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<story><title>WebGL visual programming editor cables.gl is now open source</title><url>https://cables.gl/standalone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zetaphor</author><text>Cables is an incredibly powerful tool with a fairly low learning curve. I couldn&#x27;t have done what I did with my personal website[1] (sorry, mobile optimized!) if I was working with WebGL directly, especially not in the 3 days it took me to build and deploy with no prior experience.<p>If you&#x27;re a interested in experimenting with creative stuff without the traditionally high barrier of entry, I highly recommend cables and the Decode.gl tutorial series[2].<p>Cables is an exceptionally versatile and user-friendly tool, especially for those new to creative coding. It allowed me to create my personal website[1] (sorry doesn&#x27;t work on mobile) in just three days, despite having no prior experience. Achieving the same results using WebGL directly would have been significantly more challenging and time-consuming.<p>For anyone interested in exploring creative digital projects without facing the typically steep learning curve, I strongly suggest giving Cables a try.<p>Additionally, the Decode.gl[2] tutorial series is extremely high quality<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zetaphor.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zetaphor.com</a>
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<story><title>WebGL visual programming editor cables.gl is now open source</title><url>https://cables.gl/standalone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orbifold</author><text>This reminded me of another project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodes.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodes.io</a>. Apparently it was inspired by cables.gl</text></comment>
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<story><title>Archive.org is asking for donations</title><url>https://archive.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xCMP</author><text>Donated $100. Supposedly a donor will match your donations 3 to 1 so in a way I donated another $300 to them.<p>We can&#x27;t know who we are unless we know where we came from. That goes for politicians, companies, and organizations as well. We appreciate them, but probably not enough given that this information would be lost or entirely inaccessible without them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Archive.org is asking for donations</title><url>https://archive.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tristor</author><text>Archive.org is one of the most important online services. This and Wikipedia will always get my donation, as they are near and dear to my own personal passion of us recording and sharing human knowledge across cultural and geographical boundaries. These simple services do more to make the world a better place than any new shiny mobile app. Donated obviously :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>REPL Driven Design</title><url>http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/05/27/ReplDrivenDesign.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmclean</author><text>Just to be fair, I don&#x27;t think many practiononers of REPL-driven design would consider it a replacement for tests. It&#x27;s an alternative workflow to TDD, yes, but the idea is that you still write comprehensive tests, they&#x27;re just usually at a higher more system-y level than the ones you get from TDD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I would consider it a replacement for throwaway tests.<p>If I don&#x27;t have a REPL, I often write a lot of little throwaway tests to deal with intermediate bits of the code. They end up being redundant with the real tests. They&#x27;re often really bad tests, in that they&#x27;re tightly coupled to implementation details. I <i>should</i> delete them. And I often forget to. Which creates extra maintenance burden for myself and my teammates.<p>If I do have a REPL, I do all of that extra intermediate verification junk in the REPL. It&#x27;s often more effective, it&#x27;s usually less effort, and it always reduces the volume of unnecessary brittle tests in the codebase.</text></comment>
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<story><title>REPL Driven Design</title><url>http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/05/27/ReplDrivenDesign.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmclean</author><text>Just to be fair, I don&#x27;t think many practiononers of REPL-driven design would consider it a replacement for tests. It&#x27;s an alternative workflow to TDD, yes, but the idea is that you still write comprehensive tests, they&#x27;re just usually at a higher more system-y level than the ones you get from TDD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>Yeah I agree. It almost feels like he&#x27;s making the argument in bad faith, but maybe he&#x27;s actually unaware of the way in which you can back-fill tests?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds</title><url>http://blog.authy.com/add-two-factor-authentication-to-your-ssh-in-30-seconds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielpal</author><text>The biggest problems is you can't use ssh_keys with this setup. Its too restrictive, and certificates are a must for ssh.<p>Also what happens if you loose your cellphone? We thought about this and for us the possibility of loosing access to the server fully was too much.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Using a third-party service like authy.com has its advantages, but if you prefer, you can get two-factor authentication in the latest Ubuntu without involving a third party by installing <i>libpam-google-authenticator</i> from Ubuntu's "universe" repository.<p>Here's how you do it: first, <i>sudo apt-get install libpam-google-authenticator</i>; second, run <i>google-authenticator</i> as the user you will access remotely and follow the instructions; then, edit <i>/etc/pam.d/sshd,</i> and add "auth required pam_google_authenticator.so" in a new line; edit <i>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</i> and add (or change) the ChallengeResponseAuthentication line so it reads "ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes"; and finally, <i>sudo service ssh restart</i> to restart the ssh server.<p>More info is available from the packager of libpam-google-authenticator[1], and from the Google Authenticator PAM module's README.[2]<p>--<p>[1] <a href="http://blog.theroux.ca/security/ubuntu-2-step-authentication-with-google-authenticator/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.theroux.ca/security/ubuntu-2-step-authentication...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse/libpam/README" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse/...</a><p>--<p>Edits: Corrected typos; added more context.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgreco</author><text>Unless I am mistaken, it should be possible to configure opensshd to first try using keys, then fall back on UsePAM only if that fails (similar to how sshd will normally fall back on PasswordAuthentication).<p>If not, it might be possible to configure PAM with some sort of keys module set to 'sufficient', then have PAM fall back on two-factor auth paired with pam_unix.<p>In fact, I'll see if I can get either of those working a bit later today. Seems like it could be neat.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds</title><url>http://blog.authy.com/add-two-factor-authentication-to-your-ssh-in-30-seconds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielpal</author><text>The biggest problems is you can't use ssh_keys with this setup. Its too restrictive, and certificates are a must for ssh.<p>Also what happens if you loose your cellphone? We thought about this and for us the possibility of loosing access to the server fully was too much.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Using a third-party service like authy.com has its advantages, but if you prefer, you can get two-factor authentication in the latest Ubuntu without involving a third party by installing <i>libpam-google-authenticator</i> from Ubuntu's "universe" repository.<p>Here's how you do it: first, <i>sudo apt-get install libpam-google-authenticator</i>; second, run <i>google-authenticator</i> as the user you will access remotely and follow the instructions; then, edit <i>/etc/pam.d/sshd,</i> and add "auth required pam_google_authenticator.so" in a new line; edit <i>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</i> and add (or change) the ChallengeResponseAuthentication line so it reads "ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes"; and finally, <i>sudo service ssh restart</i> to restart the ssh server.<p>More info is available from the packager of libpam-google-authenticator[1], and from the Google Authenticator PAM module's README.[2]<p>--<p>[1] <a href="http://blog.theroux.ca/security/ubuntu-2-step-authentication-with-google-authenticator/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.theroux.ca/security/ubuntu-2-step-authentication...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse/libpam/README" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse/...</a><p>--<p>Edits: Corrected typos; added more context.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keidian</author><text>You could probably do a hack to let the user login with ssh key and then immediately force the second factor auth to be run, booting the user out if they didn't pass it. Not the best way, but one option.<p>I also believe I once ran across a patch someone had done to the login code to allow both to be required, I can't find the link right off though as I'm at work currently. If I find it, I'll add it here</text></comment>
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<story><title>DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/04/09/dns-over-https-policy-requirements-for-resolvers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nykolasz</author><text>I replied sub-thread, but adding here to give some more visibility to some of the issues DoH is causing and will cause:<p>I work at a k12 school and I am involved on many k12 IT communities.<p>Some schools already removed Firefox from the students computers because it was being used as a &quot;VPN&quot; by some elementary students to access porn - at school. Guess what this VPN was? Just DNS over HTTPS.<p>There is a fine line between protecting yourself from your ISP and local network operators that NEED to apply some security policies to their traffic. Even Google offers &quot;Safe Search&quot; for schools and libraries that removes porn content.<p>Unfortunately, on our school network, we also allow BYOD (students with their own laptops and ipads), so we will have to have some strict rules to block DoH, the same way we block proxies and vpns.<p>The only other option is going to full HTTPS MITM, forcing a root SSL cert to all computers that use our network, which is the last thing that anyone wants to do.<p><i>Summary: This may lead to more HTTPS MITM or schools forbidding BYOD AND removing Firefox from their computers.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Avamander</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry. Soon Chrome will also implement DoH and ESNI, then you actually have to either forbid BYOD or actually start teaching students manners, how browsing porn is not okay in school context. I&#x27;m really quite annoyed by the connotation that kids should rather be helicopter-parented (by tech or by people) than actually taught what&#x27;s okay and what&#x27;s not.<p>The very least the new tech provides is that any silent helicopter parenting is becoming more visible and I&#x27;m grateful for that. Kids deserve internet privacy just as much as real-life privacy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/04/09/dns-over-https-policy-requirements-for-resolvers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nykolasz</author><text>I replied sub-thread, but adding here to give some more visibility to some of the issues DoH is causing and will cause:<p>I work at a k12 school and I am involved on many k12 IT communities.<p>Some schools already removed Firefox from the students computers because it was being used as a &quot;VPN&quot; by some elementary students to access porn - at school. Guess what this VPN was? Just DNS over HTTPS.<p>There is a fine line between protecting yourself from your ISP and local network operators that NEED to apply some security policies to their traffic. Even Google offers &quot;Safe Search&quot; for schools and libraries that removes porn content.<p>Unfortunately, on our school network, we also allow BYOD (students with their own laptops and ipads), so we will have to have some strict rules to block DoH, the same way we block proxies and vpns.<p>The only other option is going to full HTTPS MITM, forcing a root SSL cert to all computers that use our network, which is the last thing that anyone wants to do.<p><i>Summary: This may lead to more HTTPS MITM or schools forbidding BYOD AND removing Firefox from their computers.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>What would removing Firefox accomplish? Why would students not just download one of the bazillion Chrome VPN addons? Or regular VPNs that they can just turn on and off? How is _removing Firefox_ a solution?<p>What these schools need is to set up sensible group policies. Managing BYOD on a school with kids (as opposed to grown-up people whose jobs are on the line) is simply impossible.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Facebook Connect Shouldn't Be Your Only Sign-in Option</title><url>http://bijansabet.com/post/16980728547/why-facebook-connect-shouldnt-be-your-only-sign-in</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aqua_Geek</author><text>There's a good chance that if FB is the only sign-in option, I will immediately close the window and never use your service. It's pretty much an insta-bounce for me for the exact reasons cited in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alttag</author><text>Me too, because I don't have a FB account. I actively avoid one. I'm being excluded from marketing campaigns, contests, and give-aways because I don't trust FB with my privacy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Facebook Connect Shouldn't Be Your Only Sign-in Option</title><url>http://bijansabet.com/post/16980728547/why-facebook-connect-shouldnt-be-your-only-sign-in</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aqua_Geek</author><text>There's a good chance that if FB is the only sign-in option, I will immediately close the window and never use your service. It's pretty much an insta-bounce for me for the exact reasons cited in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdp23</author><text>Ditto. Sure, a lot of people prefer the convenience of being able to log in without creating another account and password, and will just click okay without looking at how many privileges the app is asking for; so having a FB (and Twitter and Google and ...) login option can streamline things for them. But when that's the only option you're going to lose a big chunk of your potential users right off the bat.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-push-to-build-a-self-driving-car-sparks-dissent-among-its-engineers-1503593742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Airliner pilot discipline is orders of magnitude better than your average driver.</text></item><item><author>terravion</author><text>That said, aviation accident rates have been falling asymptotically while this &quot;troubling trend&quot; has been going on. In the US we&#x27;ve had no fatalities on domestic commercial flights since like 2009, and only the two at SFO a couple of years ago on international flights to the US. This is on a couple of billion flights with hundreds of billions of passenger departures.</text></item><item><author>contingencies</author><text><i>Wiener&#x27;s Eighth and Final Law: You can never be too careful about what you put into a digital flight-guidance system.</i> - Earl Wiener, Professor of Engineering, University of Miami (1980)<p><i>It seems that we are locked into a spiral in which poor human performance begets automation, which worsens human performance, which begets increasing automation. The pattern is common to our time but is acute in aviation. Air France 447 was a case in point.</i> - William Langewiesche, &#x27;The Human Factor: Should Airplanes be Flying Themselves?&#x27;, Vanity Fair, October 2014<p><i>Eventually mean&#x2F;median system performance deteriorates as more and more pure slack and redundancy needs to be built in at all levels to make up for the irreversibly fragile nature of the system. The business cycle is an oscillation between efficient fragility and robust inefficiency. Over the course of successive cycles, both poles of this oscillation get worse which leads to median&#x2F;mean system performance falling rapidly at the same time that the tails deteriorate due to the increased illegibility of the automated system to the human operator.</i> - Ashwin Parameswaran (2012)<p>... from my fortune clone @ <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;globalcitizen&#x2F;taoup" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;globalcitizen&#x2F;taoup</a></text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>Requiring the driver to be awake and alert while not requiring them to actually do anything for long stretches of time is a recipe for disaster.</i><p>Everybody who&#x27;s looked at this seriously agrees. The aviation industry has looked hard at that issue for a long time. Watch &quot;Children of the Magenta&quot;.[1] This is a chief pilot of American Airlines talking to pilots about automation dependency in 1997. Watch this if you have anything to do with a safety-related system.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pN41LvuSz10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pN41LvuSz10</a></text></item><item><author>empath75</author><text>The level-2 driving that Tesla is pushing seems like a worst case scenario to me. Requiring the driver to be awake and alert while not requiring them to actually <i>do</i> anything for long stretches of time is a recipe for disaster.<p>Neither the driver nor the car manufacturer will have clear responsibility when there is an accident. The driver will blame the system for failing and the manufacturer will blame the driver for not paying sufficient attention. It&#x27;s lose-lose for everyone. The company, the drivers, the insurance companies, and other people on the road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxcan</author><text>I&#x27;m a private pilot (general aviation, single engine cessna&#x27;s). For the most part, our discipline is orders of magnitude higher than all but the best drivers. Airline pilots are orders of magnitude better than us. You are absolutely correct.</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>Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-pay-500-million-settle-154848278.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avalys</author><text>I’ve always thought the coverage of this issue got things completely backwards.<p>Apple had an issue with old phones unexpectedly shutting down. They determined this happened because aged batteries were not capable of delivering peak current anymore and the CPU was “browning out” under heavy load.<p>They added a software feature in an iOS update that throttled the CPU in this condition to prevent a crash, at the expense of lower peak CPU performance.<p>From my perspective, this demonstrated real dedication to customer care and old device support from Apple. A phone that is moderately slower is still more valuable than one that randomly crashes. Intuitively, I’d expect that this would decrease sales of replacement iPhones, not increase them.<p>People latched onto the fact that Apple did this “secretly” - but Apple has never exposed this sort of implementation detail, and they’ve never wanted battery replacement to be part of the normal user experience for their devices. If Apple had shipped an iOS update that started telling people “Your battery is degraded, pay us to replace it to stop the crashes!” they obviously would’ve been raked over the coals also. There is no magic solution here.<p>So I never saw any indication that this was malicious on Apple’s part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bgentry</author><text>It&#x27;s shocking to me that even in a technical audience like HN, so many people don&#x27;t understand the fairly simple story that you&#x27;ve outlined here. Look around this thread and see how many people spread the narrative like &quot;Apple intentionally slowed phones down&quot; or even &quot;Apple tried to extend battery life at the cost of performance&quot;. Reiterating the summary:<p>- Some iPhones in this generation began randomly shutting down as their batteries aged.<p>- While looking into this, Apple determined it happened because certain aged batteries could no longer deliver enough current to sustain peak workloads (computers use more current when performing more intensive tasks). This is probably due to Apple underprovisioning the battery capacity in this generation, but that&#x27;s not something they could fix in existing devices.<p>- Apple added a mechanism to detect when these random shutdowns occurred <i>on a specific device</i> due to insufficient power from the battery.<p>- Once the random shutdown had been detected <i>on a specific device</i>, that specific phone would instead throttle its CPU when the system was under heavy load to prevent the random shutdown from occurring.<p>In short, your phone was not affected unless your battery had already degraded and was experiencing power-related random shutdowns. The changes Apple made to deal with this were an unequivocally user-friendly change to work around a hardware shortcoming and keep peoples&#x27; phones working well for longer than they otherwise would have.<p>The mistakes Apple made were:<p>- Designing the phone hardware with barely enough battery capacity, such that some moderately old phones might not be able to keep working properly when the batteries decayed.<p>- Not being transparent with the hardware design flaw above, such as proactively replacing any customer whose device was being affected by this flaw while still under warranty.<p>- Not going far enough with the software changes to initially add something like the battery health info they later added in response to this PR fiasco.<p>That&#x27;s about it, I think?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-pay-500-million-settle-154848278.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avalys</author><text>I’ve always thought the coverage of this issue got things completely backwards.<p>Apple had an issue with old phones unexpectedly shutting down. They determined this happened because aged batteries were not capable of delivering peak current anymore and the CPU was “browning out” under heavy load.<p>They added a software feature in an iOS update that throttled the CPU in this condition to prevent a crash, at the expense of lower peak CPU performance.<p>From my perspective, this demonstrated real dedication to customer care and old device support from Apple. A phone that is moderately slower is still more valuable than one that randomly crashes. Intuitively, I’d expect that this would decrease sales of replacement iPhones, not increase them.<p>People latched onto the fact that Apple did this “secretly” - but Apple has never exposed this sort of implementation detail, and they’ve never wanted battery replacement to be part of the normal user experience for their devices. If Apple had shipped an iOS update that started telling people “Your battery is degraded, pay us to replace it to stop the crashes!” they obviously would’ve been raked over the coals also. There is no magic solution here.<p>So I never saw any indication that this was malicious on Apple’s part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dirkdigles</author><text>They didn’t tell retail. They also didn’t tell customers why their phones were slow. Customers called&#x2F;came in complaining of slow phones, and often times assumed it was because their phone was “old.” Many new iPhones were likely sold as the result, as retail&#x2F;customer service couldn’t give an explanation for slowness.<p>Malicious or not, they profited, likely heavily, from the lack of communication&#x2F;transparency.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Today is the 10th year anniversary of Steam being officially out for Linux</title><url>https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/9943</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kunwon1</author><text>I started using Linux around 2002. I evaluated and quickly dismissed it as a desktop OS largely because it didn&#x27;t allow me to play the games I wanted to play. In 2021 or 2022 I finally switched, thanks entirely to Steam on Linux (more specifically, thanks to the Proton&#x2F;WINE integration). I haven&#x27;t looked back. I&#x27;m on Arch, if anyone is curious.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Today is the 10th year anniversary of Steam being officially out for Linux</title><url>https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/9943</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rightbyte</author><text>Proton is great.<p>I have played some games on it and mostly it is parasite apps like EA App or whatever that is a problem.<p>It Takes Two worked great when running but lunching was always 5-20 minutes of restarts. And two times out of like 8 EA bricked their launcher app with updates and the game stopped working for some days.<p>The next gaming rig will surely be Linux only for me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A 106 kilobyte color profile for a 3 kilobyte image file</title><url>http://bbot.org/blog/archives/2011/11/05/shooting_yourself_in_the_foot_with_great_verve_and_accuracy/ </url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>From the article:<p>"This is not exactly an unknown problem. Google constantly harps on optimizing images, but Tumblr blindly reuses images that its users hand it. This makes me sad."<p>There are tons of valid uses for the color profile and other metadata in PNG files. Generally, I <i>don't</i> want services dicking with this stuff (in some cases I don't care, but I don't want the service to decide when I do or don't because it is bound to decide wrong some of the time, so they should just leave my data alone).<p>Onus should be on the content developer to save the image in a proper format and strip all metadata that isn't required. I don't want services I use stripping this stuff willy-nilly. Perhaps I <i>want</i> accurate color profile data in my PNGs so my tumblr followers can make accurate prints. Perhaps I <i>want</i> geolocation EXIF data in there because my blog is read by people who want to see this data, etc.<p>tl;dr -- Don't listen to this guy, Tumblr (or anyone else). He makes the classic mistake of "because something isn't important to me, it has no use".</text></comment>
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<story><title>A 106 kilobyte color profile for a 3 kilobyte image file</title><url>http://bbot.org/blog/archives/2011/11/05/shooting_yourself_in_the_foot_with_great_verve_and_accuracy/ </url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>I learnt a lot about PNG from that, thank you.<p>What is a sane solution for users without clue? Does the website just need a good PNG optimizer and hope nothing breaks too bad, and if it does it's only an image?</text></comment>
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<story><title>SerialUSB – a cheap USB proxy for input devices</title><url>http://blog.gimx.fr/serialusb/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdeptusAquinas</author><text>What I really want, but fear I am not smart enough to put together, is a tool like this that allows me to mimic an XBox One controller using a Keyboard and Mouse on PC. So as to play games like Halo via Xbox Streaming using the more PC-friendly input medium (I can&#x27;t play FPS games with a controller :|)<p>Bit of an odd scenario though - need to fool my PC into thinking that it has an XBox One controller attached, while feeding the output from my keyboard&#x2F;mouse through that dummy controller...which then gets streamed to the XBox One via Xbox streaming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly what GMIX lets you do (the USB proxy is just one of their side projects.)<p><i>&quot;GIMX stands for Game Input MultipleXer or Game Input MatriX. The purpose of this free software is to control a video game console with a computer (e.g. a PC or a Raspberry Pi). It works with the PS3, the Xbox 360, the PS4 and the Xbox One.&quot;</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>SerialUSB – a cheap USB proxy for input devices</title><url>http://blog.gimx.fr/serialusb/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdeptusAquinas</author><text>What I really want, but fear I am not smart enough to put together, is a tool like this that allows me to mimic an XBox One controller using a Keyboard and Mouse on PC. So as to play games like Halo via Xbox Streaming using the more PC-friendly input medium (I can&#x27;t play FPS games with a controller :|)<p>Bit of an odd scenario though - need to fool my PC into thinking that it has an XBox One controller attached, while feeding the output from my keyboard&#x2F;mouse through that dummy controller...which then gets streamed to the XBox One via Xbox streaming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bnjms</author><text>Good news! I&#x27;ve heard of people playing Destiny on XB1 with kb&amp;m so this is a solved problem.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;210778-microsoft-will-add-keyboard-mouse-support-to-xbox-one-for-gaming" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;210778-microsoft-will-add-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice</title><url>http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151208/ncomms9997/full/ncomms9997.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>This is heartening news; if not a cure, at least it suggests a promising avenue for future research into this terrible condition.<p>This LiveScience[1] article is an easily read summary that also mentions a critique of the approach.<p>Given the unfortunate history[2][3] of falsified Korean scientific research, it would be prudent to withhold judgment until these results have been reproduced in other labs around the world.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livescience.com&#x2F;53019-epps-chemical-washes-away-alzheimers-plaque.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livescience.com&#x2F;53019-epps-chemical-washes-away-a...</a><p>2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;27&#x2F;world&#x2F;asia&#x2F;27clone.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;27&#x2F;world&#x2F;asia&#x2F;27clone.html?_r...</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;to-your-health&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;researcher-who-spiked-rabbit-blood-to-fake-hiv-vaccine-results-slapped-with-rare-prison-sentence&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;to-your-health&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wobbleblob</author><text>Ever since a family member was diagnosed with Alzheimer&#x27;s, I&#x27;ve been paying attention to reports like these. Every other year, there is a paper about a major breakthrough, and surely a cure should be just around the corner any time now.<p>Every few years there is a paper that claims that we now finally know what causes the disease, and every time it&#x27;s something different, and every time you never hear of a followup.<p>It&#x27;s about 3 decades later now, and as far as I can tell, there is still no actual progress in the way of treatment. An alzheimer&#x27;s diagnosis still means the same as it did in the 80&#x27;s or in the 60&#x27;s for that matter.<p>About this cure that is just around the corner. It came too late for my grandparents generation, it came too late for my parents&#x27; generation, it came too late for my generation, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it came too late for my children&#x27;s generation. I don&#x27;t believe in it any more.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice</title><url>http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151208/ncomms9997/full/ncomms9997.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>This is heartening news; if not a cure, at least it suggests a promising avenue for future research into this terrible condition.<p>This LiveScience[1] article is an easily read summary that also mentions a critique of the approach.<p>Given the unfortunate history[2][3] of falsified Korean scientific research, it would be prudent to withhold judgment until these results have been reproduced in other labs around the world.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livescience.com&#x2F;53019-epps-chemical-washes-away-alzheimers-plaque.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livescience.com&#x2F;53019-epps-chemical-washes-away-a...</a><p>2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;27&#x2F;world&#x2F;asia&#x2F;27clone.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;27&#x2F;world&#x2F;asia&#x2F;27clone.html?_r...</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;to-your-health&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;researcher-who-spiked-rabbit-blood-to-fake-hiv-vaccine-results-slapped-with-rare-prison-sentence&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;to-your-health&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>decisiveness</author><text>This seems like a pretty unfair generalization of Koreans. Assuming all scientists have the same shameful characteristics of a few doesn&#x27;t seem very scientific, does it?</text></comment>
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<story><title>UMG claims "right to block or remove" YouTube videos it doesn't own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeknoop</author><text>There are still questions concerning the Tech News Today takedown issue. From the article:<p>UMG's response also sheds some light on another mystery: why Monday's issue of Tech News Today was yanked from YouTube. When UMG removes a video via YouTube's CMS, a "reference file" is created that "in theory is supposed to identify other instances of postings of the same content." UMG speculates that this "reference file" system was responsible for the accidental removal from YouTube of a Tech News Today episode featuring the Megaupload video.<p>Now, this is plausible why TNT was taken down the first time. TNT then issued a counter-complaint and was put back online shortly thereafter. Finally, it was removed AGAIN in accordance to the DMCA because (according to the speculation on how this works) UMG confirmed that the content in question which was originally removed did infringe.<p>UMG cannot hide behind the "accidental" TNT takedown if they personally <i>confirmed</i> it twice to be infringing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UMG claims "right to block or remove" YouTube videos it doesn't own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>X-Istence</author><text>Except that when the video gets taken down YouTube says it was on copyright grounds, not only that but when you get such a takedown letter it specifically mentions the DMCA (or at least in the one case a client of mine received such a letter due to using a 30 second clip from a song as background music) and your rights associated with the DMCA including the ability to state that it is fair use.<p>If YouTube did agree to letting UMG basically control content uploaded to YouTube they have basically given them the ability to silence any and all opposition to UMG on YouTube with the single click of a button.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? (2019)</title><url>https://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/w231/2019/10/14/does-cashless-society-discriminate-against-the-poor-and-elderly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>Landlines were state-of-the-art tech more than a century ago; depending on when you define its invention it came at some point between 1844 and 1877 [1] and it was widespread by the second world war. There was a huge portion of the last century in which &quot;just&quot; having a landline was a relatively constant, relatively well defined utility and (from the consumer&#x27;s point of view) the technology was mature and did not change much between arguably 1950 and about 1990. The rotary dial pulse dialling system was patented in 1891; the telephone I grew up using (in the 1980s) used essentially the same technology and pulse dialling gradually replaced it over the course of several decades. Most of the innovation took place on the side of the exchange, and the average telephone user probably noticed little other than changes in billing and a slowly decreasing frequency of talking to an operator.<p>Cellphones are completely different. My &quot;daily driver&quot; smartphone, bought in 2017 for ~1&#x2F;4 of my monthly salary, is obsolete and I have rooted it in order to continue to install security updates. This <i>has</i> locked me out of my Danish bank account.<p>My mum&#x27;s 1980s PSTN phone still works, even when the mains electricity is out, no technology change required.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Timeline_of_the_telephone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Timeline_of_the_telephone</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pulse_dialing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pulse_dialing</a></text></item><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>That&#x27;s because when they were young a &#x27;normal land line&#x27; was the state of the art tech. Why were they fine using state of the art tech then? I guess older people at the time found it confusing and the people complaining to you probably thought they should get with the times.<p>It&#x27;s the same stuff just in a cycle.</text></item><item><author>krolden</author><text>Ive been doing some IT work at a cell phone store in a very low income area. There is a large number of people coming in to buy new phones or get their old ones repaired and many of them (especially the older ones) HATE that they need to have a smartphone. I hear at least one person a day complain about how they cant just have a normal land line anymore and need to have a smartphone to participate in society.<p>Also they REALLY dont like hearing about how the phone they have now is obsolete and theres no way to get parts for it, or its just too far gone and they&#x27;ll need to buy a new phone. I feel for all of these people as I totally agree with them.</text></item><item><author>trylfthsk</author><text>I think there almost needs to be a &quot;Reacher Law&quot;, in that there should be minimal friction to participating in society aside from maybe cash and an ID.
I definitely find a default assumption of having a smartphone that&#x27;s creeping in everywhere (android &#x2F; iOS compatible &amp; has an active data plan) to be increasingly cloying.<p>Currently, all I can do is politely decline and insist that I neither have the Play nor Apple store; I still find it uncomfortable even giving away my phone number.
I couldn&#x27;t even get into my gym the other day, since they&#x27;d transitioned to app sign-in only (phasing out barcode tags); I&#x27;m forced to beg the attendant to look me up by phone number <i>every time</i>.<p>*EDIT: I hope ranting about smartphones in a cashless-ness thread isn&#x27;t too off topic</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rediscover</author><text>&gt; even when the mains electricity is out<p>My ex (and still one of my best friends!) was (is?) a first responder for the Pacific North-West (think oil-spills on mountains and other ecological problems). She was required to have a land-line. It was great that it would forward to a mobile, and lacking that, dump back to a battery-backed-up voice mail unit on-premises (possibly more).<p>OT: Her position seemed unique to me -- working for &lt;whatever&gt; $company, she would get alerted&#x2F;activated for things in the Canada AND the U.S. And they would do the thing of &quot;Where are You? ....... There&#x27;s a heliport at X - we&#x27;ll have a &#x27;copter there in 15 minutes&quot; and then I get to send her away clutch when I got home.</text></comment>
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[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pulse_dialing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pulse_dialing</a></text></item><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>That&#x27;s because when they were young a &#x27;normal land line&#x27; was the state of the art tech. Why were they fine using state of the art tech then? I guess older people at the time found it confusing and the people complaining to you probably thought they should get with the times.<p>It&#x27;s the same stuff just in a cycle.</text></item><item><author>krolden</author><text>Ive been doing some IT work at a cell phone store in a very low income area. There is a large number of people coming in to buy new phones or get their old ones repaired and many of them (especially the older ones) HATE that they need to have a smartphone. I hear at least one person a day complain about how they cant just have a normal land line anymore and need to have a smartphone to participate in society.<p>Also they REALLY dont like hearing about how the phone they have now is obsolete and theres no way to get parts for it, or its just too far gone and they&#x27;ll need to buy a new phone. I feel for all of these people as I totally agree with them.</text></item><item><author>trylfthsk</author><text>I think there almost needs to be a &quot;Reacher Law&quot;, in that there should be minimal friction to participating in society aside from maybe cash and an ID.
I definitely find a default assumption of having a smartphone that&#x27;s creeping in everywhere (android &#x2F; iOS compatible &amp; has an active data plan) to be increasingly cloying.<p>Currently, all I can do is politely decline and insist that I neither have the Play nor Apple store; I still find it uncomfortable even giving away my phone number.
I couldn&#x27;t even get into my gym the other day, since they&#x27;d transitioned to app sign-in only (phasing out barcode tags); I&#x27;m forced to beg the attendant to look me up by phone number <i>every time</i>.<p>*EDIT: I hope ranting about smartphones in a cashless-ness thread isn&#x27;t too off topic</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midasuni</author><text>They might have been state of the art, but they weren’t ubiquitous<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.census.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;tables&#x2F;time-series&#x2F;dec&#x2F;coh-phone.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.census.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;tables&#x2F;time-series&#x2F;dec&#x2F;coh-phone...</a><p>1 in 20 households lacked a phone in 1990, 1 in 5 in 1960, and those number his regional variations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48990482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>&gt; The compensation should reflect the mental and physical stress they put people through.<p>As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market. The fact that Amazon can <i>easily</i> hire as many workers as it wants at $15&#x2F;hr says that they are paying their employees plenty already. It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for their labor practices rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place <i>people are willing to work</i>.</text></item><item><author>enlyth</author><text>I agree with the worker in the video, they should be treated as human beings. One of the issues is doing a simple, monotonous task every 8 seconds, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, without creating anything of value, is going to be dehumanizing and unfulfilling regardless.<p>Robots carrying out this work would probably be for the best for everyone involved, although Amazon should do right by the workers carrying them over this difficult transition period where they&#x27;re still required for part of the menial manual labour tasks. The compensation should reflect the mental and physical stress they put people through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lallysingh</author><text>&gt; It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for their labor practices rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place people are willing to work.<p>That&#x27;s about as useful a statement as &quot;Thoughts and prayers.&quot;<p>To change the labor market you go after the parties you can affect. Amazon is one. There are many others on the demand side. Retaining the workforce would be a much lower % return for the investment.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48990482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>&gt; The compensation should reflect the mental and physical stress they put people through.<p>As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market. The fact that Amazon can <i>easily</i> hire as many workers as it wants at $15&#x2F;hr says that they are paying their employees plenty already. It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for their labor practices rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place <i>people are willing to work</i>.</text></item><item><author>enlyth</author><text>I agree with the worker in the video, they should be treated as human beings. One of the issues is doing a simple, monotonous task every 8 seconds, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, without creating anything of value, is going to be dehumanizing and unfulfilling regardless.<p>Robots carrying out this work would probably be for the best for everyone involved, although Amazon should do right by the workers carrying them over this difficult transition period where they&#x27;re still required for part of the menial manual labour tasks. The compensation should reflect the mental and physical stress they put people through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>&gt; As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.<p>The market has no moral compass. If you decide that the market dictates what we should do, then your actions will reflect the morals of the market, i.e., none.<p>Supply and demand is a statement of what &quot;is&quot;, not what &quot;should be&quot;. To some approximation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>XML is almost always misused</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/xml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbenson</author><text>So, what <i>is</i> XML good for? If it&#x27;s not good for data as everyone says (and I&#x27;m not inclined to argue), but it is good for documents, what kind of documents are we referring to? A defined metadata on a text document? A template used with data to generate something else? Is a configuration file a document or data? Where would I want to use XML that something like JSON, a text document, or some combination thereof wouldn&#x27;t be better?<p>I&#x27;m not being facetious, this is an honest question. Where are the &quot;right&quot; places to use XML?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; <i>Where are the &quot;right&quot; places to use XML?</i><p>Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML spec, writing in 2006 on the topic:<p>&gt; <i>Use JSON: Seems easy to me; if you want to serialize a data structure that’s not too text-heavy and all you want is for the receiver to get the same data structure with minimal effort, and you trust the other end to get the i18n right, JSON is hunky-dory.</i><p>&gt; <i>Use XML: If you want to provide general-purpose data that the receiver might want to do unforeseen weird and crazy things with, or if you want to be really paranoid and picky about i18n, or if what you’re sending is more like a document than a struct, or if the order of the data matters, or if the data is potentially long-lived (as in, more than seconds) XML is the way to go.</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tbray.org&#x2F;ongoing&#x2F;When&#x2F;200x&#x2F;2006&#x2F;12&#x2F;21&#x2F;JSON" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tbray.org&#x2F;ongoing&#x2F;When&#x2F;200x&#x2F;2006&#x2F;12&#x2F;21&#x2F;JSON</a><p>He was also editor of the JSON RFCs:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc7159" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc7159</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8259" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8259</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>XML is almost always misused</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/xml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbenson</author><text>So, what <i>is</i> XML good for? If it&#x27;s not good for data as everyone says (and I&#x27;m not inclined to argue), but it is good for documents, what kind of documents are we referring to? A defined metadata on a text document? A template used with data to generate something else? Is a configuration file a document or data? Where would I want to use XML that something like JSON, a text document, or some combination thereof wouldn&#x27;t be better?<p>I&#x27;m not being facetious, this is an honest question. Where are the &quot;right&quot; places to use XML?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>I wrote this four years ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11446984" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11446984</a><p>There are points of disagreement between me and the author, although I wouldn&#x27;t get too passionate about them.<p>Super-short version, reading over it again, is that XML is very good at what it does, but it really ought to be seen as a relatively specialized data format. It&#x27;s really good at certain tasks, best-of-breed for a couple of them, and degrades rapidly as you get away from that. JSON is a fairly cheap &amp; fast general-purpose format that&#x27;s OK at a lot of things, isn&#x27;t necessarily great at much, but as you get into more specialized use cases, also tends to degrade. Being a general-purpose format, perhaps arguably it degrades more &quot;slowly&quot;, but it does degrade.<p>Properly understood, IMHO, their use cases don&#x27;t overlap much if at all, and the combination of them may cover a lot of space, but are still far, far from the only serialization formats you&#x27;ll ever need.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what?</title><text>Hello everyone,<p>I've seen a lot of articles on HN recently talking about Clojure. I had a quick look at a few pages (Wikipedia, etc...), and I can't help but think that it sounds like the new cool language, pretty much like Ruby in 2007.<p>But to get a better idea, I'd like to hear the feedback from the community: Who is using Clojure (in real-life cases), and what are you doing with it?<p>Bonus points if you can tell what specific features made it a better language for the task.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philh</author><text>Another important question to ask is: if you're not using clojure, is there a clojure-specific reason for that? (ie. "I would use clojure but...")<p>In my case: I reported a bug in the clojure.contrib XML library, on the google group. It's a trivial fix, but not worth the hassle of signing a contributor agreement. So although I'd fixed it myself, I couldn't send a patch. All I could do was report it - and the report was ignored.<p>Some time later, I reported another, deeper bug that I didn't know how to begin fixing (but did know a workaround for). It got ignored too.<p>I like the language, and I'm not going to say my experience was typical of the community. I spent some time hanging out on the group and the people there seemed friendly and helpful. But that's one reason I no longer use it. (Another reason is "no reason at all", and I don't know the relative weights of these reasons.)<p>This feels a little like whining to me, but feedback should be both positive and negative.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what?</title><text>Hello everyone,<p>I've seen a lot of articles on HN recently talking about Clojure. I had a quick look at a few pages (Wikipedia, etc...), and I can't help but think that it sounds like the new cool language, pretty much like Ruby in 2007.<p>But to get a better idea, I'd like to hear the feedback from the community: Who is using Clojure (in real-life cases), and what are you doing with it?<p>Bonus points if you can tell what specific features made it a better language for the task.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>I work at Etsy. I launched a new search tool powered by Clojure last week:<p><a href="http://www.etsy.com/explorer" rel="nofollow">http://www.etsy.com/explorer</a><p>It's used for the autosuggest and facet suggestion on the sidebar.<p>We'll be posting more about this on our tech blog sometime soon.</text></comment>
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<story><title>VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20230723100307/https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>korginator</author><text>I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use &amp; evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they&#x27;ve changed the license, you&#x27;re out of luck.<p>Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license.<p>We&#x27;ve moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].<p>On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old &amp; poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Licensing_FAQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Licensing_FAQ</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;java&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;javase&#x2F;jdk-faqs.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;java&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;javase&#x2F;jdk-faqs.htm...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mac.getutm.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mac.getutm.app&#x2F;</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multipass.run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multipass.run&#x2F;</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;insidegui&#x2F;VirtualBuddy">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;insidegui&#x2F;VirtualBuddy</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>&gt; Virtual Machine Manager<p>Do you mean Red Hat&#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager, AKA virt-manager (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virt-manager" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virt-manager</a>), or Microsoft&#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;system-center&#x2F;vmm&#x2F;?view=sc-vmm-2022" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;system-center&#x2F;vmm&#x2F;?view=sc...</a>), or Synology&#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.synology.com&#x2F;en-global&#x2F;dsm&#x2F;feature&#x2F;virtual_machine_manager" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.synology.com&#x2F;en-global&#x2F;dsm&#x2F;feature&#x2F;virtual_machi...</a>)? I&#x27;m guessing the first one?<p>I use VirtualBox for trying things out or sandboxing, mainly because of the friendly GUI, but wouldn&#x27;t mind switching to something as friendly that&#x27;s not Oracle&#x27;s.</text></comment>
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<story><title>VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20230723100307/https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>korginator</author><text>I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use &amp; evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they&#x27;ve changed the license, you&#x27;re out of luck.<p>Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license.<p>We&#x27;ve moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].<p>On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old &amp; poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Licensing_FAQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Licensing_FAQ</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;java&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;javase&#x2F;jdk-faqs.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;java&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;javase&#x2F;jdk-faqs.htm...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mac.getutm.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mac.getutm.app&#x2F;</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multipass.run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multipass.run&#x2F;</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;insidegui&#x2F;VirtualBuddy">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;insidegui&#x2F;VirtualBuddy</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misterS</author><text>&gt; Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license.<p>Our company was targeted by Oracle Sales because they detected mere _downloads_ from our IP range. They couldn&#x27;t prove any installations, but of course wanted the company to pay for commercial licenses.<p>Im not sure about the details, but in the end I think we bought a couple of licences &amp; then blocked all URLs for the extension pack company-wide.</text></comment>
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<story><title>TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/19/tsmc-is-making-the-best-of-a-bad-geopolitical-situation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;<i>“Complete nonsense,” retorts Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research, a financial firm. tsmc has almost simultaneously launched a new fab in Taiwan, with four times the wafer capacity—and more advanced technology—than the two proposed Arizona foundries. Its bet on America is more of a long-term insurance policy than an immediate game-changer. It enables tsmc to start the tough job of recruiting a workforce and amassing suppliers in America, providing a baseline for expansion “if the Chinese are crazy enough to bomb Taiwan”. For the foreseeable future, though, most r&amp;d is likely to remain in Taiwan. So will at least four-fifths of tmsc’s capacity.</i><p>It is unfortunate the truth and decent analysts dont get enough press coverage because they dont fit the narrative of current trend.<p>- The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers&#x27; prejudices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>It is in China&#x27;s interests that Taiwan not be the centre of global chip manufacturing. And the US&#x27;s interest. Europe&#x27;s too. The situation is delicate, but I suspect in time Taiwan will become less strategically important. Too many powerful players would benefit from that industry going somewhere else. An economic competitive advantage is not enough to make the US take strategic risks, or to hold China off.<p>It makes sense that there would be literal conspiracies a work in this situation. If I were in Taiwan, I would assume that the US plant represents some sort of threat to the geopolitical status quo. Regardless of what some analyst thinks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/19/tsmc-is-making-the-best-of-a-bad-geopolitical-situation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;<i>“Complete nonsense,” retorts Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research, a financial firm. tsmc has almost simultaneously launched a new fab in Taiwan, with four times the wafer capacity—and more advanced technology—than the two proposed Arizona foundries. Its bet on America is more of a long-term insurance policy than an immediate game-changer. It enables tsmc to start the tough job of recruiting a workforce and amassing suppliers in America, providing a baseline for expansion “if the Chinese are crazy enough to bomb Taiwan”. For the foreseeable future, though, most r&amp;d is likely to remain in Taiwan. So will at least four-fifths of tmsc’s capacity.</i><p>It is unfortunate the truth and decent analysts dont get enough press coverage because they dont fit the narrative of current trend.<p>- The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers&#x27; prejudices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>I suspect the PRC won&#x27;t outright bomb much of Taiwan but instead go straight for the presidential palace in Taipei and try to force an ROC capitulation early.<p>I think they&#x27;re counting on the ruling class &#x2F; landowners &#x2F; capitalists to pressure the government to capitulate at fear of property destruction, which I also expect to be in line with reality. Doing capitalism in a country like taiwan is better than in the PRC, but doing it in the PRC is better than not being able to do it at all because all your assets were obliterated.<p>What I think none of these people are counting on is that there are rabidly anti CPC people here in Taiwan, leftist or otherwise, and some of these people engage in post-military service training and drilling. I suspect that if the above comes to pass and the CPC is successful in forcing an ROC surrender, the factories are burning one way or the other, due to &quot;self-sabotage&quot; by workers or guerillas.<p>Then the PLA gets to have fun for a decade chasing guerillas around the choking thick jungle and mountains that make up the majority of the landmass in Taiwan. Many of these will be indigenous who have lived in the mountains for generations and per capita by demographic make up more of the (non conscripted) military than any other demographic.<p>I don&#x27;t think any of this will come to pass though because I, like most people in Taiwan (including the usa consulate staff), believe the possibility of invasion is slim.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Be nice to programmers</title><url>http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/be-nice-to-programmers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>Salespeople make the sale sometimes. A doctor sees someone walk back in for their checkup who couldn't walk a week ago. A technical support person often says goodbye to a cheerful happy customer. Musicians may have to deal with criticism in the papers, but if they delist their phone number it's because of the <i>fans</i>, generally, not the critics. Actually that goes for almost all the creative industries.<p>Developers have very little positive to go off of, and few professions have customers as discerning and grumpy as compilers.<p>I wouldn't claim it's utterly unique, and everybody's got their own problems. But I don't think it's healthy or a good idea to ignore the problems we face because some people sometimes in some particular way have things even worse.</text></item><item><author>AerieC</author><text>But this is true of any "producing" profession. Any time you're creating something and "putting it out there", there's going to be a huge stream of criticism from every direction. Artists, writers, musicians, engineers, carpenters, etc.--all of their work is constantly under scrutiny by "the customer" and/or "the boss".<p>Even non-producing professions have to deal with constant scrutiny of their performance and negativity. Salespeople might make one sale out of 20 attempts. Anyone in a medical profession is under extreme pressure to not make a mistake (and sometimes things go wrong even when you do everything right).<p>There are very few professions who don't have to deal with the whole "focusing on the negative" thing (I can't actually think of any). It's pretty much a fact of life that if you want quality, you have to systematically eliminate your weak spots.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>The punches are pulled in this piece. Not only is the compiler continuously complaining, once you ship code, your customers call in to complain about every conceivable bug and a great deal that weren't conceivable. You can have thousands of happy customers, but you as the developer will hear from the three guys with obscure configurations and bizarre setups encountering bugs. Shipping software is ten seconds of "Hooray", followed immediate by a breakdown of what terrible things are already wrong with the next release.<p>I'm surprised any of us can hold up under the withering torrent of negativity that is any serious programming job.<p>I actually don't mean this as a complaint, either. I've adjusted. I've been doing this for 15 years. But I've been sort of stepping back lately and looking at my job from other points of view, especially as I deal with coworkers who aren't so adjusted/adapted, and not only do I now understand where they are coming from, I find myself wondering how adaptation is even possible. It's absurd how negative the interactions are. Keep track someday of your professional interactions and look at how many of them are negative; bug reports, missed deadlines, "we can't do that", etc. Or perhaps, don't, if you've never thought about this before. I sure hope you have an otherwise positive workplace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyland</author><text>This is one of those cases where I wish we could all walk a mile in each other's shoes.<p>I can program. I am not "a" programmer. I've written a Ruby Gem or two, and I've even had some (very) small contributions accepted to widely used gems. I am really a project manager, but I recongize the value of understanding the tools that are used to build the projects I oversee.<p>I can sell. I am not "a" salesman. I'm a good listener. I'm able to establish positive relationships relatively quickly. After meetings, I receive positive feedback from customers We're a small company, so I often end up sitting in on sales meetings. I find it's valuable to have a first-hand view in what customer objections are.<p>I've walked a mile in both sets of shoes. I can tell you, unquestionably, that both careers can be equally frustrating. It's easy to center your world view around your own challenges, but to believe that yours are unique and more important than others crosses the line to narcissism.<p>Sales people have it plenty rough. Not only are they constantly hammered by objections from customers, but any time they take those items back to the development team, they're met with similar apprehension about adding to the backlog.<p>&#62; But I don't think it's healthy or a good idea to ignore the problems we face because some people sometimes in some particular way have things even worse.<p>Who suggested that we ignore the problems? The important part about recognizing someone else's challenges is that we should seek to support each other in both directions.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Be nice to programmers</title><url>http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/be-nice-to-programmers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>Salespeople make the sale sometimes. A doctor sees someone walk back in for their checkup who couldn't walk a week ago. A technical support person often says goodbye to a cheerful happy customer. Musicians may have to deal with criticism in the papers, but if they delist their phone number it's because of the <i>fans</i>, generally, not the critics. Actually that goes for almost all the creative industries.<p>Developers have very little positive to go off of, and few professions have customers as discerning and grumpy as compilers.<p>I wouldn't claim it's utterly unique, and everybody's got their own problems. But I don't think it's healthy or a good idea to ignore the problems we face because some people sometimes in some particular way have things even worse.</text></item><item><author>AerieC</author><text>But this is true of any "producing" profession. Any time you're creating something and "putting it out there", there's going to be a huge stream of criticism from every direction. Artists, writers, musicians, engineers, carpenters, etc.--all of their work is constantly under scrutiny by "the customer" and/or "the boss".<p>Even non-producing professions have to deal with constant scrutiny of their performance and negativity. Salespeople might make one sale out of 20 attempts. Anyone in a medical profession is under extreme pressure to not make a mistake (and sometimes things go wrong even when you do everything right).<p>There are very few professions who don't have to deal with the whole "focusing on the negative" thing (I can't actually think of any). It's pretty much a fact of life that if you want quality, you have to systematically eliminate your weak spots.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>The punches are pulled in this piece. Not only is the compiler continuously complaining, once you ship code, your customers call in to complain about every conceivable bug and a great deal that weren't conceivable. You can have thousands of happy customers, but you as the developer will hear from the three guys with obscure configurations and bizarre setups encountering bugs. Shipping software is ten seconds of "Hooray", followed immediate by a breakdown of what terrible things are already wrong with the next release.<p>I'm surprised any of us can hold up under the withering torrent of negativity that is any serious programming job.<p>I actually don't mean this as a complaint, either. I've adjusted. I've been doing this for 15 years. But I've been sort of stepping back lately and looking at my job from other points of view, especially as I deal with coworkers who aren't so adjusted/adapted, and not only do I now understand where they are coming from, I find myself wondering how adaptation is even possible. It's absurd how negative the interactions are. Keep track someday of your professional interactions and look at how many of them are negative; bug reports, missed deadlines, "we can't do that", etc. Or perhaps, don't, if you've never thought about this before. I sure hope you have an otherwise positive workplace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve8918</author><text>And if you're a programmer, sometimes you fix the big bug that a huge sale depends on, and sometimes you create a feature that your customers love.<p>And, I take it you've never ever been in sales.<p>What many companies do is put everyone's name on a board, and everyone's sales are complete public knowledge. Every time you make a sale, you walk up the board and add another tick to your column. It's a way to shame people into not being the worst salesperson in the company. And at the end of the month/quarter, you start all over again. My closest friend as well as my cousin went through this process, and quit after a couple of years of having their self-esteem completely trampled upon.</text></comment>
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<story><title>List of vim plugins I use - with mini tutorials</title><url>http://mirnazim.org/writings/vim-plugins-i-use/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roryokane</author><text><p><pre><code> […] I do all(not counting using the textarea inside the
web browser) of my editing inside vim.
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You can edit even textareas with the “It’s All Text!” Firefox addon (<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/</a>). I’ve never used it, but I’ve read it’s the standard for Vim editing of browser text for Firefox users.</text></comment>
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<story><title>List of vim plugins I use - with mini tutorials</title><url>http://mirnazim.org/writings/vim-plugins-i-use/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eridius</author><text>Nice list. The "Github repository" link for CloseTag points to Command-T.<p>Also the SuperTab repo you linked is a mirror of an obsolete vimscript. It has a new maintainer and that maintainer's repo is at <a href="https://github.com/ervandew/supertab" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ervandew/supertab</a>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Eighth Circuit: Citizens do not have a right to film public officials in public</title><url>http://krcgtv.com/news/local/eighth-circuit-citizens-do-not-have-a-right-to-film-public-officials-in-public</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acjohnson55</author><text>Reading this gives me chills. Just one more step of many towards living in a police state. I feel like the particular sort of freedom I was raised to enjoy in the 80s and 90s is slipping away.<p>And as a black person, it really feels like the obvious abuses of police power continue unabated. There&#x27;s finally a parade of evidence showing just how egregiously the cops treat us, and that door is at risk of closing, if the SCOTUS affirms this over the other circuit&#x27;s opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leereeves</author><text>After reading this ruling and the original district court ruling [1], this article seems to be sensationalized clickbait.<p>The Eighth Circuit didn&#x27;t offer any opinion on the Constitutional questions (citing Rule 47B, affirmation without opinion), probably because they were irrelevant to the case. Akins wasn&#x27;t arrested for filming police, in fact, according to the district court ruling, the police affirmed his right to film more than once.<p>Akins complained about several incidents of alleged police harassment and the district court ruled that the police acted reasonably. According to the District Court, his complaints and the court&#x27;s ruling thereon included:<p>he was arrested for marijuana possession at a DUI checkpoint (&quot;Akins admitted in deposition that the material may have been his marijuana.&quot;). During the arrest, a concealed, loaded gun was found in a holster under his shirt (&quot;Akins said he did not [have a concealed carry permit] and that his attorney told him he did not need one to carry a gun in the car.&quot;);<p>he was handcuffed on the side of the road while an officer searched his car without permission, after he admitted he had a rifle in the back, while a weapons charge was pending against him;<p>he was pulled over by police and asked for ID (&quot;The interaction
lasted less than two minutes.&quot;)<p>he was arrested for driving without a license or proof of insurance, and for carrying a butterfly knife (which are apparently illegal in Missouri).<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;courtweb.pamd.uscourts.gov&#x2F;courtwebsearch&#x2F;mowd&#x2F;BNJpmRPFlI.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;courtweb.pamd.uscourts.gov&#x2F;courtwebsearch&#x2F;mowd&#x2F;BNJpmR...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Eighth Circuit: Citizens do not have a right to film public officials in public</title><url>http://krcgtv.com/news/local/eighth-circuit-citizens-do-not-have-a-right-to-film-public-officials-in-public</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acjohnson55</author><text>Reading this gives me chills. Just one more step of many towards living in a police state. I feel like the particular sort of freedom I was raised to enjoy in the 80s and 90s is slipping away.<p>And as a black person, it really feels like the obvious abuses of police power continue unabated. There&#x27;s finally a parade of evidence showing just how egregiously the cops treat us, and that door is at risk of closing, if the SCOTUS affirms this over the other circuit&#x27;s opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DarkKomunalec</author><text>As cynical as I am, I still expect the supreme court to take up this case, and issue a 9:0 ruling in favour of filming officials. SCOTUS has a strong free-speech track record: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popehat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;21&#x2F;free-speech-triumphant-or-free-speech-in-retreat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popehat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;21&#x2F;free-speech-triumphant-or...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/as-chromebook-sales-soar-in-schools-apple-and-microsoft-fight-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I work in EdTech. I never thought the ipad ever made sense in the classroom and I&#x27;m not surprised that a netbook is beating back the tablet.<p>Input onto a tablet is clumsy at best. It is essentially a passive device. Yes, you can add an aftermarket keyboard and and an after market stand, but now you have a three part hacked together netbook instead of one that&#x27;s designed with a keyboard and hinge from the get-go.<p>Further, tablets are a magnet for damage. A laptop screen can take localized damage and still mostly work. A tabket screen shatters. Plus the laptop screen is set back within the monitor component and the overall center of gravity means that a netbook is more likely to land on the keyboard side.<p>Finally, the software story is best for windows (web and native plus great management features), decent for chromebook, and worst for ipads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djhworld</author><text>Even outside of education, I don&#x27;t think the iPad is useful for anything other than consumption.<p>I&#x27;ve seen some creative types using drawing applications on it, which is cool I guess, but for the most part I don&#x27;t see it replacing a laptop&#x2F;desktop just yet.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/as-chromebook-sales-soar-in-schools-apple-and-microsoft-fight-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I work in EdTech. I never thought the ipad ever made sense in the classroom and I&#x27;m not surprised that a netbook is beating back the tablet.<p>Input onto a tablet is clumsy at best. It is essentially a passive device. Yes, you can add an aftermarket keyboard and and an after market stand, but now you have a three part hacked together netbook instead of one that&#x27;s designed with a keyboard and hinge from the get-go.<p>Further, tablets are a magnet for damage. A laptop screen can take localized damage and still mostly work. A tabket screen shatters. Plus the laptop screen is set back within the monitor component and the overall center of gravity means that a netbook is more likely to land on the keyboard side.<p>Finally, the software story is best for windows (web and native plus great management features), decent for chromebook, and worst for ipads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluedino</author><text>The big deal with iPads ate my local district was &quot;interactive textbooks&quot;. All the books we got never lived up to the hype.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cannot Measure Productivity</title><url>http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>I am going to get my drum out and bang on it again.<p>Software is a form of literacy - and we measure literacy completely differently. In fact we measure it like we measure science - you are not a scientist unless other scientists agree you are, and you are not a coder unless other coders say you are.<p>What Fowler wants to measure is not the top echelons of productivity but the lower bounds - presumably to winnow out the unproductive ones.<p>But that is not how we conduct ourselves in literacy or science. We <i>educate and train</i> people for a very long time, so that the lower bound of productivity is still going to add value to human society - and the upper bounds are limitless.<p>What Fowler is asking for is a <i>profession</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbazqux</author><text>&gt; you are not a scientist unless other scientists agree you are<p>Science requires one thing: making and testing falsifiable hypotheses. A priest is able to determine whether or not you are doing that. If anything, it&#x27;s philosophers who decide what science is, e.g. Karl Popper.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cannot Measure Productivity</title><url>http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>I am going to get my drum out and bang on it again.<p>Software is a form of literacy - and we measure literacy completely differently. In fact we measure it like we measure science - you are not a scientist unless other scientists agree you are, and you are not a coder unless other coders say you are.<p>What Fowler wants to measure is not the top echelons of productivity but the lower bounds - presumably to winnow out the unproductive ones.<p>But that is not how we conduct ourselves in literacy or science. We <i>educate and train</i> people for a very long time, so that the lower bound of productivity is still going to add value to human society - and the upper bounds are limitless.<p>What Fowler is asking for is a <i>profession</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>I agree with what you&#x27;re saying, but I feel that it&#x27;s exactly what Fowler is saying too. The article is called &quot;<i>cannot</i> measure productivity&quot;, after all.<p>What parts of what he writes do you disagree with?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins</title><url>https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/media/press-releases/rebellious-birds-make-nests-out-of-anti-bird-pins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjot</author><text>A four year battle with birds<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.io&#x2F;a&#x2F;W4GPjdh" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.io&#x2F;a&#x2F;W4GPjdh</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvaldes</author><text>Should have just build a nice nestbox a little higher than that, put it where they want, and let that dove nest in peace. Maybe canalizing part of the heat with a steel plate or something</text></comment>
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<story><title>Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins</title><url>https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/media/press-releases/rebellious-birds-make-nests-out-of-anti-bird-pins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjot</author><text>A four year battle with birds<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.io&#x2F;a&#x2F;W4GPjdh" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.io&#x2F;a&#x2F;W4GPjdh</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maushu</author><text>He could&#x27;ve easily built some heated bird houses with all the effort he wasted.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/karen-uhlenbeck-uniter-of-geometry-and-analysis-wins-abel-prize-20190319/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaitai</author><text>Uhlenbeck is delightful, and one of her big ideas discussed in this article -- bubbling -- truly has changed both her field and algebraic geometry. It&#x27;s a cool idea. In a previous thread here (How I learned to love algebraic geometry, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19397957" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19397957</a>) there was some discussion of singularities. Algebraic geometers like polynomials, while symplectic geometers like Riemann surfaces. These coincide at times but Riemann surfaces include lots of non-polynomial examples.<p>Anyhow, as an algebraic geometer, the place I learned about Uhlenbeck&#x27;s work was in compactification of moduli of curves. Basically, say I want to look at all the polynomial curves that can live in a certain &#x27;environment&#x27;. (One &#x27;application&#x27; is string theory -- what particle interactions can occur given a certain set of energy constraints? The particle interactions are curves traced out over time by particles&#x2F;Riemann surfaces traced out over time by the little loops that represent closed strings in string theory; the energy constraints constrain the shapes the particle interaction can take.) If you want to look at limits of families of these interactions, you&#x27;re looking at some odd behavior. An example is the equation xy = t^2 -- this gives you nice hyperbolas for values of t not equal to zero, but as t -&gt; 0, you get something singular, two crossed lines. Or x^2 - y^2 - z^2 = t^2: you have a nice smooth hyperboloid when t neq 0, and a double cone when t=0. However, these examples are just showing you the idea of how singularities appear in families of smooth polynomials. Uhlenbeck&#x27;s older work really worked with the system of constraints that I mentioned -- figuring out what can appear under those constraints is a considerably more complicated problem!<p>This is a very imprecise discussion above and I&#x27;m totally blurring together Uhlenbeck&#x27;s bubbling and compactness theorems from gauge theory -- but I never followed her work in a systematic way but instead was plunged into seeing its aftereffects from another related field that the work affected.<p>Last quote really resonates: “Along the way I have made great friends and worked with a number of creative and interesting people. I have been saved from boredom, dourness, and self-absorption. One cannot ask for more.”</text></comment>
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<story><title>Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/karen-uhlenbeck-uniter-of-geometry-and-analysis-wins-abel-prize-20190319/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>otoburb</author><text><i>&quot;Mathematics research had another feature that appealed to her at the time: It is something you can work on in solitude, if you wish. In her early life, she said in 1997, “I regarded anything to do with people as being sort of a horrible profession.”&quot;</i><p>This sentence struck me as slightly odd if only because Erdõs was renowned for his social approach to mathematics[1], and my layperson&#x27;s understanding of mathematics departments being somewhat collaborative within their sub-fields.<p>I know there are some notable examples of other solo breakthrough endeavours, such as Shinichi Mochizuki[2] or Yitang Zhang[3], and but those examples seemed to be exceptions to the rule.<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m channeling too much Terence Tao[4], or maybe the lone wolf researcher only applies to literal geniuses who work exclusively in academia.<p>Is mathematics research still a primarily solitary activity?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paul_Erd%C5%91s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paul_Erd%C5%91s</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;titans-of-mathematics-clash-over-epic-proof-of-abc-conjecture-20180920&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;titans-of-mathematics-clash-o...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;yitang-zhang-a-prime-number-proof-and-a-world-of-persistence&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;yitang-zhang-a-prime-number-proof-...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;terrytao.wordpress.com&#x2F;career-advice&#x2F;does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;terrytao.wordpress.com&#x2F;career-advice&#x2F;does-one-have-t...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Improving Rust compile times to enable adoption of memory safety</title><url>https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/remy-rakic-compile-times/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>Another build time improvement coming, especially for fresh CI builds, is a new registry protocol. Instead of git-cloning metadata for 100,000+ packages, it can download only the data for your dependencies.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;inside-rust&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;cargo-sparse-protocol.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;inside-rust&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;cargo-spar...</a></text></comment>
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$ cd ripgrep
$ git checkout 0.8.0
$ time cargo +1.20.0 build --release
real 34.367
user 1:07.36
sys 1.568
maxmem 520 MB
faults 1575
$ time cargo +1.67.0 build --release
[... snip sooooo many warnings, lol ...]
real 7.761
user 1:32.29
sys 4.489
maxmem 609 MB
faults 7503
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As kryps pointed out on reddit, I believe at some point there was a change to add&#x2F;improve compilation times by making more effective use of parallelism. So forcing the build to use a single thread produces more sobering results, but still a huge win:<p><pre><code> $ time cargo +1.20.0 build -j1 --release
real 1:03.11
user 1:01.90
sys 1.156
maxmem 518 MB
faults 0
$ time cargo +1.67.0 build -j1 --release
real 46.112
user 44.259
sys 1.930
maxmem 344 MB
faults 0
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(My CPU is a i9-12900K.)<p>These are from-scratch release builds, which probably matter less than incremental builds. But they still matter. This is just one barometer of many.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;10s5nkq&#x2F;improving_rust_compile_times_to_enable_adoption&#x2F;j6ztle9&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;10s5nkq&#x2F;improving_rus...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/looking_forward_microsoft__support_for_secure_shell_ssh1/archive/2015/06/02/managing-looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david-given</author><text>I did find an open source implementation here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pash.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pash.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a><p>Don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s any good --- never tried it; it says it&#x27;s about half complete, but I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s a useful half.<p>After looking at the docs, you could do a lot of what Powershell does with Unix shells; you&#x27;d need a different set of conventions, where instead of using unformatted text as an intermediate format you used a streamable table format with support for metadata. Then you could have commands like &#x27;where&#x27;, which would be awesome.<p>$ xps | xwhere user -eq dg | xsort -desc rss | xtop 10 | xecho &quot;[email protected] [email protected]&quot;<p>...or something. sh syntax is a bit lacking; PowerShell&#x27;s got lots of useful builtins, including having native support for the format so it knows how to present it to the user. An sh version would conversion routines back and forth from text.<p>The tricky part would be bootstrapping; getting enough functionality quickly enough that enough people would start using it to make it sustainable.<p>I&#x27;d still rather use this than faff around with awk, though. I&#x27;ve done way too much of that. And if I never have to parse the output of ls -l using cut again, I will be a happy person.</text></item><item><author>wumbernang</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t agree more.<p>As a die hard Unix guy and ex Slashdot-esque zealot (colloquially a bit of a twat). Yet I&#x27;m knocking out PowerShell all the time now and dread having to log into the pile of CentOS kit I have lying around. It is arcane. Even after 15 years I spend most of my time in the manpages or working out another damn config format.<p>Literally did a two liner to scrape a web page, parse it and call a REST endpoint with the parsed data as JSON in PowerShell. I cant even use python now. I&#x27;ve been broken.<p>It makes me cringe saying all this as well kind of like a racist making amends with his past.<p>The only thing I still hate is windows update.</text></item><item><author>halo</author><text>&gt;Wishlist: tmux, emacs, vi, netcat, shell option for vi-mode, rc-file with preferences, ncurses library, something simpler than curses, zip and unzip<p>No thankyou. I can certainly understand including SSH support, but I don&#x27;t want what is pretty much the only remaining viable non-Unix platform to start bundling horribly dated and clunky Unix-like commands and bloated GNU tools.</text></item><item><author>cturner</author><text>For all Balmer&#x27;s thing of dancing on a stage and chanting &quot;developers&quot;, there was no point under Gates or he at which Microsoft felt like a pro-developer company.<p>That has completely changed in the last eighteen months. Each time I think &quot;wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if&quot; I&#x27;m finding a few weeks later that someone at Microsoft is well ahead of me. How much easier it will be to ship my sucky roguelikes to Windows users in this new world!<p>Hmm. They can now have a path to obsolete cmd. As long as they ship a decent ssh client with the system, users will become accustomed to ssh-ing to their own box instead of using cmd.<p>Wishlist: tmux, emacs, vi, netcat, shell option for vi-mode, rc-file with preferences, ncurses library, something simpler than curses, zip and unzip. 256 colour is fine, although 24-bit would be impressive. &#x2F;proc would be cool, but also a big ask I assume. They already have a strong compiler. Make it really easy to find the hex fingerprint required to log on to the sshd-server. Something like inetd could be useful, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ygra</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s any good --- never tried it; it says it&#x27;s about half complete, but I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s a useful half.<p>There are at least two parties working on it who have interest in certain features to be working: It&#x27;s the NuGet shell within MonoDevelop, so custom PowerShell hosts need to work as well as a bunch of things needed by NuGet. Then one of the more prolific developers actually gets paid to work on Pash to support features related to PowerShell add-ins and a few others. (My own efforts so far were mostly bits and pieces, missing cmdlets (there are still a lot of those), test cases, and weird parser behaviour, mostly due to my history of golfing in PowerShell – golfed code makes for some fun tests of edge cases.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/looking_forward_microsoft__support_for_secure_shell_ssh1/archive/2015/06/02/managing-looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david-given</author><text>I did find an open source implementation here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pash.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pash.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a><p>Don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s any good --- never tried it; it says it&#x27;s about half complete, but I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s a useful half.<p>After looking at the docs, you could do a lot of what Powershell does with Unix shells; you&#x27;d need a different set of conventions, where instead of using unformatted text as an intermediate format you used a streamable table format with support for metadata. Then you could have commands like &#x27;where&#x27;, which would be awesome.<p>$ xps | xwhere user -eq dg | xsort -desc rss | xtop 10 | xecho &quot;[email protected] [email protected]&quot;<p>...or something. sh syntax is a bit lacking; PowerShell&#x27;s got lots of useful builtins, including having native support for the format so it knows how to present it to the user. An sh version would conversion routines back and forth from text.<p>The tricky part would be bootstrapping; getting enough functionality quickly enough that enough people would start using it to make it sustainable.<p>I&#x27;d still rather use this than faff around with awk, though. I&#x27;ve done way too much of that. And if I never have to parse the output of ls -l using cut again, I will be a happy person.</text></item><item><author>wumbernang</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t agree more.<p>As a die hard Unix guy and ex Slashdot-esque zealot (colloquially a bit of a twat). Yet I&#x27;m knocking out PowerShell all the time now and dread having to log into the pile of CentOS kit I have lying around. It is arcane. Even after 15 years I spend most of my time in the manpages or working out another damn config format.<p>Literally did a two liner to scrape a web page, parse it and call a REST endpoint with the parsed data as JSON in PowerShell. I cant even use python now. I&#x27;ve been broken.<p>It makes me cringe saying all this as well kind of like a racist making amends with his past.<p>The only thing I still hate is windows update.</text></item><item><author>halo</author><text>&gt;Wishlist: tmux, emacs, vi, netcat, shell option for vi-mode, rc-file with preferences, ncurses library, something simpler than curses, zip and unzip<p>No thankyou. I can certainly understand including SSH support, but I don&#x27;t want what is pretty much the only remaining viable non-Unix platform to start bundling horribly dated and clunky Unix-like commands and bloated GNU tools.</text></item><item><author>cturner</author><text>For all Balmer&#x27;s thing of dancing on a stage and chanting &quot;developers&quot;, there was no point under Gates or he at which Microsoft felt like a pro-developer company.<p>That has completely changed in the last eighteen months. Each time I think &quot;wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if&quot; I&#x27;m finding a few weeks later that someone at Microsoft is well ahead of me. How much easier it will be to ship my sucky roguelikes to Windows users in this new world!<p>Hmm. They can now have a path to obsolete cmd. As long as they ship a decent ssh client with the system, users will become accustomed to ssh-ing to their own box instead of using cmd.<p>Wishlist: tmux, emacs, vi, netcat, shell option for vi-mode, rc-file with preferences, ncurses library, something simpler than curses, zip and unzip. 256 colour is fine, although 24-bit would be impressive. &#x2F;proc would be cool, but also a big ask I assume. They already have a strong compiler. Make it really easy to find the hex fingerprint required to log on to the sshd-server. Something like inetd could be useful, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emmelaich</author><text>There&#x27;s also <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lbreyer.com&#x2F;xml-coreutils.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lbreyer.com&#x2F;xml-coreutils.html</a> which is interesting.<p>But I&#x27;ve never tried it; just came across it recently as a homebrew update.</text></comment>
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<story><title>All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.</title><url>http://monkeymace.com/post/23937902775/all-you-need-is-e-mail-e-mail-e-mail-is-all-you-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajdecon</author><text>I've wondered a lot about why e-mail isn't used more as a backend for different services. But as far as I can tell, messaging products proliferate because their creators want to create profitable products rather than distributed protocols.<p>E-mail is a pretty good group of protocols for distributing arbitrary messages between different locations on the Internet. It's easy to imagine how all sorts of messaging and social network products could be implemented as a specialized e-mail client with a good user experience. Their forms might be slightly different than they have now, but they'd serve approximately the same consumer purpose.<p>For example, you could build a social networking "client" with e-mail as a backend. Status updates, photos, etc. would be distributed to all your contacts via email, and the client would produce a "timeline" based on the data in its mailbox, without ever showing the user the original messages.<p>But you give up a lot of control that way, and it's harder to monetize. What developers want (and users too, to be honest) is a centralized service that they can control, mine data with, and sell products or show ads. A distributed protocol, while in some ways more powerful (and less dependent on a fallible central authority!), doesn't achieve the real business aims.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>Email is decentralized to <i>us</i>. We have the very specific skils, attitudes, and patience required to buy a domain name, rent a VPS or dedicated server and configure SSH public keys, Postfix/Courier, DNS, SPF, DKIM, and keep it up to date and patched, audit it to make sure it stays secure, and detect/respond to intrusions. And even then, unless you are going to roll your own emergency power, multiple redundant HVAC, and fire supression, as well as shell out hundreds of dollars a month for significant upload bandwidth to your house or apartment, <i>your data and encryption keys are still in the physical possession of a corporate datacenter.</i><p>Email is most certainly not decentralized to anyone outside the IT world. They can, with extreme difficulty, move between providers, but they are still dependent on a provider.<p>Email decreases the volume of users that mediocre players can own (Google does email better than anyone else, so it gets a significant share of the market) but users are still going to be owned by someone.</text></comment>
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<story><title>All you need is e-mail, e-mail. E-mail is all you need.</title><url>http://monkeymace.com/post/23937902775/all-you-need-is-e-mail-e-mail-e-mail-is-all-you-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajdecon</author><text>I've wondered a lot about why e-mail isn't used more as a backend for different services. But as far as I can tell, messaging products proliferate because their creators want to create profitable products rather than distributed protocols.<p>E-mail is a pretty good group of protocols for distributing arbitrary messages between different locations on the Internet. It's easy to imagine how all sorts of messaging and social network products could be implemented as a specialized e-mail client with a good user experience. Their forms might be slightly different than they have now, but they'd serve approximately the same consumer purpose.<p>For example, you could build a social networking "client" with e-mail as a backend. Status updates, photos, etc. would be distributed to all your contacts via email, and the client would produce a "timeline" based on the data in its mailbox, without ever showing the user the original messages.<p>But you give up a lot of control that way, and it's harder to monetize. What developers want (and users too, to be honest) is a centralized service that they can control, mine data with, and sell products or show ads. A distributed protocol, while in some ways more powerful (and less dependent on a fallible central authority!), doesn't achieve the real business aims.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antidoh</author><text>"messaging products proliferate because their creators want to create profitable products rather than distributed protocols."<p>That's a bingo.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Towards deep symbolic reinforcement learning</title><url>https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/12/towards-deep-symbolic-reinforcement-learning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexbeloi</author><text>Based on a quick skim, what they&#x27;re describing already exists in the form of a feature extractor + traditional RL algorithm. State -&gt; features&#x2F;symbols -&gt; actions as opposed to state -&gt; actions.<p>So, sure if you split up your decision making into more pieces, then you can specialize those pieces better to your specific task, then it will probably perform better at that task. But the whole point (and success) of deep learning is the feature extractor and decision model should are one network, where the early layers are acting as feature extractors (symbolic component) and the later layers are acting as the decision makers or value learners.<p>In my mind, this partitioning strategy runs counter to the greater goals of machine learning, which to me is a generic learner that can &#x27;take raw data in&#x27; and &#x27;get smart stuff out&#x27;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Towards deep symbolic reinforcement learning</title><url>https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/12/towards-deep-symbolic-reinforcement-learning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jesuslop</author><text>In addition to the intro that I liked a lot, I find interesting, or even important, the usage of an unsupervised method to generate the visual symbolic dictionary, a convolutional autoencoder here.<p>In arxiv:1412.6856 unsupervised object detectors emerge as byproducts in a CNN for another kind of task, for more interesting, photorealistic objects.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography Using a Modulo Camera</title><url>http://www.media.mit.edu/research/highlights/unbounded-high-dynamic-range-photography-using-modulo-camera</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tloewald</author><text>&gt; This is a &quot;computer scientists&quot; understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as &quot;dangerous&quot; by photographers.<p>The actual headline of the article is actually <i>more</i> informative and less misleading than the subhead:<p>&quot;Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography Using a Modulo Camera&quot;<p>In photographer&#x27;s terms, they&#x27;re referring to ending <i>blown highlights</i> (caused by filling the wells in a sensel) not <i>saturated</i> images (caused by exaggerating color data).<p>There&#x27;s a school of photography that basically lives and dies by over-saturating images (e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kenrockwell.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kenrockwell.com</a> ) and they&#x27;d likely have a cow over the headline, but understand and be totally onboard for the actual goal.<p>Depending on how quickly the well can reset and how many times resets can be counted this will either be better or worse than simply improving existing approaches. The state of the art in full frame sensors is just under 15-bits of dynamic range. So to <i>equal</i> it an 8-bit sensor would need to be able to count resets at least 128 times AND be able to do this in 1&#x2F;8000 of a second, at the same sensel density and efficiency! Don&#x27;t hold your breath.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dxomark.com&#x2F;Cameras&#x2F;Nikon&#x2F;D810" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dxomark.com&#x2F;Cameras&#x2F;Nikon&#x2F;D810</a><p>(I&#x27;d also suggest that trends towards using multiple sensors to assemble high resolution images will easily blow this away since they can use high- and low- sensitivity sensors to synthesize more dynamic range and resolution. Also see recent Olympus patents to capture polarization data at the same time.)<p>BTW: assuming they can do this stuff, they presumably can read the sensor pretty darn fast — so they should be able to eliminate image &quot;tearing&quot; in digital video and the need for mechanical shutters altogether. That&#x27;s probably a bigger issue than dynamic range.<p>I suspect that clearing a well in &lt; 1&#x2F;10,000,000 of a second (which would only lose 10% of the photon detection time during a 1&#x2F;8000s exposure) is going to be tough. Assuming 25% of the sensel real estate needs to be sacrificed to the modulo circuitry, that&#x27;s a loss of 32.5% of photon data which is about the same loss as for pellicle mirrors (as seen in Sony&#x27;s pretty unsuccessful SLT cameras) for a feature that won&#x27;t be much use in many situations.</text></item><item><author>dr_zoidberg</author><text>&gt; No more will photographers or even ordinary people have to fumble with aperture size and exposure length.<p>This is a &quot;computer scientists&quot; understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as &quot;dangerous&quot; by photographers. There&#x27;s more to aperture size and exposure length than &quot;how much light reaches the sensor&quot;, like focus, depth of field, motion blur and bokeh, to name a few, that is not aknowledged by that understanding. The technology is good, but it won&#x27;t change the way photographers deal with photography, at best, it will give them a better tool to work with.<p>I also wonder how much impact this could have. Foveon Inc. had developed a great sensor that was going to be revolutionary, about 20 years ago. Today only Sigma uses it, and the UX is so bad in those cameras that the (very good) technology they had their hands on never got a chance to shine.<p>Also, is this implementation very different from having a 16-bit ADC in normal sensors? The end results would be the same: higher dynamic range. And the increase in bits seems a lot closer (because it would mean little changes to the current manufacture processes) than a whole new type of sensor being use in cameras.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saidajigumi</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s a school of photography that basically lives and dies by over-saturating images (e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kenrockwell.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kenrockwell.com</a> ) and they&#x27;d likely have a cow over the headline, but understand and be totally onboard for the actual goal.<p>Actually, I suspect that even that crowd, after the initial shock would be <i>absolutely</i> on board. This would mean that no longer would the sensor control how the high-end clipping happens, but now that could be tailored specifically via a post-processing filter. E.g. to exactly match a long-gone film emulsion&#x27;s behavior, &quot;enhance&quot; a classic, or to simply to create new clipping functions.<p>This is a bit analogous to the flexibility that black and white shooters gain by working with modern color sensors. When shooting B&amp;W film, the tonal result was controlled via a combination of the film&#x27;s spectral response and any colored lens filters applied, the latter used to manipulate tonal contrast between different colored subject matter (e.g. sky, plants, skin tones, etc.). Now a skilled photographer can shoot color RAW w&#x2F; B&amp;W preview (for a preview of the image luminosity) then adjust in post to nail the image effect without having to mess even thinking about what colored lens filter(s) to have used.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography Using a Modulo Camera</title><url>http://www.media.mit.edu/research/highlights/unbounded-high-dynamic-range-photography-using-modulo-camera</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tloewald</author><text>&gt; This is a &quot;computer scientists&quot; understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as &quot;dangerous&quot; by photographers.<p>The actual headline of the article is actually <i>more</i> informative and less misleading than the subhead:<p>&quot;Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography Using a Modulo Camera&quot;<p>In photographer&#x27;s terms, they&#x27;re referring to ending <i>blown highlights</i> (caused by filling the wells in a sensel) not <i>saturated</i> images (caused by exaggerating color data).<p>There&#x27;s a school of photography that basically lives and dies by over-saturating images (e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kenrockwell.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kenrockwell.com</a> ) and they&#x27;d likely have a cow over the headline, but understand and be totally onboard for the actual goal.<p>Depending on how quickly the well can reset and how many times resets can be counted this will either be better or worse than simply improving existing approaches. The state of the art in full frame sensors is just under 15-bits of dynamic range. So to <i>equal</i> it an 8-bit sensor would need to be able to count resets at least 128 times AND be able to do this in 1&#x2F;8000 of a second, at the same sensel density and efficiency! Don&#x27;t hold your breath.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dxomark.com&#x2F;Cameras&#x2F;Nikon&#x2F;D810" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dxomark.com&#x2F;Cameras&#x2F;Nikon&#x2F;D810</a><p>(I&#x27;d also suggest that trends towards using multiple sensors to assemble high resolution images will easily blow this away since they can use high- and low- sensitivity sensors to synthesize more dynamic range and resolution. Also see recent Olympus patents to capture polarization data at the same time.)<p>BTW: assuming they can do this stuff, they presumably can read the sensor pretty darn fast — so they should be able to eliminate image &quot;tearing&quot; in digital video and the need for mechanical shutters altogether. That&#x27;s probably a bigger issue than dynamic range.<p>I suspect that clearing a well in &lt; 1&#x2F;10,000,000 of a second (which would only lose 10% of the photon detection time during a 1&#x2F;8000s exposure) is going to be tough. Assuming 25% of the sensel real estate needs to be sacrificed to the modulo circuitry, that&#x27;s a loss of 32.5% of photon data which is about the same loss as for pellicle mirrors (as seen in Sony&#x27;s pretty unsuccessful SLT cameras) for a feature that won&#x27;t be much use in many situations.</text></item><item><author>dr_zoidberg</author><text>&gt; No more will photographers or even ordinary people have to fumble with aperture size and exposure length.<p>This is a &quot;computer scientists&quot; understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as &quot;dangerous&quot; by photographers. There&#x27;s more to aperture size and exposure length than &quot;how much light reaches the sensor&quot;, like focus, depth of field, motion blur and bokeh, to name a few, that is not aknowledged by that understanding. The technology is good, but it won&#x27;t change the way photographers deal with photography, at best, it will give them a better tool to work with.<p>I also wonder how much impact this could have. Foveon Inc. had developed a great sensor that was going to be revolutionary, about 20 years ago. Today only Sigma uses it, and the UX is so bad in those cameras that the (very good) technology they had their hands on never got a chance to shine.<p>Also, is this implementation very different from having a 16-bit ADC in normal sensors? The end results would be the same: higher dynamic range. And the increase in bits seems a lot closer (because it would mean little changes to the current manufacture processes) than a whole new type of sensor being use in cameras.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>I identified the same issue with cycle time, but to me the biggest problem is the assumption of an accurate, sensitive, non-destructive-read sensor. They&#x27;re assuming that they can charge a capacitor from a photodiode accurately, and also hook a voltage comparator (which is effectively the same as an ADC) to it constantly to get an accurate pulse to count.<p>Assuming you have an accurate sensor that can be read non-destructively, then none of this modulus stuff is necessary anyway. Read once to set the proper gain on the ADC, then read again to get the fine bits. That way you still get the &quot;unbounded HDR&quot;, but you don&#x27;t need an ADC for every single receptor site, and you don&#x27;t waste space on the counter or comparator. Instead, all of that lives on the image processor where it&#x27;s not going to cause heat noise.<p>That&#x27;s such an incredibly enormous hand-wave to me that I feel I&#x27;ve got to be missing something. Why make it so complex with all the modulus stuff if we have a magic sensor?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Being Poor by John Scalzi</title><url>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text><i>People wondering why you didn't leave</i><p>You can always leave. They're called feet: use them.<p>I have been very, very poor. And I've made a million bucks in a short amount of time. In fact, I've flopped back and forth about as many times as anybody I know, so I know both sides of this.<p>I would not idolize poverty as some kind of state of nobility, and I would't spend a lot of time agonizing over it either. It is a thing that happens to you, like cancer. You get to make choices in life, no matter where you are or what your situation. The last day of your life, if you were lying in a ditch somewhere, you can still choose how to confront the end of your existence. These choices are all we own. The only person that can stop you making choices is yourself. It is extremely possible to dwell on all the bad things in life and despair.<p>If you are poor and reading this, whatever you do, please don't despair. Make some different choices. The only way you're not making a difference in the world is if you've decided that you're not. Don't let others -- no matter how well meaning -- give that to you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>retube</author><text>&#62; You can always leave. They're called feet: use them.<p>I'm not sure. I've never been poor, so I can't speak from personal experience, but being poor is not necessarily about choice. Certainly I can start off rich, and make bad decisions. Perhaps that's my fault, perhaps I got unlucky. But if you start off in poverty, it's not easy, as I understand, to get yourself out of poverty. If you had a crap education, and a rough home life, you probably didn't leave school with good grades, so you can't get a decent job etc etc. There's a whole life-defining set of knock-on effects. And if you're trapped in debt, struggling to pay the rent and keep yourself warm, how easy is it to get out of that? If an opportunity does come along, will you have the cash to leverage it (think train ride to job interview).<p>I don't know how you got out of your fix, I'd be really interested to know.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Being Poor by John Scalzi</title><url>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text><i>People wondering why you didn't leave</i><p>You can always leave. They're called feet: use them.<p>I have been very, very poor. And I've made a million bucks in a short amount of time. In fact, I've flopped back and forth about as many times as anybody I know, so I know both sides of this.<p>I would not idolize poverty as some kind of state of nobility, and I would't spend a lot of time agonizing over it either. It is a thing that happens to you, like cancer. You get to make choices in life, no matter where you are or what your situation. The last day of your life, if you were lying in a ditch somewhere, you can still choose how to confront the end of your existence. These choices are all we own. The only person that can stop you making choices is yourself. It is extremely possible to dwell on all the bad things in life and despair.<p>If you are poor and reading this, whatever you do, please don't despair. Make some different choices. The only way you're not making a difference in the world is if you've decided that you're not. Don't let others -- no matter how well meaning -- give that to you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lionhearted</author><text>&#62; I have been very, very poor.<p>Me too, man. That's a very compassionate and honest comment you just wrote. I tend to be shorter and less patient with people who self-pity, and especially people who come from more who treat poor people like helpless children. But I should be friendlier, more compassionate, less short tempered, more steadfastly guiding. Very nice comment by you - you managed to be patient and kind while still being strong and emphasizing responsibility and choice. I should emulate this, this was a great comment.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raziel2701</author><text>Man, I&#x27;m feeling stronger about LK-99 being it. This paper is theoretical and she finds that particular Cu substitutions onto specific Pb atomic sites are key to enabling a band structure that is usually linked to high Tc superconductors.<p>What this means for the more practical minded is that the synthesis of superconducting LK-99 is not trivial and you need to make the appropriate substitutional alloy for this to work.<p>This is a DFT paper, and a band structure that is usually seen in high Tc superconductors just naturally came out. She also talks about the strong electron-phonon coupling that naturally arose from the structure, which is always necessary for superconductivity.<p>I am, by far, the most excited I&#x27;ve ever been about this being a RT, ambient pressure superconductor.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bacon_waffle</author><text>This paper is by someone from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who has run some simulations of LK99 and found features that are associated with high temperature superconductors.<p>In the last paragraph before acknowledgements, they point to a feature that could make synthesis difficult, then conclude with &quot;Nevertheless, I expect the identification of this
new material class to spur on further investigations of
doped apatite minerals given these tantalizing theoretical
signatures and experimental reports of possible high-TC
superconductivity.&quot;<p>(I&#x27;m a high school dropout, worked for a physics project once)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Company threatens to sue volunteers who 3D-printed valves for coronavirus aid</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-company-threatens-sue-3d-print-valves-treatments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Narkov</author><text>It&#x27;s not $11,000 for a plastic valve. It&#x27;s $11,000 for a plastic valve and the many thousands of hours of R&amp;D, testing, validation, certification and risk.</text></item><item><author>jagger27</author><text>$11,000 for a plastic valve. Unreal. No wonder hospitals are always stretched to the limit when they&#x27;re being gouged like this.<p>Think of it this way, a hospital could buy 10 valves or hire a physician for a year. Are these valves typically re-used? Are they going through them faster because they don&#x27;t want to risk infecting other people?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not $11,000 for a plastic valve. It&#x27;s $11,000 for a plastic valve and the many thousands of hours of R&amp;D, testing, validation, certification and risk.<p>Nope. Sorry. Not buying that argument this time. I accept that argument for patent exclusion periods and high prices on medication, because the R&amp;D has enormous risk costs when medications don&#x27;t work or don&#x27;t get approval. Allowing pharmaceutical companies to recoup those costs is vital to innovation and public health. This is a piece of plastic that&#x27;s part of a larger machine. There was no enormous R&amp;D budget required to develop the replaceable component. By all means let them make money on the machine, but the argument doesn&#x27;t hold up for this simple maintenance component.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Company threatens to sue volunteers who 3D-printed valves for coronavirus aid</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-company-threatens-sue-3d-print-valves-treatments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Narkov</author><text>It&#x27;s not $11,000 for a plastic valve. It&#x27;s $11,000 for a plastic valve and the many thousands of hours of R&amp;D, testing, validation, certification and risk.</text></item><item><author>jagger27</author><text>$11,000 for a plastic valve. Unreal. No wonder hospitals are always stretched to the limit when they&#x27;re being gouged like this.<p>Think of it this way, a hospital could buy 10 valves or hire a physician for a year. Are these valves typically re-used? Are they going through them faster because they don&#x27;t want to risk infecting other people?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jagger27</author><text>Let&#x27;s say the regulatory costs add up to $100,000,000 and the valve has a marginal cost of $1.00 to make and distribute. They would have to sell just 10,000 units to more than offset their investment. I think I&#x27;d wager the world needs more than 10,000 air valves.<p>How can one justify this kind of vicious exploitation of publicly funded healthcare?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Making an online multiplayer game with Godot and Nakama</title><url>https://heroiclabs.com/blog/announcements/godot-fishgame/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>billziss</author><text>Heroic Labs service looks interesting. So I decided to look at their Terms of Service:<p>&gt; &quot;You represent, warrant, and agree that You will not use the Services in a manner that is illegal...&quot;<p>Fair enough.<p>&gt; &quot;... or otherwise inconsistent with these Terms. In addition, you will not use the Services in a manner that Heroic deems, in its sole discretion, objectionable.&quot;<p>So they can decide that I violated their TOS for any reason they see fit.<p>This is not the way to build a business relationship. Based on this I would never consider becoming their customer.<p>EDIT: Links to the TOS:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heroiclabs.com&#x2F;tos.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heroiclabs.com&#x2F;tos.txt</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;aUd50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;aUd50</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Making an online multiplayer game with Godot and Nakama</title><url>https://heroiclabs.com/blog/announcements/godot-fishgame/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erlend_sh</author><text>See also the video introduction made by the author of the tutorial, David Snopek: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0uccWWwiXw4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0uccWWwiXw4</a><p>It&#x27;s almost midnight here but I&#x27;ll happily answer questions tomorrow!<p>p.s. We&#x27;re planning to do the same tutorial for Unity and Macroquad (Rust) as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.heroiclabs.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;fish-game-an-open-reference-game-using-nakama-for-multiplayer&#x2F;1279?u=erlend_sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.heroiclabs.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;fish-game-an-open-reference-g...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children</title><url>https://medium.com/@richardnfreed/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on-kids-c452870464ce</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allcentury</author><text>&gt; I also see far too many boys whose gaming obsessions lead them to forgo interest in school, extracurricular activities, and anything else productive. Some of these boys, as they reach their later teens, use their large bodies to terrorize parents who attempt to set gaming limits. A common thread running through many of these cases is parent guilt, as so many are certain they did something to put their kids on a destructive path.<p>This was me. I was 14, my parents just divorced and I got hooked on Starcraft in 1999. I would play until the sun came up, go to school and sleep through class. I did it for 3 years straight, with varying levels of addiction.<p>At some point, my mom wanted me to see a pyschologist but I tried to show her I wasn&#x27;t addicted. I took the cd out of the computer, cut it up and glued it to a piece of paper. I hung that paper on the corkboard for all to see, then, not 5 days later I bought another cd and started the cycle again.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I was reeling with teenager angst or overloaded emotions because of the divorce but I needed help and my parents didn&#x27;t know what to do. I nearly didn&#x27;t finish high school because of it.<p>Now, with a son of my own - I am constantly thinking about how in the world do I expose my son to technology but also teach him moderation. I don&#x27;t want to have a fight about how much time is too much, I simply want the technology to be useful to solve a problem and not something my son feels compelled to use all day long.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been addicted to gaming. When I was younger, my parents wisely chose not to purchase a PC, so I would usually play at friends&#x2F;relatives&#x27; place. I assumed it was just how I was.<p>Now that I am an OK adult with decent life: my playstation just lies there, and its really hard for me to start playing any new game.<p>I figured that when I was younger, the video games provided an effective escape from the reality of being a child, with never having anything of consequence to contribute (I blame my parents for making me feel this way; even though they were perhaps just ignorant). Games had a structured environment, with rewards for specific actions, rewards that I did not find in my real life with doing anything. The fake medals&#x2F;trophies were so much better than what I had in real life (which was nothing). It gave me a sense of belonging to a group, or to many groups, something which I did not in real life.<p>Perhaps this applies only to kids without siblings. But video games were the one place where I could really be happy. When that changed and my real life became more amazing, I stopped playing them. Perhaps thats all that kids want.<p>I should note that video games were not the only form of escapism, I enjoyed reading Harry Potter for that very reason too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children</title><url>https://medium.com/@richardnfreed/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on-kids-c452870464ce</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allcentury</author><text>&gt; I also see far too many boys whose gaming obsessions lead them to forgo interest in school, extracurricular activities, and anything else productive. Some of these boys, as they reach their later teens, use their large bodies to terrorize parents who attempt to set gaming limits. A common thread running through many of these cases is parent guilt, as so many are certain they did something to put their kids on a destructive path.<p>This was me. I was 14, my parents just divorced and I got hooked on Starcraft in 1999. I would play until the sun came up, go to school and sleep through class. I did it for 3 years straight, with varying levels of addiction.<p>At some point, my mom wanted me to see a pyschologist but I tried to show her I wasn&#x27;t addicted. I took the cd out of the computer, cut it up and glued it to a piece of paper. I hung that paper on the corkboard for all to see, then, not 5 days later I bought another cd and started the cycle again.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I was reeling with teenager angst or overloaded emotions because of the divorce but I needed help and my parents didn&#x27;t know what to do. I nearly didn&#x27;t finish high school because of it.<p>Now, with a son of my own - I am constantly thinking about how in the world do I expose my son to technology but also teach him moderation. I don&#x27;t want to have a fight about how much time is too much, I simply want the technology to be useful to solve a problem and not something my son feels compelled to use all day long.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>analyst74</author><text>I&#x27;ve been addicted to games and now addicted to playing soccer, albeit less so probably due to being older with more responsibilities. And I see lots of similarities between the two very different kinds of games and the &quot;addictions&quot; to them. Even health-wise, it&#x27;s hard to say if playing games all day is worse than getting tackled into hospital. I&#x27;ve met many people who were going for pro-sports when they were younger that destroyed their health and&#x2F;or hurt their career prospects and had to re-invent themselves.<p>How do we distinguish what is a healthy hobby&#x2F;persuasion, and what is an addiction?</text></comment>
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<story><title>U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/states-lean-toward-pushing-to-break-up-googles-ad-tech-business.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Good decision. Then do the same thing to AWS and Amazon&#x27;s media branch, and then go undo the whatsapp acquisition. Then stop platforms from subsidizing competing products while they charge competitors high fees like Spotify vs Apple Music.<p>The increasing trend of large tech conglomerates to use one money printing product like AWS or search or the Apple Store to tactically snipe competitors to destroy or acquire them is absolutely abysmal in the long run. I don&#x27;t care if it increases consumer prices by 10 cents or whatever, it&#x27;s time to look at the long term health of the ecosystem overall. It&#x27;s really the private analog to a state capitalist country subsidizing its own firms while foreigners have to compete on a one-by-one basis. Everyone considers that to be detrimental when it happens between two nations, I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s not detrimental when it happens in the tech industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glenstein</author><text>&gt;Good decision. Then do the same thing to AWS and Amazon&#x27;s media branch, and then go undo the whatsapp acquisition<p>Exactly. My concern is that Google is being uniquely targeted, and that breaking them up and calling it a day just exposes us to further abuses from the rest of the tech industry. At least with Google, evil is divided across <i>five</i> tech giants that can serve as checks against one another, instead of merely four.<p>Similarly, I feel that the tech industry as a whole, while far from not evil, has emerged with a set of interests distinct from those of other monopolies, and helped protect the internet from being subordinated to the interests of telecoms. Which isn&#x27;t to say that I enjoy monopolies, far from it. I just want to see similar willpower to break up the giants of other industries.<p>For that matter, if we really have to go the route of the uniquely targeting a specific tech company, I would at least start with Amazon and then Facebook. Or if we thought more broadly than just tech, I would start with the oil industry giants, finance industry giants, and then telecoms, and then health insurance companies, and then Amazon and Facebook.</text></comment>
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<story><title>U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/states-lean-toward-pushing-to-break-up-googles-ad-tech-business.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Good decision. Then do the same thing to AWS and Amazon&#x27;s media branch, and then go undo the whatsapp acquisition. Then stop platforms from subsidizing competing products while they charge competitors high fees like Spotify vs Apple Music.<p>The increasing trend of large tech conglomerates to use one money printing product like AWS or search or the Apple Store to tactically snipe competitors to destroy or acquire them is absolutely abysmal in the long run. I don&#x27;t care if it increases consumer prices by 10 cents or whatever, it&#x27;s time to look at the long term health of the ecosystem overall. It&#x27;s really the private analog to a state capitalist country subsidizing its own firms while foreigners have to compete on a one-by-one basis. Everyone considers that to be detrimental when it happens between two nations, I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s not detrimental when it happens in the tech industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sevaris</author><text>It&#x27;s incredibly anti-competitive behaviour and it&#x27;s baffling that governments are allowing it to go unchecked. Even the WhatsApp purchase was greenlit with <i>caveats</i> (not combining FB and WhatsApp user data) ... which were promptly ignored by Facebook. I seriously want to know who they paid off to get that acquisition. There&#x27;s no way that was above board.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Booting Linux in One Second [pdf]</title><url>http://elinux.org/images/9/97/Boot_one_second_altenberg.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nileshtrivedi</author><text>Linux can be so amazing when configured especially for some tasks. For example, Jack on linux can deliver audio latencies under 2ms! The problem is that configuring Linux like this almost requires a CS degree.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Booting Linux in One Second [pdf]</title><url>http://elinux.org/images/9/97/Boot_one_second_altenberg.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>i336_</author><text>Here&#x27;s another example of the same sort of idea:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elinux.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;f&#x2F;f7&#x2F;RightApproachMinimalBootTimes.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elinux.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;f&#x2F;f7&#x2F;RightApproachMinimalBootTimes....</a><p>Also under 1 second, and the approaches this guy took are seriously impressive. Lots of educational tidbits and &quot;good-to-know&quot;s in here even for non-embedded types. Reads very quickly too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs</title><url>https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-provides-business-update-and-announces-three-new</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexpetralia</author><text>Is my understanding correct that a virus so deadly would quickly peter out because it kills its hosts before it can spread?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs</title><url>https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-provides-business-update-and-announces-three-new</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; <i>One of these is for the little known Nipah virus.</i><p>I just submitted about this:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;article&#x2F;20210106-nipah-virus-how-bats-could-cause-the-next-pandemic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;article&#x2F;20210106-nipah-virus-how-...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25741798" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25741798</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Gets to Control Facebook a While Longer</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-28/mark-zuckerberg-gets-to-control-facebook-a-while-longer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lazaroclapp</author><text>The more interesting part here, is that Zuckerberg being 31 years old, and having a life expectancy of 82.3 years, means the people who insisted on this agreement believe there is a significant chance of Facebook still being around 51 years from now. By comparison Yahoo is 20 years old and not precisely in its prime, and Sun Microsystems existed only for 28 years.<p>That said, it means investors are betting on FB being a long lived (software) company, such as Oracle (39 years and counting), Apple (40), Microsoft (41) or, in the extreme, IBM (105).</text></item><item><author>abhi3</author><text>This is new information, earlier things were like this:<p><i>If Mr. Zuckerberg were to leave us or if his employment with us were to be terminated for &quot;cause,&quot; under the Current Certificate, he would not be required to relinquish majority voting control. Moreover, under the Current Certificate, Mr. Zuckerberg would be able to pass along his shares of Class B common stock (and potentially his majority voting control depending on sales or transfers by Mr. Zuckerberg, as well as changes in our share count) to his descendants after his death, thus leading to potential multi-generational majority voting control of the company.<p>The Special Committee and the board of directors believe that attracting a qualified chief executive officer to succeed Mr. Zuckerberg would be significantly more difficult if Mr. Zuckerberg, our founder and (in that event) former chief executive officer, continued to retain majority voting control of us in such a circumstance. The Special Committee and the board of directors also believe that the quality of a chief executive officer who would step into the role under these circumstances is likely to be significantly lower than it would be if we were no longer controlled by Mr. Zuckerberg, which could result in the potential loss of significant value for us and our shares of Class A common stock.</i><p>But after this deal Mark cannot retain voting control if he leaves or is fired for cause. He also cannot pass on his current voting rights if he sells is shares or his kids inherit them.<p>Seems like FB did get something in return.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>I thought Zuck&#x27;s life clock was supposed to start flashing when he turned thirty and he was going to have to go on a Logan&#x27;s Run, being much to old to run a company any more.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Gets to Control Facebook a While Longer</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-28/mark-zuckerberg-gets-to-control-facebook-a-while-longer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lazaroclapp</author><text>The more interesting part here, is that Zuckerberg being 31 years old, and having a life expectancy of 82.3 years, means the people who insisted on this agreement believe there is a significant chance of Facebook still being around 51 years from now. By comparison Yahoo is 20 years old and not precisely in its prime, and Sun Microsystems existed only for 28 years.<p>That said, it means investors are betting on FB being a long lived (software) company, such as Oracle (39 years and counting), Apple (40), Microsoft (41) or, in the extreme, IBM (105).</text></item><item><author>abhi3</author><text>This is new information, earlier things were like this:<p><i>If Mr. Zuckerberg were to leave us or if his employment with us were to be terminated for &quot;cause,&quot; under the Current Certificate, he would not be required to relinquish majority voting control. Moreover, under the Current Certificate, Mr. Zuckerberg would be able to pass along his shares of Class B common stock (and potentially his majority voting control depending on sales or transfers by Mr. Zuckerberg, as well as changes in our share count) to his descendants after his death, thus leading to potential multi-generational majority voting control of the company.<p>The Special Committee and the board of directors believe that attracting a qualified chief executive officer to succeed Mr. Zuckerberg would be significantly more difficult if Mr. Zuckerberg, our founder and (in that event) former chief executive officer, continued to retain majority voting control of us in such a circumstance. The Special Committee and the board of directors also believe that the quality of a chief executive officer who would step into the role under these circumstances is likely to be significantly lower than it would be if we were no longer controlled by Mr. Zuckerberg, which could result in the potential loss of significant value for us and our shares of Class A common stock.</i><p>But after this deal Mark cannot retain voting control if he leaves or is fired for cause. He also cannot pass on his current voting rights if he sells is shares or his kids inherit them.<p>Seems like FB did get something in return.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harryh</author><text>What does his life expectancy have to do with anything? You think he&#x27;s still gonna be CEO in his 70s?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Sad Story of Heisenberg's Doctoral Oral Exam (1998)</title><url>https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199801/heisenberg.cfm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>This highlights what was a huge misconception for me about a PhD. I thought a PhD was about making an original contribution to my field. I thought Academia was a place where you took risks in pursuit of knowledge, and a PhD was your first real go at it.<p>In retrospect (I&#x27;m a PhD dropout) the PhD is really more about training in the fundamentals of scholarship. It&#x27;s about building up background knowledge, and learning the mechanics of research and publishing.<p>The actual scholarly contribution matters <i>almost not at all</i>. This is why faculty will pressure you to pick a conservative project... the results are besides the point. The point is demonstrating that you can do all the steps. Because lots of great people can only do half the steps. A PhD means you can do all.<p>Once you have your PhD, then its your career on the line and you can do whatever you want. Before that point, you&#x27;re really working on borrowed (from your advisor) time, and as much as it might seem like you are supposed to blaze a path, they really just want you to show that you can walk in a straight line.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Sad Story of Heisenberg's Doctoral Oral Exam (1998)</title><url>https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199801/heisenberg.cfm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>A reassuring story for those of us who feel we are strong in many areas but fear we have deep, dangerous holes in certain fundamentals.<p>This vignette explains part of something I hadn&#x27;t understood about the emergence of Heisenberg&#x27;s work (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Werner_Heisenberg#Matrix_mechanics_and_the_Nobel_Prize" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Werner_Heisenberg#Matrix_mecha...</a> ): he seemed to work out the core theory of QM without really developing a sensible, general approach. Compare this to Newton, who did develop calculus to explain mechanics (even if we these days use Leibniz&#x27;s contemporaneous work). In Heisenberg&#x27;s case, Born was the one who realized that we should use matrices.<p>It&#x27;s still weird that Born didn&#x27;t get the nobel for this work and had to wait 20 more years to get one.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamwt</author><text>Good questions, let me try to tackle them one by one.<p>&gt; The article makes a brief mention of Go causing issues with RAM usage. Was this due to large heap usage, or was it a problem of GC pressure&#x2F;throughput&#x2F;latency? If the former, what were some of the core problems that could not be further optimized in Go?<p>The reasons for using rust were many, but memory was one of them.<p>Primarily, for this particular project, the heap size is the issue. One of the games in this project is optimizing how little memory and compute you can use to manage 1GB (or 1PB) of data. We utilize lots of tricks like perfect hash tables, extensive bit-packing, etc. Lots of odd, custom, inline and cache-friendly data structures. We also keeps lots of things on the stack when we can to take pressure off the VM system. We do some lockfree object pooling stuff for big byte vectors, which are common allocations in a block storage system.<p>It&#x27;s much easier to do these particular kinds of optimizations using C++ or Rust.<p>In addition to basic memory reasons, saving a bit of CPU was a useful secondary goal, and that goal has been achieved. The project also has a fair amount of FFI work with various C libraries, and a kernel component. Rust makes it very easy and zero-cost to work closely with those libraries&#x2F;environments.<p>For this project, pause times were not an issue. This isn&#x27;t a particularly latency-sensitive service. We do have some other services where latency does matter, though, and we&#x27;re considering Rust for those in the future.<p>&gt; Could you comment more generally on what advantages Rust offered and where your team would like to see improvement?<p>The advantages of Rust are many. Really powerful abstractions, no null, no segfaults, no leaks, yet C-like performance and control over memory and you can use that whole C&#x2F;C++ bag of optimization tricks.<p>On the improvements side, we&#x27;re in close contact with the Rust core team--they visit the office regularly and keep tabs on what we&#x27;re doing. So no, we don&#x27;t have a ton of things we need. They&#x27;ve been really great about helping us out when those things have sprung up.<p>Our big ask right now is the same as everyone else&#x27;s--improve compile times!<p>&gt; Are there portions where the decision to use Rust caused complications or problems?<p>Well, Dropbox is mostly a golang shop on the backend, so Rust is a pretty different animal than everyone was used to. We also have a huge number of good libraries in golang that our small team had to create minimal equivalents for in Rust. So, the biggest challenge in using Rust at Dropbox has been that we were the first project! So we had a lot to do just to get started...<p>The other complication is that there is a ton of good stuff that we want to use that&#x27;s still being debated by the Rust team, and therefore marked unstable. As each release goes on, they stabilize these APIs, but it&#x27;s sometimes a pain working around useful APIs that are marked unstable just because the dust hasn&#x27;t settled yet within the core team. Having said that, we totally understand that they&#x27;re being thoughtful about all this, because backwards compatibility implies a very serious long-term commitment to these decisions.</text></item><item><author>dikaiosune</author><text>The article makes a brief mention of Go causing issues with RAM usage. Was this due to large heap usage, or was it a problem of GC pressure&#x2F;throughput&#x2F;latency? If the former, what were some of the core problems that could not be further optimized in Go? If the latter, I&#x27;ve heard recent versions have had some significant improvements -- has your team looked at that and thought that you would have been OK if you just waited, or was there a fundamental gap that GC improvements couldn&#x27;t close?<p>Could you comment more generally on what advantages Rust offered and where your team would like to see improvement? Are there portions of the Dropbox codebase where you&#x27;d love to use Rust but can&#x27;t until &lt;feature&gt; RFCs&#x2F;lands&#x2F;hits stable? Are there portions where the decision to use Rust caused complications or problems?</text></item><item><author>jamwt</author><text>Hi HN! A couple of us from the Magic Pocket software team are around to answer questions if anyone has some.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; On the improvements side, we&#x27;re in close contact with the Rust core team
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<story><title>Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamwt</author><text>Good questions, let me try to tackle them one by one.<p>&gt; The article makes a brief mention of Go causing issues with RAM usage. Was this due to large heap usage, or was it a problem of GC pressure&#x2F;throughput&#x2F;latency? If the former, what were some of the core problems that could not be further optimized in Go?<p>The reasons for using rust were many, but memory was one of them.<p>Primarily, for this particular project, the heap size is the issue. One of the games in this project is optimizing how little memory and compute you can use to manage 1GB (or 1PB) of data. We utilize lots of tricks like perfect hash tables, extensive bit-packing, etc. Lots of odd, custom, inline and cache-friendly data structures. We also keeps lots of things on the stack when we can to take pressure off the VM system. We do some lockfree object pooling stuff for big byte vectors, which are common allocations in a block storage system.<p>It&#x27;s much easier to do these particular kinds of optimizations using C++ or Rust.<p>In addition to basic memory reasons, saving a bit of CPU was a useful secondary goal, and that goal has been achieved. The project also has a fair amount of FFI work with various C libraries, and a kernel component. Rust makes it very easy and zero-cost to work closely with those libraries&#x2F;environments.<p>For this project, pause times were not an issue. This isn&#x27;t a particularly latency-sensitive service. We do have some other services where latency does matter, though, and we&#x27;re considering Rust for those in the future.<p>&gt; Could you comment more generally on what advantages Rust offered and where your team would like to see improvement?<p>The advantages of Rust are many. Really powerful abstractions, no null, no segfaults, no leaks, yet C-like performance and control over memory and you can use that whole C&#x2F;C++ bag of optimization tricks.<p>On the improvements side, we&#x27;re in close contact with the Rust core team--they visit the office regularly and keep tabs on what we&#x27;re doing. So no, we don&#x27;t have a ton of things we need. They&#x27;ve been really great about helping us out when those things have sprung up.<p>Our big ask right now is the same as everyone else&#x27;s--improve compile times!<p>&gt; Are there portions where the decision to use Rust caused complications or problems?<p>Well, Dropbox is mostly a golang shop on the backend, so Rust is a pretty different animal than everyone was used to. We also have a huge number of good libraries in golang that our small team had to create minimal equivalents for in Rust. So, the biggest challenge in using Rust at Dropbox has been that we were the first project! So we had a lot to do just to get started...<p>The other complication is that there is a ton of good stuff that we want to use that&#x27;s still being debated by the Rust team, and therefore marked unstable. As each release goes on, they stabilize these APIs, but it&#x27;s sometimes a pain working around useful APIs that are marked unstable just because the dust hasn&#x27;t settled yet within the core team. Having said that, we totally understand that they&#x27;re being thoughtful about all this, because backwards compatibility implies a very serious long-term commitment to these decisions.</text></item><item><author>dikaiosune</author><text>The article makes a brief mention of Go causing issues with RAM usage. Was this due to large heap usage, or was it a problem of GC pressure&#x2F;throughput&#x2F;latency? If the former, what were some of the core problems that could not be further optimized in Go? If the latter, I&#x27;ve heard recent versions have had some significant improvements -- has your team looked at that and thought that you would have been OK if you just waited, or was there a fundamental gap that GC improvements couldn&#x27;t close?<p>Could you comment more generally on what advantages Rust offered and where your team would like to see improvement? Are there portions of the Dropbox codebase where you&#x27;d love to use Rust but can&#x27;t until &lt;feature&gt; RFCs&#x2F;lands&#x2F;hits stable? Are there portions where the decision to use Rust caused complications or problems?</text></item><item><author>jamwt</author><text>Hi HN! A couple of us from the Magic Pocket software team are around to answer questions if anyone has some.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anp</author><text>Thanks very much for the detailed and thoughtful answers!<p>I&#x27;ve read before (somewhere, I think) that Dropbox effectively maintains a large internal &quot;standard library&quot; rather than relying on external open source efforts. How much does Magic Pocket rely on Rust&#x27;s standard library and the crates.io ecosystem? Could you elaborate on how you ended up going in whichever direction you chose with regards to third-party open source code?</text></comment>
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<story><title>In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliver Packages</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-final-holiday-push-ups-grabs-its-accountants-to-deliver-packages-1514040922</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drakenot</author><text>I worked as a &quot;UPS Delivery Helper&quot; in college during the holiday breaks. I was assigned to a UPS truck and my job was to take the packages from the truck to the door while the driver scanned the next package to be delivered so he never had to leave the truck.<p>I remember that as we got close to Christmas the packages were packed in the trucks so tight that there was little rhyme or reason to their placement. The entire &quot;aisle&quot; in the back of the truck was filled to the brim. We would literally just choose a random package that was blocking the aisle and go deliver it, often driving back and forth across our area in a very roundabout manner. Once the aisle got cleared and we could actually get to the shelves, the packages could be delivered in a more sane manner.<p>It always struck me as terribly inefficient but perhaps to UPS the last mile doesn&#x27;t matter as much because the driver is basically committed to getting his route clear no matter how long it takes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbosch</author><text>Adding my experience. I was a driver helper at one point too, and my driver would deliver all the commercial&#x2F;business packages first, then park in an empty area (residential side street or parking lot) and we would handsort the remaining packages along his personally directed route. We&#x27;d unload each package one by one, the driver chucking them to me from inside the truck with the words &quot;right&quot; or &quot;left&quot; and I&#x27;d form two piles depending on the word, then I&#x27;d toss them back. First one pile, then the next. He had his route memorized and after reloading delivery was super efficient.<p>It blew my mind that we wasted an hour or so every day just to optimize something that could be automatic via a machine or at least implemented by the loaders... Sad to see it still hasn&#x27;t changed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliver Packages</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-final-holiday-push-ups-grabs-its-accountants-to-deliver-packages-1514040922</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drakenot</author><text>I worked as a &quot;UPS Delivery Helper&quot; in college during the holiday breaks. I was assigned to a UPS truck and my job was to take the packages from the truck to the door while the driver scanned the next package to be delivered so he never had to leave the truck.<p>I remember that as we got close to Christmas the packages were packed in the trucks so tight that there was little rhyme or reason to their placement. The entire &quot;aisle&quot; in the back of the truck was filled to the brim. We would literally just choose a random package that was blocking the aisle and go deliver it, often driving back and forth across our area in a very roundabout manner. Once the aisle got cleared and we could actually get to the shelves, the packages could be delivered in a more sane manner.<p>It always struck me as terribly inefficient but perhaps to UPS the last mile doesn&#x27;t matter as much because the driver is basically committed to getting his route clear no matter how long it takes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>I wondered about this. A truck was doing the weirdest little pattern around our neighborhood recently. There were two men inside, one older guy doing some kind of tasks inside the van, and another who looked like an off-season track star grinning at people and running these big boxes sometimes a full block to the shipping address.</text></comment>
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<story><title>'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-10-03/ethan-mollick-analyst-students-who-use-ai-as-a-crutch-dont-learn-anything.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aithrowawaycomm</author><text>This condescension is very common and very irritating:<p>&gt; Q. You say that the best experts of the future will be those who make the most use of AI. Are people who are waiting to use AI making a mistake?<p>&gt; A. I get it, it’s an unnerving technology. People are freaking out. They’re getting a sense of three sleepless nights and running away screaming. It feels like an essential threat to a lot of careers. I think if you’re a good journalist, the first time you think, “oh no.” But then you start to see how this could help you do things better than before.<p>There are a lot of white-collar jobs where LLMs do more harm than good because a 1&#x2F;4 hallucination rate means you waste too much time on wild goose chases. I briefly thought GPT-4 was useful for finding papers given a description of the results - I “kicked the tires” with some AI research and was very impressed. But when I tried to find papers on animal cognition, about 75% of the results were fictional, though supposedly authored by real animal cognition experts. And GPT-4o is even worse! The tools are just not good enough for my use case; Google Scholar is far more reliable.<p>I just don’t understand the childish motivated reasoning behind assuming the skeptics are scared. Maybe if I spent “three sleepless nights” talking to ChatGPT I would be more enlightened.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>&gt; I just don’t understand the childish motivated reasoning behind assuming the skeptics are scared. Maybe if I spent “three sleepless nights” talking to ChatGPT I would be more enlightened.<p>A lot of people are very invested, whether emotionally or financially or both, in this stuff not being a flop. There’s a lot of motivated reasoning going on. It is necessary to believe that the heretics simply haven’t seen the light yet - to question that gets too close to questioning whether there’s any light to see.</text></comment>
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<story><title>'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-10-03/ethan-mollick-analyst-students-who-use-ai-as-a-crutch-dont-learn-anything.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aithrowawaycomm</author><text>This condescension is very common and very irritating:<p>&gt; Q. You say that the best experts of the future will be those who make the most use of AI. Are people who are waiting to use AI making a mistake?<p>&gt; A. I get it, it’s an unnerving technology. People are freaking out. They’re getting a sense of three sleepless nights and running away screaming. It feels like an essential threat to a lot of careers. I think if you’re a good journalist, the first time you think, “oh no.” But then you start to see how this could help you do things better than before.<p>There are a lot of white-collar jobs where LLMs do more harm than good because a 1&#x2F;4 hallucination rate means you waste too much time on wild goose chases. I briefly thought GPT-4 was useful for finding papers given a description of the results - I “kicked the tires” with some AI research and was very impressed. But when I tried to find papers on animal cognition, about 75% of the results were fictional, though supposedly authored by real animal cognition experts. And GPT-4o is even worse! The tools are just not good enough for my use case; Google Scholar is far more reliable.<p>I just don’t understand the childish motivated reasoning behind assuming the skeptics are scared. Maybe if I spent “three sleepless nights” talking to ChatGPT I would be more enlightened.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>&gt; I briefly thought GPT-4 was useful for finding papers given a description of the results.<p>That’s one of the many poorly documented traps of LLMs: trying to use them to find papers like that is a fast-track to worthless hallucinations. If that was one of your first experiments I can’t blame you for thinking this tech is “more harm than good”.<p>LLMs are terrible search engines… except for the times when they are great search engines!<p>Learning when and what to use them for continues to be a significantly under-appreciated challenge.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth</title><url>https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_16795199/en/speculoos-discovers-a-potentially-habitable-super-earth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>An orbital period of 2.73 days would mean there&#x27;s no (earth like) seasons and agriculture would not be constrained to growing things at specific times of the year. A wheat farmer could split their farm into sections and be sowing and harvesting continuously.<p>That&#x27;s assuming there isn&#x27;t a cycle from freezing to boiling every 2.73 days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>That close to a star, the planet&#x27;s rotation is probably tidally locked with its orbit, which means there&#x27;s no diurnal *or* seasonal cycle. There&#x27;s a summer hemisphere in permanent daylight; a winter hemisphere in permanent night; and a temperate twilight zone in between.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth</title><url>https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_16795199/en/speculoos-discovers-a-potentially-habitable-super-earth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>An orbital period of 2.73 days would mean there&#x27;s no (earth like) seasons and agriculture would not be constrained to growing things at specific times of the year. A wheat farmer could split their farm into sections and be sowing and harvesting continuously.<p>That&#x27;s assuming there isn&#x27;t a cycle from freezing to boiling every 2.73 days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evv555</author><text>Makes me wonder how much of the day sky is taken up by the star during daytime. Would be quite the view at that distance.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>app-pole</author><text>Apple has very skilled engineers, makes great strides in security, and I&#x27;m impressed by their hardware skills.<p>However, UX <i>is</i> their weakness. I don&#x27;t know why we keep pretending that UX is Apple&#x27;s strength. Have you used their window manager? Have you used their workspace implementation? Clearly they haven&#x27;t used it themselves. Everything about the Mac UI is geared toward just having a pile of windows in one workspace.<p>Their window switcher by default requires switching between applications then switching between the windows of that application. Why?<p>Rearranging the contents of workspaces is a complicated dance of swipes and drags and other mouse-heavy movements. On a decent window manager, this can all be done with keyboard shortcuts.<p>They neglect power-users. They neglect usability for those with limited range of motion.</text></item><item><author>m12k</author><text>I feel like the Apple we&#x27;ve seen since Jobs died is exactly what I would have expected if someone let the designers run the show without a strong product manager to reign them in: Gorgeous and mostly user-friendly products, but slightly too caught up in their own cleverness instead of the actual needs of real users.<p>I hope there&#x27;s a chance to rectify that now - though I fear it won&#x27;t happen until someone more visionary and less &#x27;operations-focused&#x27; takes the helm of the company. Steve Blank did this excellent analysis and comparison between Balmer and Cook [0] - I hope there&#x27;s a Satya Nadella in Apple&#x27;s future too.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavideNL</author><text>&gt; They neglect power-users.<p>The way i see it is Apple provides simple defaults which work best for most&#x2F;avarage users.<p>If you want something different&#x2F;extra vs the default, you can customize some stuff within SystemPreferences (like keyboard shortcuts) or install a third party app (like BetterTouchTool, Contexts, Moom, Magnet, etc.)<p>Personally, i much prefer my Macbook&#x27;s UX over my Windows10 UX.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>app-pole</author><text>Apple has very skilled engineers, makes great strides in security, and I&#x27;m impressed by their hardware skills.<p>However, UX <i>is</i> their weakness. I don&#x27;t know why we keep pretending that UX is Apple&#x27;s strength. Have you used their window manager? Have you used their workspace implementation? Clearly they haven&#x27;t used it themselves. Everything about the Mac UI is geared toward just having a pile of windows in one workspace.<p>Their window switcher by default requires switching between applications then switching between the windows of that application. Why?<p>Rearranging the contents of workspaces is a complicated dance of swipes and drags and other mouse-heavy movements. On a decent window manager, this can all be done with keyboard shortcuts.<p>They neglect power-users. They neglect usability for those with limited range of motion.</text></item><item><author>m12k</author><text>I feel like the Apple we&#x27;ve seen since Jobs died is exactly what I would have expected if someone let the designers run the show without a strong product manager to reign them in: Gorgeous and mostly user-friendly products, but slightly too caught up in their own cleverness instead of the actual needs of real users.<p>I hope there&#x27;s a chance to rectify that now - though I fear it won&#x27;t happen until someone more visionary and less &#x27;operations-focused&#x27; takes the helm of the company. Steve Blank did this excellent analysis and comparison between Balmer and Cook [0] - I hope there&#x27;s a Satya Nadella in Apple&#x27;s future too.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I like how Window management works in macOS more than the other platforms! The touchpad gestures are great. Or, if you&#x27;re using a mouse with extra buttons, one of the side buttons can get mapped to Mission Control, which works wonderfully!<p>I did prefer App Exposé in Snow Leopard, but ah well...</text></comment>
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<story><title>China's new submarine engine</title><url>http://www.popsci.com/china-new-submarine-engine-revolutionize-underwater-warfare</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s a nice application for brushless motors with variable-frequency AC drive. The motor is so simple - it&#x27;s just windings and the propeller ring. No seals, no gears, and no bearings that carry heavy loads. All of those things give trouble underwater. The drive electronics is more complex, but drives for variable-frequency AC motors are well-debugged now. Every drone has several of them, and electric cars have big ones.<p>Some pictures of existing units: [1] They&#x27;re mostly used as steerable thrusters for boats that need to be highly maneuverable, such as ferries. They&#x27;re becoming very popular for ROVs, because they&#x27;re much lower maintenance than existing thrusters used at depth.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Te_xejpriFM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Te_xejpriFM</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>China's new submarine engine</title><url>http://www.popsci.com/china-new-submarine-engine-revolutionize-underwater-warfare</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>I wanted to know more about the rim-driven thruster technology, and a quick search revealed that it is being deployed in a number of areas where hub-driven electrical thrusters would otherwise have been used. One manufacturer&#x27;s blurb[1] states that they use no seals, so I am curious as to what sort of bearing is used - could the rotor be magnetically suspended within the stator, at least while turning?<p>It also states that their device is symmetrical and so is equally efficient in either direction. My understanding is that, for optimal efficiency, a ducted propulsor should be narrower at the exit, but I guess there is no particular difficulty in making a rim-driven thruster of this form if its primary use is one-directional.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tsltechnology.com&#x2F;marine&#x2F;thrusters.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tsltechnology.com&#x2F;marine&#x2F;thrusters.htm</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-surveillance-state-puts-us-elections-at-risk-of-manipulation/281232/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spoiledtechie</author><text>As much as you might think this is out there, I have a hunch, however stupid it might be that leaks about candidates could in fact come out this way.<p>it might not even be Obamas team leaking. Lets sat a partisan person who works for the NSA wants to destroy a candidate. They could in fact do all the research themselves rather than anyone even close to Obama.<p>I look at one direct example of Herman Cain. How did the press ever get ahold of the fact that he was paying women out? Literally, you could say the women spoke up, but with the NSA, you could say someone who works at the NSA leaked the information just because they didn&#x27;t like Herman Cain to begin with.<p>Now that&#x27;s scary. Someone&#x27;s reputation could be destroyed just by a rogue NSA agent.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-surveillance-state-puts-us-elections-at-risk-of-manipulation/281232/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>001sky</author><text><i>I worry more about people high up inside the national-security state using their insider knowledge to help take down a politician. Is part of the deference they enjoy due to politicians worrying about that too?</i><p>There is an argument[1] that this may have been what took out General Patreaus. It was no coincedence he was removed from the Army and put into the CIA post just prior to catching Bin Laden [2,3]. Patreus would have received all of the credit, not Obama. But we know that the prep work for Bin Laden involved building a replicate of the abbatobad compound in the US, etc. so was well underway under the leadership of Patreus, not Panetta. Obama was very wary of Patreus entereing the 2012 elections, and would have been a much more credible candidate than any republican. In the end, Patreus was of course done in by someone snooping through his gmail. Wether or not he was also the victim of a parallel construction, in how that came about, we&#x27;ll never know.<p>[1] ie, Informal line of resoning or logic. In this case, circumstantial.<p>[2] edit: The move was orchestrated and announced earlier in the spring. viz: <i>On April 28, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that he had nominated Petraeus to become the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.</i><p>[3] Bin Laden: Died May 2, 2011 (aged 54)
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<story><title>Ask HN: Is the EULA on my new $30k RED cinema camera legal?</title><text>TLDR: I bought a $30K professional cinema camera that doesn&#x27;t work unless I sign away my rights to privacy and possibly the video content I make with it ( at least it seems )<p>Over the past few years my photography business has seen a surge in demand for ultra high quality video production work. In an effort to meet this demand, I picked up one of RED Digital Cinema&#x27;s newest pro camera bodies, the RED V-RAPTOR. Considering this camera is used by professional filmmakers to create films destined for cinemas, it&#x27;s not surprising that it came with a $30k price tag.<p>After unboxing and assembling it, I power the camera on and the first thing I see is a wall of legal text on the embedded LCD. Turns out it&#x27;s a &quot;Software License Agreement&quot; that I&#x27;m required to consent to using the on-camera menu buttons before any of the camera&#x27;s functionality becomes available. I can give consent or power the camera off.<p>The full text can be found on the manufacturer&#x27;s website at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.red.com&#x2F;legal&#x2F;license-agreements . Here are a few highlights<p>&gt; 4. CONSENT TO USE OF DATA. You agree that RED and its affiliates may collect, maintain, process, transmit, and use technical, diagnostic, usage and related information, including but not limited to information about your RED Camera, Camera Module, computer, system and application software, usage, content, and peripherals. RED may use the information to provide and improve RED’s products and services, including providing the information to RED’s licensors. RED may also provide the information to third party advertisers for the purpose of providing advertising statistics without identifying you personally ...<p>&gt; 5. UPDATES. RED and its licensors have no obligation to provide updates, bug fixes or error correction. If RED provides updates, such updates may be automatic and may delete or change the nature or features of the Software, including functions you may rely upon and you may lose data. You consent to updates by RED ...<p>I snapped a few photos of the camera and the on-screen license agreement for those interested<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;ZzBMPWm<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;wy5Qjq7<p>I&#x27;m annoyed that I must consent to accepting all software updates which they admit could result in the loss of my data but the part that really has me stuck is section 4. I&#x27;m interpreting it to mean that RED and whoever they see fit may access not only data on and about my personal computer but also the actual video content that I create with my camera. Furthermore, they are permitted to share all that with advertisers.<p>It seems like I must be misunderstanding this because I can&#x27;t imagine professional videographers being willing to consent to such blatant violations of their own customer&#x27;s expectations of privacy and discretion. Many of the jobs I get are product shoots for prototypes and things yet to be released. Some of them even require an NDA from me. There&#x27;s no way my clients would work with me if they knew that my camera might be capturing frames from their commissioned videos and transmitting them behind the scenes to advertisers.<p>This camera has been assembled but collecting dust for over a week now. I&#x27;m on the verge of returning it and eating the 2k I spent on compatible peripherals. I would love some input from anyone who can offer clarity. My questions are as follows:<p>1. Is my assessment of the implications of this license agreement correct or am I misunderstanding the legalese?<p>2. Is this type of EULA, where the most basic functionality of a hardware device is held hostage pending the user consents to some arbitrary agreement legal in the USA and&#x2F;or Europe? Is there actually a legal precedent allowing for it?<p>3. For film pros, do the top of the line Arris and Panavisions take these same liberties?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>et2o</author><text>This is exactly the answer. Why would the manufacturer of a professional-targeted camera take an action that would destroy their business?</text></item><item><author>kube-system</author><text>I&#x27;ve hired a few, and they&#x27;re all well aware that sloppy boilerplate is commonplace. They often suggest you take a realist approach to the situation as a whole, and consider the incentives of those involved.</text></item><item><author>cbm-vic-20</author><text>&gt; probably worth giving them the benefit of the doubt<p>My lawyer would have a seizure if I showed this to them. If I had a lawyer, of course.</text></item><item><author>implements</author><text>Looks like boilerplate to me.<p>4 is telemetry, with a catch-all that any data may be transmitted - which is necessary if a crash dump might contain image data.<p>5 is updates, with the catch-all that updates may break stuff or remove features (often buggy features or features too rarely used to be worth maintaining).<p>Pretty standard stuff for anything containing software, and perhaps because the camera is so expensive they feel obliged to cover their arses even more.<p>RED Cameras are good and widely used, iirc - probably worth giving them the benefit of the doubt as they’ll not want to damage their reputation and profits by abusing their T&amp;Cs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>myself248</author><text>You&#x27;d think Eventbrite would&#x27;ve known better too..<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;apr&#x2F;23&#x2F;eventbrite-apologises-for-footage-rights-grab" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;apr&#x2F;23&#x2F;eventbrite-apo...</a><p>This shit happens all the time. Someone has to call them out and get lucky enough for the calling-out to go viral, before they walk it back.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Is the EULA on my new $30k RED cinema camera legal?</title><text>TLDR: I bought a $30K professional cinema camera that doesn&#x27;t work unless I sign away my rights to privacy and possibly the video content I make with it ( at least it seems )<p>Over the past few years my photography business has seen a surge in demand for ultra high quality video production work. In an effort to meet this demand, I picked up one of RED Digital Cinema&#x27;s newest pro camera bodies, the RED V-RAPTOR. Considering this camera is used by professional filmmakers to create films destined for cinemas, it&#x27;s not surprising that it came with a $30k price tag.<p>After unboxing and assembling it, I power the camera on and the first thing I see is a wall of legal text on the embedded LCD. Turns out it&#x27;s a &quot;Software License Agreement&quot; that I&#x27;m required to consent to using the on-camera menu buttons before any of the camera&#x27;s functionality becomes available. I can give consent or power the camera off.<p>The full text can be found on the manufacturer&#x27;s website at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.red.com&#x2F;legal&#x2F;license-agreements . Here are a few highlights<p>&gt; 4. CONSENT TO USE OF DATA. You agree that RED and its affiliates may collect, maintain, process, transmit, and use technical, diagnostic, usage and related information, including but not limited to information about your RED Camera, Camera Module, computer, system and application software, usage, content, and peripherals. RED may use the information to provide and improve RED’s products and services, including providing the information to RED’s licensors. RED may also provide the information to third party advertisers for the purpose of providing advertising statistics without identifying you personally ...<p>&gt; 5. UPDATES. RED and its licensors have no obligation to provide updates, bug fixes or error correction. If RED provides updates, such updates may be automatic and may delete or change the nature or features of the Software, including functions you may rely upon and you may lose data. You consent to updates by RED ...<p>I snapped a few photos of the camera and the on-screen license agreement for those interested<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;ZzBMPWm<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;wy5Qjq7<p>I&#x27;m annoyed that I must consent to accepting all software updates which they admit could result in the loss of my data but the part that really has me stuck is section 4. I&#x27;m interpreting it to mean that RED and whoever they see fit may access not only data on and about my personal computer but also the actual video content that I create with my camera. Furthermore, they are permitted to share all that with advertisers.<p>It seems like I must be misunderstanding this because I can&#x27;t imagine professional videographers being willing to consent to such blatant violations of their own customer&#x27;s expectations of privacy and discretion. Many of the jobs I get are product shoots for prototypes and things yet to be released. Some of them even require an NDA from me. There&#x27;s no way my clients would work with me if they knew that my camera might be capturing frames from their commissioned videos and transmitting them behind the scenes to advertisers.<p>This camera has been assembled but collecting dust for over a week now. I&#x27;m on the verge of returning it and eating the 2k I spent on compatible peripherals. I would love some input from anyone who can offer clarity. My questions are as follows:<p>1. Is my assessment of the implications of this license agreement correct or am I misunderstanding the legalese?<p>2. Is this type of EULA, where the most basic functionality of a hardware device is held hostage pending the user consents to some arbitrary agreement legal in the USA and&#x2F;or Europe? Is there actually a legal precedent allowing for it?<p>3. For film pros, do the top of the line Arris and Panavisions take these same liberties?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>et2o</author><text>This is exactly the answer. Why would the manufacturer of a professional-targeted camera take an action that would destroy their business?</text></item><item><author>kube-system</author><text>I&#x27;ve hired a few, and they&#x27;re all well aware that sloppy boilerplate is commonplace. They often suggest you take a realist approach to the situation as a whole, and consider the incentives of those involved.</text></item><item><author>cbm-vic-20</author><text>&gt; probably worth giving them the benefit of the doubt<p>My lawyer would have a seizure if I showed this to them. If I had a lawyer, of course.</text></item><item><author>implements</author><text>Looks like boilerplate to me.<p>4 is telemetry, with a catch-all that any data may be transmitted - which is necessary if a crash dump might contain image data.<p>5 is updates, with the catch-all that updates may break stuff or remove features (often buggy features or features too rarely used to be worth maintaining).<p>Pretty standard stuff for anything containing software, and perhaps because the camera is so expensive they feel obliged to cover their arses even more.<p>RED Cameras are good and widely used, iirc - probably worth giving them the benefit of the doubt as they’ll not want to damage their reputation and profits by abusing their T&amp;Cs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JaimeThompson</author><text>&gt;Why would the manufacturer of a professional-targeted camera take an action that would destroy their business?<p>To make the next quarters number look better.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>I&#x27;m continually fascinated by the gaming community&#x27;s relationship with EA.<p>It&#x27;s like, &quot;Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let&#x27;s throw another 60 quid in this hole. I&#x27;m sure this time it&#x27;ll be different.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>I can&#x27;t think of any way out honestly. You can say anything you want about EA but I&#x27;m sure they act very rationally. If despite the heavy backlash over the years they keep doing what they&#x27;re doing then it must be working for them.<p>That&#x27;s the problem with these lootboxes, given how fast they spread to every AAA games these days (including single player games where they hardly make sense in the first place) it&#x27;s obvious that the maths work out for them. The amount of principled gamers ending up not buying the game is probably more than compensated by the dividends of microtransactions. There are not enough gamers who care enough about the issue to stop buying the game. The marketing and network effect is simply too strong. A mob downvoting a comment on reddit won&#x27;t change anything, it&#x27;s nothing but slacktivism. Might as well sign an e-petition at this point.<p>It&#x27;s not the first time it&#x27;s like this. &quot;We don&#x27;t want always online DRM! We won&#x27;t buy your game!&quot;, &quot;We want to be able to host our own dedicated servers for multiplayer! We won&#x27;t buy your game!&quot;. And now it&#x27;s the new normal, hardly anybody expects these things from new releases or even mentions them. Lootboxes and microtransactions are headed down the same path IMO.<p>Here&#x27;s my prediction: five years from now every big release will contain microtransactions one way or an other and nobody will find it surprising or inappropriate.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>I&#x27;m continually fascinated by the gaming community&#x27;s relationship with EA.<p>It&#x27;s like, &quot;Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let&#x27;s throw another 60 quid in this hole. I&#x27;m sure this time it&#x27;ll be different.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Exactly the same with me. I never buy games at launch and I tend to stay away from F2P games entirely. There&#x27;s way too many games coming out compared to the free time I have available to play them, so I&#x27;ve accepted that I&#x27;m never going to play the vast majority of releases. Others need to come to that same realization -- it&#x27;s perfectly fine to skip a game if the company&#x27;s practices suck.<p>As for what I have been playing, I&#x27;m really putting a lot of time into Factorio at the moment. It&#x27;s an indie game that costs $20 for the entire experience and is an amazing value (I&#x27;m at hour 70 with no sign of slowing down yet).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chat-UI, the codebase of HuggingChat, is open sourced</title><url>https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>voz_</author><text>ATM ChatGPT is tedious.<p>I think there are two things we can take from discord&#x2F;fb messenger&#x2F;slack to improve it:<p>1) ChatGPT and this thing needs threads. I want to be able to take a conversation and fork it - with separate conversational memories&#x2F;context after a point of forking. I want to be able to take a message, go &quot;reply&quot; to it, and be able to do that as many times as I want, per message, with each reply being treated independently of all other replies. It is insanely useful to be able to take a conversation &#x2F; debugging session &#x2F; etc into a different direction experimentally without risking the entire state of the conversation thus far.<p>2) I want to be able to react to the messages. Thumbs up &#x2F; down, agree&#x2F; disagree, etc - a small set of reactions to drive behavior would be huge, and would cut down on a lot of back and forth verbosity that plagues these.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chat-UI, the codebase of HuggingChat, is open sourced</title><url>https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>javajosh</author><text>FYI it&#x27;s svelte over mongo.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Read Assembly Language</title><url>https://wolchok.org/posts/how-to-read-assembly-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>Godbolt is a fun tool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;</a><p>The story I heard, was that the author is one of these obsessive genius types, who was having a debate about compiler efficiency, so he wrote an entire compiler engine to prove his point.<p>I can understand that.<p>This is a great article. Being able to descend into machine code&#x2F;assembly is a valuable “tool of last resort.”<p>Personally, I avoid that like the plague, but an OS developer probably still needs to do this (I developed system stuff, back in the Dawn Times).<p>I started off with Machine Code, so it’s been a long, strange trip, for me...</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Read Assembly Language</title><url>https://wolchok.org/posts/how-to-read-assembly-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nayuki</author><text>My take on learning assembly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;page&#x2F;a-fundamental-introduction-to-x86-assembly-programming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;page&#x2F;a-fundamental-introduction-to-x86...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Launching a product in just 3652 days</title><url>https://medium.com/@benediktdeicke/launching-a-product-in-just-3652-days-4d4e74e2dcd5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steveridout</author><text>Thanks for sharing this!<p>I checked out your pricing plans and the way you differentiate plans based on visitors &#x2F; day jumped out at me since it goes against advice I read recently from the UserVoice team. They used to price based on number of users who can vote but (in their own words)...<p>&quot;This was a huge failure. It created what I call a success penalty: the more successful you were in activating your users to give you feedback the more expensive the product became. On some level this made sense but since no one knew how to estimate this future usage it just created uncertainty about committing to a product without knowing the future cost of it. It was especially problematic because we were often working with young companies who didn’t know or were very optimistic about their future active user levels (and equally optimistic about what % of them would engage on UserVoice and give them feedback). It put us in the awkward position of tempering a customer’s enthusiasm about their use of our product (aka “There’s no way you’ll have 300K people on your site in 60 days time”).
When we removed the usage limits, which were designed to drive upgrades, we actually saw that upgrades increased 33%!&quot;<p>Link: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;500.co&#x2F;the-data-behind-purchasing-behavior-at-uservoice-pricing-for-conversion-part-i&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;500.co&#x2F;the-data-behind-purchasing-behavior-at-uservoi...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Launching a product in just 3652 days</title><url>https://medium.com/@benediktdeicke/launching-a-product-in-just-3652-days-4d4e74e2dcd5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benediktdeicke</author><text>Oh wow! My post made it on Hacker News!<p>Thanks so much for the nice comments. I&#x27;m glad my story inspired some of you :)<p>If you have specific questions about anything or would like some more details about any part of the story, please let me know. I&#x27;ll happily answer them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/animals-can-count-and-use-zero-how-far-does-their-number-sense-go-20210809/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fossuser</author><text>There was a funny related example of the African Gray parrot Alex surprising the trainers by silently counting in his head.<p>They were training a younger parrot and trying to get the younger parrot to count to two by tapping twice.<p>Alex overheard the training and got impatient with the other bird. He yelled out “two” and then after two more taps “four” and then “six”.<p>The trainers were just expecting “two” each time.<p>It was this book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0393353664&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0393...</a><p>The book is interesting and goes into how humans need to set up experiments properly to actually test non-human animals in ways that make sense (rather than just in some biased human way).<p>One quick example was testing tool use, the original experimenters left branches on the ground for the monkeys to use, but the monkeys can’t pick stuff up that’s flat on the ground since they’re normally in trees (their hands don’t have thumbs that move that way). When he redid the experiment with the tool raised they were able to grab and use it.<p>Same author also wrote Chimpanzee Politics and did this great video experiment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;meiU6TxysCg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;meiU6TxysCg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubyn00bie</author><text>A dog I live with, not technically mine, can count to at least three. She hates waiting in her harness before we go on walks, and has learned that I am ready to go after taking three poop bags. If I only pull two bags, she won’t come downstairs and wait by the door. If I pull the third bag, she immediately walks down the stairs. I noticed it the other day because I had two bags on me; so, she only heard me pull one bag and refused to walk downstairs. Then I pulled a second one, still nothing. Finally, I pulled the third one and she immediately trotted on down. Now that I’m aware of it, I’ve been paying attention and yep... she only ever comes down after hearing a third bag. I’ve been pretty shocked by it to be honest (in a good way)...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/animals-can-count-and-use-zero-how-far-does-their-number-sense-go-20210809/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fossuser</author><text>There was a funny related example of the African Gray parrot Alex surprising the trainers by silently counting in his head.<p>They were training a younger parrot and trying to get the younger parrot to count to two by tapping twice.<p>Alex overheard the training and got impatient with the other bird. He yelled out “two” and then after two more taps “four” and then “six”.<p>The trainers were just expecting “two” each time.<p>It was this book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0393353664&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0393...</a><p>The book is interesting and goes into how humans need to set up experiments properly to actually test non-human animals in ways that make sense (rather than just in some biased human way).<p>One quick example was testing tool use, the original experimenters left branches on the ground for the monkeys to use, but the monkeys can’t pick stuff up that’s flat on the ground since they’re normally in trees (their hands don’t have thumbs that move that way). When he redid the experiment with the tool raised they were able to grab and use it.<p>Same author also wrote Chimpanzee Politics and did this great video experiment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;meiU6TxysCg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;meiU6TxysCg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsza</author><text>There was this horse named Clever Hans whose trick was that you could give him a math problem and he would tap out the answer with his hoof. Of course, his powers were fake, but the way he actually did it is brilliant.<p>When the number of taps approached the correct answer, his trainer became excited. Hans picked up on this and stopped right when the trainer&#x27;s excitement reached its peak. The trainer had no idea this was happening. He was fooled by a horse.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Clever_Hans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Clever_Hans</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28520/starsky-robotics-becomes-first-unmanned-truck-to-hit-55-mph</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdorazio</author><text>For those unaware, this part is key:<p>&quot;Unlike some other &quot;driverless&quot; truck companies, Starsky isn&#x27;t building a completely autonomous solution. Instead, it uses teleoperation to remotely drive the truck between freight depots and the freeway where a highway-only automated driving system takes over.&quot;<p>Starsky is doing really impressive work, but the trucks aren&#x27;t designed to be 100% autonomous 100% of the time. I think this is a great solution to the last-mile problem for freight logistics, however.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28520/starsky-robotics-becomes-first-unmanned-truck-to-hit-55-mph</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bluescrn</author><text>Remote truck driving sounds like a scary job, driving a heavy vehicle capable of causing major fatal accidents, via tech that could lag or drop out at any time, with none of the tactile feedback that you normally get from a vehicle?<p>What does the interface look like? 2D screens (no depth perception), or something more VR-like with stereoscopic vision and head tracking?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy</title><url>https://laverna.cc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>org-mode&#x27;s format sucks, is only partially supported outside of Emacs, and is on its way out. org-mode is only any good if you&#x27;re using the full power of it (tasks, agenda, etc), which is buying into a system that&#x27;s soon going away.</text></item><item><author>bitexploder</author><text>Org mode in a git repo. Easy enough. Don&#x27;t need a fussy rendering step. Generate a PDF or HTML from org. Regardless of how you do it -- plain text will endure and using git makes it really simple. Markdown can never &quot;go away&quot; and neither can org files. They are inherently readable with cat and the naked eye. If I can&#x27;t legibly read it with cat &#x2F; less it will eventually leave me disappointed in some way.</text></item><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>I&#x27;ve given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it&#x27;s open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years.<p>When you write things down, you&#x27;re investing in your future. It&#x27;s silly to use software that isn&#x27;t making that same investment.<p>After trying Evernote, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together. Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. All in a git repo.<p>It&#x27;s... wonderful. Surprisingly easy. Fast. If there&#x27;s a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. Markdown isn&#x27;t going away anytime soon.<p>It&#x27;s liberating to be in control. I find myself more eager to write things down. I&#x27;m surprised more people don&#x27;t do the same.<p>Edit: here&#x27;s what my system looks like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;nGplj" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;nGplj</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaushalmodi</author><text>&gt; Emacs, and is on its way out<p>Being active on the Emacs and Org mode mailing lists, and other forums, I can say with confidence that this is not true.<p>In fact, I am seeing active development in both Emacs and Org; not just bug fixes, but frequent additions of new features.<p>&gt; org-mode is only any good if you&#x27;re using the full power of it (tasks, agenda, etc), which is buying into<p>Org markup is much more powerful than Markdown. So you can be much more productive by using Org just as markup. One example is &#x27;#+INCLUDE: &quot;foo.py&quot; :lines-5-10&#x27;.. This is tremendously useful if you are writing notes that export to some format or blogging.. you don&#x27;t need to copy-paste code snippets, Org will fetch them for you. (I have a customization built on top of that.. instead of specifying the line numbers, I can specify the start and end regexp for the lines containing my snippet). Add org-babel to this mix, and you don&#x27;t even need to run the snippets, and copy the results manually; again Org does it.<p>I recently blogged about comparing string related functions between Python and Nim: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scripter.co&#x2F;notes&#x2F;string-functions-nim-vs-python&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scripter.co&#x2F;notes&#x2F;string-functions-nim-vs-python&#x2F;</a><p>I cannot imagine myself writing (and maintaining) that post in Markdown!<p>On the next update of Nim version, I&#x27;ll simply run org-babel over the whole file, see git diff to check if anything major has changed, and update the post accordingly.. no copy&#x2F;pasting ever :)<p>&gt; a system that&#x27;s soon going away.<p>Again, really? What made you think that?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy</title><url>https://laverna.cc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>org-mode&#x27;s format sucks, is only partially supported outside of Emacs, and is on its way out. org-mode is only any good if you&#x27;re using the full power of it (tasks, agenda, etc), which is buying into a system that&#x27;s soon going away.</text></item><item><author>bitexploder</author><text>Org mode in a git repo. Easy enough. Don&#x27;t need a fussy rendering step. Generate a PDF or HTML from org. Regardless of how you do it -- plain text will endure and using git makes it really simple. Markdown can never &quot;go away&quot; and neither can org files. They are inherently readable with cat and the naked eye. If I can&#x27;t legibly read it with cat &#x2F; less it will eventually leave me disappointed in some way.</text></item><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>I&#x27;ve given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it&#x27;s open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years.<p>When you write things down, you&#x27;re investing in your future. It&#x27;s silly to use software that isn&#x27;t making that same investment.<p>After trying Evernote, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together. Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. All in a git repo.<p>It&#x27;s... wonderful. Surprisingly easy. Fast. If there&#x27;s a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. Markdown isn&#x27;t going away anytime soon.<p>It&#x27;s liberating to be in control. I find myself more eager to write things down. I&#x27;m surprised more people don&#x27;t do the same.<p>Edit: here&#x27;s what my system looks like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;nGplj" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;nGplj</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willtim</author><text>Emacs has been with us for well over 30 years and during that time has always had folks claim it was obsolete (no graphical UI, no OOP etc). Emacs will be around for at least another 30 years.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Page Weight Matters (2012)</title><url>https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit pessimistic about this now, and largely given up beating the drum<p>Even in industries where customers are on extremely bad connections [0], I couldn&#x27;t convince people to give up their bloated component libraries or cache things in indexedDB. Fact is not many web developers know how to write for these environments and not many businesses will incentivize for it, even when their customers complain.<p>Though the optimist in me will say this - if anyone actually does web dev where people do actually care about this, I&#x27;d love to hear about it.<p>[0] My experience here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lewiscampbell.tech&#x2F;blog&#x2F;220205.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lewiscampbell.tech&#x2F;blog&#x2F;220205.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Page Weight Matters (2012)</title><url>https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SPBS</author><text>I assume such senior engineers who used to care about page weight have left YouTube by now. The trend of every big site (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) is to go towards a fat multi-megabyte SPA.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good</title><url>http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2011-08-19-lets-go-shopping.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I'm not expert enough to call you out on this, but isn't "function", the way it's used in "functional programming", working from a different and more strict definition of the word "function" that (say) a C programmer is used to? I don't know that you're wrong about this summary of FP, but it doesn't smell right to me.</text></item><item><author>tumult</author><text>The title of this article, for example. The idea of this article is that functional programming is hard, because it forces you to think in a new way. But here, calling functional programming hard is just used to pat oneself on the back. Great, this article says you can map a function over a collection and then sum it. You don't need to think of yourself as some elite programmer that casts a shadow over procedural programmers. It's not true.<p>Functional programming is just the general notion of using more functions, and less computer-architectury things, to express your ideas. It's not necessarily about map/reduce, monads, or whatever. Encode your ideas mostly as functions where possible. That's it.<p>It's bad to say that functional programming is hard on purpose, or that it makes you a part of some elite cadre. Functional programming should be, and usually is, no harder than any other way to explicitly write down your ideas. The whole point is to make it more simple to express your ideas in a way that can be evaluated by a computer. Functional programming isn't hard. Programming is hard.</text></item><item><author>dustingetz</author><text>Care to elaborate?</text></item><item><author>tumult</author><text>FP is becoming the new OOP. People who don't understand its original meaning are misinterpreting it and incorrectly expounding its usefulness. Newcomers are not grasping how it fits into the bigger picture. Be cautious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>profquail</author><text>That's about right. A "function" in functional programming is supposed to be just like the functions you remember from grade-school algebra class, e.g.,<p><pre><code> f(x) = 2x + 5
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If you look at that function, you'll notice that for any given value of 'x', the function always produces the same output value. For example, no matter how many times you try it, plugging in 3 for 'x' <i>always</i> returns 11. This means that f(x) is a "pure" function.<p>The only difference between the trivial example with f(x) above, and say, Haskell, is that the functions you're working with in Haskell are much more complicated. Boil it down though, and they're still pure, mathematical functions nonetheless.<p>Now, you can (should?) write purely functional programs in C if you follow the same principals. The main difference is that C doesn't <i>force</i> you do write your code this way, and since writing purely functional code can be a bit tedious, most people don't.<p>This leads to impure functions in your code, like when you read a file from disk -- if the file is there, the function does one thing; if not, it may do something else (like crash). Since the output of an impure function can vary depending on when/where/why/how it's executed, it can be much harder to find bugs in it, since the code may compile and run just fine until the moment it doesn't.<p>Anyway, that's the basic rundown on FP. I'm not an FP expert, so if I've missed anything, someone please correct me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good</title><url>http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2011-08-19-lets-go-shopping.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I'm not expert enough to call you out on this, but isn't "function", the way it's used in "functional programming", working from a different and more strict definition of the word "function" that (say) a C programmer is used to? I don't know that you're wrong about this summary of FP, but it doesn't smell right to me.</text></item><item><author>tumult</author><text>The title of this article, for example. The idea of this article is that functional programming is hard, because it forces you to think in a new way. But here, calling functional programming hard is just used to pat oneself on the back. Great, this article says you can map a function over a collection and then sum it. You don't need to think of yourself as some elite programmer that casts a shadow over procedural programmers. It's not true.<p>Functional programming is just the general notion of using more functions, and less computer-architectury things, to express your ideas. It's not necessarily about map/reduce, monads, or whatever. Encode your ideas mostly as functions where possible. That's it.<p>It's bad to say that functional programming is hard on purpose, or that it makes you a part of some elite cadre. Functional programming should be, and usually is, no harder than any other way to explicitly write down your ideas. The whole point is to make it more simple to express your ideas in a way that can be evaluated by a computer. Functional programming isn't hard. Programming is hard.</text></item><item><author>dustingetz</author><text>Care to elaborate?</text></item><item><author>tumult</author><text>FP is becoming the new OOP. People who don't understand its original meaning are misinterpreting it and incorrectly expounding its usefulness. Newcomers are not grasping how it fits into the bigger picture. Be cautious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thurn</author><text>I agree. Minimizing state and side effects are at least as core to functional programming as "you should use lots of functions."</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda</title><url>https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-thousands-of-hollywood-movies-into-super-effective-propaganda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>34679</author><text>&gt;The film also notes that the United States has laws against propagandizing the U.S. public, which might make such a disclosure a confession of a crime. I would add that since 1976, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights has required that “Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.”<p>That changed in 2013:<p>&gt;The U.S. government&#x27;s mammoth broadcasting arm has begun the &quot;unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption,&quot; John Hudson of Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.<p>&gt;The content arrives with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.), which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).<p>&gt;The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information &quot;to influence public opinion in the United States.&quot;<p>&gt;The new law enables U.S. government programming such as Voice of America (VoA) — an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad — t0 broadcast directly to domestic audiences for the first time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;us-domestic-propaganda-officially-aired-2013-7?op=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;us-domestic-propaganda-offic...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Threeve303</author><text>Imagine you have a tech industry that merged with madison avenue along with psychological methods learned from Guantanamo and CIA Black Sites, and you wanted to build a societal manipulation machine, otherwise known as propaganda. Makes me wonder if there is any relation between the changes mentioned here and some of what the social media infrastructure has been used to do.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda</title><url>https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-thousands-of-hollywood-movies-into-super-effective-propaganda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>34679</author><text>&gt;The film also notes that the United States has laws against propagandizing the U.S. public, which might make such a disclosure a confession of a crime. I would add that since 1976, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights has required that “Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.”<p>That changed in 2013:<p>&gt;The U.S. government&#x27;s mammoth broadcasting arm has begun the &quot;unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption,&quot; John Hudson of Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.<p>&gt;The content arrives with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.), which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).<p>&gt;The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information &quot;to influence public opinion in the United States.&quot;<p>&gt;The new law enables U.S. government programming such as Voice of America (VoA) — an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad — t0 broadcast directly to domestic audiences for the first time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;us-domestic-propaganda-officially-aired-2013-7?op=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;us-domestic-propaganda-offic...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>Ok so war propaganda is illegal but what changed in 2013? Did the laws change or did we just stop caring to enforce them?</text></comment>
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<story><title>New Skype Update Is Horrible</title><url>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_prevandroms-skype_messms/new-skype-update-is-horrible/bcc5c863-6358-43d2-ab1b-b55ff97eba0d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pveierland</author><text>My worst Skype annoyance was when they seized your purchased credits if your account was left unused for 180 days. As a sporadic user of Skype when I needed to place an international call etc, having purchased credits reset automatically was such a provocation [0]. Every time I have to re-install Skype for some reason, there&#x27;s always a new regression or dark UX pattern in use.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;skype-lawsuit-to-yield-credit-for-customers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;skype-lawsuit-to-yie...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nailer</author><text>I had a similar experience: Microsoft deleted all my childhood email because I didn&#x27;t log into hotmail frequently enough.<p>This included the emails I sent to my first love. And the ones she sent me. All gone. Because Microsoft wanted to save some tiny amount of space. I love Microsoft and an writing this on a Surface device now but Christ, that was awful and would make me think twice about using Microsoft online services.<p>PS. If anyone on HN somehow knows ways to recover the contents on deleted hotmail accounts then please let me know.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New Skype Update Is Horrible</title><url>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_prevandroms-skype_messms/new-skype-update-is-horrible/bcc5c863-6358-43d2-ab1b-b55ff97eba0d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pveierland</author><text>My worst Skype annoyance was when they seized your purchased credits if your account was left unused for 180 days. As a sporadic user of Skype when I needed to place an international call etc, having purchased credits reset automatically was such a provocation [0]. Every time I have to re-install Skype for some reason, there&#x27;s always a new regression or dark UX pattern in use.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;skype-lawsuit-to-yield-credit-for-customers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;skype-lawsuit-to-yie...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerardnll</author><text>It is nonsense. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a reason to do that except to scam users. Any UX-UI Dev &#x2F; Engineer &#x2F; Person with common sense knows that users would not understand the process. 180 days and my credit is disabled but I can reactivate it again anytime? what the hell?<p>What I&#x27;m not sure of is what happens if you buy credit without reactivating the inactive balance... Does it reactivate the inactive balance or not? If not... they are shameless.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Father and Daughter Convicted for $100M Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/fort-lauderdale-father-and-daughter-convicted-trial-involvement-100-million-fraudulent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Tax refund fraud is big business.<p>These two are not very smart. The smarter criminals steal someone’s identity, file a fraudulent tax form using their identity, steal the refund, and then let that poor soul deal with the IRS when it comes after them to get their money back.<p>If you ever try to file and get a notice that you already filed, jump on it right away because you may have been targeted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>And the <i>most</i> successful tax refund scammers claim to have invented Bitcoin, claim to have spend a hundred million buying a non-existent supercomputer, then claim $54 million in tax rebates related to their &quot;research and development&quot;.<p>When the authorities catch on, they then pivot to pre-selling their embargoed &quot;bitcoin fortune&quot; in a advanced fee fraud[2] and use the victims to pay a settlement with the tax authority. Which in AU, like the US, is surprisingly forgiving of outright fraud so long as you give them money.<p>Best of all, because printing obviously false speculation about Bitcoin&#x27;s creator sells more paper than a story about an audacious but fundamentally boring conman, even the media barely takes notice of the crime.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4htw3t&#x2F;how_to_steal_54_millions_of_dollar_from_the&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4htw3t&#x2F;how_to_stea...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4cdsna&#x2F;craig_wright_nigerian_prince_and_other_unlikely&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4cdsna&#x2F;craig_wrigh...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Father and Daughter Convicted for $100M Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/fort-lauderdale-father-and-daughter-convicted-trial-involvement-100-million-fraudulent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Tax refund fraud is big business.<p>These two are not very smart. The smarter criminals steal someone’s identity, file a fraudulent tax form using their identity, steal the refund, and then let that poor soul deal with the IRS when it comes after them to get their money back.<p>If you ever try to file and get a notice that you already filed, jump on it right away because you may have been targeted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>That would be the stupid variant. In Europe, tax refund fraud uses your real name:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CumEx-Files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CumEx-Files</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/ads/advertiser-identity-verification-for-transparency/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>Prepare yourself for ads from amorphous organizations with names like <i>The Committee to Re-Establish Democracy</i> or <i>The Project for a New American Freedom.</i> (No idea if these are real, I just made them up.) I suppose it helps to see precisely who is paying for an advertisement, but I don’t think this is actually useful in a real sense.<p>The only long-term solution is education: foster a sense of skepticism towards all advertising and encourage reading information from a variety of viewpoints. Of course, Google’s entire existence (and having destroyed traditional media’s business model, the media itself) is predicated on ads, so don’t expect anything this lucid soon.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/ads/advertiser-identity-verification-for-transparency/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>annoyingnoob</author><text>With verification, will Google be culpable the next time one of my users is redirected to a tech support scam from a Google ad?<p>At least twice a year at my business users are redirected to tech support scams from Google Search ads. Its always a similar story, &quot;I searched for Amazon and clicked the first link&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack</title><url>https://khn.org/news/a-jolt-to-the-jugular-youre-insured-but-still-owe-109k-for-your-heart-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achoped</author><text>Not always. My mom had a quadruple bypass about 6 years ago during a gap year where she stopped working but didn&#x27;t have Medicare yet. Unlucky. I think she was billed for around $180k.<p>She told them &quot;I&#x27;m on Social Security for $1000&#x2F;mo, I&#x27;ll pay you $50&#x2F;mo&quot;. It was basically that or sending it to collections and never getting a dime from a retiree. So they accepted and told her a &quot;non-profit&quot; paid for the doctor&#x27;s portion of the bill, which was all but about $40k.<p>She&#x27;ll probably be around another 10 years max, which means she&#x27;ll end up paying about $10k of that balance.<p>Medical debt is the least concerning type of debt for most lenders. If you ever fall into this hole, don&#x27;t sweat it. [Unsolicited advice.] Just let it go to collections. You&#x27;ll get harassed for a little over a year. Debt older than a year is almost never pursued by collections agencies. After things quiet down start sending letters to the credits agencies saying the collections debt has been settled. The collections agency will usually slip up and not respond at some point and it&#x27;ll be gone from your credit history.</text></item><item><author>jtokoph</author><text>&gt; UPDATE: Monday, shortly after publication and broadcast of this story by Kaiser Health News and NPR, St. David’s said it was now willing to accept $782.29 to resolve the $108,951 balance because Drew Calver qualifies for its “financial assistance discount.”<p>Sounds all fine and dandy until you realize that these charges will just be made up for by people that aren&#x27;t able to get NPR to publish a story about them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gav</author><text>I worked with somebody who at 23 was bitten by a cat and it got infected. She didn&#x27;t want to seek medical treatment even though her hand swelled up like crazy--&quot;I don&#x27;t have insurance, I will get better&quot;. I basically forced her to go to the hospital and she ended up spending a couple of days in the ICU. They told her if she waited another day, she might not have made it.<p>Total cost, something around $23,000 I think. This is somebody who was making maybe $10&#x2F;hr. They took a payment plan of around $15&#x2F;month, so she will be paying it back for the next 128 years.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack</title><url>https://khn.org/news/a-jolt-to-the-jugular-youre-insured-but-still-owe-109k-for-your-heart-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achoped</author><text>Not always. My mom had a quadruple bypass about 6 years ago during a gap year where she stopped working but didn&#x27;t have Medicare yet. Unlucky. I think she was billed for around $180k.<p>She told them &quot;I&#x27;m on Social Security for $1000&#x2F;mo, I&#x27;ll pay you $50&#x2F;mo&quot;. It was basically that or sending it to collections and never getting a dime from a retiree. So they accepted and told her a &quot;non-profit&quot; paid for the doctor&#x27;s portion of the bill, which was all but about $40k.<p>She&#x27;ll probably be around another 10 years max, which means she&#x27;ll end up paying about $10k of that balance.<p>Medical debt is the least concerning type of debt for most lenders. If you ever fall into this hole, don&#x27;t sweat it. [Unsolicited advice.] Just let it go to collections. You&#x27;ll get harassed for a little over a year. Debt older than a year is almost never pursued by collections agencies. After things quiet down start sending letters to the credits agencies saying the collections debt has been settled. The collections agency will usually slip up and not respond at some point and it&#x27;ll be gone from your credit history.</text></item><item><author>jtokoph</author><text>&gt; UPDATE: Monday, shortly after publication and broadcast of this story by Kaiser Health News and NPR, St. David’s said it was now willing to accept $782.29 to resolve the $108,951 balance because Drew Calver qualifies for its “financial assistance discount.”<p>Sounds all fine and dandy until you realize that these charges will just be made up for by people that aren&#x27;t able to get NPR to publish a story about them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjcl</author><text>&gt; Medical debt is the least concerning type of debt for most lenders.<p>Just another data point, a large property management company I used to work for specifically exempted bankruptcies due to medical debt when calculating applicant credit scores.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth and Income Database</title><url>http://wid.world/world/#sptinc_p99p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB/last/eu/k/p/yearly/s/false/4.8255/30/curve/false</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>1. When everyone was a farmer, the difference between the best possible farmer and the worst farmer just wasn&#x27;t that great. Maybe you&#x27;re 2x faster at picking corn, or 3x better at hunting deer. But a few guys literally built a communication tool (WhatsApp) to be used by billions of people. So maybe in the old world you could pick 2x as much corn, but in today&#x27;s world you can build 1 billion times the communication tools as someone else.<p>2. The whole idea of inequality, while potentially useful, kind of assumes a fixed pie. The question is phrased as, &quot;What percent of the total income pie did the 1% take&quot; and not &quot;How much pie did the top 1% of people produce to make the overall pie bigger?&quot;. I don&#x27;t think either mentality is totally correct, but both are vitally important to understand (and the second belief is non-obvious to many). Did Steve Jobs producing the iPhone (and becoming a billionaire) take any of the poor people&#x27;s money, or did it increase the overall output of the country? Steve jobs making the iPhone certainly made the country more unequal, but it also made the economy bigger and the country better off.<p>3. Does anyone care about equality, or do people care about poverty? Would a world where 1% of people had 100 yachts but 99% of people each had 1 yacht bother you? Would you rather live in a poor equal country or a rich unequal country?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BearGoesChirp</author><text>Part of the problem is that the inequality leads to behavior that protects the inequality. Disney passing lobbying for laws that will keep their work out of public domain despite how much they benefited from public domain. Drug companies lobbying to outlaw certain products that would help people but cut into profits.<p>Enough inequality allows information control. Enough information control allows government control.<p>Overall, if things were constantly getting better, I doubt people would care. But once things start stagnating for those at the bottom, they begin to consider not playing by the current set of rules.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth and Income Database</title><url>http://wid.world/world/#sptinc_p99p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB/last/eu/k/p/yearly/s/false/4.8255/30/curve/false</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>1. When everyone was a farmer, the difference between the best possible farmer and the worst farmer just wasn&#x27;t that great. Maybe you&#x27;re 2x faster at picking corn, or 3x better at hunting deer. But a few guys literally built a communication tool (WhatsApp) to be used by billions of people. So maybe in the old world you could pick 2x as much corn, but in today&#x27;s world you can build 1 billion times the communication tools as someone else.<p>2. The whole idea of inequality, while potentially useful, kind of assumes a fixed pie. The question is phrased as, &quot;What percent of the total income pie did the 1% take&quot; and not &quot;How much pie did the top 1% of people produce to make the overall pie bigger?&quot;. I don&#x27;t think either mentality is totally correct, but both are vitally important to understand (and the second belief is non-obvious to many). Did Steve Jobs producing the iPhone (and becoming a billionaire) take any of the poor people&#x27;s money, or did it increase the overall output of the country? Steve jobs making the iPhone certainly made the country more unequal, but it also made the economy bigger and the country better off.<p>3. Does anyone care about equality, or do people care about poverty? Would a world where 1% of people had 100 yachts but 99% of people each had 1 yacht bother you? Would you rather live in a poor equal country or a rich unequal country?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chinjut</author><text>Like Steve Jobs made the iPhone with his own hands... He played a role in the creation of the iPhone, but the level and proportion of reward he received for that role is a choice we made as a society, not an intrinsic physical fact. I guarantee you, even in a world where telling other people to make iPhones doesn&#x27;t make you a billionaire, there are still people who would line up at the chance to do it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Share: The Icon No One Agrees On</title><url>https://bold.pixelapse.com/minming/share-the-icon-no-one-agrees-on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggchappell</author><text>The problem that comes before this one is whether <i>share</i> is a well-understood action.<p>If I &quot;share&quot; via e-mail, then I <i>transmit</i> a document to others. After this, each recipient has a separate copy which, thereafter, is completely out of my control.<p>If I &quot;share&quot; via social network, then I <i>upload</i> a document. This makes a single copy, accessible to previously chosen people. It is (depending on the social network) somewhat under my control. Others can comment on it.<p>If I &quot;share&quot; via something like Dropbox, then I make the document <i>accessible</i> to others. No copy is made. If I share via URL, then I give read access. If I make a shared folder, then I give both read and write access.<p>Now, we techies know these are different things. Our mental model of non-technical users&#x27; thinking might suggest that, <i>to them</i>, these are all the same kind of action.<p>But are they?<p>Does an average non-technical user think of folder sharing, Facebook posts, and e-mail messages as the same category of action? I&#x27;m not sure he does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuak</author><text>Non-technical users have always understood the concepts of: publish (or broadcast), share (or collaborate), and give (or send).<p>The computer world is the one that limited these concepts.<p>Before web: you can only copy and give.<p>After web: you can give, or publish.<p>After cloud: you can give, publish, and share.<p>I think these concepts should be as well differentiated in the digital world as they are in the physical.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Share: The Icon No One Agrees On</title><url>https://bold.pixelapse.com/minming/share-the-icon-no-one-agrees-on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggchappell</author><text>The problem that comes before this one is whether <i>share</i> is a well-understood action.<p>If I &quot;share&quot; via e-mail, then I <i>transmit</i> a document to others. After this, each recipient has a separate copy which, thereafter, is completely out of my control.<p>If I &quot;share&quot; via social network, then I <i>upload</i> a document. This makes a single copy, accessible to previously chosen people. It is (depending on the social network) somewhat under my control. Others can comment on it.<p>If I &quot;share&quot; via something like Dropbox, then I make the document <i>accessible</i> to others. No copy is made. If I share via URL, then I give read access. If I make a shared folder, then I give both read and write access.<p>Now, we techies know these are different things. Our mental model of non-technical users&#x27; thinking might suggest that, <i>to them</i>, these are all the same kind of action.<p>But are they?<p>Does an average non-technical user think of folder sharing, Facebook posts, and e-mail messages as the same category of action? I&#x27;m not sure he does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x0054</author><text>Perhaps its more logical to refer to all of these types of action as &quot;broadcast&quot; rather than &quot;share&quot; actions. You are &quot;broadcasting&quot; a picture to facebook, or a link to the file via twitter, or the actual file via email. By referring to these actions as broadcast rather than share actions, you convey to the user that they are relinquishing power over that data, once the genie is out, you are not stuffing him back in. A good icon would be a radio antenna broadcasting things. Just a thought.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions</title><url>https://medium.com/projectinclude/peter-thiel-yc-and-hard-decisions-2b91bab83764#.f8k645921</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dfabulich</author><text>There is clear precedent for YC taking a political stand by uninviting investors.<p>Only five years ago, Paul Graham was willing to uninvite investors from Demo Day based on their support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;22&#x2F;paul-graham-sopa-supporting-companies-no-longer-allowed-at-yc-demo-day&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;22&#x2F;paul-graham-sopa-supportin...</a><p>Paul asked, &quot;If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?&quot;<p>The obvious answer to that question would be, &quot;their track record as investors could demonstrate that.&quot; But no, in 2011, if you supported SOPA, you&#x27;re out, <i>regardless of your track record</i>.<p>I think it&#x27;s fair to ask whether, if Peter Thiel is so clueless as to donate $1.25 million to Donald Trump <i>today</i>, after so much of his dirty laundry has come to light and after this has been reflected in the polls, how could he be a good investor?<p>If it was the right decision for SOPA, it&#x27;s right decision today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>IMO, you can even disregard all of Trump&#x27;s dirty laundry in this calculation. He is openly calling into doubt the result of this election before it&#x27;s even happened, asking supporters to intimidate voters, and suggesting the entire election is &quot;rigged&quot;.<p>He is attempting to undermine democracy in the country and I&#x27;m not sure you need a single additional reason to object to anyone who supports him.<p>Thiel, of course, does not think &quot;freedom and democracy are compatible&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cato-unbound.org&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;13&#x2F;peter-thiel&#x2F;education-libertarian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cato-unbound.org&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;13&#x2F;peter-thiel&#x2F;educatio...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions</title><url>https://medium.com/projectinclude/peter-thiel-yc-and-hard-decisions-2b91bab83764#.f8k645921</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dfabulich</author><text>There is clear precedent for YC taking a political stand by uninviting investors.<p>Only five years ago, Paul Graham was willing to uninvite investors from Demo Day based on their support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;22&#x2F;paul-graham-sopa-supporting-companies-no-longer-allowed-at-yc-demo-day&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;22&#x2F;paul-graham-sopa-supportin...</a><p>Paul asked, &quot;If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?&quot;<p>The obvious answer to that question would be, &quot;their track record as investors could demonstrate that.&quot; But no, in 2011, if you supported SOPA, you&#x27;re out, <i>regardless of your track record</i>.<p>I think it&#x27;s fair to ask whether, if Peter Thiel is so clueless as to donate $1.25 million to Donald Trump <i>today</i>, after so much of his dirty laundry has come to light and after this has been reflected in the polls, how could he be a good investor?<p>If it was the right decision for SOPA, it&#x27;s right decision today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsacco</author><text>I agree with the thrust of your point - that organizations like YC should be allowed to uninvite or refuse to collaborate with people they are diametrically opposed to for political reasons.<p>However, I do not agree that it&#x27;s fair to call an investor&#x27;s competency into question due to their political views. I agree organizations have every right to not affiliate themselves with those investors, but in the real world there are plenty of examples of investors who hold controversial political views.<p>Logically, there is no a priori reason why &quot;Thiel is a good investor.&quot; and &quot;Thiel strongly endorses Trump.&quot; cannot both be true. To go further, I don&#x27;t see an a priori reason why an investor with political views that are antagonistic to the industry he focuses on cannot be a very good investor. It might not be likely, but on its own I do not agree with using politics as a criterion for investing performance. That&#x27;s silly - just look at investing performance directly.<p>To go even further, I think it would be disingenuous for groups like YC to announce they will distance themselves from investors they disagree with because &quot;How could they be qualified investors if they hold this opinion?&quot; That&#x27;s masking the real reason for not affiliating with them, and in my opinion they shouldn&#x27;t have to mask that anyway.<p>I also think using that sort of language establishes a precedent that makes the industry less inclusive to people with opposing political views. Much of the tech industry is progressive and liberal, but it would be ridiculous if this was applied to potential founders. Should founders who support SOPA or Trump not be admitted to YC if they are well into a startup that will most likely become the next Google?<p>Put another way, if you read Zero to One and you found it to be very insightful and full of legitimately good ideas, would you call it into question after learning that Thiel supports Trump? Doesn&#x27;t that strike you as an ad hominem? Sure, Thiel&#x27;s political views might be <i>relevant</i> or <i>worth noting</i> as an investor, but they certainly do not define his investment performance.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lack of cdnjs activity</title><url>https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/issues/13524</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thomasfromcdnjs</author><text>Hey everyone,<p>My name is Thomas, one of the original founders of cdnjs along with Ryan (linked below by another commenter).<p>We originally posted cdnjs on Hacker News in 2011 -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2828516" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2828516</a><p>The project was originally created on AWS Cloudfront, Ryan and I thought we could handle the bills. In retrospect that was incredibly naive so we were fortunate to partner with Cloudflare.<p>At the time, cdnjs was a baby, Cloudflare had just started entering the market.<p>In short, Cloudflare always owned the domain, cdnjs.cloudflare.com, meaning, we were constrained to work under the DNS level.<p>We have both put considerable amounts of work into the project, but nothing compared to the community and the &quot;core&quot; contributors. I put &quot;core&quot; into quotes because for the last 5 years, cdnjs has largely been run by a highly dedicated man named Peter.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PeterDaveHello" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PeterDaveHello</a><p>Peter built enormous amounts of infrastructure to support cdnjs. He is extremely diligent, intelligent and determined.<p>The project was Ryan&#x27;s and I &quot;baby&quot; but we were happy to relinquish control, sorry for all the &quot;buts&quot;, but we were not in a position to control due to the technical and commercial reasons.<p>Ryan and I have never personally profited off the project, we&#x27;ve only paid bills and late night ssh sessions.<p>Conversations are underway to move forward, it is likely that the project will move to an unpkg setup (assets are just mirrored to npm).<p>A lot to say, but I&#x27;m at a lack of words.<p>Happy to answer any and all questions.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lack of cdnjs activity</title><url>https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/issues/13524</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petecooper</author><text>I am a former maintainer &#x2F; librarian on cdnJS. I helped out some years ago when I wanted to learn how version control and git worked. This was in the pre-automation era (2013 to 2014 in my case), and I went through the existing libraries to find outdated instances, located new versions of the same, raised the PR to update it. All good.<p>Back then, and I don&#x27;t know how much has changed, the libraries were maintained on GitHub and CloudFlare did the hosting. I wasn&#x27;t aware of any problems with either organisation doing what they were doing, the system worked just fine. The founders (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdnjs.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdnjs.com&#x2F;about</a> for confirmation) Thomas and Ryan were around, but not super active. Thomas was involved in building out some of the automation infrastructure, but the day-to-day of updating the repo was largely undertaken by the maintainers, and that was fine. I never &#x27;met&#x27; either founder, but we had occasional email back and forth and they were grateful for my maintainer-ing.<p>I used the GitHub Mac app because I was finding my way. Whenever I changed any library, the action of the app checking a HUGE repo for any changes pegged my laptop for a few minutes every time. Not ideal, but the process of doing this librarian-ing helped me learn about a heap of stuff.<p>According to [1] I stopped on cdnJS mid-2014. Things got a bit twitchy for me when a library (edit: jPlayer) was pulled from the file structure because it was compromised (edit: XSS) or found malicious at release. I had a couple of user complaints directed at me because I was the one that added it in good faith originally (it passed the malware checks I ran on it). The founders stepped up to explain it wasn&#x27;t me that was to blame, and one person didn&#x27;t take that too well -- basically they found me on other software forums, posted threats to me and explained how the library that I had added, and someone else had removed, was crucial to their business and they&#x27;d lost such-and-such dollars in revenue with that library 404-ing without notice and that they were coming to find me and extract the money from me by force. It all died down a few weeks later.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;petecooper?tab=overview&amp;from=2014-12-01&amp;to=2014-12-31" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;petecooper?tab=overview&amp;from=2014-12-01&amp;t...</a><p>Edits: clarity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-6-is-now-in-ubuntu-2204/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lovetocode</author><text>I just jumped on the .NET Core gravy train after 6+ years of Ruby on Rails development. I feel so productive and confident working with .NET. Ill be riding this rollercoaster with you for a while!</text></item><item><author>bob1029</author><text>The .NET ecosystem is giving me a lot of confidence these days. I&#x27;ve been on this rollercoaster since .NET Core 2.x and don&#x27;t think I will be getting off any time soon.<p>We recently upgraded from 3.1 to 6, which was a total non-event. The code base that was around for Core 2.x is still the same one we have today. Some substantial changes made to the web interfaces and hosting, but nothing in the business logic or data models was impacted.<p>We currently use Self-Contained Deployments to Windows machines, but there are only 2 minor methods stopping us from using a Linux image as well. Looking for a really good reason to make the jump, but I can&#x27;t justify it to the business yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TillE</author><text>C# is such a cozy language, anyone familiar with C++ or Java can instantly bang out half-decent code, and there&#x27;s a ton of great features to gradually learn and use. And the performance is about as good as it gets for a language with garbage collection. Big fan.</text></comment>
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<story><title>.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-6-is-now-in-ubuntu-2204/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lovetocode</author><text>I just jumped on the .NET Core gravy train after 6+ years of Ruby on Rails development. I feel so productive and confident working with .NET. Ill be riding this rollercoaster with you for a while!</text></item><item><author>bob1029</author><text>The .NET ecosystem is giving me a lot of confidence these days. I&#x27;ve been on this rollercoaster since .NET Core 2.x and don&#x27;t think I will be getting off any time soon.<p>We recently upgraded from 3.1 to 6, which was a total non-event. The code base that was around for Core 2.x is still the same one we have today. Some substantial changes made to the web interfaces and hosting, but nothing in the business logic or data models was impacted.<p>We currently use Self-Contained Deployments to Windows machines, but there are only 2 minor methods stopping us from using a Linux image as well. Looking for a really good reason to make the jump, but I can&#x27;t justify it to the business yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>I&#x27;m glad for you, but ActiveRecord is still the best ORM of all time. OF ALL TIME. I rewrote one of my main Rails applications in .NET, and trying to use Entity Framework was like pulling teeth for me, in comparison.</text></comment>
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<story><title>House tells NASA to start planning two Europa missions</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/house-budget-provides-260-million-for-two-life-tracking-europa-missions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ankaios</author><text>Note that the text that came out of the subcommittee (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appropriations.house.gov&#x2F;uploadedfiles&#x2F;bills-114hr-sc-ap-fy2017-cjs-subcommitteedraft.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appropriations.house.gov&#x2F;uploadedfiles&#x2F;bills-114hr-sc...</a>) mandates that NASA use the Space Launch System (SLS) to launch the missions.<p>SLS is a stunningly overpriced rocket that Congress is forcing NASA to build to keep former shuttle contractors and NASA centers employed. Congress is sending ~ $1.8 billion every year to states including Alabama, Florida, Utah, and Louisiana to develop it. There are very few payloads manifested for it. Launching the Europa missions on it would be a tremendous waste of money—the benefits would not warrant the cost.<p>It would be worth exploring the lobbying performed by SLS contractors including Boeing and Orbital ATK, as well as that of people close to the main NASA centers involved with SLS, the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.</text></comment>
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<story><title>House tells NASA to start planning two Europa missions</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/house-budget-provides-260-million-for-two-life-tracking-europa-missions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avz</author><text>While water is not uncommon in space, liquid water is a very rare. This is due to the fact that liquids in general can only exist in a relatively narrow range of temperatures and pressures (see phase diagram [1]).<p>Europa is one of the few places in the Solar system where we expect to find liquid water. One of the others is Mars, but most water there is solid - only small amounts of it occur in liquid form and only briefly. By contrast, Europa has a freaking underground ocean! Moreover, by some estimates it is larger in volume than all oceans on Earth combined [2].<p>Should we go check it out? Hell yeah!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phase_diagram" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phase_diagram</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apod.nasa.gov&#x2F;apod&#x2F;ap120524.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apod.nasa.gov&#x2F;apod&#x2F;ap120524.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks</title><url>https://suade.org/dev/12-requests-per-second-with-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevenjohns</author><text>There is lots of truth to this. Some ORMs like Django perform joins in very unsuspecting ways.<p>A simple example is, say, foreign keys. Trying to access the foreign key of an object by doing `book.user.id` does an additional query for the user table to get the ID. It&#x27;s less known that the id is immediately available by just doing `book.user_id` instead.<p>I&#x27;ve spent time optimising things like text searches down from 2000+ queries to about ~4, and one of the more noticeable things to me isn&#x27;t actually the number of joins, rather the SELECT&#x27;s that take place. Many of these ORMs do a SELECT * unless you explicitly tell them to otherwise, and when dealing with large-ish datasets or on models that have large text fields this translates into significant time taken to <i>serialise</i> these attributes. So you can optimise the query and still have it take a long time until you realise that limiting the initial `SELECT` parameter is probably more efficient than limiting the number of joins.</text></item><item><author>imperio59</author><text>My experience doing perf optimizations in real world systems with many many people writing code to the same app is a lot of inefficiencies happen due to over fetching data, inefficiencies caused by naively using the ORM without understanding the underlying cost of the query, and lack of actual profiling to find where the actual bottlenecks are (usually people writing dumb code without realizing it&#x27;s expensive).<p>Sure, the framework matters at very large scale and the benefits from optimizing the framework become large when you&#x27;re doing millions of requests a second over many thousands of servers because it can help reduce baseline cost of running the service.<p>But I agree with the author&#x27;s main point which seems to be that framework performance is pretty meaningless when comparing frameworks if you&#x27;re just starting on a new project. Focus on making a product people wanna actually use first. If you&#x27;re lucky enough to get to scale you can work about optimizing it then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>The most insidious part about misusing ORMs is it&#x27;s often not visible for a while. Modern DBMSs on modern hardware are <i>crazy fast</i>, so when you have only a few tens or hundreds of thousand rows in your table, those inefficient and pointless ORM queries are just not noticeable because you still get sub-second response times. As your database grows, the site begins to gets slower and slower, but it&#x27;s hard to distinguish between the real problem and &quot;I guess we&#x27;re just handling more requests per second&quot;.<p>I personally love tools like Miniprofiler [1] for this (though maybe there&#x27;s something better today, it&#x27;s been a while since I&#x27;ve worked on that type of thing). It&#x27;s a constant and accessible way to keep an eye on what goes into each request, and I&#x27;ve caught many of those bad queries before they were problems by using it (eg: &quot;WTF, why did it take 9 queries and 250ms to grab what looks to be a single row from a single table?!&quot;).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miniprofiler.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miniprofiler.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks</title><url>https://suade.org/dev/12-requests-per-second-with-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevenjohns</author><text>There is lots of truth to this. Some ORMs like Django perform joins in very unsuspecting ways.<p>A simple example is, say, foreign keys. Trying to access the foreign key of an object by doing `book.user.id` does an additional query for the user table to get the ID. It&#x27;s less known that the id is immediately available by just doing `book.user_id` instead.<p>I&#x27;ve spent time optimising things like text searches down from 2000+ queries to about ~4, and one of the more noticeable things to me isn&#x27;t actually the number of joins, rather the SELECT&#x27;s that take place. Many of these ORMs do a SELECT * unless you explicitly tell them to otherwise, and when dealing with large-ish datasets or on models that have large text fields this translates into significant time taken to <i>serialise</i> these attributes. So you can optimise the query and still have it take a long time until you realise that limiting the initial `SELECT` parameter is probably more efficient than limiting the number of joins.</text></item><item><author>imperio59</author><text>My experience doing perf optimizations in real world systems with many many people writing code to the same app is a lot of inefficiencies happen due to over fetching data, inefficiencies caused by naively using the ORM without understanding the underlying cost of the query, and lack of actual profiling to find where the actual bottlenecks are (usually people writing dumb code without realizing it&#x27;s expensive).<p>Sure, the framework matters at very large scale and the benefits from optimizing the framework become large when you&#x27;re doing millions of requests a second over many thousands of servers because it can help reduce baseline cost of running the service.<p>But I agree with the author&#x27;s main point which seems to be that framework performance is pretty meaningless when comparing frameworks if you&#x27;re just starting on a new project. Focus on making a product people wanna actually use first. If you&#x27;re lucky enough to get to scale you can work about optimizing it then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>&gt; A simple example is, say, foreign keys. Trying to access the foreign key of an object by doing `book.user.id` does an additional query for the user table to get the ID. It&#x27;s less known that the id is immediately available by just doing `book.user_id` instead.<p>Hibernate (on Java) at least optimizes this specific use-case. At first, accessing a lazy-loaded property-object will give you a &quot;proxy&quot; and you can access the ID without incurring a database load (since it knows that anyway). And when doing a query, the object won&#x27;t be joined when requesting book.user.id unless it needs to be (like you have some other WHERE clause that requires an actual join on that row).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation</title><url>https://axiom.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>virvar</author><text>As someone who implemented and runs RPA in the public sector I would be interested if you made a couple of things come true.<p>No one offers an easy way to let employees build and share “personal” bots. Part of this has to do with non-programmers having a much harder time understanding things like loops than we imagined they would. Another problem is maintaining business process logic and knowledge as employees come and go. And lastly there is the security thing. In an enterprise setting you probably won’t want to run this in someone else’s cloud, you want to run it through your IT operations in your own onsite&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;whatever to both utilise your local accessing rights but also to make sure data never leaves you.<p>Maybe we’re not who you are targeting, but we’ve yet to find a product that actually lets us let employees build small bots in a way that fits into our IT operations, and this is quite a big market in my country.<p>Of course you’ll be late to the table, and not be what the big consultant agencies like EY are partnered with. But what they are currently selling isn’t actually what we need.<p>So good luck, I’ll certainly add you to our “keep a look out” list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eastendguy</author><text>&quot; you want to run it ... in your own onsite&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;whatever&quot; =&gt; I agree. If security and&#x2F;or privacy is an issue, better use a non SaaS solution. There are many options available, such as UIPath or UI.Vision, or simply Selenium if it is only about web automation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation</title><url>https://axiom.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>virvar</author><text>As someone who implemented and runs RPA in the public sector I would be interested if you made a couple of things come true.<p>No one offers an easy way to let employees build and share “personal” bots. Part of this has to do with non-programmers having a much harder time understanding things like loops than we imagined they would. Another problem is maintaining business process logic and knowledge as employees come and go. And lastly there is the security thing. In an enterprise setting you probably won’t want to run this in someone else’s cloud, you want to run it through your IT operations in your own onsite&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;whatever to both utilise your local accessing rights but also to make sure data never leaves you.<p>Maybe we’re not who you are targeting, but we’ve yet to find a product that actually lets us let employees build small bots in a way that fits into our IT operations, and this is quite a big market in my country.<p>Of course you’ll be late to the table, and not be what the big consultant agencies like EY are partnered with. But what they are currently selling isn’t actually what we need.<p>So good luck, I’ll certainly add you to our “keep a look out” list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeSmithson</author><text>Are you able to say what part of the public sector you have worked with? I am interested in this area, I am sure it is a potential gold mine for productivity (and land mine!).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Emacs org-mode Tutorial</title><url>http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cturner</author><text>Was amazed by the diagrams. Then the author says the source - <a href="http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/</a> !!<p>Now - does anyone know how we can create those diagrams from state flows? e.g.<p><pre><code> a -&#62; b;
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I remember there being a perl library for it. Are there any other nice authoring mechanisms that don't involve intricate text crafting?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Emacs org-mode Tutorial</title><url>http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nswanberg</author><text>If you are also interested in GTD, org-mode can help:
<a href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.html" rel="nofollow">http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.h...</a><p>Here is Charles Cave's older article, which seems simpler:
<a href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html" rel="nofollow">http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html</a><p>I end up just using org-mode as a todo list/scratchpad.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/48426298</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedsuo</author><text>Could someone explain, how the low stock price is bad for Facebook? They are profitable, so they aren't going to go bankrupt. And they made a lot of money on the IPO, arguably more than they should have. Doesn't this mean the joke is on everyone <i>but</i> facebook (the company, not including the stock-owning employees)? Through what mechanism does it come back to bite them? Not defending them, just uneducated on this side of business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Well in the valley its hard to use stock incentive stock options as a lure if the stock price is going down. That can force you into giving out stock <i>grants</i> and those have their own set of annoyances.<p>If your stock is going down you are less able to raise capital by doing a private placement (basically a pre-planned sale to fixed investors kind of like Zynga did and is currently being sued for) Anytime a company sells a large amount of stock, and then the stock continues to go down, a number of law firms will file lawsuits.<p>Perhaps most importantly your 'buying power' is reduced. If you notice there are a lot of 'acquihires' going around. Those can be done 'all stock' when the stock is strong but require 'cash and stock' or worse 'all cash' when the stock is weak. So if Facebook wants to continue to gobble up things like Instagram is can't go into a deal with "Hey, its a billion dollars, uh today, perhaps on Friday it will be 800 million." [1]<p>[1] Yes, I know its more complicated than that but I simplify for brevity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/48426298</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedsuo</author><text>Could someone explain, how the low stock price is bad for Facebook? They are profitable, so they aren't going to go bankrupt. And they made a lot of money on the IPO, arguably more than they should have. Doesn't this mean the joke is on everyone <i>but</i> facebook (the company, not including the stock-owning employees)? Through what mechanism does it come back to bite them? Not defending them, just uneducated on this side of business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drgath</author><text>At $22, they are just fine. But if it continues to drop, then you will start to see some changes at FB as they have to free up high operational expenses. If it goes sub-$15, then they'll start making some tough decisions.<p>Edit: So based off the downvote, either someone didn't like my lack of explanation, or it Zuck is lurking on HN. I'm guessing the former, so I'll explain. FB's value is so heavily tied to future growth expectations. Current P/E is 116, and compare that to a peaked out company whose P/E is more typically between 10-20 (see: YHOO, GOOG, APPL, ADBE, ORCL). If FB gets to $15, it's a P/E of 82, $10 = P/E of 55, $5 and you have 27. At $5 and its current earnings, FB is basically toast as an "innovative" company. So, I say a "sub-$15" value above because once it gets to that point this quickly after the IPO, dropping into single digits has to be a possiblity they consider. They won't have billions of dollars at their disposal to do whatever they please and will have to be more judicious in their spending.<p>P.S. I'm a programmer, not a finance-guy, so please correct me if I'm wrong about something.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?</title><text>Are you still employed or retired? How does one&#x27;s passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one&#x27;s life?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lutusp</author><text>&gt; Ask HN: any hackers over 60? 70?<p>I&#x27;m 68, and I should add that &quot;hacker&quot; meant something different when I first heard it used. :)<p>&gt; Are you still employed or retired?<p>I&#x27;m retired, but I still program for enjoyment. I have a line of free Android apps published:<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/search?q=lutus&amp;c=apps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;search?q=lutus&amp;c=apps</a><p>&gt; How does one&#x27;s passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one&#x27;s life?<p>If anything, programming has become more important to me as I have gotten older, for the same reason that mathematics has greater appeal to a maturing mind -- it represents a rational counterpoint to a world that, over time, seems to make less sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gansai</author><text>Just love this part from above:
it represents a rational counterpoint to a world that, over time, seems to make less sense.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?</title><text>Are you still employed or retired? How does one&#x27;s passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one&#x27;s life?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lutusp</author><text>&gt; Ask HN: any hackers over 60? 70?<p>I&#x27;m 68, and I should add that &quot;hacker&quot; meant something different when I first heard it used. :)<p>&gt; Are you still employed or retired?<p>I&#x27;m retired, but I still program for enjoyment. I have a line of free Android apps published:<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/search?q=lutus&amp;c=apps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;search?q=lutus&amp;c=apps</a><p>&gt; How does one&#x27;s passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one&#x27;s life?<p>If anything, programming has become more important to me as I have gotten older, for the same reason that mathematics has greater appeal to a maturing mind -- it represents a rational counterpoint to a world that, over time, seems to make less sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>milani</author><text>The answer to the last question depends on the geolocation. In developing countries, people won&#x27;t enjoy programming when they get old, there are too many problems to solve in real-life that don&#x27;t allow them to do what they like:&#x2F;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Emacs Symbolic Integration</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Integration.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>submeta</author><text>Emacs has got to be one of the most misunderstood pieces of technology. It&#x27;s often made fun of [1], just because of this misunderstanding. Saying Emacs is an editor (mostly), is like saying a smartphone is a phone (mostly).<p>Emacs is actually an appliction framework (and a Lisp machine) with a unified interface where one application can share data with other applications via &quot;buffers&quot; very easily because the basic data is text (no proprietary or fancy datastructures that can get outdated at some time). With this underlying structure (plus with the integrated programming language Lisp) you can connect, combine, configure (to your liking) every application within Emacs easily. In non-Emacs world, using isolated apps (islands), I&#x27;d &quot;beg&quot; the dev teams to add this or that feature to make it more productive [3]. Not so in Emacs-land, where I can change every aspect of an app within minutes.<p>I have legacy tools &#x2F; apps that were discontinued, and my data is stuck in those formats [2], and I don&#x27;t have the time to migrate those documents.<p>Emacs is here to stay. And offers many apps (packages) for many use-cases: org-mode for project management, task-management, taking notes, writing complex documents, creating technical documentation with inline images, ascii tables, with embedded code (that can get run via org-babel); lsp-mode which transforms Emacs into a decent IDE; calc for doing basic to complex calculations within Emacs (documents); org-babel for doing literate programming; eshell for using your shell within emacs; mu4e which is a very good email client (says someone who used to use MailMate and was thrilled I could use keyboard shortcuts to control lots of aspects of my email client), and many more.<p>Emacs is the tool that will grow on you, and it will get better the more you learn about how to configure it.<p>---<p>[1]: &quot;a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor&quot;<p>[2]: EccoPro PIM from the 90s, AskSam (full text database) from the 90s, NoteMap (outliner), MS Access databases (from the 90s&#x2F;2000s) with old format, and many many more.<p>[3]: Whenever I liked an app, I&#x27;d quickly start writing with dev teams back and forth in forums or via email. Bear.app, Ulysses.app, iA Writer, DevonThink, etc. Constantly writing to the dev teams, asking to include this or that feature.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/06/researchers-show-herpes-link-to-alzheimers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vikramkr</author><text>Here&#x27;s the original publication. The paper is actually more focused on the 3d engineered brain model and is titled &quot;A 3d human brain-like tissue model of herpes-induced Alzheimer&#x27;s disease&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;advances.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;6&#x2F;19&#x2F;eaay8828" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;advances.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;6&#x2F;19&#x2F;eaay8828</a><p>The publication actually seems to highlight the demonstration of the 3d brain Alzheimers model as more of what the accomplishment of the paper is (as compared to a demonstration of a herpes&#x2F;Alzheimers link). Studying Alzheimer&#x27;s is really difficult because the mouse models etc that we have today are particularly poor for this disease case, which means we can barely rely on any preclinical work done in these models in determing whether or not a drug is going to work in clinical trials. Better models to study Alzheimer&#x27;s will be very important in fighting the disease. For more publications on the 3d model, here is what the paper cited in its methods section for how they made the brain-like structures:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S2213671116301412" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S221367111...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nprot.2015.091" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nprot.2015.091</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/06/researchers-show-herpes-link-to-alzheimers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weiming</author><text>HSV always seemed particularly poorly understood in the society to me, e.g. with many people getting it as children due to careless parents&#x2F;extended family, and the benign branding of &quot;cold sore&quot; as if it is related to a cold. Given that the vaccine for 1 or 2 has proved to be extremely challenging, always wondered if the public simply being more well-informed on this topic could help reduce the incidence in the population.<p>Asymptomatic shedding of HSV has to be considered, too. <i>&quot;Transmission commonly occurs from contact with an infected partner who does not have visible lesions and who may not know that he or she is infected. In persons with asymptomatic HSV-2 infections, genital HSV shedding occurs on 10.2% of days, compared to 20.1% of days among those with symptomatic infections.&quot;</i> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;std&#x2F;herpes&#x2F;stdfact-herpes-detailed.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;std&#x2F;herpes&#x2F;stdfact-herpes-detailed.htm</a>)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?</title><url>https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>degenerate</author><text>The audio interfaces are so bad I resort to one-word answers to every question, to get me to a human as fast as possible.<p><i>&quot;Hi, in a few words, what can I help you with today?&quot;</i><p>&gt; &quot;billing&quot;<p><i>&quot;It sounds like you have a question about your bill. I can help you with that! If you can give a few words to describe the reason you are calling, I can help you with your bill.&quot;</i><p>&gt; &quot;billing&quot;<p><i>&quot;OK, let me get you to a representative who can help!&quot;</i><p>... instead of spending 10 minutes wrangling with the vapid AI, I can actually move on with my day after speaking to a human. Was this the future we envisioned in the 90s? I think not. Some systems let you spam 0 (zero) and it transfers to a human, but more and more are requiring you to interface with the system in some way, even if disabled or impaired.</text></item><item><author>dchuk</author><text>It’s just like why all voice interfaces are shitty: no one has any idea what the thing can or cannot do. They have a hidden user experience but the interface makes it feel like you’re talking to a human, but it’s so far from being a human.<p>These interfaces are almost like a dark pattern because of how bad they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delbel</author><text>&quot;Please enter you account number&quot;<p>&gt; one two three etc<p>&quot;Please hold&quot;<p>&quot;Hello this is agent a, Can I verify your X&quot;<p>&gt; It&#x27;s XXXX<p>&quot;Looks like you have &lt;totally unrelated subject to what you called&quot;<p>&gt; Yeah but, I called for Y<p>&quot;Oh ok&quot;<p>&gt; Y this, Y that, I need Y to do Z<p>&quot;Let me forward you to an agent that can help you&quot;<p>&quot;Hello this is Agent Q&quot;<p>&gt; I need to do Y! damn it I&#x27;ve been on hold and transfering for 20 minutes<p>&quot;I can help you with Y, but first, I need your account info<p>&gt; FREAKING A 1234<p>&quot;Can you verify XYZW?&quot;<p>&gt; YES GOD DAMN IT YYYY<p>&quot;Ok sir, I&#x27;ll need you to <i></i><i></i><i>FAX</i><i></i><i></i> it in&quot;<p>&gt; What, that&#x27;s technologies from the 1920s<p>&quot;I&#x27;m sorry sir, is there ANYTHING ELSE I can help you out with &lt;condescending voice&gt;&quot;<p>&gt; PLEASE KILL ME NOW<p>&quot;Would you like to take a survey?&quot;<p>a week later, 7pm you get a robo call<p>&quot;You had a call with Agent X how did that call go&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?</title><url>https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>degenerate</author><text>The audio interfaces are so bad I resort to one-word answers to every question, to get me to a human as fast as possible.<p><i>&quot;Hi, in a few words, what can I help you with today?&quot;</i><p>&gt; &quot;billing&quot;<p><i>&quot;It sounds like you have a question about your bill. I can help you with that! If you can give a few words to describe the reason you are calling, I can help you with your bill.&quot;</i><p>&gt; &quot;billing&quot;<p><i>&quot;OK, let me get you to a representative who can help!&quot;</i><p>... instead of spending 10 minutes wrangling with the vapid AI, I can actually move on with my day after speaking to a human. Was this the future we envisioned in the 90s? I think not. Some systems let you spam 0 (zero) and it transfers to a human, but more and more are requiring you to interface with the system in some way, even if disabled or impaired.</text></item><item><author>dchuk</author><text>It’s just like why all voice interfaces are shitty: no one has any idea what the thing can or cannot do. They have a hidden user experience but the interface makes it feel like you’re talking to a human, but it’s so far from being a human.<p>These interfaces are almost like a dark pattern because of how bad they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostcolony</author><text>&#x27;Agent&#x27; or &#x27;representiative&#x27; will usually do it faster.<p>But I hear you. I recently wanted to change the ownership of my cellphone account. &quot;Change ownership&quot;, &quot;It sounds like you want to change cellphone plans, is that correct?&quot;, &quot;Agent&quot;, &quot;Okay, let me get you to a representative&quot;.<p>The only tasks these things are equipped to do, are the tasks that I can do via the company&#x27;s online portal, and in a much less frustrating manner. I wonder who is actually using these things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Platform wars: the final score</title><url>http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptSpify</author><text>I kind of agree. I have no stats for this, but my impression is that neither Android nor iPhone users are really happy with their devices, they just tolerate them. That sounds like a ripe market for a disruptor.</text></item><item><author>Illniyar</author><text>So he predicts the amount of smartphones to double from 2.5b to 5b, implying that the majority of it will be android phones, but the &quot;Platform wars&quot; are over?<p>Nothing is over, even the &quot;browser war&quot; is now back on in full force, I suspect a new operating system (or perhaps windows 10? who knows) will emerge that will challenge both iOS and Android.
Why? because something like this always does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bendiksolheim</author><text>I think that impression might be quite subjective – my impression is the exact opposite. I don&#x27;t have any numbers either, but most people I know, both Android users and iOS users, are quite happy with their devices. They do of course have minor issues, but that will almost always be the case with something targeting such a broad audience.<p>I am not sure how I could be more happy with my device. Right now it mostly does what I want it to do, the battery lasts a couple of days, and it rarely bugs out.<p>edited: changed &quot;really&quot; to &quot;more&quot; in the second paragraph.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Platform wars: the final score</title><url>http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/7/25/platform-wars-final-score</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptSpify</author><text>I kind of agree. I have no stats for this, but my impression is that neither Android nor iPhone users are really happy with their devices, they just tolerate them. That sounds like a ripe market for a disruptor.</text></item><item><author>Illniyar</author><text>So he predicts the amount of smartphones to double from 2.5b to 5b, implying that the majority of it will be android phones, but the &quot;Platform wars&quot; are over?<p>Nothing is over, even the &quot;browser war&quot; is now back on in full force, I suspect a new operating system (or perhaps windows 10? who knows) will emerge that will challenge both iOS and Android.
Why? because something like this always does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xiol</author><text>Happy with my Android phone.<p>Have an iPhone for work and it&#x27;s terrible. I honestly don&#x27;t know why they&#x27;re so popular. The UI&#x2F;UX is atrocious.</text></comment>
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<story><title>PWAs in App Stores</title><url>https://web.dev/pwas-in-app-stores/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>I think the negativity is well deserved because if it doesn&#x27;t need device integration it doesn&#x27;t need to be an app.<p>The device integration criterion includes achieving a full performance(be it for the UI immersiveness or processing speed).<p>PWA don&#x27;t tick any of these, they are just an output of the dream to have universal codebase. This is a dream I share but it doesn&#x27;t need to be an app in the App Store.<p>The only reason people make apps that don&#x27;t need to be apps is to get another marketing channel through App Store distribution and another user reach channel through notifications.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I find the negativity in this thread depressing.<p>The web stack (html&#x2F;css&#x2F;js&#x2F;http) is one of the most impressive feats of invention by humanity. We have this one stack and toolkit that run on everything from a desktop computer down to a cheap (as little as 100$) mobile phone. It&#x27;s free with no payments for access or deployment, and at the bottom end basic enough that a child can pick it up. But capable of building incredible professional experiences (see Figma or onShape, seriously they are incredible).<p>As a sole developer I can build something with a single code base for mobile (both web and installable), and desktop (again both web and installable). The breadth of tooling available is incredible.<p>The OP is about PWAbuilder, there are alternatives. I like the combination of Capacitor (from the Ionic Framework team) and Native Script. It lets you extent your installable version of the app with additional native capability, all while staying mostly in a JS environment.<p>The complaints about PWA being poor are, in my view, two fold. One, the support for them on iOS has be atrocious until recently, but also there are a lot of poorly written webapps. That is actually a testament to the accessibility of the platform. Look past that and you see what it is truly capable of.<p>We need to stop this silly gate keeping, it&#x27;s frankly ridiculous.<p>Edit: since I started writing the negative posts have them voted down the page. Looking more positive now.<p>Edit 2: While I have your attention, if you care about PWAs and consumer choice of web engines on mobile, go support the OWA (Open Web Advocacy - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-web-advocacy.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-web-advocacy.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;</a>). They are there to represent us and push for move choice and support. They are turning up and presenting the evidence needed to ensure the large players open up their platforms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noodle</author><text>&gt; The only reason people make apps that don&#x27;t need to be apps is to get another marketing channel through App Store distribution and another user reach channel through notifications.<p>I wrote a longer response but decided to scrap it. The behaviors and expectations are different than you might expect from a pure engineering POV. Its not just sales and marketing. For better or worse, people want to interact with companies&#x27; apps on their phone via installing something &quot;trusted&quot; through their appropriate app store. Not responsive mobile web, not even PWAs (which are difficult for people who are not tech savvy).<p>At my most recent exited startup, we had a web app which was mobile responsive. People asked for a mobile app. We gave them a mobile app that was simply a webview that loaded the web app. Customers loved it. We got almost no inbound from it at all for various reasons, but existing user satisfaction, engagement, etc went through the roof. They could finally &quot;use our app on mobile&quot; even though they always could, and we consistently pointed them to the mobile web experience to do so. This is a market full of people who are average to below average levels of tech savviness.</text></comment>
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<story><title>PWAs in App Stores</title><url>https://web.dev/pwas-in-app-stores/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>I think the negativity is well deserved because if it doesn&#x27;t need device integration it doesn&#x27;t need to be an app.<p>The device integration criterion includes achieving a full performance(be it for the UI immersiveness or processing speed).<p>PWA don&#x27;t tick any of these, they are just an output of the dream to have universal codebase. This is a dream I share but it doesn&#x27;t need to be an app in the App Store.<p>The only reason people make apps that don&#x27;t need to be apps is to get another marketing channel through App Store distribution and another user reach channel through notifications.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I find the negativity in this thread depressing.<p>The web stack (html&#x2F;css&#x2F;js&#x2F;http) is one of the most impressive feats of invention by humanity. We have this one stack and toolkit that run on everything from a desktop computer down to a cheap (as little as 100$) mobile phone. It&#x27;s free with no payments for access or deployment, and at the bottom end basic enough that a child can pick it up. But capable of building incredible professional experiences (see Figma or onShape, seriously they are incredible).<p>As a sole developer I can build something with a single code base for mobile (both web and installable), and desktop (again both web and installable). The breadth of tooling available is incredible.<p>The OP is about PWAbuilder, there are alternatives. I like the combination of Capacitor (from the Ionic Framework team) and Native Script. It lets you extent your installable version of the app with additional native capability, all while staying mostly in a JS environment.<p>The complaints about PWA being poor are, in my view, two fold. One, the support for them on iOS has be atrocious until recently, but also there are a lot of poorly written webapps. That is actually a testament to the accessibility of the platform. Look past that and you see what it is truly capable of.<p>We need to stop this silly gate keeping, it&#x27;s frankly ridiculous.<p>Edit: since I started writing the negative posts have them voted down the page. Looking more positive now.<p>Edit 2: While I have your attention, if you care about PWAs and consumer choice of web engines on mobile, go support the OWA (Open Web Advocacy - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-web-advocacy.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-web-advocacy.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;</a>). They are there to represent us and push for move choice and support. They are turning up and presenting the evidence needed to ensure the large players open up their platforms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevincox</author><text>This is the best part of PWA. Each user can do what they want.<p>You just want to use it on the web? Just so that. You get the full experience because there is no resource split between the web site and native apps.<p>You want to find the app in your favourite app store? It&#x27;s there. Just install it.<p>You like the web version but want to add a shortcut to your app list? You can do that and there is enough metadata available to provide nice icons and titles.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression</title><url>https://www.postgresql.fastware.com/blog/what-is-the-new-lz4-toast-compression-in-postgresql-14</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olavgg</author><text>If you are using ZFS, I strongly recommend using LZ4 or ZSTD compression with PostgreSQL. Performance is still awesome. On average I get 2x compressionratio with LZ4 and 4x with ZSTD.<p>With this, you are compressing everything, not just columns. And ZFS has dynamic block sizes which works really great together with compression. For example a 8kb PostgreSQL page, may be stored as a 1kb compressed block on disk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekobon</author><text>If you are going to be using PostgreSQL with ZFS, be sure to set:<p>wal_init_zero = off # zero-fill new WAL files<p>wal_recycle = off # recycle WAL files<p>Otherwise, you will see some intermittent performance issues.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression</title><url>https://www.postgresql.fastware.com/blog/what-is-the-new-lz4-toast-compression-in-postgresql-14</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olavgg</author><text>If you are using ZFS, I strongly recommend using LZ4 or ZSTD compression with PostgreSQL. Performance is still awesome. On average I get 2x compressionratio with LZ4 and 4x with ZSTD.<p>With this, you are compressing everything, not just columns. And ZFS has dynamic block sizes which works really great together with compression. For example a 8kb PostgreSQL page, may be stored as a 1kb compressed block on disk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikita2206</author><text>Are you finding the benefits and features of ZFS worth the perf penalty? Or maybe even its compression makes it overall a faster alternative to say ext4 for a database?
I’ve considered in the past running a DB in AWS with direct nvme drive used for SLOG and for L2ARC cache while the main storage would have been a mounted EBS volume, I haven’t tried it but am still wondering if it’s a better alternative to running a DB on top of bare EBS in Amazon (it should be a lot cheaper than say io2 type volume with provisioned IOPS)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Arthritis drug spurs hair growth in man with alopecia universalis</title><url>http://news.yale.edu/2014/06/19/hairless-man-arthritis-drug-spurs-hair-growth-lots-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mglukhovsky</author><text>I&#x27;ve had alopecia universalis for the past two years, so it&#x27;s exciting to see new research in this area. However, the drug in question (tofacitinib) is still an immunosuppresant, with some serious side effects (<a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/UCM330702.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;Drugs&#x2F;DrugSafety&#x2F;UCM330702.pdf</a>) -- so I&#x27;ll be watching the clinical trials closely.<p>The original paper that&#x27;s been submitted to Nature is worth a read: <a href="http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/vaop/naam/pdf/jid2014260a.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;jid&#x2F;journal&#x2F;vaop&#x2F;naam&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;jid2014260a....</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Arthritis drug spurs hair growth in man with alopecia universalis</title><url>http://news.yale.edu/2014/06/19/hairless-man-arthritis-drug-spurs-hair-growth-lots-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mizza</author><text>This is for alopecia universalis - don&#x27;t get your hopes up, gents!</text></comment>
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<story><title>IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor</title><url>https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-11-16-IBM-Unveils-Breakthrough-127-Qubit-Quantum-Processor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rain1</author><text>It is incredibly dishonest of them to post this without any details about the noise parameters of the system.<p>When reading &quot;127-qubit system&quot; you would expect that you can perform arbitrary quantum computations on these 127 qubits and they would reasonably cohere for at least a few quantum gates.<p>In reality the noise levels are so strong that you can essentially do nothing with them except get random noise results. Maybe averaging the same computation 10 million times will <i>just</i> give you enough proof that they were actually coherent and did a quantum computation.<p>The omission of proper technical details is essentially the same as lying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewla</author><text>Basically little more than having a bathtub and claiming you&#x27;ve built a computer that does 600e23 node fluid dynamic calculations. But a lot more expensive.</text></comment>
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<story><title>IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor</title><url>https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-11-16-IBM-Unveils-Breakthrough-127-Qubit-Quantum-Processor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rain1</author><text>It is incredibly dishonest of them to post this without any details about the noise parameters of the system.<p>When reading &quot;127-qubit system&quot; you would expect that you can perform arbitrary quantum computations on these 127 qubits and they would reasonably cohere for at least a few quantum gates.<p>In reality the noise levels are so strong that you can essentially do nothing with them except get random noise results. Maybe averaging the same computation 10 million times will <i>just</i> give you enough proof that they were actually coherent and did a quantum computation.<p>The omission of proper technical details is essentially the same as lying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vbtemp</author><text>It seems like IBM has blown their credibility so many times. As soon as I saw IBM mentioned in the lead of the title, I knew what was to follow is almost entirely actual-content-free marketing spin.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel</title><url>http://informatimago.free.fr/i/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jb1991</author><text>It probably was not posted because it’s untrue. No point in posting inaccuracies. Emacs is a great text editor.</text></item><item><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe nobody posted this quote yet:<p>&quot;Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent text editor&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js8</author><text>As an Emacs user, I have always hated that joke. It&#x27;s not funny, because, as you said, it is untrue. Emacs is not only a great editor, but it&#x27;s also a terrible operating system, lacking multitasking and error recovery in particular (although it&#x27;s getting better).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel</title><url>http://informatimago.free.fr/i/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jb1991</author><text>It probably was not posted because it’s untrue. No point in posting inaccuracies. Emacs is a great text editor.</text></item><item><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe nobody posted this quote yet:<p>&quot;Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent text editor&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>&quot;decent&quot; or &quot;great&quot; are personal emotional responses, they cannot be true or false</text></comment>
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<story><title>Milan confirms new cycling network linking 80% of the city to bike paths</title><url>https://road.cc/content/news/milan-confirms-new-bike-network-289375</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Meanwhile our idiot city (Oxford, UK) is spending £1.2m on &quot;Quickways&quot;, which are painted lines on existing roads... guaranteed to keep cyclists 0% safe. This in the face of national Government guidance in favour of physical segregation from cars. (Plans at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk&#x2F;quickway-cycle-route-oxford-2021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk&#x2F;quickway-cycle-route-oxf...</a>: the promise of &quot;segregation where possible&quot; in reality means about 5% of the network.)<p>It is really frustrating how highway engineers, as a profession, are unwilling to consistently learn lessons from the Netherlands in designing cycle infrastructure. Many cities seem to delight in half-assing their own solutions. So congratulations to Milan, who look like they may have got it right.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sleep: Everything You Need to Know</title><url>https://medium.com/the-healthy-life/b65f8e19ed18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkohari</author><text>I'm not picking on you specifically, but I think this is an example of a very common problem on HN. Someone posts a very harshly-worded negative comment. Then the OP responds to it, and the commenter walks back their comment and praises the post.<p>It seems like once people realize they're communicating with other real-life human beings, they are much more civil. Couldn't we try to consider that ahead of time, and avoid the off-handed negativity in the first place? It would make HN (and nonverbal communication in general) much more productive and enjoyable.<p>If the two comments combined fully capture your viewpoint, why not say something along the lines of, "Your advice is good and the post is fairly well-written, but it sort of comes off as a product advertisement. You cite scientific evidence, but you don't provide any sources, which makes it seem unsubstantiated."<p>Just a suggestion.</text></item><item><author>treeface</author><text>Sure thing. I don't mean to imply that you are intentionally misguiding. Your general advice (i.e. sleep enough and do it consistently) is good and the post was fairly well-written. Cheers, good sir.</text></item><item><author>maroun</author><text>Thanks for your feedback! I worked for Zeo a year ago, however they've since shut down so I have no affiliation to them. I'll be sure to go in add the relevant sources.</text></item><item><author>treeface</author><text>This post seems like one big, long unsubstantiated bunch of app spam for "zeo". I don't think scientists understand the "fact retention" mechanism as well as OP claims, for instance. It's fairly clear that sleep is important, but there's a lot of unsourced information here that's presented as fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwern</author><text>&#62; I'm not picking on you specifically, but I think this is an example of a very common problem on HN. Someone posts a very harshly-worded negative comment. Then the OP responds to it, and the commenter walks back their comment and praises the post.<p>Or they're being honest the entire time, and simply posted about the negative part, because who wants to be that chucklehead going '+1' or 'Good post' ("that's what voting is for, dummy!")? Unfortunately, this then leads to comment sections coming off as negative and essentially being a bugtracker for a submission.<p>(Some relevant musings on this topic: <a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/" rel="nofollow">http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/</a> &#38; <a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/372/defecting_by_accident_a_flaw_common_to_analytical/" rel="nofollow">http://lesswrong.com/lw/372/defecting_by_accident_a_flaw_com...</a> )</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sleep: Everything You Need to Know</title><url>https://medium.com/the-healthy-life/b65f8e19ed18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkohari</author><text>I'm not picking on you specifically, but I think this is an example of a very common problem on HN. Someone posts a very harshly-worded negative comment. Then the OP responds to it, and the commenter walks back their comment and praises the post.<p>It seems like once people realize they're communicating with other real-life human beings, they are much more civil. Couldn't we try to consider that ahead of time, and avoid the off-handed negativity in the first place? It would make HN (and nonverbal communication in general) much more productive and enjoyable.<p>If the two comments combined fully capture your viewpoint, why not say something along the lines of, "Your advice is good and the post is fairly well-written, but it sort of comes off as a product advertisement. You cite scientific evidence, but you don't provide any sources, which makes it seem unsubstantiated."<p>Just a suggestion.</text></item><item><author>treeface</author><text>Sure thing. I don't mean to imply that you are intentionally misguiding. Your general advice (i.e. sleep enough and do it consistently) is good and the post was fairly well-written. Cheers, good sir.</text></item><item><author>maroun</author><text>Thanks for your feedback! I worked for Zeo a year ago, however they've since shut down so I have no affiliation to them. I'll be sure to go in add the relevant sources.</text></item><item><author>treeface</author><text>This post seems like one big, long unsubstantiated bunch of app spam for "zeo". I don't think scientists understand the "fact retention" mechanism as well as OP claims, for instance. It's fairly clear that sleep is important, but there's a lot of unsourced information here that's presented as fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wonnage</author><text>Seconded. I see this (and am guilty myself) often even in workplace emails, etc. where people are supposed to be respectful. It's not so much that you can't put someone on blast, but whether you can live with knowing you just called another thinking human being a scumbag/asshole/dumbass/whatever.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UK firm's surveillance kit 'used to crush Uganda opposition'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34529237</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>togusa</author><text>For reference, Gamma Group are a well known bunch of evil bastards in the UK. Nothing they do is considered honorable. Literally nothing. They also pretty much have a license to do what the hell they like under government mandate as a lot of things they do are actually pretty much illegal if someone founded a startup to do it today.<p>It says everything about the place when I had my CV put forward by an agent a few years ago for a &quot;high tech position&quot; in the &quot;expanding data sector&quot;. Wouldn&#x27;t reveal who it was to start with due to an NDA. Moment I got told who it was, it was &quot;fuck off&quot;. And you know what I got stick from the agent for actually having some ethics. Clearly it&#x27;s not common these days otherwise outfits like that wouldn&#x27;t have any staff.<p>Then again they seem to groom people without experience or understanding of exactly what they do at university job fairs.<p>I await my bag and tag for criticising them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UK firm's surveillance kit 'used to crush Uganda opposition'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34529237</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>I&#x27;m a British citizen, how can we stop this from happening again.<p>I don&#x27;t think writing a letter to my MP is going to change anything since I write very often (yearly, since snowden) about surveillance, and nothing changes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Guitar Center files for bankruptcy</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN282058</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>offtop5</author><text>Very bad news imo.<p>Having everything flow into a Amazon Monopoly of retail isn&#x27;t great. Even just going in the stores to talk and get a literal feel for instruments is great.<p>The biggest issue with online retail is it erodes one of the last community functions. Particularly for older Americans retail shopping might be their only social interaction all day.<p>If 2050 is this dystopia where everything is ordered online, all food is dropped off by drones, it&#x27;s going to be very bleak.<p>That said retail, particularly non essential retail ( my various instruments are all effectively toys, I&#x27;d guess the working musician to hobbyist ratio to easily be 1:100) is getting hit hard. No one NEEDS a news 1500$ Gibson.<p>Edit : Worth while to add a with concerts being shut down the professional market is effectively dead as well. I wouldn&#x27;t count on this returning until late 2021 at best</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aczerepinski</author><text>For me anecdotally, it’s Sweetwater that’s been killing Guitar Center, not Amazon. Like many, I bought a ton of music gear during the pandemic. At first I split my purchases between GC and Sweetwater, but over time it became clear that SW shipped more reliably, had better inventory, was quicker to respond to questions, and sent candy in every order.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Guitar Center files for bankruptcy</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN282058</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>offtop5</author><text>Very bad news imo.<p>Having everything flow into a Amazon Monopoly of retail isn&#x27;t great. Even just going in the stores to talk and get a literal feel for instruments is great.<p>The biggest issue with online retail is it erodes one of the last community functions. Particularly for older Americans retail shopping might be their only social interaction all day.<p>If 2050 is this dystopia where everything is ordered online, all food is dropped off by drones, it&#x27;s going to be very bleak.<p>That said retail, particularly non essential retail ( my various instruments are all effectively toys, I&#x27;d guess the working musician to hobbyist ratio to easily be 1:100) is getting hit hard. No one NEEDS a news 1500$ Gibson.<p>Edit : Worth while to add a with concerts being shut down the professional market is effectively dead as well. I wouldn&#x27;t count on this returning until late 2021 at best</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kampsduac</author><text>Agree that extra online market is not good, but I am lucky and have an awesome, locally owned family shop right by my house (Guitar city &#x2F; drum land in wheat ridge colorado). They are great, usually beat Guitar Center prices by ~10% via bonus gear or cash discounts, and has a more legit musician feel to the store.<p>If GC ends up closing, hope more local shops can benefit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV</title><url>https://theconversation.com/with-higher-fees-and-more-ads-streaming-services-like-netflix-disney-and-hulu-are-cashing-in-by-using-the-old-tactics-of-cable-tv-215048</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rolobio</author><text>I recently canceled my Prime subscription. One of the major reasons was all the pre-roll ads. I refuse to pay, and also have to watch ads. I ripped the few shows I had purchased (they were not available on disc) before I left.<p>I also canceled my Hulu because of the price hike, as well as how difficult their interface is. They put things I have never watched up top, the show I would like to continue watching is several rows off screen. Very predatory.<p>I have moved to Plex, but will probably move off of that as they continue to poison the product.<p>In the end, those with physical media, and pirates win.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV</title><url>https://theconversation.com/with-higher-fees-and-more-ads-streaming-services-like-netflix-disney-and-hulu-are-cashing-in-by-using-the-old-tactics-of-cable-tv-215048</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>medion</author><text>Again and again big tech comes in and busts established industries with subsidised products, only to eventually remove the subsidy and virtually revert back to the original industry product and pricing… I swear, technology only speeds things up and very rarely has any actual substance.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Is Bitcoin Down or Just Me?</title><url>https://www.isbitcoindownorjustme.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>camjohnson26</author><text>For all the hate Bitcoin gets because it’s obviously in a bubble market, can we at least agree that it is an astounding engineering achievement that an anonymous individual and a small group of researchers were able to build a network capable of transacting billions of dollars of value with only 2 service incidents in 14 years? All without any meaningful service costs and no hacking of the network, despite huge incentives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beaconstudios</author><text>There is a meaningful service cost, it&#x27;s just paid for by mining. Environmentally there&#x27;s also a massive cost, one that is not offset by the benefits bitcoin brings - which is primarily financial speculation and scams.<p>Cryptocurrency is probably one of the worst inventions in recent memory.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Is Bitcoin Down or Just Me?</title><url>https://www.isbitcoindownorjustme.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>camjohnson26</author><text>For all the hate Bitcoin gets because it’s obviously in a bubble market, can we at least agree that it is an astounding engineering achievement that an anonymous individual and a small group of researchers were able to build a network capable of transacting billions of dollars of value with only 2 service incidents in 14 years? All without any meaningful service costs and no hacking of the network, despite huge incentives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; can we at least agree that it is an astounding engineering achievement<p>As the first cryptocurrency, it&#x27;s certainly an incredible innovation and idea. However, it&#x27;s already outdated technology.<p>Bitcoin failed to become everything it was idealized to be. It&#x27;s not anonymous. It&#x27;s not private. It&#x27;s not fungible. It&#x27;s not decentralized. It&#x27;s not unregulated. It&#x27;s not even a currency since transactions are not cheap and fast which makes them unusable.<p>The best thing this coin can do for the wider cryptocurrency space is disappear and let better projects take the lead. Yet it&#x27;s the most popular coin and the only one the average person knows about. This is sad and to me it&#x27;s proof of the complete irrationality of this market.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google winning 98% ad spots it auctions off, after order to treat others equally</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-rivals-ask-eu-to-toughen-measures-in-antitrust-case-1517334038?mod=e2tw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ucaetano</author><text>&gt; Kelkoo CEO Richard Stables says the firm’s revenue from general search traffic dropped by 62% last year, to €2.3 million. In 2018, he projects a two-thirds drop to €800,000.<p>I decided to go to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kelkoo.co.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kelkoo.co.uk&#x2F;</a> to check it out. This website is so clearly a scam created for this antitrust case.<p>I went ahead to compare two cameras: the Canon EOS 1D X Mark II (a $4k camera) to a Canon Ixus 275 HS ($200 camera), here are the descriptions of each:<p>Canon EOS 1D X Mark II<p><i>The Canon EOS 1D X Mark II offers a good sensor resolution, allowing you to take an astonishing quality of picture. The Canon EOS 1D X Mark II has a very reasonable weight for this type of camera, with its LCD display providing a decent screen size compared to other similar digital cameras. The Canon EOS 1D X Mark II comes with internal memory, which is extendable with an external memory card to match the size of your photo and video collection. The lens aperture (the &#x27;eye of the camera&#x27;), which makes your lens contract or dilate to allow more or less light in, is good for a digital camera in this price bracket. You can compare prices for the Canon EOS 1D X Mark II, read the full product details and check out expert reviews at our web site.</i><p>Canon Ixus 275 HS<p><i>The Canon Ixus 275 HS offers a good sensor resolution, allowing you to take an astonishing quality of picture. The Canon Ixus 275 HS has a very reasonable weight for this type of camera, with its LCD display providing a decent screen size compared to other similar digital cameras. The Canon Ixus 275 HS comes with internal memory, which is extendable with an external memory card to match the size of your photo and video collection. The lens aperture (the &#x27;eye of the camera&#x27;), which makes your lens contract or dilate to allow more or less light in, is good for a digital camera in this price bracket. You can compare prices for the Canon Ixus 275 HS, read the full product details and check out expert reviews at our web site.</i><p>This is pure bullshit, and bullshit journalism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phpnode</author><text>&gt; This website is so clearly a scam created for this antitrust case.<p>I can&#x27;t speak for the quality of their product but this is absolutely not true, Kelkoo has been around since 1999[0], almost as long as Google itself.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kelkoo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kelkoo</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Google winning 98% ad spots it auctions off, after order to treat others equally</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-rivals-ask-eu-to-toughen-measures-in-antitrust-case-1517334038?mod=e2tw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ucaetano</author><text>&gt; Kelkoo CEO Richard Stables says the firm’s revenue from general search traffic dropped by 62% last year, to €2.3 million. In 2018, he projects a two-thirds drop to €800,000.<p>I decided to go to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kelkoo.co.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kelkoo.co.uk&#x2F;</a> to check it out. This website is so clearly a scam created for this antitrust case.<p>I went ahead to compare two cameras: the Canon EOS 1D X Mark II (a $4k camera) to a Canon Ixus 275 HS ($200 camera), here are the descriptions of each:<p>Canon EOS 1D X Mark II<p><i>The Canon EOS 1D X Mark II offers a good sensor resolution, allowing you to take an astonishing quality of picture. The Canon EOS 1D X Mark II has a very reasonable weight for this type of camera, with its LCD display providing a decent screen size compared to other similar digital cameras. The Canon EOS 1D X Mark II comes with internal memory, which is extendable with an external memory card to match the size of your photo and video collection. The lens aperture (the &#x27;eye of the camera&#x27;), which makes your lens contract or dilate to allow more or less light in, is good for a digital camera in this price bracket. You can compare prices for the Canon EOS 1D X Mark II, read the full product details and check out expert reviews at our web site.</i><p>Canon Ixus 275 HS<p><i>The Canon Ixus 275 HS offers a good sensor resolution, allowing you to take an astonishing quality of picture. The Canon Ixus 275 HS has a very reasonable weight for this type of camera, with its LCD display providing a decent screen size compared to other similar digital cameras. The Canon Ixus 275 HS comes with internal memory, which is extendable with an external memory card to match the size of your photo and video collection. The lens aperture (the &#x27;eye of the camera&#x27;), which makes your lens contract or dilate to allow more or less light in, is good for a digital camera in this price bracket. You can compare prices for the Canon Ixus 275 HS, read the full product details and check out expert reviews at our web site.</i><p>This is pure bullshit, and bullshit journalism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sqdbps</author><text>&gt;This is pure bullshit, and bullshit journalism.<p>It&#x27;s the &quot;Wall Street Journal&quot;, a Murdoch business publication that approves of every business as long as it isn&#x27;t Google.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/turbo/alwsl/tree/dev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supernintendo</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m in the minority but I prefer keeping my GNU&#x2F;Linux and Windows installations separate, with each OS on its own drive. My Linux setup is secure, free of proprietary software and under my full control. When I run tcpdump, I&#x27;m met with a clean log where every packet is one I recognize. I get to use my favorite window manager (awesomewm) and I don&#x27;t have to worry about forced updates. My Windows install is quite a different beast - automatic updates, mostly proprietary software and no major customizations other than performance tweaks and what the OS allows. I use it for gaming and media, and it works great. Boot times are very short with SSDs so restarting is not a problem. No compatibility issues, no fussing about with drivers and no need for translation layers like the Windows Subsystem or WINE; just two independent OSs that never let me down.<p>That said, no hate toward this project. Arch Linux is probably my favorite distro (although I&#x27;m on Xubuntu at the moment).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/turbo/alwsl/tree/dev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Longhanks</author><text>This pulls something from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.turbo.run&#x2F;alwsl&#x2F;alwsl.sfs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.turbo.run&#x2F;alwsl&#x2F;alwsl.sfs</a> - what&#x27;s this URL? How can anyone tell this is related to Arch Linux? Why do the readmes link to 404s? All of this seems rather unfinished. Could have polished at least the github presence a little.<p>Also, what are the advantages compared to solution like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RoliSoft&#x2F;WSL-Distribution-Switcher" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RoliSoft&#x2F;WSL-Distribution-Switcher</a>, which allows selecting different distributions, including Arch Linux?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Eschewing Zshell for Emacs</title><url>http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/eshell-fun.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GeoffWozniak</author><text>I have tried. And I can&#x27;t. It&#x27;s just too slow when working with tons of output (which is common in my work). (term-mode is no better.)<p>Emacs is one of my favourite tools on a computer. I love Lisp (even Elisp, which is getting closer to Common Lisp as time goes on) and I love the interaction, but Emacs is not good for serious terminal&#x2F;shell work and it, sadly, is pretty annoying as a tiling &quot;window&quot; manager.<p>Maybe with multi-threading it will get better, but until then, I can&#x27;t see a compelling reason to work exclusively in Eshell.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hollerith</author><text>&gt;Emacs is not good for serious terminal&#x2F;shell work<p>I am interested in this aspect of Emacs (since there&#x27;re very few things traditionally done by Emacs that Emacs is too slow at), but confused by your comment.<p>My first guess was that the tons of output take longer to get inserted into an Emacs buffer than they take to get inserted into the buffer of a good terminal-emulation application.<p>But surely you realize that multi-threading wouldn&#x27;t help with that, hence my confusion.<p>Can you give an example of a program that produces too much output for Emacs to keep up with?<p>Does the program generating the tons of output do a lot of cursor addressing (like, e.g., the progress bar of homebrew or curl does)?<p>Have you tried shell mode as well as eshell mode?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Eschewing Zshell for Emacs</title><url>http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/eshell-fun.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GeoffWozniak</author><text>I have tried. And I can&#x27;t. It&#x27;s just too slow when working with tons of output (which is common in my work). (term-mode is no better.)<p>Emacs is one of my favourite tools on a computer. I love Lisp (even Elisp, which is getting closer to Common Lisp as time goes on) and I love the interaction, but Emacs is not good for serious terminal&#x2F;shell work and it, sadly, is pretty annoying as a tiling &quot;window&quot; manager.<p>Maybe with multi-threading it will get better, but until then, I can&#x27;t see a compelling reason to work exclusively in Eshell.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnuvince</author><text>I use ansi-term for quick tasks (e.g. re-run a build command), but you are absolutely right, if there&#x27;s going to be a lot of output, I&#x27;m using my old trusty urxvt,</text></comment>
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<story><title>Singapore Airlines Concorde</title><url>https://mainlymiles.com/2024/03/03/singapore-airlines-concorde-full-story/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delta_p_delta_x</author><text>&gt; Flight times between Singapore and London would be cut from 18 hours on conventional aircraft at the time to just 10 hours.<p>This is very interesting, because current Singapore-Heathrow direct flights are around 13 hours. I wouldn&#x27;t pay first-class++ fares for a 3-hour flight time reduction in a tiny, cramped cabin with worse pressurisation and ventilation than first class on modern A380s, B777s and A350s that currently ply the route.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Singapore Airlines Concorde</title><url>https://mainlymiles.com/2024/03/03/singapore-airlines-concorde-full-story/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I was surprised that SQ was the only third party airline to have its livery on Concorde, as I saw plenty of pictures of Concordes with Braniff livery on on side.<p>Well, I did remember correctly that the service operated from Dallas (to NY or Washington). Subsonic only, and with lots of crazy adaptation to fit the crazy laws, like changing the aircraft registration number on each flight.<p>But all those pictures I saw were advertising drawings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heritageconcorde.com&#x2F;braniff-airways-concorde-operations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heritageconcorde.com&#x2F;braniff-airways-concorde-op...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>I find it impressive that the government is actually punishing a project for running late and underdelivering. They should expand this to all parts of the government. Can you imagine if the F-35 was cancelled the first time it fell behind schedule? The Space Launch System? The Littoral Combat System? The USS JFK?<p>So many boondoggles could be killed off before they spend money. Maybe contractors would have to start properly estimating costs up front. Or maybe nothing would ever get done again.<p>I do wonder what the FCC is planning to do with these funds if they aren&#x27;t funding Starlink. Are they going to go towards a &quot;safer&quot; project like Project Kuiper? Or maybe dumping it into Inmarsat?</text></item><item><author>I_Am_Nous</author><text>When applying for RDOF you say what service tier you are targeting and instead of shooting for the minimum 25&#x2F;3, Starlink applied for 100&#x2F;20. When they didn&#x27;t reach those speeds[1], they were ineligible but not <i>just</i> because they didn&#x27;t hit the required speeds on their existing network. There are more details here[2] but the jist is that Starlink bid to supply 100&#x2F;20 internet to over half a million subscribers and the FCC was required to assess if Starlink was reasonably, technically capable of supplying those speeds by 2025. Starlink reportedly argued that once they can properly launch Starship, they can surely hit the required speeds. As of yet Starship hasn&#x27;t had a successful launch. On top of this, the statistics that were available at the time showed that Starlink transfer speeds were already trending down and the network is a lot less utilized than it would be in 2025. There are technical challenges that need to be solved before Starlink is remotely capable of meeting that obligation and the challenges don&#x27;t appear to be resolved yet. Giving Starlink money is a gamble and the FCC would rather play it safe.<p>&gt;RDOF rules set speeds of 25&#x2F;3 Mbps as the minimum allowed for broadband service delivered by winners. However, participants were permitted to bid at four different performance tiers: 25&#x2F;3 Mbps, 50&#x2F;5 Mbps, 100&#x2F;20 Mbps and 1 Gbps&#x2F;500 Mbps. When the auction closed, the FCC noted 99.7% of locations were bid at 100&#x2F;20 or higher, with 85% bid at the gigabit tier. That means Starlink will need to provide speeds of at least 100&#x2F;20 in order to meet its obligations.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiercetelecom.com&#x2F;broadband&#x2F;what-do-starlinks-latest-ookla-results-mean-its-886m-rdof-winnings" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiercetelecom.com&#x2F;broadband&#x2F;what-do-starlinks-la...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-23-105A1.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-23-105A1.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lesuorac</author><text>I think you may not understand what the government is.<p>The government is a collection of individuals. It is not a single borg instance. Some individuals within that collection are going to act different than other ones.<p>Also the government does a lot of funding through different mechanisms. Many miltiary programs are a cost+ program where they pay the contractor the cost of development plus a profit% so the initial budget is a bit moot since the point is to pay for a capability. That obviously doesn&#x27;t apply here and the FCC wasn&#x27;t offering a Cost+ program.</text></comment>
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<story><title>US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>I find it impressive that the government is actually punishing a project for running late and underdelivering. They should expand this to all parts of the government. Can you imagine if the F-35 was cancelled the first time it fell behind schedule? The Space Launch System? The Littoral Combat System? The USS JFK?<p>So many boondoggles could be killed off before they spend money. Maybe contractors would have to start properly estimating costs up front. Or maybe nothing would ever get done again.<p>I do wonder what the FCC is planning to do with these funds if they aren&#x27;t funding Starlink. Are they going to go towards a &quot;safer&quot; project like Project Kuiper? Or maybe dumping it into Inmarsat?</text></item><item><author>I_Am_Nous</author><text>When applying for RDOF you say what service tier you are targeting and instead of shooting for the minimum 25&#x2F;3, Starlink applied for 100&#x2F;20. When they didn&#x27;t reach those speeds[1], they were ineligible but not <i>just</i> because they didn&#x27;t hit the required speeds on their existing network. There are more details here[2] but the jist is that Starlink bid to supply 100&#x2F;20 internet to over half a million subscribers and the FCC was required to assess if Starlink was reasonably, technically capable of supplying those speeds by 2025. Starlink reportedly argued that once they can properly launch Starship, they can surely hit the required speeds. As of yet Starship hasn&#x27;t had a successful launch. On top of this, the statistics that were available at the time showed that Starlink transfer speeds were already trending down and the network is a lot less utilized than it would be in 2025. There are technical challenges that need to be solved before Starlink is remotely capable of meeting that obligation and the challenges don&#x27;t appear to be resolved yet. Giving Starlink money is a gamble and the FCC would rather play it safe.<p>&gt;RDOF rules set speeds of 25&#x2F;3 Mbps as the minimum allowed for broadband service delivered by winners. However, participants were permitted to bid at four different performance tiers: 25&#x2F;3 Mbps, 50&#x2F;5 Mbps, 100&#x2F;20 Mbps and 1 Gbps&#x2F;500 Mbps. When the auction closed, the FCC noted 99.7% of locations were bid at 100&#x2F;20 or higher, with 85% bid at the gigabit tier. That means Starlink will need to provide speeds of at least 100&#x2F;20 in order to meet its obligations.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiercetelecom.com&#x2F;broadband&#x2F;what-do-starlinks-latest-ookla-results-mean-its-886m-rdof-winnings" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiercetelecom.com&#x2F;broadband&#x2F;what-do-starlinks-la...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-23-105A1.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-23-105A1.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atty</author><text>To be fair, defense is an existential risk for the US and its allies. NATO can’t really afford to not have a reasonably up-to-date combat jet. They also need to continually feed money into the military industrial complex so that suppliers don’t go under&#x2F;downsize too much&#x2F;etc.<p>Not disagreeing with your sentiment, just think that certain fields like defense, healthcare, etc have slightly different priority lists.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The writers who translated Goethe became some of the best writers in English</title><url>https://www.neh.gov/article/cult-goethe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>Here&#x27;s a lineage of energy that should interest hackers<p>Goethe -&gt; Mary Wollstonecraft -&gt; Mary Shelley -&gt; Byron &amp; Percy Shelley -&gt; Ada Lovelace<p>Ada got inspiration from the romanticism of Byron which burned
brightly in the circle of influences of the Shelleys who were
interested in animism (proto-neurology). Shelley&#x27;s interest in
animist-necromancy and artificial minds created by electricity is
rooted in childhood trauma of her mother (Wollstonecraft) dying in
childbirth. Mary sought a way to revive her spirit though science.
Maybe, like all hermeneutic interpretations it&#x27;s fuzzy, but there&#x27;s a
trajectory from the Greek influences on German philosophy to the
imaginings that underpin the computer age.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The writers who translated Goethe became some of the best writers in English</title><url>https://www.neh.gov/article/cult-goethe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Veen</author><text>An interesting fact I learned recently: Xi Jinping is huge Goethe fan.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&#x2F;the-paper&#x2F;v43&#x2F;n11&#x2F;edward-luttwak&#x2F;goethe-in-china" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrb.co.uk&#x2F;the-paper&#x2F;v43&#x2F;n11&#x2F;edward-luttwak&#x2F;goeth...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Great work Visa, now I hate you</title><url>http://modern-products.tumblr.com/post/28855608626/great-work-visa-now-i-hate-you-london-olympics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangrossman</author><text>&#62; I simply can't understand how it could be viewed positively by any consumer<p>Visa's market research suggests a significant increase in Visa usage and Visa brand value among consumers aware of their Olympic sponsorship (which has been ongoing since 1986, and already committed through the next 4 Olympics games):<p>&#62; According to the U.S. Sponsorship Tracker, a Visa commissioned study following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games conducted by Performance Research, an independent research company, Visa cardholders
who were aware of Visa’s Olympic Games sponsorship claimed a 16 percent and nine percent increase in Visa card usage in Canada and the US respectively. The same report found Visa’s brand equity was 32 percent and 38 percent higher among consumers who were aware of Visa’s sponsorship in Canada
and the US respectively.<p><a href="http://corporate.visa.com/_media/olympic-games-media-kit/visa-and-the-olympic-games.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://corporate.visa.com/_media/olympic-games-media-kit/vis...</a><p>&#62; I've been trying really hard to understand why Visa would make such an obviously unfriendly and counter-productive decision<p>The first Olympics game where Visa was exclusively accepted was Calgary 1988. This isn't a decision they just made.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>I've been having enormous trouble understanding the thinking behind the "We are proud to only accept Visa" marketing campaign. I simply can't understand how it could be viewed positively by any consumer - it's such an obviously anti-customer thing to do.<p>I've been trying really hard to understand why Visa would make such an obviously unfriendly and counter-productive decision. The only theory I can come up with is that their real customers are the banks, and this is their way of saying to them "We're so completely ruthless that you're better off doing deals with us than anyone else". Seems a bit far-fetched though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jellicle</author><text>&#62;According to the U.S. Sponsorship Tracker, a Visa commissioned study following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games conducted by Performance Research<p>When a company is paying for research about its own decisions, the research always comes back that the decision was wonderful, or that research firm doesn't get hired again.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Great work Visa, now I hate you</title><url>http://modern-products.tumblr.com/post/28855608626/great-work-visa-now-i-hate-you-london-olympics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangrossman</author><text>&#62; I simply can't understand how it could be viewed positively by any consumer<p>Visa's market research suggests a significant increase in Visa usage and Visa brand value among consumers aware of their Olympic sponsorship (which has been ongoing since 1986, and already committed through the next 4 Olympics games):<p>&#62; According to the U.S. Sponsorship Tracker, a Visa commissioned study following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games conducted by Performance Research, an independent research company, Visa cardholders
who were aware of Visa’s Olympic Games sponsorship claimed a 16 percent and nine percent increase in Visa card usage in Canada and the US respectively. The same report found Visa’s brand equity was 32 percent and 38 percent higher among consumers who were aware of Visa’s sponsorship in Canada
and the US respectively.<p><a href="http://corporate.visa.com/_media/olympic-games-media-kit/visa-and-the-olympic-games.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://corporate.visa.com/_media/olympic-games-media-kit/vis...</a><p>&#62; I've been trying really hard to understand why Visa would make such an obviously unfriendly and counter-productive decision<p>The first Olympics game where Visa was exclusively accepted was Calgary 1988. This isn't a decision they just made.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>I've been having enormous trouble understanding the thinking behind the "We are proud to only accept Visa" marketing campaign. I simply can't understand how it could be viewed positively by any consumer - it's such an obviously anti-customer thing to do.<p>I've been trying really hard to understand why Visa would make such an obviously unfriendly and counter-productive decision. The only theory I can come up with is that their real customers are the banks, and this is their way of saying to them "We're so completely ruthless that you're better off doing deals with us than anyone else". Seems a bit far-fetched though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apike</author><text>A lot of us in Vancouver really resented the "only accepts Visa" thing. It was particularly aggravating in Canada where most people pay with a bank debit card, not Visa or Mastercard.<p>That said, it's not surprising that the overall effect of the sponsorship was positive since refusing MasterCard and debit was only one small aspect of Visa's campaign. Reading about this again in London made me all riled up again, but Morgan Freeman's soothing voice will likely undo the damage soon enough.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?</title><text>In other words, who runs operations at a scale where distributed systems are absolutely necessary, without using any sort of container runtime or container orchestration tool?<p>If so, what does their technology stack look like? Are you aware of any good blog posts?<p>edit : While I do appreciate all the replies, I&#x27;d like to know if there are any organizations out there who operate at web scale without relying on the specific practice of shipping software with heaps of dependencies. Whether that be in a container or in a single-use VM. Thank you in advance and sorry for the confusion.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wanderr</author><text>Grooveshark didn&#x27;t use any of that. We were very careful about avoiding dependencies where possible and keeping our backend code clean and performant. We supported about 45M MAU at our biggest, with only a handful of physical servers. I&#x27;m not aware of any blog posts we made detailing any of this, though. And if you&#x27;re not familiar with the saga, Grooveshark went under for legal, not technical reasons. The backend API was powered by nginx, PHP, MySQL, memcache, with a realtime messaging server built in Go. We used Redis and Mongodb for some niche things, had serious issues with both which is understandable because they were both immature at the time, but Mongodb&#x27;s data loss problems were bad enough that I would still not use them today.<p>That said, I&#x27;m using Docker for my current side project. Even if it never runs at scale, I just don&#x27;t want to have to muck around with system administration, not to mention how nice it is to have dev and prod be identical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brimble</author><text>&gt; That said, I&#x27;m using Docker for my current side project. Even if it never runs at scale, I just don&#x27;t want to have to muck around with system administration, not to mention how nice it is to have dev and prod be identical.<p>This is why I use docker, at work and for my own stuff. No longer having to give a shit whether the hosting server is LTS or latest-release is <i>wonderful</i>. I barely even have to care which distro it is. Much faster and easier than doing something similar with scripted-configuration VMs, plus the hit to performance is much lower.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?</title><text>In other words, who runs operations at a scale where distributed systems are absolutely necessary, without using any sort of container runtime or container orchestration tool?<p>If so, what does their technology stack look like? Are you aware of any good blog posts?<p>edit : While I do appreciate all the replies, I&#x27;d like to know if there are any organizations out there who operate at web scale without relying on the specific practice of shipping software with heaps of dependencies. Whether that be in a container or in a single-use VM. Thank you in advance and sorry for the confusion.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wanderr</author><text>Grooveshark didn&#x27;t use any of that. We were very careful about avoiding dependencies where possible and keeping our backend code clean and performant. We supported about 45M MAU at our biggest, with only a handful of physical servers. I&#x27;m not aware of any blog posts we made detailing any of this, though. And if you&#x27;re not familiar with the saga, Grooveshark went under for legal, not technical reasons. The backend API was powered by nginx, PHP, MySQL, memcache, with a realtime messaging server built in Go. We used Redis and Mongodb for some niche things, had serious issues with both which is understandable because they were both immature at the time, but Mongodb&#x27;s data loss problems were bad enough that I would still not use them today.<p>That said, I&#x27;m using Docker for my current side project. Even if it never runs at scale, I just don&#x27;t want to have to muck around with system administration, not to mention how nice it is to have dev and prod be identical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aachen</author><text>Man I miss Grooveshark still today. Spotify is okay but still a step down. Needing billion-dollar licensing schemes to even get started makes this such a hard market to actually get into and provide a competitively superior experience.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tired of note-taking apps</title><url>https://akkshaya.blog/2020/07/19/note-taking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vijucat</author><text>My theory about handwritten note-taking is that the bandwidth difference between thinking (fast) and writing (slow) is somehow extremely beneficial to the process of generating creative and evocative output. There have been so many journaling sessions which I started with the absolute conviction that I had nothing new to say, and after 4 pages of extremely creative and detailed ideas, <i>surprising even to me</i>, I had no choice but to exclaim, &quot;Now where did that even come from?!&quot;. Maybe the hypnotic act of twirling the pen on paper slowly puts the mind into that sub-conscious creative state similar to what happens when one is about to fall asleep? It is honestly magical. I now use OneNote every day (because I can search through a large volume of notes easily), and I quite miss the dramatic revelations of pen on paper journaling. My notes were about programming and trading. For those who write fiction, I bet slow, old, typewriters are similarly more beneficial than the latest ergonomic keyboard and Word 365!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I think you could even generalize that a bit, and say that limits tend to foster creativity.<p>My best software designs happen when I&#x27;m taking notes on paper, and I think it&#x27;s largely what you say - I can&#x27;t write as fast as I can think, which more or less forces me to think more carefully.<p>The founder of You Need a Budget makes a similar argument about budgeting and not spending on credit - the financial limits encourage you to manage your entire lifestyle more creatively.<p>It&#x27;s often observed that small, scrappy, <i>hungry</i> companies tend to come up with more creative solutions than large, well-capitalized corporations, and even observed that formerly small and creative startups seem to lose that spark as the money rolls in.<p>There&#x27;s that section in <i>The Odyssey</i> with the island of the lotus-eaters.<p>Speaking of poetry, I suspect that many poets would say that their creativity is enhanced by working within the limits imposed by a poetic form.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tired of note-taking apps</title><url>https://akkshaya.blog/2020/07/19/note-taking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vijucat</author><text>My theory about handwritten note-taking is that the bandwidth difference between thinking (fast) and writing (slow) is somehow extremely beneficial to the process of generating creative and evocative output. There have been so many journaling sessions which I started with the absolute conviction that I had nothing new to say, and after 4 pages of extremely creative and detailed ideas, <i>surprising even to me</i>, I had no choice but to exclaim, &quot;Now where did that even come from?!&quot;. Maybe the hypnotic act of twirling the pen on paper slowly puts the mind into that sub-conscious creative state similar to what happens when one is about to fall asleep? It is honestly magical. I now use OneNote every day (because I can search through a large volume of notes easily), and I quite miss the dramatic revelations of pen on paper journaling. My notes were about programming and trading. For those who write fiction, I bet slow, old, typewriters are similarly more beneficial than the latest ergonomic keyboard and Word 365!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sooheon</author><text>Ted Chiang&#x27;s &quot;The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Fiction&quot; is one of the best treatments I&#x27;ve read on this topic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20140222103103&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;subterraneanpress.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;fall_2013&#x2F;the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20140222103103&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;subterrane...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The Boring YouTube</title><url>https://gist.github.com/iosifnicolae2/1a78b5ab1d166fd5d17e6ae0a0fe0901</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newsbinator</author><text>I suspect, without proof, that this is because a large segment of the global population watches music videos and variety show clips on YouTube, over and over on repeat.</text></item><item><author>markbnj</author><text>I know recommendations are hard, so I don&#x27;t want to be too critical, but youtube does a couple of things that drive me nuts: they recommend videos I&#x27;ve already watched, and which they know I&#x27;ve already watched because the site fills in the red progress bar on the bottom; they recommend videos I&#x27;ve added to my watch later list; and they recommend the same videos over and over even though I don&#x27;t click on them and don&#x27;t watch them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivanbakel</author><text>I&#x27;d be more inclined to believe that it&#x27;s just the nature of how most users consume content.<p>If you look at the recommended content for most major services, they give a lot of space to &quot;stuff you&#x27;ve consumed before&quot;. Anecdotally, this is true of Netflix (which tends to rank already-seen content below it&#x27;s own-brand shows but above other third-party stuff); and it&#x27;s <i>especially</i> true of Spotify, which is constantly pushing me (in a real variety of ways) mostly music that I&#x27;ve already listened to.<p>I think it&#x27;s likely that, music video or not, most users on YouTube <i>are</i> watching the same videos over and over again - hence why the algorithm tries to hard to cater to those users.<p>From a cynical perspective, such an algorithm is also a &quot;safe&quot; bet - if you won&#x27;t even binge videos YouTube knows you like (because you&#x27;ve seen them), it will probably be much harder to get you to watch lots of videos you <i>might</i> like. Users who like to see the same stuff over and over are probably giving the best return on YouTube algorithmic investment, and they might even be YouTube&#x27;s most valuable users outside of content creators.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Boring YouTube</title><url>https://gist.github.com/iosifnicolae2/1a78b5ab1d166fd5d17e6ae0a0fe0901</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newsbinator</author><text>I suspect, without proof, that this is because a large segment of the global population watches music videos and variety show clips on YouTube, over and over on repeat.</text></item><item><author>markbnj</author><text>I know recommendations are hard, so I don&#x27;t want to be too critical, but youtube does a couple of things that drive me nuts: they recommend videos I&#x27;ve already watched, and which they know I&#x27;ve already watched because the site fills in the red progress bar on the bottom; they recommend videos I&#x27;ve added to my watch later list; and they recommend the same videos over and over even though I don&#x27;t click on them and don&#x27;t watch them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buscoquadnary</author><text>I&#x27;ll attest that info sometimes I need to do a boring but slightly involved task such as putting together a vision chart where most of the thinking has been doing, but there is a lot of little fiddly arranging boxes and pulling lines that is annoying and tedious but requires some degree of attention.<p>The only way to make that bearable for me is to either solve the meta problem which often isn&#x27;t feasible, or turn on some mindless show that I&#x27;ve already seen and don&#x27;t have to pay attention to enjoy. I find in particular The Simpsons seems to often hit that sweet spot between funny enough to be entertaining and mindless enough to not be distracting.<p>Whereas if I try and listen to a podcast or audiobook it requires too much focus and I miss the book or can&#x27;t pay attention to that task I am working on, liking filling in a years worth of time sheets at the end of December.</text></comment>
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