) to prosperity. Taiwan hasn&#x27;t had a garment industry like that described in the submitted article for a long, long time. Essentially everyone who gets online to discuss issues on Hacker News probably uses an Internet device with multiple components made in Taiwan and traded in international trade.<p>Trade is the foundation of capitalism, not exploitation. (The references for this, of course, are the writings of Adam Smith and David Ricardo.) India (and also much of South America) specifically rejected this wisdom during much of my lifetime, and now those countries have to play catch-up. They still have time. They won&#x27;t have stark poverty forever if they learn from the examples of other countries, just as Taiwan did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moocowduckquack</author><text><i>&quot;Western capitalism&quot; was specifically rejected, and socialism embraced</i><p>That must be why it has such strong labour laws and enormous social safety net supported by a tax and spend government then. Or possibly the economy ditched socialism in 1991 when it carried out a series of free market reforms at the behest of global trade organisations. Who can possibly say.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230829-00/?p=108661</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PreInternet01</author><text>It is, especially in hindsight, difficult to appreciate how big a deal DPMI was.<p>But to try to give you an idea: I was in an OS&#x2F;2 seminar (because, well, OS&#x2F;2 was the <i>future</i> at that point in time) when someone from Microsoft circulated photocopies of an early DPMI document.<p>This instantly divided the audience in two groups: those who <i>got</i> it (and abandoned the OS&#x2F;2 hype train that instant), and those who did not.<p>When (some years later: Internet time was not yet invented either) Windows 95 came out with pretty much flawless DOS compatibility, whereas OS&#x2F;2 was still struggling to run more than one DOS app simultaneously (with DOS apps still being <i>very</i> much the only revenue-positive game in town), OS&#x2F;2 was effectively dead.<p>Sure, NT put the nails in the coffin, but it would be a few years before typical consumer&#x2F;business hardware could reliably run that. With DPMI (an API, not even a product...), Microsoft settled the OS wars (as they were at the time...) decisively.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230829-00/?p=108661</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mromanuk</author><text>&gt; Miraculously, most games just worked despite running under a different DPMI server from what they were originally developed with. There were occasional issues with specific games. Popular ones include games which assumed that all memory was physical and games which assumed the interrupt flag was unvirtualized, but for the most part, things worked well enough that the remaining issues could be treated as app-specific bugs.<p>It&#x27;s funny because at that moment in time I was running DOS games, and most of them worked without issues and I was thinking that Win95, wasn&#x27;t too different and just a UI, like it was Win 3.1x</text></comment>
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<story><title>Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/sports/magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-world-chess-championship.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindgam3</author><text>I can&#x27;t argue with your first premise. Your following points, however, are less convincing.<p>&quot;Like Kasparov and Grischuk pointed out today, every other chess player gets worse playing rapid&#x2F;blitz but Carlsen is the only one who actually improves.&quot;<p>Even if Kasparov and Grischuk said this today (citation please?), it doesn&#x27;t make it true. There are <i>many</i> players who get better playing rapid and blitz. Look at the trajectory of the Bay Area&#x27;s own GM Daniel Naroditsky. Nakamura.<p>I suspect most of the blitz haters are people who simply haven&#x27;t spent enough time to get good at it.<p>&quot;Regardless of all critics.&quot;<p>To your main point, the critics weren&#x27;t saying that Carlsen isn&#x27;t the best. They were complaining because he is not acting with respect to the purity and beauty of the game. There is simply an aesthetic ugliness to offering a draw with such a crushing time advantage in a better position.<p>I&#x27;m not arguing that this may not have been good strategy, lose the battle, win the war, etc etc.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is that there is a war to be won that is different than a 1 or 0 point. It&#x27;s the battle for hearts and minds, which is won not just through victory but through integrity and courage. You win hearts by showing hearts.<p>Magnus didn&#x27;t win hearts with his mercilessly pragmatic approach to winning the world championship title. I still respect him as the rightful owner of the title of best chess player in the world.<p>But if we&#x27;re going to employ the &quot;good by association&quot; logical fallacy with whatever Kasparov and Grischuk may have said today, why not actually just quote the champion Magnus himself?<p>In the press conference, he came out and told everyone that Fabiano earned the right to share the crown of world&#x27;s best player in classical chess with him.<p>Who am I, who are you, who are any of us to disagree with that?<p>I also enjoyed the final a lot. But the fact remains that the beauty and spectacle 2018 World Championships of the world&#x27;s most beautiful mind game was marred by a decidedly un-beautiful game in round 12.</text></item><item><author>michalu</author><text>In the end, Carlsen is the man who knows the best how to win in chess. Regardless of all critics.<p>He played the 12th game safe knowing he&#x27;s a huge favourite in rapid and blitz. Like Kasparov and Grischuk pointed out today, every other chess player gets worse playing rapid&#x2F;blitz but Carlsen is the only one who actually improves.<p>Under these conditions it&#x27;s more than sensible to move into the terrain where you have an advantage, if thinking strategically.<p>I would argue the problem is that most of the fans have become conditioned to expect entertainment, drama and bold moves in sports like we see in overly dramatic movies.<p>But historically, if you consider generals or even have a look into Sun Tzu&#x27;s art of war, the strategists and generals that were most regarded were the ones who were able to win in a manner that it seemed easy, unimpressive, without drama or heavy losses or huge risks involved.<p>That&#x27;s what a great strategy is about taking battle where the outcome is decided beforehand. And that&#x27;s what Carlsen did.<p>The downside is it cost him €50k as the money distribution goes to 550&#x2F;450 in tiebreak from 600&#x2F;400 if decided in classical.<p>So he exchanged a potential loss of €200k at a favourable odds for a sure loss of €50k with potential loss of €150k at a much better odds. Now here&#x27;s where we could question his decision speculating what the actual odds were, but who knows if he cares about the money.<p>I enjoyed this final a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michalu</author><text>You make a good point, but I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s playing for hearts. They play for money and recognition in the first place. Every sportsman who experienced a failure (and we all have) knows very well that while you&#x27;re applauded at the top the moment you lose many, including your fans will suddenly rejoice ... sometimes you even get some &quot;kicks while on the ground.&quot;<p>About the Grischuk and Kasparov quote, it turns out I did misrepresent ... Grischuk said that Carlsen&#x27;s URS score gap for rapid and blitz &quot;should&quot; be negative in a live stream on chess24 and Kasparov tweeted a similar thing ... where I misrepresented is that Kasparov didn&#x27;t say a word &quot;improve&quot; but see &quot;his ratio is smallest ever&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Kasparov63&#x2F;status&#x2F;1067826806823297029" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Kasparov63&#x2F;status&#x2F;1067826806823297029</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HBvQ36SqgqM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HBvQ36SqgqM</a><p>To quote Carlsen himself &quot;Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s OK to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s just the way he is and I not only don&#x27;t blame him for it I personally respect it.<p>A good example is boxing. You have someone like Mayweather who is 50:0 a historical record. Yet he&#x27;s often hated by fans because his boxing isn&#x27;t exciting. It&#x27;s also true that most fans would rejoice if he lost ... so why take risks? Many purists enjoy his style including myself.<p>In the end prize-fighting is about winning. It&#x27;s their living. If Carlsen loses but plays a beautiful game none of the fans will pay for his livelihood - I am confident in stating this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/sports/magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-world-chess-championship.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindgam3</author><text>I can&#x27;t argue with your first premise. Your following points, however, are less convincing.<p>&quot;Like Kasparov and Grischuk pointed out today, every other chess player gets worse playing rapid&#x2F;blitz but Carlsen is the only one who actually improves.&quot;<p>Even if Kasparov and Grischuk said this today (citation please?), it doesn&#x27;t make it true. There are <i>many</i> players who get better playing rapid and blitz. Look at the trajectory of the Bay Area&#x27;s own GM Daniel Naroditsky. Nakamura.<p>I suspect most of the blitz haters are people who simply haven&#x27;t spent enough time to get good at it.<p>&quot;Regardless of all critics.&quot;<p>To your main point, the critics weren&#x27;t saying that Carlsen isn&#x27;t the best. They were complaining because he is not acting with respect to the purity and beauty of the game. There is simply an aesthetic ugliness to offering a draw with such a crushing time advantage in a better position.<p>I&#x27;m not arguing that this may not have been good strategy, lose the battle, win the war, etc etc.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is that there is a war to be won that is different than a 1 or 0 point. It&#x27;s the battle for hearts and minds, which is won not just through victory but through integrity and courage. You win hearts by showing hearts.<p>Magnus didn&#x27;t win hearts with his mercilessly pragmatic approach to winning the world championship title. I still respect him as the rightful owner of the title of best chess player in the world.<p>But if we&#x27;re going to employ the &quot;good by association&quot; logical fallacy with whatever Kasparov and Grischuk may have said today, why not actually just quote the champion Magnus himself?<p>In the press conference, he came out and told everyone that Fabiano earned the right to share the crown of world&#x27;s best player in classical chess with him.<p>Who am I, who are you, who are any of us to disagree with that?<p>I also enjoyed the final a lot. But the fact remains that the beauty and spectacle 2018 World Championships of the world&#x27;s most beautiful mind game was marred by a decidedly un-beautiful game in round 12.</text></item><item><author>michalu</author><text>In the end, Carlsen is the man who knows the best how to win in chess. Regardless of all critics.<p>He played the 12th game safe knowing he&#x27;s a huge favourite in rapid and blitz. Like Kasparov and Grischuk pointed out today, every other chess player gets worse playing rapid&#x2F;blitz but Carlsen is the only one who actually improves.<p>Under these conditions it&#x27;s more than sensible to move into the terrain where you have an advantage, if thinking strategically.<p>I would argue the problem is that most of the fans have become conditioned to expect entertainment, drama and bold moves in sports like we see in overly dramatic movies.<p>But historically, if you consider generals or even have a look into Sun Tzu&#x27;s art of war, the strategists and generals that were most regarded were the ones who were able to win in a manner that it seemed easy, unimpressive, without drama or heavy losses or huge risks involved.<p>That&#x27;s what a great strategy is about taking battle where the outcome is decided beforehand. And that&#x27;s what Carlsen did.<p>The downside is it cost him €50k as the money distribution goes to 550&#x2F;450 in tiebreak from 600&#x2F;400 if decided in classical.<p>So he exchanged a potential loss of €200k at a favourable odds for a sure loss of €50k with potential loss of €150k at a much better odds. Now here&#x27;s where we could question his decision speculating what the actual odds were, but who knows if he cares about the money.<p>I enjoyed this final a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnb</author><text>Kasparov had said that all players are worse in blitz, but that Carlsen gets least worst <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Kasparov63&#x2F;status&#x2F;1067826806823297029" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Kasparov63&#x2F;status&#x2F;1067826806823297029</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Comcast-Funded Civil Rights Groups Claim Low-Income People Want Ads Over Privacy</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2017/03/29/isp-civil-rights/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prklmn</author><text>Them wanting people to believe that this will lower the cost of internet service is laughable. Have TV ads lowered the cost of cable?<p>We need to think of the internet as a public utility. How absurd would it be if every time you used water in your home, you heard an advertisement playing from a speaker in the faucet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackuser</author><text>&gt; Them wanting people to believe that this will lower the cost of internet service is laughable. Have TV ads lowered the cost of cable?<p>It&#x27;s a very important point; this false argument is often used. In truth, in the marketplace, goods are not priced at &#x27;cost-plus&#x27;; i.e., they aren&#x27;t priced by taking the cost to the vendor and adding a profit margin.<p>Goods are priced at the point that will maximize profit for the vendor; economists would say at the point that maximizes marginal profit. Colloquially, they charge as much as they can.<p>The fact that the vendor has another stream of income from Product B doesn&#x27;t cause them to reduce their prices for Product A. Microsoft doesn&#x27;t cut the price of Windows because they are making so much from Office.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Comcast-Funded Civil Rights Groups Claim Low-Income People Want Ads Over Privacy</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2017/03/29/isp-civil-rights/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prklmn</author><text>Them wanting people to believe that this will lower the cost of internet service is laughable. Have TV ads lowered the cost of cable?<p>We need to think of the internet as a public utility. How absurd would it be if every time you used water in your home, you heard an advertisement playing from a speaker in the faucet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mundo</author><text>Every time I hear someone argue for the efficiencies of privatization, I think of my water utility emulating mobile carriers and billing me for &quot;Anytime gallons&quot; and &quot;Nighttime gallons&quot; and &quot;Weekend gallons&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbar1</author><text>$300 is incredibly reasonable since it&#x27;s more than $0.</text></item><item><author>lfittl</author><text>The &quot;$300 mental health&quot; seems odd - for any kind of counseling&#x2F;therapy&#x2F;etc sessions this is a drop in the bucket in terms of cost.<p>It will easily cost 10x to work with a mental health professional (and insurance companies sadly pay a very small amount of it). So why add this to an otherwise reasonable package?</text></item><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&#x27;ve seen in this wave:<p>* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment<p>* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health<p>* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year<p>* you can keep all your equipment</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brookst</author><text>I think this is a case of small help coming across as worse than no help, even though rationally that&#x27;s not true. Like if I ask you to write a quick script that&#x27;ll take a half hour... offering you $5 may be worse than just asking it as a favor.<p>I&#x27;m sure their heart is in the right place and offering mental health coverage is a good thing, it&#x27;s just the number causes a double-take.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbar1</author><text>$300 is incredibly reasonable since it&#x27;s more than $0.</text></item><item><author>lfittl</author><text>The &quot;$300 mental health&quot; seems odd - for any kind of counseling&#x2F;therapy&#x2F;etc sessions this is a drop in the bucket in terms of cost.<p>It will easily cost 10x to work with a mental health professional (and insurance companies sadly pay a very small amount of it). So why add this to an otherwise reasonable package?</text></item><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&#x27;ve seen in this wave:<p>* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment<p>* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health<p>* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year<p>* you can keep all your equipment</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesliudotcc</author><text>They are paying the COBRA. So this goes toward copays and hitting deductible. Assuming their health coverage is good (why wouldn&#x27;t it be, it&#x27;s a San Fran tech company?), this gets you pretty far.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Finland will seek NATO membership immediately</title><url>https://www.presidentti.fi/tiedote/tasavallan-presidentin-ja-paaministerin-yhteislausunto-suomen-nato-jasenyydesta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>This more or less seals Finland <i>applying for</i> NATO membership. However, adding new members requires unanimous consent from all existing members, so it&#x27;s not guaranteed to be smooth sailing. Russia is also obviously deeply unhappy about this and will do its best to disrupt the process via direct and indirect pressure.</text></item><item><author>fsloth</author><text>There was some discussion on plausible NATO membership of Finland and Sweden. At that point the disucssion was based on guestimates from media.<p>But now it&#x27;s official. This is not the NATO membership application, but a statement from the political leadership in Finland that they support and suggest parliament proceeds with the application process with maximum urgency.<p>The President and Prime Minister of Finland have published their position on NATO membership. This more or less seals Finland joining NATO.<p>In Finnish system, the Prime Minister has most political power but president is the head of foreign policy. Their common statement was the required signal for the parliament to proceed with the process.<p>Translation:
During the spring, there has been an important discussion about Finland&#x27;s possible NATO membership. Time has been needed for domestic position formation both in Parliament and in society as a whole. Time has been needed for close international contacts with both NATO and its member countries, as well as with Sweden. We have wanted to give the debate the space it needs.<p>Now that the time for decision-making is approaching, we also state our own common positions for the information of parliamentary groups and parties. NATO membership would strengthen Finland&#x27;s security. As a member of NATO, Finland would strengthen the entire defense alliance. Finland must apply for NATO membership as a matter of urgency. We hope that the national steps still needed to reach this solution will be taken swiftly in the coming days.<p>Sauli Niinistö
The president of the Republic<p>Sanna Marin
Prime minister</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>M2Ys4U</author><text>&gt;However, adding new members requires unanimous consent from all existing members, so it&#x27;s not guaranteed to be smooth sailing.<p>I <i>highly</i> doubt that any of NATO&#x27;s members will veto an application from Finland (or Sweden).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Finland will seek NATO membership immediately</title><url>https://www.presidentti.fi/tiedote/tasavallan-presidentin-ja-paaministerin-yhteislausunto-suomen-nato-jasenyydesta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>This more or less seals Finland <i>applying for</i> NATO membership. However, adding new members requires unanimous consent from all existing members, so it&#x27;s not guaranteed to be smooth sailing. Russia is also obviously deeply unhappy about this and will do its best to disrupt the process via direct and indirect pressure.</text></item><item><author>fsloth</author><text>There was some discussion on plausible NATO membership of Finland and Sweden. At that point the disucssion was based on guestimates from media.<p>But now it&#x27;s official. This is not the NATO membership application, but a statement from the political leadership in Finland that they support and suggest parliament proceeds with the application process with maximum urgency.<p>The President and Prime Minister of Finland have published their position on NATO membership. This more or less seals Finland joining NATO.<p>In Finnish system, the Prime Minister has most political power but president is the head of foreign policy. Their common statement was the required signal for the parliament to proceed with the process.<p>Translation:
During the spring, there has been an important discussion about Finland&#x27;s possible NATO membership. Time has been needed for domestic position formation both in Parliament and in society as a whole. Time has been needed for close international contacts with both NATO and its member countries, as well as with Sweden. We have wanted to give the debate the space it needs.<p>Now that the time for decision-making is approaching, we also state our own common positions for the information of parliamentary groups and parties. NATO membership would strengthen Finland&#x27;s security. As a member of NATO, Finland would strengthen the entire defense alliance. Finland must apply for NATO membership as a matter of urgency. We hope that the national steps still needed to reach this solution will be taken swiftly in the coming days.<p>Sauli Niinistö
The president of the Republic<p>Sanna Marin
Prime minister</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sph</author><text>How can Russia pressure and disrupt the process when NATO members are the ones most afraid of Putin? Finland&#x27;s doing this only because of Russia&#x27;s actions.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine anybody vetoing Finland&#x27;s membership. In fact, the more the merrier^Hstronger.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Announcing my free book on Vim</title><url>http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/a-free-book-on-vim/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaens</author><text>I use emacs, and won't be switching to Vim anytime soon, but I'd like to say thanks for writing what seems like a really good book and releasing it for free.<p>The world needs more of this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Announcing my free book on Vim</title><url>http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/a-free-book-on-vim/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdavis</author><text>How convenient, considering I am returning to Vim after a very long absence!<p>Step 1: Start reading online.<p>Step 2: Buy it because releasing books for free is friendly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard and the F-35</title><url>http://www.jqpublicblog.com/the-little-fighter-that-couldnt-moral-hazard-and-the-f-35/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>The author mentions &quot;perverse&quot; incentives in Congress, but what he doesn&#x27;t mention (because it&#x27;s a very politically difficult subject) is the perverse incentives afforded military officers. When you have a system in which it&#x27;s so common as to be expected that the officers who influence your purchasing will in a couple years retire into a job with the private contractor from whom you&#x27;re purchasing, you have a recipe for bias. Even from really standup people who don&#x27;t recognize their own vulnerability to influence. It&#x27;s just such a common thing to work in the private sector for the same office as you did when you were enlisted that nobody blinks an eye. Because it&#x27;s often really good to still have those people around.<p>But at the same time, I think that&#x27;s a pretty untenable situation. The military needs to do something to balance the career mobility of their officers with the ethical hazards of the current system. Without some rules to prevent the scenarios that have the most potential for abuse, the situation is not unlike the flow of Congress members into lobbying. Except we don&#x27;t elect military officers.<p>It&#x27;s a tough balance. Part of the promise of the military&#x27;s recruiting is that you&#x27;ll advance your career. They should fulfill that promise. At the same time, they need to make sure that the ways in which they fulfill that promise don&#x27;t incentivize poor judgment on behalf of the public interest.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard and the F-35</title><url>http://www.jqpublicblog.com/the-little-fighter-that-couldnt-moral-hazard-and-the-f-35/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnoway</author><text>It is just inconceivable that we have a multi-decade program to develop a new fighter to fill all these roles, and what we&#x27;ve produced is either equivalent to or worse than the incumbent in all cases, is not safe to fly in combat situations, and is more expensive to boot. I mean we&#x27;ve seen this sort of thing happen on a smaller scale before, but versions of this plane are supposed to replace, like, everything in multiple mission classes across multiple services. Again, just inconceivable.<p>This article didn&#x27;t present anything that we haven&#x27;t seen before, though, and the excerpts from the unnamed pilot set off the &#x27;totally out of context&#x27; alarms in my head when reading them. Maybe it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m not involved with fighter planes in any capacity; for example, I found myself thinking that maybe the pilot is not supposed to actually be looking behind them in this plane vs. using video on their HUD or something, and that explains why the helmet and seat are not optimized for head movement.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites</title><url>https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AzzieElbab</author><text>It is not about efficiency , it is about legacy. You can count number of Perl scripts out there and conclude that Perl is still the most popular scripting&#x2F;devops tool in the world</text></item><item><author>jegea</author><text>I think this shows how much HN is a bubble in itself.<p>Most discussions here happen around new&#x2F;exciting&#x2F;cool&#x2F;weird technology. And don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love those discussions! That&#x27;s why I come here!<p>But reality outside of this bubble is people building and maintaining web apps as efficiently as possible and PHP hasn&#x27;t stopped being very efficient. On the contrary, it&#x27;s getting better with time.<p>Interestingly enough, Ruby (my personal interest, here) has been steadily gaining share in that chart year over year, despite not being &quot;cool&quot; anymore.<p>If you ask me, it&#x27;s good to have a dose a reality from time to time!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fogihujy</author><text>In PHP&#x27;s case it&#x27;s about WordPress which still being deployed at a very high rate. While the blogging thing isn&#x27;t that much in focus anymore, WordPress + Divi + WooCommerce is an extremely common stack for setting up eCommerce sites.<p>An yes, then there&#x27;s Drupal, Laravel, Symfony, and many others, and they&#x27;re going strong too. Heck, even Joomla is actively developed even though it&#x27;s probably small enough today to be considered legacy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites</title><url>https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AzzieElbab</author><text>It is not about efficiency , it is about legacy. You can count number of Perl scripts out there and conclude that Perl is still the most popular scripting&#x2F;devops tool in the world</text></item><item><author>jegea</author><text>I think this shows how much HN is a bubble in itself.<p>Most discussions here happen around new&#x2F;exciting&#x2F;cool&#x2F;weird technology. And don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love those discussions! That&#x27;s why I come here!<p>But reality outside of this bubble is people building and maintaining web apps as efficiently as possible and PHP hasn&#x27;t stopped being very efficient. On the contrary, it&#x27;s getting better with time.<p>Interestingly enough, Ruby (my personal interest, here) has been steadily gaining share in that chart year over year, despite not being &quot;cool&quot; anymore.<p>If you ask me, it&#x27;s good to have a dose a reality from time to time!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text>&gt;&gt;You can count number of Perl scripts out there and conclude that Perl is still the most popular scripting&#x2F;devops tool in the world<p>Perl is still heavily used. I wrote more than 2K lines just last week, lots of it is throwaway. But hey not many languages make it easy for you to write thousands of lines of throwaway code in hours.<p>It&#x27;s still the most useful language in the backend&#x2F;unix world. This comes from me, who actually writes lots of Python code. But I wouldn&#x27;t use Python where I use Perl. It would just make me slow and it wouldn&#x27;t get the job done just as well as Perl.<p>It&#x27;s not used as frequently for web dev, or other places where Java is used. But it&#x27;s very good at what it does. Glue language for the Unix world.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft REST API Guidelines</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/master/Guidelines.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>Pagination is one of those things I feel like so many of these things get wrong. LIMIT&#x2F;OFFSET (or as MS likes to call it, TOP&#x2F;SEEK) style results in O(n²) operations; an automated tool trying to pull the entirety of a large collection in such a scenario is not good. I have to again recommend the excellent &quot;Pagination done the Right Way&quot; presentation[1] from Use the Index, Luke (an equally excellent site).<p>Just return a link to the &quot;next page&quot; (make the next page opaque); while this removes the ability to of the client to go to an arbitrary page on its own, in practice, I&#x27;ve never seen that matter, and the generalized URL format allows you to seek instead of by LIMIT&#x2F;OFFSET by something indexable by the DB; HTTP even includes a standardized header for just this purpose[2].<p>I also think the generalized URL is more in line with Fielding&#x27;s definition of REST, in that the response links to another resource. (I don&#x27;t know if being in the header invalidates this; to me, it does not.)<p>If you get the metadata out of the data section of your response, and move it to the headers, where it belongs, this usually then lets you keep the &quot;collection&quot; of items you are return as an array (because if you need to put metadata along side it, you need:<p><pre><code> {
&quot;the_data_you_really_want&quot;: [1, 2, 3],
&quot;metadata, e.g., pagination&quot;: {}
}
</code></pre>
vs.<p><pre><code> [&quot;the&quot;, &quot;data&quot;, &quot;you&quot;, &quot;wanted&quot;, &quot;in a sensible format&quot;]
</code></pre>
)<p>(I&#x27;ve seen metadata-pushed-into-the-body turn API endpoints that literally need to return no more than &quot;true&quot; or &quot;false&quot; into object that then force a client to know and look up the correct key in an object… <i>sigh</i>.)<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;use-the-index-luke.com&#x2F;no-offset" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;use-the-index-luke.com&#x2F;no-offset</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5988" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5988</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmarsy</author><text>From the parent Microsoft guideline [1], they make the explicit differentiation between Server-driven and Client-driven paging, the Server-driven seems to be exactly what you describe in your first paragraph:<p>&gt; <i>Paginated responses MUST indicate a partial result by including a continuation token in the response. The absence of a continuation token means that no additional pages are available.</i><p>&gt; <i>Clients MUST treat the continuation URL as opaque, which means that query options may not be changed while iterating over a set of partial results.</i><p>&gt; <i>Example:</i><p><pre><code> {
...,
&quot;value&quot;: [...],
&quot;@nextLink&quot;: &quot;{opaqueUrl}&quot;
}
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They then explain Client-driven paging, if the client really wants to do it:<p>&gt; <i>Clients MAY use $top and $skip query parameters to specify a number of results to return and an offset. The server SHOULD honor the values specified by the client; however, clients MUST be prepared to handle responses that contain a different page size or contain a continuation token.</i><p>But if you want to obtain the <i>entire</i> collection, you would not use Client-driven paging, but only rely on Server-driven paging<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;api-guidelines&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Guidelines.md#98-pagination" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;api-guidelines&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Guid...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft REST API Guidelines</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/master/Guidelines.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>Pagination is one of those things I feel like so many of these things get wrong. LIMIT&#x2F;OFFSET (or as MS likes to call it, TOP&#x2F;SEEK) style results in O(n²) operations; an automated tool trying to pull the entirety of a large collection in such a scenario is not good. I have to again recommend the excellent &quot;Pagination done the Right Way&quot; presentation[1] from Use the Index, Luke (an equally excellent site).<p>Just return a link to the &quot;next page&quot; (make the next page opaque); while this removes the ability to of the client to go to an arbitrary page on its own, in practice, I&#x27;ve never seen that matter, and the generalized URL format allows you to seek instead of by LIMIT&#x2F;OFFSET by something indexable by the DB; HTTP even includes a standardized header for just this purpose[2].<p>I also think the generalized URL is more in line with Fielding&#x27;s definition of REST, in that the response links to another resource. (I don&#x27;t know if being in the header invalidates this; to me, it does not.)<p>If you get the metadata out of the data section of your response, and move it to the headers, where it belongs, this usually then lets you keep the &quot;collection&quot; of items you are return as an array (because if you need to put metadata along side it, you need:<p><pre><code> {
&quot;the_data_you_really_want&quot;: [1, 2, 3],
&quot;metadata, e.g., pagination&quot;: {}
}
</code></pre>
vs.<p><pre><code> [&quot;the&quot;, &quot;data&quot;, &quot;you&quot;, &quot;wanted&quot;, &quot;in a sensible format&quot;]
</code></pre>
)<p>(I&#x27;ve seen metadata-pushed-into-the-body turn API endpoints that literally need to return no more than &quot;true&quot; or &quot;false&quot; into object that then force a client to know and look up the correct key in an object… <i>sigh</i>.)<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;use-the-index-luke.com&#x2F;no-offset" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;use-the-index-luke.com&#x2F;no-offset</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5988" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5988</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandonbloom</author><text>Big +1 to killing offset in favor of order-by and an &quot;after&quot; or &quot;before&quot; criteria.<p>However, -1 to the idea of sticking any important &quot;metadata&quot; in headers. For one, it&#x27;s dramatically easier to interact with response bodies than headers at the terminal or with simple programming libraries and tools. Having only one way of representing data requires fewer special cases. JSON is far superior to key&#x2F;value pairs in terms of ability to represent structure. Lastly, if you ever decide to use a different &quot;transport&quot; protocol other than HTTP, you&#x27;ll be glad you are already using a common representation without a side channel.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat</title><url>https://www.mumble.info/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theelous3</author><text>Except via discord, the quality is throttled and a bunch of random decisions are made about what to do with your audio outside of the codec.<p>Drives me up the walls when I mention discords awful quality and people just say &quot;I don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re talking about they have the same codec&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s only a piece of the puzzle. Not to mention the constant robotting because some of their servers are melting or something.<p>Host your own voice comms :) Even the cheapest 2€ a month box can handle a decent sized party with no issues.</text></item><item><author>abhiminator</author><text>I believe Discord also uses Opus codec IIRC. But wonderful to see the codec in a <i>fully</i> open-source project.<p>Added noise suppression would also be great, especially a FOSS-based one (Discord uses AI-based noise suppression from Krisp [0] -- a Berkeley, CA based for-profit startup).<p>I&#x27;m curious if there are any FOSS community projects in this noise suppression space. Given the rapid rise in WFH culture post covid-19, I can see an explosion in demand for s&#x2F;w products in this space.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krisp.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krisp.ai&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>simondotau</author><text>While this is likely common knowledge in this community, Mumble uses the Opus codec, which is a significant factor[1] in Mumble audio being both high quality and very low latency.<p>Prior to Opus, Mumble used CELT.[2] This was a precursor to the Opus codec developed by Xiph.org, makers of the very well known Ogg container format and Vorbis audio codec.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opus-codec.org&#x2F;comparison&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opus-codec.org&#x2F;comparison&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CELT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CELT</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IntelMiner</author><text>Hosting a Mumble server is the easy part<p>Convincing everyone else involved to switch over to it however is a near-insurmountable battle.<p>Many years ago I was playing on a friends Minecraft server, while in a then Skype call with some friends on the server<p>One user couldn&#x27;t get Skype to work on their Arch Linux install, and proceeded to spend almost an hour badgering us and whining to switch to Mumble so they could &quot;join the fun&quot;<p>From our perspective, shifting our entire group conversation over to a brand new voice chat system just for one person seemed like an absolute joke. So they were left wanting</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat</title><url>https://www.mumble.info/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theelous3</author><text>Except via discord, the quality is throttled and a bunch of random decisions are made about what to do with your audio outside of the codec.<p>Drives me up the walls when I mention discords awful quality and people just say &quot;I don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re talking about they have the same codec&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s only a piece of the puzzle. Not to mention the constant robotting because some of their servers are melting or something.<p>Host your own voice comms :) Even the cheapest 2€ a month box can handle a decent sized party with no issues.</text></item><item><author>abhiminator</author><text>I believe Discord also uses Opus codec IIRC. But wonderful to see the codec in a <i>fully</i> open-source project.<p>Added noise suppression would also be great, especially a FOSS-based one (Discord uses AI-based noise suppression from Krisp [0] -- a Berkeley, CA based for-profit startup).<p>I&#x27;m curious if there are any FOSS community projects in this noise suppression space. Given the rapid rise in WFH culture post covid-19, I can see an explosion in demand for s&#x2F;w products in this space.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krisp.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krisp.ai&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>simondotau</author><text>While this is likely common knowledge in this community, Mumble uses the Opus codec, which is a significant factor[1] in Mumble audio being both high quality and very low latency.<p>Prior to Opus, Mumble used CELT.[2] This was a precursor to the Opus codec developed by Xiph.org, makers of the very well known Ogg container format and Vorbis audio codec.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opus-codec.org&#x2F;comparison&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opus-codec.org&#x2F;comparison&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CELT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CELT</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Macha</author><text>The issue is that Discord&#x27;s audio processing is focused on mitigating the impact of the worst audio setups, not preserving the quality of the best, and I don&#x27;t even think that&#x27;s the wrong focus given their casual target market</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-discrimination-housing-race-sex-national-origin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>egwynn</author><text>The text of the law[0] is surprisingly clear that FB&#x27;s acceptance of these ads is illegal (unless I&#x27;m missing something big).<p><pre><code> As made applicable by section 3603 of this title and except as exempted by
sections 3603(b) and 3607 of this title, it shall be unlawful—
...
(c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published
any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental
of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or
discrimination.
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[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;42&#x2F;3604#c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;42&#x2F;3604#c</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-discrimination-housing-race-sex-national-origin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sologoub</author><text>Can any attorney with knowledge of fair housing weigh in on this? Law quotes states that the ad cannot say these things, but the publishing of an ad in a medium targeted based on these seems like a relatively new ground, since the ad itself is likely fine, but how it is distributed is definitely not in the spirit of the law.<p>In finance, I&#x27;m fairly sure zip+4 is off limits in many pricing models for this exact reason - it is too specific. However, I&#x27;m not aware of anything like this in advertising publishing that a given ad has to have a chance of being seen regardless of the protected categories.<p>Regardless of the law, it&#x27;s definitely extremely unethical to do this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Don’t go to art school (2013)</title><url>https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/dont-go-to-art-school-138c5efd45e9#.87guodhbv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I think your advice sounds great for people living in a Star Trek utopia where people only work to better themselves.<p>However in our present time, how many people can seriously consider going to college without careful thought to how it will relate to their career?<p>I&#x27;d love to go to art school but not be an artist. While I&#x27;m at it, I&#x27;d also like to earn graduate degrees in history, literature, and philosophy (might help my lateral thinking).</text></item><item><author>justinator</author><text>I graduated from art school.<p>I didn&#x27;t go to art school to pursue a career in art. The art school I went to basically said, &quot;don&#x27;t&quot; - it&#x27;s a lottery anyways. The people who can make a living as an artist are a few dozen worldwide.<p>I went to art school to think laterally and critically. I went to have my own ideas of what creativity is exhaustively challenged.<p>You can also go to art school to make those social connections to the larger art world - the art world is nothing but a huge web of social ties. I found that part of it pretty dark and disgusting, really. I just wasn&#x27;t willing to stab so many people in the back to get ahead.<p>My curriculum was not centered around skills and technique - you were to learn that yourself. It was centered around your ideas - get your ideas out of your head and onto a stage basically. The school and my program were influenced by the Black Mountain school in N. Carolina where individuals like B. Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage taught. Interdisciplinary. It was all a living experiment, and all my higher level courses had, &quot;Experimental&quot; in their name.<p>I don&#x27;t regret one second of art school. You get out what you get in. I still would never, ever pursue a career as an artist. I&#x27;ve done lots of creatively amazing projects, but it wasn&#x27;t for the money - this country I live in (USA) at least really doesn&#x27;t find monetary value in the arts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>Why would such an education have a negative impact on your career? It teaches communication, makes sure you know how to get your ideas out into a consumable format, and teaches critical thinking. All of these skills will be valuable in just about any career.<p>And that is exactly why I think higher education is a good idea. Admittedly, paying for it is tougher now than when I was in school... but the leap from &quot;It is too expensive&quot; to &quot;It is not a worthwhile education&quot; is not quite correct.<p>When I was in school, the general attitude was that any bachelor&#x27;s degree will help any career. A Masters degree will only help a career in that specific field, and a PhD will only help you in academia. I think this is still accurate, but the cost of tuition has masked the underlying value of the education.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Don’t go to art school (2013)</title><url>https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/dont-go-to-art-school-138c5efd45e9#.87guodhbv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I think your advice sounds great for people living in a Star Trek utopia where people only work to better themselves.<p>However in our present time, how many people can seriously consider going to college without careful thought to how it will relate to their career?<p>I&#x27;d love to go to art school but not be an artist. While I&#x27;m at it, I&#x27;d also like to earn graduate degrees in history, literature, and philosophy (might help my lateral thinking).</text></item><item><author>justinator</author><text>I graduated from art school.<p>I didn&#x27;t go to art school to pursue a career in art. The art school I went to basically said, &quot;don&#x27;t&quot; - it&#x27;s a lottery anyways. The people who can make a living as an artist are a few dozen worldwide.<p>I went to art school to think laterally and critically. I went to have my own ideas of what creativity is exhaustively challenged.<p>You can also go to art school to make those social connections to the larger art world - the art world is nothing but a huge web of social ties. I found that part of it pretty dark and disgusting, really. I just wasn&#x27;t willing to stab so many people in the back to get ahead.<p>My curriculum was not centered around skills and technique - you were to learn that yourself. It was centered around your ideas - get your ideas out of your head and onto a stage basically. The school and my program were influenced by the Black Mountain school in N. Carolina where individuals like B. Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage taught. Interdisciplinary. It was all a living experiment, and all my higher level courses had, &quot;Experimental&quot; in their name.<p>I don&#x27;t regret one second of art school. You get out what you get in. I still would never, ever pursue a career as an artist. I&#x27;ve done lots of creatively amazing projects, but it wasn&#x27;t for the money - this country I live in (USA) at least really doesn&#x27;t find monetary value in the arts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>If I understand it correctly, the US is actually the perfect system to go to an art school and still make a career in a traditional field: You can still go to law school or HBS.<p>Many people suffer from &quot;premature optimization&quot;, trying to do business-related stuff because they see McKinsey in their future. I&#x27;ve met quite a few people from those global consultancies, and they actively encourage people to study theology or modern french literature.<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on parents asking for their children&#x27;s middle schools to &quot;focus on accounting, not these useless languages&quot;...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Conference on Cyber Security</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-keynote-address-international-conference-cyber</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daveslash</author><text>Modern encryption is really just math. Cryptography in consumer and off-the-shelf products (which Barr is targeting with his discussion) theoretically _could_ be modified in such a way that the government could decrypt it. The two ways of which I can think are (1) Encryption &quot;backdoors&quot; -- fancy math known only to the government; this would require new encryption ciphers or (b) key escrow. Both approaches have their shortcomings and I&#x27;m against both, but it&#x27;s plausible that the government might try it anyway. All that said, because encryption is just math, any individual or group could employ their own encryption by implementing one of any known existing ciphers -- one without a known &quot;fancy math back door&quot; and refuse to follow the &quot;key escrow&quot; guidelines. In these discussions about the government being able to decrypt stuff, are we, in effect, suggesting that certain math be made illegal? If that&#x27;s really what&#x27;s being proposed, I&#x27;d urge people to consider &quot;Illegal Numbers&quot; and how effective that&#x27;s been. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illegal_number" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illegal_number</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrLeap</author><text>Breaking encryption for the government is so furiously stupid it blows my mind every time it is suggested. Especially here, where people actually give the idea merit. It makes me miss oldschool &#x2F;. where 100% of everyone was on the same page. Your point illustrates a huge reason as to why.<p>Backdooring stupid.crypt and forcing law abiding people to use it just insures that big badguys will use any other kind of encryption. All you&#x27;ve really accomplished is adding an extra charge of illegal encryption use at the expense of security for every human.<p>This potentially creates all sorts of pathologies. Is it illegal now for me not to update an old computer? If your backdoors are implemented in hardware, is it illegal to use old computers?<p>When people are against gun control, a common thread is &quot;make guns illegal and only criminals will have guns.&quot; This argument has merit, but if we DID amend out #2 and make guns illegal, over time firearm proliferation would decrease.<p>Not so with encryption. Other, more free countries will constantly be developing better security methodologies, and reproducing those methods is effectively free. &quot;Fuck up encryption, then only bad guys will have encryption&quot; is a much stronger argument, because it&#x27;s emphatically true.<p>The ignorant hubris of this is massively disheartening.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Conference on Cyber Security</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-keynote-address-international-conference-cyber</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daveslash</author><text>Modern encryption is really just math. Cryptography in consumer and off-the-shelf products (which Barr is targeting with his discussion) theoretically _could_ be modified in such a way that the government could decrypt it. The two ways of which I can think are (1) Encryption &quot;backdoors&quot; -- fancy math known only to the government; this would require new encryption ciphers or (b) key escrow. Both approaches have their shortcomings and I&#x27;m against both, but it&#x27;s plausible that the government might try it anyway. All that said, because encryption is just math, any individual or group could employ their own encryption by implementing one of any known existing ciphers -- one without a known &quot;fancy math back door&quot; and refuse to follow the &quot;key escrow&quot; guidelines. In these discussions about the government being able to decrypt stuff, are we, in effect, suggesting that certain math be made illegal? If that&#x27;s really what&#x27;s being proposed, I&#x27;d urge people to consider &quot;Illegal Numbers&quot; and how effective that&#x27;s been. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illegal_number" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illegal_number</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teunispeters</author><text>Key escrow has a number of problems, not the least enforcement that keys are valid and validated. (something that there&#x27;s not a good history of, and international issues come up)<p>Back doors are worse though - build a back door and it will be used, just not necessarily by the agency it was built for. There are a lot of groups with a lot of resources oriented around taking advantage of this, and few are legitimate. (and some are enemy nations).<p>There&#x27;s a third problem - doing it in such a way that it can&#x27;t be blocked from monitoring. (see &quot;clipper chip&quot; for more on that).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/amazons-fleet-of-rivian-made-electric-delivery-vans-reaches-10000-in-us/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why Amazon doesn&#x27;t just buy Rivian already. Their stock price is in the dumps, and Amazon as a business has gone all in on their trucks. Worst case – Rivian ends up just being Amazon&#x27;s in-house delivery van manufacturer, and the costs can be rolled up into their overall logistics business. Best case – Rivian&#x27;s business is a commercial success and Amazon gets to play in that space. The worst case of <i>not</i> buying them is that the company goes out of business and Amazon now has a fleet of trucks that will go obsolete once their parts need replacing. ~$17B, while not chump change, is definitely affordable for Amazon.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/amazons-fleet-of-rivian-made-electric-delivery-vans-reaches-10000-in-us/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kypro</author><text>Marques Brownlee did a great review of the van recently that&#x27;s worth a watch,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gGrKVpYj_y4">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gGrKVpYj_y4</a><p>It&#x27;s incredible how much thought they put into them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub</title><url>https://codeberg.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allioeddie</author><text>This sort of myopic, self-important, holier-than-thou perspective is why the open source community is so rarely successful in anything it tries to do for itself. Whatever you think Github&#x27;s most known or most useful featureset is, the fact of the matter is it dominates because they don&#x27;t draw philosophical lines in the sand and exclude people as a result. It&#x27;s a big tent, all are welcome, and as a result, it has near universal coverage in the industry, so there&#x27;s no burden to ask users to sign up or familiarize themselves with the platform in order to contribute. Everyone already has a GH account, and a lot of the driver of that is the private repositories that they host for business. Of the people I&#x27;ve worked with, fewer than 10% of them have ever made a single FOSS contribution, but they all have Github accounts.<p>I don&#x27;t want to learn a different UI for contributing to FOSS than the one I use for my daily work. I frankly do not care about the ethos of FOSS enough, neither do almost any developers, relative to the field, however overrepresented FOSS awareness is on HackerNews. I contribute back to open source when it&#x27;s convenient - and not too expensive - to do so; making it _less_ convenient so the host can draw an arbitrary philosophical line in the sand is going to serve no purpose but to decrease contributions.<p>FOSS maintainers need to understand that the FOSS ethical and philosophical perspective is not universal - it is, in fact, quite rare in the industry. They need to understand that contributions and use are driven by utility and convenience and economics, not morality. Sacrificing anything utility-wise or convenience-wise for philosophy is just shooting themselves in the foot.</text></item><item><author>commoner</author><text>Services don&#x27;t need to handle every single use case to be viable alternatives. GitHub does host proprietary software, but it is most well known for being a place to collaborate on free and open source software. Codeberg addresses this primary use case in a more focused way than GitHub intends to, and because of this, Codeberg is an excellent alternative to GitHub.</text></item><item><author>Entinel</author><text>&gt; Our mission is to support the creation and development of Free Software; therefore we only allow repos licensed under an OSI&#x2F;FSF-approved license. For more details see Licensing article. However, we sometimes tolerate repositories that aren&#x27;t perfectly licensed and focus on spreading awareness on the topic of improper FLOSS licensing and its issues.<p>If you aren&#x27;t doing FOSS software and aren&#x27;t &quot;tolerated&quot; you aren&#x27;t allowed here. This is not an alternative to Github.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jraph</author><text>What if your goal is not being successful in term of absolute number of users no matter what but instead to promote something?<p>It&#x27;s fortunate that sometimes people refuse to build big tents and instead push for a better world.<p>&gt; They need to understand that contributions and use are driven by utility and convenience and economics, not morality<p>You are wrong. GNU&#x27;s whole existence is for moral reasons, and their tools are pervasive and you &quot;typically&quot; depend on them. It might not be everybody, even most people, but it&#x27;s still a thing.<p>&gt; I frankly do not care about the ethos of FOSS enough<p>You need to understand that some people do, and will promote it.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t want to learn a different UI for contributing to FOSS<p>And I don&#x27;t like to have to use proprietary software to contribute to FOSS [1].
How do we do? Do we please you and go for GitHub, or do we work towards this goal?<p>I personally won&#x27;t optimize for convenience no matter what. Convenience is killing our planet. We actually need to take our fingers out to make the world work. We can&#x27;t live forever effortless. This is the pragmatic path, actually. I&#x27;m not arguing against convenience, I&#x27;m the first to like it, but things have various aspects worth taking in account, convenience only being one of them.<p>Not that I don&#x27;t find Forgejo not convenient. Pretty much the opposite. I like its UX.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drewdevault.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;free-software-free-infrastructure.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drewdevault.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;free-software-free-infras...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub</title><url>https://codeberg.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allioeddie</author><text>This sort of myopic, self-important, holier-than-thou perspective is why the open source community is so rarely successful in anything it tries to do for itself. Whatever you think Github&#x27;s most known or most useful featureset is, the fact of the matter is it dominates because they don&#x27;t draw philosophical lines in the sand and exclude people as a result. It&#x27;s a big tent, all are welcome, and as a result, it has near universal coverage in the industry, so there&#x27;s no burden to ask users to sign up or familiarize themselves with the platform in order to contribute. Everyone already has a GH account, and a lot of the driver of that is the private repositories that they host for business. Of the people I&#x27;ve worked with, fewer than 10% of them have ever made a single FOSS contribution, but they all have Github accounts.<p>I don&#x27;t want to learn a different UI for contributing to FOSS than the one I use for my daily work. I frankly do not care about the ethos of FOSS enough, neither do almost any developers, relative to the field, however overrepresented FOSS awareness is on HackerNews. I contribute back to open source when it&#x27;s convenient - and not too expensive - to do so; making it _less_ convenient so the host can draw an arbitrary philosophical line in the sand is going to serve no purpose but to decrease contributions.<p>FOSS maintainers need to understand that the FOSS ethical and philosophical perspective is not universal - it is, in fact, quite rare in the industry. They need to understand that contributions and use are driven by utility and convenience and economics, not morality. Sacrificing anything utility-wise or convenience-wise for philosophy is just shooting themselves in the foot.</text></item><item><author>commoner</author><text>Services don&#x27;t need to handle every single use case to be viable alternatives. GitHub does host proprietary software, but it is most well known for being a place to collaborate on free and open source software. Codeberg addresses this primary use case in a more focused way than GitHub intends to, and because of this, Codeberg is an excellent alternative to GitHub.</text></item><item><author>Entinel</author><text>&gt; Our mission is to support the creation and development of Free Software; therefore we only allow repos licensed under an OSI&#x2F;FSF-approved license. For more details see Licensing article. However, we sometimes tolerate repositories that aren&#x27;t perfectly licensed and focus on spreading awareness on the topic of improper FLOSS licensing and its issues.<p>If you aren&#x27;t doing FOSS software and aren&#x27;t &quot;tolerated&quot; you aren&#x27;t allowed here. This is not an alternative to Github.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commoner</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t want to learn a different UI for contributing to FOSS than the one I use for my daily work.<p>Codeberg is an instance of the FOSS forge platform Forgejo, which is a fork of Gitea. As FOSS projects, Forgejo and Gitea can be used to host any kind of software, proprietary or open source, without restriction. It is entirely possible for a person to use Forgejo&#x2F;Gitea to contribute to both work projects and off-work projects, even if the work projects are proprietary.<p>If your employer chooses to use GitHub instead of Forgejo&#x2F;Gitea, nobody else is obligated to stick with GitHub to make it more convenient for you to contribute. FOSS projects may choose Codeberg for its other advantages, such as its superior privacy policy and the fact that Codeberg does not automatically resell content from its hosted repositories as a proprietary service (like GitHub does with Copilot).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-evolution-led-to-an-extreme-thirst-for-water/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carapace</author><text>There are several oddities about humans that seem to indicate that we were semi-aquatic at one time: webbed fingers and toes, hairlessness (compared to other primates and hominids, we are the &quot;naked ape&quot;), our big beak noses that help keep water out of our nasal passages (some people can voluntarily seal their nostrils), our babies float and instinctively hold their breath, the fine hairs on our backs are slanted towards our spine (rather than away like all other primates) improving flow, our fingerprints that swell and wrinkle when wet making it easier to grip things, our eyes have a special &quot;underwater mode&quot;, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warent</author><text>Voluntarily sealing your nostrils is something I never knew about until I was complaining about some city odor to a girlfriend who said &quot;Just plug your nose.&quot; I said I didn&#x27;t just want to walk around pinching my nose, and she gave me the most incredulous look. She was like &quot;No, just do it without touching your face...&quot;<p>This definitely shocked me. May as well ask me to sprout wings and fly!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-evolution-led-to-an-extreme-thirst-for-water/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carapace</author><text>There are several oddities about humans that seem to indicate that we were semi-aquatic at one time: webbed fingers and toes, hairlessness (compared to other primates and hominids, we are the &quot;naked ape&quot;), our big beak noses that help keep water out of our nasal passages (some people can voluntarily seal their nostrils), our babies float and instinctively hold their breath, the fine hairs on our backs are slanted towards our spine (rather than away like all other primates) improving flow, our fingerprints that swell and wrinkle when wet making it easier to grip things, our eyes have a special &quot;underwater mode&quot;, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewmol</author><text>Interesting. I happened to be one of those natural born swimmers (not as newborn) as an infant as I could float, move around by wiggling like a fish and close nasal passages instinctively (w&#x2F;o exhaling) at 8 months. Always perplexed me that some people will hold their nose closed or have to exhale through it while under water.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Common Pricing Mistake</title><url>http://thinktraffic.net/most-common-pricing-mistake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tfinniga</author><text>There is also a danger to trying to extract an amount of money as close as possible to the value from each customer. The difference between the value the customer receives and the amount they pay usually turns into good will towards the product, and in turn how likely they will be to recommend it.<p>If you're going to have different pricing tiers, the higher tiers need to ostensibly have more work put into them. You can't just say that if you fit into one bucket of people we know you have more money, so we're going to charge you more (e.g. DVD regions). You need to give them something more for it, so that your customers don't hate you (e.g. HD movie downloads).<p>Nobody likes to feel like every possible penny is being wrung out of them, or that they're being unfairly targeted to pay more. Measuring happiness of customers or how likely they will refer others is more difficult than measuring which product each customer bought, but just because it's harder to measure doesn't mean it's less important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jere</author><text>&#62;If you're going to have different pricing tiers, the higher tiers need to ostensibly have more work put into them. You can't just say that if you fit into one bucket of people we know you have more money, so we're going to charge you more (e.g. DVD regions). You need to give them something more for it, so that your customers don't hate you<p>See, I used to think this until I heard a talk by Kendall Miller in which he described his pricing experience.<p>He had an enterprise tier that was orders of magnitude more costly than the other tiers. Executives would skip straight over the other tiers and buy the enterprise level happily. Customers would come to him and say "I love you guys! You really <i>understand the enterprise</i>."<p>That tier <i>did</i> have extra features, just like you're encouraging. But the punchline is Miller logged the use of every feature and discovered not a single one of his enterprise customers was using the extra ones. They simply wanted to pay more.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Common Pricing Mistake</title><url>http://thinktraffic.net/most-common-pricing-mistake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tfinniga</author><text>There is also a danger to trying to extract an amount of money as close as possible to the value from each customer. The difference between the value the customer receives and the amount they pay usually turns into good will towards the product, and in turn how likely they will be to recommend it.<p>If you're going to have different pricing tiers, the higher tiers need to ostensibly have more work put into them. You can't just say that if you fit into one bucket of people we know you have more money, so we're going to charge you more (e.g. DVD regions). You need to give them something more for it, so that your customers don't hate you (e.g. HD movie downloads).<p>Nobody likes to feel like every possible penny is being wrung out of them, or that they're being unfairly targeted to pay more. Measuring happiness of customers or how likely they will refer others is more difficult than measuring which product each customer bought, but just because it's harder to measure doesn't mean it's less important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathanbarry</author><text>In an interview for my new book I asked Jason Fried of 37signals why $150/month was their highest price plan for Basecamp. Since I think plenty of large companies would pay at least double that.<p>His response was something similar to what you said about not feeling the need to make every bit of money possible. The Basecamp prices felt right to him and he was comfortable leaving money on the table to stick with pricing that matched his gut feeling.<p>That's not exactly what you were talking about, but I liked his way of thinking.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days</title><url>https://status.mycloud.com/os4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acchow</author><text>&gt; We are &quot;glorified&quot; autocomplete engines too<p>This doesn’t feel intuitive to me or convincing. What evidence do you have to support such a claim? I certainly don’t feel like I’m an autocomplete engine.<p>Was Gödel also an autocomplete engine? How could an autocomplete engine come up with novel ideas like the incompleteness theorems and understand them?</text></item><item><author>esafak</author><text>We are &quot;glorified&quot; autocomplete engines too. The glory is in the fact that we have rich sensors, a memory, and a world model underpinning the engine. ChatGPT has a complex model, if not as complex as ours, and it is good enough to perform such tasks. As these models improve, they will compete with and outperform us on more and more tasks, at which point we will stop comparing our abilities to execute tasks.<p>&quot;Sure, it can do everything, but it&#x27;s not human.&quot;</text></item><item><author>j1elo</author><text>If ChatGPT is just a glorified autocomplete engine, which doesn&#x27;t know the context or the meaning of what is being said (as I&#x27;ve read in random discussions here on HN), then how come it is able to process the license text and summarize it in those terms? I would think that it would be needed to &quot;understand&quot; the license text in order to produce that easier to understand version.<p>So, does chatGPT really know what it&#x27;s writing about, or not?</text></item><item><author>ferminaut</author><text>I asked chatGPT to summarize this like I was a child:<p>&gt; Imagine you have a toy that you&#x27;re not sure will work perfectly or not. The people who made the toy say that they&#x27;re not sure either and that you have to take the risk of using it. They also say that if the toy doesn&#x27;t work well or isn&#x27;t accurate, it&#x27;s not their fault, and they won&#x27;t promise to fix it or make it better. They also can&#x27;t promise that the results you get from using the toy will be correct. So, you have to be careful and use it at your own risk!</text></item><item><author>dolmen</author><text>Terms of use:<p>YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, AND EFFORT IS WITH YOU. ALL PARTS OFTHE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY WESTERN DIGITALON AN “AS IS,” “WITHALL FAULTS,” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS ONLY, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WESTERNDIGITAL HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS,WARRANTIES, AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES (INCLUDING THE USE, PERFORMANCE, AND SUPPORT THEREOF), WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE,INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.WESTERN DIGITAL DOES NOT MAKE ANY ASSURANCES WITH REGARD TO THE ACCURACY OF THE RESULTS OR OUTPUT THAT DERIVES FROM THE SERVICES.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.westerndigital.com&#x2F;legal&#x2F;terms-of-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.westerndigital.com&#x2F;legal&#x2F;terms-of-use</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thewataccount</author><text>IDK if it helps but I find these examples interesting, predict the most likely word for the following phrases (whatever immediately comes to mind first):<p>- hello! How are<p>- What is 1+1?<p>- Today is Monday. That means yesterday was<p>- My favorite color is<p>Humans will likely estimate these as &quot;you&quot;, &quot;2&quot;, and &quot;sunday&quot;. For the last one, there&#x27;s not enough context to estimate the next word, but we will almost certainly estimate it as a &quot;color&quot;, and might just have to guess at random &quot;red&quot;&#x2F;&quot;blue&quot;&#x2F;&quot;orange&quot;&#x2F;etc, so there can be multiple possible answers. If you&#x27;ve seen enough data you might know that a specific color like blue might be more frequently mentioned in this context, and would be more included to guess &quot;blue&quot; because of that.<p>1+1 is interesting because most humans can immediately estimate 2. However given the question &quot;What is (3.21^7)&#x2F;(3+6.4*11)?&quot; we can no longer quickly estimate the answer, we would have to manually (even if mentally) calculate the answer. I think this closely parallels how our current LLMs can do basic math they&#x27;ve seen a lot, but fall apart on more complex math since they aren&#x27;t able to do the actual calculations and are forced to estimate.<p>&quot;Today is Monday. That means yesterday was&quot; is interesting because this would appear to imply that there is &quot;logic&quot;. That you listed out the days of the week, looked at monday, and chose the day before. However, most likely you &quot;just knew&quot; it was most likely sunday given your previous knowledge. The LLM is unable to actually compute the answer, but it can estimate it based on it&#x27;s training data.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days</title><url>https://status.mycloud.com/os4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acchow</author><text>&gt; We are &quot;glorified&quot; autocomplete engines too<p>This doesn’t feel intuitive to me or convincing. What evidence do you have to support such a claim? I certainly don’t feel like I’m an autocomplete engine.<p>Was Gödel also an autocomplete engine? How could an autocomplete engine come up with novel ideas like the incompleteness theorems and understand them?</text></item><item><author>esafak</author><text>We are &quot;glorified&quot; autocomplete engines too. The glory is in the fact that we have rich sensors, a memory, and a world model underpinning the engine. ChatGPT has a complex model, if not as complex as ours, and it is good enough to perform such tasks. As these models improve, they will compete with and outperform us on more and more tasks, at which point we will stop comparing our abilities to execute tasks.<p>&quot;Sure, it can do everything, but it&#x27;s not human.&quot;</text></item><item><author>j1elo</author><text>If ChatGPT is just a glorified autocomplete engine, which doesn&#x27;t know the context or the meaning of what is being said (as I&#x27;ve read in random discussions here on HN), then how come it is able to process the license text and summarize it in those terms? I would think that it would be needed to &quot;understand&quot; the license text in order to produce that easier to understand version.<p>So, does chatGPT really know what it&#x27;s writing about, or not?</text></item><item><author>ferminaut</author><text>I asked chatGPT to summarize this like I was a child:<p>&gt; Imagine you have a toy that you&#x27;re not sure will work perfectly or not. The people who made the toy say that they&#x27;re not sure either and that you have to take the risk of using it. They also say that if the toy doesn&#x27;t work well or isn&#x27;t accurate, it&#x27;s not their fault, and they won&#x27;t promise to fix it or make it better. They also can&#x27;t promise that the results you get from using the toy will be correct. So, you have to be careful and use it at your own risk!</text></item><item><author>dolmen</author><text>Terms of use:<p>YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, AND EFFORT IS WITH YOU. ALL PARTS OFTHE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY WESTERN DIGITALON AN “AS IS,” “WITHALL FAULTS,” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS ONLY, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WESTERNDIGITAL HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS,WARRANTIES, AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES (INCLUDING THE USE, PERFORMANCE, AND SUPPORT THEREOF), WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE,INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.WESTERN DIGITAL DOES NOT MAKE ANY ASSURANCES WITH REGARD TO THE ACCURACY OF THE RESULTS OR OUTPUT THAT DERIVES FROM THE SERVICES.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.westerndigital.com&#x2F;legal&#x2F;terms-of-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.westerndigital.com&#x2F;legal&#x2F;terms-of-use</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codethief</author><text>&gt; How could an autocomplete engine come up with novel ideas like the incompleteness theorems and understand them?<p>Depends on your definition of &quot;novel&quot;. Ideas like the incompleteness theorems, General Relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. were certainly new&#x2F;unusual given the status quo in science at the time but they weren&#x27;t coming out of thin air, either[0]. In fact, could it be that they were inevitable, given the data? Now you&#x27;re no longer that far away from auto-completion.<p>[0]: We always ascribe to Einstein this singular genius (which he certainly was in a lot of ways) but one can easily forget over this that there&#x27;s a clear survivorship bias – many other very smart people were working on unifying gravity with Special Relativity at that time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Top German court strikes down Facebook rules on hate speech</title><url>https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/top-german-court-strikes-down-facebook-rules-on-hate-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>I suspect that the fundamental issue here is not even about hate speech, really, it&#x27;s about labor. The court wants a human to write a message to the user saying &quot;we took down your message&#x2F;banned your account because [reasons]&quot;. Facebook doesn&#x27;t want to have a human in the loop, because they have billions of users and would have to hire tens of thousands more people to monitor that.<p>I suspect that European governments will continue to badger FB (and Twitter, and Google, and etc.) on this until they up their headcount to deal with it using humans-in-the-loop. The question is whether or not social networks are actually profitable if you have human moderation. I suspect they are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>But a real human is affected by trusting the AI. A real human might lose his&#x2F;her only effective way to communicate with some people&#x2F;communities who only use facebook. On the other hand, an AI cannot detect sarcasm, nonstandard quotes, and can be biased.<p>I know some people (even here) very much support removing and banning people for stuff they disagree with, and call all of that disinformation, but things change, you won&#x27;t always be on the &quot;right side&quot;, and then it&#x27;ll be too late.<p>And even &quot;sides&quot; change... Covid is one such example, where not so long ago, you could be calling for people to wear masks to protect themselves, and with current facebook tools, your posts would be removed for misinformation and conspiracies&#x2F;fearmongering about covid, because &quot;There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there&#x27;s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly&quot; [0]<p>Then a few weeks&#x2F;months later &quot;whoops&quot;, let&#x27;s ban &quot;the other side&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;world&#x2F;coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;world&#x2F;coronavirus-who-mas...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Top German court strikes down Facebook rules on hate speech</title><url>https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/top-german-court-strikes-down-facebook-rules-on-hate-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>I suspect that the fundamental issue here is not even about hate speech, really, it&#x27;s about labor. The court wants a human to write a message to the user saying &quot;we took down your message&#x2F;banned your account because [reasons]&quot;. Facebook doesn&#x27;t want to have a human in the loop, because they have billions of users and would have to hire tens of thousands more people to monitor that.<p>I suspect that European governments will continue to badger FB (and Twitter, and Google, and etc.) on this until they up their headcount to deal with it using humans-in-the-loop. The question is whether or not social networks are actually profitable if you have human moderation. I suspect they are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Kind of a tangent, but doesn’t the Chinese censorship program use (or at least used to) use mostly actual people taking down “illegal” posts?<p>So it seems they have proven it’s possible to do with people in the loop.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your pocket</title><url>https://justinmiller.io/posts/2019/09/21/pi-gadget/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rcarmo</author><text>I’ve been doing this via Bluetooth for a good while now - works great from the iPad, too.<p>Here’s my notes:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taoofmac.com&#x2F;space&#x2F;links&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;27&#x2F;0713" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taoofmac.com&#x2F;space&#x2F;links&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;27&#x2F;0713</a><p>...and a gist with the Pi setup:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;6ad6c09e904c35857bad2dd2769edf76" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;6ad6c09e904c35857bad2dd2769ed...</a><p>I switched from a Zero to a 3A+, though. The Zero is just too slow to do anything productively, and the only real issue with the 3A+ is still having only 512MB of RAM.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your pocket</title><url>https://justinmiller.io/posts/2019/09/21/pi-gadget/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ansible</author><text>Huh, that&#x27;s neat.<p>I&#x27;m imagining a follow-on version of this, where the Pi Zero has a battery backup built into the case.<p>So at any time your can just unplug it, and it will go into a low power mode, like sleep on a laptop.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash</title><url>https://www.coinprices.io/articles/news/bitcoin-price-update-aug-14-flash-crash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>driverdan</author><text>What do other US citizens use to trade BTC with stop orders? I&#x27;ve been wanting setup an account to take advantage of short crashes like this but I&#x27;m not sure what exchanges are open to US citizens. And don&#x27;t say BTCe, it must have transparency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>domdip</author><text>Be careful, stop orders only help if there is a reasonable amount of liquidity when you reach your stop price. If it&#x27;s not there (and often isn&#x27;t during a flash crash) you may get terrible execution.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash</title><url>https://www.coinprices.io/articles/news/bitcoin-price-update-aug-14-flash-crash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>driverdan</author><text>What do other US citizens use to trade BTC with stop orders? I&#x27;ve been wanting setup an account to take advantage of short crashes like this but I&#x27;m not sure what exchanges are open to US citizens. And don&#x27;t say BTCe, it must have transparency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmorici</author><text>If you are in the US the easiest way to get money into an actual exchange seems to be by buying BTC via coinbase (they support ACH transactions for US citezens) and then transferring it to an exchange such as Coinsetter, Bitfinex, or Bitstamp to trade. Coinsetter is based in the US and will rebate you your Coinbase transaction fees.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The death of Google</title><url>https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/10/08/the-death-of-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>&quot;They are consistently bogglingly bad at human interaction -- communications, PR, management, UX, customer service.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s actually true. In particular, I think that Google for most of its history was masterful at PR and communications - they managed to maintain a very positive public image all the way through 2011, despite being both far more powerful, more naughty, and more ruthless than the general public saw them as. I think management and UX are also quite strong at Google - they&#x27;re known for sparse design and UX fails, but there&#x27;s often a lot of subtlety to how Google products are designed that makes them very effective for their purposes. They did always suck at customer service, though.<p>Rather, I think Google&#x27;s hubris is...hubris. They feel the need to have their fingers in everything. It&#x27;s not enough to be the world&#x27;s best Search company or even organize the world&#x27;s information and make it universally accessible and useful, they also need to be the best social network, and best cloud provider, and best AI company, and best mobile-phone OS, and best web browser, and best daily deals site (remember their aborted Groupon purchase, soon followed by a competitor?), and do government contracts for the military, and get into China, and build self-driving cars and robotics, and be a major payment provider and operate half a dozen different chat services.<p>Most of the PR, communication, management, and UX fails are forced errors. They happen because there&#x27;s an inherent contradiction in Google&#x27;s business model. You can&#x27;t simultaneously market yourself to engineers with &quot;Don&#x27;t be evil&quot; while devising ways to help the military kill people more accurately or censoring Chinese search results; hell, at some point the military is likely going to have an issue with China potentially hacking into Google&#x27;s cloud infrastructure through their partnerships. A surprising number of the UX fails also come about because some executive is protecting their turf and won&#x27;t let the obvious integration &amp; UI simplification happen even though both engineers and customers want it.</text></item><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>Google&#x27;s hubris is believing engineering brilliance alone can solve everything. They are consistently bogglingly bad at human interaction -- communications, PR, management, UX, customer service.<p>There always seems to be a lack of well-roundedness at Google. It didn&#x27;t really matter back when they just did search, but now that they&#x27;re expanding into other fields, they&#x27;re looking more and more like an expert hammerer than an master of many tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>Google are accidental PR geniuses. The whole &#x27;do no evil&#x27; thing was instinctive PR, not really thought out in the den of some PR genius.<p>They made their brand synonymous with the word &#x27;search&#x27; - my god man, that&#x27;s worth billions, minimum.<p>They&#x27;ve done it in an oddly naive &#x27;authentic&#x27; way, by I think truly believing their own schtick, and drinking their own coolaid. And I&#x27;m not nearly as cynical as the above posters, Google is <i>way</i> more ethnical that most companies. My god man, if Google wanted to they could change electoral outcomes, simply form a massive hedge fund and beat <i>everyone</i> at investing, do evil things the likes of which we&#x27;ve never hard of. I&#x27;m constantly impressed by how actually objective they&#x27;ve been about a lot of stuff given 99% of other CEO&#x27;s would have abused the data position a long, long time ago. Not to say they are perfect, but ... compared to most, they have been pretty good. Though that&#x27;s changing.<p>They&#x27;ve done it without any hardcore ad spends, or any real classical marketing attempts to make us believe things one way or another, so kudos on them.<p>But yes, they are kind of bad at most classical parts of marketing, communications ... heck even some kinds of product management. But the &#x27;Engineers first&#x27; mentality got them where they are, I&#x27;m going to doubt that part of their DNA will change.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The death of Google</title><url>https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/10/08/the-death-of-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>&quot;They are consistently bogglingly bad at human interaction -- communications, PR, management, UX, customer service.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s actually true. In particular, I think that Google for most of its history was masterful at PR and communications - they managed to maintain a very positive public image all the way through 2011, despite being both far more powerful, more naughty, and more ruthless than the general public saw them as. I think management and UX are also quite strong at Google - they&#x27;re known for sparse design and UX fails, but there&#x27;s often a lot of subtlety to how Google products are designed that makes them very effective for their purposes. They did always suck at customer service, though.<p>Rather, I think Google&#x27;s hubris is...hubris. They feel the need to have their fingers in everything. It&#x27;s not enough to be the world&#x27;s best Search company or even organize the world&#x27;s information and make it universally accessible and useful, they also need to be the best social network, and best cloud provider, and best AI company, and best mobile-phone OS, and best web browser, and best daily deals site (remember their aborted Groupon purchase, soon followed by a competitor?), and do government contracts for the military, and get into China, and build self-driving cars and robotics, and be a major payment provider and operate half a dozen different chat services.<p>Most of the PR, communication, management, and UX fails are forced errors. They happen because there&#x27;s an inherent contradiction in Google&#x27;s business model. You can&#x27;t simultaneously market yourself to engineers with &quot;Don&#x27;t be evil&quot; while devising ways to help the military kill people more accurately or censoring Chinese search results; hell, at some point the military is likely going to have an issue with China potentially hacking into Google&#x27;s cloud infrastructure through their partnerships. A surprising number of the UX fails also come about because some executive is protecting their turf and won&#x27;t let the obvious integration &amp; UI simplification happen even though both engineers and customers want it.</text></item><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>Google&#x27;s hubris is believing engineering brilliance alone can solve everything. They are consistently bogglingly bad at human interaction -- communications, PR, management, UX, customer service.<p>There always seems to be a lack of well-roundedness at Google. It didn&#x27;t really matter back when they just did search, but now that they&#x27;re expanding into other fields, they&#x27;re looking more and more like an expert hammerer than an master of many tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ddebernardy</author><text>Getting bad commentary on geeky&#x2F;nerdy HN is, almost by definition, bad communications&#x2F;PR for a tech company.<p>Getting into too many fields and ending up all over the place is bad management.<p>Executives protecting their turfs may indeed be a recipe to getting bad UX, but that doesn&#x27;t excuse the fact that it&#x27;s bad UX or that bad UX is all over Google. If anything the latter points towards more bad management.<p>And as you wrote, customer service has always been bad.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Interview with German Ventilator Manufacturer</title><url>https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-ventilator-manufacturer-absolutely-mission-impossible-a-549d1e18-8c21-45f1-846f-cf5ca254b008</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sabertoothed</author><text>Some key statements:<p>&quot;Dräger: In Europe, the number of intensive-care beds per capita is very unequally distributed. In Italy, it is three times lower than here. In England, five times lower. The challenge in England will be greater than in Spain. And the situation in the U.S. is very alarming. The reporting system there is also underdeveloped.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Interview with German Ventilator Manufacturer</title><url>https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-ventilator-manufacturer-absolutely-mission-impossible-a-549d1e18-8c21-45f1-846f-cf5ca254b008</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>It would be nice if we could at least provide everybody with simple surgical masks. It would surely help flatten the curve a lot if we could make masks in public mandatory. As far as I understand it those are basically just paper and a nose clip. They should be very simple to mass manufacture.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract after 93 years</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/23/met-office-loses-bbc-weather-forecasting-contract</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in the UK for the past 8 years now (having lived in various places in the East Coast USA for the rest of my life).<p>I learned quickly that English weather forecasts are useless past the current day. It is probably due to the geographical location. East Coast US was accurate to 3 to 5 days. I just use Dark Sky[0] to get weather for the next several hours, which is mostly accurate.<p>Given the situation with the contract I see lots of back and forth noting accuracy - but Met Office does just as good a job as anyone else, for probably a much higher fee.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forecast.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forecast.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>&gt; East Coast US was accurate to 3 to 5 days<p>Interestingly in the US, the East Coast forecast is more accurate than the West Coast.<p>This is because the trade winds in the US mostly move West to East, so most of the Weather moves in that direction as well.<p>There are more weather sensors on land then in the Sea, so there is more data available to make a forecast with.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract after 93 years</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/23/met-office-loses-bbc-weather-forecasting-contract</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in the UK for the past 8 years now (having lived in various places in the East Coast USA for the rest of my life).<p>I learned quickly that English weather forecasts are useless past the current day. It is probably due to the geographical location. East Coast US was accurate to 3 to 5 days. I just use Dark Sky[0] to get weather for the next several hours, which is mostly accurate.<p>Given the situation with the contract I see lots of back and forth noting accuracy - but Met Office does just as good a job as anyone else, for probably a much higher fee.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forecast.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forecast.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>Agreed, many dynamics as far as UK weather concerned and probably the hardest country&#x2F;area to do a forecast due to those dynamics.<p>Indeed even the Guardian reports this <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;2011&#x2F;sep&#x2F;03&#x2F;uk-weather-defies-prediction-forecasters" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;2011&#x2F;sep&#x2F;03&#x2F;uk-weather-defies-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Scala Feels like EJB 2 </title><url>http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/scala-feels-like-ejb-2-and-other.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ekidd</author><text>Scala's great, if you have a gorgeous Haskell program and you want to port it to the JVM. Unfortunately, by itself, that may be a niche market.<p>If you want a dynamic language, you have lots of great choices. If you want powerful syntactic abstractions, you have Clojure, Lisp or Racket. You can win big with any of these tools.<p>But some problems benefit from powerful <i>mathematical</i> abstractions, and that's where Haskell and Scala start to shine. For example, if you need to do Bayesian filtering, you can bury all the math in a monad, and make Bayes' rule as easy as an 'if' statement. (I've got a blog post for the curious: <a href="http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2007/02/22/bayes-rule-and-drug-tests" rel="nofollow">http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2007/02/22/bayes-rule-an...</a> ) And when your library designs start involving generalizations of linear algebra, even Ruby-lovers may learn to appreciate a strong type system.<p>But this raises the real question: How useful is Scala if you <i>don't</i> need to do functional programming with a strong type system? Most people don't, at least today, and the jury's still out on whether it will ever be mainstream. Certainly, some smaller companies will use Scala and win big in specialized domains. But if Java hackers want to claim that Scala's an inappropriate tool for their jobs, who am I to argue? I write far more Ruby than Haskell, because I encounter lots of work that's well-suited to Ruby. (Of course, there's also Akka and a lot of other useful Scala features, which may appeal to people who don't need FP.)<p>So if Scala becomes seriously popular, I'll be delighted. But a large fraction of Scala's complexity is devoted to niche use cases, and that may make some people unhappy if they're merely looking for a "better Java".</text></comment>
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<story><title>Scala Feels like EJB 2 </title><url>http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/scala-feels-like-ejb-2-and-other.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dkhenry</author><text>A few things about this post.<p>firstly it is never good when you start out a discussion by saying now I know people will disagree but thats because their bigoted zelots. Its kind of disingenuous to attempt to post a technical dissent filled with personal opinion and preface it with that kind of clause inevitability allowing you to label any dissent as "See those scala zelots are at it again"<p>That being said this is an article that attempts to raise technical problems with scala but really just list a few of the authors own personal gripes with the language. In order here are his complaints<p>1. Scala doesn't have a rigid versioned module system
2. The functional way of doing concurrency isn't how I like to do concurrency
3. The scala community isn't helpful enough for me
4. The type system is too powerfull
5. The syntax is too flexable
6. There aren't enough tests in the compiler test suite<p>Its alot of the same thing I have seen when people try to list "The" problems with the language and not "Their" problems with the language. Technically there is only one argument that could even hold water thats about the module system . Which if he really needs a module system for his work then that is a technical limitation of the language and he might consider using a better tool for his job. The rest of it however is just nonsense and personal opinion pretending to be technical dissent.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A unified theory of VC suckage (2005)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yashap</author><text>&gt; The huge investments themselves are something founders would dislike, if they realized how damaging they can be. VCs don&#x27;t invest $x million because that&#x27;s the amount you need, but because that&#x27;s the amount the structure of their business requires them to invest. Like steroids, these sudden huge investments can do more harm than good. Google survived enormous VC funding because it could legitimately absorb large amounts of money. They had to buy a lot of servers and a lot of bandwidth to crawl the whole Web. Less fortunate startups just end up hiring armies of people to sit around having meetings.<p>I really saw this at the first startup I worked at. We did a massive VC round (I think the largest in Canadian tech history?), hired like absolute crazy after it. The company got bureaucratic and bloated, lost the ability to move quickly and efficiently, and never got it back.<p>I still loved working there for the coworkers, management and interesting problems, but I don’t think the investment was good for the company long term. A company of ~150 people grew to ~1000 in a year, but I think the 1000 people got less done, with a lot less agility, than the 150. Not out of laziness, just too many people for the size of the business problem, which led to a lot of unnecessary communication&#x2F;coordination overhead. Even disregarding the salary costs, I think had we stayed a lot smaller&#x2F;leaner, we would have been able to move a lot faster, be more innovative, and ultimately become a larger&#x2F;more successful company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>Is it possible to take the money and just not do any of that?<p>Just increase your runway?<p>I’d guess it’s socially impossible even if it’d be legally allowed.<p>PG alludes to this idea with the treasury comment, but I really wonder about it. Maybe your investors would hate you, but it’d be a pretty comfortable move.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A unified theory of VC suckage (2005)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yashap</author><text>&gt; The huge investments themselves are something founders would dislike, if they realized how damaging they can be. VCs don&#x27;t invest $x million because that&#x27;s the amount you need, but because that&#x27;s the amount the structure of their business requires them to invest. Like steroids, these sudden huge investments can do more harm than good. Google survived enormous VC funding because it could legitimately absorb large amounts of money. They had to buy a lot of servers and a lot of bandwidth to crawl the whole Web. Less fortunate startups just end up hiring armies of people to sit around having meetings.<p>I really saw this at the first startup I worked at. We did a massive VC round (I think the largest in Canadian tech history?), hired like absolute crazy after it. The company got bureaucratic and bloated, lost the ability to move quickly and efficiently, and never got it back.<p>I still loved working there for the coworkers, management and interesting problems, but I don’t think the investment was good for the company long term. A company of ~150 people grew to ~1000 in a year, but I think the 1000 people got less done, with a lot less agility, than the 150. Not out of laziness, just too many people for the size of the business problem, which led to a lot of unnecessary communication&#x2F;coordination overhead. Even disregarding the salary costs, I think had we stayed a lot smaller&#x2F;leaner, we would have been able to move a lot faster, be more innovative, and ultimately become a larger&#x2F;more successful company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>&gt; 1000 people got less done, with a lot less agility, than the 150.<p>too many chefs, not enough cooks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?</title><url>https://bignerdranch.com/blog/where-is-ruby-headed-in-2021/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fastball</author><text>When it comes to code, I&#x27;m fairly certain &quot;correctness&quot; is in fact an irrefutable advantage.<p>The argument has always been whether or not the price of that correctness is too high.<p>But at this point if you&#x27;re using a modern IDE &#x2F; code editor (e.g. VSCode), it&#x27;s actually <i>easier</i> to write statically typed code because the inference &#x2F; auto-completion &#x2F; etc is so much better when you do.<p>At least with TypeScript in VSCode.</text></item><item><author>tambourine_man</author><text>&gt; But that&#x27;s a pretty out-of-date take<p>Gradual&#x2F;optional static typing are not new ideias. It’s just that they are fashionable now.<p>It used to be that not having to deal with types <i>at all</i> was the cool place to be in. Our computers were getting so much faster every year, why would performance be a concern? Programmers are more productive in dynamic languages and computer time is cheap, etc, etc.<p>The “correctness” pitch, the required for larger projects, compiletime vs runtime errors are all discussable, even though they are often thrown in the conversation as irrefutable advantages of static typing.<p>The performance angle, not so much. Static will almost always be faster then dynamic typing, even with all the crazy tricks we’ve developed over the decades.</text></item><item><author>eropple</author><text>This is a set of statements that strike me as pretty unreflective of the state of things these days. I have slung a <i>lot</i> of Ruby in my life and I literally-not-figuratively stopped the second I laid my hands on TypeScript because we&#x27;ve hit the point where gradual static typing is both easily available and <i>super easy to work with</i>. (And there&#x27;s also Rust, which can scratch a whole different set of itches that I don&#x27;t happen to personally have.)<p>If your idea of static typing is Java or Go or &quot;something&quot;, if your idea of it is that it&#x27;s for &quot;giant orgs&quot; and not improving your own correctness and throughput of code (I write better code, <i>faster</i>, in TypeScript than I ever did in Ruby!), yeah, it might not make sense. But that&#x27;s a pretty out-of-date take, I think, and the wins the suitably plastic individual can get, even on a solo or small-team project, are significant.</text></item><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Honestly I don&#x27;t get why some people want to move to static types. Ruby is a dynamic language, that&#x27;s the point of it... Giant orgs can just use Java or something. We need some languages to stay productive for those of us who work solo or in small groups. If I wanted static types I&#x27;d use Java, Go or something (probably Haskell).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; The argument has always been whether or not the price of that correctness is too high.<p>No. I mean, that&#x27;s been part of the argument, but so has whether static typing actually gave you useful correctness. Many static languages have had type systems that are more designed around convenience of compilation (and performance of compiled code) than correctness; the type systems of the optional typecheckers of modern dynamic languages are leaps and bounds better than static type systems of most popular static languages a couple decades ago, and have been for some time.<p>&gt; But at this point if you&#x27;re using a modern IDE &#x2F; code editor (e.g. VSCode), it&#x27;s actually easier to write statically typed code because the inference &#x2F; auto-completion &#x2F; etc is so much better when you do.<p>If you have good inference, statically typed and dynamically typed code is virtually indistinguishable TypeProf-IDE for Ruby, discussed in TFA, generates type signatures by inference from plain Ruby code.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?</title><url>https://bignerdranch.com/blog/where-is-ruby-headed-in-2021/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fastball</author><text>When it comes to code, I&#x27;m fairly certain &quot;correctness&quot; is in fact an irrefutable advantage.<p>The argument has always been whether or not the price of that correctness is too high.<p>But at this point if you&#x27;re using a modern IDE &#x2F; code editor (e.g. VSCode), it&#x27;s actually <i>easier</i> to write statically typed code because the inference &#x2F; auto-completion &#x2F; etc is so much better when you do.<p>At least with TypeScript in VSCode.</text></item><item><author>tambourine_man</author><text>&gt; But that&#x27;s a pretty out-of-date take<p>Gradual&#x2F;optional static typing are not new ideias. It’s just that they are fashionable now.<p>It used to be that not having to deal with types <i>at all</i> was the cool place to be in. Our computers were getting so much faster every year, why would performance be a concern? Programmers are more productive in dynamic languages and computer time is cheap, etc, etc.<p>The “correctness” pitch, the required for larger projects, compiletime vs runtime errors are all discussable, even though they are often thrown in the conversation as irrefutable advantages of static typing.<p>The performance angle, not so much. Static will almost always be faster then dynamic typing, even with all the crazy tricks we’ve developed over the decades.</text></item><item><author>eropple</author><text>This is a set of statements that strike me as pretty unreflective of the state of things these days. I have slung a <i>lot</i> of Ruby in my life and I literally-not-figuratively stopped the second I laid my hands on TypeScript because we&#x27;ve hit the point where gradual static typing is both easily available and <i>super easy to work with</i>. (And there&#x27;s also Rust, which can scratch a whole different set of itches that I don&#x27;t happen to personally have.)<p>If your idea of static typing is Java or Go or &quot;something&quot;, if your idea of it is that it&#x27;s for &quot;giant orgs&quot; and not improving your own correctness and throughput of code (I write better code, <i>faster</i>, in TypeScript than I ever did in Ruby!), yeah, it might not make sense. But that&#x27;s a pretty out-of-date take, I think, and the wins the suitably plastic individual can get, even on a solo or small-team project, are significant.</text></item><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Honestly I don&#x27;t get why some people want to move to static types. Ruby is a dynamic language, that&#x27;s the point of it... Giant orgs can just use Java or something. We need some languages to stay productive for those of us who work solo or in small groups. If I wanted static types I&#x27;d use Java, Go or something (probably Haskell).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s actually easier to write statically typed code because the inference &#x2F; auto-completion &#x2F; etc is so much better when you do.<p>Ruby has a pretty nice language server, nice linter, REPL (Pry), many other tools.<p>The best development experience IMO is still stuff like SLIME or Smalltalk environments.<p>&quot;Intellisence&quot; just makes using statically typed languages bearable. It&#x27;s not a unique feature.</text></comment>
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<story><title>US Senate Bill S.1241 to Criminalize Concealed Ownership of Bitcoin</title><url>https://btcmanager.com/us-senate-bill-s-1241-criminalize-concealed-ownership-bitcoin/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ransom1538</author><text>General question. Currently money laundering is illegal (concealing money gained from unlawful activity) [i] and the IRS already asks you specifically if you own assets [digital currency] [ii], so i am honestly curious what this would change. If you own bitcoin and are not disclosing this to the government [irs] of such assets you are already breaking federal law. This just adds charges? Or does this help fund the feds to form task forces? Lawyers I have consulted mention trusts to legally hide assets [iii]. help.<p>[i] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;18&#x2F;1956" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;18&#x2F;1956</a>
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<story><title>US Senate Bill S.1241 to Criminalize Concealed Ownership of Bitcoin</title><url>https://btcmanager.com/us-senate-bill-s-1241-criminalize-concealed-ownership-bitcoin/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>21</author><text>Bank secrecy is dead*<p>To imagine that bitcoin could change that or not abide is foolishness.<p>* for poor people anyway, with poor meaning &lt; $10 mil which affords you lawyers and offshore shell companies</text></comment>
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<story><title>Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Intent to Merge</title><url>https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news/2018/10/node-js-foundation-and-js-foundation-announce-intent-to-create-joint-organization-to-support-the-broad-node-js-and-javascript-communities/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EB66</author><text>I&#x27;m not really happy to hear about this. To me, it demonstrates that the JS Foundation continues to focus on the wrong priorities. They&#x27;ve thoroughly neglected their stewardship responsibilities for a number of different open source projects. They&#x27;ve seen a reduction in sponsorship&#x2F;funding for maintaining projects and they&#x27;ve pulled back from GSoC and other events that were essential in drawing in new open source contributors.<p>On top of all that, they&#x27;ve piled on bureaucracy and alienated many important long-time contributors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;globalizejs&#x2F;globalize&#x2F;pull&#x2F;703" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;globalizejs&#x2F;globalize&#x2F;pull&#x2F;703</a><p>Despite their slogan &quot;The Center of Gravity in the Javascript Ecosystem&quot;, these days, the JS Foundation is largely an irrelevant organization. I see this merge as a last ditch effort to retain some sort of relevancy. They&#x27;ve abandoned their roots as a center of innovation. I see no effort to pivot their existing dying projects to compete in today&#x27;s JS ecosystem dominated by component-based SPA frameworks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Intent to Merge</title><url>https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news/2018/10/node-js-foundation-and-js-foundation-announce-intent-to-create-joint-organization-to-support-the-broad-node-js-and-javascript-communities/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monsieurbanana</author><text>It&#x27;s the first time I heard of the Javascript Foundation. What&#x27;s exactly it&#x27;s purpose? Founding the projects it hosts?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;js.foundation&#x2F;community&#x2F;projects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;js.foundation&#x2F;community&#x2F;projects</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Pieces of Shit</title><url>https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/23/pieces-of-shit.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nbzso</author><text>I cannot deny the observation. I am not from the privileged, ivy league educated, nurtured and after all I am not an American, but I see the same patterns in Europe and cannot come up with any constructive suggestions.<p>As you can see, I don&#x27;t search approval. I write from a big distance and react.<p>And seeing the individuals attacking the character of the messenger without getting the message makes me sad. Really sad.<p>When I started creating things for the web I had no idea that my web-browser in 2021 will look like Christmas Tree from installed plugins and I will modify countless settings in about:config. All of this to have somewhat private browsing experience.<p>All of this because, we as society cannot find a way to impose regulations and restrictions over a bunch of greedy advertising corporations.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geohot.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;jekyll&#x2F;update&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;06&#x2F;consumption.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geohot.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;jekyll&#x2F;update&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;06&#x2F;consu...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Pieces of Shit</title><url>https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/23/pieces-of-shit.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pixelpoet</author><text>More than a little hypocritical to complain about crypto scams, when he himself created this &quot;cheap eth&quot; coin, gave himself a bajillion coins in the fork code without telling anyone, and then started shilling it in his stream.<p>More info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26175655" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26175655</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook’s Surveillance Machine</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mliker</author><text>VR hasn’t taken off as promised and the hype is dying down now. The headset is too clunky in its current incarnation. People view it as a novelty item rather than a useful tool, so I’m inclined to believe this won’t be the massive surveillance tool VR proponents think it’ll be.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>I was one of the co-founders of an early social VR startup and observed first hand the technical capabilities that these applications will afford bad actors to use for surveillance. You can easily capture voice, body tracking, and interaction data, and basically record a full view of the world through the eyes of another human being. It&#x27;s quite remarkable being able to record and play back a copy of yourself in seconds from a remote server, but the potential for abuse is immense.<p>Facebook&#x27;s made a move, probably the biggest move of any company, into VR. They bought Oculus for $2B while everyone else was scratching their heads. Social VR is their focus at Facebook proper, and they are leaving the <i>entire</i> rest of the VR ecosystem to their subsidiary Oculus. Isn&#x27;t it obvious why? VR, if it becomes the dominant form of human communication, will make their current surveillance machine look like a joke. Facebook would be in a position to be an intermediary for every human interaction on earth that doesn&#x27;t take place in physical space. It&#x27;s nice to see the public become aware of what they&#x27;ve done before they are able to take it to the next level of nearly being inside of our heads.<p>This is the primary underlying motivation for why we are working on building an alternative open communication platform for Mixed Reality at Mozilla. We&#x27;re heads down building stuff now but you can expect to see us shipping things soon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozvr.com&#x2F;enabling-the-social-3d-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozvr.com&#x2F;enabling-the-social-3d-web&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>Eh, it&#x27;s still in the palm-pilot phase. They&#x27;ll figure it out quietly over the next 10 years. Machine learning will help figure out what to pull into the headset (things you&#x27;re about to walk into) or it will intelligently make the game world similar enough in your immediate surroundings to where you don&#x27;t hit stuff. I could see people hanging out at parks or beaches with these things on. Even going for a swim if the headset is waterproof enough. It will just take decades of work to get there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook’s Surveillance Machine</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mliker</author><text>VR hasn’t taken off as promised and the hype is dying down now. The headset is too clunky in its current incarnation. People view it as a novelty item rather than a useful tool, so I’m inclined to believe this won’t be the massive surveillance tool VR proponents think it’ll be.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>I was one of the co-founders of an early social VR startup and observed first hand the technical capabilities that these applications will afford bad actors to use for surveillance. You can easily capture voice, body tracking, and interaction data, and basically record a full view of the world through the eyes of another human being. It&#x27;s quite remarkable being able to record and play back a copy of yourself in seconds from a remote server, but the potential for abuse is immense.<p>Facebook&#x27;s made a move, probably the biggest move of any company, into VR. They bought Oculus for $2B while everyone else was scratching their heads. Social VR is their focus at Facebook proper, and they are leaving the <i>entire</i> rest of the VR ecosystem to their subsidiary Oculus. Isn&#x27;t it obvious why? VR, if it becomes the dominant form of human communication, will make their current surveillance machine look like a joke. Facebook would be in a position to be an intermediary for every human interaction on earth that doesn&#x27;t take place in physical space. It&#x27;s nice to see the public become aware of what they&#x27;ve done before they are able to take it to the next level of nearly being inside of our heads.<p>This is the primary underlying motivation for why we are working on building an alternative open communication platform for Mixed Reality at Mozilla. We&#x27;re heads down building stuff now but you can expect to see us shipping things soon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozvr.com&#x2F;enabling-the-social-3d-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozvr.com&#x2F;enabling-the-social-3d-web&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>washadjeffmad</author><text>The commercial products aren&#x27;t representational of the limits of the form, just what&#x27;s currently economically feasible to produce and sell.<p>You&#x27;ve got to have a market first, and affordable entry-level VR is damn good way to generate interest.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Py1040 – A U.S. personal income tax calculator</title><url>https://github.com/b-k/py1040</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b__k</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m the project author.<p>I started writing this to do my own taxes, which are very complicated---the project covers forms 1040, 6251, part of 8582, 1040 schedules A &amp; E, and several worksheets because I actually have to file all of those. [Well, I don&#x27;t have to file f6251, but I can&#x27;t prove that without going through it.]<p>But since starting I&#x27;m thinking more and more about the value of a public reference version of the tax code. I discuss this more here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bureauphile.wordpress.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;managing-complexity-encoding-the-tax-code" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bureauphile.wordpress.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;managing-comple...</a> .<p>Thanks to this thread I&#x27;ve learned about a few other implementations of the code, and I&#x27;ll have to check them out. But I should note that the XML documents from the IRS are not one of them. They do a good deal of error checking, but you can&#x27;t use them to solve for the bottom line. It&#x27;s the lack of a reference implementation of the tax code from the IRS that has led me and evidently several others to roll our own.<p>Given a reference implementation, there are a lot of things one could do: a what-if calculator for consumers or businesses, a policy analysis tool using IRS SOI (statistics of income) data, still more infographics beyond the one at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;b-k.github.io&#x2F;1040.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;b-k.github.io&#x2F;1040.js</a> , tools for in-person tax prep for all the tax clinics that pop up this time of year. In a perfect and ideal world, IRS would pick up on all this potential utility and would start providing a reference implementation themselves.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Py1040 – A U.S. personal income tax calculator</title><url>https://github.com/b-k/py1040</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>Count me as one of the people who needs to pay for software to do taxes every year...it&#x27;s only something I do once a year, so not frequently enough that personal automation would be worthwhile (even as a weekend project)...and...the tax code to me is probably like what software installation is to the people who pay fees to Geek Squad :p<p>But this from the author sounds promising:<p>&gt; <i>By re-presenting the tax calculation as a tree, we have the ability to trace back what led to any surprises on the tax form, aggregate multiple users, and otherwise process the information in a manner that would be difficult or incoherent using only the form view. If your financial situation gives you the freedom to act on what-if scenarios, or if you are a tax researcher considering the situations of diverse taxpayers, the structures here are hopefully more amenable to your needs.</i><p>I mean, I guess that&#x27;s the normal pattern of software innovation...take something very specific, abstract it a bit, and now you have something that opens new ways of thinking and exploring. I wasn&#x27;t aware that there was XML metadata that could be interpreted...though in retrospect...obviously there would have to be for tax software to stay up to date, though I pictured in my head that Turbotax and its peers just bring in hundreds of data entry persons to pore over reams of tax code paper documents to fix up the app every year.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Basic Income caused crime to drop by 40% and strengthened workforce?</title><url>https://www.theincomer.com/2018/02/28/basic-income-crime-rate-drop-by-40-lower-inequality-even-stronger-workforce/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pacbard</author><text>Every time you want to evaluate results from social research, you need to ask yourself two questions:<p>1. Are the results internally valid? That is, did the authors reasonably control for factors other than the treatment (in this case, UBI) that could affect the observed results? Turn out, that this is actually difficult to do outside of randomized control trials. Quasi-experiments and natural experiments all lack random treatment assignment. This leads to biased estimates and wrong conclusions.<p>2. Are the results externally valid? That is, to whom do the results apply? Most UBI experiments are done in contexts that are different than the US (if you are interested in what would happened if UBI becomes law in the US). Local factors could impact the way that people react to UBI. Because these factors do not apply to the US, the study results do not readily translate to the US.<p>For example, the article cites this NBER working paper[1] as proof that UBI has positive impacts on unemployment. The article uses a difference-in-differences model with a systemic control group to get to a causal estimate of receiving dividends from the Alaska Permanent Fund. This boils down to compare changes in employment between Alaska and states that had similar employment trends during the pre-treatment period. Their analysis seem to be sound and they conduct multiple robustness checks.<p>As far as external validity, how similar is Alaska to the rest of the US? Would results from that setting translate to California, or Mississippi, or New York?<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;w24312.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;w24312.pdf</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Basic Income caused crime to drop by 40% and strengthened workforce?</title><url>https://www.theincomer.com/2018/02/28/basic-income-crime-rate-drop-by-40-lower-inequality-even-stronger-workforce/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>The big problem with UBI, aside from how to pay for it, is that it will not survive as either universal or basic once the voters get their hands on it and decide that, say, UBI benefits should be cut for felons, increased for single mothers, indexed to the cost of rent, etc.<p>In other words, we have a bunch of different welfare standards for people in different situations because that is what succeeds politically, and there is no reason to believe the same impulses that got us our current welfare system won&#x27;t influence UBI also.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dress code: blue tie and male</title><url>http://elektronista.dk/kommentar/dresscode-blue-tie-and-male/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>How many times are we going to keep hearing the non-apology apology: "We are sorry if some were offended..."? I am so tired of it, it has become a cliche. When did the business world/lawyers decide this was the optimal legal response to customers? My blood boils every time I read it as it is the most disingenuous, calculated, shallow tripe you can trot out when you fuck up. What ever happened to just owning up to your mistakes? What exactly are the massive consequences between saying "We're sorry" and "We're sorry some were offended"? Is it liability, lack of character, "best practices", what?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Actually apologizing admits to wrongdoing, which opens one up to liability and other consequences. Not apologizing at all is seen as callous and only incites the mob against you. A non-apology apology is still enough to settle the mob but not enough to open one up to liability. The only downside is that it upsets intelligent people like you and I who are capable of actually parsing and understanding these kinds of statements. Most people are content with something that sounds like an apology.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dress code: blue tie and male</title><url>http://elektronista.dk/kommentar/dresscode-blue-tie-and-male/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>How many times are we going to keep hearing the non-apology apology: "We are sorry if some were offended..."? I am so tired of it, it has become a cliche. When did the business world/lawyers decide this was the optimal legal response to customers? My blood boils every time I read it as it is the most disingenuous, calculated, shallow tripe you can trot out when you fuck up. What ever happened to just owning up to your mistakes? What exactly are the massive consequences between saying "We're sorry" and "We're sorry some were offended"? Is it liability, lack of character, "best practices", what?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spindritf</author><text>&#62; How many times are we going to keep hearing the non-apology apology: "We are sorry if some were offended..."?<p>About as many times as we make powerful people apologise in public, especially when they're not really feeling guilty. And it's not always in that form, sometimes it's closer to Clinton's "mistakes were made". While most non-apologies are pretty standard, there is some variation and innovation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/?cid=co5746764</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>betterunix</author><text>So, remember a few months ago, when people like me were saying that the third parties are the only hope in America's democracy? Then a bunch of people said that Obama was worlds different from Romney, and that comparing Obama to Bush was lunacy.<p>I have to wonder what happens when those Obama supporters with left-wing sentiments read an article like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>An article like what?<p>I voted or and contibuted to Obama because I felt he would fight for public schools and against nationwide voucher programs, and because he supported meaningful health care reform.<p>I had absolutely zero expectation that Obama would waste political capital revamping CBP.<p>The TSA is a far bigger problem for ordinary Americans than CBP is, and a more constitutionally offensive one. I think we can all quickly agree that electronic strip searches of all American citizens are an affront to the word "reasonable".<p>And yet it never crossed my mind not to vote for Obama because his DHS supported the TSA. Why? Because something like 70% of Americans support the TSA, and, simultaneously, game theory more or less demands that any administration support all counterterrorism measures. There was no possibility that <i>any</i> winning candidate was going to eliminate the TSA. The problem wasn't Obama or Romney; it's the American people.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/?cid=co5746764</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>betterunix</author><text>So, remember a few months ago, when people like me were saying that the third parties are the only hope in America's democracy? Then a bunch of people said that Obama was worlds different from Romney, and that comparing Obama to Bush was lunacy.<p>I have to wonder what happens when those Obama supporters with left-wing sentiments read an article like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>The executive's party or position on civil rights has very little to do with the stance of a bureaucracy the size of DHS.<p>Such entities likely cannot change course even in the length of a full presidential term. They configure and operate themselves for self preservation and growth of scope and power, with deep defense mechanisms against political whims.<p>They are often incompetent at their charter, while obscenely effective at self aggrandizement.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Law suit shuts down Olson TZ database servers.</title><url>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4133</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apaprocki</author><text>I've pulled the court documents via Bloomberg Law. The issue at hand is that Astrolabe owns copyright to the "ACS Atlas", consisting of both the "ACS International Atlas" and the "ACS American Atlas". Olson tz files specifically reference the "ACS Atlas" as a source for some tz data and allegedly incorrectly asserts that it is in the public domain. They sent a takedown notice in May 2011 and it was ignored. The FTP site is listed in the court filing and they are requesting a temporary injunction, a permanent injunction, and award of damages and attorney fees.<p>EDIT: The registered copyright they're referring to is here:
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<story><title>Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-tim-cook-bloomberg-retraction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moftz</author><text>Tim Cook would have to know. If there is something like a NSL involved, Apple&#x27;s legal team would have already reviewed it. That same legal team would also be advising Cook on what he publicly says since he is an officer in the company. He could lose his job or be fined for saying false information in the press (think about what happened to Musk) so its in his and his legal team&#x27;s best interest to only say true things in the press or at least spin things so they aren&#x27;t blatantly false. An NSL compels you to say nothing. You can neither confirm nor deny anything and its probably against the law for him to outright lie about the situation in the eyes of the SEC so he has to either be spinning things, omitting things, or outright telling the truth. The Bloomberg piece is fantastic but that kind of attack vector does exist however narrow it may be. I don&#x27;t know why Bloomberg seems to want to double down on this. They are either incredibly stupid and are involved in some murder-suicide plot against Supermicro or they are telling the truth but maybe a little misguided.</text></item><item><author>tunesmith</author><text>Is it precedented for a news organization to double down like this in the case where a reporter just makes stuff up Stephen Glass style?<p>Because barring a Stephen Glass scenario, what&#x27;s fascinating here is that no matter which side is right, this is evidence of some sort of mysterious power play.<p>Either Apple was hacked, they know, and are denying, which is evidence of them being under the thumb of U.S. national security.<p>Or, they were hacked and an internal team knows and Cook doesn&#x27;t, which is evidence of U.S. national security having powerful influence inside of Apple.<p>Or, they weren&#x27;t hacked, and Bloomberg is doubling down, which at this point would mean that someone has successfully hacked their journalistic verification processes to an extreme level.<p>In all three of those cases, it points to a level of attacker competence that I&#x27;m not normally inclined to believe in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abalone</author><text>Just for clarity, there are some cases where the CEO is in fact left out of the loop specifically so they aren&#x27;t in jeopardy of lying to shareholders. But typically it is the chief counsel who is informed in these scenarios. It is significant the Apple statements have been clear to rule out that possibility.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-tim-cook-bloomberg-retraction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moftz</author><text>Tim Cook would have to know. If there is something like a NSL involved, Apple&#x27;s legal team would have already reviewed it. That same legal team would also be advising Cook on what he publicly says since he is an officer in the company. He could lose his job or be fined for saying false information in the press (think about what happened to Musk) so its in his and his legal team&#x27;s best interest to only say true things in the press or at least spin things so they aren&#x27;t blatantly false. An NSL compels you to say nothing. You can neither confirm nor deny anything and its probably against the law for him to outright lie about the situation in the eyes of the SEC so he has to either be spinning things, omitting things, or outright telling the truth. The Bloomberg piece is fantastic but that kind of attack vector does exist however narrow it may be. I don&#x27;t know why Bloomberg seems to want to double down on this. They are either incredibly stupid and are involved in some murder-suicide plot against Supermicro or they are telling the truth but maybe a little misguided.</text></item><item><author>tunesmith</author><text>Is it precedented for a news organization to double down like this in the case where a reporter just makes stuff up Stephen Glass style?<p>Because barring a Stephen Glass scenario, what&#x27;s fascinating here is that no matter which side is right, this is evidence of some sort of mysterious power play.<p>Either Apple was hacked, they know, and are denying, which is evidence of them being under the thumb of U.S. national security.<p>Or, they were hacked and an internal team knows and Cook doesn&#x27;t, which is evidence of U.S. national security having powerful influence inside of Apple.<p>Or, they weren&#x27;t hacked, and Bloomberg is doubling down, which at this point would mean that someone has successfully hacked their journalistic verification processes to an extreme level.<p>In all three of those cases, it points to a level of attacker competence that I&#x27;m not normally inclined to believe in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephenr</author><text>&gt; If there is something like a NSL involved, Apple&#x27;s legal team would have already reviewed it.<p>Apple&#x27;s official statement clearly said, they&#x27;re <i>not</i> under any form of NSL or gag order.<p>The prevailing logic seems to be that US courts still believe the government can&#x27;t force you to say something against your will, only prevent you from saying something.</text></comment>
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Instead, if you really need a true (n, 1) matrix you should 1) not use adjoint because that will also take complex conjugates (unless that&#x27;s what you wanted) and 2) use collect to turn the lazy transpose (or adjoint) into a true matrix<p><pre><code> julia&gt; collect(transpose([1 2 3]))
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However, you almost never need to do this sort of thing and you should be fine using either transpose on a row vector or just using a real column vector.<p>Also, near the end they talk about closures but don&#x27;t actually show any closures unless one is to assume the code snippets they&#x27;re showing are actually inside a function body themselves.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities</title><url>https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moistbar</author><text>Spoken like someone who&#x27;s never driven in a city.<p>City streets are narrow and extremely uncomfortable to drive on as it is.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>They&#x27;re minor investments practically, and major investments politically.<p>As you say, for many motorists, giving up space on even some roads to cyclists is treated like some sort of war crime. There&#x27;s very much of attitude of, &quot;we can&#x27;t just have a majority of the road space -- we need nearly all of it!&quot;</text></item><item><author>stfp</author><text>But it doesn&#x27;t require major investments. It&#x27;s really minor investments compared to other infrastructure projects. The issue is taking away even a tiny fraction of car space basically triggers some kind of political road rage.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Switching from gas to electric is something I can do all on my own. Switching from gas car to cycling is something that would require major investments from my city and developers.<p>Both are noble goals, but let&#x27;s not let perfect be the enemy of good. Switch to electric now, and <i>also</i> encourage new roads and new developments to be bike friendly, so that switching to a bike is something that will be viable in 20 or 30 years for most cities in America.<p>Edit: To clarify, the investment I&#x27;m referring to is rezoning entire cities and tearing down single family homes and replacing them with mixed use buildings to bring commercial spaces closer to residential spaces. Most American cities have commercial centers and are then surrounded by residential, with very little mixing of the two. For example the closest place for me to buy food is .75 mile away, but the closest supermarket is 1.5 miles and I have to cross two major roads and a Freeway to get there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>&gt;<i>City streets are narrow and extremely uncomfortable to drive on as it is.</i><p>I agree. I live in a city and am constantly afraid of all the gigantic cars that fly by me whenever I walk anywhere. I&#x27;m also constantly (albeit much less) afraid of someone stepping out onto the street when they&#x27;re not supposed to and not being able to stop in time. But maybe, just maybe, the cars (that get bigger every year) are the problem? Maybe instead of declaring that roads are for cars and roads are too small so nothing can be improved, we could make it easier to get around cities without a car?<p>I just find it ridiculous that anyone who lives in a city has to live with the fact that a 3 inch curb is all that&#x27;s stopping a massive hunk of metal from running them over. I find it ridiculous that bike (or non-car) lanes are considered evil because of the idea that not being able to park directly in front of your destination means that no one will go there. And I say this as someone who drives a car <i>and</i> rides a bike in a city, because I&#x27;m well aware that a lot of people who ride bikes do so in a very unsafe way. But I&#x27;d take getting hit by someone on a bike over getting hit by even a moped every single time.<p>People live in cities, not cars. I shouldn&#x27;t have to fear for my life while walking down the street.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A RESTful Micro-Framework in Go</title><url>http://dougblack.io/words/a-restful-micro-framework-in-go.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mitchellh</author><text>This looks like a great resource! A bit of a rant (not directed at the person who wrote this, because the link at hand is great):<p>Writing APIs in Go is not the hard part. There are a ton of options for routing basic URLs to handlers. There are a few areas that are a nightmare, total total nightmare:<p>* SQL - The raw database&#x2F;sql package in Go is very low-level. It is a terrible experience to use in a project that makes anything more than a handful of simple queries. I&#x27;m not asking for an ORM, but it would really benefit the community if there was a SQLAlchemy style (the non-ORM part of it) library for Go. It should be MUCH easier to make basic queries to SQL and get out results.<p>* Templating - The built in &quot;html&#x2F;template&quot; package is just not good enough for a web app when compared to something like Jinja (Python). &quot;html&#x2F;template&quot; gets points for being simple, and actually its not a complaint against &quot;html&#x2F;template&quot;: I think there just needs to be a more feature-packed templating package like Jinja for Go. &quot;html&#x2F;template&quot; doesn&#x27;t support things like inheritance, didn&#x27;t even support comparison operators until Go 1.2, etc.<p>These two problems have made it so I&#x27;ve pretty much given up web apps in Go for now. Services in Go are _amazing_. But if you&#x27;re trying to get a full blown web app (again, not the point of the linked article above), then you&#x27;re gonna have a bad time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hierro</author><text>We&#x27;re about to release our Go web framework which, I think, implements all the features you&#x27;re mentioning and a few more. We&#x27;re aiming for a release in Q1, but getting everything cleaned up and writing good documentation is taking a bit longer than expected. Right now, our internal framework (codenamed Gondola, but subject to change), includes:<p>* A full ORM which generates tables from structs and allows relations between models, as well as a simple querying system based on Go functions which joins the tables automatically for you e.g.<p><pre><code> memeId := base36.Decode(param)
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Meme declares a FK to Template, so the ORM automatically joins the tables and populates both pointers. Note that the ORM does not require the backends to be relational, so even when ATM we only have database&#x2F;sql based backends you could write a backend for mongodb or rethinkdb.<p>* Inheritance based template system, with a declarative assets pipeline supporting compilation (e.g. it compiles coffescript to JS and less to CSS on demand - also pluggable). This is the base template from one of our apps:<p><pre><code> {{&#x2F;*
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This server query 1.10 and 2.0 from Google&#x27;s CDN, bootstrap and fontawesome from bootstrapcdn.com and bundles all our styles and scripts a CSS and a JS file. Then other templates can extend this one and override its blocks e.g.<p><pre><code> {{&#x2F;*
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(note that base.html could also define its own &quot;main&quot; block which would act as a default if you loaded base.html and it would be replaced by main.html&#x27;s &quot;main&quot; block if you loaded &quot;main&quot;).<p>* Easy to use signed and encrypted cookies.<p>* Regular expression based URL routing.<p>* Functions for easily parsing input parameters.<p>* A development server which automatically rebuilds the source as it changes and reports compilation errors in the browser itself. While developing, runtime errors are also reported in the browser with complete backtraces and printing the values passed to each function. While running in production, those reports are sent by email to the project administrator(s).<p>* App-wide and low-level caching system with pluggable backends, currently supporting Redis and Memcache as well as a dummy backend for development.<p>* Form generator and validator from Go structs, with renderers for both Bootstrap and Foundation (renderers are also pluggable, so you could also write your own. We also support generating forms from multiple objects so you e.g. write an object which generates a captcha and include it in any form with a single line in code (in fact, we provide just that, but a simple numeric captcha a a full-blown recaptcha object). It also does automatic CSRF protection.<p>* A complete i18n system, which extracts strings from Go code and templates, generates .pot files which can be translated using any editor (or a specialized .po editor if you feel like it) and them compiles .po files back to Go code again. This makes packages with their translations &quot;go-get-able&quot;.<p>* Periodic and background tasks which can either be scheduled or just started from any web request.<p>* A configuration package which takes a struct and fills it by parsing an optional configuration file as well as command line flags.<p>* Support for administrative commands, which can be executed from the command line or started remotely.<p>* Support for pluggable apps. e.g. we do have a &quot;users&quot; app which provides user registration, authentication and social integration. This can be included in any other app with a couple of lines of code (one line for the import, another line to tell our main app to include it). Included apps can do a lot of stuff, like inserting code in every template rendered by the parent app, including external assets like images, styles or scripts and even rendering their own templates contained inside your parent&#x27;s app base template.<p>* Last but not least, a minimal overhead (in the range of 100ns per request) profiling framework which lets you know how much time a request spent in the cache, the orm, the template, e.g... as well as seeing how much each operation took (e.g. you can check how much time a SELECT took and also perform an EXPLAIN on it). Users can also define their own events and profile them by instrumenting their code (it usually requires just a line of code per resource, to indicate its name). You can also profile a live server by using a command line app included in the framework.<p>We also have helper and utility functions for the more mundane stuff and basically everything you could expect from a web framework. We took inspiration from Django, Tornado and Rails and tried to take the best of them while building this framework (I used to contribute to Tornado back in the day). We&#x27;ve been developing this internally for almost 2 years and it&#x27;s now around 40KLOC of Go and a couple of K of coffescript, less and html.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NvChad: An attempt to make Neovim TUI as functional as an IDE</title><url>https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inDigiNeous</author><text>Inspired by these cool looking setups, I spent many days trying to setup a modern NeoVim setup, but ultimately failing to produce a really usable experience.<p>I feel these really tuned out Vim&#x2F;NeoVim setups are the modern equivalent of really tuned out Linux setups, as in they are something you can spend a lot of time working on and creating some very hacker like cool setups, but ultimately usability is not so great compared to a more full blown and integrated IDE like VSCode.<p>And I&#x27;m a hardcore VIM -user, dont&#x27; get me wrong, but making these configurations where you combine like 10-20 different plugins, it&#x27;s gonna be a whole incoherent experience with many different thought paradigms colliding easily.<p>I do love the idea of having something working in Vim as perfectly as in VSCode for example, but the actual experience is not there. Ultimately things like C++ code completion and intellisense require <i>a lot</i> of work and code to get right, and NeoVim&#x2F;Vim attempts are not there yet, for example I had to give up when the only way to figure out what compilation flags a project uses meant configuring it manually.<p>But they sure are cool for hacker-type setups and look cool for sure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verall</author><text>I have a tuned-out linux (i3) setup and it really is my productivity superpower. I remember how much time I used to spend clicking between open applications, and now I am 2 macros from basically any open window.<p>I think the important part is building up over years. When I tried to set something like this up all at once when I was young, but difficulty remembering anything made it get in the way. By adding incrementally, I get to understand each piece, and incremental pieces that aren&#x27;t useful are forgotten.<p>It certainly changes things as a C++&#x2F;embedded dev using a custom build system. The Jetbrains ecosystem is not an option.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NvChad: An attempt to make Neovim TUI as functional as an IDE</title><url>https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inDigiNeous</author><text>Inspired by these cool looking setups, I spent many days trying to setup a modern NeoVim setup, but ultimately failing to produce a really usable experience.<p>I feel these really tuned out Vim&#x2F;NeoVim setups are the modern equivalent of really tuned out Linux setups, as in they are something you can spend a lot of time working on and creating some very hacker like cool setups, but ultimately usability is not so great compared to a more full blown and integrated IDE like VSCode.<p>And I&#x27;m a hardcore VIM -user, dont&#x27; get me wrong, but making these configurations where you combine like 10-20 different plugins, it&#x27;s gonna be a whole incoherent experience with many different thought paradigms colliding easily.<p>I do love the idea of having something working in Vim as perfectly as in VSCode for example, but the actual experience is not there. Ultimately things like C++ code completion and intellisense require <i>a lot</i> of work and code to get right, and NeoVim&#x2F;Vim attempts are not there yet, for example I had to give up when the only way to figure out what compilation flags a project uses meant configuring it manually.<p>But they sure are cool for hacker-type setups and look cool for sure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>You are doing it wrong. You start with a bare vim&#x2F;neovim editor. Then you learn the basic keystrokes of vim and maybe adjust them a bit for your fingers. Then you add, for example, an autocompletion plugin or tool (there is COC.vim or native-LSP for neovim); then you add a theme; then you add a files explorer, etc...<p>This is done over the course of a &quot;few years&quot;. I understand this is not an instant solution like an IDE is, but Vim takes a lot investment in terms of muscle memory or configuration to finally have a setup that &quot;fits you&quot;. Once that happens, that&#x27;s where Vim&#x2F;Linux&#x2F;your-shell will &quot;click&quot;. You can&#x27;t fit a mass-consumer IDE to your style, you have to &quot;fit in&quot;. That&#x27;s not the case for these tools.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/it-looks-like-the-google-play-store-is-headed-to-chrome-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>Chrome books are the best college laptops for the vast majority of students. The ability to have a ton of apps and then have the Microsoft suite on an App could really over come a few hiccups which is normally based on professors&#x27; issue of only using Word.<p>THE ONE ISSUE is Printing. I have to help my daughter setting up cloud printing all the time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WayneBro</author><text>&gt; Chrome books are the best college laptops for the vast majority of students.<p>If they&#x27;re not the best laptop for everybody outside of college, then they&#x27;re not the best laptop for college students IMO. I wouldn&#x27;t want my kids learning on something that next to nobody uses.<p>- How are graphics arts students supposed to learn how to use Photoshop, Illustrator and other programs that professionals actually use in the real world?<p>- How are CS students supposed to learn how to use the plethora of tools that don&#x27;t run in ChromeOS?<p>- How are business students supposed to learn how to use the full Office suite, which most of the rest of the world is using on Windows or even OS X?<p>The &quot;ton&quot; of apps is kind of a moot point since Windows and Mac both also have a ton of apps.<p>I don&#x27;t get your other point - you want to avoid issues with Word by using the &quot;Microsoft suite on an App&quot; (which presumably includes Word)?<p>&gt; THE ONE ISSUE is Printing.<p>There is way more than just that one issue I think, if we&#x27;re going to be completely objective here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/it-looks-like-the-google-play-store-is-headed-to-chrome-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>Chrome books are the best college laptops for the vast majority of students. The ability to have a ton of apps and then have the Microsoft suite on an App could really over come a few hiccups which is normally based on professors&#x27; issue of only using Word.<p>THE ONE ISSUE is Printing. I have to help my daughter setting up cloud printing all the time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>As a computer scientist, it is embarrassing to admit this, but I have given up on wireless printing. My wife and I now physically walk to the printer and plug in via a USB cable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jurassic Systems</title><url>https://www.jurassicsystems.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>I would really love to have wall art that resembled the LED patterns from the supercomputers in the Jurassic Park film, specifically the CM-5 [1, 2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.starringthecomputer.com&#x2F;appearance.html?f=11&amp;c=15" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.starringthecomputer.com&#x2F;appearance.html?f=11&amp;c=1...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Connection_Machine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Connection_Machine</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T4kBRC2co7Y?t=65" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T4kBRC2co7Y?t=65</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;W24ItFdsL7k?t=370" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;W24ItFdsL7k?t=370</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Jurassic Systems</title><url>https://www.jurassicsystems.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HanClinto</author><text>This is delightful.<p>Anyone found a way to beat this?<p>I particularly enjoyed the &quot;live docks&quot; clip saved on the Mac desktop.</text></comment>
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