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<story><title>Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/improving-compression-with-preset-deflate-dictionary/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polyfemos76</author><text>We use this technique in Just Dance Now, and I wholeheartedly recommend doing it for usecases where you need to compress lots of small packets individually. We save at least 50% data.<p>For our game, this consists of the normal communication going back and forth between server and client, where individual messages are normally &lt;100b.<p>By sampling some user sessions we built a dictionary, fed it into deflateSetDictionary&#x2F;inflateSetDictionary, and use that in both Node modules for the server, as well as throughout the ecosystem of Android and iOS.<p>It&#x27;s very simple to do; we base all communication on standard JSON (for ease of portability and debugging) but then have the preset-dictionary fed into zip (a simple large string!) to counter the weight of JSON.<p>Needless to say, binary packing the protocol would give additional gains; but the productivity gains with using dictionaries to get good compression of pure JSON was a great choice for us. And it&#x27;s really <i>supersimple</i> to do.<p>One nice benefit is that the protocol is extendable by any developer without worrying about the wire-transport; the compression won&#x27;t break is someone decides to add a parameter to a message, it just most likely won&#x27;t be compressed as well as the rest of the message.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/improving-compression-with-preset-deflate-dictionary/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Hey, somebody has a patent on pre-loading the compression tables with frequently-encountered strings. So heads up.<p>It was patented in the context of headers for text messages, which are sent for every message, are generally larger than the message but appear exactly once in each text so never end up in the compression table. Each side of the conversation runs the zip algorithm on the header strings, discards the output up to that point, then compress the text message from that point. On receive they preload the algorithm with the checkpointed data structures from the preload-compression.<p>This Google technique is probably different enough to be off their radar. But who knows.<p>I think its the guys who do DirectPC</text></comment>
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<story><title>Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io</title><url>http://blog.lizdenys.com/2014/03/31/refusing-to-verify-myself/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kylec</author><text>I like the idea of Keybase.io, but I would prefer to use it in a way in which I don&#x27;t have to trust them at all. As it stands, you need to install their command-line tool and have it directly manage your GPG keychain. For that, I&#x27;d prefer to have a platform-neutral tool that&#x27;s been independently audited and managed by my OS&#x27;s package manager rather than their keybase-installer tool which seems to want to update very frequently with who-knows-what changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malgorithms</author><text>While we like being #1 on Hacker News, bad (good?!) timing is what earned us this spot.<p>It will be the case very soon that you can push your key to Keybase and prove all your identities, without ever installing the client the OP dislikes. Technically, you can already, we just need to put together very explicit instructions and documentation that&#x27;s different for each kind of proof. By ugly necessity, what it takes to prove yourself on twitter is different from github is different from DNS, etc. Documenting the API was our priority coming into this week.<p>Later this week the site will have very specific instructions on how to prove your identities (even the complicated ones) simply from your shell plus GPG.<p>Then those who care can verify all those proofs with a script, in a language of their choice. No Node or NPM needed for any of it.<p>There was some discussion below about &quot;trusting&quot; the Keybase server&#x27;s definition of the public key that comes back. The goal here is to remove that trust. Software of your choice can download a Keybase user&#x27;s keys, the links to their proofs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io</title><url>http://blog.lizdenys.com/2014/03/31/refusing-to-verify-myself/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kylec</author><text>I like the idea of Keybase.io, but I would prefer to use it in a way in which I don&#x27;t have to trust them at all. As it stands, you need to install their command-line tool and have it directly manage your GPG keychain. For that, I&#x27;d prefer to have a platform-neutral tool that&#x27;s been independently audited and managed by my OS&#x27;s package manager rather than their keybase-installer tool which seems to want to update very frequently with who-knows-what changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epaulson</author><text>I also like the idea of Keybase.io, though I wish it was based on something a little more decentralized. The unfortunately-named WebFist looks cool:<p><a href="http://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/06/bootstrapping-webfinger-with-webfist.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onebigfluke.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;bootstrapping-webfinger-w...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains</title><url>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/technology-change-not-culprit-wages-falling-behind-us-productivity-gains.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>padobson</author><text><i>At the opposite end of the spectrum – which we call ‘strong linkage’ – it’s possible that productivity growth translates fully into increases in typical workers’ pay, but even as productivity growth has been acting to raise pay, other factors (orthogonal to productivity) have been acting to reduce it.</i><p><i>At the same time, non-purely technological hypotheses for rising mean-median inequality include the race between education and technology (Goldin and Katz 2007), declining unionisation (Freeman et al. 2016), globalisation (Autor et al. 2013), immigration (Borjas 2003), and the ‘superstar effect’ (Rosen 1981, Gabaix et al. 2016). Non-technological hypotheses for the falling labour share include labour market institutions (Levy and Temin 2007, Mishel and Bivens 2015), market structure and monopoly power (Autor et al. 2017, Barkai 2017), capital accumulation (Piketty 2014, Piketty and Zucman 2014), and the productivity slowdown itself (Grossman et al. 2017).</i><p>All of the non-technological reasons, to me, boil down to globalization.<p>I&#x27;d love to see the productivity-wage divergence chart in China and other developing countries. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the divergence is inverted in those places that have seen unprecedented wage growth over the last forty years.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that I don&#x27;t think productivity and wages have diverged as much as people think, it&#x27;s just that a national analysis is insufficient in a global labor market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>This seems like the obvious answer. There was a consensus after WW II to push globalization. The theory being that international economic relationships would reduce chances of war. Plus dramatic improvements in shipping efficiency, through containerization and attendant automation. So yes, &quot;a national analysis is insufficient in a global labor market.&quot;<p>Also, globalization has necessarily depended on reducing protectionism. And it&#x27;s arguably been associated with declining nationalism. In a collective sense. As in, for example, American firms and their employees being loyal to each other. I believe that this sense of nationalistic loyalty peaked in the 40s and early 50s. Reflecting the war effort, of course.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains</title><url>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/technology-change-not-culprit-wages-falling-behind-us-productivity-gains.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>padobson</author><text><i>At the opposite end of the spectrum – which we call ‘strong linkage’ – it’s possible that productivity growth translates fully into increases in typical workers’ pay, but even as productivity growth has been acting to raise pay, other factors (orthogonal to productivity) have been acting to reduce it.</i><p><i>At the same time, non-purely technological hypotheses for rising mean-median inequality include the race between education and technology (Goldin and Katz 2007), declining unionisation (Freeman et al. 2016), globalisation (Autor et al. 2013), immigration (Borjas 2003), and the ‘superstar effect’ (Rosen 1981, Gabaix et al. 2016). Non-technological hypotheses for the falling labour share include labour market institutions (Levy and Temin 2007, Mishel and Bivens 2015), market structure and monopoly power (Autor et al. 2017, Barkai 2017), capital accumulation (Piketty 2014, Piketty and Zucman 2014), and the productivity slowdown itself (Grossman et al. 2017).</i><p>All of the non-technological reasons, to me, boil down to globalization.<p>I&#x27;d love to see the productivity-wage divergence chart in China and other developing countries. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the divergence is inverted in those places that have seen unprecedented wage growth over the last forty years.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that I don&#x27;t think productivity and wages have diverged as much as people think, it&#x27;s just that a national analysis is insufficient in a global labor market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malvosenior</author><text>I would add women entering the workforce en bulk, essentially doubling it. Between that and globalization it would seem the supply&#x2F;demand ratio significantly changed to have downward pressure on salaries.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Index Merges vs. Composite Indexes in Postgres and MySQL</title><url>https://sirupsen.com/index-merges</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>winrid</author><text>There are some DBs where the order of fields doesn&#x27;t matter in the compound index if you&#x27;re just searching by one field (but of course is less efficient). I think Oracle supports this.</text></item><item><author>magicalhippo</author><text>A composite index can also be used for a partial index scan[1], so if you&#x27;re frequently looking for just int100 as well as the int100,int1000 combination (as per the article&#x27;s example), then a composite index int100,int1000 can be used for queries just filtering on int100.<p>The order of the columns in the composite index might matter then. We got some nice savings by reordering columns in indexes and changing the join order in queries (our DB wasn&#x27;t <i>that</i> smart) or adding a &quot;useless&quot; filters to the where clause, allowing us to consolidate multiple indexes into one composite one.<p>[1]: might be using the wrong terminology here, I&#x27;m not talking about a partial index[2], but using only the first N dimensions of a M-dimensional index.<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;indexes-partial.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;indexes-partial.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>All can search an index by just one field if it is the first field covered by the index, few can use an index if your predicate concerns the second and not the first.<p>IIRC Oracle does support this and calls it a skip-scan. If the first column in the index is not very selective this can be very efficient, though if the first column <i>is</i> good in terms of selectivity then a skip-scan will be very inefficient and the DB might as well just scan the whole index. Given that a good choice of index usually has a fairly selective column as its first, and that unless storage space is very cramped you are likely better off just defining an extra index without the column that you want to not touch in some queries, this means that a skip-scan isn&#x27;t helpful as often as one might think which is one of the reasons DB engine maintainers give for not spending time implementing and maintaining the feature.<p>There are some use cases where having the option to skip-scan is definitely a significant bonus, but they are rare enough that I understand why most engine maintainers have not implemented them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Index Merges vs. Composite Indexes in Postgres and MySQL</title><url>https://sirupsen.com/index-merges</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>winrid</author><text>There are some DBs where the order of fields doesn&#x27;t matter in the compound index if you&#x27;re just searching by one field (but of course is less efficient). I think Oracle supports this.</text></item><item><author>magicalhippo</author><text>A composite index can also be used for a partial index scan[1], so if you&#x27;re frequently looking for just int100 as well as the int100,int1000 combination (as per the article&#x27;s example), then a composite index int100,int1000 can be used for queries just filtering on int100.<p>The order of the columns in the composite index might matter then. We got some nice savings by reordering columns in indexes and changing the join order in queries (our DB wasn&#x27;t <i>that</i> smart) or adding a &quot;useless&quot; filters to the where clause, allowing us to consolidate multiple indexes into one composite one.<p>[1]: might be using the wrong terminology here, I&#x27;m not talking about a partial index[2], but using only the first N dimensions of a M-dimensional index.<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;indexes-partial.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;indexes-partial.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattashii</author><text>This dependz on the index type, but PostgreSQL also supports queries based on arbitrary attributes of multi-attribute indexes: both GIN and BRIN can be used for queries on any of the indexed expressions.<p>Maybe eventually PG will also get index skip scans for btrees, which could allow for arbitrary columns searches in the btree; but we&#x27;re not there yet by a large margin.</text></comment>
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<story><title>First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot</title><url>https://paulrobichaux.com/2023/12/14/first-look-at-microsoft-365-copilot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thedougd</author><text>I had similar results trying out Amazon Q. I fed it a copy of our employee handbook and had it scrape our corporate website. My idea is that this could be a good fit for an HR bot.<p>I asked it a few simple fact based questions, such as who our CEO is. It answered with our previous CEO based on an old press release. I asked it what year it is, and it couldn’t say. A few other specific fact based questions were either wrong or unanswered.<p>So I asked it higher level questions about what the corporation does. It was able to answer those.<p>Finally, I began asking questions about policies in the handbook. When I asked about harassment, it refused to provide any answers. It felt like I was filtered. Filtering will kill the utility of these products. Something like a legal practice is messy business that the filter won’t like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jenk</author><text>The HR bot use case is very close to my domain - literally one of the teams reporting to me are maintaining the HR bot for a large enterprise - and it is a legal minefield. Whatever the bot provides as a response could be legally binding, according to legal. Examples of the kind of prompts we get in a many-thousands sized org:<p>- What are my p&#x2F;maternity entitlements?<p>- When will I be promoted?<p>- What will the bonus pool be this year?<p>- What will happen to me if my boss finds out I have been slacking off?<p>and many more examples of prompts that HR&#x2F;legal simply will not accept a vague, or worse: incorrect, response to. Each of those types of questions require specific and considerate knowledge that LLMs simply cannot produce.</text></comment>
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<story><title>First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot</title><url>https://paulrobichaux.com/2023/12/14/first-look-at-microsoft-365-copilot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thedougd</author><text>I had similar results trying out Amazon Q. I fed it a copy of our employee handbook and had it scrape our corporate website. My idea is that this could be a good fit for an HR bot.<p>I asked it a few simple fact based questions, such as who our CEO is. It answered with our previous CEO based on an old press release. I asked it what year it is, and it couldn’t say. A few other specific fact based questions were either wrong or unanswered.<p>So I asked it higher level questions about what the corporation does. It was able to answer those.<p>Finally, I began asking questions about policies in the handbook. When I asked about harassment, it refused to provide any answers. It felt like I was filtered. Filtering will kill the utility of these products. Something like a legal practice is messy business that the filter won’t like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradley13</author><text>Your comment about filters is important. These companies are so worried that someone will generate &quot;evil&quot; results that they disable whole swaths of potential queries.<p>All sorts of different people may genuinely need those results: Attorneys, doctors and nurses, law enforcement, private investigators. Individuals searching for advice. Doing background checks on other people. Heck, just high school students researching a topic.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what to do about the (legitimate) concerns of the AI providers. They don&#x27;t want a shitstorm, because someone got their AI model to [whatever]. But [whatever] can genuinely be important.</text></comment>
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<story><title>REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library</title><url>https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rest-servers-in-go-part-1-standard-library/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xbkt</author><text>I would probably go with gRPC + grpc-gateway[1] instead. Declaring your services and models in proto files, annotating your services with google.api.http to help grpc-gateway scaffold your HTTP base. Then just implement your services from the interface generated by grpc-go. You can even register your gRPC services to grpc-gateway without actually bringing up a gRPC server. You finally end up having your exact data models injected to your service handlers. Thus, you don&#x27;t have to repeat yourself preparing the groundwork to call into your services.<p>This is mostly the way today services in big OSS projects are exposed outside for consumption in a RESTful style. One exception I know of is sourcegraph&#x2F;sourcegraph.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;grpc-ecosystem&#x2F;grpc-gateway#usage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;grpc-ecosystem&#x2F;grpc-gateway#usage</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>It feels like an ugly hack that grpc-gateway sits on top of gRPC to support HTTP&#x2F;1 when gRPC could have been written to support HTTP&#x2F;1 and HTTP&#x2F;2 from the beginning. Roughly, gRPC ~= protobuf (serialization &amp; schema enforcement) + HTTP&#x2F;2 + non-standard HTTP&#x2F;2 (trailers, etc), and it is hard to believe that just as they standardized the non-standard bits, they couldn&#x27;t have found a way to work over HTTP&#x2F;1 (or HTTP&#x2F;1.1 at least) with the flexibility available there.<p>gRPC feels to me like a violation&#x2F;break in expectations of how the layers of abstraction are supposed to work -- gRPC works <i>over</i> HTTP&#x2F;2, and it&#x27;s weird that it translates a lower level (HTTP&#x2F;1) at a higher level (gRPC) to re-encode it into something at the lower level. An appropriately robust protocol would simply support both lower levels of abstraction if it wanted to (and they were widespread in daily use), right?<p>The only places I feel like I see this kind of layer violations are in lower level networking and it generally just makes everything worse and more complicated there. Of course, I know that gRPC + gateway is actually not a huge deal in practice -- you&#x27;ve got reverse proxies like envoy that will do it for you automatically[0], but it just... doesn&#x27;t sit great. The benefits of gRPC are not to be sneezed at (better performance, strict typing at the protocol level, schema enforcement, bidirectional streaming, etc), but it feels like it could have accomplished a lot of those goals without throwing out HTTP&#x2F;1.1 completely (and then that machinery could have been reused to support HTTP&#x2F;3).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.envoyproxy.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;envoy&#x2F;latest&#x2F;configuration&#x2F;http&#x2F;http_filters&#x2F;grpc_http1_bridge_filter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.envoyproxy.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;envoy&#x2F;latest&#x2F;configuration&#x2F;ht...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library</title><url>https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rest-servers-in-go-part-1-standard-library/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xbkt</author><text>I would probably go with gRPC + grpc-gateway[1] instead. Declaring your services and models in proto files, annotating your services with google.api.http to help grpc-gateway scaffold your HTTP base. Then just implement your services from the interface generated by grpc-go. You can even register your gRPC services to grpc-gateway without actually bringing up a gRPC server. You finally end up having your exact data models injected to your service handlers. Thus, you don&#x27;t have to repeat yourself preparing the groundwork to call into your services.<p>This is mostly the way today services in big OSS projects are exposed outside for consumption in a RESTful style. One exception I know of is sourcegraph&#x2F;sourcegraph.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;grpc-ecosystem&#x2F;grpc-gateway#usage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;grpc-ecosystem&#x2F;grpc-gateway#usage</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoisjohnkid</author><text>Have you looked into goa design[1]? You define your services with a contract via their DSL and it generates all code for you as well; has some nice validation options out of the box.
- similar to grpc gateway you just need to conform to the generated code’s service interface.<p>I believe it supports, http, websocket and grpc.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;goadesign&#x2F;goa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;goadesign&#x2F;goa</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#unacceptable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dayjobpork</author><text>You do realise Apple could still do this in their app store AND allow 3rd party app stores?</text></item><item><author>beervirus</author><text>Everybody complains about the walled garden, but damn I love to see things like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austhrow743</author><text>Not to the same effect. It means if developers don’t want to play by Apple’s rules they don’t have to completely surrender the iOS market. A big enough name could just direct users to the third party App Store.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#unacceptable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dayjobpork</author><text>You do realise Apple could still do this in their app store AND allow 3rd party app stores?</text></item><item><author>beervirus</author><text>Everybody complains about the walled garden, but damn I love to see things like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>But 3rd party app stores just mean a race to the bottom.<p>The app store with the least oversight and cheapest prices would be the winner.<p>Policies like this are good for users but bad for apps and by extension app stores.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs</title><url>https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/tokencost</url><text>Hey HN! Tokencost is a utility library for estimating LLM costs. There are hundreds of different models now, and they all have their own pricing schemes. It’s difficult to keep up with the pricing changes, and it’s even more difficult to estimate how much your prompts and completions will cost until you see the bill.<p>Tokencost works by counting the number of tokens in prompt and completion messages and multiplying that number by the corresponding model cost. Under the hood, it’s really just a simple cost dictionary and some utility functions for getting the prices right. It also accounts for different tokenizers and float precision errors.<p>Surprisingly, most model providers don&#x27;t actually report how much you spend until your bills arrive. We built Tokencost internally at AgentOps to help users track agent spend, and we decided to open source it to help developers avoid nasty bills.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yelnatz</author><text>Can you do a column and normalize them?<p>Too many zeroes for my blind ass making it hard to compare.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs</title><url>https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/tokencost</url><text>Hey HN! Tokencost is a utility library for estimating LLM costs. There are hundreds of different models now, and they all have their own pricing schemes. It’s difficult to keep up with the pricing changes, and it’s even more difficult to estimate how much your prompts and completions will cost until you see the bill.<p>Tokencost works by counting the number of tokens in prompt and completion messages and multiplying that number by the corresponding model cost. Under the hood, it’s really just a simple cost dictionary and some utility functions for getting the prices right. It also accounts for different tokenizers and float precision errors.<p>Surprisingly, most model providers don&#x27;t actually report how much you spend until your bills arrive. We built Tokencost internally at AgentOps to help users track agent spend, and we decided to open source it to help developers avoid nasty bills.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how the Claude functionality works.<p>As far as I know Anthropic haven&#x27;t released the tokenizer for Claude - unlike OpenAI&#x27;s tiktoken - but your tool lists the Claude 3 models as supported. How are you counting tokens for those?</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why</title><url>http://alexgivesup.com/2013/12/23/i-got-fired-last-week-thats-a-good-thing-heres-why/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overgard</author><text>So this is going to sound mean when I don&#x27;t mean for it too, but I sort of doubt the reality of being fired for being a generalist. I just don&#x27;t buy it. I totally believe that&#x27;s what they &#x2F;told&#x2F; him, I just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the actual truth.<p>So far I&#x27;ve made a career out of being a generalist. In my experience, companies of any size love having people like that. Specialists are valuable of course, but most of the time managers end up with a broad spectrum of problems and if they can throw problems to you without wondering if you can handle it, and feel confident it&#x27;s going to get done, they probably don&#x27;t care that you&#x27;re only 70% as efficient as the specialist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neltnerb</author><text>I think there&#x27;s an intermediate size where being a generalist is bad. I&#x27;m a generalist, and I experienced a similar situation -- I was extremely useful at the beginning because I could do a fair job of the responsibilities of three or four specialists, but after a year and a half, there were three or four specialists who could collectively do a far better job than me. The amount of tasks which made sense for me to take on dwindled, and I wasn&#x27;t really needed anymore. I don&#x27;t regret it or hold a grudge, it was my intent to help build a team that was better than me alone, and I succeeded in that professional goal. I trained most of them to be able to do my job, and am proud of that accomplishment. But I suspect that once the company is at 100 people instead of 20, the budget and flexibility of positions will be such to allow generalists to be more practical again.<p>Does that make sense? I think for a 10 person team, generalists are very useful, and for a 1000 person team, generalists can be tolerated and be very versatile members who can quickly switch between roles. But I think there is an intermediate point where the company goals are still very narrow but the team is big enough that generalists are only useful in a high level management role.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why</title><url>http://alexgivesup.com/2013/12/23/i-got-fired-last-week-thats-a-good-thing-heres-why/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overgard</author><text>So this is going to sound mean when I don&#x27;t mean for it too, but I sort of doubt the reality of being fired for being a generalist. I just don&#x27;t buy it. I totally believe that&#x27;s what they &#x2F;told&#x2F; him, I just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the actual truth.<p>So far I&#x27;ve made a career out of being a generalist. In my experience, companies of any size love having people like that. Specialists are valuable of course, but most of the time managers end up with a broad spectrum of problems and if they can throw problems to you without wondering if you can handle it, and feel confident it&#x27;s going to get done, they probably don&#x27;t care that you&#x27;re only 70% as efficient as the specialist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jf22</author><text>I agree with you.<p>I&#x27;ve seen generalists with a culture and personality fit be transitioned into highly valued specialists with accessory skill sets that greatly benefited the organization.<p>Either somebody up top didn&#x27;t think this transition could happen by ignorance or by potential difficulty or there was a culture or personality mismatch.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Book He Wasn't Supposed to Write</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/the-secret-life-of-a-book-manuscript/536982/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nkoren</author><text>I had a similar experience, which was more concise and, for me personally, more transformative.<p>My career as an architect had reached a point where I knew it wasn&#x27;t going to satisfy my life goals. I needed to understand more about finance, innovation theory, management, etc. I needed an MBA -- not a bullshit one for the title, but to actually learn things. I decided I&#x27;d go to Oxford.<p>This was going to be challenging: I had neither the funds to pay for it nor the shiniest academic record. Good GMAT scores, but not much else. The admissions essay had to be a knock-out.<p>So I wrote something I thought was amazing, and was preparing to submit it, when I realised: <i>wait a second, I need some more eyeballs on this.</i><p>I looked around the coffeehouse where I sat. There was a guy there -- I wasn&#x27;t sure of his name, but he was a regular. A philosophy student (part time? dropout?) of uncertain provenance. We&#x27;d had a few conversations occasionally, and he seemed bright. So I asked him, somewhat rhetorically, whether he had the time to read 4 pages and give me his feedback. He happily agreed...<p>...and he <i>hated</i> it. Tore into almost every part of it. Didn&#x27;t remotely grok the point I was trying to make. Made it clear that the essay failed on pretty much every level.<p>That was unpleasant to hear, but he was right. What mattered wasn&#x27;t _my_ impression of what I&#x27;d done -- it was how it impressed other people. So I rewrote the essay from the ground up, keeping his criticism at the forefront of my mind.<p>Oxford ended up giving me the largest scholarship they had. Afterwards I stayed in the UK and built a life there.<p>Don&#x27;t even know that guy&#x27;s name, but <i>damn</i> am I glad he was that asshole.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Book He Wasn't Supposed to Write</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/the-secret-life-of-a-book-manuscript/536982/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackgavigan</author><text><i>&gt; “Sometimes my job is to be an asshole,” he explained...</i><p>It&#x27;s <i>so</i> difficult to give frank, negative feedback without coming across as an asshole but, sometimes, it&#x27;s necessary.<p>&quot;Constructive&quot; feedback only goes so far. Sometimes people need to be told that their work is bad, so that they can improve. Accepting mediocrity in order to avoid hurting someone&#x27;s feelings is doing them a disservice in the long run.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54436575</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srtjstjsj</author><text>Smart consumers won&#x27;t buy a $10 memory card on Ali because it&#x27;s likely to be a destructive fake, but people will buy Internet-controlled electronics for their favorite nether regions of their bodies. Amazing. I guess that&#x27;s part of the thrill.</text></item><item><author>qdot76367</author><text>This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I&#x27;ve had a few people contact me (note: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttplug.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttplug.io</a> (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on.<p>There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the tech. Not only that, they&#x27;re doubling down on their production of unsafe equipment, including their newest toy (Link NSFW): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&#x2F;item&#x2F;1005001341771957.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&#x2F;item&#x2F;1005001341771957.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tarq0n</author><text>It&#x27;s more about a lack of available reputational signals. There&#x27;s little brand awareness and few people are willing to review such intimate products. With electronics you can go by manufacturer if nothing else, intimate products often don&#x27;t even have branding.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54436575</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srtjstjsj</author><text>Smart consumers won&#x27;t buy a $10 memory card on Ali because it&#x27;s likely to be a destructive fake, but people will buy Internet-controlled electronics for their favorite nether regions of their bodies. Amazing. I guess that&#x27;s part of the thrill.</text></item><item><author>qdot76367</author><text>This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I&#x27;ve had a few people contact me (note: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttplug.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttplug.io</a> (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on.<p>There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the tech. Not only that, they&#x27;re doubling down on their production of unsafe equipment, including their newest toy (Link NSFW): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&#x2F;item&#x2F;1005001341771957.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&#x2F;item&#x2F;1005001341771957.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vsareto</author><text>&gt;I guess that&#x27;s part of the thrill.<p>Yeah looking forward to the day where passing unit tests results in a Neuralink-induced orgasm</text></comment>
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<story><title>Re-Licensing Sentry</title><url>https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>So, Sentry is no longer Open Source at all, though people might potentially be able to collaborate on three-year-old versions (or, hopefully, use whatever unified fork pops up from the last Open Source release).<p>That&#x27;s disappointing. Unfortunately, the more companies use such licenses, the more others see it as &quot;safety in numbers&quot; for them to do the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>&gt; Sentry is no longer Open Source at all<p>I just want to clarify that in addition to BSL converting into an Open Source license after the conversion date, we also did not BSL license everything. Client libraries are completely unaffected and so is a lot that is going on behind the scenes. We&#x27;re firmly committed to being good Open Source citizens. For instance a lot of the work that is going on behind the scenes is separated into independent reusable libraries that retain their original licenses.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Re-Licensing Sentry</title><url>https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>So, Sentry is no longer Open Source at all, though people might potentially be able to collaborate on three-year-old versions (or, hopefully, use whatever unified fork pops up from the last Open Source release).<p>That&#x27;s disappointing. Unfortunately, the more companies use such licenses, the more others see it as &quot;safety in numbers&quot; for them to do the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emidln</author><text>It seems the restriction is on offering a competing product with Sentry&#x27;s codebase. This seems fine. I&#x27;ll still submit bug reports or even contribute fixes here. My current employer isn&#x27;t a cloud provider or an exception handling as a service company, but we still might want to run Sentry in-house. Previously, we might have contributed fixes&#x2F;features in the interest of spreading our own maintenance burden. This still seems possible and I don&#x27;t see a reason to not contribute back for my use case.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lego Mindstorms EV3: The Better, Faster, Stronger Generation Of Robotics</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/06/lego-mindstorms-ev3-the-better-faster-stronger-generation-of-robotic-programming/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>patja</author><text>Mindstorms is pretty cool...but the price puts it out of reach of any but the well-heeled.<p>I run an after school tech program for kids in grades 5 - 8 where we've worked with Scratch quite a bit, and did one session on robotics using the Pololu 3pi line-tracing/maze solving robots and the Parallax Mini-Sumo bots. These robots run $100 - $150 each as opposed to the Mindstorms $250+ (now $350) price point.<p>There is a huge untapped market for a programmable robot at the $50 - $100 price point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>todayiamme</author><text>&#62;&#62;&#62; Mindstorms is pretty cool...but the price puts it out of reach of any but the well-heeled.<p>I run an after school tech program for kids in grades 5 - 8 where we've worked with Scratch quite a bit, and did one session on robotics using the Pololu 3pi line-tracing/maze solving robots and the Parallax Mini-Sumo bots. These robots run $100 - $150 each as opposed to the Mindstorms $250+ (now $350) price point. &#60;&#60;&#60;<p>I have tested the Parallax Sumo bots and Mindstorms and I'm firmly of the opinion that the Mindstorms set represents better value.<p>The thing is that at the end of the day the Parallax Sumo bots are one trick ponies and have a fixed chassis and configuration around which you really can't extend without some effort. Even if you do put in the effort, then your design is constrained by the type of chassis the machine came with. For example, you can't easily convert the sumo bot into a hexapedal or bipedal walker. The value proposition for these machines rests solely on programming them in beautiful ways and it really isn't possible for a child to extend the machine itself. Assemble it yes, but it extend it? Not yet.<p>On the other hand with the Mindstorms set you have these precision milled parts that can be combined in endless ways by anyone to create anything from walkers to holonomic drives. There's also the benefit of the entire Lego range, you can easily mix and match all of these parts and combine them in countless ways with one another to give you literally any type of machine you want without getting out a file or a drill. That's something that instantly appeals to children and I remember the amazing feeling I used to get out of playing with Mindstorms when I was a little girl. I could actually create something that was "alive," and there was nothing better than that. Programming seemed dull and useless to me as compared to putting these pieces together and bringing them to life, somehow. It was captivating and it's what gave me the real push towards actually learning engineering. That's a miracle if you think about it and it represents great value.<p>&#62;&#62;&#62; There is a huge untapped market for a programmable robot at the $50 - $100 price point. &#60;&#60;&#60;<p>It's actually quite easy to build something yourself at that price point. Get $3 DC motors, waste aluminium channelling from build sites, acrylic, gear boxes + wheels, wires, an arduino, and a few screws. Build a frame out of the channelling, use the acrylic sheets as a type of wall, drill and mount motors on the acrylic sheets and put the arduino on somewhere with pencil cells. You're good to go.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lego Mindstorms EV3: The Better, Faster, Stronger Generation Of Robotics</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/06/lego-mindstorms-ev3-the-better-faster-stronger-generation-of-robotic-programming/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>patja</author><text>Mindstorms is pretty cool...but the price puts it out of reach of any but the well-heeled.<p>I run an after school tech program for kids in grades 5 - 8 where we've worked with Scratch quite a bit, and did one session on robotics using the Pololu 3pi line-tracing/maze solving robots and the Parallax Mini-Sumo bots. These robots run $100 - $150 each as opposed to the Mindstorms $250+ (now $350) price point.<p>There is a huge untapped market for a programmable robot at the $50 - $100 price point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javery</author><text>There is a huge untapped market of people like me who would gladly put up $50 to help you buy a set for your class. Setup a form somewhere and I will gladly donate.</text></comment>
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<story><title>KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis</title><url>https://docs.keydb.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dig1</author><text>Without the intention to undermine anyone&#x27;s work (and I truly appreciate the work the KeyDB guys did), I would not use this (in production) unless I see Jepsen test results [1] either by Kyle or someone supervised by Kyle. But, unfortunately, databases are complex enough and distributed systems even more, and I&#x27;ve lost many sleepless nights debugging obscure alternatives that claimed to be faster in edge cases. And the worst thing is that these projects get abandoned by the original authors after a few years, leaving me with (to quote a movie) &quot;a big bag of odor&quot;.<p>I see databases as a programming languages - if they have a proven track record of frequent releases and responsive authors after 5-7 years, they are usable for wider adoption.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jepsen.io&#x2F;analyses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jepsen.io&#x2F;analyses</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis</title><url>https://docs.keydb.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgaunard</author><text>Whenever I see someone arguing their code is better because it&#x27;s multithreaded, I cringe.<p>Most developers cannot do multithreading correctly, and unless you&#x27;re particularly good about it it&#x27;s just going to introduce not only lots of bugs but also performance problems.<p>The only folks in that space that seem to do it well are ScyllaDB.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nintendo DS-TV-Out Restoration Project</title><url>https://lostnintendohistory.github.io/DS-TV-OUT</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwitthuhn</author><text>Reminds me of an interesting feature(?) of the old DS Phat. If you held it close enough, analog tv antennas could pick up the video signal going to the top screen.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5VlCpZkVss4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5VlCpZkVss4</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Nintendo DS-TV-Out Restoration Project</title><url>https://lostnintendohistory.github.io/DS-TV-OUT</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>I&#x27;d bet this was a feature to support their in-store kiosks where people could play a DS and see the output on a TV. It&#x27;d be a lot cheaper and easier to pull some DS machines off the production line and reflash the firmware than to engineer entirely new units just for the kiosks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Professor Frisby's mostly adequate guide to functional programming (2018)</title><url>https://mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awinter-py</author><text>as a new haskell learner who started this month, I&#x27;ve really learned empathy from banging my head against the language<p>the docs have a specific tone or pattern that&#x27;s <i>everywhere</i> (and by docs I mean everything -- library readmes, examples, language intros, and stackoverflow posts)<p>they all read like &#x27;well, you probably haven&#x27;t been introduced to monads yet. I can&#x27;t answer your question directly in a short post (these posts are all like 6 paragraphs, nothing short about them), but I&#x27;ll tell you why you can&#x27;t do what you&#x27;re trying to do and I&#x27;ll also explain why I can&#x27;t tell you what a monad is&#x27;<p>also my laptop battery keeps dying because the builds are so expensive</text></comment>
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<story><title>Professor Frisby's mostly adequate guide to functional programming (2018)</title><url>https://mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ethyreal</author><text>Related there is a related video series if your interested:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;egghead.io&#x2F;courses&#x2F;professor-frisby-introduces-composable-functional-javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;egghead.io&#x2F;courses&#x2F;professor-frisby-introduces-compo...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do PeerReview</title><url>https://mstdn.science/@ukrio/110100752908161183</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>primitivesuave</author><text>This is exactly what people should fear about the AI future. A lazy judge, parole officer, loan reviewer, school counselor, or in this case - peer reviewer, delegating decisions that affect human lives to a black-box algorithm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcn</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen people use ChatGPT to make investment decisions. &quot;AI says that $X is about to squeeze&quot; or &quot;AI says the market is going to crash on X&quot;. A huge lack of knowledge as well as an overconfidence about what this tech &#x2F;actually&#x2F; is.<p>This is going to be disruptive in the worst possible way.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do PeerReview</title><url>https://mstdn.science/@ukrio/110100752908161183</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>primitivesuave</author><text>This is exactly what people should fear about the AI future. A lazy judge, parole officer, loan reviewer, school counselor, or in this case - peer reviewer, delegating decisions that affect human lives to a black-box algorithm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ratorx</author><text>People are already a blackbox algorithm (to some degree). I think if there was personal accountability and an appeals process (which there needs to be to deal with human shittiness anyway), then it makes no difference right?<p>The key thing is that if the domain is appropriately fuzzy, and a human vs non-human decision is indistinguishable, then it shouldn’t matter. If it isn’t, then you don’t really need the AI.<p>I think the key thing here is that people should not be able to blame the AI for bad decisions. Responsibility should be on whoever decided to delegate the decision.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenSSL 3.0</title><url>https://www.openssl.org/news/cl30.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dariusj18</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve never quite understood about semantic versioning. Sometimes fixing a bug is a breaking change, especially if someone is relying on that behavior to be bugged. How does one make the distinction?</text></item><item><author>jabl</author><text>Apart from API&#x2F;ABI changes, notable changes are:<p>* Changed the license to the Apache License v2.0.<p>* Switch to a new version scheme using three numbers MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.<p><pre><code> - Major releases (indicated by incrementing the MAJOR release number)
may introduce incompatible API&#x2F;ABI changes.
- Minor releases (indicated by incrementing the MINOR release number)
may introduce new features but retain API&#x2F;ABI compatibility.
- Patch releases (indicated by incrementing the PATCH number)
are intended for bug fixes and other improvements of existing
features only (like improving performance or adding documentation)
and retain API&#x2F;ABI compatibility.
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See also the project&#x27;s blog post about the new release: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openssl.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;OpenSSL3.Final&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openssl.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;OpenSSL3.Final&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>da_chicken</author><text>Remember, versioning rules are like D&amp;D. The purpose of the rules is to give you a framework to operate in that is easily understood in the vast majority of situations, not to comprehensively define every aspect. You don&#x27;t get any rewards for following the rules, after all. When things get weird, you just ask the DM, they make a ruling, and then you keep the game moving forward.<p>There&#x27;s always going to be corner cases. Fortunately, there is always a person available to act as a referee.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenSSL 3.0</title><url>https://www.openssl.org/news/cl30.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dariusj18</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve never quite understood about semantic versioning. Sometimes fixing a bug is a breaking change, especially if someone is relying on that behavior to be bugged. How does one make the distinction?</text></item><item><author>jabl</author><text>Apart from API&#x2F;ABI changes, notable changes are:<p>* Changed the license to the Apache License v2.0.<p>* Switch to a new version scheme using three numbers MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.<p><pre><code> - Major releases (indicated by incrementing the MAJOR release number)
may introduce incompatible API&#x2F;ABI changes.
- Minor releases (indicated by incrementing the MINOR release number)
may introduce new features but retain API&#x2F;ABI compatibility.
- Patch releases (indicated by incrementing the PATCH number)
are intended for bug fixes and other improvements of existing
features only (like improving performance or adding documentation)
and retain API&#x2F;ABI compatibility.
</code></pre>
See also the project&#x27;s blog post about the new release: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openssl.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;OpenSSL3.Final&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openssl.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;OpenSSL3.Final&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>If the bug wasn&#x27;t documented and the user effectively relied on &quot;undefined behavior&quot; I don&#x27;t think it constitutes a breaking change. Like if a function called with certain parameters causes an unexpected crash, and a user decided to use that to quit the application, you can&#x27;t reasonably be expected to maintain that behaviour.<p>If the bug was that a well documented function actually behaved differently than was expected but still consistently (like a string function that was supposed to return a number of characters but really returned a number of bytes) then yeah, that&#x27;s a breaking change.<p>In practice the line can be fuzzy of course, but I find that it&#x27;s not usually to hard to decide what constitutes a breaking change and what doesn&#x27;t.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?</title><url></url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt1</author><text>I had the same thing happen twice earlier today. I hit a huge milestone on a product I launched on HackerNews about two months ago, spent a few hours writing a blog post about it and lessons learned, and posted it on HackerNews around 11am EST.<p>Within 50 minutes it had 17 points and had climbed up to about #13 on the front page when all of the sudden it disappeared [1]. I signed out of my HN account and checked the comments link and sure enough the page was blank, indicating that it had been killed.<p>I was talking to a friend on GChat at the same time this was going on. He reposted it, thinking that it was killed because of an algorithmic fluke (which was probably true) [2]. The new post gained 9 points in 10 minutes and then was killed as well.<p>The only thing I can think of is that because that friend upvoted the original post (and he's upvoted some of my previous posts), combined with how quickly it shot up the front page, somehow caused it to be flagged and automatically killed.<p>I'd still love to repost it both to share my product's milestone and to get feedback from the community, but I'm afraid it will be killed again. Any recommendations?<p>I'm all for stopping spam and voting rings, but it shouldn't be at the expense of legitimate posts.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788402" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788402</a><p>[2] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788806" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788806</a><p>Edited to add: I noticed a lot of the new posts around the same time had several points within a few minutes of being posted. Almost none had 1 point, which I thought was odd. I think someone might have written a script to upvote articles from multiple fake accounts, thereby causing HackerNews's voting-ring algorithm to mistakenly identify the posts as spam.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?</title><url></url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>There is- or has been- something very strange going on lately. At the height of the GeekList mini-controversy last week the HN thread discussing it[1], which was in third place on the front page, was flagged and killed. The second discussion that was created[2] was also killed. Then I posted a blog entry[3] which also got to the front page, then was also flagged and killed. At that point I just gave up, because what can you do? It seems like the flagging mechanism is far too powerful- just a few reports and the entry gets shunted back seven pages. A few more and it's gone entirely.<p>It's worrying for two reasons: one, that original Geeklist discussion had some great points being made, and a lot of users were obviously engaging with it before a minority decided to dispose of it. Two, there's a clear minority on here that would like to see discussions about sexism in tech removed from HN.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913</a><p>[2] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378</a><p>[3] <a href="http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/19740556298/why-are-posts-about-the-geeklist-controversy-being" rel="nofollow">http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/19740556298/why-are-posts-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-06/even-after-100-billion-self-driving-cars-are-going-nowhere</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nichochar</author><text>[Disclaimer] I worked for Cruise for 4 years.<p>I agree with everything you said, but chuckled at this particular part (which is very wrong):
&gt; Tesla is significantly ahead of everyone else.<p>Everyone in the industry knows that Tesla is nowhere near the tip of the technology. What Tesla does is _fantastic marketing_. Their whole self-driving division is just a mechanism to sell more cars.<p>At a high level, this is why:<p>- The hard thing about self driving isn&#x27;t the first 95%, it&#x27;s the impossibly long tail of the last 5% with unique, chaotic and rare scenarios (think, a reflective citern tank with a reflection of the back of a truck transporting stop signs, or terrible weather illusions with fog).<p>- Doing well on the last 5% is where most of the energy from Waymo&#x2F;Cruise goes (the two leaders by quite a margin).<p>- Tesla is camera only. Weather alone means you can&#x27;t reach critical safety because of this. Cameras don&#x27;t do fog well, precipitation well, or sunsets&#x2F;bad lighting well (see many Tesla crashes on freeways bc of this)<p>- Tesla does well on the 95% and Elon is a marketing genius, with those 2 things it&#x27;s easy to convince outsiders that &quot;Tesla is significantly ahead of everyone else&quot;.<p>My prediction: before the end of the decade, cruise and waymo have commoditized fleets doing things that most people today would find unbelievable. Tesla is still talking a big game but ultimately won&#x27;t have permits for you to be in a Tesla with your hands off of the wheel.<p>edit: formatting and typo</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>In the short run, technological progress is <i>much slower</i> than anyone hopes, but in the long run it is <i>much faster</i> than anyone expects.<p>My favorite example is that in 1987, the scientific consensus was that it would take &quot;at least 100 years&quot; and likely much longer to sequence the entire human gnome.[a] But the vast majority of it was sequenced by 2000, only 13 years later. Moreover, just two decades later, anyone could get their genome checked for known markers for pocket change by companies like 23andMe, founded in 2006.<p>Having some expertise and interest in AI, I regularly watch presentations by all companies working on self-driving and also look at the videos posted by beta testers online. While it&#x27;s fun to watch the failures, I&#x27;m more interested in judging whether the technology is continuing to improve.<p>My perceptions contradict this article: (1) The technology is progressing <i>faster</i> than is generally recognized, with vehicles getting progressively better at dealing with edge cases and handling failures gracefully. (2) Judging by the videos I&#x27;ve watched online, Tesla is significantly ahead of everyone else.<p>Prediction: Before the end of the decade, this article will seem... short-sighted.<p>--<p>[a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;scitable&#x2F;topicpage&#x2F;sequencing-human-genome-the-contributions-of-francis-686&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;scitable&#x2F;topicpage&#x2F;sequencing-human-g...</a><p>--<p>EDIT: I edited my statement about 23andMe based on sausagefeet&#x27;s comment below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flutas</author><text>My favorite case so far of the &#x27;5%&#x27; that you mention happened on my Tesla irt:(object recognition) and I still laugh about it to this day.<p>I was driving down the road as normal, 4 lane divided highway that&#x27;s a bit hilly. Suddenly my car starts having what I can only describe as a panic attack saying I&#x27;m running a stop sign and blaring alarms.<p>It was detecting a giant 40ft tall red circle sign a bit away as a stop sign...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-06/even-after-100-billion-self-driving-cars-are-going-nowhere</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nichochar</author><text>[Disclaimer] I worked for Cruise for 4 years.<p>I agree with everything you said, but chuckled at this particular part (which is very wrong):
&gt; Tesla is significantly ahead of everyone else.<p>Everyone in the industry knows that Tesla is nowhere near the tip of the technology. What Tesla does is _fantastic marketing_. Their whole self-driving division is just a mechanism to sell more cars.<p>At a high level, this is why:<p>- The hard thing about self driving isn&#x27;t the first 95%, it&#x27;s the impossibly long tail of the last 5% with unique, chaotic and rare scenarios (think, a reflective citern tank with a reflection of the back of a truck transporting stop signs, or terrible weather illusions with fog).<p>- Doing well on the last 5% is where most of the energy from Waymo&#x2F;Cruise goes (the two leaders by quite a margin).<p>- Tesla is camera only. Weather alone means you can&#x27;t reach critical safety because of this. Cameras don&#x27;t do fog well, precipitation well, or sunsets&#x2F;bad lighting well (see many Tesla crashes on freeways bc of this)<p>- Tesla does well on the 95% and Elon is a marketing genius, with those 2 things it&#x27;s easy to convince outsiders that &quot;Tesla is significantly ahead of everyone else&quot;.<p>My prediction: before the end of the decade, cruise and waymo have commoditized fleets doing things that most people today would find unbelievable. Tesla is still talking a big game but ultimately won&#x27;t have permits for you to be in a Tesla with your hands off of the wheel.<p>edit: formatting and typo</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>In the short run, technological progress is <i>much slower</i> than anyone hopes, but in the long run it is <i>much faster</i> than anyone expects.<p>My favorite example is that in 1987, the scientific consensus was that it would take &quot;at least 100 years&quot; and likely much longer to sequence the entire human gnome.[a] But the vast majority of it was sequenced by 2000, only 13 years later. Moreover, just two decades later, anyone could get their genome checked for known markers for pocket change by companies like 23andMe, founded in 2006.<p>Having some expertise and interest in AI, I regularly watch presentations by all companies working on self-driving and also look at the videos posted by beta testers online. While it&#x27;s fun to watch the failures, I&#x27;m more interested in judging whether the technology is continuing to improve.<p>My perceptions contradict this article: (1) The technology is progressing <i>faster</i> than is generally recognized, with vehicles getting progressively better at dealing with edge cases and handling failures gracefully. (2) Judging by the videos I&#x27;ve watched online, Tesla is significantly ahead of everyone else.<p>Prediction: Before the end of the decade, this article will seem... short-sighted.<p>--<p>[a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;scitable&#x2F;topicpage&#x2F;sequencing-human-genome-the-contributions-of-francis-686&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;scitable&#x2F;topicpage&#x2F;sequencing-human-g...</a><p>--<p>EDIT: I edited my statement about 23andMe based on sausagefeet&#x27;s comment below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joakleaf</author><text>As someone who also follows the progress online and watch the presentations by Cruise, Tesla, etc, I agree that Cruise is well ahead of Tesla.<p>It feels like Tesla’s main strategy is to add more data, more compute power, more simulation, and hope for “convergence”. Maybe that will work, but right now it feels like Cruise’s technology feels more mature and thought through.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Aaron Swartz on illness and depression</title><url>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plg</author><text>A really good talk on Major Depression, what it is (a terrible, paralyzing biological attack on the mind) and what it is not:<p>Robert Sapolsky (Stanford) : <a href="http://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Aaron Swartz on illness and depression</title><url>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>For those who have experience with dealing with depression, what are your thoughts on how suicides like Aaron's can be prevented? He seems like a particularly unusual case, just because he had so many outlets and was so well accomplished. I know that depression is very much related to physiological factors, but some of those factors can be mitigated by behavior, and Aaron had all the opportunities to at least distract his mind. Even the DOJ case can't be considered a direct factor...such David vs Goliath cases spark people and give them purpose, or at least a schedule of milestones to reach, which are at least given meaning when activism is involved.<p>Beyond the tragedy of Aaron's death, it strikes me how difficult it must be to treat such depression if it wasn't effectively treated in his case...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers</title><url>https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike_hearn</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty astonishing. The MMIO abuse implies either the attackers have truly phenomenal research capabilities, and&#x2F;or that they hacked Apple and obtained internal hardware documentation (more likely).<p>I was willing to believe that maybe it was just a massive NSA-scale research team up until the part with a custom hash function sbox. Apple appears to have known that the feature in question was dangerous and deliberately both hidden it, whatever it is, and then gone further and protected it with a sort of (fairly weak) digital signing feature.<p>As the blog post points out, there&#x27;s no obvious way you could find the right magic knock to operate this feature short of doing a full silicon teardown and reverse engineering (impractical at these nodes). That leaves hacking the developers to steal their internal documentation.<p>The way it uses a long chain of high effort zero days only to launch an invisible Safari that then starts from scratch, loading a web page that uses a completely different chain of exploits to re-hack the device, also is indicative of a massive organization with truly abysmal levels of internal siloing.<p>Given that the researchers in question are Russians at Kaspersky, this pretty much has to be the work of the NSA or maybe GCHQ.<p><i>Edit: misc other interesting bits from the talk: the malware can enable ad tracking, and also can detect cloud iPhone service hosting that&#x27;s often used by security researchers. The iOS&#x2F;macOS malware platform seems to have been in development for over a decade and actually does ML on the device to do object recognition and OCR on photos on-device, to avoid uploading image bytes: they only upload ML generated labels. They truly went to a lot of effort, but all that was no match for a bunch of smart Russian students.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I agree with the speaker that security through obscurity doesn&#x27;t work, however. This platform has been in the wild for ten years and nobody knows how long they&#x27;ve been exploiting this hidden hardware &quot;feature&quot;. If the hardware feature was openly documented it&#x27;d have been found much, much sooner.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black_puppydog</author><text>&gt; If the hardware feature was openly documented it&#x27;d have been found much, much sooner.<p>Well, the point of kerckhoff&#x27;s principle is that it <i>should</i> have been openly documented and then anyone lookindg at the docs even pre-publication would have said &quot;we can&#x27;t ship it like that, that feature needs to go.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers</title><url>https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike_hearn</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty astonishing. The MMIO abuse implies either the attackers have truly phenomenal research capabilities, and&#x2F;or that they hacked Apple and obtained internal hardware documentation (more likely).<p>I was willing to believe that maybe it was just a massive NSA-scale research team up until the part with a custom hash function sbox. Apple appears to have known that the feature in question was dangerous and deliberately both hidden it, whatever it is, and then gone further and protected it with a sort of (fairly weak) digital signing feature.<p>As the blog post points out, there&#x27;s no obvious way you could find the right magic knock to operate this feature short of doing a full silicon teardown and reverse engineering (impractical at these nodes). That leaves hacking the developers to steal their internal documentation.<p>The way it uses a long chain of high effort zero days only to launch an invisible Safari that then starts from scratch, loading a web page that uses a completely different chain of exploits to re-hack the device, also is indicative of a massive organization with truly abysmal levels of internal siloing.<p>Given that the researchers in question are Russians at Kaspersky, this pretty much has to be the work of the NSA or maybe GCHQ.<p><i>Edit: misc other interesting bits from the talk: the malware can enable ad tracking, and also can detect cloud iPhone service hosting that&#x27;s often used by security researchers. The iOS&#x2F;macOS malware platform seems to have been in development for over a decade and actually does ML on the device to do object recognition and OCR on photos on-device, to avoid uploading image bytes: they only upload ML generated labels. They truly went to a lot of effort, but all that was no match for a bunch of smart Russian students.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I agree with the speaker that security through obscurity doesn&#x27;t work, however. This platform has been in the wild for ten years and nobody knows how long they&#x27;ve been exploiting this hidden hardware &quot;feature&quot;. If the hardware feature was openly documented it&#x27;d have been found much, much sooner.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aberoham</author><text>Also note the IoC script — This script allows to scan iTunes backups for indicator of compromise by Operation Triangulation. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KasperskyLab&#x2F;triangle_check">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KasperskyLab&#x2F;triangle_check</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>GitUp makes Git painless</title><url>http://gitup.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>Although the GPL <i>allows</i> authors to charge for software, it disposes of all legal copyright protections that make such charges practical. Charging for GPL software doesn&#x27;t mean anyone will pay you, it just means that everyone will get the free builds from someone else, which is even less desirable than releasing free builds since you lose control of distribution. Look at Red Hat and CentOS for case in point.</text></item><item><author>baldfat</author><text>You don&#x27;t need to make an application closed source to have in app purchases.<p>Look at mobaxterm [<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobaxterm.mobatek.net&#x2F;license.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobaxterm.mobatek.net&#x2F;license.html</a>] It is licensed under GPL version 3.<p>It has a free version and a professional version which cost $69 per user. This does not break the GPL. You may already know this but it seems like a lot of developers think open source mean Free as in cost. [<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;selling.en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;selling.en.html</a>]<p>This is also the reason why I don&#x27;t like the term Free Software since people usually think it is speaking about the cost.</text></item><item><author>swisspol</author><text>Anything can happen (I have a number of projects that are open-source, some other close-source), but the idea so far is to have a free app with an in-app purchase to unlock the advanced&#x2F;pro feature.<p>I might make open-source some of the &quot;Git toolkit&quot; I built for this app, but it&#x27;s too early to say.<p>The reason for expiring builds is that 1) it&#x27;s pre-release, 2) it&#x27;s a software intended for professional engineers and 3) the app is rapidly evolving, so I don&#x27;t want to have people using old versions which may have bugs fixed since then: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.gitup.co&#x2F;t&#x2F;gitup-release-notes&#x2F;16" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.gitup.co&#x2F;t&#x2F;gitup-release-notes&#x2F;16</a>.</text></item><item><author>eric_h</author><text>&gt; IMPORTANT: During Pre-Release, signing-up for a GitUp account allows you to enable advanced features (like rewriting commits), participate in the GitUp forums, access the &quot;Continuous&quot; build channel, and most importantly, show your support for the app and future developments!<p>Why do I need a GitUp account to enable rewriting commits?<p>Furthermore it looks like these prerelease builds expire. I&#x27;m guessing the released software will be neither free nor open source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zapt02</author><text>Yeah, Red Hat is really bleeding money from the all the lost sales caused by CentOS. I can&#x27;t believe they only made a puny 1.53 billion dollar in revenue last year..
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<story><title>GitUp makes Git painless</title><url>http://gitup.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>Although the GPL <i>allows</i> authors to charge for software, it disposes of all legal copyright protections that make such charges practical. Charging for GPL software doesn&#x27;t mean anyone will pay you, it just means that everyone will get the free builds from someone else, which is even less desirable than releasing free builds since you lose control of distribution. Look at Red Hat and CentOS for case in point.</text></item><item><author>baldfat</author><text>You don&#x27;t need to make an application closed source to have in app purchases.<p>Look at mobaxterm [<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobaxterm.mobatek.net&#x2F;license.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobaxterm.mobatek.net&#x2F;license.html</a>] It is licensed under GPL version 3.<p>It has a free version and a professional version which cost $69 per user. This does not break the GPL. You may already know this but it seems like a lot of developers think open source mean Free as in cost. [<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;selling.en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;selling.en.html</a>]<p>This is also the reason why I don&#x27;t like the term Free Software since people usually think it is speaking about the cost.</text></item><item><author>swisspol</author><text>Anything can happen (I have a number of projects that are open-source, some other close-source), but the idea so far is to have a free app with an in-app purchase to unlock the advanced&#x2F;pro feature.<p>I might make open-source some of the &quot;Git toolkit&quot; I built for this app, but it&#x27;s too early to say.<p>The reason for expiring builds is that 1) it&#x27;s pre-release, 2) it&#x27;s a software intended for professional engineers and 3) the app is rapidly evolving, so I don&#x27;t want to have people using old versions which may have bugs fixed since then: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.gitup.co&#x2F;t&#x2F;gitup-release-notes&#x2F;16" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.gitup.co&#x2F;t&#x2F;gitup-release-notes&#x2F;16</a>.</text></item><item><author>eric_h</author><text>&gt; IMPORTANT: During Pre-Release, signing-up for a GitUp account allows you to enable advanced features (like rewriting commits), participate in the GitUp forums, access the &quot;Continuous&quot; build channel, and most importantly, show your support for the app and future developments!<p>Why do I need a GitUp account to enable rewriting commits?<p>Furthermore it looks like these prerelease builds expire. I&#x27;m guessing the released software will be neither free nor open source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>You know RedHat now controls the CentOS project right?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redhat.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;about&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;red-hat-and-centos-join-forces" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redhat.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;about&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;red-hat-and-ce...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Gab Has Been Breached</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/gab-has-been-breached/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dt3ft</author><text>If you just want to know how the breach[1] happened: it was SQL injection, where string interpolation was used to construct a query, rather than use parametrized queries.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;rookie-coding-mistake-prior-to-gab-hack-came-from-sites-cto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;rookie-coding-mistak...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Intermernet</author><text>Little Jimmy Tables strikes again.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gab Has Been Breached</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/gab-has-been-breached/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dt3ft</author><text>If you just want to know how the breach[1] happened: it was SQL injection, where string interpolation was used to construct a query, rather than use parametrized queries.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;rookie-coding-mistake-prior-to-gab-hack-came-from-sites-cto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;rookie-coding-mistak...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>camjohnson26</author><text>I thought bcrypt had built in salts, how was he able to reverse those hashes for simple passwords? Any better algorithm to use or recommendation on salting?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species extinction</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54118769</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LostTrackHowM</author><text>I&#x27;ve been watching Sir David Attenborough since I was a kid, and I am now middle aged.<p>And I&#x27;ve known about species extinction since I was a little kid. They&#x27;ve happened and keep happening. Little to nothing seems to have done to prevent them during my lifetime.<p>I feel powerless and have no idea what to do about it.<p>I mean things that will actually make a huge difference, not just telling myself I am making a difference by doing little things like not having a car, or re-using and recycling.<p>And pardon me for saying this, but part of me is ever so slightly disappointed Covid-19 is not a lot more deadly. I am a terrible person.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>celtain</author><text>&gt;And pardon me for saying this, but part of me is ever so slightly disappointed Covid-19 is not a lot more deadly. I am a terrible person.<p>I suspect that if it was a lot more deadly, it would have triggered a stronger government response (at least in the U.S.) and ultimately killed fewer people.<p>Then again, I&#x27;ve repeatedly underestimated just how incompetent this administration could be.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species extinction</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54118769</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LostTrackHowM</author><text>I&#x27;ve been watching Sir David Attenborough since I was a kid, and I am now middle aged.<p>And I&#x27;ve known about species extinction since I was a little kid. They&#x27;ve happened and keep happening. Little to nothing seems to have done to prevent them during my lifetime.<p>I feel powerless and have no idea what to do about it.<p>I mean things that will actually make a huge difference, not just telling myself I am making a difference by doing little things like not having a car, or re-using and recycling.<p>And pardon me for saying this, but part of me is ever so slightly disappointed Covid-19 is not a lot more deadly. I am a terrible person.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TYPE_FASTER</author><text>&gt; I mean things that will actually make a huge difference, not just telling myself I am making a difference by doing little things like not having a car, or re-using and recycling.<p>I think if we all do more to make a little difference, we&#x27;ll make a big difference as a group.<p>I&#x27;ve been making a focused effort to buy food produced locally. Details on how this helps here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.terrapass.com&#x2F;eat-your-way-to-a-smaller-carbon-footprint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.terrapass.com&#x2F;eat-your-way-to-a-smaller-carbon-f...</a>. Lettuce from across the country costs the same, and isn&#x27;t as fresh.<p>We moved for a better quality of life, and part of that was reducing our commute. We were able to cut the commute back from 3hrs a day to about 30min a day per adult, if that. There&#x27;s a calculator here that can help you figure out the carbon savings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;ghgemissions&#x2F;household-carbon-footprint-calculator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;ghgemissions&#x2F;household-carbon-footprint-...</a><p>When our water heater failed, I did some research and realized the state where we were living at the time would pay for a replacement tankless combined water heater and furnace. That saved us about $4k from the cost of the system, plus it is super efficient so our heating and cooking costs dropped, plus we had endless hot water for showers.<p>I realized one day it&#x27;s like working on legacy software: if you look at it as a whole, it looks like a completely intractable problem. But if you start making incremental changes, over time you can change and have an impact.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Av3jGKee8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moffkalast</author><text>You know, it really baffles me how these things can operate safely with the general population. No way for the operator to keep track of the whole thing and thus no way to stop in an emergency, countless ways to injure yourself or others, yet there seems to be hardly any regulation for them (given the laughably sorry state some of them are in) and apparently not that many injuries either.<p>Compare that to most household products with a thousand warning labels for things that are common sense and&#x2F;or completely harmless. Like do idiots not go skiing or something?</text></item><item><author>euske</author><text>In Japan, there were a couple of ski lifts that make almost 90-degree turn, called &quot;bending lift (屈曲リフト)&quot;. Near the turning point they put up a warning sign like &quot;please hold tight or you might be thrown off&quot;. As a kid I always enjoyed the experience though. Sadly all of them have been torn down by about a decade ago, due to its high maintenance cost.<p>cf. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cable.cocolog-nifty.com&#x2F;sakudo&#x2F;2006&#x2F;02&#x2F;post_d5e1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cable.cocolog-nifty.com&#x2F;sakudo&#x2F;2006&#x2F;02&#x2F;post_d5e1.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>There’s a lot of ways to die or become severely injured while skiing. I imagine that alone weeds out people who need warning labels on blenders.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How can a ski lift allow turns to the left and the right on its route? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Av3jGKee8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moffkalast</author><text>You know, it really baffles me how these things can operate safely with the general population. No way for the operator to keep track of the whole thing and thus no way to stop in an emergency, countless ways to injure yourself or others, yet there seems to be hardly any regulation for them (given the laughably sorry state some of them are in) and apparently not that many injuries either.<p>Compare that to most household products with a thousand warning labels for things that are common sense and&#x2F;or completely harmless. Like do idiots not go skiing or something?</text></item><item><author>euske</author><text>In Japan, there were a couple of ski lifts that make almost 90-degree turn, called &quot;bending lift (屈曲リフト)&quot;. Near the turning point they put up a warning sign like &quot;please hold tight or you might be thrown off&quot;. As a kid I always enjoyed the experience though. Sadly all of them have been torn down by about a decade ago, due to its high maintenance cost.<p>cf. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cable.cocolog-nifty.com&#x2F;sakudo&#x2F;2006&#x2F;02&#x2F;post_d5e1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cable.cocolog-nifty.com&#x2F;sakudo&#x2F;2006&#x2F;02&#x2F;post_d5e1.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swader999</author><text>You could say the exact same thing about elevators. There&#x27;s a lot of regulation, inspection and safety features that isn&#x27;t well known about these lifts. But it does exist and the safety record is impressive. The drive to the hill is a much higher risk.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/preview-the-python-serverless-microframework-for-aws/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=launch_sdk_tools_4a8efa18&sc_publisher=tw_go&sc_content=Python_Microframework&sc_country=global&sc_geo=global&adbsc=social_launches_20160711_63715856&adbid=752600622390587393&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>collyw</author><text>Ok, I have seen the phrase &quot;serverless&quot; a few times recently. Can someone explain to me what it is (as I am pretty sure it involves a server - it runs on AWS ffs) and why I should want to use it?
And most importantly, is it web scale?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nashadelic</author><text>Well, if you look at how we&#x27;ve done things over the years:<p>- We used to have our own machines in our own data centers<p>- Then we started renting machines in data centers<p>- We then moved to the cloud model where we would get compute capacity on demand. But the minimum unit was an hour<p>- But what if you could deploy your code and you were only charged for the compute and memory you take for the fulfillment of that request? That is what the &quot;serverless&quot; model is. You don&#x27;t constantly run a server like apache; instead, when you receive a user Request, the relevant function is called, executed and results returned to the user. You are billed for the ram ⨉ CPU.<p>This has many benefits:<p>- For low traffic sites, this has significant cost savings<p>- For high traffic sites, this is auto-scaling without thinking about launching machine instances<p>This isn&#x27;t without problems, naturally. This lends itself well to certain type of problems better than others. For example, if you need lots of hot-cache data, the response times on a serverless stack would be slower.<p>But as you can see from the above, this is the logical direction cloud computing will evolve. Infrastructure will truly be shared and you should be able to extract efficiencies down to the minute.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/preview-the-python-serverless-microframework-for-aws/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=launch_sdk_tools_4a8efa18&sc_publisher=tw_go&sc_content=Python_Microframework&sc_country=global&sc_geo=global&adbsc=social_launches_20160711_63715856&adbid=752600622390587393&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>collyw</author><text>Ok, I have seen the phrase &quot;serverless&quot; a few times recently. Can someone explain to me what it is (as I am pretty sure it involves a server - it runs on AWS ffs) and why I should want to use it?
And most importantly, is it web scale?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>It&#x27;s just marketing hype. As you noted there is no such thing as serverless. It is another architecture that forces you to use AWS Lambda and API gateway and a few other services to glue everything together. The idea being that if you are just shuttling bytes back and forth then the overhead of the traditional deployment is too much and you&#x27;re better served with what looks like an event bus with some transformers sitting in the middle.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth</title><url>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2007/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ifdefdebug</author><text>From the article: «The discovery of a silent, invisible black hole in HR 6819 provides clues about where the many hidden black holes in the Milky Way might be. “There must be hundreds of millions of black holes out there, but we know about only very few. Knowing what to look for should put us in a better position to find them,” says Rivinius. Baade adds that finding a black hole in a triple system so close by indicates that we are seeing just “the tip of an exciting iceberg.”»<p>As a layman I wonder if this could be the solution for dark matter ... but experts probably already checked that idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astro123</author><text>We have!<p>A constraint on dark matter is that it needs to be around at very early times. Before the time of the CMB (400 000 years after the Big Bang). If there wasn&#x27;t dark matter at this time, the under&#x2F;overdensities of baryons alone are not large enough to produce the large scale structure (galaxy groups&#x2F;clusters) that we see today.<p>What this means is that black holes, formed in the conventional process (stars dying), cannot be dark matter. The first stars only formed much later. However, primordial black holes (formed at very early times, before the CMB) were still a possibility.<p>This possibility has mostly been ruled out though. The main way we have done that is through microlensing. If there were lots of reasonably sized black holes floating around, they would magnify background stars as the passed in front of them. It&#x27;s a pretty cool effect. Here&#x27;s a nature paper from a couple of years ago that investigated it [1]. The abstract is very readable and figure 5 shows how people have been slowly ruling out black holes as a major component of DM.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1701.02151.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1701.02151.pdf</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth</title><url>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2007/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ifdefdebug</author><text>From the article: «The discovery of a silent, invisible black hole in HR 6819 provides clues about where the many hidden black holes in the Milky Way might be. “There must be hundreds of millions of black holes out there, but we know about only very few. Knowing what to look for should put us in a better position to find them,” says Rivinius. Baade adds that finding a black hole in a triple system so close by indicates that we are seeing just “the tip of an exciting iceberg.”»<p>As a layman I wonder if this could be the solution for dark matter ... but experts probably already checked that idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2048</author><text>The idea that dark matter is hidden inside black holes has been ruled out via observations looking for gravitational micro-lensing† which is basically looking for distortions in our views of the sky. Although we cant easily locate specific black holes, we know there is not enough micro lensing going on for the explanation for dark matter to possibly be black holes (the total mass of the black holes would have to be many times more than the amount of visible matter in the universe)<p>† <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gravitational_microlensing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gravitational_microlensing</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap</title><url>http://www.magicleap.com/#/blog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danellis</author><text>Give you a reason for what? You&#x27;re all acting like this company owes you an explanation of what it does.</text></item><item><author>a3n</author><text>I had no idea what the company does until I bailed from their site and read a comment here. Yes, I could have dug deeper, like the person posting that comment did (thanks), but damn, gimme a <i>reason</i>. And no, having $CELEBRITY in your company is not enough reason.<p>Two utilitarian sentences on what your thing is, and then all the literate prose you can produce. But gimme those two sentences.</text></item><item><author>themoonbus</author><text>That&#x27;s cool and all, but this has got to be one of the worst company websites I&#x27;ve seen recently. I get that they&#x27;re stealthy, but this doesn&#x27;t even build any interest.<p>It was only until I clicked &quot;Wizards Wanted&quot; (yes, I get it. Magic.) that I sort of got an answer.<p>Edit: Actually, the Developers section has some more information. But my point still stands.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themoonbus</author><text>I don&#x27;t think they owe us anything, I&#x27;m just saying the website is badly designed. They have a lot of content, but none of it says anything.<p>If you&#x27;re going to be stealthy, be stealthy (e.g. <a href="http://quanttus.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quanttus.com&#x2F;</a>). If you&#x27;re going to attempt to market your company, then market it properly. This does neither.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap</title><url>http://www.magicleap.com/#/blog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danellis</author><text>Give you a reason for what? You&#x27;re all acting like this company owes you an explanation of what it does.</text></item><item><author>a3n</author><text>I had no idea what the company does until I bailed from their site and read a comment here. Yes, I could have dug deeper, like the person posting that comment did (thanks), but damn, gimme a <i>reason</i>. And no, having $CELEBRITY in your company is not enough reason.<p>Two utilitarian sentences on what your thing is, and then all the literate prose you can produce. But gimme those two sentences.</text></item><item><author>themoonbus</author><text>That&#x27;s cool and all, but this has got to be one of the worst company websites I&#x27;ve seen recently. I get that they&#x27;re stealthy, but this doesn&#x27;t even build any interest.<p>It was only until I clicked &quot;Wizards Wanted&quot; (yes, I get it. Magic.) that I sort of got an answer.<p>Edit: Actually, the Developers section has some more information. But my point still stands.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrutsch</author><text>Only if they want me to care.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display</title><url>https://www.apple.com/studio-display/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceanplexian</author><text>Yeah I don’t know what it is with everyone prioritizing pixels over refresh rate.. once you start using 100+hz 60hz starts to feel like a slide show. You can see mouse trails and scrolling is jerky and uncoordinated, it’s painful and insanely distracting.</text></item><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Awesome to see them finally putting out <i>almost</i> consumer friendly pricing displays. Few things I&#x27;m disappointed about though:<p>- 60hz. For this price point I&#x27;d expect higher.<p>- Thunderbolt 3. Interesting that they didn&#x27;t bump to 4, given the Mac Studio is Thunderbolt 4. This means you wont be able to daisy chain the displays.<p>- Lack of size options. Would love to see more variety here. After moving to an ultrawide format, I can&#x27;t see myself moving back to standard format monitors from a productivity standpoint.<p>Overall though excited for this and keen to see how it&#x27;ll evolve. It&#x27;ll be a miss for me this cycle but keen to see their future releases of their monitor line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnissley</author><text>I mainly just look at text all day, so the &quot;slow&quot; transitions between different bits of text just don&#x27;t matter all that much to me. Resolution helps that text look nice and crisp though, which I really do appreciate.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display</title><url>https://www.apple.com/studio-display/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceanplexian</author><text>Yeah I don’t know what it is with everyone prioritizing pixels over refresh rate.. once you start using 100+hz 60hz starts to feel like a slide show. You can see mouse trails and scrolling is jerky and uncoordinated, it’s painful and insanely distracting.</text></item><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Awesome to see them finally putting out <i>almost</i> consumer friendly pricing displays. Few things I&#x27;m disappointed about though:<p>- 60hz. For this price point I&#x27;d expect higher.<p>- Thunderbolt 3. Interesting that they didn&#x27;t bump to 4, given the Mac Studio is Thunderbolt 4. This means you wont be able to daisy chain the displays.<p>- Lack of size options. Would love to see more variety here. After moving to an ultrawide format, I can&#x27;t see myself moving back to standard format monitors from a productivity standpoint.<p>Overall though excited for this and keen to see how it&#x27;ll evolve. It&#x27;ll be a miss for me this cycle but keen to see their future releases of their monitor line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>To this day, 27&quot; 1440p, 144hz IPS gaming monitors are still my favorite daily driver for any desktop productivity. And when I say favorite, I mean by an extremely large margin.<p>The amount of real estate you get with 2560x1440 is fantastic, and you can actually game on it at native resolution on older gen graphics. The pixel density of 27&quot; @ 1440p is the epitome of goldilocks. Every single pixel is just the right amount of useful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What’s New in Apple Filesystems [pdf]</title><url>https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2019/710aunvynji5emrl/710/710_whats_new_in_apple_file_systems.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>My understanding is that deduplication has generally been not worth the effort for a general use filesystem. The cost in memory, cpu, and sheer complexity doesn&#x27;t pay off in enough storage savings. Disk space is relatively cheap. Filesystem crashes&#x2F;corruption are not.</text></item><item><author>vardump</author><text>So containers with a new bi-directional hardlink &quot;Firmlink&quot; (intended to be invisible to applications, link between encrypted containers), with read only volumes protecting system software.<p>ZFS send&#x2F;receive style volume serialization for replication backup, etc. File system snapshot support included.<p>iOS or should I say iPadOS supports external USB media and SMB.<p>What seems to be missing is block level checksumming and integrity checks, scrubbing, block level duplication to protect important files, etc. No whiff of deduplication either, but that might be too memory intensive for Apple&#x27;s purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vardump</author><text>Yeah, block level deduplication is not useful for files on a typical consumer laptop. I can imagine it&#x27;s even less useful for files on iOS devices.<p>However it is often great for virtual machines and other software development related things, as long as all the underlying block sizes and alignments match.<p>You really do want strong integrity guarantees though. One corrupted block can cause a lot of damage.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What’s New in Apple Filesystems [pdf]</title><url>https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2019/710aunvynji5emrl/710/710_whats_new_in_apple_file_systems.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>My understanding is that deduplication has generally been not worth the effort for a general use filesystem. The cost in memory, cpu, and sheer complexity doesn&#x27;t pay off in enough storage savings. Disk space is relatively cheap. Filesystem crashes&#x2F;corruption are not.</text></item><item><author>vardump</author><text>So containers with a new bi-directional hardlink &quot;Firmlink&quot; (intended to be invisible to applications, link between encrypted containers), with read only volumes protecting system software.<p>ZFS send&#x2F;receive style volume serialization for replication backup, etc. File system snapshot support included.<p>iOS or should I say iPadOS supports external USB media and SMB.<p>What seems to be missing is block level checksumming and integrity checks, scrubbing, block level duplication to protect important files, etc. No whiff of deduplication either, but that might be too memory intensive for Apple&#x27;s purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FPGAhacker</author><text>Disk space isn’t cheap on a Mac laptop.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services</title><url>https://killedbymozilla.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>Some of these are a bit spurious. I mean, Venkman was replaced by Firebug, which was much better. MXR was similarly replaced by DXR.<p>Unlike Google, which look much more arbitrary in their shutdowns, Mozilla typically kill projects that are already on their last leg, or replace them with something objectively better.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services</title><url>https://killedbymozilla.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rpncreator</author><text>Thanks for putting the list together! There are a few that you may want to include:<p>1. Mozilla Labs (first iteration)<p>2. Mozilla Ubiquity (which we are seeing the concept re-emerge in Google Chrome)<p>3. Mozilla Prism<p>4. Mozilla Bespin (which sorta-lives-on)<p>5. XULRunner<p>6. Mozilla Test Pilot (1st and 2nd iterations)<p>I&#x27;m likely missing a few more. But a lot of these were experiments, and not concrete product offerings, so take with a grain of salt.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Romantic Love: The problem with Western cultures</title><url>http://www.nickyee.com/ponder/love.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rod</author><text><i>"LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient."</i><p>-Ambrose Bierce</text></comment>
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<story><title>Romantic Love: The problem with Western cultures</title><url>http://www.nickyee.com/ponder/love.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ericd</author><text>Wow. I've had some girlfriends who I was not strongly limerant about, and that always bugged me when I thought about it, to the point that I thought marriage was probably out of the question. This despite the fact that I really enjoyed being with them, and had "compassionate love" for them. I tried to remind myself that that was probably Disney talking, but it's as if it has been almost hard coded into my brain.<p>Best article I've read in months.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-ceo-attacks-nvidia-on-ai-the-entire-industry-is-motivated-to-eliminate-the-cuda-market</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brindlejim</author><text>Fun fact: More than half of all engineers at NVIDIA are software engineers. Jensen has deliberately and strategically built a powerful software stack on top of his GPUs, and he&#x27;s spent decades doing it.<p>Until Intel finds a CEO who is as technical and strategic, as opposed to the bean-counters, I doubt that they will manage to organize a successful counterattack on CUDA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tester756</author><text>&gt;finds a CEO who is as technical and strategic, as opposed to the bean-counters<p>Did you just call Gelsinger a &quot;non-technical&quot;? wow, how out of touch with reality<p>&gt;Gelsinger first joined Intel at 18 years old in 1979 just after earning an associate degree from Lincoln Tech.[9] He spent much of his career with the company in Oregon,[12] where he maintains a home.[13] In 1987, he co-authored his first book about programming the 80386 microprocessor.[14][1] Gelsinger was the lead architect of the 4th generation 80486 processor[1] introduced in 1989.[9] At age 32, he was named the youngest vice president in Intel&#x27;s history.[7] Mentored by Intel CEO Andrew Grove, Gelsinger became the company&#x27;s CTO in 2001, leading key technology developments, including Wi-Fi, USB, Intel Core and Intel Xeon processors, and 14 chip projects.[2][15] He launched the Intel Developer Forum conference as a counterpart to Microsoft&#x27;s WinHEC.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-ceo-attacks-nvidia-on-ai-the-entire-industry-is-motivated-to-eliminate-the-cuda-market</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brindlejim</author><text>Fun fact: More than half of all engineers at NVIDIA are software engineers. Jensen has deliberately and strategically built a powerful software stack on top of his GPUs, and he&#x27;s spent decades doing it.<p>Until Intel finds a CEO who is as technical and strategic, as opposed to the bean-counters, I doubt that they will manage to organize a successful counterattack on CUDA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>Gelsinger is saying &quot;the entire industry&quot; and that seems likely to be a simple fact. Every single player, other than Nvidia, has an incentive to minimise the importance of CUDA as a proprietary technology. That is a lot more programmers than Nvidia can afford to employ.<p>Even if Intel falls over its own feet, the incentives to bring in more chip manufacturers are huge. It&#x27;ll happen, the only question is whether the timeframe is months, years or a decade. My guess is shorter timeframes, this seems to mostly be matrix multiplication and there is suddenly a lot of money and attention on the matter. And AMD&#x27;s APU play [0] is starting to reach the high end of the market with the MI300A which is an interesting development.<p>[0] EDIT: For anyone not following that story, they&#x27;ve been unifying system and GPU memory; so if I&#x27;ve understood this correctly there isn&#x27;t any need to &quot;copy data to the GPU&quot; any more on those chips. Basically the CPU will now have big extensions for doing matrix math. Seems likely to catch on. Historically they&#x27;ve been adding that tech to low-end CPU so it isn&#x27;t useful for AI work, now they&#x27;re adding it to the big ones.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Devex: What actually drives productivity</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rektide</author><text>&gt; <i>I solved it, I got nothing.</i><p>Alas one of the most defining aspects of business seems to be an entire lack of rewards for being the Johnny On The Spot, for tackling shit. It&#x27;s absurd how little benefit there is to being good or caring or taking on the hard shit.</text></item><item><author>Bellend</author><text>Give me a life altering kickback as a fat cheque each April or get the minimum possible work I can do to keep my job whilst management tries to figure out what that is and if I am viable.<p>I do maybe 20% a week of my total.<p>To be clear, I have been through the stress. ESPECIALLY in the games industry where a specific corner&#x2F;corner collision had me crying and wished I was dead coz it was on me. I solved it, I got nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this is even solvable in principle. There&#x27;s just little to no correlation between the tough parts of this job, and the outcomes visible to stakeholders (even technical managers).<p>Spent two days dealing with memory corruption caused by a badly-written third-party library (proprietary, binary-only distributed)? I may have felt like I own the universe when I finally found the problem, but what does my manager see? Me having promised the feature today, and now saying it&#x27;ll be next week.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Devex: What actually drives productivity</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rektide</author><text>&gt; <i>I solved it, I got nothing.</i><p>Alas one of the most defining aspects of business seems to be an entire lack of rewards for being the Johnny On The Spot, for tackling shit. It&#x27;s absurd how little benefit there is to being good or caring or taking on the hard shit.</text></item><item><author>Bellend</author><text>Give me a life altering kickback as a fat cheque each April or get the minimum possible work I can do to keep my job whilst management tries to figure out what that is and if I am viable.<p>I do maybe 20% a week of my total.<p>To be clear, I have been through the stress. ESPECIALLY in the games industry where a specific corner&#x2F;corner collision had me crying and wished I was dead coz it was on me. I solved it, I got nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esafak</author><text>Move to greener pastures and let the competition eat their lunch. Voting with your feet is how we have nice things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bonzi Buddy</title><url>https://bonzi.link/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shireboy</author><text>Geeze, that&#x27;s a blast from the past. You know it&#x27;s funny- I used to periodically go looking for things to customize my desktop experience. This, those little dogs and cats, Rainmeter, Amiga workbench hacks, etc. etc. Nowadays- I supposed finally burned by enough malware and having become curmudgeonly- I want the most minimal &quot;plain vanilla&quot; setup I can get and pride myself in hardly ever installing _anything_.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>I miss that sense of wonder from the early computing days.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bonzi Buddy</title><url>https://bonzi.link/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shireboy</author><text>Geeze, that&#x27;s a blast from the past. You know it&#x27;s funny- I used to periodically go looking for things to customize my desktop experience. This, those little dogs and cats, Rainmeter, Amiga workbench hacks, etc. etc. Nowadays- I supposed finally burned by enough malware and having become curmudgeonly- I want the most minimal &quot;plain vanilla&quot; setup I can get and pride myself in hardly ever installing _anything_.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolpoli</author><text>One great program that I recommend for Windows users looking for a plain vanilla set up is Open-Shell-Menu. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-shell.github.io&#x2F;Open-Shell-Menu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-shell.github.io&#x2F;Open-Shell-Menu&#x2F;</a><p>It replaces the always animating Windows 10 start menu with something more simple.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/cubas-covid-vaccine-rivals-biontech-pfizer-moderna/a-58052365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noveltyaccount</author><text>I was reading about the mRNA approach recently and wondered why not just inject the spike protein itself? Why have our body make the protein instead? Does anyone here know? It&#x27;s interesting to see that both approaches yield such good results, and the end result, triggering immune response to the spike, seems about the same.</text></item><item><author>superkuh</author><text>Excellent news but there&#x27;s a translation error or misunderstanding in this article.<p>&gt; The scientists are using yeast as a receptor-binding domain.<p>I think they must mean they&#x27;re using yeast as the protein expression medium and encode the receptor binding domain of the spike protein (along with the rest of the spike?) with yeast-y promoters and base sequence preferences. I guess there&#x27;s nothing on the spike protein that needs to be glycosylated so non-mammal cell culture works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>When the mRNA vaccine is injected into your arm muscles some of it ends up in the cells of the muscle and some of it ends up in the intercellular fluid. The latter drains via the lymphatic system and will end up in the lymph nodes in the upper body on the side you got the shot it (which is a good place to end up since the lymph nodes are a major site for immune response). Some will end up in the blood, and so might end up elsewhere.<p>Whatever cells it ends up in, the mRNA has them make the spike protein. That spike protein ends up attached to the outside surface of the cell that made it <i>and it stays there</i> [1].<p>If you injected spike protein directly, it could end up anywhere. I don&#x27;t know if this has been tested in humans yet, but there has been research in mice where spike protein injected damaged their lungs [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;spike-protein-behavior" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;sp...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contagionlive.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;spike-protein-of-sars-cov-2-virus-alone-can-cause-damage-to-lungs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contagionlive.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;spike-protein-of-sars-cov...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/cubas-covid-vaccine-rivals-biontech-pfizer-moderna/a-58052365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noveltyaccount</author><text>I was reading about the mRNA approach recently and wondered why not just inject the spike protein itself? Why have our body make the protein instead? Does anyone here know? It&#x27;s interesting to see that both approaches yield such good results, and the end result, triggering immune response to the spike, seems about the same.</text></item><item><author>superkuh</author><text>Excellent news but there&#x27;s a translation error or misunderstanding in this article.<p>&gt; The scientists are using yeast as a receptor-binding domain.<p>I think they must mean they&#x27;re using yeast as the protein expression medium and encode the receptor binding domain of the spike protein (along with the rest of the spike?) with yeast-y promoters and base sequence preferences. I guess there&#x27;s nothing on the spike protein that needs to be glycosylated so non-mammal cell culture works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superkuh</author><text>It boils down to the mRNA process being faster and more of a <i>sure thing</i> for a novel virus. I hope there are eventually many more effective protein based vaccines approved.<p>The problem with expressing your protein in some animal cell is that often times there are sugars that cells add to proteins and they differ by lifeform type. So the protein will end up shaped different in a yeast than in a animal cell. Additionally, growing in a third party host lifeform often leads to situations where you can&#x27;t get it to grow in the host anymore because the virus changes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs</title><url>https://travelhead.medium.com/competitor-reported-our-no-buckle-belts-as-containing-a-dea-controlled-substance-and-got-us-e6df903172a3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smt88</author><text>I think what we&#x27;re learning from many debacles on YouTube, Amazon, and Google is this:<p>Algorithms are not even close to substituting for human customer service, human moderation, and human judgment.<p>Maybe this means web-scale sites like Amazon&#x27;s marketplace aren&#x27;t viable. I&#x27;m fine with that implication. Stores like Target and Walmart seem to have the same prices with human-curated inventories, and I don&#x27;t really miss the millions of extra products Amazon has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>Comcast has lots of humans and they suck worse than Google.<p>I don’t think the answer is humans or algorithms, the answer is organizations incentivized to solve customer problems. Google doesn’t care about customers, if they did, they would fix this. Customers are locked in because where else will you go.<p>Just like Comcast doesn’t care because there’s only one cable company, Google doesn’t really have any AdWords or Adsense competition.<p>I think the solution is more competition so use ddg. Once customers have mobility, Google will work to retain them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs</title><url>https://travelhead.medium.com/competitor-reported-our-no-buckle-belts-as-containing-a-dea-controlled-substance-and-got-us-e6df903172a3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smt88</author><text>I think what we&#x27;re learning from many debacles on YouTube, Amazon, and Google is this:<p>Algorithms are not even close to substituting for human customer service, human moderation, and human judgment.<p>Maybe this means web-scale sites like Amazon&#x27;s marketplace aren&#x27;t viable. I&#x27;m fine with that implication. Stores like Target and Walmart seem to have the same prices with human-curated inventories, and I don&#x27;t really miss the millions of extra products Amazon has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fxtentacle</author><text>The cynic in me says that you have identified why big tech companies spend so much money funding GPT and similar research:<p>Soon, your appeal will be replied to by an AI, too. That way, most people will have the impression that they were reconsidered by a human and found in fault, which will likely make a large percentage of them give up. We&#x27;re stonewalling real humans by building fake humans :(<p>And that means GPT could possibly reduce support costs for Amazon.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Uber pays millions resolving DOJ lawsuit for overcharging disabled people</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/uber-commits-changes-and-pays-millions-resolve-justice-department-lawsuit-overcharging-people</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wanderr</author><text>I was recently in a wheelchair for a few weeks. Uber&#x27;s ADA issues go beyond the scope of this lawsuit. Uber would consistently lie about the availability of a WAV vehicle, showing one as being nearby with low wait. Then when I would order it, either nothing was available or the wait time was completely insane. I never successfully hailed one.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Uber pays millions resolving DOJ lawsuit for overcharging disabled people</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/uber-commits-changes-and-pays-millions-resolve-justice-department-lawsuit-overcharging-people</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bernf</author><text>Not sure how I feel about this. I see a similar issue in what I consider mistreatment of delivery workers. There have been delivery services and transport services for disabled&#x2F;elderly for a while now. People have been replacing them with gig workers and I&#x27;m not exactly sure who to blame or feel sorry for.<p>A post a while ago on reddit was someone who was complaining about a doordasher who didn&#x27;t want to wait and bring like multiple bags of cat litter like up 3 flights of stairs. The amount of inconsiderate abuse people have towards them (making them wait, navigate buildings) is a poor allocation of resources.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21701756-italys-teetering-banks-will-be-europes-next-crisis-italian-job</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>It’s easy for Merkel to insist that Italy has to strictly follow EU rules since she doesn’t have to win an Italian election.<p>The Euro just seems like a complete failure. Giant economies are limping along with 20% unemployment, unable to recover 8 years after the recession. In contrast the US has managed an OK recovery, now closing in on full employment.<p>The problem is that each EU national leader is accountable only to voters in their own country. When countries have opposite interests there’s no good way for resolving the disagreement.<p>The only way it could work would be if Europe-wide economic policy were made by the European Parliament so that taxation and bank regulation would be made coherently across the continent by accountable representatives. But voters, probably correctly, want to maintain national control. But that makes the shared currency a noose.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Italy’s teetering banks will be Europe’s next crisis</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21701756-italys-teetering-banks-will-be-europes-next-crisis-italian-job</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Red_Tarsius</author><text>The Economist has often badmouthed Italy. The title is way too sensationalist. The comment section also highlights this ethnic bias. I will never forget their insulting cover from years ago: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.fanpage.it&#x2F;socialmediafanpage&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;Grillo-Berlusconi-Economist-300x225.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.fanpage.it&#x2F;socialmediafanpage&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploa...</a>. Just clickbaits and provocations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Just walk out” technology by Amazon</title><url>https://justwalkout.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turc1656</author><text>They&#x27;re only good because they were repeatedly given an infinite amount of money for 2 decades by investors while their retail operations lost money so that they could nail the implementation and the promise that they would figure out how to make it profitable.</text></item><item><author>heavenlyblue</author><text>They are only good because Ebay is pathetically bad.</text></item><item><author>altec3</author><text>And they didn&#x27;t just do that with AWS. They did it with ecommerce as well. Become the biggest online retailer, nail the implementation, then get everyone else to jump on your platform.</text></item><item><author>MattDamonSpace</author><text>Yep. I&#x27;ve been sitting here thinking Amazon was going to spool up tons of retail locations that leveraged their tech to create a massive moat that other Brick &amp; Mortars couldn&#x27;t possibly compete with.<p>In hindsight it seems obvious that the play was to &quot;AWS&quot; the whole thing: make yourself the first&#x2F;best customer, nail the implementation, then sell it to the world.</text></item><item><author>boublepop</author><text>Aaaand there’s the play. Amazon wasn’t trying to compete with other retails stores by leveraging their tech edge, they were positioning themselves to becoming the single provider of retail checkout solutions for the future. You either opt-in to giving Amazon all your retail data, or you become the only old fashioned “wait in line to get served” store on the street.<p>And where is the competition? Is there anyone at all who can provide something like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adenverd</author><text>Amazon effectively leveraged investment capital to do exactly what they said they would do - innovate, learn into the market, and improve iteratively. From investors&#x27; perspectives (and probably consumers&#x27; perspectives as well), Amazon has succeeded brilliantly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Just walk out” technology by Amazon</title><url>https://justwalkout.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turc1656</author><text>They&#x27;re only good because they were repeatedly given an infinite amount of money for 2 decades by investors while their retail operations lost money so that they could nail the implementation and the promise that they would figure out how to make it profitable.</text></item><item><author>heavenlyblue</author><text>They are only good because Ebay is pathetically bad.</text></item><item><author>altec3</author><text>And they didn&#x27;t just do that with AWS. They did it with ecommerce as well. Become the biggest online retailer, nail the implementation, then get everyone else to jump on your platform.</text></item><item><author>MattDamonSpace</author><text>Yep. I&#x27;ve been sitting here thinking Amazon was going to spool up tons of retail locations that leveraged their tech to create a massive moat that other Brick &amp; Mortars couldn&#x27;t possibly compete with.<p>In hindsight it seems obvious that the play was to &quot;AWS&quot; the whole thing: make yourself the first&#x2F;best customer, nail the implementation, then sell it to the world.</text></item><item><author>boublepop</author><text>Aaaand there’s the play. Amazon wasn’t trying to compete with other retails stores by leveraging their tech edge, they were positioning themselves to becoming the single provider of retail checkout solutions for the future. You either opt-in to giving Amazon all your retail data, or you become the only old fashioned “wait in line to get served” store on the street.<p>And where is the competition? Is there anyone at all who can provide something like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobwilliamroy</author><text>Did they really nail the implementation? I still refuse to buy anything that would go on or inside my body from amazon because I&#x27;m worried about getting counterfeits.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for 'Abandoned' Online Games</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-office-adds-dmca-exemption-for-abandoned-online-games-181026/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>Sadly the ruling directly forbids reverse-engineered protocols and custom made servers that emulate the original server. The ruling also states that these abandoned online games could only legally run at a museum&#x2F;library and that it&#x27;s against the law to distribute them to the internet or host them publicly.<p>&gt; and the video game is not distributed or made available outside of the physical premises of the eligible library, archives, or museum.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for 'Abandoned' Online Games</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-office-adds-dmca-exemption-for-abandoned-online-games-181026/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>This covers legally obtained server code, but what about reverse engineered third party servers which allow the use of abandoned game clients?<p>As an example, a popular &#x27;Blizzlike&#x27; Vanilla WoW server (ie. authentic to the original, pre-expansion game) has been built without using the official server software. Recent announcements from Blizzrd aside, it&#x27;s hard to argue that the original game is not abandoned, as it&#x27;s been unplayable since 2006.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Tragic Loss</title><url>https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>I mean I understand Tesla has to make a statement here and I understand they want to ensure everyone that it&#x27;s not really their fault but to title a post &quot;A Tragic Loss&quot; and then spend the majority of the post discussing all of your car&#x27;s safety features and how it wasn&#x27;t your fault just seems tone deaf and distasteful to me.<p>Maybe they had to do it for legal reasons I don&#x27;t know (I&#x27;m certainly not a lawyer) and I&#x27;d love to own a Tesla but couldn&#x27;t they have worded this a little more sympathetic and a little less lawyer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loceng</author><text>I feel &#x27;A Tragic Loss&#x27; sets the tone for the remaining highly technical overview, instead of the technical breakdown seeming tone-deaf, it added tone until getting to the concluding paragraph.<p>Unfortunately, fortunately, Tesla is having to educate people and being very clear to not allow room for panic and unwarranted fear mongering.<p>I would say it is as to the point as it can be, and that it is heartfelt.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Tragic Loss</title><url>https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>I mean I understand Tesla has to make a statement here and I understand they want to ensure everyone that it&#x27;s not really their fault but to title a post &quot;A Tragic Loss&quot; and then spend the majority of the post discussing all of your car&#x27;s safety features and how it wasn&#x27;t your fault just seems tone deaf and distasteful to me.<p>Maybe they had to do it for legal reasons I don&#x27;t know (I&#x27;m certainly not a lawyer) and I&#x27;d love to own a Tesla but couldn&#x27;t they have worded this a little more sympathetic and a little less lawyer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angusb</author><text>It&#x27;s not just about Tesla though.<p>They have to defend autopilot not only to protect the brand but to protect the public&#x27;s perception of autonomous vehicles in general.<p>Self driving tech is poised to save many many lives. So from a utilitarian perspective, it&#x27;s probably justified to take extraordinary measures to make sure reactionary media and public whim doesn&#x27;t kill it off, however uncomfortable that might seem in the short term.<p>Whilst this case is incredibly sad (and I don&#x27;t want to downplay that in any way), if you&#x27;re trying to minimise the overall amount of fatal crashes, exonerating the tech is the priority (if it is truly not at fault).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Docker for Mac Beta Review</title><url>https://medium.com/@nzoschke/docker-for-mac-beta-review-b91692289eb5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>STRML</author><text>I&#x27;m also in the beta, and I like it a lot. It&#x27;s functionally equivalent to `dlite`, which Nathan LaFreniere has done an <i>extremely</i> good job on. He deserves massive credit for making OSX Docker dev bearable and for providing the inspiration for &quot;Docker for Mac&quot;.<p>A few issues I&#x27;ve seen:<p>1. I cannot believe they are using `docker.local`. This hostname will cause nothing but trouble for years to come. DON&#x27;T USE `.local`! Apple has decided that `.local` belongs to Bonjour, and due to a longstanding bug with their IPv6 integration, you can expect to see a 5-10s random delay in your applications as Bonjour searches your local network to try to resolve `docker.local`. Yeah, you put it in your `&#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts`? Doesn&#x27;t matter. Still screws up. Use `docker.dev` or `local.docker`. [<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;370559&#x2F;10-second-delay-for-local-tld-in-mac-os-x-lion" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;370559&#x2F;10-second-delay-for-lo...</a>]<p>2. -beta8 is screwed up. It won&#x27;t bind to its local ip anymore. The only option is to port forward from localhost. Unfortunately, Docker isn&#x27;t offering a download of beta7. Thankfully, I still had the DMG around.
3. The polish is still lacking. Most menu bar items ask you to open up something else.
4. Why &quot;Docker for Mac&quot;? Couldn&#x27;t the team think of a less confusing name? Now I have &quot;Docker&quot; running &quot;docker&quot;.<p>Otherwise - great projects, and again, much credit to @nlf for `dlite`. If you&#x27;re not part of the beta, check out dlite (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nlf&#x2F;dlite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nlf&#x2F;dlite</a>). It&#x27;s at least as good as Docker for Mac.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avsm</author><text>&gt; I cannot believe they are using `docker.local`. This hostname will cause nothing but trouble for years to come.<p>We are indeed moving away from `docker.local` in Docker for Mac. There have actually been two networking modes in there since the early betas: the first one uses the OSX vmnet framework to give your container a bridged DHCP lease (&#x27;nat&#x27; mode), and the second one dynamically translates Linux container traffic into OSX socket calls (&#x27;hostnet&#x27; or VPN compatibility mode).<p>Try to give hostnet mode a try by selecting &quot;VPN compatibility&quot; from the UI. This will bind containers to `localhost` on your Mac instead of `docker.local` and also let you publish your ports to the external network. One of our design goals has been to run Docker for Mac as sandboxed as possible, and so we cannot just modify the &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf to introduce new system domains such as &quot;.dev&quot;.<p>We&#x27;ve been iterating on the networking modes in the early betas to get this right, so beta9 should hopefully strike a good balance with its defaults. It&#x27;s also why we&#x27;ve been holding a private beta, so that we can make these kinds of changes without disrupting huge numbers of users&#x27; workflows. Your feedback as we figure it out is very much appreciated!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Docker for Mac Beta Review</title><url>https://medium.com/@nzoschke/docker-for-mac-beta-review-b91692289eb5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>STRML</author><text>I&#x27;m also in the beta, and I like it a lot. It&#x27;s functionally equivalent to `dlite`, which Nathan LaFreniere has done an <i>extremely</i> good job on. He deserves massive credit for making OSX Docker dev bearable and for providing the inspiration for &quot;Docker for Mac&quot;.<p>A few issues I&#x27;ve seen:<p>1. I cannot believe they are using `docker.local`. This hostname will cause nothing but trouble for years to come. DON&#x27;T USE `.local`! Apple has decided that `.local` belongs to Bonjour, and due to a longstanding bug with their IPv6 integration, you can expect to see a 5-10s random delay in your applications as Bonjour searches your local network to try to resolve `docker.local`. Yeah, you put it in your `&#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts`? Doesn&#x27;t matter. Still screws up. Use `docker.dev` or `local.docker`. [<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;370559&#x2F;10-second-delay-for-local-tld-in-mac-os-x-lion" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;370559&#x2F;10-second-delay-for-lo...</a>]<p>2. -beta8 is screwed up. It won&#x27;t bind to its local ip anymore. The only option is to port forward from localhost. Unfortunately, Docker isn&#x27;t offering a download of beta7. Thankfully, I still had the DMG around.
3. The polish is still lacking. Most menu bar items ask you to open up something else.
4. Why &quot;Docker for Mac&quot;? Couldn&#x27;t the team think of a less confusing name? Now I have &quot;Docker&quot; running &quot;docker&quot;.<p>Otherwise - great projects, and again, much credit to @nlf for `dlite`. If you&#x27;re not part of the beta, check out dlite (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nlf&#x2F;dlite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nlf&#x2F;dlite</a>). It&#x27;s at least as good as Docker for Mac.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akshatpradhan</author><text>I thought we should be using .local because it was specified in RFC 6762.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;.local" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;.local</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Anyone to Hack DNA</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mail-order-crispr-kits-allow-absolutely-anyone-to-hack-dna/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kanzure</author><text>Here&#x27;s a transcript of a recent talk given by Josiah Zayner: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;diyhpl.us&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;transcripts&#x2F;diy-human-gene-therapy-with-crispr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;diyhpl.us&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;transcripts&#x2F;diy-human-gene-therapy-wit...</a><p>[20:40] “If you look at Step 3 - which is, uh, you know, I like steps and lists, they are awesome - uhm, there are actually websites out there that have this infrastructure completely built. You can go in, type in the name of a gene. Not even the name, you could type in the name you think a gene should be named, and what it will do is predict the best guide RNAs, the best 20 bases, to use, so that Cas9 enzyme can cut in your genome in this exact place.&quot;<p>&quot;Literally, you don’t have to do anything, right? You have to go in, type in the name of a gene, and press enter, and you could modify yourself with CRISPR. Right? That’s what this DNA basically is. This DNA, if you think about, took me about 5 minutes to make. Actually, it happened so fast, I had to go back and verify it a couple of times. I didn’t think I could create DNA that could modify my own genetics with CRISPR in 5 minutes. Now, if that doesn’t blow your mind, I, I really don’t know what does. And, the next question comes down to, &#x27;What’s holding us back; what’s stopping us?&#x27; And I dunno, to me, I, I don’t really know what’s stopping us, you know? I, I think about it a lot, because, I have this really, you know, bad snaggle-tooth, and I think like what happens if I could change that?&quot;<p>&quot;No but if you think about, people are born with things that they have no decision over. And then everybody else says, &#x27;Oh, no, fuck you, I&#x27;m athletic and 6 feet tall and, you know, good looking, and you just, you just, the genetic lottery - you lost. That&#x27;s the truth. You lost the genetic lottery and you have to suffer through it.&#x27; How does it make sense?&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.the-odin.com&#x2F;diyhumancrispr" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.the-odin.com&#x2F;diyhumancrispr</a><p>personally i&#x27;m down to fund projects like this, so if any of you are interested, get in touch &amp; let&#x27;s deploy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Anyone to Hack DNA</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mail-order-crispr-kits-allow-absolutely-anyone-to-hack-dna/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bayesian_horse</author><text>I am not afraid of what &quot;biohackers&quot; can do with CRISPR. It&#x27;s very hard to come up with &quot;pandemic viruses&quot;, even for nature, let alone for scientists, or even hobbyists.<p>At worst, the capabilities CRISPR and other techniques from synthetic biology give to genuine researchers will offset any mischief a hobbyist can do.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Home Price to Income Ratio</title><url>https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpweb</author><text>When it&#x27;s all assets going up, it&#x27;s not the assets cost more, it&#x27;s the dollar is worth less.
So for all the help and assistance. Housing is LESS affordable than ever before.<p>You cannot infuse trillions of extra dollars into the economy without inflation. There&#x27;s no magic pill - there must be consequences.</text></item><item><author>gp</author><text>While it doesn&#x27;t directly affect the average person&#x27;s purchasing power, the same dramatic increase is happening in other asset values as well. [0] One interesting thing to note is that 2019 EV &#x2F; EBITDA values were already &quot;high,&quot; before the coronavirus was spreading.<p>I suspect these two phenomena have different causes overall, but low interest rates are a common factor that cause all asset prices to increase.<p>On the housing side, I suspect consumers purchase the house that their cashflow can comfortably support, not necessarily the one where they believe it is correctly valued, because the assumption that house values only increase means purchasing a well constructed house is almost never a &quot;bad deal.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure what the &quot;solution,&quot; is, but knowing that voters hate when their home values fall does not give me confidence that prices will decrease in the long term.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;953641&#x2F;sandp-500-ev-to-ebitda-multiples&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;953641&#x2F;sandp-500-ev-to-e...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>Even when the world ran on the gold standard not all value was actually backed by anything - now we&#x27;re not even close. You can pick a stick up off the ground and whittle it into a boat - you have, by doing so[1], made the dollar worth slightly more since, for all the dollars in existence, there are now more goods to purchase. Inflation is spurred to increase over time for a variety of reasons - but asset accrual is not one - in actuality all the houses people own are constantly depreciating while the land they&#x27;re built on continues to gain value from age - they gain value from the increased shortage of supply - and they gain value from the constantly increasing cost of building houses (labour and materials - the material increase mostly also due to labour).<p>There are some incredibly complex feedback loops in the economy - especially in the housing market - but inflation isn&#x27;t the issue for most first home buyers. Inflation does, however, hit people with savings harder - every dollar you have in a savings account is slowly losing value. That, however, is quite intended since savings accounts are poor tools for economic growth (banks can leverage the value for loans but there are more efficient investment methods - and that leaves us with all our eggs in one basket which might be a quite irresponsible bank that&#x27;s pumping out subprime mortgages).<p>1. In a very very infinitesimally unmeasurably minor manner.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Home Price to Income Ratio</title><url>https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpweb</author><text>When it&#x27;s all assets going up, it&#x27;s not the assets cost more, it&#x27;s the dollar is worth less.
So for all the help and assistance. Housing is LESS affordable than ever before.<p>You cannot infuse trillions of extra dollars into the economy without inflation. There&#x27;s no magic pill - there must be consequences.</text></item><item><author>gp</author><text>While it doesn&#x27;t directly affect the average person&#x27;s purchasing power, the same dramatic increase is happening in other asset values as well. [0] One interesting thing to note is that 2019 EV &#x2F; EBITDA values were already &quot;high,&quot; before the coronavirus was spreading.<p>I suspect these two phenomena have different causes overall, but low interest rates are a common factor that cause all asset prices to increase.<p>On the housing side, I suspect consumers purchase the house that their cashflow can comfortably support, not necessarily the one where they believe it is correctly valued, because the assumption that house values only increase means purchasing a well constructed house is almost never a &quot;bad deal.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure what the &quot;solution,&quot; is, but knowing that voters hate when their home values fall does not give me confidence that prices will decrease in the long term.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;953641&#x2F;sandp-500-ev-to-ebitda-multiples&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;953641&#x2F;sandp-500-ev-to-e...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>Lots of money supply in Japan, and are their asset prices going up?<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MYAGM2JPM189S" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MYAGM2JPM189S</a><p>Their central rate has been &lt;1% since 1995.<p>Stocks and equities in the US have been going up for 10+ and the infusion of &quot;trillions of extra dollars&quot; wasn&#x27;t present for all of those years. Canada has had increasing home prices, barely slowing down in 2008, and it hasn&#x27;t had QE.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing a Package Manager</title><url>https://antonz.org/writing-package-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brabel</author><text>The author added a lockfile without understanding why they exist.<p>A lockfile is meant to &quot;freeze&quot; dependency version resolution when package authors can specify dependencies on other packages using version ranges... it also &quot;freezes&quot; choices of transitive packages&#x27; versions when different packages depend on the same one, but with different versions.<p>They chose to not handle package dependencies at all, and I believe there&#x27;s no version ranges either, so I really don&#x27;t see why they added a lockfile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nalgeon</author><text>There is quite a difference between &quot;the author added a lockfile without understanding why they exist&quot; and &quot;I really don&#x27;t see why they added a lockfile&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s better to start with the latter if you seek to understand, not attack.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing a Package Manager</title><url>https://antonz.org/writing-package-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brabel</author><text>The author added a lockfile without understanding why they exist.<p>A lockfile is meant to &quot;freeze&quot; dependency version resolution when package authors can specify dependencies on other packages using version ranges... it also &quot;freezes&quot; choices of transitive packages&#x27; versions when different packages depend on the same one, but with different versions.<p>They chose to not handle package dependencies at all, and I believe there&#x27;s no version ranges either, so I really don&#x27;t see why they added a lockfile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pharmakom</author><text>A version number is just a label, and labels are mutable. A lock-file containing hashes will always resolve to the same packages (or fail).</text></comment>
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<story><title>European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware</title><url>https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/mind-air-gap-goldenjackal-gooses-government-guardrails/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guenthert</author><text>For the old SunRay thin clients one could disable the USB ports by policy (and enable for certain users, iirc). That was an important feature there, as one intended application was as public kiosk systems, e.g. in a library.<p>The same is possible in Windows 10 and 11, but the users will revolt, if a sysadmin were to enforce such (the same users who insist on using Windows instead of a more secure system).</text></item><item><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>Some organisatios increase this latency by filling the USB ports with hot glue.</text></item><item><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>Given the discipline surrounding most &quot;air gapped&quot; machines I&#x27;ve seen I always find this quote appropriate:<p>&quot;At best, an air gap is a high-latency connection&quot; -Ed Skoudis - DerbyCon 3.0</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squigg</author><text>&gt; For the old SunRay thin clients one could disable the USB ports ....
&gt;The same is possible in Windows 10 and 11, but the users will revolt, if a &gt;sysadmin were to enforce such (the same users who insist on using Windows instead &gt;of a more secure system).<p>Can I add a little more colour here (and have worked in and designed-for very secure environments) - users will revolt if removing the USB ports makes their life more difficult. This can work if there is an effective feedback loop that makes sure the users can still do their jobs efficiently in the absence of USB ports, and corrects for them when they can&#x27;t. Users won&#x27;t go around something unless it gets in their way!</text></comment>
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<story><title>European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware</title><url>https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/mind-air-gap-goldenjackal-gooses-government-guardrails/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guenthert</author><text>For the old SunRay thin clients one could disable the USB ports by policy (and enable for certain users, iirc). That was an important feature there, as one intended application was as public kiosk systems, e.g. in a library.<p>The same is possible in Windows 10 and 11, but the users will revolt, if a sysadmin were to enforce such (the same users who insist on using Windows instead of a more secure system).</text></item><item><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>Some organisatios increase this latency by filling the USB ports with hot glue.</text></item><item><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>Given the discipline surrounding most &quot;air gapped&quot; machines I&#x27;ve seen I always find this quote appropriate:<p>&quot;At best, an air gap is a high-latency connection&quot; -Ed Skoudis - DerbyCon 3.0</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Plenty of organisations enforce &quot;no USB devices&quot; on all their users. Not even super secure places, but just many regular admin-type office workers get their USB ports disabled in software.<p>Partly it&#x27;s to prevent leaking of company secrets, unauthorized use of corporate devices for home use, harder to track the location of data, as well as the possibility of malware.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?</title><text>Can be super esoteric or super generalized, I love it when I get them, or when I just learn something new.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>This is an oldie (I first heard it in the 80s) but is one of my all time favorites. While it can be told about any two classes of people it really applies to a lot of code I encounter:<p><pre><code> A physicist is showing a thermos to her friend, a programmer.
&quot;It&#x27;s amazing&quot;, she said. &quot;You put a cold drink inside and regardless of how hot it is outside the drink stays cold&quot;.
The programmer is suitably impressed.
&quot;But that&#x27;s not all&quot;, she continued. &quot;You can put a *hot* drink inside and no matter how cold it is outside the drink stays hot&quot;.
Now the programmer is perplexed.
Plaintively he asks, &quot;But how does it know?&quot;
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I think of this whenever I read code that contains a gratuitous state variable that explains the type or content of some data structure rather than make the data structure self-explaining. Even more annoying when it&#x27;s a class.<p>Having to coordinate <i>two</i> variables is a recipe for bugs down the road. Seems like it should be a beginner&#x27;s mistake but I see it all the time in &quot;non beginner&quot; code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randcraw</author><text>I first heard this joke at an AI conference...<p>&quot;An engineer, a physicist, a mathematician, and an AI researcher were asked to name the greatest invention of all time.<p>The engineer chose fire, which gave humanity power over matter. The physicist chose the wheel, which gave humanity the power over space. The mathematician chose the alphabet, which gave humanity power over symbols. The AI researcher chose the thermos bottle.<p>&quot;Why a thermos bottle?&quot; the others asked. &quot;Because the thermos keeps hot liquids hot in winter and cold liquids cold in summer.&quot;, said the AI researcher. &quot;Yes - so what?&quot; &quot;Think about it.&quot;, intoned the researcher reverently. &quot;That little bottle - how does it know?&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?</title><text>Can be super esoteric or super generalized, I love it when I get them, or when I just learn something new.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>This is an oldie (I first heard it in the 80s) but is one of my all time favorites. While it can be told about any two classes of people it really applies to a lot of code I encounter:<p><pre><code> A physicist is showing a thermos to her friend, a programmer.
&quot;It&#x27;s amazing&quot;, she said. &quot;You put a cold drink inside and regardless of how hot it is outside the drink stays cold&quot;.
The programmer is suitably impressed.
&quot;But that&#x27;s not all&quot;, she continued. &quot;You can put a *hot* drink inside and no matter how cold it is outside the drink stays hot&quot;.
Now the programmer is perplexed.
Plaintively he asks, &quot;But how does it know?&quot;
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I think of this whenever I read code that contains a gratuitous state variable that explains the type or content of some data structure rather than make the data structure self-explaining. Even more annoying when it&#x27;s a class.<p>Having to coordinate <i>two</i> variables is a recipe for bugs down the road. Seems like it should be a beginner&#x27;s mistake but I see it all the time in &quot;non beginner&quot; code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kilnr</author><text>Love the joke, but to me it points to something else than gratuitous state variables. I think of it as &quot;if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&quot;, with the hammer being &quot;procedurally solving problems&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Watching an acquirer ruin your company</title><url>https://startupwin.kelsus.com/p/watching-an-acquirer-ruin-your-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mm007emko</author><text>Well, question is which part of the world you live in, of course. But I don&#x27;t need to unionize. If I am not satisfied in my job I can switch. Each consecutive job hop past 15 years got me better pay, better benefits and sometimes a better job (sometimes it was equaly shitty as the prevous one but for better money). This does not happen for unionized workers.<p>Maybe in the future we will have to unionize. Definitely not now and not in Europe. And this is not a matter of pay, e.g. airline pilots are paid more than programmers here yet they are heavily unionized.</text></item><item><author>Phlarp</author><text>And still too busy smelling our own farts to unionize.</text></item><item><author>cr__</author><text>&gt; Software engineers have been tricked into thinking they are part of the in club because they are paid well enough to have the lifestyle that the middle class had between ww2 and the 80s<p>This, and additionally we&#x27;ve been tricked into feeling guilty about it as well.</text></item><item><author>lovich</author><text>&gt; I don’t know which business school teaches people to say “ah can you smell that fresh mountain air” while they have their hands wrapped tightly around your neck …<p>It’s all of them and the higher you get into management the more apparent it is. They sell a system of meritocracy where those who work the hardest get the rewards. Then you get into management and working side by side with people whose first job out of college was as a VP, who explain to you how they are forcing the newly hired manager to fire someone at random to “make sure they have a backbone”<p>Software engineers have been tricked into thinking they are part of the in club because they are paid well enough to have the lifestyle that the middle class had between ww2 and the 80s, but we are being systematically stripped of the value we bring.<p>If this wasn’t true then we wouldn’t be able to point towards recent events like jobs setting up a hiring cartel to depress our wages</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>&gt; and the death spiral begins.<p>The death spiral becomes visible, really. The gun had already been fired, the body just hadn’t hit the ground yet.<p>I must say these failure modes are much worse than the ones I’ve experienced, which maybe I should be grateful for, I’d have to think about this.
Generally I’ve seen a slower burn, where the remaining fiscal year plays out with soothing tones and promises of not changing things, and if money doesn’t magically appear in their accounts, which why would it? Then they don’t give you money for some of the things you usually do and while they technically didn’t tell you not to do them, if there’s no money you don’t get to do them.<p>I don’t know which business school teaches people to say “ah can you smell that fresh mountain air” while they have their hands wrapped tightly around your neck but that’s some gaslighting BS that I hope nobody experiences, but I know people have. Best I can do is tell them to watch out for it. Some places you’re safe until FY+1, and things don’t go fully absurd until FY+2.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; As soon as Sphero completed the acquisition, bringing Kelsus in as an app developer, two things happened: 1) Sphero told us they needed fully revamped iOS and Android apps six months later with no schedule wiggle room. 2) Sphero spent the first two of those six months organizing a team on their side and hashing out requirements for the new apps.<p>This exact pattern has preceded every mismanagement disaster I&#x27;ve ever seen:<p>1) Management gives an unreasonable deadline to developers before defining the deliverables. Clock starts ticking.<p>2) Management then fails to settle on the requirements for months and&#x2F;or continuously moves the goalposts while people are trying to work, turning an unreasonable deadline into an impossible deadline<p>3) Developers start realizing that they&#x27;re going to receive the blame when impossible deadline isn&#x27;t achieved, despite not having any control in the matter. They start leaving for new jobs, and the death spiral begins.<p>It&#x27;s the universal pattern of a management team that doesn&#x27;t know how to do anything other than make demands and then apply pressure. Unless you can get someone in charge who has real leadership and planning skills, it&#x27;s not recoverable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>Would this not be the <i>best</i> time to form a union, though? If we start to hit tough times when programmers are treated like shit and the job market is tight, then your colleagues will be less inclined to rock the boat and management will be actively trying to crack down on any attempts to organize. Basically when you <i>need</i> a union it could be too late.<p>Right now management will be off-guard, not expecting any unionisation push and will be a little bit unprepared as to how to counter it (that is, if they even <i>try</i>). Employees will likely feel comfortable openly discussing unions knowing that they probably won&#x27;t feel any reprisals (and if they do, well the job market is still pretty good for the moment). The tough part would be convincing someone on $1x0,000&#x2F;year that they might benefit from a union.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Watching an acquirer ruin your company</title><url>https://startupwin.kelsus.com/p/watching-an-acquirer-ruin-your-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mm007emko</author><text>Well, question is which part of the world you live in, of course. But I don&#x27;t need to unionize. If I am not satisfied in my job I can switch. Each consecutive job hop past 15 years got me better pay, better benefits and sometimes a better job (sometimes it was equaly shitty as the prevous one but for better money). This does not happen for unionized workers.<p>Maybe in the future we will have to unionize. Definitely not now and not in Europe. And this is not a matter of pay, e.g. airline pilots are paid more than programmers here yet they are heavily unionized.</text></item><item><author>Phlarp</author><text>And still too busy smelling our own farts to unionize.</text></item><item><author>cr__</author><text>&gt; Software engineers have been tricked into thinking they are part of the in club because they are paid well enough to have the lifestyle that the middle class had between ww2 and the 80s<p>This, and additionally we&#x27;ve been tricked into feeling guilty about it as well.</text></item><item><author>lovich</author><text>&gt; I don’t know which business school teaches people to say “ah can you smell that fresh mountain air” while they have their hands wrapped tightly around your neck …<p>It’s all of them and the higher you get into management the more apparent it is. They sell a system of meritocracy where those who work the hardest get the rewards. Then you get into management and working side by side with people whose first job out of college was as a VP, who explain to you how they are forcing the newly hired manager to fire someone at random to “make sure they have a backbone”<p>Software engineers have been tricked into thinking they are part of the in club because they are paid well enough to have the lifestyle that the middle class had between ww2 and the 80s, but we are being systematically stripped of the value we bring.<p>If this wasn’t true then we wouldn’t be able to point towards recent events like jobs setting up a hiring cartel to depress our wages</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>&gt; and the death spiral begins.<p>The death spiral becomes visible, really. The gun had already been fired, the body just hadn’t hit the ground yet.<p>I must say these failure modes are much worse than the ones I’ve experienced, which maybe I should be grateful for, I’d have to think about this.
Generally I’ve seen a slower burn, where the remaining fiscal year plays out with soothing tones and promises of not changing things, and if money doesn’t magically appear in their accounts, which why would it? Then they don’t give you money for some of the things you usually do and while they technically didn’t tell you not to do them, if there’s no money you don’t get to do them.<p>I don’t know which business school teaches people to say “ah can you smell that fresh mountain air” while they have their hands wrapped tightly around your neck but that’s some gaslighting BS that I hope nobody experiences, but I know people have. Best I can do is tell them to watch out for it. Some places you’re safe until FY+1, and things don’t go fully absurd until FY+2.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; As soon as Sphero completed the acquisition, bringing Kelsus in as an app developer, two things happened: 1) Sphero told us they needed fully revamped iOS and Android apps six months later with no schedule wiggle room. 2) Sphero spent the first two of those six months organizing a team on their side and hashing out requirements for the new apps.<p>This exact pattern has preceded every mismanagement disaster I&#x27;ve ever seen:<p>1) Management gives an unreasonable deadline to developers before defining the deliverables. Clock starts ticking.<p>2) Management then fails to settle on the requirements for months and&#x2F;or continuously moves the goalposts while people are trying to work, turning an unreasonable deadline into an impossible deadline<p>3) Developers start realizing that they&#x27;re going to receive the blame when impossible deadline isn&#x27;t achieved, despite not having any control in the matter. They start leaving for new jobs, and the death spiral begins.<p>It&#x27;s the universal pattern of a management team that doesn&#x27;t know how to do anything other than make demands and then apply pressure. Unless you can get someone in charge who has real leadership and planning skills, it&#x27;s not recoverable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamoyedFurFluff</author><text>I also don’t need to unionize but I’m pro-union. I think software should have a guild like the actors guild, that enforced minimum standards. when Kickstarter ran its unionizing campaign it turns out one of their demands was no productivity tracking software! I would love to know as a member of such a hypothetical guild I have collective clout to ensure I’ll never have to deal with a bullshit metric tracker again.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Future Screens Are Mostly Blue</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/future-screens-are-mostly-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spyder</author><text>What a stupid statement: <i>&quot;blue is so rare in nature (if you discount the sky and the ocean ...&quot;</i><p>Of course the Blue Planet isn&#x27;t blue if you remove all that makes it blue...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thevibesman</author><text>The sky and ocean are not always blue.<p>For most cultures on Earth, the last color they named was blue --- this is thought to be due to its rarity in nature.<p>Up through the Renaissance, the pigment for blue paint was made from Lapis Lazuli which made blue a very expensive paint and rare in most art. This is another sign of the rarity of blue in nature as pigments for other colors were much easier to come by.<p>I haven&#x27;t listened to this episode of Radiolab in a while, but I think it provides more info&#x2F;source on both of these points: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radiolab.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;211119-colors&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radiolab.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;211119-colors&#x2F;</a><p>There is also an interesting anecdote where one of the interviewees tells the story about teaching his daughter colors. He and his wife made the decision not to tell her what color the sky was; he would go on walks with his daughter and ask her to identify the colors of various plants and objects, when asked about the sky for a while she didn&#x27;t have an answer and when she finally did she said its as &quot;white&quot; not &quot;blue&quot; --- which does seem like a better way to describe the sky since even on a clear day the brightest parts can look almost white; but someone told me once it was blue.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Future Screens Are Mostly Blue</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/future-screens-are-mostly-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spyder</author><text>What a stupid statement: <i>&quot;blue is so rare in nature (if you discount the sky and the ocean ...&quot;</i><p>Of course the Blue Planet isn&#x27;t blue if you remove all that makes it blue...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>Still:<p>The sea is a notoriously hostile environment for great apes such as us.<p>The sky is notoriously unattainable (we fly since, what, 2 centuries?)<p>Everywhere else, Blue is pretty uncommon On average, the wilderness is mostly shades of brown and green. And what <i>is</i> blue tend to be pretty intense: flowers and venomous animals, mostly.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve read around here that colours are mostly a cultural thing (except maybe red). So I&#x27;d wouldn&#x27;t put too much into it. The interesting parts come later in the article anyway: how UI design could take inspiration from sci-fi, including its mistakes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs</title><url>http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/08/28/video-game-programmer-specs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelburget</author><text>I wish people would stop glorifying how many hours they work and how little sleep they get, "You need to live without sleep (4 hours a night every day for years baby!)." Sounds juvenile to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kd1220</author><text>It's likely bravado from college days. I remember overhearing many conversations at school where students would brag about pulling their second all-nighter in a particular week. I could only think that they were doing something wrong. If your work load is requiring you to stay up for more than 16-18 hours a day, then you're either doing too much or you're really inefficient.<p>A metric of success, to me, is being able to make money while you're asleep. You'll never escape the chains of the cubicle if you don't work smart.</text></comment>
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<story><title>So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs</title><url>http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/08/28/video-game-programmer-specs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelburget</author><text>I wish people would stop glorifying how many hours they work and how little sleep they get, "You need to live without sleep (4 hours a night every day for years baby!)." Sounds juvenile to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waitwhat</author><text>Have people already forgotten about the EA Spouse?<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Spouse" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Spouse</a><p><a href="http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html" rel="nofollow">http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?</title><url>https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/python-square-of-opposition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>If all marbles in a bag are black, and you take one marble out, are all marbles in the bag white?<p>The only logical answer is no. It would be rather absurd to make an exception for the case where you start with one marble in the bag... and yet:<p><pre><code> marbles = [&quot;black&quot;]
marbles.pop()
all(m==&quot;white&quot; for m in marbles) # =&gt; True</code></pre></text></item><item><author>tromp</author><text>If all marbles in a bag are black, and you take one marble out, are all marbles in the bag still black?<p>The only logical answer is yes.
It would be rather absurd to make an exception for the case where you start with one marble in the bag. That would make logical reasoning extremely cumbersome, for no benefit whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>The mistake you’re making here is by treating the statement “all marbles are white” as the negation of “all marbles are black” and claiming that this violates the law of the excluded middle.<p>But we are operating under predicate logic. The negation of “all marbles in the bag are black” is “there is a marble in the bag which is not black”. Then, clearly the latter statement is false in the case of an empty bag.<p>In fact, we can confidently claim falsity for any given statement of the form “there is a marble in the bag such that…” when the bag is empty. Therefore, by the law of the excluded middle, its negation is true, so statements of the form “all marbles in the bag are…” are vacuously true when the bag is empty.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?</title><url>https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/python-square-of-opposition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>If all marbles in a bag are black, and you take one marble out, are all marbles in the bag white?<p>The only logical answer is no. It would be rather absurd to make an exception for the case where you start with one marble in the bag... and yet:<p><pre><code> marbles = [&quot;black&quot;]
marbles.pop()
all(m==&quot;white&quot; for m in marbles) # =&gt; True</code></pre></text></item><item><author>tromp</author><text>If all marbles in a bag are black, and you take one marble out, are all marbles in the bag still black?<p>The only logical answer is yes.
It would be rather absurd to make an exception for the case where you start with one marble in the bag. That would make logical reasoning extremely cumbersome, for no benefit whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bandyaboot</author><text>Though it feels strange to write this, the fact that all the marbles are white doesn&#x27;t change the fact that they&#x27;re all black...and transparent, and not marbles at all, etc...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda</title><url>https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-thousands-of-hollywood-movies-into-super-effective-propaganda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaxHoppersGhost</author><text>Americans love that stuff though, it’s not necessarily propaganda forced down our throats. We’d still want to see the badass, all American commando on a 100 kill streak.</text></item><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>Once this was pointed out, I can&#x27;t unsee it. It&#x27;s kind of ruined movies that involves the military or military equipment for me, since it can be really obvious when creators toe the line for the military. When I see military equipment my gut reaction is to anticipate the other shoe dropping, and to look for shoehorned hero worship or some good-versus-evil plot point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panta</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t that be a sign that the propaganda has been effective?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda</title><url>https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-thousands-of-hollywood-movies-into-super-effective-propaganda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaxHoppersGhost</author><text>Americans love that stuff though, it’s not necessarily propaganda forced down our throats. We’d still want to see the badass, all American commando on a 100 kill streak.</text></item><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>Once this was pointed out, I can&#x27;t unsee it. It&#x27;s kind of ruined movies that involves the military or military equipment for me, since it can be really obvious when creators toe the line for the military. When I see military equipment my gut reaction is to anticipate the other shoe dropping, and to look for shoehorned hero worship or some good-versus-evil plot point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>That’s my understanding. The US military approach is basically “we’ll provide real gear and vehicles as long as your movie doesn’t put us in a negative light”. It’s basically the military getting free advertising in return.<p>I get the sense most blockbuster Hollywood movies fit that bill quite well with minimal edits. The more niche, gritty movies that talk about the unpleasant&#x2F;controversial events&#x2F;aspects probably don’t even ask for help.<p>As for the CIA??</text></comment>
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<story><title>Reactive GraphQL</title><url>http://info.meteor.com/blog/reactive-graphql</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bwhitty</author><text>Meteor is about the UX.<p>The ease of getting up and running, the ease of tools, and the ease of deployment. On no React stack can you (and in the future this will be more simple) run<p><pre><code> meteor create my-react-project
npm init &amp;&amp; npm install react
</code></pre>
And start coding JSX, ES2015&#x2F;2016 immediately. There is a non-trivial amount of boilerplate and configuration you need to do to get this working my hand, and while it can provide a greater level of control, it undoubtedly adds to the overall weight of code you need to maintain.<p>Then hypothetically after some time of development, do<p><pre><code> meteor add-platform ios
meteor add-platform android
meteor add-platform desktop (this is theoretical currently, but there exist packages which do exactly this)
</code></pre>
And have Cordova iOS and Android builds, and an Electron desktop app. Then in a few weeks, do<p><pre><code> meteor deploy
</code></pre>
and have a fully monitored application up and running on AWS with Meteor&#x27;s monitoring and deployment tools. Meteor&#x27;s play is in the ease of these tools. It is absolutely non-trivial the amount of glue and knowledge you need to create, understand, and maintain the current (and ever-rapidly expanding) Javascript toolchain.<p>This announcement touches on one of their most thorny issues of being tightly coupled to Mongo. Adding this abstraction layer allowing any UI and any data source is Meteor&#x27;s ticket to the masses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faceyspacey</author><text>When thinking about Meteor&#x27;s value proposition, it&#x27;s been neck and neck between what you&#x27;re saying (which is that of a &quot;universal build tool&quot;) vs. it&#x27;s full stack reactive subscription capabilities. Both of which have been Meteor&#x27;s 2 most important features.<p>That said, on the build side of things Webpack and Babel have been giving Meteor a run for its money. It takes more work to build your app with those tools, but it&#x27;s a lot less work than it used to be using plain NPM, and you now have a lot more customization than in Meteor.<p>That&#x27;s why doubling down and continuing the thought of full stack reactivity is so important to Meteor. I&#x27;m so glad to hear that they have suited up to upgrade their reactive server-side parts. I hope they put a lot of resources behind it.<p>If interested, here&#x27;s my take my take on what &quot;Reactive GraphQL&quot; means to Meteor developers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@faceyspacey&#x2F;what-reactive-graphql-means-for-meteor-3be285bce0b6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@faceyspacey&#x2F;what-reactive-graphql-means-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Reactive GraphQL</title><url>http://info.meteor.com/blog/reactive-graphql</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bwhitty</author><text>Meteor is about the UX.<p>The ease of getting up and running, the ease of tools, and the ease of deployment. On no React stack can you (and in the future this will be more simple) run<p><pre><code> meteor create my-react-project
npm init &amp;&amp; npm install react
</code></pre>
And start coding JSX, ES2015&#x2F;2016 immediately. There is a non-trivial amount of boilerplate and configuration you need to do to get this working my hand, and while it can provide a greater level of control, it undoubtedly adds to the overall weight of code you need to maintain.<p>Then hypothetically after some time of development, do<p><pre><code> meteor add-platform ios
meteor add-platform android
meteor add-platform desktop (this is theoretical currently, but there exist packages which do exactly this)
</code></pre>
And have Cordova iOS and Android builds, and an Electron desktop app. Then in a few weeks, do<p><pre><code> meteor deploy
</code></pre>
and have a fully monitored application up and running on AWS with Meteor&#x27;s monitoring and deployment tools. Meteor&#x27;s play is in the ease of these tools. It is absolutely non-trivial the amount of glue and knowledge you need to create, understand, and maintain the current (and ever-rapidly expanding) Javascript toolchain.<p>This announcement touches on one of their most thorny issues of being tightly coupled to Mongo. Adding this abstraction layer allowing any UI and any data source is Meteor&#x27;s ticket to the masses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enobrev</author><text>I think I get your point, and while I haven&#x27;t done much with meteor since a few weeks after it was first announce, I recently started a couple react.js projects using jspm. I&#x27;m not sure, yet, if jspm is ready for prime-time, but getting started was as simple as:<p><pre><code> npm install [-g] jspm
jspm init
jspm install react
</code></pre>
For es6&#x2F;es7, adjust config.js babelOptions.<p>I&#x27;ve nothing to add in regards to ios &#x2F; android &#x2F; desktop, but for getting up-and-running, jspm seems to do the job quite well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy</title><url>https://blog.malwarebytes.com/mac/2020/06/new-mac-ransomware-spreading-through-piracy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b212</author><text>Apple puts so much pressure on security, shouldn&#x27;t it be possible to block ransomware somehow on the OS level, possibly on all platforms?<p>I mean not many apps need to modify millions of files on all drives including network drives and dongles... It should be fairly easy to spot, something like:<p>1. If xxx wants to modify more than 50 files in 24 hours go to 2.<p>2. If some of the files were modified more than a week ago or if the files are in directories across multiple drives go to 3.<p>3. If some of the files are images&#x2F;documents it&#x27;s a no go, prompt user to accept and list the affected files.<p>I&#x27;d love something like this for my Synology, it&#x27;s connected to my Macbook as a network drive and I store my backups there, if anything modifies these files without my knowledge I&#x27;m doomed. I need to access some of my backups on daily basis so it&#x27;s kinda hard to disconnect te drive all the time :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aj3</author><text>Windows 10 has just what you describe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;how-to-enable-ransomware-protection-in-windows-10&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;how-to-enabl...</a><p>Of course, bad guys still can 1) create encrypted copy and delete originals instead of modifying files in place; 2) disable protection alongside with A&#x2F;V and proceed as usual; and my favorite 3) rely on built-in disk encryption mechanisms and simply overwrite encryption keys &amp; salts.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy</title><url>https://blog.malwarebytes.com/mac/2020/06/new-mac-ransomware-spreading-through-piracy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b212</author><text>Apple puts so much pressure on security, shouldn&#x27;t it be possible to block ransomware somehow on the OS level, possibly on all platforms?<p>I mean not many apps need to modify millions of files on all drives including network drives and dongles... It should be fairly easy to spot, something like:<p>1. If xxx wants to modify more than 50 files in 24 hours go to 2.<p>2. If some of the files were modified more than a week ago or if the files are in directories across multiple drives go to 3.<p>3. If some of the files are images&#x2F;documents it&#x27;s a no go, prompt user to accept and list the affected files.<p>I&#x27;d love something like this for my Synology, it&#x27;s connected to my Macbook as a network drive and I store my backups there, if anything modifies these files without my knowledge I&#x27;m doomed. I need to access some of my backups on daily basis so it&#x27;s kinda hard to disconnect te drive all the time :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robert_g</author><text>Just quickly thinking of where there might be a lot of images&#x2F;documents modified quickly: web browser cache, photo management software, antivirus software.<p>I think it&#x27;d be easier to isolate applications and data like Cubes OS instead of trying to create a universal rule set.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qubes-os.org&#x2F;intro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qubes-os.org&#x2F;intro&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential school</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592243</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>defaultname</author><text>&quot;people wouldn&#x27;t go near certain areas because they knew what was there&quot;<p>Right. Everyone knew. There have been a number of inquiries on this. The deaths at residential schools has never been a mystery. There is nothing new being unveiled.<p>This is an absolute tragedy, but there is a bit of a lie happening in the presentation of it, with each &quot;discovery&quot; being treated like it is unveiling some dark secret. No, it is a dark, but very well known, truth that has been in the open for the entirety of the program. And the truth is that mortality across the entire demographics of Canada was bad in that time period (3 out of 10 children under 5 died across the country), so it isn&#x27;t entirely atypical.<p>&quot;we need real change in Canadian society&quot;<p>What does this even mean? Should the country abolish the residential school system, despite it being long abolished?</text></item><item><author>neom</author><text>I&#x27;m mad as hell about this. My father was the executive director of Anishinaabe Community Counseling, a mental health services non-profit set up by the federal and provincial government in North Western Ontario. I spent a lot of time on and around the reserves, and it&#x27;s not like this stuff was unknown. People told stories often about the residential schools, people wouldn&#x27;t go near certain areas because they knew what was there. I can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m saying this, but as a Canadian I would echo Chinas call for a full human rights inquiry at the international level. If Canada is seriously about truth and reconciliation, we need to do more than just continue to publish reports acknowledging the wrongs committed, we need real change in Canadian society. The recommendations put forward by the government never go far enough, and frankly, the Indian Act is stain on our country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8note</author><text>The residential schools are gone, but their goal -- getting rid of indigenous culture so that they stop being a hindrance to resource exploitation on their land -- is still going strong.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johnralstonsaul.com&#x2F;non-fiction-books&#x2F;a-fair-country&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johnralstonsaul.com&#x2F;non-fiction-books&#x2F;a-fair-cou...</a><p>Has some good ideas for a mental model shift</text></comment>
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<story><title>Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential school</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592243</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>defaultname</author><text>&quot;people wouldn&#x27;t go near certain areas because they knew what was there&quot;<p>Right. Everyone knew. There have been a number of inquiries on this. The deaths at residential schools has never been a mystery. There is nothing new being unveiled.<p>This is an absolute tragedy, but there is a bit of a lie happening in the presentation of it, with each &quot;discovery&quot; being treated like it is unveiling some dark secret. No, it is a dark, but very well known, truth that has been in the open for the entirety of the program. And the truth is that mortality across the entire demographics of Canada was bad in that time period (3 out of 10 children under 5 died across the country), so it isn&#x27;t entirely atypical.<p>&quot;we need real change in Canadian society&quot;<p>What does this even mean? Should the country abolish the residential school system, despite it being long abolished?</text></item><item><author>neom</author><text>I&#x27;m mad as hell about this. My father was the executive director of Anishinaabe Community Counseling, a mental health services non-profit set up by the federal and provincial government in North Western Ontario. I spent a lot of time on and around the reserves, and it&#x27;s not like this stuff was unknown. People told stories often about the residential schools, people wouldn&#x27;t go near certain areas because they knew what was there. I can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m saying this, but as a Canadian I would echo Chinas call for a full human rights inquiry at the international level. If Canada is seriously about truth and reconciliation, we need to do more than just continue to publish reports acknowledging the wrongs committed, we need real change in Canadian society. The recommendations put forward by the government never go far enough, and frankly, the Indian Act is stain on our country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>II2II</author><text>&gt; This is an absolute tragedy, but there is a bit of a lie happening in the presentation of it, with each &quot;discovery&quot; being treated like it is unveiling some dark secret. No, it is a dark, but very well known, truth that has been in the open for the entirety of the program. And the truth is that mortality across the entire demographics of Canada was bad in that time period (3 out of 10 children under 5 died across the country), so it isn&#x27;t entirely atypical.<p>I understand and am partially sympathetic with what you are saying, but I don&#x27;t think this is the time to bring up those concerns.<p>At the moment, Canadians have to reckon with yet another impact of the residential school system: many children died under the government&#x27;s custody (even if it was indirect, through various churches). It doesn&#x27;t matter if the mortality rate was similar to other demographics, since the decisions of the government placed aboriginal children in those schools which was the precondition to the specific cause of death. The &quot;abolition&quot; of the residential school system doesn&#x27;t really mean anything, since many youth are still forced to leave their communities and are frequently placed in the care of complete strangers if they aspire to accomplish something that most Canadians take for granted: earning a high school diploma.<p>While the willful ignorance of these &quot;very well known&quot; deaths is difficult to excuse, the willful ignorance of the continuance of some of the hallmarks of the residential school system is difficult to forgive.<p>EDIT: for clarity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Pixel 3 (XL) bricking out of nothing</title><url>https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/192008282</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>usui</author><text>Especially with the Pixel lineup, there is a historical quality control issue with Google&#x27;s phones that I&#x27;m worried hasn&#x27;t been solved yet. I owned:<p>- Pixel 3: Past few months, volume buttons and power buttons gradually stopped working. USB port works for charging, but when connected to a computer, port connects and disconnects in an infinite loop. Bluetooth connection with car always skips&#x2F;stutters during Maps usage even though iPhones and other Android devices work fine.<p>- Pixel: Camera stopped working<p>- Nexus 5X: Infinite boot loop issue, contacted Google and replaced it using warranty<p>- Nexus 4: No hardware issues<p>- Nexus One: No hardware issues<p>The Nexus phones were less problematic. I suspect it&#x27;s because they were co-designed&#x2F;manufactured by LG.<p>As time goes on, I use my phone less, not more, and I haven&#x27;t dropped Pixel phones, unlike the Nexus ones.<p>I&#x27;m wary of purchasing the Pixel 3a, 4, or 5 since I don&#x27;t want to be burned a 3rd time by specifically Google-designed phones. I think it would be best to avoid Android OS updates as much as possible as well.<p>I&#x27;m looking for the next smartphone to be modular. Heavily considering a Linux phone easier to DIY repair.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Pixel 3 (XL) bricking out of nothing</title><url>https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/192008282</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c0d3z3r0</author><text>Phones are stuck in EDL mode with no way to recover, due to Google not releasing the signed firehorse files.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;issuetracker.google.com&#x2F;issues&#x2F;192008282" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;issuetracker.google.com&#x2F;issues&#x2F;192008282</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.de&#x2F;search?q=pixel+3+brick&amp;tbm=nws" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.de&#x2F;search?q=pixel+3+brick&amp;tbm=nws</a><p>I am not affected (yet). If anyone from Germany is interested in figuring out what the issue is and can risk losing their data, feel free to ping me on libera IRC. I have the ability to desolder and dump the UFS memory to start some investigation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poll: Do you use an adblocker?</title><text>Do you use an adblocker?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>byrneseyeview</author><text>Banner ads pay my salary, so out of professional courtesy, no.<p>It's very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads. Plus, if I see something egregious on my employer's site, I can let them know.<p>I use Ghostery to see who's buying data from whom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dlikhten</author><text>My thought is: If you can't afford me blocking ads then do one of two things:<p>1) No flashing ads. No flash ads (cpu time is mine!) No ads that blur content with ads. And I will turn off ad blocking on your site. If ads have sound and I can't block it I will never visit the site. This is why arstechnica has ads turned off for me, autoplaying video and sound.<p>BTW I will not turn off blocking of the +1 button or Like or whatever. I just don't wanna be tracked.<p>2) Don't give free content. Make me pay for it. If I like it I would.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poll: Do you use an adblocker?</title><text>Do you use an adblocker?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>byrneseyeview</author><text>Banner ads pay my salary, so out of professional courtesy, no.<p>It's very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads. Plus, if I see something egregious on my employer's site, I can let them know.<p>I use Ghostery to see who's buying data from whom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maggit</author><text>&#62; It's very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads.<p>So you <i>do</i> block ads, only with your brain ;) Fair enough, but can I ask why this is more courteous than blocking them in the browser? Are ad loads generally causing money to flow? I was under the impression that click-throughs cause revenue, rather than ad loads?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bootstrap 3 preview </title><url>http://rc.getbootstrap.com/css/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benoitg</author><text>For everyone complaining about the flatness, it looks like it's only temporary.<p><a href="https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-12332378" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yesimahuman</author><text>The thing I like about the flatness is it's even more clear that Bootstrap is a <i>framework</i> for you to build your own sites faster, and it's up to you to really customize it for your brand.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bootstrap 3 preview </title><url>http://rc.getbootstrap.com/css/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benoitg</author><text>For everyone complaining about the flatness, it looks like it's only temporary.<p><a href="https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-12332378" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geuis</author><text>This was the first time I've seen 3.0 and I really love the flat clean look. I skimmed through the linked page but couldn't find a specific statement about what they're going to be doing with this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Museopen to set classical music "free"</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/musopen-raising-40000-to-set-classical-music-free.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>orblivion</author><text>No, I think orchestras will get less work. I'm still in favor of this, but let's not kid ourselves. This is obsoleting recorded classical music (unless you care for a specific orchestra).<p>EDIT: I just noticed that you mentioned the bit about orchestras sounding unique. Well, maybe I'm not that into classical music, but this would probably satisfy me to a large extent.</text></item><item><author>Jun8</author><text>This is a FANTASTIC idea! The article notes that some opposition to the idea, I can't see how anyone can defend any point against this. The music is out of copyright, orchestras get more work, and the sound of each orchestra is unique enough so that different orchestras can still sell CDs of the same piece.<p>OK, this is it. This'll be the first Kickstart project I will donate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>To the extent that that is a problem, it is a past-tense problem. It has already happened. This won't add to the existing problem in any significant manner.<p>The <i>real</i> problem is that we don't need enough orchestras to actually sustain orchestras as an industry anymore, and the attempts to get around this fact are based in emotion, not fact or economics. I do not celebrate this, in fact I have the same emotional reaction many people do, but nevertheless I see it clearly: Classical music is not economically viable. We might as well record what we can while the orchestras still exist; at least the recordings will sound as good in 100 years as they do today.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Museopen to set classical music "free"</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/musopen-raising-40000-to-set-classical-music-free.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>orblivion</author><text>No, I think orchestras will get less work. I'm still in favor of this, but let's not kid ourselves. This is obsoleting recorded classical music (unless you care for a specific orchestra).<p>EDIT: I just noticed that you mentioned the bit about orchestras sounding unique. Well, maybe I'm not that into classical music, but this would probably satisfy me to a large extent.</text></item><item><author>Jun8</author><text>This is a FANTASTIC idea! The article notes that some opposition to the idea, I can't see how anyone can defend any point against this. The music is out of copyright, orchestras get more work, and the sound of each orchestra is unique enough so that different orchestras can still sell CDs of the same piece.<p>OK, this is it. This'll be the first Kickstart project I will donate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edanm</author><text>Classical music has always been cheap. Or at least, you could usually find a cheap recording of a piece, instead of going for a big-name orchestra.<p>Most people don't care, sure. But there <i>have</i> been examples of giving away free books to cause excitement and arouse interest. Classical music is not hugely popular nowadays, but this <i>might</i> help more people hear it and enjoy it, getting them to the place where they <i>do</i> want several recordings of the same piece.<p>Then again, this is all hypothetical. I doubt anyone can predict what effect this actually has.<p>Edit: One last point. You can hear almost any piece nowadays with a quick Youtube search, and that includes any quality recording you want. For people just looking to hear a piece quickly, I doubt Museopen will have anywhere near the effect that Youtube already has.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready</title><url>https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that&#x27;s given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done. I don&#x27;t feel like we&#x27;ve seen humanity at its best in several decades. Shame it always takes a catastrophe (and an immediate one at that; see climate change) to bring it out.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready</title><url>https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rsfern</author><text>Formal writeup here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jci.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;view&#x2F;138003" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jci.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;view&#x2F;138003</a><p>Edit: lots of interesting details. a couple takeaways:<p>1. “Depending on the antibody amount and composition, the protection conferred by the transferred immunoglobulin can last from weeks to months.”<p>2. One of the proposed deployments is to protect frontline health care workers from infection (and remove their need to quarantine) until a vaccine can be developed<p>3. This treatment was apparently used for quite a few other outbreaks, including the 1918 flu epidemic, MERS, and there is a report of it being used against the novel Coronavirus in China</text></comment>
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<story><title>A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people</title><url>https://jakobgreenfeld.com/stay-in-touch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kator</author><text>Interesting way to approach it, my approach might be less technical, when someone comes to mind randomly, I just txt them with:<p><pre><code> Hey, you just popped into my mind, I hope all is well with you and yours!
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<story><title>A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people</title><url>https://jakobgreenfeld.com/stay-in-touch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kator</author><text>Interesting way to approach it, my approach might be less technical, when someone comes to mind randomly, I just txt them with:<p><pre><code> Hey, you just popped into my mind, I hope all is well with you and yours!
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It&#x27;s simple, lightweight, and you&#x27;d be shocked how often the other person pings back.<p>My completely un-scientific view is that most people think of others once in a while. Perhaps we&#x27;re too busy to reach out, or the guilt of getting out of touch makes it hard to push through that resistance. I just push through it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bgroat</author><text>Every couple of days I scroll through my text history to the bottom and see if there&#x27;s anyone there I&#x27;d like to talk to.<p>I call it &quot;The Poor Man&#x27;s CRM&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset</title><url>http://status.gotomypc.com/incidents/s2k8h1xhzn4k</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voltagex_</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t I write a bruteforcer that instead of 5 * letters, tried 5 * dictionary words and get your password easily?</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>But if the trick you are using results in sufficient entropy, it shouldn&#x27;t matter that the enemy has thought of it too. I&#x27;m still a fan of linking common words together as this results in easily-memorized passwords with very high entropy. &quot;Catrunningfishhostagelaptop&quot; is a good password these days. it is easily remember but also difficult to brute force even if you know the trick by which it was constructed.<p>(And yes, by putting it out there I realize it is now a bad password.)</text></item><item><author>hackuser</author><text>&gt; This is not a good suggestion on their part, and has long been proven ineffective:<p>Agreed; that is bad advice.<p>I tell people: If you think of a trick then the attackers, who have expertise and think about these issues all the time, have thought of it long ago and have written it into their password-cracking software. That applies to visual substitutions (such as GoToMyPC recommended), phonetic substitutions (e.g., AmeriKa), patterns on your keyboard, etc.<p>In a more technical sense, that applies to tricks that can be defeated with an algorithm and affordable computing resources.</text></item><item><author>magoon</author><text>This is not a good suggestion on their part, and has long been proven ineffective:<p><pre><code> Substitute numbers for letters that
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“0” for “o” or “3” for “E”.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zo1</author><text>The way to compute the amount of possible brute-force combinations:<p>For a normal 5 letter (alpha-numeric only) password:<p>36 factorial, which is (36 * 36 * 36 * 36 * 36) = 60 million possible combinations.<p>However, for a 5-word password, the calculation is as follows:<p>Assuming the number of possible words in the English language is 1.025109 million, then:<p>1,025,109 factorial, which is (1,025,109 * 1,025,109 * 1,025,109 * 1,025,109 * 1,025,109) = <i>A really big number</i>.<p>So, granted, the amount of possible words is much smaller than that. But the attacker can&#x27;t know that for sure. To put the number above in scale, just 69 factorial is equivalent to 1.711224524 * 10^98.</text></comment>
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<story><title>GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset</title><url>http://status.gotomypc.com/incidents/s2k8h1xhzn4k</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voltagex_</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t I write a bruteforcer that instead of 5 * letters, tried 5 * dictionary words and get your password easily?</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>But if the trick you are using results in sufficient entropy, it shouldn&#x27;t matter that the enemy has thought of it too. I&#x27;m still a fan of linking common words together as this results in easily-memorized passwords with very high entropy. &quot;Catrunningfishhostagelaptop&quot; is a good password these days. it is easily remember but also difficult to brute force even if you know the trick by which it was constructed.<p>(And yes, by putting it out there I realize it is now a bad password.)</text></item><item><author>hackuser</author><text>&gt; This is not a good suggestion on their part, and has long been proven ineffective:<p>Agreed; that is bad advice.<p>I tell people: If you think of a trick then the attackers, who have expertise and think about these issues all the time, have thought of it long ago and have written it into their password-cracking software. That applies to visual substitutions (such as GoToMyPC recommended), phonetic substitutions (e.g., AmeriKa), patterns on your keyboard, etc.<p>In a more technical sense, that applies to tricks that can be defeated with an algorithm and affordable computing resources.</text></item><item><author>magoon</author><text>This is not a good suggestion on their part, and has long been proven ineffective:<p><pre><code> Substitute numbers for letters that
look similar (for example, substitute
“0” for “o” or “3” for “E”.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DerfK</author><text>The question is whether people are all going to pull words from a very small pool or form sentences to cut the search space (adjective noun adverb verb noun). A search space of 2000^5 (2000 most common words without punctuation) is still about 20 times larger than 80^8 (upper&#x2F;lower&#x2F;number&#x2F;symbols)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf]</title><url>https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/theses/2018-ixy-rust.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dswalter</author><text>Per a talk from Joshua Liebow-Feeser at the Rust Belt Rust 2018 conference, Google is heavily using Rust for networking in their new Fuchsia operating system.<p>This is a rough approximation of a quote he gave during the talk:<p>&quot;What makes Rust different is not that you can write high-performance, bare-metal code. People use C and C++ to do that all the time. What makes Rust different is that when you write that code, it is safe, clean, and easy to use, and you are confident in its correctness.&quot;<p>If even Google is using Rust for performance-critical development, that seems pretty promising to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thaxll</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the networking stack of Fuchsia written in Go?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fuchsia.googlesource.com&#x2F;garnet&#x2F;+&#x2F;master&#x2F;go&#x2F;src&#x2F;netstack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fuchsia.googlesource.com&#x2F;garnet&#x2F;+&#x2F;master&#x2F;go&#x2F;src&#x2F;nets...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fuchsia-mirror?language=go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fuchsia-mirror?language=go</a><p>I&#x27;m pretty sure Go is the dominant language for networking in Fuchsia and not Rust.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Quantum A.I. Publications</title><url>https://research.google.com/pubs/QuantumAI.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwdisswordfish2</author><text>RANT: As a researcher in quantum optics and spectroscopy, holy shit am I tired of reading through these comment threads where it&#x27;s clear that nobody understands the topic, yet people still make assertive nicely-sounding statements that are bound to get up-voted by other people who also don&#x27;t understand the topic. ~ugh~</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>Ok let’s get down to it. Are you prominent or especially knowledgeable in the specific area discussed? The first irony to avoid here is that you might not be an expert because it’s possible to do advanced work in your areas that’s quite removed from this. That’s true for all research, it’s endlessly splintered into sub fields. I forget who is commonly said to be the last person to know most all of science, was it Newton?<p>Secondly, even when people are wrong here they don’t seem any more intransigent or arrogant on average. The point is I would assume they are acting in good faith, however I can’t be sure because you criticize people without specific citations. You use citations in your papers I assume?<p>Let me change course and try and make this as productive as possible by looking at your comments in the most positive light. You are eminent in the field and somehow found yourself reading terribly uninformed assertively stated comments.<p>What a lost opportunity to correct and inform. What you could say in only a matter of minutes, could seem invaluable to those passionately interested in the subject. I’m sure it would be appreciated, raise the quality of discourse, and may help spread a more informed and accurate lay perspective of the field.<p>What would Susskind do? If he were here reading comments on a black hole article (for a reason I can’t imagine)? I don’t know him personally but whenever I listen to him lecture I’m always impressed by how willing he seems to share his genius with people interested in learning.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Quantum A.I. Publications</title><url>https://research.google.com/pubs/QuantumAI.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwdisswordfish2</author><text>RANT: As a researcher in quantum optics and spectroscopy, holy shit am I tired of reading through these comment threads where it&#x27;s clear that nobody understands the topic, yet people still make assertive nicely-sounding statements that are bound to get up-voted by other people who also don&#x27;t understand the topic. ~ugh~</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_Wintermute</author><text>It&#x27;s only when HN discuss a topic in which you are an expert in that you realise 90% of the comments are absolute nonsense. It happens every time there is a biology topic as well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selimnairb</author><text>“He described the nihilism of the many protest movements of 2011 that organized mostly online and that, like Occupy Wall Street, demanded the destruction of existing institutions without offering an alternative vision of the future or an organization that could bring it about.“<p>Calling Occupy nihilistic is strikes me as blinkered, and shows the neoliberal bias of the author. Occupy is where the 99% vs. 1% lens arose, which is a reasonable description of concentration of wealth and power across Western countries and especially the US. Occupy attempted to employ more empowering and less alienating peer-to-peer governance.<p>Occupy didn’t “succeed”, probably due to both internal and external forces, but it wasn’t nihilistic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bko</author><text>Occupy failed because it didn&#x27;t have any clear asks or metrics to track. They were against the bailouts. Did they vote anyone out of office? Did the re-election rate of 90% budge? Are there &quot;Occupy Democrats&quot; like there were &quot;Tea Party Republicans&quot;?<p>But most importantly, did they stop future bailouts? The original uproar about the 2008 bailouts (TARP) was originally authorized to spend $700 billion, of which they spent $431 billion and they were all paid back.<p>What about with Covid relief? This time the politicians learned not to go through legislature and just use the Federal Reserve directly. This time they were able to disburse 4 trillion in asset purchases, most of which was held by large institutions (banks). $1.3 trillion in mortgage backed securities! Another $3 trillion was spent on liquidity measures, other load purchases, lending facilities, etc. So in total a 10x spend from the proposed 2008 bailout which caused all the uproar. Note this doesn&#x27;t include any money for income support, stimulus, etc. It was just giving money to banks.<p>Occupy just taught the politicians how to do things under the radar.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.covidmoneytracker.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.covidmoneytracker.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selimnairb</author><text>“He described the nihilism of the many protest movements of 2011 that organized mostly online and that, like Occupy Wall Street, demanded the destruction of existing institutions without offering an alternative vision of the future or an organization that could bring it about.“<p>Calling Occupy nihilistic is strikes me as blinkered, and shows the neoliberal bias of the author. Occupy is where the 99% vs. 1% lens arose, which is a reasonable description of concentration of wealth and power across Western countries and especially the US. Occupy attempted to employ more empowering and less alienating peer-to-peer governance.<p>Occupy didn’t “succeed”, probably due to both internal and external forces, but it wasn’t nihilistic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>game_the0ry</author><text>Agreed - media portrays OWS as broken movement with no goals and no hope of changing anything. That&#x27;s neo-lib PR - corp media does not want you take OWS issues (pro-union, anti-corporate, Medicare for all, etc) seriously.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-profits-military-gear-ads-capitol-riot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rreichel03</author><text>As an anecdote, since July they&#x27;ve started showing me ads for body armor almost nonstop whenever I actually open the app. Just the other day it was a body armor ad then an ad for a tactical communication earpiece.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nataz</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing adds for illegal pistol and rifle suppressors (aka &quot;silencers&quot;) only barely disguised as &quot;fuel filters&quot; and &quot;solvent traps&quot;.<p>The companies selling the suppressor kits claim they are legitimate auto parts. They clearly aren&#x27;t.<p>Some people have claimed that it would be legal to buy these if you applied for a license to manufacture a suppressor, but good luck arguing that in federal court, especially since these are manufactured in China. Both the import of these goods, and buying without the correct federal license are felonies....<p>And yet they are all over Facebook. And people are buying them.<p>Here is the crazy thing. I enjoy shooting as a hobby, and could understand if FB chose to show me adds for legitimate firearm accessory companies.<p>I am <i>not</i> a car guy.<p>Either FB add targeting is terrible, or they can connect the dots between these obviously illegal &quot;solvent traps&quot; and people who are interested in firearms.<p>This isn&#x27;t a post made by a random FB user, it&#x27;s an ad on their ad network on their platform. At what point does FB facebook become culpable?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-profits-military-gear-ads-capitol-riot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rreichel03</author><text>As an anecdote, since July they&#x27;ve started showing me ads for body armor almost nonstop whenever I actually open the app. Just the other day it was a body armor ad then an ad for a tactical communication earpiece.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitbuilder</author><text>As another anecdote, I&#x27;ve had the same ad targeting for this last week or so. (Which is really unfortunate timing.) At some point I must&#x27;ve clicked on the wrong article while seeing what the &quot;other side&quot; was up to. And now my feed is full of tacticool insurrectionist chic.<p>The most disconcerting to me was an ad showcasing a &quot;tactical hooded trench coat&quot;[0], with the model holding an AK in the FB ad. I mean, nobody is going hunting, or defending their home, with their <i>tactical hooded trench coat</i>. Seemed pretty squarely targeted at the aspiring insurrectionist crowd.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I&#x27;m all for letting people buy whatever strange clothes they want. If I have any point here it&#x27;s that maybe FB doesn&#x27;t get to claim the moral high ground when they&#x27;re pushing ads using AKs as props, targeted at the crowd that stormed the capital (also, they need to fix their algorithm if they&#x27;re pushing them to me).<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;bxcK7zb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;bxcK7zb</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>12 Months of Mandarin</title><url>https://isaak.net/mandarin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I can do SRS. My dopamine system is at a point where I can&#x27;t do anything for a long time that isn&#x27;t interesting, has immediate or intermediate rewards, or can capture attention for a long time. And on top of that, repeating that habit requires all these criteria.<p>Examples:<p>Scrolling on the phone?: Basically direct dopamine injected into my brain. Can do indefinitely. Not good.<p>Programming? Sure I can put a few hours in, or even days if building quick prototypes where the payoff is imminent.<p>Reading? Can go on indefinitely, depending on the book: it&#x27;s just continual stream of interesting immersive stuff<p>Exercise? Well that depends on the activity. Running indoors without any stimulation: absolutely cannot do. Cycling or running or walking outside with an audiobook, or music? Absolutely: constant stimulation plus endorphins.<p>Learning Piano? Only if I can bang out a few good tunes immediately in the session, then I can allow myself to struggle with the difficult stuff in between. Absolutely cannot and won&#x27;t do rote deliberate practice. This hinders my progress significantly, but at least I have fun.<p>Learning a language? Well, unless I can get imminent rewards, or be continually interested and engaged, there&#x27;s just no way I&#x27;ll be able to do this. And I feel like rote, deliberate practice is just impossible for me to build a habit out of.<p>One way I know for a fact that I can learn another language is through necessity to communicate with it. Let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m thrown into an environment where the ONLY way I can get anything done is through having to communicate directly, without the aid of translators or tools. I think this is how babies learn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think I can do SRS. My dopamine system...<p>I&#x27;m willing to bet you&#x27;ve never had probes analyzing anything about your dopamine system and how it responds to any of the activities you go on to describe. More likely, you&#x27;ve started using trendy pseudo-scientific jargon to justify why you <i>believe</i> yourself to be physiologically limited.<p>Do you struggle to see through or enjoy to some of those activities? So be it.<p>But chalking that up to some scientific sounding stuff you pieced together over the years just hardens those limitations. It&#x27;s a very bad habit that&#x27;s become really common lately. I strongly recommend trying to break it. It&#x27;ll open up some doors that you&#x27;re currently keeping shut.</text></comment>
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<story><title>12 Months of Mandarin</title><url>https://isaak.net/mandarin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I can do SRS. My dopamine system is at a point where I can&#x27;t do anything for a long time that isn&#x27;t interesting, has immediate or intermediate rewards, or can capture attention for a long time. And on top of that, repeating that habit requires all these criteria.<p>Examples:<p>Scrolling on the phone?: Basically direct dopamine injected into my brain. Can do indefinitely. Not good.<p>Programming? Sure I can put a few hours in, or even days if building quick prototypes where the payoff is imminent.<p>Reading? Can go on indefinitely, depending on the book: it&#x27;s just continual stream of interesting immersive stuff<p>Exercise? Well that depends on the activity. Running indoors without any stimulation: absolutely cannot do. Cycling or running or walking outside with an audiobook, or music? Absolutely: constant stimulation plus endorphins.<p>Learning Piano? Only if I can bang out a few good tunes immediately in the session, then I can allow myself to struggle with the difficult stuff in between. Absolutely cannot and won&#x27;t do rote deliberate practice. This hinders my progress significantly, but at least I have fun.<p>Learning a language? Well, unless I can get imminent rewards, or be continually interested and engaged, there&#x27;s just no way I&#x27;ll be able to do this. And I feel like rote, deliberate practice is just impossible for me to build a habit out of.<p>One way I know for a fact that I can learn another language is through necessity to communicate with it. Let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m thrown into an environment where the ONLY way I can get anything done is through having to communicate directly, without the aid of translators or tools. I think this is how babies learn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hintymad</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think I can do SRS<p>No need. :-) Comprehensible Input and immersive language usage can be your superpower.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/googles-privacy-sandbox-advertising-system-arrives-on-android-in-beta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madduci</author><text>After all the crap that Google put in Android, I still don&#x27;t understand why some other alternative ecosystems like Ubuntu Phone or GrapheneOS or Mankato (PinePhone) aren&#x27;t attractive for users and developers.<p>What&#x27;s holding everyone back? I understand that without users there won&#x27;t be apps, but also without apps there won&#x27;t be users, since they offer just the basics.<p>Imagine if TikTok or WhatsApp have had an app for those others OSes</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>I have a bunch of issues with the &quot;Privacy Sandbox&quot;, but my #1 issue is that it&#x27;s called &quot;Privacy Sandbox&quot;. That term implies that a sandbox is being used to preserve your privacy, when it is, in fact, a system designed for the opposite of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iforgotpassword</author><text>It <i>is</i> the Apps, and you perfectly summarized how it&#x27;s a feedback loop. It wasn&#x27;t the only reason why Windows phone failed, but it was one of them, even though Microsoft threw money at companies to at least have the most important apps available from pretty much day one. The app store still was pathetic and a lot of basic quality of life apps missing. And they kept going for what, 6 years before they announced they&#x27;ll scrap it, and kept support going for another 4 years. Now imagine something new comes up, no matter how awesome the system is, no matter how well executed every move of the company behind it is: how much is a smartphone worth that doesn&#x27;t have WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Maps, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, you name it. And no, the browser versions don&#x27;t count.<p>Heck, you can just use lineage os without the Google services to get a taste of this. And that&#x27;s a system where you still can get <i>all the Apps</i> with a tiny bit of effort, as long as they don&#x27;t depend on the Google services. It sucks for the most part.<p>But really, since you asked, <i>just try it</i>. Get some used phone that&#x27;s supported by lineage OS and challenge yourself to use it exclusively for a month. Or maybe for fun&#x2F;hard mode, get a Lumia 950 and try that for a month.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/googles-privacy-sandbox-advertising-system-arrives-on-android-in-beta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madduci</author><text>After all the crap that Google put in Android, I still don&#x27;t understand why some other alternative ecosystems like Ubuntu Phone or GrapheneOS or Mankato (PinePhone) aren&#x27;t attractive for users and developers.<p>What&#x27;s holding everyone back? I understand that without users there won&#x27;t be apps, but also without apps there won&#x27;t be users, since they offer just the basics.<p>Imagine if TikTok or WhatsApp have had an app for those others OSes</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>I have a bunch of issues with the &quot;Privacy Sandbox&quot;, but my #1 issue is that it&#x27;s called &quot;Privacy Sandbox&quot;. That term implies that a sandbox is being used to preserve your privacy, when it is, in fact, a system designed for the opposite of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeagle</author><text>They only thing holding me back from calyxos is the lack of Android Auto. I know that it has its own privacy issues but man is it convenient with a compatible head unit.<p>Its possible to add Android auto stubs to it to give privileged access, compile your own build, sign it, flash it, and install the apks yourself as a DIY middle ground. I did it for a pixel 6 and was happy with it but bootlooped the phone applying my first compiled OTA update so this scared me off trying it again and I went back to stock. I understand why the team is against it but unfortunate.<p>Maybe another take on your question is why did windows phone and bbm fail?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: A little web server in C</title><url>https://github.com/robdelacruz/lkwebserver</url><text>A little web server written in C for Linux.<p>Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy.<p>Single threaded using I&#x2F;O multiplexing (select).</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samtho</author><text>This may sound sort of “old man waves at cloud” of me but one thing I’ve found sad is the gross over-complication of later versions of standards such that the sort of project linked here may not be as practical for something like HTTP&#x2F;3 for example. Similarly, the large, muddled tool chain that is “required” to make modern JavaScript applications makes it hard for newer learners to really understand what is going on because the minimal code version still needs its own transpiler, build system, linter, process managers, etc. Maybe we need all this complexity, but I suspect that some of the overzealous, solve-everything systems design we have come accustomed to is mainly serving to create a larger problem set instead of creating elegant abstractions that are agreed upon.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: A little web server in C</title><url>https://github.com/robdelacruz/lkwebserver</url><text>A little web server written in C for Linux.<p>Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy.<p>Single threaded using I&#x2F;O multiplexing (select).</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skulk</author><text>Cool project, but this project demonstrates the reason I&#x27;ve stopped writing things in C. The standard library has garbage string functions and it seems every project has its own version of this file:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;robdelacruz&#x2F;lkwebserver&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;lkstring.c">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;robdelacruz&#x2F;lkwebserver&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;lkstrin...</a><p>It&#x27;s fun to write this (and read others&#x27; versions) the first 3 or 4 times, but it gets old quickly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘No girls born’ for past three months in area of India covering 132 villages</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/no-girls-born-india-villages-female-foeticide-sex-selective-abortions-a9015541.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hackathonguy</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t indicate how the villages were sampled.<p>Suppose a village has a birth rate of 8 babies a year (2 babies every 3 months). There&#x27;s (roughly) a 50% chance the babies will be male and female, 25% chance that they&#x27;re both female and 25% chance that they&#x27;re both male.<p>That means that if you&#x27;re sampling from a district that has 1,000 villages (with the average birth rate of 2 babies &#x2F; 3 months, roughly the birth rate indicated by the article), one quarter of the villages will have 2 male babies - that&#x27;s 250 villages with 0 female babies born in the last 3 months.<p>Not making any claims regarding foeticide in India - just saying that the way they chose the villages matters a lot.</text></comment>
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I just released a data story on Indian population with a section on &quot;Case of the missing women&quot;[0]. This has profound effects on a society like India, even 2-3 decades later!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;numbersofindia.github.io&#x2F;stories&#x2F;population-06-2019&#x2F;#ckpt2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;numbersofindia.github.io&#x2F;stories&#x2F;population-06-2019&#x2F;...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App</title><url>https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/qwJMmOiAvZY;context-place=forum/photos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JetSpiegel</author><text>So both Apple and Google control the market, and each uses the &quot;not a monopoly&quot; excuse because of the other company.<p>There&#x27;s no practical difference.</text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Microsoft had a monopoly. Google does not.</text></item><item><author>daxfohl</author><text>It&#x27;s surreal to me that Microsoft faced years of legal repercussions worldwide for including a browser in their OS.</text></item><item><author>dingo_bat</author><text>&gt; The reason why I bought a Pixel from Google directly is because I do not like the adware and bloatware that comes pre-installed on phones from other carriers.<p>Bloatware mandated by google on all android phones:<p>1. Google+<p>2. Google Duo<p>3. Google hangout<p>4. Gmail<p>5. Google play music<p>6. Google play games<p>7. Google play movies<p>8. Google play newsstand<p>9. Google drive<p>10. Google sheets<p>11. Google chrome<p>12. Google maps<p>13. Google assistant<p>14. Google app<p>15. Google photos<p>16. Youtube<p>Seems like the author made a decision diametrically opposite to his desire. I literally use 4 of these 16 pre-installed apps. Keep in mind that these are non-removable too. You can disable them, but they will forever sit in the flash storage you paid for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>millstone</author><text>The key difference is the OEM license agreements. Google includes dubious requirements in their licensing terms, such as the anti-fragmentation clause. But Apple does not license their software to OEMs, and so cannot run afoul of antitrust IP licensing issues.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App</title><url>https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/qwJMmOiAvZY;context-place=forum/photos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JetSpiegel</author><text>So both Apple and Google control the market, and each uses the &quot;not a monopoly&quot; excuse because of the other company.<p>There&#x27;s no practical difference.</text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Microsoft had a monopoly. Google does not.</text></item><item><author>daxfohl</author><text>It&#x27;s surreal to me that Microsoft faced years of legal repercussions worldwide for including a browser in their OS.</text></item><item><author>dingo_bat</author><text>&gt; The reason why I bought a Pixel from Google directly is because I do not like the adware and bloatware that comes pre-installed on phones from other carriers.<p>Bloatware mandated by google on all android phones:<p>1. Google+<p>2. Google Duo<p>3. Google hangout<p>4. Gmail<p>5. Google play music<p>6. Google play games<p>7. Google play movies<p>8. Google play newsstand<p>9. Google drive<p>10. Google sheets<p>11. Google chrome<p>12. Google maps<p>13. Google assistant<p>14. Google app<p>15. Google photos<p>16. Youtube<p>Seems like the author made a decision diametrically opposite to his desire. I literally use 4 of these 16 pre-installed apps. Keep in mind that these are non-removable too. You can disable them, but they will forever sit in the flash storage you paid for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehwebguy</author><text>Many (or most?) bundled iOS apps can be removed <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-au&#x2F;HT204221" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-au&#x2F;HT204221</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Effective altruism has a sexual harassment problem, women say</title><url>https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s not that that bothers me so much as the fact that many effective altruists do it so badly. [...] But effective altruists are as likely to talk about colonizing Mars as they are to talk about global warming.<p>Are they doing it badly, or are you not understanding their arguments? AFAIK effective altruists want to colonize mars on x-risk grounds, which would explain why they want to prioritize that over global warming, even though the latter is happening right now. AFAIK they think that global warming is bad, but isn&#x27;t an existential risk, whereas colonizing mars will mitigate many existential risks.</text></item><item><author>dfgheaoinbt6t</author><text>&gt;Especially once people start down the path of thinking the needs of today aren&#x27;t as important as the needs of a hypothetical future population.<p>It&#x27;s not that that bothers me so much as the fact that many effective altruists do it <i>so badly</i>. We need to be concerned with the future. That is the only reason to maintain roads and bridges, to prevent pollution, or to conserve resources like water in aquifers and helium. But effective altruists are as likely to talk about colonizing Mars as they are to talk about global warming.<p>Effective altruism is supposedly about making evidence-based decisions. We have no idea how likely &quot;existential risks&quot; are. We have no idea what, if anything, can be done about them. We cannot predict a year into the future, let alone millenia. So-called longtermism is nothing more than guesswork.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>Effective Altruism is just a modern iteration of a thing that&#x27;s been around for a very long time. The fundamental idea is sound. However, in practice, it all-too-easily devolves into something really terrible. Especially once people start down the path of thinking the needs of today aren&#x27;t as important as the needs of a hypothetical future population.<p>Personally, I started &quot;tithing&quot; when my first business was a success. In part because it&#x27;s good to help the less fortunate, but also as an ethical stance. Having a business drove home that no business can be successful without the support of the community it starts in, so it&#x27;s only right to share in the rewards.<p>So, I give 10% back. I have rules about it:<p>I always give to a local group who directly helps people and who is typically overlooked for charitable giving. I get to know the group pretty well first.<p>I never give to any group that won&#x27;t keep my identity a secret.<p>I never give to any group that asks me for money.<p>I don&#x27;t always give in the form of money. Sometimes, it&#x27;s in the form of my time and effort, or in material goods, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t give to &quot;umbrella&quot; groups whose purpose is fundraising for a collection of other groups. This isn&#x27;t because I have a problem with them, but because they&#x27;re not the ones who struggle the most to get donations.</text></item><item><author>jfengel</author><text>The worst thing about being smart is how easy it is to talk yourself into believing just about anything. After all, you make really good arguments.<p>EA appeals to exactly that kind of really-smart-person who is perfectly capable of convincing themselves that they&#x27;re always right about everything. And from there, you can justify all kinds of terrible things.<p>Once that happens, it can easily spiral out from there. People who know perfectly well they&#x27;re misbehaving will claim that they aren&#x27;t, using the same arguments. It won&#x27;t hold water, but now we&#x27;re swamped, and the entire thing crumbles.<p>I&#x27;d love to believe in effective altruism. I already know that my money is more effective in the hands of a food bank than giving people food myself. I&#x27;d love to think that could scale. It would be great to have smarter, better-informed people vetting things. But I don&#x27;t have any reason to trust them -- in part because I know too many of the type of people who get involved and aren&#x27;t trustworthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamtaddle</author><text>I&#x27;ve yet to see an argument for colonizing Mars for this purpose, that wouldn&#x27;t be a better argument if the goal were instead &quot;build robust, distributed bunkers on earth, and pay families to live in them part-time so there&#x27;s always someone there&quot;.<p>Cheaper, and more effective.<p>Most plausible post-apocalyptic Earths would be far easier to live on than Mars.<p>The remaining threats that wouldn&#x27;t also be pretty likely to take out Mars at the same time, would be something like a whole-crust-liquifying impact, which we&#x27;d have a pretty good chance of spotting well in advance, and we could put some of the savings into getting better at that.<p>I think a bunch of smart people are also just romantics when it comes to space shit, and that&#x27;s why they won&#x27;t shut up about Mars, not because it&#x27;s actually a good idea.<p>Hell, building orbital habs is probably a better idea than colonizing Mars, for those purposes, if we <i>must</i> do space shit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Effective altruism has a sexual harassment problem, women say</title><url>https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s not that that bothers me so much as the fact that many effective altruists do it so badly. [...] But effective altruists are as likely to talk about colonizing Mars as they are to talk about global warming.<p>Are they doing it badly, or are you not understanding their arguments? AFAIK effective altruists want to colonize mars on x-risk grounds, which would explain why they want to prioritize that over global warming, even though the latter is happening right now. AFAIK they think that global warming is bad, but isn&#x27;t an existential risk, whereas colonizing mars will mitigate many existential risks.</text></item><item><author>dfgheaoinbt6t</author><text>&gt;Especially once people start down the path of thinking the needs of today aren&#x27;t as important as the needs of a hypothetical future population.<p>It&#x27;s not that that bothers me so much as the fact that many effective altruists do it <i>so badly</i>. We need to be concerned with the future. That is the only reason to maintain roads and bridges, to prevent pollution, or to conserve resources like water in aquifers and helium. But effective altruists are as likely to talk about colonizing Mars as they are to talk about global warming.<p>Effective altruism is supposedly about making evidence-based decisions. We have no idea how likely &quot;existential risks&quot; are. We have no idea what, if anything, can be done about them. We cannot predict a year into the future, let alone millenia. So-called longtermism is nothing more than guesswork.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>Effective Altruism is just a modern iteration of a thing that&#x27;s been around for a very long time. The fundamental idea is sound. However, in practice, it all-too-easily devolves into something really terrible. Especially once people start down the path of thinking the needs of today aren&#x27;t as important as the needs of a hypothetical future population.<p>Personally, I started &quot;tithing&quot; when my first business was a success. In part because it&#x27;s good to help the less fortunate, but also as an ethical stance. Having a business drove home that no business can be successful without the support of the community it starts in, so it&#x27;s only right to share in the rewards.<p>So, I give 10% back. I have rules about it:<p>I always give to a local group who directly helps people and who is typically overlooked for charitable giving. I get to know the group pretty well first.<p>I never give to any group that won&#x27;t keep my identity a secret.<p>I never give to any group that asks me for money.<p>I don&#x27;t always give in the form of money. Sometimes, it&#x27;s in the form of my time and effort, or in material goods, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t give to &quot;umbrella&quot; groups whose purpose is fundraising for a collection of other groups. This isn&#x27;t because I have a problem with them, but because they&#x27;re not the ones who struggle the most to get donations.</text></item><item><author>jfengel</author><text>The worst thing about being smart is how easy it is to talk yourself into believing just about anything. After all, you make really good arguments.<p>EA appeals to exactly that kind of really-smart-person who is perfectly capable of convincing themselves that they&#x27;re always right about everything. And from there, you can justify all kinds of terrible things.<p>Once that happens, it can easily spiral out from there. People who know perfectly well they&#x27;re misbehaving will claim that they aren&#x27;t, using the same arguments. It won&#x27;t hold water, but now we&#x27;re swamped, and the entire thing crumbles.<p>I&#x27;d love to believe in effective altruism. I already know that my money is more effective in the hands of a food bank than giving people food myself. I&#x27;d love to think that could scale. It would be great to have smarter, better-informed people vetting things. But I don&#x27;t have any reason to trust them -- in part because I know too many of the type of people who get involved and aren&#x27;t trustworthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freejazz</author><text>&gt;Are they doing it badly, or are you not understanding their arguments?<p>Do YOU not understand their arguments? They are facially stupid. The notion that we should be colonizing mars because of global warming is the stupidest thing I&#x27;ve ever read or heard.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The darker side of being a doctor (2017)</title><url>https://drericlevi.substack.com/p/the-darker-side-of-being-a-doctor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsdz</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve never quite understood is why, in the UK, we cap the number of medical students per year. I&#x27;ve known very bright people who aspired to be doctors but had their applications turned down only to go on to do phds and become scientists instead. I&#x27;d rather have twice as many doctors who work sensible hours rather than the status quo burn out. Looks like there are calls to change this. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonslibrary.parliament.uk&#x2F;research-briefings&#x2F;cbp-9735&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonslibrary.parliament.uk&#x2F;research-briefings&#x2F;cbp-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toldyouso2022</author><text>It&#x27;s the same in the US, Italy, etc
Doctors are a cartel receiving a monopoly from the State. That&#x27;s all there is to it, really</text></comment>
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<story><title>The darker side of being a doctor (2017)</title><url>https://drericlevi.substack.com/p/the-darker-side-of-being-a-doctor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsdz</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve never quite understood is why, in the UK, we cap the number of medical students per year. I&#x27;ve known very bright people who aspired to be doctors but had their applications turned down only to go on to do phds and become scientists instead. I&#x27;d rather have twice as many doctors who work sensible hours rather than the status quo burn out. Looks like there are calls to change this. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonslibrary.parliament.uk&#x2F;research-briefings&#x2F;cbp-9735&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonslibrary.parliament.uk&#x2F;research-briefings&#x2F;cbp-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Because doctors&#x27; associations and regulatory bodies (like AAMC in the US) lobby to keep it that way to keep the value of their profession up.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation</title><url>http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/12/02/the-dot-org-fire-sale-sold-for-half-its-valuation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lancewiggs</author><text>I wrote about this too - linked in the article.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lancewiggs.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;did-isoc-leave-1-billion-on-the-table&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lancewiggs.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;did-isoc-leave-1-billion-o...</a><p>The travesty is that ISOC has given up a sure-fire stream of $55+ million&#x2F;year in tax-free income, along with the ability to easily grow that to over $100m&#x2F;year with price increases - all for just over $1.1 billion.<p>As any r&#x2F;personalfinance reader can tell you a rule of thumb for endowments is to spend a maximum of 4% of your assets each year. This means $44m from the $1.1bn, which means ISOC is immediately worse off than they were forecasting for this year (~$55m). Alternatively use the Yale method, which in today&#x27;s low-return market will yield similar or worse results.<p>Moreover it&#x27;s clear that ISOC are not behaving as the sharpest of investors, so we can imagine that the endowment might be be poorly managed or over-spent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cameldrv</author><text>The bigger issue is that org was given to PIR to manage in the public interest. It was not supposed to even be a moneymaker for ISOC, they were just supposed to be the stewards of .org in the public interest. The fact that it’s worth even $1 billion shows that they’re operating it in the interest of the ISOC and not the public interest. ICANN should simply create a new entity that will charge break-even fees for registrations and stop trying to tax .org registrants with mandatory charitable donations to a dubious charity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation</title><url>http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/12/02/the-dot-org-fire-sale-sold-for-half-its-valuation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lancewiggs</author><text>I wrote about this too - linked in the article.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lancewiggs.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;did-isoc-leave-1-billion-on-the-table&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lancewiggs.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;did-isoc-leave-1-billion-o...</a><p>The travesty is that ISOC has given up a sure-fire stream of $55+ million&#x2F;year in tax-free income, along with the ability to easily grow that to over $100m&#x2F;year with price increases - all for just over $1.1 billion.<p>As any r&#x2F;personalfinance reader can tell you a rule of thumb for endowments is to spend a maximum of 4% of your assets each year. This means $44m from the $1.1bn, which means ISOC is immediately worse off than they were forecasting for this year (~$55m). Alternatively use the Yale method, which in today&#x27;s low-return market will yield similar or worse results.<p>Moreover it&#x27;s clear that ISOC are not behaving as the sharpest of investors, so we can imagine that the endowment might be be poorly managed or over-spent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>4ntonius8lock</author><text>I appreciate your excellent write up. When I read the allegations in the original article I kinda wanted more detail. You break it down very well with great attention to detail.<p>I&#x27;d like to place this here for those who only read comments:<p>.org registry rights belong to a non-profit - the rights were sold to a private equity group - somewhere between 50% and 90% below market rate. It was based on self dealing of the people given stewardship of the non-profit that manages .org<p>Basically, this is privatization Russian style. Not good. Even if you like privatization, no-bid stuff is just wrong.<p>Want to help support the democratic institutions which hopefully won&#x27;t fail us? Look here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drewdevault.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;dotorg.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drewdevault.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;dotorg.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/adp-sues-zenefits-for-defamation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>&gt; Zenefits doesn&#x27;t have any intrinsic rights to ADP&#x27;s system.<p>Zenefits doesn&#x27;t want or need intrinsic rights to the ADP system. They do need (and deserve) the same level of access as a human working for a client using ADP. They might provide little to no value or be a worthless company but NONE OF THAT MATTERS. The client paid for ADP access and has every right to use whatever means they deem necessary to input or output data from the ADP system.</text></item><item><author>jonathanmarcus</author><text>We&#x27;re a very small company (10 FTEs), but we have been anything but impressed with Zenefits as a customer. We only use them for medical and dental insurance, but in reality, they provide very little, if any value. The Zenefits software is really nothing special, and in fact, the onboarding UI is pretty poor. Now that we have our insurance, Zenefits adds zero value to us. We deal directly with United and Zenefits collects a 10% commission on our monthly premiums. Its a genius business model, and little else.<p>Zenefits doesn&#x27;t have any intrinsic rights to ADP&#x27;s system. Twitter killed off plenty of companies when it decided to shut down the 3rd party ecosystem. Facebook obviously maintains similar strategic control over it&#x27;s API. How many case studies must there be for companies to understand that building on another company&#x27;s platform always carries business and strategic risks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text><i>The client paid for ADP access and has every right to use whatever means they deem necessary to input or output data from the ADP system.</i><p>Thats not actually what the client pays for though. The client paid for access to ADP&#x27;s system according to the <i>Terms of Service</i> that ADP sets. If those terms of service and the rights they engender are not acceptable to the client they are welcome to find another provider.<p>I&#x27;ve frequently posted my dislike for ADP on these boards and I took my business elsewhere.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/adp-sues-zenefits-for-defamation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>&gt; Zenefits doesn&#x27;t have any intrinsic rights to ADP&#x27;s system.<p>Zenefits doesn&#x27;t want or need intrinsic rights to the ADP system. They do need (and deserve) the same level of access as a human working for a client using ADP. They might provide little to no value or be a worthless company but NONE OF THAT MATTERS. The client paid for ADP access and has every right to use whatever means they deem necessary to input or output data from the ADP system.</text></item><item><author>jonathanmarcus</author><text>We&#x27;re a very small company (10 FTEs), but we have been anything but impressed with Zenefits as a customer. We only use them for medical and dental insurance, but in reality, they provide very little, if any value. The Zenefits software is really nothing special, and in fact, the onboarding UI is pretty poor. Now that we have our insurance, Zenefits adds zero value to us. We deal directly with United and Zenefits collects a 10% commission on our monthly premiums. Its a genius business model, and little else.<p>Zenefits doesn&#x27;t have any intrinsic rights to ADP&#x27;s system. Twitter killed off plenty of companies when it decided to shut down the 3rd party ecosystem. Facebook obviously maintains similar strategic control over it&#x27;s API. How many case studies must there be for companies to understand that building on another company&#x27;s platform always carries business and strategic risks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otterley</author><text>The system in question was clearly built to meet the scale of human users, not synchronization with third-party automation systems. That, to me, is the issue here - not the question of access, but of purpose.<p>ADP is clearly responding to a capacity issue but Zenefits is attempting to frame it as a competitive one.</text></comment>
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<story><title>McDonald's holds communities together (2016)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cdiamand</author><text>Mcdonald&#x27;s was my first employer, and while I&#x27;ve got a ton of &quot;somebody pooped in the ballpit&quot; stories, I really think the restaurant is a net good.<p>As a 16 year old it was awesome to work alongside other folks of varying ages and nationalities and get to know that other &quot;walks&quot; of life existed. I made friends outside of my highschool, fell in love, got burnt by the fryolator like 8 times, and most importantly learned about hard work and the value of money.<p>But I also saw veterans from the VA having their Saturday breakfast meeting. I remember watching them sit for hours with smiles on their faces as they talked about their time in the service. I watched regulars come in and make smalltalk at the register. I saw the homeless get their daily meals. I saw people at their worst, screaming about McChickens, and at their best, telling jokes and making people smile. It really is a watering hole and I&#x27;m thankful for the time I spent there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevilo</author><text>I also had MCD as my first job at 15, and have a lot to appreciate.<p>My parents basically wanted me to experience a “crappy job” at least once (it really wasn’t that bad of a job, plus 50% employee discount which was a great deal for a teenager and McD lover), and told me that people who are versatile and are able to endure hardship will be able to make it through and pick oneself up even when life becomes difficult for whatever reason.<p>And another quote from my McD coworker, who was an aspiring music composer, changed my view on money, I had a problem with hoarding money (still kind of do) and he said to me “money is not the goal, it’s something to help achieve your goals”. Didn’t understand that until I was older but it eventually struck me.<p>Great place to be for teenagers looking for their first work experiences really.</text></comment>
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<story><title>McDonald's holds communities together (2016)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cdiamand</author><text>Mcdonald&#x27;s was my first employer, and while I&#x27;ve got a ton of &quot;somebody pooped in the ballpit&quot; stories, I really think the restaurant is a net good.<p>As a 16 year old it was awesome to work alongside other folks of varying ages and nationalities and get to know that other &quot;walks&quot; of life existed. I made friends outside of my highschool, fell in love, got burnt by the fryolator like 8 times, and most importantly learned about hard work and the value of money.<p>But I also saw veterans from the VA having their Saturday breakfast meeting. I remember watching them sit for hours with smiles on their faces as they talked about their time in the service. I watched regulars come in and make smalltalk at the register. I saw the homeless get their daily meals. I saw people at their worst, screaming about McChickens, and at their best, telling jokes and making people smile. It really is a watering hole and I&#x27;m thankful for the time I spent there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hos234</author><text>Sounds like a &#x27;Third Place&#x27; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Third_place" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Third_place</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>A case for toe socks</title><url>https://herman.bearblog.dev/a-case-for-toe-socks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Terr_</author><text>Working from home has only increased the distinction for me: Not only do the shoes come off (like always) but unless I anticipate going back out soon, I&#x27;ll switch from denim jeans to lounge&#x2F;sleepwear, jacket to hoodie.<p>So today I identify a lot with Mister Rogers&#x27; opening show routine, despite how elaborate it seemed to my younger-self.</text></item><item><author>strict9</author><text>&gt;<i>Every now and again (say I enter a house which has a no-shoe rule), someone will spot them and find the concept strange,</i><p>I find it more strange that people wear outside shoes inside. The same shoes that go on dirt, mud, who knows what else are used to walk on your floors and carpets.<p>Taking your shoes off at the door prevents a lot of dirt&#x2F;who-knows-what from entering the house.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhb</author><text>Don&#x27;t stop there:
How to Feel Better Naked
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<story><title>A case for toe socks</title><url>https://herman.bearblog.dev/a-case-for-toe-socks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Terr_</author><text>Working from home has only increased the distinction for me: Not only do the shoes come off (like always) but unless I anticipate going back out soon, I&#x27;ll switch from denim jeans to lounge&#x2F;sleepwear, jacket to hoodie.<p>So today I identify a lot with Mister Rogers&#x27; opening show routine, despite how elaborate it seemed to my younger-self.</text></item><item><author>strict9</author><text>&gt;<i>Every now and again (say I enter a house which has a no-shoe rule), someone will spot them and find the concept strange,</i><p>I find it more strange that people wear outside shoes inside. The same shoes that go on dirt, mud, who knows what else are used to walk on your floors and carpets.<p>Taking your shoes off at the door prevents a lot of dirt&#x2F;who-knows-what from entering the house.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linsomniac</author><text>Counterpoint: I have indoor-only shoes, and I feel a lot like Mr. Rogers when I put them on. I put them on while working from home because it dramatically increases the likelihood that I will take a break and walk on the treadmill during work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Anatomy of an online misinformation network</title><url>http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196087</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masswerk</author><text>The problem is that there&#x27;s no such thing as a positive truth. Truth always refers to a certain framework which is shared and acknowledged by a given group, which also distinguishes groups one from another. (So we may say, truth is necessarily a question of ideology.)<p>The interesting part is the mutual reinforcement of targeted content and what we may call &quot;idiosyncratic truth,&quot; since both refer to distinctive group boundaries and the respective framework of shared world view. Social media will always reinforce such bias, it&#x27;s part of the setup.<p>Lastly, if we acknowledge that there&#x27;s no way to identify an unbiased (positive) truth, it may be also hard to identify bias at all. It may be possible to identify misinformation which is spread arbitrarily as part of a broader strategy (then better called disinformation) but even then it may be hard to reach consensus. (Elefant in the room may be the UN presentation proceeding the last Golf War.)</text></item><item><author>stordoff</author><text>There&#x27;s also the question of what is misinformation? You have a continuum from differences of opinion, to people being mistaken, to deliberate misinformation. Where do you (reliably) draw the line? I can see why they wouldn&#x27;t want them to be &quot;arbiters of truth&quot; -- I&#x27;m not sure I would want them to be either.</text></item><item><author>allenz</author><text>In addition to identifying the network, the authors also calculate that taking down as few as ten influential accounts can halve the retweets of misinformation. I&#x27;m not convinced that it&#x27;s quite that easy, because the network would respond and adapt, but it&#x27;s still an eye-opening demonstration of the power of social media companies.<p>The paper also finds that many misinformation accounts are not bots. Currently, misinformation is not a bannable offense for most social networks. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube leaders have said, verbatim, that they don&#x27;t want to be &quot;arbiters of truth&quot;. Of course, that leaves open the question of what responsibility they have and what actions they should take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Much longer explanation that there is, in fact, truth: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yudkowsky.net&#x2F;rational&#x2F;the-simple-truth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yudkowsky.net&#x2F;rational&#x2F;the-simple-truth&#x2F;</a>. And it&#x27;s exactly that naive, obvious, intuitive thing you think of before trying to sophisticate or politicize the concept.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Anatomy of an online misinformation network</title><url>http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196087</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masswerk</author><text>The problem is that there&#x27;s no such thing as a positive truth. Truth always refers to a certain framework which is shared and acknowledged by a given group, which also distinguishes groups one from another. (So we may say, truth is necessarily a question of ideology.)<p>The interesting part is the mutual reinforcement of targeted content and what we may call &quot;idiosyncratic truth,&quot; since both refer to distinctive group boundaries and the respective framework of shared world view. Social media will always reinforce such bias, it&#x27;s part of the setup.<p>Lastly, if we acknowledge that there&#x27;s no way to identify an unbiased (positive) truth, it may be also hard to identify bias at all. It may be possible to identify misinformation which is spread arbitrarily as part of a broader strategy (then better called disinformation) but even then it may be hard to reach consensus. (Elefant in the room may be the UN presentation proceeding the last Golf War.)</text></item><item><author>stordoff</author><text>There&#x27;s also the question of what is misinformation? You have a continuum from differences of opinion, to people being mistaken, to deliberate misinformation. Where do you (reliably) draw the line? I can see why they wouldn&#x27;t want them to be &quot;arbiters of truth&quot; -- I&#x27;m not sure I would want them to be either.</text></item><item><author>allenz</author><text>In addition to identifying the network, the authors also calculate that taking down as few as ten influential accounts can halve the retweets of misinformation. I&#x27;m not convinced that it&#x27;s quite that easy, because the network would respond and adapt, but it&#x27;s still an eye-opening demonstration of the power of social media companies.<p>The paper also finds that many misinformation accounts are not bots. Currently, misinformation is not a bannable offense for most social networks. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube leaders have said, verbatim, that they don&#x27;t want to be &quot;arbiters of truth&quot;. Of course, that leaves open the question of what responsibility they have and what actions they should take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taejo</author><text>&gt; The problem is that there&#x27;s no such thing as a positive truth. Truth always refers to a certain framework which is shared and acknowledged by a given group, which also distinguishes groups one from another. (So we may say, truth is necessarily a question of ideology.)<p>Aristotle defined truth essentially correctly: &quot;To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.&quot;<p>Are you saying that reality is also ideological (quite a radical claim) or simply that <i>perceptions</i> of reality (and therefore what people <i>think</i> is true) are ideological (which is a rather tamer claim)?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The BEAM Book – A Description of the Erlang RTS and the Virtual Machine BEAM</title><url>https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>There is even a separately implemented BEAM VM for running directly on Xen hypervisor:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudozer&#x2F;ling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudozer&#x2F;ling</a><p>An impressively done book on BEAM instruction sets:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudozer&#x2F;ling&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudozer&#x2F;ling&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc</a><p>There is even a handy dandy online instruction set completion search:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;erlangonxen.org&#x2F;more&#x2F;beam" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;erlangonxen.org&#x2F;more&#x2F;beam</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/rumours-swell-over-new-kind-of-gravitational-wave-sighting-1.22482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saganus</author><text>This might be a naive question, but I&#x27;d like to clear it out.<p>Do gravitational waves travel at the speed of light?<p>I know the theory says nothing can travel faster than light. I also know that photons can be seen as quanta or as waves. So my guess is that gravitational waves travel at most, at the speed of light.<p>But do they? or do they travel slower? faster? Is there a doppler effect for GWs?<p>I ask because I would think ripples in the space-time fabric itself might be a bit different than light waves or other more studied phenomena.<p>Can anyone point me in the right direction?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neom</author><text>These PBS Spacetime episodes should help:<p>The Speed of Light is NOT About Light - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo</a><p>Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light? - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-IfmgyXs7z8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-IfmgyXs7z8</a><p>The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RlXdsyctD50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RlXdsyctD50</a><p>Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RlXdsyctD50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RlXdsyctD50</a><p>The Future of Gravitational Waves - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eJ2RNBAFLj0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eJ2RNBAFLj0</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/rumours-swell-over-new-kind-of-gravitational-wave-sighting-1.22482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saganus</author><text>This might be a naive question, but I&#x27;d like to clear it out.<p>Do gravitational waves travel at the speed of light?<p>I know the theory says nothing can travel faster than light. I also know that photons can be seen as quanta or as waves. So my guess is that gravitational waves travel at most, at the speed of light.<p>But do they? or do they travel slower? faster? Is there a doppler effect for GWs?<p>I ask because I would think ripples in the space-time fabric itself might be a bit different than light waves or other more studied phenomena.<p>Can anyone point me in the right direction?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bramen</author><text>The speed of light is sometimes referred to as the speed of causality, and it seems like it&#x27;s more of a fundamental speed limit on the propagation of events or information through space.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Greuler – Graph theory visualizations</title><url>http://maurizzzio.github.io/greuler/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>degenerate</author><text>Whenever I see a new graph visualization tool, I instantly start dragging the nodes around like a madman to see how well the graph &quot;balances&quot; in the viewport. I soon noticed there was a tutorial was running <i>while I was manipulating the position of the nodes</i>, and regardless of how much stretching and pulling I did to try breaking the tutorial, it worked flawlessly as if I wasn&#x27;t even touching it. That, I thought, was really awesome. Well done!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Greuler – Graph theory visualizations</title><url>http://maurizzzio.github.io/greuler/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cschmidt</author><text>Looks nice. I do find the headlines drawing themselves a letter at a time to be kind of distracting. I makes it hard to scan down the page, as the headlines aren&#x27;t there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eat_veggies</author><text>It&#x27;s hilarious that this is standard self-help advice designed to make you a better worker, packaged up as something subversive or &quot;anti-mimetic.&quot; I am reminded of Mark Fisher:<p>&quot;Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled &#x27;alternative&#x27; or &#x27;independent&#x27; cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. &#x27;Alternative&#x27; and &#x27;independent&#x27; don&#x27;t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact <i>the</i> dominant styles, within the mainstream.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>&quot;To learn more about [anti-memetic counter-culture] my website and be notified when we release new content sign up here.&quot;<p>OK.<p>I&#x27;m going with Mark Fisher on this one. This is absolutely generic and unoriginal cut-and-paste Californian lifestyle advice trying to package itself as something deeper - which is something generic and unoriginal Californian lifestyle advice <i>always</i> does, as part of its own branding™.<p>But it does raise the question: what would a genuine online counter-culture look like?<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure going to museums and restaurants and playing golf at off-peak times wouldn&#x27;t be part of it.<p>But what would?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eat_veggies</author><text>It&#x27;s hilarious that this is standard self-help advice designed to make you a better worker, packaged up as something subversive or &quot;anti-mimetic.&quot; I am reminded of Mark Fisher:<p>&quot;Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled &#x27;alternative&#x27; or &#x27;independent&#x27; cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. &#x27;Alternative&#x27; and &#x27;independent&#x27; don&#x27;t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact <i>the</i> dominant styles, within the mainstream.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WFHRenaissance</author><text>This piece is definitely haunted by the flood of self-help listicles that we&#x27;ve seen in the past decade or so, but also there are facets of it which are actually very effective ways for cultivating meaning in one&#x27;s life outside the dominant styles. There is a film of fetishism going on here, but still some good parts. Outsideness is possible.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Elevator music ...<p>Hmm, perhaps there is a business model there: an elevator that writes music about the people inside the elevator, and adapts as the situation changes.</text></item><item><author>navane</author><text>These songs don&#x27;t have any hooks. Melodies don&#x27;t get repeated. They all just meander along.<p>I think as they get better at making these great middle of the road songs, edgy music will reemerge. Whatever AI will be good at, will immediately devalue, in the realm of arts. Just how photography gave way to non-realistic art and how drum machines made sloppy drums (or ridiculous apex twins) hip. Then, the artifacts we see now as flaws will create its own sub genre.<p>So I see three ways this flows: mediocrity will be even more available, which will make artists who make mediocare music even less succesfull, pushing all human music further in human direction, except those using the unwanted artifacts of this new tech to create new sub genres.<p>Music, art, fashion is in the end all about changes. What we make now mostly means something in relation to what was already there. It&#x27;s a big conversation, spanning millenia, and this isn&#x27;t the last word.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>I go full dystopian. Elevator music that delivers your compliance trainings in the corporate world...</text></comment>
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<story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Elevator music ...<p>Hmm, perhaps there is a business model there: an elevator that writes music about the people inside the elevator, and adapts as the situation changes.</text></item><item><author>navane</author><text>These songs don&#x27;t have any hooks. Melodies don&#x27;t get repeated. They all just meander along.<p>I think as they get better at making these great middle of the road songs, edgy music will reemerge. Whatever AI will be good at, will immediately devalue, in the realm of arts. Just how photography gave way to non-realistic art and how drum machines made sloppy drums (or ridiculous apex twins) hip. Then, the artifacts we see now as flaws will create its own sub genre.<p>So I see three ways this flows: mediocrity will be even more available, which will make artists who make mediocare music even less succesfull, pushing all human music further in human direction, except those using the unwanted artifacts of this new tech to create new sub genres.<p>Music, art, fashion is in the end all about changes. What we make now mostly means something in relation to what was already there. It&#x27;s a big conversation, spanning millenia, and this isn&#x27;t the last word.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LadyCailin</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1Un_oHaf798" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1Un_oHaf798</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Google closes Issue 9</title><url>http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9#c1097</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>Google's response to this makes me want to create a pornography search engine called "Go Ogle!" and respond to the inevitable cease-and-desist letters with "the naming similarity is unfortunate, but I don't expect it will cause more than minimal confusion".</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google closes Issue 9</title><url>http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9#c1097</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>The book is on Lulu [1] and there is an Information Week article [2] on the issue. I would be pretty ticked if Google (a web search company) stomped on my work. It just seems like a really cruddy thing to do. It's in the logic / agent group of languages and I have run across the article a couple of times but it is my no means famous. It is not like Google's Go is super well known either, so picking a new name that could be googled would probably be the kind thing to do.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/lets-go/705004" rel="nofollow">http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/lets-go/705004</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/web_services/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221601351" rel="nofollow">http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/web_services/sh...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/14/986997576/once-on-the-brink-of-eradication-syphilis-is-raging-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Perseids</author><text>And one other thing: Cheap, anonymous tests for everyone. It should be the norm that when you hook up with a new person &#x2F; one night stand that you show them your recent negative test result. At least where I live (Germany) you can already get them sent to your home for 50€ (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samhealth.de&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samhealth.de&#x2F;</a>) and you can get free tests at your local health office (Gesundheitsamt) if you are not too shy to argue a bit. AFAICT it should be a net positive for society to completely subsidize home tests for everyone, but that is probably an uphill battle against conservative prejudices even in Germany.<p>&gt; A bit of diet, exercise, and an once of prevention is worth its weight in gold.<p>All those cases of <i>just</i> eating less sugar &#x2F; exercising more &#x2F; sitting less are unfortunately <i>really</i> hard for most individuals. We really should strive to create environments where doing the good thing is as easy as possible. Like offering free daily work breaks for sport or having healthy lunch meals for children in school.</text></item><item><author>Frost1x</author><text>&gt;With the risk of contracting a deadly disease falling to almost zero, condoms fell even more out of favor than they already were, says Park.<p>&gt;&quot;If one man is taking PrEP and the other one is virally suppressed, there&#x27;s no HIV risk at all,&quot; she says. &quot;So why use condoms if you don&#x27;t mind having a touch of syphilis?&quot;<p>Humans really do take for granted the efficacy of antibacterials and antibiotics across the board.<p>These sort of harmful bacteria are completely and safely treatable now in most people, but the real potential threat is breeding drug resistant strains of bacteria, microorganisms and viruses. We shouldn&#x27;t treat these fantastic tools like a pass to do whatever, we should instead use them sparingly and curb behavior. There are plenty of simple preventative practices than can reduce ever needing such treatments while <i>mostly</i> being able to continue doing what you&#x27;d like. A huge amount of these infections could be reduced drastically just by using a condom.<p>Rely on those prevention approaches first and drugs&#x2F;treatment second to reduce the risk of creating situations where treatments don&#x27;t exist. This can be said about a huge swath of preventable disease in the US. A bit of diet, exercise, and <i>an once of prevention</i> is worth its weight in gold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xkr</author><text>For the people living in London: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shl.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shl.uk&#x2F;</a>. Home delivery and completely free.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/14/986997576/once-on-the-brink-of-eradication-syphilis-is-raging-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Perseids</author><text>And one other thing: Cheap, anonymous tests for everyone. It should be the norm that when you hook up with a new person &#x2F; one night stand that you show them your recent negative test result. At least where I live (Germany) you can already get them sent to your home for 50€ (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samhealth.de&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samhealth.de&#x2F;</a>) and you can get free tests at your local health office (Gesundheitsamt) if you are not too shy to argue a bit. AFAICT it should be a net positive for society to completely subsidize home tests for everyone, but that is probably an uphill battle against conservative prejudices even in Germany.<p>&gt; A bit of diet, exercise, and an once of prevention is worth its weight in gold.<p>All those cases of <i>just</i> eating less sugar &#x2F; exercising more &#x2F; sitting less are unfortunately <i>really</i> hard for most individuals. We really should strive to create environments where doing the good thing is as easy as possible. Like offering free daily work breaks for sport or having healthy lunch meals for children in school.</text></item><item><author>Frost1x</author><text>&gt;With the risk of contracting a deadly disease falling to almost zero, condoms fell even more out of favor than they already were, says Park.<p>&gt;&quot;If one man is taking PrEP and the other one is virally suppressed, there&#x27;s no HIV risk at all,&quot; she says. &quot;So why use condoms if you don&#x27;t mind having a touch of syphilis?&quot;<p>Humans really do take for granted the efficacy of antibacterials and antibiotics across the board.<p>These sort of harmful bacteria are completely and safely treatable now in most people, but the real potential threat is breeding drug resistant strains of bacteria, microorganisms and viruses. We shouldn&#x27;t treat these fantastic tools like a pass to do whatever, we should instead use them sparingly and curb behavior. There are plenty of simple preventative practices than can reduce ever needing such treatments while <i>mostly</i> being able to continue doing what you&#x27;d like. A huge amount of these infections could be reduced drastically just by using a condom.<p>Rely on those prevention approaches first and drugs&#x2F;treatment second to reduce the risk of creating situations where treatments don&#x27;t exist. This can be said about a huge swath of preventable disease in the US. A bit of diet, exercise, and <i>an once of prevention</i> is worth its weight in gold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; AFAICT it should be a net positive for society to completely subsidize home tests for everyone, but that is probably an uphill battle against conservative prejudices even in Germany.<p>Great, now we’re “prejudiced” for not wanting to subsidize other people’s risky sexual behavior.<p>Did it ever occur to you that if there is, as you suggest, a large health burden associated with casual sex culture (and, according to the article, drug use culture), that maybe the “conservatives” are correct to be “prejudiced” against it?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium</title><url>https://00f.net/2019/04/09/benchmarking-webassembly-using-libsodium/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&gt; An important point here is that the native code does use SIMD instructions[...]. Whereas the WebAssembly backend doesn’t support these.<p>I understand the reasoning of the author, still it would have been nice to have a comparison with non-SIMD native code for those of us who don&#x27;t keep track of how much the SIMD buys you these day for crypto.<p>&gt; On a surprising number of tests, Cranelift’s optimizations produced slightly slower code than with optimizations disabled.<p>So how much of this result is WASM and how much is Cranelift? By the sound of it, Cranelift doesn&#x27;t produce very optimal output yet, so should still be potential for significant gains, no?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Impact – HTML5 Game Engine</title><url>https://github.com/phoboslab/impact</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>Why was the title changed? The interesting part here is that it has been open sourced and made free. Now it sounds like it&#x27;s a new engine or active project.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;impactjs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;impact-is-now-free-open-source" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;impactjs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;impact-is-now-free-open-sou...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>Anything that might provoke interest in an article is considered &quot;clickbait&quot; by the HN community and neutered.<p>A famous HN headline of 1963 was &quot;JFK returns to Washington after visit to Dallas&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Impact – HTML5 Game Engine</title><url>https://github.com/phoboslab/impact</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>Why was the title changed? The interesting part here is that it has been open sourced and made free. Now it sounds like it&#x27;s a new engine or active project.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;impactjs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;impact-is-now-free-open-source" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;impactjs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;impact-is-now-free-open-sou...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clessg</author><text>I agree — I don&#x27;t think I would have given this post any attention otherwise. Impact is old news. Its open sourcing is not.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmg643</author><text>i also agree the idea sounds pretty interesting.<p>i think the main problem is how to address cases where people mis-spend their basic income. someone is unemployed, and they blow the basic income on booze, etc. issue is how do we protect people from themselves. we can say damn the consequences and encourage prudence but i believe this is why most aid qualifications exist.<p>i know HN readers will be less likely to do have this problem (other than spending on a startup :) ) but HN readers are not a representative cross section of people.</text></item><item><author>swombat</author><text>As a Swiss citizen currently living in the UK, who is earning a fair amount of money and planning to probably go back to live in Switzerland, I am going to vote <i>for</i> this proposal (unless the referendum documentation makes it look absolutely stupid, e.g. it has some really bad implementation idea).<p>I hate taxes as much as the next guy, but reducing risk of destitution for everyone in the country down to zero is one cause for which I&#x27;ll be happy to pay taxes.<p>Why do I want more money? To buy toys, to buy time, and to buy security. The basic income resolves the last two items, and puts the first one well within reach for most reasonable toys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omegaworks</author><text>Minimum cash transfers are one of the most effective methods of sustainably increasing the wealth of a population. There&#x27;s a pretty successful charity that does this kind of work in Africa:
<a href="http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/cash-transfers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.givewell.org&#x2F;international&#x2F;technical&#x2F;programs&#x2F;cas...</a><p>There&#x27;s a guy at Columbia University that&#x27;s running studies about giving drug addicts guaranteed cash, and it&#x27;s actually allowing them to more easily break their addictions:<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/the-rational-choices-of-crack-addicts.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;17&#x2F;science&#x2F;the-rational-choic...</a><p>My only worry about this program is if it will indirectly inflate the cost of everything.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmg643</author><text>i also agree the idea sounds pretty interesting.<p>i think the main problem is how to address cases where people mis-spend their basic income. someone is unemployed, and they blow the basic income on booze, etc. issue is how do we protect people from themselves. we can say damn the consequences and encourage prudence but i believe this is why most aid qualifications exist.<p>i know HN readers will be less likely to do have this problem (other than spending on a startup :) ) but HN readers are not a representative cross section of people.</text></item><item><author>swombat</author><text>As a Swiss citizen currently living in the UK, who is earning a fair amount of money and planning to probably go back to live in Switzerland, I am going to vote <i>for</i> this proposal (unless the referendum documentation makes it look absolutely stupid, e.g. it has some really bad implementation idea).<p>I hate taxes as much as the next guy, but reducing risk of destitution for everyone in the country down to zero is one cause for which I&#x27;ll be happy to pay taxes.<p>Why do I want more money? To buy toys, to buy time, and to buy security. The basic income resolves the last two items, and puts the first one well within reach for most reasonable toys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mistercow</author><text>If people waste their basic income on alcohol, well, so what? I don&#x27;t know the tax situation in Switzerland, but in the US, that means a big chunk of that money is immediately reclaimed as taxes. The rest goes back into the economy, and the person is not really in any worse of a situation than they would have been without basic income.<p>It&#x27;s one situation where basic income doesn&#x27;t really help, but it doesn&#x27;t really hurt either.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ending Bitcoin Support</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nulagrithom</author><text>&gt; What future does an asset have if people don&#x27;t actually buy stuff with it?<p>I look at it (maybe naively) like a solid gold bar. You&#x27;re not going to walk in to a convenience store and pay with a bar of solid gold; you might flee the country with one though.<p>Beyond that, I totally agree with your read on the post. Linking the pull request[0] was especially backhanded. It feels like there&#x27;s some underlying frustration there that was expounded upon using good references and kind words.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin-dot-org&#x2F;bitcoin.org&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2010&#x2F;files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin-dot-org&#x2F;bitcoin.org&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2010&#x2F;fil...</a></text></item><item><author>montrose</author><text>This reads a bit like the sort of things people say when breaking up so as not to upset the other person too much. You&#x27;re a great person, but you&#x27;re just more of an asset than a medium of exchange, and what I need in my life right now is a medium of exchange.<p>What future does an asset have if people don&#x27;t actually buy stuff with it? That is not a purely rhetorical question; cryptocurrencies change things a lot. But this news is worrying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EnFinlay</author><text>Reading your comment finally made it click to me why cryptocurrencies (specifically Bitcoin) are distinct from a gold bar or other non-currency stores of value. A gold bar is going to remain a gold bar forever, people&#x27;s perception of its value will change even though the supply will remain mostly steady, but it will stay a gold bar no matter what.<p>Bitcoin may change in value based on perception, it&#x27;s supply will remain constant after it has all been mined, but it&#x27;s existence and integrity relies on a large network continuing to exist.<p>To put it differently, in 50 years a gold bar is a gold bar, but in 50 years a Bitcoin may have no value because everyone stopped mining and the blockchain was destroyed by 51% attacks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ending Bitcoin Support</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nulagrithom</author><text>&gt; What future does an asset have if people don&#x27;t actually buy stuff with it?<p>I look at it (maybe naively) like a solid gold bar. You&#x27;re not going to walk in to a convenience store and pay with a bar of solid gold; you might flee the country with one though.<p>Beyond that, I totally agree with your read on the post. Linking the pull request[0] was especially backhanded. It feels like there&#x27;s some underlying frustration there that was expounded upon using good references and kind words.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin-dot-org&#x2F;bitcoin.org&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2010&#x2F;files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin-dot-org&#x2F;bitcoin.org&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2010&#x2F;fil...</a></text></item><item><author>montrose</author><text>This reads a bit like the sort of things people say when breaking up so as not to upset the other person too much. You&#x27;re a great person, but you&#x27;re just more of an asset than a medium of exchange, and what I need in my life right now is a medium of exchange.<p>What future does an asset have if people don&#x27;t actually buy stuff with it? That is not a purely rhetorical question; cryptocurrencies change things a lot. But this news is worrying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xcafecafe</author><text>Gold as a metal has an inherent value though. If not only for jewelry, it also has important uses in electronics. The value associated with bitcoin seems purely sentimental.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products</title><url>https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-companies-are-pivoting-from-creating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyauspitr</author><text>Who cares. I literally use ChatGPT 30 times a day. It answers incredibly complex queries along with citations I can verify. Isn’t “this not good enough yet” line getting old? There nothing else that can estimate the number of cinder blocks I need to use for a project and account for the volume of concrete required for it (while taking into consideration the actual available volume available in a cinder block and settling) with a few quick sentences I speak to it. I can think of literally thousands of things I have asked that would have taken hours of googling that I can get an answer for in minutes.<p>I think the problem is you haven’t shifted your mindset to using AI correctly yet.<p>Edit: More everyday examples from just the last 3 days<p>- Use carbide bits to drill into rocks. Googling “best bits for drilling rocks” doesn’t bring up anything obvious about carbide but it was the main thing chatGPT suggested.<p>- gave it dimensions for a barn I’m building and asked it how many gallons of paint I would need of a particular type. I could probably work that out myself but it’s a bunch of lookups (what’s the total sq footage, how many sq ft per gallon, what type of paint stands up to a lot of scuffing etc.)<p>- coarse threaded inserts for softwood when I asked it for threaded insert recommendations. I would have probably ended up not caring and fine threaded slips right out of pine.<p>- lookup ingredients in a face cream and list out any harms (with citations) for any of them.<p>- speeds and feeds for acrylic cutting for my particular CNC. Don’t use a downcut bit because it might cause a fire, something I didn’t consider.<p>- an explanation of relevant NEMA outlets. Something that’s very hard to figure out if you’re just dropped into it via googling.</text></item><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>One of my local car dealerships is using an chat system of some kind (probably an LLM?).<p>It&#x27;s awful and a complete waste of time. I&#x27;m not sure if LLMs are getting good use yet &#x2F; general chatbots are good or ready for business use.</text></item><item><author>necroforest</author><text>I don&#x27;t entirely disagree with you, but &quot;what products do people want&quot; is overly conservative. Pre-ChatGPT, very few people wanted a (more or less) general purpose chatbot.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Companies keep going at it the wrong way. Instead of saying &quot;We have AI, let&#x27;s find products we can make out of AI!&quot; they should be saying, &quot;What products do people want, let&#x27;s use whatever tools we have (including maybe AI) to make them.&quot;<p>The idea that a company is an AI company should be as ridiculous as a company being a Python company. &quot;We are Python-first, have Python experts, and all of our products are made with Python. Our customers want their apps to have Python in them. We just have to &#x27;productize Python&#x27; and find the right killer app for Python and we&#x27;ll be successful!&quot; Going at it from the wrong direction. Replace Python in that quote with AI, and you probably have something a real company has said in 2024.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnnyanmac</author><text>&gt;Who cares.<p>clearly anyone trying to buy a car, which is already an ordeal with a human as is.<p>&gt;I literally use ChatGPT 30 times a day<p>good for you? I use Google. mos of my queries aren&#x27;t complex.<p>&gt;Isn’t “this not good enough yet” line getting old?<p>as long as companies pretend 2024 AI can replace skilled labor, no. It&#x27;s getting old how many more snake oil salesmen keep pretending that I can just use ChatGPT to refactor this very hot loop of performance sensitive code. And no ChatGPT, I do not have the time budget (real time) to hook into some distributed load for that function.<p>I&#x27;m sure in a decade it will wow me. But I prefer to for it to stay in its lane and I stay in mine for that decade.<p>&gt;There nothing else that can estimate the number of cinder blocks I need to use for a project<p>is Calculus really this insurmontable feat to be defending big tech over? I&#x27;m not a great mathmatican, but give them excel&#x2F;sheets and they can do the same in minutes.<p>&gt;I can think of literally thousands of things I have asked that would have taken hours of googling that I can get an answer for in minutes.<p>I&#x27;m glad it works out for you. I&#x27;m more scrutinous in my searches and I see that about half the time its sources are a bit off at best, and dangerously wrong at worst. 50&#x2F;50 isn&#x27;t worth any potential time saved for what I research.<p>&gt;I think the problem is you haven’t shifted your mindset to using AI correctly yet.<p>perhaps. But for my line of work that&#x27;s probably for the best.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products</title><url>https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-companies-are-pivoting-from-creating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyauspitr</author><text>Who cares. I literally use ChatGPT 30 times a day. It answers incredibly complex queries along with citations I can verify. Isn’t “this not good enough yet” line getting old? There nothing else that can estimate the number of cinder blocks I need to use for a project and account for the volume of concrete required for it (while taking into consideration the actual available volume available in a cinder block and settling) with a few quick sentences I speak to it. I can think of literally thousands of things I have asked that would have taken hours of googling that I can get an answer for in minutes.<p>I think the problem is you haven’t shifted your mindset to using AI correctly yet.<p>Edit: More everyday examples from just the last 3 days<p>- Use carbide bits to drill into rocks. Googling “best bits for drilling rocks” doesn’t bring up anything obvious about carbide but it was the main thing chatGPT suggested.<p>- gave it dimensions for a barn I’m building and asked it how many gallons of paint I would need of a particular type. I could probably work that out myself but it’s a bunch of lookups (what’s the total sq footage, how many sq ft per gallon, what type of paint stands up to a lot of scuffing etc.)<p>- coarse threaded inserts for softwood when I asked it for threaded insert recommendations. I would have probably ended up not caring and fine threaded slips right out of pine.<p>- lookup ingredients in a face cream and list out any harms (with citations) for any of them.<p>- speeds and feeds for acrylic cutting for my particular CNC. Don’t use a downcut bit because it might cause a fire, something I didn’t consider.<p>- an explanation of relevant NEMA outlets. Something that’s very hard to figure out if you’re just dropped into it via googling.</text></item><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>One of my local car dealerships is using an chat system of some kind (probably an LLM?).<p>It&#x27;s awful and a complete waste of time. I&#x27;m not sure if LLMs are getting good use yet &#x2F; general chatbots are good or ready for business use.</text></item><item><author>necroforest</author><text>I don&#x27;t entirely disagree with you, but &quot;what products do people want&quot; is overly conservative. Pre-ChatGPT, very few people wanted a (more or less) general purpose chatbot.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Companies keep going at it the wrong way. Instead of saying &quot;We have AI, let&#x27;s find products we can make out of AI!&quot; they should be saying, &quot;What products do people want, let&#x27;s use whatever tools we have (including maybe AI) to make them.&quot;<p>The idea that a company is an AI company should be as ridiculous as a company being a Python company. &quot;We are Python-first, have Python experts, and all of our products are made with Python. Our customers want their apps to have Python in them. We just have to &#x27;productize Python&#x27; and find the right killer app for Python and we&#x27;ll be successful!&quot; Going at it from the wrong direction. Replace Python in that quote with AI, and you probably have something a real company has said in 2024.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preordained</author><text>&quot;I think the problem is you haven’t shifted your mindset to using AI correctly yet&quot;<p>There is an indictment of AI &quot;products&quot; if I ever heard one</text></comment>
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<story><title>Air Quality Monitors from USD $169 to $6k use the same low-cost PM Modules</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/blog/most-aq-monitors-use-same-pm-modules/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emmanuel_1234</author><text>This reads like a disguised ad for AirGradient, which pops up here every now and then. I fell for it because it claimed to be &quot;open&quot;. Well, although it is definitely more &quot;open&quot; than most, it feels like an afterthought.<p>See for example this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.airgradient.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;airgradient-diy-pro-pcb-3-7-2-4-1-2023-04-13-source-code-sketch&#x2F;927&#x2F;13" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.airgradient.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;airgradient-diy-pro-pcb-3-7-...</a>, linked to a Github issue opened in June.<p>Somehow, the source code for the new version has been overwritten by an older (CC-BY-NC) version, yet the issue has been left to rot, both on the support forum and on Github, letting me to think that the &quot;openness&quot; is mostly a posture to lure the HN crowd. Additionally, the -NC clause is definitely a deal breaker, and I should have investigated further before giving them my money.<p>(it sucks to air it out in public here, but apparently the AirGradient folks don&#x27;t care much about issues raised on their own forum).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Air Quality Monitors from USD $169 to $6k use the same low-cost PM Modules</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/blog/most-aq-monitors-use-same-pm-modules/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>an_account</author><text>I’ve gone down the air quality monitor rabbit hole and, after building my own, have settle on just buying&#x2F;recommending the Awair Element.[1]<p>Interestingly, it’s not in the table in this article.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getawair.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;element" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getawair.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;element</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pembrook</author><text>You&#x27;re starting with a false premise.<p>The basis of your argument is: <i>All data collection is bad.</i><p>Therefore, in your model of the world, an evil conspiracy of bad actors are looking to strategically undermine the law with various dastardly convoluted schemes. I understand why you&#x27;re arguing that, given the premise you&#x27;re starting with.<p>However, the majority of business on the internet are not doing evil things with your data. They simply want to better target their offerings to their customers, allow for you to keep items in a shopping cart, etc. If they are providing better services to their customers, they make more money and the customers are happier. It&#x27;s a win win for everybody involved.<p>Could it simply be that, most businesses put cookie popups on their sites because they don&#x27;t want to get fined? Not because they are embroiled in an elaborate scheme to undermine the law?<p>Could it be that the EU should have created a smarter law that would actually help people be more aware of data tracking? Instead of stupid popups?</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>The law has stupid unintended consequences because it would kill the business of the tracking companies it targets, if they where to follow the intention of the law.<p>The same companies have their customers convinced that they need data collection to turn a profit.<p>As a result we see all kinds of stupid attempt to circumvent the law because an entire industry of shady data collectors and brokers have convinced businesses that the only way of making money online is by tracking people.</text></item><item><author>pembrook</author><text>&gt; Let&#x27;s imagine...the car builders all decides to just cut the engine if you go over the limit.<p>We don&#x27;t need to imagine a world like that, because it has nothing to do with what we are talking about.<p>Let&#x27;s stick to the real world. The EU implemented a law. Everybody is scared of the power of the government, so they implemented what they <i>thought</i> was the intention of the law, to avoid prosecution. The mom-and-pop flower shop down the street could care less about making troll political statements about technical internet topics.<p>Turns out, the law had stupid unintended consequences. Was the person who designed it stupid? Or is the <i>entire world</i> stupid?<p>If your answer is &quot;the entire world is stupid,&quot; then I&#x27;d argue you don&#x27;t understand how the field of design is supposed to work.</text></item><item><author>Rexxar</author><text>The law itself is perfectly sane. The problem is that everybody try to apply it in the worst possible way.<p>Let&#x27;s imagine a world where a government force car builder to add speed limiter to cars. The car builders all decides to just cut the engine if you go over the limit. Will you say the law is bad or that car makers are trolling everybody ?<p>It&#x27;s the same for this law. But curiously everybody is prompt to say that the law is bad. The reality is that a majority of internet actors are bad and are just trolling us.</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>The EU cookie legislation is still mind blowing to me. In terms of widely used protocols with terrible designs it&#x27;s up there with US payment card processing (want to make a $5 payment? Hand over the secret that gives the other party the ability to take an unlimited amount of money from you at any time in the next 4 years, and hope they don&#x27;t misuse it).<p>Did no one involved in the cookie legislation think to run the idea by a technical expert before passing it? Why wouldn&#x27;t they have done something like introduce an X-Allow-Tracking header in the http spec, and make the law require that sites respect that header instead of every site making their own cookie popup. Browsers could make that privacy setting as detailed as they want as far as which requests they included it with, and the EU could strongly recommend that everyone use browsers that they&#x27;ve approved as supporting that setting (or even force it in various ways, like require any OEM browser that ships with a device in the EU support that setting).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; However, the majority of business on the internet are not doing evil things with your data. They simply want to better target their offerings to their customers, allow for you to keep items in a shopping cart, etc. If they are providing better services to their customers, they make more money and the customers are happier. It&#x27;s a win win for everybody involved.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be so sure. There aren&#x27;t that many advertising and analytics companies, but they make products that are widely used (and clearly misused) everywhere. The websites using such tools were never told that they could avoid having the banner if they just didn&#x27;t have tracking cookies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pembrook</author><text>You&#x27;re starting with a false premise.<p>The basis of your argument is: <i>All data collection is bad.</i><p>Therefore, in your model of the world, an evil conspiracy of bad actors are looking to strategically undermine the law with various dastardly convoluted schemes. I understand why you&#x27;re arguing that, given the premise you&#x27;re starting with.<p>However, the majority of business on the internet are not doing evil things with your data. They simply want to better target their offerings to their customers, allow for you to keep items in a shopping cart, etc. If they are providing better services to their customers, they make more money and the customers are happier. It&#x27;s a win win for everybody involved.<p>Could it simply be that, most businesses put cookie popups on their sites because they don&#x27;t want to get fined? Not because they are embroiled in an elaborate scheme to undermine the law?<p>Could it be that the EU should have created a smarter law that would actually help people be more aware of data tracking? Instead of stupid popups?</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>The law has stupid unintended consequences because it would kill the business of the tracking companies it targets, if they where to follow the intention of the law.<p>The same companies have their customers convinced that they need data collection to turn a profit.<p>As a result we see all kinds of stupid attempt to circumvent the law because an entire industry of shady data collectors and brokers have convinced businesses that the only way of making money online is by tracking people.</text></item><item><author>pembrook</author><text>&gt; Let&#x27;s imagine...the car builders all decides to just cut the engine if you go over the limit.<p>We don&#x27;t need to imagine a world like that, because it has nothing to do with what we are talking about.<p>Let&#x27;s stick to the real world. The EU implemented a law. Everybody is scared of the power of the government, so they implemented what they <i>thought</i> was the intention of the law, to avoid prosecution. The mom-and-pop flower shop down the street could care less about making troll political statements about technical internet topics.<p>Turns out, the law had stupid unintended consequences. Was the person who designed it stupid? Or is the <i>entire world</i> stupid?<p>If your answer is &quot;the entire world is stupid,&quot; then I&#x27;d argue you don&#x27;t understand how the field of design is supposed to work.</text></item><item><author>Rexxar</author><text>The law itself is perfectly sane. The problem is that everybody try to apply it in the worst possible way.<p>Let&#x27;s imagine a world where a government force car builder to add speed limiter to cars. The car builders all decides to just cut the engine if you go over the limit. Will you say the law is bad or that car makers are trolling everybody ?<p>It&#x27;s the same for this law. But curiously everybody is prompt to say that the law is bad. The reality is that a majority of internet actors are bad and are just trolling us.</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>The EU cookie legislation is still mind blowing to me. In terms of widely used protocols with terrible designs it&#x27;s up there with US payment card processing (want to make a $5 payment? Hand over the secret that gives the other party the ability to take an unlimited amount of money from you at any time in the next 4 years, and hope they don&#x27;t misuse it).<p>Did no one involved in the cookie legislation think to run the idea by a technical expert before passing it? Why wouldn&#x27;t they have done something like introduce an X-Allow-Tracking header in the http spec, and make the law require that sites respect that header instead of every site making their own cookie popup. Browsers could make that privacy setting as detailed as they want as far as which requests they included it with, and the EU could strongly recommend that everyone use browsers that they&#x27;ve approved as supporting that setting (or even force it in various ways, like require any OEM browser that ships with a device in the EU support that setting).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcelerier</author><text>&gt; They simply want to better target their offerings to their customers,<p>As a user I don&#x27;t want anyone to &quot;better target me&quot; - no single exception. Gosh I miss the time where we just burned the McDonald&#x27;s...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees</title><url>https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/background-information-on-if-metalls-conflict-at-tesla/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tryk</author><text>If Tesla refuses to sign a collective agreement with the labor unions I hope they leave the Swedish labor market. Refusing to sign a collective agreement is a completely tone-deaf approach to conducting a business in Sweden.<p>For instance, Sweden does not have a legal minimum wage - this is all done by collective agreements. Nine out of ten employees work under a collective agreement.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees</title><url>https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/background-information-on-if-metalls-conflict-at-tesla/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cupofjoakim</author><text>In the swedish version of this article they listed what the collective agreement would mean<p>Translated:<p>This is what the employees of tesla does not have compared to if they had a collective agreement:<p>- A complete insurance package with Fora<p>- The comprehensive adjustment support found in the main agreement between the social partners<p>- Salaries are lower compared to the average in the motor industry agreement<p>- Without the collective agreement no yearly raises are guaranteed<p>- No possibility of part time retirement<p>- They also do not have reduced working hours<p>Original:<p>Detta har inte de anställda på Tesla jämfört med om de hade kollektivavtal<p>- Ett komplett paket med försäkringar hos Fora<p>- Det omfattande omställningsstöd som finns i huvudavtalet mellan arbetsmarknadens parter<p>- Lönerna ligger lägre än genomsnittet i Motorbranschavtalet<p>- Utan kollektivavtal garanteras inte årliga löneökningar<p>- De har inte möjlighet till deltidspension<p>- De har inte heller arbetstidsförkortning<p>As many others have pointed out, these agreements are fundamental to the swedish labor market. While it&#x27;s not as common in tech, industries like car manufacturing are almost completely covered.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage</title><url>https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/nutrient-dna-damage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>garganzol</author><text>Magnesium L-Threonate - has the most potent therapeutical effect because it can effortlessly cross blood-brain barrier. The drawback is that some people are sensitive to this form of magnesium, those people can have nausea, vomit, migraines, etc. IMHO, I would advise against everyday use because this form is more a medication than a supplement. It is used for serious conditions like dementia, neurological impairment, nutrimental deficiencies.<p>Magnesium Taurate - a combination of magnesium and taurine. A good form for people with metabolic conditions: T1DM, T2DM, hyperlipidemia, vitamin and mineral deficiencies.<p>Magnesium Glycinate (aka Magnesium Bisglycinate) - a bit less potent form of magnesium, but has good bioavailability, fewer side-effects. This form is also a source of glycine which is an important amino acid beneficial for metabolism, has a mild calming and stabilizing effect on nervous system. Helps to cope with anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia.<p>Magnesium Citrate - a cheaper but ok magnesium form for everyday use.<p>Magnesium Oxide - the cheapest and the least efficient form of magnesium. Unfortunately, this is the most widespread form in many countries due to its low price. Try to avoid this form if you have a choice.<p>Bonus point: if you have a specific condition, you can combine several forms of magnesium to reach multiple therapeutic goals. For example, some popular combinations are presented below:<p><pre><code> a. Magnesium Taurate + Magnesium Glycinate
b. Magnesium L-Threonate + Magnesium Taurate
c. Magnesium L-Threonate + Magnesium Taurate + Magnesium Glycinate</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laurels-marts</author><text>I have been taking 300mg of Magnesium Bisglycinate 30 mins before sleep for the past 5 months or so. I have anxiety which can lead to insomnia. It has been a great help.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage</title><url>https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/nutrient-dna-damage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>garganzol</author><text>Magnesium L-Threonate - has the most potent therapeutical effect because it can effortlessly cross blood-brain barrier. The drawback is that some people are sensitive to this form of magnesium, those people can have nausea, vomit, migraines, etc. IMHO, I would advise against everyday use because this form is more a medication than a supplement. It is used for serious conditions like dementia, neurological impairment, nutrimental deficiencies.<p>Magnesium Taurate - a combination of magnesium and taurine. A good form for people with metabolic conditions: T1DM, T2DM, hyperlipidemia, vitamin and mineral deficiencies.<p>Magnesium Glycinate (aka Magnesium Bisglycinate) - a bit less potent form of magnesium, but has good bioavailability, fewer side-effects. This form is also a source of glycine which is an important amino acid beneficial for metabolism, has a mild calming and stabilizing effect on nervous system. Helps to cope with anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia.<p>Magnesium Citrate - a cheaper but ok magnesium form for everyday use.<p>Magnesium Oxide - the cheapest and the least efficient form of magnesium. Unfortunately, this is the most widespread form in many countries due to its low price. Try to avoid this form if you have a choice.<p>Bonus point: if you have a specific condition, you can combine several forms of magnesium to reach multiple therapeutic goals. For example, some popular combinations are presented below:<p><pre><code> a. Magnesium Taurate + Magnesium Glycinate
b. Magnesium L-Threonate + Magnesium Taurate
c. Magnesium L-Threonate + Magnesium Taurate + Magnesium Glycinate</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delichon</author><text>I take Magnesium Glycinate as a laxative but have reached 500mg per day and it&#x27;s not enough. Too much already, or is it safe to take more?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38955872</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scardine</author><text>My 4 years old son is mildly autistic. He is doing well, attending a regular school and learning to interact with people.<p>I first suspected he was different because he didn&#x27;t locked eyes with my wife when she was breastfeeding (I have 3 older kids to compare). He learned to walk in time, but he was not pointing to the things he wanted (instead used to grab me by the arm and use it like a tool), and he was unwilling to look at something we were pointing like a neurotipical kid does. I saw many other signs, but my wife was always in denial until he was 2.5 and I showed her some videos of autistic behavior on Youtube.<p>Long story short, it almost ruined my marriage (my wife felt like I was torturing her by sending her material about autism). I don&#x27;t know why I knew more about autism than the pediatrician, but the subject always interested me.<p>My advice is: if you are suspicious, get your son diagnosed by a specialized neuropediatrician (do not waste time with someone who is not well prepared to diagnose autism).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38955872</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is definitely interesting, scientifically, and may help us better understand Autism (and its causes).<p>I cannot imagine this will see widespread adoption outside of research. MRI scans remain expensive and many MRIs have waiting lists at hospitals. Even today, they regularly use less safe technology (e.g. CTs) because they&#x27;re less expensive and there will be more available.<p>There&#x27;s no safety reason why you shouldn&#x27;t do this. MRIs are darn near harmless. It is just an economic issue with gaining time on an MRI to discover information which may not change the overall outcome for the child (pediatricians are getting better and better at detecting early signs of autism).<p>Heck, if MRIs were readily available they&#x27;d quickly replace ultrasound during pregnancy (since MRIs are likely safer and superior given that they better represent depth). But alas, a MRI costs up to $1m for a &quot;basic&quot; one and up to $3m for a fMRI, and that&#x27;s ignoring the space&#x2F;training&#x2F;power utilisation issues.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash</title><url>https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anyfoo</author><text>While we&#x27;re being silly, here&#x27;s a shell oneliner that outputs its own SHA1 hash[1]:<p>A=shasum; C=echo; I=&#x27;($C &quot;A$s$A$X C$s$C$X I$s$Q$I$Q$X Q$s$k$Q$k$X k$s$Q$k$Q$X X$s$Q$X$Q$X s$s$Q$s$Q$X $I&quot; | $A)&#x27;; Q=&quot;&#x27;&quot;; k=&#x27;&quot;&#x27;; X=&#x27;;&#x27;; s=&#x27;=&#x27;; ($C &quot;A$s$A$X C$s$C$X I$s$Q$I$Q$X Q$s$k$Q$k$X k$s$Q$k$Q$X X$s$Q$X$Q$X s$s$Q$s$Q$X $I&quot; | $A)<p>Note that this is not in any way opening its own source code as a file or through shell magic or something like that, in fact it&#x27;s not looking at its own code <i>at all</i>. It really generates its own hash computationally out of itself, and would work the same if this was a compiled C program computing (not containing!) the hash of its own source code, even if the source code was thrown away.<p>This may seem impossible at first, but it&#x27;s really just a funny variant of a quine (a program that prints its own source). <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.madore.org&#x2F;~david&#x2F;computers&#x2F;quine.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.madore.org&#x2F;~david&#x2F;computers&#x2F;quine.html</a> came up with the idea and explains the concept.<p>[1] You could trivially change it to output its SHA2 hash instead (which just wasn&#x27;t as common at the time I did this), but then you&#x27;d loose the particularly &quot;nice&quot; hash. That property is entirely unrelated to outputting its own hash, and done the same as the commit hashes linked here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash</title><url>https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sverhagen</author><text>As the README.md acknowledges, the usefulness may be limited, except for the fun in experimentation. What may not be obvious to basic Git users is that, while it may take 2^28 commits to fill up the entire address space of the 7-character shorthash, they are not designed to be unique (they are just the first part of the longer, unique hash). As a result, even relatively small repositories often already have _some_ duplicate shorthashes. And people scripting around their Git shorthashes must be prepared to deal with larger shorthashes, like 8-characters, 9, 10, 11, whatever it takes to disambiguate. My random Git repository of a mere 16865 commits (well, that&#x27;s just &quot;master&quot;) that I&#x27;m looking at over here, nothing out of the ordinary, needs shorthashes up to 11 characters to disambiguate all of them. (Not all the clashes may be on the same or main branch.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Not Lisp again (2009)</title><url>https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuadrupleA</author><text>My previous, somewhat-cranky comment got downvoted away, but I do think Lisp&#x27;s &quot;higher-order magic&quot; and &quot;ability to do calculus&quot; is being a bit exaggerated here. From below - evaluating an Nth derivative in 80s-era C is not so atrocious:<p><pre><code> #define DX 0.0001
typedef double (*func)(double);
double NthDeriv(int n, func f, double x) {
if (n == 1) {
return (f(x + DX) - f(x)) &#x2F; DX;
}
else {
return (NthDeriv(n - 1, f, x + DX) - NthDeriv(n - 1, f, x)) &#x2F; DX;
}
}
double Cube(double x) { return x * x * x; }
double result = NthDeriv(3, &amp;Cube, 5.0);
</code></pre>
As mentioned in previous discussions of this article, the equivalent in Python is pretty elegant:<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; def deriv(f):
... dx = 0.0001
... def fp(x):
... return (f(x + dx) - f(x)) &#x2F; dx
... return fp
...
&gt;&gt;&gt; cube = lambda x: x**3
&gt;&gt;&gt; deriv(cube)(2.0)
12.000600010022566</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>I think the thing that impressed the author at the time was more the fact that functions, being first-class values, can be introduced at runtime in a REPL, rather than having to be &quot;planned&quot; at compile time. So the C code isn&#x27;t really analogous, but the Python code is.<p>But re: the Python code—I would say that, from the perspective of the 1960s, all modern &quot;dynamic&quot; languages that have REPLs (like Python) <i>are</i> Lisps in essential character.<p>&quot;Lisp&quot;, back then, referred less to &quot;a language that uses a lot of parentheses&quot;, and more to things like:<p>• runtime sum-typing using implicit tagged unions;<p>• parameterization of functions using linked lists (or hash-maps) of paired interned-string &quot;keys&quot; and arbitrary product-typed values, rather than parameterization using bitflags or product-types of optional positional parameters;<p>• heap allocation and garbage-collection;<p>• a compiler accessible by the runtime;<p>• &quot;symbolic linkage&quot; of functions and global variables, such that a named function or variable &quot;slot&quot; can be redefined (even to a new type!) at runtime, and its call-sites will then use the new version.<p>We only notice the parens as the differentiating feature of Lisps nowadays, because everything else has become widely disseminated. Perl and Python and PHP and Ruby (and even Bash) are fundamentally Lisps, in all of the above ways. Lisp &quot;won.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Not Lisp again (2009)</title><url>https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuadrupleA</author><text>My previous, somewhat-cranky comment got downvoted away, but I do think Lisp&#x27;s &quot;higher-order magic&quot; and &quot;ability to do calculus&quot; is being a bit exaggerated here. From below - evaluating an Nth derivative in 80s-era C is not so atrocious:<p><pre><code> #define DX 0.0001
typedef double (*func)(double);
double NthDeriv(int n, func f, double x) {
if (n == 1) {
return (f(x + DX) - f(x)) &#x2F; DX;
}
else {
return (NthDeriv(n - 1, f, x + DX) - NthDeriv(n - 1, f, x)) &#x2F; DX;
}
}
double Cube(double x) { return x * x * x; }
double result = NthDeriv(3, &amp;Cube, 5.0);
</code></pre>
As mentioned in previous discussions of this article, the equivalent in Python is pretty elegant:<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; def deriv(f):
... dx = 0.0001
... def fp(x):
... return (f(x + dx) - f(x)) &#x2F; dx
... return fp
...
&gt;&gt;&gt; cube = lambda x: x**3
&gt;&gt;&gt; deriv(cube)(2.0)
12.000600010022566</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omaranto</author><text>The Scheme and Python versions both return the derivative function. The C version is significantly less cool. I&#x27;d want to do something like:<p><pre><code> func cube_3rd_deriv = NthDeriv(3, &amp;Cube); &#x2F;* returns a function *&#x2F;
double result = cube_3rd_derive(5.0);</code></pre></text></comment>
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<story><title>How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb</title><url>https://chriskiehl.com/article/how-to-lose-about-nine-fitty</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nixpulvis</author><text>Imagine being banned from Best Western, for example, because you disputed a charge!<p>Having a dispute, especially one which is so reasonable like this, being grounds for banning is insane to me. Companies as large as Airbnb cannot be just banning whoever they want.<p>This whole notion of, we don&#x27;t agree with you, so we&#x27;ll just ban you thing has got to stop.</text></item><item><author>avalys</author><text>I have heard of companies reacting to a chargeback in situations like this by banning your account.</text></item><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Charge it back via your bank and explain the situation. Worst case scenario, it gets denied, you don&#x27;t lose anything either way.<p>The initial misunderstanding was cleared up just one hour after the booking - it should be very reasonable for the host to offer a full refund, it&#x27;s not like it was a last-minute cancellation where the host would struggle to get it rebooked in time and lose out. The host is clearly being malicious here and trying to make a quick buck by double-dipping - getting some money from the cancelled booking <i>and</i> then relisting the property back on the market.<p>I am always surprised how many people don&#x27;t know about payment card disputes&#x2F;chargebacks or refuse to use them, even <i>right here on HN</i>. The bank and card networks are biased towards you to begin with, and there&#x27;s no downside to losing one as long as you&#x27;re not being outright fraudulent or acting in bad faith.<p>Card chargebacks (or litigation, if you have the means) is the only thing companies understand, especially in a country where consumer protection isn&#x27;t a thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeromegv</author><text>Companies want you to file the dispute through their support system using their existing process.<p>Once you file a dispute through the credit card company, the dispute process is moved to the credit card company and now the company has a LOT less power on what might be happening. They also get severely impacted from having a high amount of charge back and hurts them the next time they want to negotiate their credit card rate.<p>So from a market perspective, it makes total sense for a company to ban you. You&#x27;re causing them problems, refuse to follow procedure on how to handle the dispute, and hurt their bottom line in ways that could impact them at the rate of millions of dollar. They would rather not have you as a customer at all than deal with you again. Statistically, a customer that uses charge back is a lot likely to end up using it again, so they avoid themselves future trouble as well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb</title><url>https://chriskiehl.com/article/how-to-lose-about-nine-fitty</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nixpulvis</author><text>Imagine being banned from Best Western, for example, because you disputed a charge!<p>Having a dispute, especially one which is so reasonable like this, being grounds for banning is insane to me. Companies as large as Airbnb cannot be just banning whoever they want.<p>This whole notion of, we don&#x27;t agree with you, so we&#x27;ll just ban you thing has got to stop.</text></item><item><author>avalys</author><text>I have heard of companies reacting to a chargeback in situations like this by banning your account.</text></item><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Charge it back via your bank and explain the situation. Worst case scenario, it gets denied, you don&#x27;t lose anything either way.<p>The initial misunderstanding was cleared up just one hour after the booking - it should be very reasonable for the host to offer a full refund, it&#x27;s not like it was a last-minute cancellation where the host would struggle to get it rebooked in time and lose out. The host is clearly being malicious here and trying to make a quick buck by double-dipping - getting some money from the cancelled booking <i>and</i> then relisting the property back on the market.<p>I am always surprised how many people don&#x27;t know about payment card disputes&#x2F;chargebacks or refuse to use them, even <i>right here on HN</i>. The bank and card networks are biased towards you to begin with, and there&#x27;s no downside to losing one as long as you&#x27;re not being outright fraudulent or acting in bad faith.<p>Card chargebacks (or litigation, if you have the means) is the only thing companies understand, especially in a country where consumer protection isn&#x27;t a thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>Best Western hotels are individually owned and operated, and Best Western itself does not lose any money from chargebacks, the motel owner does. Best Western gets paid their 10% to 15% of gross revenue royalty either way from the hotel owner.<p>Hotel owners, however, can and do ban individuals for chargebacks.</text></comment>
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