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<story><title>Don't use bcrypt</title><url>http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text><i>&#62; I write this post because I've noticed a sort of "JUST USE BCRYPT" cargo cult... This is absolutely the wrong attitude to have about cryptography.</i><p>No. This is incorrect. This is exactly the <i>right</i> attitude for most developers to have about cryptography, because on a subject as complex as cryptography most developers (including me!) are <i>nowhere near smart enough</i> to understand the ins and outs.<p>Encouraging people to make their own decisions on subjects they aren't equipped to understand fully is dangerous advice. It leads to all sorts of bad outcomes. People who have to choose between options they don't really understand end up choosing things at random, or on the basis of incomplete or misleading information, or getting seized up by the need to make a choice and choosing nothing at all.<p>This makes cryptography one of the <i>very few</i> cases where a cargo-cult approach is better than the alternatives. A simple message that "this is the approach people smarter than you agree is correct, use it," repeated consistently, will help more people more completely than dumping them into the deep end of the crypto pool ever will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pnathan</author><text>&#62; No. This is incorrect. This is exactly the right attitude for most developers to have about cryptography, because on a subject as complex as cryptography most developers (including me!) are nowhere near smart enough to understand the ins and outs.<p>I hear that a lot, and it always reminds me of Jante Law[1]. Its a disservice to keep telling people that they are too stupid to understand something. Too ignorant, perhaps - that can be remedied - but everyone is <i>not</i> too stupid to understand crypto. It's simply another field, mostly mathematical, and goof-ups are easy to make and often very costly.<p>edit: I should also make another point. Cryptography is <i>exactingly and excruciatingly hard</i> to do at industrial strength. I am <i>not</i> recommending people go out and roll their own crypto for production systems. It's possible for the initiated to do right; it's possible to get initiated. The uninitiated almost certainly will goof. I'd like to further point out [2], which is a discussion and break on a homebrew crypto, for a taste of the difficulties and mathematical sophistication needed.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law</a><p>[2]<a href="http://phrack.org/issues.html?issue=64&#38;id=10#article" rel="nofollow">http://phrack.org/issues.html?issue=64&#38;id=10#article</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Don't use bcrypt</title><url>http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text><i>&#62; I write this post because I've noticed a sort of "JUST USE BCRYPT" cargo cult... This is absolutely the wrong attitude to have about cryptography.</i><p>No. This is incorrect. This is exactly the <i>right</i> attitude for most developers to have about cryptography, because on a subject as complex as cryptography most developers (including me!) are <i>nowhere near smart enough</i> to understand the ins and outs.<p>Encouraging people to make their own decisions on subjects they aren't equipped to understand fully is dangerous advice. It leads to all sorts of bad outcomes. People who have to choose between options they don't really understand end up choosing things at random, or on the basis of incomplete or misleading information, or getting seized up by the need to make a choice and choosing nothing at all.<p>This makes cryptography one of the <i>very few</i> cases where a cargo-cult approach is better than the alternatives. A simple message that "this is the approach people smarter than you agree is correct, use it," repeated consistently, will help more people more completely than dumping them into the deep end of the crypto pool ever will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Option 1: Rely on what everyone else does.<p>What happens if that method is flawed? You hear about it as soon as it's discovered and it gets fixed quick.<p>Option 2: Roll your own stack based on a personal understanding of cryptography.<p>What happens if that method is flawed? Perhaps only you and an attacker could possibly know such a thing. You have to be ever vigilant and you have to acquire an incredible amount of crypto knowledge. If you ever leave the company they are pretty much fucked from then on until whatever you wrote is replaced.<p>Don't roll your own system.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part 1</title><url>https://flavio.castelli.me/2023/02/07/building-a-unikernel-that-runs-webassembly---part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonChesterfield</author><text>Say a non-OS hacker wants a unikernel. What&#x27;s the sanest way to go about getting to that?<p>Options that come to mind are:<p>- build your application as a linux kernel module, load it into a normal kernel, and generally ignore the userspace that runs anyway<p>- take Linux and hack it down pretty aggressively plus splice your code into it<p>- find some github unikernel effort and go from there (which I think the OP does)<p>- take some other OS - freebsd? - and similarly hack out parts<p>Other?<p>I like the idea of a x64 machine running a VM connected to a network card as a generic compute resource that does whatever tasks are assigned by sending it data over the network. It&#x27;s not been worth the hassle relative to a userspace daemon, but one day I may find the time and would be interested in the HN perspective on where best to start the OS level hackery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walterbell</author><text>RedHat has been looking at Linux-as-unikernel since 2018, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.redhat.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;article&#x2F;unikernel-linux-ukl-moves-forward&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.redhat.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;article&#x2F;unikernel-linux-ukl...</a><p><i>&gt; The Unikernel Linux (UKL) project started as an effort to exploit Linux’s configurability.. Our experience has led us to a more general goal: creating a kernel that can be configured to span the spectrum between a general-purpose operating system, amenable to a large class of applications, and a highly optimized, possibly application- and hardware-specialized, unikernel... other technologies occupying a similar space have come along, especially io_uring and eBPF. io_uring is interesting because it amortizes syscall overhead. eBPF is interesting because it’s another way to run code in kernel space (albeit for a very limited definition of “code”).</i><p>Code, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unikernelLinux&#x2F;ukl">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unikernelLinux&#x2F;ukl</a><p><i>&gt; Unikernel Linux (UKL) is a small patch to Linux and glibc which allows you to build many programs, unmodified, as unikernels. That means they are linked with the Linux kernel into a final vmlinuz and run in kernel space. You can boot these kernels on baremetal or inside a virtual machine. Almost all features and drivers in Linux are available for use by the unikernel.</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part 1</title><url>https://flavio.castelli.me/2023/02/07/building-a-unikernel-that-runs-webassembly---part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonChesterfield</author><text>Say a non-OS hacker wants a unikernel. What&#x27;s the sanest way to go about getting to that?<p>Options that come to mind are:<p>- build your application as a linux kernel module, load it into a normal kernel, and generally ignore the userspace that runs anyway<p>- take Linux and hack it down pretty aggressively plus splice your code into it<p>- find some github unikernel effort and go from there (which I think the OP does)<p>- take some other OS - freebsd? - and similarly hack out parts<p>Other?<p>I like the idea of a x64 machine running a VM connected to a network card as a generic compute resource that does whatever tasks are assigned by sending it data over the network. It&#x27;s not been worth the hassle relative to a userspace daemon, but one day I may find the time and would be interested in the HN perspective on where best to start the OS level hackery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bboozzoo</author><text>For starters, assuming the Linux variant, build a statically compiled application, pack it into an initramfs as the only file there, for simplicity name it `&#x2F;init`, bundle the initramfs with the kernel, boot. At this point, your app should be the PID 1 and the only process running (with the exception of a bunch of kernel threads). At this point you can do whatever you want.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-google-fiber-is-high-speed-internets-most-successful-failure</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BonesJustice</author><text>I see this a bit differently, and I frequently use the history of Google Fiber as evidence for strong net neutrality regulations.<p>In the areas where it was deployed, Google Fiber was wildly successful. And yet, Google threw in the towel. Why?<p>It _isn’t_ because Google Fiber is was unprofitable. To the contrary, it was profitable _despite_ driving broadband prices way down in its service areas.<p>It’s because the incumbent ISPs simply have too much power. That power comes in many forms:<p><pre><code> 1. Excessive industry lobbying power;
2. Anti-competitive exclusivity agreements;
3. The ability to stall rollouts indefinitely in the absence of “one touch make ready” policies;
4. Required cooperation with and permission from governments who feel less pressured to move quickly once their residents have at least one incumbent provider;
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etc.<p>If the incumbents are <i>so well protected</i> that one of the most powerful corporations in America found the barriers to entry too burdensome, then how can <i>anyone</i> argue that there is any semblance of a “free market”? What hope is there for startup ISPs?<p>The incumbents have received hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, so they already had a government-assisted head start. And, despite prices being so inflated that they <i>halved overnight</i> wherever Google Fiber rolled out, they are <i>still</i> able to effectively stave off meaningful competition.<p>Would that be possible in a healthy, competitive marketplace? No. So we need to stop treating it like one, when it clearly isn’t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Several of your factual assumptions are just wrong. For example, there are no &quot;exclusivity agreements&quot;--those have been illegal under federal law since 1994. Also, ISPs never received &quot;hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars.&quot; That number is a total fabrication: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7709556" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7709556</a>.<p>But leaving the facts aside, this is something you can logic through. Instead of speculating about what problems Google might have faced, look to its actual conduct to see what problems it tried to avoid. If &quot;industry lobbying power&quot; was the problem, you&#x27;d expect Google would try to deploy fiber somewhere it had the leg-up lobbying-wise, like Seattle or San Francisco or Mountain View. It never did that. Under your theory, you have to assume that Comcast (based in Philadelphia) has more lobbying muscle in Google&#x27;s own back yard than Google.<p>What did Google do instead? It went to medium-sized cities in Red states with overhead utility lines. Atlanta, Austin, Provo, Kansas City, etc. Why? Because those cities waived regulatory requirements they applied to incumbents, including the crucial one of build-out requirements (the requirement to build out to the whole city). Google went places like Kansas City, which fast tracked permitting, gave free leases of public land for fiber huts, and waived the obligation to cover low income neighborhoods. Indeed, the willingness to waive build out requirements (which are routine in the industry), is one thing these disparate Fiber cities have in common.<p>All of this tells you that the basic problem with Fiber was profitability (not just making a profit, but enough profit compared to what else Google could be doing with that money). Build-out requirements kill profitability, because you’re forced to spend a lot of money building to neighborhoods where you can expect few customers. (The major cost of a fiber build is wiring the neighborhood, not hooking up each house.) That’s why a cornerstone of Fiber was the idea of “fiberhoods”—neighborhoods with demonstrated demand for fiber. (Of course, remember, the initial fiberhood selection exluded most low income neighborhoods in KC, as you’d expect. Google was forced to back peddle and add a bunch of low income neighborhoods in. But that misstep tells you a lot about the money math that was driving Fiber.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-google-fiber-is-high-speed-internets-most-successful-failure</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BonesJustice</author><text>I see this a bit differently, and I frequently use the history of Google Fiber as evidence for strong net neutrality regulations.<p>In the areas where it was deployed, Google Fiber was wildly successful. And yet, Google threw in the towel. Why?<p>It _isn’t_ because Google Fiber is was unprofitable. To the contrary, it was profitable _despite_ driving broadband prices way down in its service areas.<p>It’s because the incumbent ISPs simply have too much power. That power comes in many forms:<p><pre><code> 1. Excessive industry lobbying power;
2. Anti-competitive exclusivity agreements;
3. The ability to stall rollouts indefinitely in the absence of “one touch make ready” policies;
4. Required cooperation with and permission from governments who feel less pressured to move quickly once their residents have at least one incumbent provider;
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etc.<p>If the incumbents are <i>so well protected</i> that one of the most powerful corporations in America found the barriers to entry too burdensome, then how can <i>anyone</i> argue that there is any semblance of a “free market”? What hope is there for startup ISPs?<p>The incumbents have received hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, so they already had a government-assisted head start. And, despite prices being so inflated that they <i>halved overnight</i> wherever Google Fiber rolled out, they are <i>still</i> able to effectively stave off meaningful competition.<p>Would that be possible in a healthy, competitive marketplace? No. So we need to stop treating it like one, when it clearly isn’t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>Not only are the incumbents well protected, but they are increasingly few.<p>2 years ago I had 300 Mbps cable service at home via Time Warner Cable, then they were bought by Spectrum. Now I have 150 Mbps service.<p>I still live in the same place and I&#x27;m still using the same cable modem (one I own, so as to avoid the ridiculous rental fees) I used back then, but 300 Mbps was simply killed as an option. I can&#x27;t even pay more for it.<p>Google Fiber may have been a useful gambit to increase the pace of rollout of other telecom&#x27;s high speed offerings, but I would bet good money that it will be a very short-term play with erosion of net neutrality and further consolidation of the telecom market quickly wiping out the benefits.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community</title><url>https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-upstream-cause-of-the-youth-mental</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vishnugupta</author><text>One big change I&#x27;ve noticed between growing up in a small town and now where I&#x27;m in my mid 40s in a big metro city in India is increased &quot;transactional&quot; nature of interactions of my daily life.<p>Back then we had a deeper ties with all those who served us by which I mean vegetable vendor, carpenter, doctor, knife sharpener, cloth shop, grocer, baker and so on. Whenever we interacted with them it would be a small chit-chat, exchange small updates (how&#x27;s your son doing, is he married yet?) and then finally do the actual purchase.<p>It was to an extent that the carpenter would come by and just hand over a big dining table just because he thought our house deserved&#x2F;needed it. He wouldn&#x27;t ask for immediate payment either and also in instalments. Some other times he would come by and borrow some money.<p>All of that is now gone. Every single interaction I have now with vendors is 100% transactional. I don&#x27;t even know their names nor they mine.<p>It means that I&#x27;m now connected only with my immediate family, that&#x27;s it. It also means that the generation now growing up know only transactional way of interaction with non family&#x2F;friends. I guess these things eventually add up to the loss of community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Everyone is under more pressure thanks to cost of living and Western society being a property-indexed Ponzi scheme which requires endless growth just to keep up. Back when rent&#x2F;home ownership was affordable and everyone had more &quot;slack&quot; it&#x27;s easy to add humanity to transactions - you can spare the small opportunity cost even though you&#x27;d make more money <i>short-term</i> ignoring humanity and focusing purely on transactionality.<p>Nowadays when everyone&#x27;s busy trying to make as much money as possible to be able to make rent or survive in ever-increasing inflation, an extra dining table they didn&#x27;t give away is one they can sell for money. Similarly, borrowing money is harder&#x2F;less acceptable because everyone <i>else</i> too is under pressure and is less likely to be able to help (or at least it would cause them more hardship).</text></comment>
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<story><title>The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community</title><url>https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-upstream-cause-of-the-youth-mental</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vishnugupta</author><text>One big change I&#x27;ve noticed between growing up in a small town and now where I&#x27;m in my mid 40s in a big metro city in India is increased &quot;transactional&quot; nature of interactions of my daily life.<p>Back then we had a deeper ties with all those who served us by which I mean vegetable vendor, carpenter, doctor, knife sharpener, cloth shop, grocer, baker and so on. Whenever we interacted with them it would be a small chit-chat, exchange small updates (how&#x27;s your son doing, is he married yet?) and then finally do the actual purchase.<p>It was to an extent that the carpenter would come by and just hand over a big dining table just because he thought our house deserved&#x2F;needed it. He wouldn&#x27;t ask for immediate payment either and also in instalments. Some other times he would come by and borrow some money.<p>All of that is now gone. Every single interaction I have now with vendors is 100% transactional. I don&#x27;t even know their names nor they mine.<p>It means that I&#x27;m now connected only with my immediate family, that&#x27;s it. It also means that the generation now growing up know only transactional way of interaction with non family&#x2F;friends. I guess these things eventually add up to the loss of community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardo81</author><text>Not too different to myself in my mid forties in Scotland though in my case it&#x27;s still the small town I was born in, the pleasures of working from home.<p>There used to be local vendors as you describe (what comes to mind is a local shop, an ice cream van, milk man, a fizzy drinks vendor, a butcher&#x2F;baker), but they&#x27;ve all been replaced by economies of scale (supermarkets and now online).<p>So now there are no local shops, no weekly vans with their specialist goods. And those half a dozen well known local faces aren&#x27;t doing their rounds.<p>A local shop serves as a meeting place where conversations can take place. Even in the 80s in the UK when TV was at its peak, people could have conversations the next day on what they watched last night out of the 4 channels available.<p>I guess the local social cohesion can be thought of as a necessity when you&#x27;re going to deal with lots of local people and with recent trends said in the article it&#x27;s considered optional.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How deep does life go?</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-deep-does-life-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>denton-scratch</author><text>&gt; The drill reached 4,776 meters and the deepest core was collected at 1,177 meters<p>So they did 3,599m of drilling for no purpose? This seems inexplicable, perhaps I&#x27;m misreading it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How deep does life go?</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-deep-does-life-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>femto</author><text>&gt; The Alvin’s most famous dive, however, was its 1968 exploration of the wreck of the ill-fated Titanic.<p>That should be 1986?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A6jL66Zad7zIJ%3Awww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fkindle%2Fku%2Fsign-up%2Fui%2Frw%2Fabout+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wgeorgecook</author><text>I was thinking this sounds strangely like a library card you pay $120 a year for.</text></item><item><author>JunkDNA</author><text>Lots of people in this thread are talking about this being scary for authors. When I was a kid, I got to read a ton of books any time I wanted. I got them at this place called a &quot;library&quot; where they let people come in and take books home with them to read for <i>free</i>.<p>People have always had the option to read books without buying them. In those days, going to the library was effectively the same effort as going to a book store. In fact, it was more convenient for my family. We happened to live a few blocks from the library and didn&#x27;t need to drive across town to the mall to get books in dingy little B. Dalton bookstore.<p>I will grant that the economics in the eBook situation are dramatically different than with physical books, but I really wonder how different they really are. Local libraries already lend ebooks as well. I&#x27;m not sure why more people don&#x27;t take advantage of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HelloMcFly</author><text>For many, libraries just aren&#x27;t convenient. Even if the location itself is convenient, navigating the the eBook collection might not be. Even if navigating the eBook collection is convenient, there is often (in my admittedly limited experience) a wait time for the books I&#x27;m interested in. Perhaps there are some who would admonish me for sticking <i>almost</i> exclusively to eBooks, or for my laser focus on What I Want rather than other available options. Whatever, let them. The point is that time and convenience are worth money to me, and many others.<p>If my Library let me donate $120 to them annually with the ability to borrow from an eBook collection of 500,000+ without having to go to a local branch or waiting for someone to &quot;return&quot; the digital file then I&#x27;d write the check tomorrow. I just get so tired of everyone on social media so smugly pointing out that libraries exist and have books you can borrow for free. Yeah, we get it, but many libraries don&#x27;t provide the service I&#x27;m (and others, it seems) looking for. I have the means to be flexible in my selection of service&#x2F;product providers, and I choose to spend money on those that match my habits and preferences.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A6jL66Zad7zIJ%3Awww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fkindle%2Fku%2Fsign-up%2Fui%2Frw%2Fabout+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wgeorgecook</author><text>I was thinking this sounds strangely like a library card you pay $120 a year for.</text></item><item><author>JunkDNA</author><text>Lots of people in this thread are talking about this being scary for authors. When I was a kid, I got to read a ton of books any time I wanted. I got them at this place called a &quot;library&quot; where they let people come in and take books home with them to read for <i>free</i>.<p>People have always had the option to read books without buying them. In those days, going to the library was effectively the same effort as going to a book store. In fact, it was more convenient for my family. We happened to live a few blocks from the library and didn&#x27;t need to drive across town to the mall to get books in dingy little B. Dalton bookstore.<p>I will grant that the economics in the eBook situation are dramatically different than with physical books, but I really wonder how different they really are. Local libraries already lend ebooks as well. I&#x27;m not sure why more people don&#x27;t take advantage of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I&#x27;m a digital nomad with no fixed address (currently staying with my brother in IL, soon on to Florida to live with family down there).<p>I can&#x27;t get a library card, because I don&#x27;t have mail show up at any residence I stay at. $120 for all I can eat books? Take My Money.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/uber-s-third-quarter-loss-is-said-to-widen-to-1-46-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Even if they manage to kill their competition -- and I&#x27;m not expecting they will -- I don&#x27;t understand what their endgame is. I don&#x27;t see what their moat is. Ridesharing companies are not hard or expensive to start. They&#x27;ll have a hard time extracting monopoly rents, and there isn&#x27;t much of an economy of scale they can reap.<p>And once autonomous cars become part of the picture, I think they&#x27;re in an even worse position. Suddenly they&#x27;re not competing just against would-be moguls. Now they&#x27;re up against the car companies, who have strong brands, deep pockets, and the ability to make cars at cost. Imagine, for example, BMW extending their leasing business to on-demand car use. We also have existing car rental companies that will be eager to get in on the action. And that&#x27;s not counting the zillion other outfits with strong brands and a taste for expansion. Apple, for example. Virgin. Amazon.<p>I just don&#x27;t see how this ends well for them. At best, I think 10 years from now they&#x27;ll be the next Groupon: the hot startup everybody everybody loved but now nobody talks much about and is trading at a fraction of their peak valuation.</text></item><item><author>ihsw2</author><text>The idea is to drag the entire ride hailing industry underwater long enough to drown out competitors, and the trick is to do this without drowning themselves in the process.<p>This is the nature of &quot;predatory&quot; pricing.<p>There is something to be said for volume and if a couple competitors die in the process then Uber&#x27;s volume can only go up. Unfortunately their competitors have found a variety of ways to keep from being dragged down (eg: regulatory support of municipal taxi orgs) or ways to keep oxygen expenditure stable (eg: controlled expenditures through higher pricing and &quot;friendlier&quot; demeanor).</text></item><item><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>Yeah I am really perplexed with Uber&#x27;s business model. They can&#x27;t survive much longer and they can&#x27;t keep getting injections of cash to stay alive, can they? It&#x27;s rumored they&#x27;ll IPO in 2019, if I remember correctly, which means they have to somehow survive until then to at least reach that stage.<p>Are they planning to raise prices? Cut employees? What are they planning on doing here?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Uber had $6.6bn on hand at the end of June [1]. That means they are down to $5.1bn.<p>Absent cost-cutting, that implies a 9 to 12 month runway. Even if SoftBank injects $1bn, that could only mean a few months’ runway. A large fine in the Waymo case [2] could literally bankrupt them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cash-at-a-rate-of-2-billion-a-year&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cas...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-trial.html?referer=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xbzbanna</author><text>Offerings like Uber Pool and Lyft Line are the future of the business and depend entirely on economies of scale. Putting multiple paying passengers in the car at once and reducing driver downtime completely changes the economics, but only if there is a high density of riders and drivers.<p>Edit:<p>There are two possible stories here about Uber and Lyft&#x27;s losses, and we can&#x27;t tell which is right from the outside.<p>1. Uber and Lyft are in a price war death spiral, heavily subsidizing all rides to compete. Their only hope is for all competitors to die, so they can take over the whole market and raise prices. Then vague hopes of lowering costs with self-driving tech and take the surplus as profit. The plan doesn&#x27;t seem viable, since they have no moat and they can&#x27;t outspend GM and other self-driving players.<p>2. Uber and Lyft can actually make a profit in mature markets, but choose to subsidize rides in growing markets, on the theory that growing the market size increases the long term profit opportunity. The data we need to evaluate this idea isn&#x27;t public, however Uber did a &quot;prove it&quot; quarter in 2016 where they turned the spigots to be profitable in the US. They are now pursuing growth in the US again, expanding to a larger territory and expanding Pool and other offerings like flat-rate passes in mature cities. Under this model, Uber could at any time decide to become profitable, but the revenue growth would stop, placing a cap on the valuation. Notably, there is no &quot;predatory pricing&quot; here.<p>With internal finances, we could easily tell whether option 2 is valid. You can bet Uber is constantly doing experiments on price elasticity of demand and knows exactly where the truth is. You can bet Softbank has seen numbers we have not. If Uber wants to IPO, I would expect them to provide additional public info, possibly pivoting to profitability again in the US. But doing a pivot like that permanently reduces the size of the opportunity, allowing Lyft to capture that new market instead, so they may be reluctant to do it large scale.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/uber-s-third-quarter-loss-is-said-to-widen-to-1-46-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Even if they manage to kill their competition -- and I&#x27;m not expecting they will -- I don&#x27;t understand what their endgame is. I don&#x27;t see what their moat is. Ridesharing companies are not hard or expensive to start. They&#x27;ll have a hard time extracting monopoly rents, and there isn&#x27;t much of an economy of scale they can reap.<p>And once autonomous cars become part of the picture, I think they&#x27;re in an even worse position. Suddenly they&#x27;re not competing just against would-be moguls. Now they&#x27;re up against the car companies, who have strong brands, deep pockets, and the ability to make cars at cost. Imagine, for example, BMW extending their leasing business to on-demand car use. We also have existing car rental companies that will be eager to get in on the action. And that&#x27;s not counting the zillion other outfits with strong brands and a taste for expansion. Apple, for example. Virgin. Amazon.<p>I just don&#x27;t see how this ends well for them. At best, I think 10 years from now they&#x27;ll be the next Groupon: the hot startup everybody everybody loved but now nobody talks much about and is trading at a fraction of their peak valuation.</text></item><item><author>ihsw2</author><text>The idea is to drag the entire ride hailing industry underwater long enough to drown out competitors, and the trick is to do this without drowning themselves in the process.<p>This is the nature of &quot;predatory&quot; pricing.<p>There is something to be said for volume and if a couple competitors die in the process then Uber&#x27;s volume can only go up. Unfortunately their competitors have found a variety of ways to keep from being dragged down (eg: regulatory support of municipal taxi orgs) or ways to keep oxygen expenditure stable (eg: controlled expenditures through higher pricing and &quot;friendlier&quot; demeanor).</text></item><item><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>Yeah I am really perplexed with Uber&#x27;s business model. They can&#x27;t survive much longer and they can&#x27;t keep getting injections of cash to stay alive, can they? It&#x27;s rumored they&#x27;ll IPO in 2019, if I remember correctly, which means they have to somehow survive until then to at least reach that stage.<p>Are they planning to raise prices? Cut employees? What are they planning on doing here?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Uber had $6.6bn on hand at the end of June [1]. That means they are down to $5.1bn.<p>Absent cost-cutting, that implies a 9 to 12 month runway. Even if SoftBank injects $1bn, that could only mean a few months’ runway. A large fine in the Waymo case [2] could literally bankrupt them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cash-at-a-rate-of-2-billion-a-year&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cas...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-trial.html?referer=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lsiq</author><text>They do have a small moat in the short term; the network of drivers, brand recognition they&#x27;ve built up (even w&#x2F; the bad press), the large codebase they have by now, and the amount of capital to start such a business from scratch is not insignificant.<p>However, you are right to bring up autonomous cars. I always thought it amusing that Kalanick et al were so anxious to bet the house on autonomous cars, when in fact, they are the company&#x27;s greatest existential threat long-term. Once those cars are readily available and street-legal, there&#x27;s nothing stopping Enterprise or Avis or the automakers themselves from becoming overnight competitors.<p>And once drivers are taken out of the picture, ride prices will plummet. Margins will also thin because of the likely extreme competitiveness of this market. I would not want to be an Uber investor that&#x27;s for sure. In theory, the &quot;winner&quot; will be whoever scales the most (i.e. has the most capital to put into their fleet) and has the most effective marketing. In practice, prices may be close enough that people will rent car X because they like brand&#x2F;model Y better.<p>If I were on Uber&#x27;s board, I would advise against trying to win that war which they will lose once&#x2F;if the automakers get in on it, and instead get creative about how to conquer the market in a more niche way.<p>Someone is going to have to program self-driving ambulances :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on</title><url>https://twitter.com/cryptopathic/status/1606416137771782151</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sacnoradhq</author><text>Bitwarden, Keeper ($ but trusted at megacorps), and good ol&#x27; PasswordSafe are the safest solutions.<p>I run BW with Yubikey 2FA and a local hosted sync server.<p>KeePassX&#x2F;C perhaps. Vault for secrets management.<p>Never touched LastPass, 1Password or any of these other mickey-mouse commercial apps that invariably claim &quot;military-grade encryption&quot; or &quot;unhackable&quot; when their fundamental constructions are crap.</text></item><item><author>ddejohn</author><text>For anybody else left wondering, Bitwarden <i>does</i> encrypt (nearly) everything in your vault:<p>&gt; At Bitwarden we take this trusted relationship with our users seriously. We also built our solution to be safe and secure with end-to-end encryption for all Vault data, including website URLs, so that your sensitive data is “zero trust” secure [1]<p>I haven&#x27;t used LastPass in years, but the recent news made me wonder how Bitwarden was handling URLs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;zero-knowledge-encryption-white-paper&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;zero-knowledge-encryption-wh...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>I see a lot of people mentioning bitwarden around here; is their actually a technical reason to believe they are better than Lastpass or any of their competition (have they like open sourced all their stuff?).<p>There’s very little room for failure and learning in the online password safe field, so I generally assume these companies are in one of two states:<p>* has unknown bugs waiting to be revealed<p>* out of business</text></comment>
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<story><title>The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on</title><url>https://twitter.com/cryptopathic/status/1606416137771782151</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sacnoradhq</author><text>Bitwarden, Keeper ($ but trusted at megacorps), and good ol&#x27; PasswordSafe are the safest solutions.<p>I run BW with Yubikey 2FA and a local hosted sync server.<p>KeePassX&#x2F;C perhaps. Vault for secrets management.<p>Never touched LastPass, 1Password or any of these other mickey-mouse commercial apps that invariably claim &quot;military-grade encryption&quot; or &quot;unhackable&quot; when their fundamental constructions are crap.</text></item><item><author>ddejohn</author><text>For anybody else left wondering, Bitwarden <i>does</i> encrypt (nearly) everything in your vault:<p>&gt; At Bitwarden we take this trusted relationship with our users seriously. We also built our solution to be safe and secure with end-to-end encryption for all Vault data, including website URLs, so that your sensitive data is “zero trust” secure [1]<p>I haven&#x27;t used LastPass in years, but the recent news made me wonder how Bitwarden was handling URLs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;zero-knowledge-encryption-white-paper&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;zero-knowledge-encryption-wh...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>When it comes to password management, trust should not even be a thing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesspass.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesspass.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>EpicEditor: An Embeddable JavaScript Markdown Editor</title><url>http://oscargodson.github.com/EpicEditor/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwilson</author><text>I'd love to implement this instead of a WYSIWYG into our platform, but the problem is our users (non-technical) are not going to take the time to learn markdown. Even if we had a guide on the right I have a hunch they would still be super confused.<p>Idea: Add buttons to the top (optional) that LOOK like a WYSIWYG (something they are familiar with), that simply apply markdown around text.<p>I think you'd see such much wider adoption with that addition, which is something I'd love to happen, because WYSIWYG's do indeed suck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazerwalker</author><text>Agreed 100%. GitHub's wiki UI (example: <a href="http://cl.ly/2T2718220P1Y3h0M330r" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/2T2718220P1Y3h0M330r</a>) would be a great place to take inspiration from, since that's almost exactly what you're talking about.</text></comment>
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<story><title>EpicEditor: An Embeddable JavaScript Markdown Editor</title><url>http://oscargodson.github.com/EpicEditor/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwilson</author><text>I'd love to implement this instead of a WYSIWYG into our platform, but the problem is our users (non-technical) are not going to take the time to learn markdown. Even if we had a guide on the right I have a hunch they would still be super confused.<p>Idea: Add buttons to the top (optional) that LOOK like a WYSIWYG (something they are familiar with), that simply apply markdown around text.<p>I think you'd see such much wider adoption with that addition, which is something I'd love to happen, because WYSIWYG's do indeed suck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subpixel</author><text>Your suggestion might be a good default for handling image insertion. I know markdown, but in instances where I'm specifying an image (e.g. a blog, a CMS page) I'd rather have a button that lets me select from available images than have to type it out using markedown (which would require that I know the filename and explicit path). Not to mention image alignment.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year</title><url>https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msandford</author><text>Core inflation excludes food and energy. So as long as you&#x27;re dead, you only experience core inflation! Everyone else who is alive is exposed to core inflation and also the one that takes food and fuel into account. Perhaps that&#x27;s why people don&#x27;t &quot;buy&quot; the numbers. Because the numbers aren&#x27;t representative of the reality that alive human beings experience.</text></item><item><author>boc</author><text>The BLS has a very well-documented method [1] of measuring core consumer inflation. The basket of goods they track likely does not reflect your personal consumption patterns.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;hom&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;hom&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>Based on my anecdotal experience this seems to very much understate inflation.
How is housing up only 3.8%? This site says over 17% rent increase nationally over the last year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apartmentlist.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;national-rent-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apartmentlist.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;national-rent-data</a> which seems to be more accurate. Anyone with a web browser knows that home prices have experienced a monumental increase.<p>Also a trip to the grocery store appears to cost me 50% more now for essentially the same goods. Every trip to the store pre-covid cost me around $100, now its $150. I do buy primarily proteins so that is the source of the increase but to ignore that seems ill advised.<p>Not generally a conspiracy theorist but unless the people that built this report are using some accepted formula that is very different than the real world this report seems to be intentionally underselling inflation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deltree7</author><text>Core Inflation is needed so that they can apply the right monetary policy. If you want your &#x27;personal&#x27; inflation, they have data for that too.<p>Fed releases all kinds of data (unemployment and monetary) and is pretty transparent.<p>It is disingenuous of you (and contributing to the erosion of institutional trust of Federal institution) by falsely accusing them.<p>Federal agencies aren&#x27;t perfect, but at least educated people in HN should take the responsibility of giving constructive criticism based on facts rather than being brainwashed by random YouTuber&#x2F;Blogger who is generally clueless about economics</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year</title><url>https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msandford</author><text>Core inflation excludes food and energy. So as long as you&#x27;re dead, you only experience core inflation! Everyone else who is alive is exposed to core inflation and also the one that takes food and fuel into account. Perhaps that&#x27;s why people don&#x27;t &quot;buy&quot; the numbers. Because the numbers aren&#x27;t representative of the reality that alive human beings experience.</text></item><item><author>boc</author><text>The BLS has a very well-documented method [1] of measuring core consumer inflation. The basket of goods they track likely does not reflect your personal consumption patterns.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;hom&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;hom&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>Based on my anecdotal experience this seems to very much understate inflation.
How is housing up only 3.8%? This site says over 17% rent increase nationally over the last year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apartmentlist.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;national-rent-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apartmentlist.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;national-rent-data</a> which seems to be more accurate. Anyone with a web browser knows that home prices have experienced a monumental increase.<p>Also a trip to the grocery store appears to cost me 50% more now for essentially the same goods. Every trip to the store pre-covid cost me around $100, now its $150. I do buy primarily proteins so that is the source of the increase but to ignore that seems ill advised.<p>Not generally a conspiracy theorist but unless the people that built this report are using some accepted formula that is very different than the real world this report seems to be intentionally underselling inflation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>I don’t drive, I’m mostly on a plant-based diet, and I’ve been on 100% renewable energy for years. I’m very much alive, and also am willing to believe we’re not close to double digit inflation based on my costs.<p>And I live in one of those high-priced metros, so I actually experienced a rent cut since everyone fled to Miami and Austin (thereby increasing prices there).<p>Obviously your experience may be different, but remember econometrics tracks the entire economy, not just your budget.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]</title><url>https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>I disagree, many of the competitors do what is necessary just fine.<p>There is a strong sentiment with many gamers of just not wanting to use an alternative and it is basically a non starter for many other stores. Many complain about the very idea of not all of their games being in the same place.<p>This isn&#x27;t necessarily anything monopolistic done on Valve&#x27;s side. But it would be very hard for another store to make any meaningful impact regardless of how they are.</text></item><item><author>ric2b</author><text>Steam isn&#x27;t an unimpeachable monopoly, their competition is just so much worse.</text></item><item><author>jsheard</author><text>For anyone who seeks to emulate Valves internal structure you have to ask yourself one question - do you already have a core product with a near-unimpeachable monopoly which consistently brings in enough money to keep the entire company afloat, with enough left over to bankroll moonshot R&amp;D projects on top? If not, you can&#x27;t afford to operate like Valve. They cancel 10 projects for every one they ship, if not for Steam bringing in endless billions of dollars they would have gone out of business a decade ago.</text></item><item><author>gumby</author><text>The reasulting reality of the managerless approach hasn’t been good. As the they say, “if you don’t have any managers you have politics”.<p>I have several friends who used to work at Valve none of them hate the place, they still have friends there, etc. But they tell similar stories as to why things that normal companies do successfully are impossible at Valve. Perhaps it’s best summed up by something one friend said about her year and a half at Valve: “I first learned who my boss was on the day she fired me.”<p>Google tried this, notoriously dense grating and then firing basically all the managers at an all-hands. That didn’t work out well at all... And now they have over-steered in the opposite direction!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>&gt; the competitors do what is necessary just fine<p>But that&#x27;s the issue. The competitors are fine. They aren&#x27;t significantly better though. The only one with a compelling USP is GOG with their &quot;no drm, download the installer, own the game even after we go under&quot; pitch. Everyone else is just a steam clone with some exclusives and freebies. Without a compelling advantage network effect makes Steam the clear winner. It&#x27;s where your other games are and it&#x27;s where your friends are.<p>But that only holds true while Valve doesn&#x27;t screw up. Their competitors can&#x27;t be much better than Steam, but Steam could absolutely make horrible decisions that cause people to leave. But they don&#x27;t. Their organizational inability to make decisive action without wider support has lead to an incredibly stable, predictable platform.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]</title><url>https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>I disagree, many of the competitors do what is necessary just fine.<p>There is a strong sentiment with many gamers of just not wanting to use an alternative and it is basically a non starter for many other stores. Many complain about the very idea of not all of their games being in the same place.<p>This isn&#x27;t necessarily anything monopolistic done on Valve&#x27;s side. But it would be very hard for another store to make any meaningful impact regardless of how they are.</text></item><item><author>ric2b</author><text>Steam isn&#x27;t an unimpeachable monopoly, their competition is just so much worse.</text></item><item><author>jsheard</author><text>For anyone who seeks to emulate Valves internal structure you have to ask yourself one question - do you already have a core product with a near-unimpeachable monopoly which consistently brings in enough money to keep the entire company afloat, with enough left over to bankroll moonshot R&amp;D projects on top? If not, you can&#x27;t afford to operate like Valve. They cancel 10 projects for every one they ship, if not for Steam bringing in endless billions of dollars they would have gone out of business a decade ago.</text></item><item><author>gumby</author><text>The reasulting reality of the managerless approach hasn’t been good. As the they say, “if you don’t have any managers you have politics”.<p>I have several friends who used to work at Valve none of them hate the place, they still have friends there, etc. But they tell similar stories as to why things that normal companies do successfully are impossible at Valve. Perhaps it’s best summed up by something one friend said about her year and a half at Valve: “I first learned who my boss was on the day she fired me.”<p>Google tried this, notoriously dense grating and then firing basically all the managers at an all-hands. That didn’t work out well at all... And now they have over-steered in the opposite direction!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daemoens</author><text>Many of these alternatives failed because they were forced onto users who had already paid over $60 for a game, and they were incredibly slow and clunky. They might have improved over time, but people still remember how bad these stores were at launch.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encryption-protocol-hacker-lexicon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>For anyone curious, I spent a lot of time describing the protocol in intuitive ways[2] in the book Real-World Cryptography[1].<p>Having spent a lot of time reviewing Signal and secure messaging applications as part of my job, I wanted to be able to explain how the protocol worked in the most educative way possible. feedback is welcomed :D<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manning.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;real-world-cryptography?a_aid=Realworldcrypto&amp;a_bid=ad500e09" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manning.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;real-world-cryptography?a_aid=...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;livebook.manning.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;real-world-cryptography&#x2F;chapter-10&#x2F;v-10&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;livebook.manning.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;real-world-cryptography&#x2F;ch...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encryption-protocol-hacker-lexicon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>upofadown</author><text>This article mentions an important fact about forward secrecy:<p>&gt;Perfect forward secrecy is useless, it&#x27;s important to note, if users don&#x27;t delete their messages periodically.<p>Then:<p>&gt;The Signal app offers disappearing messages that are automatically deleted after a certain time limit.<p>Which is not turned on by default. The user has to somehow know that they have to do this to get the benefit of forward secrecy. This seems all too common with contemporary encrypted messaging stuff. Really great features that depend on having the users behave in a way they normally would not.<p>Of course the app can do this wrong simply by failing to do a secure delete that actually removes the messages from the storage device. In the end the actual communications protocol doesn&#x27;t make very much difference in the face of counter productive implementations; conceptual and&#x2F;or technical.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twobitshifter</author><text>If I have equity in a company and I care about its value, I’m not going to say anything to tank its value. If I sell my equity later on, and then disparage the company, what can OpenAI hope to do to me?</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>A lot of the brouhaha about OpenAI is silly, I think. But this is gross. Forcing employees to sign a perpetual non-disparagement agreement under threat of clawing back the large majority of their already earned compensation should not be legal. Honestly it probably isn&#x27;t, but it&#x27;ll take someone brave enough to sue to find out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>They can sue you into bankruptcy, obviously.<p>Also, what if you can&#x27;t sell? Selling is at their discretion. They can prevent you from selling some of your so-called &quot;equity&quot; to keep you on their leash as long as they want.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twobitshifter</author><text>If I have equity in a company and I care about its value, I’m not going to say anything to tank its value. If I sell my equity later on, and then disparage the company, what can OpenAI hope to do to me?</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>A lot of the brouhaha about OpenAI is silly, I think. But this is gross. Forcing employees to sign a perpetual non-disparagement agreement under threat of clawing back the large majority of their already earned compensation should not be legal. Honestly it probably isn&#x27;t, but it&#x27;ll take someone brave enough to sue to find out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chefandy</author><text>&gt; If I sell my equity later on, and then disparage the company, what can OpenAI hope to do to me?<p>Well, that would obviously depend on the terms of the contract, but I would be astonished if the people who wrote it didn&#x27;t consider that possibility. It&#x27;s pretty trivial to calculate the monetary value of equity, and if they feel entitled to that equity, they surely feel entitled to its cash equivalent.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows</title><url>https://videovillage.co/filmbox/</url><text>We released Filmbox two years ago, and it has gotten a great response. It&#x27;s been used in huge movies like &quot;Everything Everywhere All At Once&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s been a huge rewrite to get this working on Linux and Windows from our original Mac and Metal code.<p>We also have some interesting uses of cross-platform Swift + Electron in our plugin manager app, and cross-platform Swift generally in the plugin. Hopefully we can detail that in a blog post at some point.<p>There&#x27;s a free Filmbox Lite version to try, if you&#x27;re interested.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Etheryte</author><text>As a photographer, emulation like this is of great interest to me. Like in cinematography, film is often held in high regard in photography with the caveat that it isn&#x27;t even remotely as flexible as digital options.<p>Have you considered creating a parallel product as an Adobe Lightroom plugin and&#x2F;or a standalone app for still images?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azov</author><text>You may be interested in checking this out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dehancer.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dehancer.com&#x2F;</a>.<p>I believe they have Adobe + Da Vinci plugins for film &amp; video (and maybe a standalone app as well. At least they used to when I played with the beta, but it may be plugin-only now, I’m not sure).<p>As far as I remember, they try to do some physically accurate emulation as well. The founder is a big fan of film photography and also runs some interesting gigs (like, repackaging cinema film for use in still cameras) - also blogs about color and film photography.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows</title><url>https://videovillage.co/filmbox/</url><text>We released Filmbox two years ago, and it has gotten a great response. It&#x27;s been used in huge movies like &quot;Everything Everywhere All At Once&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s been a huge rewrite to get this working on Linux and Windows from our original Mac and Metal code.<p>We also have some interesting uses of cross-platform Swift + Electron in our plugin manager app, and cross-platform Swift generally in the plugin. Hopefully we can detail that in a blog post at some point.<p>There&#x27;s a free Filmbox Lite version to try, if you&#x27;re interested.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Etheryte</author><text>As a photographer, emulation like this is of great interest to me. Like in cinematography, film is often held in high regard in photography with the caveat that it isn&#x27;t even remotely as flexible as digital options.<p>Have you considered creating a parallel product as an Adobe Lightroom plugin and&#x2F;or a standalone app for still images?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrstphrknwtn</author><text>&gt; [film] isn&#x27;t even remotely as flexible as digital options<p>I&#x27;ve pretty much only ever shot film, so my opinion isn&#x27;t worth much, but colour negative seems to be way more <i>flexible</i> than digital if all you&#x27;re talking about is the capture. In terms of using film in modern workflows, digital is <i>easier</i>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Was data science just hype?</title><text>I don&#x27;t hear a lot about &quot;data science&quot; anymore. And judging from the shrinking number of job postings, I suspect it was a bit overhyped a few years ago. What do you think?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lame88</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of hype in software. Just like you were hearing about Blockchain startups only when Bitcoin started trading at 5 bazillion USD and now you don&#x27;t hear nearly as much about it. During 2008-2015ish we went through an insane churn of new JavaScript frameworks and NoSQL database hype.<p>Yeah it seems to have calmed, but I don&#x27;t think data science was <i>just</i> hype because it comes from (and somewhat is) probability and statistics, and the rate of data&#x2F;information that&#x27;s being produced by and extracted from people seems to be ever increasing. But it absolutely was prone to a hype cycle as with almost anything else in tech. IMO this is a phenomenon exacerbated by venture capital.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wayoutthere</author><text>Most of what we call “data science” is repackaged “data mining” — a skill that goes easily back to the mid-90s. Sure, open source tooling makes it all a lot more accessible today; but IBM &#x2F; Oracle &#x2F; etc. have offered similar packages (at MUCH higher price points, of course) for decades.<p>I think once the hype calmed down, people started to realize that it was largely the same old shit in a much cheaper package — evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Ultimately I think the hype cycle was driven by Moore’s Law more than anything; the fact you could run this type of analysis in a manageable amount of time without needing a huge IBM mainframe was the real innovation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Was data science just hype?</title><text>I don&#x27;t hear a lot about &quot;data science&quot; anymore. And judging from the shrinking number of job postings, I suspect it was a bit overhyped a few years ago. What do you think?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lame88</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of hype in software. Just like you were hearing about Blockchain startups only when Bitcoin started trading at 5 bazillion USD and now you don&#x27;t hear nearly as much about it. During 2008-2015ish we went through an insane churn of new JavaScript frameworks and NoSQL database hype.<p>Yeah it seems to have calmed, but I don&#x27;t think data science was <i>just</i> hype because it comes from (and somewhat is) probability and statistics, and the rate of data&#x2F;information that&#x27;s being produced by and extracted from people seems to be ever increasing. But it absolutely was prone to a hype cycle as with almost anything else in tech. IMO this is a phenomenon exacerbated by venture capital.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemild</author><text>That hype in software is the reason I wrote a media literacy guide for software engineers. Hype makes it easy to get free marketing and also drives clicks for media and social networks.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nemild&#x2F;hack-the-media&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;software-engineers-media-guide.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nemild&#x2F;hack-the-media&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;softwar...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified</title><url>https://itnext.io/the-cloud-skills-shortage-and-the-unemployed-army-of-the-certified-bd405784cef1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drieddust</author><text>I work for a large IT outsourcing company and I have seen the opposite of it with our clients. Most of our clients wants to be on cloud but without any change to their habits so we end up building complete traditional data centers in the Azure or AWS.<p>Most applications are simply cloned from existing On-Premises Infrastructure because every project have a 2 weeks deadline and every single stakeholder just wants to stick it in. Patterns like Auto-Scaling etc is just a far fetched dream.<p>Supporting such Infrastructure where every server is a pet trying to survive in a Slaughter House is a deeply painful.</text></item><item><author>coleca</author><text>I did some freelancing cloud work recently and was shocked at what I saw out there. From small one person operations to startups to large multinational Fortune 500 corporations I saw the same pattern repeated over and over. People using the cloud to spin up infrastructure that have no experience building out infrastructure and making really bad and dangerous mistakes.<p>Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others make it simple to get going but the devil is in the details when it comes to building it right, safe and ready for production. Just a few examples:<p>• Putting RDS SQL Servers on a public IP with no protection<p>• No templating of servers so if it disappears you have no record of how to get a new one running again<p>• Servers with SSH password authentication turned on with passwords of “Password”, because SSH key auth was “too hard for our devs”<p>• No backups because “it’s in the cloud, isn’t the cloud backing it up for me, like iCloud?”<p>I have an AWS Solution Architect Professional certification and agree you could get a cert and still not be qualified to run or design much on AWS but it does put you ahead of much of what I’ve seen out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raincom</author><text>In big companies, 95% of apps are still old school: firewall -- load balancer -- 5 front ends -- 3 back ends -- two database servers. And the people who developed most of these apps left these companies long time, what these companies have bunch of managers and some developers who maintain that code.<p>People of this kind are extremely conservative, because they are not in a position to fix major issues if something goes wrong--esp new architecture. So, they want to lift as is to aws.<p>A decade ago, I was involved in physically moving three solaris servers that were running un-supported BEA weblogic instances. When I powered on these three servers on a different rack, weblogic cluster failed. No IP change, just moved machines to free up racks in one row. And the people who developed the app, and the dev architect behind it were so mad at us. In the end, they gave up on that app.<p>That&#x27;s how it goes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified</title><url>https://itnext.io/the-cloud-skills-shortage-and-the-unemployed-army-of-the-certified-bd405784cef1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drieddust</author><text>I work for a large IT outsourcing company and I have seen the opposite of it with our clients. Most of our clients wants to be on cloud but without any change to their habits so we end up building complete traditional data centers in the Azure or AWS.<p>Most applications are simply cloned from existing On-Premises Infrastructure because every project have a 2 weeks deadline and every single stakeholder just wants to stick it in. Patterns like Auto-Scaling etc is just a far fetched dream.<p>Supporting such Infrastructure where every server is a pet trying to survive in a Slaughter House is a deeply painful.</text></item><item><author>coleca</author><text>I did some freelancing cloud work recently and was shocked at what I saw out there. From small one person operations to startups to large multinational Fortune 500 corporations I saw the same pattern repeated over and over. People using the cloud to spin up infrastructure that have no experience building out infrastructure and making really bad and dangerous mistakes.<p>Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others make it simple to get going but the devil is in the details when it comes to building it right, safe and ready for production. Just a few examples:<p>• Putting RDS SQL Servers on a public IP with no protection<p>• No templating of servers so if it disappears you have no record of how to get a new one running again<p>• Servers with SSH password authentication turned on with passwords of “Password”, because SSH key auth was “too hard for our devs”<p>• No backups because “it’s in the cloud, isn’t the cloud backing it up for me, like iCloud?”<p>I have an AWS Solution Architect Professional certification and agree you could get a cert and still not be qualified to run or design much on AWS but it does put you ahead of much of what I’ve seen out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>halbritt</author><text>They call this &quot;lift and shift&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s a terrible idea, but cloud providers love it because they end up getting paid a lot of money for idle capacity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Making robust software: the “Mars Code” talk (2012)</title><url>http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/making_robust_software/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atsaloli</author><text>Dr Holzmann&#x27;s &quot;The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code&quot; was published in June 2006 issue of IEEE Computer Society &quot;Computer&quot; magazine. It is a small standard, easy to understand and remember; mechanically verifiable; and measurably effective. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;gerard&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;P10.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;gerard&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;P10.pdf</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Making robust software: the “Mars Code” talk (2012)</title><url>http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/making_robust_software/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanDav</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;The color coding green&#x2F;yellow&#x2F;red had a psychological effect. The software developers worked really hard to make all the buttons go green.&quot;</i><p>There is a possible risk element of Cargo Cult&#x27;ing here. I would hope that all programmers understood <i>why</i> the buttons weren&#x27;t green. It sounds like they would have, having been certified, and in an environment that lives and breathes code safety, but it is always worth being aware that metrics like that can have hidden consequences.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why OCaml? [video]</title><url>https://blogs.janestreet.com/why-ocaml/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nons3nse</author><text>I am learning Haskell but it is very s-l-o-o-o-w to get to a point where I feel I am actually able to write useful software (probably my fault in fairness!). I have looked over the fence at OCaml and it seems it hits a sweet spot between practicality and rigor.<p>Can anyone advise on whether learning OCaml is worth it when compared to Haskell, considering I am on my way with Haskell, if only slowly? The lack of tooling on Windows (I write cross platform desktop software) and the maturity of the web frameworks (compared to Haskell) has put be off learning OCaml in the past...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZenoArrow</author><text>Learn F#. It&#x27;s basically OCaml for .NET (there are some differences between them, but they&#x27;re very similar). You get great tooling, a huge library of functions (F# supports all .NET libraries), a welcoming community, and the language itself is very well thought out.<p>If you decide you&#x27;d like to learn OCaml at a later date, you&#x27;ll find it easy if you&#x27;ve already learnt F#.<p>With regards to web frameworks, you&#x27;ve got some good options, ranging from heavyweight frameworks like WebSharper, to lightweight frameworks like Suave.<p>Much of F# is cross platform too. It&#x27;s been open source for a long time, and runs fine on Mono.<p>If you&#x27;d like some extra information about F#, I&#x27;d recommend the website &#x27;F# for fun and profit&#x27;:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharpforfunandprofit.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharpforfunandprofit.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Why OCaml? [video]</title><url>https://blogs.janestreet.com/why-ocaml/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nons3nse</author><text>I am learning Haskell but it is very s-l-o-o-o-w to get to a point where I feel I am actually able to write useful software (probably my fault in fairness!). I have looked over the fence at OCaml and it seems it hits a sweet spot between practicality and rigor.<p>Can anyone advise on whether learning OCaml is worth it when compared to Haskell, considering I am on my way with Haskell, if only slowly? The lack of tooling on Windows (I write cross platform desktop software) and the maturity of the web frameworks (compared to Haskell) has put be off learning OCaml in the past...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a0</author><text>Learning Haskell is rewarding in long term, since it deepens your understanding of things.<p>I learnt both Haskell and OCaml at the same time since their core is essentially the same. But in real world scenarios the way you think about problems is different in both languages. Haskell tends to be more abstract and favor mathematical reasoning, while OCaml is pragmatic but still very expressive.<p>TL;DR: It depends on your needs, if you want to learn the language and start building something quickly, OCaml is definitely a better choice. You can always come back later to Haskell, and you&#x27;ll be surprised to see how similar they are.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48464030</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ahelwer</author><text>Summiting Everest, as a tourist, is basically unimpressive and a strong indicator you&#x27;re an empty box-checker. Any moderately fit person with $100k lying around can get short-roped or crawl up the fixed lines to the top while sucking down bottles of oxygen, endangering the lives of the people helping them on their way.<p>If you meet someone who has climbed Everest, don&#x27;t validate their ego.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48464030</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>I remember hearing a talk by Ed Viesturs who was the first American to climb all 14 eight-thousanders<p>He emphasized that his rule was that going up was optional, coming down wasn’t and told a story of this one mountain climb where they spent weeks getting ready to the point where they were ready to summit. I don’t remember the details, but for some reason they were not able to get the start they wanted and it would be close to being dark by the time they got back from the summit. Instead of risking it, he aborted and came back the next year.<p>Sometimes knowing when to abort an endeavor is one of the most important skills.</text></comment>
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<story><title>After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL</title><url>https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strken</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this is any more or less of a problem for REST APIs. <i>What if your engineers change $client&#x2F;$server and the new version makes really expensive queries?</i> Well, ask them not to do that, then when some of them inevitably ignore you, start to review their code, terminate long-running queries, batch or pool fanouts so they don&#x27;t take anything down, monitor new releases and roll back if anything breaks, etc.<p>If you&#x27;re providing an external API like GitHub does, then that&#x27;s a different story and I agree.</text></item><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>The problem is you delegate a lot of the query building to the client, hoping that it will not suddenly change your performance profile by being creative and that you will have not missed an obviously expensive use case coming.<p>That&#x27;s a huge bet, especially given that GraphQL is expensive in the first place, and given that the more you grow the API in size, the less you can actually map the cartesian product of all request params.</text></item><item><author>DanielHB</author><text>GraphQL is very good for places where frontend and backend developers are isolated from each other (separate teams). Or rather places where you have data-producers and data-consumers as separate teams. If you have a big enough org eventually there will be many of such teams, interdisciplinary teams are not feasible at scale for everything.<p>It allows teams to work with less communication overhead. It solves more of a human problems than a technical problems, if someone think there is no value in that and bare metal performance is paramount that person never worked in a big org.<p>&gt; RPC and REST are just more straightforward to monitor, log, cache, authorize and debug.<p>In some ways yes, in others no. For example it can be near impossible to see if a deprecated field in a REST API is still being used and by which clients it is being used. With GraphQL this is fairly simple.<p>Unfortunately GraphQL way of working is very different from normal REST APIs and often requires more complex server-side caching. The N+1 problem needs to be figured out upfront for every data-storage system used in the backend.</text></item><item><author>atsjie</author><text>Worked on two GraphQL projects; I was quickly cured from the hype. I recognize a lot of points in this article.<p>In both these projects the GraphQL had started small. I came in during a more mature phase of these projects (2 and 4 years). That&#x27;s where the requirements are harder, more specific, and overall complexity has grown. Adoption and demand on the API were growing quickly. Hence you logically spend more time debugging, this is true for any codebase.<p>But GraphQL has everything in it to make such problems even harder. And both these projects had clear signs of &quot;learning-on-the-go&quot; with loads of bad practices (especially for the N+1 problem). Issue descriptions were much vaguer, harder to find in logs and performance issues popped up in the most random places (code that had been running and untouched for ages).<p>Fun fact; in both these projects the original devs who set it up were no longer involved. Probably spreading their evangalism further elsewhere.<p>RPC and REST are just more straightforward to monitor, log, cache, authorize and debug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>If you have separation between front and back end, then the back end team can elect to serve REST APIs which only permit selecting, filtering, grouping and pagination that they know they can support within defined latency bounds for a given traffic level.<p>Thing get more problematic when there&#x27;s vertical ownership for a feature, where the UI needs just a few extra things and you end up with a REST response which is fatter and fatter, in the interest of avoiding round trips and client-side joins.<p>The problem with killing correct queries that take too long is that it shows up as intermittent failure that&#x27;s dependent on server load and data cardinality. You might not find it in testing and it ships a bad experience to the customer before bugs are found. Whereas APIs which can&#x27;t be so easily misused make it much harder to ship bugs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL</title><url>https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strken</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this is any more or less of a problem for REST APIs. <i>What if your engineers change $client&#x2F;$server and the new version makes really expensive queries?</i> Well, ask them not to do that, then when some of them inevitably ignore you, start to review their code, terminate long-running queries, batch or pool fanouts so they don&#x27;t take anything down, monitor new releases and roll back if anything breaks, etc.<p>If you&#x27;re providing an external API like GitHub does, then that&#x27;s a different story and I agree.</text></item><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>The problem is you delegate a lot of the query building to the client, hoping that it will not suddenly change your performance profile by being creative and that you will have not missed an obviously expensive use case coming.<p>That&#x27;s a huge bet, especially given that GraphQL is expensive in the first place, and given that the more you grow the API in size, the less you can actually map the cartesian product of all request params.</text></item><item><author>DanielHB</author><text>GraphQL is very good for places where frontend and backend developers are isolated from each other (separate teams). Or rather places where you have data-producers and data-consumers as separate teams. If you have a big enough org eventually there will be many of such teams, interdisciplinary teams are not feasible at scale for everything.<p>It allows teams to work with less communication overhead. It solves more of a human problems than a technical problems, if someone think there is no value in that and bare metal performance is paramount that person never worked in a big org.<p>&gt; RPC and REST are just more straightforward to monitor, log, cache, authorize and debug.<p>In some ways yes, in others no. For example it can be near impossible to see if a deprecated field in a REST API is still being used and by which clients it is being used. With GraphQL this is fairly simple.<p>Unfortunately GraphQL way of working is very different from normal REST APIs and often requires more complex server-side caching. The N+1 problem needs to be figured out upfront for every data-storage system used in the backend.</text></item><item><author>atsjie</author><text>Worked on two GraphQL projects; I was quickly cured from the hype. I recognize a lot of points in this article.<p>In both these projects the GraphQL had started small. I came in during a more mature phase of these projects (2 and 4 years). That&#x27;s where the requirements are harder, more specific, and overall complexity has grown. Adoption and demand on the API were growing quickly. Hence you logically spend more time debugging, this is true for any codebase.<p>But GraphQL has everything in it to make such problems even harder. And both these projects had clear signs of &quot;learning-on-the-go&quot; with loads of bad practices (especially for the N+1 problem). Issue descriptions were much vaguer, harder to find in logs and performance issues popped up in the most random places (code that had been running and untouched for ages).<p>Fun fact; in both these projects the original devs who set it up were no longer involved. Probably spreading their evangalism further elsewhere.<p>RPC and REST are just more straightforward to monitor, log, cache, authorize and debug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of relevant differences between REST &amp; GraphQL. It is possible to construct a REST endpoint that simply can&#x27;t do any of those things, and such construction is a mid-level developer task at best. For instance, pagination of &quot;all posts ever&quot; is not uncommon, and clients won&#x27;t be shocked to deal with it. GraphQL is enough harder to characterize the performance of that it definitely qualifies as a change in quantity that is itself a change in quality. Hypothetically, both approaches are vulnerable to all the same issues, but GraphQL is far <i>more</i> vulnerable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>Rice paddies are responsible for 11% of the world’s methane emissions.<p>...researchers .. have discovered how to dramatically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions output of rice fields. Initial indications are showing a 70% reduction.</i><p>So ballpark: Looks like we could reduce (strikethrough: greenhouse gas) <i>methane</i> emissions by 7 percent or so a year while growing more rice to boot from this one change if enough farms adopted it and the article indicates that halfway through the planting season, farmers who had been reluctant to try it spontaneously changed to the new method simply because the crop yield was better:<p><i>Even when the pilot was halfway through, the crops were looking so healthy that a further 10 farmers in the village who weren’t part of the project chose to drain their land.</i><p>And I wondered what a 7 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses would do for climate change and found this opening paragraph:<p><i>Geneva, 26 November 2019 – On the eve of a year in which nations are due to strengthen their Paris climate pledges, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report warns that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6 per cent each year between 2020 and 2030, the world will miss the opportunity to get on track towards the 1.5°C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mongabay.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mongabay.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;bali-rice-experiment-cuts-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morley</author><text>The &quot;how&quot; took some reading to find. Here it is:<p>&gt; They filled one field with water, as is common in Bali, but they drained the other, wetting the soil only when hairline cracks were spotted in the earth</text></comment>
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<story><title>From net neutrality to digital privacy, Congress does diddly</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/from-net-neutrality-to-digital-privacy-congress-does-diddly/2017/11/28/bd2dd442-d44f-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.6040d7c6044f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makecheck</author><text>Even if Congress <i>were</i> paying any attention to what constituents want (and they rarely seem to), it’s laughable that such a small number of people are expected to faithfully understand the wishes of so many people. Right now it’s on the order of one <i>million</i> regular people per representative!<p>Moreover, with such a small number of people, buying them becomes “easy”; it just doesn’t take that much money to corrupt a few hundred people. If most people need to work their entire lives to reach a million dollars, does it really take much for billionaires to steer the ship?<p>Now, if you were to <i>vastly</i> increase the number of representatives, you’d solve both problems. Suppose there were <i>5,000</i> members of Congress; then it would take a lot more money to corrupt enough people to change outcomes, <i>and</i> each of them would have to represent a much smaller fraction of the population.<p>A huge number of representatives would’ve been impractical before the age of the Internet (as you’d need a stadium just to hold a session) but with secure remote access it’s <i>quite</i> feasible to have tons of people logged in at once. And heck, why not designate a Congress-stadium anyway, for rare in-person sessions? If it works for mega-churches, it can work for politicians.</text></comment>
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<story><title>From net neutrality to digital privacy, Congress does diddly</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/from-net-neutrality-to-digital-privacy-congress-does-diddly/2017/11/28/bd2dd442-d44f-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.6040d7c6044f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jswizzy</author><text>Good. To quote Lao Tzu, &quot;The more restrictions and prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Oldest Cookbook in Korean</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-korean-cookbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>I think it took me a while to understand (after being told by native speakers) that Korean and Japanese are a bit of a linguistic evolutionary puzzle, especially if you thought that because their characters look like Chinese, their spoken languages are related to Chinese.<p>They are not. The languages must have come first &#x2F; evolved independent of China, and then a wave of foreign commerce &#x2F; scholarly &#x2F; government influence over centuries propagated Chinese writing to them.<p>So the spoken language uses Chinese based characters to record the sounds in writing, but it may not necessarily have relation to what the sounds are in Chinese if someone were to read the characters as if Chinese. And the spoken language is not at all related to Chinese (aside from some imported words). As if someone encountered English alphabet words being spoken with totally different sounds assigned to them.<p>That was very interesting to finally understand -- if I&#x27;ve even gotten it all correct...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>A close analog to the place Chinese has with Koreans and Japanese speakers is the place ancient Latin and Greek have today with English speakers. Lots of loan words, many of which aren&#x27;t even recognized as such by native speakers, and uses in prestige modes like philosophy, science, etc.<p>One difference is that Rome fell and the Normans brought a highly changed Romance language with them into England. While Korea and China had an ongoing relationship going back millennia. As Chinese changed over time different words from different eras also crept in to the language.<p>On top of that, Korean itself also changed, harmonized dialects, dropped and added sounds and features and other things. The Korean written in the first book on Hangul by King Sejong the Great is both not only not pronounceable by modern Koreans, but less understandable than Chaucer might be to modern English speakers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Oldest Cookbook in Korean</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-korean-cookbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>I think it took me a while to understand (after being told by native speakers) that Korean and Japanese are a bit of a linguistic evolutionary puzzle, especially if you thought that because their characters look like Chinese, their spoken languages are related to Chinese.<p>They are not. The languages must have come first &#x2F; evolved independent of China, and then a wave of foreign commerce &#x2F; scholarly &#x2F; government influence over centuries propagated Chinese writing to them.<p>So the spoken language uses Chinese based characters to record the sounds in writing, but it may not necessarily have relation to what the sounds are in Chinese if someone were to read the characters as if Chinese. And the spoken language is not at all related to Chinese (aside from some imported words). As if someone encountered English alphabet words being spoken with totally different sounds assigned to them.<p>That was very interesting to finally understand -- if I&#x27;ve even gotten it all correct...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicsmoke</author><text>Take all the west European languages and how they&#x27;re littered with loan words from Roman Latin or from French&#x2F;Spanish&#x2F;Italian which are descended from Latin. Now imagine if French&#x2F;Spanish&#x2F;Italian were all still called Latin and the Roman empire existed into the modern era. That&#x27;s the influence Sinitic has on East Asian languages.<p>European, Language, Littered, Roman, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Descended, Imagine, Empire, Existed, Modern, Era, Influence, Sinitic, Asian<p>&quot;Roman&quot; terms in modern day English.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poll: How religious is hacker news?</title><text>After seeing the top post related to OneBody the open source Church project I found myself curious as to how the rest of hacker news identified themselves spiritually. Sometimes we make assumptions about a particular group of people and this poll seems like a great way to challenge those assumptions and take a closer look at who makes up the hacker news community. So....<p>How do you identify yourself spiritually?
(Please comment if you choose Other.)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>Having grown up in the church, I have honestly never found a good replacement for the sense of community and support that a church offers. Its a shame that no other non-religious organizations have been able to replicate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChikkaChiChi</author><text>I would contest that any communal group that meets face to face regularly develops similar bonds and that this is not exclusive of spiritual gatherings.<p>I think over the past few generations we have lost more of those reasons to get together, and church is one of the last hanger-ons of these close knit communities.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poll: How religious is hacker news?</title><text>After seeing the top post related to OneBody the open source Church project I found myself curious as to how the rest of hacker news identified themselves spiritually. Sometimes we make assumptions about a particular group of people and this poll seems like a great way to challenge those assumptions and take a closer look at who makes up the hacker news community. So....<p>How do you identify yourself spiritually?
(Please comment if you choose Other.)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>Having grown up in the church, I have honestly never found a good replacement for the sense of community and support that a church offers. Its a shame that no other non-religious organizations have been able to replicate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akgerber</author><text>The Unitarian Universalist church is non-creedal and has many atheist members. Many cities also have Ethical Culture Societies, which mostly grew out of the non-religious elements of the Jewish community.</text></comment>
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<story><title>California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide</title><url>https://sfstandard.com/controversy-rages-as-california-follows-sfs-lead-with-new-approach-to-teaching-math/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moksly</author><text>I’m Danish and not at all interested in the politics of it, but there can be a case for teaching algebra late. We do it in Denmark, because it’s the subject children have the hardest time learning, and having too many of them fail too early kills their interest in math. We still teach algebra in grade 7-9, but we’ve gone through the social experiments of teaching it at different ages, and have lost entire generations because it was taught too soon.<p>I don’t think social justice or equality should play a part of the argument, but it’s always hard to tell where the legislation ends and the propaganda begins these days, and I’m honestly no interested enough to read the 800 page document this article is about.<p>I will say, however, that I think we’re going to have problems teaching math until we reform the school system to be suited for the modern world instead of the early 1900’s “assembly line” society. It makes no sense to place children in classes based on their age, and certainly not for all subjects.<p>The result is always going to be that both slow and brilliant students get fucked over, in a myriad of ways, especially if they are a mix of good and bad at different subjects.<p>Why exactly is it that you aren’t taught courses like math, or history or language according to your ability instead of your age?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anchpop</author><text>There was an informal study done in the early 20th century, where a superintendent decided he didn’t think math was that useful and told the 4 poorest elementary schools in his district to stop teaching it. (He chose the poorest schools because he knew the parents wouldn’t put up as much of a fuss as at the wealthier schools.) They still taught how to count, read clocks, and make change, but besides that they had no formal math instruction. They used the extra time to read as a class IIRC.<p>The result was that, despite lacking 6 years of formal math education, the students in that district were only one year behind the other students when they went to junior high. That is, they were able to recover all six years of missed elementary school math education in one year of junior high. And in the superintendent’s opinion, those students were better at critical thinking and were able to solve some problems their better-educated counterparts were not. I can find the link if anyone is interested.<p>Basically, it seems like kid’s brains are just not able to efficiently learn math. I know I could learn math concepts now that would have taken me much longer in highschool. I kind of wish we would just let kids be kids for more of their lives</text></comment>
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<story><title>California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide</title><url>https://sfstandard.com/controversy-rages-as-california-follows-sfs-lead-with-new-approach-to-teaching-math/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moksly</author><text>I’m Danish and not at all interested in the politics of it, but there can be a case for teaching algebra late. We do it in Denmark, because it’s the subject children have the hardest time learning, and having too many of them fail too early kills their interest in math. We still teach algebra in grade 7-9, but we’ve gone through the social experiments of teaching it at different ages, and have lost entire generations because it was taught too soon.<p>I don’t think social justice or equality should play a part of the argument, but it’s always hard to tell where the legislation ends and the propaganda begins these days, and I’m honestly no interested enough to read the 800 page document this article is about.<p>I will say, however, that I think we’re going to have problems teaching math until we reform the school system to be suited for the modern world instead of the early 1900’s “assembly line” society. It makes no sense to place children in classes based on their age, and certainly not for all subjects.<p>The result is always going to be that both slow and brilliant students get fucked over, in a myriad of ways, especially if they are a mix of good and bad at different subjects.<p>Why exactly is it that you aren’t taught courses like math, or history or language according to your ability instead of your age?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eggy</author><text>I am a big proponent of getting rid of the age-segregation as is it is now and widening the age range, but I&#x27;d like to see a citation on Denmark teaching Algebra later and the data on this. I read turn-of-the century math books that are years ahead in rigor and subject matter, and that seemed to fare well. There was a lot of stigmatizing of AP classes by the great &quot;equalizers&quot;, but let the kids who can excel, excel. I am not at all a believer the &quot;leave no child behind&quot; philosophy. Even college-educated kids we hire now seem to be behind the group just 5 to 10 years younger in common sense, math, writing, history, and problem-solving skills, at least in the interviews I have given over the past 15 to 20 years. The odd superstar shows once in a while, but they will always thrive in any situation. Personally, I grew up with a lot against me, but I pushed and was pretty much self-taught, and I like to think I did good. I don&#x27;t believe in trying to administer or legislate intelligence. Instant facts from Google does not equate to knowledge and wisdom.</text></comment>
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<story><title>IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run</title><url>https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ikea-catalog-to-be-discontinued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>There is a ton of misconceptions out there about paper. Not saying using less isn&#x27;t a good thing, so.<p>Most paper uses a very decent amount of recycled paper, has ti actually. To the point the industry faced issues last Q1 when demand went down and there wasn&#x27;t enough recycled paper on the market. Trees are grown explicitly for paper production, and are regrown in the same forests. Net forest losses are mainly due to farming, e.g. in the Amazon region. Energy wise, paper production offers great opportunities to balance the grid.<p>Most paper, at least in Europe, is actually recycled.<p>And electronics do have there issues as well. They consume raw earthes, are consumed as well, end up in land fills and also have quite extensive supply chains and CO2 foot prints. And they consume electricity, which has to produced. And we are nowhere near the necessary levels of renewables.<p>I do support getting rid of useless paper consumption, it just not as straight forward as it seems.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Good riddance, in my opinion. 40 million copies of a thick catalog with glossy pages means a couple shittons of not just trees but petroleum and petrochemicals for production, distribution, and disposal. Every year! And ten years ago, it was nearly 200. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG</a><p>Can you even imagine a stack of one million catalogs?<p>That&#x27;s space, trees, plants, mammals, birds, insects, mushrooms, ... all being squeezed for a glossy catalog, most of which will get thumbed through once or twice and sent to the landfill to rot.<p>These catalogs do not biodegrade well, by the way, because they&#x27;re not just paper.<p>I love paper books, and I enjoyed browsing this catalog just like many others in this thread, and yet I don&#x27;t think I will miss this one. Hopefully, other thick glossy catalogs will follow suit.<p>Production of catalogs like this squeezes our biome, and if we don&#x27;t turn back, it will pop, and we&#x27;ll be left with only enough resources for a small fraction of us to survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>&quot;Logging forests,&quot; &quot;working forests&quot; are not forests. They&#x27;re tree farms. Calling them forests evokes a bunch of assumptions about conservation that are mostly not true about forestry trees.<p>We have a great deal of logging going on in temperate rainforests and there are whole swaths of the food chain that require moss growing on old growth trees. Clearcutting kills all of this. So does leaving a few trees intact, which is seen as some sort of improvement to conservation. It is not. Everything dies, it just dies slower. Most of the flora and fauna are adapted to full forest cover and high humidity. A copse of trees does not provide any of this. Summer comes and everything dries out.<p>We are still in need of a very different process for creating paper products. Fishing exclusion zones are an interesting model, but fish can move a lot farther than ferns, and a hell of a lot farther than moss and the habitat they provide. We may end up having to leaving a considerable amount of land intact (larger blocks, closer to everywhere) to avoid tree farm situations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run</title><url>https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ikea-catalog-to-be-discontinued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>There is a ton of misconceptions out there about paper. Not saying using less isn&#x27;t a good thing, so.<p>Most paper uses a very decent amount of recycled paper, has ti actually. To the point the industry faced issues last Q1 when demand went down and there wasn&#x27;t enough recycled paper on the market. Trees are grown explicitly for paper production, and are regrown in the same forests. Net forest losses are mainly due to farming, e.g. in the Amazon region. Energy wise, paper production offers great opportunities to balance the grid.<p>Most paper, at least in Europe, is actually recycled.<p>And electronics do have there issues as well. They consume raw earthes, are consumed as well, end up in land fills and also have quite extensive supply chains and CO2 foot prints. And they consume electricity, which has to produced. And we are nowhere near the necessary levels of renewables.<p>I do support getting rid of useless paper consumption, it just not as straight forward as it seems.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Good riddance, in my opinion. 40 million copies of a thick catalog with glossy pages means a couple shittons of not just trees but petroleum and petrochemicals for production, distribution, and disposal. Every year! And ten years ago, it was nearly 200. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG</a><p>Can you even imagine a stack of one million catalogs?<p>That&#x27;s space, trees, plants, mammals, birds, insects, mushrooms, ... all being squeezed for a glossy catalog, most of which will get thumbed through once or twice and sent to the landfill to rot.<p>These catalogs do not biodegrade well, by the way, because they&#x27;re not just paper.<p>I love paper books, and I enjoyed browsing this catalog just like many others in this thread, and yet I don&#x27;t think I will miss this one. Hopefully, other thick glossy catalogs will follow suit.<p>Production of catalogs like this squeezes our biome, and if we don&#x27;t turn back, it will pop, and we&#x27;ll be left with only enough resources for a small fraction of us to survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Well, that covers the paper, for the most part. Thanks for explaining that.<p>Now, let&#x27;s talk about the other components:<p>the ink (petrochemicals, for the most part)<p>the production, transportation, and containers for the ink<p>the runoff into our biosphere from the ink production<p>the transportation of the paper to the printing facility<p>the binding (glue)<p>the transportation of the catalogs to the stores<p>the plastic wrap and other packaging for the catalogs<p>the labor put into it (perhaps those people could be paid to rest instead? probably better for everyone all-around)<p>Did I miss anything?<p>How many dead, displaced, or injured animals do you think that is per catalog? How many humans harmed by exposure to manufactured poison? How many gallons of diesel extracted, transported, refined, transported again, and burned? How many dozen pieces of trucks, trains, and container ships mined, produced, and worn down? Is it still better than viewing the same catalogs online on an already existing computer screen?<p>Every single artefact produced by our system has a similar footprint. It&#x27;s not just money cost. And I think it&#x27;s worth considering.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Charity is no substitute for humanity</title><url>https://hmmdaily.com/2019/05/01/charity-is-no-substitute-for-humanity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Deestan</author><text>People should not have to live or die depending repeated random acts of kindness from strangers.<p>So many American feel-good news stories are utterly dystopian, where some person completely <i>fucked dry</i> by the government or corporate interests have disaster temporarily staved off by friends or colleagues desperately sacrificing their time or money. Either that, or it&#x27;s about some billionaire dropping pocket lint on a good cause.<p>Sites like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news</a> just make me depressed:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3283&#x2F;Man-Shares-Chick-Fil-A-Employee-039-s-Quiet-Act-Of-Kindness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3283&#x2F;Man-Shares-Chick-Fi...</a> - man starving on the streets gets one meal our of sheer luck<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3279&#x2F;7-Eleven-Owner-Catches-Shoplifter-Instead-Of-Calling-911-He-Asks-Him-Why" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3279&#x2F;7-Eleven-Owner-Catc...</a> - starving children win the getting-fucked-for-life vs eating-a-meal lottery one single time. Thoughts and prayers go to their next 1000 times they need to play.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3270&#x2F;Unused-Cafeteria-Food-Is-Being-Turned-Into-Take-Home-Meals-For-Kids" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3270&#x2F;Unused-Cafeteria-Fo...</a> - starving children (Why is this even a thing anywhere?) are allowed to eat leftovers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; People should not have to live or die depending repeated random acts of kindness from strangers.<p>That is true, but the flip side is that people should not have to live or die depending on compelled acts of strangers either.<p>No ideological purity survives the myriad of real world circumstances; but the normal case should be that people don&#x27;t need charity because when life hits them hard there are avenues where they can live a dignified life through their own hard work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Charity is no substitute for humanity</title><url>https://hmmdaily.com/2019/05/01/charity-is-no-substitute-for-humanity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Deestan</author><text>People should not have to live or die depending repeated random acts of kindness from strangers.<p>So many American feel-good news stories are utterly dystopian, where some person completely <i>fucked dry</i> by the government or corporate interests have disaster temporarily staved off by friends or colleagues desperately sacrificing their time or money. Either that, or it&#x27;s about some billionaire dropping pocket lint on a good cause.<p>Sites like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news</a> just make me depressed:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3283&#x2F;Man-Shares-Chick-Fil-A-Employee-039-s-Quiet-Act-Of-Kindness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3283&#x2F;Man-Shares-Chick-Fi...</a> - man starving on the streets gets one meal our of sheer luck<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3279&#x2F;7-Eleven-Owner-Catches-Shoplifter-Instead-Of-Calling-911-He-Asks-Him-Why" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3279&#x2F;7-Eleven-Owner-Catc...</a> - starving children win the getting-fucked-for-life vs eating-a-meal lottery one single time. Thoughts and prayers go to their next 1000 times they need to play.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3270&#x2F;Unused-Cafeteria-Food-Is-Being-Turned-Into-Take-Home-Meals-For-Kids" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sunnyskyz.com&#x2F;good-news&#x2F;3270&#x2F;Unused-Cafeteria-Fo...</a> - starving children (Why is this even a thing anywhere?) are allowed to eat leftovers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HighValuation</author><text>What a ridiculous website. Never thought I’d see a front page with more clickbait than BuzzFeed. Out of all the stories of perseverance you could find, why did you link 4 articles from this website? Are you trying to help them with SEO?<p>None of the articles are sourced and it even looks like they’re taking videos from other news publications like ABC and playing their own 15 second ads over them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1008807504/ranked-choice-voting-new-york-city-mayors-race</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elihu</author><text>This isn&#x27;t very good reporting by NPR. The downsides they list are just straw men easily dismissed by RCV proponents, and they give an appearance of fair-and-balanced coverage while making opponents of RCV sound like Luddites. (It also seems like they got all their information from, say, chatting with people from FairVote and not by actually reading online discussions like this one here.)<p>RCV does have some serious problems. Eliminating the candidate with the least first-place votes at each round means a high probability of rejecting compromise candidates that may be a lot of voters&#x27; second choice. Also, placing your first-choice candidate first isn&#x27;t always a safe choice. RCV is non-monotonic, which means it&#x27;s possible that ranking someone first might actually cause them to lose. That&#x27;s weird, and I think it&#x27;s a good enough reason to investigate other options.<p>I think we should use approval voting in single-winner state and national elections. It&#x27;s simple and it solves the problem of 3rd party candidates being spoilers (which is why most voting reform advocates dislike FPTP in the first place) without introducing any new problems. STAR is also a pretty good system.<p>Approval voting is currently used in Fargo ND and they recently adopted it in St. Louis as well.<p>There&#x27;s a lot at stake when we change our election systems. I think one of the biggest risks is that we adopt RCV widely and then when people figure out that it&#x27;s not actually all that great, they aren&#x27;t going to want to try something different. They&#x27;ll either say &quot;democracy just doesn&#x27;t work very well and there&#x27;s nothing we can do about it&quot;, or they&#x27;ll go back to FPTP because they were misled by a successful PR campaign that sounds like it has the backing of voting system experts. Voting systems should be changed rarely, and when it happens we should use the best available system, not chase the latest fad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjfidsfkds</author><text>If I approve of two candidates, but I like one more than the other, approval voting doesn’t seem to allow me to express that preference. Do I vote for both candidates, or only the one I like the most? As a naive voter who isn’t going to research that question, will I make the right choice?</text></comment>
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<story><title>What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1008807504/ranked-choice-voting-new-york-city-mayors-race</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elihu</author><text>This isn&#x27;t very good reporting by NPR. The downsides they list are just straw men easily dismissed by RCV proponents, and they give an appearance of fair-and-balanced coverage while making opponents of RCV sound like Luddites. (It also seems like they got all their information from, say, chatting with people from FairVote and not by actually reading online discussions like this one here.)<p>RCV does have some serious problems. Eliminating the candidate with the least first-place votes at each round means a high probability of rejecting compromise candidates that may be a lot of voters&#x27; second choice. Also, placing your first-choice candidate first isn&#x27;t always a safe choice. RCV is non-monotonic, which means it&#x27;s possible that ranking someone first might actually cause them to lose. That&#x27;s weird, and I think it&#x27;s a good enough reason to investigate other options.<p>I think we should use approval voting in single-winner state and national elections. It&#x27;s simple and it solves the problem of 3rd party candidates being spoilers (which is why most voting reform advocates dislike FPTP in the first place) without introducing any new problems. STAR is also a pretty good system.<p>Approval voting is currently used in Fargo ND and they recently adopted it in St. Louis as well.<p>There&#x27;s a lot at stake when we change our election systems. I think one of the biggest risks is that we adopt RCV widely and then when people figure out that it&#x27;s not actually all that great, they aren&#x27;t going to want to try something different. They&#x27;ll either say &quot;democracy just doesn&#x27;t work very well and there&#x27;s nothing we can do about it&quot;, or they&#x27;ll go back to FPTP because they were misled by a successful PR campaign that sounds like it has the backing of voting system experts. Voting systems should be changed rarely, and when it happens we should use the best available system, not chase the latest fad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aplummer</author><text>&gt; RCV does have some serious problems. Eliminating the candidate with the least first-place votes at each round means a high probability of rejecting compromise candidates that may be a lot of voters&#x27; second choice. Also, placing your first-choice candidate first isn&#x27;t always a safe choice. RCV is non-monotonic, which means it&#x27;s possible that ranking someone first might actually cause them to lose. That&#x27;s weird, and I think it&#x27;s a good enough reason to investigate other options.<p>This is actually not true and the opposite of what happens. With RCV, people feel comfortable putting compromise or 3rd party candidates first because they know they aren&#x27;t throwing away a vote. It creates a system where there is more middle ground and less black and white 2 party systems.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New work helps to explain how chronic stress can inflame the gut</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01700-y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zoogeny</author><text>I have a friend who is a Nurse Practitioner. In Canada this is pretty close to a doctor in that they can order tests, diagnose patients and prescribe treatments and medications. She was in private practice for a while.<p>She talks often about how the most common complaint she saw by far is gut distress with no medical cause. It is so common that the medical professionals call it SLS: Shit Life Syndrome [1]. She argues that the vast majority of the people who come in with this complaint have an undiagnosed mental problem. Our systems aren&#x27;t built to handle this kind of situation. We find and treat acute problems and we don&#x27;t really address holistic life-style issues. In fact, it is frowned upon. What she usually wants to say is: your life sucks, fix it and you will feel better. Go out for a walk, eat healthier food, make some supportive friends, engage in some self-care, meditate, etc.<p>I personally believe that a lack of purpose in people&#x27;s lives is manifesting as pain in our bodies. But that is dangerously close to woo-woo New Age thinking and most people will just reject it off-hand. Instead they will try magnesium pills, apple cider vinegar, avoiding gluten, anti-inflammatory diets, micro-dosing lsd or mushrooms.<p>As a side note, she also mentioned that the newest fad (not quite at gut distress levels yet) is middle-aged men insisting they have ADHD, demanding diagnosis and prescriptions.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shit_life_syndrome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shit_life_syndrome</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>As a side note, she also mentioned that the newest fad (not quite at gut distress levels yet) is middle-aged men insisting they have ADHD…</i><p>The reason for this &quot;fad&quot; is straightforward — there are a <i>lot</i> of middle-aged humans who are undiagnosed because ADHD was effectively &quot;not a thing&quot; when GenX were kids.<p>&gt; <i>…demanding diagnosis and prescriptions.</i><p>Great! People of all ages should advocate for themselves and pursue health care that might improve their quality of life.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New work helps to explain how chronic stress can inflame the gut</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01700-y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zoogeny</author><text>I have a friend who is a Nurse Practitioner. In Canada this is pretty close to a doctor in that they can order tests, diagnose patients and prescribe treatments and medications. She was in private practice for a while.<p>She talks often about how the most common complaint she saw by far is gut distress with no medical cause. It is so common that the medical professionals call it SLS: Shit Life Syndrome [1]. She argues that the vast majority of the people who come in with this complaint have an undiagnosed mental problem. Our systems aren&#x27;t built to handle this kind of situation. We find and treat acute problems and we don&#x27;t really address holistic life-style issues. In fact, it is frowned upon. What she usually wants to say is: your life sucks, fix it and you will feel better. Go out for a walk, eat healthier food, make some supportive friends, engage in some self-care, meditate, etc.<p>I personally believe that a lack of purpose in people&#x27;s lives is manifesting as pain in our bodies. But that is dangerously close to woo-woo New Age thinking and most people will just reject it off-hand. Instead they will try magnesium pills, apple cider vinegar, avoiding gluten, anti-inflammatory diets, micro-dosing lsd or mushrooms.<p>As a side note, she also mentioned that the newest fad (not quite at gut distress levels yet) is middle-aged men insisting they have ADHD, demanding diagnosis and prescriptions.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shit_life_syndrome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shit_life_syndrome</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voisin</author><text>&gt; What she usually wants to say is: your life sucks, fix it and you will feel better. Go out for a walk, eat healthier food, make some supportive friends, engage in some self-care, meditate, etc.<p>It’s almost like we haven’t collectively created a society that aims to increase human flourishing and instead of created a living nightmare with the illusion of progress due to shiny new technologies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why people believe others' social lives are richer than their own</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29189037</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bufferoverflow</author><text>A lot of it is just so fake. Pretty much everyone I know does the fake smile for the selfie, and then they immediately stop smiling.<p>Many people I know, when traveling, have a check list of the selfies they want to make to show everyone else how great their life is, when I know it isn&#x27;t. And they miss the actual fun of experiencing traveling - to them it&#x27;s just a series of selfies.<p>This was 99% of my Facebook, and that&#x27;s why I quit. There was only one guy who was regularly posting interesting articles (tech, space, futurism). I ended up deciding a diamond in a pile of sh#t wasn&#x27;t worth it, and HN&#x2F;Reddit are better.<p>As for the social aspect, most people&#x27;s lives are boring, and most people are boring, they only look at what&#x27;s happening today, worry about what other people think of them, and other boring drivel.<p>&#x2F;Rant over</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why people believe others' social lives are richer than their own</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29189037</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lxr</author><text>On average, people actually do have fewer friends than their friends have (also works for sexual partners).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Friendship_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Friendship_paradox</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/03/suspicious-git-activity-security-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>&gt; We believe that no data has been lost, unless the [...] GitLab copy was the only one.<p>One difference between how GitLab and GitHub run their infrastructure is that GitLab doesn&#x27;t keep reflogs, and uses git&#x27;s default &quot;gc&quot; settings.<p>As a result they won&#x27;t have the data in question anymore in many cases[1]. Well, I don&#x27;t 100% know that for sure, but it&#x27;s the default configuration of their software, and I&#x27;m assuming they use like that themselves.<p>Whereas GitHub does keep reflogs, and runs &quot;git repack&quot; with the &quot;--keep-unreachable&quot; option. They don&#x27;t usually delete git data unless someone bothers to manually do it, and they usually have data to reconstruct repositories as they were at any given point in time.<p>GitHub doesn&#x27;t expose that to users in any way, although perhaps they&#x27;d take pity on some of their users after such an incident.<p>This isn&#x27;t a critique of GitLab, just trivia about the storage trade-offs different major Git hosting sites have made, which might be informative to some other people.<p>I&#x27;m surprised no major Git hosting site has opted to provide such a &quot;we have a snapshot of every version ever&quot; feature. People would probably pay for it, you could even make them opt to pay for access to backups you kept already if they screwed things up :)<p>1. Well, maybe as disaster backups or something. But those are harder to access...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostmyoldone</author><text>Re GitHub keeping unreachable data, if I understand it right, isn&#x27;t that GitHub painting a giant target on their back?
Wouldn&#x27;t that that imply every secret accidentally committed and then &#x27;deleted&#x27; is still accessible, when one would expect it not to be?
It&#x27;s one thing to have your source code in the wild, but pairing it up with thought-to-be-deleted secrets would be an absolute disaster.<p>Certainly one should not ever keep using a secret once it has escaped into a Git repo, but I&#x27;m sure it happens quite frequently.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/03/suspicious-git-activity-security-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>&gt; We believe that no data has been lost, unless the [...] GitLab copy was the only one.<p>One difference between how GitLab and GitHub run their infrastructure is that GitLab doesn&#x27;t keep reflogs, and uses git&#x27;s default &quot;gc&quot; settings.<p>As a result they won&#x27;t have the data in question anymore in many cases[1]. Well, I don&#x27;t 100% know that for sure, but it&#x27;s the default configuration of their software, and I&#x27;m assuming they use like that themselves.<p>Whereas GitHub does keep reflogs, and runs &quot;git repack&quot; with the &quot;--keep-unreachable&quot; option. They don&#x27;t usually delete git data unless someone bothers to manually do it, and they usually have data to reconstruct repositories as they were at any given point in time.<p>GitHub doesn&#x27;t expose that to users in any way, although perhaps they&#x27;d take pity on some of their users after such an incident.<p>This isn&#x27;t a critique of GitLab, just trivia about the storage trade-offs different major Git hosting sites have made, which might be informative to some other people.<p>I&#x27;m surprised no major Git hosting site has opted to provide such a &quot;we have a snapshot of every version ever&quot; feature. People would probably pay for it, you could even make them opt to pay for access to backups you kept already if they screwed things up :)<p>1. Well, maybe as disaster backups or something. But those are harder to access...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>They do keep disk snapshots for 2 weeks though (created twice a day).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;handbook&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;infrastructure&#x2F;design&#x2F;disaster-recovery&#x2F;#repository-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;handbook&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;infrastructure...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps</title><url>https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>Because Tim Cook, as a homosexual, has teared up when speaking about human rights abuses of homosexual under repressive regimes, and how as the CEO of apple, he will do anything within his power to ensure your data stays safe on apple infra &#x2F; hw because he personally thinks about it. Can&#x27;t remember the interview, but it was quite touching actually.<p>He&#x27;s very clear in shareholder calls &#x2F; letters and in their privacy policy. So much so that he even calls out the competition[1] for doing it as Apple does not. From an economics standpoint, Apple doesn&#x27;t make money on your data. They sell you overpriced but quite sophisticated hardware and became one of the most valuable companies in the world doing this. That and he advocates for a US equivalent of the GPDR[2] which absolutely and directly would impact the bottom line of companies like Google and Facebook.<p>Then there is Apple&#x27;s official privacy policy, where they are very explicit that they don&#x27;t gather personal information to sell to advertisers. In much of the non-US world, saying that and not following that is blatantly illegal.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;5433499&#x2F;tim-cook-apple-data-privacy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;5433499&#x2F;tim-cook-apple-data-privacy&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;18017842&#x2F;tim-cook-data-privacy-laws-us-speech-brussels" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;18017842&#x2F;tim-cook-data-p...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>taf2</author><text>Are they or do you just believe that because of what you think you know about the difference between the two companies?</text></item><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>That and from a purely data privacy angle, Apple is legitimately better than Google.</text></item><item><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>Or Apple&#x27;s marketing team lead to a donation to DDG to make it possible</text></item><item><author>gowld</author><text>DDG&#x27;s main marketing model is talking about how they believe Google is privacy threat, so they&#x27;ll highlight that angle in any change.</text></item><item><author>mtmail</author><text>Some paint it as if the main reason to switch was privacy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because...</a> &quot;DuckDuckGo switches to Apple Maps, because privacy&quot;), but the previous map provider was mapbox (openstreetmap plus commercial sources) and I doubt mapbox collected more data than Apple is now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>objclxt</author><text>&gt; Because Tim Cook, as a homosexual, has teared up when speaking about human rights abuses of homosexual under repressive regimes<p>...but is also more than happy to meet and shake hands with the leaders of those repressive regimes? Like the UAE, which criminalizes sodomy and deports those who identify as LGBT?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenational.ae&#x2F;uae&#x2F;government&#x2F;abu-dhabi-crown-prince-meets-apple-chief-tim-cook-1.256046" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenational.ae&#x2F;uae&#x2F;government&#x2F;abu-dhabi-crown-pr...</a><p>Is it possible Apple, like Tim Cook, has the occasional double standard?</text></comment>
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<story><title>DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps</title><url>https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>Because Tim Cook, as a homosexual, has teared up when speaking about human rights abuses of homosexual under repressive regimes, and how as the CEO of apple, he will do anything within his power to ensure your data stays safe on apple infra &#x2F; hw because he personally thinks about it. Can&#x27;t remember the interview, but it was quite touching actually.<p>He&#x27;s very clear in shareholder calls &#x2F; letters and in their privacy policy. So much so that he even calls out the competition[1] for doing it as Apple does not. From an economics standpoint, Apple doesn&#x27;t make money on your data. They sell you overpriced but quite sophisticated hardware and became one of the most valuable companies in the world doing this. That and he advocates for a US equivalent of the GPDR[2] which absolutely and directly would impact the bottom line of companies like Google and Facebook.<p>Then there is Apple&#x27;s official privacy policy, where they are very explicit that they don&#x27;t gather personal information to sell to advertisers. In much of the non-US world, saying that and not following that is blatantly illegal.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;5433499&#x2F;tim-cook-apple-data-privacy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;5433499&#x2F;tim-cook-apple-data-privacy&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;18017842&#x2F;tim-cook-data-privacy-laws-us-speech-brussels" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;18017842&#x2F;tim-cook-data-p...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>taf2</author><text>Are they or do you just believe that because of what you think you know about the difference between the two companies?</text></item><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>That and from a purely data privacy angle, Apple is legitimately better than Google.</text></item><item><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>Or Apple&#x27;s marketing team lead to a donation to DDG to make it possible</text></item><item><author>gowld</author><text>DDG&#x27;s main marketing model is talking about how they believe Google is privacy threat, so they&#x27;ll highlight that angle in any change.</text></item><item><author>mtmail</author><text>Some paint it as if the main reason to switch was privacy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because...</a> &quot;DuckDuckGo switches to Apple Maps, because privacy&quot;), but the previous map provider was mapbox (openstreetmap plus commercial sources) and I doubt mapbox collected more data than Apple is now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elliekelly</author><text>I&#x27;m an attorney and have worked with several financial institutions drafting policies&#x2F;statements&#x2F;investor disclosures about privacy and user data. For most financial institutions user privacy is good for the bottom line but expensive so they tend to do the bare minimum. The bare minimum is not a lot but it&#x27;s quite a bit more than nothing, which is what most non-medical&#x2F;non-financial institutions have to do. I&#x27;ve never worked with a tech company on privacy matters but I would expect any company that depends on collecting and monetizing user data to be much more aggressive than the typical financial institution. That said, comparing Apple&#x27;s privacy policies to those of a financial institution they are truly above and beyond any minimum regulatory standard.<p>I know most people don&#x27;t pay them any attention but I&#x27;m really not sure you could find a more customer-focused privacy policy. I&#x27;ve yet to find one and I would guess I&#x27;ve read at least 10x as many privacy policies as the average person. Everything from what their disclosures say to <i>how</i> they&#x27;ve structured them to be easily read, easily understood, and (dare I say) engaging is indicative of just how much they prioritize user-privacy.<p>edit: meant <i>non</i> medical</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/pakistan-forced-down-ahmadiyya-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>passivate</author><text>&gt;Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don&#x27;t have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.<p>In this particular case, what problem would open platforms solve? The laws in Pakistan still exist and the social problem is not addressed. Or are you implying that Apple and Google should be on the hook for solving religious problems in other countries? If so, I think wanting companies to engineer social behavior in other countries is a dangerous path bordering on the unethical (IMO).<p>But having said all that, whats stopping a country from simply blocking their hosting servers? Ultimately, the app has to be downloaded from somewhere. Okay, so then you move to a P2P system, so then the get their ISPs to block that,etc ,etc. It&#x27;s just whack-a-mole.</text></item><item><author>username90</author><text>Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don&#x27;t have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.</text></item><item><author>jmull</author><text>The (rather massive) flaw in your reasoning is the idea that Google and Apple are the solution to the problem.<p>If you live in a society without religious freedom, that&#x27;s a big problem, but Apple and Google <i>can&#x27;t</i> fix it.<p>If you care about the problem, it&#x27;s important to understand this. If you succeed in getting people to focus on symptom of the problem and not the cause, you will help prevent it from being addressed.</text></item><item><author>zupreme</author><text>For those defending this practice, consider carefully the implications of what you are advocating.<p>On one hand you have a government deciding who can and cannot refer to themselves as adherents of a particular religion (by declaring that Ahamadis cannot call themselves Muslim).<p>On another hand you have Google and Apple, yet again, being the complicit chokepoints of “free speech”, with regard to app developers.<p>These may seem fair to you, but that may be because these practices have not negatively affected you...yet.<p>But consider: Would it be fair if England declared Catholics “unChristian” and banned their use if the term? Or what if the USA declared hasidic jews “Unjewish” and banned their use of the term. Or what if Apple caved to pressure theoretical from Israel to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses from using the term “Jehovah”?<p>What next? Government declaring who is and is not “white”?<p>Oh wait......</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foolmeonce</author><text>You can make the same arguments for bribery. Nonetheless it is illegal for a US company to bribe people abroad and US companies end up selling off their holdings in banana republics.<p>Why is this law good? The US has a long history of corporations owning too much in banana republics and bringing the US into pro-dictator political positions.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/pakistan-forced-down-ahmadiyya-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>passivate</author><text>&gt;Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don&#x27;t have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.<p>In this particular case, what problem would open platforms solve? The laws in Pakistan still exist and the social problem is not addressed. Or are you implying that Apple and Google should be on the hook for solving religious problems in other countries? If so, I think wanting companies to engineer social behavior in other countries is a dangerous path bordering on the unethical (IMO).<p>But having said all that, whats stopping a country from simply blocking their hosting servers? Ultimately, the app has to be downloaded from somewhere. Okay, so then you move to a P2P system, so then the get their ISPs to block that,etc ,etc. It&#x27;s just whack-a-mole.</text></item><item><author>username90</author><text>Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don&#x27;t have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.</text></item><item><author>jmull</author><text>The (rather massive) flaw in your reasoning is the idea that Google and Apple are the solution to the problem.<p>If you live in a society without religious freedom, that&#x27;s a big problem, but Apple and Google <i>can&#x27;t</i> fix it.<p>If you care about the problem, it&#x27;s important to understand this. If you succeed in getting people to focus on symptom of the problem and not the cause, you will help prevent it from being addressed.</text></item><item><author>zupreme</author><text>For those defending this practice, consider carefully the implications of what you are advocating.<p>On one hand you have a government deciding who can and cannot refer to themselves as adherents of a particular religion (by declaring that Ahamadis cannot call themselves Muslim).<p>On another hand you have Google and Apple, yet again, being the complicit chokepoints of “free speech”, with regard to app developers.<p>These may seem fair to you, but that may be because these practices have not negatively affected you...yet.<p>But consider: Would it be fair if England declared Catholics “unChristian” and banned their use if the term? Or what if the USA declared hasidic jews “Unjewish” and banned their use of the term. Or what if Apple caved to pressure theoretical from Israel to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses from using the term “Jehovah”?<p>What next? Government declaring who is and is not “white”?<p>Oh wait......</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stale2002</author><text>&gt; what problem would open platforms solve?<p>If it was easier for people to sideload apps, or there were many competing app stores, then people could get around theses bans more easily.<p>For example, if I could go to any website, on an iphone, and install an app very easily (Assume I choose to do so, via some setting), then it wouldn&#x27;t matter as much if Apple banned the app from the app store.<p>&gt; whats stopping a country from simply blocking their hosting servers?<p>They could do that, but if it was easy to install apps on a phone, then it would be very difficult for a country to block <i>every</i> website that hosts the app.<p>&gt; . Okay, so then you move to a P2P system, so then the get their ISPs to block that<p>Governments are not infinitely powerful. An efforts to get around government internet censorship, sometimes work.<p>And the more methods there are of circumventing government censorship, the easier it is to do so.<p>Censorship has an effect. But it is not perfect. There is a spectrum of behavior, where it can be easier or harder to get around censorship.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cisco confirms it’s killing Intercloud public cloud in March 2017</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/13/cisco-confirms-its-killing-intercloud-public-cloud-in-march-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>I don&#x27;t like the idea that the whole Internet is running on the servers of a single company. Can&#x27;t we do something to increase the competition in the &quot;cloud&quot; area?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>&gt; Can&#x27;t we do something to increase the competition in the &quot;cloud&quot; area<p>Yes, we have to change our mindset back from &quot;Let&#x27;s put everything (apps and data) into the cloud&quot; to &quot;Let&#x27;s only use the cloud as _one_ of many ways for data storage and data synching. Everything else is done locally and on private servers&quot;.<p>This whole trend of web-apps is really bad for free software because it creates a dependency on 3rd party servers. Just imagine you could only use Emacs or Vim if you are connected to the internet...<p>We have to get rid of the idea that the default form of software is supposed to be a webpage. Make software local again and therefore reduce the influence of large cloud providers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cisco confirms it’s killing Intercloud public cloud in March 2017</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/13/cisco-confirms-its-killing-intercloud-public-cloud-in-march-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>I don&#x27;t like the idea that the whole Internet is running on the servers of a single company. Can&#x27;t we do something to increase the competition in the &quot;cloud&quot; area?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setq</author><text>It&#x27;s not. If any of the big three entirely disappeared there wouldn&#x27;t be a tear shed. It&#x27;d be an inconvenience at most and people would suddenly be reminded about portability and lock in.<p>At a microscopic level it&#x27;s pretty stupid, dangerous and short sighted building your product to conform to any of these providers&#x27; services past the PaaS level. I see people with whole business on AWS who are a billing dispute away from weeks of downtime.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Debugging with GDB</title><url>https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ho_schi</author><text>Took me some time to get familiar with it but GDB is well documented and fulfills its duty. It looks ancient but it is powerful.<p>Do not underestimate the power of the <i>print</i> command! And the advanced stuff like revers-debugging, multi-threading (all-stop mode - which is the default - and the non-stop mode), binary manipulation (yep, it is possible), and remote debugging. Nowadays accompanied by stuff like debuginfod. What still need to try is the TUI modes because I assume it will improve my personal experience once I find a way of using it.<p>I&#x27;ve ended up writing all stuff useful for me onto paper, later a markdown and I can recommend everyone doing similar. GDB&#x27;s learning curve is not like VIM (which is either a wall or a rocket - both looking similar on paper) but it is going upwards.<p>Today&#x27;s highlight is &quot;Why do I&#x27;ve to set up all my breakpoints again? You need to save them like an IDE&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;Save-Breakpoints.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;Save-Breakpoints.h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_undoio</author><text>On a similar note - add `set history save on` to your `~&#x2F;.gdbinit` and retain command history between runs of GDB (just like with your shell).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;Command-History.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;Command-History.ht...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Debugging with GDB</title><url>https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ho_schi</author><text>Took me some time to get familiar with it but GDB is well documented and fulfills its duty. It looks ancient but it is powerful.<p>Do not underestimate the power of the <i>print</i> command! And the advanced stuff like revers-debugging, multi-threading (all-stop mode - which is the default - and the non-stop mode), binary manipulation (yep, it is possible), and remote debugging. Nowadays accompanied by stuff like debuginfod. What still need to try is the TUI modes because I assume it will improve my personal experience once I find a way of using it.<p>I&#x27;ve ended up writing all stuff useful for me onto paper, later a markdown and I can recommend everyone doing similar. GDB&#x27;s learning curve is not like VIM (which is either a wall or a rocket - both looking similar on paper) but it is going upwards.<p>Today&#x27;s highlight is &quot;Why do I&#x27;ve to set up all my breakpoints again? You need to save them like an IDE&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;Save-Breakpoints.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gdb&#x2F;Save-Breakpoints.h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pif</author><text>&gt; It looks ancient but it is powerful<p>It is powerful <i>because</i> it is ancient.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Iridescent Tempered Chocolate</title><url>https://twitter.com/samykamkar/status/1259173832620830722</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anubistheta</author><text>Take a look at another person&#x27;s approach:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SoTi0tM4yQ8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SoTi0tM4yQ8</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Iridescent Tempered Chocolate</title><url>https://twitter.com/samykamkar/status/1259173832620830722</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>traverseda</author><text>You can 3D print stuff on diffraction gratings to produce the same effect: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.adafruit.com&#x2F;3d-printing-on-diffraction-grating-sheets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.adafruit.com&#x2F;3d-printing-on-diffraction-gratin...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51209050</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ansible</author><text>If you are interested in making your own terrariums and such, check out the Serpa Design youtube channel:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;SerpaDesign&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;SerpaDesign&#x2F;videos</a><p>You can get started with just stuff you have lying around at home and what you can find outside.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KR2Lo0rOF7g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KR2Lo0rOF7g</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51209050</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>christiansakai</author><text>Ahh, as a hobbyist amateur Aquascaper I like articles like this.<p>If anyone wants to learn how to get a great planted tank with minimal maintenance. I suggest Diana Walstad&#x27;s book &quot;Ecology of the Planted Aquarium&quot;. A beginner will easily get amazing success with this method (though it doesn&#x27;t last forever and a year or two later this will start to break down).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications</title><url>http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wallflower</author><text>Adobe is using LLVM.<p>There is no runtime.<p>+1<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimboyoungblood</author><text><i>We created a new compiler front end that allowed LLVM to understand ActionScript 3 and used its existing ARM back end to output native ARM assembly code. We call this Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation—in contrast to the way Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR function on the desktop using Just in Time (JIT) compilation.</i><p>"AOT Compilation"?! Amazing!! They should patent this!<p>but yeah, sounds pretty cool.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications</title><url>http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wallflower</author><text>Adobe is using LLVM.<p>There is no runtime.<p>+1<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xal</author><text>That's some amazing work. Adobe must have dedicated the A-Team to that task.</text></comment>
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<story><title>BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)</title><url>https://twitter.com/lelff/status/1210619413885575168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deith</author><text>Many things. Mostly PPAs. I can install Ubuntu Stable and use the most recent version of PHP, which has been built and is stored in Canonical&#x27;s servers. With Debian, that&#x27;s a gamble: either wait until the Debian developers stop bikeshedding and upload a new version of PHP to experimental, breaking all my system if I install it, or I have to add a repo from some guy I don&#x27;t know or trust.</text></item><item><author>brimstedt</author><text>I use both, but prefer Debian. Care to elaborate on what you miss in Debian?</text></item><item><author>deith</author><text>If Debian offered the same things Ubuntu does, people wouldn&#x27;t use Ubuntu. But, alas, they don&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>To disable the part of the MOTD which calls home, setting<p><pre><code> ENABLED=0
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in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;default&#x2F;motd-news should be sufficient.<p>To get rid of the entire &quot;dynamic&quot; MOTD, disable the timer unit:<p><pre><code> $ sudo systemctl disable motd-news.timer
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Alternatively, stop supporting companies that covertly slip spyware like this into their software. Debian is wonderful, of course.<p>(I&#x27;m on an iPad and going from memory, but I <i>think</i> this is correct -- someone will correct me if it isn&#x27;t!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; ... <i>or I have to add a repo from some guy I don&#x27;t know or trust.</i><p>The Debian PHP maintainer, Ondřej Surý, maintains his own repo:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deb.sury.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deb.sury.org</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packages.sury.org&#x2F;php&#x2F;README.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packages.sury.org&#x2F;php&#x2F;README.txt</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qa.debian.org&#x2F;developer.php?login=ondrej%40debian.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qa.debian.org&#x2F;developer.php?login=ondrej%40debian.or...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)</title><url>https://twitter.com/lelff/status/1210619413885575168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deith</author><text>Many things. Mostly PPAs. I can install Ubuntu Stable and use the most recent version of PHP, which has been built and is stored in Canonical&#x27;s servers. With Debian, that&#x27;s a gamble: either wait until the Debian developers stop bikeshedding and upload a new version of PHP to experimental, breaking all my system if I install it, or I have to add a repo from some guy I don&#x27;t know or trust.</text></item><item><author>brimstedt</author><text>I use both, but prefer Debian. Care to elaborate on what you miss in Debian?</text></item><item><author>deith</author><text>If Debian offered the same things Ubuntu does, people wouldn&#x27;t use Ubuntu. But, alas, they don&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>To disable the part of the MOTD which calls home, setting<p><pre><code> ENABLED=0
</code></pre>
in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;default&#x2F;motd-news should be sufficient.<p>To get rid of the entire &quot;dynamic&quot; MOTD, disable the timer unit:<p><pre><code> $ sudo systemctl disable motd-news.timer
</code></pre>
Alternatively, stop supporting companies that covertly slip spyware like this into their software. Debian is wonderful, of course.<p>(I&#x27;m on an iPad and going from memory, but I <i>think</i> this is correct -- someone will correct me if it isn&#x27;t!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakna</author><text>What&#x27;s the difference between a PPA and a repo from some guy you don&#x27;t know or trust?</text></comment>
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<story><title>iOS application architecture: MVVM, behaviors, singletons, subclassing</title><url>http://www.objc.io/issue-13</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattgreenrocks</author><text>It is interesting that iOS apps suffer the same sort of runaway complexity that often plagues Rails apps, whereby the controller absorbs too much responsibility and becomes unmanageable. This is usually the collateral damage of an app growing within the overly tight conceptual confines of model&#x2F;controller.<p>This points to a lack of developer education surrounding architecture and design. Most projects have too few abstractions, and&#x2F;or a weak domain model. The Internet likes to complain about Java-style over-abstraction, but I&#x27;ve never seen that.<p>I think devs don&#x27;t like to think about architecture because it implies they&#x27;re not doing things well, it is highly subjective, and they don&#x27;t see the benefits immediately. All of these are poor reasons.</text></comment>
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<story><title>iOS application architecture: MVVM, behaviors, singletons, subclassing</title><url>http://www.objc.io/issue-13</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kar-kub</author><text>I&#x27;m very glad, as iOS developer, that community focus more and more on good iOS architecture. Few years back, in my impression, it was hard to find good article bout this topic, if any.
I&#x27;m really happy that objc.io is clearing that path with great developers willing to share theirs experience.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Abolition of Work (2002)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>&gt;Such is “work.” Play is just the opposite. Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced. This is axiomatic.<p>Work and play are both voluntary to different degrees. You can survive without working, although your existence will likely be miserable. You can also survive without playing, but again, your existence will also likely be miserable. Play is something we prefer to do voluntarily, but if you don&#x27;t force yourself to play every once in awhile, your life will probably be unhealthy. In that sense, it is not voluntary.<p>Even if I didn&#x27;t work, I still have to do things that I don&#x27;t want to do in order to keep my life at the level that I want. I need to clean where I live, keep myself clean, keep my body healthy by eating healthy food and exercising. Work is just an extension of that. It&#x27;s a choice that I make in order to sustain or progress my life at the level that I desire.<p>Calling work non-voluntary reveals more about the author than it does about the system they describe: that they <i>feel</i> that they have no choice. They have a choice, but the choice is unpleasant. That is not the same as no choice. Declaring that you have no choice is a result of the inability to confront the weakness to acknowledge the unpleasant decision.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Abolition of Work (2002)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lordwarnut</author><text>The quote that stands out to me the most is:<p><i></i><i>Work makes a mockery of freedom. The official line is that we all have rights and live in a democracy. Other unfortunates who aren’t free like we are have to live in police states. These victims obey orders or-else, no matter how arbitrary. The authorities keep them under regular surveillance. State bureaucrats control even the smaller details of everyday life. The officials who push them around are answerable only to higher-ups, public or private. Either way, dissent and disobedience are punished. Informers report regularly to the authorities. All this is supposed to be a very bad thing.<p>And so it is, although it is nothing but a description of the modern workplace.</i><i></i></text></comment>
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<story><title>Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/1/11787262/blade-runner-neural-network-encoding</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>svantana</author><text>This article alludes to, but never actually brings up, something much more interesting than the project in question:<p>How can copyright coexist with human-level automatic analysis and synthesis of works of art?<p>For example, Spotify is flooded with &quot;covers&quot; of hit songs that are made to sound as similar to the original as possible. In my understanding, it doesn&#x27;t matter how similar it sounds, as long as it&#x27;s &quot;remade&quot;, it&#x27;s considered a new work of art. So what happens when the cover song process can be automated? It seems likely that courts and lawmakers will need to define a sphere of similarity around each work of art, within which all points are considered copies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>Music has that sorted already.<p>There is copyright.<p>There is publishing right.<p>If you make a cover of a recording, it is the latter that you are involved with. You&#x27;d have to go to the publishers of a piece of music to license the right to publish your interpretation of the work.<p>Obviously this post simplifies, but it&#x27;s already answered.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/1/11787262/blade-runner-neural-network-encoding</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>svantana</author><text>This article alludes to, but never actually brings up, something much more interesting than the project in question:<p>How can copyright coexist with human-level automatic analysis and synthesis of works of art?<p>For example, Spotify is flooded with &quot;covers&quot; of hit songs that are made to sound as similar to the original as possible. In my understanding, it doesn&#x27;t matter how similar it sounds, as long as it&#x27;s &quot;remade&quot;, it&#x27;s considered a new work of art. So what happens when the cover song process can be automated? It seems likely that courts and lawmakers will need to define a sphere of similarity around each work of art, within which all points are considered copies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robert_tweed</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure the law as it stands is robust enough to deal with these issues on the basis of similarity vs substantive difference. A cover usually sounds quite different to an original, enough so that a fan would certainly not consider them the same thing.<p>OTOH, simply using some well recognised phrases (not necessarily a sample) can infringe on the mechanical rights, which are the copyright on the composition as distinct from the performance.<p>Also consider fake paintings and photos. Recent cases have shown that even dong things like re-staging an iconic photograph or transferring the image to another medium can constitute copyright infringement. As ever, it comes down to the duck test, generally in the opinion of a judge.<p>An automated re-encoding of a movie would almost certainly be at least a derivative work (if say, you applied a deep-dream filter to each frame) or at worst a straightforward lossy copy like any other encoding.<p>In order to be considered a new work, there would need to be some substantial reinterpretation of the original. It shouldn&#x27;t matter whether that reinterpretation is done dy a human or AI, but current AI just isn&#x27;t capable of doing that yet.<p>Disclaimer: IANAL, so treat my understanding of copyright law with the usual level of scepticism applied to Internet comments.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmlx</author><text>i don’t get why you are forced to do this.<p>the app for my phone network just opens a webview where i pay for stuff. then i close the webview and the funds just show up in the app. do they also pay 30% to apple?</text></item><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Ok, that&#x27;s fine. If I can _choose_ to use Apple&#x27;s services, in exchange for their cut, then that&#x27;s a trade that I can evaluate as a business. Instead if I want to develop for iOS I am _forced_ to use these services, and pay the cost. That&#x27;s the Problem.</text></item><item><author>makecheck</author><text>Apple allows “free apps” that are <i>entirely</i> ad-supported, <i>never giving Apple a dime</i> (aside from $99&#x2F;year), yet they are consuming infrastructure: hosting pages, downloads, reviewer time, etc. Why isn’t Apple concerned about any of <i>those</i> costs? Simple: they make overwhelmingly most of their App Store money from the handful of developers that offer purchases. This also leads to perverse outcomes like Apple dragging its feet on scams that make them heaps of money.<p>Developers are literally subsidizing other developers, and it’s not necessarily the richest ones helping the poorest ones. Someone trying to make money on a $0.99 app is sacrificing more to Apple than Facebook does with their free app.<p>That’s why I find all these percentage and payment discussions weird: <i>income is so insanely distributed</i> that a lot of this literally does not apply to more than 80% of the stuff on the store. There are fundamental issues that need to be resolved too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Because if you do this, and you do not have an explicit exception (carriers being one of them), your app will be removed from the store</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmlx</author><text>i don’t get why you are forced to do this.<p>the app for my phone network just opens a webview where i pay for stuff. then i close the webview and the funds just show up in the app. do they also pay 30% to apple?</text></item><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Ok, that&#x27;s fine. If I can _choose_ to use Apple&#x27;s services, in exchange for their cut, then that&#x27;s a trade that I can evaluate as a business. Instead if I want to develop for iOS I am _forced_ to use these services, and pay the cost. That&#x27;s the Problem.</text></item><item><author>makecheck</author><text>Apple allows “free apps” that are <i>entirely</i> ad-supported, <i>never giving Apple a dime</i> (aside from $99&#x2F;year), yet they are consuming infrastructure: hosting pages, downloads, reviewer time, etc. Why isn’t Apple concerned about any of <i>those</i> costs? Simple: they make overwhelmingly most of their App Store money from the handful of developers that offer purchases. This also leads to perverse outcomes like Apple dragging its feet on scams that make them heaps of money.<p>Developers are literally subsidizing other developers, and it’s not necessarily the richest ones helping the poorest ones. Someone trying to make money on a $0.99 app is sacrificing more to Apple than Facebook does with their free app.<p>That’s why I find all these percentage and payment discussions weird: <i>income is so insanely distributed</i> that a lot of this literally does not apply to more than 80% of the stuff on the store. There are fundamental issues that need to be resolved too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>No, the 30% commission is for digital goods (i.e. goods to be consumed on the phone -- game &quot;coins&quot;, ebooks, music, movies, comics, app features).<p>The things that Apple takes a cut for is actually pretty small in the grand scheme of commerce.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jabber.org has migrated to Prosody IM</title><url>https://www.jabber.org/notices.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MattJ100</author><text>If this news has anyone tempted to dust off an old jabber.org account, you may get an &quot;account disabled&quot; notification when trying to log in. Try again in an hour or so and you should be able to log in successfully.<p>Why? We&#x27;ve had well over a million accounts registered at jabber.org. We came up with a hacky solution to speed up the migration: we initially imported all accounts that have been active in the past 6 months. Now we&#x27;re importing them on an on-demand basis. If you attempt a login and your data has not been migrated yet, you&#x27;ll get &quot;account disabled&quot; error but your account will be prioritized for import during the next migration run (which is now running asynchronously multiple times per day).<p>Also note that the migration this weekend was just the first step in bringing the service back to life, it&#x27;s still lacking a number of modern features that are widespread elsewhere in XMPP these days (for example, no push notifications for mobile clients). We&#x27;ll be turning these things on over the coming weeks.<p>Finally, once the dust settles, we&#x27;ll be looking towards the future of the service. Potentially opening up registration again (closed since 2013) and options to help the service be more self-sustaining (such as accepting donations).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jabber.org has migrated to Prosody IM</title><url>https://www.jabber.org/notices.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saghul</author><text>Very happy for Matt and the Prosody team. This is further validation of their good work.<p>We use Prosody successfully for powering the signalling in Jitsi Meet. Its extensibility has allowed us to develop many many features easily.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-says-could-turn-first-ever-profit-shares-jump-idUSKBN1CV1JP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>And thus why he will never have violated the ToS. He could openly threaten to murder someone and Twitter would not suspend him. (Though in fairness they rarely suspend anyone else either.)</text></item><item><author>samcheng</author><text>It&#x27;s not mentioned in the article, but I really think President Trump has been a savior for Twitter.<p>Without those controversial tweets, Twitter would rarely be in much of the public&#x27;s mind, and the company would have continued its slow slide into irrelevance. As it is, barely a day goes by without &quot;Twitter&quot; being mentioned in national news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CM30</author><text>&gt; Though in fairness they rarely suspend anyone else either.<p>Twitter suspends or shadowbans quite a few people, at least if what a fair few people online are saying is true. Not sure their logic behind who exactly they suspend though. Conservatives say they get accounts suspended more, liberals say it&#x27;s them etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-says-could-turn-first-ever-profit-shares-jump-idUSKBN1CV1JP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>And thus why he will never have violated the ToS. He could openly threaten to murder someone and Twitter would not suspend him. (Though in fairness they rarely suspend anyone else either.)</text></item><item><author>samcheng</author><text>It&#x27;s not mentioned in the article, but I really think President Trump has been a savior for Twitter.<p>Without those controversial tweets, Twitter would rarely be in much of the public&#x27;s mind, and the company would have continued its slow slide into irrelevance. As it is, barely a day goes by without &quot;Twitter&quot; being mentioned in national news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>groby_b</author><text>They mostly suspend minorities who are pissed enough to not politely say &quot;no, thank you&quot; to Trolls &amp; Nazis sending them death threats.<p>It&#x27;d be funny if it weren&#x27;t so sad.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2015/09/22/google-microsoft-qualcomm-and-baidu-announce-joint-investment-cloudflare/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>If your website is well-coded and administered, does CloudFlare offer any performance benefit? (leaving aside security for now)<p>If a page is static, then CloudFlare can cache it. But if you set your cache headers appropriately, and use efficient serving code like nginx, I imagine serving static content is pretty darn cheap.<p>If a page is dynamic, then how can CloudFlare really speed it up? You don&#x27;t want them serving stale pages to users. So it has to hit your server every time, in which case the user might as well hit your server. In that case, I don&#x27;t really see how CloudFlare improves things.<p>Am I misunderstanding how CloudFlare works? It seems like if you follow typical performance tips like [1] then most of CloudFlare&#x27;s benefit is eliminated.<p>I guess [1] does tell you to use a CDN. You can save end user network latency for cached static pages, since they cache them in multiple geographic locations. But if you have a simple site with 1 .js and 1 .css file per page, and compress and minify everything, I wonder if it&#x27;s worth it.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0596529309" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0596529309</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2015/09/22/google-microsoft-qualcomm-and-baidu-announce-joint-investment-cloudflare/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nux</author><text>Welcome to the Cloudflare-net.<p>Half the internet is behind CloudFlare now. Since they can&#x27;t easily &quot;own&quot; the Internet, they could as well own CloudFlare.<p>Not impressed and I hate all this hiding behind Cloudflare and other proxy services; most of the cases are just hipster&#x2F;hype powered, rather than in actual need.</text></comment>
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<story><title>RIP Microsoft WordPad</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wordpad-gone-windows-11-1851144100</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpizza</author><text>This is slightly off topic but might be helpful to some people who use both Notepad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac but are tired of the open document screen that starts by default when opening TextEdit. For example, I take calls while at my Windows based workstation. When I&#x27;m starting a phone call, I instinctively open notepad and jot down notes while on the phone. I don&#x27;t usually save the file but I will complete the task I wrote down and&#x2F;or document the call in another program after the fact. However, when I&#x27;m on my Mac I can&#x27;t just quickly open TextEdit and jot down notes. When opening TextEdit I&#x27;m prompted to open a file or click the new document button. This throws me off my workflow since I&#x27;m used to NotePad immediately opening a new document buffer to write in. I found a workaround on the Apple support forums here:<p>1) Quit TextEdit
2) In the Terminal, type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false
3) Open TextEdit and presto!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussions.apple.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;253444981?sortBy=best" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussions.apple.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;253444981?sortBy=best</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyriakos</author><text>I use notepad++ on windows and have open all the time. Any more I want to write down I open a new tab. Notepad++ keeps the tabs even if not saved and automatically reopens them next time you start it. Combined with search in open files feature it makes it extremely useful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>RIP Microsoft WordPad</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wordpad-gone-windows-11-1851144100</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpizza</author><text>This is slightly off topic but might be helpful to some people who use both Notepad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac but are tired of the open document screen that starts by default when opening TextEdit. For example, I take calls while at my Windows based workstation. When I&#x27;m starting a phone call, I instinctively open notepad and jot down notes while on the phone. I don&#x27;t usually save the file but I will complete the task I wrote down and&#x2F;or document the call in another program after the fact. However, when I&#x27;m on my Mac I can&#x27;t just quickly open TextEdit and jot down notes. When opening TextEdit I&#x27;m prompted to open a file or click the new document button. This throws me off my workflow since I&#x27;m used to NotePad immediately opening a new document buffer to write in. I found a workaround on the Apple support forums here:<p>1) Quit TextEdit
2) In the Terminal, type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false
3) Open TextEdit and presto!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussions.apple.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;253444981?sortBy=best" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussions.apple.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;253444981?sortBy=best</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phreack</author><text>I just use Sublime Text for that. It opens immediately on all OSs</text></comment>
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<story><title>Piano Practice Software Progress</title><url>https://jacquesmattheij.com/piano-practice-software-progress/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tobr</author><text>I’ve played piano my entire life, but I’ve never learned to play sheet music, and have no interest in it. I play by ear and I mostly improvise. Just mentioning this because sometimes it seems that people think the way you learn to play an instrument is by learning to play a score. No! These things are about a different as learning to program and learning to type in a program from a magazine. Even the idea that you could grade how well someone plays seems antithetical to the joy of expressing yourself through music.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c_e</author><text>Coming from a background as a professional music performer and educator (now a software engineer), seeing highly-upvoted comments like this one that are so confident and yet so completely wrong is a great reminder that you should always take what you read in an internet comment section with a grain of salt, no matter how many people are nodding virtually in agreement.<p>Of course, there&#x27;s nothing wrong with anybody learning to play piano entirely by ear and never picking up a music score. If that brings you enjoyment, that&#x27;s truly fantastic, and I mean that sincerely. But for the vast majority of pianists, being unable to read sheet music will cut you off from many genres of music entirely, make in-person instruction mostly impossible, render all written pedagogical resources inaccessible to you, and enormously limit your ability to play in ensembles. Even jazz pianists who improvise and play by ear for all of their meaningful playing can read music; in fact you&#x27;d probably find that most of the really good ones are incredible sight-readers.<p>&gt; These things are about a different as learning to program and learning to type in a program from a magazine.<p>I think a better analogy is probably something like &quot;these things are about as different as being able to understand a spoken language, and being able to speak and write it&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Piano Practice Software Progress</title><url>https://jacquesmattheij.com/piano-practice-software-progress/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tobr</author><text>I’ve played piano my entire life, but I’ve never learned to play sheet music, and have no interest in it. I play by ear and I mostly improvise. Just mentioning this because sometimes it seems that people think the way you learn to play an instrument is by learning to play a score. No! These things are about a different as learning to program and learning to type in a program from a magazine. Even the idea that you could grade how well someone plays seems antithetical to the joy of expressing yourself through music.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kstenerud</author><text>Sheet music is about reproducibility, and is a means to quickly learn a piece. You learn new pieces MUCH MUCH MUCH faster once you have decent sight reading skills. It also allows you to put in your own notes, compose your own passages or variations, and have them available for reading years later. It also gives you a common vocabulary and framework for talking about musical and instrument techniques and common patterns in music.<p>Learning an instrument without learning how to read music is like learning to code without learning anything anything about programming theory and methodology, and without going back to look at any of your past work. Yes, you can do it, but you&#x27;ll cut yourself off at the knees with all the bad habits you pick up, and any ability to deeply reason about it will be coincidental (just a &quot;gut&quot; feeling most of the time).<p>Do yourself a favour and do it right. Get a teacher. Learn proper posture (stops you from getting tired or injuring yourself), proper techniques (allows you to play more complex things with less effort required), and a good training regimen (so you can get maximum coverage of all techniques available to you at a manageable pace).<p>People ask me how I got so good at guitar in so short a time, when they&#x27;ve been plucking away at it for years, even decades. It&#x27;s simply because I chose to find a teacher FIRST, and an instrument SECOND, and went through all the fundamentals, starting with very boring and basic pieces like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5ysOIJFm3Rg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5ysOIJFm3Rg</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Do You Trust This Computer? [video]</title><url>http://doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>transpute</author><text>Regulation comes up later in the film. Ross Anderson, professor at Cambridge University recently wrote, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.cacm.acm.org&#x2F;magazines&#x2F;2018&#x2F;3&#x2F;225467-making-security-sustainable&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.cacm.acm.org&#x2F;magazines&#x2F;2018&#x2F;3&#x2F;225467-making-securi...</a><p><i>&quot;Once software becomes pervasive in devices that surround us, that are online, and that can kill us, the software industry will have to come of age. As security becomes ever more about safety rather than just privacy, we will have sharper policy debates about surveillance, competition, and consumer protection. The notion that software engineers are not responsible for things that go wrong will be put to rest for good, and we will have to work out how to develop and maintain code that will go on working dependably for decades in environments that change and evolve.</i>&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Do You Trust This Computer? [video]</title><url>http://doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdefore</author><text>I enjoy the... irony? of visiting the site with a set of ad block and privacy related extensions and seeing a set of &#x27;Sorry&#x27; messages that I can&#x27;t see the trailer because of my privacy settings.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;4IEsx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;4IEsx</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>computerex</author><text>&gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics<p>To be honest, I can&#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and &quot;robot enthusiast&quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></item><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and the article says she&#x27;s a &quot;robot enthusiast&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leogiertz</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that she would refer to herself as an engineer, but more as an enthusiast. Nothing to do with sexism but more that she&#x27;s not that interested in working with engineery stuff like reliability, fault tolerances etc.<p>She didn&#x27;t graduate from KTH since &quot;Teknisk Fysik&quot; wasn&#x27;t her thing and to be honest I don&#x27;t think that it would&#x27;ve made any difference. I would say that she&#x27;s doing quite ok. :)<p>Source: I&#x27;m her brother.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>computerex</author><text>&gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics<p>To be honest, I can&#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and &quot;robot enthusiast&quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></item><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and the article says she&#x27;s a &quot;robot enthusiast&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>She did not graduate with those degrees (know her personally). She makes no bones about making her living as an entertainer, but she is a very competent designer, builder, and hacker. Is she an engineer, probably not, because she wouldn&#x27;t build things to a formal spec and report tolerances and fail rates, etc, but that&#x27;s not the end all and be all of creation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fun with NFL Stats, Bokeh, and Pandas</title><url>https://j253.github.io/blog/fun-with-nfl-stats.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sndean</author><text>&gt; The small spikes at 5 yard increments is interesting and I don&#x27;t really have a good explanation other than to think that whoever recorded the yardage data liked rounding to the nearest 5 if it was close. Anyone else have any other ideas?<p>I&#x27;ll go with the idea that the refs are biased with their ball placement and tend to put the ball on lines [0]. Also, players&#x2F;teams practice, speak, think in 5 yard increments, so that&#x27;s got to bias things a bit. &quot;We&#x27;ve got to get to the 35 yard line for Morten to have a chance.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gutterstats.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;03&#x2F;are-nfl-officials-biased-with-their-ball-placement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gutterstats.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;03&#x2F;are-nfl-officia...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Fun with NFL Stats, Bokeh, and Pandas</title><url>https://j253.github.io/blog/fun-with-nfl-stats.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dbt00</author><text>As someone who&#x27;s done a lot of numerical analysis and watches a lot of football, the analysis here is pretty rudimentary.<p>&gt; On third down, pass attempts outnumber run attempts at almost a 4 to 1 clip. This is likely out of increased desperation to make a first down.<p>Running is a low variance low yardage option, passing is a high variance high yardage option. Passing on third and medium to long is an obvious dominant strategy. Pulling the goaltender in hockey or bringing the keeper forward in soccer when trailing late in games&#x2F;matches serves much the same effect.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chippiewill</author><text>Ehh. I take the view that Apple has been intentionally sandbagging their laptops for a while to facilitate an ARM transition.<p>Not to say that M1 isn&#x27;t amazing, but I think Apple has been preparing for this for a while and needed to make sure it would succeed even if their ARM CPUs weren&#x27;t quite as groundbreaking as they turned out to be.</text></item><item><author>tedivm</author><text>The 2019 macbook ironically had better heat dissipation than the previous generations, but it&#x27;s still pretty bad.<p>We can blame Apple for using chips that are too intense for their laptops, and we can blame Intel for making garbage chips that can&#x27;t really perform in real world cases while spending a decade not bothering to innovate. Apple at least is moving away from Intel as a result of all of this, and I&#x27;m really impressed with how well the M1 transition has been going.</text></item><item><author>frozenport</author><text>or Apple doing a bad job with the previous generation</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>It’s a problem of intels own making - marketing vastly different capabilities under the same brand in order to segment the market.</text></item><item><author>1_player</author><text>Note: 30% faster than a thermally challenged i9 on a MacBook Pro, not a desktop one. Given the comments on similar threads, I feel this needs to be mentioned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>For _five years_?<p>Or longer, really; while everyone, of course, loves the 2015 MBP, they&#x27;re mostly thinking of the integrated GPU one; the discrete GPU version was pretty thermally challenged. Arguably Apple&#x27;s real problem with the post-2015 ones was that Intel stopped chips with fast integrated GPUs, so Apple put discrete GPUs in all SKUs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chippiewill</author><text>Ehh. I take the view that Apple has been intentionally sandbagging their laptops for a while to facilitate an ARM transition.<p>Not to say that M1 isn&#x27;t amazing, but I think Apple has been preparing for this for a while and needed to make sure it would succeed even if their ARM CPUs weren&#x27;t quite as groundbreaking as they turned out to be.</text></item><item><author>tedivm</author><text>The 2019 macbook ironically had better heat dissipation than the previous generations, but it&#x27;s still pretty bad.<p>We can blame Apple for using chips that are too intense for their laptops, and we can blame Intel for making garbage chips that can&#x27;t really perform in real world cases while spending a decade not bothering to innovate. Apple at least is moving away from Intel as a result of all of this, and I&#x27;m really impressed with how well the M1 transition has been going.</text></item><item><author>frozenport</author><text>or Apple doing a bad job with the previous generation</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>It’s a problem of intels own making - marketing vastly different capabilities under the same brand in order to segment the market.</text></item><item><author>1_player</author><text>Note: 30% faster than a thermally challenged i9 on a MacBook Pro, not a desktop one. Given the comments on similar threads, I feel this needs to be mentioned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>Are there any benchmarks you can point to that have a similarly spec&#x27;d laptop (ideally similar size &amp; weight too) that would show that Apple is sandbagging?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961</title><url>https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/leonid-rogozov-appendix-1961/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OminousWeapons</author><text>Less crazy but also very cool: the first coronary catheterization (insertion of a tube through a peripheral vein into the heart) was performed by doctor William Forssmann on himself. Forssmann&#x27;s colleagues did not believe a coronary catheterization was possible without injuring the heart and possibly killing the patient, so he cathed himself, walked to imaging while cathed, and got X-rayed to prove the catheter was in his right atrium and that it could be done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izgzhen</author><text>Great story! I really admire those who dare to make such bold move. I also feel sorry for those who did similar things but failed and ended up as a forgotten tragedy. They are all heroes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961</title><url>https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/leonid-rogozov-appendix-1961/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OminousWeapons</author><text>Less crazy but also very cool: the first coronary catheterization (insertion of a tube through a peripheral vein into the heart) was performed by doctor William Forssmann on himself. Forssmann&#x27;s colleagues did not believe a coronary catheterization was possible without injuring the heart and possibly killing the patient, so he cathed himself, walked to imaging while cathed, and got X-rayed to prove the catheter was in his right atrium and that it could be done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>I’m not certain that doing something like that voluntarily in the absence of an emergency is _less_ crazy. Great story.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Steve Jobs calls Google's "Don't be evil" mantra "Bullshit" and Adobe "Lazy"</title><url>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-bullshit-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>angelbob</author><text>It's important for Jobs to convince the rank-and-file at Apple that Google's "Don't Be Evil" is bullshit. Right now it looks an awful lot like Apple is being closed and evil, while Google is being open and excellent with Android apps.<p>If that perception continues, Apple loses recruiting access to a lot of the best developers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Steve Jobs calls Google's "Don't be evil" mantra "Bullshit" and Adobe "Lazy"</title><url>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-bullshit-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karzeem</author><text>"Don't be evil" clearly is bullshit to the extent that you can always rationalize an evil action, and three words aren't going to stop you from doing what you want.<p>On the other hand, though, a mantra like that can help entrench a culture that makes it harder for "evil" ideas to find roots.<p>On balance, I'm not sure a mantra makes a difference. It's sort of dangerous when it becomes so entrenched that you start to think your actions are <i>by definition</i> non-evil. From time to time, we do see Google pulling out "it's not illegal if the President does it"-type rationalizations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: PyIng – Ingredient parser</title><text>For far to long ingredient parsers been unavailable to the public. Either due to obsene complexity:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nytimes&#x2F;ingredient-phrase-tagger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nytimes&#x2F;ingredient-phrase-tagger</a><p>Or because of the dreaded paywall:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mtlynch&#x2F;zestful-client" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mtlynch&#x2F;zestful-client</a><p>Wait no longer, I introduce PyIng. An easy to use python package for changing this &quot;2 ounces of spicy melon&quot; into this {name: melon, unit: ounces, qty: 2.0}.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whitew1994WW&#x2F;PyIng" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whitew1994WW&#x2F;PyIng</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skipnup</author><text>Is it really necessary to have machine learning involved?<p>While a bit tricky, this seems to be solvable with a bunch of regular expressions&#x2F;string searches. (At least that&#x27;s what I&#x27;m doing on my personal recipe app.) Filtering out numbers and number words is trivial (compared to training a ML model). The number of units is not that large and thus can be filtered. The rest is the name. This method is also easier to adapt to different languages, as we don&#x27;t have to create a dataset for each language.<p>In the example &quot;2 ounces of spicy melon&quot;, information is gone missing after parsing (&quot;spicy&quot;) and depending on the context may very well be an important part of the ingredient name (&quot;spicy chili peppers&quot;&#x2F;&quot;mild chili peppers&quot;) I would wan&#x27;t to keep, e.g. for creating a shopping list.<p>If we&#x27;re using machine learning for parsing ingredients and want to actually create an added value, I think the goal should be to identify the ingredients from the recipe instructions, generating the list of ingredients.<p>But please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, I&#x27;d love to learn the reasoning for using something as complicated as ML in this case!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: PyIng – Ingredient parser</title><text>For far to long ingredient parsers been unavailable to the public. Either due to obsene complexity:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nytimes&#x2F;ingredient-phrase-tagger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nytimes&#x2F;ingredient-phrase-tagger</a><p>Or because of the dreaded paywall:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mtlynch&#x2F;zestful-client" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mtlynch&#x2F;zestful-client</a><p>Wait no longer, I introduce PyIng. An easy to use python package for changing this &quot;2 ounces of spicy melon&quot; into this {name: melon, unit: ounces, qty: 2.0}.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whitew1994WW&#x2F;PyIng" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whitew1994WW&#x2F;PyIng</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>Cool! Do you plan on capturing modifiers like &quot;spicy&quot; or &quot;large&quot; ? Without those, I imagine a lot of dishes won&#x27;t be quite the same.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We might be swinging away from the newsfeed</title><url>https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/4/2/the-death-of-the-newsfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>combatentropy</author><text>AI is still oh so much like Clippy. In Google, I keep having to change it from All Results to Verbatim. With Facebook, I keep having to change it from Top Stories to Most Recent.<p>Try UI before AI. Purely chronological will suffer the spam of frequent-posting friends. Group their posts, which can be flicked through as a cluster.<p>All in all, am I the only one that thinks that the current fashion in page layout squanders real estate? Make the news feed a huge grid, with each post smaller, like one of those photo walls in a hip restaurant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evrydayhustling</author><text>Verbatim, Most Recent, and clustered posts are all better for a mindset when you have a relatively specific query, or at least filter bias, in mind. Consider the following statements:<p>1) I&#x27;m looking for something specific.
2) I&#x27;d rather not be surprised right now.
3) I&#x27;d like to get through the search&#x2F;index as fast as possible to get where I&#x27;m going.<p>The above are user-voiced versions of principles that drive traditional UI, and are absolutely better met by that optimization process.<p>AI-driven search and feeds were exciting because they were the first method that captured use cases where users wouldn&#x27;t make those statements: fuzzy queries about general interests, the desire for diversions &quot;curated&quot; by your own social group, and search&#x2F;feed review as itself as an entertaining experience.<p>Then, it turned out that these unexplored use cases were actually the giant, underwater part of the iceburg of what people wanted from information systems. The growth and attention capture you can drive from meeting those cases is not only massive, it sucks the oxygen out of traditional value propositions by out-competing for the same attention.<p>I think a return to traditional &quot;capture and facilitate intent&quot; UI (or even better a synthesis of the two!) will only be driven by users finding a way to explicitly value their own clarity of attention. We see signs of this in everything from ad blockers to focus-oriented browser plug-ins, but I think we&#x27;re still missing the FOMO-conquering expression of this value proposition that becomes a competitive product.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We might be swinging away from the newsfeed</title><url>https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/4/2/the-death-of-the-newsfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>combatentropy</author><text>AI is still oh so much like Clippy. In Google, I keep having to change it from All Results to Verbatim. With Facebook, I keep having to change it from Top Stories to Most Recent.<p>Try UI before AI. Purely chronological will suffer the spam of frequent-posting friends. Group their posts, which can be flicked through as a cluster.<p>All in all, am I the only one that thinks that the current fashion in page layout squanders real estate? Make the news feed a huge grid, with each post smaller, like one of those photo walls in a hip restaurant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TACIXAT</author><text>I think you just solved a huge grievance I&#x27;ve been having with Google search. I get absolute trash results that are hardly even tangential to what I searched. I&#x27;m going to try out this verbatim thing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/opinion/rich-getting-richer-taxes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>4c2383f5c88e911</author><text>A flat tax rate is not a good idea whatsoever; if you tax e.g. 20% of earnings ,do you believe people who earn $30k a year are impacted the same way as people earning $200k or more? Sure, those who earn more pay more, but it hits them in &quot;extra&quot; earnings, while the poor are taxed on money they need to survive.<p>A (very) progressive tax rate with a few ways of reducing the tax based on social (e.g. number of children, etc) criteria would probably work better here.</text></item><item><author>tici_88</author><text>&quot;The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can&#x27;t foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code.&quot;<p>I disagree. I simple flat tax rate where everything is taxed at a single rate would close every single one of the loopholes above, if only by making it moot.<p>The fact that the rich can maneuver themselves into a much lower tax rate than the average person presents a significant, unfair advantage in my opinion. A flat tax rate would make things much more equitable. Plus it would asimplify the tax code tremendously.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I wrote this a few years ago in response to a similar piece:<p>The problem is that the rich have the ability to take their income in alot of different ways.<p>Tax income more, they&#x27;ll take it as dividends.<p>Tax dividends more, they&#x27;ll take it as capital gains.<p>Tax capital gains, they won&#x27;t realize their capital gains until they can offset them with realized losses or they&#x27;ll just get bank loans again&#x27;t their stock holdings.<p>Tax assets on death and they&#x27;ll pass them o n in trusts.
Some will move money off shore if they think they can get better returns that way.<p>The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can&#x27;t foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code.<p>Who would have thought 25 years ago that companies would buy other companies in different countries, not to acquire their products or markets, but to acquire their headquarters address to lower the tax paid in the US.<p>I don&#x27;t think anything has changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chirau</author><text>A &quot;flat rate&quot; can also be tiered. In this case I&#x27;d take it to mean a flat rate on all money earned during a time period. Whether income or capital gains, dividends, assets or whatever, you are still giving up x% of whatever you earned that year.<p>So even when tiered, a person earning under some amount in total might get a lower tax rate than a person earning a higher amount but it is still flat.<p>The &quot;flat tax&quot; would be taxed on all jurisdiction. So call it a &quot;universal flat tax&quot;. That way, there is no persuasion to register in a foreign country and it would dissuade multi geography registrations as you would just be taxed in multiples by each territory.<p>To avoid double taxation, perhaps, a company can register in multiple countries but since the tax is the same everywhere, the portion of the x% taxed would be proportionally divided to the territories.<p>This assumes of course that the whole world agrees on one tax policy and tax havens are eliminated. :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/opinion/rich-getting-richer-taxes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>4c2383f5c88e911</author><text>A flat tax rate is not a good idea whatsoever; if you tax e.g. 20% of earnings ,do you believe people who earn $30k a year are impacted the same way as people earning $200k or more? Sure, those who earn more pay more, but it hits them in &quot;extra&quot; earnings, while the poor are taxed on money they need to survive.<p>A (very) progressive tax rate with a few ways of reducing the tax based on social (e.g. number of children, etc) criteria would probably work better here.</text></item><item><author>tici_88</author><text>&quot;The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can&#x27;t foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code.&quot;<p>I disagree. I simple flat tax rate where everything is taxed at a single rate would close every single one of the loopholes above, if only by making it moot.<p>The fact that the rich can maneuver themselves into a much lower tax rate than the average person presents a significant, unfair advantage in my opinion. A flat tax rate would make things much more equitable. Plus it would asimplify the tax code tremendously.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I wrote this a few years ago in response to a similar piece:<p>The problem is that the rich have the ability to take their income in alot of different ways.<p>Tax income more, they&#x27;ll take it as dividends.<p>Tax dividends more, they&#x27;ll take it as capital gains.<p>Tax capital gains, they won&#x27;t realize their capital gains until they can offset them with realized losses or they&#x27;ll just get bank loans again&#x27;t their stock holdings.<p>Tax assets on death and they&#x27;ll pass them o n in trusts.
Some will move money off shore if they think they can get better returns that way.<p>The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can&#x27;t foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code.<p>Who would have thought 25 years ago that companies would buy other companies in different countries, not to acquire their products or markets, but to acquire their headquarters address to lower the tax paid in the US.<p>I don&#x27;t think anything has changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpursley</author><text>&gt; A flat tax rate is not a good idea whatsoever<p>Tell this to the nations which have successfully implemented a flat tax:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;3860731" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;3860731</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flat_tax#Countries_that_have_flat_tax_systems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flat_tax#Countries_that_have_f...</a><p>It&#x27;s ironic that a number of former Soviet countries have moved on to the flat tax, while the west has a progressive income tax (#2 plank of the Communist Manifesto).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Atom 1.0</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joefitzgerald</author><text>The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That&#x27;s not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it&#x27;s just what draws me to Atom.<p>It&#x27;s super easy to hack on and contribute to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>It&#x27;s the Cycle of Bloat.<p><pre><code> 1. Develop tool. It&#x27;s small and fast and minimal! Woo!
2. It&#x27;s easy to modify because it&#x27;s so small! Woo!
3. Look, there&#x27;s a budding ecosystem of packages! Woo! (Let&#x27;s
not talk about the fact the packages exist precisely because
the original product wasn&#x27;t big enough.)
4. Oh dear, some of them conflict, a lot of them suck. Well,
here&#x27;s some winners, let&#x27;s pull them into the core. Now the
base system is that much better! Woo!
5. Repeat 3 and 4 a few times.
6. Crap, this tool is all bloated and slow. I&#x27;m going to go
create a small, fast, minimalist solution!
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Repeat indefinitely.<p>See also: &quot;minimalist web framework&quot;, &quot;minimalist Linux distribution&quot;, &quot;minimalist programming language&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Atom 1.0</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joefitzgerald</author><text>The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That&#x27;s not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it&#x27;s just what draws me to Atom.<p>It&#x27;s super easy to hack on and contribute to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jastanton</author><text>While I see that as a strength it might be a double edged sword. I installed a few packages I thought were necessary and soon Atom was crashing constantly and was riddled with bugs. I think it&#x27;s possible that too many people have the ability to control core pieces of what makes Atom so good and as a result the experience degrades.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Former CIA Chief of Disguise Explains How Spies Use Disguises [video]</title><url>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kaveren</author><text>I wonder how good the disguise &quot;technology&quot; is that they won&#x27;t disclose in a public YouTube video.<p>I don&#x27;t know why you&#x27;d want to disguise yourself as the opposite gender unless you could pull off the voice, your cover would be blown almost immediately.<p>I still don&#x27;t place any stock in intelligence operatives working in embassies, I can only imagine it works because intelligence agencies aren&#x27;t sophisticated enough yet. You have a (relatively) small group of staff, and you <i>know</i> a portion of them are spies. Many &quot;official covers&quot; are extremely weak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matty_makes</author><text>The hosting country, like Russia, knows they are spies and puts surveillance teams on them 24&#x2F;7. The spy&#x27;s (aka CIA Officer) job is to make sure their agents (the host country people they are gathering intelligence from) will not be discovered because in worst case that may mean death for the agent.<p>I&#x27;ve read a few memoirs from CIA officers and typically they are doing a very well planned surveillance detection route (SDR) to ferret out who is following them. If they are headed to a clandestine meet, the plan could include disguises and specific parts of the route where they can lose the surveillance team. Then they can meet freely with their agent.<p>The sophistication isn&#x27;t about technology of disguise, it is more about using a combination of the techniques described in the video and well honed skills.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Former CIA Chief of Disguise Explains How Spies Use Disguises [video]</title><url>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kaveren</author><text>I wonder how good the disguise &quot;technology&quot; is that they won&#x27;t disclose in a public YouTube video.<p>I don&#x27;t know why you&#x27;d want to disguise yourself as the opposite gender unless you could pull off the voice, your cover would be blown almost immediately.<p>I still don&#x27;t place any stock in intelligence operatives working in embassies, I can only imagine it works because intelligence agencies aren&#x27;t sophisticated enough yet. You have a (relatively) small group of staff, and you <i>know</i> a portion of them are spies. Many &quot;official covers&quot; are extremely weak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfuller</author><text>Silicone prosthetics are nearly perfect disguises.<p>And if you pull off a female illusion well, youd be surprised that most people wouldnt think twice about your voice.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Welcome to a comet</title><url>http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Welcome_to_a_comet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lrigikithumer</author><text>You know I have some bad days some times, but seeing shit like this just makes me think &quot;What a fucking time to be alive!&quot; It&#x27;s truly incredibly and is sometimes that kick in the pants I need to keep on going. We are living in a golden age of humanity right now, at no point before in human history have so many people had such an incredible quality of life and never before has man been doing such incredible feats and have the ability to reach a worldwide audience almost instantaneously. The fact that just a few hours ago a human designed space craft landed on a comet, after decades of work and I can receive the images fresh from the great minds that brought us this feat, while laying in bed dicking about on my phone, it&#x27;s just pure and simply astounding.<p>For all our flaws I love humans and I am so excited to see what the future holds.<p>Back to the comet, any word on what happened to the harpoons? I heard there was a misfire or they didn&#x27;t fire or something? Any idea how that&#x27;s affected the landing as of yet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weavie</author><text>To get an idea of the scale of the thing, here is a picture of the comet relative to the size of London :<p><a href="http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Comet_over_London" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esa.int&#x2F;spaceinimages&#x2F;Images&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;Comet_over_L...</a><p>I had no idea the thing was so small. To get something to intercept an object that size traveling at 1000&#x27;s mph is an amazing feat!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Welcome to a comet</title><url>http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Welcome_to_a_comet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lrigikithumer</author><text>You know I have some bad days some times, but seeing shit like this just makes me think &quot;What a fucking time to be alive!&quot; It&#x27;s truly incredibly and is sometimes that kick in the pants I need to keep on going. We are living in a golden age of humanity right now, at no point before in human history have so many people had such an incredible quality of life and never before has man been doing such incredible feats and have the ability to reach a worldwide audience almost instantaneously. The fact that just a few hours ago a human designed space craft landed on a comet, after decades of work and I can receive the images fresh from the great minds that brought us this feat, while laying in bed dicking about on my phone, it&#x27;s just pure and simply astounding.<p>For all our flaws I love humans and I am so excited to see what the future holds.<p>Back to the comet, any word on what happened to the harpoons? I heard there was a misfire or they didn&#x27;t fire or something? Any idea how that&#x27;s affected the landing as of yet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vital101</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure about that status of the harpoons, but I generally use <a href="http://reddit.com/r/space" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;space</a> to keep up with all of my space related news. Article quality is generally very high and there are a lot nice folks over there who answer questions in the comments.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/07/jeff-bezos-to-fly-on-blue-origin-first-passenger-flight-in-july.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it?<p>I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>They&#x27;ve done 14 successful launches. It&#x27;s probably considerably safer than mountain climbing etc.<p>On the other hand, Blue Origin&#x27;s competitor Virgin Galactic isn&#x27;t automated and looks a lot more dangerous.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/07/jeff-bezos-to-fly-on-blue-origin-first-passenger-flight-in-july.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it?<p>I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gameswithgo</author><text>They have lots of successes in testing and it is a far less dangerous thing than orbital flight and reentry</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?</title><text>Our app is designed to be used across the Asia Pacific.<p>We have members who follow western naming conventions as well as members following common asian naming conventions.<p>Turns out there can be alot of variation on what is the convention.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asiamediacentre.org.nz&#x2F;features&#x2F;a-guide-to-using-asian-names" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asiamediacentre.org.nz&#x2F;features&#x2F;a-guide-to-using...</a><p>How would you handle different naming conventions, so users see their name in the order they would like?<p>Family, Given<p>Given, Family</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text><i>&quot;Just have a single &quot;name field&quot; and maybe preferred name, which is not the same.&quot;</i><p>This is the way to go.<p><i>&quot;The family&#x2F;given name format doesn&#x27;t make much sense here.&quot;</i><p>It doesn&#x27;t make much sense in many places all over the world. In Germany technically speaking our given names are a set and we can have many of them. While it is practically necessary to write them out in a certain order in our documents, from a legal standpoint they are all equal. There is no first and second given name and most certainly no middle name. Consequence is that in everyday life today I can be Hans and tomorrow Fritz. I can be Hans Fritz or Fritz Hans too, but not Hans-Fritz (with a hyphen) except if it&#x27;s written like that in my birth certificate and then the order is fixed and I can&#x27;t decide to be Hans, Fritz or Fritz-Hans.<p>The trade-off in this system is that it is much harder to change your name here then in most other places.<p>In Bavaria where I live, the informal convention is also last name first, exactly like in Asia.</text></item><item><author>muzani</author><text>Just have a single &quot;name field&quot; and maybe preferred name, which is not the same. The family&#x2F;given name format doesn&#x27;t make much sense here.<p>Indian name: Sathiavelllu Arunachalam, known as SA or Seth<p>SE Asian ethnic Chinese names: Harry Lee Kuan Yew, (English name) (Surname) (Given name). Hated the name Harry and got it removed, though many Chinese are referred to by an English name.<p>Indonesian name: Fatimah Azzahra (given name only)<p>Malaysian name: Sharifah Azizah binti Syed Ahmad Tarmizi, (honorific surname: Sharifah) (given name: Azizah) (patronym) (father&#x27;s honorific surname: Syed) (father&#x27;s given name: Ahmad Tarmizi)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FearNotDaniel</author><text>Agreed. Currently consulting for an org which is having this very debate; the consensus is leaning towards replacing FirstName&#x2F;LastName with FullName (i.e how are you generally identified) and PreferredName (how do you like to be addressed).<p>Some additional observations from the German-speaking world (both Vienna and rural Austria):<p>- yes, we also often refer to people, even in everyday speech, as LastName FirstName<p>- often when referring to someone by name they are also given a definite article (equivalent of English &quot;the&quot;), e.g. &quot;die Maria&quot; or &quot;der Gruber Hansi&quot;<p>- some people I&#x27;ve encountered with a background in the German aristocracy (not Austrian, where such titles are technically abolished) have extremely long legal names with multiple prince&#x2F;duke&#x2F;von X und Y etc clauses. This will be their full legal name that appears in the passport and must be used when booking flights etc, but is not what they would use as &quot;full name&quot; in an everyday business context. So &quot;Full Name&quot; might not always be &quot;Legal Name&quot;.<p>Also in a South Asian&#x2F;Indian diaspora context, it is very common for people to be addressed by a semi-formal nickname that does not appear anywhere in their legal name. Come to think of it, I know one or two Austrian aristos* who use the same approach.<p>* yes, technically the aristocracy is abolished but they still live in their castles and know each other&#x27;s pedigrees...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?</title><text>Our app is designed to be used across the Asia Pacific.<p>We have members who follow western naming conventions as well as members following common asian naming conventions.<p>Turns out there can be alot of variation on what is the convention.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asiamediacentre.org.nz&#x2F;features&#x2F;a-guide-to-using-asian-names" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asiamediacentre.org.nz&#x2F;features&#x2F;a-guide-to-using...</a><p>How would you handle different naming conventions, so users see their name in the order they would like?<p>Family, Given<p>Given, Family</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text><i>&quot;Just have a single &quot;name field&quot; and maybe preferred name, which is not the same.&quot;</i><p>This is the way to go.<p><i>&quot;The family&#x2F;given name format doesn&#x27;t make much sense here.&quot;</i><p>It doesn&#x27;t make much sense in many places all over the world. In Germany technically speaking our given names are a set and we can have many of them. While it is practically necessary to write them out in a certain order in our documents, from a legal standpoint they are all equal. There is no first and second given name and most certainly no middle name. Consequence is that in everyday life today I can be Hans and tomorrow Fritz. I can be Hans Fritz or Fritz Hans too, but not Hans-Fritz (with a hyphen) except if it&#x27;s written like that in my birth certificate and then the order is fixed and I can&#x27;t decide to be Hans, Fritz or Fritz-Hans.<p>The trade-off in this system is that it is much harder to change your name here then in most other places.<p>In Bavaria where I live, the informal convention is also last name first, exactly like in Asia.</text></item><item><author>muzani</author><text>Just have a single &quot;name field&quot; and maybe preferred name, which is not the same. The family&#x2F;given name format doesn&#x27;t make much sense here.<p>Indian name: Sathiavelllu Arunachalam, known as SA or Seth<p>SE Asian ethnic Chinese names: Harry Lee Kuan Yew, (English name) (Surname) (Given name). Hated the name Harry and got it removed, though many Chinese are referred to by an English name.<p>Indonesian name: Fatimah Azzahra (given name only)<p>Malaysian name: Sharifah Azizah binti Syed Ahmad Tarmizi, (honorific surname: Sharifah) (given name: Azizah) (patronym) (father&#x27;s honorific surname: Syed) (father&#x27;s given name: Ahmad Tarmizi)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamalek</author><text>&gt; &quot;Just have a single &quot;name field&quot; and maybe preferred name, which is not the same.&quot;<p>&gt; This is the way to go.<p>Agreed. Does anyone know of any reason to care about first&#x2F;last, apart from it being part of My First SQL Database and sating our inner desire to create pointless taxonomies?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Home (in)Security</title><url>https://jerrygamblin.com/2018/10/29/google-home-insecurity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>So what&#x27;s the concern here; that when someone gets unfettered access to your local network they can reboot your Google Home? Ya know what else they can do? Play Rick Astley on your Sonos speakers while printing 1000 pages of porn from every printer, casting Rick Astley music videos to every TV, getting Comcast to forward you piracy warnings and deleting all your Redis tables and Elastic Search indexes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Home (in)Security</title><url>https://jerrygamblin.com/2018/10/29/google-home-insecurity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unsignedint</author><text>Google Chromecast, and Home are actually pretty horrible when it comes to security.<p>For example, if you lose internet connection, they will start broadcasting SSID. At this point, there&#x27;s nothing in place to prevent someone launching Google Home app and hijack those devices.<p>Even Chromecast and Hub displays codes, they are only to identify the device. Instead of the Google Home app asking you &quot;what are the letters shown on your device?&quot; it just tell you &quot;Press OK if your device is showing ABCD&quot; -- that&#x27;s very dumb implementation.<p>I don&#x27;t know why they simply couldn&#x27;t stand by to wait for the network connection to recover or require being present next to your device to press a reset button if their Network connection really needs to be updated -- or at <i>least</i> used simple authentication process to provision the device</text></comment>
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<story><title>Debian 12 “Bookworm”</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troad</author><text>Congratulations to the Debian team!<p>An important change appears to be the inclusion of non-free firmware by default in the official install image for the first time, as a result of this vote: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;vote&#x2F;2022&#x2F;vote_003" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;vote&#x2F;2022&#x2F;vote_003</a><p>Intriguing. I feel a little torn on this. One the one hand, I appreciate being able to install Debian from an official image onto a bothersome device. On the other, I can&#x27;t help but feel we&#x27;re losing something when even a purist distribution like Debian is forced to concede in the fight against proprietary blobs.<p>Edit: dropped the word &#x27;kernel&#x27; from &#x27;proprietary blobs&#x27;, as rightly picked up by kind commenters below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>I was involved in the discussion, and I&#x27;m also torn on that issue, but at least you can disable installation of non-free firmware and install Debian without any non-free software.<p>On the other hand, firmware is a convoluted issue. It was always present, but became increasingly visible over the years. While I&#x27;m a strong Free Software supporter, firmware is one of the hardest parts to convert, because of the IP it entails and trade secrets it embodies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Debian 12 “Bookworm”</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troad</author><text>Congratulations to the Debian team!<p>An important change appears to be the inclusion of non-free firmware by default in the official install image for the first time, as a result of this vote: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;vote&#x2F;2022&#x2F;vote_003" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;vote&#x2F;2022&#x2F;vote_003</a><p>Intriguing. I feel a little torn on this. One the one hand, I appreciate being able to install Debian from an official image onto a bothersome device. On the other, I can&#x27;t help but feel we&#x27;re losing something when even a purist distribution like Debian is forced to concede in the fight against proprietary blobs.<p>Edit: dropped the word &#x27;kernel&#x27; from &#x27;proprietary blobs&#x27;, as rightly picked up by kind commenters below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yrro</author><text>Debian was never a purist distribution. If it was then there wouldn&#x27;t have been a non-free section in the archive in the first place.<p>The sad truth is that the Linux distributions recommended by the FSF have approximately zero users.</text></comment>
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<story><title>On being a PhD student of Robert Harper</title><url>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming/article/on-being-a-phd-student-of-robert-harper/B68BCF31384084D9FDCB17A7DF1DE7A0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grumpyprole</author><text>&gt; He&#x27;d often go on intense (albeit well-informed) tangential rants, particularly about Python.<p>As an academic, it must be soul destroying to see the world dominated by ad-hoc efforts like Python. Just like Linux, it was one persons hobby project that repeated old mistakes and now threatens the existence of argubly better technology.</text></item><item><author>jstrieb</author><text>Can&#x27;t speak to graduate student experiences, but I did take Dr. Harper&#x27;s principles of programming languages class as an undergrad.<p>The course was ambitious and moved at a breakneck pace, and Dr. Harper could be a whirlwind in lecture. As some of the anecdotes mention, he&#x27;s pretty opinionated. He&#x27;d often go on intense (albeit well-informed), tangential rants, particularly about Python.<p>Personally, I would have preferred a less comprehensive course with more time to let some of the abstract ideas settle, but I can imagine his attitude and approach being well-suited to energetic graduate advising.<p>For those curious about the material, we covered a significant portion of his <i>Practical Foundations of Programming Languages</i> book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~rwh&#x2F;pfpl&#x2F;2nded.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~rwh&#x2F;pfpl&#x2F;2nded.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>Maybe but not necessarily. It&#x27;s possible they enjoy their little academic world where they can forget about average crap and pursue pure abstractions. Jump from conf to conf. And enjoy patiently the 30 years lag between discovery and mainstream application.</text></comment>
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<story><title>On being a PhD student of Robert Harper</title><url>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming/article/on-being-a-phd-student-of-robert-harper/B68BCF31384084D9FDCB17A7DF1DE7A0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grumpyprole</author><text>&gt; He&#x27;d often go on intense (albeit well-informed) tangential rants, particularly about Python.<p>As an academic, it must be soul destroying to see the world dominated by ad-hoc efforts like Python. Just like Linux, it was one persons hobby project that repeated old mistakes and now threatens the existence of argubly better technology.</text></item><item><author>jstrieb</author><text>Can&#x27;t speak to graduate student experiences, but I did take Dr. Harper&#x27;s principles of programming languages class as an undergrad.<p>The course was ambitious and moved at a breakneck pace, and Dr. Harper could be a whirlwind in lecture. As some of the anecdotes mention, he&#x27;s pretty opinionated. He&#x27;d often go on intense (albeit well-informed), tangential rants, particularly about Python.<p>Personally, I would have preferred a less comprehensive course with more time to let some of the abstract ideas settle, but I can imagine his attitude and approach being well-suited to energetic graduate advising.<p>For those curious about the material, we covered a significant portion of his <i>Practical Foundations of Programming Languages</i> book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~rwh&#x2F;pfpl&#x2F;2nded.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~rwh&#x2F;pfpl&#x2F;2nded.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bruce343434</author><text>You don&#x27;t have to be an academic for that. The world is full of imperfections. Marketing and luck are bigger factors than merit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What they don't teach you about sockets</title><url>https://macoy.me/blog/programming/Sockets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TYPE_FASTER</author><text>What really helped me understand and troubleshoot network communications at the socket level was the book by W. Richard Stevens[0]. I think this is because he starts with an introduction to TCP, and builds from there. Knowing TCP states and transitions is important to reading packet dumps, and in general debugging networking.<p>Also, no matter what platform you&#x27;re using, there is probably a socket implementation somewhere at the core. You&#x27;re best off understanding how sockets work, then understanding how the platform you&#x27;re working with uses sockets[1].<p>Once I read the W. Richard Stevens book, I was able to read and understand RFCs for protocols like HTTP to know how things should work. Then you&#x27;re better prepared to figure out if a behavior is due to your code, or an implementation of the protocol in your device, or the device on the other end of the network connection, or some intermediary device.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kohala.com&#x2F;start&#x2F;unpv12e.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kohala.com&#x2F;start&#x2F;unpv12e.html</a><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;win32&#x2F;winsock&#x2F;porting-socket-applications-to-winsock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;win32&#x2F;winsock&#x2F;porti...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwright</author><text>I had the privilege of working for Rich as a junior developer and then later with him as a co-author. He was my mentor and friend. Seeing messages like this over 30 years later really makes my day and reminds me how much I miss him.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What they don't teach you about sockets</title><url>https://macoy.me/blog/programming/Sockets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TYPE_FASTER</author><text>What really helped me understand and troubleshoot network communications at the socket level was the book by W. Richard Stevens[0]. I think this is because he starts with an introduction to TCP, and builds from there. Knowing TCP states and transitions is important to reading packet dumps, and in general debugging networking.<p>Also, no matter what platform you&#x27;re using, there is probably a socket implementation somewhere at the core. You&#x27;re best off understanding how sockets work, then understanding how the platform you&#x27;re working with uses sockets[1].<p>Once I read the W. Richard Stevens book, I was able to read and understand RFCs for protocols like HTTP to know how things should work. Then you&#x27;re better prepared to figure out if a behavior is due to your code, or an implementation of the protocol in your device, or the device on the other end of the network connection, or some intermediary device.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kohala.com&#x2F;start&#x2F;unpv12e.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kohala.com&#x2F;start&#x2F;unpv12e.html</a><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;win32&#x2F;winsock&#x2F;porting-socket-applications-to-winsock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;win32&#x2F;winsock&#x2F;porti...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lanstin</author><text>We had to debug an issue with ARP during a deploy of docker containers a year or two ago. A nearly complete understanding of the lower layers is not that much knowledge and quite useful at times.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/02/25/the-facts-mozillas-dns-over-https-doh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>Your ISP is literally selling this information right now in the US. What are you even talking about? Use google if you don&#x27;t like CF, or just disable it!<p>Do a little threat modeling here please. Let&#x27;s say CF sells this data, what do they know about you other than your IP and the sites you visit? While your ISP,employer,school,etc... Can tie that activity to you as a person. Being compelled legally? I did not know privacy meant breaking laws, suddenly law enforcement can&#x27;t do the same thing with your ISP dns?<p>This is not adding a new party that can surveil you, this is reducing risk by separating who can see your DNS from who can see your traffic. The idea is to have eSNI ubiquity to where TLS traffic will conceal the sites you visit while DoH will conceal the traffic metadata. Oh, and beauty of DoH: you can run it through a web proxy, and if you have alot of users behind a NAT it becomes very hard to pin point which actual machine generated the DNS lookup.</text></item><item><author>nullc</author><text>I&#x27;m so sad to see Mozilla move forward with this massive attack on user privacy.<p>Firefox DoH is snake oil, plain and simple. It sends all the users DNS queries to Cloudflare, adding a new party which can surveil the user&#x27;s traffic (and can be legally compelled to do so and not disclose this fact)-- providing a convenient choke point to save spies and hackers the trouble and exposure of extracting the data from tens of thousands of individual ISPs.<p>Simultaneously, it does not protect the user from monitoring by their ISP or parties situated there because the user&#x27;s destination IPs remain unencrypted, as well as the hostnames via SNI (for cases of shared hosting, e.g. on cloudflare, where the IP alone wouldn&#x27;t be enough).<p>At the moment you can disable this across your whole lan by blocking traffic to 104.16.248.249, 104.16.249.249, 2606:4700::6810:f8f9, and 2606:4700::6810:f9f9 and by DNS blackholing use-application-dns.net and cloudflare-dns.com.<p>iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 104.16.248.249 -j DROP<p>iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 104.16.249.249 -j DROP<p>ip6tables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 2606:4700::6810:f8f9 -j DROP<p>ip6tables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 2606:4700::6810:f9f9 -j DROP<p>And if you&#x27;re using bind:<p>zone &quot;use-application-dns.net&quot; {
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<story><title>Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/02/25/the-facts-mozillas-dns-over-https-doh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>Your ISP is literally selling this information right now in the US. What are you even talking about? Use google if you don&#x27;t like CF, or just disable it!<p>Do a little threat modeling here please. Let&#x27;s say CF sells this data, what do they know about you other than your IP and the sites you visit? While your ISP,employer,school,etc... Can tie that activity to you as a person. Being compelled legally? I did not know privacy meant breaking laws, suddenly law enforcement can&#x27;t do the same thing with your ISP dns?<p>This is not adding a new party that can surveil you, this is reducing risk by separating who can see your DNS from who can see your traffic. The idea is to have eSNI ubiquity to where TLS traffic will conceal the sites you visit while DoH will conceal the traffic metadata. Oh, and beauty of DoH: you can run it through a web proxy, and if you have alot of users behind a NAT it becomes very hard to pin point which actual machine generated the DNS lookup.</text></item><item><author>nullc</author><text>I&#x27;m so sad to see Mozilla move forward with this massive attack on user privacy.<p>Firefox DoH is snake oil, plain and simple. It sends all the users DNS queries to Cloudflare, adding a new party which can surveil the user&#x27;s traffic (and can be legally compelled to do so and not disclose this fact)-- providing a convenient choke point to save spies and hackers the trouble and exposure of extracting the data from tens of thousands of individual ISPs.<p>Simultaneously, it does not protect the user from monitoring by their ISP or parties situated there because the user&#x27;s destination IPs remain unencrypted, as well as the hostnames via SNI (for cases of shared hosting, e.g. on cloudflare, where the IP alone wouldn&#x27;t be enough).<p>At the moment you can disable this across your whole lan by blocking traffic to 104.16.248.249, 104.16.249.249, 2606:4700::6810:f8f9, and 2606:4700::6810:f9f9 and by DNS blackholing use-application-dns.net and cloudflare-dns.com.<p>iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 104.16.248.249 -j DROP<p>iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 104.16.249.249 -j DROP<p>ip6tables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 2606:4700::6810:f8f9 -j DROP<p>ip6tables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 2606:4700::6810:f9f9 -j DROP<p>And if you&#x27;re using bind:<p>zone &quot;use-application-dns.net&quot; {
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<story><title>Spot the Drowning Child (2015)</title><url>http://spotthedrowningchild.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vincnetas</author><text>Was looking at the videos and my main take away was : &quot;Why do they allow these floatation devices in the pool?&quot; If you cant swim and are short enough (basically most kids) why let you climb on that slippery ballon and go in the water? It&#x27;s like giving kids knifes and let them in the bouncy castle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sloowm</author><text>If your kid can&#x27;t swim you shouldn&#x27;t let it go in on its own. There is no reason to spoil the fun for everyone.<p>You can ban all fun or tell parents to use common sense and have a backup for idiot parents.<p>In this specific pool I would also create a barrier&#x2F;line between the shallow bit of the pool and the deep end. In some of the videos the kids end up in the deep end by just playing, even without the floating devices.<p>Also kids should be taught to swim at a young age. At least where I&#x27;m from there are many places where kids can fall into the water.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Spot the Drowning Child (2015)</title><url>http://spotthedrowningchild.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vincnetas</author><text>Was looking at the videos and my main take away was : &quot;Why do they allow these floatation devices in the pool?&quot; If you cant swim and are short enough (basically most kids) why let you climb on that slippery ballon and go in the water? It&#x27;s like giving kids knifes and let them in the bouncy castle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JR1427</author><text>I think it&#x27;s also not just about kids who can&#x27;t swim falling off floaties, but also that the floaties will hide a drowning child.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bank of America's Research Report on Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/885843/banks-research-report-on-bitcoin.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>(If you didn&#x27;t read the article, cs702 thinks bitcoin could hit $90k.)<p>I still think you are off. The fractional reserve system warps incentives too much.<p>1. The world needs more than $600 of float. And most people think they have that. The difference is that its wrapped up in the fractional reserve banking system.<p>2. Due to inflation uninformed people are bullied into investing in mutual funds, stocks, housing, etc. with their savings. Just the <i>existence</i> of bitcoin as a major worldwide currency could transform the traditional saving model. If a 30 year old puts a days wages into an account and can expect a days wages out when he&#x27;s 80 years old then he can drastically simplify his retirement. He can avoid speculative bubbles and bad mutual fund managers.<p>3. National currency reserves are currently done with sovereign debt - with the idea being that if a nation goes bankrupt they&#x27;ll just inflate their currency anyway and the currency reserve may as well be in bonds. If Bitcoin were to become a major world currency, the reserves could be in actual Bitcoins.<p>All of this to say I still think that there is a 90+% chance that bitcoin will fail, but on that remaining percent, the limit higher than 100 times today. I&#x27;ve done the math a couple ways and I end up with $100k to $10m as my outliers given that bitcoin becomes a world currency.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Interesting. I used essentially the same methodology nearly three years ago to estimate the potential maximum price of Bitcoin over time, but I reached a different conclusion: <a href="http://cs702.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/on-the-potential-adoption-and-price-appreciation-of-bitcoin-in-the-long-run/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs702.wordpress.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;on-the-potential-adopt...</a><p>The main difference between BofA&#x27;s analysis and mine is that I see Bitcoin as a <i>far superior</i> alternative for many financial and other types of applications. For one, Bitcoin as a platform provides a global, decentralized, irreversible log of programmable transactions. For another, bitcoins as &quot;money&quot; are easier to secure, transport, hide, and backup than all prior forms of money ever used by civilization. (Actually, no prior form of money ever used – whether made of bank credits, paper, metal, or other substances[1] – could be backed up like a Bitcoin wallet.)<p>Therefore, <i>if</i> Bitcoin continues to work as intended (i.e., proves immune to attacks) and gets easier and safer to use (for non-technical people), it will slowly gain credibility in the public’s mind, <i>not just as medium of exchange and store of value, but also as application platform</i>. Over a period of many years or even decades, as the world gradually learns via trial-and-error how to use it, becomes familiar with its properties, and ultimately comes to trust it, nothing can prevent Bitcoin from gaining as much credibility as other alternatives, including gold.<p>--<p>[1] I highly recommend Nick Szabo&#x27;s essay on the origins of money: <a href="http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;szabo.best.vwh.net&#x2F;shell.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weichi</author><text>&quot;If a 30 year old puts a days wages into an account and can expect a days wages out when he&#x27;s 80 years old then he can drastically simplify his retirement.&quot;<p>Your idea here seems to be that bitcoin could help you not only hedge against &quot;inflation&quot;, but also against rising economic productivity. I.e., what a saver really wants is some kind of guarantee that at age 80 they will be able to consume the same fraction of economic output that they were able to at age 30. Could you spell out how bitcoin helps solve this problem?<p>(I take it for granted that hedging purely against inflation is actually a solved problem, because you can just invest in short term bonds, which provide excellent hedges against inflation. But of course they don&#x27;t help at all with rising productivity).<p>Edit: Another - massive! - issue with retirement savings is longevity risk. How can you ensure that you won&#x27;t run out of savings before you die? Bitcoin won&#x27;t help you here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bank of America's Research Report on Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/885843/banks-research-report-on-bitcoin.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>(If you didn&#x27;t read the article, cs702 thinks bitcoin could hit $90k.)<p>I still think you are off. The fractional reserve system warps incentives too much.<p>1. The world needs more than $600 of float. And most people think they have that. The difference is that its wrapped up in the fractional reserve banking system.<p>2. Due to inflation uninformed people are bullied into investing in mutual funds, stocks, housing, etc. with their savings. Just the <i>existence</i> of bitcoin as a major worldwide currency could transform the traditional saving model. If a 30 year old puts a days wages into an account and can expect a days wages out when he&#x27;s 80 years old then he can drastically simplify his retirement. He can avoid speculative bubbles and bad mutual fund managers.<p>3. National currency reserves are currently done with sovereign debt - with the idea being that if a nation goes bankrupt they&#x27;ll just inflate their currency anyway and the currency reserve may as well be in bonds. If Bitcoin were to become a major world currency, the reserves could be in actual Bitcoins.<p>All of this to say I still think that there is a 90+% chance that bitcoin will fail, but on that remaining percent, the limit higher than 100 times today. I&#x27;ve done the math a couple ways and I end up with $100k to $10m as my outliers given that bitcoin becomes a world currency.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Interesting. I used essentially the same methodology nearly three years ago to estimate the potential maximum price of Bitcoin over time, but I reached a different conclusion: <a href="http://cs702.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/on-the-potential-adoption-and-price-appreciation-of-bitcoin-in-the-long-run/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs702.wordpress.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;on-the-potential-adopt...</a><p>The main difference between BofA&#x27;s analysis and mine is that I see Bitcoin as a <i>far superior</i> alternative for many financial and other types of applications. For one, Bitcoin as a platform provides a global, decentralized, irreversible log of programmable transactions. For another, bitcoins as &quot;money&quot; are easier to secure, transport, hide, and backup than all prior forms of money ever used by civilization. (Actually, no prior form of money ever used – whether made of bank credits, paper, metal, or other substances[1] – could be backed up like a Bitcoin wallet.)<p>Therefore, <i>if</i> Bitcoin continues to work as intended (i.e., proves immune to attacks) and gets easier and safer to use (for non-technical people), it will slowly gain credibility in the public’s mind, <i>not just as medium of exchange and store of value, but also as application platform</i>. Over a period of many years or even decades, as the world gradually learns via trial-and-error how to use it, becomes familiar with its properties, and ultimately comes to trust it, nothing can prevent Bitcoin from gaining as much credibility as other alternatives, including gold.<p>--<p>[1] I highly recommend Nick Szabo&#x27;s essay on the origins of money: <a href="http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;szabo.best.vwh.net&#x2F;shell.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fat0wl</author><text>I&#x27;ve wonder about #2 though. We see the downsides of saving in an inflationary system, but a finite currency system... do we really expect that to be stable for 50 years, and if so, based on what precedent?<p>I was surprised to see BOA list &quot;It&#x27;s finite&quot; as an advantage. It seems like this mentality is all anti-inflation (which seems justifiable) yet the alternative is taking a wildly experimental approach to savings. BTC hasn&#x27;t proven stability within a month really yet, why trust it for 50 years? And then if you put in that 1 day&#x27;s wage of Bitcoins, what happens when the market cap for BTC fluctuates? It won&#x27;t always be in a steady demand, it will depend a bit on how many people are using it, no?<p>I am a doomsdayer also I think that it can only succeed if it always remains the same price or keeps going up, but the belief that this is possible is obviously intellectually malformed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/magic-leap-one-creators-edition-first-look.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>AR applications already provide concrete added value in construction where you can overlay the digital model with the site for inspections and such.<p>I would see Magic Leap falls to same category as hololens - which is used for real work in the construction industry - but only on a more affordable price point.<p>The key question is how easy it is to develop applications for it. Hololens basically consumes unity apps which makes it a pretty easy for development and deployment.</text></item><item><author>Guest9812398</author><text>As always with Magic Leap, I&#x27;m still not seeing a single compelling use case. Sea turtles swimming around the air, or a T-rex on the desk is fun for a few minutes, but it&#x27;s not worth the price of entry. At this point, I&#x27;ve lost all faith in their vision. After years of following their posts, they haven&#x27;t demonstrated a single thing of value.<p>What are they expecting now? They honestly think developers are going to flock to this device with no audience for $2,250 and produce groundbreaking applications and games that will sell millions of Magic Leaps to consumers to recover their investment?<p>Why don&#x27;t they take that 2.5 billion dollars, and prove a single application or game <i>can</i> be developed for this product that people will line up to buy? If they can&#x27;t do it with unlimited money, almost a decade of time, and the future of their business depending on it, then why do they expect some random developers are going to pay money to do it for them?<p>I know this post sounds negative, but I&#x27;m 100% convinced this product will be dead on arrival and nothing more than a 2.5 billion dollar mistake to show a few hundred people floating jellyfish in their living room.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text><i>AR applications already provide concrete added value in construction where you can overlay the digital model with the site for inspections and such</i><p>You say that, but we built the leading product for this in 2014 (Visidraft) and AEC still isn&#x27;t ready in 2018 for this for a host of reasons.<p>Forgetting for a moment that 99% of these applications are on tablets and phones - which is still too difficult to manage for most AEC firms - the problems inherent in the lack of infrastructure to solve the 3D content management, object localization, user collaboration and markup management are still unsolved. Not technically mind you, but in business processes and workflow.<p>Add HMD to that and you cut the market deployment by 1&#x2F;1000th. So a demo here or there from DAQRI or Hololens does not prove the value of it being a serious and concrete product.<p>Beyond that though, the biggest problem was that it ends up providing the most value as a sales&#x2F;collab tool between clients and developers, and we constantly heard that architects didn&#x27;t want to use it because it put too much power into the client&#x27;s hand. Imagine that.<p>So I&#x27;m not sure where you&#x27;re getting the &quot;provide concrete added value.&quot; Show me the successful product - not a demo, or a pilot product, but one that is generating profit at scale and is integrated into an entire business process at a firm like Gensler (one of our clients previously).<p>It&#x27;s a theoretically great use case, but in practice, it requires too much from the user to make it work as a stable product.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.architectmagazine.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;visidraft-augmented-reality-for-visualizing-cad-designs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.architectmagazine.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;visidraft-augmented...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/magic-leap-one-creators-edition-first-look.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>AR applications already provide concrete added value in construction where you can overlay the digital model with the site for inspections and such.<p>I would see Magic Leap falls to same category as hololens - which is used for real work in the construction industry - but only on a more affordable price point.<p>The key question is how easy it is to develop applications for it. Hololens basically consumes unity apps which makes it a pretty easy for development and deployment.</text></item><item><author>Guest9812398</author><text>As always with Magic Leap, I&#x27;m still not seeing a single compelling use case. Sea turtles swimming around the air, or a T-rex on the desk is fun for a few minutes, but it&#x27;s not worth the price of entry. At this point, I&#x27;ve lost all faith in their vision. After years of following their posts, they haven&#x27;t demonstrated a single thing of value.<p>What are they expecting now? They honestly think developers are going to flock to this device with no audience for $2,250 and produce groundbreaking applications and games that will sell millions of Magic Leaps to consumers to recover their investment?<p>Why don&#x27;t they take that 2.5 billion dollars, and prove a single application or game <i>can</i> be developed for this product that people will line up to buy? If they can&#x27;t do it with unlimited money, almost a decade of time, and the future of their business depending on it, then why do they expect some random developers are going to pay money to do it for them?<p>I know this post sounds negative, but I&#x27;m 100% convinced this product will be dead on arrival and nothing more than a 2.5 billion dollar mistake to show a few hundred people floating jellyfish in their living room.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raesene9</author><text>Whilst the Hololens is currently more expensive than this version of MagicLeap, I&#x27;ll be interested to see what MS produce next year when the next version is scheduled to come out.<p>One thing that I think MagicLeap have got wrong for a business market is not working over glasses (it seems like you need to fit prescription lenses to the device)<p>That means you can&#x27;t easily share the device with others, which I would think would be a common use case in business (i.e. most places won&#x27;t buy one device per user, but a number of devices for a department)</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/61/coordinates/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber-rp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarbecue</author><text>Weird to see this article doing the rounds again. I&#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time with Alex (climbing, doing jigsaw puzzles, etc). He&#x27;s totally normal, just strong, motivated, and disciplined. Nautilus publishes a lot of pseudoscience that wouldn&#x27;t be accepted in a peer-reviewed journal, and this is perfect example. A claim of reading personality based on fMRI study of a single person&#x27;s brain, which shows slightly different bloodflow amounts in a particular place. NB: I haven&#x27;t talked to him about this article so don&#x27;t know what his opinion is on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kahirsch</author><text>Dr. Joseph has published about this topic in peer-reviewed journals.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3637656&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3637656&#x2F;</a>
&quot;Too little, too late or too much, too early? Differential hemodynamics of response inhibition in high and low sensation seekers&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3150539&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3150539&#x2F;</a>
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<story><title>New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard | Ian Chilton</title><url>http://www.ichilton.co.uk/blog/apple/new-apple-macbook-pro-ram-is-soldered-to-the-motherboard-513.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ctdonath</author><text>Making components replaceable increases volume, weight, and cost.<p>If you want replaceable components, go buy a computer for which that is a feature - and know that you will get a machine which is larger, heavier, and more expensive (all other factors being equal). Swapable components require additional casing, connectors, testing, sales channels, etc. You're not going to get a 3/4" 5-lb 7-hour 256GB-SSD 8GB-RAM MBA Retina for $2200 <i>and</i> be able to swap out darn near everything; something's gonna give.<p>Some of us DON'T want to replace components, having learned over the years that by the time we're replacing components we'd rather replace the whole computer outright. If I need more RAM, it's best matched with a new CPU. If I need more storage, I'll need more RAM to throw around more data. When the battery dies, all those other components are gettin' obsolete anyway. I also know from experience that upgrading parts doesn't always go as planned, and time wasted upgrading can very quickly add up to the cost of a new machine outright. I'd rather have a notebook which is very thin, very light, very fast - and just replace the whole package when the time comes as I see fit.<p>You're welcome to a different POV, and there is a market happy to serve our different needs &#38; desires.<p>However, just because we have a different POV doesn't make me a f<i></i>*ing idiot.</text></item><item><author>gouranga</author><text>Sorry but you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one to be honest if that is the case.<p>Apple are making an attempt to turn generic computers into disposable appliances with moves like these. I would never accept a compromise like that with a computer that I owned.<p>My rationale is as follows: If I pay £1800 for one of those machines, I expect to be able to repair common problems easily. That's a lot of money sitting in one component waiting to fail and considering the warranty is a year (or 3 if you are extorted for even more cash by Apple for their expensive AppleCare service).<p>First it was the batteries - now no longer replaceable by mere mortals, then the SSDs were brought in with proprietary interfaces, now the RAM is soldered on the board.<p>In the average 5 year life span of a computer, I have found that you will need to replace the battery between 1-2 times, the memory will need to be upgraded at least once and the disk will need to be upgraded. These are observations but rational ones.<p>I'm now sitting on a Lenovo T61 which is 5 years old. EVERY component in this machine can be replaced for literally nothing and very rapidly.<p>Sorry but stuff like this is just pandering to consumerism if it is disposable by design.<p>The design is retarded.<p>EDIT: It appears the battery is GLUED in so that's not replaceable any more either, even with the aid of a screwdriver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tincansandtwine</author><text>Specifically in reply to the battery: I work in an enterprise environment where Macs make up about 50-60% of the installed machines. Of these, about 30-40% are laptops. In my experience, Mac laptop batteries have a high rate of failure, higher than our significantly more dated PC hardware. With the most recent revs, replacing the battery has become a huge problem, since relatively new hardware (1-2 years old) is now completely shot, unless we buy a proprietary screwdriver (not a big deal, but every time they change the screw, we have to find a shop that sells it), or send it to a Mac repair shop. Now, if we upgrade to the Retina Macbook Pro, we will not have the considerably cheaper and faster option of replacing it ourselves. Unfortunately, our userbase is such that they "require" Mac hardware, so it puts IT in a rough position (having to explain why we're essentially outsourcing our work, and spending money to do so).<p>Now, this isn't necessarily a typical case, but if you were a regular consumer and your battery died, it isn't that hard to buy a replacement battery for the majority of laptops, though this kind of thing is becoming more prevalent. I would also like to mention that it's not just Apple (I'm looking at you, Ultrabooks), though I would say that they are the trendsetter.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard | Ian Chilton</title><url>http://www.ichilton.co.uk/blog/apple/new-apple-macbook-pro-ram-is-soldered-to-the-motherboard-513.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ctdonath</author><text>Making components replaceable increases volume, weight, and cost.<p>If you want replaceable components, go buy a computer for which that is a feature - and know that you will get a machine which is larger, heavier, and more expensive (all other factors being equal). Swapable components require additional casing, connectors, testing, sales channels, etc. You're not going to get a 3/4" 5-lb 7-hour 256GB-SSD 8GB-RAM MBA Retina for $2200 <i>and</i> be able to swap out darn near everything; something's gonna give.<p>Some of us DON'T want to replace components, having learned over the years that by the time we're replacing components we'd rather replace the whole computer outright. If I need more RAM, it's best matched with a new CPU. If I need more storage, I'll need more RAM to throw around more data. When the battery dies, all those other components are gettin' obsolete anyway. I also know from experience that upgrading parts doesn't always go as planned, and time wasted upgrading can very quickly add up to the cost of a new machine outright. I'd rather have a notebook which is very thin, very light, very fast - and just replace the whole package when the time comes as I see fit.<p>You're welcome to a different POV, and there is a market happy to serve our different needs &#38; desires.<p>However, just because we have a different POV doesn't make me a f<i></i>*ing idiot.</text></item><item><author>gouranga</author><text>Sorry but you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one to be honest if that is the case.<p>Apple are making an attempt to turn generic computers into disposable appliances with moves like these. I would never accept a compromise like that with a computer that I owned.<p>My rationale is as follows: If I pay £1800 for one of those machines, I expect to be able to repair common problems easily. That's a lot of money sitting in one component waiting to fail and considering the warranty is a year (or 3 if you are extorted for even more cash by Apple for their expensive AppleCare service).<p>First it was the batteries - now no longer replaceable by mere mortals, then the SSDs were brought in with proprietary interfaces, now the RAM is soldered on the board.<p>In the average 5 year life span of a computer, I have found that you will need to replace the battery between 1-2 times, the memory will need to be upgraded at least once and the disk will need to be upgraded. These are observations but rational ones.<p>I'm now sitting on a Lenovo T61 which is 5 years old. EVERY component in this machine can be replaced for literally nothing and very rapidly.<p>Sorry but stuff like this is just pandering to consumerism if it is disposable by design.<p>The design is retarded.<p>EDIT: It appears the battery is GLUED in so that's not replaceable any more either, even with the aid of a screwdriver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>+1 I am with you on this. Although I have a MacBook Pro as a hot backup, I do all of my work and writing using a 13" MacBook Air. For me it is a commodity device that I have no interest in upgrading. If it breaks, a new one can be configured using a Time Machine backup while I enjoy a cup of coffee.<p>Life used to be different: I spent a lot of time with extensible PCs, tweaking and running Linux, etc. I have come to realize that this "fun" had an opportunity cost that I am no longer willing to pay.<p>I also tend to replace Apple gear more often but it is easy to find relatives or friends who appreciate being given slightly outdated gear.<p>I like having an easily replaceable commodity laptop in sort of the same way I like server assets sold like electricity (e.g., AWS, Heroku, AppEngine).<p>Ultimately time is the most precious resource. The older I get the more I care about using it wisely.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/13/21435637/us-cbp-counterfeit-airpods-oneplus-buds-mixup</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bdowling</author><text>The products here may be considered legally counterfeit for one or more reasons other than simply using the word mark APPLE. For example: (1) trademark or trade dress infringement if the product&#x27;s decorative features (color, etc.) or packaging copies a registered trademark of Apple, (2) copyright infringement if the product contains copied Apple code without a license,(3) patent infringement if the product implements some patented Apple technology without a license, (4) design patent infringement if the product is a copy of an Apple-patented ornamental design, or (5) some other copied intellectual property.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>himinlomax</author><text>It&#x27;s reasonable to think that One Plus could be found to be infringing on Apple&#x27;s trademarks or design patents, but that would have to be decided in court. It&#x27;s rather strange that customs could decide that some product clearly labelled with one trademark (and an established one at that) are counterfeits of another.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/13/21435637/us-cbp-counterfeit-airpods-oneplus-buds-mixup</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bdowling</author><text>The products here may be considered legally counterfeit for one or more reasons other than simply using the word mark APPLE. For example: (1) trademark or trade dress infringement if the product&#x27;s decorative features (color, etc.) or packaging copies a registered trademark of Apple, (2) copyright infringement if the product contains copied Apple code without a license,(3) patent infringement if the product implements some patented Apple technology without a license, (4) design patent infringement if the product is a copy of an Apple-patented ornamental design, or (5) some other copied intellectual property.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjt</author><text>I&#x27;m scratching my head trying to figure out why you&#x27;re being downvoted while the least well-informed comments along the lines of &quot;Customs officials are dumb!&quot; are at the top.<p>This is very likely a design patent case, not just trademark. In which case, they could be infringing regardless of the logo on the box.<p>Then again, the article isn&#x27;t helping, as it also seems oblivious to the design patent possibility.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde</title><url>https://news.microsoft.com/stories/people/adlam.html?ocid=lock</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ibudiallo</author><text>As a Fulani, when I was growing up there weren&#x27;t any official alphabet. Some people wrote in Arabic, other&#x27;s in the latin letters using french phonetics and agreed upon combinations for those new sounds. (ie Bhe, dhe, etc.) I only know Fulani orally.<p>But around 2002, if I remember correctly, Guinean students from the University of Azhar in Egypt, started working on a new alphabet. They agreed on using latin letters for familiar sounds, since most of Fulanis speak french anyway. They added new letters for those particularly Fulani sounds.<p>I remember being there in a small college bedroom where they were all gathered around the computer. It had a Pentium III and they were excited about a new Pentium 4 machine that someone had donated but they didn&#x27;t get the chance to install it yet. I don&#x27;t remember if the two brothers were there since those names are extremely common for Fulani (yes, my name is Ibrahima too).<p>I was there to get a hair cut, and along the way they told me the computer had issues. All I did was go to windows Registry, and delete the files that automatically started at boot.<p>The script in this article is new to me, never saw it before. I read books in the one they made in Egypt, since it&#x27;s easy to pick up. In fact, I think when you take an official test in Fulani, it is written in the script from Egypt.<p>Either way, I&#x27;m excited for this and hopefully I&#x27;ll get to learn it quick enough to teach my own children.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde</title><url>https://news.microsoft.com/stories/people/adlam.html?ocid=lock</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dghughes</author><text>This is great, I love languages and writing systems. My own heritage is Irish so I can see how language and culture are linked so strongly to writing the words to speak the language of that culture.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how dismissive we can be too. A friend of mine who is Mi&#x27;kmaq (pronounced mig-maw) a First Nations&#x2F;Native American was showing me ancient glyph symbols of his language. I had been telling him about languages I liked and that&#x27;s why he showed me the Mi&#x27;kmaq alphabet&#x2F;syllabary for their writing system. They aren&#x27;t used Latin letters are used but it shows how even me as a fan of languages assumed First Nations peoples in the Americas did not develop writing systems. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.omniglot.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;mikmaq.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.omniglot.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;mikmaq.htm</a><p>I can spend hours looking at Omniglot.com I strongly recommend it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?</title><url>https://www.platformer.news/p/will-apple-mail-end-the-newsletter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>Have you ever managed a newsletter? Mail providers such as gmail use things like open rates to determine if a message should be in important, promotions, or spam.<p>Also, a sizeable chunk of people refuse to click unsubscribe links and instead hit the spam button. This can be a sensible response, as a lot of spam senders ignore unsubscribe. But it is also hard for legit newsletters.<p>So what is the best practice? Pruning your list of people who never open it. This improves open rates, makes gmail like you, and unsubscribes people who already would prefer not to read your letter.<p>Now it will be much harder to know who is inactive so you’ll end up sending more mail to people who don’t want it. And no double opt in doesn’t solve this.<p>There are other ways around the problem, but you seem to be in complete ignorance of what newsletter senders use tracking for.<p>Open rates also let you diagnose deliverability issues.</text></item><item><author>Hoasi</author><text>Mail privacy is the right thing to do and implement it will be a major improvement!<p>That doesn’t threaten email newsletters that are legitimate and of interest to real subscribers. Communication should never rely on espionage tactics even for the sake of metrics. Forgo monitoring people, customers, or would-be customers, and save a ton of time as a result.<p>Marketing experts will start talking about how two ways conversation is the ultimate email strategy that works. Send a non-tracked email, let them hit reply. Brands and consumers, united in conversation, finally. That is as horizontal as it gets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schmorptron</author><text>To be honest, these days I&#x27;ll click the unsubscribe link in newsletters and stuff, but if they expect me to click on another small link on a website or even enter my email again I just go back and report it as spam. Spoken to some friends who do the same, and I feel that this is the only reasonable approach to take with this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?</title><url>https://www.platformer.news/p/will-apple-mail-end-the-newsletter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>Have you ever managed a newsletter? Mail providers such as gmail use things like open rates to determine if a message should be in important, promotions, or spam.<p>Also, a sizeable chunk of people refuse to click unsubscribe links and instead hit the spam button. This can be a sensible response, as a lot of spam senders ignore unsubscribe. But it is also hard for legit newsletters.<p>So what is the best practice? Pruning your list of people who never open it. This improves open rates, makes gmail like you, and unsubscribes people who already would prefer not to read your letter.<p>Now it will be much harder to know who is inactive so you’ll end up sending more mail to people who don’t want it. And no double opt in doesn’t solve this.<p>There are other ways around the problem, but you seem to be in complete ignorance of what newsletter senders use tracking for.<p>Open rates also let you diagnose deliverability issues.</text></item><item><author>Hoasi</author><text>Mail privacy is the right thing to do and implement it will be a major improvement!<p>That doesn’t threaten email newsletters that are legitimate and of interest to real subscribers. Communication should never rely on espionage tactics even for the sake of metrics. Forgo monitoring people, customers, or would-be customers, and save a ton of time as a result.<p>Marketing experts will start talking about how two ways conversation is the ultimate email strategy that works. Send a non-tracked email, let them hit reply. Brands and consumers, united in conversation, finally. That is as horizontal as it gets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eikenberry</author><text>Did those people who hit the spam button subscribe to the newsletter or were they subscribed without their consent? Seems odd that people would go to the trouble of subscribing to a newsletter only to send it to the spam folder. On the other hand if they didn&#x27;t (go through the trouble of subscribing), then it is spam.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Neil44</author><text>Such a headline surely suggests that the definition of &#x27;unsafe&#x27; needs clarification, since we are not all dead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anymouse123456</author><text>To your point, from the article:<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not super concerned about the everyday exposure in mountain or stream water or in the food. We can&#x27;t escape it... we&#x27;re just going to have to live with it.&quot;<p>I agree that it doesn&#x27;t feel right to read a quote like, &quot;I&#x27;m not super concerned about...&quot; along with such a dire sounding headline.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Neil44</author><text>Such a headline surely suggests that the definition of &#x27;unsafe&#x27; needs clarification, since we are not all dead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>Not dead but you have 50% of the testosterone of your great grandpa due to environmental pollution and other factors</text></comment>
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<story><title>Beware of 'shrinkflation,' inflation's devious cousin</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/beware-of-shrinkflation-inflations-devious-cousin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HellsMaddy</author><text>I&#x27;ve been shopping on Instacart a lot during the pandemic and I&#x27;ve noticed a related phenomenon: packaging designed to make products look bigger than they really are, especially in online photos. It&#x27;s not necessarily a new thing, but the online photo aspect is somewhat novel because you don&#x27;t get to see the product in context.<p>For example, a jar of Jalapenos, product photo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;mprWr6R.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;mprWr6R.jpg</a><p>In reality, the jar&#x27;s cross-section isn&#x27;t circular as it appears, it&#x27;s an ellipse&#x2F;oval: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;dXDUOR9.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;dXDUOR9.png</a><p>Only the first photo was included in the item listing. When the groceries were delivered and I pulled out the jar, I was so surprised by the odd football-like shape that I couldn’t stop laughing for a few minutes at how well they’d fooled me.<p>Another common thing to see is familiar product packaging that is just “scaled down”. Everything about the packaging looks the same or very similar, but smaller - especially fonts. This deceives the eye into believing the product is much larger. I recently fell for this when shopping for some conditioner. The packaging is not exactly the same but close enough to fool me at a glance:<p>What I bought: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MdAuhS0.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MdAuhS0.png</a><p>What I expected: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MGxdD0d.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MGxdD0d.png</a><p>I&#x27;m inclined the believe this is on purpose because in real life, the fonts are way too small to read comfortably. If not trying to mislead, I would expect the packaging to be designed to be legible, right?<p>It&#x27;s especially frustrating because I usually would&#x27;ve just paid more for the larger size.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>canucker2016</author><text>Not sure if it&#x27;s only in Great Britain where this occurs, but the food manufacturers have taken the acronym WYSIWYG to heart.<p>Don&#x27;t expect anything more than what is visible in the food packaging.<p>The little plastic window in the packaging shows lots of pepperoni?<p>Don&#x27;t assume the whole pizza is uniformly covered in pepperoni.<p>You&#x27;ll just make an ass out of yourself.<p>see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;femail&#x2F;food&#x2F;article-5274153&#x2F;Photos-misleading-packaging-fools-shoppers.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;femail&#x2F;food&#x2F;article-5274153&#x2F;Phot...</a><p>I&#x27;ve seen pix of sandwiches where the packaging looks like there&#x27;s tons of filling only to reveal that all the fillings have been jammed to the front of the package window.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Beware of 'shrinkflation,' inflation's devious cousin</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/beware-of-shrinkflation-inflations-devious-cousin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HellsMaddy</author><text>I&#x27;ve been shopping on Instacart a lot during the pandemic and I&#x27;ve noticed a related phenomenon: packaging designed to make products look bigger than they really are, especially in online photos. It&#x27;s not necessarily a new thing, but the online photo aspect is somewhat novel because you don&#x27;t get to see the product in context.<p>For example, a jar of Jalapenos, product photo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;mprWr6R.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;mprWr6R.jpg</a><p>In reality, the jar&#x27;s cross-section isn&#x27;t circular as it appears, it&#x27;s an ellipse&#x2F;oval: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;dXDUOR9.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;dXDUOR9.png</a><p>Only the first photo was included in the item listing. When the groceries were delivered and I pulled out the jar, I was so surprised by the odd football-like shape that I couldn’t stop laughing for a few minutes at how well they’d fooled me.<p>Another common thing to see is familiar product packaging that is just “scaled down”. Everything about the packaging looks the same or very similar, but smaller - especially fonts. This deceives the eye into believing the product is much larger. I recently fell for this when shopping for some conditioner. The packaging is not exactly the same but close enough to fool me at a glance:<p>What I bought: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MdAuhS0.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MdAuhS0.png</a><p>What I expected: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MGxdD0d.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MGxdD0d.png</a><p>I&#x27;m inclined the believe this is on purpose because in real life, the fonts are way too small to read comfortably. If not trying to mislead, I would expect the packaging to be designed to be legible, right?<p>It&#x27;s especially frustrating because I usually would&#x27;ve just paid more for the larger size.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alister</author><text>&gt; <i>make products look bigger than they really are, especially in online photos</i><p>I&#x27;ve noticed that tiny condos and apartments in real estate photos look enormous. I&#x27;m undecided on whether this is a deliberate attempt to mislead or an artifact of having to use a wide angle lens to capture the whole room (but an artifact that the seller and real estate agent like).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]</title><url>http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/google-street-view-hyperlapse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Amazingly cool, what a great "hack" usage of Google Street View. Incredibly creative!<p>It occurs to me... I would love to be able to watch cross-country trips like this. Take me from New York to San Fran in 10 minutes, maybe skipping over over the really boring monotonous parts? Take me an a tour through Europe! Could be an amazing tool to give people a real physical sense of distance between places.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]</title><url>http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/google-street-view-hyperlapse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spicavigo</author><text>Something I made and open sourced 10 days ago. Quite similar to this, except, very few on HN bothered to take a look.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5469218" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5469218</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Job vacancies surge past one million in new record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58543554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reason077</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;Wage rises without solving the housing issue is only going to raise house prices further.&quot;</i><p>House prices aren&#x27;t that tightly linked to incomes. House prices are more strongly influenced by interest rates and availability of credit. And, of course, supply&#x2F;demand fundamentals (ie: population change vs. number of housing units in an area).</text></item><item><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Wage rises without solving the housing issue is only going to raise house prices further.<p>There&#x27;s a bunch of potential solutions, but no-one directly benefits from them in the short term.<p>Any attempt to fix it will be met with sob stories about old ladies in multi-million dollar homes being &quot;forced out of their homes&quot;.<p>So we&#x27;ll all just sit and watch as things slowly spin out of control.</text></item><item><author>nly</author><text>Housing is anything from a third to 50% of the average UK earners take home income. Median house price to median income ratios are at historically high levels[0], and rents are now also rising[1]<p>Either wages need to rise or house prices need to fall.<p>[0] If you look at somewhere mundane like Essex the median &#x27;affordability ratio&#x27;, as measured by the Office of National Statistics ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;x5jatcx8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;x5jatcx8</a> ), was 4.5 in 2000 but is now north of 10. And yes, low interest rates help with monthly affordability but house prices have gone up ~4 fold in the last 20 years while the multiple of your income banks will lend has not, and peoples capacity to save a deposit that is 4x bigger has not.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisismoney.co.uk&#x2F;money&#x2F;buytolet&#x2F;article-9969349&#x2F;Rents-rise-13-years-tenants-flock-UK-cities.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisismoney.co.uk&#x2F;money&#x2F;buytolet&#x2F;article-9969349...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>&gt; House prices aren&#x27;t that tightly linked to incomes. House prices are more strongly influenced by interest rates and availability of credit.<p>I believe banks in the UK don&#x27;t lend you more than 4.5x - 5.5x of your income, regardless of interest rates.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Job vacancies surge past one million in new record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58543554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reason077</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;Wage rises without solving the housing issue is only going to raise house prices further.&quot;</i><p>House prices aren&#x27;t that tightly linked to incomes. House prices are more strongly influenced by interest rates and availability of credit. And, of course, supply&#x2F;demand fundamentals (ie: population change vs. number of housing units in an area).</text></item><item><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Wage rises without solving the housing issue is only going to raise house prices further.<p>There&#x27;s a bunch of potential solutions, but no-one directly benefits from them in the short term.<p>Any attempt to fix it will be met with sob stories about old ladies in multi-million dollar homes being &quot;forced out of their homes&quot;.<p>So we&#x27;ll all just sit and watch as things slowly spin out of control.</text></item><item><author>nly</author><text>Housing is anything from a third to 50% of the average UK earners take home income. Median house price to median income ratios are at historically high levels[0], and rents are now also rising[1]<p>Either wages need to rise or house prices need to fall.<p>[0] If you look at somewhere mundane like Essex the median &#x27;affordability ratio&#x27;, as measured by the Office of National Statistics ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;x5jatcx8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;x5jatcx8</a> ), was 4.5 in 2000 but is now north of 10. And yes, low interest rates help with monthly affordability but house prices have gone up ~4 fold in the last 20 years while the multiple of your income banks will lend has not, and peoples capacity to save a deposit that is 4x bigger has not.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisismoney.co.uk&#x2F;money&#x2F;buytolet&#x2F;article-9969349&#x2F;Rents-rise-13-years-tenants-flock-UK-cities.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisismoney.co.uk&#x2F;money&#x2F;buytolet&#x2F;article-9969349...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>I wasn&#x27;t making a claim about what impacted house prices the most.<p>If I was, then I&#x27;d say a system where the government basically gives you free money&#x2F;tax breaks if you buy a home, is the root cause behind the things you mentioned which then drives house prices.<p>The point is, without fixing that issue, you can&#x27;t solve it by wage rises.<p>People who don&#x27;t even want homes are buying them, either as outright investments that they can sit on for years, or as something they also live in, but need to treat as an investment, rather than a home.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hardware-Accelerated TensorFlow and TensorFlow Addons for macOS 11.0</title><url>https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lostmsu</author><text>From the numbers it looks like performance is similar to TensorFlow-DirectML from Microsoft. Which, unfortunately, also means it is ~6 times slower than CUDA on the same hardware.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hardware-Accelerated TensorFlow and TensorFlow Addons for macOS 11.0</title><url>https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dindresto</author><text>Why does the repository only contain install scripts? Where is the code for the implementation?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title</title><text>Due to the recent Play Store changes you can no longer &quot;add text or images that indicate store performance or ranking, or suggest relations to existing Google Play programs in the app title&quot; [1].
You can&#x27;t, for example, add &quot;#1&quot;, &quot;best&quot; or &quot;free&quot;. However, you can&#x27;t also add &quot;no ads&quot;.<p>To be precise: appending &quot;[small, no ads]&quot;, &quot;[no ads]&quot; or &quot;[without ads]&quot; to the play store app title causes a rejection. I didn&#x27;t want to test more in fear of banning, and in the end removed it.
I know you can see if an app contains ads in the app page, but not in the search results... or at least not yet, but I doubt Google will add that indication.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googleplay&#x2F;android-developer&#x2F;answer&#x2F;9898684" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googleplay&#x2F;android-developer&#x2F;answ...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Good?<p>What&#x27;s the alternative? Have a crappy, paid-for, add filled, bloated app promote itself as &quot;Cauliflower Cooker Lite - the #1 free cauliflower app. 100% ad-free&quot;.<p>Metadata like file size, whether there are in-app ads or purchases, etc, should be part of the store&#x27;s listing - not the title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>&gt; Metadata like file size, whether there are in-app ads or purchases, etc, should be part of the store&#x27;s listing - not the title.<p>???? Did I miss the part where Google announced they were adding <i>searchable</i> metadata at the same time they eliminated adding this info to the title?<p>If not, seems like a clearly anti-consumer move.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title</title><text>Due to the recent Play Store changes you can no longer &quot;add text or images that indicate store performance or ranking, or suggest relations to existing Google Play programs in the app title&quot; [1].
You can&#x27;t, for example, add &quot;#1&quot;, &quot;best&quot; or &quot;free&quot;. However, you can&#x27;t also add &quot;no ads&quot;.<p>To be precise: appending &quot;[small, no ads]&quot;, &quot;[no ads]&quot; or &quot;[without ads]&quot; to the play store app title causes a rejection. I didn&#x27;t want to test more in fear of banning, and in the end removed it.
I know you can see if an app contains ads in the app page, but not in the search results... or at least not yet, but I doubt Google will add that indication.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googleplay&#x2F;android-developer&#x2F;answer&#x2F;9898684" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googleplay&#x2F;android-developer&#x2F;answ...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Good?<p>What&#x27;s the alternative? Have a crappy, paid-for, add filled, bloated app promote itself as &quot;Cauliflower Cooker Lite - the #1 free cauliflower app. 100% ad-free&quot;.<p>Metadata like file size, whether there are in-app ads or purchases, etc, should be part of the store&#x27;s listing - not the title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tut-urut-utut</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s the alternative? Have a crappy, paid-for, add filled, bloated app promote itself as &quot;Cauliflower Cooker Lite - the #1 free cauliflower app. 100% ad-free&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s what we have on Amazon now. Looks like every single product contain all the metadata in product title. SEO spam from top to the bottom of the search results page.<p>I hate it, but given how crappy filtering on both Amazon and Play store is, I still prefer to see more information about a product in the search result list than less, even if that means bloated titles.<p>On the other hand, if both Amazon and Play store had usable filtering, all these bloated names would not be needed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-airlines-tax-idUSKCN1U412B</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>I am actually surprised that short-distance flights aren&#x27;t taxed more in Western Europe. The train infrastructure in France is world class and can get you from Paris (North-Central part of the country) to Marseille (Southeast), a distance of about 500 miles, in 3 hours.<p>For Americans, this would be roughly equivalent to go from Boston to Washington D.C. (a trip that takes 7-10+ hours)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bengalister</author><text>Train infrastructure in France is not premium anymore, like our health system.
Sure if you compare to North America like Canada, it is still better. I took the Via rail train in Canada last year from Toronto to Montreal, seats were spacious, good catering, but the journey was long and trains outdated. As for the price it was not crazy expensive but not cheap.<p>The high speed train in France (TGV) is really expensive if you cannot get any discount compared to flights. I live near Nice in France and leaving my car in the airport parking lots is often more expensive than the flights themselves, even for 3 days !
For instance a one-way flight from Lille to Nice with Easyjet (around 900km) can cost only 60 Euros, it can be 100Euros back and forth.
Also trains in France are more subject to strikes and delays. Well any mean of transportation in France is subject to strikes but the occurrence is greater with trains.<p>Again the French government thinks that creating a French tax will pave the road to an European one. I highly doubt so. French airports and airlines will suffer from it compared to their European equivalent, and if an European tax is created, it won&#x27;t probably make the French tax disappear. France loves taxes, we see the results.<p>Again</text></comment>
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<story><title>France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-airlines-tax-idUSKCN1U412B</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>I am actually surprised that short-distance flights aren&#x27;t taxed more in Western Europe. The train infrastructure in France is world class and can get you from Paris (North-Central part of the country) to Marseille (Southeast), a distance of about 500 miles, in 3 hours.<p>For Americans, this would be roughly equivalent to go from Boston to Washington D.C. (a trip that takes 7-10+ hours)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baud147258</author><text>The train infrastructure is not perfect, the biggest issue being travels not going to&#x2F;from Paris: the lines aren&#x27;t as good and there aren&#x27;t a lot of high-speed lines.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bernanke Says U.S. Economy Faces a ‘Wile E. Coyote’ Moment in 2020</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/bernanke-says-u-s-economy-faces-wile-e-coyote-moment-in-2020</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coliveira</author><text>The so called business cycle is created by the FED itself. Left uncontrolled, the market will disconnect from reality and create bubbles that can destroy the economy, as it did in 1929. The unrecognized work of the FED is to increase the interest rates periodically to force these bubbles to pop and create a minor recession before they can collapse the economy. The real risk of this cycle is that the FED has already lost the opportunity to contain a major bubble which is already forming in the stock market.</text></item><item><author>smallnamespace</author><text>The combination of tax repatriation, tax cuts, and large-scale deficit spending (fiscal expansion) late in the economic cycle (recessions typically happen every 8 years or so, and the current expansion has been going on for ~10 yrs now) while the Federal reserve is raising interest rates (monetary &#x27;contraction&#x27;) is more or less unprecedented (we&#x27;ve never seen it happen in modern times in the US or any other large developed economy).<p>The risk is that fiscal policy is pouring more fuel on the fire at the precise time when the economy typically starts slowing, further inflating asset bubbles and making the Fed&#x27;s job (to avoid inflation and keep employment high) much potentially harder and making it more likely a misstep will happen.<p>Popping bubbles or slowing their formation is inherently a tricky proposition (just look at the run-up in stocks from early 2017 until now); move too aggressively and you risk sparking a liquidity crisis and plunging your economy directly into recession; move too slowly and you end up with an even larger bubble later on to deal with.<p>This is tricky in normal times, but doing so while the other wing of government is actively stimulating the economy makes it <i>much</i> harder to gauge the impact of monetary policy and withdraw Fed support in a prudent and measured way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&gt; Left uncontrolled, the market will disconnect from reality and create bubbles that can destroy the economy, as it did in 1929.<p>And 1893, and a bunch of other times. But that might also be called the &quot;business cycle&quot;. This <i>nice tame</i> business cycle that we&#x27;ve come to take for granted is created by the Fed; the sans-Fed business cycle was incredibly vicious.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bernanke Says U.S. Economy Faces a ‘Wile E. Coyote’ Moment in 2020</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/bernanke-says-u-s-economy-faces-wile-e-coyote-moment-in-2020</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coliveira</author><text>The so called business cycle is created by the FED itself. Left uncontrolled, the market will disconnect from reality and create bubbles that can destroy the economy, as it did in 1929. The unrecognized work of the FED is to increase the interest rates periodically to force these bubbles to pop and create a minor recession before they can collapse the economy. The real risk of this cycle is that the FED has already lost the opportunity to contain a major bubble which is already forming in the stock market.</text></item><item><author>smallnamespace</author><text>The combination of tax repatriation, tax cuts, and large-scale deficit spending (fiscal expansion) late in the economic cycle (recessions typically happen every 8 years or so, and the current expansion has been going on for ~10 yrs now) while the Federal reserve is raising interest rates (monetary &#x27;contraction&#x27;) is more or less unprecedented (we&#x27;ve never seen it happen in modern times in the US or any other large developed economy).<p>The risk is that fiscal policy is pouring more fuel on the fire at the precise time when the economy typically starts slowing, further inflating asset bubbles and making the Fed&#x27;s job (to avoid inflation and keep employment high) much potentially harder and making it more likely a misstep will happen.<p>Popping bubbles or slowing their formation is inherently a tricky proposition (just look at the run-up in stocks from early 2017 until now); move too aggressively and you risk sparking a liquidity crisis and plunging your economy directly into recession; move too slowly and you end up with an even larger bubble later on to deal with.<p>This is tricky in normal times, but doing so while the other wing of government is actively stimulating the economy makes it <i>much</i> harder to gauge the impact of monetary policy and withdraw Fed support in a prudent and measured way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pascalxus</author><text>Yes, but they should have started increasing interest rates at least several years before they started. They kept the party going too long. And when we get the next hangover, the interest rates will already be too low to zero.</text></comment>
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<story><title>HTML is the Web</title><url>https://www.petelambert.com/journal/html-is-the-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tobyhinloopen</author><text>All my webpages had the valid xhtml badge!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Valid_XHTML_1.0.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Valid_XHTML_1.0.svg</a><p>I still have a hard time un-learning `&lt;br &#x2F;&gt;`</text></item><item><author>meerita</author><text>I pretty much agree with all the article. Back in 2001, when Web Standards were on the rise, people used to validate their HTML code. It was shown as a badge of prestige when you had 0 errors. Semantic HTML was a hot topic and most of the developers I worked with were a sort of HTML taliban. But the popularity of frameworks helped developers forget the basics and concentrate more on learning how to get the most out of these projects. If we also sum that I don&#x27;t see true impact on SEO by having the best HTML I think it&#x27;s pretty clear semantics and validation isn&#x27;t relevant anymore.<p>When people ask me why SEO isn&#x27;t working. Well, try to see the first results on Google, and check their code. Most of the times you will see worsen HTML validation and semantics trumped over better (not perfect), not mentioning the first page is mostly paid ads. Google is not like back in the 2000s. Things has changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nayuki</author><text>I currently serve real XHTML5 code on my website with the correct media type of application&#x2F;xhtml+xml. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nayuki.io&#x2F;</a><p>This works properly in all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge; PC, Mac, Android, iOS) and even Internet Explorer 11. Though in the past, I had to make concessions for older versions of IE, serving the same code as text&#x2F;html instead.<p>I arranged things this way because I hand-write much of the HTML code on the site, and want to catch syntax errors as early as possible without the browser silently (and possibly incorrectly) fixing my mistakes. In any case, this is living proof that XHTML5 works.</text></comment>
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<story><title>HTML is the Web</title><url>https://www.petelambert.com/journal/html-is-the-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tobyhinloopen</author><text>All my webpages had the valid xhtml badge!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Valid_XHTML_1.0.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Valid_XHTML_1.0.svg</a><p>I still have a hard time un-learning `&lt;br &#x2F;&gt;`</text></item><item><author>meerita</author><text>I pretty much agree with all the article. Back in 2001, when Web Standards were on the rise, people used to validate their HTML code. It was shown as a badge of prestige when you had 0 errors. Semantic HTML was a hot topic and most of the developers I worked with were a sort of HTML taliban. But the popularity of frameworks helped developers forget the basics and concentrate more on learning how to get the most out of these projects. If we also sum that I don&#x27;t see true impact on SEO by having the best HTML I think it&#x27;s pretty clear semantics and validation isn&#x27;t relevant anymore.<p>When people ask me why SEO isn&#x27;t working. Well, try to see the first results on Google, and check their code. Most of the times you will see worsen HTML validation and semantics trumped over better (not perfect), not mentioning the first page is mostly paid ads. Google is not like back in the 2000s. Things has changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rimliu</author><text>Opening can of worms: did you serve them with any of the available XML MIME types? If not they worked simply because of the bug in the browsers (SHORTTAG means a different thing in HTML compared to XML) and all XHTML code served with HTML MIME type would be littered with &quot;&gt;&quot; if browser treated it right ;)</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)</title><url>http://redsymbol.net/articles/bash-exit-traps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasil</author><text>I used an exit trap to kill an SSH agent that I am running, and I noticed that dash did not kill if the script was interrupted, but only if it ran to successful completion.<p>I asked on the mailing list if this was expected behavior, and it turns out that POSIX only requires EXIT to run on a clean shutdown; to catch interruptions, add more signals.<p><pre><code> trap &#x27;eval $(ssh-agent -k)&#x27; EXIT INT ABRT KILL TERM</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chasil</author><text>I found my original submission to the email list.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spinics.net&#x2F;lists&#x2F;dash&#x2F;msg02208.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spinics.net&#x2F;lists&#x2F;dash&#x2F;msg02208.html</a><p>&quot;Signal terminations are not caught by EXIT. It only catches normal
exits. Unfortunately, the EXIT condition is not well-defined by POSIX, so it&#x27;s left to interpretation.&quot;<p>...<p>POSIX is making it unspecified what happens here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;austingroupbugs.net&#x2F;view.php?id=621" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;austingroupbugs.net&#x2F;view.php?id=621</a><p>The EXIT condition shall occur when the shell terminates normally (exits), and may occur when the shell terminates abnormally as a
result of delivery of a signal (other than SIGKILL) whose trap
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<story><title>“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)</title><url>http://redsymbol.net/articles/bash-exit-traps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasil</author><text>I used an exit trap to kill an SSH agent that I am running, and I noticed that dash did not kill if the script was interrupted, but only if it ran to successful completion.<p>I asked on the mailing list if this was expected behavior, and it turns out that POSIX only requires EXIT to run on a clean shutdown; to catch interruptions, add more signals.<p><pre><code> trap &#x27;eval $(ssh-agent -k)&#x27; EXIT INT ABRT KILL TERM</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lgsymons</author><text>The signals EXIT HUP INT TERM cover everything I&#x27;ve run into (I&#x27;m actually using EXIT SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM but presumably it&#x27;s equivalent).<p>In basic terms for my purposes these respectively account for a clean exit, the terminal emulator being closed, ctrl-c, the kill command (edit: the default SIGTERM kill -15, not the SIGKILL kill -9)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Translation and accelerated solving of differential equations on GPU platforms</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06835</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yablak</author><text>Uhh they time the vmap of the jit on Jax, basically skipping a ton of optimizations,.esp if there is any linear algebra in there. They also include the cost of building the vmap functional. Not a valid comparison.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;utkarsh530&#x2F;GPUODEBenchmarks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;ef807198584e4634c82bfd6a82bb9241c51d56d1&#x2F;GPU_ODE_JAX&#x2F;bench_diffrax.py#L87">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;utkarsh530&#x2F;GPUODEBenchmarks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;ef807198...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Translation and accelerated solving of differential equations on GPU platforms</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06835</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>towhom</author><text>&quot;Instead of relying on high level array intrinsics that machine learning libraries use, it uses a direct kernel generation approach to greatly reduce the overhead.&quot; Chris Rackauckas on LinkedIn earlier today.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nova by Panic</title><url>https://nova.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>To me, the quote and what you put after came as a big surprise - I was ready to nod in agreement as you recognize this as a sad story about the platform.<p>The last time I was working on a text editor (KDE&#x27;s Kate) and found a bug in the text layout engine it was written against (Qt&#x27;s), I wrote a patch, submitted it upstream and it made everyone else&#x27;s apps better, too.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine the world of hurt, discomfort and frustration of developing against a lib set I can&#x27;t read source code of or improve.</text></item><item><author>Brendinooo</author><text>&gt; Here&#x27;s a little editor story for fun. During beta we found some bugs in Apple&#x27;s text layout engine that we just could not fix. Our solution? Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch. Not only did this fix the bugs, but it also boosted our editor&#x27;s performance. We&#x27;re not messing around!<p>Seems like there&#x27;s nobody better than Panic at doing this sort of thing. They&#x27;re willing to push Apple&#x27;s UI forward, but they always do it in a way that feels Apple-y. Didn&#x27;t they also pioneer a tab UI that Apple ended up adopting?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nhojb</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a professional macOS developer for almost 20 years now and I can&#x27;t tell you the number of times that this has been an issue.<p>With no access (or ability to patch) the platform source code you are left with a) hacky work-arounds, b) re-implement the component or c) change the app&#x27;s design or feature to compensate. All of which are a pain &#x2F; more work &#x2F; risky etc, etc - just to work-around bugs in the platform.<p>Sure you can file radars (I do), but whether something gets fixed or not, is up to the gods...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nova by Panic</title><url>https://nova.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>To me, the quote and what you put after came as a big surprise - I was ready to nod in agreement as you recognize this as a sad story about the platform.<p>The last time I was working on a text editor (KDE&#x27;s Kate) and found a bug in the text layout engine it was written against (Qt&#x27;s), I wrote a patch, submitted it upstream and it made everyone else&#x27;s apps better, too.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine the world of hurt, discomfort and frustration of developing against a lib set I can&#x27;t read source code of or improve.</text></item><item><author>Brendinooo</author><text>&gt; Here&#x27;s a little editor story for fun. During beta we found some bugs in Apple&#x27;s text layout engine that we just could not fix. Our solution? Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch. Not only did this fix the bugs, but it also boosted our editor&#x27;s performance. We&#x27;re not messing around!<p>Seems like there&#x27;s nobody better than Panic at doing this sort of thing. They&#x27;re willing to push Apple&#x27;s UI forward, but they always do it in a way that feels Apple-y. Didn&#x27;t they also pioneer a tab UI that Apple ended up adopting?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ddevault</author><text>&gt;I can&#x27;t imagine the world of hurt, discomfort and frustration of developing against a lib set I can&#x27;t read source code of or improve.<p><i>Thank you</i>.<p>It boggles the mind that anyone who can write code would ever use a closed source operating system.</text></comment>
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<story><title>HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of AIDS Drugs</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-03/hiv-infected-infant-cured-with-early-use-of-virus-blocking-drugs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>One has to wonder if the infant is homozygous for the noted CCR5 variant that confers resistance to HIV infection. This could potentially explain a high viral load with negative titers later.<p>I can't tell (from the relatively scant details) if the child ever developed HIV infection, by which I specifically mean to include infiltration of a cell by the virus, replication, and a host reaction. I can't find text in the articles describing which blood tests were done on the child. If her ELISA and Western blot are negative (still) but she initially had a nucleic acid amplification test that was positive with high titer, then it would make me wonder if the drugs, for this baby, were not necessarily the key element causing her to be disease free. I.e., I would wonder if the infant weren't actually cured because she was never fully infected in the first place.<p>If she was truly infected and her body was reacting to the replicated pathogen, then this early treatment strategy is extremely interesting.</text></comment>
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<story><title>HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of AIDS Drugs</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-03/hiv-infected-infant-cured-with-early-use-of-virus-blocking-drugs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>I wonder how this child's "blood remains free of the virus" status compares to the 'undetectable' viral loads reported for others (eg Magic Johnson) for many years. Is there a qualitative difference?</text></comment>
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<story><title>I don't want to be a full-fullstack developer</title><url>https://artur-martsinkovskyi.github.io//2019/i-dont-want-to-be-fullstack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgzl</author><text>I recently was looking for new work. When trying to apply to Developer opportunities, I realized that recruiters largely didn&#x27;t know what they were talking about.<p>Many times I was told that my Computer Science degree, large school projects, personal projects such as random apps and maintaining an Arch Linux setup, awards such as winning 1st place in a Google Hackathon, several years of student work including iOS development work, and my 3 years industry experience as a Technical Lead somehow was less valuable than people graduating from coding bootcamps.<p>I was told by many people that I was not qualified for a Junior Developer position, but people coming out of these bootcamps were considered &quot;Seniors&quot;. I was told by one recruiter that my &quot;degree is almost useless&quot;.</text></item><item><author>20years</author><text>The problem that I have seen is most companies don&#x27;t want to pay a skilled full-stack developer what they are worth. They think $100k is the going rate and unfortunately a lot of junior developers are calling themselves full-stack and jumping at that salary. Then the lines get blurred and the true value of a full-stack developer gets diminished.</text></item><item><author>root_axis</author><text>&gt; <i>As years go by the industry is going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole of developer-focused engineering process and developers go on to combine more and more responsibilities beneath the surface of single cranium.</i><p>Why do you think developer salaries are so high? As the advancement and sophistication of open-source and SaaS offerings increasingly empowers individual developers to do more for businesses, so do developers leverage those capabilities to demand higher salaries and become more and more integral, <i>as individuals</i>, to the business process. The natural consequence of this is that companies have increased their expectations across the board because they ultimately get more value out of a highly paid full-stack than paying three moderately smaller salaries to a FEE, BEE and a manager&#x2F;architect&#x2F;SME to coordinate their efforts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avip</author><text>I recently had a recruiter questioning my application for a &quot;senior developer&quot; role as &quot;You seem to have no background in software&quot;.<p>I told her I have &quot;a background&quot; of well over 10 years as a developer, and consider it my profession.<p>&quot;So why did you study Biology&quot;? she replied.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I don't want to be a full-fullstack developer</title><url>https://artur-martsinkovskyi.github.io//2019/i-dont-want-to-be-fullstack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgzl</author><text>I recently was looking for new work. When trying to apply to Developer opportunities, I realized that recruiters largely didn&#x27;t know what they were talking about.<p>Many times I was told that my Computer Science degree, large school projects, personal projects such as random apps and maintaining an Arch Linux setup, awards such as winning 1st place in a Google Hackathon, several years of student work including iOS development work, and my 3 years industry experience as a Technical Lead somehow was less valuable than people graduating from coding bootcamps.<p>I was told by many people that I was not qualified for a Junior Developer position, but people coming out of these bootcamps were considered &quot;Seniors&quot;. I was told by one recruiter that my &quot;degree is almost useless&quot;.</text></item><item><author>20years</author><text>The problem that I have seen is most companies don&#x27;t want to pay a skilled full-stack developer what they are worth. They think $100k is the going rate and unfortunately a lot of junior developers are calling themselves full-stack and jumping at that salary. Then the lines get blurred and the true value of a full-stack developer gets diminished.</text></item><item><author>root_axis</author><text>&gt; <i>As years go by the industry is going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole of developer-focused engineering process and developers go on to combine more and more responsibilities beneath the surface of single cranium.</i><p>Why do you think developer salaries are so high? As the advancement and sophistication of open-source and SaaS offerings increasingly empowers individual developers to do more for businesses, so do developers leverage those capabilities to demand higher salaries and become more and more integral, <i>as individuals</i>, to the business process. The natural consequence of this is that companies have increased their expectations across the board because they ultimately get more value out of a highly paid full-stack than paying three moderately smaller salaries to a FEE, BEE and a manager&#x2F;architect&#x2F;SME to coordinate their efforts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimpburger</author><text>Unbelievable. Three years of industry experience alone would qualify you beyond a junior position. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.altexsoft.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;unnamed-14.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.altexsoft.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;unnamed-14.png</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>An introduction to North Korean graphic design</title><url>https://www.creativereview.co.uk/north-korea-graphic-design-book-phaidon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbog</author><text>North Korea is a good inverting mirror of our modern societies, and there is always something of inspiration in the diametrically opposite. I, for one, would welcome a brandless packaging of most products, where a pack of coffee would just be a dark brown folded paper with &quot;coffee&quot; written on it. Same with sugar, yogurt, butter, etc. We are brainwashed into believing that sugar X is different from sugar Y but it is the same thing with different packaging, often produced in the same lines in the same factories.<p>Muji is a successful Japanese brandless shop where I get my clothes. We have generics drugs that are less expensive. I think a brandless Walmart would be successful too, for those who refuse to be brainwashed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>&gt; brandless packaging<p>I stayed in Yanggakdo International Hotel on Yanggak Island in the river Taedong in Pyongyang on a tour, and there were two restaurants, and they were called &quot;Restaurant 1&quot; and &quot;Restaurant 2&quot;. I found that quite refreshing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An introduction to North Korean graphic design</title><url>https://www.creativereview.co.uk/north-korea-graphic-design-book-phaidon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbog</author><text>North Korea is a good inverting mirror of our modern societies, and there is always something of inspiration in the diametrically opposite. I, for one, would welcome a brandless packaging of most products, where a pack of coffee would just be a dark brown folded paper with &quot;coffee&quot; written on it. Same with sugar, yogurt, butter, etc. We are brainwashed into believing that sugar X is different from sugar Y but it is the same thing with different packaging, often produced in the same lines in the same factories.<p>Muji is a successful Japanese brandless shop where I get my clothes. We have generics drugs that are less expensive. I think a brandless Walmart would be successful too, for those who refuse to be brainwashed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lost_my_pwd</author><text>In the US in the 70s-80s this used to be a thing:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;from-misc-foods-aisle-generic-brands.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;from-misc-foods-ai...</a><p>There were actually a few no-brand brands from supermarket chains like this that I can recall.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google's New Cross Platform Gaming Library PlayN</title><url>https://developers.google.com/playn/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fargren</author><text>I think it's important to mention the the performance constraints of different platforms are very different. When I tried porting a Flash game to iOS using AIR to target it, this became apparent as the cost of creating new objects in iOS was huge compared to what it was in the browser, forcing me to use object-pooling, which has a memory cost that could be prohibitive in a different paltform.<p>This can probably work for simpler games, but I expect the performance and platform-specific bugs to be huge deterrents.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google's New Cross Platform Gaming Library PlayN</title><url>https://developers.google.com/playn/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>Excellent, I hope this takes off.<p>It seems to be unreasonably difficult at the moment to create a simple 2d game that is cross platform and mobile friendly without using Flash.<p>Having said that I hope adobe provide some quality cross platform tools for creating content for things like this.<p>It looks like google is gearing up with it's "chrome as a platform" paradigm to pull Microsoft's dinner table right out from under them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Comma 3X</title><url>https://www.comma.ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timfsu</author><text>I have the original Comma 3 in my car (2019 Acura RDX), and it&#x27;s pretty game-changing for long drives. The car already has adaptive cruise control and lane-keep-assist, but you need to keep your hands on the wheel. With the Comma, I can set it up on most of the roads I drive (local or highway) and it&#x27;ll keep me going at the desired speed in the center of the lane (up to a certain max turning torque, which is a limitation on the Acura LKAS system - if you&#x27;re in the Bay Area, it handles 101 just fine but will struggle on the 280).<p>I&#x27;ve logged about 3k miles of autonomous driving at this point and wouldn&#x27;t hesitate to recommend it if your car supports it, with the understanding that it&#x27;s a limited system and you still have to pay attention the entire time. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the newer cars have tighter security around CAN bus communication, so it may not be easy for Comma to continue to do their thing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Comma 3X</title><url>https://www.comma.ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>There really needs to be more regulation with products like this.<p>As a start transparent disclosure of their safety record, a restriction on shipping the product to countries where such devices are not legal, clarity on how the device behaves under adverse conditions e.g. rain&#x2F;snow etc.<p>Comma selling this product like it&#x27;s some car accessory looks pretty reckless to me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/27/ibm-purged-gray-hairs-and-old-heads-as-it-launched-millennial-corps-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway6497</author><text>Age discrimination for older software engineers is real. It gets enforced in subtle ways. It is up or out culture at the end.<p>Age discrimination doesn&#x27;t get the same coverage as gender, race or sexual orientation discrimination. I wish companies also added age in the diversity reports, and if they did talk about why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering. If we wish to make engineering career to span several decades, we should all actively try to get o address this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freyir</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering&quot;</i><p>No, there&#x27;s a small percentage of older folks in <i>software engineering</i>. In almost any other engineering discipline, you&#x27;ll find many older engineers who enjoy long careers, and whose perceived value often grows with age. That&#x27;s because actual engineering principles change very slowly.<p>Most software jobs do not involve much engineering in the traditional sense; most of the effort is keeping up with the constant churn of flavor-of-the-week libraries and frameworks, information that will be often be outdated and useless in a few years.</text></comment>
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<story><title>IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/27/ibm-purged-gray-hairs-and-old-heads-as-it-launched-millennial-corps-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway6497</author><text>Age discrimination for older software engineers is real. It gets enforced in subtle ways. It is up or out culture at the end.<p>Age discrimination doesn&#x27;t get the same coverage as gender, race or sexual orientation discrimination. I wish companies also added age in the diversity reports, and if they did talk about why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering. If we wish to make engineering career to span several decades, we should all actively try to get o address this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpindar</author><text>We could start right here on HN by calling out those who use &quot;grandma&quot; to mean &quot;person who can hardly even use a computer&quot;.<p>People who are now old enough to be grandparents INVENTED computers and the internet.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The World’s Most Innovative Economies</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-17/sweden-gains-south-korea-reigns-as-world-s-most-innovative-economies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>&gt;The Swedes themselves promote an atmosphere of great personal ambition — unlike some European neighbors that emphasize the collective — and that’s a boon to innovation, he said.<p>&gt;“In the culture, people are super individualistic — this means that people have ideas and are very interested in pursuing them in this way in order to become wealthy,” said Henrekson.<p>This is very true, and a thing which is often misunderstood about the Swedish mindset. The sterotype of Swedes is frequently that we&#x27;re a bunch of socialists who all believe that everyone should work for the collective good. That&#x27;s totally wrong.<p>Sweden is perhaps one of the most individualistic countries in the world: we value the individual over the family or community, and we believe that everyone should have the same opportunities regardless of the circumstances of their birth. This is the reason we have the social safety net we have: it is a substitute for family and community and other more traditional support systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kxyvr</author><text>As an American who lived in Scandinavia for a few years and spent a fair amount of time in Sweden, I will say that Jantelagen:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Law_of_Jante" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Law_of_Jante</a><p>takes some getting used to and has an affect on the business environment. At this point, I do believe that someone can be just as effective in business in Scandinavia as other places like the U.S., but my first two years were difficult until I understood how to navigate these social norms. Mostly, this is to say that, even beyond immigration and paperwork, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s exactly simple for someone outside to move to Sweden to take advantage of these opportunities. I think opportunity is there, but it takes some adapting to things like Jante&#x27;s Law.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The World’s Most Innovative Economies</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-17/sweden-gains-south-korea-reigns-as-world-s-most-innovative-economies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>&gt;The Swedes themselves promote an atmosphere of great personal ambition — unlike some European neighbors that emphasize the collective — and that’s a boon to innovation, he said.<p>&gt;“In the culture, people are super individualistic — this means that people have ideas and are very interested in pursuing them in this way in order to become wealthy,” said Henrekson.<p>This is very true, and a thing which is often misunderstood about the Swedish mindset. The sterotype of Swedes is frequently that we&#x27;re a bunch of socialists who all believe that everyone should work for the collective good. That&#x27;s totally wrong.<p>Sweden is perhaps one of the most individualistic countries in the world: we value the individual over the family or community, and we believe that everyone should have the same opportunities regardless of the circumstances of their birth. This is the reason we have the social safety net we have: it is a substitute for family and community and other more traditional support systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fornever</author><text>While I agree with your overall point I unfortunately don&#x27;t think your characterization of Sweden is true anymore.<p>Your education prospects now depend on which school you go to, especially with blatant grade inflation. My friends are putting their kids in queue for elite elementary school the day after they are born. Even if you can make it to college the traditional route you&#x27;ll have trouble finding an apartment and keeping your student benefits.<p>Healthcare is a complicated system of public funded private institutions that regularly and willingly violate the law on things like time before you get to see a specialist. I always used to like the Swedish healthcare system until I realized I&#x27;ve always visited the same doctors that I knew.<p>Unemployment benefits doesn&#x27;t apply (or atleast appeal) to former students or short contract workers these days. You have to go the welfare office and even they have no problem denying you means. You&#x27;ll probably won&#x27;t have much job security anyways since you&#x27;ll be hired as a contractor.<p>Housing, especially in Stockholm, is a mess that won&#x27;t be solved anytime soon. It makes the effects of everything worse. Commute time, work-life balance, even the weather.<p>I honestly think Sweden is one of the best countries in the world, but it&#x27;s not a good deal anymore. If you got established ten years ago and could go to school before rampant youth unemployment, got an apartment before housing prices skyrocketed, know which doctors to go to, get a stable job where it makes sense to join the union etc. then it&#x27;s great. You can study at university for seven years, some of them abroad, work for a few years, go on paternity leave for the better part of a year, move abroad for some time, then come back to your stable job again, leave your employer and get hired back as a consultant and if you don&#x27;t find work go on unemployment. All this while you make a workers salary in housing appreciation, take vacations three times a year and get to use your parent country house in the summers.<p>Bottom line is that increasingly only the rich can afford to take advantage of the social safety net these days and I think it&#x27;s starting to show even with things like startups. It was apparent very early that companies like Spotify, Klarna, Mojang etc. would be successful. I don&#x27;t see many of these types of early successes anymore (but that might be my own ignorance of course).<p>There&#x27;s increasingly nothing special about Sweden.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pornhub Blocked in Texas</title><url>https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-blocked-age-verification-law-1235942280/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segasaturn</author><text>The Texas legislation is effectively a block - there&#x27;s no way for PH to verify the age of users entering the site in the way the legislation demands, but they face fines and legal action for not doing so. Catch-22, the only solution is to turn off access.</text></item><item><author>root_axis</author><text>The headline seems misleading. &quot;Pornhub blocked in Texas&quot; suggests Texas did the blocking, a better headline would be &quot;Pornhub blocks users with Texas IPs&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>etskinner</author><text>Still, the article could say something like &quot;Pornhub removes access to Texans after law requires stricter age verification&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pornhub Blocked in Texas</title><url>https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-blocked-age-verification-law-1235942280/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segasaturn</author><text>The Texas legislation is effectively a block - there&#x27;s no way for PH to verify the age of users entering the site in the way the legislation demands, but they face fines and legal action for not doing so. Catch-22, the only solution is to turn off access.</text></item><item><author>root_axis</author><text>The headline seems misleading. &quot;Pornhub blocked in Texas&quot; suggests Texas did the blocking, a better headline would be &quot;Pornhub blocks users with Texas IPs&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javawizard</author><text>This is interesting. What about the Texas law makes it impossible for PH to comply if they were to otherwise decide that that they wanted to (which of course isn&#x27;t likely)?</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/05/housing-supply-home-prices-economic-inequality-cities/588997/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; It mainly leads to building high-end housing in desirable locations<p>Which is perfectly fine! It still works, because houses do not have intrinsic price tags. They have intrinsic ordering of values, but their price is determined by what people are willing to pay.<p>Line up every person in the city in order of how much they&#x27;re willing to spend on a home. Do the same with the homes available. Face the two lines across from each other. Everyone will buy a home nearby to what is across from them right now. Building a whole bunch more houses on the top end of the house scale doesn&#x27;t leave those mansions empty, it just drives the mid-range homes further down the scale.<p>Supply shorter causes those further up the scale of &quot;willing to spend on a home&quot; to have only modest homes as options (what&#x27;s across from them). At the same time, it pushes less and less desirable homes (often ones 2 hours commute from work) in front of those less able to afford homes.<p>If you want to argue that the divide between rich and poor is growing, and it&#x27;s a problem, oh heck yeah I&#x27;m on board for that argument. But conflating the housing shortage problems with that allows the landlords to keep getting richer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Line up every person in the city in order of how much they&#x27;re willing to spend on a home.<p>This is the “city as a closed universe” fallacy. What you actually have to do is line up every potential purchase of a home (which may be more than one per buyer) in the city by any person in <i>the world</i> in that order.<p>Which is why you can&#x27;t move the needle very much in a high demand region by increasing supply in any way that is practical over any reasonable period [0]; there&#x27;s usually a lot of available demand that must be filled before you see a perceptible price drop.<p>[0] at least before considering the effect that population density outpacing service and infrastructure scaling can have on desirability, which isn&#x27;t usually the effect people are looking to leverage to reduce price, though making the city into a hellhole <i>does</i> have that effect.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/05/housing-supply-home-prices-economic-inequality-cities/588997/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; It mainly leads to building high-end housing in desirable locations<p>Which is perfectly fine! It still works, because houses do not have intrinsic price tags. They have intrinsic ordering of values, but their price is determined by what people are willing to pay.<p>Line up every person in the city in order of how much they&#x27;re willing to spend on a home. Do the same with the homes available. Face the two lines across from each other. Everyone will buy a home nearby to what is across from them right now. Building a whole bunch more houses on the top end of the house scale doesn&#x27;t leave those mansions empty, it just drives the mid-range homes further down the scale.<p>Supply shorter causes those further up the scale of &quot;willing to spend on a home&quot; to have only modest homes as options (what&#x27;s across from them). At the same time, it pushes less and less desirable homes (often ones 2 hours commute from work) in front of those less able to afford homes.<p>If you want to argue that the divide between rich and poor is growing, and it&#x27;s a problem, oh heck yeah I&#x27;m on board for that argument. But conflating the housing shortage problems with that allows the landlords to keep getting richer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmart123</author><text>This is definitely a good point. Let’s think of two scenarios.<p>1. Stick a lot of affordable housing in building, but math works since the developer can make money selling the high priced units.<p>2. Increase total housing supply through less restrictive zoning, meaning more developers are building units they plan to sell at list price.<p>Scenario one is only possible if some people are paying too much for housing, and the people that are squeezed the most are the middle class. Scenario two probably means that the poorest group is displaced.<p>New York has been attempting scenario one. I’m not sure if SF has tried to accomplish either route, leading to the worst case scenario.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nearly 75% of US counties lost population last year as deaths outnumbered births</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/24/census-population-counties-cities-covid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>I think the bigger trends you&#x27;ve missed are:<p>* people can afford fewer children, and many no children at all<p>* I&#x27;m guessing here but possibly people are coupling at a lower rate, and are living single long-term<p>* more people happy to say that they just plain don&#x27;t want children, and have other interests instead</text></item><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>I see a couple of reasons:<p>* lower fertility rates<p>* fewer immigrants<p>* Covid deaths<p>* opioids deaths<p>* increasing productivity in farming with the destruction of small farms and increased economic inequalities<p>* crumbling infrastructure in rural areas, from closing supermarkets and schools to deficient roads and services<p>Except for Covid I don&#x27;t think any of these trends will revert soon. Many of these counties have degraded so much that they might be uncapable of atracting remote workers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; people can afford fewer children, and many no children at all<p>People are much more able to afford children today than in the past, and some of the most affluent places (e.g. DC) are the most childless.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nearly 75% of US counties lost population last year as deaths outnumbered births</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/24/census-population-counties-cities-covid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>I think the bigger trends you&#x27;ve missed are:<p>* people can afford fewer children, and many no children at all<p>* I&#x27;m guessing here but possibly people are coupling at a lower rate, and are living single long-term<p>* more people happy to say that they just plain don&#x27;t want children, and have other interests instead</text></item><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>I see a couple of reasons:<p>* lower fertility rates<p>* fewer immigrants<p>* Covid deaths<p>* opioids deaths<p>* increasing productivity in farming with the destruction of small farms and increased economic inequalities<p>* crumbling infrastructure in rural areas, from closing supermarkets and schools to deficient roads and services<p>Except for Covid I don&#x27;t think any of these trends will revert soon. Many of these counties have degraded so much that they might be uncapable of atracting remote workers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piyh</author><text>People are having less sex too.<p>Cost is the biggest one I can think of. If you didn&#x27;t walk out of the hospital with a 8k bill (on a good delivery) and then have to figure out how to afford $1,500 per month childcare after 12 weeks unpaid leave, people would probably have a lot more kids.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down</title><url>https://status.openai.com/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielscrubs</author><text>To put this in perspective: the outage was 52 min. The total number of employees OpenAI have are 375. The launch date was just some months ago.<p>At Google, the Cloud SQL dashboard was unavailable for around 12 hours a couple of weeks ago if I read this correctly:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;xg2qrL1UuSJiPDZALJpu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;xg2qrL1UuSJiPDZALJ...</a>
The total number of employees of Google are 156 500. Google Cloud was launched 2008.<p>So when people say scaling is hard... it&#x27;s not a solved problem and you shouldn&#x27;t
be surprised when these things happen.<p>A solid theoretical foundation and more testing is better of course.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naet</author><text>Not sure what &quot;perspective&quot; you are trying to put this in by offering these comparison points between OpenAI and Google. Are you trying to say that OpenAI is more reliable than Google?<p>For additional perspective, OpenAI has a very small number of highly similar offerings (neural net with API access), while Google has a huge host of very different offerings, from web indexing and search, to email, to file hosting, to video streaming, to cloud compute... etc. Google also has a vastly larger user pool by at least a couple orders of magnitude. Google&#x27;s core services are extremely solid even at ridiculous scale and have few outages, any of which would be considered major news.<p>Google also operates all this at a profit, while OpenAI works at a deficit. Google has had to scale larger than nearly any other service while maintaining profitability while OpenAI is more or less free to throw more compute power to solve problems, at any cost, to build valuation. Google has written entire programming languages to help them keep up at an unprecedented scale.<p>Comparing a single minor Google offering going down to an OpenAI outage isn&#x27;t a fair comparison to either company. Yes, Google has, by your numbers, about 400 times the number of OpenAI employees. I&#x27;d be willing to bet that a single large Google service like YouTube handles more than 400 times the amount of compute, data, and traffic that OpenAI does. I wouldn&#x27;t draw a comparison between the size and efficacy of the employees, but again, Google operates at a very different scale, and has operated at that scale very well.<p>Also anecdotally, half the time I&#x27;ve tried to use ChatGPT it&#x27;s &quot;at capacity&quot; or throws an internal error, and I&#x27;ve also seen Dall-E unavailable even though I&#x27;ve barely tried to use it, so I wouldn&#x27;t say that OpenAI service has been ironclad this whole time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down</title><url>https://status.openai.com/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielscrubs</author><text>To put this in perspective: the outage was 52 min. The total number of employees OpenAI have are 375. The launch date was just some months ago.<p>At Google, the Cloud SQL dashboard was unavailable for around 12 hours a couple of weeks ago if I read this correctly:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;xg2qrL1UuSJiPDZALJpu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;xg2qrL1UuSJiPDZALJ...</a>
The total number of employees of Google are 156 500. Google Cloud was launched 2008.<p>So when people say scaling is hard... it&#x27;s not a solved problem and you shouldn&#x27;t
be surprised when these things happen.<p>A solid theoretical foundation and more testing is better of course.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>That&#x27;s a completely bizarre comparison. No number of Android developers will lead to higher availability of Cloud SQL observability. The gross number of employees at an org is meaningless.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenBSD Innovations</title><url>https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MobiusHorizons</author><text>This is on my list of projects I want to try. Can you recommend a hardware platform to start from?<p>Edit: hardware for building a router that is.</text></item><item><author>owenmarshall</author><text>One of my biggest knowledge gaps was networking, so many years ago I bought a little single board computer and committed to learn OpenBSD &amp; roll my own router.<p>I learned a <i>ton</i>, and definitely recommend this as the next step for someone who installed a BSD in a VM and is intrigued.</text></item><item><author>nesarkvechnep</author><text>It was discouraging to realise that I don’t know anyone who at least has tried a BSD.</text></item><item><author>vogon_laureate</author><text>Even if you&#x27;re not an OpenBSD user, it&#x27;s always good to see just what sort of innovations they (and the other BSDs) are regularly coming up with to solve all sorts of operating system problems, audit code, and improve security and performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mekster</author><text>Odroid H3 is pretty good. Bought one myself as my (yet to be fully operational) home router.<p>It&#x27;s small, quiet and has 2 ethernet for WAN and LAN and you can plug in an official USB Wifi dongle addon and it&#x27;s good to go as a router.<p>You need to pick a few addons from the bare machine, like memory (I went with 8GB to run many containers), ssd (I went with m2 instead of emmc) and a case.<p>It&#x27;s x86, so you&#x27;d have maximum compatibility for architectural differences.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardkernel.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;odroid-h3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardkernel.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;odroid-h3&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenBSD Innovations</title><url>https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MobiusHorizons</author><text>This is on my list of projects I want to try. Can you recommend a hardware platform to start from?<p>Edit: hardware for building a router that is.</text></item><item><author>owenmarshall</author><text>One of my biggest knowledge gaps was networking, so many years ago I bought a little single board computer and committed to learn OpenBSD &amp; roll my own router.<p>I learned a <i>ton</i>, and definitely recommend this as the next step for someone who installed a BSD in a VM and is intrigued.</text></item><item><author>nesarkvechnep</author><text>It was discouraging to realise that I don’t know anyone who at least has tried a BSD.</text></item><item><author>vogon_laureate</author><text>Even if you&#x27;re not an OpenBSD user, it&#x27;s always good to see just what sort of innovations they (and the other BSDs) are regularly coming up with to solve all sorts of operating system problems, audit code, and improve security and performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>owenmarshall</author><text>As mentioned the apu2s were great but EOL now. They also didn’t push line rate when I upgraded to gigabit Ethernet.<p>I just went to a local computer shop and picked up a HP desktop which was likely off a business lease, then tossed another NIC in. It works a charm and routes gigabit just fine.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat</title><url>https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/riots-approach-anti-cheat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Teknoman117</author><text>I have mixed feelings about anti-cheat, especially in the last few years. A lot of them are getting rather intrusive. Take Player Unknown&#x27;s Battlegrounds for instance, which uses BattlEye. It actually injects a kernel mode driver into Windows that spies on whatever else your system is doing and exfiltrates unknown data in the name of &quot;guaranteeing a fair game experience.&quot; I didn&#x27;t even realize that this is what it was doing until my system crashed one day and the cause was some .sys file in PUBG.<p>It&#x27;ll also randomly kick you from games for having various programs installed or running. Programs such as VMware. You have to disable all VMware services or PUBG will kick you randomly for using &quot;unauthorized applications.&quot; God forbid you have any VMs running, that might amount to a ban (seriously).<p>Worse still is that when you take your complaints to their social media, or in anyway speak ill of it, you get hordes of fanboys saying that you shouldn&#x27;t install anything other than games on your PC or you&#x27;re a dirty cheater. &quot;Oh you want to do things _other_ than gaming on your PC? You should buy another PC then.&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t even get me started about trying to run games in a virtual machine w&#x2F; GPU passthrough. The communities will tear you a new one telling you to do things &quot;normally&quot; and by attempting to use anything other than the &quot;normal&quot; setup makes you a cheater. Just google anything like &quot;steam vac kvm&quot; or &quot;battleye kvm&quot; and you&#x27;ll get hordes of people claiming they heard some guy say virtualization is the future of game cheating therefore VMs are cheating tools and should be banned.<p>Seriously, if I could get a refund for every game that uses BattlEye, I would try.<p>&#x2F;rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; You have to disable all VMware services or PUBG will kick you randomly for using &quot;unauthorized applications.&quot;</i><p>If any game dis this to me, I would be having a refund, through credit-card charge-back if necessary.<p>Unless of course it is made obvious up-front that the game will not work with certain common legitimate software, in which case I&#x27;d have not paid for it in the first place and would play something else instead.<p><i>&gt; which uses BattlEye. It actually injects a kernel mode driver</i><p>Sounds like something I need to avoid. A game is a user-land program and has no business touching kernel-space (with the possible exception of direct communication with the graphics hardware for performance reasons, but in this decade that to me would be a <i>huge</i> code smell...)<p>Having said that: I&#x27;ve not bought much by way of games aside from a few small ones in Steam of HumbleBundle sales, other parts of life are just too busy for me to have the time ATM, and I&#x27;ve never really bothered with PvP&#x2F;online gaming (when I play games I do so to <i>escape</i> the unwashed masses, not invite them into my living room!), so I might be so far from the target audience that my thoughts on the subject count for nothing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat</title><url>https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/riots-approach-anti-cheat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Teknoman117</author><text>I have mixed feelings about anti-cheat, especially in the last few years. A lot of them are getting rather intrusive. Take Player Unknown&#x27;s Battlegrounds for instance, which uses BattlEye. It actually injects a kernel mode driver into Windows that spies on whatever else your system is doing and exfiltrates unknown data in the name of &quot;guaranteeing a fair game experience.&quot; I didn&#x27;t even realize that this is what it was doing until my system crashed one day and the cause was some .sys file in PUBG.<p>It&#x27;ll also randomly kick you from games for having various programs installed or running. Programs such as VMware. You have to disable all VMware services or PUBG will kick you randomly for using &quot;unauthorized applications.&quot; God forbid you have any VMs running, that might amount to a ban (seriously).<p>Worse still is that when you take your complaints to their social media, or in anyway speak ill of it, you get hordes of fanboys saying that you shouldn&#x27;t install anything other than games on your PC or you&#x27;re a dirty cheater. &quot;Oh you want to do things _other_ than gaming on your PC? You should buy another PC then.&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t even get me started about trying to run games in a virtual machine w&#x2F; GPU passthrough. The communities will tear you a new one telling you to do things &quot;normally&quot; and by attempting to use anything other than the &quot;normal&quot; setup makes you a cheater. Just google anything like &quot;steam vac kvm&quot; or &quot;battleye kvm&quot; and you&#x27;ll get hordes of people claiming they heard some guy say virtualization is the future of game cheating therefore VMs are cheating tools and should be banned.<p>Seriously, if I could get a refund for every game that uses BattlEye, I would try.<p>&#x2F;rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>I agree with everything you say. It&#x27;s ironic because game companies themselves use virtual machines with obfuscated instruction sets in their games as a copy protection mechanism. It&#x27;s pretty hard to feel any sympathy for them once hackers get around their pathetic countermeasures.<p>To add to your post, here&#x27;s an example of why game developers can&#x27;t be trusted to run code in kernel mode:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;TheWack0lian&#x2F;status&#x2F;779397840762245124&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;TheWack0lian&#x2F;status&#x2F;7793978407622...</a></text></comment>
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