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<story><title>Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery</title><url>https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/worlds-cheapest-energy-storage-will-be-an-iron-air-battery-says-jeff-bezos-backed-start-up/2-1-1044174</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2sk21</author><text>“We’ve completed the science, what’s left to do is scale up from lab-scale prototypes to grid-scale power plants.&quot;<p>I can&#x27;t even count the number of lab-stage announcements that I have seen in HN. This will be of interest only when they can get it to scale</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>This is quite a bit more promising than a lot of those projects. They are actually manufacturing the batteries for a battery plant. That&#x27;s quite a bit further along than a lot of battery announcements are.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/first-water-found-in-habitable-exoplanets-atmosphere-hubble-kepler-k2-18b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nothis</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m looking forward to the day we start finding exo-planets that are closer to Earth in size and which could potentially have space-faring races (and which we could leave if we were ever to visit them).<p>I just realized I have no real concept of how many stars there even are within, say, a 100 light year radius of our sun (I guess that&#x27;s a more realistic thing to find out than the number of planets).<p>A quick search provided some estimates and they&#x27;re kinda... disappointingly low, at around 20000 stars. That&#x27;s a number where some &quot;1% of 1% of 1%&quot; kinda filter quickly ends up in a scenario where a planet fitting all our criteria might simply never be in reach. For something more &quot;realistic&quot; (I know, heh!) like 20 light years, there are only 150 solar systems. I&#x27;ve seen different numbers and have no idea how they&#x27;re calculated but for the usual astronomic scales which quickly go into &quot;billions&quot; territory, it seems we&#x27;re kinda stuck with a comparably small list of candidates.</text></item><item><author>transreal</author><text>With a planet this large, visiting it would be a one way trip due to the &quot;The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation&quot; [0]. I&#x27;m looking forward to the day we start finding exo-planets that are closer to Earth in size and which could potentially have space-faring races (and which we could leave if we were ever to visit them).<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;mission_pages&#x2F;station&#x2F;expeditions&#x2F;expedition30&#x2F;tryanny.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;mission_pages&#x2F;station&#x2F;expeditions&#x2F;exped...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newsbinator</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s a number where some &quot;1% of 1% of 1%&quot; kinda filter quickly ends up in a scenario where a planet fitting all our criteria might simply never be in reach.<p>It might cheer you up to think that&#x27;s the only reason the human race happens to be the one in our neighborhood that made it into space, without being stepped on by an Old One.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/first-water-found-in-habitable-exoplanets-atmosphere-hubble-kepler-k2-18b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nothis</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m looking forward to the day we start finding exo-planets that are closer to Earth in size and which could potentially have space-faring races (and which we could leave if we were ever to visit them).<p>I just realized I have no real concept of how many stars there even are within, say, a 100 light year radius of our sun (I guess that&#x27;s a more realistic thing to find out than the number of planets).<p>A quick search provided some estimates and they&#x27;re kinda... disappointingly low, at around 20000 stars. That&#x27;s a number where some &quot;1% of 1% of 1%&quot; kinda filter quickly ends up in a scenario where a planet fitting all our criteria might simply never be in reach. For something more &quot;realistic&quot; (I know, heh!) like 20 light years, there are only 150 solar systems. I&#x27;ve seen different numbers and have no idea how they&#x27;re calculated but for the usual astronomic scales which quickly go into &quot;billions&quot; territory, it seems we&#x27;re kinda stuck with a comparably small list of candidates.</text></item><item><author>transreal</author><text>With a planet this large, visiting it would be a one way trip due to the &quot;The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation&quot; [0]. I&#x27;m looking forward to the day we start finding exo-planets that are closer to Earth in size and which could potentially have space-faring races (and which we could leave if we were ever to visit them).<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;mission_pages&#x2F;station&#x2F;expeditions&#x2F;expedition30&#x2F;tryanny.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;mission_pages&#x2F;station&#x2F;expeditions&#x2F;exped...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flukus</author><text>On the plus side there are more moons than planets and many of them may be habitable. We&#x27;ve barely started looking at extra solar Jupiter like planets because of the much longer orbital periods.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records Requester Tim Clemans</title><url>http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/04/20/22079865/seattle-police-will-hire-programmer-and-prolific-records-requester-tim-clemans#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>&gt; He&#x27;ll make $22.60 an hour and start on May 6. If all goes well, Clemans will stay on as a full-time staffer.<p>Uh, seriously? This is less than what high school kids routinely get paid to do HTML ($30&#x2F;hr, and that was in the 90s)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PhasmaFelis</author><text>That is <i>definitely</i> not &quot;routine&quot; pay for high school kids writing HTML in any year. Sounds like you hit a clueless marketeer who had been huffing the dot-com bubble.<p>Hacker News has a disproportionate population of people who work in fields and locations where you can easily expect to make six figures straight out of college, and as a result HN has some seriously skewed ideas about how much money is &quot;real&quot; money. When I got my first programming job (in the mid-&#x27;00s, in a town with a population of ~250,000) I made $15 an hour. I was absolutely delighted to get it, and it was enough to live well and save some money besides.<p>Of course, $22.60 in modern Seattle is less impressive, depending on whether he lives in the city proper or in the suburbs. But you can&#x27;t expect tax-funded jobs to have the same kind of ridiculous salaries that Amazon and Google can afford to pay. And the guy&#x27;s an activist. This has got to be a dream job for him--a chance to make a difference in something he&#x27;s passionate about. Some things are worth more than money.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records Requester Tim Clemans</title><url>http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/04/20/22079865/seattle-police-will-hire-programmer-and-prolific-records-requester-tim-clemans#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>&gt; He&#x27;ll make $22.60 an hour and start on May 6. If all goes well, Clemans will stay on as a full-time staffer.<p>Uh, seriously? This is less than what high school kids routinely get paid to do HTML ($30&#x2F;hr, and that was in the 90s)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnl1479</author><text>Devil&#x27;s advocate here, but it is for a 90 day &quot;probationary&quot; period<p>&gt; initially, at least, on a three-month trial basis to work on redaction and disclosure of data.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs</title><url>https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/18/23688627/meta-layoffs-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram-whatsapp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smnrchrds</author><text>It would show a decoupling between revenue and headcount, which is certainly bad news for tech workers. Meta&#x27;s revenue in 2022 was 35% higher than 2020, 65% higher than 2019. If tech companies have found a way to simultaneously increase revenue and decrease headcount, the future of employment in tech would not be as rosy as its past.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;268604&#x2F;annual-revenue-of-facebook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;268604&#x2F;annual-revenue-of...</a></text></item><item><author>suddenclarity</author><text>Returning to 2020 levels. Says something about the hiring frenzy that went on.</text></item><item><author>zwieback</author><text>So from 86000 last year they&#x27;ll be going to 60000ish this year? That is pretty severe. For those of us in mature industries cyclic layoffs are just how things are but 25% shrinkage is scary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxfordmale</author><text>In one of my previous company, there was a &quot;keeping the light on&quot; plan. It specified the minimum number of people needed to run the company. However, CEO was clear this was just managed decline and not a viable mode of operating the business.<p>It allowed the company to meet regulatory obligations. However, overtime, customers would leave because of the poor service.<p>Meta can likely run effectively with even less Engineers. However, the lack of exciting projects will prevent them from attracting top talent. Overtime their product offering will become less interesting than their competitors.<p>Napster, Tumblr and Yahoo are still around, however, they are a shadow of what they once were.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs</title><url>https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/18/23688627/meta-layoffs-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram-whatsapp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smnrchrds</author><text>It would show a decoupling between revenue and headcount, which is certainly bad news for tech workers. Meta&#x27;s revenue in 2022 was 35% higher than 2020, 65% higher than 2019. If tech companies have found a way to simultaneously increase revenue and decrease headcount, the future of employment in tech would not be as rosy as its past.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;268604&#x2F;annual-revenue-of-facebook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;268604&#x2F;annual-revenue-of...</a></text></item><item><author>suddenclarity</author><text>Returning to 2020 levels. Says something about the hiring frenzy that went on.</text></item><item><author>zwieback</author><text>So from 86000 last year they&#x27;ll be going to 60000ish this year? That is pretty severe. For those of us in mature industries cyclic layoffs are just how things are but 25% shrinkage is scary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>Things happen based on rates of change now, not just totals.<p>2021 was an abnormally high jump in revenue from 2020 for Meta. 2022 was a drop in revenue, but roughly a return to trend (there&#x27;s a quite linear line from 2016 to 2022 revenue-wise).<p>It looks like they hired based on a wrong guess about Covid revenue growth acceleration being a longer-lasting thing than it was, and now that their revenue growth path is back to their old trend, they can&#x27;t justify all of that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option</title><url>https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>And then there’s another OS: UEFI.<p>Something I recently joked about doing was porting SDL to the UEFI environment and then building DOSBOX for it. I’m sure someone has already done this in some fashion, but the idea was amusing enough for me to genuinely consider it one of these weekends. I guess in <i>that</i> case, though, you can’t really run FreeDOS.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option</title><url>https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ndiddy</author><text>I’m guessing they’re doing this because modern x86 processors can’t boot into BIOS mode anymore (edit: untrue, see reply by dmitrygr). This makes me wonder why they’re even offering FreeDOS as an option when they offer Linux for customers who don’t wish to purchase a Windows license. Maybe they have some sort of contractual obligation with a large customer?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android</title><url>https://www.beeper.com/</url><text>Hi HN! I’m proud to share that we have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system. It&#x27;s available to download today (no waitlist): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.beeper.ima">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.beeper.ima</a> and there&#x27;s a technical writeup here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works</a>.<p>Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple servers to send and receive end-to-end encrypted messages. Encryption keys never leave your device. No Apple ID is required. Beeper does not have access to your Apple account.<p>With Beeper Mini, your Android phone number is registered on iMessage. You show up as a ‘blue bubble’ when iPhone friends text you, and can join real iMessage group chats. All chat features like typing status, read receipts, full resolution images&#x2F;video, emoji reactions, voice notes, editing&#x2F;unsending, stickers etc are supported.<p>This is all unprecedented, so I imagine you may have a lot of questions. We’ve written a detailed technical blog post about how Beeper Mini works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works</a>. A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JJTech0130&#x2F;pypush">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JJTech0130&#x2F;pypush</a>. You can try it yourself on any Mac&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;Linux computer and see how iMessage works. My cofounder and I are also here to answer questions in the comments.<p>Our long term vision is to build a universal chat app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;were-building-the-best-chat-app-on">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;were-building-the-best-chat-app-on</a>). Over the next few months, we will be adding support for SMS&#x2F;RCS, WhatsApp, Signal and 12 other chat networks into Beeper Mini. At that point, we’ll drop the `Mini` postfix. We’re also rebuilding our Beeper Desktop and iOS apps to support our new ‘client-side bridge’ architecture that preserves full end-to-end encryption. We’re also renaming our first gen apps to ‘Beeper Cloud’ to more clearly differentiate them from Beeper Mini.<p>Side note: many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?’ To be honest, I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client. The internet has always had 3rd party clients! It’s almost like people have forgotten that iChat (the app that iMessage grew out of) was itself a multi-protocol chat app! It supported AIM, Jabber and Google talk. Here’s a blast from the past: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;k6rmOgq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;k6rmOgq.png</a>.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>What would they demand they cease doing? Publishing software?<p>If the use of this software is against their rights in some way, the end users running it would be the ones in violation. Publishing original software is protected expression.</text></item><item><author>smashah</author><text>Have you ever received C&amp;D for your work? There&#x27;s a big problem of OSS projects being TOS-trolled by billion dollar companies and having to shut down out of fear.</text></item><item><author>wslh</author><text>One of my companies lives from this kind of things so it would last if someone could fund it. More food for thought: &quot;Reflecting on 16 Years of Work on Adversarial Interoperability&quot; (now, more than 20...) [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-16-years-of-work-on-adversarial-interoperability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-16-years-of...</a></text></item><item><author>bogwog</author><text>This seems like it won&#x27;t last, but it&#x27;s AWESOME and I really hope you survive Apple&#x27;s inevitable attempts to kill this. A universal chat application would be amazing, and will maybe help bring attention to the value of standards and interoperability (hopefully by governments&#x2F;regulators).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>One prominent counterexample to this thesis is DRM circumvention software, which regularly gets taken down via DMCA notices. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Apple even invokes that particular law.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android</title><url>https://www.beeper.com/</url><text>Hi HN! I’m proud to share that we have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system. It&#x27;s available to download today (no waitlist): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.beeper.ima">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.beeper.ima</a> and there&#x27;s a technical writeup here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works</a>.<p>Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple servers to send and receive end-to-end encrypted messages. Encryption keys never leave your device. No Apple ID is required. Beeper does not have access to your Apple account.<p>With Beeper Mini, your Android phone number is registered on iMessage. You show up as a ‘blue bubble’ when iPhone friends text you, and can join real iMessage group chats. All chat features like typing status, read receipts, full resolution images&#x2F;video, emoji reactions, voice notes, editing&#x2F;unsending, stickers etc are supported.<p>This is all unprecedented, so I imagine you may have a lot of questions. We’ve written a detailed technical blog post about how Beeper Mini works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works</a>. A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JJTech0130&#x2F;pypush">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JJTech0130&#x2F;pypush</a>. You can try it yourself on any Mac&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;Linux computer and see how iMessage works. My cofounder and I are also here to answer questions in the comments.<p>Our long term vision is to build a universal chat app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;were-building-the-best-chat-app-on">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;were-building-the-best-chat-app-on</a>). Over the next few months, we will be adding support for SMS&#x2F;RCS, WhatsApp, Signal and 12 other chat networks into Beeper Mini. At that point, we’ll drop the `Mini` postfix. We’re also rebuilding our Beeper Desktop and iOS apps to support our new ‘client-side bridge’ architecture that preserves full end-to-end encryption. We’re also renaming our first gen apps to ‘Beeper Cloud’ to more clearly differentiate them from Beeper Mini.<p>Side note: many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?’ To be honest, I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client. The internet has always had 3rd party clients! It’s almost like people have forgotten that iChat (the app that iMessage grew out of) was itself a multi-protocol chat app! It supported AIM, Jabber and Google talk. Here’s a blast from the past: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;k6rmOgq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;k6rmOgq.png</a>.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>What would they demand they cease doing? Publishing software?<p>If the use of this software is against their rights in some way, the end users running it would be the ones in violation. Publishing original software is protected expression.</text></item><item><author>smashah</author><text>Have you ever received C&amp;D for your work? There&#x27;s a big problem of OSS projects being TOS-trolled by billion dollar companies and having to shut down out of fear.</text></item><item><author>wslh</author><text>One of my companies lives from this kind of things so it would last if someone could fund it. More food for thought: &quot;Reflecting on 16 Years of Work on Adversarial Interoperability&quot; (now, more than 20...) [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-16-years-of-work-on-adversarial-interoperability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-16-years-of...</a></text></item><item><author>bogwog</author><text>This seems like it won&#x27;t last, but it&#x27;s AWESOME and I really hope you survive Apple&#x27;s inevitable attempts to kill this. A universal chat application would be amazing, and will maybe help bring attention to the value of standards and interoperability (hopefully by governments&#x2F;regulators).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graphe</author><text>This was tried by apple. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;apple-drops-its-lawsuit-against-a-manufacturer-of-i-phone-emulators-082100357.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;apple-drops-its-lawsuit-against-a-m...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Poverty in Japan</title><url>http://japaneseruleof7.com/poverty-in-japan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>g09980</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in Japan, and I love Japan for all its charms. Westerners definitely romanticize it, but day-to-day life for local people isn&#x27;t all roses. Something brings one to reality when you see raggedy old men vomiting outside Pachinko parlours, the scantily clad &quot;massage&quot; women shivering in zero degree weather, or the mentally ill muttering to himself while bumping into the walls at the conbini. Aging population, high rate of alcoholism, difficult work culture, and untreated mental illness are some things you don&#x27;t see on a postcard, but they are real.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poverty in Japan</title><url>http://japaneseruleof7.com/poverty-in-japan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; Of course, if you saw it in your own country, you’d recognize it for what it was—people working their asses off, even well into old age, not out of some perverse industriousness, but simply because they’ve gotta eat.<p>Until we invent replicators, everyone’s gotta work to eat. Even folks on HN are separated from that reality by a year or so of cushion, if even that. What people in the US admire about Japanese culture is their attitude to the work they’ve got to do to survive. It’s not like folks in the US don’t have to work to eat. But if you’ve ever been in an airport security line in both places you can tell the difference.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nitrous Oxide – A forgotten greenhouse gas</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210603-nitrous-oxide-the-worlds-forgotten-greenhouse-gas</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stinos</author><text>Also interesting to note: the heavy use of nitrogen fertiliser is also one of the reasons for the biodiversity crisis. Which according to some is a problem just as serious as the climate crisis, but is much less reported on in global media. Basic principle for the operation: plants which thrive well on nitrogen (think fast-growing grasses, nettles, ...) get an advantage over other plants (typically slower growing long-living flowering plants) because the fertiliser doesn&#x27;t simply stay in the location where it gets applied. More uniform vegetation then produces the typical chain reaction (simplified): less insects, less food for birds, less birds, ... So tackling the problem mentioned in the article could have a positive influence both on climate and biodiversity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nitrous Oxide – A forgotten greenhouse gas</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210603-nitrous-oxide-the-worlds-forgotten-greenhouse-gas</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FriedrichN</author><text>It may be forgotten in some parts of the world, but certainly not in the Netherlands. Primarily because of the effects of nitrogen deposition on the environment and ammonia&#x2F;methane in particular. There is basically a stop on building and expansion of agriculture as well as a reduction of the maximum speed on highways.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5t8EivCaM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>His quest list is awesome. Stephen Kotkin interview was really good.<p>His problem is the clear lack of preparation in several interviews. He gets thrown off and loses track just when the interview gets interesting. The momentum dies because he has no good followup questions and no idea where to go form there.<p>Instead of playing ignorant for the sake of the conversation like good host does, it seems that he tries genuinely to learn stuff during the interview. His backup strategy is to direct interview into the same set of overly generic questions where the quest has nothing interesting to say. It&#x27;s kind of irritating.<p>If you compare Lex Friedman to Sean Carrol (they have had same quests in their program) its&#x27; clear that Carrol is better prepared and better host.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.preposterousuniverse.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.preposterousuniverse.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>plesiv</author><text>Lex Fridman&#x27;s &quot;AI Podcast&quot; has quickly grown to have one of the best list of guests on any show ever [1] - extremely impressive!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuK...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;His backup strategy is to direct interview into the same set of overly generic questions where the quest has nothing interesting to say. It&#x27;s kind of irritating.</i><p>Couldn&#x27;t agree more. I want such people to comment on their fields, not wrestle with some faux-philosophical fluff thrown at them at random. They&#x27;re not some generic celebrities or CEOs. Their perspective is interesting precisely because they do real work in interesting domains.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5t8EivCaM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>His quest list is awesome. Stephen Kotkin interview was really good.<p>His problem is the clear lack of preparation in several interviews. He gets thrown off and loses track just when the interview gets interesting. The momentum dies because he has no good followup questions and no idea where to go form there.<p>Instead of playing ignorant for the sake of the conversation like good host does, it seems that he tries genuinely to learn stuff during the interview. His backup strategy is to direct interview into the same set of overly generic questions where the quest has nothing interesting to say. It&#x27;s kind of irritating.<p>If you compare Lex Friedman to Sean Carrol (they have had same quests in their program) its&#x27; clear that Carrol is better prepared and better host.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.preposterousuniverse.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.preposterousuniverse.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>plesiv</author><text>Lex Fridman&#x27;s &quot;AI Podcast&quot; has quickly grown to have one of the best list of guests on any show ever [1] - extremely impressive!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuK...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>Is it a competition? Sean is 20 years older than Lex, clearly loves talking and has way more experience across the table from other smart people. I&#x27;ve been subscribed to both for over a year now but end up listening to Lex&#x27;s more for some reason. They are fairly different experiences and it&#x27;s obvious to me that some will like one more than the other. That&#x27;s ok.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/m2x83h/my_bank_sent_me_64_copies_of_the_same_debit_card/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattl</author><text>A bank in Boston once sent me a debit card that didn&#x27;t meet the valid number algorithm. I had to go in there and show them the math step by step to prove it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised YOU even know.<p>meaning two things: you understand the algorithm <i>and</i> you checked the algorithm.<p>This is like discovering a compiler bug from code that compiled - statistically unlikely, and requires deeper expertise.<p>I mean I shouldn&#x27;t be surprised, it&#x27;s HN.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/m2x83h/my_bank_sent_me_64_copies_of_the_same_debit_card/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattl</author><text>A bank in Boston once sent me a debit card that didn&#x27;t meet the valid number algorithm. I had to go in there and show them the math step by step to prove it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Why would you even try? Surely &quot;my card number doesn&#x27;t work&quot; is the simple and sane response. They don&#x27;t need to know, or care, <i>why</i>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>iMessage purgatory</title><url>http://adampash.com/imessage-purgatory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superuser2</author><text>How do you propose they fix it? Integrating with the infrastructure of every carrier to detect when a not-iPhone is activated on a line previously occupied by an iPhone is probably expensive and invasive to carriers.<p>Also you don&#x27;t have to call tech support. You can deregister iMessage from Settings (by turning it off) before you activate a new phone.</text></item><item><author>kennywinker</author><text>It&#x27;s encouraging that they actually have the capability to fix the issue, but you really shouldn&#x27;t have to call tech support to regain control of your phone number. When you sign up for iMessages they don&#x27;t say &quot;We take over your phone number and route all texts from iphones to it and you&#x27;ll have to call tech support to make us stop!&quot;</text></item><item><author>jc4p</author><text>I went through this last month when I switched to the Nexus 5, had no clue I wasn&#x27;t getting messages until someone with an iPhone tweeted at me asking why I as ignoring them.<p>However, all it took from me was a call to Apple&#x27;s customer service, I told them I had just switched off my iPhone and no longer got texts from people with iMessage and they immediately sent me to a tech that fixed the problem for me.<p>Have you been explaining it correctly when you call? All I said was &quot;I had an iPhone until last week, switched to another phone but I&#x27;m still registered for iMessage&quot;<p>Edit: According to my phone I called 1-800-692-7753 (Which is just 1-800-MY-APPLE) and my call took 8 mins 25 seconds total. Not too bad of an experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teraflop</author><text>iMessages go through Apple&#x27;s servers, right? Then if all messages addressed to a particular phone suddenly stop being delivered, surely they can detect that. If a phone fails to check in for some period of time, there&#x27;s a pretty good chance that the user has switched to a different device, and the messages should be retransmitted as SMS. Even if the timeout is on the order of days, that would still be better than having your messages swallowed by the void forever.<p>For bonus points, take care of false positives in this system by storing enough metadata in iMessage to deduplicate the iMessage and SMS copies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>iMessage purgatory</title><url>http://adampash.com/imessage-purgatory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superuser2</author><text>How do you propose they fix it? Integrating with the infrastructure of every carrier to detect when a not-iPhone is activated on a line previously occupied by an iPhone is probably expensive and invasive to carriers.<p>Also you don&#x27;t have to call tech support. You can deregister iMessage from Settings (by turning it off) before you activate a new phone.</text></item><item><author>kennywinker</author><text>It&#x27;s encouraging that they actually have the capability to fix the issue, but you really shouldn&#x27;t have to call tech support to regain control of your phone number. When you sign up for iMessages they don&#x27;t say &quot;We take over your phone number and route all texts from iphones to it and you&#x27;ll have to call tech support to make us stop!&quot;</text></item><item><author>jc4p</author><text>I went through this last month when I switched to the Nexus 5, had no clue I wasn&#x27;t getting messages until someone with an iPhone tweeted at me asking why I as ignoring them.<p>However, all it took from me was a call to Apple&#x27;s customer service, I told them I had just switched off my iPhone and no longer got texts from people with iMessage and they immediately sent me to a tech that fixed the problem for me.<p>Have you been explaining it correctly when you call? All I said was &quot;I had an iPhone until last week, switched to another phone but I&#x27;m still registered for iMessage&quot;<p>Edit: According to my phone I called 1-800-692-7753 (Which is just 1-800-MY-APPLE) and my call took 8 mins 25 seconds total. Not too bad of an experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; How do you propose they fix it?<p>Making it possible to deregister by logging into your Apple Account over the web would deal with 100% of the problem, which is people not being aware of the issue before switching off of iOS.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Standing Desks Are Overrated</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/upshot/why-standing-desks-are-overrated.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>This article is by a pediatrician, not a physical therapist or a subject matter expert. The article basically consists of the author pointing to some studies on the subject and concluding that there&#x27;s not yet definitive, decisive evidence as to the long-term benefits of standing desks. Anyone who reads about standing desks knew that already. And, as someone who is known amongst friends and colleagues for using one, I&#x27;ve had numerous cases of people saying &quot;Welp WhompingWindows, your standing desk is pointless, I saw a buzzfeed article about how a single study from North Dakota State said they&#x27;re not great.&quot;<p>The title of this post and the the title of the article are not justified. The author&#x27;s take-home in the final paragraph is that standing is not exercise, but standing desks may help those with back or neck pain and some people just prefer it. So, really, there&#x27;s no evidence here to support the &quot;Overrated&quot; claim in the headline.<p>Like every post I see on standing desks, or anything with a controversial&#x2F;contentious set of studies&#x2F;proponents, each writer can select whichever set of studies from the vast array that conforms to their viewpoint. Those studies that disagree with the final conclusion? Better point out potential confounders, non-causal links, selection bias, etc. Drag out the usual methodological suspects to invalidate an opinion you don&#x27;t agree with. It&#x27;s easy to straw-man, though it&#x27;s also easy to go to the discussion and just copy the authors&#x27; own assessment of their studys&#x27; weaknesses.<p>This happens all the time in science like epidemiology, you&#x27;re not an epidemiologist if you haven&#x27;t made a dozen complaints about an article&#x27;s methods before considering its ramifications. Even Einstein - despite the evidence to the contrary, he could not accept some of the quantum-mechanical conclusions that his work helped bring about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JshWright</author><text>The &quot;overrated&quot; claim is that standing desks address the health concerns of sitting too much (a claim that I have heard many, many times). There is no evidence to support that claim. Your third paragraph accuses the author of cherry-picking the studies. Is there an example of a study you feel they should have included that supports your accusation?<p>The author is not claiming to be a subject matter expert. The fact that they are a pediatrician is irrelevant. Their argument is well sourced, and &quot;even&quot; a pediatrician is able to read and understand papers in adjacent medical fields.<p>Dr Carroll is also known for the Healthcare Triage YouTube channel, which has numerous video explainers on topics like how to critically evaluate the strength of studies, the dangers of cherry-picking data, etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Standing Desks Are Overrated</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/upshot/why-standing-desks-are-overrated.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>This article is by a pediatrician, not a physical therapist or a subject matter expert. The article basically consists of the author pointing to some studies on the subject and concluding that there&#x27;s not yet definitive, decisive evidence as to the long-term benefits of standing desks. Anyone who reads about standing desks knew that already. And, as someone who is known amongst friends and colleagues for using one, I&#x27;ve had numerous cases of people saying &quot;Welp WhompingWindows, your standing desk is pointless, I saw a buzzfeed article about how a single study from North Dakota State said they&#x27;re not great.&quot;<p>The title of this post and the the title of the article are not justified. The author&#x27;s take-home in the final paragraph is that standing is not exercise, but standing desks may help those with back or neck pain and some people just prefer it. So, really, there&#x27;s no evidence here to support the &quot;Overrated&quot; claim in the headline.<p>Like every post I see on standing desks, or anything with a controversial&#x2F;contentious set of studies&#x2F;proponents, each writer can select whichever set of studies from the vast array that conforms to their viewpoint. Those studies that disagree with the final conclusion? Better point out potential confounders, non-causal links, selection bias, etc. Drag out the usual methodological suspects to invalidate an opinion you don&#x27;t agree with. It&#x27;s easy to straw-man, though it&#x27;s also easy to go to the discussion and just copy the authors&#x27; own assessment of their studys&#x27; weaknesses.<p>This happens all the time in science like epidemiology, you&#x27;re not an epidemiologist if you haven&#x27;t made a dozen complaints about an article&#x27;s methods before considering its ramifications. Even Einstein - despite the evidence to the contrary, he could not accept some of the quantum-mechanical conclusions that his work helped bring about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>I actually have a Varidesk so I can alternate periodically because I found that I was much more tired towards the end of the day if I sat all day. Also experienced a lot of back discomfort. A lot of my motivation for getting the standing desk was that it seemed like an easier option than one of the really expensive chairs that are out there.<p>I still use the standing desk every now and then, but after seeing some recommendations I ended up getting a Bungee chair from The Container Store and it&#x27;s really solved all of the issues that drove me to a standing desk in the first place with a reasonable price point.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/31/police-theft-thousands-power-tools/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ToucanLoucan</author><text>The roots of police departments are the paid security forces of business owners, and their values as organizations reflect this. Business owners worked with local governments to create police departments to socialize some of the cost of securing their private property; their rented homes, their warehouses, their stores. And they reflect this to this day.<p>Individual property crime doesn&#x27;t mean shit. A criminal can sell <i>your</i> Macbook if they like, but if they steal from Apple itself? Oh man there will be hell to pay.</text></item><item><author>FireBeyond</author><text>Yeah, I pointed the police to someone who was selling fifty plus obviously stolen MacBooks and iPhones, including mine (all described as &quot;locked&quot;, &quot;no charger, no accessories&quot;, etc., etc.) and the could not possibly care less.<p>&quot;He probably was not the one who stole them.&quot;<p>&quot;Isn&#x27;t it still a crime to sell stolen goods?&quot;<p>&quot;Shrug.&quot;</text></item><item><author>tamimio</author><text>My guess is the carpenter knows someone that knows someone in the police department that they actually did something, but in a normal situation, definitely they won’t bother.</text></item><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; He called police, who got a search warrant<p>Kind of sad, that I was surprised they did that. It&#x27;s definitely a local thing. I&#x27;d expect the police to shrug, and say it&#x27;s too bad, just file a report to use for insurance.<p>I remember people saying &quot;so what if you have tags, police won&#x27;t do anything and you shouldn&#x27;t be confronting thieves anyway&quot;.<p>Apple, on the other hand, is also explicit about tags not to be used as an anti-theft device. The word &quot;theft&quot; doesn&#x27;t appear even once on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;airtag" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;airtag</a>. It would be interesting if they still released a puff piece as a response: &quot;Oh look, a carpenter `found` his tools in the next state, in a warehouse along with other tools. We don&#x27;t know how they ended up there, but isn&#x27;t that great?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjmarr</author><text>A common good like security should be socialized because the alternative is multiple independent groups enforcing property rights, and when they start to conflict, you get a civil war won by the person who spent the most on security.<p>The idea that police are inherently corrupt because they developed from paid security forces ignores that the very process of development is what enshrined the rule of law over power.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/31/police-theft-thousands-power-tools/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ToucanLoucan</author><text>The roots of police departments are the paid security forces of business owners, and their values as organizations reflect this. Business owners worked with local governments to create police departments to socialize some of the cost of securing their private property; their rented homes, their warehouses, their stores. And they reflect this to this day.<p>Individual property crime doesn&#x27;t mean shit. A criminal can sell <i>your</i> Macbook if they like, but if they steal from Apple itself? Oh man there will be hell to pay.</text></item><item><author>FireBeyond</author><text>Yeah, I pointed the police to someone who was selling fifty plus obviously stolen MacBooks and iPhones, including mine (all described as &quot;locked&quot;, &quot;no charger, no accessories&quot;, etc., etc.) and the could not possibly care less.<p>&quot;He probably was not the one who stole them.&quot;<p>&quot;Isn&#x27;t it still a crime to sell stolen goods?&quot;<p>&quot;Shrug.&quot;</text></item><item><author>tamimio</author><text>My guess is the carpenter knows someone that knows someone in the police department that they actually did something, but in a normal situation, definitely they won’t bother.</text></item><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; He called police, who got a search warrant<p>Kind of sad, that I was surprised they did that. It&#x27;s definitely a local thing. I&#x27;d expect the police to shrug, and say it&#x27;s too bad, just file a report to use for insurance.<p>I remember people saying &quot;so what if you have tags, police won&#x27;t do anything and you shouldn&#x27;t be confronting thieves anyway&quot;.<p>Apple, on the other hand, is also explicit about tags not to be used as an anti-theft device. The word &quot;theft&quot; doesn&#x27;t appear even once on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;airtag" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;airtag</a>. It would be interesting if they still released a puff piece as a response: &quot;Oh look, a carpenter `found` his tools in the next state, in a warehouse along with other tools. We don&#x27;t know how they ended up there, but isn&#x27;t that great?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defen</author><text>&gt; A criminal can sell your Macbook if they like, but if they steal from Apple itself? Oh man there will be hell to pay.<p>Where do you get the idea that there will be &quot;hell to pay&quot; if you steal from Apple itself? People regularly run out of Apple stores with tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise and never get caught.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We need a new model for tech journalism</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/tech-journalism.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshvm</author><text>&gt; To even visit the offices of tech giants—itself often a rare privilege—requires journalists to sign non-disclosure agreements.<p>Why is it weird that journalists have to sign an NDA to visit premises? Your job is explicitly to spread information and you&#x27;re visiting a commercially sensitive area. I&#x27;ve worked with small companies (&lt; 30 people) where entire floors were off limits if you didn&#x27;t sign.<p>It&#x27;s easy for a journalist to describe something without realising its importance within the community. There was an article recently about a tour of a Nikon lens factory and they were forbidden to talk or describe certain furnaces. If you weren&#x27;t an expert in glass manufacture, you might let slip a key fact like &quot;we saw a big machine before process Y&quot; or &quot;the glass at this point is red hot&quot; (maybe everyone else has it orange-hot).<p>Why should <i>any</i> corporation let you visit their premises without suitable assurances?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eli</author><text>The NDA terms are sometimes onerous. For example, prohibiting you from talking about unreleased products regardless of how you come to know about them, not just from what you see on the tour. Every decent journalist would respect that parts of a tour would be off-the-record without the need for a legally binding document.<p>I&#x27;ve declined the opportunity to receive pre-release review devices before because I didn&#x27;t like the restrictions the NDA put on what I was allowed to say about them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We need a new model for tech journalism</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/tech-journalism.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshvm</author><text>&gt; To even visit the offices of tech giants—itself often a rare privilege—requires journalists to sign non-disclosure agreements.<p>Why is it weird that journalists have to sign an NDA to visit premises? Your job is explicitly to spread information and you&#x27;re visiting a commercially sensitive area. I&#x27;ve worked with small companies (&lt; 30 people) where entire floors were off limits if you didn&#x27;t sign.<p>It&#x27;s easy for a journalist to describe something without realising its importance within the community. There was an article recently about a tour of a Nikon lens factory and they were forbidden to talk or describe certain furnaces. If you weren&#x27;t an expert in glass manufacture, you might let slip a key fact like &quot;we saw a big machine before process Y&quot; or &quot;the glass at this point is red hot&quot; (maybe everyone else has it orange-hot).<p>Why should <i>any</i> corporation let you visit their premises without suitable assurances?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tombrossman</author><text>&gt; Why should any corporation let you visit their premises without suitable assurances?<p>Correct me if I am wrong please, but it sounds like you are saying it&#x27;s okay to trust corporations who are the subjects of media scrutiny to be the &#x27;gatekeepers&#x27; of information, setting ground rules and defining what may or may not go into a news article. This is a horrifically bad idea if you care about journalistic integrity.<p>No harm in the corporation asking for that level of control, but I do not believe savvy journalists would accept. It is their (or their editor&#x27;s) call to make, they must decide what the story is, and where the public interest lies.<p>Fair point about Nikon though, I think if you have a top-secret part of your factory that&#x27;s just got to be permanently off-limits. Why risk it?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39827244</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimjimjim</author><text>Similar to &quot;follow the money&quot;, on a world view, who benefits from isolationism and breaking up western alliances?<p>trump: isolation + lessen ties with europe.<p>le pen: isolation + lessen ties with europe.<p>brexit: isolation + lessen ties with europe.<p>now, who benefits?<p>who benefits from a weakened europe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CriticalSection</author><text>The US government bankrolls the self-described &quot;National Endowment for Democracy&quot;, which openly boasts ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ned.org&#x2F;region&#x2F;central-and-eastern-europe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ned.org&#x2F;region&#x2F;central-and-eastern-europe&#x2F;</a> ) of meddling in Russian and other elections. Macron and his supporters talk the same way.<p>If the US and France are going to meddle in Russia&#x27;s elections and affairs, what is the big surprise if Russia does the same?<p>Insofar as who benefits from &quot;isolationism&quot; and breaking up western [military] alliances, the answer is me, an American worker and taxpayer. I gain nothing with my tax money going to kill or rape some Vietnamese farmer, or overthrow an elected government in Ukraine.<p>Trump has a lot of negatives, but that does not apply to whatever notions he has of not getting the US involved overseas militarily more than he already as.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39827244</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimjimjim</author><text>Similar to &quot;follow the money&quot;, on a world view, who benefits from isolationism and breaking up western alliances?<p>trump: isolation + lessen ties with europe.<p>le pen: isolation + lessen ties with europe.<p>brexit: isolation + lessen ties with europe.<p>now, who benefits?<p>who benefits from a weakened europe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redwood</author><text>Clearly Putin. If you make democracy look untenable it becomes less threatening to an autocrat.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google and Facebook are watching our every move online</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/google-facebook-data-privacy-concerns-out-of-control-commentary.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>I feel like I&#x27;m in the minority, but I&#x27;m mostly ok with Google. I feel like they are good stewards of my data (encrypting even internal traffic, severe restrictions on who can get access to my data, doing useful things with that data). I believe Facebook has similar policies in place.<p>I think their biggest sins are just being big. It makes them a larger target (which probably necessitates them taking extreme protections, otherwise they WOULD be taken down). Others that are much more concerning don&#x27;t get attacked simply because they are smaller. For example Lyft and Uber who have both been found to have all sorts of personally identifiable information available to random employees. Or various ISPs tracking of data flowing through it.<p>To me, the cost of being google&#x27;s product, is outweighed by what they provide me with. Search, news, music, assistant functions, &quot;remember this day&quot;, &quot;here is your family growing up&quot;, e-mail, automation of e-mails into actionable widgets... These things all are powered by Google knowing kind of a lot about me.<p>I don&#x27;t know of any alternative to Google for these services, that respects privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_overalls</author><text>You should be worried for these reasons:<p>1) Google (and other SV giants) share data with the NSA.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;googles_secret_nsa_alliance_the_terrifying_deals_between_silicon_valley_and_the_security_state&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;googles_secret_nsa_alliance...</a><p>2) The NSA in turn shares information with law-enforcement agencies. ICREACH contains information on the private communications millions of American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;the-nsa-made-its-own-google-to-help-share-your-data-wit-1626652221" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;the-nsa-made-its-own-google-to-help-shar...</a><p>3) The DEA (and possibly other agencies) uses this information to target Americans, and then lies about the origins of the information in a process called &quot;parallel construction.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-dea-sod&#x2F;exclusive-u-s-directs-agents-to-cover-up-program-used-to-investigate-americans-idUSBRE97409R20130805" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-dea-sod&#x2F;exclusive-u-s-dir...</a><p>It&#x27;s not difficult to see the potential for abuse in a shadowy process that surveils the private communications of Americans, applies unknown selectors and data mining algorithms, and then reports the results to law enforcement.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google and Facebook are watching our every move online</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/google-facebook-data-privacy-concerns-out-of-control-commentary.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>I feel like I&#x27;m in the minority, but I&#x27;m mostly ok with Google. I feel like they are good stewards of my data (encrypting even internal traffic, severe restrictions on who can get access to my data, doing useful things with that data). I believe Facebook has similar policies in place.<p>I think their biggest sins are just being big. It makes them a larger target (which probably necessitates them taking extreme protections, otherwise they WOULD be taken down). Others that are much more concerning don&#x27;t get attacked simply because they are smaller. For example Lyft and Uber who have both been found to have all sorts of personally identifiable information available to random employees. Or various ISPs tracking of data flowing through it.<p>To me, the cost of being google&#x27;s product, is outweighed by what they provide me with. Search, news, music, assistant functions, &quot;remember this day&quot;, &quot;here is your family growing up&quot;, e-mail, automation of e-mails into actionable widgets... These things all are powered by Google knowing kind of a lot about me.<p>I don&#x27;t know of any alternative to Google for these services, that respects privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>My concern about Google is not so much now, but maybe 20 years from now when they&#x27;re desperate for revenue. Something akin to Yahoo&#x27;s position in the last few years, except Yahoo didn&#x27;t know almost everything about half the planet.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”</title><url>https://write.privacytools.io/freddy/why-privacy-matters-even-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_alloc</author><text>Whenever somebody argues having nothing to hide I ask:<p>1) Where were you last night?<p>2) How much money is in your bank account? Do you have any debt?<p>3) What is your Debit Card PIN&#x2F;account password&#x2F;...<p>4) What is your address? Your families address?<p>5) Can I see your key?<p>And so on. Everybody needs to proctect themselves and potentially others attached to them. There is a good reason for these questions being awkward and inappropriate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortic</author><text>Posted this five months ago, but its still relevant: My nothing to hide argument;<p>Nothing to hide is an incomplete sentence. Nothing to hide from who? Surly you want to hide your children from abusers and predators? Don&#x27;t you want to hide your banking details from con artists and fraudsters? Your identity from identity thieves.. Your location from burglars, your car keys from car thieves or your blood type from some rich mobsters with kidney problems..<p>we don&#x27;t know who are any of these things. So we should protect ourselves from all of them, in effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”</title><url>https://write.privacytools.io/freddy/why-privacy-matters-even-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_alloc</author><text>Whenever somebody argues having nothing to hide I ask:<p>1) Where were you last night?<p>2) How much money is in your bank account? Do you have any debt?<p>3) What is your Debit Card PIN&#x2F;account password&#x2F;...<p>4) What is your address? Your families address?<p>5) Can I see your key?<p>And so on. Everybody needs to proctect themselves and potentially others attached to them. There is a good reason for these questions being awkward and inappropriate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sumtechguy</author><text>What is more insidious is that by itself some small portions of information are not private. But collectively they are.<p>Some portions of information <i>seem</i> innocent too like &#x27;how much is in your account&#x27; could mean the difference between if someone tries to target me or not. Say I owe 500 bucks and have 10 in the bank and they may not bother. But say something like I have no debt and have a million in the bank and suddenly I am a very attractive target. That is for both &#x27;good&#x27; and &#x27;bad&#x27; actors.<p>Something as simple as giving your email to someone can tie you into yet another ad network. Which has already profiled you.<p>What is the worst of it is, I really do not care if you had the information. I do care if you use my information to mess up my life or harass me endlessly. So my default position is &#x27;sorry I am not telling you that&#x27;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rotate the world</title><url>http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/rotate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BitMastro</author><text>This is just my personal preference, but I believe the naive implementation is miles ahead of the improved ones.<p>The improved version needs at least two movements to go to the other side of the world, doesn&#x27;t follow the rotation if the cursor is too fast and worse than all, performs a gamma rotation for each non-equatorial point of the sphere.<p>Since we have two degrees of freedom on the screen, I expect to use them to drive the two most used rotations, and maybe have another control for the roll. In addition, we are used to have maps with North pointing up (and sometimes pointing South), so the roll is almost never used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kcorbitt</author><text>Another nice attribute the naive implementation has is path independence. If I grab part of the globe and release it somewhere else I expect those two coordinates to determine the transform. With the non-naive implementation I can get completely different results depending on how I wiggle my mouse on the way. It&#x27;s true that this gives me more flexibility, but I don&#x27;t know... it just doesn&#x27;t feel right to me. Google Earth does it that way too, and it has always bothered me. If I move more than a few degrees on the map I find myself either wildly gyrating my mouse to try to get back into a recognizable north-up orientation or simply clicking the compass rose to have it set things right automatically.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published</title><url>https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alanfranz</author><text>Thanks to all Log4j developers. As users of your free software since ~20 years, we&#x27;re sure that, if this vuln disclosure had been better and there were no sign of widespread in-the-wild exploitation, you would have done a better job at patching it, and a single release would have been enough.<p>We won&#x27;t hold a grudge against you; open source means collaboration, and you don&#x27;t blame hard-working people that give away their software for free for honest mistakes. Your software still did far more good than bad to the software world.<p>Thanks!</text></comment>
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I am sick of reading of very senior people complaining about the impact this vulnerability has had on their week when their companies don’t even contribute a penny to open source projects.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ruby's exceptional creatures</title><url>https://www.exceptionalcreatures.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iammiles</author><text>This is absolutely delightful! The Ruby community seems to punch above its weight when it comes to producing fun, joyful documentation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-04/secrets-of-las-vegas-s-exclusive-high-roller-cosmopolitan-sweet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yetihehe</author><text>I think that if they gave those fortunes for something more worthy like progress of science or charities, it would be much more positive for society. Squandering is just spending money on unimportant things, which DO NOT give benefit to society. Yeah, some of this money will make it into hands of other people, but most of this is just removing value from society.</text></item><item><author>mjfl</author><text>I think you&#x27;re looking at it the wrong way. I think it&#x27;s an extremely positive thing for society that people who are dumb enough to squander their fortunes are given an opportunity to squander it, especially if those fortunes are unearned. It&#x27;s very meritocratic. I hope Las Vegas is filled with the children of billionaires.</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>&quot;Almost all of the clients are men, ranging in age from millennials to 70-year-olds, and they stick around for three to five years before going dark—usually due to bad investments, dips in the economy, or divorce.&quot;<p>This entire article made me sick to my stomach, money can be so terribly corrupting and empty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zazen</author><text>&gt; some of this money will make it into hands of other people, but most of this is just removing value from society.<p>I&#x27;m not an economist, but... surely near-as-anything 100% of this money is going to other people? Some tiny fraction is paid to the electricity company to keep the lights on at the casino, and some tiny faction of <i>that</i> is the cost of the fuel that is literally burned for that purpose. I think basically the same goes for the various luxury consumables the casinos are comping to these guests. The actual cost of the base raw materials that are consumed is going to be tiny (relative to the huge sums being gambled, anyway).<p>Sure it would be <i>better</i> if these gamblers gave their money to science&#x2F;charities instead. If you think you know how to convince them to do so, then go for it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-04/secrets-of-las-vegas-s-exclusive-high-roller-cosmopolitan-sweet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yetihehe</author><text>I think that if they gave those fortunes for something more worthy like progress of science or charities, it would be much more positive for society. Squandering is just spending money on unimportant things, which DO NOT give benefit to society. Yeah, some of this money will make it into hands of other people, but most of this is just removing value from society.</text></item><item><author>mjfl</author><text>I think you&#x27;re looking at it the wrong way. I think it&#x27;s an extremely positive thing for society that people who are dumb enough to squander their fortunes are given an opportunity to squander it, especially if those fortunes are unearned. It&#x27;s very meritocratic. I hope Las Vegas is filled with the children of billionaires.</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>&quot;Almost all of the clients are men, ranging in age from millennials to 70-year-olds, and they stick around for three to five years before going dark—usually due to bad investments, dips in the economy, or divorce.&quot;<p>This entire article made me sick to my stomach, money can be so terribly corrupting and empty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>de_watcher</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s just transferred from one bank to another with some taxes&#x2F;salaries&#x2F;products paid. Nothing has really happened or disappeared. Maybe that second bank got bolder in giving loans for science or whatever.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Squaring two digit numbers in your head</title><url>http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/03/squaring-two-digit-numbers-in-your-head.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Works even better for squares ending in 5 because you'll round up and down to multiples of ten which means the number ends in 00 and you'll always be adding 25.<p>So:<p><pre><code> 35 squared is 4x3 x100 = 12 00 + 25 = 1225
45 squared is 5x4 x100 = 20 00 + 25 = 2025
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When I heard about this trick it was referred to as vedic, hindu or indian math, but I don't know if that's actually historically/geographically accurate or not. There's some Japanese nintendo DS games that aim to train you in it, I think it was a bit of a craze over there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Squaring two digit numbers in your head</title><url>http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/03/squaring-two-digit-numbers-in-your-head.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>In case this observation isn't immediately obvious:<p><pre><code> Observe that 27^2 = 30 x 24 + 3^2
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It's derived from this:<p><pre><code> (x + c)(x - c) = x^2 + cx - cx - c^2
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(I note that the blog explains this later, but I had to stop when I read the observation and work it out for myself on paper - when reading the text, it seemed like this step was missing.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>Sadly, yes, it <i>is</i> the America that America wants, as far as I can tell.<p>I think this is where efforts to fight these problems fall down. They&#x27;re almost all based on the assumption that the populace doesn&#x27;t want this stuff to happen, but that the government pushes it through by abusing power, subverting democracy, etc.<p>But from what I see, this is not the case. Most Americans want this. Whether it&#x27;s gun-wielding maniacs, drug dealers, or international terrorist masterminds, they feel <i>unsafe</i>, and want the government to help. They <i>like</i> heavily-armed SWAT teams available at a moment&#x27;s notice. They <i>like</i> the government spying on every communication they can get their hands on. They <i>like</i> x-ray machines and body scanners in airports.<p>There is a sizable minority where sanity remains, but it is a <i>minority</i>. I think that efforts to fight these problems need to recognize this, and realize that you have to convince the <i>people</i> as your primary action. Fighting the government won&#x27;t help, because the people will insist that these things be done, as long as the majority feels this way.<p>No, I don&#x27;t know how....</text></item><item><author>Ovid</author><text>Is this really the America that America wants?<p>The article mentions one case where a judge refused to issue a search warrant for a narcotics investigation and instead the police brought representatives from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and raided the place with a swat team to conduct an alcohol inspection. What did they find?<p>Two sample bottles of beer that weren&#x27;t labeled as samples and a bottle of vodka in the office. The fourth circuit court of appeals upheld the search. According to the article: <i>So for now, in the Fourth Circuit, sending a SWAT team to make sure a bar’s beer is labeled correctly is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smky80</author><text>They do not &quot;like&quot; it. It&#x27;s just that, to be very blunt, most people are basically peasants at heart. They&#x27;re going to go along with whatever the king says. Twenty years ago, on that side of the line on a map, the people believed in capitalism, while on the other side the people believed in communism. On this side of the line people believed in this god, on that side, they believe in that god.<p>It has nothing to do with some kind economists&#x27; &quot;rational utilization maximization&quot; function and everything to do with basically a &quot;k-nearest neighbours&quot; algorithm on their social graph for assigning beliefs.<p>And that is precisely why control of the media is so important.</text></comment>
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[2] Full commission meeting (item was first on agenda) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fcc.gov&#x2F;events&#x2F;open-commission-meeting-october-2015" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fcc.gov&#x2F;events&#x2F;open-commission-meeting-october-2...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)</title><text>Hacker News -<p>I'm working on a mobile application called MinoMonsters. We are using a Ruby EventMachine backend to track behavior, persist user objects, and handle virtual good transactions.<p>I'm in a very sticky situation. Our user numbers are exploding off the charts and our backend is failing. It's silently crashing without leaving a trace. It's getting into some hard to reproduce states. The situation is not looking good.<p>And I need to get it fixed -tonight-.<p>I am looking for an experienced Ruby dev on a short term contract basis ASAP. I've set aside a budget to make this happen truly ASAP. Deep EventMachine experience is highly preferred, as that's the core source of my issues. San Francisco would be nice, but I'm willing to talk to anyone with the chops to help me fix this.<p>If you know someone who can help, please reach out. If you don't, you can help by sharing this post with someone who might.<p>I can be contacted at [email protected] or by phone (410) 236 - 2894<p>EDIT: This is now resolved! Thanks for your help, HN. You guys are the best.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teej</author><text>Hey guys, thanks a TON for reaching out and helping me get this fixed. Through the efforts of Aman Gupta and my friend Ryan Stout, we were able to track down the source of the problem.<p>I really appreciate your help!<p>I promise to write up a blog post talking about my unique setup and how I fucked it up to lead to this problem.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)</title><text>Hacker News -<p>I'm working on a mobile application called MinoMonsters. We are using a Ruby EventMachine backend to track behavior, persist user objects, and handle virtual good transactions.<p>I'm in a very sticky situation. Our user numbers are exploding off the charts and our backend is failing. It's silently crashing without leaving a trace. It's getting into some hard to reproduce states. The situation is not looking good.<p>And I need to get it fixed -tonight-.<p>I am looking for an experienced Ruby dev on a short term contract basis ASAP. I've set aside a budget to make this happen truly ASAP. Deep EventMachine experience is highly preferred, as that's the core source of my issues. San Francisco would be nice, but I'm willing to talk to anyone with the chops to help me fix this.<p>If you know someone who can help, please reach out. If you don't, you can help by sharing this post with someone who might.<p>I can be contacted at [email protected] or by phone (410) 236 - 2894<p>EDIT: This is now resolved! Thanks for your help, HN. You guys are the best.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>If by 'silent crashes' you mean the process dies leaving no trace in Rubyland you might want deep OS/C++ expertise moreso than Ruby...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gamer beats both Mega Man X and Mega Man X2 using the same controller</title><url>http://todayinawesome.com/blog/2015/5/11/gamer-miraculously-beats-both-mega-man-x-and-mega-man-x2-using-the-same-controller</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdicola</author><text>I think it would be fun to solve multiple Zork games by feeding them all the exact same input. I&#x27;m thinking you&#x27;d need to build a tree of all possible inputs and responses from each game, then try to find a path through the tree that completes each game. It would interesting to see how you&#x27;d probably have to put the player in one game into a &#x27;safe&#x27; room for a time so specific input can be given to another game that moves it forward (while just turning into noise&#x2F;junk in the other game). Would probably need some pretty sophisticated heuristics to help trim down the massive search space of possible commands.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gamer beats both Mega Man X and Mega Man X2 using the same controller</title><url>http://todayinawesome.com/blog/2015/5/11/gamer-miraculously-beats-both-mega-man-x-and-mega-man-x2-using-the-same-controller</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duskwuff</author><text>If you thought that was crazy, here&#x27;s a tool-assisted speedrun of Mega Man 3, 4, 5, and 6 (four games!) all using the same controller input:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LoThCyif9Oc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LoThCyif9Oc</a><p>There are a few similar runs of other game sets on TASVideos:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tasvideos.org&#x2F;Movies-C2020Y.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tasvideos.org&#x2F;Movies-C2020Y.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Introducing .NET IL Linker</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/30</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbevain</author><text>Fun fact, the Mono Linker project started 10 years ago during the second edition of the Google Summer of Code!<p>It was originally used to reshape the entire Mono class library into a subset to expose the Silverlight class library API surface for Moonlight.<p>It was then used to link iOS and Android applications in MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and Xamarin continued to use and improve it.<p>The Mono Linker has an open architecture making it reasonably easy to customize how it processes code , and detect patterns specific to each platform to link them away. Xamarin added linker steps to do more than tree-shaking, and remove dead code inside methods. For instance:<p><pre><code> if (TargetPlatform.Architecture == Architecture.X64) {
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<story><title>Introducing .NET IL Linker</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/30</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blinkingled</author><text>&gt; And, it wouldn&#x27;t be right to announce this linker without a hat tip to Joel Spolsky who we can give the honorary and historical distinction of feature requestor.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2004&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;please-sir-may-i-have-a-linker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2004&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;please-sir-may-i-h...</a> - Joel asked for this in 2004 - Better 13 years late than never!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Martin Luther Insult Generator</title><url>http://ergofabulous.org/luther/?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emkemp</author><text>Naturally I had to introduce Martin Luther to Eliza the Psychotherpist.<p>&quot;Luther: The hellish Satan drives you.<p>Eliza: Why do you say the hellish satan drives me?<p>Luther: You are like a magician who conjures gulden into the mouths of silly people, but when they open their mouths they have horse dirt in them.<p>Eliza: Is it because when they open their mouths they have horse dirt in them that you came to me?<p>Luther: You run against God with the horns of your pride up in the air and thus plunge into the abyss of hell. Woe unto you, Antichrist!<p>Eliza: I would appreciate it if you would watch your tongue!<p>Luther: I was frightened and thought I was dreaming, it was such a thunderclap, such a great horrid fart did you let go here! You certainly pressed with great might to let out such a thunderous fart - it is a wonder that it did not tear your hole and belly apart!<p>Eliza: Does it bother you that it did not tear my hole and belly apart?<p>Luther: Is not what I said before true, that you have eaten and drunk yourself full of devils, and so spew vainglorious devils out of your hellish gorge?<p>Eliza: What do you think?<p>Luther: You reek of nothing but Lucian, and you breathe out on me the vast drunken folly of Epicurus.<p>Eliza: Perhaps you could try to be less abusive.&quot;<p>I stopped there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Martin Luther Insult Generator</title><url>http://ergofabulous.org/luther/?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermel</author><text>Would probably be funnier in the original German version. For example the worldplay &quot;Your Hellishness&quot; instead of &quot;Your Holyness&quot; works better in German (&quot;Eure Hölligkeit&quot; vs &quot;Eure Heiligkeit&quot;).</text></comment>
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<story><title>My year with a distraction-free iPhone</title><url>https://medium.com/@jakek/my-year-with-a-distraction-free-iphone-and-how-to-start-your-own-experiment-6ff74a0e7a50</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gracana</author><text>As someone who owns a dumb flip phone, it&#x27;s funny to read someone&#x27;s enthusiastic account of their life-changing experience of... living exactly the way I do.<p>But on the other hand, I get it. This sort of thing (facebook, hacker news, freaking <i>imgur</i>) sucks up so much of my time (albeit on the desktop), and for what? Occasional interesting tidbits, and frequent annoyance and frustration? Some of it is straight-up bad for me, no way around it, but the amusing little bits keep pulling me back. imgur is the worst one for me... the community is unmoderated and uncoordinated, it&#x27;s a pile of least-common-denominator bs that&#x27;s as bad as anything on reddit ever was, and yet the only way I&#x27;ve been able to break away from it is to block myself from viewing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigkill</author><text>The common factor in all these time-sinks is not the phone, but it&#x27;s the internet. I have a smartphone and although I could definitely live without it, the only thing I&#x27;ve done is disable data. Rather, I&#x27;m too cheap to pay for data. What difference does that make, you ask?<p>One, on messaging, people would use text to contact me or each other if they notice that WhatsApp&#x2F;Talk message hasn&#x27;t reached for a couple of minutes. And a call is very helpful to transmit high density info in short time.<p>Two, I can still use my very nice phone with a large screen to watch videos, read ebooks on the go like if I&#x27;m in a bus or something. The difference here is that these things are not infinity-sinks <i>in my experience</i> - I can go 1 hour or so reading a book on a cellphone but then need to take a break which is when you look up and around. Also, subconsciously, the <i>permanence</i> of the book&#x2F;video prioritizes real world interrupts (in an embedded programming context) rather than blocking them.<p>Then, you always have music that you can copy to the phone and listen to if you don&#x27;t want to put your face to the screen. This enables you to move your head around everywhere and still not be all that bored because you still have that music going on.<p>If I absolutely <i>want</i>, which is almost never, I play games but I find that mobile games are not something that I like so it never comes up at all.<p>But a lot of time, I&#x27;ve just noticed myself looking around, just absorbing the world around me and being in my own thoughts rather than a forced stimulus and I find that relaxing unless I&#x27;m stuck in a very noisy environment in which case the earphone doubles up as a noise blocker.<p>And the general trend I&#x27;ve heard here is that you need to be on email. But work already has wifi and if you&#x27;re at work your computer is right in front of you. Secondly, aren&#x27;t you making a big mistake by configuring work email on your phone?<p>Maybe I&#x27;m the second coming of RMS but I do not install Facebook and Twitter apps on my phone for privacy reasons. Checking at most once everyday seems to be enough for me but I know that&#x27;s not the case with everyone. It seems a lot of plans are made over fb for you guys, which is understandable - we use hangouts and whatsapp over here, but primarily whatsapp. But more importantly, for immediate plans we generally use SMS and phone calls which might be why we&#x27;re not as reliant on facebook. FB is considered more of a public &#x27;show-off&#x27; billboard than a private friend group.<p>So yeah, maybe this was worthy of its own blog-post but my gist here is that turning off the data does wonders. You still get to retain those handy unit converters, two factor authenticators, password wallets and other things that are <i>yours</i> without the Skinner box annoyances of the infinity-sinks.<p>Of course, before someone rants &quot;You don&#x27;t know how important it is to have internet on my phone&quot;, I&#x27;d say you&#x27;re obviously right. However, maybe after reading my post, you realize that it isn&#x27;t all <i>that</i> important then kudos to you. You should atleast try it once before knocking it right? A lot of times we think &quot;It&#x27;s impossible to get through without X&quot; but humans are surprisingly adaptive and can cope without X just fine.<p>I&#x27;m just sharing <i>my</i> experience, hoping that it&#x27;s useful to you.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My year with a distraction-free iPhone</title><url>https://medium.com/@jakek/my-year-with-a-distraction-free-iphone-and-how-to-start-your-own-experiment-6ff74a0e7a50</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gracana</author><text>As someone who owns a dumb flip phone, it&#x27;s funny to read someone&#x27;s enthusiastic account of their life-changing experience of... living exactly the way I do.<p>But on the other hand, I get it. This sort of thing (facebook, hacker news, freaking <i>imgur</i>) sucks up so much of my time (albeit on the desktop), and for what? Occasional interesting tidbits, and frequent annoyance and frustration? Some of it is straight-up bad for me, no way around it, but the amusing little bits keep pulling me back. imgur is the worst one for me... the community is unmoderated and uncoordinated, it&#x27;s a pile of least-common-denominator bs that&#x27;s as bad as anything on reddit ever was, and yet the only way I&#x27;ve been able to break away from it is to block myself from viewing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggreer</author><text>A stripped-down smartphone has quite a few advantages over a dumbphone. Notice which apps are installed: Google Maps, subway maps, Rdio, Uber, Instacart. As he says, these things are like living in the future.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/09/768665411/changing-your-diet-can-help-tamp-down-depression-boost-mood</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technothrasher</author><text>I dunno for me. I try to eat healthy and keep my weight down, but I&#x27;m happiest when I&#x27;m eating poorly. I get kind of run down and depressed when it&#x27;s meal after meal of veggies and chicken, or just small portions of whatever. A pizza and a soda, or a huge steak and garlic mashed potatoes will lift my mood quickly. Then it&#x27;s very hard to go back to healthy again. There&#x27;s no question eating healthy helps my physical wellbeing though, so I do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>H1Supreme</author><text>Replace chicken with steak? In my experience, it&#x27;s not necessarily the perceived healthiness of foods (chicken == healthy, steak == unhealthy), it&#x27;s the carbohydrate amounts.<p>When I was in my 20&#x27;s, I was relatively &quot;hard core&quot; about lifting weights and training. I weighed every meal, brought my own meals to cookouts, estimated macros as best I could. I was pretty obsessed with it all. As a result, I tried every diet out there, multiple times.<p>What I keep coming back to is low carb. By that I mean: Tons of broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower, zucchini, nuts (almonds and pecans primarily), fish, and beef. Plus, hard cheeses like Parmesan and Romano.<p>It&#x27;s not hard to make these meals delicous. And, interestingly enough, I get &quot;run down and depressed&quot; when I don&#x27;t eat this way. It&#x27;s weird to admit that I crave vegetables like I would a piece of pizza. But, if we go out of town for a few days, and eat out a lot, I completely do.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/09/768665411/changing-your-diet-can-help-tamp-down-depression-boost-mood</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technothrasher</author><text>I dunno for me. I try to eat healthy and keep my weight down, but I&#x27;m happiest when I&#x27;m eating poorly. I get kind of run down and depressed when it&#x27;s meal after meal of veggies and chicken, or just small portions of whatever. A pizza and a soda, or a huge steak and garlic mashed potatoes will lift my mood quickly. Then it&#x27;s very hard to go back to healthy again. There&#x27;s no question eating healthy helps my physical wellbeing though, so I do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awinder</author><text>Big, big fat disclaimer — not a doctor, not a nutritionist, but I am actively enrolled in the school of hard knocks.<p>Soda specifically is going to give you a nice big dose of sugars which your brain is just going to love. But what you’re also doing is kinda training your brain — well when I had that massive pure sugar dose I felt great, now I’m eating chicken and veggies, and wtf where’s the feel-good rush?<p>There’s nothing really wrong with that either if you’re at peace and doing as you’re doing, eating a holistically healthy diet. But I do wonder in audience with clinical depression — if those people might be gravitating towards foods that offer quick pick-me-ups that make them feel like themselves finally, but overall make their depression worse especially when the effect is quickly wears off</text></comment>
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<story><title>Who makes the most reliable new cars?</title><url>https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>Replacing old style headlight bulbs with LEDs in housings not designed for them is an increasing problem too, making driving at night often something that is best done with a pair of sunglasses.</text></item><item><author>vondur</author><text>People drive horrible now. Running lights, crazy lane changes, excessive speeding etc. Here in the US is started during the pandemic and hasn’t improved.</text></item><item><author>yaomtc</author><text>&gt; car safety has drastically improved<p>Safety between cars, and within cars, has improved. However, due to the increasing size of the average vehicle on the road, among other factors, car safety for pedestrians&#x2F;cyclists has decreased.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;1184034017&#x2F;us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;1184034017&#x2F;us-pedestrian-deat...</a></text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>My 3rd Gen Toyota 4Runner is old enough to drink and outside of routine maintenance requires almost no thought.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s time to get a new car&quot; given that car safety has drastically improved and I have two younger kids in that thing a few times a week but I&#x27;m honestly having a really hard time giving it up, something so reliable and plainly functional.<p>New cars with all their computers and smart technology only look like expensive repairs to me, whereas if something breaks (again, rare!) on my extremely mechanical 4Runner, it&#x27;s almost always something simple and relatively cheap.<p>Glad to see Yodas at the top of this list though, when mine finally kicks the bucket, will confidently get another one I suppose.<p>One of my favorite Onion articles: &quot;Toyota Recalls 1993 Camry Due To Fact That Owners Really Should Have Bought Something New By Now&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;toyota-recalls-1993-camry-due-to-fact-that-owners-reall-1819577805" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;toyota-recalls-1993-camry-due-to-fa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wimp</author><text>I cannot see the road safely at night anymore, so I avoid driving at night entirely.<p>Complete failure of government to regulate and enforce headlight position and brightness.<p>Since I don’t drive an 8ft tall truck with permanent high beams, I eventually got forced off the road.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Who makes the most reliable new cars?</title><url>https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>Replacing old style headlight bulbs with LEDs in housings not designed for them is an increasing problem too, making driving at night often something that is best done with a pair of sunglasses.</text></item><item><author>vondur</author><text>People drive horrible now. Running lights, crazy lane changes, excessive speeding etc. Here in the US is started during the pandemic and hasn’t improved.</text></item><item><author>yaomtc</author><text>&gt; car safety has drastically improved<p>Safety between cars, and within cars, has improved. However, due to the increasing size of the average vehicle on the road, among other factors, car safety for pedestrians&#x2F;cyclists has decreased.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;1184034017&#x2F;us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;1184034017&#x2F;us-pedestrian-deat...</a></text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>My 3rd Gen Toyota 4Runner is old enough to drink and outside of routine maintenance requires almost no thought.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s time to get a new car&quot; given that car safety has drastically improved and I have two younger kids in that thing a few times a week but I&#x27;m honestly having a really hard time giving it up, something so reliable and plainly functional.<p>New cars with all their computers and smart technology only look like expensive repairs to me, whereas if something breaks (again, rare!) on my extremely mechanical 4Runner, it&#x27;s almost always something simple and relatively cheap.<p>Glad to see Yodas at the top of this list though, when mine finally kicks the bucket, will confidently get another one I suppose.<p>One of my favorite Onion articles: &quot;Toyota Recalls 1993 Camry Due To Fact That Owners Really Should Have Bought Something New By Now&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;toyota-recalls-1993-camry-due-to-fact-that-owners-reall-1819577805" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;toyota-recalls-1993-camry-due-to-fa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rectang</author><text>I flash my headlights at cars whose lights are too blinding, under the assumption that the driver accidentally left their brights on.<p>If I’m wrong and their lights are always like that, my assumption is that they would appreciate someone letting them know anyway. If it happens a lot, maybe they’ll figure it out and correct their embarrassing problem.<p>And if they’ve jerks who know they’re blinding others but just don’t care (or savor it) oh well they should still hear about it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve</title><text>Is there a line of research that looks into solving difficult &#x2F; intractable problems by finding a mapping that expresses them as different problems that we know how to solve?<p>A fairly surreal and probably overly optimistic example would be, for example, to solve traveling salesman problems using chess engines. What we would need is to find right mappings:
(1) from a traveling salesman problem to a chess position and,
(2) from a traveling salesman route to a chess move (or move sequence)<p>A general solution for a &quot;compiler&quot; that can translate between any pair of problems feels unrealistic but I can imagine developing a mapping between, say, a tic tac toe game and simple chess positions where you could:
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(3) translate the solution into a tic tac toe sequence<p>Any thoughts or pointers to relevant research would be much appreciated!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>That’s called Mathematics. For example, most NP-complete problems we know of were proven to be NP-complete by showing them to be no easier than some other problems we know to be NP-complete. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NP-completeness#NP-complete_problems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NP-completeness#NP-complete_pr...</a>:<p><i>“The easiest way to prove that some new problem is NP-complete is first to prove that it is in NP, and then to reduce some known NP-complete problem to it”</i><p>As a second example, in combinatorial game theory, the Sprague–Grundy theorem states<p><i>“every impartial game under the normal play convention is equivalent to a one-heap game of nim, or to an infinite generalization of nim. It can therefore be represented as a natural number, the size of the heap in its equivalent game of nim, as an ordinal number in the infinite generalization”</i><p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sprague–Grundy_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sprague–Grundy_theorem</a>)<p>That means that, presented with an impartial game (both players can make the same moves, so chess is ruled out because white can’t move black pieces and vice versa) under the normal play convention (last player who can make a move wins), mathematicians look for a way to translate game positions to nimbers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimber" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimber</a>) in order to learn how to play them.<p>Doing such mappings, if not trivial, requires creativity, so I think research on the subject would be in the psychology department.<p>Polya, in “How to Solve it” has some discussion on this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinwang</author><text>Good answer. Seems like a relevant time to post an old math joke:<p>There were two men trying to decide what to do for a living. They went to see a counselor, and he decided that they had good problem solving skills.<p>He tried a test to narrow the area of specialty. He put each man in a room with a stove, a bucket of water, and an empty pot on the stove. He said, “Boil some water in the pot.” Both men filled the pot with water from the bucket and turned on the burner to boil the water.<p>Next, he put them into a room with a stove, a bucket of water, and a pot full of water on the stove. Again, he said, “Boil the water in the pot.” The first man immediately turned on the burner. The counselor told him to be an Engineer. The second man emptied the pot and proudly said that now the problem is reduced to the previously solved problem. The counselor told him to be a mathematician.<p>This version from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidmarcus.com&#x2F;Humor&#x2F;MathJokes.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidmarcus.com&#x2F;Humor&#x2F;MathJokes.htm</a> and other versions at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.utah.edu&#x2F;~cherk&#x2F;mathjokes.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.utah.edu&#x2F;~cherk&#x2F;mathjokes.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve</title><text>Is there a line of research that looks into solving difficult &#x2F; intractable problems by finding a mapping that expresses them as different problems that we know how to solve?<p>A fairly surreal and probably overly optimistic example would be, for example, to solve traveling salesman problems using chess engines. What we would need is to find right mappings:
(1) from a traveling salesman problem to a chess position and,
(2) from a traveling salesman route to a chess move (or move sequence)<p>A general solution for a &quot;compiler&quot; that can translate between any pair of problems feels unrealistic but I can imagine developing a mapping between, say, a tic tac toe game and simple chess positions where you could:
(1) translate a tic tac toe position into a chess position
(2) solve the chess position
(3) translate the solution into a tic tac toe sequence<p>Any thoughts or pointers to relevant research would be much appreciated!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>That’s called Mathematics. For example, most NP-complete problems we know of were proven to be NP-complete by showing them to be no easier than some other problems we know to be NP-complete. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NP-completeness#NP-complete_problems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NP-completeness#NP-complete_pr...</a>:<p><i>“The easiest way to prove that some new problem is NP-complete is first to prove that it is in NP, and then to reduce some known NP-complete problem to it”</i><p>As a second example, in combinatorial game theory, the Sprague–Grundy theorem states<p><i>“every impartial game under the normal play convention is equivalent to a one-heap game of nim, or to an infinite generalization of nim. It can therefore be represented as a natural number, the size of the heap in its equivalent game of nim, as an ordinal number in the infinite generalization”</i><p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sprague–Grundy_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sprague–Grundy_theorem</a>)<p>That means that, presented with an impartial game (both players can make the same moves, so chess is ruled out because white can’t move black pieces and vice versa) under the normal play convention (last player who can make a move wins), mathematicians look for a way to translate game positions to nimbers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimber" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimber</a>) in order to learn how to play them.<p>Doing such mappings, if not trivial, requires creativity, so I think research on the subject would be in the psychology department.<p>Polya, in “How to Solve it” has some discussion on this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>Reply to self: of course, the prime example is counting. If you have five breads, you can sell three, and have two breads left after that.<p>Similarly, If you have five apples, you can sell three, and have two apples left after that.<p>You didn’t have to learn separate addition tables for breads, apples, etc.<p>Instead you learned that all such problems essentially are the same, and you learned how to manipulate the equivalence classes of those (which are called <i>5</i>, <i>3</i>, and <i>2</i>)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/kidfluencers-rampant-youtube-marketing-creates-minefield-for-google</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I used to use YouTube Kids for a bit with my kids. I always kept an eye on what they chose, but I&#x27;d let them choose (even if just to see how it would play out). After a while I watched my kids choose merch focused videos and a lot of very low quality sort of inane stuff that shows up on there. I&#x27;d block them but the app really doesn&#x27;t let you block them, there are always more.<p>You also can&#x27;t just white list things in the Youtube Kids app. There&#x27;s straight up no option to be able to affirmatively choose what your kids get to pick from.<p>So now YouTube is just straight forbidden unless I&#x27;m picking the videos and that effectively means my kids don&#x27;t see it at all outside of when I have a fun video to share... and even then I&#x27;m wary of what YouTube might suggest what to watch next...<p>With YouTube it feels like no matter what you do you&#x27;re in a very sketchy neighborhood where there might be a good house here, but maybe some hell hole next door that Youtube is more than happy to send you to... It occurs to me that while I loved the promise of an internet that offered all aspects of humanity, on a site to site basis, I don&#x27;t think I want that, even for just me.<p>So now we&#x27;re back to the PBS Kids Videos app as the only route my kids get to independently pick what they watch. I&#x27;m pretty much done with YouTube for now as far as my kids go just due to the rabbit holes of terrible things on there, and the one time they take a shot at kid friendly stuff, it&#x27;s really doesn&#x27;t empower me as a parent.<p>I&#x27;m really enjoying Odd Squad.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/kidfluencers-rampant-youtube-marketing-creates-minefield-for-google</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supernova87a</author><text>Let&#x27;s be clear about all this, and where the problem arises from.<p>Use case #1. If Youtube only allowed people to upload videos (whether for a fee, or no charge) and share them with people they know, there would be no issue. You send videos to your friends.<p>Use case #2. If Youtube allowed advertisers to create videos and share those links via channels they control or purchase (e.g. paying a fee per view), there would be no issue. Companies you know market to you by video.<p>The <i>self-created</i> problem that Youtube has is that it wants to make money by charging for showing category #2 to those in category #1 who didn&#x27;t ask for it.<p>Youtube &#x2F; Google could choose not to have this problem tomorrow by not selling ads, recommending random videos to people, etc.<p>It&#x27;s their obligation to figure out this problem, and totally up to them how to solve it. It&#x27;s not some social or government problem to fix.</text></comment>
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<story><title>1 million nights booked at Airbnb (YC W09)</title><url>http://blog.airbnb.com/airbnb-celebrates-1000000-nights-booked</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ben1040</author><text>Glad to see a lot of people were able to book rooms there. I wasn't, but not for lack of trying.<p>I wish they would offer hosts more flexible controls for showing availability (and make sure hosts use them) so that people don't try to book places only to get negative responses from hosts who don't know if it'll be available at the time and to check back later. I was trying to book a place in SF for Google I/O and got a lot of responses saying that May is too far out for them to say for sure. It got pretty frustrating.<p>I don't have a place to host so I can't see what the controls exactly look like right now, but from browsing available properties it looks like the default case is that the place shows up as "available" unless there's an Airbnb booking in effect for a given date or the owner explicitly has blocked it out.<p>Given my experience searching for places, it'd be nicer if hosts had the option to say things like "don't show as available further out than X time into the future" or "default as unavailable except on specific days."</text></comment>
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<story><title>1 million nights booked at Airbnb (YC W09)</title><url>http://blog.airbnb.com/airbnb-celebrates-1000000-nights-booked</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>For perspective, a single large Vegas hotel books that many nights each year. (For instance, Mandalay Bay has 3300 rooms.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed</title><url>https://legiblenews.com/speed</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on building &quot;the fastest news website&quot; for a few reasons:<p>1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines.<p>2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript.<p>3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc.<p>I put together the speed page at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed</a> to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it&#x27;s also interesting to see how fast other news websites are (or in most cases, are not).<p>Some feedback I&#x27;m interested in receiving:<p>1. What&#x27;s your take both on the speed ranking methodology for Legible News?<p>2. Are my descriptions of the metrics for a non-web developer reasonable? Example of that at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;websites&#x2F;associated-press" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;websites&#x2F;associated-press</a>, and if you click through the links on that table, you see a description like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;audits&#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;audits&#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift</a><p>Sorry ahead of time, but I can&#x27;t fit all news websites on the speed report. I had to target general news websites, not ones for specific niches like HN for Tech. If there&#x27;s something you think that&#x27;s missing please post it, but I can&#x27;t promise that I&#x27;ll add it.<p>If you like it, please consider subscribing! Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ysavir</author><text>&gt; Regarding, &quot;not enough&quot;, I&#x27;m currently losing money on Legible News, so if I increased the amount, I&#x27;d lose even more money. For now I consider a 10% donation generous given the current unit economics. I may raise prices to offset these loses, but I&#x27;ll grandfather in people who subscribe today.<p>This feels in very bad taste to me. As another user pointed out, these articles are being authored and maintained by volunteers, who are donating their time and effort to make information accessible to people. Instead of joining them in that pro-bono effort, you&#x27;re trying to leverage their work to your own profits. Yes, it requires some up-front work from you to format the articles, but it&#x27;s a one time cost while the authors are continuously working. And sure, you have to pay for hosting costs, but then you could still run it as a non-profit that only recoups costs and donates the rest to Wikipedia.<p>If you want to make a business out of this, I&#x27;d suggest investing in having people author some original articles. But taking someone else&#x27;s volunteer work for your own gain is not something I will support. Not wanting to invest your own time and money to make your project work long-term doesn&#x27;t justify using other people&#x27;s time and efforts to make your project work long term.<p>If there&#x27;s any part of your data pipeline that I misunderstand and rectifies the situation, I&#x27;d be happy to have my understanding fixed.</text></item><item><author>bradgessler</author><text>Yes! The news content and links from them are from Wikipedia, which is why I donate a portion of revenue to them. The value I&#x27;m delivering is speed and focus, going further than Wikipedia, hence your observations from the page speed score. The design of their pages is quite busy and some articles actually take a really long time to load when they&#x27;re re-built from scratch and not served up from a cache.<p>Regarding, &quot;not enough&quot;, I&#x27;m currently losing money on Legible News, so if I increased the amount, I&#x27;d lose even more money. For now I consider a 10% donation generous given the current unit economics. I may raise prices to offset these loses, but I&#x27;ll grandfather in people who subscribe today.<p>If Legible News reaches a large enough scale I&#x27;ll consider switching from the current donation model to a Wikimedia enterprise subscription (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enterprise.wikimedia.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enterprise.wikimedia.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a>) or hiring my own editorial staff to put together the days headlines.<p>---<p>Edit: Oops, there&#x27;s a bug on the news articles that are not displaying the license. If you want to see what this should look like, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Mekelle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Mekelle</a> and scroll to the bottom and click on &quot;License&quot;.<p>Fixing this now for news articles.<p>---<p>Update: Licenses are now working for news pages. You can see today&#x27;s at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;june-27-2022&#x2F;license" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;june-27-2022&#x2F;license</a>. This broke navigation at the bottom, which I&#x27;m now fixing.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Nice idea on legiblenews.com, however it looks to me like it&#x27;s just using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events</a> and changing the format? All the articles are from there, verbatim, and you are exactly copying the list of articles - even the categorisation of them.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that a 10% donation to Wikipedia from subscription revenue is quite enough when you are doing quite a simple reformat of all the volunteer work that goes into the current events section of Wikipedia.<p>You are effectively changing $9.99 for a weekly email digest of the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events</a> page and giving them $1. I think if you went 50&#x2F;50 on it I would probably feel it was more fair, you are adding value but I assume thats all automated.<p>I will give you credit for your 100 score, that page on wikipedia gets an 86 on page speed insights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colonwqbang</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why you would feel that way. Under Wikipedia&#x27;s license:<p>&gt; You are free to:<p>&gt; Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format<p>&gt; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.<p>This seems like exactly the kind of behaviour they want to encourage. It&#x27;s not taking anything away from the project, just adding another way to consume the information for those who choose to.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed</title><url>https://legiblenews.com/speed</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on building &quot;the fastest news website&quot; for a few reasons:<p>1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines.<p>2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript.<p>3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc.<p>I put together the speed page at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed</a> to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it&#x27;s also interesting to see how fast other news websites are (or in most cases, are not).<p>Some feedback I&#x27;m interested in receiving:<p>1. What&#x27;s your take both on the speed ranking methodology for Legible News?<p>2. Are my descriptions of the metrics for a non-web developer reasonable? Example of that at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;websites&#x2F;associated-press" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;websites&#x2F;associated-press</a>, and if you click through the links on that table, you see a description like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;audits&#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;audits&#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift</a><p>Sorry ahead of time, but I can&#x27;t fit all news websites on the speed report. I had to target general news websites, not ones for specific niches like HN for Tech. If there&#x27;s something you think that&#x27;s missing please post it, but I can&#x27;t promise that I&#x27;ll add it.<p>If you like it, please consider subscribing! Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ysavir</author><text>&gt; Regarding, &quot;not enough&quot;, I&#x27;m currently losing money on Legible News, so if I increased the amount, I&#x27;d lose even more money. For now I consider a 10% donation generous given the current unit economics. I may raise prices to offset these loses, but I&#x27;ll grandfather in people who subscribe today.<p>This feels in very bad taste to me. As another user pointed out, these articles are being authored and maintained by volunteers, who are donating their time and effort to make information accessible to people. Instead of joining them in that pro-bono effort, you&#x27;re trying to leverage their work to your own profits. Yes, it requires some up-front work from you to format the articles, but it&#x27;s a one time cost while the authors are continuously working. And sure, you have to pay for hosting costs, but then you could still run it as a non-profit that only recoups costs and donates the rest to Wikipedia.<p>If you want to make a business out of this, I&#x27;d suggest investing in having people author some original articles. But taking someone else&#x27;s volunteer work for your own gain is not something I will support. Not wanting to invest your own time and money to make your project work long-term doesn&#x27;t justify using other people&#x27;s time and efforts to make your project work long term.<p>If there&#x27;s any part of your data pipeline that I misunderstand and rectifies the situation, I&#x27;d be happy to have my understanding fixed.</text></item><item><author>bradgessler</author><text>Yes! The news content and links from them are from Wikipedia, which is why I donate a portion of revenue to them. The value I&#x27;m delivering is speed and focus, going further than Wikipedia, hence your observations from the page speed score. The design of their pages is quite busy and some articles actually take a really long time to load when they&#x27;re re-built from scratch and not served up from a cache.<p>Regarding, &quot;not enough&quot;, I&#x27;m currently losing money on Legible News, so if I increased the amount, I&#x27;d lose even more money. For now I consider a 10% donation generous given the current unit economics. I may raise prices to offset these loses, but I&#x27;ll grandfather in people who subscribe today.<p>If Legible News reaches a large enough scale I&#x27;ll consider switching from the current donation model to a Wikimedia enterprise subscription (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enterprise.wikimedia.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enterprise.wikimedia.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a>) or hiring my own editorial staff to put together the days headlines.<p>---<p>Edit: Oops, there&#x27;s a bug on the news articles that are not displaying the license. If you want to see what this should look like, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Mekelle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Mekelle</a> and scroll to the bottom and click on &quot;License&quot;.<p>Fixing this now for news articles.<p>---<p>Update: Licenses are now working for news pages. You can see today&#x27;s at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;june-27-2022&#x2F;license" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;june-27-2022&#x2F;license</a>. This broke navigation at the bottom, which I&#x27;m now fixing.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Nice idea on legiblenews.com, however it looks to me like it&#x27;s just using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events</a> and changing the format? All the articles are from there, verbatim, and you are exactly copying the list of articles - even the categorisation of them.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that a 10% donation to Wikipedia from subscription revenue is quite enough when you are doing quite a simple reformat of all the volunteer work that goes into the current events section of Wikipedia.<p>You are effectively changing $9.99 for a weekly email digest of the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Portal:Current_events</a> page and giving them $1. I think if you went 50&#x2F;50 on it I would probably feel it was more fair, you are adding value but I assume thats all automated.<p>I will give you credit for your 100 score, that page on wikipedia gets an 86 on page speed insights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradgessler</author><text>I occasionally make edits to the structure of the original content, but given my limited resources, which is a fraction of my personal time, that&#x27;s all I can do. In the future if this brings in more revenue I will consider donating more to Wikimedia, hiring editorial staff to contribute back to CurrentEvents, or purchasing a Wikimedia Enterprise subscription.<p>I do want to acknowledge and be upfront that I won&#x27;t be able to satisfy everybody&#x27;s level of fairness, taste, etc, but this is currently what is sustainable for me given the amount of time and resources I have available to put into this project. Some will think this is done in very bad taste, like yourself, and others won&#x27;t. That&#x27;s fine! I accept constructive or thoughtful critiques and will reflect on them in the future as things change.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles</title><url>http://lwn.net/Articles/540368/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rurounijones</author><text>I would love to see a more in depth article about what kind of programming you need to do for a system controlling a rocket.<p>I remember reading that they cannot use exceptions and have to handle every possible scenario. Part of me wonders how much of the source code is just error handling.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles</title><url>http://lwn.net/Articles/540368/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>speeder</author><text>Very interesting to see how game development affects space research...<p>Granted, this might explain Richard Garriot fiddling with space companies, and John Carmack manufacturing space engines!<p>If I was rich I would do space research too!<p>Also, I must be a software engineer, since I don't like Justin Bieber either.</text></comment>
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<story><title>82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding</title><url>https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olingern</author><text>I just moved to Japan, and it&#x27;s fascinating that connotations (including my previous) with Japan are &quot;High tech, futuristic, efficient&quot; when in reality it is, &quot;slow moving, traditional, and (frequently) inefficient.&quot; I can comment more as to why &#x2F; how.<p>This woman is not only fighting cultural norms of the _world_, but also Japan. Software engineering, in general, lags so far behind the rest of the world, save robotics. It&#x27;s starting to change, and I&#x27;m glad that people like Wakamiya-san are preventing the creation of a &#x27;conventional software engineer&#x27;. Seriously, the field needs more role models like Grace Hopper to idolize rather than our current trend of Jobs, Gates, Woz, Knuth, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cup-of-tea</author><text>&gt; Seriously, the field needs more role models like Grace Hopper to idolize rather than our current trend of Jobs, Gates, Woz, Knuth, etc.<p>How about not idolising anyone? Those role models you list are each admired for completely different reasons. What&#x27;s wrong with them? At the moment your comment seems sexist.</text></comment>
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<story><title>82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding</title><url>https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olingern</author><text>I just moved to Japan, and it&#x27;s fascinating that connotations (including my previous) with Japan are &quot;High tech, futuristic, efficient&quot; when in reality it is, &quot;slow moving, traditional, and (frequently) inefficient.&quot; I can comment more as to why &#x2F; how.<p>This woman is not only fighting cultural norms of the _world_, but also Japan. Software engineering, in general, lags so far behind the rest of the world, save robotics. It&#x27;s starting to change, and I&#x27;m glad that people like Wakamiya-san are preventing the creation of a &#x27;conventional software engineer&#x27;. Seriously, the field needs more role models like Grace Hopper to idolize rather than our current trend of Jobs, Gates, Woz, Knuth, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdrothrock</author><text>&gt; when in reality it is, &quot;slow moving, traditional, and (frequently) inefficient.&quot;<p>Since you just moved here, I would also consider the &quot;whys&quot; of those problems you see. Approaches are probably different from what you&#x27;re used to elsewhere, but that doesn&#x27;t necessarily make them inefficient or bad -- just different from what you&#x27;re used to.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”</title><url>https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2022/04/noam-chomsky-were-approaching-the-most-dangerous-point-in-human-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TaupeRanger</author><text>You&#x27;re just flat wrong about the Khmer apologist thing...a common attempt at character assassination by anti-Chomsky fanatics with no relevance at all to the subject at hand.<p>Chomsky didn&#x27;t say it was written down or announced. But there&#x27;s no argument here - Baker simply DID say that there would be no eastward movement. It&#x27;s not even remotely controversial.</text></item><item><author>clarionbell</author><text>I didn&#x27;t expect anything from Chomsky (notorious Khmer Rogue apologist) and he didn&#x27;t disappoint:<p>&gt;“What about Nato expansion? There was an explicit, unambiguous promise by [US secretary of state] James Baker and president George HW Bush to Gorbachev that if he agreed to allow a unified Germany to rejoin Nato, the US would ensure that there would be no move one inch to the east. There’s a good deal of lying going on about this now.”<p>No such promise was made, ever, it was floated but it was never written down in any treaty or even publicly announced. It&#x27;s putins propaganda and if Chomsky had any shame he would be ashamed for parroting it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qsort</author><text>It&#x27;s completely irrelevant that a promise was or wasn&#x27;t made. NATO is a defensive alliance whose members join voluntarily, we don&#x27;t go around planting flags with the Safari icon by right of conquest.<p>Hinting at a moral equivalence -- because let&#x27;s be honest, that&#x27;s what&#x27;s happening here -- between Russian expansion and NATO &quot;expansion&quot; is at the very least intellectually dishonest.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”</title><url>https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2022/04/noam-chomsky-were-approaching-the-most-dangerous-point-in-human-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TaupeRanger</author><text>You&#x27;re just flat wrong about the Khmer apologist thing...a common attempt at character assassination by anti-Chomsky fanatics with no relevance at all to the subject at hand.<p>Chomsky didn&#x27;t say it was written down or announced. But there&#x27;s no argument here - Baker simply DID say that there would be no eastward movement. It&#x27;s not even remotely controversial.</text></item><item><author>clarionbell</author><text>I didn&#x27;t expect anything from Chomsky (notorious Khmer Rogue apologist) and he didn&#x27;t disappoint:<p>&gt;“What about Nato expansion? There was an explicit, unambiguous promise by [US secretary of state] James Baker and president George HW Bush to Gorbachev that if he agreed to allow a unified Germany to rejoin Nato, the US would ensure that there would be no move one inch to the east. There’s a good deal of lying going on about this now.”<p>No such promise was made, ever, it was floated but it was never written down in any treaty or even publicly announced. It&#x27;s putins propaganda and if Chomsky had any shame he would be ashamed for parroting it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the &quot;character assassination&quot; argument is tenable. Chomksy later condemned the Khmer Rouge, long after it was politically relevant, but he was indeed an apologist for it during its era in power, and he hasn&#x27;t (to my knowledge?) acknowledged having done so.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20010915014621&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zmag.org&#x2F;zmag&#x2F;articles&#x2F;chombookrev.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20010915014621&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zmag.o...</a><p>This is hard to read knowing what actually happened.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Are you nice or kind?</title><url>https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/42-are-you-nice-or-kind</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reggieband</author><text>&gt; Stand at a flight of stairs in the NYC subway with a stroller. Someone will grab the other end, help you carry the stroller, and then walk away without saying a word.<p>This is one of my enduring memories of NYC as I saw this precisely play out first hand. A tiny woman with a massive stroller arrived at the base of the stairs and the guy walking in front of her glanced back then gave the slightest nod before reaching down and grabbing the front axle. She overhead pressed the stroller handles, they climbed a couple of flights and at the top of the stairs he put his end down. Not a word exchanged, not even a thanks, they just went their separate ways. It was so smooth, almost choreographed, I don&#x27;t believe the woman even broke stride.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MetallicCloud</author><text>We had a similar experience when living in NY with two small children. People would always offer to help, but one time in particular a woman grabbed the front of the stroller and started helping me down the subway stairs, then she looked back and said &quot;Could you please go faster, I&#x27;m running late&quot;. She was in no obligation to help us in the first place. We got to the bottom and she ran off to a train.<p>I found New Yorkers are always happy to lend a hand when needed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Are you nice or kind?</title><url>https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/42-are-you-nice-or-kind</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reggieband</author><text>&gt; Stand at a flight of stairs in the NYC subway with a stroller. Someone will grab the other end, help you carry the stroller, and then walk away without saying a word.<p>This is one of my enduring memories of NYC as I saw this precisely play out first hand. A tiny woman with a massive stroller arrived at the base of the stairs and the guy walking in front of her glanced back then gave the slightest nod before reaching down and grabbing the front axle. She overhead pressed the stroller handles, they climbed a couple of flights and at the top of the stairs he put his end down. Not a word exchanged, not even a thanks, they just went their separate ways. It was so smooth, almost choreographed, I don&#x27;t believe the woman even broke stride.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prmph</author><text>Wow, something very similar happened to me when I first came to America to study from Ghana and landed in NYC. Struggling with my luggage up a flight of stairs from the subway station, a young lady grabbed the other end of my heaviest bag, helped me up with it, and left without saying a word.<p>Cool to hear this is not uncommon. This incident is indeed also one of my most enduring memories of NYC.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/08/06/how-shrinkflation-is-playing-havoc-with-economists-models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chewz</author><text>Shrinking portions is the simplest way. The other is replacing products.<p>Say supermarket bakery introduces new bread with seasame seeds only 25¢ more. Then slowly there is only new seasame seeds bread on shelves and regular bread becomes rare. Later seasame seeds is slowly dispearing from bread and voila - you have made regular bread 25¢ more expensive.<p>The other way is lowering quality of products. Inflation basket still contains basic bread, tomatoes and plain sausage. The problem is that the quality of these products tanked and to buy a bread of a quality of simple bread from 40 years ago you must shop in some premium, organic, hipsters bakery where it costs 10 times more then simple bread. Same goes for tomatoes and sausage.<p>And electric drills or washing maschines? Don&#x27;t get me started. Today&#x27;s Bosch electric drill lasts one building season, my fathers Bosch electric drill lasted 35 years. Price is the same or lower but you get way less for it.<p>But the inflation headline number stays low. And that matters as you can keep wages low (many pensions are inflation indexed). And as people used to say under communism -&quot;Bread is more expensive but locomotives got cheaper&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/08/06/how-shrinkflation-is-playing-havoc-with-economists-models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hnarn</author><text>In Sweden, &quot;jämförelsepris&quot; (comparison price) is mandatory for many goods. This means stores have to, in addition to price, display &quot;price per gram&quot; or whatever unit makes sense.<p>This way, you can quickly compare different groceries despite differing packages, and shrinking the item for the same price would be visible when looking at the comparison price.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Joel on Software: Anecdotes</title><url>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/18.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DaniFong</author><text>The book review is impressively hypocritical. She ruthlessly disdains Malcolm Gladwell's use of selectively chosen biographical examples and anecdotal evidence, and then proceeds to selectively cherry-pick examples, to optimally infuriate politically correct sensibilities. She then lampoons him for incompleteness.<p>She mentions only one of the many larger studies that he cites, the Terman study. Was the Terman study wide ranging? Yes. Does it fit Gladwell's hypothesis that the opportunities one is offered matter? Yes. Does she show it to be incorrect? No. Does she attack any part of it? No. Does she mention any of the other studies that Gladwell mentions? That major hockey players are nearly all born in the first three months of the year? Ericsson's studies on expertise? Flynn's analysis on historic chinatowns? No!<p>If I present a theory, and back it up with a bunch of other data points, one should not be able to pick out a single data point, claim that I am basing my loose hypothesis on anecdotal evidence, and say I am irresponsible. This is what is being done.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Joel on Software: Anecdotes</title><url>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/18.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>A lot of essays are extrapolated anecdotes. It's not an intrinsically evil form. You just have to do it right.</text></comment>
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<story><title>African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone</title><url>https://m.dw.com/en/african-leaders-launch-landmark-55-nation-trade-zone/a-49503393</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>&gt; The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) is a trade agreement which is in force between 24 African Union member states,[1][8][9][10] with the goal of creating a single market followed by free movement and a single-currency union.<p>Wikipedia says they are also looking to create an Africa currency.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;African_Continental_Free_Trade_Agreement?wprov=sfti1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;African_Continental_Free_Tra...</a><p>It seems the news today is Nigeria (the biggest African country) signing it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wsc981</author><text>Ghadaffi wanted to create an African currency as well [0]. I wonder if the African countries will now succeed. I feel it will definitely be in their interest as it seems currently France has control over African monetary policy [1] which (I feel) could still be considered some form of colonialism.<p>---<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@evantaxi&#x2F;6-years-ago-today-the-us-helped-murder-gaddafi-to-stop-the-creation-of-gold-backed-currency-275c2c57509c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@evantaxi&#x2F;6-years-ago-today-the-us-helped...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theeastafrican.co.ke&#x2F;news&#x2F;africa&#x2F;CFA-franc-France-Africa-controversy&#x2F;4552902-4950882-r08s4t&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theeastafrican.co.ke&#x2F;news&#x2F;africa&#x2F;CFA-franc-Franc...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone</title><url>https://m.dw.com/en/african-leaders-launch-landmark-55-nation-trade-zone/a-49503393</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>&gt; The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) is a trade agreement which is in force between 24 African Union member states,[1][8][9][10] with the goal of creating a single market followed by free movement and a single-currency union.<p>Wikipedia says they are also looking to create an Africa currency.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;African_Continental_Free_Trade_Agreement?wprov=sfti1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;African_Continental_Free_Tra...</a><p>It seems the news today is Nigeria (the biggest African country) signing it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>With the threat of a US company like Facebook coming in and taking over their economy, I can see why.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How the JVM compares strings on x86 using pcmpestri</title><url>http://jcdav.is/2016/09/01/How-the-JVM-compares-your-strings/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lvh</author><text>The JVM has a number of cool features that enable you to efficiently drop down into C (FFI) yourself: these tricks aren&#x27;t just for built-ins.<p>A quick overview:<p>- First there was JNI. JNI means that you write method stubs with the &quot;native&quot; keyword. Then you run javah, which gives you some C glue code that you eventually need to compile. This is very fast, but it&#x27;s annoying because now you need a tool chain everywhere. The Python equivalent of this is roughly writing CPython extensions.<p>- People thought JNI was annoying, so Sun developed JNA. JNA lets you bind a library directly: all the magic comes with the JVM, and you can just dlopen something and call some syms. This works fine, but it&#x27;s very slow. The Python equivalent of this is roughly ctypes.<p>- Most recently, there&#x27;s JNR and jnr-ffi. They do a very clever trick: you use JNI to get to libffi, and then you use libffi to call everything else performantly. You get roughly the performance of JNI, with the convenience of JNR. The Python equivalent of this is roughly cffi.<p>JNR is way more usable than I thought it would be. I develop caesium[0], a Clojure libsodium binding, using jnr-ffi and a pile of macros. I gave a talk about this at Clojure Conj (recording [1], slides [2]) if you&#x27;re interested.<p>To be fair: this code uses intrinsics, which means that it&#x27;s implemented differently than the three methods shown above, so it&#x27;s still slightly different. It&#x27;s just not different in a way that&#x27;s meaningful to you unless you&#x27;re working on the JVM itself :)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lvh&#x2F;caesium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lvh&#x2F;caesium</a>
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<story><title>How the JVM compares strings on x86 using pcmpestri</title><url>http://jcdav.is/2016/09/01/How-the-JVM-compares-your-strings/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>One thing I learned about pcmpxstrx is that it&#x27;s surprisingly slow: latency of 10-11 cycles and reciprocal throughput of 3-5 cycles on Haswell according to Agner&#x27;s tables, depending on the precise instruction variant. The instructions are also limited in the ALU ports they can use. Since AVX2 has made SIMD on x86 fairly flexible, it can sometimes not be worth using the string comparison instructions if simpler instructions suffice: even a slightly longer sequence of simpler SIMD instructions sometimes beats a single string compare.<p>The SSE 4.2 string comparison instructions still have their uses, but it&#x27;s always worth testing alternate instruction sequences when optimizing code that might use them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I'm an addict</title><url>https://tarunreddy.bearblog.dev/addict/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Do you have an alternative &quot;point of life&quot;?<p>Is it career? If so, that&#x27;s pretty depressing. Happiness is a superficial emotion. If your loved one was &quot;happy&quot; spending his entire life playing fortnight in his parent&#x27;s basement, would you be sad for him? Charity?<p>I don&#x27;t know. Never found a meaning as compelling as having children.</text></item><item><author>tonguez</author><text>so life’s greatest winner is genghis khan</text></item><item><author>sizzle</author><text>I mean from a purely evolutionary perspective, the point of life is to pass on your genes to your offspring, so having kids would be winning at this game we call life…</text></item><item><author>alex_suzuki</author><text>I would strongly argue against having kids as a solution for <i>any</i> of life‘s problems.
Kids are an incredibly demanding venture and can exacerbate existing problems.
Speaking from experience here.</text></item><item><author>katzgrau</author><text>They&#x27;re just cliche ideas for how to fill the time. Anyone one who tries to break an addiction suddenly finds themselves with a lot of free time they don&#x27;t know how to fill.<p>But on that note, have multiple kids AND get a pet. You&#x27;ll never have a free minute again.</text></item><item><author>supernihil</author><text>I dont like the idea of replacing the time spend compulsively procrastinating with &quot;learning a new language, getting a pet, going to the gym&quot; is the right way.<p>I see the root cause (for me atleast (used to read HN and blogs for 4 hours everyday)) is that i cant stand being with myself.<p>During the last two months ive been trying to not panic when i&#x27;m idle. And not take out my phone or read the nearest material i can lay my hands on.<p>Instead i try to accept the necesity of &quot;falde i staver&quot; (danish for &#x27;falling out of presence&#x27;). When i was a kid i would often just fall into this state and just defocus with my sight and let daydreaming take over.<p>Basically i have a war going against effectiveness. I hold unto my right as a mammal to be inefficient and sit drooling looking at trees.<p>My advice on &quot;doing something&quot; when you have day without plans is the following:
Bike in the forrest, coffee from thermos near the ocean, read newspapers at the library, talk to people at trainstations (the frequent hangouts are always open for conversations)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derangedHorse</author><text>&gt;Happiness is a superficial emotion<p>A google definition of superficial is &quot;appearing to be true or real only until examined more closely.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t see how the definition of a type of emotion can be &quot;superficial&quot;. Presumably your usage of &quot;happy&quot; in quotes is not actually happiness if you decided to put it in quotes. If you meant it as him actually being happy then <i>someone</i> could decide to be sad for him but that has nothing to do with <i>his</i> own happiness. Instead it would just be someone arrogantly projecting their own sensibilities and worldview onto the fortnite player while thinking they know better sources of happiness (when really the causes are subjective and every person derives varying levels of joy in different ways).<p>Making kids a &quot;point of life&quot; can itself be seen as a last ditch effort to be happy. The thought that there&#x27;s some purpose in life that points to procreating is arbitrarily chosen and is seemingly that way because people derive happiness from some idea of having a legacy or finding comfort in interpreting the potential continuous spread of dna as some proxy for immortality</text></comment>
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Kids are an incredibly demanding venture and can exacerbate existing problems.
Speaking from experience here.</text></item><item><author>katzgrau</author><text>They&#x27;re just cliche ideas for how to fill the time. Anyone one who tries to break an addiction suddenly finds themselves with a lot of free time they don&#x27;t know how to fill.<p>But on that note, have multiple kids AND get a pet. You&#x27;ll never have a free minute again.</text></item><item><author>supernihil</author><text>I dont like the idea of replacing the time spend compulsively procrastinating with &quot;learning a new language, getting a pet, going to the gym&quot; is the right way.<p>I see the root cause (for me atleast (used to read HN and blogs for 4 hours everyday)) is that i cant stand being with myself.<p>During the last two months ive been trying to not panic when i&#x27;m idle. And not take out my phone or read the nearest material i can lay my hands on.<p>Instead i try to accept the necesity of &quot;falde i staver&quot; (danish for &#x27;falling out of presence&#x27;). When i was a kid i would often just fall into this state and just defocus with my sight and let daydreaming take over.<p>Basically i have a war going against effectiveness. I hold unto my right as a mammal to be inefficient and sit drooling looking at trees.<p>My advice on &quot;doing something&quot; when you have day without plans is the following:
Bike in the forrest, coffee from thermos near the ocean, read newspapers at the library, talk to people at trainstations (the frequent hangouts are always open for conversations)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawayboise</author><text>Why does there have to be a point? Just go with it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bulbhv/my_macbook_pro_exploded_and_burst_into_flames/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_cujo</author><text>&gt;the 2018 one I have right now since they can&#x27;t be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered.<p>I&#x27;m going a little offtopic, but I cannot believe this. I haven&#x27;t owned a Mac since having a 2010 MBP (which I loved dearly for 6 years), but I cannot imagine owning a laptop that doesn&#x27;t allow me to switch the internal drive. It was annoying enough with all of the screws on the 2010 model.<p>I&#x27;m sure there is some justification is for this beyond &quot;we want you to buy a new one if something goes wrong&quot;, but I&#x27;m coming up blank.</text></item><item><author>ben7799</author><text>This started to happen to mine at work too. Luckily I got it down to IT before it started on fire.<p>They took the hard drive out. Opening the case released pressure on the swelling battery. As soon as it was open the battery started swelling faster. The case could never have been closed again. The whole enclosure bent like a soda can. I should have figured out earlier what was going on. The first sign was the computer started to seem wobbly if you stuck it on the desk and typed on the internal KB. I thought the little rubber feet on the bottom were worn, in actuality it was the case starting to deform. What finally figured it out for me was the swelling started to make the keyboard stop functioning properly. Some keys were stuck.<p>It got stuffed in a bag and run over to the Apple store (which is only about 200 yards away).<p>Never heard a word about it again, they threw my HDD in another MBP and I was off and running with almost no downtime.<p>Of course that was like a 2013 MBP, that would not happen with the 2018 one I have right now since they can&#x27;t be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jolmg</author><text>A little more off-topic but my work laptop is a Panasonic toughbook (CF-C2), and I was impressed to find that I could swap-out the storage drive with my bare hands (no tool!). That was pretty cool. You just unlock the tray holding the drive, pull it, unplug the drive from it, plug the new one in, and push the tray back in. Super simple.<p>The arguments around why laptops are becoming less and less modular are usually that having mechanisms to attach and detach these parts take space, and so if people want thinner and thinner laptops, they need to remove these mechanisms. Personally, though, I can&#x27;t see why I&#x27;d want a thinner laptop. The toughbook is thick, even by pre-ultrabook standards, but it&#x27;s still very, very comfortable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bulbhv/my_macbook_pro_exploded_and_burst_into_flames/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_cujo</author><text>&gt;the 2018 one I have right now since they can&#x27;t be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered.<p>I&#x27;m going a little offtopic, but I cannot believe this. I haven&#x27;t owned a Mac since having a 2010 MBP (which I loved dearly for 6 years), but I cannot imagine owning a laptop that doesn&#x27;t allow me to switch the internal drive. It was annoying enough with all of the screws on the 2010 model.<p>I&#x27;m sure there is some justification is for this beyond &quot;we want you to buy a new one if something goes wrong&quot;, but I&#x27;m coming up blank.</text></item><item><author>ben7799</author><text>This started to happen to mine at work too. Luckily I got it down to IT before it started on fire.<p>They took the hard drive out. Opening the case released pressure on the swelling battery. As soon as it was open the battery started swelling faster. The case could never have been closed again. The whole enclosure bent like a soda can. I should have figured out earlier what was going on. The first sign was the computer started to seem wobbly if you stuck it on the desk and typed on the internal KB. I thought the little rubber feet on the bottom were worn, in actuality it was the case starting to deform. What finally figured it out for me was the swelling started to make the keyboard stop functioning properly. Some keys were stuck.<p>It got stuffed in a bag and run over to the Apple store (which is only about 200 yards away).<p>Never heard a word about it again, they threw my HDD in another MBP and I was off and running with almost no downtime.<p>Of course that was like a 2013 MBP, that would not happen with the 2018 one I have right now since they can&#x27;t be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>This is a key factor for me not getting a mac. Not so much that I couldn&#x27;t swap the hard drive, but that I couldn&#x27;t recover data if the motherboard goes bad.<p>And the keyboard.</text></comment>
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<story><title>301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/301-redirects-a-dangerous-one-way-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>The problem with 301 without cache headers is that some browsers cache this forever due to some interpretation what &#x27;permanent&#x27; means.<p>You often can&#x27;t use 302 because all your external links no longer work SEO magic for you with a 302. Google only transfers link juice with 301 [1].<p>If you make a mistake and misconfigure your server, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a disgruntled employee 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a service provider misconfigures your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a hacker (from a competitor) 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If you buy a domain that had a 301 on it, it&#x27;s worthless.<p>If you buy a domain that had 301s on it that point to phishing sites, you&#x27;re in trouble.<p>I always add cache headers to 301 redirects I use to at least prevent me from shooting myself with an arrow in my knee.<p>UPDATE:
[1] Google seems to have changed this recently. It also no longer considers http&#x2F;https different pages as it did in the past with the same content <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;google-confirms-no-loss-in-link-authority-on-https-implementation&#x2F;147933&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;google-confirms-no-loss-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zrm</author><text>Not only that, anybody with a WiFi Pineapple or any other MITM could 301 redirect anything you visit without HTTPS to their spam site.<p>It seems like browsers interpreting permanent as <i>forever</i> is some kind of a bug. Even if that&#x27;s literally what it says, that&#x27;s not what anybody wants. What great evil is being prevented by not having it expire and be refreshed after 45 days?</text></comment>
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<story><title>301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/301-redirects-a-dangerous-one-way-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>The problem with 301 without cache headers is that some browsers cache this forever due to some interpretation what &#x27;permanent&#x27; means.<p>You often can&#x27;t use 302 because all your external links no longer work SEO magic for you with a 302. Google only transfers link juice with 301 [1].<p>If you make a mistake and misconfigure your server, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a disgruntled employee 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a service provider misconfigures your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a hacker (from a competitor) 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If you buy a domain that had a 301 on it, it&#x27;s worthless.<p>If you buy a domain that had 301s on it that point to phishing sites, you&#x27;re in trouble.<p>I always add cache headers to 301 redirects I use to at least prevent me from shooting myself with an arrow in my knee.<p>UPDATE:
[1] Google seems to have changed this recently. It also no longer considers http&#x2F;https different pages as it did in the past with the same content <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;google-confirms-no-loss-in-link-authority-on-https-implementation&#x2F;147933&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;google-confirms-no-loss-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maaaats</author><text>&gt; <i>If a hacker (from a competitor) 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.</i><p>Reminds me of the guy that &quot;got hold&quot; of Google&#x27;s domain for a few minutes. What if something similar happened and someone were able to make this redirect? Millions would be affected.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How credit cards make money</title><url>https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/how-credit-cards-make-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teej</author><text>&gt; It’s often forgotten, but prior to credit cards, many Main Street retailers like e.g. pharmacies maintained hundreds or thousands of credit accounts for customers individually, necessitating their own back offices, accounting, and collections headache.<p>This article is a great history of how the modern credit card came into being <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;1994&#x2F;11&#x2F;04&#x2F;the-day-the-credit-card-was-born&#x2F;d42da27b-0437-4a67-b753-bf9b440ad6dc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;19...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conductr</author><text>My great grandfather owned a grocery store in our town somewhere around 1940s-1970s (the only one at the time). Town was much smaller then but about 200,000 people now (edit: I looked it up, it went from about 10K people to 200K since 1940). My last name is somewhat unique in spelling and it was called &quot;$LASTNAME Grocery&quot; so I still occasionally* get a random old timer that asks me if I&#x27;m related to him. When I say yes, they always respond similar &quot;Great man. A lot of people would have starved if he didn&#x27;t offer credit.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s a particularly interesting twist to the story that I really always enjoyed. When the person I&#x27;m talking to is a POC, typically black, they always also mention that he was the only person in town that gave their family credit for anything. This is small town Texas, still very conservative and still above 75% white as is&#x2F;was my family.<p>Sorry for the tangent but the discussion made me think of this mildly interesting story.<p>* Has dwindled quite a lot in last decade or so. Because of the time, those folks that remember the store are losing numbers (but also I haven&#x27;t lived there in a while either)</text></comment>
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<story><title>How credit cards make money</title><url>https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/how-credit-cards-make-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teej</author><text>&gt; It’s often forgotten, but prior to credit cards, many Main Street retailers like e.g. pharmacies maintained hundreds or thousands of credit accounts for customers individually, necessitating their own back offices, accounting, and collections headache.<p>This article is a great history of how the modern credit card came into being <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;1994&#x2F;11&#x2F;04&#x2F;the-day-the-credit-card-was-born&#x2F;d42da27b-0437-4a67-b753-bf9b440ad6dc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;19...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amichal</author><text>Our local small town cafe did this up until COVID... via a big three ring binder. You could run either a credit or debt as long as it was close and a couple of families i know would do this so their kids could stop and get snacks without cash.</text></comment>
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<story><title>You're barely managing</title><url>https://barely-managing.bearblog.dev/youre-barely-managing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>&gt; <i>How many managers do you know who studied to be managers of people?</i><p>&gt; <i>I mean more than a couple of one-day courses; I mean someone who studied to be a manager the way someone studied to be a software engineer or doctor.</i><p>&gt; <i>I personally don’t know anyone, and while those degrees definitely exist, it’s got me wondering: of the total managers in the world, how many of them have those qualifications? Is it even 1%?</i><p>...<p>&gt; <i>This series will provide my personal guidance on both how to be a manager and how to do the job of managing people.</i><p>&gt; <i>You do not need to read this entire thing A-Z like a tome, but instead I encourage you to casually work through the core articles (they will be highlighted) and then jump around to any others that catch your interest.</i><p>This is incredibly frustrating. I have read <i>countless</i> peoples&#x27; opinions on management, with perspectives ranging from analytical measurement to pop-psy, but none of them has offered me, in the end, more credibility as a manager.<p>According to the opening statement here, none of that even counts as &quot;study&quot;, and the solution it offers is ... reading this blog. Casually.<p>It&#x27;s self-selecting for an audience of people who have already read lots of blogs about management, telling them that reading blogs doesn&#x27;t count, and then offering another blog to read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angarg12</author><text>The vast majority of literature in management (definitely in the tech sector) is essentially a long form opinion of a single person.<p>I personally only started to take more seriously the writing of people who a) have been managing for a long while successfully, and b) regularly sync up with other managers so that their pieces aren&#x27;t a sample size of 1.</text></comment>
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<story><title>You're barely managing</title><url>https://barely-managing.bearblog.dev/youre-barely-managing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>&gt; <i>How many managers do you know who studied to be managers of people?</i><p>&gt; <i>I mean more than a couple of one-day courses; I mean someone who studied to be a manager the way someone studied to be a software engineer or doctor.</i><p>&gt; <i>I personally don’t know anyone, and while those degrees definitely exist, it’s got me wondering: of the total managers in the world, how many of them have those qualifications? Is it even 1%?</i><p>...<p>&gt; <i>This series will provide my personal guidance on both how to be a manager and how to do the job of managing people.</i><p>&gt; <i>You do not need to read this entire thing A-Z like a tome, but instead I encourage you to casually work through the core articles (they will be highlighted) and then jump around to any others that catch your interest.</i><p>This is incredibly frustrating. I have read <i>countless</i> peoples&#x27; opinions on management, with perspectives ranging from analytical measurement to pop-psy, but none of them has offered me, in the end, more credibility as a manager.<p>According to the opening statement here, none of that even counts as &quot;study&quot;, and the solution it offers is ... reading this blog. Casually.<p>It&#x27;s self-selecting for an audience of people who have already read lots of blogs about management, telling them that reading blogs doesn&#x27;t count, and then offering another blog to read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PH95VuimJjqBqy</author><text>management is a lifetime of experience and they themselves often don&#x27;t entirely understand what they&#x27;re doing.<p>My favorite manager of all time just left me alone and believed everything I told him when communicating back to the business. It was never clear to me if that was on purpose (he trusted me) or if he was just a lazy ass.<p>And I don&#x27;t care, I loved working for that man. But if you were to ask him to lay out what makes him such a great manager he&#x27;d never be able to do it.<p>These types of bloggers are exactly the people you don&#x27;t want to be taking management advice from, they have an ulterior motive other than being great managers. They want to *sound* like great managers, not actually be great managers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/print/15044/the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-3960x-and-3970x-review-24-and-32-cores-on-7nm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dnautics</author><text>Is avx512 an advantage really? Iirc the machine has to go into another mode where processing across the board becomes slower except for the avx instructions, which to me seems only useful for niche hpc &quot;measuring contest&quot; applications.</text></item><item><author>bitL</author><text>The only advantages are AVX512 and optimized Intel compiler&#x2F;libraries now.</text></item><item><author>shantara</author><text>The biggest indicator of the success of AMD Threadripper line to me is that Intel has been forced to cut the price of their newly released i9-10980XE CPU by $1000 compared to i9-9980XE while maintaining practically indistinguishable performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robocat</author><text>AVX on Intel can have unobvious performance degradation: a single AVX512 instruction runs at ¼ speed[1] until the core downclocks, and it stays downclocked for 2ms (severely affecting mixed loads). The downclock apparently takes 500us[2] (edit: fact check? This seems unbelievable), and the CPU is idle until it restabilises.<p>If AMD have made different choices about AVX implementation, then benchmarking becomes difficult.<p>Intel benchmarks for sustained AVX512 load (HPC measuring contests) cannot be used to extrapolate for normal mixed loads (single or or short bursts of AVX512 instructions).<p>Edit: are there better links on the true costs of AVX512?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemire.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;avx-512-when-and-how-to-use-these-new-instructions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemire.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;avx-512-when-and-how-to-us...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21031905" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21031905</a><p>Also see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequency-scaling&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/print/15044/the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-3960x-and-3970x-review-24-and-32-cores-on-7nm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dnautics</author><text>Is avx512 an advantage really? Iirc the machine has to go into another mode where processing across the board becomes slower except for the avx instructions, which to me seems only useful for niche hpc &quot;measuring contest&quot; applications.</text></item><item><author>bitL</author><text>The only advantages are AVX512 and optimized Intel compiler&#x2F;libraries now.</text></item><item><author>shantara</author><text>The biggest indicator of the success of AMD Threadripper line to me is that Intel has been forced to cut the price of their newly released i9-10980XE CPU by $1000 compared to i9-9980XE while maintaining practically indistinguishable performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crote</author><text>From a developer perspective, yes. If you&#x27;re manually writing AVX intrinsics instead of just relying on the compiler, AVX512 is quite exciting due to the added mask registers, allowing you to exclude certain elements of your vector from the operation.
You can archieve this in AVX2, but it&#x27;s quite painful.<p>Example:
Let&#x27;s say that, for whatever reason, you have a vector struct containing 3 doubles, and another 64 bits of arbitrary data. Now, if you want to add those vectors together, keeping the arbitrary data of one element, that&#x27;s quite difficult to do with AVX2. In AVX512, you can just set the bits of the mask to zero to exclude them from the operation, making it trivial.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)</title><url>https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vbtemp</author><text>I mean, what the hell is with all this 60-90 hours per week stuff going on? Am I an incredibly defective human being or something - I cannot even fathom working anything even CLOSE to that (in software&#x2F;tech, maybe if you&#x27;re in med school or work an an ER I can see it). There is no way in hell I could ever even be close to productive for that period of time for more than, say, one week a year or something (and even then I&#x27;d need weeks to recover). I&#x27;d guess I&#x27;d ask everyone, &quot;Really?&quot;. When you work those kind of hours, are you _actually_ doing value-adding or value-optimizing things, or just engaging in work theater?<p>I&#x27;ve found the most incredible thing is just to say &quot;no&quot; to things. Not doing things has this fantastic side effect of not causing more work. When you don&#x27;t do more things, you don&#x27;t cause more problems, which doesn&#x27;t need more work, which doesn&#x27;t need more staff, which doesn&#x27;t require more money, which gives you less stress, and gives you happier staff, happier customers, and a happier self.<p>I wonder if I&#x27;ve totally lost my marbles if this kind of thing only makes sense to myself...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>I used to occasionally worked 80+ hours at a time in my younger days, during a period where I was working for an oil services company, building tooling for migrating different business systems to SAP.<p>The company has several locations across the globe, and each was using something different to be migrated to SAP. One time I flew to Brazil to build SAP integration tooling for the local division of the company - 3 flights over 20 hours (all in economy), and I was expected to go straight to the office on arrival. I then worked feverishly, drinking gallons of local coffee to sustain me. Everyone else was doing the same. We ended up making some bad decisions (I think because we were all so tired), and at one point I totally lost my shit with the Brazilian project lead, coming close to getting violent. I&#x27;m absolutely not a violent person, but that amount of sleep deprivation, pressure and caffeine are not a good combination.<p>I&#x27;d do this for 2-3 weeks at a time, and feel completely fried at the end of each stint.<p>I simply couldn&#x27;t do that anymore, but I&#x27;m also convinced it was a false economy - if we&#x27;d just worked normal hours without all the pressure from above, we could have achieved the same result, without all the mess along the way.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)</title><url>https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vbtemp</author><text>I mean, what the hell is with all this 60-90 hours per week stuff going on? Am I an incredibly defective human being or something - I cannot even fathom working anything even CLOSE to that (in software&#x2F;tech, maybe if you&#x27;re in med school or work an an ER I can see it). There is no way in hell I could ever even be close to productive for that period of time for more than, say, one week a year or something (and even then I&#x27;d need weeks to recover). I&#x27;d guess I&#x27;d ask everyone, &quot;Really?&quot;. When you work those kind of hours, are you _actually_ doing value-adding or value-optimizing things, or just engaging in work theater?<p>I&#x27;ve found the most incredible thing is just to say &quot;no&quot; to things. Not doing things has this fantastic side effect of not causing more work. When you don&#x27;t do more things, you don&#x27;t cause more problems, which doesn&#x27;t need more work, which doesn&#x27;t need more staff, which doesn&#x27;t require more money, which gives you less stress, and gives you happier staff, happier customers, and a happier self.<p>I wonder if I&#x27;ve totally lost my marbles if this kind of thing only makes sense to myself...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjrbrennan</author><text>&gt; just engaging in work theater<p>I do not have firsthand experience at this, but from my understanding being a salaryman in Japan means staying in the office until the boss leaves. It does not matter if you are producing value or not in that time, it is more about appearance and company loyalty.<p>I agree with you 100%...I think the most I&#x27;ve ever worked in a week was probably in the 50-60 hour range and that was one of the worst experiences of my life. I cannot fathom doing 90 hours for SEVERAL YEARS without wanting to drive into oncoming traffic.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to ask good questions</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Having suffered severely from impostor syndrome for a few years, I caught myself asking a lot of really useless advanced questions that made me feel&#x2F;look smart, and ignore the simpler but useful questions.<p>I was afraid that I would spill the beans on being a fraud who had no idea what he was doing, so I&#x27;d pretend that of course we&#x27;ll use library X to write algorithm Y, but then bring up unnecessary complexity about implementation details.<p>One significant transition I made as I started to feel valuable and deserving of my position was to stop asking stupid questions and start asking simple questions.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to ask good questions</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>&gt; <i>Do some research</i><p>To me, doing research is the lowest hanging fruit with the highest return on investment. From a journalism context, I push students to hit LexisNexis and Google hard before they do interviews. Whenever a student complains that they don&#x27;t have any interesting questions to ask, or the subject had nothing interesting to say, almost always the problem could have been mitigated with pre-interview research.<p>The benefits of doing research for interviewing:<p>- You can learn the boilerplate of the subject, which serves the dual purpose of making you more nimble in interpreting the context of responses and saves you from wasting valuable question time of basic info (&quot;So when did you start directing, Mr. Tarantino?)<p>- You can learn the current or ongoing controversies of a subject, from which almost all interesting questions arise.<p>- You find other interesting people to interview.<p>When your questions are derived from research, you save time by cutting through the boilerplate and any bullshit that might be offered as a response. Furthermore, there&#x27;s an unquantifiable benefit in increasing <i>respect</i> -- that is, your subject will give you more serious, thoughtful answers because they see that you&#x27;ve put serious, thoughtful effort into understanding them.<p>You can gain this rapport if you&#x27;re in a position of authority, or have the chance of multiple interviews. But in cases where you&#x27;re just another possibly-threatening interrogator, doing your research is an easy and accessible way of increasing your authority, and thus, the quality of answers you receive. It can more than make up for in-person skills, depending on the situation and subject.<p>Edit: the OP suggests not being so strict on Gogling-before-asking, because she likes to ask basic questions during casual conversation, like over lunch&#x2F;coffee. I think you can have your cake and eat it too. Sometimes I&#x27;ll ask questions that I already know the answer to, as an icebreaker. But again, this requires research for the domain knowledge. Ideally, you want your icebreaker questions to be one that you anticipate the person is enthusiastic to answer. While they&#x27;re saying what you think they&#x27;ll say, you can spend that time gauging the person&#x27;s mood and think of segues into other lines of questioning. Of course, once in awhile, they&#x27;ll respond to your softball basic question with something that you didn&#x27;t expect...and that in itself leads to potential insights.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Notch puts 0x10c on ice</title><url>http://www.usgamer.net/articles/notch-puts-0x10c-on-icecommunity-heats-things-up-by-going-diy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marvin</author><text>Yep. Look no further than the top comment on Hacker News to find a dismissive comment that explains exactly why the case in question is very half-assed.<p>You guys should really give Notch a break. He&#x27;s a human like everyone else. It must be incredibly hard to work under the pressure of 100,000 derisive hackers that will use every opportunity to point out why he is inadequate. My reaction on this story is rather to call him up and go have a beer and relax somewhere. That&#x27;s what you do when someone fails a project. You don&#x27;t start pointing out all his previous flaws and explaining why his effort was doomed in the first place. That&#x27;s antisocial. Can you imagine saying something like this to his face? Can you imagine someone saying this to <i>your</i> face?</text></item><item><author>rndmize</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t surprise me at all. To be blunt, Notch&#x27;s work has continually been very... half-assed.<p>I first felt this when I played Minecraft; with successive patches and new added elements, it always felt as if Notch had had an idea, and gone to implement it, and then never bothered to flesh it out or work out the kinks. The Nether and portal system was pretty sorry at release, with basically nothing to do in the nether; rails and carts were always minimal given the possibilities as well as having various non-obvious mechanics that were somewhat frustrating; and so on. I feel you can really see this with the help of the modding community, where often a poorly implemented idea like villages or what not is decently fleshed out by someone who had a strong interest in it.<p>After Notch stopped working on Minecraft, and even before, there was talk of Scrolls, and the suit with Bethesda; after some time, that sorta fell by the wayside, was eventually handed off to the rest of Mojang, and Notch went to work on 0x10c. And now that, too, has been left in incomplete form.<p>I dunno whether its a matter of expectations, where the massive fan responses he gets damages his creativity, or if he just loses interest in projects (I have no lack of half-completed works laying around myself) but at this point I&#x27;d rather hear about a new project when its close to completion or released, rather than as he develops it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vor_</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree with your call for sympathy, because Notch is the one who advertised Minecraft on 4chan and Reddit and sold early access to betas. He&#x27;s the one who advertised 0x10c as a followup.<p>His work ethic has been criticized in the past because features introduced in one version of Minecraft would be abandoned by the next and remain incomplete. Bugs would remain unfixed for long stretches of time. There wasn&#x27;t a public bug tracker (if there was any at all), so users had to list bugs themselves on a fan wiki page.<p>To claim that criticm is &quot;antisocial&quot; and that we should instead treat him as a best friend to have a beer with is an odd notion. Unless Notch is your personal friend, he is just a programmer working at a company, and the only relationship you have with him is as a customer. If you sell something, get used to criticism.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Notch puts 0x10c on ice</title><url>http://www.usgamer.net/articles/notch-puts-0x10c-on-icecommunity-heats-things-up-by-going-diy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marvin</author><text>Yep. Look no further than the top comment on Hacker News to find a dismissive comment that explains exactly why the case in question is very half-assed.<p>You guys should really give Notch a break. He&#x27;s a human like everyone else. It must be incredibly hard to work under the pressure of 100,000 derisive hackers that will use every opportunity to point out why he is inadequate. My reaction on this story is rather to call him up and go have a beer and relax somewhere. That&#x27;s what you do when someone fails a project. You don&#x27;t start pointing out all his previous flaws and explaining why his effort was doomed in the first place. That&#x27;s antisocial. Can you imagine saying something like this to his face? Can you imagine someone saying this to <i>your</i> face?</text></item><item><author>rndmize</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t surprise me at all. To be blunt, Notch&#x27;s work has continually been very... half-assed.<p>I first felt this when I played Minecraft; with successive patches and new added elements, it always felt as if Notch had had an idea, and gone to implement it, and then never bothered to flesh it out or work out the kinks. The Nether and portal system was pretty sorry at release, with basically nothing to do in the nether; rails and carts were always minimal given the possibilities as well as having various non-obvious mechanics that were somewhat frustrating; and so on. I feel you can really see this with the help of the modding community, where often a poorly implemented idea like villages or what not is decently fleshed out by someone who had a strong interest in it.<p>After Notch stopped working on Minecraft, and even before, there was talk of Scrolls, and the suit with Bethesda; after some time, that sorta fell by the wayside, was eventually handed off to the rest of Mojang, and Notch went to work on 0x10c. And now that, too, has been left in incomplete form.<p>I dunno whether its a matter of expectations, where the massive fan responses he gets damages his creativity, or if he just loses interest in projects (I have no lack of half-completed works laying around myself) but at this point I&#x27;d rather hear about a new project when its close to completion or released, rather than as he develops it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criley2</author><text>Jeb has done much better work than Notch maintaining the project. Minecraft has been better since Notch left his role in active development, and very few players&#x2F;mod-developers would argue that point.<p>He doesn&#x27;t have to be a whiz programmer with iron dedication. He just had to have the smarts to <i>hire</i> one to take over the project. Which he did.</text></comment>
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<story><title>GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, easy online transactions</title><url>https://taler.net/en/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>helen___keller</author><text>I read about Taler a few years back, and I&#x27;m excited to see that it is still under development.<p>In my opinion, for those of us who aren&#x27;t anti-government, Taler represents an ethical future of digital spending:<p>It is interoperable, so unlike our current Visa situation, the free market should be able to bid down payment fees to a fair rate. It&#x27;s insane to me that Visa and Mastercard have basically positioned themselves as exclusive middlemen on the vast majority of digital transactions, in an age when so much commerce necessarily is digital.<p>It offers privacy that Visa &#x2F; PayPal &#x2F; etc cannot.<p>It makes income traceable in a way that bitcoin does not, to facilitate lawful taxation.<p>It is inherently scalable in a way that bitcoin arguably is not (bitcoin has offchain scaling mechanisms, sure, but if you&#x27;re being honest it&#x27;s a stretch)<p>It&#x27;s not introducing a new currency or coin that will be endlessly speculated on, unlike most every crypto solution out there (even stablecoins rely on eth or others for transaction fees)</text></comment>
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<story><title>GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, easy online transactions</title><url>https://taler.net/en/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dbrgn</author><text>Here are the core principles behind Taler: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taler.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;principles.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taler.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;principles.html</a><p>Note: Taler is not a cryptocurrency. It&#x27;s an electronic payment system.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-releases-new-raid-footage-captured-by-in-house-cctv-130613/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>I remember reading somewhere that the policemen in the raid did not know what were going on, or even who the target was. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they thought they were taking down a terrorist cell, given that the personal used was the counter-terrorism special tactics Group.<p>Reading the Wikipedia article about the task force, their job is in dealing with high risk situations involving armed offenders and possible terrorism related events. They also train with New Zealand Special Air Service Commandos. In that context, the raid makes much more sense in how it was conducted, with silencers, helicopters, dogs and 20-30+ personal. The real question then comes to who in the command structure decided to use such group for serving a warrant, and collecting evidence for an assisting copyright infringement case. Given the nature of the crime, the low threat level (admitted in court), this is rather uniquely in history. One might also wonder how much influence the FBI had in the decision.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-releases-new-raid-footage-captured-by-in-house-cctv-130613/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Peroni</author><text>Regardless of your stance on the entire Mega issue, no-one can deny that the raid is simply terrifying.<p>Personally I have no clue how they justified such a heavily armed response particularly considering the fact that Dotcom never posed a physical threat to anyone let alone the fact that there were a number of children in the building at the time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603045/mr-robot-killed-the-hollywood-hacker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craigyk</author><text>No, humans as batteries was a stupid plot device. Still a neat movie, but instantly disqualified as a classic because of that unforced error.</text></item><item><author>darkarmani</author><text>&gt; This started before Mr. Robot. Think Tron: Legacy.<p>Think The Matrix: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U</a><p>Using nmap to find a vulnerable ssh server for the SSH CRC32 attack.</text></item><item><author>bitwize</author><text>Hackers killed the Hollywood hacker. (Hackers as in people, not <i>Hackers</i> the film.) Dominic Sena, in his director&#x27;s commentary for <i>Swordfish</i>, stated that the people who were likely to complain about the inaccuracy of the hacking shown in his movie were nerds who ultimately didn&#x27;t matter. In this era where the internet response can make or break a film or TV show, the nerds <i>do</i> matter and directors go the extra mile to please them. This started before <i>Mr. Robot</i>. Think <i>Tron: Legacy</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>It actually wasn&#x27;t stupid. As implied in the sequels, the &quot;real world&quot; either worked differently than our world, or was another level in the simulation itself, since Neo was able to stop the machines using some sort of magic ability. So perhaps humans contained some special force or other essence that the machines harvested.<p>Even without that, batteries are a store of energy, not a source, and perhaps the machines had discovered some unknown laws of nature that involved intelligent biological creatures being the only way to store or transform some sort of energy currently unknown to man. That is no more or less far fetched than the machines and ships using some sort of antigravity capabilities to fly.<p>There are plenty of ways to explain the technology in the matrix that isn&#x27;t completely ridiculous.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603045/mr-robot-killed-the-hollywood-hacker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craigyk</author><text>No, humans as batteries was a stupid plot device. Still a neat movie, but instantly disqualified as a classic because of that unforced error.</text></item><item><author>darkarmani</author><text>&gt; This started before Mr. Robot. Think Tron: Legacy.<p>Think The Matrix: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U</a><p>Using nmap to find a vulnerable ssh server for the SSH CRC32 attack.</text></item><item><author>bitwize</author><text>Hackers killed the Hollywood hacker. (Hackers as in people, not <i>Hackers</i> the film.) Dominic Sena, in his director&#x27;s commentary for <i>Swordfish</i>, stated that the people who were likely to complain about the inaccuracy of the hacking shown in his movie were nerds who ultimately didn&#x27;t matter. In this era where the internet response can make or break a film or TV show, the nerds <i>do</i> matter and directors go the extra mile to please them. This started before <i>Mr. Robot</i>. Think <i>Tron: Legacy</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>The original script was that human minds were the most heat efficient computers, which is why they needed to be wired into the matrix in the first place, because just running humans as headless heat zombies should have been possible; but cloud computing human minds would need to have some sort of experience to be corporeal.<p>Apparently this concept was far too difficult for test audiences to understand so it was scrapped.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Remy – Computer-generated TCP congestion algorithm</title><url>http://web.mit.edu/remy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donavanm</author><text>A key point that&#x27;s glossed over is computational complexity on the senders side. The existing congestion &amp; flow control mechanisms are quite simple. In contrast these &quot;algorithms have more than 150 rules.&quot; Additional state and computation time on the sender side is non trivial when managing tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent flows.<p>These algorithms vary based on link&#x2F;endpoint characteristics. This would require a priori knowledge of the path &amp; quality to each TCP receiver in order to select an appropriate congestion control algorithm. This problem is probably tractable for large scale implementations. The number of unique networks an endpoint is exposed to is in the few million range, and roughly stable over time. Collapsing adjacent and similar networks would get down in to the tens of thousands of variant prefixes.<p>The characteristics of each prefix are roughly stable over time; a subnet of consumer cable endpoints does not flip to become a CDMA mobile subnet. At a guess the rate of change is 1-5% per day. If you can track the performance of millions of subnets a 1% delta per day is certainly feasible. In practice any single sender would need dozens, or hundreds, of different congestion control variants.<p>And lastly they appear to simulate receivers with similar network characteristics on a single contended link. In practice receivers will have wildly different characteristics. Traffic to mobile, consumer fixed line isp, and datacenter networks will all travel on common transit carriers. Additionally even a single IP endpoint can have variable hidden receivers; think 802.11, gbe, embedded clients, and a desktop OS behind a consumer NAT device. Now the sender must track, and adapt, congestion control <i>per flow</i>.<p>In summary synthetic testing of a simplistic use case has out performed generalized solutions. This should surprise no one. The details of practical implementation are ignored, and significant.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Remy – Computer-generated TCP congestion algorithm</title><url>http://web.mit.edu/remy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>contingencies</author><text>Wow, this looks pretty impressive.<p>My general understanding is that congestion control algorithms seek to provide performance and efficiency in end to end TCP (transport-layer) connections that are well-matched to the underlying network path characteristics (latency, throughput, lossiness). Unfortunately, obtaining reliable information about these characteristics can be difficult, and this is particularly the case with dynamic paths (IP mobility, mobile while moving between congested&#x2F;non-congested cells, shared near-capacity networks, etc.).<p>Previously, the areas in which customizing these sorts of algorithms has yielded particularly high returns have been satellite communications and other extremely long distance&#x2F;high latency&#x2F;known characteristic deployments with outlying or extreme properties.<p>My main two questions would then be: (1) To what range of network layer path or individual link-layer characteristics do the claimed benefits of this algorithm apply? (2) How much difference will this make to mobile access or IPv6 IP mobility under a range of different realistic network link issue scenarios?<p>If the claims in this paper are true (broadly applicable increase in throughput and fairness) then I suppose we&#x27;ll see a switch to this algorithm en-masse, thus providing another handy covert operating system detection mechanism to delimit the new generation of kernels.</text></comment>
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<story><title>With every good film I see, I feel reborn (1996)</title><url>https://www.sabzian.be/article/hossein-sabzian</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pizza</author><text>Context: this is Hossein Sabzian.<p>&gt; <i>Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.criterion.com&#x2F;films&#x2F;1092-close-up" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.criterion.com&#x2F;films&#x2F;1092-close-up</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PyWoody</author><text>If anyone is looking for a streaming service to support, the Criterion Channel is phenomenal.<p>They do historical, current, American, gay, black, Latino, female, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. films without any pretense other than a film in its honest self.<p>I&#x27;ve been introduced to so many films and ideas without pretext from the CC that I consider the fee worth it even as I return to the high seas.</text></comment>
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<story><title>With every good film I see, I feel reborn (1996)</title><url>https://www.sabzian.be/article/hossein-sabzian</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pizza</author><text>Context: this is Hossein Sabzian.<p>&gt; <i>Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.criterion.com&#x2F;films&#x2F;1092-close-up" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.criterion.com&#x2F;films&#x2F;1092-close-up</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srcreigh</author><text>This is on my list now. Sounds similar to one of my favs, Charlie Kaufman&#x27;s Adaptation, a movie about himself and his alter ego struggling to write an adaptation of a book.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn't gone before: NetPositive+</title><url>http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/10/going-where-beos-netpositive-hasnt-gone.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rnhmjoj</author><text>Proxying TLS is becoming unusable, thanks again to cloudflare.
You keep getting kicked out because they detect the Client Hello[1] does not match whatever they think it should be, based on the User Agent string.
I&#x27;m not even sure what this is supposed to protect the website from.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitmproxy&#x2F;mitmproxy&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4575" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitmproxy&#x2F;mitmproxy&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4575</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn't gone before: NetPositive+</title><url>http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/10/going-where-beos-netpositive-hasnt-gone.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>troad</author><text>I love these sorts of posts. Is there a Hacker News just for cool retro-computing hacks and weird hobby OSes I could read?</text></comment>
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<story><title>An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4</title><url>http://www.24100.net/2013/01/an-iphone-lovers-confession-i-switched-to-the-nexus-4-completely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>Are you kidding me? The iPhone has the optimal width? You sound just like Marco, Gruber, and all those other Apple sycophants who were claiming that the iPhone size was perfect for the hand, until the iPhone 5 came out, of course.<p>Just like they got their thumbs surgically altered when the 5 came out, no doubt you will be getting all your pockets resized if Apple increases the iPhone width.</text></item><item><author>pagliara</author><text>Interesting. I too am an iPhone lover who recently picked up a Nexus 4 to get into Android development. This is my first experience with Android, so I didn't realize that the Nexus 4 Android experience might be different than your typical Android smartphone.<p>I was very impressed with the overall experience. If I wasn't so used to iOS, I could easily see myself using Android on a Nexus 4. But in the end, I walked away with the opposite impression; I saw no compelling reason to switch to Android and have decided iOS is still the mobile OS for me. Unlike the author, I do not really consider myself a power user. The customizability of Android is really enticing, but at the end of the day I find myself preferring the design/philosophy of iOS. But it really just comes down to personal preference.<p>After using an iPhone for so long, I became annoyed at the small design/interface differences present in the Nexus 4 (e.g. no physical home button). At times I found it difficult to use the Nexus 4 because of it's greater width. The iPhone width is optimal for my hand size and pocket size. Also, in my opinion as an app developer, the iOS app ecosystem still seems a lot stronger than Android. Browsing the Play Store was a little boring to me. Yes, most popular apps have both iOS and Android versions, but many developers still target iOS first and Android second. Until there's a reason for that to change I think iOS still has the edge in "killer" apps.<p>That being said, I agree that there are a lot of nice things in Android that I would love to see implemented in iOS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The fact that the iPhone 5 made the screen bigger doesn't mean the original rationales for the smaller screen size wasn't justified. It's an engineering problem, and that involves trade-offs. My wife doesn't follow the tech press at all, and complained unprompted about the extra length on the 5. She can't reach the top with her thumb anymore.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4</title><url>http://www.24100.net/2013/01/an-iphone-lovers-confession-i-switched-to-the-nexus-4-completely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>Are you kidding me? The iPhone has the optimal width? You sound just like Marco, Gruber, and all those other Apple sycophants who were claiming that the iPhone size was perfect for the hand, until the iPhone 5 came out, of course.<p>Just like they got their thumbs surgically altered when the 5 came out, no doubt you will be getting all your pockets resized if Apple increases the iPhone width.</text></item><item><author>pagliara</author><text>Interesting. I too am an iPhone lover who recently picked up a Nexus 4 to get into Android development. This is my first experience with Android, so I didn't realize that the Nexus 4 Android experience might be different than your typical Android smartphone.<p>I was very impressed with the overall experience. If I wasn't so used to iOS, I could easily see myself using Android on a Nexus 4. But in the end, I walked away with the opposite impression; I saw no compelling reason to switch to Android and have decided iOS is still the mobile OS for me. Unlike the author, I do not really consider myself a power user. The customizability of Android is really enticing, but at the end of the day I find myself preferring the design/philosophy of iOS. But it really just comes down to personal preference.<p>After using an iPhone for so long, I became annoyed at the small design/interface differences present in the Nexus 4 (e.g. no physical home button). At times I found it difficult to use the Nexus 4 because of it's greater width. The iPhone width is optimal for my hand size and pocket size. Also, in my opinion as an app developer, the iOS app ecosystem still seems a lot stronger than Android. Browsing the Play Store was a little boring to me. Yes, most popular apps have both iOS and Android versions, but many developers still target iOS first and Android second. Until there's a reason for that to change I think iOS still has the edge in "killer" apps.<p>That being said, I agree that there are a lot of nice things in Android that I would love to see implemented in iOS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megablast</author><text>Wrong or right, the width of the iPhone has not changed with the 5.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Farmers ‘crippled’ by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellite-failure-as-gps-guided-tractors-grind-to-a-halt-20230418-p5d1de.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blantonl</author><text>Note that this isn&#x27;t a GPS failure, it&#x27;s a failure with Inmarsat&#x27;s Satellite-based Augmentation Systems (SBAS), which supplements GPS data with signal measurement errors corrections. This allows for centimeter level positioning.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Farmers ‘crippled’ by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellite-failure-as-gps-guided-tractors-grind-to-a-halt-20230418-p5d1de.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yardie</author><text>This is not the USDOD GPS. This is Inmarsat&#x27;s DGPS service that provides ~1-2cm accuracy. Which, if you&#x27;re driving between rows of produce can be the difference between harvesting or crushing crops.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_GPS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_GPS</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>VCs are financing an economy of servants</title><url>https://sifted.eu/articles/servant-economy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nitrogen</author><text><i>Private Equity buying up housing</i><p>Speaking of this, an entire new construction neighborhood near where I live was just purchased, with all of the for-sale signs replaced with leasing info signs. You will own nothing, but you will not be happy about it.</text></item><item><author>toomuchcredit</author><text>VCs are just cogs in the wheels taking us from an &quot;Ownership Society&quot; to a &quot;Sharecropper&#x27;s Society,&quot; as Buffett once put it. Private Equity buying up housing, is just the latest worrying trend in a troubling trajectory with excessive debt, centralization of power, concentration of wealth, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaspard234</author><text>I&#x27;m in a traditionally mexican east Austin neighborhood. I used to see a lot of houses bought by techies. Yes it was &#x27;gentrification&#x27;, but at least they lived in them and often eventually started families.<p>In 2021, the 6-7 in my neighborhood which have sold for record prices are sitting empty with &#x27;for lease&#x27; signs. Checking the property records they are all some under a different named LLC.</text></comment>
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<story><title>VCs are financing an economy of servants</title><url>https://sifted.eu/articles/servant-economy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nitrogen</author><text><i>Private Equity buying up housing</i><p>Speaking of this, an entire new construction neighborhood near where I live was just purchased, with all of the for-sale signs replaced with leasing info signs. You will own nothing, but you will not be happy about it.</text></item><item><author>toomuchcredit</author><text>VCs are just cogs in the wheels taking us from an &quot;Ownership Society&quot; to a &quot;Sharecropper&#x27;s Society,&quot; as Buffett once put it. Private Equity buying up housing, is just the latest worrying trend in a troubling trajectory with excessive debt, centralization of power, concentration of wealth, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david927</author><text>It won&#x27;t work. We&#x27;re facing another 2008 but writ large, and if that plays out in a similar way, we&#x27;ll see people move in together so that not only will housing prices drop through the floor but rents as well.<p>A lot of this is to diversify out of equities which will soon crater ala 1929. The problem is that hundreds of empty track houses don&#x27;t have value either. I think they know that; I think they feel they don&#x27;t have much choice. Desperate times.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work</title><url>https://standardnotes.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecodrr</author><text>Standard Notes is a phenomenal note taking app and one of the first to bring encryption in note taking. They take security very seriously and have multiple third party audits.<p>With that said, the bad outweigh the good. I don&#x27;t mean to be a pessimist here (SN is inspirational) but:<p>1. Their free plan is extremely lacking. You can&#x27;t even try out many of their editors.<p>2. Their pro plan mostly only offers editors. I am not sure how having 3 kinds of rich text editors is helpful but they have them.<p>3. They don&#x27;t allow any form of account recovery. Which sounds really epic on paper but once you forget your password, you lose all your data.<p>4. The feature parity between their different apps across platforms is abysmal. The android app is notoriously feature lacking compared to the Web version. (They did put out an update which hopefully changes things).<p>5. In my extensive usage of the app, conflicts are very normal. I have no issue with that but there&#x27;s no way to resolve them without creating duplicate copies of the note which clutters up the UI.<p>5. the UX is poor. No right click on notes, no distraction free mode, no way to collapse the huge notes list.<p>6. Search and organization seems like an after thought. The only way to organize is via tags. Tags are nice and all but there&#x27;s not much you can do with them.<p>7. Their pricing seems absurd.<p>8. The development seems to be going no where. They are active but many of the above issues are still not addressed.<p>But as I said, it&#x27;s not all bad. Most people won&#x27;t notice the above in their initial usage. They have a solid app with okay features.<p>If you are a new user looking for encrypted notes and all that hosh posh or just an alternative to SN, you should also give Notesnook[1][2] a try; it solves all of the above issues in a sensible way. Do note that I am the dev so I am obviously biased. It&#x27;s not perfect but I think it is a better alternative.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notesnook.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notesnook.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;streetwriters&#x2F;notesnook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;streetwriters&#x2F;notesnook&#x2F;</a> (it&#x27;s not open source but the repo has some good FAQ that you might be interested in reading).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e3bc54b2</author><text>I have tried many note-taking apps. From Evernote to Google Keep to OneNote to Standard notes yo plain old notepad to Zotero to Word and really honestly many more.<p>If you say this list is all over the place, then that is because requirements vary depending on purpose, not the other way around.<p>After almost a decade of experimenting, I have come to realise that the best note-taking tool by far is org-mode.<p>It is free, it is extensible, it is not going anywhere in next decade+, it let&#x27;s me encrypt on my own terms, it let&#x27;s me store and share on my own terms, it is as lightweight or as heavyweight as I want, it can be as pretty or as ugly as I want, I can edit it anywhere, search and organization is ridiculously advanced compared to anything else out there (or everything else is ridiculously behind).<p>Its biggest strength and arguably biggest weakness is its tied to Emacs. It is a horrible learning curve for beginners, which is why it took me a decade to get to org-mode in the first place, but once you have climbed that hill, you are basically on top of the world.<p>Everybody serious about note-taking should give org-mode a try.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work</title><url>https://standardnotes.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecodrr</author><text>Standard Notes is a phenomenal note taking app and one of the first to bring encryption in note taking. They take security very seriously and have multiple third party audits.<p>With that said, the bad outweigh the good. I don&#x27;t mean to be a pessimist here (SN is inspirational) but:<p>1. Their free plan is extremely lacking. You can&#x27;t even try out many of their editors.<p>2. Their pro plan mostly only offers editors. I am not sure how having 3 kinds of rich text editors is helpful but they have them.<p>3. They don&#x27;t allow any form of account recovery. Which sounds really epic on paper but once you forget your password, you lose all your data.<p>4. The feature parity between their different apps across platforms is abysmal. The android app is notoriously feature lacking compared to the Web version. (They did put out an update which hopefully changes things).<p>5. In my extensive usage of the app, conflicts are very normal. I have no issue with that but there&#x27;s no way to resolve them without creating duplicate copies of the note which clutters up the UI.<p>5. the UX is poor. No right click on notes, no distraction free mode, no way to collapse the huge notes list.<p>6. Search and organization seems like an after thought. The only way to organize is via tags. Tags are nice and all but there&#x27;s not much you can do with them.<p>7. Their pricing seems absurd.<p>8. The development seems to be going no where. They are active but many of the above issues are still not addressed.<p>But as I said, it&#x27;s not all bad. Most people won&#x27;t notice the above in their initial usage. They have a solid app with okay features.<p>If you are a new user looking for encrypted notes and all that hosh posh or just an alternative to SN, you should also give Notesnook[1][2] a try; it solves all of the above issues in a sensible way. Do note that I am the dev so I am obviously biased. It&#x27;s not perfect but I think it is a better alternative.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notesnook.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notesnook.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;streetwriters&#x2F;notesnook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;streetwriters&#x2F;notesnook&#x2F;</a> (it&#x27;s not open source but the repo has some good FAQ that you might be interested in reading).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shacklz</author><text>&gt; 7. Their pricing seems absurd.<p>I actually really like their pricing model. You can buy years in advance, and they occasionally offer steep discounts (I think I bought two decades in advance around new year?). In a time where more and more services offer me no other way than some crappy monthly subscription that I cannot pay in advance and without auto-renewal, this is really much appreciated.<p>That being said, a lot of your points seem valid - I&#x27;ve started using SN quite some time ago and haven&#x27;t really noticed any new features since (except for some editor-improvements). Organization is indeed something that probably could use some love, the tags do suffice for me personally (especially with that one extension that lets you create folders with tags), but barely. While I appreciate their stability with regards to UX (it looks&#x2F;feels the same since forever), the features you mentioned (collapsing, rightclick-menu) would not hurt.<p>Their &#x27;lack of new features&#x27; however is, as far as I understood, somewhat intentional - back when I bought it I&#x27;ve read somewhere on the page that they explicitly have the philosophy to also say &#x27;No&#x27; to new features if they think it threatens their guarantee of long-term stability&#x2F;support. Which I think is a very admirable stance these days where short-term-KPIs seem to dominate entire industries.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/5903288/i-learned-to-speak-four-languages-in-a-few-years-heres-how</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>Another great resource is Pimsleur. I've used their courses to learn Italian and German.<p>It's a half hour of audio each day. The key is that you speak out loud. You can do it while cooking or driving, or any other activity that is routine and non-verbal.<p>They teach you to pronounce phrases very well, and you learn the basic structure of the language. Once you can say "I would like a glass of wine", you can easily learn to say "I would like X".<p>When I got to Italy, people thought I had been living there for a year.<p>There are only two things you MUST do:<p>1. Do a lesson every day.
2. Speak out loud, in a normal conversational tone. The program is teaching you to have conversations.<p>I love these courses so much that I'm compelled to gush about them whenever language learning is mentioned. They won't make you a native speaker, but you'll quickly reach a level where you can advance rapidly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaoma</author><text>I used Pimsleur for Cantonese in 2010 during a trip to HK and have kind of mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it was <i>good</i> for pronunciation. Many people were shocked by how good my Cantonese sounded and had troubles believing me when I said I'd just gotten to Hong Kong. On the other hand, this caused some problems-- people consistently over-estimated my language abilities, and as a result said a ton of stuff I couldn't understand. Had my speech sounded worse they'd probably have modified theirs a bit and I'd have learned faster. The other wildcard is that I already spoke Mandarin fluently, and definitely had a bit of help from all the cognates.<p>Another downside to Pimsleur I discovered more recently while working on Swedish. They're all about the same! The dialogues and stories got kind of boring since I'd heard them already in Cantonese.<p>Ideally, I'd like a resource like Pimsleur <i>plus</i> some kind of podcast (e.g. popupcantonese.com) so that I could build more vocabulary at least at a passive level and understand more of the speech I elicit from native speakers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/5903288/i-learned-to-speak-four-languages-in-a-few-years-heres-how</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>Another great resource is Pimsleur. I've used their courses to learn Italian and German.<p>It's a half hour of audio each day. The key is that you speak out loud. You can do it while cooking or driving, or any other activity that is routine and non-verbal.<p>They teach you to pronounce phrases very well, and you learn the basic structure of the language. Once you can say "I would like a glass of wine", you can easily learn to say "I would like X".<p>When I got to Italy, people thought I had been living there for a year.<p>There are only two things you MUST do:<p>1. Do a lesson every day.
2. Speak out loud, in a normal conversational tone. The program is teaching you to have conversations.<p>I love these courses so much that I'm compelled to gush about them whenever language learning is mentioned. They won't make you a native speaker, but you'll quickly reach a level where you can advance rapidly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmarble</author><text>I'll add my endorsement. Pimsleur was the most enjoyable audio learning experience I've had while commuting, because I actually learned something that has kept with me.<p>They use spaced repetition and native accents. I hear what I should say in my mind when I want to say it instead of trying to think of words on paper I've learned. Of course, it has its limits (you don't learn to read or write), and only gets you the basics of a language, but it really helps you nail them in a way that makes you feel like you're naturally learning a language like a child does.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Europeans will be able to unsubscribe from Prime with two clicks</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/04/uk-subscribers-will-soon-be-able-to-leave-amazon-prime-in-two-clicks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrause</author><text>In Germany it just became law three days ago that if company allows to sign up to any service online, they also have to offer an easy-to-find way that allows to cancel the service online.<p>No more writing a letter, sending a fax or calling a phone to cancel a service or subscription that you signed up to online.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>Am i the only one that feels we shouldn&#x27;t need this law at all?<p>I call a company, inform them I want to cancell, and they keep taking money off my card, they should be prosecuted for theft.<p>I don&#x27;t get to demand that all companies must use my custom online form when they need payment from me, so why should they get to make such demands?<p>Why did our legal system enable this behaviour all.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Europeans will be able to unsubscribe from Prime with two clicks</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/04/uk-subscribers-will-soon-be-able-to-leave-amazon-prime-in-two-clicks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrause</author><text>In Germany it just became law three days ago that if company allows to sign up to any service online, they also have to offer an easy-to-find way that allows to cancel the service online.<p>No more writing a letter, sending a fax or calling a phone to cancel a service or subscription that you signed up to online.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kybernetyk</author><text>&gt;No more writing a letter, sending a fax or calling a phone to cancel a service or subscription that you signed up to online.<p>That&#x27;s why I preferred Apple subscriptions to normal magazine subscriptions. Apple is a one click cancel. An old school subscription is writing a letter.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The digital natives are not who you think they are</title><url>https://blog.torh.net/2021/05/12/the-digital-natives-are-not-who-you-think-it-is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Smithalicious</author><text>Another instance of &quot;middle-aged tech nerd makes fun of kids these days&quot;<p>I get it, you&#x27;re not too old to be good at computers, but I don&#x27;t see the need to put down the younger generation and act like their tech knowledge doesn&#x27;t extend beyond &quot;video streaming&quot;.<p>Acting like kids are computer wizards is an exaggeration, but acting like young people know <i>less</i> about computing than this older generation is simply wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teachingassist</author><text>I have taught kids for 20 years.<p>Young people (on average) know <i>less</i> about computing than they did.<p>The author of this article says &quot;floppy disks, or &#x27;the save icon&#x27; as the young kids would recognize it&quot; - except that they often wouldn&#x27;t. Kids don&#x27;t have any experience of saving and loading files.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The digital natives are not who you think they are</title><url>https://blog.torh.net/2021/05/12/the-digital-natives-are-not-who-you-think-it-is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Smithalicious</author><text>Another instance of &quot;middle-aged tech nerd makes fun of kids these days&quot;<p>I get it, you&#x27;re not too old to be good at computers, but I don&#x27;t see the need to put down the younger generation and act like their tech knowledge doesn&#x27;t extend beyond &quot;video streaming&quot;.<p>Acting like kids are computer wizards is an exaggeration, but acting like young people know <i>less</i> about computing than this older generation is simply wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>The complexity today is so great that understanding the entire system requires a vast amount of knowledge. The Commodore 64 was notable for being totally described down to the hardware and bit level in a 1 inch thick book. People who grew up with that could fully understand that little device.<p>With a modest amount of effort, you could totally understand an AMPS phone, the last generation of analog cellular. It was a two-way FM radio controlled by a tiny CPU, no more complex than a Commodore 64.<p>Understanding a modern phone is a huge job. Even at a general level. There&#x27;s a 90s data center worth of compute power in there. About four radios. A GPU. A 6-axis inertial guidance system. Several cameras. A rather excessive amount of software. A web browser, which is itself overly complex. Voice codecs. Voice recognition. Quite possibly a machine learning system.<p>That&#x27;s a lot to understand. It is also not useful to the end user to understand it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Sad Bastard Cookbook</title><url>https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>When It&#x27;s really bad I just buy multiple costco rotisserie chickens, some frozen veggies, put food on plate, microwave, cover in sauce, eat. Add in premier proteins, fit crunch, and clif builders and you can shop for like 2 weeks in a single run and not die.<p>My &quot;I cant be bothered&quot; template is the following. is essentially pick one from each category<p><pre><code> * 1&#x2F;2 LB (225g) veggies
* 1&#x2F;2 LB or 1 fruit
* 1 protein
* Caloric load if I&#x27;m not trying to lose weight
* Condiments &#x2F; spices to taste
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Veggies: Frozen mixed (peas, carrots, corn, green beans, soy beans), pre-roasted costco bags, &quot;california mix&quot; etc. Frozen veggies often are nutritionally superior to fresh due to halting nutritional decay.<p>Fruit: Apple, orange, banana, Water&#x2F;other melons, Straw&#x2F;other berries<p>Protein: look for 35-70g protein -- 1 skin on chicken breast, 2 boneless skinless chicken thighs, ~150g tilapia, 1 tin of tuna, 1 pork chop&#x2F;steak, 1 egg + 300g whites, 1 hand size of salmon, 1&#x2F;2lb shrimp<p>Calories: 1 slice of bread, 1&#x2F;2c cooked rice, 1 cup cooked pasta, 1&#x2F;2 avocado, 1&#x2F;4c mixed nuts<p>Sauces &#x2F; Condiments: Bachan&#x27;s Japanese BBQ, Kinder Honey Hot BBQ, Kinder Lemon pepper (esp. for tilapia)<p>Edit: Would love recommendations for other sauces that allow me to squeeze a nationality of cuisine over my template to make it taste like that country&#x27;s food (kinda).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CSMastermind</author><text>&gt;Would love recommendations for other sauces that allow me to squeeze a nationality of cuisine over my template to make it taste like that country&#x27;s food (kinda).<p>Yeah I got you:<p>We&#x27;re going to use two different basic techniques. The first is extremely simple: throw everything into a blender and then blend until your desired consistency (normally smooth).<p>Mexican: Combine tomatoes, jalapeños, cilantro, lime juice, and salt for a fresh salsa.<p>Mediterranean: Blend olives, capers, lemon juice, and olive oil for a tapenade.<p>South American: Mix parsley, garlic, vinegar, oil, and chili flakes for chimichurri.<p>Greek: Yogurt, cucumber, garlic, lemon juice, and dill for tzatziki.<p>Middle Eastern: Blend tahini, garlic, lemon juice, and water for a basic tahini sauce.<p>Technique 2 is a little more complicated but once you get the hang of it trust me it&#x27;s worth it. Call it stovetop simmering.<p>In a saucepan, combine the base ingredients and bring to a simmer. Add primary flavor agents&#x2F;spices and continue to simmer for the desired time until flavors meld. Adjust consistency if needed (e.g., with a slurry or additional liquid).<p>Italian: Start with crushed tomatoes, add garlic, basil, and oregano for a marinara sauce.<p>Chinese: Combine soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and ginger; thicken with a cornstarch slurry for a basic stir-fry sauce.<p>Indian: Start with tomatoes and onions, add garam masala, turmeric, and cumin for a basic curry sauce.<p>French: Start with a roux (butter + flour), then add broth and reduce; season with herbs for a basic velouté.<p>Thai: Coconut milk with red curry paste, simmer and season with fish sauce and sugar for a basic Thai curry.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Sad Bastard Cookbook</title><url>https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>When It&#x27;s really bad I just buy multiple costco rotisserie chickens, some frozen veggies, put food on plate, microwave, cover in sauce, eat. Add in premier proteins, fit crunch, and clif builders and you can shop for like 2 weeks in a single run and not die.<p>My &quot;I cant be bothered&quot; template is the following. is essentially pick one from each category<p><pre><code> * 1&#x2F;2 LB (225g) veggies
* 1&#x2F;2 LB or 1 fruit
* 1 protein
* Caloric load if I&#x27;m not trying to lose weight
* Condiments &#x2F; spices to taste
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Veggies: Frozen mixed (peas, carrots, corn, green beans, soy beans), pre-roasted costco bags, &quot;california mix&quot; etc. Frozen veggies often are nutritionally superior to fresh due to halting nutritional decay.<p>Fruit: Apple, orange, banana, Water&#x2F;other melons, Straw&#x2F;other berries<p>Protein: look for 35-70g protein -- 1 skin on chicken breast, 2 boneless skinless chicken thighs, ~150g tilapia, 1 tin of tuna, 1 pork chop&#x2F;steak, 1 egg + 300g whites, 1 hand size of salmon, 1&#x2F;2lb shrimp<p>Calories: 1 slice of bread, 1&#x2F;2c cooked rice, 1 cup cooked pasta, 1&#x2F;2 avocado, 1&#x2F;4c mixed nuts<p>Sauces &#x2F; Condiments: Bachan&#x27;s Japanese BBQ, Kinder Honey Hot BBQ, Kinder Lemon pepper (esp. for tilapia)<p>Edit: Would love recommendations for other sauces that allow me to squeeze a nationality of cuisine over my template to make it taste like that country&#x27;s food (kinda).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>This is the exact formula i see all hello fresh meals fit. Protein (chicken, or beef&#x2F;lamb&#x2F;pork mince) + starch (pasta, noodles, or rice) + sauce (usually soy sauce) + baby spinach. I swear they just spin a bunch of wheels to create the meals.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldanor</author><text>I gave it a try with jokes, too. Some jokes were just awful, but some make you think where did that come from.<p>Me:<p><pre><code> C++ programmer and Rust programmer meet in a bar. Please finish the joke.
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ChatGPT (1):<p><pre><code> The C++ programmer says, &quot;I like my code like I like my women: fast and efficient.&quot;
The Rust programmer says, &quot;I like my code like I like my men: safe and concurrent.&quot;
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ChatGPT (2):<p><pre><code> The C++ programmer asks the Rust programmer, &quot;What&#x27;s the difference between null and option?&quot; The Rust programmer replies, &quot;One is a way to avoid segfaults, and the other is a way to avoid being a C++ programmer.&quot;</code></pre></text></item><item><author>gcanyon</author><text>Others have pointed out why this might (not) be code red for Google, but I&#x27;ll say that it&#x27;s code red for every ad-supported site on the internet: just as artists are up in arms over stable diffusion, this potentially abstracts information at a level that simple fact extraction doesn&#x27;t.<p>Once upon a time, Google presented information from Answers.com along with search results. There was a link, so Answers didn&#x27;t mind much (I worked there around that time).<p>Then Google started displaying facts from Google Knowledge Graph alongside search results, cutting out Answers (which had a favored status) and every other site that tried to monetize how tall Abraham Lincoln was (6&#x27;4&quot;).<p>Now Safari lists that information in the Siri Search Suggestion, potentially cutting out Google.<p>In any case, whether it&#x27;s Apple, Google, OpenAI, or someone else, a service that digests the internet and then offers up e.g. &quot;jokes about going fishing&quot; potentially destroys the market for people to publish jokes about fishing.<p>FYI, I just tried, and Chat GPT&#x27;s jokes about fishing are awful. e.g.:<p><pre><code> Why was the fisherman always calm?
Because he had a lot of baits!
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The fishing humor section of the internet is safe for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moonchrome</author><text>&gt; The C++ programmer asks the Rust programmer, &quot;What&#x27;s the difference between null and option?&quot; The Rust programmer replies, &quot;One is a way to avoid segfaults, and the other is a way to avoid being a C++ programmer.&quot;<p>This joke has potential.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldanor</author><text>I gave it a try with jokes, too. Some jokes were just awful, but some make you think where did that come from.<p>Me:<p><pre><code> C++ programmer and Rust programmer meet in a bar. Please finish the joke.
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ChatGPT (1):<p><pre><code> The C++ programmer says, &quot;I like my code like I like my women: fast and efficient.&quot;
The Rust programmer says, &quot;I like my code like I like my men: safe and concurrent.&quot;
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ChatGPT (2):<p><pre><code> The C++ programmer asks the Rust programmer, &quot;What&#x27;s the difference between null and option?&quot; The Rust programmer replies, &quot;One is a way to avoid segfaults, and the other is a way to avoid being a C++ programmer.&quot;</code></pre></text></item><item><author>gcanyon</author><text>Others have pointed out why this might (not) be code red for Google, but I&#x27;ll say that it&#x27;s code red for every ad-supported site on the internet: just as artists are up in arms over stable diffusion, this potentially abstracts information at a level that simple fact extraction doesn&#x27;t.<p>Once upon a time, Google presented information from Answers.com along with search results. There was a link, so Answers didn&#x27;t mind much (I worked there around that time).<p>Then Google started displaying facts from Google Knowledge Graph alongside search results, cutting out Answers (which had a favored status) and every other site that tried to monetize how tall Abraham Lincoln was (6&#x27;4&quot;).<p>Now Safari lists that information in the Siri Search Suggestion, potentially cutting out Google.<p>In any case, whether it&#x27;s Apple, Google, OpenAI, or someone else, a service that digests the internet and then offers up e.g. &quot;jokes about going fishing&quot; potentially destroys the market for people to publish jokes about fishing.<p>FYI, I just tried, and Chat GPT&#x27;s jokes about fishing are awful. e.g.:<p><pre><code> Why was the fisherman always calm?
Because he had a lot of baits!
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The fishing humor section of the internet is safe for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>If being able to invent those jokes isn&#x27;t a sign of emerging intelligence... I&#x27;m not sure people outside comp science realize the philosophical implications of chatgpt on the human nature.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law</title><url>https://heathermeeker.com/2023/01/19/is-copyright-eating-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avianlyric</author><text>&gt; Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music?<p>Yes, that’s exactly what happens when you buy a book, or pay for a music subscription. The work is in the public domain, then global permission to observe and copy the work is already granted.<p>&gt; Do you ask for permission when you get new ideas from HN that aren&#x27;t your own?<p>You don’t need to. It’s implicitly assumed, by virtue of publishing in a public forum, that the author is providing permission for people read their comments and ideas, and remix them as they wish. That permission doesn’t include exact replication, but reading and understanding is assumed, otherwise why did the author publish it?<p>&gt; Humans are constantly ingesting gobs of &quot;copyrighted&quot; insights that they eventually remix into their own creations without necessarily reimbursing the original source(s) of their creativity.<p>Correct. Literally everything produced by a human is automatically copyrighted. But the manner in which work is published creates implicit licenses for the public to consume those works. You publish in public, you automatically grate licenses for the public to consume and transform it.<p>If a human transforms an idea, it automatically becomes a new idea with its own copyright. The same doesn’t apply to AI because they’re not human, and thus the law generally doesn’t recognise them an having ability to create or transform ideas. If you believe AI can create and transform ideas, then you need lobby for the law to recognise that ability, but right now, only natural humans have that ability according to the law</text></item><item><author>kirse</author><text><i>AI companies can ask for permission if they want to train their models on other people&#x27;s works</i><p>Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music? Do you ask for permission when you get new ideas from HN that aren&#x27;t your own?<p>Humans are constantly ingesting gobs of &quot;copyrighted&quot; insights that they eventually remix into their own creations without necessarily reimbursing the original source(s) of their creativity.<p>Time to put the horse back in the barn, cars and trains are here.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>There&#x27;s no part of AI that is being swallowed up by copyright. AI companies can ask for permission if they want to train their models on other people&#x27;s works. It&#x27;s not that hard, various image hosting sites have already added an opt-in&#x2F;opt-out toggle to their services. Sites might even get away with using this stuff as compensation for free hosting.<p>The fact of the matter is that the AI companies don&#x27;t want to ask for permission, because people will say no. Or worse, ask for attribution or even payment. There is plenty of copyright free&#x2F;public domain material out there, but what the customers of AI people want isn&#x27;t available under those terms.<p>The code to train an AI is not enough to make a product and these people have nothing to add themselves, so they take what others made and use that to make a profit. They can make or pay for their own paintings, their own pictures, their own music, but that would require putting in too much work or paying too much money.<p>It&#x27;s very possible that a judge will rule that AI models do not violate copyright. If that is the case, I hope new legislation will correct that oversight very quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>williamcotton</author><text>&gt; &gt; Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music?<p>&gt; Yes, that’s exactly what happens when you buy a book, or pay for a music subscription. The work is in the public domain, then global permission to observe and copy the work is already granted.<p>You can buy a book, read it, sell the book, and then write and sell another book based on the ideas contained in the first book (Baker v Seldon). This is the cornerstone of contemporary copyright law. Or read the book on a shelf of a bookstore where the clerk is asleep. Or borrow the book from the library or any other manner where direct compensation of the author is nowhere to be seen.<p>Copyright is consistently interpreted in alignment with the needs of public learning, both by protecting the authorial incentive as well as protecting the public need for knowledge.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law</title><url>https://heathermeeker.com/2023/01/19/is-copyright-eating-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avianlyric</author><text>&gt; Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music?<p>Yes, that’s exactly what happens when you buy a book, or pay for a music subscription. The work is in the public domain, then global permission to observe and copy the work is already granted.<p>&gt; Do you ask for permission when you get new ideas from HN that aren&#x27;t your own?<p>You don’t need to. It’s implicitly assumed, by virtue of publishing in a public forum, that the author is providing permission for people read their comments and ideas, and remix them as they wish. That permission doesn’t include exact replication, but reading and understanding is assumed, otherwise why did the author publish it?<p>&gt; Humans are constantly ingesting gobs of &quot;copyrighted&quot; insights that they eventually remix into their own creations without necessarily reimbursing the original source(s) of their creativity.<p>Correct. Literally everything produced by a human is automatically copyrighted. But the manner in which work is published creates implicit licenses for the public to consume those works. You publish in public, you automatically grate licenses for the public to consume and transform it.<p>If a human transforms an idea, it automatically becomes a new idea with its own copyright. The same doesn’t apply to AI because they’re not human, and thus the law generally doesn’t recognise them an having ability to create or transform ideas. If you believe AI can create and transform ideas, then you need lobby for the law to recognise that ability, but right now, only natural humans have that ability according to the law</text></item><item><author>kirse</author><text><i>AI companies can ask for permission if they want to train their models on other people&#x27;s works</i><p>Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music? Do you ask for permission when you get new ideas from HN that aren&#x27;t your own?<p>Humans are constantly ingesting gobs of &quot;copyrighted&quot; insights that they eventually remix into their own creations without necessarily reimbursing the original source(s) of their creativity.<p>Time to put the horse back in the barn, cars and trains are here.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>There&#x27;s no part of AI that is being swallowed up by copyright. AI companies can ask for permission if they want to train their models on other people&#x27;s works. It&#x27;s not that hard, various image hosting sites have already added an opt-in&#x2F;opt-out toggle to their services. Sites might even get away with using this stuff as compensation for free hosting.<p>The fact of the matter is that the AI companies don&#x27;t want to ask for permission, because people will say no. Or worse, ask for attribution or even payment. There is plenty of copyright free&#x2F;public domain material out there, but what the customers of AI people want isn&#x27;t available under those terms.<p>The code to train an AI is not enough to make a product and these people have nothing to add themselves, so they take what others made and use that to make a profit. They can make or pay for their own paintings, their own pictures, their own music, but that would require putting in too much work or paying too much money.<p>It&#x27;s very possible that a judge will rule that AI models do not violate copyright. If that is the case, I hope new legislation will correct that oversight very quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sircastor</author><text>&gt;Yes, that’s exactly what happens when you buy a book, or pay for a music subscription. The work is in the public domain, then global permission to observe and copy the work is already granted.<p>When you buy a book, you’re not paying a licensing fee. You’re exchanging for goods. You’re granted very few rights to own a copy of the work. But they’re almost all to do with distribution. None of those rights is the right to read it.<p>&gt;You publish in public, you automatically grate licenses for the public to consume and transform it.<p>By this interpretation, all the artists upset by stable diffusion have given tacit permission for their works to be used as they are published in the public. Even though those works are posted to websites, the artist has not granted any rights to the viewer of the work.<p>&gt; only natural humans have that ability according to the law<p>The law is not explicit about this, and we have case law that describes non-human entities as having rights associated historically with personhood. This is definitely <i>not</i> clear, nor is it obvious.</text></comment>
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<story><title>React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features</title><url>https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/08/10/react-v17-rc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>&quot;It has been two and a half years since the previous major release of React, which is a long time even by our standards!&quot;<p>As a mostly Python and only occasional JavaScript developer, it always felt like the biggest challenge in the JavaScript community was how fast everything moved - new libraries, frameworks and ideas would tumble past at the rate of one every few weeks, and it felt impossible to keep up.<p>I&#x27;ve been feeling that a lot less recently, and maybe the fact that React has been steady for 2.5 years is part of the reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhizome31</author><text>&gt; As a mostly Python and only occasional JavaScript developer, it always felt like the biggest challenge in the JavaScript community was how fast everything moved<p>Those of us who were doing Python web dev in the years 2000s might remember that Python went through a similar period where it seemed that every week a new backend framework came out: Zope, CherryPy, web2py, Pylons, Django, repoze.bfg, TurboGears... to name a few. Nowadays it seems that everybody has settled for either Django or Flask. It might not have been as crazy as what happened with JavaScript in the years 2010s but still I tend to see a similar pattern. People try a lot of different things, going in slightly different directions and eventually interesting approaches get identified and communities build up around a couple of solutions.<p>Meanwhile the Ruby community was able to build consensus around Ruby on Rails, with just Sinatra on the side for small projects.<p>I&#x27;m wondering if this ability to try many different things might have been the cause for Python building numpy and eventually winning the scientific computing area as well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features</title><url>https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/08/10/react-v17-rc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>&quot;It has been two and a half years since the previous major release of React, which is a long time even by our standards!&quot;<p>As a mostly Python and only occasional JavaScript developer, it always felt like the biggest challenge in the JavaScript community was how fast everything moved - new libraries, frameworks and ideas would tumble past at the rate of one every few weeks, and it felt impossible to keep up.<p>I&#x27;ve been feeling that a lot less recently, and maybe the fact that React has been steady for 2.5 years is part of the reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dawnerd</author><text>I second you on that. The number of times I&#x27;ve had to rewrite code because a framework decided to break everything with little warning.. I don&#x27;t even want to think about it actually. I get wanting to make code better but gesh people, do some planning and figure out a direction to move a project.<p>Also it seems JS devs don&#x27;t understand semver either. Massive breaking changes in patch or minor versions are just evil.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader</title><url>https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosfeed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>osmoscraft</author><text>Developer here. I super appreciate the support. Some context:<p>- I&#x27;m a big fan of RSS and there is a thriving community behind. Just check out this list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AboutRSS&#x2F;ALL-about-RSS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AboutRSS&#x2F;ALL-about-RSS</a><p>- I&#x27;m also a firm believer of web as a platform, a distributed document database, and an open library of knowledge, as opposed to a &quot;compile target&quot; for cryptic JavaScript apps that take control and freedom away from users. Jim Nielsen has a timely critique: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jim-nielsen.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;web-languages-as-compile-targets&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jim-nielsen.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;web-languages-as-compile-t...</a><p>- The bigger picture behind the osmos project is to create an IDE for personal knowledge management. On the surface:<p>1. I read my rss with osmos::feed.<p>2. I capture reference links from the feed with osmos::memo.<p>3. I digest the knowledge and connect them into notes with osmos::note.<p>- All of them are done with plaintext (some sprinkle of markdown), remote hosted on GitHub, so they are easy to run NLP and ML against. Potentially with GitHub actions, or locally with some bot, with a cloned repo.<p>- In the long term, I was hoping to create a &quot;positive feedback loop&quot;. Use ML to extract patterns from my notes, make connections for me, and recommend interesting reading in the osmos::feed. On the other end, osmos::feed can use NLP to detect how each article in the feed might connect to ideas from osmos::note and make note-taking even easier.<p>- The parent project (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osmoscraft.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osmoscraft.org</a>) is still in super early stage. Would love to let the community give it a spin while I keep iterating.<p>- Thanks again for the ♥</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo</title><url>https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-legal-action-pear-logo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghastmaster</author><text>It is definitely not a perfect system. The problem is society in general accepts this behavior. It is an absurd claim on its face. They should face social pressure for this behavior. The only thing that I think could make our various systems better is to change what we accept; outside of those systems. The media we are sold and consume should reflect what is important to us. If cases like this were blasted across the twitter verse and people actually cared, it would stop once the spending decreases following the exposure. We are seeing that in other arenas.<p>I remember reading about a culture in east asia or the pacific where farmers did not have written contracts and usually had very little problems. Everyone knew what was expected and fell in line. If a farmer were to break with the norm, I am sure it would have resulted in them being ostracized.<p>I hope one day we expect more from each other, and expect more from ourselves.</text></item><item><author>JSavageOne</author><text>&gt; Our lawyer let us know that they had no strong grounds against us, but would drain us in a legal battle we could never afford.<p>This is a clear failure of our justice system.</text></item><item><author>breue</author><text>I actually had something somewhat similar happen to me, but with Twitter.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breue.com&#x2F;twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breue.com&#x2F;twitter</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breue.com&#x2F;86851616.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breue.com&#x2F;86851616.pdf</a><p>I was working on a project called Scoper, which let you do video streaming. It had done fairly well at SXSW, and we had a decent amount of users. Just before we thought we were gonna be awarded a trademark for the name, we got a not so friendly letter from Twitter&#x27;s counsel at Fenwick and West, telling us we were infringing on their &quot;Periscope&quot; brand, and listing some pretty clear demands. We never really thought of our app as a competitor to Periscope.<p>Our lawyer let us know that they had no strong grounds against us, but would drain us in a legal battle we could never afford. We told Twitter we knew they had weak grounds and that the case would just drag on, and we would rather save both sides money, if they would just buy us out.<p>They gave us a super low amount of money to drop the trademark application, transfer the domain, all brand related stuff, and remove our app from the App Store. It was kinda depressing, but it could have been a worse outcome.<p>To be fair, this wasn&#x27;t outrageous like this pear logo case, but it was just a feeling of being bullied and knowing you don&#x27;t stand a chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>felipelemos</author><text>&gt; It is definitely not a perfect system. The problem is society in general accepts this behavior.<p>The problem is the justice system accept this behaviour. We can not and should not depends on the public opinion in general to determine injustices to happen. That&#x27;s why we have a justice system after all.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo</title><url>https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-legal-action-pear-logo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghastmaster</author><text>It is definitely not a perfect system. The problem is society in general accepts this behavior. It is an absurd claim on its face. They should face social pressure for this behavior. The only thing that I think could make our various systems better is to change what we accept; outside of those systems. The media we are sold and consume should reflect what is important to us. If cases like this were blasted across the twitter verse and people actually cared, it would stop once the spending decreases following the exposure. We are seeing that in other arenas.<p>I remember reading about a culture in east asia or the pacific where farmers did not have written contracts and usually had very little problems. Everyone knew what was expected and fell in line. If a farmer were to break with the norm, I am sure it would have resulted in them being ostracized.<p>I hope one day we expect more from each other, and expect more from ourselves.</text></item><item><author>JSavageOne</author><text>&gt; Our lawyer let us know that they had no strong grounds against us, but would drain us in a legal battle we could never afford.<p>This is a clear failure of our justice system.</text></item><item><author>breue</author><text>I actually had something somewhat similar happen to me, but with Twitter.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breue.com&#x2F;twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breue.com&#x2F;twitter</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breue.com&#x2F;86851616.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;breue.com&#x2F;86851616.pdf</a><p>I was working on a project called Scoper, which let you do video streaming. It had done fairly well at SXSW, and we had a decent amount of users. Just before we thought we were gonna be awarded a trademark for the name, we got a not so friendly letter from Twitter&#x27;s counsel at Fenwick and West, telling us we were infringing on their &quot;Periscope&quot; brand, and listing some pretty clear demands. We never really thought of our app as a competitor to Periscope.<p>Our lawyer let us know that they had no strong grounds against us, but would drain us in a legal battle we could never afford. We told Twitter we knew they had weak grounds and that the case would just drag on, and we would rather save both sides money, if they would just buy us out.<p>They gave us a super low amount of money to drop the trademark application, transfer the domain, all brand related stuff, and remove our app from the App Store. It was kinda depressing, but it could have been a worse outcome.<p>To be fair, this wasn&#x27;t outrageous like this pear logo case, but it was just a feeling of being bullied and knowing you don&#x27;t stand a chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kunai</author><text>At the core of the problem is that society is not allowed to not accept this behavior. The systems by which Apple et al abuse their positions to harm small businesses and &quot;the little&quot; guy are literally enshrined in our legal and administrative code. Government decisions of the last 30 years, often regardless of party, have resulted in the single largest consolidation of corporate power under six umbrellas (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix) in Silicon Valley history.<p>Extraordinarily lax antitrust laws (in both Republican and Democratic administrations, you&#x27;d expect the Dems to be tougher on this but follow the money trail and it&#x27;s simple to see why), a general disdain for shareholder activism, and corporate culture in <i>all</i> of the aforementioned companies prioritizing the needs of advertisers over the needs of the end user.<p>&gt; The media we are sold and consume should reflect what is important to us. If cases like this were blasted across the twitter verse and people actually cared, it would stop<p>I would have agreed with you fifteen, maybe ten years ago. The point of no return has been passed. Apple and Amazon alone are worth enough combined for public opinion to matter nil in terms of their actual business practices. They could suffer millions of dollars in bad press and shareholders would continue to invest and consumers would continue to buy product. Look at TSLA as a fantastic example -- Elon consistently sticks his foot in his mouth and makes a mockery of himself but TSLA short sellers continue to lose big time.<p>The only solution at this point in my view is a fundamental overhaul of antitrust law and safeguards to ensure competition in cutting edge industries, and collectivization of essentials like public internet and public utilities so the profit incentive doesn&#x27;t get in the way of service. We&#x27;re already seeing how terrible the outcome is with the Post Office, we don&#x27;t need any additional privatization in the world of tech.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Digital books wear out faster than physical books</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adalacelove</author><text>I think they put reasonable barriers to piracy. They are of course possible to circumvent, as every other barrier in existence, but you can also scan or make photocopies of a physical book. And this is actually a good thing. Mildly related: the other they I was watching something on Netflix on my phone and found something funny so I tried to take an screenshot to share with my friends, which quite frankly I think is fair use. It didn&#x27;t work because it seems that although I paid for my phone, it&#x27;s not really my phone.</text></item><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>While I cherish the sentiment I very much doubt it&#x27;s shared by all content right holders and copyright lawyers. And it takes only a handful to disagree.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>&gt; The fact the Internet Archive hasn&#x27;t been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.<p>Because it&#x27;s a library. If you happen to be lucky enough to go there and meet the people running it, it&#x27;s very clear they are librarians doing what librarians do.</text></item><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive?<p>Copyright, of course. The fact the Internet Archive hasn&#x27;t been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.</text></item><item><author>armchairhacker</author><text>Physical books wear out in decades to centuries, computers break in years to decades. Also digital formats are constantly evolving and backwards compatibility for old formats is removed. Even without publisher&#x2F;legal issues it&#x27;s clear that preservation of digital media for even the next <i>10 years</i>, and especially for the next 100 or 1000, is at risk.<p>But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive? The way to preserve media is to distribute it and store it in many places, not just one central location. Does the Internet Archive store redundant copies in many locations? Does it use long-term physical formats?<p>Also, figuring out what information is &quot;meaningful&quot; and which is completely useless or redundant is extremely important. Because we want to store everything with the potential to be important in the future, but we also have an incredible amount of data (hence one of the reasons why IA is the only major archiver). It may be good to strategize data collection, e.g. a shallow list of all sources and a deeper list of popular sources, a sample of various sources from every region, etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blue039</author><text>Scanning and making copies of portions of a book <i>used</i> to be encouraged. In fact, it&#x27;s how you collected information for book reports and research. It wasn&#x27;t uncommon, for example, for me to print out entire journal articles or scan entire chapters at the University library. Now, they&#x27;d probably shoot my dog.<p>I tried prime video once and the way it locked down my computer to guarantee so-called &quot;rights&quot; was stupid. I tried Netflix, same thing. I&#x27;m slowly but surely trending back to unabashed piracy because it&#x27;s the only way I can own anything anymore - and that&#x27;s sad. I will happily spend hard earned money as long as I can <i>own</i> something. At the very least I&#x27;d happily donate to my local library if they didn&#x27;t spend time enforcing the will of some faceless multinational publisher.<p>Shockingly, as I&#x27;ve gotten older I seem to own less and every year the apes we elect take more of my rights away.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Digital books wear out faster than physical books</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adalacelove</author><text>I think they put reasonable barriers to piracy. They are of course possible to circumvent, as every other barrier in existence, but you can also scan or make photocopies of a physical book. And this is actually a good thing. Mildly related: the other they I was watching something on Netflix on my phone and found something funny so I tried to take an screenshot to share with my friends, which quite frankly I think is fair use. It didn&#x27;t work because it seems that although I paid for my phone, it&#x27;s not really my phone.</text></item><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>While I cherish the sentiment I very much doubt it&#x27;s shared by all content right holders and copyright lawyers. And it takes only a handful to disagree.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>&gt; The fact the Internet Archive hasn&#x27;t been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.<p>Because it&#x27;s a library. If you happen to be lucky enough to go there and meet the people running it, it&#x27;s very clear they are librarians doing what librarians do.</text></item><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive?<p>Copyright, of course. The fact the Internet Archive hasn&#x27;t been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.</text></item><item><author>armchairhacker</author><text>Physical books wear out in decades to centuries, computers break in years to decades. Also digital formats are constantly evolving and backwards compatibility for old formats is removed. Even without publisher&#x2F;legal issues it&#x27;s clear that preservation of digital media for even the next <i>10 years</i>, and especially for the next 100 or 1000, is at risk.<p>But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive? The way to preserve media is to distribute it and store it in many places, not just one central location. Does the Internet Archive store redundant copies in many locations? Does it use long-term physical formats?<p>Also, figuring out what information is &quot;meaningful&quot; and which is completely useless or redundant is extremely important. Because we want to store everything with the potential to be important in the future, but we also have an incredible amount of data (hence one of the reasons why IA is the only major archiver). It may be good to strategize data collection, e.g. a shallow list of all sources and a deeper list of popular sources, a sample of various sources from every region, etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>Those user hostile features are what drive me to piracy. No way I&#x27;ll pay money to have the privilege of installing spyware just so I can stream low-quality video to whatever device the provider deems worthy at that particular moment.<p>I&#x27;ll just go on 1337x and in 2 minutes I have an high quality mkv that I can play anywhere I want. I&#x27;d happily pay 5-10$ a pop for this, and for indie movies I do make the effort of seeing if there&#x27;s a way of paying to watch it somewhere, even if I just pay and don&#x27;t watch it there, and watch the pirated rip anyway.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/24/quitting_academic_jobs_professor_zachary_ernst_and_other_leaving_tenure.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mililani</author><text>My wife is in academia. Although, not in the ivory towers. She&#x27;s at a community college in California, and she&#x27;s both on the tenured faculty track and administration as a program director. So, her experiences may not speak entirely to this article.<p>There are lots of problems inherent with academia that most people thinking about this field are not really thinking about. The biggest problem, I think, is that for most 99% of all professors, once they are tenured, they are LOCKED down geographically. And, that sucks. My wife and I have one foot out the door all the time. We go where the jobs are. But, now that she&#x27;s on the tenure track, we wonder if this is where we&#x27;ll lay down and die. It&#x27;s pretty sad, when I think about it. You hear about it time and time again from so much of these guys. One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii and how his wife divorced him because of it. He had a page up here:<p><a href="http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~lee/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.hawaii.edu&#x2F;~lee&#x2F;</a><p>But, apparently, after some time he decided to take down the more controversial stuff. The index.html page to his ramblings are down. Anyways, that&#x27;s a huge problem for academics. And, I thought about it, and I think the biggest problem is the whole tenure thing. I think it should be abolished. Professors should be able to move to new institutions without worrying about that entire process, and they should be paid a better wage because of it. It should be like any other free market enterprise we have nowadays. And, Universities should also be able to get rid of dead weight. I&#x27;ve had some professors in the past who just gave up on research and life. For example, said professor mentioned above. He gave up on math research because the University kept screwing them over on pay. He retired with only 17 publications under his name. My other friend who is now a tenured math professor at a 4 year college has 17 publications at just 37 years of age. My other friend who has been teaching for about 10 years now has only 2 publications: his math Ph.D. dissertation, and a one page paper that probably isn&#x27;t worth the paper it&#x27;s printed on. Anyways, I think it&#x27;s high time tenure is made obsolete. It gives professors more latitude to move, probably better pay, and more incentive to do research or teach better. It also gives schools and students the opportunity to get better teachers and lose the dead weight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Interesting data point. My father-in-law was a math prof who gave up research. He felt bad about it. He went to the department chair and said that since he wasn&#x27;t doing research any more, could he be given more classes to free up other professors who were doing research to spend their time that way.<p>He was told no because, &quot;It would make the rest of us look bad.&quot; And so he spent many years working a half-time job and feeling bad about it.<p>(He was also one of the best teachers in the department. In large part, possibly, because his attention was on teaching, not research. And face it, most of the material that is presented in first and second year math courses has not been a subject of research since the 1800s.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>“I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/24/quitting_academic_jobs_professor_zachary_ernst_and_other_leaving_tenure.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mililani</author><text>My wife is in academia. Although, not in the ivory towers. She&#x27;s at a community college in California, and she&#x27;s both on the tenured faculty track and administration as a program director. So, her experiences may not speak entirely to this article.<p>There are lots of problems inherent with academia that most people thinking about this field are not really thinking about. The biggest problem, I think, is that for most 99% of all professors, once they are tenured, they are LOCKED down geographically. And, that sucks. My wife and I have one foot out the door all the time. We go where the jobs are. But, now that she&#x27;s on the tenure track, we wonder if this is where we&#x27;ll lay down and die. It&#x27;s pretty sad, when I think about it. You hear about it time and time again from so much of these guys. One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii and how his wife divorced him because of it. He had a page up here:<p><a href="http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~lee/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.hawaii.edu&#x2F;~lee&#x2F;</a><p>But, apparently, after some time he decided to take down the more controversial stuff. The index.html page to his ramblings are down. Anyways, that&#x27;s a huge problem for academics. And, I thought about it, and I think the biggest problem is the whole tenure thing. I think it should be abolished. Professors should be able to move to new institutions without worrying about that entire process, and they should be paid a better wage because of it. It should be like any other free market enterprise we have nowadays. And, Universities should also be able to get rid of dead weight. I&#x27;ve had some professors in the past who just gave up on research and life. For example, said professor mentioned above. He gave up on math research because the University kept screwing them over on pay. He retired with only 17 publications under his name. My other friend who is now a tenured math professor at a 4 year college has 17 publications at just 37 years of age. My other friend who has been teaching for about 10 years now has only 2 publications: his math Ph.D. dissertation, and a one page paper that probably isn&#x27;t worth the paper it&#x27;s printed on. Anyways, I think it&#x27;s high time tenure is made obsolete. It gives professors more latitude to move, probably better pay, and more incentive to do research or teach better. It also gives schools and students the opportunity to get better teachers and lose the dead weight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>&gt; One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii<p>Wow. No offense, but I can&#x27;t imagine this guy with a real job. The self-entitlement is insane. I really think there&#x27;s a forest for the tree problem with a lot of academics. The few I know get massive entitlements, days off, benefits, etc. I work in IT, worry about layoffs, get minimal holidays, have on-call, and generally get treated like an idiot savant because no one likes techies and techies go against the corporate &#x27;sales guy&#x27; culture that dominates so many companies.<p>I wish my biggest problem was being forced to stay in Hawaii. On top of it, I went to some pretty good schools and honestly half my professors were loathesome misanthropes. I can&#x27;t imagine where they would fit elsewhere. They&#x27;d be destroyed in corporate culture in a new york minute.<p>Perhaps I am suffering from a &#x27;grass is greener&#x27; mentality, but sometimes it helps, i think, to remember where you came from and what you have. Some problems are real and others just aren&#x27;t.<p>I really wonder if the real issue is the ease that someone can enter many phd programs. With massive private&#x2F;public loans and universities hungry for money, we might have long ago hit a tipping point of being too generous and letting a lot of people in who otherwise would have been unacceptable for phd programs, especially in the humanities. Of the academics I know, maybe one is a stellar thinker, the rest are just upper-middle class milquetoasts who wanted an easy life.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Used Netscape Composer in 2024</title><url>https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024-en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; “So, how was it to use a WYSIWYG web page editor from over 20 years ago? Quite pleasant, actually.”</i><p>The dirty secret of web apps is that we’ve mostly gone backwards in usability compared to native desktop apps from 25 years ago.<p>Web apps are a mishmash of paradigms. Pieces of desktop UI are reproduced using a woefully limited framework inside a static request-based page navigation model. The user never quite knows whether an action will trigger a multi-second page refresh, whether the back button does anything useful, etc.<p>Desktop UIs had professionally designed human interface guidelines based on decades of actual research. On the web, designers are primarily graphics artists who pick fonts and pride on making buttons look like nobody else’s buttons. Icons are nowadays tiny monochrome line scribbles without labels. Just pray there are tooltips so you can figure out what happens if you press one of these icon buttons in a web app. (Or maybe it’s just an icon and not a button? No way of knowing, since the conventions that made buttons obvious have been thrown away.)<p>The web is the worst application delivery platform of the past 30 years, so of course it’s the one we got stuck with. Worse often wins by its simplicity and ubiquity. Everybody could author a HTML page and some gradually built their skills towards apps. This review of old Netscape Composer reminds of how important that was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>Ugh. Not this HN trope again. &quot;Web is bad, the old days were good, designers are the worst, developers are the best&quot;<p>Lazy, inaccurate, and offensive.<p>How is this limited to the web? &#x27;The Desktop&#x27; suffers significantly more from not having a single, understandable paradigm. Is this UI modal? If I click this will it &#x27;pop&#x27; me to another view? Or will it open a new window? Is that window represented in task bar&#x2F;switcher&#x2F;dock&#x2F;whatever? How do I get back to where I was before?<p>Not to mention the issue that both macOS and Windows suffers from being in the middle of a UI-kit transition, with a bunch of half-and-half apps across the system, with the new system being of... dubious quality (I&#x27;m staring at you, new macOS Settings)<p>I think overall, I think there is a positive trend for usability of software on both the web and &#x27;desktop&#x27; (whatever that means). But still, just like 20 years ago, people can still make bad software.<p>Edit: lol - just now as I&#x27;m trying to uninstall some AMD drivers, I get a dialogue box asking me to visit a long Microsoft Store URL, and it&#x27;s neither clickable nor copyable. Desktop is perfect!</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Used Netscape Composer in 2024</title><url>https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024-en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; “So, how was it to use a WYSIWYG web page editor from over 20 years ago? Quite pleasant, actually.”</i><p>The dirty secret of web apps is that we’ve mostly gone backwards in usability compared to native desktop apps from 25 years ago.<p>Web apps are a mishmash of paradigms. Pieces of desktop UI are reproduced using a woefully limited framework inside a static request-based page navigation model. The user never quite knows whether an action will trigger a multi-second page refresh, whether the back button does anything useful, etc.<p>Desktop UIs had professionally designed human interface guidelines based on decades of actual research. On the web, designers are primarily graphics artists who pick fonts and pride on making buttons look like nobody else’s buttons. Icons are nowadays tiny monochrome line scribbles without labels. Just pray there are tooltips so you can figure out what happens if you press one of these icon buttons in a web app. (Or maybe it’s just an icon and not a button? No way of knowing, since the conventions that made buttons obvious have been thrown away.)<p>The web is the worst application delivery platform of the past 30 years, so of course it’s the one we got stuck with. Worse often wins by its simplicity and ubiquity. Everybody could author a HTML page and some gradually built their skills towards apps. This review of old Netscape Composer reminds of how important that was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graemep</author><text>I think what you are missing here is that desktop UIs have got worse too, largely because of design trends that prioritise aesthetics over usability.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The last moments of Lac-Mégantic</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lac-megantic-musi-cafe/article15656116/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>The use of railways for transporting petroleum products is booming thanks to the backlash against pipelines such as keystone and gateway. Oil companies who are fearful of incurring public outrage due to pipeline spills are only too happy to hand tanker cars over to the care of railway workers. When statistically inevitable accidents happen the oil producers can escape the blame!<p>The Lac-Mégantic disaster shows why we should be building more pipelines. Pipelines spill less per unit of volume shipped and usually avoid populated centers to a much greater degree than railways. They&#x27;re better for the environment and safer for humans. Fossil fuels can be nasty stuff, but we currently still need them and we require the ability to move them around safely. The next time you see environmentalists protesting pipeline construction, ask them why they&#x27;re not chaining themselves to their local railway tracks instead. We should do our best to avoid rolling bomb&#x27;s through beautiful towns like Lac-Mégantic on a daily basis.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The last moments of Lac-Mégantic</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lac-megantic-musi-cafe/article15656116/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidy123</author><text>It&#x27;s a really beautiful little town in a gorgeous setting and this was a really shocking tragedy that shows how easily disasters can happen in an increasing scale industrial world.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>Every Republican nominee and political organization has been compared to fascists and Hitler since the early 1950s.<p>It long ago lost its punch yet it&#x27;s still the go-to for every leftwing political ideologue like it will be taken seriously.<p>I agree that this same stuff has been going on forever but I&#x27;ve noticed a significant decline in tolerance by the left of even engaging and debating those on the right. The positions of ivory tower righteous we-know-best reputation which the left has always been known for has gone into overdrive - mostly on social media but it&#x27;s leaking into reputable papers like NYT and less reputable ones in terms of neutrality like WaPo. Plus the crazy radical stuff coming out of places like Teen Vogue are also quite new.<p>Crossing lines has always been a critical political necessity as so much of politics is built on compromise. But at least culturally the hysteria and FUD being stirred up online has completely destroyed any sense of understanding or breaching the other side. Which is turning modern politics into a form of trench warfare.<p>The right have certainly contributed to it by tolerating their crazies a little too frequently (even though they rarely win or have any power outside of useful headlines in the political media coverage) when in the past they&#x27;d stay the fringe and get zero news coverage or attention, which would otherwise increase their standing and help with recruitment to turn otherwise fringe crazies into groups the media presents with seriousness and legitimacy - because they find it useful to attach it to more mainstream and moderate voters. Which I think is a dangerous game to play and one we&#x27;ve already seen the consequences of.<p>It&#x27;s far easier for the baddies to recruit and be real threads when the media and other influential people connect them to the real power players in Washington who&#x27;ve never heard of them and would want nothing to do with them.</text></item><item><author>snowedin</author><text>I think you have a very good point.<p>The overall metapoint that both you and the parent comment agree on is this: the internet isn&#x27;t being &quot;weaponized by authoritarian states&quot; in some unique fashion specific to authoritarianism.<p>I&#x27;d just round it all up to say that: like most headlines about global trends in America, this headline reenforces the meme of &quot;American Exceptionalism&quot; and casts the situation in a &quot;good versus evil&quot; narrative format that&#x27;s not really helpful for understanding what&#x27;s happening or what to do about it. But that itself isn&#x27;t anything particularly new in itself either (queue last three decades of American headlines).</text></item><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text><i>To wit what comprises &quot;hate speech&quot;</i><p>That&#x27;s a rather specious argument when you have the current example of a democracy (India) simply shutting down large parts of the internet for political reasons, not to mention the widespread deployment of surveillance tech in numerous developed countries.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say that you don&#x27;t have a point, but if you&#x27;re saying it&#x27;s a more pressing issue than those you might be suffering from a loss of perspective. After all, &#x27;hate speech&#x27; is widely unpopular (as opposed to being a highly popular thing suppressed by authoritarian states, and much &#x27;hate speech&#x27; treats of the desire to operate an authoritarian state that will restrict or outright terminate the freedoms&#x2F;lives of the hated subjects.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>&gt;&quot;But the extraordinary case draws attention to how dictatorships are increasingly using technology to crush online dissent.&quot;<p>Yes, authoritarian regimes control communication. That&#x27;s been the case for over a century of radio and mass circulation dailies. It&#x27;s nothing new.<p>What is new is that even democratic countries are controlling free speech via speech laws or often the private companies engaging in evaluating what&#x27;s permissible speech and not above and beyond what laws require. To wit what comprises &quot;hate speech&quot;. It&#x27;s basically come to mean &quot;point of view in disagreement with my group&#x27;s current position which may change in the future&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sgnelson</author><text>&quot;The right have certainly contributed to it by tolerating their crazies a little too frequently (even though they rarely win or have any power outside of useful headlines in the political media coverage) when in the past they&#x27;d stay the fringe and get zero news coverage or attention...&quot;<p>I find that pretty funny considering who the current president is. I would go further to argue that was in part the reason he was elected. This is after all the man who started getting more and more attention for claiming that the former president was born in Kenya.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>Every Republican nominee and political organization has been compared to fascists and Hitler since the early 1950s.<p>It long ago lost its punch yet it&#x27;s still the go-to for every leftwing political ideologue like it will be taken seriously.<p>I agree that this same stuff has been going on forever but I&#x27;ve noticed a significant decline in tolerance by the left of even engaging and debating those on the right. The positions of ivory tower righteous we-know-best reputation which the left has always been known for has gone into overdrive - mostly on social media but it&#x27;s leaking into reputable papers like NYT and less reputable ones in terms of neutrality like WaPo. Plus the crazy radical stuff coming out of places like Teen Vogue are also quite new.<p>Crossing lines has always been a critical political necessity as so much of politics is built on compromise. But at least culturally the hysteria and FUD being stirred up online has completely destroyed any sense of understanding or breaching the other side. Which is turning modern politics into a form of trench warfare.<p>The right have certainly contributed to it by tolerating their crazies a little too frequently (even though they rarely win or have any power outside of useful headlines in the political media coverage) when in the past they&#x27;d stay the fringe and get zero news coverage or attention, which would otherwise increase their standing and help with recruitment to turn otherwise fringe crazies into groups the media presents with seriousness and legitimacy - because they find it useful to attach it to more mainstream and moderate voters. Which I think is a dangerous game to play and one we&#x27;ve already seen the consequences of.<p>It&#x27;s far easier for the baddies to recruit and be real threads when the media and other influential people connect them to the real power players in Washington who&#x27;ve never heard of them and would want nothing to do with them.</text></item><item><author>snowedin</author><text>I think you have a very good point.<p>The overall metapoint that both you and the parent comment agree on is this: the internet isn&#x27;t being &quot;weaponized by authoritarian states&quot; in some unique fashion specific to authoritarianism.<p>I&#x27;d just round it all up to say that: like most headlines about global trends in America, this headline reenforces the meme of &quot;American Exceptionalism&quot; and casts the situation in a &quot;good versus evil&quot; narrative format that&#x27;s not really helpful for understanding what&#x27;s happening or what to do about it. But that itself isn&#x27;t anything particularly new in itself either (queue last three decades of American headlines).</text></item><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text><i>To wit what comprises &quot;hate speech&quot;</i><p>That&#x27;s a rather specious argument when you have the current example of a democracy (India) simply shutting down large parts of the internet for political reasons, not to mention the widespread deployment of surveillance tech in numerous developed countries.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say that you don&#x27;t have a point, but if you&#x27;re saying it&#x27;s a more pressing issue than those you might be suffering from a loss of perspective. After all, &#x27;hate speech&#x27; is widely unpopular (as opposed to being a highly popular thing suppressed by authoritarian states, and much &#x27;hate speech&#x27; treats of the desire to operate an authoritarian state that will restrict or outright terminate the freedoms&#x2F;lives of the hated subjects.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>&gt;&quot;But the extraordinary case draws attention to how dictatorships are increasingly using technology to crush online dissent.&quot;<p>Yes, authoritarian regimes control communication. That&#x27;s been the case for over a century of radio and mass circulation dailies. It&#x27;s nothing new.<p>What is new is that even democratic countries are controlling free speech via speech laws or often the private companies engaging in evaluating what&#x27;s permissible speech and not above and beyond what laws require. To wit what comprises &quot;hate speech&quot;. It&#x27;s basically come to mean &quot;point of view in disagreement with my group&#x27;s current position which may change in the future&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mirioron</author><text>I&#x27;d like to add to what you&#x27;re saying: the religious right of the 2000s and earlier is what some of the left wing looks like today. Instead of religion they have some form of social justice.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive</title><url>https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiles74</author><text>How was the CDL hurting working authors? A library bought the book, paying the publisher and the author. The IA scanned the book for digital lending, this digital copy could only be checked out by one person and only when the physical book was not also checked out.<p>I understand the court decided this wasn&#x27;t okay. That aside, how was it hurting working authors?</text></item><item><author>doublescoop</author><text>This wasn&#x27;t a case of the estates of dead authors trying to hold onto rights. Working authors were actively being harmed by the activities of the IA through the CDL. Working authors were met with refusals to meet to discuss this issue.<p>I don&#x27;t think that characterization of Kahle is unfair at all. His position was unreasonable, determined to be illegal, and damaging to people who depend on copyright to license their work.</text></item><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; In his many interviews with U.S. media, he portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians. It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>If IA had won, IA would be hailed as a cultural hero. They hit and they missed. Claiming Brewster Kahle is against &quot;the people who work very hard to bring new books into being&quot; is unfair. The copyright goalposts have moved so far past where they were originally, the people who work very hard can be dead for decades and their works still in copyright, and by the time they are dead for 70 years, the copyright will probably be extended again.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>This has been playing out for many years. And it&#x27;s all because Brewster Kahle decided that an overly broad interpretation of the Internet Archive&#x27;s mission trumped the rights of authors and publishers, and the laws of the United States.<p>When IA was asked to stop CDL - many times - he continued. The National Writers Union tried to open a dialogue as early as 2010 but was ignored:<p><i>The Internet Archive says it would rather talk with writers individually than talk to the NWU or other writers’ organizations. But requests by NWU members to talk to or meet with the Internet Archive have been ignored or rebuffed.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;</a><p>When the requests to abandon CDL turned into demands, Kahle dug in his heels. When the inevitable lawsuits followed, and IA lost, he insisted that he was still in the right and plowed ahead with appeals.<p>He also opened a new front in the court of public opinion. In his blog posts and interviews with U.S. media, Kahle portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-statement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-st...</a>). It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>In addition, there has been real collateral damage to the many noble aspects of the Internet Archive. Legal fees and judgements have diverted resources away from the Wayback Machine, the library of public domain works, and other IA programs that provide real value to society. I truly hope the organization can survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>The ruling discusses this starting on page 33. The gist is that they set up a non-transformative service that is substantially equivalent to competing ebook services and CDLs, but unlike those it is not paying the customary price to publishers.<p>It also discusses that there is a very good reason why digital libraries don&#x27;t typically get to have perpetual rights to a work at the retail (or used) price for a print book. Basically, physical books wear out with use, ebooks don&#x27;t, so there&#x27;s a built-in mechanism for revenue recurrence that happens with print books but not ebooks. The ruling points out that publishers originally sold ebooks to libraries at the same pricing as print books, but abandoned the practice because they discovered that it was not financially sustainable.<p>And that&#x27;s ultimately where the harm comes in. The IA is trying to create a loophole that subverts the income stream of all the people who work on a book by offering derivative works - which are never fair use; fair use is for <i>transformative</i> works - without paying the market&#x27;s customary price for acquiring rights to create and distribute derivative works.<p>(As an aside, when I see authors speaking for themselves on these sorts of issues they will typically point out that editors and typesetters and cover artists and all the other folks who work on a book also deserve to get paid. It seems to only be people who are tokenizing authors for rhetorical purposes who want fixate on authors specifically and erase the value-adding contributions of &quot;the publishers&quot;.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive</title><url>https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiles74</author><text>How was the CDL hurting working authors? A library bought the book, paying the publisher and the author. The IA scanned the book for digital lending, this digital copy could only be checked out by one person and only when the physical book was not also checked out.<p>I understand the court decided this wasn&#x27;t okay. That aside, how was it hurting working authors?</text></item><item><author>doublescoop</author><text>This wasn&#x27;t a case of the estates of dead authors trying to hold onto rights. Working authors were actively being harmed by the activities of the IA through the CDL. Working authors were met with refusals to meet to discuss this issue.<p>I don&#x27;t think that characterization of Kahle is unfair at all. His position was unreasonable, determined to be illegal, and damaging to people who depend on copyright to license their work.</text></item><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; In his many interviews with U.S. media, he portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians. It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>If IA had won, IA would be hailed as a cultural hero. They hit and they missed. Claiming Brewster Kahle is against &quot;the people who work very hard to bring new books into being&quot; is unfair. The copyright goalposts have moved so far past where they were originally, the people who work very hard can be dead for decades and their works still in copyright, and by the time they are dead for 70 years, the copyright will probably be extended again.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>This has been playing out for many years. And it&#x27;s all because Brewster Kahle decided that an overly broad interpretation of the Internet Archive&#x27;s mission trumped the rights of authors and publishers, and the laws of the United States.<p>When IA was asked to stop CDL - many times - he continued. The National Writers Union tried to open a dialogue as early as 2010 but was ignored:<p><i>The Internet Archive says it would rather talk with writers individually than talk to the NWU or other writers’ organizations. But requests by NWU members to talk to or meet with the Internet Archive have been ignored or rebuffed.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;</a><p>When the requests to abandon CDL turned into demands, Kahle dug in his heels. When the inevitable lawsuits followed, and IA lost, he insisted that he was still in the right and plowed ahead with appeals.<p>He also opened a new front in the court of public opinion. In his blog posts and interviews with U.S. media, Kahle portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-statement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-st...</a>). It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>In addition, there has been real collateral damage to the many noble aspects of the Internet Archive. Legal fees and judgements have diverted resources away from the Wayback Machine, the library of public domain works, and other IA programs that provide real value to society. I truly hope the organization can survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>If you read the original ruling, IA lost control of the physical book so they weren&#x27;t actually doing CDL.<p>This is why this case was so frustrating. In order to challenge long standing thought, you need to build an airtight case. Lapses like the above and then steering users to buying used copies from BWB shows IA was not ready for a case.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Note from Mark Zuckerberg</title><url>http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/marknote/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmtew</author><text>Regarding:<p>&gt; Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.<p>I often find that when I follow Facebook links, I get a login page, requiring me to create an account to see the content.<p>And not even for Facebook itself, I tried to look at images on Pinterest the other day, and if I followed more than one link, I&#x27;d get an overlay requiring me to login via Facebook. The site was almost unusable if I wasn&#x27;t logged into Facebook.<p>The only other sites I&#x27;ve visited in a long time, that hide content unless I login, are newspaper sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucaspiller</author><text>TripAdvisor does something similar, on the mobile web app you can only view the top 3 reviews and need to download their app to see the rest.<p>I&#x27;m sure some exec thought this would be a great idea to get more downloads, but when I&#x27;m out looking for a restaurant I&#x27;m not going to waste my time and data waiting for their 112mb (iOS) app to download. I&#x27;ll just base my decision on the reviews I see or go to one of the many other review sites.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Note from Mark Zuckerberg</title><url>http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/marknote/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmtew</author><text>Regarding:<p>&gt; Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.<p>I often find that when I follow Facebook links, I get a login page, requiring me to create an account to see the content.<p>And not even for Facebook itself, I tried to look at images on Pinterest the other day, and if I followed more than one link, I&#x27;d get an overlay requiring me to login via Facebook. The site was almost unusable if I wasn&#x27;t logged into Facebook.<p>The only other sites I&#x27;ve visited in a long time, that hide content unless I login, are newspaper sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evincarofautumn</author><text>Facebook can only really enforce privacy settings on content by authenticating you, unless the content was shared publicly. That’s pretty benign.<p>But I abhor requiring Facebook login to merely <i>view</i> non-FB sites. It’s antithetical to Facebook’s stated purpose, and I think they ought to make it a TOS violation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I've been merging microservices back into the monolith</title><url>https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3944-why-ive-been-merging-microservices-back-into-the-monolith-at-invision.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeeWEE</author><text>It&#x27;s not about microservices or not, it&#x27;s about domain boundaries, application architecture, coupling. Whether it runs in a service or in a monolith isn&#x27;t the deciding factor of wether its good or bad.<p>Architecture and design is. A 100 services app with 5000 lines of code each could be really badly designed and entangled, and
a monolith with 500.0000 lines of code could be very well designed...<p>It&#x27;s about code quality, right abstractions, decoupling, cohesion. Correct domain modelling Etc.<p>Microservices are just a tool, but you have to have a good design first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eternalban</author><text>From a technical point of view, we&#x27;re on the same page. But then there is the reality of modern software development.<p>A few years ago, the new CTO of a Union Square Ventures&#x27; investment tapped me as technical advisor to review this startups efforts to expand their software to new verticals. He came in as part of a reshuffle. He had brought his Director of Engineering from his previous (well known) company, and there was even a Star CEO (which is the reason I signed up!) with a monumentally impressive CV. As compensation, I was billing lawyer hourly rates.<p>After two months of reviewing their existing architecture, and picking the brains of the dev, support, and sales team the new verticals, I came with an <i>architectural</i> solution to their immediate and long-term needs. I gave them exactly what they said they wanted.<p>What then happened is that, for one, the Star CEO turned out to be an echo chamber of &quot;growth growth growth&quot; and entirely disappointing as a leader of a software company. And this was a SV veteran from both HW and SW side of SV. Huge disappointment.<p>The CTO, who was entirely clueless, apparently gave in to back channel efforts of his DoE to disregard my work product. A few days later I walk into an all hands meeting where the &quot;next generation&quot; was announced to be &quot;a ball of mud&quot; of &quot;microservices&quot;. This same CTO later took me aside and basically offered to give me hush money (&quot;will you be my personal advisor?&quot;) to keep quiet, while getting the same (insanely high) hourly rate for the remainder of my contract.<p>So this is the reality of modern software development. Architecture is simply not valued at extremities of tech orgnizations: the bottom ranks are young developers who simply don&#x27;t know enough to appreciate thoughtful design. And the management is facing incentives that simply do NOT align with thoughtful design and development.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I've been merging microservices back into the monolith</title><url>https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3944-why-ive-been-merging-microservices-back-into-the-monolith-at-invision.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeeWEE</author><text>It&#x27;s not about microservices or not, it&#x27;s about domain boundaries, application architecture, coupling. Whether it runs in a service or in a monolith isn&#x27;t the deciding factor of wether its good or bad.<p>Architecture and design is. A 100 services app with 5000 lines of code each could be really badly designed and entangled, and
a monolith with 500.0000 lines of code could be very well designed...<p>It&#x27;s about code quality, right abstractions, decoupling, cohesion. Correct domain modelling Etc.<p>Microservices are just a tool, but you have to have a good design first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Indeed, if the team is not able to write modular code, it is not putting a network in the middle that it will sort it out, the outcome is just spaghetti network calls.</text></comment>
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<story><title>100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/100-million-investment-reshape-economics-web/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangrossman</author><text>None of these web monetization efforts address the fact that the pool of [all consumers&#x27; discretionary income they&#x27;d be willing to spend] is likely a small fraction of the size of [all commercial companies&#x27; marketing budgets]. No matter how much you reduce the friction for having people make small tips to websites, there&#x27;s just significantly less money to go around, so it can never replace advertising revenue. The only way that would change is if online advertising went away overnight, and instead of companies redirecting that to other forms of advertising, the prices of all consumer goods went down so it stayed in our collective pockets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebastos</author><text>This kind of seems like a troubling insight at first glance, but it doesn&#x27;t pass basic sanity checks imo. You could make the same exact argument about any other type of industry. Watch:<p>&gt;The [pool of discretionary income people have to spend on books] is a small fraction of [all commercial companies&#x27; marketing budgets], therefore it will always be more profitable to run free bookstores that try to make money by putting ads inside the dustjackets and all along the shelves.<p>But this obviously isn&#x27;t true - Barnes and Noble is a thing. Or you could even consider Kindles and the ebook market examples of how this isn&#x27;t true. It can be far _superior_ in terms of revenue to offer a product that people pay for directly, as opposed to baiting them into a space with ads in it.<p>I think the mistake came in when you compared all of the marketing budgets combined, (call it M), with all of the discretionary income combined, (D), and took it as axiomatic that D &lt;&lt; M. But... how could that possibly be true? Most companies will not be operating at a loss, which means their annual marketing budget will be some fraction of their gross revenue. From what I can tell from some googling, at least ~60% of that revenue, averaging over all corporations, is coming directly from... consumers&#x27; pocketbooks.<p>Some more googling tells me that marketing spend from US companies was ~$200 billion in 2018. US consumers spent $14 trillion. So the whole premise strikes me as questionable. Am I missing something?</text></comment>
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<story><title>100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/100-million-investment-reshape-economics-web/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangrossman</author><text>None of these web monetization efforts address the fact that the pool of [all consumers&#x27; discretionary income they&#x27;d be willing to spend] is likely a small fraction of the size of [all commercial companies&#x27; marketing budgets]. No matter how much you reduce the friction for having people make small tips to websites, there&#x27;s just significantly less money to go around, so it can never replace advertising revenue. The only way that would change is if online advertising went away overnight, and instead of companies redirecting that to other forms of advertising, the prices of all consumer goods went down so it stayed in our collective pockets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Alternatively if advertising became significantly less effective companies would spend less money on it. That&#x27;s the upside of Ad-blocking which could theoretically make a huge impact.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/canoo-spent-double-its-annual-revenue-on-the-ceos-private-jet-in-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>A former president only stayed at properties owned by his company, billing the government millions in extra overhead.<p>His voters love him.</text></item><item><author>diggan</author><text>&gt; Under a deal reached in November 2020, Canoo reimburses Aquila Family Ventures, an entity owned by the CEO (Tony Aquila), for use of an aircraft. In 2023, Canoo spent $1.7 million on this reimbursement — that’s double the amount of revenue it generated. Canoo paid Aquila Family Ventures $1.3 million in 2022 and $1.8 million in 2021 for use of the aircraft.<p>I&#x27;m surprised there are any employees left at the company. If I saw that the CEO is actively funneling funds out of the company where we work, to their family&#x27;s company, I&#x27;ll be long gone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>efnx</author><text>And they say “if you don’t like it, leave!”. And so now we live in New Zealand.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/canoo-spent-double-its-annual-revenue-on-the-ceos-private-jet-in-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>A former president only stayed at properties owned by his company, billing the government millions in extra overhead.<p>His voters love him.</text></item><item><author>diggan</author><text>&gt; Under a deal reached in November 2020, Canoo reimburses Aquila Family Ventures, an entity owned by the CEO (Tony Aquila), for use of an aircraft. In 2023, Canoo spent $1.7 million on this reimbursement — that’s double the amount of revenue it generated. Canoo paid Aquila Family Ventures $1.3 million in 2022 and $1.8 million in 2021 for use of the aircraft.<p>I&#x27;m surprised there are any employees left at the company. If I saw that the CEO is actively funneling funds out of the company where we work, to their family&#x27;s company, I&#x27;ll be long gone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dexterdog</author><text>I&#x27;m not fan of the guy by any measure, but how is this any different than the government paying to make any president&#x27;s existing properties places where a president and his massive entourage can stay? It&#x27;s been done by every president I can remember aside from maybe Clinton because I don&#x27;t remember him having any significant places.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU</title><url>https://replicate.com/blog/run-stable-diffusion-on-m1-mac</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bfirsh</author><text>Nice. We&#x27;ll get this guide updated for this fork. Everything&#x27;s moving so fast it&#x27;s hard to keep track!<p>We struggled to get Conda working reliably for people, which it looks like lstein&#x27;s fork recommends. I&#x27;ll see if we can get it working with plain pip.</text></item><item><author>usehackernews</author><text>Magnusviri[0], the original author of the SD M1 repo credited in this article, has merged his fork into the Lstein Stable Diffusion fork.<p>You can now run the Lstein fork[1] with M1 as of a few hours ago.<p>This adds a ton of functionality - GUI, Upscaling &amp; Facial improvements, weighted subprompts etc.<p>This has been a big undertaking over the last few days, and I highly recommend checking it out. See the mac m1 readme [3]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;magnusviri&#x2F;stable-diffusion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;magnusviri&#x2F;stable-diffusion</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lstein&#x2F;stable-diffusion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lstein&#x2F;stable-diffusion</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lstein&#x2F;stable-diffusion&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;README-Mac-MPS.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lstein&#x2F;stable-diffusion&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;README-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pugio</author><text>I really appreciate the use of pip &gt; conda. Looking forward to the update for the repo!</text></comment>
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<story><title>In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/08/27/1195966057/comic-in-the-90s-i-survived-summers-in-egypt-with-no-ac-how-would-it-feel-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>&gt;For example, we enlarged windows and doors, to the point were, standing behind one that&#x27;s been cooking in the sun for a couple of hours, you feel the radiant heat a meter away from it.<p>There are window films that can block most of the light in frequencies which carries the energy and let the light from visible spectrum in, barely dimming the brightness and almost doesn&#x27;t change the color.<p>I recently installed such a filter, I&#x27;m amazed everyday how the hot bright sun is so tamed once inside the house. Sometimes I open a window to let the full spectrum in just so I can put my feet on the spot of the unfiltered light and then on the filtered one and compare how hot it gets where the sun shines in full power and can barely heat once filtered. It feels like magic, like a winter sun that is bright but doesn&#x27;t heat. The filter itself heats up like crazy, it even gets too hot to touch but heat transfer by convection doesn&#x27;t do much.<p>My grandma lives in an old house built with thick stone walls with tiny windows. It stays naturally cool but I really like large windows. IMHO, the humanity has advanced enough to have large windows and still keep it cool. It&#x27;s also good for the mood, some people like me really really like the sun and even the heat up to a point.</text></item><item><author>fffrantz</author><text>One thing I noticed recently during the massive heatwave we had in southern Europe is how we forgot the most basic principles for building in hot climates.<p>For example, we enlarged windows and doors, to the point were, standing behind one that&#x27;s been cooking in the sun for a couple of hours, you feel the radiant heat a meter away from it. All the older houses around the Mediterranean have smaller windows and doors, to limit the sun (and by extension the heat) from coming in.<p>We&#x27;ve cut down so many trees in the cities and poured so much concrete that some places are radiating heat for hours after sundown, making the night a couple of degrees hotter than it should really be.<p>Those are just a couple examples of poor architectural and city planning, but there are dozens of simple yet efficient techniques and tricks that we should reuse to make our cities more livable. Our ancestors didn&#x27;t have all the new materials and knowledge we now have, but they were logical and lived with their environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voisin</author><text>I have heard that if you install these filters on the inside facing pane of glass, the glass can crack as the heat builds up between the inside facing and outside facing panes of glass.<p>Have you found one that does not do this or do you have any comments about this risk?</text></comment>
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<story><title>In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/08/27/1195966057/comic-in-the-90s-i-survived-summers-in-egypt-with-no-ac-how-would-it-feel-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>&gt;For example, we enlarged windows and doors, to the point were, standing behind one that&#x27;s been cooking in the sun for a couple of hours, you feel the radiant heat a meter away from it.<p>There are window films that can block most of the light in frequencies which carries the energy and let the light from visible spectrum in, barely dimming the brightness and almost doesn&#x27;t change the color.<p>I recently installed such a filter, I&#x27;m amazed everyday how the hot bright sun is so tamed once inside the house. Sometimes I open a window to let the full spectrum in just so I can put my feet on the spot of the unfiltered light and then on the filtered one and compare how hot it gets where the sun shines in full power and can barely heat once filtered. It feels like magic, like a winter sun that is bright but doesn&#x27;t heat. The filter itself heats up like crazy, it even gets too hot to touch but heat transfer by convection doesn&#x27;t do much.<p>My grandma lives in an old house built with thick stone walls with tiny windows. It stays naturally cool but I really like large windows. IMHO, the humanity has advanced enough to have large windows and still keep it cool. It&#x27;s also good for the mood, some people like me really really like the sun and even the heat up to a point.</text></item><item><author>fffrantz</author><text>One thing I noticed recently during the massive heatwave we had in southern Europe is how we forgot the most basic principles for building in hot climates.<p>For example, we enlarged windows and doors, to the point were, standing behind one that&#x27;s been cooking in the sun for a couple of hours, you feel the radiant heat a meter away from it. All the older houses around the Mediterranean have smaller windows and doors, to limit the sun (and by extension the heat) from coming in.<p>We&#x27;ve cut down so many trees in the cities and poured so much concrete that some places are radiating heat for hours after sundown, making the night a couple of degrees hotter than it should really be.<p>Those are just a couple examples of poor architectural and city planning, but there are dozens of simple yet efficient techniques and tricks that we should reuse to make our cities more livable. Our ancestors didn&#x27;t have all the new materials and knowledge we now have, but they were logical and lived with their environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>We have the same in the windows we replaced in our living room. We took the least visible (and hence least IR blocking) option, which reduces transmitted IR with 60%. The coating went up to 90% IIRC though at that point it was a very visible blue. Ours has just a slight blue-green tint.<p>The difference this summer has been striking. In our bedrooms which are on the second floor, the sun feels <i>hot</i> through the windows. In the living room I can barely feel it.<p>We&#x27;re up north so our home is well insulated, hence the summer sun tended to overheat the inside.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias</title><url>https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter-amid-acrimonious-exchanges-on-ai-bias/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewflnr</author><text>I think Yann and his critics are focusing on different questions. IIUC Yann is looking at the narrow engineering perspective of how to build an fair ML system. Gebru et al seem to be talking about a much more abstract, societal trend-oriented, &quot;let&#x27;s think about if we should not just if we can&quot; type of question, though it&#x27;s still pretty fuzzy to me. Anyway, the epistemological standards of those questions are basically incompatible (incommensurable?), so discussion is impossible unless they agree on which one they&#x27;re trying to answer. I&#x27;m starting to notice this kind of thing a lot.</text></item><item><author>emtel</author><text>Can anyone provide a simple explanation or example that illustrates why Yann was wrong? I’m highly predisposed to take his side in this, but I wonder if I could be missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlyle</author><text>I think there&#x27;s two different issues here.<p>One, if datasets are biased --- if you build your system to only work on white males --- then it may have suboptimal results for other groups. This is a common problem: you use your company&#x27;s faces, or college students enrolling in data gathering exercises, etc, who are not representative of the population at large. We can fix this by being careful about dataset bias.<p>But the second issue hits right at the heart of a major societal problem&#x2F;debate. When we use AI to make decisions about people, will the system become racist--- even with representative datasets? If you train something to predict, say, odds to default on a loan-- will it figure out things that correlate to race and be making mostly racial decisions? Different races do have different default rates, but we&#x27;ve decided as a society that it is unfair to use race to determine an individual&#x27;s probability of default. But if we choose things that are correlates of both default rates and race, when is that fair and when is it just veiled racism (redlining)? What things are measuring a causal relationship and what things are just racism in disguise?<p>This second problem is much worse with ML, because we have the ability to accept a whole bunch more things into our models and explaining the rationale of why decision are made is much harder.<p>And of course, the first problem-- both bias in datasets during use and biases during research and development -- makes the second problem worse. It can&#x27;t even necessarily be addressed by broadening the dataset and retraining: if, in this case, you do your research and training with just white faces, and report positive results, it may not generalize to work as well for everyone with a broader dataset.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias</title><url>https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter-amid-acrimonious-exchanges-on-ai-bias/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewflnr</author><text>I think Yann and his critics are focusing on different questions. IIUC Yann is looking at the narrow engineering perspective of how to build an fair ML system. Gebru et al seem to be talking about a much more abstract, societal trend-oriented, &quot;let&#x27;s think about if we should not just if we can&quot; type of question, though it&#x27;s still pretty fuzzy to me. Anyway, the epistemological standards of those questions are basically incompatible (incommensurable?), so discussion is impossible unless they agree on which one they&#x27;re trying to answer. I&#x27;m starting to notice this kind of thing a lot.</text></item><item><author>emtel</author><text>Can anyone provide a simple explanation or example that illustrates why Yann was wrong? I’m highly predisposed to take his side in this, but I wonder if I could be missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaanotherhnfolk</author><text>A variant of this is that both ppl are answering the same question but on different time scales. So one is pro (on a generational timeline) and the other is con (on a 4-year timeline).<p>Both might be right, for their respective time scales, which is why it&#x27;s so hard for either one to back down.<p>Many many ways to talk past one another. We need a small book on techniques to short circuit these situations and salvage conversations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript</title><url>https://frontstuff.io/how-to-handle-monetary-values-in-javascript</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>projectileboy</author><text>Maybe it’s just that I’ve done a few gigs at financial institutions, but it’s pretty shocking to see the number of people in this thread arguing that it’s a-ok to use floating point for money. I don’t want to get dragged down into specifics, but if you’re doing this, please, please don’t. Money is one of those things like dates and times - everyone who hasn’t done much of it can’t figure out what all the fuss is about. Just... please, at a minimum, if you don’t want to be bothered, find a reputable third-party library with Money and Currency or some such, and use that. It really won’t add much work for you.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript</title><url>https://frontstuff.io/how-to-handle-monetary-values-in-javascript</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>Banking apps, e-commerce websites, stock exchange platforms, we interact with money daily. We also increasingly rely on technology to handle ours.<p>Yet, there’s no consensus around how to programmatically handle monetary values.</i><p>I wonder if the average person would find this frightening.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Learning to Learn</title><url>http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/09/23/learning-to-learn/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>_exec</author><text>Does anybody have any (other and more thorough) resources for 'learning how to learn'? Perhaps book suggestions? One of my goals is to become an autodictact / polymath and I'm seeking way to make the process of acquiring new data / skills / learning more time-efficient and more organized (and systematic).<p>Are there any kind of 'learning theories/strategies' out there? I'm not seeking resources per se (I know about Khan academy, MIT OCW, 'bookportals' on Tor etc), but rather some sort of systematic method similar to the one described in the link but perhaps more detailed and (maybe) anecdote-/experience-based.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kriro</author><text>The Pragmatic Programmers have a book on learning called "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning". I own it and would highly recommend it, one of the more underrated books. It covers the Dreyfus learning model which was mentioned in the article.<p>The examples and language tend to be programming related (for example one chapter is titled "Debugging your Brain" iirc) because that's the intended audience but I'd also recomend it for non-programmers.<p>Very good blend of theory (Dreyfus model, r-/l-mode) and practical advice on how to improve your learning and generally use your brain better.<p><a href="http://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning" rel="nofollow">http://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learni...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Learning to Learn</title><url>http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/09/23/learning-to-learn/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>_exec</author><text>Does anybody have any (other and more thorough) resources for 'learning how to learn'? Perhaps book suggestions? One of my goals is to become an autodictact / polymath and I'm seeking way to make the process of acquiring new data / skills / learning more time-efficient and more organized (and systematic).<p>Are there any kind of 'learning theories/strategies' out there? I'm not seeking resources per se (I know about Khan academy, MIT OCW, 'bookportals' on Tor etc), but rather some sort of systematic method similar to the one described in the link but perhaps more detailed and (maybe) anecdote-/experience-based.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenophanes</author><text>Learn epistemology (the philosophy of learning).<p>Most stuff in the field is bad (worse than useless). Start with this book:<p><a href="http://beginningofinfinity.com/" rel="nofollow">http://beginningofinfinity.com/</a><p>Karl Popper's books are good too.<p>Epistemology is the long term route. No instant results, but useful for everything and very efficient in the long run. That's the best way if you plan to learn about many things to be a polymath.<p>And for discussion of autodidact stuff, ask your questions on this email list:<p><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/taking-children-seriously" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/taking-ch...</a><p>I've already done this stuff. Feel free to email me [email protected]</text></comment>
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<story><title>Image Hosting on Reddit</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmerrick</author><text>It&#x27;s really unfortunate that Imgur took such a turn for the worse.<p>Originally it seemed like Imgur was a benevolent gift to Reddit users... a clean, simple, easy to use image hosting service that everyone could use for free. I guess it was too good to be true, because now it&#x27;s tricky to link to a direct image (though not impossible), and the standard landing page is filled with unnecessary clutter.<p>As an aside: if you&#x27;re looking for an amusing read, the &quot;IgnorantImgur&quot; subreddit[0] is filled with examples of people from the Imgur community who seem to be oblivious to Imgur&#x27;s origin as an image hosting site for Reddit users.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IgnorantImgur&#x2F;top" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IgnorantImgur&#x2F;top</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shalmanese</author><text>What really killed them was the GIF explosion. Average image size remains largely static and bandwidth and storage costs steadily decline so if you get your timing exactly right, you can hit that sweet spot where your CPM declines slower than your hosting costs and provide an increasingly profitable business.<p>However, GIFs completely upended that calculation by increasing the average file size by an order of magnitude and pushed the viability of a cruft free image host further down the road by another few years.<p>Frankly, I&#x27;m surprised Google never just bought imgur and absorbed it under youtube or something. Being the default place on the web to host images seems like something way more strategically valuable to Google than any standalone image host.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Image Hosting on Reddit</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmerrick</author><text>It&#x27;s really unfortunate that Imgur took such a turn for the worse.<p>Originally it seemed like Imgur was a benevolent gift to Reddit users... a clean, simple, easy to use image hosting service that everyone could use for free. I guess it was too good to be true, because now it&#x27;s tricky to link to a direct image (though not impossible), and the standard landing page is filled with unnecessary clutter.<p>As an aside: if you&#x27;re looking for an amusing read, the &quot;IgnorantImgur&quot; subreddit[0] is filled with examples of people from the Imgur community who seem to be oblivious to Imgur&#x27;s origin as an image hosting site for Reddit users.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IgnorantImgur&#x2F;top" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IgnorantImgur&#x2F;top</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>Imgur started off as a benevolent gift to Reddit users, but then as more and more people started to use it, the expenses became too great to keep it the way it was. There is no money in serving images directly with no advertising, but there is certainly costs. What were they supposed to do?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/next-front-new-crypto-wars-whatsapp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yazaddaruvala</author><text>Anyone have any insights into why the commonly used guns argument is not good enough for encryption? If we ban guns(encryption), only the criminals will have it.<p>The only thing I can think of is that the majority of people who advocate for encryption are anti-gun, and don&#x27;t want to give strength to that argument?</text></item><item><author>jessegreathouse</author><text>If the government wins any of these court battles, it&#x27;s only a matter of time until one-way encryption is outlawed. It follows logically that if criminals&#x2F;terrorists can&#x27;t use iPhones to securely communicate, then they&#x27;ll just move on to the next convenient encryption app. The government will continue to order companies to break their one-way encryption until the government realizes they&#x27;re playing musical chairs and then they&#x27;ll issue an executive order to ban one-way encryption outright. The precedent allowing them to do so, will be all of these initial court battles vs Apple, whatsapp, and whoever else gets defeated. In the wake of these events regular people, like you and me, will be harmed by hackers and commercial companies exploiting this new world without one-way encryption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LastZactionHero</author><text>The recent issues over encryption has actually changed my thinking on guns. I&#x27;m not &#x27;pro gun&#x27;, don&#x27;t own guns, and want nothing to do with them personally.<p>But as I think about my stance on the legality of encryption it sounds pretty similar to the argument for guns. Still don&#x27;t want one, but it&#x27;s harder for me to be dismissive of a point when I turn around and use the same point for another issue.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/next-front-new-crypto-wars-whatsapp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yazaddaruvala</author><text>Anyone have any insights into why the commonly used guns argument is not good enough for encryption? If we ban guns(encryption), only the criminals will have it.<p>The only thing I can think of is that the majority of people who advocate for encryption are anti-gun, and don&#x27;t want to give strength to that argument?</text></item><item><author>jessegreathouse</author><text>If the government wins any of these court battles, it&#x27;s only a matter of time until one-way encryption is outlawed. It follows logically that if criminals&#x2F;terrorists can&#x27;t use iPhones to securely communicate, then they&#x27;ll just move on to the next convenient encryption app. The government will continue to order companies to break their one-way encryption until the government realizes they&#x27;re playing musical chairs and then they&#x27;ll issue an executive order to ban one-way encryption outright. The precedent allowing them to do so, will be all of these initial court battles vs Apple, whatsapp, and whoever else gets defeated. In the wake of these events regular people, like you and me, will be harmed by hackers and commercial companies exploiting this new world without one-way encryption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>statictype</author><text>This is a very good point.<p>As someone who has been anti-gun and pro-encryption, I&#x27;m now wondering how I reconcile these two stances that are at conflict with each other.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pizza Compass</title><url>http://pizza-compass.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkulak</author><text>Haha, it's so funny! Oh, and look at all this money in iTunes Connect...<p>Yes, totally just a joke!</text></item><item><author>princess3000</author><text>This is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn't a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It's a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass. I think it's hilarious.<p>The quotes on their page about "life-affirming" and "some people might say this is the most important app... ever" tell me that whoever made this app just wanted to have a bit of a laugh.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>OK, I haven't had time to download the app, but was curious about the description<p>&#62; <i>PIZZA COMPASS IS THE EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP THAT HELPS PIZZA GET TO YOUR MOUTH. CREATED BY A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TRAINED TEAM OF PIZZA EXPERTS. EXPERTS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP.</i><p>The screenshots featured famous pizzerias...so is the data "curated" by the pizza-compass staff? Or does it rely on other APIs, such as Foursquare? In other words, is it similar to other locations (Google, Yelp, etc) services out there, except filtered by Pizza?<p>Cool design concept...but is it really a serious effort at an app/startup (i.e. there's a press kit, accounts for the pizza-compass domain)? The use case is pretty limited...that is, limited to the times when you want just pizza and are in an unfamiliar neighborhood. This is not a scenario that I've found myself in...I either eat cheap pizza as part of a routine at a place near work, or know exactly the fancy-pants pizzeria that I want to go to dinner for. Unless there's a lot of custom or well-aggregated data specific to pizza (such as, what kind of pizzas are there, price per slice, etc), it's probably not an app that I would ever use habitually.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saraid216</author><text>I'm pretty sure the entire industry of stand-up comedians are laughing with you.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pizza Compass</title><url>http://pizza-compass.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkulak</author><text>Haha, it's so funny! Oh, and look at all this money in iTunes Connect...<p>Yes, totally just a joke!</text></item><item><author>princess3000</author><text>This is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn't a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It's a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass. I think it's hilarious.<p>The quotes on their page about "life-affirming" and "some people might say this is the most important app... ever" tell me that whoever made this app just wanted to have a bit of a laugh.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>OK, I haven't had time to download the app, but was curious about the description<p>&#62; <i>PIZZA COMPASS IS THE EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP THAT HELPS PIZZA GET TO YOUR MOUTH. CREATED BY A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TRAINED TEAM OF PIZZA EXPERTS. EXPERTS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP.</i><p>The screenshots featured famous pizzerias...so is the data "curated" by the pizza-compass staff? Or does it rely on other APIs, such as Foursquare? In other words, is it similar to other locations (Google, Yelp, etc) services out there, except filtered by Pizza?<p>Cool design concept...but is it really a serious effort at an app/startup (i.e. there's a press kit, accounts for the pizza-compass domain)? The use case is pretty limited...that is, limited to the times when you want just pizza and are in an unfamiliar neighborhood. This is not a scenario that I've found myself in...I either eat cheap pizza as part of a routine at a place near work, or know exactly the fancy-pants pizzeria that I want to go to dinner for. Unless there's a lot of custom or well-aggregated data specific to pizza (such as, what kind of pizzas are there, price per slice, etc), it's probably not an app that I would ever use habitually.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza</author><text>Satire can make money, e.g. the Onion</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/microsoft-shuts-https-hotmail-over-dozen-countries</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zcrar70</author><text>why would the fact that the countries are in turmoil cause MS to remove HTTPS for hotmail? Do you think that MS has links to the governments of those countries (and is somehow trying to make it easier for the local governments to crack down on dissidents by tapping their email communications)?</text></item><item><author>ajays</author><text>Looking at the list, I bet they included Congo, Nigeria, etc. to hide the fact that most of the countries in that list are currently in some state of turmoil. It would have looked really ugly if they had done it just for those countries; so they threw in the Congolese and Nigerians too.<p>MSFT has 90,000 employees; surely some of them can speak up about this, and how it jeopardizes the people in those countries who are struggling for freedom?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajays</author><text>I hope you don't take offense, but: I think you're being extremely naive.<p>Here's how the logic works:
MSFT does business in these countries.
These countries have a sudden desire to monitor some citizens' communications (which include Hotmail accounts). HTTPS prevents this monitoring, so these countries lean on MSFT. Ergo, MSFT shuts down HTTPS access to Hotmail.<p>For a lot of these regimes, it's a matter of survival to crush dissent. MSFT just made that a little bit easier.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/microsoft-shuts-https-hotmail-over-dozen-countries</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zcrar70</author><text>why would the fact that the countries are in turmoil cause MS to remove HTTPS for hotmail? Do you think that MS has links to the governments of those countries (and is somehow trying to make it easier for the local governments to crack down on dissidents by tapping their email communications)?</text></item><item><author>ajays</author><text>Looking at the list, I bet they included Congo, Nigeria, etc. to hide the fact that most of the countries in that list are currently in some state of turmoil. It would have looked really ugly if they had done it just for those countries; so they threw in the Congolese and Nigerians too.<p>MSFT has 90,000 employees; surely some of them can speak up about this, and how it jeopardizes the people in those countries who are struggling for freedom?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vivtek</author><text>I can't tell if you're speaking ironically or not, but just in case you aren't, the answer is clearly "yes". What non-political reason could Microsoft have to select just those specific countries?</text></comment>
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<story><title>HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity</title><url>http://verekia.com/initializr/responsive-template</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duhoang</author><text>Is anyone else have the opinion that Responsive Web Design is a fad?<p>It seems that you are better served if you design your mobile site in the style of an App, and your website the traditional 960px grid. Tablets handle the desktop site okay for the most part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akamaka</author><text>I hope it's not a fad!<p>I'm not at all a fan of sites that look like mobile apps. I want the web on my phone, period. Responsive design gives me the full website with the same information architecture, with the bonus of a more mobile-friendly layout.<p>I'm using it for all my web design work (well, as much as clients will allow me), and I hope everyone else will, too!</text></comment>
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<story><title>HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity</title><url>http://verekia.com/initializr/responsive-template</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duhoang</author><text>Is anyone else have the opinion that Responsive Web Design is a fad?<p>It seems that you are better served if you design your mobile site in the style of an App, and your website the traditional 960px grid. Tablets handle the desktop site okay for the most part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanlev</author><text>I think it's a fad. I'm a big fan of it though and I don't think there's anything wrong with fads in design -- designers don't want to keep doing the same stuff over and over again (I presume).<p>Maybe you're a busy designer and don't have time (or desire) to always experiment with new techniques. If all of a sudden your industry peers getting excited about something, it's like a signal that says it's okay for you to try this out. I'm not sure if it's a "make efficient use of my time" heuristic about what you should devote your attention to, or a "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" safe bet thing. Probably a little of both.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla fatal car crash prompts NTSB investigation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/27/tesla-fatal-car-crash-prompts-ntsb-investigation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>There’s excellent discussion about the accident at the Tesla forum. [1]<p>The big take-away from their research is that particular exit-only left-lane (which is one of two side by side carpool lanes) is poorly marked, has been consistently gotten worse as changes have been made to the road over the last several years, does not have proper lane markings (missing chevrons in the non-lane), <i>routinely</i> has cars cutting right across the gore point (to the point where there are dash cam videos of almost accidents at that exact point linked in the forum) and, most damning of all, the resettable safety cushion device [2] which protects the gore point had already been hit just recently and there’s evidence it <i>had not been reset</i> when it was hit again by the Model X, which meant the X suffered a direct impact with a narrow slice of concrete.<p>If anything I think NTSB should be investigating
<i>Caltrans</i> for this one.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslamotorsclub.com&#x2F;tmc&#x2F;threads&#x2F;model-x-crash-on-us-101-mountain-view-ca.111505&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslamotorsclub.com&#x2F;tmc&#x2F;threads&#x2F;model-x-crash-on-us-...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslamotorsclub.com&#x2F;tmc&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2636752&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslamotorsclub.com&#x2F;tmc&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2636752&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla fatal car crash prompts NTSB investigation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/27/tesla-fatal-car-crash-prompts-ntsb-investigation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>FWIW, previous discussion (17 comments) from several days ago, back when news of the fatal accident was first known: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16669241" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16669241</a><p>edit: Worth pointing out that in the previous Tesla fatality investigated by the NTSB for Autopilot-related issues, the victim was well known as someone who posted videos that showed off his Tesla&#x27;s Autopilot capability. [0] I don&#x27;t think anything like that is known about the 38-year-old victim in this week&#x27;s incident. More details of that accident are here, from the San Jose Merc:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercurynews.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;27&#x2F;ntsb-investigating-fatal-crash-on-highway-101-involving-a-tesla&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercurynews.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;27&#x2F;ntsb-investigating-fa...</a><p>&gt; <i>Friday morning, a San Mateo man died when his Tesla Model X crashed at the Highway 101 and Highway 85 connector, authorities said. Wei Huang, 38, was traveling in the carpool lane of southbound 101 around 9:30 a.m. that morning when he collided with the barrier separating his lane from the Highway 85 flyover carpool lane, according to the California Highway Patrol.</i><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;02&#x2F;business&#x2F;joshua-brown-technology-enthusiast-tested-the-limits-of-his-tesla.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;02&#x2F;business&#x2F;joshua-brown-tec...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Asciinema</title><url>https://asciinema.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>piping random shit into sh is wrong because domains go away, yet installation instructions might be repeated in countless other tutorials. easy to snap up domains and host malware.<p>and SSL has nothing to do with it. packages are not cryptographically signed either and once on the system can easily become root.</text></item><item><author>reagency</author><text>What&#x27;s wrong with that? It is SSL secured.<p>Once you agree to install software, it had local access with your accounts privileges.</text></item><item><author>Thaxll</author><text>Seriously when people will stop using that for installation....<p>&quot;curl -sL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asciinema.org&#x2F;install" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asciinema.org&#x2F;install</a> | sh&quot;<p>Still a cool product!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joefreeman</author><text>Would this be better if the pasted command included some checksum which was checked before piping into the `sh`? Can anyone who&#x27;s better at bash than me give an example of how this could work in a relatively cross-platform way?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Asciinema</title><url>https://asciinema.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>piping random shit into sh is wrong because domains go away, yet installation instructions might be repeated in countless other tutorials. easy to snap up domains and host malware.<p>and SSL has nothing to do with it. packages are not cryptographically signed either and once on the system can easily become root.</text></item><item><author>reagency</author><text>What&#x27;s wrong with that? It is SSL secured.<p>Once you agree to install software, it had local access with your accounts privileges.</text></item><item><author>Thaxll</author><text>Seriously when people will stop using that for installation....<p>&quot;curl -sL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asciinema.org&#x2F;install" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asciinema.org&#x2F;install</a> | sh&quot;<p>Still a cool product!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebastianavina</author><text>If you are doing a terminal video, I&#x27;m pretty sure you are smart enough to break down that pipe and first download, and then run it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-oriented programming</title><url>https://blog.abevoelker.com/sick-of-ruby-dynamic-typing-side-effects-object-oriented-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sklivvz1971</author><text>Programming is hard. A few years back, in the 90&#x27;s when most of the code in my field was still mostly structured, and bad at that, a lot of people were saying that OOP would sort it out. I was skeptical, not because I&#x27;m resistant to change, but because it was obvious to me that doing OOP right was (and is) very hard. Not that structured programming was easy.<p>Fast forward to today: programming is still hard, and actually it probably got a lot harder. OOP did not sort it out. Most of the code in my field is object-oriented, and bad at that. A lot of people are saying that FP will sort it out. I am skeptical, not because I&#x27;m resistant to change, but because it is obvious to me that doing FP right is (and will be) very hard. Not that object oriented programming is easy.<p>Am I alone in thinking that fast forward a few years, once there is enough rotten FP code written, we will be reading people ditching FP because it&#x27;s the root of all evil?<p>The facts are that programming is hard. Working with legacy code is hard. Learning a paradigm well enough so the code you write in it is not total crap is very hard, and requires years of practical experience if you are proficient at another paradigm, let alone if you simply skimmed a paradigm and moved away because it was too hard...<p>It&#x27;s great that people want to move on from single-platform, single-paradigm monocultures, with one caveat: breadth without depth is shallowness.<p>I&#x27;d like to read people treating languages and platforms as tools and not as cargo cults. You don&#x27;t read carpenters writing they&#x27;ll ditch hammers for screwdrivers because the old cupboard they are fixing uses nails. You read carpenters debating the pros and cons of using hammers versus screwdrivers. And you read better carpenters that debate how cupboards are designed, because it is ultimately more important than whether they are glued, nailed or screwed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sparkie</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d like to read people treating languages and platforms as tools and not as cargo cults. You don&#x27;t read carpenters writing they&#x27;ll ditch hammers for screwdrivers because the old cupboard they are fixing uses nails. You read carpenters debating the pros and cons of using hammers versus screwdrivers. And you read better carpenters that debate how cupboards are designed, because it is ultimately more important than whether they are glued, nailed or screwed.<p>The problem with this carpenter analogy is that it simply doesn&#x27;t scale - a carpenter is not going to build a skyscraper. To build skyscrapers we need <i>engineering</i> - the practical application of science - something which is completely missing from our field. We call ourselves <i>software engineers</i>, but we&#x27;re really <i>software masons</i> - we can do good work in small quantities, but we&#x27;re terrible and building big structures - which is where many of our software problems lie.<p>You can&#x27;t build a house on some land, and later turn it into a skyscraper either - because the foundations are perhaps the most vital part of the structure - they need to be designed with some knowledge of the size, shape and mass of the structure they intend to support. The approach taken in software development is the tacking on of new systems - building structures equivalent to say, the Kowloon walled city (unsightly and unstable).<p>To do engineering and science, we need math - and we have no sound way of modeling imperative languages&#x2F;programs in ways that makes them useful as mathematical concepts. FP <i>is</i> math - so building up concepts in these languages is providing a richer set of math objects and abstractions which we can later use to build our large structures. Using FP doesn&#x27;t mean we need to abandon imperative coding - it just means we should clearly mark the effects of such imperative chunks of code, so we can treat them mathematically.<p>Carpenters are still relevant in the construction of skyscrapers - but their responsibilities are only a small part of it - they&#x27;re given clearly defined boundaries of when and where they should be working. This is really how we should be doing software - we need engineers and architects to build structures, using science and math, then assigning isolated environments for the &quot;masons&quot; (e.g, junior programmers) to work in - in such a way that a mistake by a junior programmer cannot bring the entire skyscraper crashing down. (Turns out this was understood in the 70s, because Unix pipes and processes are still the best approach we have to this day).<p>Of course, this doesn&#x27;t mean it should be &quot;my Coq is better than your Twelf&quot; - we need to separate the math from the textual representations and even the execution models.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-oriented programming</title><url>https://blog.abevoelker.com/sick-of-ruby-dynamic-typing-side-effects-object-oriented-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sklivvz1971</author><text>Programming is hard. A few years back, in the 90&#x27;s when most of the code in my field was still mostly structured, and bad at that, a lot of people were saying that OOP would sort it out. I was skeptical, not because I&#x27;m resistant to change, but because it was obvious to me that doing OOP right was (and is) very hard. Not that structured programming was easy.<p>Fast forward to today: programming is still hard, and actually it probably got a lot harder. OOP did not sort it out. Most of the code in my field is object-oriented, and bad at that. A lot of people are saying that FP will sort it out. I am skeptical, not because I&#x27;m resistant to change, but because it is obvious to me that doing FP right is (and will be) very hard. Not that object oriented programming is easy.<p>Am I alone in thinking that fast forward a few years, once there is enough rotten FP code written, we will be reading people ditching FP because it&#x27;s the root of all evil?<p>The facts are that programming is hard. Working with legacy code is hard. Learning a paradigm well enough so the code you write in it is not total crap is very hard, and requires years of practical experience if you are proficient at another paradigm, let alone if you simply skimmed a paradigm and moved away because it was too hard...<p>It&#x27;s great that people want to move on from single-platform, single-paradigm monocultures, with one caveat: breadth without depth is shallowness.<p>I&#x27;d like to read people treating languages and platforms as tools and not as cargo cults. You don&#x27;t read carpenters writing they&#x27;ll ditch hammers for screwdrivers because the old cupboard they are fixing uses nails. You read carpenters debating the pros and cons of using hammers versus screwdrivers. And you read better carpenters that debate how cupboards are designed, because it is ultimately more important than whether they are glued, nailed or screwed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>Some changes are real progress:<p><pre><code> - automatic memory management by default
- testing by default
- distributed version control by default
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All of these make you more productive in a typical project. (And should be turned off when not, that&#x27;s why I say, by default.) I suggest that the following are also unalloyed good, and will make their way into more and more languages over time:<p><pre><code> - functions as first class values
- immutability by default &#x2F; copy-on-write semantics by default
- side-effects only possible when declared (eg IO Monad)
- powerful static typing by default
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(We already see in eg git and some file systems that even when the implementation is imperative, immutability makes concepts simpler. Immutability by default virtually requires automatic memory management.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>A man who built his own cathedral</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/the-man-who-built-his-own-cathedral-justo-gallego-mejorada-del-campo-spain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whoisstan</author><text>Ferdinand Cheval comes to mind who build a palace using pebbles while delivering mail. Astonishing.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mymodernmet.com&#x2F;ferdinand-cheval-palais-ideal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mymodernmet.com&#x2F;ferdinand-cheval-palais-ideal&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>A man who built his own cathedral</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/the-man-who-built-his-own-cathedral-justo-gallego-mejorada-del-campo-spain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Geonode</author><text>I see steel reinforced concrete with the steel exposed in overhead beams. This thing is gonna have to come down.<p>Good steel reinforced concrete starts deteriorating before a hundred years. It&#x27;s no material for a cathedral.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv3yp/amazon-says-it-doesnt-employ-drivers-but-records-show-it-hired-firms-to-prevent-them-from-unionizing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unyttigfjelltol</author><text>The solution is to enforce the laws we have, not feign powerlessness every time some crackerjack claims to have identified a profitable loophole.</text></item><item><author>bfeynman</author><text>This behavior of legal loopholes to discount workers should be made illegal. The definition of sub-contractor has got to change and&#x2F;or have laws&#x2F;policies in place that actually make sense in a sub contractor relationship. These are shell companies that spin up and exclusively deliver for amazon, they aren&#x27;t gig workers delivering when they want, they have strict quotas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themagician</author><text>Often what happens is delay, delay, delay, appeal, delay… and then you are “too big to fail” and everyone has to “think of all the jobs that will be lost”.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv3yp/amazon-says-it-doesnt-employ-drivers-but-records-show-it-hired-firms-to-prevent-them-from-unionizing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unyttigfjelltol</author><text>The solution is to enforce the laws we have, not feign powerlessness every time some crackerjack claims to have identified a profitable loophole.</text></item><item><author>bfeynman</author><text>This behavior of legal loopholes to discount workers should be made illegal. The definition of sub-contractor has got to change and&#x2F;or have laws&#x2F;policies in place that actually make sense in a sub contractor relationship. These are shell companies that spin up and exclusively deliver for amazon, they aren&#x27;t gig workers delivering when they want, they have strict quotas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dclowd9901</author><text>Absolutely. The courts are supposed to be the last vestige of common sense. It’s judges dropping the ball here by letting high power lawyers steamroll their courtrooms with this nonsense.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter</title><url>https://www.space.com/nasa-loses-contact-ingenuity-mars-helicopter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roughly</author><text>NASA’s got a history of their rovers overperforming like this. Between this and Webb, it’s hard to argue they’re not the best out there.</text></item><item><author>tedivm</author><text>This is pretty sad but also pretty amazing. The original plan was for five flights of around 90 seconds each, and it looks like it finally failed on flight 72 with a total from all flights of two hours, eight minutes and eighteen seconds of flight time. All of this in an extremely thin atmosphere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonpeacock</author><text>It&#x27;s less about being the best (no criticism of NASA) but rather engineering decisions to _guarantee_ the planned mission, which means you over-engineer and thus get extra performance&#x2F;reliability. You&#x27;re not willing to accept the statistical risk that may end a mission early.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter</title><url>https://www.space.com/nasa-loses-contact-ingenuity-mars-helicopter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roughly</author><text>NASA’s got a history of their rovers overperforming like this. Between this and Webb, it’s hard to argue they’re not the best out there.</text></item><item><author>tedivm</author><text>This is pretty sad but also pretty amazing. The original plan was for five flights of around 90 seconds each, and it looks like it finally failed on flight 72 with a total from all flights of two hours, eight minutes and eighteen seconds of flight time. All of this in an extremely thin atmosphere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantrobot</author><text>It&#x27;s not overperforming per se. NASA spacecraft&#x2F;probes have primary, secondary, and auxiliary missions. Everything on the probe is designed and built with an eye to being able to complete secondary and auxiliary missions but the guarantee (insofar as anything can be) is the probe can accomplish its primary mission.<p>Unfortunately this leads to uninformed reporters to make stupid claims like &quot;a probe only designed to last 90 days...&quot;. There&#x27;s no self destruct or planned obsolescence in NASA probes. They don&#x27;t have an egg timer set to 90 days and then explode.<p>The probes are <i>designed</i> to last at least as long as the ability for their consumables&#x2F;power supply lasts. Consider the stresses of launch, transit through space, and insertion&#x2F;landing are way worse than day to day conditions for a lot of probes. If they can survive all of that rolling around a desert is relatively easy (in comparison). If Ingenuity made one successful flight there was little reason it couldn&#x27;t make more so long as it had the appropriate power available and the Martian Space Defense didn&#x27;t shoot it down.<p>Ingenuity didn&#x27;t overperform, it performed according to its actual design and construction. It only overperformed misinformed media expectations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise</title><url>https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/May/5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsheard</author><text>4K streaming content is hit or miss because most services lock that behind Widevine L1, which requires implementors to use a secure enclave and the entire signal path to use strong encryption. If an L1 implementation gets compromised it quickly has its keys revoked and is downgraded to L2&#x2F;L3, so piracy groups have a limited time window to dump as much 4K content as possible. Those lower Winevines tiers are permanently broken though so everything is immediately available in at least 1080p.<p>4K Blurays are currently always ripped due to an unfixable compromise in Intel SGX allowing PowerDVDs keys to be extracted, they could close that hole by revoking PowerDVDs keys for new Bluray releases but they haven&#x27;t done that yet. I imagine they will at some point because PowerDVD <i>requires</i> SGX to play UHDs, and Intel stopped supporting that on newer consumer hardware, so 4K Bluray playback on PCs is effectively being phased out.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Is there any video DRM scheme which successfully protects video content appearing on the pirate bay within 24 hours?<p>I really don&#x27;t see why so many millions (billions?) of dollars have been spent on technologies which so far have never kept the bad guys out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>&gt; the entire signal path to use strong encryption<p>But the display panel itself still receives an unencrypted LVDS signal, which should not be too hard to decode. There are (were?) also cheap HDMI splitters that conveniently strip HDCP.<p>Your only issue is that yes, you can&#x27;t get at the original compressed video stream and have to reencode, possibly losing a tiny bit of quality.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise</title><url>https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/May/5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsheard</author><text>4K streaming content is hit or miss because most services lock that behind Widevine L1, which requires implementors to use a secure enclave and the entire signal path to use strong encryption. If an L1 implementation gets compromised it quickly has its keys revoked and is downgraded to L2&#x2F;L3, so piracy groups have a limited time window to dump as much 4K content as possible. Those lower Winevines tiers are permanently broken though so everything is immediately available in at least 1080p.<p>4K Blurays are currently always ripped due to an unfixable compromise in Intel SGX allowing PowerDVDs keys to be extracted, they could close that hole by revoking PowerDVDs keys for new Bluray releases but they haven&#x27;t done that yet. I imagine they will at some point because PowerDVD <i>requires</i> SGX to play UHDs, and Intel stopped supporting that on newer consumer hardware, so 4K Bluray playback on PCs is effectively being phased out.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Is there any video DRM scheme which successfully protects video content appearing on the pirate bay within 24 hours?<p>I really don&#x27;t see why so many millions (billions?) of dollars have been spent on technologies which so far have never kept the bad guys out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>486sx33</author><text>“4K Bluray playback on PCs is effectively being phased out.”<p>Which will only perpetuate and speed up the problem. 4K blu ray discs suck on a lot of new tvs and players for frame rate and detail so the best visual experience is going to be on high dpi PCs (or Mac? Retina?)<p>If I can’t play a 4K blu ray I purchased on my pc… I’m going to probably download a ripped version and not feel guilty about it since I purchased the disc …<p>My M2 Pro can decode and play 4K without breaking a sweat and with amazing battery life on VLC player</text></comment>
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<story><title>Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/livestream-hotel-room-japan-intl-hnk/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contravariant</author><text>Businesses that cannot turn a profit without paying their employees enough to cover basic expenses (leaving aside whether this is higher or lower than the current minimum wage) do not deserve to exist. Having those jobs automated away or passing the cost of living of the employees on to the customers are both reasonable alternatives.</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Minimum wage hurts most the very people it pretends to help: the least productive of us, who become unemployable legally.<p>Business who can&#x27;t raise their labor costs will either:<p><pre><code> - raise prices while passing costs to consumers
- go out of business thus reducing consumer choice
- turn onto robots or offshoring (if possible)
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None of those is good for neither workers nor consumers. I&#x27;d rather we raise worker wages the Silicon Valley way: through merciless competition between companies for talent, while encouraging said talent to start their own competing businesses.<p>You know what minimum wage is great for? Electing politicians.</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>Sure, but that&#x27;s not an argument for &quot;actually exploitation is good.&quot; That&#x27;s an argument for figuring out a solution to exploitation seeming like a rational choice in the first place.<p>In some cases, the problem is just that the free market sets up a race to the bottom and regulations can provide an artificial bottom. This is the standard argument for the minimum wage, for instance: even if businesses can afford to pay more and still be profitable, they won&#x27;t voluntarily do so in a market where there&#x27;s more supply of labor than demand for it.<p>In some cases, like livestreaming your hotel stay or selling your organs or sacrificing your lungs to mine coal, there&#x27;s a qualitative difference, and saying &quot;This job no longer exists&quot; doesn&#x27;t solve problems. If that&#x27;s the case, society should figure out if it can afford in any way to provide for people&#x27;s basic needs so that they can start having meaningful other options.<p>It seems entirely possible to me that a society with a strong social safety net (welfare, UBI, whatever) needs less regulation of its free market than one that puts the burden on its market to treat the most desperate in society with fairness.<p>(BTW, a minor point about sex work: I believe &quot;legalization&quot; refers to making it a regulated industry with the remaining possibility of criminal penalties for breaking regulations, and many sex workers prefer &quot;decriminalization,&quot; i.e. just removing criminal penalties.)</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Regulating freely consented exchanges _you_ don&#x27;t like out of existence will not actually make them disappear, just push them underground, out of society&#x27;s eye and where the REAL exploitation takes place.<p>That&#x27;s why adults actually working in those domains militate for legalization and that&#x27;s why totalitarian societies require so much surveillance just to avoid collapse.<p>Because people WILL do the deals they need to do to survive or get ahead. Your laws will just provide the reason to catch and incarcerate them afterwards.<p>See the marijuana legalization mess.</text></item><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>If you consider this to be exploiting the consumer then this is a good example for the textbooks of how, in a free market, there has to be some regulation to prevent exploitation of those at the edges of society.<p>It’s exactly the same argument for laws against the most vulnerable types of sex work, or selling body organs donated by the living. Without those laws, those who are most desperate will be able to act in desperation, to someone else’s benefit, with society doing nothing to stand in the way.<p>It’s probably time ad-tech was re calibrated on this spectrum before we <i>race to the exploitative-bottom</i> there as well, and build a shopping mall that we don’t want on the open common land that we do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>katzgrau</author><text>&gt; do not deserve to exist<p>It&#x27;s an easy position take take when you&#x27;re a well paid developer and money problems aren&#x27;t a concern.<p>I used to feel the same way, until I started my own business. I couldn&#x27;t attract venture capital and I had to bootstrap the company. There was no way in hell I was using my house for a loan.<p>Early on I relied on people who wanted to stay relevant, but needed flexibility, and were happy to take a lower hourly wage. For example, a stay at home parent whose SO earned the majority of the household income.<p>My business contributes sincere value to a niche industry that otherwise doesn&#x27;t get any attention or investment. It&#x27;s been said by several in my industry that without my company, several hundred community news organizations would likely fail.<p>Today, I can afford to pay a living wage. But now I understand that growing a real revenue generating business (without artificially inflating a company via investment) is difficult, and often requires low cost labor in order to get to the place where you can afford higher cost labor. Try it and you may not be as idealistic.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/livestream-hotel-room-japan-intl-hnk/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contravariant</author><text>Businesses that cannot turn a profit without paying their employees enough to cover basic expenses (leaving aside whether this is higher or lower than the current minimum wage) do not deserve to exist. Having those jobs automated away or passing the cost of living of the employees on to the customers are both reasonable alternatives.</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Minimum wage hurts most the very people it pretends to help: the least productive of us, who become unemployable legally.<p>Business who can&#x27;t raise their labor costs will either:<p><pre><code> - raise prices while passing costs to consumers
- go out of business thus reducing consumer choice
- turn onto robots or offshoring (if possible)
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None of those is good for neither workers nor consumers. I&#x27;d rather we raise worker wages the Silicon Valley way: through merciless competition between companies for talent, while encouraging said talent to start their own competing businesses.<p>You know what minimum wage is great for? Electing politicians.</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>Sure, but that&#x27;s not an argument for &quot;actually exploitation is good.&quot; That&#x27;s an argument for figuring out a solution to exploitation seeming like a rational choice in the first place.<p>In some cases, the problem is just that the free market sets up a race to the bottom and regulations can provide an artificial bottom. This is the standard argument for the minimum wage, for instance: even if businesses can afford to pay more and still be profitable, they won&#x27;t voluntarily do so in a market where there&#x27;s more supply of labor than demand for it.<p>In some cases, like livestreaming your hotel stay or selling your organs or sacrificing your lungs to mine coal, there&#x27;s a qualitative difference, and saying &quot;This job no longer exists&quot; doesn&#x27;t solve problems. If that&#x27;s the case, society should figure out if it can afford in any way to provide for people&#x27;s basic needs so that they can start having meaningful other options.<p>It seems entirely possible to me that a society with a strong social safety net (welfare, UBI, whatever) needs less regulation of its free market than one that puts the burden on its market to treat the most desperate in society with fairness.<p>(BTW, a minor point about sex work: I believe &quot;legalization&quot; refers to making it a regulated industry with the remaining possibility of criminal penalties for breaking regulations, and many sex workers prefer &quot;decriminalization,&quot; i.e. just removing criminal penalties.)</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Regulating freely consented exchanges _you_ don&#x27;t like out of existence will not actually make them disappear, just push them underground, out of society&#x27;s eye and where the REAL exploitation takes place.<p>That&#x27;s why adults actually working in those domains militate for legalization and that&#x27;s why totalitarian societies require so much surveillance just to avoid collapse.<p>Because people WILL do the deals they need to do to survive or get ahead. Your laws will just provide the reason to catch and incarcerate them afterwards.<p>See the marijuana legalization mess.</text></item><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>If you consider this to be exploiting the consumer then this is a good example for the textbooks of how, in a free market, there has to be some regulation to prevent exploitation of those at the edges of society.<p>It’s exactly the same argument for laws against the most vulnerable types of sex work, or selling body organs donated by the living. Without those laws, those who are most desperate will be able to act in desperation, to someone else’s benefit, with society doing nothing to stand in the way.<p>It’s probably time ad-tech was re calibrated on this spectrum before we <i>race to the exploitative-bottom</i> there as well, and build a shopping mall that we don’t want on the open common land that we do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tenebrisalietum</author><text>Couple of counterpoints:<p>- Let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m a 16 year old adolescent who&#x27;s doing well in school and wants to take a part-time&#x2F;weekend job to gain experience in the job market. My basic expenses are covered (I live with my parents). Should a business get to pay me less just because of this fact?<p>- I&#x27;m a wife of a rich man and have never had to work, but decided to try it because I&#x27;m bored. I know nothing but the finer things of life and my basic expenses are 10x what the middle class is. If a business has to cover basic expenses why are we not going to cover this claim of full expenses, what determines in a corruption-free manner whether a claim for a basic expense is valid, and what is an acceptable burden to a business owner to determine this?<p>- Let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m a jobless struggling adult, sharing a cramped living space with 4 others including 1 or 2 who are drug addicts. A job would really help me get out of this situation, but company X is only willing to pay minimum wage. It&#x27;s better than what I have now which is nothing. How is having this job automated away a reasonable alternative for me - because you don&#x27;t want this employer to give me a job in the first place because it doesn&#x27;t cover my expenses.<p>- Let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m a customer of your business, and you decide to pass on the full cost of living of all employees to me. Your product jumps from $10 to $50. I&#x27;m not shopping there, your business closes, and your employees are now jobless. How does this help anybody?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019)</title><url>https://www.seriouseats.com/carolina-gold-heirloom-rice-anson-mills</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cesaref</author><text>As a UK resident, reading Anson Mills description of their rice products and how they taste, and what you can do with them is really quite bewildering - &#x27;They can also be prepared in the creamy grits style and all the way to congee, if pressed, or as crisp skillet cakes, both savory and sweet.&#x27;<p>I cook with a range of rices depending on what i&#x27;m doing - Arbori, Carnaroli, Basmati and Bomba, but rarely with what I consider an american long grain.<p>I&#x27;ll try and track down some of this Carolina Gold and see what I can do with it. Any suggestions for a recipe that shows it off (not knowing what a skillet cake is, for example)?</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>His link includes a discussion of Anson Mills which is the best source of the real thing.<p>(Yes, Carolina-brand &quot;Carolina Gold&quot; is not the same thing and not great).</text></item><item><author>indigodaddy</author><text>Are you sure it wasn’t the Carolina brand that sells a “Carolina Gold” that is NOT the real thing?<p>I’ve had the real Carolina Gold (my parents get it— I’ll have to ask them where&#x2F;how), and it’s definitely the best rice I’ve ever had (and I eat a lot of rice &#x2F; all kinds).</text></item><item><author>thomas</author><text>I&#x27;ve had it a few times and it&#x27;s very good, but not better than most good rice. I think people mostly just don&#x27;t have nice or fresh rice, they fine Carolina gold which is very well branded and think it&#x27;s the best. It&#x27;s not hard to find better than average rice online[0].<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpatmyhome.com&#x2F;buy-rice-online&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpatmyhome.com&#x2F;buy-rice-online&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boulos</author><text>Anson Mills has their own recipe page [1]. I also buy their polenta and stone cut oatmeal, for which I follow this recipe [2] (though I find my preferred done ness is after ~12 minutes not 20 -- especially when &quot;fresh&quot; from cold storage in the freezer as they recommend).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ansonmills.com&#x2F;recipes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ansonmills.com&#x2F;recipes</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ansonmills.com&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;422?recipes_by=grain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ansonmills.com&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;422?recipes_by=grain</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019)</title><url>https://www.seriouseats.com/carolina-gold-heirloom-rice-anson-mills</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cesaref</author><text>As a UK resident, reading Anson Mills description of their rice products and how they taste, and what you can do with them is really quite bewildering - &#x27;They can also be prepared in the creamy grits style and all the way to congee, if pressed, or as crisp skillet cakes, both savory and sweet.&#x27;<p>I cook with a range of rices depending on what i&#x27;m doing - Arbori, Carnaroli, Basmati and Bomba, but rarely with what I consider an american long grain.<p>I&#x27;ll try and track down some of this Carolina Gold and see what I can do with it. Any suggestions for a recipe that shows it off (not knowing what a skillet cake is, for example)?</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>His link includes a discussion of Anson Mills which is the best source of the real thing.<p>(Yes, Carolina-brand &quot;Carolina Gold&quot; is not the same thing and not great).</text></item><item><author>indigodaddy</author><text>Are you sure it wasn’t the Carolina brand that sells a “Carolina Gold” that is NOT the real thing?<p>I’ve had the real Carolina Gold (my parents get it— I’ll have to ask them where&#x2F;how), and it’s definitely the best rice I’ve ever had (and I eat a lot of rice &#x2F; all kinds).</text></item><item><author>thomas</author><text>I&#x27;ve had it a few times and it&#x27;s very good, but not better than most good rice. I think people mostly just don&#x27;t have nice or fresh rice, they fine Carolina gold which is very well branded and think it&#x27;s the best. It&#x27;s not hard to find better than average rice online[0].<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpatmyhome.com&#x2F;buy-rice-online&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpatmyhome.com&#x2F;buy-rice-online&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>As a southerner, this sounds pretty good:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foodandwine.com&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;carolina-gold-pilau-shrimp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foodandwine.com&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;carolina-gold-pilau-shri...</a></text></comment>
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