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<story><title>Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released</title><url>https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/44-diaspora-version-0-7-0-0-released</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>Someone should run a Diaspora pod with the following model:<p>1. They market it like crazy in the hopes of getting something like a few million users<p>2. They publicly state that they will mine all metadata for the purpose of generating an &quot;inference report&quot;.<p>3. Every other week they release an &quot;inference report&quot; that reveals a new, dangerous way the seemingly innocuous metadata can be used. Some examples would include a) accurately gleaning more private data from the metadata, and-- if enough people join-- b) using that data to subtly influence the behavior of the participants.<p>Outside researchers are given access to the process in order to audit it. Anything revealed in the inference report would be assumed to already be happening on larger commercial networks.<p>Users would remain as long as they believe the value of the inference reports outweigh the risk to them of using the network.<p>Edit: formatting</text></comment>
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<story><title>Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released</title><url>https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/44-diaspora-version-0-7-0-0-released</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tw1010</author><text>I like these guys&#x27; perseverance. But part of me can&#x27;t stop the feeling of sadness that they&#x27;ve spent a better part of a decade working on it, perhaps the best years of their lives. I know perseverance and failure is seen as good things in certain circles, but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever read a biography where the author spent ten years on something that ultimately went nowhere and then went on to do things of enough noteworthiness to merit said biography.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yahoo Groups is closing down</title><url>https://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>howlgarnish</author><text>The writing&#x27;s been on the wall for a while: this was first announced last year, then postponed, and the online UI was already shut down in February 2020.<p>Completely boneheaded move in that it removes the last reason many people like myself would ever even stumble into a Yahoo site, but then again, Yahoo Groups&#x27;s SEO visibility is also near-zero these days, and I figure the beancounters at Yahoo computed that this is worth less than the ever-present cost&#x2F;risk of policing random contributions. (Which is also why file attachments were the first to go.)<p>For anybody looking for a replacement, I can recommend groups.io (no affiliation), which also has a pretty smooth migration tool and has a completely adequate free &quot;Basic&quot; tier: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Yahoo Groups is closing down</title><url>https://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nardi</author><text>Just got the email:<p>Dear Yahoo Group Moderators and Members,<p>We launched Yahoo Groups 20 years ago to connect people around their shared interests. We helped our users navigate new towns, keep in touch with college friends, learn new skills, and most importantly, build connections they may have lost or never had in the first place. While we could not have been more proud of what we accomplished together, we are reaching out today with heavy hearts to let you know that we have decided to shut down Yahoo Groups on December 15, 2020.<p>Yahoo Groups has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years. Over that same period we’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of engagement across our properties as customers seek out premium, trustworthy content. To that end, we must sometimes make difficult decisions regarding products that no longer fit our long-term strategy as we hone our focus on other areas of the business.<p>Beginning December 15, 2020 the Yahoo Groups website will shut down and members will no longer be able to send or receive emails from Yahoo Groups. We’ve compiled a comprehensive FAQ here that includes alternative providers and information on how this will impact your group content.<p>Thank you for helping us build one of the earliest digital communities — we’re proud and honored to have forged countless connections over the last 20 years and played a small part in helping build your communities.<p>Sincerely,
The Yahoo Groups team</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's to UK Schools</title><url>http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3158</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>If one were being cynical, one might suggest that this was a way for Google to distract attention from it not paying UK tax (through loopholes):
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-chairman" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meaty</author><text>Who cares.<p>The government are quite happily coughing up £35bn of tax of our cash to "fight terrorism", yet are quite happily throwing only £32bn of tax at education.<p>I'd rather Google gave all their money directly in schemes like this than had it divvied up into the warmongers chests and pissed into running itself.<p>Source: <a href="http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/total" rel="nofollow">http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/total</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's to UK Schools</title><url>http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3158</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>If one were being cynical, one might suggest that this was a way for Google to distract attention from it not paying UK tax (through loopholes):
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-chairman" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmillikin</author><text>A cynical person would note that the UK government isn't upset that the loopholes are being used, since they've made no serious attempts to close them. They're upset that the loopholes are being used by the <i>wrong companies</i>.<p>If Apple or Google or Starbucks spent as much on UK lobbying as other multinationals, I doubt they'd be receiving any negative press.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)</title><url>https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>My hot take: a bunch of shitty gluten free food products have displaced better, cheaper, quality food. The people who think they are gluten intolerant are worse off, the people who are gluten tolerant are worse off, and the .5% of actual celiac sufferers are better off.</text></item><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>My opinion as an autistic person is the more people who think they’re autistic the better, it’ll normalize it and we’ll all have better lives. Look at the old chestnut: gluten. Now, because everyone thinks they have a gluten allergy, people who actually have them can eat so much more good food. That’s my hot take for today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BadCookie</author><text>I mistakenly thought that I was better off not eating gluten because I felt much better after going gluten free. I am now fairly sure that the real benefit I experienced came from reducing my sugar intake. Cutting out gluten tends to cut out sugar in tandem: breakfast cereal, cookies, cake, and so on. I wonder if this explains why so many people who aren’t celiac think they see a big benefit from a gluten-free diet. Lots of Americans are flirting with diabetes if they aren’t already diabetic. (And lots of sugar isn’t great for a person even if they are completely healthy.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)</title><url>https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>My hot take: a bunch of shitty gluten free food products have displaced better, cheaper, quality food. The people who think they are gluten intolerant are worse off, the people who are gluten tolerant are worse off, and the .5% of actual celiac sufferers are better off.</text></item><item><author>ok_dad</author><text>My opinion as an autistic person is the more people who think they’re autistic the better, it’ll normalize it and we’ll all have better lives. Look at the old chestnut: gluten. Now, because everyone thinks they have a gluten allergy, people who actually have them can eat so much more good food. That’s my hot take for today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emodendroket</author><text>Nobody forces you to buy the gluten-free pasta or whatever, so I can&#x27;t see how things are worse for the people who neither have nor believe themselves to have Celiac disease.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>It is worth noting that revamping the browser extension permissions model is something that should definitely be done. Browser extensions up until this point have been a massive security hole: they basically get read&#x2F;write permissions on every web page you visit.<p>Of course, content blocking could&#x27;ve been part of that new security model.<p>As Google tightens its grip, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if someone starts a genuine fork of Chromium. Not just Chromium plus some extra stuff like Brave and Vivaldi, but a real, doesn&#x27;t-rely-on-upstream-changes-fork. Microsoft seems like the most likely candidate for doing so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>&gt; Browser extensions up until this point have been a massive security hole<p>No, that&#x27;s a very misleading use of the term &quot;security hole&quot;. By that definition, every piece of software on your computer is a &quot;massive security&quot; risk. Heck, even Chrome itself is a massive security hole since it can see the content of every page you visit.<p>I think it&#x27;s worth reacting strongly to this argument because it&#x27;s exactly the kind of statement that muddies the waters to convincing people that they shouldn&#x27;t have the option of having full control of their own devices.<p>And I&#x27;m not saying there haven&#x27;t been huge security issues with extensions. Just as there have been massive issues with any manner of software downloaded and installed. But requiring them to be open source and needing explicit user approval before install (unlike in older IE versions) addressed those issues pretty well, imo.<p>Edit: I would like to see changes that make it easier to observe when an extension is active and&#x2F;or communicating with third party servers and&#x2F;or writing to local storage for later transmittal (if that&#x27;s possible).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>It is worth noting that revamping the browser extension permissions model is something that should definitely be done. Browser extensions up until this point have been a massive security hole: they basically get read&#x2F;write permissions on every web page you visit.<p>Of course, content blocking could&#x27;ve been part of that new security model.<p>As Google tightens its grip, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if someone starts a genuine fork of Chromium. Not just Chromium plus some extra stuff like Brave and Vivaldi, but a real, doesn&#x27;t-rely-on-upstream-changes-fork. Microsoft seems like the most likely candidate for doing so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SpicyLemonZest</author><text>Content blocking is definitely part of the new security model; they wrote a &quot;declarativeNetRequest&quot; API designed to enable content blocking. The debate is just over whether that API is sufficiently expressive.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Metric Time</title><url>https://metric-time.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eps</author><text>Come to think of it, being able to <i>cleanly</i> divide a minute or an hour into 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 equal parts is pretty damn handy.</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>I love how the example is super confusing.<p>You sleep 3.33… metric hours.<p>You fall asleep 9:50 metric time.<p>You&#x27;d think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day.<p>But no, it&#x27;s apparently 2:75 metric time. Why?<p>Also nice how they IMMEDIATELY ran into a continuing fraction 1&#x2F;3, which is exactly the point of the 60-minute hour, 24-hour day, or 360-degree circle: lots of factors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nycdotnet</author><text>This is the same reason a point is 1&#x2F;72 on an inch - many factors make convenient typesetting.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Metric Time</title><url>https://metric-time.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eps</author><text>Come to think of it, being able to <i>cleanly</i> divide a minute or an hour into 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 equal parts is pretty damn handy.</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>I love how the example is super confusing.<p>You sleep 3.33… metric hours.<p>You fall asleep 9:50 metric time.<p>You&#x27;d think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day.<p>But no, it&#x27;s apparently 2:75 metric time. Why?<p>Also nice how they IMMEDIATELY ran into a continuing fraction 1&#x2F;3, which is exactly the point of the 60-minute hour, 24-hour day, or 360-degree circle: lots of factors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prometheus76</author><text>Now apply the same logic to measurement, and you&#x27;ll see why it&#x27;s so handy to use a dozenal foot for fabricating things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Who's Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language</title><url>http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>A lot of radar systems run on Ada. Its takes a little getting used to, but its a good language.<p>Ada has a c binding package so it can call down to the OS libraries (networking, shared memory), which is great, but kills some of the niceness of living in an ada world.<p>When I was trying out GO, I got a little ada flashback for some reason.<p>The package system was good.<p>I disliked ada strings though.<p>When I left the industry, they were looking for alernative languages for new projects.
GCC Ada compiler was being considered for maintaining older projects, seemed decent.
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<story><title>Who's Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language</title><url>http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thejteam</author><text>Although I&#x27;ve never coded in Ada I have had to read existing code to figure out what it was doing.<p>Ada struck me as a language that would be a pain to write in(at least it would take a long time) but it was a pleasure to read. Even without an intimate knowledge of the language (I was a C++ guy) I was able to figure it out.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Twitter Files</title><url>https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noah_buddy</author><text>It’s blowing my mind to see people on Twitter reading the story and thinking this is an issue of whether or not Hunter Biden is a problem. This is clearly the much more pernicious issue that 1. social media companies are massively influencing the dissemination of information on an ad hoc basis informed by personal political whims and 2. even the leaders of these organizations are unable to rein in these influences.</text></item><item><author>Dem_Boys</author><text>Most concerning thing here is that this proves political parties (including the white house[0]) have a direct line to Twitter[1] to get stuff they dislike removed. One would have to assume that there was also a direct line to other social medial platforms. It&#x27;s so wild to have the slimy-ness of our American political system be revealed in yet another way. So in America you cannot say negative things about political leaders online?!?!<p>Since this is true, then where else are political parties trying to get unflattering speech suppressed that we don&#x27;t even know of yet?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598828932395978752" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598828932395978752</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598827602403160064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598827602403160064</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aeolun</author><text>So in a way Elon taking over is good. At least it’s abundantly clear the whole platform is run based on his personal whims now.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Twitter Files</title><url>https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noah_buddy</author><text>It’s blowing my mind to see people on Twitter reading the story and thinking this is an issue of whether or not Hunter Biden is a problem. This is clearly the much more pernicious issue that 1. social media companies are massively influencing the dissemination of information on an ad hoc basis informed by personal political whims and 2. even the leaders of these organizations are unable to rein in these influences.</text></item><item><author>Dem_Boys</author><text>Most concerning thing here is that this proves political parties (including the white house[0]) have a direct line to Twitter[1] to get stuff they dislike removed. One would have to assume that there was also a direct line to other social medial platforms. It&#x27;s so wild to have the slimy-ness of our American political system be revealed in yet another way. So in America you cannot say negative things about political leaders online?!?!<p>Since this is true, then where else are political parties trying to get unflattering speech suppressed that we don&#x27;t even know of yet?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598828932395978752" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598828932395978752</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598827602403160064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598827602403160064</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>This is clearly the much more pernicious issue that 1. social media companies are massively influencing the dissemination of information on an ad hoc basis informed by personal political whims</i><p>Of course mainstream TV and print &quot;news&quot; has been doing this for decades, but for some strange reason people assume they&#x27;re somehow &quot;better&quot;.<p>I personally think it&#x27;s great all this is coming out, because it shows how dangerous and manipulative large media (in all forms) really is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Forty-Year Career (2019)</title><url>https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>IDK. This seems like good advice for a particular kind of person. One who is content for the vast majority of their human experience to revolve around software and technology. All these side gigs add up and this looks like a life with very little time to broaden oneself. Either that or this person has somehow found the golden ticket of a boss that actually considers career development as something they are willing to pay salary for.<p>I would have to do these kind of things on the side and I don&#x27;t want my whole intellectual inner life and my hobbies to become software. I don&#x27;t want to write software blogs in the evening. I want to read history books and cook dinner. I don&#x27;t want to do podcasts on Saturday. I want to tear the drywall off my entryway and frame in a new window. I don&#x27;t want to do side hustle paperwork on Sunday. I want to teach my kid how to shoot. I don&#x27;t want to take a day off to go to a developer meetup. I want to go march for Medicare.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Forty-Year Career (2019)</title><url>https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; Meeting my new coworkers, they structured their jobs as lottery tickets bought with their lifeblood, trading tips on managing the symptoms of work until the pearly gates of liquidity opened.<p>That&#x27;s a true statement and a painful insight.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not</title><url>http://tooslowexception.com/allocation-is-cheap-until-it-is-not/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narag</author><text>This brought memories of that pattern (flyweight?) where the data was stored outside the objects, possibly in an array. An object was instantiated only to hold an index to the array position and allow access. That&#x27;s dirty cheap!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>It&#x27;s still commonly used. The NFX library has Pile which does this well for holding large data:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nfxlib.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;caching&#x2F;pile.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nfxlib.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;caching&#x2F;pile.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Big-Memory-Part-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Big-Memory-Part-1</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not</title><url>http://tooslowexception.com/allocation-is-cheap-until-it-is-not/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narag</author><text>This brought memories of that pattern (flyweight?) where the data was stored outside the objects, possibly in an array. An object was instantiated only to hold an index to the array position and allow access. That&#x27;s dirty cheap!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>That pattern can be done in .NET via native memory allocation (MarshalInterop and SafeHandles).<p>With the latest C# 7.x features will become easier to use it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The science of addiction: Do you always like the things you want?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55221825</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigfudge</author><text>Surely the point is that this developmental ability to persist is wasted on FPS? You could have learnt a musical instrument or developed some other accomplishment that lasts a lifetime. I.e. the real problem is the opportunity cost</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I wonder if my desire to grind and or min&#x2F;max in video games during my teenage years was a proxy for honing skills. Perhaps it&#x27;s a developmental stage where you actually enjoy the repetition because you&#x27;re supposed to be developing a skills and trade-craft. But now that I&#x27;m older I have little to no interest in such pursuits.</text></item><item><author>earthscienceman</author><text>I love this comment and I think it touches on something that is really controversial and difficult to discuss on internet forums.<p>It has become clear to me that for young men of my generation that this type of video-gaming is very much the equivalent of &#x27;doomscrolling&#x27; as mentioned in other comments, and is generally pretty harmful. I have so many friends that have improved their lives by following the much-mocked advise &#x27;turn off the game and do something else&#x27;. Are games the culture-killing brain-rotting rotten life harbinger that our parents made them out to be? Of course not. Are they the epitome of entertainment and growth that places like reddit make them out to be? No, not really.<p>Like always. The truth is in the nuance.</text></item><item><author>jo032</author><text>Of the thousands of hours I spent playing single player videogames in my youth, a surprisingly small amount was spent having fun or doing anything interesting or challenging. It was mostly just tedious grinding on my overpowered Pokemon (and other rpg equivalents) against helpless enemies so that I could be even more overpowered against them.<p>I luckily grew out of it, but being absorbed by the pursuit of easy, digital approximations of real accomplishments, to the point where it impedes more difficult pursuits of the real thing in the real world, is a serious issue for many millennial men I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curryst</author><text>&gt; You could have learnt a musical instrument or developed some other accomplishment that lasts a lifetime.<p>These &quot;classical&quot; hobbies are vastly over-valued in my opinion. I spent almost a decade learning to play violin, and while the appreciation for music has been valuable, the actual skill of being able to play the violin has been largely useless. I also quit when I was no longer forced to play for school, and probably can&#x27;t even read the sheet music anymore. It&#x27;s by no means a life long skill like riding a bike.<p>Phrased another way, I don&#x27;t see much that validates being able to play a musical instrument as more valuable than being good at a particular genre of video games. Music has existed for far longer, so it has a certain level of prestige as a long-standing part of our culture. Music can be shared with others, although Twitch seems to imply there are a substantial number of people interested in watching other people play video games.<p>There are various studies about the tangential benefits of music, there are likewise for video games. I don&#x27;t know that one comes out clearly ahead.<p>Video games are more likely to give you real world skills. As more and more of the world moves online, skills that you pick up trying to get games to work or trying to make them run faster can be valuable. Online etiquette is another thing you tend to learn (hopefully, instead of just being toxic).<p>Learning an instrument is also not without pain. When I played, probably 75% of the time I was playing I wasn&#x27;t actually doing anything enjoyable, I was working on committing a piece to memory, or practicing a piece, or doing exercises to work on my finger strength or flexibility. I don&#x27;t feel like learning an instrument is less &quot;grindy&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The science of addiction: Do you always like the things you want?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55221825</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigfudge</author><text>Surely the point is that this developmental ability to persist is wasted on FPS? You could have learnt a musical instrument or developed some other accomplishment that lasts a lifetime. I.e. the real problem is the opportunity cost</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I wonder if my desire to grind and or min&#x2F;max in video games during my teenage years was a proxy for honing skills. Perhaps it&#x27;s a developmental stage where you actually enjoy the repetition because you&#x27;re supposed to be developing a skills and trade-craft. But now that I&#x27;m older I have little to no interest in such pursuits.</text></item><item><author>earthscienceman</author><text>I love this comment and I think it touches on something that is really controversial and difficult to discuss on internet forums.<p>It has become clear to me that for young men of my generation that this type of video-gaming is very much the equivalent of &#x27;doomscrolling&#x27; as mentioned in other comments, and is generally pretty harmful. I have so many friends that have improved their lives by following the much-mocked advise &#x27;turn off the game and do something else&#x27;. Are games the culture-killing brain-rotting rotten life harbinger that our parents made them out to be? Of course not. Are they the epitome of entertainment and growth that places like reddit make them out to be? No, not really.<p>Like always. The truth is in the nuance.</text></item><item><author>jo032</author><text>Of the thousands of hours I spent playing single player videogames in my youth, a surprisingly small amount was spent having fun or doing anything interesting or challenging. It was mostly just tedious grinding on my overpowered Pokemon (and other rpg equivalents) against helpless enemies so that I could be even more overpowered against them.<p>I luckily grew out of it, but being absorbed by the pursuit of easy, digital approximations of real accomplishments, to the point where it impedes more difficult pursuits of the real thing in the real world, is a serious issue for many millennial men I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text><i>Surely the point is that this developmental ability to persist is wasted on FPS?</i><p>Who is to say? FPS games can teach you about your physical ability, practice and teamwork as much as playing football or playing in a band. The physical skills are different, sure, but the planning, teamwork and execution are all very similar (and similar to developing an app with a team). Any of these things could also, well, <i>not</i> teach you much of anything. But is that a function of the <i>game</i> or the <i>player</i>?<p>The article suggests maybe it&#x27;s a function of <i>genuinely liking what you&#x27;re doing</i> vs simply <i>wanting</i> to do it (maybe because of an addiction).<p><i>I.e. the real problem is the opportunity cost</i><p>The problem with viewing through the lens of the opportunity cost is that it requires some hindsight to be completely evaluated. I played competitive football for 8 years. I wanted to, but I never went pro. You can work hard, put in the effort and still have nothing good to show for it. Today, I feel like I could have better spent that time, because it ate up <i>a lot</i> of it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asian-american-women-lung-cancer-rcna138895</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>12% of Asian American men smoke compared with 2.6% of women. So non smoking Asian women are more likely to live with a smoking man. Could second hand smoking exposure be a factor in this?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lung.org&#x2F;quit-smoking&#x2F;smoking-facts&#x2F;impact-of-tobacco-use&#x2F;tobacco-use-racial-and-ethnic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lung.org&#x2F;quit-smoking&#x2F;smoking-facts&#x2F;impact-of-to...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>This is what I first thought of as well, but other sources indicate that Asian Americans are actually the demographic with the <i>least</i> overall cigarette use[1]. Given that White and Black Americans use cigarettes at almost twice the rate Asian Americans do, we&#x27;d expect strong second-hand correlations for those groups as well.<p>(This source doesn&#x27;t quantify &quot;use,&quot; so there are confounding factors: prevalence of smoking at home, chain smoking vs. social smoking, etc.)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu&#x2F;racialethnic-minorities" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu&#x2F;racialethnic-min...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asian-american-women-lung-cancer-rcna138895</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>12% of Asian American men smoke compared with 2.6% of women. So non smoking Asian women are more likely to live with a smoking man. Could second hand smoking exposure be a factor in this?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lung.org&#x2F;quit-smoking&#x2F;smoking-facts&#x2F;impact-of-tobacco-use&#x2F;tobacco-use-racial-and-ethnic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lung.org&#x2F;quit-smoking&#x2F;smoking-facts&#x2F;impact-of-to...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>max_</author><text>There are Many things that cause lung cancer other than smoking.<p>Infact majority of people that smoke don&#x27;t get Cancer (only about 30% in a group of smokers get lung cancer)<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s comforting I prefer to have it at 0&#x2F;10<p>I am just trying to say that things that cause cancer are not as deterministic as we think.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Blue Moon</title><url>http://blueorigin.com/blue-moon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterlk</author><text>I think most people (myself included) do not understand how much technological improvement costs.<p>Anecdote: I once had a conversation with a guy who worked at ITER, and he was pretty bullish (and he had no reason to bullshit me) on the prospect of fusion as a viable energy source, but frustrated with the internal politics of ITER. So I asked, &quot;well, what would it take? If I could call up a bunch of rich people to get funding, how much would it take?&quot; He casually said, &quot;oh, probably 1.2 to 1.5 trillion dollars&quot;. And then I understood why it was a multinational conglomerate that was funding it, and not a bunch of rich people.</text></item><item><author>azernik</author><text>Of <i>course</i> it&#x27;s less capable than Apollo - we don&#x27;t have anywhere <i>near</i> the lift capability of Saturn V anymore, and this program&#x27;s budget is a rounding error in the $200B (inflation-adjusted) that went into Apollo.<p>I think people underestimate just how insane the investment was in that program: in the neighborhood of 0.25% of GDP for a decade.</text></item><item><author>Robotbeat</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly underwhelmed. This is not more capability than Apollo (uncrewed variant of whose lander could land about 5 tons). A really high deck making egress difficult. Apparently expendable. Given Blue Origin&#x27;s resources, they should be shooting far higher.<p>There&#x27;s a bunch of small companies pursuing expendable lunar landers of similar capabilities. I worry Blue Origin will just crowd them out.<p>A reusable upper stage or reusable lander (or both) would be more interesting and more important. Bezos is&#x2F;was the richest man and Blue origin is given roughly a billion dollars of capital every year, and a relatively modest expendable lunar lander is their big announcement? And even that they may have difficulty executing on in a timely manner.<p>I don&#x27;t think Blue Origin can&#x27;t do this. I just think it&#x27;s far too modest of a goal for a company with free rein over a billion dollars in additional annual capital.<p>...and I&#x27;m also skeptical of mass drivers (of the typical type) and lunar mining. Plenty of shade thrown at Mars, but Mars has vastly more resources.<p>Additionally, the architecture of the lander is disappointing. A crasher stage (ala the Surveyor spacecraft which used a kick stage for deorbiting) for most of descent would be far more efficient. It&#x27;d allow a much smaller and cheaper descent stage and much lower to the ground, making egress much easier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agent008t</author><text>Can anyone actually make an estimate with any reasonable degree of accuracy if the sum they need to estimate is in the trillions of dollars?<p>For example, it seems that in research usually when people say that something is a decade away what they really mean is that they have no idea. Is there a good reason why that is not the case here and the 1.5 trillion would be well spent?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Blue Moon</title><url>http://blueorigin.com/blue-moon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterlk</author><text>I think most people (myself included) do not understand how much technological improvement costs.<p>Anecdote: I once had a conversation with a guy who worked at ITER, and he was pretty bullish (and he had no reason to bullshit me) on the prospect of fusion as a viable energy source, but frustrated with the internal politics of ITER. So I asked, &quot;well, what would it take? If I could call up a bunch of rich people to get funding, how much would it take?&quot; He casually said, &quot;oh, probably 1.2 to 1.5 trillion dollars&quot;. And then I understood why it was a multinational conglomerate that was funding it, and not a bunch of rich people.</text></item><item><author>azernik</author><text>Of <i>course</i> it&#x27;s less capable than Apollo - we don&#x27;t have anywhere <i>near</i> the lift capability of Saturn V anymore, and this program&#x27;s budget is a rounding error in the $200B (inflation-adjusted) that went into Apollo.<p>I think people underestimate just how insane the investment was in that program: in the neighborhood of 0.25% of GDP for a decade.</text></item><item><author>Robotbeat</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly underwhelmed. This is not more capability than Apollo (uncrewed variant of whose lander could land about 5 tons). A really high deck making egress difficult. Apparently expendable. Given Blue Origin&#x27;s resources, they should be shooting far higher.<p>There&#x27;s a bunch of small companies pursuing expendable lunar landers of similar capabilities. I worry Blue Origin will just crowd them out.<p>A reusable upper stage or reusable lander (or both) would be more interesting and more important. Bezos is&#x2F;was the richest man and Blue origin is given roughly a billion dollars of capital every year, and a relatively modest expendable lunar lander is their big announcement? And even that they may have difficulty executing on in a timely manner.<p>I don&#x27;t think Blue Origin can&#x27;t do this. I just think it&#x27;s far too modest of a goal for a company with free rein over a billion dollars in additional annual capital.<p>...and I&#x27;m also skeptical of mass drivers (of the typical type) and lunar mining. Plenty of shade thrown at Mars, but Mars has vastly more resources.<p>Additionally, the architecture of the lander is disappointing. A crasher stage (ala the Surveyor spacecraft which used a kick stage for deorbiting) for most of descent would be far more efficient. It&#x27;d allow a much smaller and cheaper descent stage and much lower to the ground, making egress much easier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moccachino</author><text>To put that number into perspective, the 2015 US Military budget was --4 trillion-- 600 billion dollars [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Military_budget_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Military_budget_of_the_United_...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>419-million-year-old fish fossil resolves 'missing link' in evolution</title><url>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-26/fossil-discovery-links-gap-in-evolutionary-knowledge-of-fish/4981652</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>Richard Dawkins&#x27; <i>The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life</i> is an accessible account of evolutionary biology and goes to great lengths to disabuse even a sloppy reader of the popular [pre-genetic sequencing] notions of &quot;missing links.&quot;<p>Evolution suggests that creatures in similar environments are somewhat likely to develop similar adaptations without one species being the ancestor of the other. From a scientific standpoint the claim that modern fish are descendents of the extinct Placoderms is neither falsifiable nor for practical purposes verifiable - DNA simply does not survive that long.<p>Sparrows and bats have a common ancestor but it is improbable that it had wings.<p>Or to put it another way, the rationalist&#x27;s notion of a missing link as expounded in the headline is as dependent upon the logic of the Great Chain of Being as that of an Ussherian creationist - their disagreement is large, but mainly resides in what constitutes the relevant details of a teleological account and the criteria for acceptance is the plausibility of the account to the individual and the intellectual communities to which they belong.</text></comment>
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<story><title>419-million-year-old fish fossil resolves 'missing link' in evolution</title><url>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-26/fossil-discovery-links-gap-in-evolutionary-knowledge-of-fish/4981652</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>An armoured fish? Like... a fish tank?<p>Thank you. I&#x27;m here all week. Try the placoderm.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money</title><url>http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/26/scrap-the-welfare-state-give-people-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ctdonath</author><text><i>You give poor people a basic sum of money so they don&#x27;t climb over the fence and kill you in your sleep.</i><p>Once you&#x27;ve established a &quot;protection money&quot; system, establishing their &quot;right&quot; to your money &amp; property, they are now incentivized to demand - and take - more. Panem et circenses is the last stage of polite society; the cost eventually becomes unbearable as fewer work and more expect comfort &amp; leisure for nothing.<p>You give poor people money because it&#x27;s generosity, kindness and help - <i>freely given as your choice</i>. The recipient receives knowing the charity is out of goodness, and is coupled to an expectation that the recipient will make a respectable effort to overcome poverty.<p>As an American, we ensure people don&#x27;t climb over the fence and kill us in our sleep because (A) the firepower many have within 3 steps of bed will give potential attackers pause, and (B) the local police will apprehend surviving thugs. We also strive to reduce legal barriers to productivity, promoting liberty to earn an honest wage for honest work (rather than creating high cost of entry with a flurry of stifling regulations). Between severe disincentives to crime, coupled with easy access to rewarding opportunity, we don&#x27;t have to pay people to not kill us.</text></item><item><author>pinaceae</author><text>As a European we are bit further down that path than the US.<p>I assume most of the readers here are &quot;wealthy&quot;, would not need basic guaranteed income. So let me explain why this is a good idea from a rich man&#x27;s perspective.<p>You give poor people a basic sum of money so they don&#x27;t climb over the fence and kill you in your sleep.<p>That&#x27;s it.<p>Behind all the nice language this is what it boils down to. It is paying off poor people to stop pestering you. Chump change for security. Europe learned it the hard way through numerous revolutions and war - keep the lower classes happy and <i>everyone</i> benefits. Social housing, healthcare, the lower rungs of Maslow&#x27;s pyramid.<p>The Romans called it panem et circenses. Not a new idea. Focus on the panem. Hungry people do desperate things.<p>Want to see how society looks like that does not get that? Brazil. Mexico. Have a nice house in Sao Paulo or Mexico City? Then enjoy your 3m high wall with barbed wire around it.<p>Sharing a bit of wealth means personal security for you. You don&#x27;t get robbed. You don&#x27;t get infected by shit because no one gets shots (yes, you want basic healthcare for all). You have a nice large market to sell shit to, so job security (the basic Henry Ford insight).<p>So there you have it, even if you hate poor people there is good reason to give them some money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pinaceae</author><text>Right, and looking at stats like murder rates, incarceration numbers, etc. the US system is clearly working and superior.<p>I can walk <i>any</i> street at 2am in Vienna without looking over my shoulder.<p>Oakland? Philly?<p>A personal gun doesn&#x27;t stop anyone. Fantasy from lala land.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money</title><url>http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/26/scrap-the-welfare-state-give-people-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ctdonath</author><text><i>You give poor people a basic sum of money so they don&#x27;t climb over the fence and kill you in your sleep.</i><p>Once you&#x27;ve established a &quot;protection money&quot; system, establishing their &quot;right&quot; to your money &amp; property, they are now incentivized to demand - and take - more. Panem et circenses is the last stage of polite society; the cost eventually becomes unbearable as fewer work and more expect comfort &amp; leisure for nothing.<p>You give poor people money because it&#x27;s generosity, kindness and help - <i>freely given as your choice</i>. The recipient receives knowing the charity is out of goodness, and is coupled to an expectation that the recipient will make a respectable effort to overcome poverty.<p>As an American, we ensure people don&#x27;t climb over the fence and kill us in our sleep because (A) the firepower many have within 3 steps of bed will give potential attackers pause, and (B) the local police will apprehend surviving thugs. We also strive to reduce legal barriers to productivity, promoting liberty to earn an honest wage for honest work (rather than creating high cost of entry with a flurry of stifling regulations). Between severe disincentives to crime, coupled with easy access to rewarding opportunity, we don&#x27;t have to pay people to not kill us.</text></item><item><author>pinaceae</author><text>As a European we are bit further down that path than the US.<p>I assume most of the readers here are &quot;wealthy&quot;, would not need basic guaranteed income. So let me explain why this is a good idea from a rich man&#x27;s perspective.<p>You give poor people a basic sum of money so they don&#x27;t climb over the fence and kill you in your sleep.<p>That&#x27;s it.<p>Behind all the nice language this is what it boils down to. It is paying off poor people to stop pestering you. Chump change for security. Europe learned it the hard way through numerous revolutions and war - keep the lower classes happy and <i>everyone</i> benefits. Social housing, healthcare, the lower rungs of Maslow&#x27;s pyramid.<p>The Romans called it panem et circenses. Not a new idea. Focus on the panem. Hungry people do desperate things.<p>Want to see how society looks like that does not get that? Brazil. Mexico. Have a nice house in Sao Paulo or Mexico City? Then enjoy your 3m high wall with barbed wire around it.<p>Sharing a bit of wealth means personal security for you. You don&#x27;t get robbed. You don&#x27;t get infected by shit because no one gets shots (yes, you want basic healthcare for all). You have a nice large market to sell shit to, so job security (the basic Henry Ford insight).<p>So there you have it, even if you hate poor people there is good reason to give them some money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>Ideological response: Police are the thugs that rich people buy to defend themselves from the poor.<p>Actually, basic income &#x2F; negative income tax is a very good idea, much better than welfare schemes of almost all kinds - it has almost no administration overhead. Charity, like you advocate, has huge amounts of overhead. Milton Friedman was an advocate, for example, and he was hardly a socialist.<p>And the idea that charity comes from goodness? That is utter bullshit. It&#x27;s 95% social signalling. Altruism doesn&#x27;t exist.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be a placebo</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/billion-dollar-brain-training-industry-a-sham-nothing-but-placebo-study-suggests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reitanqild</author><text>&gt; I.e. if you have solved a lot of &quot;guess the next shape&quot; or &quot;find the odd element&quot; you are probably going to perform better because you know how the thing work.<p>I hear this repeated a lot. I happen to have worked with someone who was into this (former something in Mensa), and as far as I understood one of the hallmarks of a good IQ test is when previous experience have small influence on the testscore.<p>Some people tend to say that anyone can train for this. I guess if that was true, Mensa would have a lot more members.</text></item><item><author>riffraff</author><text>Yet, most tests of intelligence seem to be influenced by knowledge.<p>I.e. if you have solved a lot of &quot;guess the next shape&quot; or &quot;find the odd element&quot; you are probably going to perform better because you know how the thing work.<p>Likewise, literature and basic math seem to be widely influenced by education, and don&#x27;t measure intelligence.<p>Are there tests that really measure intelligence? And if there aren&#x27;t, are the qualities really separated?</text></item><item><author>Practicality</author><text>Intelligence is supposed to be a measure of intellectual capability, independent of knowledge. It&#x27;s difficult to define clearly, but knowledge is definitely a different quality.<p>Of course &quot;smart&quot; is even less well-defined than intelligence, so it&#x27;s not a very useful word for such a discussion.</text></item><item><author>serg_chernata</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I&#x27;ve always thought that being &quot;smart&quot; has everything to do with having a wealth of information and being able to draw connections between various facts and ideas.<p>Repeatedly solving a simple puzzle only makes you good at repeatedly solving a simple puzzle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frondo</author><text>Once in the distant, distant past, I had a contract job. Full-time, they paid me for 40 hours a week, but usually I&#x27;d have an hour or two of down time each day. Like, 2pm rolls around, and I&#x27;ve actually finished everything that needed to be done for the schedule, so hey, I&#x27;ve got some time.<p>I started taking online IQ tests. I looked around for the really hard ones, and found that they fall into a couple of categories. Some focused on obscure vocabulary, featuring lists of hundreds of words that I, a native speaker with a pretty good vocabulary, had never seen. Others tested spatial awareness, logic, whatever.<p>What I discovered, after taking a few of these tests (I skipped the vocab ones; what&#x27;s the point of learnin&#x27; fancy words no one else knows?), is that you get better at them, and fast. I only took maybe 2 or 3 a day, a couple times a week, but it didn&#x27;t take more than a week to start testing a lot higher.<p>It got kinda boring once I started seeing that kind of improvement, so I stopped. I&#x27;m curious what it&#x27;d be like to try again, though.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be a placebo</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/billion-dollar-brain-training-industry-a-sham-nothing-but-placebo-study-suggests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reitanqild</author><text>&gt; I.e. if you have solved a lot of &quot;guess the next shape&quot; or &quot;find the odd element&quot; you are probably going to perform better because you know how the thing work.<p>I hear this repeated a lot. I happen to have worked with someone who was into this (former something in Mensa), and as far as I understood one of the hallmarks of a good IQ test is when previous experience have small influence on the testscore.<p>Some people tend to say that anyone can train for this. I guess if that was true, Mensa would have a lot more members.</text></item><item><author>riffraff</author><text>Yet, most tests of intelligence seem to be influenced by knowledge.<p>I.e. if you have solved a lot of &quot;guess the next shape&quot; or &quot;find the odd element&quot; you are probably going to perform better because you know how the thing work.<p>Likewise, literature and basic math seem to be widely influenced by education, and don&#x27;t measure intelligence.<p>Are there tests that really measure intelligence? And if there aren&#x27;t, are the qualities really separated?</text></item><item><author>Practicality</author><text>Intelligence is supposed to be a measure of intellectual capability, independent of knowledge. It&#x27;s difficult to define clearly, but knowledge is definitely a different quality.<p>Of course &quot;smart&quot; is even less well-defined than intelligence, so it&#x27;s not a very useful word for such a discussion.</text></item><item><author>serg_chernata</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I&#x27;ve always thought that being &quot;smart&quot; has everything to do with having a wealth of information and being able to draw connections between various facts and ideas.<p>Repeatedly solving a simple puzzle only makes you good at repeatedly solving a simple puzzle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacalata</author><text>You are conflating various things.<p>1) it is uncontroversial that training improves performance on traditional IQ tests. It is true that people aim to minimise this when designing tests. It is also true that so far, nobody has done a great job at that. It&#x27;s worth noting that Mensa presents different tests in different parts of the world - which is a pretty big hint that they think previous experience&#x2F;cultural background affects how you perform on the test.<p>2) Anyone can improve their running performance through training. Not everyone can be a world class marathon runner. The fact that you can improve your performance on an IQ test is not disproven by the claim that not everyone is capable of reaching Mensa levels on it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>&gt; Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?<p>Really easy to answer: It is stupid fun to program with Python. There are libraries for everything you can imagine and they are generally very easy to use. Once you grok the virtual environment thing, writing apps&#x2F;programs&#x2F;scripts is just a matter of creating a new env and installing the libs you need. Testing ideas with Jupyter notebook is fun, fast and rewarding. Pycharm is awesome. VSCode with Python just works. You can automate tons of boring stuff (Thanks Al!)... and the list goes on... and on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpazyaquian</author><text>You&#x27;re listing off tooling, libraries, and frameworks written with or targeting Python, which isn&#x27;t Python itself. As soon as you want to go off the rails in any of those things, Python gets as complicated as any other language.<p>My take on the matter is that Python is gaining traction due to its market share of the Data Science&#x2F;Machine Learning field, which is what&#x27;s <i>really</i> gaining traction and growing quickly. Had Perl or Ruby been the premier language to use for DS&#x2F;ML, they would be growing instead of Python.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>&gt; Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?<p>Really easy to answer: It is stupid fun to program with Python. There are libraries for everything you can imagine and they are generally very easy to use. Once you grok the virtual environment thing, writing apps&#x2F;programs&#x2F;scripts is just a matter of creating a new env and installing the libs you need. Testing ideas with Jupyter notebook is fun, fast and rewarding. Pycharm is awesome. VSCode with Python just works. You can automate tons of boring stuff (Thanks Al!)... and the list goes on... and on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdulli</author><text>&gt; It is stupid fun to program with Python<p>Around 2009 I started questioning if I even enjoyed coding anymore. I was primarily using PHP and Java. Rather than quit the profession I tried Python and suddenly it was fun again. 8 years later, it still is. Python just spoke my language.<p>My career is based around using Python because it&#x27;s the way I enjoy the work. Everything else, like the actual properties of Python relative to other languages, is irrelevant to me if using another language would make the work unenjoyable again. (Though if Python didn&#x27;t measure up very well compared to other languages it wouldn&#x27;t have become my go-to in the first place.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-beware-outsiders-are-cracking-code-finance-2021-09-17/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>There&#x27;s been a long history of non-finance companies branching out into finance.<p>- Sears: had Allstate for insurance and Discover Card for credit. Unlike most &quot;branded&quot; credit-cards, Sears did its own underwriting for the Discover Card i.e. they owned the Greentrust bank behind that card. (That is unlike Amazon Prime card being underwritten by Chase Bank.)<p>- G.E. General Electric: financial services GE Capital like loans and leases<p>I remember finding out that many music stores use GE Capital to finance the inventory of all their guitars hanging on the wall. (Industry lingo of &quot;floor planning&quot;.[1]) Sort of strange to realize that a lightbulb company has a bigger subsidiary that sells financial services. It&#x27;s more profitable to make money by selling money than by manufacturing lightbulbs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MomoXenosaga</author><text>I see a lot of fintech startups but there is absolutely 0 money in providing basic bank accounts for paupers.<p>It&#x27;s why companies like Revolut and Bunq always end up doing what ordinary banks are doing: upselling. Shitty insurance and expensive creditcards is where the money is. Also transaction fees up the wazoo.
Looking into it made me realize traditional banks aren&#x27;t really evil- they are kept under tight government regulations that forces them to take any customer. Even the ones that make them no money. No I&#x27;ll be sticking with €15 per year account.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-beware-outsiders-are-cracking-code-finance-2021-09-17/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>There&#x27;s been a long history of non-finance companies branching out into finance.<p>- Sears: had Allstate for insurance and Discover Card for credit. Unlike most &quot;branded&quot; credit-cards, Sears did its own underwriting for the Discover Card i.e. they owned the Greentrust bank behind that card. (That is unlike Amazon Prime card being underwritten by Chase Bank.)<p>- G.E. General Electric: financial services GE Capital like loans and leases<p>I remember finding out that many music stores use GE Capital to finance the inventory of all their guitars hanging on the wall. (Industry lingo of &quot;floor planning&quot;.[1]) Sort of strange to realize that a lightbulb company has a bigger subsidiary that sells financial services. It&#x27;s more profitable to make money by selling money than by manufacturing lightbulbs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beerandt</author><text>All manufacturers (or wholesalers or retailers) that grow big enough will run into the problem of: their potential market running out of customers that can pay cash up front, or easily obtain credit to purchase their product.<p>Even &quot;cash&quot; accounts at things like trade businesses, where the account is more about convenience and workflow (and the professional getting paid only after the work is done) than it is credit or financing, are taking on <i>some</i> risk of non-payment at the end of the month in order to make business flow much faster and more smoothly, than it otherwise would.<p>It&#x27;s just a matter of what industries or businesses have the capital and the will, as well as the right risk models and opportunity costs to try and implement it all &quot;in-house&quot; or as a subsidiary.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Coinbase will be a remote-first company</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/post-covid-19-coinbase-will-be-a-remote-first-company-cdac6e621df7?gi=97cf312cab0b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LB232323</author><text>I have been working remote by choice for years. You don&#x27;t have to stay at home, you just need internet access. This means you have the freedom to work from anywhere on the globe as long as you can access the web.<p>This is a pretty straightforward advantage of the internet. Some jobs have always been &quot;remote&quot;. For example, writers still type their manuscripts from anywhere and mail them to editors. However, only some jobs work like this. When I did service or blue collar work I always had to be on the site to physically work the capital.<p>As for &quot;career ambition&quot;, you can make plenty of money or a modest income from remote jobs. Beyond jobs, you can easily own an online business or some other digital capital through the same infrastructure. There is more to life and to work than a high salary. Greed is not a virtue.<p>You don&#x27;t have to sell your soul and most of the waking hours of your life to commute to an office, deal with the attached bullshit, and integrate yourself into the corporate machine.<p>Instead, you have the freedom to actually live your life. Be with you family, friends, pursue your passions, even something as simple as being able access nature or travel freely. Whatever living means to you beyond working.<p>From the outside looking in, the mirage of SV corporate culture seems really fake and hollow. I do not want a hip fancy office full of zany perks and a weird cult. I understand the power balance as a worker. In any job, I want to put in my time and hard work, earn an honest living, and then be free to live as a real human being.</text></item><item><author>Cookingboy</author><text>I&#x27;m really curious, how many people actually prefer WFH permanently vs. just having the flexibility to WFH when wanted.<p>If I wanted to stay home forever I&#x27;d have just taken a remote consulting job a long time ago, but I enjoy going to office and there is a lot of benefits that you don&#x27;t get from being remote 100%. I&#x27;ve also made very good friends at work and I see my coworkers as much more than just another GitHub account that reviews my Pull Requests.<p>But again, maybe I&#x27;m the exception to the rule and most engineers just want to stay focused on their immediate work and not leave the house and minimize human interaction. But knowing my own personality, if I know a company is mostly remote work culture I&#x27;ll likely cross it out from my list of places to work.<p>Also I saw this from the blog post:<p>&gt;There are no explicit or implicit disadvantages to working from any location: all employees have the same experience regardless of where they are.<p>Unless Coinbase somehow figured out a way to discard factors caused by human psychology from millions of years of evolution, I just don&#x27;t see how that&#x27;s possible for anything other than low to mid-tier ICs with minimal no career ambition.<p>From my personal experiences most high level decisions are made, or at least started from countless hallway&#x2F;micro-kitchen conversations or informal coffee walks, and meetings are just a way to present to people of decisions that&#x27;s already made.<p>The cynical part of me thinks all this &quot;WFH Permanently&quot; initiative is just a disguise for companies to start lowering cost for entry to mid-level IC positions by hiring from areas with much cheaper CoL. Which makes sense, there is nothing special about an entry level JS frontend dev in SF that warrants you paying them $150k&#x2F;yr when you can hire the same talent from another state for half that much or from a different country for a quarter that much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sverhagen</author><text>&gt; I do not want a hip fancy office full of zany perks and a weird cult.<p>Notice taken. Good for you (not sarcastic). This is why you &quot;have been working remote by choice for years&quot;. But as the OP said:<p>&gt; If I wanted to stay home forever I&#x27;d have just taken a remote consulting job a long time ago<p>...and he didn&#x27;t. Neither did I. In the past I have worked remotely for about a year, it wasn&#x27;t great (admitted that company wasn&#x27;t set up for it). I am doing it now, and I&#x27;m miserable about it.<p>So, OP&#x27;s point seems not that something is inherently wrong or bad with either mode of working, rather that people who used to be going to the office may not necessarily be happy, or interested, to become remote workers. (Not even because it works well for you.)<p>I did a nothing little survey during our past team retrospective, and from a dozen of folks 1) most of them want more days working from home than pre-pandemic, 2) most of them would then want more work time in the office than from home, and 3) all of them are desperately looking forward to going into the office again for any sort of time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Coinbase will be a remote-first company</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/post-covid-19-coinbase-will-be-a-remote-first-company-cdac6e621df7?gi=97cf312cab0b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LB232323</author><text>I have been working remote by choice for years. You don&#x27;t have to stay at home, you just need internet access. This means you have the freedom to work from anywhere on the globe as long as you can access the web.<p>This is a pretty straightforward advantage of the internet. Some jobs have always been &quot;remote&quot;. For example, writers still type their manuscripts from anywhere and mail them to editors. However, only some jobs work like this. When I did service or blue collar work I always had to be on the site to physically work the capital.<p>As for &quot;career ambition&quot;, you can make plenty of money or a modest income from remote jobs. Beyond jobs, you can easily own an online business or some other digital capital through the same infrastructure. There is more to life and to work than a high salary. Greed is not a virtue.<p>You don&#x27;t have to sell your soul and most of the waking hours of your life to commute to an office, deal with the attached bullshit, and integrate yourself into the corporate machine.<p>Instead, you have the freedom to actually live your life. Be with you family, friends, pursue your passions, even something as simple as being able access nature or travel freely. Whatever living means to you beyond working.<p>From the outside looking in, the mirage of SV corporate culture seems really fake and hollow. I do not want a hip fancy office full of zany perks and a weird cult. I understand the power balance as a worker. In any job, I want to put in my time and hard work, earn an honest living, and then be free to live as a real human being.</text></item><item><author>Cookingboy</author><text>I&#x27;m really curious, how many people actually prefer WFH permanently vs. just having the flexibility to WFH when wanted.<p>If I wanted to stay home forever I&#x27;d have just taken a remote consulting job a long time ago, but I enjoy going to office and there is a lot of benefits that you don&#x27;t get from being remote 100%. I&#x27;ve also made very good friends at work and I see my coworkers as much more than just another GitHub account that reviews my Pull Requests.<p>But again, maybe I&#x27;m the exception to the rule and most engineers just want to stay focused on their immediate work and not leave the house and minimize human interaction. But knowing my own personality, if I know a company is mostly remote work culture I&#x27;ll likely cross it out from my list of places to work.<p>Also I saw this from the blog post:<p>&gt;There are no explicit or implicit disadvantages to working from any location: all employees have the same experience regardless of where they are.<p>Unless Coinbase somehow figured out a way to discard factors caused by human psychology from millions of years of evolution, I just don&#x27;t see how that&#x27;s possible for anything other than low to mid-tier ICs with minimal no career ambition.<p>From my personal experiences most high level decisions are made, or at least started from countless hallway&#x2F;micro-kitchen conversations or informal coffee walks, and meetings are just a way to present to people of decisions that&#x27;s already made.<p>The cynical part of me thinks all this &quot;WFH Permanently&quot; initiative is just a disguise for companies to start lowering cost for entry to mid-level IC positions by hiring from areas with much cheaper CoL. Which makes sense, there is nothing special about an entry level JS frontend dev in SF that warrants you paying them $150k&#x2F;yr when you can hire the same talent from another state for half that much or from a different country for a quarter that much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cookingboy</author><text>&gt;As for &quot;career ambition&quot;, you can make plenty of money or a modest income from remote jobs. Beyond jobs, you can easily own an online business or some other digital capital through the same infrastructure. There is more to life and to work than a high salary. Greed is not a virtue.<p>&gt;You don&#x27;t have to sell your soul and most of the waking hours of your life to commute to an office, deal with the attached bullshit, and integrate yourself into the corporate machine.<p>I&#x27;m sorry but that came across as both condescending and judgmental. I know plenty of people chose the life they have here because they <i>want</i> to, not because they <i>have</i> to sell their soul or what not. There is a lot more perks from having a fulfilling job other than making a big paycheck, it ranges from working closely with amazing people to tackling challenging and fun problems.<p>I know for sure the reason I go to work these days isn&#x27;t because of money, since I&#x27;m past the point where I care too much about it.<p>Finally there is absolutely nothing wrong with pursuing financial success. Having desire to &quot;enjoy nature&quot; and having desire to &quot;have money&quot; are both greed, just in different forms. I definitely do not consider myself morally superior just because I enjoy hiking...<p>&gt;From the outside looking in, the mirage of SV corporate culture seems really fake and hollow. I do not want a hip fancy office full of zany perks and a weird cult.<p>I&#x27;ve been both inside and outside of SV (worked in Texas, Bay Area, and now in Seattle), and I have to say your understanding of SV culture is extremely superficial, likely augmented by the cherry-picking examples and sensationalized media portrayal.</text></comment>
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<story><title>HTML 5.2 Recommendation</title><url>https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masswerk</author><text>Hm – I&#x27;m not too happy to see most of the original HTML-elements marked &quot;not conforming&quot; and &quot;must not be used&quot;, thus preparing for browsers to eventually drop the support. There are still lots of web-sites and valuable information stored and archived in this format. Back in the day, it was thought that basic HTML was a format to last. Who is going to update these documents in order to make them conforming to future browsers? Or are we just dropping a decade of documentation? Is it worth it?<p>(Consider: Apparently, MS-Word docs or PDF prove longer lived than basic HTML documents! Who would have thought of this?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>domenicd</author><text>I don&#x27;t really know what process the W3C fork of our work uses for removal, if any, but you can learn more about how features get removed in the (WHATWG) HTML Standard per our working mode:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatwg.org&#x2F;working-mode#removals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatwg.org&#x2F;working-mode#removals</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatwg.org&#x2F;faq#removing-bad-ideas" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatwg.org&#x2F;faq#removing-bad-ideas</a><p>In short, I think it&#x27;s important to distinguish between conformance and removal from browsers. Removal from browsers is a big deal and, as per those links, is only done when it&#x27;s not going to break the web, or when the benefits are very high (e.g. security issues). Removal from being conformant just reflects the evolution of best practices. See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whatwg&#x2F;html&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;FAQ.md#how-are-developers-to-determine-when-certain-parts-of-their-pages-will-become-invalid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whatwg&#x2F;html&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;FAQ.md#how-are-de...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>HTML 5.2 Recommendation</title><url>https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masswerk</author><text>Hm – I&#x27;m not too happy to see most of the original HTML-elements marked &quot;not conforming&quot; and &quot;must not be used&quot;, thus preparing for browsers to eventually drop the support. There are still lots of web-sites and valuable information stored and archived in this format. Back in the day, it was thought that basic HTML was a format to last. Who is going to update these documents in order to make them conforming to future browsers? Or are we just dropping a decade of documentation? Is it worth it?<p>(Consider: Apparently, MS-Word docs or PDF prove longer lived than basic HTML documents! Who would have thought of this?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>The HTML mode tag should put the browser into compatibility mode. This content should not be lost.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity</title><url>https://www.stefantheard.com/silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-founder-liquidity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>All you’re saying is that in the contemporary context it’s exceedingly foolish to be an employee at an early startup. The VCs and founders have optimized away all the incentive. Eventually the message will reach even naive 22 year olds.</text></item><item><author>kneath</author><text>I have seen a lot of companies, a lot of rounds. I have known zero founders who have turned down an option to take money off the table (and zero A raises that offered that to employees). I love the idea of your universe, though.</text></item><item><author>josh2600</author><text>The best startups have a concept which is summed up thusly:<p>“We all go to the pay window at the same time.”<p>It’s ok for founders to take a little bit of money off of the table if they extend that to their employees as well. Asymmetry is where things get weird.<p>I’ve seen many founders who got deep into the fundraising cycles without ever realizing they could take a cent out. VCs will constantly tell you to let it all ride, and sometimes that works out, but for most people, having a little bit of financial security while you’re trying to change the world is necessary.<p>The best startups figure out how to manage liquidity through financing in a way that aligns incentives, keeps the goalposts at the mission, while allowing their teams to thrive.<p>It’s about alignment. If everyone is pulling in the same direction you’re going to execute the vision. Whether you win in the startup lottery is up to the threads of fate, but alignment is the straightest path towards a result.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smeej</author><text>I&#x27;d tweak this slightly: &quot;It&#x27;s exceedingly foolish to be an employee at an early startup <i>for the money.</i>&quot;<p>I think there are a lot of us who struggle to fit the larger corporate mold who pretty much <i>only</i> thrive in the startup world. I can&#x27;t speak for all of them, but I&#x27;ve been very willing to take the balance of lower cash compensation and a fistful of lottery tickets <i>and not having 12 layers of middle management breathing down my neck</i> over more liquidity.<p>I guess I&#x27;m also blessed with inexpensive tastes, which helps, but I&#x27;m still able to live somewhere I love and do all the things I care to do, so it works out.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity</title><url>https://www.stefantheard.com/silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-founder-liquidity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>All you’re saying is that in the contemporary context it’s exceedingly foolish to be an employee at an early startup. The VCs and founders have optimized away all the incentive. Eventually the message will reach even naive 22 year olds.</text></item><item><author>kneath</author><text>I have seen a lot of companies, a lot of rounds. I have known zero founders who have turned down an option to take money off the table (and zero A raises that offered that to employees). I love the idea of your universe, though.</text></item><item><author>josh2600</author><text>The best startups have a concept which is summed up thusly:<p>“We all go to the pay window at the same time.”<p>It’s ok for founders to take a little bit of money off of the table if they extend that to their employees as well. Asymmetry is where things get weird.<p>I’ve seen many founders who got deep into the fundraising cycles without ever realizing they could take a cent out. VCs will constantly tell you to let it all ride, and sometimes that works out, but for most people, having a little bit of financial security while you’re trying to change the world is necessary.<p>The best startups figure out how to manage liquidity through financing in a way that aligns incentives, keeps the goalposts at the mission, while allowing their teams to thrive.<p>It’s about alignment. If everyone is pulling in the same direction you’re going to execute the vision. Whether you win in the startup lottery is up to the threads of fate, but alignment is the straightest path towards a result.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethagnawl</author><text>&gt; All you’re saying is that in the contemporary context it’s exceedingly foolish to be an employee at an early startup.<p>As a rule, it is and always has been. For every unicorn piñata stuffed with winning lottery tickets, there are hundreds&#x2F;thousands? of others whose employees walk away with nothing or less (debt, strained relationships, mental health issues, etc.) at worst or a job at AcquiHireCo at best.</text></comment>
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<story><title>China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-blocked-people-taking-flights-train-trips-2018-5?IR=T</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>It is quite the opposite: China is much crazier than the western press makes it out to be. If western media reported things about China too accurately, no one would believe them.<p>You really only have to read Chinese media to get this, reading even state-owned media (like China daily or global times) will leave you with a much more negative impression of China than reading CNN or NyTimes.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>&gt; Some provinces play a recorded message when someone tries to call a blacklisted debtor, informing the caller that the person they want to speak with has outstanding debts. And in May, a short cartoon with the photographs of debtors&#x27; faces began playing at movie theatres, on buses, and on public noticeboards with a voiceover that said: &quot;Come, come, look at these [debtors]. It&#x27;s a person who borrows money and doesn&#x27;t pay it back.&quot;<p>Assuming that&#x27;s being reported accurately...wow.<p>Although I&#x27;m always led to wonder to what extent the facts in articles like this are exaggerated in order to portray one of the US&#x27;s main global competitors in a negative light.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nimrod0</author><text>You&#x27;re giving the wrong impression. Let&#x27;s parse this a bit. China is &quot;crazier&quot; in that it&#x27;s different in a way that&#x27;s hard to explain in Western discourse. In order to analogize for the reader, quite inadequately really, the portrayal becomes &quot;exaggerated&quot; and &quot;incomprehensible&quot;. To the extent that what&#x27;s different and unusual is generally perceived as &quot;negative&quot; -- because if they were positive you&#x27;d be doing that in your society -- the portrayal of China tends to be negative. Both views are valid.</text></comment>
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<story><title>China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-blocked-people-taking-flights-train-trips-2018-5?IR=T</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>It is quite the opposite: China is much crazier than the western press makes it out to be. If western media reported things about China too accurately, no one would believe them.<p>You really only have to read Chinese media to get this, reading even state-owned media (like China daily or global times) will leave you with a much more negative impression of China than reading CNN or NyTimes.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>&gt; Some provinces play a recorded message when someone tries to call a blacklisted debtor, informing the caller that the person they want to speak with has outstanding debts. And in May, a short cartoon with the photographs of debtors&#x27; faces began playing at movie theatres, on buses, and on public noticeboards with a voiceover that said: &quot;Come, come, look at these [debtors]. It&#x27;s a person who borrows money and doesn&#x27;t pay it back.&quot;<p>Assuming that&#x27;s being reported accurately...wow.<p>Although I&#x27;m always led to wonder to what extent the facts in articles like this are exaggerated in order to portray one of the US&#x27;s main global competitors in a negative light.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway505938</author><text>If it&#x27;s that much crazier, why is it whenever I visited China it didn&#x27;t seem crazy at all? Are they that good at hiding things from foreigners?<p>I should add that I don&#x27;t stick to the expat bubble and I can understand Mandarin.<p>Reading China Daily and the Global Times, you also get stories about all the good things that happen in China. So it definitely seems more well balanced. Whereas the Western press seems to only focus on the negative and sensationalist pieces.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method</title><url>https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CGamesPlay</author><text>This is your friendly reminder to avoid the productivity hacking tarpit. It feels productive to think about productivity but oftentimes you&#x27;re confusing movement for progress. I&#x27;ll give two specific pieces of advice for people who are thinking about switching from methodology &#x2F; app A to methodology &#x2F; app B.<p>1. You might find something that B does that is just so difficult to accomplish in A, so you want to switch. But before you do, you should spend a week living with the difficult path to do that thing in A. You will likely find that learning the muscle memory to do that thing in A was actually the difficult part, and once you&#x27;ve overcome that hurdle it isn&#x27;t difficult any more.<p>2. You might switch to B and feel that &quot;now, everything is so organized!&quot; However, it&#x27;s very likely that you could have &quot;switched&quot; from A to A and you&#x27;d feel the same way. What I mean by this is that by switching, you&#x27;ve forced yourself to revisit all of your notes. If you forced yourself to revisit your notes without switching, you&#x27;d see the same effect.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method</title><url>https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maddyboo</author><text>Neuron [1] is an exciting new Zettelkasten project.<p>In short, it’s a CLI tool that transforms a directory of markdown files with some special syntax into a static site.<p>A couple of highlights: It’s got support for tags, links, backlinks; it can generate trees of links to notes matching a given tag; the static site has search functionality; there are editor plugins for vim and Emacs.<p>The CLI has the ability to output your entire Zettelkasten graph as JSON, which you can then parse and use to write scripts. I’ve already used this feature to write a few tools for myself that greatly improve my note taking workflow.<p>Behind the scenes, Neuron uses Pandoc to convert the markdown into HTML. There is talk of a feature that would allow the user to write Pandoc filters which would essentially be programs that transform the Neuron AST prior to it being rendered with Pandoc. Such a feature would open up tons of opportunities for customization, e.g. you could write rules to parse custom syntax in your markdown files and generate inline HTML. I’ve already written a tool that does something similar [2] without the use of a Pandoc filter by operating directly on the generated HTML files, but a Pandoc filter would greatly improve the process.<p>All of your notes are simply markdown files stored on your local machine, so you’re free to do whatever you’d like with them: store them in git, write scripts to generate them, whatever.<p>The author is simultaneously developing Cerveau [3] which is a hosted web interface that allows you to edit your notes remotely via a web browser. It transparently syncs your edits to a GitHub repository. Unfortunately, Cerveau is currently closed source, but I believe the author has expressed interest in opening it up if he’s able to get enough GitHub sponsors to sustain its development.<p>If it matters to you, Neuron is written in Haskell and the project makes heavy use of Nix.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;srid&#x2F;neuron" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;srid&#x2F;neuron</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;srid&#x2F;neuron&#x2F;issues&#x2F;228#issuecomment-670290253" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;srid&#x2F;neuron&#x2F;issues&#x2F;228#issuecomment-67029...</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cerveau.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cerveau.app</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49165946</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tristor</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly appalled at the number of comments in this thread trying to lambast Project Zero for the good work they do in improving software security. Even if Google specifically started and ran Project Zero to target competitor&#x27;s products (which they didn&#x27;t, and they don&#x27;t, there&#x27;s over 100 bugs found by P0 in Google products), it wouldn&#x27;t matter because the effect would still be that the online world is a safer place with more secure software.<p>Of all places, I thought Hacker News would have a community which understands the critical importance of security research and the fact that fixing software security bugs is a net benefit to everyone, every time, all the time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49165946</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I believe Natalie Silvanovich is giving a talk at Black Hat about some of these next week. Silvanovich is a machine.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/02/toyota-ceo-akio-toyoda-electric-vehicles-happy-dance.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devoutsalsa</author><text>The plan to go 100% EV seems odd to me. There are many people who have cars with no place to charge at home because they lack in premise parking. Not sure how that plays out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Power delivery exists more places than gasoline delivery. The number of places that have gas but no power is very, very low. Enough to ignore.<p>It&#x27;s amazing to me we have put all this work into a fantastic logistics network for gasoline and cough at the thought of chargers in all the same places.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/02/toyota-ceo-akio-toyoda-electric-vehicles-happy-dance.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devoutsalsa</author><text>The plan to go 100% EV seems odd to me. There are many people who have cars with no place to charge at home because they lack in premise parking. Not sure how that plays out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bertil</author><text>The plan shouldn’t be to replace 100% of existing ICE cars with electric cars. The carbon impact of the construction of those would still be too high. The plan should be to invest in public transport and electric bicycles, and use electric cars when either of those options isn’t enough, to complement.<p>All cities built around cars (and that’s almost every American city for instance) will have to change—either by arranging for bicycles and building public transport or through floods, fires, and hurricanes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook is Dying</title><url>http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/facebook-is-dying-social-is-not/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnid2</author><text>As a consultant to the dot-com industry around the turn of the century, I traveled a lot. I took a lot of long cab rides from airports to downtowns. I talked to lots of cabbies. At some point, I knew the end was near. I knew the end was near when cabbies started asking me if it was a good idea to invest in some particular technology stock or another. Why are cabbies investing in Juniper Networks?<p>Recently, I started another side business. One of my cousins who knows almost nothing about technology came to me and said, "Let me tell you something. I know how you can get your business started and I want to tell you about it."<p>At this point, I was already skeptical, but she continued... "There's this thing on the internet called Facebook and millions of people use it and you can make millions of dollars there..."<p>Oh no, I thought.<p>But I knew the end was near for facebook. I've known for quite some time. Years in fact. I can't explain to them why I don't join facebook anymore than I could explain to those cabbies why they shouldn't put their money in to Juniper Networks or pets.com. Decisions like that can't be rationalized to those who see a bright future in their bets.<p>But history tells us a lot and history moves very fast on the internet. Facebook is not sticky. Share prices are not sticky. Users can leave and investors can sell -- and they do. And they will.<p>Facebook will fall far and it could, and I suspect <i>is</i> falling fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjfern</author><text>I don't think this analogy works, given the significant differences between investing and product adoption. Just because a product has become mainstream doesn't indicate that the "end is near." In fact, I would argue the contrary, particular in this case. There are significant network effects in social networking. As the number of Facebook users increases, the value of Facebook to existing users (those already on the network) increases. Now, not only can I use Facebook to communicate with my college and grad-school friends, but I can use Facebook to stay in touch with my extended family, more distant friends, acquaintances, etc. If I want to maintain these relationships, I'm forced to either stick with Facebook, or rebuild my social network elsewhere. If I wanted to rebuild my network elsewhere, I would have to convince most of my social network to defect to the new service, otherwise the new service is of little value. Facebook's recent moves around privacy (and changes in functionality) are clearly unnerving its customers; however, this alone won't cause the collapse of the service.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook is Dying</title><url>http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/facebook-is-dying-social-is-not/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnid2</author><text>As a consultant to the dot-com industry around the turn of the century, I traveled a lot. I took a lot of long cab rides from airports to downtowns. I talked to lots of cabbies. At some point, I knew the end was near. I knew the end was near when cabbies started asking me if it was a good idea to invest in some particular technology stock or another. Why are cabbies investing in Juniper Networks?<p>Recently, I started another side business. One of my cousins who knows almost nothing about technology came to me and said, "Let me tell you something. I know how you can get your business started and I want to tell you about it."<p>At this point, I was already skeptical, but she continued... "There's this thing on the internet called Facebook and millions of people use it and you can make millions of dollars there..."<p>Oh no, I thought.<p>But I knew the end was near for facebook. I've known for quite some time. Years in fact. I can't explain to them why I don't join facebook anymore than I could explain to those cabbies why they shouldn't put their money in to Juniper Networks or pets.com. Decisions like that can't be rationalized to those who see a bright future in their bets.<p>But history tells us a lot and history moves very fast on the internet. Facebook is not sticky. Share prices are not sticky. Users can leave and investors can sell -- and they do. And they will.<p>Facebook will fall far and it could, and I suspect <i>is</i> falling fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>julio_the_squid</author><text>That's funny, I often think of a similar maxim in the book "Groucho and Me" by Groucho Marx. Essentially, he said that in 1928-29, he knew it was time to get out of a certain stock once his taxi driver started talking about it.<p>It's a great book, you can find most of the text here : <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tFsnGr2SQJ0C&#38;printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=tFsnGr2SQJ0C&#38;printsec=f...</a> though I can't find the section about the cab driver. The whole part about the 1929 stock crash is great.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Secret of Billions</title><url>https://medium.com/@jaltucher/the-secret-of-billions-4a42b256eb7#.1b5xc3lr0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fiatmoney</author><text>&quot;Insider Trading: But basically, if you know information that is private (“Company A is buying Company B”) then you are not allowed to make money on that information.&quot;<p>I see this misconception all the time &amp; I&#x27;m really surprised to see it in this context. The sine qua non of &quot;insider trading&quot; is being <i>an insider</i>. If I know of a merger because I overhear the parties talking about it in a restaurant, or I&#x27;ve hired private investigators to see who&#x27;s visiting who&#x27;s offices, there is no issue. There has to be some relationship that obliges me to keep that information private. The only way markets work is by surfacing &quot;private information&quot;.<p>&quot;The essence of stock market law in the US is this: every transaction has to have risk in it. If you eliminate risk by, for instance, paying for information that nobody else knows, then you have committed a crime.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s just completely wrong. If I hire a satellite to track car dealer inventories, buy Ford as a result, and make a ton of money, I&#x27;m doing my damn job. No one has committed a crime. Ditto if I sell that data rather than trading on it directly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Secret of Billions</title><url>https://medium.com/@jaltucher/the-secret-of-billions-4a42b256eb7#.1b5xc3lr0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Insider trading increases the speed with which information is encoded into prices and thus speeds up price discovery, which is the core function of the market.<p>But it does so by creating agency problems. Either directly or indirectly, the information being traded on in these schemes comes from people who work for the shareholders of the company. A particular problem is that insiders can profit both from the wins <i>and losses</i> of their employers; it&#x27;s the magnitude that matters, not the sign.<p>There&#x27;s already a lot of evidence that company insiders, particularly in management, will routinely harm their employers for their own personal benefit (see, for instance, abusive stock buybacks). It doesn&#x27;t seem smart to create new mechanisms for that to happen.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter</title><url>https://www.readthistwice.com/person/paul-graham</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>First, thanks for doing this - it&#x27;s a useful list of books.<p>Second: I don&#x27;t think we should &quot;idolize&quot; Paul Graham. He&#x27;s certainly an intelligent and cultured man, but there&#x27;s no reason to think that his book suggestions are either amazing or current.<p>I think a more diverse and organized review system can be a much better to discover great books, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;</a>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter</title><url>https://www.readthistwice.com/person/paul-graham</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>I&#x27;ll see your PG list, and raise you the latest fogus best things and stuff (of 2019) list.[1]<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.fogus.me&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2019&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.fogus.me&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;the-best-things-and-stuff-of...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.</title><url>http://sivers.org/zipit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maro</author><text>When I did the Ironman last year, I told <i>everyone</i> about it: friends, family and co-workers. I did it on purpose. It was a risk I took, because would I have failed to prepare for the race or finish the race, everyone would have thought I'm a "looser" or "quitter". I used this fear as additional motivational fuel. Also, to my surprise, most people told me I'm an idiot for even attempting an Ironman and that I wouldn't be able to finish it. (Lesson learned: Culturally, here in Eastern Europe 'we' don't have the 'can do' attitude.) That was another huge boost, showing these people how limited their mindset is. It's kind of cheating, because you're using external factors to motivate you, but you need all the "help" to do extraordinary things.<p>Think of Ali when he was preparing for the Foreman fight --- he used an entire nation to motivate him for the Rumble in the Jungle. Whenever he got a chance, he went on TV and said he would destroy Foreman. He absolutely commited himself in front of the entire world and it worked for him. Foreman, on the other hand, was different, he was more introverted, and although he lost that fight, he was still a great boxer.<p>So, on a personal level, I strongly disagree with this article. I'd rather strive to be like Ali than accept some mediocre average.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5o-yxwBJuk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5o-yxwBJuk</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kscaldef</author><text>I had a very similar reaction. I rode a century (100mi) bike ride this spring, and telling people I was doing it was an important part of staying motivated. Also, because the ride was a charity fundraiser, once I had people sponsoring me (i.e. donated money to the cause) I felt like I couldn't back out.<p>I think the difference between this sort of goal and what's described in the article is that with a lot of intellectual pursuits, just telling people that you've been thinking about it and sketching out how you would do it gets you 80% of the respect and satisfaction for 20% (or less) of the total effort. On the other hand, you don't get much cred for just saying you're going to do a marathon or tri or century.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.</title><url>http://sivers.org/zipit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maro</author><text>When I did the Ironman last year, I told <i>everyone</i> about it: friends, family and co-workers. I did it on purpose. It was a risk I took, because would I have failed to prepare for the race or finish the race, everyone would have thought I'm a "looser" or "quitter". I used this fear as additional motivational fuel. Also, to my surprise, most people told me I'm an idiot for even attempting an Ironman and that I wouldn't be able to finish it. (Lesson learned: Culturally, here in Eastern Europe 'we' don't have the 'can do' attitude.) That was another huge boost, showing these people how limited their mindset is. It's kind of cheating, because you're using external factors to motivate you, but you need all the "help" to do extraordinary things.<p>Think of Ali when he was preparing for the Foreman fight --- he used an entire nation to motivate him for the Rumble in the Jungle. Whenever he got a chance, he went on TV and said he would destroy Foreman. He absolutely commited himself in front of the entire world and it worked for him. Foreman, on the other hand, was different, he was more introverted, and although he lost that fight, he was still a great boxer.<p>So, on a personal level, I strongly disagree with this article. I'd rather strive to be like Ali than accept some mediocre average.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5o-yxwBJuk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5o-yxwBJuk</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cturner</author><text>That is amazing. Anyone who does ironman is amazing.<p>&#62; It's kind of cheating<p>If you ran, swam and cycle the distance you made it, no cheapting about it.<p>Amazing - nice work!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chinese government is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orf</author><text>A common talking point from the right during the withdrawal from the Paris accord is that &quot;It&#x27;s just talk, China isn&#x27;t actually going to do anything&quot;. I wonder what the new talking point going to be after this news? Something something developing country, coal power plants?<p>This seems like pretty good news in general though, combined with other smaller bans (like the UK+France ban on Diesel cars). But I&#x27;m not sure how I feel about China itself leading this green push.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chinese government is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amrrs</author><text>First, I don&#x27;t get it, Politicians pushing Electric Vehicle for PR or really to help locals with realistic setup in place? But this being china they can literally get anything running in a very short time. While this is all good, what would happen to car manufacturers, countries import and export in terms of Crude oil. What kind of impact will this bring on China&#x27;s economy?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mistakes You Should Never Make</title><url>http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>That had to be a tough article to write, thanks Seth.<p>The thing that really stuck with me is the &#x27;technically true&#x27; aspects. Growing up in various places around the world I encountered a number of people for whom their motto was &#x27;its only illegal if you get caught!&#x27; The advantages of this motto were very apparent as a teen, you could run a stop light at 11:30pm, there was hardly anyone around, and you could be home by curfew. You could use your parents car if it was back where they expected it to be when they next needed it. Sort of the ultimate Ferris Bueller.<p>And then I had as an influence my Grandfather, who was a US Attorney, and who valued his integrity over his own life. I think of him as sort of the other end of this spectrum.<p>I asked him about his unwillingness to do what others have done (at the time it was drive faster than the speed limit on an empty road) and he said, &quot;Charles, the world is full of pain and anguish, when a man lives by a code he can walk among that pain and anguish and help right its wrongs without being burdened by having contributed to it.&quot; (well that is how I remembered it, there was probably a story about hunting in there too) and I didn&#x27;t really understand it until much later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malyk</author><text>The defining moment for me was one time when I was riding with my stepfather when I was 12 or so. We pulled up behind a truck that had a &quot;Call us if this vehicle is driving badly&quot; or the equivalent sticker and I blurted out how fun it would be to call and say the driver was terrible.<p>He immediately said something along the lines of &quot;So you think it would be fun to get that guy fired?&quot; and the impact was basically immediate. It was a lesson that actions have consequences, something that it seems like so few people seem to actually appreciate.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mistakes You Should Never Make</title><url>http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>That had to be a tough article to write, thanks Seth.<p>The thing that really stuck with me is the &#x27;technically true&#x27; aspects. Growing up in various places around the world I encountered a number of people for whom their motto was &#x27;its only illegal if you get caught!&#x27; The advantages of this motto were very apparent as a teen, you could run a stop light at 11:30pm, there was hardly anyone around, and you could be home by curfew. You could use your parents car if it was back where they expected it to be when they next needed it. Sort of the ultimate Ferris Bueller.<p>And then I had as an influence my Grandfather, who was a US Attorney, and who valued his integrity over his own life. I think of him as sort of the other end of this spectrum.<p>I asked him about his unwillingness to do what others have done (at the time it was drive faster than the speed limit on an empty road) and he said, &quot;Charles, the world is full of pain and anguish, when a man lives by a code he can walk among that pain and anguish and help right its wrongs without being burdened by having contributed to it.&quot; (well that is how I remembered it, there was probably a story about hunting in there too) and I didn&#x27;t really understand it until much later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>Interesting about your grandfather. Mine taught me a similar integrity lesson when I was a kid. Back when there were payphones I would always check them for spare quarters. One time when I was with my grandfather I checked a phone that has broken and dumped ~ $6 in change out. I pulled all the money out super excited about my find. He explained it wasn&#x27;t mine and when we got home he mailed the local phone a check for the exact amount.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Waffle House's Magic Marker System</title><url>https://kottke.org/24/03/waffle-houses-magic-marker-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankus</author><text>As a regular customer of the onboard dining on BC Ferries, I was always a bit mystified about how the cashier (maybe 20 m from the counter where you order) seemed to have some kind of clairvoyance regarding which type burger(s) to charge for, as they all use the same kind of wrapper.<p>It turns out the wrapper (that&#x27;s printed with patches of stripes and crosshatches in different colo(u)rs), can be wrapped in a way that exposes a particular pattern on the outside of the finished package that indicates what&#x27;s inside.<p>I&#x27;m sure this sort of system is used elsewhere but I&#x27;ve never noticed it anywhere else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjsdaiuasgdia</author><text>Lots of fast food places use wrappers like this. Here&#x27;s a picture of a Taco Bell wrapper that can be a regular taco, taco supreme, double decker taco, or &quot;special&quot; depending on the fold: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;target_man_2000&#x2F;16329290081" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;target_man_2000&#x2F;16329290081</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Waffle House's Magic Marker System</title><url>https://kottke.org/24/03/waffle-houses-magic-marker-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankus</author><text>As a regular customer of the onboard dining on BC Ferries, I was always a bit mystified about how the cashier (maybe 20 m from the counter where you order) seemed to have some kind of clairvoyance regarding which type burger(s) to charge for, as they all use the same kind of wrapper.<p>It turns out the wrapper (that&#x27;s printed with patches of stripes and crosshatches in different colo(u)rs), can be wrapped in a way that exposes a particular pattern on the outside of the finished package that indicates what&#x27;s inside.<p>I&#x27;m sure this sort of system is used elsewhere but I&#x27;ve never noticed it anywhere else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiveturkey</author><text>I first saw this at McDonald&#x27;s. Drink lids (everywhere) have those little bubbles that can be pressed to indicate what type of drink as well. Diet, Sprite, etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/iphone_4s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexMuir</author><text>I don't think we (tech people) appreciate just how magical the public is going to find Siri.<p>Most people have never used voice recognition beyond shouting "Call Dave Jobs[1] Mobile" in the car. This is going to be perceived as magic, in the same way as the accelerometer in the Wii or the original finger touch interface. Anyone with a 4S is going to be showing this off to their friends, and I can't wait to try it.<p>There are parallels with people saying 'Touch has been around for years, but people prefer buttons' when the iPhone came out. True - until someone did it right. And now everyone wants touch.<p>And yes, I know it's been around on Android. But Apple make you WANT to use it. No-one's ever been bursting with excitement to show me their Android voice recognition stuff, and nor have I been wetting myself to try it out.<p>On the downside for Apple - improvements to the iPhone for the foreseeable future look to be on the software/web server side. They are vulnerable here. Limiting features to new models is going to piss people off, and fighting patent battles on software is much, much harder.<p>[1] Funny typo - I meant to type Dave Jones. Only noticed this on rereading the post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>You could replace a few words and that comment would apply to last year's "one more thing": video chat. And many people did make exactly those comments. (Actually most of them said "Apple did it first! Wait, Europe had what a decade ago? Okay, I meant Apple did it best! That's why it'll catch on this time.")<p>As far as I can tell it's still the same niche users using it for the same niche tasks (talking to kids on business trips, sexting etc.). Nice to have for those that need it, but they mostly had it already via netbooks with Skype.<p>Likewise, I'm hearing about how this is going to transform computing for people with certain disabilities, when they've apparently just bought the same Dragon software you've been able to buy for years (for transcription, the Siri stuff is apparently semi-distinct).<p>Don't get me wrong, I like that I can already call up songs in my car by voice with my $100, no-contract, chinese-branded, 600Mhz ARM11 Android phone with a 3rd party, free, ad-supported app. (I amuse myself by practicing my french pronunciation with it too) The gushing just gets a bit old, as does the speculation about what magical powers the A5 must have to enable such wizardry.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/iphone_4s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexMuir</author><text>I don't think we (tech people) appreciate just how magical the public is going to find Siri.<p>Most people have never used voice recognition beyond shouting "Call Dave Jobs[1] Mobile" in the car. This is going to be perceived as magic, in the same way as the accelerometer in the Wii or the original finger touch interface. Anyone with a 4S is going to be showing this off to their friends, and I can't wait to try it.<p>There are parallels with people saying 'Touch has been around for years, but people prefer buttons' when the iPhone came out. True - until someone did it right. And now everyone wants touch.<p>And yes, I know it's been around on Android. But Apple make you WANT to use it. No-one's ever been bursting with excitement to show me their Android voice recognition stuff, and nor have I been wetting myself to try it out.<p>On the downside for Apple - improvements to the iPhone for the foreseeable future look to be on the software/web server side. They are vulnerable here. Limiting features to new models is going to piss people off, and fighting patent battles on software is much, much harder.<p>[1] Funny typo - I meant to type Dave Jones. Only noticed this on rereading the post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>"I don't think we (tech people) appreciate just how magical the public is going to find Siri."<p>Perhaps. But I as a tech person find it magical. But I showed the video of Siri in action to my wife and she had an immediate, visceral hatred of the idea of talking to the phone like that "If I want to set a bloody alarm, I'll tap the set alarm button thank you".<p>For context, she's not a luddite, she's tech savvy, though not into tech or its own sake. But I don't think she'll be alone, I think this is a feature that many non-tech people will loathe initially, perhaps for reasons they cannot articulate.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousObject</author><text>This demonstration is respectful. It’s funny. It’s obvious parody.<p>But, the tech can be used to make disrespectful content.<p>Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn.<p>I don’t know what we can do. Ain’t no easy answers. But do we want courts and $Lawyers deciding what is respectful?</text></item><item><author>losvedir</author><text>Someone at work shared this and I thought it was hilarious and awesome. A number of other people found it disrespectful or gross. I&#x27;m sort of fascinated at the values divide.<p>I can see why SAG&#x2F;ASTRA, or voice actors, aren&#x27;t going to like this technology, but it doesn&#x27;t feel all that different to any other industry swept away by tech, whether that&#x27;s farming, horses and carriages, mining, etc. In other words, I can see the negative economic impact it will have on some people, which we may (or may not) want to protect via legislation, but I don&#x27;t see how it escalates to a moral question.<p>&quot;Disrespectful&quot; to me is flipping off David Attenborough, not getting a computer to amusingly narrate mundane things in a decent facsimile of his voice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn8305823</author><text>&gt; Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn.<p>Here you go: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;kwAEVII8FRM?si=oF0Vu5Zgk7fUgvDz&amp;t=491" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;kwAEVII8FRM?si=oF0Vu5Zgk7fUgvDz&amp;t=491</a> (NSFW!)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousObject</author><text>This demonstration is respectful. It’s funny. It’s obvious parody.<p>But, the tech can be used to make disrespectful content.<p>Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn.<p>I don’t know what we can do. Ain’t no easy answers. But do we want courts and $Lawyers deciding what is respectful?</text></item><item><author>losvedir</author><text>Someone at work shared this and I thought it was hilarious and awesome. A number of other people found it disrespectful or gross. I&#x27;m sort of fascinated at the values divide.<p>I can see why SAG&#x2F;ASTRA, or voice actors, aren&#x27;t going to like this technology, but it doesn&#x27;t feel all that different to any other industry swept away by tech, whether that&#x27;s farming, horses and carriages, mining, etc. In other words, I can see the negative economic impact it will have on some people, which we may (or may not) want to protect via legislation, but I don&#x27;t see how it escalates to a moral question.<p>&quot;Disrespectful&quot; to me is flipping off David Attenborough, not getting a computer to amusingly narrate mundane things in a decent facsimile of his voice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lord-Jobo</author><text>Courts and lawyers will do a bad job, and also the best job out of every option available. As it has been for 100 years.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In the Videogame Industry, Hiring People Is a Last Resort</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-a-75-billion-business-is-getting-out-of-the-hiring-game-1491838235</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BeetleB</author><text>&gt;The guy poured his heart and soul into the project and was vested way beyond a paycheck, yet he was literally replaced like a cog the minute a spreadsheet called for it.<p>This is one reason why &quot;follow your passion&quot; is a bad career strategy.<p>It&#x27;s not unique to this industry. Look at all the folks who get PhDs and waste their 30&#x27;s doing low paid postdocs ($50K is higher end).</text></item><item><author>alxmdev</author><text>A while back I was chatting with an engineer who worked on the network code and infrastructure for a popular simulation game. After all the heavy lifting was done, he and others were promptly fired and replaced by contractors. The guy poured his heart and soul into the project and was vested way beyond a paycheck, yet he was literally replaced like a cog the minute a spreadsheet called for it. So much for wanting talented and loyal employees. It must be too easy to forget that all these business decisions affect real human beings, not empty automatons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EthanHeilman</author><text>The problem with the above story is that the engineer lost all connection to the project. It would be like allowing an artist to finish a painting 90% and then firing the artist and giving the painting to someone else. It is heartbreaking to hear. Those are years of someones life.<p>&gt; Look at all the folks who get PhDs and waste their 30&#x27;s doing low paid postdocs ($50K is higher end).<p>Research is different. You are certainly losing out on income, however in my experience you have an immense amount of ownership and autonomy over the project. If you get the boot you can take your project with you. You can publish your code as free software or open source and your papers on open access pre-print services. Academic researchers are often far less alienated from their labor than video game engineers.<p>Consider two orthogonal vectors: one is income earned and the other is your accomplishments. Ideally you want to maximize both, but failing that different people express different priorities over which one to maximize in a career.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In the Videogame Industry, Hiring People Is a Last Resort</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-a-75-billion-business-is-getting-out-of-the-hiring-game-1491838235</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BeetleB</author><text>&gt;The guy poured his heart and soul into the project and was vested way beyond a paycheck, yet he was literally replaced like a cog the minute a spreadsheet called for it.<p>This is one reason why &quot;follow your passion&quot; is a bad career strategy.<p>It&#x27;s not unique to this industry. Look at all the folks who get PhDs and waste their 30&#x27;s doing low paid postdocs ($50K is higher end).</text></item><item><author>alxmdev</author><text>A while back I was chatting with an engineer who worked on the network code and infrastructure for a popular simulation game. After all the heavy lifting was done, he and others were promptly fired and replaced by contractors. The guy poured his heart and soul into the project and was vested way beyond a paycheck, yet he was literally replaced like a cog the minute a spreadsheet called for it. So much for wanting talented and loyal employees. It must be too easy to forget that all these business decisions affect real human beings, not empty automatons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>specialist</author><text>Passion is fine. Whatever works for you.<p>I&#x27;d advise against making someone else rich, at your own expense.<p>Been there, been done like that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Parler is back online after a month of downtime</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XorNot</author><text>And yet mysteriously I&#x27;m fairly certain that person didn&#x27;t just &quot;have&quot; an account there...</text></item><item><author>ttt0</author><text>&gt; In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views.<p>You can even get fired for having an account there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25922486" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25922486</a></text></item><item><author>bigmattystyles</author><text>I&#x27;m slightly left of center so parler is not for me - but I am curious and I like to see what&#x27;s going on outside of my bubble. When I had to commute to work for instance, I&#x27;d listen to AM talk radio on the way in. It did nothing but reinforce my left of center world view. In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views. With parler&#x27;s poor history of user data handling, there is no way I am even creating an account and risk having my (real-life) reputation take a hit. It&#x27;s a sad state of affairs.
Now, one might argue that I&#x27;ve just said I&#x27;m slightly left of center on hackernews, why don&#x27;t I fear that - it wouldn&#x27;t take much for someone who already knows me to tie my person to this account. I guess parler has a reputation as being (extreme?) far right and that&#x27;s the difference. Again, it doesn&#x27;t make much sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway19937</author><text>I haven&#x27;t found any evidence that she posted anything offensive.<p>According to (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reclaimthenet.org&#x2F;literary-agent-fired-gab-parler&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reclaimthenet.org&#x2F;literary-agent-fired-gab-parler&#x2F;</a>) and (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25924637" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25924637</a>) her Gab and Parler posts were mirrored from Twitter.<p>Newsweek&#x27;s story on the firing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newsweek.com&#x2F;literary-agents-firing-over-parler-gab-accounts-stirs-free-speech-debate-1566324" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newsweek.com&#x2F;literary-agents-firing-over-parler-...</a>) doesn&#x27;t mention any offensive posts on Gab.<p>None of the Reddit discussions I have looked at mention any offensive posts either; I would expect Reddit to find such posts if they had existed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Parler is back online after a month of downtime</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XorNot</author><text>And yet mysteriously I&#x27;m fairly certain that person didn&#x27;t just &quot;have&quot; an account there...</text></item><item><author>ttt0</author><text>&gt; In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views.<p>You can even get fired for having an account there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25922486" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25922486</a></text></item><item><author>bigmattystyles</author><text>I&#x27;m slightly left of center so parler is not for me - but I am curious and I like to see what&#x27;s going on outside of my bubble. When I had to commute to work for instance, I&#x27;d listen to AM talk radio on the way in. It did nothing but reinforce my left of center world view. In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views. With parler&#x27;s poor history of user data handling, there is no way I am even creating an account and risk having my (real-life) reputation take a hit. It&#x27;s a sad state of affairs.
Now, one might argue that I&#x27;ve just said I&#x27;m slightly left of center on hackernews, why don&#x27;t I fear that - it wouldn&#x27;t take much for someone who already knows me to tie my person to this account. I guess parler has a reputation as being (extreme?) far right and that&#x27;s the difference. Again, it doesn&#x27;t make much sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ttt0</author><text>I have no idea, but neither did the people who fired this person. It was purely on the grounds that he had an account there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Winning A/B results were not translating into improved user acquisition</title><url>http://blog.sumall.com/journal/optimizely-got-me-fired.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmiller2</author><text>The red flag here for me was that Optimizely encourages you to stop the test as soon as it &quot;reaches significance.&quot; You shouldn&#x27;t do that. What you should do is precalculate a sample size based on the statistical power you need, which involves determining your tolerance for the probability of making an error and on the minimum effect size you need to detect. Then, you run the test to completion and crunch the numbers afterward. This helps prevent the scenario where your page tests 18% better than itself by minimizing probability that your &quot;results&quot; are just a consequence of a streak of positive results in one branch of the test.<p>I was also disturbed that the effect size was taken into account in the sample size selection. You need to know this before you do any type of statistical test. Otherwise, you are likely to get &quot;positive&quot; results that just don&#x27;t mean anything.<p>OTOH, I wasn&#x27;t too concerned that the test was a one-tailed test. Honestly, in a website A&#x2F;B test, all I really am concerned about is whether my new page is better than the old page. A one-tailed test tells you that. It might be interesting to run two-tailed tests just so you can get an idea what not to do, but for this use I think a one-tailed test is fine. It&#x27;s not like you&#x27;re testing drugs, where finding any effect, either positive or negative, can be valuable.<p>I should also note that I only really know enough about statistics to not shoot myself in the foot in a big, obvious way. You should get a real stats person to work on this stuff if your livelihood depends on it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Winning A/B results were not translating into improved user acquisition</title><url>http://blog.sumall.com/journal/optimizely-got-me-fired.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josefresco</author><text>This article comes off as a bit boastful and somewhat of an advertisement for the company...<p>&quot;What threw a wrench into the works was that SumAll isn’t your typical company. We’re a group of incredibly technical people, with many data analysts and statisticians on staff. We have to be, as our company specializes in aggregating and analyzing business data. Flashy, impressive numbers aren’t enough to convince us that the lifts we were seeing were real unless we examined them under the cold, hard light of our key business metrics.&quot;<p>I was expecting some admission of how their business is actually different&#x2F;unusual, not just &quot;incredibly technical&quot;. Secondly, I was expecting to hear that these &quot;technical&quot; people monkeyed with the A&#x2F;B testing (or simply over-thought it) which got them in to trouble .. but no, just a statement about how &quot;flashy&quot; numbers don&#x27;t appeal to them.<p>I think the article would be much better without some of that background.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Joining Apple 40 years ago</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/joining-apple-40-years-ago-805114536a2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Can you imagine moving to the Bay Area in the 80s? To grow up when land was still cheap, before college competition was cutthroat and unaffordable, when relatively simple competence could get you a solid job and VC&#x2F;PE firms weren&#x27;t plundering and incentivizing the latest 30-second attention-span app to reach $1B?<p>It would be me living in Los Altos now, instead of the old rich people who I curse for refusing to die or reform Prop 13 and free up some affordable place to raise a new family.<p>Oh well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>You have a distorted picture. I moved to the bay area in 85, stayed 20 years, then left. If you moved there and were already well established, sure, real estate would have been more affordable then than now. But as a young engineer, things were still pretty expensive.<p>My starting salary as a BSEE working for a minicomputer company was $30,000. Two weeks after arriving they had layoffs. They were nice to the new hires and said we&#x27;ll keep you on for a bit, but you should start looking for new jobs, plus there is a 10% pay cut, so $27K&#x2F;year ($65.3K in 2020 dollars).<p>My shared apartment was off Maude and Mathilda was nothing special. It was 700 sq ft and was $750&#x2F;month, which works out to $1800&#x2F;month in 2020 dollars. Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, and Atherton were all expensive addresses, even then.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Joining Apple 40 years ago</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/joining-apple-40-years-ago-805114536a2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Can you imagine moving to the Bay Area in the 80s? To grow up when land was still cheap, before college competition was cutthroat and unaffordable, when relatively simple competence could get you a solid job and VC&#x2F;PE firms weren&#x27;t plundering and incentivizing the latest 30-second attention-span app to reach $1B?<p>It would be me living in Los Altos now, instead of the old rich people who I curse for refusing to die or reform Prop 13 and free up some affordable place to raise a new family.<p>Oh well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>It would be me living in Los Altos now, instead of the old rich people who I curse for refusing to die or reform Prop 13 and free up some affordable place to raise a new family.</i><p>Yeah, you would then be the &quot;rich [person] who others curse for refusing to die or reform Prop 13 and free up some affordable place to raise a new family&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>KDE Project releases KDE 1</title><url>http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thom</author><text>KDE was the first desktop environment I really stuck with on Linux, previously I&#x27;d just used Blackbox and whatever apps seemed to work. For me, it peaked around KDE 3.2 - it felt like a nicely structured, object-oriented system. You could open up KOffice documents in tabs in Konqueror alongside web pages, thanks to KParts. Every address bar and file dialog could connect to any protocol, thanks to KIO. KMail and KNode were functional and consistent. KDevelop was very nice, for someone coming from a Visual C++ background. And Atlatik stole more hours than I can remember.<p>I have to admit I drifted off to OS X for most stuff, but I still have fond memories of how well thought out, consistent and tasteful everything was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>etatoby</author><text>Same here. First Linux desktop I ever used was running KDE 1. I kept using KDE for years, up to 3.x, because it was just incredibly integrated, fast, and functional. I cannot shake the feeling that it was engineered, or at least directed by a single competent person with a vision. I don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s true, but KDE 1 to 3 had that &quot;single mind&quot; feeling, as opposed to &quot;designed by committee.&quot;<p>After that, I moved to OS X for various reasons, until recently when the latest OS X 10.11 and 10.12 drifted so far away from the original OS X concept as to turn me away.<p>As a newly returned Linux user, I tried Gnome Shell in Ubuntu, but recycled its bytes in a couple of days. Then I tried the latest KDE 5, which was even worse, an ungodly monstrosity. I briefly toyed with the idea of using a supposedly modern fork of KDE 3 (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.trinitydesktop.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.trinitydesktop.org</a>) but then settled for Cinnamon on Mint.<p>Still, KDE 3 was definitely some sort of pinnacle in desktop computing. Maybe the Trinity guys are not entirely crazy!</text></comment>
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<story><title>KDE Project releases KDE 1</title><url>http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thom</author><text>KDE was the first desktop environment I really stuck with on Linux, previously I&#x27;d just used Blackbox and whatever apps seemed to work. For me, it peaked around KDE 3.2 - it felt like a nicely structured, object-oriented system. You could open up KOffice documents in tabs in Konqueror alongside web pages, thanks to KParts. Every address bar and file dialog could connect to any protocol, thanks to KIO. KMail and KNode were functional and consistent. KDevelop was very nice, for someone coming from a Visual C++ background. And Atlatik stole more hours than I can remember.<p>I have to admit I drifted off to OS X for most stuff, but I still have fond memories of how well thought out, consistent and tasteful everything was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaphar</author><text>Same here, KIO was incredibly useful. As a young dev, I was amazed at the ability to open a file on the server as if it was on my hard drive. I still have fond memories of KDE in the early years before flashy looks became a must have feature.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency</title><url>https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/study-finds-over-80-percent-of-covid19-patients-have-vitamin-d-deficiency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JshWright</author><text>You&#x27;re missing the third option:<p>People who are more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID are also more likely to be deficient in vitamin D. There doesn&#x27;t have to be a causal relationship at all.</text></item><item><author>agotterer</author><text>The article wasn’t very detailed and I wasn’t able to figure out if you are more likely to catch COVID because you have a vitamin D deficiency or if catching COVID causes a vitamin D deficiency. Anyone know?</text></item><item><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>About 45% of the US population has Vitamin D deficiency. It&#x27;s higher among some populations (elderly as they are more likely to be home-bound, African American as darker skin inhibits UV absorption, obesity due to adipose tissue storage, etc). Those of us further North are more likely to be deficient as well due to decreased exposure during much of the year and being inside or bundled more in winter months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spion</author><text>The level of evidence isn&#x27;t great yet, but its highly likely that Vitamin D can help modulate the immune system. There is a retrospective study showing a difference between patients that got Vitamin D and those that didn&#x27;t (can&#x27;t find the link, unfortunately), and<p>there is a small Spanish trial of 75 people where 50 got Vitamin D and 25 did not; in the group that did, 1 person needed oxygen whereas in the other group 12 people needed oxygen and one died - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7456194&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7456194&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency</title><url>https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/study-finds-over-80-percent-of-covid19-patients-have-vitamin-d-deficiency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JshWright</author><text>You&#x27;re missing the third option:<p>People who are more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID are also more likely to be deficient in vitamin D. There doesn&#x27;t have to be a causal relationship at all.</text></item><item><author>agotterer</author><text>The article wasn’t very detailed and I wasn’t able to figure out if you are more likely to catch COVID because you have a vitamin D deficiency or if catching COVID causes a vitamin D deficiency. Anyone know?</text></item><item><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>About 45% of the US population has Vitamin D deficiency. It&#x27;s higher among some populations (elderly as they are more likely to be home-bound, African American as darker skin inhibits UV absorption, obesity due to adipose tissue storage, etc). Those of us further North are more likely to be deficient as well due to decreased exposure during much of the year and being inside or bundled more in winter months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carlmr</author><text>Yeah, that&#x27;s very likely actually, since the biggest risk group, the elderly, are also one of the groups with the highest levels of vitamin D deficiency.<p>In this study here 84% of the elderly had some amount of vitamin D deficiency (Figure 3).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6178567&#x2F;#:~:text=Elderly%20men%20are%20more%20likely,%25%20and%2026%25%2C%20respectively" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6178567&#x2F;#:~:tex...</a>.<p>I do take Vitamin D supplements since they&#x27;re cheap and available, just in case there is something to it, but I wouldn&#x27;t bet on it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform</title><url>https://temporal.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffnappi</author><text>Temporal is a company&#x2F;project to watch. The founders know the problem space with as much depth as might be possible. They were responsible for AWS Simple Workflow, then built Cadence Workflow at Uber to solve Uber&#x27;s workflow&#x2F;orchestration issues - and later formed Temporal and forked Cadence to build a company around.<p>I&#x27;m excited for Maxim, Samar and team :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform</title><url>https://temporal.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slotrans</author><text>This is super interesting but I have what feels like a basic&#x2F;dumb question...<p>Let&#x27;s say I have some workflow which executes over a period of days or weeks, and I want to deploy a new version of it. How does that work? What happens to workflow instances that are currently executing?<p>After writing the above I clicked back to the site to see if this was addressed, and found this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.temporal.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;java-versioning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.temporal.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;java-versioning</a> and... surely you&#x27;re not serious?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20111122202554/http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dist1ll</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it pretty irresponsible to commit a felony while you have a daughter and wife to take care of?<p>I find his nonchalant delivery quite jarring. I don&#x27;t understand what&#x27;s going through his head here.</text></item><item><author>yreg</author><text>&gt; [The Secret Service agent] asked my for some picture ID. I have some fake photo ID&#x27;s that a friend made for me years before, when we could make realistic photo ID&#x27;s from our computers. Almost nobody else could do this because printers weren&#x27;t good enough. But I had an expensive early generation dye sublimation printer and made some fake ID&#x27;s for fun. I had one favorite fake ID that I&#x27;d used for almost every airplane flight, domestic and international, that I&#x27;d taken for many years. It says &quot;Laser Safety Officer&quot; and has a photo of me with an eyepatch. It also says &quot;Department of Defiance&quot; in an arc, in a font that looks like &quot;Department of Defense&quot; to the casual glance.<p>&gt; As I opened my wallet, I considered whether I should risk using this fake ID on the Secret Service. It probably amounted to a real crime. I had my driver&#x27;s license as well. But you only live once and only a few of us even get a chance like this once in our lives. So I handed him the fake ID. He noted and returned it. The Secret Service took an ID that said &quot;Laser Safety Officer&quot; with a photo of myself wearing an eyepatch.<p>Woz plays life like an RPG.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dereg</author><text>I can’t help but shake my head at most of these comments. There was a time when we celebrated anecdotes like this here on Hacker News. I’ve seen this story circulated many times but this is the first time I’ve seen this sort of reaction. These aren’t rose colored glasses, anyone can look up threads of old in which we cheered such defiance toward authority.<p>People are frothing to frame this story with 2023 glasses and, to me, this reaction makes it all the more clear how today’s culture is so corrosive. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it’s not about privilege of rich white men. Maybe it’s about the rigid conformism that the tech industry has imbued in its people in this past decade. The screams of people glued to Anki preparing for leetcode interviews, not understanding why someone would dare challenge the status quo. Regardless, it’s a sign of the times.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20111122202554/http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dist1ll</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it pretty irresponsible to commit a felony while you have a daughter and wife to take care of?<p>I find his nonchalant delivery quite jarring. I don&#x27;t understand what&#x27;s going through his head here.</text></item><item><author>yreg</author><text>&gt; [The Secret Service agent] asked my for some picture ID. I have some fake photo ID&#x27;s that a friend made for me years before, when we could make realistic photo ID&#x27;s from our computers. Almost nobody else could do this because printers weren&#x27;t good enough. But I had an expensive early generation dye sublimation printer and made some fake ID&#x27;s for fun. I had one favorite fake ID that I&#x27;d used for almost every airplane flight, domestic and international, that I&#x27;d taken for many years. It says &quot;Laser Safety Officer&quot; and has a photo of me with an eyepatch. It also says &quot;Department of Defiance&quot; in an arc, in a font that looks like &quot;Department of Defense&quot; to the casual glance.<p>&gt; As I opened my wallet, I considered whether I should risk using this fake ID on the Secret Service. It probably amounted to a real crime. I had my driver&#x27;s license as well. But you only live once and only a few of us even get a chance like this once in our lives. So I handed him the fake ID. He noted and returned it. The Secret Service took an ID that said &quot;Laser Safety Officer&quot; with a photo of myself wearing an eyepatch.<p>Woz plays life like an RPG.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>Yeah, my reaction was -- after he read you your miranda rights, why were you even talking to him without a lawyer?<p>But after thinking about it more -- and I&#x27;m in my mid-40s -- I think what it also reminds us of is that law enforcement actually used to be a lot more reasonable -- to be clear, this may probably only apply to white people who appear as if they are not poor. But I think maybe the police (whether local or national security) have actually maybe gotten a lot more intense in the past 30 years. Possibly actually more intense for everyone.<p>The risks of &quot;messing with&quot; security personel, at least for middle-class-appearing white guys, was very definitely a lot less back then.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up</title><url>http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enriquto</author><text>&gt; And they can&#x27;t reduce their salary now because it&#x27;d be unfair on their families.<p>This kind of bullshit infuriates me to no end.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>There&#x27;s a quote from the CEO saying that they looked at the market and felt like they were being underpaid.<p>And they can&#x27;t reduce their salary now because it&#x27;d be unfair on their families.<p>Firefox has a problem. It gets most of its revenue from Google.
They need a different revenue stream but their ideas haven&#x27;t worked.<p>Their executives are clearly failures.
But with such high pay, they&#x27;re cashing out. Buying themselves mansions etc.<p>Isn&#x27;t that pretty much admitting that they&#x27;re on a sinking ship?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mihaaly</author><text>I can cite much much more people there if they want to discuss fairness, they better forget and act this line of argument never existed!<p>I believe they should justify the value they create in this high paid positions compared to all other people making and disseminating the product. There is no justification for this level.<p>There are lots and lots of families there living on a less fair level of salary but produce much more value (and no damages).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up</title><url>http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enriquto</author><text>&gt; And they can&#x27;t reduce their salary now because it&#x27;d be unfair on their families.<p>This kind of bullshit infuriates me to no end.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>There&#x27;s a quote from the CEO saying that they looked at the market and felt like they were being underpaid.<p>And they can&#x27;t reduce their salary now because it&#x27;d be unfair on their families.<p>Firefox has a problem. It gets most of its revenue from Google.
They need a different revenue stream but their ideas haven&#x27;t worked.<p>Their executives are clearly failures.
But with such high pay, they&#x27;re cashing out. Buying themselves mansions etc.<p>Isn&#x27;t that pretty much admitting that they&#x27;re on a sinking ship?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martin_a</author><text>How can you even spend around 2.5 million A YEAR (okay, before taxes, whatever) if you&#x27;re not BURNING the cash?<p>I don&#x27;t get it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NixOS 14.12 released</title><url>http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2014-December/015411.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arianvanp</author><text>If you&#x27;re not willing to install a whole new OS, nix , the package manager of nixos, is standalone and can be run in a single user without interferring with system packages. It&#x27;s a great way to familiarize yourself with the system. [0]<p>I use Nix together with ArchLinux now to set up consistent development environments and it has been great. It&#x27;s also blazingly fast because of Hydra[1], their continious build system.<p>[0] <a href="http://nixos.org/nix" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;nix</a>
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<story><title>Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2020/02/25/brave-browser-and-the-wayback-machine-working-together-to-help-make-the-web-more-useful-and-reliable/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FillardMillmore</author><text>Opinions are obviously split here among HNers about the merits of Brave and what it&#x27;s actually trying to achieve.<p>I can only speak for myself but I find that Brave as a daily driver is a wonderful browser. Since it&#x27;s built on Chromium, it has all the common extensions I use with Chrome (Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, etc.). It has built-in Tor and a rich set of default privacy features. The ads it provides are opt-in and the way that it allows the user to choose which website&#x2F;content creators to reward allows a level of freedom to users that other browsers typically don&#x27;t.<p>I don&#x27;t know about the ethics behind everything Brave is doing - but this built in functionality of 404 redirects with the help of the IA&#x2F;Wayback Machine is, to me, an interesting and welcome feature. I did not know, before reading this thread, that other browsers had plugins&#x2F;extensions available for this. The fact that Brave is simply building it in natively seems to be a bold move. If other browsers adopt similar functionality natively, we&#x27;ll know that it was a winning move. When all is said and done, despite any missteps Brave may be making, it is trying a different approach, and I think that in the end, whether or not Brave succeeds, that&#x27;s healthy for a competitive browser ecosystem.<p>Edit: One thing I&#x27;d really like to see for Brave&#x27;s mobile browser in the future is the ability to use Chrome extensions - it seems completely strange to me that this hasn&#x27;t been implemented yet (if I&#x27;m slow on the uptake and this capability has been added, please correct me)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Can QML become the next standard for web UI?</title><url>https://blog.kutny.net/2017/07/29/can-qml-become-the-next-standard-for-web-ui/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AgentME</author><text>&gt;With every browser implementing its own subset, in its own way, with its own quirks, the requirement to create documents that look and behave consistently across browsers and platforms quickly becomes untenable.<p>Adding a new thing for all browsers to implement and slowly become consistent on just as CSS is maturing into something great with flexbox and grid support in more browsers doesn&#x27;t seem to be addressing the quoted problem. ... I assume the author&#x27;s idea wasn&#x27;t just that browsers should all adopt Qt&#x27;s implementation and stick to that one implementation.<p>If people want QML in webpages, surely that could be implemented on top of JS+HTML+CSS like a web framework. If it as a web framework is shown to work very well for developers and fit the web ecosystem but has some practical issues like performance, then that would be good fuel to motivate browser developers and standards groups to standardize webpages based on QML. If it as a web framework works well and doesn&#x27;t have intractable performance issues, then ... it could stay as a web framework and become popular if it really does work well for developers. Why saddle browsers with the responsibility to implement more than they need to if HTML+CSS+JS provides a good base for other paradigms to be implemented on top of?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Can QML become the next standard for web UI?</title><url>https://blog.kutny.net/2017/07/29/can-qml-become-the-next-standard-for-web-ui/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ahmedfromtunis</author><text>Am I the only one who expected at least some code examples?<p>Also:<p>&gt; Building for HTML5 is free. There are some non-essential paid tools that can help.
Qt requires a commercial license for most commercial use on mobile.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.developereconomics.com&#x2F;cross-platform-apps-qt-vs-html5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.developereconomics.com&#x2F;cross-platform-apps-qt-vs...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox nightlies for Linux are now using Gtk+3</title><url>http://glandium.org/blog/?p=3573</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evmar</author><text>Chrome used GTK2 as that was current at the time, and when we looked into GTK3 we concluded that it&#x27;d be a pain to target both simultaneously (the point of the new major version number is that the API changed) and that as long as we were supporting old distros (e.g. &quot;Long Term Support&quot; versions) we should keep GTK2.<p>These days, those older versions are dying away, but Chrome doesn&#x27;t use much GTK anyway. I wonder how hard it would be to target both. But that doesn&#x27;t solve the binary compat problem anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicalsilva</author><text>Firefox uses GTK to draw native-looking widgets. Basically, Gecko passes an X11 pixmap to GTK2 the latter draws the buttons&#x2F;scroll bars&#x2F;etc. into it with xrender. This means that Firefox either has to do all of the rendering with xrender and pixmaps, or do an expensive read-back of the native widgets from the pixmap and draw other web content into whatever kind of surface it wants. The thing is, we really really want to move away from xrender. GTK3 has a slightly different API for this and can draw native widgets into any kind of surface that can be wrapped in a cairo context. So for Firefox, the most important part of moving to GTK3 is the removal of this dependency to X11 and xrender.
Chrome (as far as I know) doesn&#x27;t do native-looking widgets (and to be honest I would be happier if Firefox didn&#x27;t either), so moving to GTK3 is not that big of a deal for Chrome because it doesn&#x27;t use the GTK nearly as much as Fireox does.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox nightlies for Linux are now using Gtk+3</title><url>http://glandium.org/blog/?p=3573</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evmar</author><text>Chrome used GTK2 as that was current at the time, and when we looked into GTK3 we concluded that it&#x27;d be a pain to target both simultaneously (the point of the new major version number is that the API changed) and that as long as we were supporting old distros (e.g. &quot;Long Term Support&quot; versions) we should keep GTK2.<p>These days, those older versions are dying away, but Chrome doesn&#x27;t use much GTK anyway. I wonder how hard it would be to target both. But that doesn&#x27;t solve the binary compat problem anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azakai</author><text>I wonder if the difference in decision here has to do with Firefox having its own Long Term Support version. So people needing GTK2 on say Ubuntu LTS can use Firefox LTS for that, and latest Firefox is more free to focus on GTK3.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-28/facebook-whatsapp-will-have-to-share-messages-with-u-k-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brenden2</author><text>Relying on laws leaves a lot of wiggle room for bad actors, slippery slopes, and political opinions changing over time. Laws are based on trust in institutions (do you _really_ trust large governments?).<p>Laws are probabilistic, whereas math &amp; source code is deterministic. You can verify that computer code does what it says it does. Laws depend on enforcement and complicated judicial systems (based on humans) to interpret and apply the laws, which means they can effectively change over time, and the goalposts are never stationary.</text></item><item><author>dessant</author><text>&gt; If I can compile the code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren&#x27;t any backdoors<p>Where does that leave the rest of society? Having open source software and hardware is not enough, we also need laws that prohibit mass surveillance and support our efforts to uphold human rights.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>If I can compile audited code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren&#x27;t any backdoors (excluding perhaps hardware level backdoors--but that&#x27;s why we do the encryption in software).<p>Implementing hardware backdoors that are opaque to end users is theoretically possible, but more difficult in practice. You could, for example, build a screen&#x2F;monitor that just captures everything on the screen and forwards it to some other entity, but in practice it&#x27;s not so easy because of bandwidth limitations, etc. I suppose it would be much easier to create a physical keyboard that phones home over a mobile network, although it would only give you half the conversation.<p>*edit: added the word &quot;audited&quot;.</text></item><item><author>deogeo</author><text>&gt; If the source code isn&#x27;t available for audit by 3rd parties (or yourself), and you can&#x27;t build it from source, then it was never really &quot;secure&quot; anyway. What lawmakers do or don&#x27;t say is just noise.<p>Careful - you&#x27;re right that WhatsApp is untrustworthy, but laws that force them to add backdoors could well be applied to open-source code as well. Or make possession of non-backdoored software, open or not, illegal. Or compel OS&#x2F;hardware manufacturers on which the code runs. The law is a dangerous thing to ignore.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>If the source code isn&#x27;t available for audit by 3rd parties (or yourself), and you can&#x27;t build it from source, then it was never really &quot;secure&quot; anyway. What lawmakers do or don&#x27;t say is just noise.<p>Platforms that rely on trust (in this case, trusting that FB isn&#x27;t doing bad things) provide very weak guarantees about privacy&#x2F;security. They could easily include a keylogger in WhatsApp and bypass the e2e encryption, for example, and us regular folk have no way of knowing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dessant</author><text>I agree that laws are not enough, independent verification must be possible. But your right to use secure software, and to audit it without risking to spend your life in prison or being killed, is ensured by laws.<p>This is why moving the goalposts and further normalizing surveillance is extremely dangerous. The rights that you enjoy today are not universal, and can obviously be eradicated in less than a generation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-28/facebook-whatsapp-will-have-to-share-messages-with-u-k-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brenden2</author><text>Relying on laws leaves a lot of wiggle room for bad actors, slippery slopes, and political opinions changing over time. Laws are based on trust in institutions (do you _really_ trust large governments?).<p>Laws are probabilistic, whereas math &amp; source code is deterministic. You can verify that computer code does what it says it does. Laws depend on enforcement and complicated judicial systems (based on humans) to interpret and apply the laws, which means they can effectively change over time, and the goalposts are never stationary.</text></item><item><author>dessant</author><text>&gt; If I can compile the code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren&#x27;t any backdoors<p>Where does that leave the rest of society? Having open source software and hardware is not enough, we also need laws that prohibit mass surveillance and support our efforts to uphold human rights.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>If I can compile audited code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren&#x27;t any backdoors (excluding perhaps hardware level backdoors--but that&#x27;s why we do the encryption in software).<p>Implementing hardware backdoors that are opaque to end users is theoretically possible, but more difficult in practice. You could, for example, build a screen&#x2F;monitor that just captures everything on the screen and forwards it to some other entity, but in practice it&#x27;s not so easy because of bandwidth limitations, etc. I suppose it would be much easier to create a physical keyboard that phones home over a mobile network, although it would only give you half the conversation.<p>*edit: added the word &quot;audited&quot;.</text></item><item><author>deogeo</author><text>&gt; If the source code isn&#x27;t available for audit by 3rd parties (or yourself), and you can&#x27;t build it from source, then it was never really &quot;secure&quot; anyway. What lawmakers do or don&#x27;t say is just noise.<p>Careful - you&#x27;re right that WhatsApp is untrustworthy, but laws that force them to add backdoors could well be applied to open-source code as well. Or make possession of non-backdoored software, open or not, illegal. Or compel OS&#x2F;hardware manufacturers on which the code runs. The law is a dangerous thing to ignore.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>If the source code isn&#x27;t available for audit by 3rd parties (or yourself), and you can&#x27;t build it from source, then it was never really &quot;secure&quot; anyway. What lawmakers do or don&#x27;t say is just noise.<p>Platforms that rely on trust (in this case, trusting that FB isn&#x27;t doing bad things) provide very weak guarantees about privacy&#x2F;security. They could easily include a keylogger in WhatsApp and bypass the e2e encryption, for example, and us regular folk have no way of knowing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psv1</author><text>It isn&#x27;t <i>either-or</i>. You can have reasonable laws that protect people&#x27;s rights and privacy, and compile and check the source if you wish to do so.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/mozilla-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antimagic</author><text>Precisely. There is no rational[1] grounds to oppose gay marriage, so we are left with the only remaining possibility - irrational aversion to homosexuality.<p>[1] where by &quot;rational&quot; I mean justifiable with facts and statistics to back it up.</text></item><item><author>WoodenChair</author><text>So now anyone who opposes gay marriage is homophobic? You do know that homophobia is defined as &quot;an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people.&quot; (New Oxford American Dictionary)<p>Edit: Clearly I touched a nerve - before the hate mail comes in, I should clarify that I don&#x27;t oppose gay marriage. I support the elimination of government sponsored marriage all together.</text></item><item><author>anon1385</author><text>I guess 2 years is long enough for most people to have forgotten the brief storm about his homophobic political activities. I wonder if this appointment would have been made 18 months ago when that was still fresh in people&#x27;s minds. I can&#x27;t help thinking that it doesn&#x27;t really fit with the image Mozilla tries to present of themselves.<p><a href="http://tommorris.org/posts/2550" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tommorris.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2550</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shasta</author><text>It&#x27;s marriage. It&#x27;s a tradition, not something which you can derive rationally. Let&#x27;s hear your rational explanation of the role of marriage. Be sure to explain why it follows logically that it should only apply to groups of two or more.<p>If you&#x27;re honest with yourself, you recognize all of this language about rationality as rhetoric in a culture war in which you&#x27;re attempting to shift cultural norms.<p>I&#x27;m for gay marriage.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/mozilla-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antimagic</author><text>Precisely. There is no rational[1] grounds to oppose gay marriage, so we are left with the only remaining possibility - irrational aversion to homosexuality.<p>[1] where by &quot;rational&quot; I mean justifiable with facts and statistics to back it up.</text></item><item><author>WoodenChair</author><text>So now anyone who opposes gay marriage is homophobic? You do know that homophobia is defined as &quot;an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people.&quot; (New Oxford American Dictionary)<p>Edit: Clearly I touched a nerve - before the hate mail comes in, I should clarify that I don&#x27;t oppose gay marriage. I support the elimination of government sponsored marriage all together.</text></item><item><author>anon1385</author><text>I guess 2 years is long enough for most people to have forgotten the brief storm about his homophobic political activities. I wonder if this appointment would have been made 18 months ago when that was still fresh in people&#x27;s minds. I can&#x27;t help thinking that it doesn&#x27;t really fit with the image Mozilla tries to present of themselves.<p><a href="http://tommorris.org/posts/2550" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tommorris.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2550</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sehr</author><text><a href="https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brendaneich.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;community-and-diversity&#x2F;</a><p><i>... the donation does not in itself constitute evidence of animosity. Those asserting this are not providing a reasoned argument, rather they are labeling dissenters to cast them out of polite society. To such assertions, I can only respond: “no”.</i><p>There are other reasons for opposing things, religious reasons for example. Not saying they&#x27;re well thought out or even remotely valid, but thinking in such a black and white manner isn&#x27;t beneficial to decent conversation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'</title><url>http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/07/linux-played-crucial-role-in-discovery.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cushman</author><text>There are interesting facets to it, I think. What would they be using if Linux didn't exist? How much longer would it have taken if they'd had to use BSD? Or Windows?<p>How many of those millions of man-hours contributed to this discovery? How many other major breakthroughs have they enabled? How much amazing potential is locked up in proprietary software, utterly useless?<p>A major discovery like this is a perfect chance to blow the horn for publicly-funded research, and open source software is a huge part of that.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Do we still need to point things like this out? Who here thought Linux <i>didn't</i> play a major role at CERN? Linux is the norm in large data center applications. What percentage of US commodities and securities transactions are touched by Linux? My guess is "most".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mechanical_fish</author><text><i>How much longer would it have taken if they'd had to use BSD?</i><p>No longer, because software was not the bottleneck.<p>The hard part about finding a Higgs boson is designing the gigantic particle accelerator and the detectors, then getting the funding to build them, then building them, then running them for <i>N</i> hours and analyzing the data. These things took <i>decades</i>. They started in the 1980s, years before Linux.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'</title><url>http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/07/linux-played-crucial-role-in-discovery.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cushman</author><text>There are interesting facets to it, I think. What would they be using if Linux didn't exist? How much longer would it have taken if they'd had to use BSD? Or Windows?<p>How many of those millions of man-hours contributed to this discovery? How many other major breakthroughs have they enabled? How much amazing potential is locked up in proprietary software, utterly useless?<p>A major discovery like this is a perfect chance to blow the horn for publicly-funded research, and open source software is a huge part of that.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Do we still need to point things like this out? Who here thought Linux <i>didn't</i> play a major role at CERN? Linux is the norm in large data center applications. What percentage of US commodities and securities transactions are touched by Linux? My guess is "most".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boop</author><text>&#62; How much longer would it have taken if they'd had to use BSD?<p>Macs (BSD-based) are popular at CERN as well:<p>Smashing Research at CERN
<a href="http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/briancox/index2.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/briancox/index2.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgkzw/the-story-of-the-dutch-couple-ida-sabelis-pek-van-andel-sex-intercourse-mri-scanner-for-science</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;“In many ways I think we’re going backwards,” Ida says. “I grew up in a time when sex wasn’t a big deal, and we’d always go bathing naked and people seemed more open minded. Now, people just seem to be getting more and more conservative.”<p>An observation I&#x27;ve made too. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s an accident that this was done in the Netherlands given that in central and Northern Europe in particular there was always a healthy and open attitude towards nudity and sexuality and a &quot;<i>Freikörperkultur</i>&quot;<p>I noticed this with the decline of mixed saunas and changing rooms in public baths and I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s an Americanisation of culture but people seem to become increasingly neurotic about sexuality and people&#x27;s bodies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>History of the Nautilus loudspeaker</title><url>https://www.bowerswilkins.com/blog/products/history-of-nautilus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>electrograv</author><text>I am surprised there aren’t more mentions here of AudioScienceReview.com<p>For anyone interested in buying speakers (or other audio products), it’s a fantastic resource and an <i>essential</i> one to avoid getting ripped off with severely overpriced and underperforming products; sadly, the high fidelity speaker space is crowded with such products (many of which are borderline scams), using a ton of pseudoscientific marketing babble to push products ranging from “snake-oil” bunk, to mediocre garbage that still costs the price of an exotic car for no good reason.<p>If you’re curious to cut through the garbage, and learn how to achieve the best sound quality for the best price with a no-nonsense approach, AudioScienceReview is the place to go. They have the highest quality objective measurements on many speakers (that goes <i>far beyond</i> frequency response, before you brush it off thinking that’s what I’m talking about) and tutorials on the well-established science of what makes a speaker sound better than others, and how we design and evaluate this.<p>It turns out you can get sound quality ~90% as good as it gets for just a few hundred dollars, and ~95% as good as it gets for a few thousand dollars (obviously just rough numbers here). Beware of speakers sold for exorbitant prices and exotic visual designs that tout how they are built, rather than what measured performance they achieve objectively.<p>B&amp;W speakers are not bad, and I enjoyed mine very much when I had them. But there exist <i>far better speakers at a fraction of the cost,</i> and this includes their high end (like the Nautilus).</text></comment>
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<story><title>History of the Nautilus loudspeaker</title><url>https://www.bowerswilkins.com/blog/products/history-of-nautilus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>em500</author><text>Never heard these myself, but I remember that Nautilus speakers were used in an MP3 listening test by the German c&#x27;t magazine in 2000[1]. Conclusion:<p>&gt; In plain language, this means that our musically trained test listeners could reliably distinguish the poorer quality MP3s at 128kbps quite accurately from either of the other higher-quality samples. But when deciding between 256 kbps encoded MP3s and the original CD, no difference could be determined, on average, for all the pieces. The testers took the 256 kbps samples for the CD just as often as they
took the original CD samples themselves.<p>This article made me (1) never worry about &quot;lossy audio encoding&quot; again and (2) ignore everyone starting about &quot;better equipment&quot; wrt compressed audio.<p>Granted, they used the cheaper Nautilus 803 rather than the 801 in the test. But they also had Sennheiser Orpheus available in the listening test.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hydrogenaud.io&#x2F;index.php?topic=27324.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hydrogenaud.io&#x2F;index.php?topic=27324.0</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-vpn-completes-independent-security-audit-by-cure53/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xanaxagoras</author><text>Aren&#x27;t they just reselling Mullvad? So is everything said here true for Mullvad generally?<p>Edit: I use an always on VPN on my phone but I can only have one, and that&#x27;s taken by my local wireguard so I can access the not-cloud services that I run remotely.<p>I&#x27;ve figured out how to connect Mullvad at the same time on that server, such that all traffic on the server goes through Mullvad. I can&#x27;t figure out how to chain them. I want to make a request to my local network wireguard (wg0) and have any traffic that isn&#x27;t local be routed through to the mullvad connection (wg1) so I can both access my local network and use the internet over the VPN. Has anyone don this or could anyone point me in the right direction? This is on a linux machine...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commoner</author><text>&gt; So is everything said here true for Mullvad generally?<p>No, since the client apps are different. However, Mullvad has completed several audits, including 2 of their client app:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mullvad.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tag&#x2F;audits&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mullvad.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tag&#x2F;audits&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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ip route add 192.168.1.1&#x2F;24 dev wg0 via 192.168.1.1 (which is the router, usually).<p>This really helped me <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unix.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;666072&#x2F;how-to-set-up-nat-of-vpn-sourced-ip-packets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unix.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;666072&#x2F;how-to-set-u...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Peloton – A call for action [pdf]</title><url>https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>As someone who&#x27;s been a CTO at times in the past, I wish I&#x27;d worked with a CEO like that. There are few things worse than having a leadership team who don&#x27;t trust you to deliver the tech that drives the company&#x27;s ideas.</text></item><item><author>rjtavares</author><text>&gt; Q: Is there anything about being CEO that you don’t like, that you like to delegate?<p>&gt; A: Finance. Our CFO does 99% of finance. I engage because I want to know how we’re doing. But to say I don’t add value to her operation is an understatement. You can also say the same with technology. Our CTO doesn’t get any help from me. I’ll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO, which as a CEO of a technology company, that’s kind of rare.<p>Wow...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjtavares</author><text>Of course overly managing the CTO is also bad, but would you really like to &quot;go sometimes months&quot; without talking to the CEO? Especially during a pandemic in which your product becomes the hot new thing?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Peloton – A call for action [pdf]</title><url>https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>As someone who&#x27;s been a CTO at times in the past, I wish I&#x27;d worked with a CEO like that. There are few things worse than having a leadership team who don&#x27;t trust you to deliver the tech that drives the company&#x27;s ideas.</text></item><item><author>rjtavares</author><text>&gt; Q: Is there anything about being CEO that you don’t like, that you like to delegate?<p>&gt; A: Finance. Our CFO does 99% of finance. I engage because I want to know how we’re doing. But to say I don’t add value to her operation is an understatement. You can also say the same with technology. Our CTO doesn’t get any help from me. I’ll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO, which as a CEO of a technology company, that’s kind of rare.<p>Wow...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vishnugupta</author><text>&gt;&gt; I’ll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO,<p>&gt; ...leadership team who don&#x27;t trust you ....<p>When did <i>talking</i> come to mean having trust issues!!?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix</title><url>https://giraffesecurity.dev/posts/google-remote-code-execution/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>While the Java ecosystem tends to get a lot of criticism, this is one thing they got right: fetching a package name from a public repository involves prefixing the name with the reverse-DNS name of the uploader (the &quot;group ID&quot; in Java&#x2F;maven parlance). Uploaders can only submit packages after they&#x27;ve proven they have control over the domain.<p>It&#x27;s really unfortunate that even newer package management ecosystems like Rust&#x27;s haven&#x27;t learned that lesson. Yes, it increases initial setup friction, but dependency confusion and name squatting issues more or less just go away when you do that. Sure, you might run into issues where people register domains for common misspellings of popular domain names, but that&#x27;s already a problem with website resolution, and there are ways to mitigate that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>The problem described in the post isn&#x27;t the fault of package naming schemes, it&#x27;s due to `pip install --extra-index-url` apparently ignoring the user-specified registry if the package exists on PyPI, which, if true, is baffling, because it throws out the concept of private registries altogether in favor of treating PyPI as some sort of universal namespace.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix</title><url>https://giraffesecurity.dev/posts/google-remote-code-execution/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>While the Java ecosystem tends to get a lot of criticism, this is one thing they got right: fetching a package name from a public repository involves prefixing the name with the reverse-DNS name of the uploader (the &quot;group ID&quot; in Java&#x2F;maven parlance). Uploaders can only submit packages after they&#x27;ve proven they have control over the domain.<p>It&#x27;s really unfortunate that even newer package management ecosystems like Rust&#x27;s haven&#x27;t learned that lesson. Yes, it increases initial setup friction, but dependency confusion and name squatting issues more or less just go away when you do that. Sure, you might run into issues where people register domains for common misspellings of popular domain names, but that&#x27;s already a problem with website resolution, and there are ways to mitigate that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bqmjjx0kac</author><text>What happens in the Java ecosystem when someone loses ownership of their domain name?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?</title><text>I know what Docker is and how it works. What are some problems that get solved better when using Docker?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>seppalala</author><text>Here&#x27;s the problems we&#x27;re solving with Docker:<p>* Sanity in our environments. We know exactly what goes into each and every environment, which are specialized based on the one-app-per-container principle. No more asking &quot;why does software X build&#x2F;execute on machine A and not machines B-C?&quot;<p>* Declarative deployments. Using Docker, Core OS, and fleet[1], this is the closest solution I&#x27;ve found to the dream of specifying what I want running across a cluster of machines, rather than procedurally specifying the steps to deploy something (e.g. Chef, Ansible, and the lot). There&#x27;s been other attempts for declarative deployments (Pallet comes to mind), but I think Docker and Fleet provide even better composability. This is my favorite gain.<p>* Managing Cabal dependency hell. Most of our application development is in Haskell, and we&#x27;ve found we prefer specifying a Docker image than working with Cabal sandboxes. This is equally a gain on other programming platforms. You can replace virtualenv for Python and rvm for Ruby with Docker containers.<p>* Bridging a gap with less-technical coworkers. We work with some statisticians. Smart folks, but getting them to install and configure ODBC &amp; FreeTDS properly was a nightmare. Training them in an hour on Docker and boot2docker has saved so much frustration. Not only are they able to run software that the devs provide, but they can contribute and be (mostly) guaranteed that it&#x27;ll work on our side, too.<p>I was skeptical about Docker for a long time, but after working with it for the greater part of the year, I&#x27;ve been greatly satisfied. It&#x27;s not a solution to everything—I&#x27;m careful to avoid hammer syndrome—but I think it&#x27;s a huge step forwards for development and operations.<p>[1]: <a href="https://coreos.com/using-coreos/clustering/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coreos.com&#x2F;using-coreos&#x2F;clustering&#x2F;</a><p>Addendum: Yes, some of these gains can be equally solved with VMs, but I can run through &#x2F;dozens&#x2F; of iterations of building Docker images by the time you&#x27;ve spun up one VM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nailer</author><text>In typical virtualisation + config management you specify a base image and bunch of config files and commands.<p>In a Dockerfile you specify a base image and commands, may often invoke a config management tool.<p>How is using Docker more declarative?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?</title><text>I know what Docker is and how it works. What are some problems that get solved better when using Docker?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>seppalala</author><text>Here&#x27;s the problems we&#x27;re solving with Docker:<p>* Sanity in our environments. We know exactly what goes into each and every environment, which are specialized based on the one-app-per-container principle. No more asking &quot;why does software X build&#x2F;execute on machine A and not machines B-C?&quot;<p>* Declarative deployments. Using Docker, Core OS, and fleet[1], this is the closest solution I&#x27;ve found to the dream of specifying what I want running across a cluster of machines, rather than procedurally specifying the steps to deploy something (e.g. Chef, Ansible, and the lot). There&#x27;s been other attempts for declarative deployments (Pallet comes to mind), but I think Docker and Fleet provide even better composability. This is my favorite gain.<p>* Managing Cabal dependency hell. Most of our application development is in Haskell, and we&#x27;ve found we prefer specifying a Docker image than working with Cabal sandboxes. This is equally a gain on other programming platforms. You can replace virtualenv for Python and rvm for Ruby with Docker containers.<p>* Bridging a gap with less-technical coworkers. We work with some statisticians. Smart folks, but getting them to install and configure ODBC &amp; FreeTDS properly was a nightmare. Training them in an hour on Docker and boot2docker has saved so much frustration. Not only are they able to run software that the devs provide, but they can contribute and be (mostly) guaranteed that it&#x27;ll work on our side, too.<p>I was skeptical about Docker for a long time, but after working with it for the greater part of the year, I&#x27;ve been greatly satisfied. It&#x27;s not a solution to everything—I&#x27;m careful to avoid hammer syndrome—but I think it&#x27;s a huge step forwards for development and operations.<p>[1]: <a href="https://coreos.com/using-coreos/clustering/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coreos.com&#x2F;using-coreos&#x2F;clustering&#x2F;</a><p>Addendum: Yes, some of these gains can be equally solved with VMs, but I can run through &#x2F;dozens&#x2F; of iterations of building Docker images by the time you&#x27;ve spun up one VM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>Very interesting. I&#x27;m curious, have you considered nixos?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Women in tech - Stop talking, start coding</title><url>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/stop-talking-start-coding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcnnghm</author><text>This whole premise is stupid. We don't seem to have a problem with the lack of female linesmen, plumbers, construction workers, electricians, HVAC specialists, or garbage men. There isn't a pest control or sewage treatment Barbie. There also isn't a problem when 57% of college graduates are female.<p>If women want to work in tech, nothing is stopping them. They can learn to program, and write code. This is something that you can teach yourself, you don't need to deal with or rely upon anyone else. It seems that the problem is, at least as described by the New York Times, that women don't want to log the hours, and they want to do something that's more social. That's fine, there is nothing wrong with that. But they may be better off doing something other than writing code if that's the case.<p>Women log fewer hours in other areas as well. Female doctors see fewer patients than male doctors, and female lawyers are much less likely to make partner because they log far fewer hours than male lawyers. There is nothing wrong with this. Men and women are different. This isn't inherently bad or wrong.<p>Disclaimer: My staff is 80% female. We received more qualified female applicants than male applicants, so that's who we hired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dove</author><text>Thank you for saying this.<p>As a woman in tech, I've never experienced any hostility, any implication I didn't belong. I was never intimidated by male professors and TAs and lab partners; I saw them as programmers first. I never lacked for role models and heroes because it never occurred to me to ask that they be women. I never had any requirements beyond 'great hacker'.<p>What I did find frustrating was the obsequious encouragement to stay. Extra scholarships I qualified for. My pick of lab partners. Professional societies just for women. The expectation that enrolling or hiring me would make some bean counter somewhere very happy.<p>It's frustrating because it leaves me wondering if I'm held to a lower standard. Would my work actually stand out if I weren't a woman? When people tell me I've done a good job, are they silently adding, ". . . for a girl" ? Am I going to get upvotes on this comment just for being a woman, and not necessarily for being insightful?<p>Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of people trying to artificially import women into the field is that sometimes they succeed. There were always women who were there because they got extra attention and extra help. Women who wouldn't shut up about what it was like to be a developer and -- holy crap -- a woman! At the same time! It was, like, worth running a whole blog about!<p>The more women like that there were running around, the harder I felt I had to work to differentiate myself from them. I don't want to be "second rate, but that's okay because thank God somebody got a woman to stick around." I don't want to be, "wow, that's awesome work and--HEY IT'S A WOMAN, THIS IS FRONT PAGE MATERIAL!" I want to do first rate work and be criticized and compete and fight obscurity right along with everyone else.<p>There aren't many women in tech. And there are even fewer of them in the really upper echelons. Then again, that's true in general. Whatever the reason, women in tough, competitive fields are rare, and the tougher and more competitive and more elite it gets, the rarer they are. I don't know why that is. Frankly, I don't care. It's not a justification for hamstringing the women who are the exceptions--and no one throughout history has ever said it is. But treating it like a problem just <i>makes</i> problems for people like me.<p>Seriously, just let people do what they want to do and be who they want to be and stop <i>worrying</i> about why they choose what they choose.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Women in tech - Stop talking, start coding</title><url>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/stop-talking-start-coding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcnnghm</author><text>This whole premise is stupid. We don't seem to have a problem with the lack of female linesmen, plumbers, construction workers, electricians, HVAC specialists, or garbage men. There isn't a pest control or sewage treatment Barbie. There also isn't a problem when 57% of college graduates are female.<p>If women want to work in tech, nothing is stopping them. They can learn to program, and write code. This is something that you can teach yourself, you don't need to deal with or rely upon anyone else. It seems that the problem is, at least as described by the New York Times, that women don't want to log the hours, and they want to do something that's more social. That's fine, there is nothing wrong with that. But they may be better off doing something other than writing code if that's the case.<p>Women log fewer hours in other areas as well. Female doctors see fewer patients than male doctors, and female lawyers are much less likely to make partner because they log far fewer hours than male lawyers. There is nothing wrong with this. Men and women are different. This isn't inherently bad or wrong.<p>Disclaimer: My staff is 80% female. We received more qualified female applicants than male applicants, so that's who we hired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattm</author><text>I just finished reading the book "Why Men Earn More" by Warren Farrell. He does a good job of going into more depth about the gender differences among different industries.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality</title><url>https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>I see where you&#x27;re coming from but IMO this &quot;Cheshire cat&quot; idiom to hide the implementation details is not exactly like private, it fact it can do things that private can&#x27;t do, and doesn&#x27;t do things private does.<p>The advantage of hiding your state behind an opaque struct with builders and accessors is that you can change the size and layout of said struct without it being a breaking API change. The code remains binary compatible even, no need for a recompile if you&#x27;re shipping a shared lib. This is something just using private members doesn&#x27;t achieve since with private members the compiler still knows and uses the layout of the struct, it just forbids access to it.<p>That&#x27;s why you can even find C++ libraries use this idiom even though C++ obviously has `private`. It&#x27;s about having a stable, opaque API.<p>On the other hand because of this added indirection, there&#x27;s usually a greater performance hit to accessing these opaque structs since code can&#x27;t be inlined. With private since the compiler can still see inside the struct, it&#x27;s able to more aggressively optimize the code. You can also store the objects directly on the stack without requiring malloc.<p>IMO the right way to have private members in C structs is... to document that members shouldn&#x27;t be touched directly, perhaps using a special naming convention or embedding the publicly-accessible members in a dedicated sub-struct to prevent confusion.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality</title><url>https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text>To the author : your explanation can be interpreted as &quot;correct&quot; but also be aware that -- for some readers -- your argument is a variation of the Turing Tarpit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Turing_tarpit" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Turing_tarpit</a><p>In other words, the 2 different possible receptions to your post:<p>- YES, file-level modularity with opaque structs is _equivalent_ to class private members --&gt; for those mindsets already sympathetic to C Language<p>- NO, using file-scoping rules and structs is <i>not equivalent</i> to class private members because it&#x27;s a bunch of extra ceremonial syntax to implement a workaround. (The &quot;Turing Tarpit&quot;). It&#x27;s using the opaque struct as a &quot;design pattern&quot; and as Peter Norvig famously said, <i>&quot;Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language.&quot;</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants</title><url>https://twitter.com/martingund/status/1334465877153095680</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bjarneh</author><text>&gt; “I agree,” I pressed. We had now made a binding agreement, the app and I.<p>I hate this whole premise. We <i>have to agree</i> to an incomprehensible text wall of vague legal nonsense, that very often violate our own laws (as in this case), in order to install an app.<p>These illegal contracts are completely void of any meaning, and it should not matter that you &quot;agreed&quot; to be screwed over like that. Being screwed over like this is illegal, so those who do this, should not stay safe just because you clicked &quot;I agree&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&gt; Being screwed over like this is illegal<p>More precisely, these agreements generally aren&#x27;t legally binding in Europe, but generally are legally binding in the US.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants</title><url>https://twitter.com/martingund/status/1334465877153095680</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bjarneh</author><text>&gt; “I agree,” I pressed. We had now made a binding agreement, the app and I.<p>I hate this whole premise. We <i>have to agree</i> to an incomprehensible text wall of vague legal nonsense, that very often violate our own laws (as in this case), in order to install an app.<p>These illegal contracts are completely void of any meaning, and it should not matter that you &quot;agreed&quot; to be screwed over like that. Being screwed over like this is illegal, so those who do this, should not stay safe just because you clicked &quot;I agree&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>As people, we like to think categorically... especially &quot;contracting&quot; in the philosophical and legal sense. Whether its a medieval oath or a standard employment contract, the concept of &quot;binding agreement&quot; sorts out moral issues of consent and creates a platform for further relations.<p>Reality is generally less fussy about categorical boundaries. It likes spectrum. Linnaean classification is an approximation. Biology isn&#x27;t strict about species, or even organism barriers. It&#x27;s the same with a lot of cultural stuff.<p>On one end of the spectrum, we can have a business agreement negotiated diligently and in good faith between equal partners. On the other end, we have take-it-or-leave it agreements: The T&amp;Cs stack a bank hands you when you take a loan. The wall of incomprehensible legalese we consent to when we use an app or website. An employment contract is somewhere on that spectrum. Employees may be able to submit &quot;red line corrections&quot; depending on their seniority and confidence, but generally its written by employers and treated as under their control.<p>In philosophy, contracts (including rhetorical ones like &quot;moral contracts) are a popular mechanism for problem solving. They certainly are in law. In normal human life, norms are much more common.</text></comment>
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<story><title>After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-germany-vicodin.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>I wonder if that doctor has ever had major surgery himself and been told not to use painkillers?<p>Even if that is the case, pain seems to vary greatly in how it affects people. I would be very hesitant to tell someone that they should just let the pain &quot;guide&quot; them, because I have no idea what it is like for them.</text></item><item><author>dpflan</author><text>This passage feels like it is premise of the article; the author eventually comes to terms with her tea-sipping and resting as recovery, and this doctor explains the reasoning behind the medical decision-making which is very clear (and mindful&#x2F;thoughtful) I think.<p>“To paraphrase him [German anesthesiologist], he said: ‘Pain is a part of life. We cannot eliminate it nor do we want to. The pain will guide you. You will know when to rest more; you will know when you are healing. If I give you Vicodin, you will no longer feel the pain, yes, but you will no longer know what your body is telling you. You might overexert yourself because you are no longer feeling the pain signals. All you need is rest. And please be careful with ibuprofen. It’s not good for your kidneys. Only take it if you must. Your body will heal itself with rest.”’</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clwk</author><text>I have a very relevant anecdote:<p>My grandfather was an open-heart surgeon. In the days following surgery, he would always insist that his patients get up and take a short walk. They would not want to, but he insisted that this was an important and valuable part of recovery (in several dimension) and that they needed to push past resistance and force themselves to do it.<p>Later in life, he underwent a surgery requiring general anesthesia and found himself in the same position. He said, &quot;If I had known it was like that, I would not have made them do it.&quot;<p>So I think the surgeon&#x27;s personal experience of the situation is -- in fact -- highly relevant in practice, even if not in theory.</text></comment>
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<story><title>After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-germany-vicodin.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>I wonder if that doctor has ever had major surgery himself and been told not to use painkillers?<p>Even if that is the case, pain seems to vary greatly in how it affects people. I would be very hesitant to tell someone that they should just let the pain &quot;guide&quot; them, because I have no idea what it is like for them.</text></item><item><author>dpflan</author><text>This passage feels like it is premise of the article; the author eventually comes to terms with her tea-sipping and resting as recovery, and this doctor explains the reasoning behind the medical decision-making which is very clear (and mindful&#x2F;thoughtful) I think.<p>“To paraphrase him [German anesthesiologist], he said: ‘Pain is a part of life. We cannot eliminate it nor do we want to. The pain will guide you. You will know when to rest more; you will know when you are healing. If I give you Vicodin, you will no longer feel the pain, yes, but you will no longer know what your body is telling you. You might overexert yourself because you are no longer feeling the pain signals. All you need is rest. And please be careful with ibuprofen. It’s not good for your kidneys. Only take it if you must. Your body will heal itself with rest.”’</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>&gt; <i>I wonder if that doctor has ever had major surgery himself and been told not to use painkillers?</i><p>Since when is that a requirement for knowing what is best for your patients? The doctor is basing their judgement on current consensus within their field, which hopefully involves careful studies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amenod</author><text>When disk space is limited and you are working with large files, you need to clean up after yourself. And human make mistakes. I am not sure if this still does anything in newer rm, but it used to be a common mistake:<p><pre><code> $ rm -rf &#x2F; home&#x2F;myusername&#x2F;mylargedir&#x2F;
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(note the extra space after slash)<p>The real solution is comprised of:<p><pre><code> * backups (which are restored periodically to ensure they contain everything)
* proper process which makes accidental removal harder (DCVS &amp; co.)</code></pre></text></item><item><author>stale2002</author><text>What the hell. How do people just go around throwing rm -rf s so willy nilly.</text></item><item><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; I never understood the attitude of some companies to fire an employee immediately if they make a mistake such as accidentally deleting some files. If you keep this employee, then you can e pretty sure he&#x27;ll never made that mistake again.<p>I did fire an employee who deleted the entire CVS repository.<p>Actually, as you say, I didn&#x27;t fire him for deleting the repo. I fired him the <i>second</i> time he deleted the entire repo.<p>However there&#x27;s a silver lining: this is what led us (actually Ian Taylor IIRC) to write the CVS remote protocol (client &#x2F; server source control). before that it was all over NFS, though the perp in question had actually logged into the machine and done rm -rf on it directly(!).<p>(Nowadays we have better approaches than CVS but this was the mid 90s)</text></item><item><author>lokedhs</author><text>I never understood the attitude of some companies to fire an employee immediately if they make a mistake such as accidentally deleting some files. If you keep this employee, then you can e pretty sure he&#x27;ll never made that mistake again. If you fire him and hire someone else, that person might not have had the learning experience of completely screwing up a system.<p>I think that employees actually makes less mistakes and are more productive if they don&#x27;t have be worried about being fired for making a mistake.</text></item><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The biggest difference, I think, was leaving the hunting for a head for a second moment, or even not doing it at all.<p>Commitment would be very different if people were being asked to help while some heads were rolling. Because you&#x27;re a real team when everybody is going in the same direction. Any call on &quot;people, work hard do recover while we&#x27;re after the moron who deleted everything&quot; wouldn&#x27;t have done it.<p>You just commit to something when you know that you won&#x27;t be under the fire if you do something wrong without knowing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aidos</author><text>Day 1 in my first job in the UK I ran an &quot;update crucial_table set crucial_col = null&quot; without a where clause on production. Turned out there were no backups. Luckily the previous day&#x27;s staging env had come down from live, so that saved most of the data.<p>What most people don&#x27;t realize is that very few places have a real (tested) backup system.<p>_goes off to check backups_</text></comment>
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<story><title>Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amenod</author><text>When disk space is limited and you are working with large files, you need to clean up after yourself. And human make mistakes. I am not sure if this still does anything in newer rm, but it used to be a common mistake:<p><pre><code> $ rm -rf &#x2F; home&#x2F;myusername&#x2F;mylargedir&#x2F;
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(note the extra space after slash)<p>The real solution is comprised of:<p><pre><code> * backups (which are restored periodically to ensure they contain everything)
* proper process which makes accidental removal harder (DCVS &amp; co.)</code></pre></text></item><item><author>stale2002</author><text>What the hell. How do people just go around throwing rm -rf s so willy nilly.</text></item><item><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; I never understood the attitude of some companies to fire an employee immediately if they make a mistake such as accidentally deleting some files. If you keep this employee, then you can e pretty sure he&#x27;ll never made that mistake again.<p>I did fire an employee who deleted the entire CVS repository.<p>Actually, as you say, I didn&#x27;t fire him for deleting the repo. I fired him the <i>second</i> time he deleted the entire repo.<p>However there&#x27;s a silver lining: this is what led us (actually Ian Taylor IIRC) to write the CVS remote protocol (client &#x2F; server source control). before that it was all over NFS, though the perp in question had actually logged into the machine and done rm -rf on it directly(!).<p>(Nowadays we have better approaches than CVS but this was the mid 90s)</text></item><item><author>lokedhs</author><text>I never understood the attitude of some companies to fire an employee immediately if they make a mistake such as accidentally deleting some files. If you keep this employee, then you can e pretty sure he&#x27;ll never made that mistake again. If you fire him and hire someone else, that person might not have had the learning experience of completely screwing up a system.<p>I think that employees actually makes less mistakes and are more productive if they don&#x27;t have be worried about being fired for making a mistake.</text></item><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The biggest difference, I think, was leaving the hunting for a head for a second moment, or even not doing it at all.<p>Commitment would be very different if people were being asked to help while some heads were rolling. Because you&#x27;re a real team when everybody is going in the same direction. Any call on &quot;people, work hard do recover while we&#x27;re after the moron who deleted everything&quot; wouldn&#x27;t have done it.<p>You just commit to something when you know that you won&#x27;t be under the fire if you do something wrong without knowing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text>Yup, I did something like that command once, to a project developed over 3 months by 5 people without a backup policy (university group project). Luckily, this was in the days when most of the work was done on non-networked computers, so we cobbled everything together from partial source trees on floppies, hunkered down for a week to hammer out code and got back to where we were before. It&#x27;s amazing how fast you can write a piece of code when you&#x27;ve already written it once before.<p>That was the day I started backing up everything.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Deimorz</author><text>I don&#x27;t think disabling the enterprise certs was particularly moral, Facebook and Google were flagrantly violating the terms of the enterprise program. Apple also apparently didn&#x27;t even notice (or didn&#x27;t care) until articles about it started getting a lot of attention.<p>Apple definitely does make some commendable decisions, but I think it&#x27;s also important to distinguish between bravery and what Ben Thompson calls &quot;Strategy Credits&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;strategy-credit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;strategy-credit&#x2F;</a>):<p>&gt; Strategy Credit: An uncomplicated decision that makes a company look good relative to other companies who face much more significant trade-offs.</text></item><item><author>rawrmaan</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty epic. Apple continues to make big, brave moral gestures (like when they yanked Facebook and Google&#x27;s enterprise certs earlier this year, or killed long-term tracking cookies in Safari overnight).<p>Makes me happy to be a customer. Hope they keep enforcing their own rules and protecting their users&#x27; privacy and security in this fearless manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curt15</author><text>Indeed a company&#x27;s &quot;morals&quot; are better exposed when it has to make inconvenient choices.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned</title><url>https://ericlippert.com/2022/11/30/a-long-expected-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&gt; no one wants to wear VR goggles<p>I would be curious how many people are willing to wear VR goggles for any amount of time. I spend easily 10-12 hours a day at my computer. I am absolutely someone who is happy working, socializing, playing, and learning all at the same desk. But I can&#x27;t wear those goggles for even 2 hours. Are there people who can wear them for 12?</text></item><item><author>rob74</author><text>&gt; <i>Speaking of cutting costs, the company is still pouring multiple billions of dollars into vaporware called “the metaverse”. News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the role of God is played by Mark Zuckerberg and you can do anything you can imagine, including “work” and “shop”.</i><p>You can somehow feel that he has been dying to say this for years, but couldn&#x27;t while he was still working for Meta...<p>But yeah, I can imagine how the decisions on layoffs usually go: &quot;what are those guys doing? Probabilistic something or other?! No idea what that&#x27;s good for! And wow, look how much they get paid!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_gibbins</author><text>I can manage 15 minutes or so on my aging Oculus Quest but that&#x27;s about it. There&#x27;s a Netflix option on there, I can relax in a virtual cinema with surround sound and a screen sized big enough to feel like a cinema screen and I&#x27;ve not been able to watch anything because of the vertigo.<p>I thought my kids would go crazy on it, perhaps I&#x27;m too old, out of touch etc. but they can do 15 mins max too. It&#x27;s a novelty toy, quickly put away.<p>If Google Glasses had really taken off and I could have AR, not VR - overlays on ordinary vision - I&#x27;d be there. Handy for work, could do virtual meetings, notifications, all sorts. But as with most things Google it went the way of the dodo and I haven&#x27;t heard of any replacement poised to take the world by storm.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stripe Press</title><url>https://press.stripe.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>As someone whose SaaS uses Stripe for payment processing, I must admit to being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out into areas outside their core business.<p>I read the &quot;22 Immutable Laws of Marketing&quot; many many years ago, and it repeatedly spells out the folly of large companies who became huge on the back of just ONE product then thinking that they needed to have alternatives or provide more choice and broadened their range to the overall long term detriment of the main product or business that made them huge in the first place.<p>EDIT: Just to clarify - it is not just Stripe Press. I am including initiatives like acquiring the Indie Hackers site (which I enjoy BTW) a while back etc. I can totally see that these are all related to Stripe&#x27;s audience of tech startups, but it still has the ring of, say, a candy company who starts diversifying into a clothing line etc.<p>End of the day - every employee who is distracted by looking after the assets &amp; numbers for these side projects is an employee who is not focused on their core payments system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc</author><text>Stripe cofounder here. It&#x27;s a very fair question.<p>&gt; <i>I must admit to being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out into areas outside their core business</i><p>The vast majority of Stripe employees (and there are now more than 1,000) work on our core functionality today. But we see our core <i>business</i> as building tools and infrastructure that help grow the online economy. (&quot;Increase the GDP of the internet.&quot;) When we think about that problem, we see that one of the main limits on Stripe&#x27;s growth is the number of successful startups in the world. If we can cheaply help increase that number, it makes a lot of business sense for us to do so. (And, hopefully, doing so will create a ton of spillover value for others as well.)<p>As we grow, we have to get good at walking and chewing gum -- just as Google or Amazon have. However, while we go and tackle other problems, our aim is not only to continue to improve our core payments infrastructure, but do deliver improvements at an accelerating rate.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stripe Press</title><url>https://press.stripe.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>As someone whose SaaS uses Stripe for payment processing, I must admit to being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out into areas outside their core business.<p>I read the &quot;22 Immutable Laws of Marketing&quot; many many years ago, and it repeatedly spells out the folly of large companies who became huge on the back of just ONE product then thinking that they needed to have alternatives or provide more choice and broadened their range to the overall long term detriment of the main product or business that made them huge in the first place.<p>EDIT: Just to clarify - it is not just Stripe Press. I am including initiatives like acquiring the Indie Hackers site (which I enjoy BTW) a while back etc. I can totally see that these are all related to Stripe&#x27;s audience of tech startups, but it still has the ring of, say, a candy company who starts diversifying into a clothing line etc.<p>End of the day - every employee who is distracted by looking after the assets &amp; numbers for these side projects is an employee who is not focused on their core payments system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sarreph</author><text>I would argue that some completely separate (sourced) books in a fancy web-giftshop doesn&#x27;t constitute a product alternative or range-extension.<p>It&#x27;s almost akin to a successful tech company starting an annual conference — you wouldn&#x27;t lambast them for &#x27;losing product focus&#x27; on spending a similar amount of productivity (as a book line) in a non-tech-stack branch, would you?<p>Now, if they doubled-down on Stripe Press to the detriment of Stripe the service, then they would indeed be making a silly mistake. :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>DKIM: Rotate and publish your keys</title><url>https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/16025.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BoppreH</author><text>I think this is missing the trust that the delegated sender adds. If you have an email with a DKIM signature from Gmail, then either:<p>a. The email is authentic.<p>b. Gmail has risked its reputation to &quot;forge&quot; the signature of an email it never sent.<p>That&#x27;s strong evidence that the email is authentic! On the other hand, if Gmail were to publish their old DKIM keys, <i>anyone</i> with technical skills could have forged that signature.<p>As for why repudiation is desirable for emails, think protesters. They want to verify that the emails they receive are really from each other, but minimize their exposure in case the emails leak.<p>It&#x27;s a common property for secure messaging systems, and I don&#x27;t see why emails shouldn&#x27;t have it too.</text></item><item><author>LeonM</author><text>So for work I consult on email security and every time this article pops up I get texts from everybody asking for my opinion. So here we go.<p>Disclaimer: opinions are my own.<p>A DKIM signature does not prove that an individual sent the email, the key is not personal. A DKIM signature proves that the sending service is a delegated sender for the domain. Meaning that a correct DKIM signature proves that the part <i>after</i> the &#x27;@&#x27; symbol in the sender address is authentic. Not the part before that. If you want to use a personal signature, you can use S&#x2F;MIME.<p>If you are a delegated sender for the domain, then you can use any sender name (the part before the &#x27;@&#x27; in the sender email address). This is how email works. The password that is typically required to authenticate with your outbound SMTP service if only enforced by that host.<p>So an email with sender address [email protected] that is DKIM signed only proves that the email was send by a host that is a allowed to send email on behalf of example.com. It does not prove in any way that the email was sent by Jane.<p>Also, as others have mentioned, none of the email service providers will give you the private keys. I&#x27;d like to add that in most cases this won&#x27;t even be possible, due to the use of HSMs.<p>So the proposed scheme would only work in a situation where you are owner of the DKIM key (thus in practice where you are the owner of the host sending the email), and where you also own the domain. It is trivial for a prosecutor to prove the owner of the domain, or the owner of the host that used the DKIM key. No amount of publishing keys will help you deny that ownership.<p>In my opinion it makes no sense in signing your email (whether it is S&#x2F;MIME or DKIM) to prove that the email is authentic, and then complaining that there is no way to deny that the email is authentic once stuff goes bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chias</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s an accurate characterization. If you have an email with a DKIM signature, from Gmail or from a myriad of vendors, then either:<p>a. The email is authentic.<p>b. The service allows whoever administers the service to configure outgoing emails however they please.<p>c. There is a documented method by which the service allows you to override the sender address.<p>d. The service has risked its reputation to &quot;forge&quot; the signature.<p>The middle two options are extremely common in any business setting. Gmail supports both.<p>--<p>I am assuming, since your post does not appear to be agreeing with the parent comment, that when you say &quot;authentic&quot; you mean &quot;sent or authorized by the individual named in the username field&quot;. If you mean &quot;sent in a manner configured by some entity with authority on how the domain is used for sending email&quot;, then that is exactly the parent comment&#x27;s point.</text></comment>
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<story><title>DKIM: Rotate and publish your keys</title><url>https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/16025.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BoppreH</author><text>I think this is missing the trust that the delegated sender adds. If you have an email with a DKIM signature from Gmail, then either:<p>a. The email is authentic.<p>b. Gmail has risked its reputation to &quot;forge&quot; the signature of an email it never sent.<p>That&#x27;s strong evidence that the email is authentic! On the other hand, if Gmail were to publish their old DKIM keys, <i>anyone</i> with technical skills could have forged that signature.<p>As for why repudiation is desirable for emails, think protesters. They want to verify that the emails they receive are really from each other, but minimize their exposure in case the emails leak.<p>It&#x27;s a common property for secure messaging systems, and I don&#x27;t see why emails shouldn&#x27;t have it too.</text></item><item><author>LeonM</author><text>So for work I consult on email security and every time this article pops up I get texts from everybody asking for my opinion. So here we go.<p>Disclaimer: opinions are my own.<p>A DKIM signature does not prove that an individual sent the email, the key is not personal. A DKIM signature proves that the sending service is a delegated sender for the domain. Meaning that a correct DKIM signature proves that the part <i>after</i> the &#x27;@&#x27; symbol in the sender address is authentic. Not the part before that. If you want to use a personal signature, you can use S&#x2F;MIME.<p>If you are a delegated sender for the domain, then you can use any sender name (the part before the &#x27;@&#x27; in the sender email address). This is how email works. The password that is typically required to authenticate with your outbound SMTP service if only enforced by that host.<p>So an email with sender address [email protected] that is DKIM signed only proves that the email was send by a host that is a allowed to send email on behalf of example.com. It does not prove in any way that the email was sent by Jane.<p>Also, as others have mentioned, none of the email service providers will give you the private keys. I&#x27;d like to add that in most cases this won&#x27;t even be possible, due to the use of HSMs.<p>So the proposed scheme would only work in a situation where you are owner of the DKIM key (thus in practice where you are the owner of the host sending the email), and where you also own the domain. It is trivial for a prosecutor to prove the owner of the domain, or the owner of the host that used the DKIM key. No amount of publishing keys will help you deny that ownership.<p>In my opinion it makes no sense in signing your email (whether it is S&#x2F;MIME or DKIM) to prove that the email is authentic, and then complaining that there is no way to deny that the email is authentic once stuff goes bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zajio1am</author><text>Well, there is also third option: the sender account was compromised.<p>But yes, it is still pretty strong evidence.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Putting the Times’s First Email Address to Bed</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/insider/putting-the-timess-first-email-address-to-bed.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>comex</author><text>In the article&#x27;s comments section, a notable comment from the Peter Lewis mentioned in the article:<p><i>John, let the record show that The Times also initially turned down my free offer of the nytimes.com domain, which I had registered. A couple of years later they decided this internet thing was perhaps more than a fad, and demanded that I transfer ownership, which I willingly did. They still haven&#x27;t reimbursed me for the registration fee :-)</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>Putting the Times’s First Email Address to Bed</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/insider/putting-the-timess-first-email-address-to-bed.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>passivepinetree</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered why the Times&#x27; domain was nytimes.com rather than nyt.com or newyorktimes.com. nytimes.com seems like an odd mix of initials and spelling the words out.<p>This was a fascinating look into early internet history.<p>Also, it was pretty cool of Markoff to give the domain up in exchange for keeping his old email address, rather than holding the paper hostage for a bunch of money.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check (2012)</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/08/01/professor-billionaire-david-cheriton/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fightthehypo</author><text>I took a Distributed Systems class with Prof. Cheriton in 2007 for my Masters degree. In the first few classes, I remember being awed by the wealth and legacy of the man, and wanting to glean everything I could from him. It quickly became apparent though that he hadn&#x27;t updated his course materials or lectures in over a decade, e.g. the pros and cons of distributed shared memory vs COBOL RPC. The core topics were there, it was just presented in such a dry manner.<p>Worse though, was that he would needlessly inject his very conservative politics as total non-sequiturs. Test questions like &quot;Hillary Clinton wants to build [obviously unscalable system], explain why it won&#x27;t work. I found it very unprofessional.<p>Stanford records a video of every lecture, and enrolled students can then watch them whenever. I remember sitting in my dorm room, watching one of his 75 minute lectures where there was literally 3 students in a 150 person auditorium. It just floored me that this was how a billionaire was spending his time. I do genuinely like the man, you could just tell he was capable of so much more.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check (2012)</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/08/01/professor-billionaire-david-cheriton/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>denzil_correa</author><text>Interesting thoughts. Social Networking is a &quot;market whim&quot; according to Cheriton.<p>&gt; Cheriton says he avoids pursuing market whims—he considers social networking one of them—and stays focused on breakthroughs that make measurable improvements to human life<p>I wonder at what time does he think it would be out of fashion.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Won’t Subscribe</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/09/25/Subscription-Overload</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boplicity</author><text>As a long-time publisher, there is only one primary metric that matters to me: loyal readers. I don&#x27;t publish for the occasional visitor. I publish for the loyal readers that I have worked hard to cultivate, engage, and enrichen. The primary work is one of building a relationship with a loyal readership, based on consistency and quality.<p>Our websites, as they&#x27;re designed, are probably a little annoying to people who are not our loyal readership. That&#x27;s by design; you&#x27;re either part of our core audience, or we&#x27;re filtering for whether you could be part of our core audience. Everyone else is secondary to the success of the business, as well as secondary to our core job, which is to serve our loyal readers, and, again, NOT our occasional readers, and certainly not the people who are likely to visit us just once and then never again.<p>The article suggests adding an additonal – and complex – revenue source: selling articles individually. This idea, of course, is not feasible, because it is such a huge distraction from the core business, and is potentially a distraction that has the potential to cause real harm to the core business. Successful publishing is extremely difficult. To actually be sustainable, you really can&#x27;t let yourself be distracted from what matters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virgilp</author><text>Here&#x27;s the thing: with this model, it&#x27;s (somewhat) easy to keep loyal readers, but it&#x27;s maybe hard to get new ones.<p>I think this is the part that you&#x27;re not disclosing here - how do you get new readers? A lot of times, a business like yours relies on the referrals from the loyal customers in order to expand. If you make it impossible for the &quot;occasional reader&quot; to read you, then by extension you make it extremely difficult for your loyal customers to refer you. Based on your &quot;little annoying&quot; comment, I&#x27;m guessing you don&#x27;t do that. So this means occasional visitors are free to read your content, it&#x27;s just annoying to do so - and you&#x27;re relying on that annoyance to convert them to paid customers (should they find themselves coming back again &amp; again).<p>I mean, it&#x27;s a valid tactic. BUT - I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the only one. I do think &quot;subscription fatigue&quot; is a real thing - people will not be subscribed to countless services. As the competition for the subscription money sharpens, at least some publishers may find themselves pushed out of this model. I think that&#x27;s all that Tim Bray was saying - and, I think he&#x27;s right. There&#x27;s unexplored potential out there, that you ignore at your own risk.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Won’t Subscribe</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/09/25/Subscription-Overload</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boplicity</author><text>As a long-time publisher, there is only one primary metric that matters to me: loyal readers. I don&#x27;t publish for the occasional visitor. I publish for the loyal readers that I have worked hard to cultivate, engage, and enrichen. The primary work is one of building a relationship with a loyal readership, based on consistency and quality.<p>Our websites, as they&#x27;re designed, are probably a little annoying to people who are not our loyal readership. That&#x27;s by design; you&#x27;re either part of our core audience, or we&#x27;re filtering for whether you could be part of our core audience. Everyone else is secondary to the success of the business, as well as secondary to our core job, which is to serve our loyal readers, and, again, NOT our occasional readers, and certainly not the people who are likely to visit us just once and then never again.<p>The article suggests adding an additonal – and complex – revenue source: selling articles individually. This idea, of course, is not feasible, because it is such a huge distraction from the core business, and is potentially a distraction that has the potential to cause real harm to the core business. Successful publishing is extremely difficult. To actually be sustainable, you really can&#x27;t let yourself be distracted from what matters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ako</author><text>As a publisher maybe it is time to rethink your primary metric. As a long-time reader, i&#x27;m not interesting in being a loyal reader, i&#x27;m interested in reading the best news.<p>I don&#x27;t limit myself to the music of one band, so i really appreciate spotify, and i don&#x27;t limit myself to the news of one publisher.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack</title><url>https://medium.com/@matt.at.ably/wheres-all-my-cpu-and-memory-gone-the-answer-slack-9e5c39207cab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>litor</author><text>&gt; Your users don&#x27;t care how easy it is to find js devs.<p>Their user do absolutely care about UI&#x2F;UX. If you&#x27;re going to implement it native without all the &quot;free&quot; things you get from the web stack, and its popularity, the UI is most likely going to suffer.</text></item><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>Want to make an app that people use in the background? Music player? Chat app? Backup? Antivirus?<p>Then for gods sake make it lean. Set a resource budget and stick to it. Don&#x27;t assume your product is a special snowflake that your users will want to waste resources on.<p>The easiest way is usually to just use a native toolchain and UI. Your users don&#x27;t care how easy it is to find js devs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reinierladan</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about other platforms but on MacOS native apps are way better designed (looks and usability) than the electron crap that is available. So I&#x27;m curious, what makes you say JS devs are better at designing apps than native devs who know how native apps work?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack</title><url>https://medium.com/@matt.at.ably/wheres-all-my-cpu-and-memory-gone-the-answer-slack-9e5c39207cab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>litor</author><text>&gt; Your users don&#x27;t care how easy it is to find js devs.<p>Their user do absolutely care about UI&#x2F;UX. If you&#x27;re going to implement it native without all the &quot;free&quot; things you get from the web stack, and its popularity, the UI is most likely going to suffer.</text></item><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>Want to make an app that people use in the background? Music player? Chat app? Backup? Antivirus?<p>Then for gods sake make it lean. Set a resource budget and stick to it. Don&#x27;t assume your product is a special snowflake that your users will want to waste resources on.<p>The easiest way is usually to just use a native toolchain and UI. Your users don&#x27;t care how easy it is to find js devs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Veratyr</author><text>They also care about battery life and system performance, they just don&#x27;t know to blame Electron for any problems they have with those things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/they-may-have-founded-rome-then-vanished-work-sheds-light-mysterious-etruscans</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>An interesting thing the article somehow doesn&#x27;t mention is that the Roman alphabet in which I&#x27;m more or less typing this (IN VVHICH I&#x27;M MORE OR LESS TYPING THIS) descends from the very scarce Etruscan letters, which descend from Greek. This is why the Roman alphabet revives letters like digamma and qoppa that had been obsolete in Greek for centuries.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/they-may-have-founded-rome-then-vanished-work-sheds-light-mysterious-etruscans</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notorandit</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t sound to me as any news.
Etruscans settled a lot of colonies in the southern part of the peninsula, down to Pompeii (which was founded by Etruscans and taken over by Samnites) and Melfi.
And they were ahead of all other local cultures by far, especially in the metallurgic technologies and writing.
They were not a single kingdom but a group of city-kingdoms.<p>So I can think of Rome more like a colony that took over the mother city-kingdom first, then the whole peninsula.<p>Moreover, the names of the first traditional kings of Rome are Etruscans too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New York state lawmakers have agreed to pass a sweeping climate plan</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/nyregion/greenhouse-gases-ny.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised to hear someone say that New York City has &quot;copious free and heavily subsidized parking&quot;; how does that manifest itself, exactly? Living in Manhattan, that&#x27;s not really my experience.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>It would be nice for &quot;subway cost control&quot; to be part of that plan: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;new-york-infrastructure-costs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;new-york-infrastructu...</a>. Subways are among the greenest possible transport modes and yet NYC hasn&#x27;t built substantial new lines since 1940.<p>This is also the same city that provides copious free and heavily subsidized parking while banning or severely limited 30-pound, highly efficient electric vehicles: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;electric-scooters-nashville.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;electric-scooters...</a>.<p>I wonder how we should interpret the city&#x27;s stated desires versus its actual policies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donjoe</author><text>Does your car parking cost as much as renting a flat&#x2F;sqm? I bet it does not.<p>Where I live, parking space costs you about 15€&#x2F;sqm&#x2F;month on a single floor&#x2F;no floor since it&#x27;s &#x27;public space&#x27;. A flat is avg. 22€&#x2F;sqm&#x2F;month and buildings in general come with 6 floors: we&#x27;re closer to 6*22€&#x2F;sqm&#x2F;month for living space...</text></comment>
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<story><title>New York state lawmakers have agreed to pass a sweeping climate plan</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/nyregion/greenhouse-gases-ny.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised to hear someone say that New York City has &quot;copious free and heavily subsidized parking&quot;; how does that manifest itself, exactly? Living in Manhattan, that&#x27;s not really my experience.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>It would be nice for &quot;subway cost control&quot; to be part of that plan: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;new-york-infrastructure-costs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;new-york-infrastructu...</a>. Subways are among the greenest possible transport modes and yet NYC hasn&#x27;t built substantial new lines since 1940.<p>This is also the same city that provides copious free and heavily subsidized parking while banning or severely limited 30-pound, highly efficient electric vehicles: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;electric-scooters-nashville.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;electric-scooters...</a>.<p>I wonder how we should interpret the city&#x27;s stated desires versus its actual policies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donohoe</author><text>Let’s start with employee plans can allocate several hundred dollars pre-tax to parking but very limited amounts to subway and train.<p>You can also argue that huge amounts of free street parking are subsidies, but limited areas to chain bikes.<p>There is more, but those are the obvious ones to me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to make your own Selectric Typeballs</title><url>https://github.com/settinger/selectric_typeballs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>Does anyone have a method for sustainable supply of Selectric II ribbons?<p>The Selectric II ribbons that I saw weren&#x27;t like the inked-cloth used by most typewriters and dot-matrix printers -- which could be reused a few times, or even re-inked with a special tool. The Selectric II ribbons were more like a plastic film with a black coating that was crisply and completely transferred to the paper where the typeball struck it. (Not great for OPSEC, incidentally.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to make your own Selectric Typeballs</title><url>https://github.com/settinger/selectric_typeballs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akavel</author><text>Piggy-backing on this thread: does anyone know of any open-hardware computer printer you can DIY at home? (Ideally not using any pre-made ink&#x2F;etc. cartridges; can be a dot-matrix or even Selectric&#x2F;daisy-wheel printer.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Docker not ready for primetime</title><url>http://blog.goodstuff.im/docker_not_prime_time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>It&#x27;s not worth the bother. Apart from keeping patches up today --- which is a good idea --- it&#x27;s probably not really buying you anything.<p>It&#x27;s not crazy to periodically rotate keys, but attackers don&#x27;t acquire keys by, you know, stumbling over them on the street or picking them up when you&#x27;ve accidentally left them on the bar. They get them because you have a vulnerability --- usually in your own code or configuration. Rebuilding will regenerate those kinds of vulnerabilities. Attackers will reinfect in seconds.</text></item><item><author>jacques_chester</author><text>&gt; <i>Rebuilding continuously for security is not something I would recommend.</i><p>So that I understand, could you elaborate?<p>Particularly, do you mean &quot;not recommend&quot; as in &quot;recommend <i>against</i>&quot; or &quot;not worth the bother&quot;?</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Having everything patched as soon as patches are available (or within, say, 6 hours of availability, for &quot;routine&quot; patches, with better responsiveness for critical patches) is a win.<p>The rest: not so much.<p>Rebuilding continuously for security is not something I would recommend.</text></item><item><author>jacques_chester</author><text>The security exec at Pivotal, where I work, has been talking about &quot;repaving&quot; servers as a <i>security</i> tactic (along with rotating keys and repairing vulnerabilities).[0]<p>The theory runs that attackers need time to accrue and compound their incomplete positions into a successful compromise.<p>But if you keep patching continuously, attackers have fewer vulnerabilities to work with. If you keep rotating keys frequently, the keys they do capture become useless in short order. And if you rebuild the servers frequently, any system they&#x27;ve taken control of simply vanishes and they have to start from scratch.<p>I&#x27;m not <i>completely</i> sold on the difference between repair and repave, myself. And I expect that sophisticated attackers will begin to rely more on identifying local holes and quickly encoding those in automated tools so that they can re-establish their positions after a repaving happens.<p>But it raises the cost for casual attackers, which is still worthy.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;built-to-adapt&#x2F;the-three-r-s-of-enterprise-security-rotate-repave-and-repair-f64f6d6ba29d#.k3dj6wlp1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;built-to-adapt&#x2F;the-three-r-s-of-enterpris...</a></text></item><item><author>bphogan</author><text>woah, wait.....<p>It &quot;geneerally works if&quot; you &quot; rebuild docker hosts on a daily or more frequent basis.&quot;<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m misunderstanding, but needing to rebuild my prod env several times a day seems pretty &quot;not ready for prime time&quot; to me.<p>That&#x27;s like when we&#x27;d say that Rails ran great in production in 2005, as long as you had a cron task to bounce fastCGI processes every hour or so.<p>So, can you elaborate on why rebuilding the containers is good advice?</text></item><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>We use it in production.<p>It generally works if:<p>* you don&#x27;t use it to store data<p>* don&#x27;t use &#x27;ambassador&#x27;, &#x27;buddy&#x27;, or &#x27;data&#x27; container patterns.<p>* use tooling available to quickly and easily nuke and rebuild docker hosts on a daily or more frequent basis.<p>* use tooling available to &#x27;orchestrate&#x27; what gets run where - if you&#x27;re manually running containers you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>* wrap docker pulls with &#x27;flock&#x27; so they don&#x27;t deadlock<p>* don&#x27;t use swarm - use mesos, kube, or fleet(simpler, smaller clusters)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text>A lot of companies do lose their keys that way. www roots, gists, hardcoded in products, github history, etc.<p>The win to rotating them is not so much because you&#x27;ll be regularly evicting attackers you didn&#x27;t know had your keys, but because when you do have a fire, you won&#x27;t be finding out for the first time that you can&#x27;t actually rotate them.<p>It also forces you to design things much more reliably which helps continuity in non-security scenarios.<p>After redeploying and realizing that Todd has to ssh in and hand edit that one hostname and fix a symlink that was supposed to be temporary so the new version of A can talk to B, that&#x27;s going to get rolled in pretty quickly. Large operations not doing this tend to quickly end up in the &quot;nobody is allowed to touch this pile of technical debt because we don&#x27;t know how to re-create it anymore&quot; problem.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Docker not ready for primetime</title><url>http://blog.goodstuff.im/docker_not_prime_time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>It&#x27;s not worth the bother. Apart from keeping patches up today --- which is a good idea --- it&#x27;s probably not really buying you anything.<p>It&#x27;s not crazy to periodically rotate keys, but attackers don&#x27;t acquire keys by, you know, stumbling over them on the street or picking them up when you&#x27;ve accidentally left them on the bar. They get them because you have a vulnerability --- usually in your own code or configuration. Rebuilding will regenerate those kinds of vulnerabilities. Attackers will reinfect in seconds.</text></item><item><author>jacques_chester</author><text>&gt; <i>Rebuilding continuously for security is not something I would recommend.</i><p>So that I understand, could you elaborate?<p>Particularly, do you mean &quot;not recommend&quot; as in &quot;recommend <i>against</i>&quot; or &quot;not worth the bother&quot;?</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Having everything patched as soon as patches are available (or within, say, 6 hours of availability, for &quot;routine&quot; patches, with better responsiveness for critical patches) is a win.<p>The rest: not so much.<p>Rebuilding continuously for security is not something I would recommend.</text></item><item><author>jacques_chester</author><text>The security exec at Pivotal, where I work, has been talking about &quot;repaving&quot; servers as a <i>security</i> tactic (along with rotating keys and repairing vulnerabilities).[0]<p>The theory runs that attackers need time to accrue and compound their incomplete positions into a successful compromise.<p>But if you keep patching continuously, attackers have fewer vulnerabilities to work with. If you keep rotating keys frequently, the keys they do capture become useless in short order. And if you rebuild the servers frequently, any system they&#x27;ve taken control of simply vanishes and they have to start from scratch.<p>I&#x27;m not <i>completely</i> sold on the difference between repair and repave, myself. And I expect that sophisticated attackers will begin to rely more on identifying local holes and quickly encoding those in automated tools so that they can re-establish their positions after a repaving happens.<p>But it raises the cost for casual attackers, which is still worthy.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;built-to-adapt&#x2F;the-three-r-s-of-enterprise-security-rotate-repave-and-repair-f64f6d6ba29d#.k3dj6wlp1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;built-to-adapt&#x2F;the-three-r-s-of-enterpris...</a></text></item><item><author>bphogan</author><text>woah, wait.....<p>It &quot;geneerally works if&quot; you &quot; rebuild docker hosts on a daily or more frequent basis.&quot;<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m misunderstanding, but needing to rebuild my prod env several times a day seems pretty &quot;not ready for prime time&quot; to me.<p>That&#x27;s like when we&#x27;d say that Rails ran great in production in 2005, as long as you had a cron task to bounce fastCGI processes every hour or so.<p>So, can you elaborate on why rebuilding the containers is good advice?</text></item><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>We use it in production.<p>It generally works if:<p>* you don&#x27;t use it to store data<p>* don&#x27;t use &#x27;ambassador&#x27;, &#x27;buddy&#x27;, or &#x27;data&#x27; container patterns.<p>* use tooling available to quickly and easily nuke and rebuild docker hosts on a daily or more frequent basis.<p>* use tooling available to &#x27;orchestrate&#x27; what gets run where - if you&#x27;re manually running containers you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>* wrap docker pulls with &#x27;flock&#x27; so they don&#x27;t deadlock<p>* don&#x27;t use swarm - use mesos, kube, or fleet(simpler, smaller clusters)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tkiley</author><text>It seems like it&#x27;s good to be able to rebuild everything at a moment&#x27;s notice after patching against a major exploit, though. You should have a fast way to rebuild secrets and servers after the next heartbleed-scale vulnerability.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%</title><url>https://www.thecattlesite.com/news/55890/new-company-to-reduce-cows-methane-using-feed-additive-made-from-the-seaweed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>How much could this reduce the total environmental food print of cattle? I.e. including all the energy used to grow the crops they eat, the deforestation to make room for the crops + cattle, the waste the cows produce.<p>Animal farming creates vast damage because of how inefficient it is and seaweed won&#x27;t address how much feed cows need or that the world is eating more and more meat as countries get richer:<p>&gt; The energy efficiency of meat and dairy production is defined as the percentage of energy (caloric) inputs as feed effectively converted to animal product. An efficiency of 25% would mean 25% of calories in animal feed inputs were effectively converted to animal product; the remaining 75% would be lost during conversion.<p>&gt; Whole milk: 24%<p>&gt; Beef: 1.9%<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;energy-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;energy-efficiency-of-meat...</a><p>All improvements are good, but I&#x27;d like to know if this is more than a distraction to make people feel better about continuing to demand products they know are damaging the environment (e.g. Amazon deforestation).<p>Industrial farmed animals aren&#x27;t eating grass, they&#x27;re eating crops like soy. If you find soy milk and soy-based meat alternatives decent for example, consider eating those directly instead of products from soy-fed cows - it&#x27;ll be vastly better for the environment with seaweed or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jazzabeanie</author><text>In Australia a significant amount (can&#x27;t remember the specifics) of cattle is raised on land that is unsuitable for crop production. My own experience confirms this. I&#x27;ve seen many cattle farms around Queensland - some with low stocking density and no deforestation, others very poorly managed with no trees at all or full of invasive species.<p>It&#x27;s not as simple as eating meat = bad, but that&#x27;s the message most people are getting. If they respond by stopping eating meat, then great - not the best choice, but a step in the right direction. If they respond by stopping to care where their food comes from then not so great.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%</title><url>https://www.thecattlesite.com/news/55890/new-company-to-reduce-cows-methane-using-feed-additive-made-from-the-seaweed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>How much could this reduce the total environmental food print of cattle? I.e. including all the energy used to grow the crops they eat, the deforestation to make room for the crops + cattle, the waste the cows produce.<p>Animal farming creates vast damage because of how inefficient it is and seaweed won&#x27;t address how much feed cows need or that the world is eating more and more meat as countries get richer:<p>&gt; The energy efficiency of meat and dairy production is defined as the percentage of energy (caloric) inputs as feed effectively converted to animal product. An efficiency of 25% would mean 25% of calories in animal feed inputs were effectively converted to animal product; the remaining 75% would be lost during conversion.<p>&gt; Whole milk: 24%<p>&gt; Beef: 1.9%<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;energy-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;energy-efficiency-of-meat...</a><p>All improvements are good, but I&#x27;d like to know if this is more than a distraction to make people feel better about continuing to demand products they know are damaging the environment (e.g. Amazon deforestation).<p>Industrial farmed animals aren&#x27;t eating grass, they&#x27;re eating crops like soy. If you find soy milk and soy-based meat alternatives decent for example, consider eating those directly instead of products from soy-fed cows - it&#x27;ll be vastly better for the environment with seaweed or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkphilip</author><text>For sustainable farming, livestock plays a very crucial role. This is particularly true for organic and natural farming.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.downtoearth.org.in&#x2F;news&#x2F;agriculture&#x2F;organic-livestock-farming-a-revolution-in-the-making-71530" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.downtoearth.org.in&#x2F;news&#x2F;agriculture&#x2F;organic-live...</a><p>So looking at a single metric (methane emissions) doesn&#x27;t do this topic justice.<p>Also, live stock grazing (if done properly) can also be a method of regreening environments.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mongabay.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;though-forests-burn-agroforestry-advances-as-trees-retake-farmland-globally&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.mongabay.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;though-forests-burn-agrofo...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]</title><url>https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/35697/Zhang_0-349300.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drieddust</author><text>I am an Indian in UK. Culture of heavy drinking and partying even in age group well past 30 is a real hindrance for me. If you don&#x27;t drink or want to stop at a few, you are not really a sport.<p>Many Indian face similar predicament.</text></item><item><author>paradite</author><text>While I agree with your advice, there is one important point that you missed.<p>The fact that Chinese and Indian students tend to form cliques or enclaves, is a perfectly normal and natural behavior, because of the sheer large number of students in the same community.<p>Do not mistake this as &quot;Chinese and Indians are not good at mingling with the locals because of their mindset and culture.&quot; It is mostly just because their social circle is large enough to sustain itself in a typical overseas community. In fact, it requires much more effort for them to get out of the comfort zone than students from countries that do not have so many students studying overseas. Another easy way to see it is that, they literally have a &quot;larger comfort zone&quot; to jump out of.<p>To put it into perspective, consider a US college where there is only a few Chinese or Indian students, chances are they will naturally interact more with locals.<p>Then consider a group of exchange students in an Asia university, chances are they are going to be mingling around within themselves all day with minimal interactions with locals.<p>So my point is, do not judge them negatively because of this, and do put in some extra effort in reaching out to them if you are kind enough and want to change the status quo.</text></item><item><author>denzil_correa</author><text>One of my most important suggestions to Asian (Indian and Chinese in particular) students is to expand your horizons both professionally and personally. You are going to a new country - don&#x27;t ONLY mingle around with your kind. There is a far broader experience to gain that will only help you professionally and personally in the future. There are many ways you can do it<p>* Share an apartment with someone from a different country<p>* Make acquaintances and talk to people <i>outside work</i> with diverse professions - don&#x27;t stick to scientists ONLY<p>* Try to understand difference between cultures<p>Especially once you move to a new country, you have a great opportunity to understand difference between cultures. Don&#x27;t miss it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noir_lord</author><text>I&#x27;m white British, born here and I don&#x27;t drink - definitely get the stranger in a strange land feeling sometimes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]</title><url>https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/35697/Zhang_0-349300.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drieddust</author><text>I am an Indian in UK. Culture of heavy drinking and partying even in age group well past 30 is a real hindrance for me. If you don&#x27;t drink or want to stop at a few, you are not really a sport.<p>Many Indian face similar predicament.</text></item><item><author>paradite</author><text>While I agree with your advice, there is one important point that you missed.<p>The fact that Chinese and Indian students tend to form cliques or enclaves, is a perfectly normal and natural behavior, because of the sheer large number of students in the same community.<p>Do not mistake this as &quot;Chinese and Indians are not good at mingling with the locals because of their mindset and culture.&quot; It is mostly just because their social circle is large enough to sustain itself in a typical overseas community. In fact, it requires much more effort for them to get out of the comfort zone than students from countries that do not have so many students studying overseas. Another easy way to see it is that, they literally have a &quot;larger comfort zone&quot; to jump out of.<p>To put it into perspective, consider a US college where there is only a few Chinese or Indian students, chances are they will naturally interact more with locals.<p>Then consider a group of exchange students in an Asia university, chances are they are going to be mingling around within themselves all day with minimal interactions with locals.<p>So my point is, do not judge them negatively because of this, and do put in some extra effort in reaching out to them if you are kind enough and want to change the status quo.</text></item><item><author>denzil_correa</author><text>One of my most important suggestions to Asian (Indian and Chinese in particular) students is to expand your horizons both professionally and personally. You are going to a new country - don&#x27;t ONLY mingle around with your kind. There is a far broader experience to gain that will only help you professionally and personally in the future. There are many ways you can do it<p>* Share an apartment with someone from a different country<p>* Make acquaintances and talk to people <i>outside work</i> with diverse professions - don&#x27;t stick to scientists ONLY<p>* Try to understand difference between cultures<p>Especially once you move to a new country, you have a great opportunity to understand difference between cultures. Don&#x27;t miss it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minipci1321</author><text>A close family member faced the same issue when moved to UK for work. Being an athlete since the childhood (== not having a strong skill to handle alcohol + saving all time for training), he tried to avoid as much as he could - to the point where his manager made a &quot;friendly remark&quot; about how he should participate.<p>I think he now more or less secretly switches to juice after first couple of glasses (and I guess counts minutes till the end).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Piston – A modular game engine written in Rust</title><url>http://www.piston.rs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>The modularity of Piston is really nice. In fact, there&#x27;s an effort to use its pure-Rust image decoders in Servo for improved security: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;servo&#x2F;pull&#x2F;7933" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;servo&#x2F;pull&#x2F;7933</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Piston – A modular game engine written in Rust</title><url>http://www.piston.rs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>charlieegan3</author><text>I tried this earlier in the year and it seemed cool - been meaning to go back and have another look into it. It was pretty easy to get the basics up and running.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Redux – Not Dead Yet</title><url>http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/03/redux-not-dead-yet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>k__</author><text>Redux and MobX are overkill.<p>What most people want is an easy way to pass down state to nested components, but the context API is a bit verbose and otherwise you end up with the props-drilling problem, passing and passing and passing.<p>Problem is, Redux and MobX solve far more than this problem and in the end you are stuck with all the complexity they add, even if you don&#x27;t need the other benefits they bring.<p>In 80% of all apps you don&#x27;t need much state. They don&#x27;t have deeply nested components so you can simply store the state in your root components (Screen&#x2F;Page) via setState and pass everything down via props.<p>If you end up with deeply nested probs, use &quot;unstated&quot;, it adds a bit better usability to the context API and lets you avoid the props-drilling problem. You basically get something like the &quot;connect&quot; from Redux, without the rest Redux would require.<p>If you somehow end up with an app that fits in the 1% who need fully predictable control over their global state, go for Redux.<p>React is the simplest framework I&#x27;ve ever seen, sadly Redux and co made it much more complex than needed to be, which drove many people away from it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Redux – Not Dead Yet</title><url>http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/03/redux-not-dead-yet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ralusek</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using mobx-state-tree for the latest couple of projects after Redux. I like them both, but I prefer mobx-state-tree for a handful of reasons.<p>1.) There is an immutable data store with action-driven changelog, just like Redux.<p>2.) The immutability of the data store is baked in and enforced. The necessity to provide changes to the data store within an action is baked in and enforced.<p>3.) Having actions baked in as methods rather than having to create &quot;action creators which in turn dispatch actions&quot; is a nice reduction in boilerplate.<p>4.) Being able to add action listeners AND state listeners are baked in, and can be done at any level of the state&#x27;s depth. To watch state changes in redux, for global changes not related to a particular component, I had to write:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ralusek&#x2F;redux-store-watch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ralusek&#x2F;redux-store-watch</a><p>5.) Mobx&#x27;s observers on react render methods makes the renders far more efficient than what could be achieved with react-redux easily, without really ensuring that the props being passed in are as granular as necessary or shouldComponentUpdate is correctly identifying state changes. In mobx, the most granular access of the lowest level state can be detected within a render method, and only when that very specific value is replaced is the component rendered.<p>6.) Computed values on mobx-state-tree are baked in without the need for something like reselect<p>I like Redux, I enjoy working on projects that use it, but I think that I think I&#x27;d have to admit that I prefer mobx-state-tree.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter (2019)</title><url>https://www.nrk.no/chasing-climate-change-1.14859595</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>543g43g43</author><text>That website is truly awful. Maybe it&#x27;s personal, but I hate the &quot;scroll to be shown a narrative&quot; style of website design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walnutclosefarm</author><text>The NY Times does this kind of &quot;presentation story&quot; all over. I rarely read more than the first few captions, because I can&#x27;t stand the continuous scroll format - it reduces the rate I can absorb the information in such articles by a factor of 4 or more, and increases the work required to get it (particular on the eyes, because reading text scrolling over pictures is hard eye work). I hate &#x27;em. Give me text, charts and graphs, with pictures if they actually add something to the information in your story.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter (2019)</title><url>https://www.nrk.no/chasing-climate-change-1.14859595</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>543g43g43</author><text>That website is truly awful. Maybe it&#x27;s personal, but I hate the &quot;scroll to be shown a narrative&quot; style of website design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>M0r13n</author><text>I tend to agree. But I also think that the images in the background tend to engage me emotionally much more than plain text would be able to.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45</title><url>http://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm</author><text>There are some slight errors in the animation. Details, but those are important when talking about classics.<p>Better animation:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6SmlOEzNBs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=E6SmlOEzNBs</a><p>Watch the barrel. In the OP the entire barrel floats up and down slightly. That&#x27;s incorrect. The breech end of the barrel moves up and down, the other end not so much. This is important because the angle between the barrel and the next round doesn&#x27;t change in the former. Check the vid at about 3:24, after the assembly, to see what I&#x27;m talking about.<p>Also: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRMcTlbWTs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YKRMcTlbWTs</a><p>And the recoil animation is wrong. The gun in the OP is recoiling while the bullet is still in the barrel. That&#x27;s logical, but in reality recoil only gets going after the bullet is away. Once it&#x27;s out of the way the remaining propellants really accelerate, causing the bulk of the recoil. That&#x27;s why recoil doesn&#x27;t impact accuracy. Flinching in anticipation of recoil is another matter.<p>Watch this gun at 00:10 and note it doesn&#x27;t move until the bullet is long gone.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um9Eos9bJDk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Um9Eos9bJDk</a><p>Proper 1911 recoil animation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3IFJXxyEs&amp;list=PL1469B47BBD916A46" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1H3IFJXxyEs&amp;list=PL1469B47BB...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45</title><url>http://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trevordev</author><text>High caliber post. I&#x27;m curious about the manufacturing process and rate of firing error. There were a lot of moving parts and it would seem difficult to ensure that the gun won&#x27;t get jammed or have other issues.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Japan Has More Car Chargers Than Gas Stations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-13/japan-has-more-car-chargers-than-gas-stations-carbon-climate</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skywhopper</author><text>IMO, including home chargers is fine (if it were common practice for people to have gas pumps in their garages those would be fair to count as well), but to be a fair comparison, I think you need to count the actual number of gas <i>pumps</i> in total, <i>and</i> factor in the difference in &quot;charging&quot; time between the two technologies. So if there are an average of 6 pumps at each station, and if it takes two minutes to gas up an empty tank versus 30 minutes to fully recharge an electric car, then you really need 75 times as many charging points to claim you have something resembling equality.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Japan Has More Car Chargers Than Gas Stations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-13/japan-has-more-car-chargers-than-gas-stations-carbon-climate</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>closetnerd</author><text>Wondering if anyone knows if current state of manufacturing, maintaining, and disposing batteries actually is actually more ecological than using gasoline?<p>I&#x27;m sure the potential of batteries to be more ecological and efficient is there, but the general assumption seems to be that they are already there and I&#x27;m not too sold on that idea yet.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design</title><url>https://www.redditinc.com/blog/new-on-reddit-comment-search-improved-search-results-relevance-updated-search-design</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahtihn</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine. Search isn&#x27;t a core feature for Reddit and it&#x27;s certainly not &quot;basic&quot; functionality.</text></item><item><author>groffee</author><text>&gt; With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability.<p>I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum&#x2F;social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search.<p>So honest question, how does a multi-million dollar site just not have such basic functionality? Does it not matter?<p>Better question, and this is something I see time and again, how do sites missing such basic functionality even get any funding to start with? It&#x27;s just weird. Reddit didn&#x27;t even have a working user block till recently either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmlamotte</author><text>Google does an okay job and certainly is the best option for searching Reddit that I&#x27;m aware of, but there are many cases where Google breaks (largely due to Reddit&#x27;s site). It&#x27;s common to get results that don&#x27;t match anything in the content itself, but matches a title in the &quot;more from this subreddit&quot; section at the time Google scraped it. Dates are often wrong so adding date filters often doesn&#x27;t work as expected.<p>Even old Reddit has the &quot;more from this subreddit&quot; type links now so I imagine it breaks even if you scope your query to the old domain. I noticed most of this appeared after they launched the new Reddit UI, I don&#x27;t remember having this problem in the past. Note that these are problems they could likely fix so I agree, but any platform can likely build a more context aware search as well.<p>Disclaimer: I work at Google but don&#x27;t work on search, opinions are my own, blah blah</text></comment>
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<story><title>New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design</title><url>https://www.redditinc.com/blog/new-on-reddit-comment-search-improved-search-results-relevance-updated-search-design</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahtihn</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine. Search isn&#x27;t a core feature for Reddit and it&#x27;s certainly not &quot;basic&quot; functionality.</text></item><item><author>groffee</author><text>&gt; With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability.<p>I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum&#x2F;social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search.<p>So honest question, how does a multi-million dollar site just not have such basic functionality? Does it not matter?<p>Better question, and this is something I see time and again, how do sites missing such basic functionality even get any funding to start with? It&#x27;s just weird. Reddit didn&#x27;t even have a working user block till recently either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endisneigh</author><text>How can you search specific comments in a single Reddit post with Google accurately?<p>Take a recent Reddit post and try on Google:<p>site:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;worldnews&#x2F;comments&#x2F;u3vzo2&#x2F;russia_warns_us_to_stop_arming_ukraine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;worldnews&#x2F;comments&#x2F;u3vzo2&#x2F;russia_wa...</a> arms<p>Even subreddit comment search on Google is flimsy due to Reddit not properly exposing the dates, so Google&#x27;s indexed dates are usually wrong.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/26/tesla-data-leak-customers-employees-safety-complaints</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>&gt; They never sent emails, everything was always oral<p>I work with a guy like that. Send him an email, and if he replies at all it will be with a phone call.</text></item><item><author>ndsipa_pomu</author><text>Also an article on ArsTechnica <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;massive-trove-of-tesla-...</a><p>&gt; For each incident there are key points for the &quot;technical review&quot;. The employees who enter this review into the system regularly make it clear that the report is intended for &quot;internal use only&quot;. Each entry also contains the note in bold type that information, if at all, may only be passed on &quot;VERBALLY to the customer&quot;.<p>&gt; &quot;Do not copy the report below into an email, text message or leave it in a voicemail to the customer,&quot; it continues. Vehicle data should also not be released without permission. If, despite the advice, &quot;a legal involvement cannot be prevented&quot;, this must be recorded.<p>&gt; Customers that Handelsblatt spoke to have the impression that Tesla employees avoid written communication. &quot;They never sent emails, everything was always oral,&quot; says the doctor from California, whose Tesla said it accelerated on its own in the fall of 2021 and crashed into two concrete pillars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awritawirj</author><text>My graduate advisor was like that. Refused to ever put anything in writing. Would verbally order you to do something, entire room would jump in and say &quot;that doesn&#x27;t make sense, literally doesn&#x27;t add up&quot;, when they would bring it up again I would send them an email stating exactly what was wrong with their idea and why I didn&#x27;t like it, if they insisted I would send them another email stating &quot;although you have not responded to my previous written correspondence, you have verbally commanded me to do this multiple times so I will go ahead with your idea although here is a list of my objections&quot;, and then when the crap idea failed exactly the way everyone in the lab said it would professor would rant that it was your idea and they were always against it and you&#x27;ve wasted everyone&#x27;s time and resources. Not surprisingly, I left with a MS instead of finishing my PhD. What an asshole. Professor recently got tenure, after multiple students and staff (including me) reported them for fraud, embezzlement, and slander.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/26/tesla-data-leak-customers-employees-safety-complaints</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>&gt; They never sent emails, everything was always oral<p>I work with a guy like that. Send him an email, and if he replies at all it will be with a phone call.</text></item><item><author>ndsipa_pomu</author><text>Also an article on ArsTechnica <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;massive-trove-of-tesla-...</a><p>&gt; For each incident there are key points for the &quot;technical review&quot;. The employees who enter this review into the system regularly make it clear that the report is intended for &quot;internal use only&quot;. Each entry also contains the note in bold type that information, if at all, may only be passed on &quot;VERBALLY to the customer&quot;.<p>&gt; &quot;Do not copy the report below into an email, text message or leave it in a voicemail to the customer,&quot; it continues. Vehicle data should also not be released without permission. If, despite the advice, &quot;a legal involvement cannot be prevented&quot;, this must be recorded.<p>&gt; Customers that Handelsblatt spoke to have the impression that Tesla employees avoid written communication. &quot;They never sent emails, everything was always oral,&quot; says the doctor from California, whose Tesla said it accelerated on its own in the fall of 2021 and crashed into two concrete pillars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gtirloni</author><text>Worked at a fully-remote company that was like that. Anything barely controversial was moved to Zoom for fear of recording incriminating data (which could used by authorities but also by CEO in regular witch hunt). We weren&#x27;t discussing anything illegal but it had the side effect of discouraging any disagreements in writing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets</title><url>https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/learning-cpp-2018/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>&gt; My quest for relearning C++ started in November 2018.<p>That’s great! I’ve been using it since 2013 and still haven’t learned it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>I started learning C++ about 1993 or so, and I feel like I know less about it now than I did in 2001. Of course I haven&#x27;t written a line of C++ in anger since about 2003, so there&#x27;s been ~15 years of changes that I haven&#x27;t kept up with. Part of me wants to dive in and really re-learn modern C++, but finding time is always the challenge.<p>Just for context, I was such a C++ bigot at one time that my car&#x27;s license plate read C++HACKR and my personal website was on the cpphacker.org domain. But somehow I drifted into doing more Java and wound up mostly leaving the C++ world.<p>Edit: heck, this conversation triggered such a pang of nostalgia that I just re-registered cpphacker.org. Maybe I&#x27;ll go back to having a personal website there. I&#x27;ve been thinking hard about setting up a new personal site and ditching Facebook anyway...</text></comment>
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<story><title>I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets</title><url>https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/learning-cpp-2018/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>&gt; My quest for relearning C++ started in November 2018.<p>That’s great! I’ve been using it since 2013 and still haven’t learned it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stinos</author><text>Spot on really. I&#x27;ve been actively using it for more than a decade, including a good portion of the darker things, and still won&#x27;t claim &#x27;I learned it&#x27;. I did &#x27;learn how to use it for the particular purpose of some projects&#x27; is what I&#x27;d say. Or in other words: I&#x27;m fairly good at C++ but from time to time there&#x27;s still Q&amp;A on reddit or stackoverflow that makes me go like &#x27;whaaaaaat?&#x27;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Webkit.js</title><url>http://trevorlinton.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wildpeaks</author><text>That reminds me of the hilarious talk <i>&quot;The Birth &amp; Death of Javascript&quot;</i> where everything get converted to <i>asm.js</i>, even operating systems.<p><a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Webkit.js</title><url>http://trevorlinton.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dag11</author><text>I thought it was a static rendering, but then I put in a marquee tag and it moved flawlessly across the screen.<p>Impressive. I can&#x27;t say I see the practical implementations of this, but I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s some. But it&#x27;s impressive nonetheless.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers</title><url>https://scifiinterfaces.com/2023/12/11/hackers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dusted</author><text>I wrote about hackers too, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dusted.dk&#x2F;pages&#x2F;phlog&#x2F;2023-12-02.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dusted.dk&#x2F;pages&#x2F;phlog&#x2F;2023-12-02.txt</a> the gist of that rant is that what you see in hackers is not what&#x27;s not their screens, but what&#x27;s in their minds, through a poetic lens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitshiftfaced</author><text>One of my favorite scenes is when the protagonist is in the airplane looking down at the city, and the buildings warp into computer chips and circuitry. This fits well with the idea that what we&#x27;re seeing is more about the feeling that the characters are experiencing rather than what&#x27;s actually on their screen.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers</title><url>https://scifiinterfaces.com/2023/12/11/hackers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dusted</author><text>I wrote about hackers too, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dusted.dk&#x2F;pages&#x2F;phlog&#x2F;2023-12-02.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dusted.dk&#x2F;pages&#x2F;phlog&#x2F;2023-12-02.txt</a> the gist of that rant is that what you see in hackers is not what&#x27;s not their screens, but what&#x27;s in their minds, through a poetic lens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr1</author><text>Well said. It&#x27;s amazing how often people dismiss computer visualization in media (&lt; ~2005) as &quot;unrealistic.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not the goal!<p>It&#x27;s intended to be representative of the <i>process</i> of interacting with a computer, not the interface itself. At a time when most viewers had little or no first-hand experience with a computer.<p>If you showed a CLI then, maybe 1&#x2F;20 people would understand it, and they&#x27;d be bored because they used it everyday at work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/08/11/900895704/secret-gyms-and-the-economics-of-prohibition?s=09</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.<p>&gt; people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...)<p>This makes it clear &quot;nobody successfully proved&quot; really means &quot;I didn&#x27;t bother to listen&quot;. The messaging on masks has long been &quot;they reduce transmission by infected people&quot;, not &quot;they prevent you from getting it&quot;.</text></item><item><author>polote</author><text>&gt; I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.<p>Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.<p>You can&#x27;t tell to people, you have no risk of dying (0.5% death rate for population, much much lower for healthy and young people), people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...) so this is not your fault if they catch it but you need to stop living your life. That can&#x27;t work.<p>And above all, what is the long term strategy, we stop everything for the rest of our lives ? (a vaccine doesn&#x27;t always work, example the flu vaccine, which works approximately).<p>It is not that people don&#x27;t want to sacrifice, it is just that scarifying is the worst solution for everyone</text></item><item><author>readingnews</author><text>There is a crossfit gym that I pass by every morning on the way to work. It is full, and never stopped during this pandemic. Even at 7AM, it is full of patrons.<p>I would call the &quot;proper authorities&quot;, but since there is a State Police car parked outside every morning, and he is in there working out, just like before the pandemic, I doubt calling anyone would do anything.<p>Adding to the post, I read it earlier... it is really strange that people feel they have to go work out in groups. Or get together, or go to bars. I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donor20</author><text>And you are the one not listening.<p>In EVERY other country you can buy masks, and they were strongly encouraged, that prevented YOU from getting sick.<p>South Koreas KF94 masks come to mind, very good coverage and fit (3 parts including one under chin). And despite the lies basically posted by you and plenty of others including health authorities (don&#x27;t wear masks if you are &quot;healthy&quot;, masks can&#x27;t protect you from covid) masks CAN be used to protect you from infection, and that is a MUCH more powerful motivator for folks to wear them, and can also be targeted to those who are at higher risk.<p>We need to get a grip of basic facts. Masks help reduce transmission and if reasonably designed (look overseas) infection. Why else do doctors in hospitals wear N95 masks? To avoid getting sick.<p>I am somewhat higher risk. I wear and N95 under a surgical mask. This reduces my risk of getting covid.<p>The other issue you miss is that there really has not been good evidence of outdoor transmission, and the claims of covid living on outdoor surfaces for 7 days also are suspect.<p>So when folks say - no one go to the beach, it&#x27;s a bit of an eye roll. If covid were THAT infectious (huge open ocean airflow hitting the beach, blasting sun) then we&#x27;d all have it already just from going to the grocery store.<p>I think health professionals lost a megaton of credibility in claiming masks don&#x27;t help, to not wear masks, or that masks can only help reduce transmission not infection. Other countries went all out on masks - with great results.<p>They are reaping the rewards of these basic lies. Now I&#x27;m told going to beach on a sunny breezy day is high risk. I&#x27;m listening, show me the outbreak, show me the data that says this is high risk.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/08/11/900895704/secret-gyms-and-the-economics-of-prohibition?s=09</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.<p>&gt; people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...)<p>This makes it clear &quot;nobody successfully proved&quot; really means &quot;I didn&#x27;t bother to listen&quot;. The messaging on masks has long been &quot;they reduce transmission by infected people&quot;, not &quot;they prevent you from getting it&quot;.</text></item><item><author>polote</author><text>&gt; I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.<p>Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.<p>You can&#x27;t tell to people, you have no risk of dying (0.5% death rate for population, much much lower for healthy and young people), people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...) so this is not your fault if they catch it but you need to stop living your life. That can&#x27;t work.<p>And above all, what is the long term strategy, we stop everything for the rest of our lives ? (a vaccine doesn&#x27;t always work, example the flu vaccine, which works approximately).<p>It is not that people don&#x27;t want to sacrifice, it is just that scarifying is the worst solution for everyone</text></item><item><author>readingnews</author><text>There is a crossfit gym that I pass by every morning on the way to work. It is full, and never stopped during this pandemic. Even at 7AM, it is full of patrons.<p>I would call the &quot;proper authorities&quot;, but since there is a State Police car parked outside every morning, and he is in there working out, just like before the pandemic, I doubt calling anyone would do anything.<p>Adding to the post, I read it earlier... it is really strange that people feel they have to go work out in groups. Or get together, or go to bars. I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gmanley</author><text>I&#x27;m still surprised there is so much misinformation about this. There are two categories of masks. The first category only prevent you from spreading the disease. These include paper surgical masks, cloth masks and those blue disposable paper masks. These are only made to prevent you from spreading droplets in the air from your moth and nose. If someone with covid isn&#x27;t wearing a mask this category won&#x27;t do anything prevent you from catching it.<p>The second category are masks such as N95, P95, N99, P100, etc. Things like disposable painter masks or reusable masks with replaceable filters. These are meant to filter out particulate in the air and they do reduce the likelihood of you getting the disease. To call your mask P95 it must be certified by NIOSH and tested to meet the given rating, ie P95 must filter out 95 percent of particulate and be resistant to oil.<p>In the beginning the US and CDC were not recommending using masks. I believe the main reason for this was, not that they didn&#x27;t believe it was effective, but that they were worried about a shortage for health care professionals.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Modern Web Applications are Here</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/11/15/modern-web-applications-are-here/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>With the last three projects I have started (none live, yet) the backend is nothing more than a REST API and the frontend a single HTML page with javascript, javascript, javascript.<p>This is what web applications are now and will be. The user experience can not be compared to the old style of application. If you are still building applications today that are GET, fetch, pause, render, etc. then you are years behind. It is awesome being able to click on a link to a 10-page forum thread or blog comment page and have it render in ~100ms.<p>I think all of the web server frameworks will have to adapt - from RoR to Django etc. since a lot of what they do is being moved to the client (and it becomes even cheaper to run large-scale web services because of this). There are also tons of gaps on the client side - from more capable and cachable templating engine through to a full-stack framework (something like RoR for Javascript but less confusing and hard to use than the current)<p>The server now is just db+REST, auth and pubsub - soon enough somebody will release a generic PaaS that does all this based on a schema. Almost no more, or very little, server-side code (unless you insist on supporting old HTML clients).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Modern Web Applications are Here</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/11/15/modern-web-applications-are-here/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>azov</author><text>I'm not sure I agree with the "work of beauty" statement. A browser plugin? Rendering all pages on the client via some massive JS framework? Intercepting all page loads and hooking into browser navigation? Compiling templates into Python &#38; Javascript? Is all this complexity really justified?<p>I know that web apps is all the rage those days, but given the native plugin, pickiness about browser version, the fact that they apparently not care about being indexed by search engines, and all the trouble they went through to make it all work together - wouldn't they be better off to just implement the whole thing as a native app?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins</title><url>https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/media/press-releases/rebellious-birds-make-nests-out-of-anti-bird-pins</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjot</author><text>A four year battle with birds<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.io&#x2F;a&#x2F;W4GPjdh" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.io&#x2F;a&#x2F;W4GPjdh</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins</title><url>https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/media/press-releases/rebellious-birds-make-nests-out-of-anti-bird-pins</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>givemeethekeys</author><text>I&#x27;m immediately reminded of this exchange:<p>&quot;Persian: A thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun!<p>Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.&quot;<p>Those birds deserve more respect.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time</title><url>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-a-patient-paid-a-285-copay-for-a-40-drug</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antjanus</author><text>I had the same situation with multiple services:<p>1. ultrasound cost around $300 with insurance...$150 without<p>2. ER visit cost $4K with insurance....$900 without<p>3. specialist visit with insurance cost around $200...$150 without<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on labs.<p>It&#x27;s really a rip off to use insurance for anything other than:<p>1. general doctor visit (cheap co-pay, pretty expensive cash option)<p>2. really expensive shit (c-section w&#x2F;o insurance runs $25-$30K -- cost me around $5K with insurance)<p>Anything in between seems to be cheaper when you pay individually.<p>As a disclaimer this is &quot;gold-level&quot; insurance coverage which costs around $1200-$1300&#x2F;month for a family of 4.</text></item><item><author>cascom</author><text>I had this experience with imaging (MRI), cost 10% more with insurance than without.<p>I asked a friend in the healthcare industry about this - they said that since insurance companies negotiate all the services at once - the insurance company is trying to lower the total cost for the whole insured pool, this often means that they will marginally overpay for high margin services in order to get big discounts for the really costly things. The hospital makes more gross margin, and the insurance company lowers it’s total spend. The offshoot is that individual people may bear the brunt of this grand bargain...<p>No idea if it’s true, but had a ring of truth to it...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cosmie</author><text>One thing to keep in mind when paying individually is that many insurance providers won&#x27;t count the payments toward your deductible or maximum out of pocket expenses, since it wasn&#x27;t processed through your insurance.<p>If you&#x27;re nowhere near hitting your deductible for the year, and don&#x27;t anticipate hitting it, then looking for cash-only discounts make sense. But <i>if</i> you anticipate hitting your deductible anyway, sometimes it makes sense to pay the inflated price on that individual item, since you&#x27;ll make up for it later when you hit your deductible and switch to only paying your coinsurance amount (or hitting your max OOP).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time</title><url>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-a-patient-paid-a-285-copay-for-a-40-drug</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antjanus</author><text>I had the same situation with multiple services:<p>1. ultrasound cost around $300 with insurance...$150 without<p>2. ER visit cost $4K with insurance....$900 without<p>3. specialist visit with insurance cost around $200...$150 without<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on labs.<p>It&#x27;s really a rip off to use insurance for anything other than:<p>1. general doctor visit (cheap co-pay, pretty expensive cash option)<p>2. really expensive shit (c-section w&#x2F;o insurance runs $25-$30K -- cost me around $5K with insurance)<p>Anything in between seems to be cheaper when you pay individually.<p>As a disclaimer this is &quot;gold-level&quot; insurance coverage which costs around $1200-$1300&#x2F;month for a family of 4.</text></item><item><author>cascom</author><text>I had this experience with imaging (MRI), cost 10% more with insurance than without.<p>I asked a friend in the healthcare industry about this - they said that since insurance companies negotiate all the services at once - the insurance company is trying to lower the total cost for the whole insured pool, this often means that they will marginally overpay for high margin services in order to get big discounts for the really costly things. The hospital makes more gross margin, and the insurance company lowers it’s total spend. The offshoot is that individual people may bear the brunt of this grand bargain...<p>No idea if it’s true, but had a ring of truth to it...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Wow. I used to live in the US but thank you for the reminder. I am very glad i now work a government job in a country with public health care. I went to the dentist last week. Walking out without paying anything, not a single form, feels like stealing. I cannot understand how anyone in the US can pay such costs. Simply staying alive seems a constant battle.</text></comment>
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<story><title>American Red Cross Asks for Ham Radio Operators for Puerto Rico Relief Effort</title><url>http://www.arrl.org/news/american-red-cross-asks-arrl-s-assistance-with-puerto-rico-relief-effort</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit out of the loop on amateur radio these days, but if I remember correctly there was a mass exodus from volunteer radio operators from the American Red Cross to the Salvation Army over the background check issue. Volunteers that were bringing thousands of dollars of their own equipment to help saw it as very unnecessary and insulting. I&#x27;m a bit surprised to see they&#x27;re still requiring the background checks...<p>edit: I&#x27;m also a bit surprised they&#x27;re requiring a General Class license. That cuts out a huge number of potential volunteers. Are they really using the other frequencies that opens up enough that it&#x27;s a requirement? Possibly that is a reasonable requirement, but I&#x27;ve helped with disaster recovery simulations, etc. and my Technican Class license was just fine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>ARRL now conducts background checks on ARES volunteers, so the issue is rather moot (in fact ARC and ARRL have an MOU stating that ARRL is responsible for background checks on their volunteers assisting ARC, which presumably applies to this call as well). There have just been too many incidents of people with e.g. sexual assault on their rap sheets turning up working in shelters where there are all manner of vulnerable people. Terrible optics if nothing else.<p>I suspect the general class requirement is just to cut down the applicants to a pool of more dedicated people. A very real problem with disaster volunteers, if I might be a little harsh especially from the amateur radio side, is &quot;fair-weather responders&quot; who will go through all the training and then not actually deploy. I&#x27;ve also personally found that people with higher class licenses are more likely to be into digital modes which is what they&#x27;re mostly looking for, but that&#x27;s getting less true as the equipment gets cheaper (to be honest I&#x27;ve never even seen a packet TNC in person).<p>I happen to be both an ARC disaster worker and amateur radio operator, but I speak for myself.</text></comment>
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<story><title>American Red Cross Asks for Ham Radio Operators for Puerto Rico Relief Effort</title><url>http://www.arrl.org/news/american-red-cross-asks-arrl-s-assistance-with-puerto-rico-relief-effort</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit out of the loop on amateur radio these days, but if I remember correctly there was a mass exodus from volunteer radio operators from the American Red Cross to the Salvation Army over the background check issue. Volunteers that were bringing thousands of dollars of their own equipment to help saw it as very unnecessary and insulting. I&#x27;m a bit surprised to see they&#x27;re still requiring the background checks...<p>edit: I&#x27;m also a bit surprised they&#x27;re requiring a General Class license. That cuts out a huge number of potential volunteers. Are they really using the other frequencies that opens up enough that it&#x27;s a requirement? Possibly that is a reasonable requirement, but I&#x27;ve helped with disaster recovery simulations, etc. and my Technican Class license was just fine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>I imagine they might want a General license because you won&#x27;t transmit beyond the island on a Technician license. Just a guess.<p>EDIT: actually read the fine article, HF voice being one of the requirements. I assume they also want more than the tiny bit of HF that Technician licensees get to use. &quot; Sorry, 10m isn&#x27;t open, so I can&#x27;t transmit, and I&#x27;m not allowed to use 40m.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Do Animals See in the Mirror?</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/what-do-animals-see-in-the-mirror/516348/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>One of the weirdest cognitive experiences in my life (as a drug non-user) was when I walked through a very crowded, dimly-lit bar and suddenly came face to face with a person who, when I tried to pass him, kept moving to the same side that I tried to pass on. It took me probably 3 seconds to realize it was a mirror and that I was trying to pass myself (meanwhile, one of the employees who was sitting next to the mirror was giggling loudly while profusely apologizing for doing so; not my proudest moment).<p>The cognitive weirdness was that during those 3-4 seconds, I genuinely did not recognize the person as being myself. It was a kind of out-of-body experience.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Do Animals See in the Mirror?</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/what-do-animals-see-in-the-mirror/516348/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrec</author><text>There was a distinctly unsettling paper[1] a couple of years ago which found evidence that <i>ants</i> could recognize themselves in a mirror, which is <i>really</i> not a result you&#x27;d expect from something (ab)used as a &quot;sentience test&quot;. I&#x27;ve seen very little followup on this; does anyone know how it&#x27;s been received?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.journalofscience.net&#x2F;File_Folder&#x2F;521-532(jos).pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.journalofscience.net&#x2F;File_Folder&#x2F;521-532(jos).pdf</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Local async executors and why they should be the default</title><url>https://maciej.codes/2022-06-09-local-async.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>We wrote asynchronous driven network code for decades without syntactic sugar for it, and it was fine. That 5% performance gain can be had without it. Async syntax is a mistake. Not just because of the mess it makes across the program tree, but also because it brings with it a specific notion of <i>how</i> to do asynchronous I&#x2F;O.<p>io_uring for example gives an entirely different model, one with some lovely performance benefits. I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a way to make it play well with Rust async and tokio, etc. but they&#x27;re not really the same model on the surface. And so having bolted async into the language syntax itself, and also adding an explicit requirement on concepts like &#x27;executors&#x27; into the language, we&#x27;ve created a legacy problem.<p>IMHO async in Rust was a mistake. A systems programming language should not have mandated a technique like this, and should have stayed agnostic.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>I really think in the end, in another decade or two, the community consensus is going to be that async as it is conceived of today is simply a mistake, full stop.<p>Think about it. Where did it come from in its current incarnation? Node. Why did Node choose it? Did it have a multiplicity of options and carefully choose the best one based on years of experience with each choice? No. Async was &quot;chosen&quot; because it was the only option for the weak runtime that it had to work with. It was the only choice.<p>But the Node marketing machine rumbled into action and made bold claims about performance and quality and phrased them in universals across all languages rather than merely claiming it was good for Javascript and that propaganda is still running around in people&#x27;s minds to this day.<p>I know Rust chose it for performance reasons but I still think in a decade or two community consensus will be either that the 5% performance overhead is worth it for any non-trivial program because async is just too much worse, or someone will come up with an even lower impact version of some other option that will dominate it.<p>As your message demonstrates, we&#x27;re still in the phase where you have to pay lip service to the supposed community consensus before saying &quot;but I think it isn&#x27;t really working out&quot;, but as I don&#x27;t care about the community consensus I don&#x27;t mind just saying it. Async is a mistake. It&#x27;s just you manually doing what the compiler ought to be doing for you, and while I&#x27;m open to other possibilities in the future, right now threaded code is straight-up a better option on almost every metric, and the metrics where it may have a slight disadvantage, it&#x27;s only slight and worth it. It&#x27;s not like you choose threading and you instantly lose 10x performance or something. The first and second derivative opinions about async are clearly negative and I don&#x27;t mind jumping farther ahead in the process when it comes to my own engineering decisions.</text></item><item><author>pdimitar</author><text>Just a personal take: after not coding with Rust for several months, I find it more and more difficult to return to an async code I was writing.<p>The whole thing just reads... ugly and inconsistent. It needs too much already-accumulated knowledge. As the article correctly points out, you need a bunch of stuff that are seemingly unrelated (and syntactically speaking you would never guess they belong together). And as other commenters pointed out, you need to scan a lot of docs -- many useful Tokio tools are not just not promoted, they are outright difficult to find at all.<p>Now don&#x27;t get me wrong, I worked on projects where a single Rust k8s node was ingesting 150k events per second. I have seen and believed and I want to use Rust more. But the async story needs the team&#x27;s undivided attention for a long time at this point, I feel.<p>Against my own philosophy and values I find myself attracted to Golang. It has a ton of ugly gotchas and many things are opaque... and I still find that more attractive than Rust. :(<p>This article is a sad reminder for me -- I am kind of drifting away from Rust. I might return and laugh at myself for this comment several months down the line... but at the moment it seems that my brain prefers stuff that&#x27;s quicker to grok and experiment with. Not to mention writing demos and prototypes is objectively faster.<p>If I had executive power in the Rust leadership I&#x27;d definitely task them with taking a good hard look at the current state of async and start making backwards-incompatible changes (backed by new major semver versions of course). Much more macros or simply better-reading APIs might be a very good start. Start making and promoting higher-order concurrency and parallelism patterns i.e. the `scoped_pool` thingy for example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surajrmal</author><text>Having written decades of async code without rust (and still doing so in c++), I don&#x27;t understand your point. It is really hard to write safe highly performant asynchronous code. Rust makes it safe, but without the additional &quot;syntax sugar&quot; it makes it very unergonomic. The developer velocity I can achieve with async rust is unbelievable compared to what I had to do previously.<p>I think your problem may be with tokio, not async. io_uring and async are not incompatible.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Local async executors and why they should be the default</title><url>https://maciej.codes/2022-06-09-local-async.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>We wrote asynchronous driven network code for decades without syntactic sugar for it, and it was fine. That 5% performance gain can be had without it. Async syntax is a mistake. Not just because of the mess it makes across the program tree, but also because it brings with it a specific notion of <i>how</i> to do asynchronous I&#x2F;O.<p>io_uring for example gives an entirely different model, one with some lovely performance benefits. I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a way to make it play well with Rust async and tokio, etc. but they&#x27;re not really the same model on the surface. And so having bolted async into the language syntax itself, and also adding an explicit requirement on concepts like &#x27;executors&#x27; into the language, we&#x27;ve created a legacy problem.<p>IMHO async in Rust was a mistake. A systems programming language should not have mandated a technique like this, and should have stayed agnostic.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>I really think in the end, in another decade or two, the community consensus is going to be that async as it is conceived of today is simply a mistake, full stop.<p>Think about it. Where did it come from in its current incarnation? Node. Why did Node choose it? Did it have a multiplicity of options and carefully choose the best one based on years of experience with each choice? No. Async was &quot;chosen&quot; because it was the only option for the weak runtime that it had to work with. It was the only choice.<p>But the Node marketing machine rumbled into action and made bold claims about performance and quality and phrased them in universals across all languages rather than merely claiming it was good for Javascript and that propaganda is still running around in people&#x27;s minds to this day.<p>I know Rust chose it for performance reasons but I still think in a decade or two community consensus will be either that the 5% performance overhead is worth it for any non-trivial program because async is just too much worse, or someone will come up with an even lower impact version of some other option that will dominate it.<p>As your message demonstrates, we&#x27;re still in the phase where you have to pay lip service to the supposed community consensus before saying &quot;but I think it isn&#x27;t really working out&quot;, but as I don&#x27;t care about the community consensus I don&#x27;t mind just saying it. Async is a mistake. It&#x27;s just you manually doing what the compiler ought to be doing for you, and while I&#x27;m open to other possibilities in the future, right now threaded code is straight-up a better option on almost every metric, and the metrics where it may have a slight disadvantage, it&#x27;s only slight and worth it. It&#x27;s not like you choose threading and you instantly lose 10x performance or something. The first and second derivative opinions about async are clearly negative and I don&#x27;t mind jumping farther ahead in the process when it comes to my own engineering decisions.</text></item><item><author>pdimitar</author><text>Just a personal take: after not coding with Rust for several months, I find it more and more difficult to return to an async code I was writing.<p>The whole thing just reads... ugly and inconsistent. It needs too much already-accumulated knowledge. As the article correctly points out, you need a bunch of stuff that are seemingly unrelated (and syntactically speaking you would never guess they belong together). And as other commenters pointed out, you need to scan a lot of docs -- many useful Tokio tools are not just not promoted, they are outright difficult to find at all.<p>Now don&#x27;t get me wrong, I worked on projects where a single Rust k8s node was ingesting 150k events per second. I have seen and believed and I want to use Rust more. But the async story needs the team&#x27;s undivided attention for a long time at this point, I feel.<p>Against my own philosophy and values I find myself attracted to Golang. It has a ton of ugly gotchas and many things are opaque... and I still find that more attractive than Rust. :(<p>This article is a sad reminder for me -- I am kind of drifting away from Rust. I might return and laugh at myself for this comment several months down the line... but at the moment it seems that my brain prefers stuff that&#x27;s quicker to grok and experiment with. Not to mention writing demos and prototypes is objectively faster.<p>If I had executive power in the Rust leadership I&#x27;d definitely task them with taking a good hard look at the current state of async and start making backwards-incompatible changes (backed by new major semver versions of course). Much more macros or simply better-reading APIs might be a very good start. Start making and promoting higher-order concurrency and parallelism patterns i.e. the `scoped_pool` thingy for example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text><i>&gt; A systems programming language should not have mandated a technique like this</i><p>Rust doesn&#x27;t mandate anything. It&#x27;s unipinionated when it comes to concurrency; use whatever approach that you think is best. Async&#x2F;await is just one option among many.</text></comment>
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<story><title>David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57379704</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zahma</author><text>It does make sense that a soldier didn’t know. On the other hand, the American military knew of Auschwitz and Birkenau, had the opportunity to bomb and incapacitate it, and didn’t apparently at the request of FDR to direct all munitions toward winning the war. His administration was implored by escapees and refugees. One of the greatest tragedies of many during the war.</text></item><item><author>cholmon</author><text>&gt; Dushman has said he was unaware Auschwitz existed during the war, only learning about the atrocities carried out there in the years after.<p>It&#x27;s always jarring to me, with my modern&#x2F;simplistic&#x2F;naive perspective of these major historical events, to consider that the people who lived during and&#x2F;or participated in these events didn&#x27;t understand full extent of what they were seeing or what was happening. It totally makes sense, academically...fog of war, slow&#x2F;spotty spread of information, determining what&#x27;s propaganda and what&#x27;s not.<p>But still, there&#x27;s something mind-blowing to me about a soldier mowing down the fence at Auschwitz with a tank, but not knowing what the place was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Old issue. See [1]<p>&quot;The first proposal to bomb Auschwitz was made on 16 May 1944 by a Slovak rabbi.&quot; That was 3 weeks before D-Day (June 6, 1944).<p>Eisenhower&#x27;s policy was to defeat Germany, and not get distracted. He had planned to bypass Paris, which wasn&#x27;t on the route to Berlin.[2] (De Gaulle went off-script and liberated Paris ahead of schedule, but that&#x27;s another story.) Eisenhower was trying to hold an alliance with different goals together. All the allies were agreed on &quot;defeat Germany&quot;, but there were other national goals. Britain was concerned about preserving its empire, for example. To hold the alliance together, Eisenhower focused on &quot;win the war&quot; above all else.<p>The person this article is about was in the Red Army. &quot;One of just 69 men in his 12,000-strong division to survive the war, Mr Dushman suffered serious injuries during the conflict&quot;. The USSR had about <i>20 million</i> casualties in WWII. Never forget that.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Auschwitz_bombing_debate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Auschwitz_bombing_debate</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.historynet.com&#x2F;the-generals-who-brought-paris-back-to-life.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.historynet.com&#x2F;the-generals-who-brought-paris-ba...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57379704</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zahma</author><text>It does make sense that a soldier didn’t know. On the other hand, the American military knew of Auschwitz and Birkenau, had the opportunity to bomb and incapacitate it, and didn’t apparently at the request of FDR to direct all munitions toward winning the war. His administration was implored by escapees and refugees. One of the greatest tragedies of many during the war.</text></item><item><author>cholmon</author><text>&gt; Dushman has said he was unaware Auschwitz existed during the war, only learning about the atrocities carried out there in the years after.<p>It&#x27;s always jarring to me, with my modern&#x2F;simplistic&#x2F;naive perspective of these major historical events, to consider that the people who lived during and&#x2F;or participated in these events didn&#x27;t understand full extent of what they were seeing or what was happening. It totally makes sense, academically...fog of war, slow&#x2F;spotty spread of information, determining what&#x27;s propaganda and what&#x27;s not.<p>But still, there&#x27;s something mind-blowing to me about a soldier mowing down the fence at Auschwitz with a tank, but not knowing what the place was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghufran_syed</author><text>Wouldn’t bombing the camp kill the prisoners? Or are you suggesting that they could have successfully bombed and “incapacitated” the camp <i>without</i> killing the prisoners? How exactly?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pepsi: Breathtaking Design Strategy (2008) [pdf]</title><url>https://jimedwardsnrx.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pepsi_gravitational_field.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianseyer</author><text>Worth mentioning that this is the same design company that blew $35MM on a terrible redesign of Tropicana Orange Juice, which they reverted back within a couple days (but kept the mock orange cap)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thebrandingjournal.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;what-to-learn-from-tropicanas-packaging-redesign-failure&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thebrandingjournal.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;what-to-learn-fro...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Their new design was just yet another example of how the currently in vogue &quot;minimalism everywhere&quot; design aesthetic sucks. The Tropicana case study is such a great example because the effects were so drastic, but only really because there were easily substituted goods - consumers basically thought the carton was just &quot;generic store brand OJ&quot;.<p>My guess is that other recent brand redesigns to this boring, same, sans-serif minimalist aesthetic (recent HN article, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32040506" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32040506</a>) are just as bad, but with &quot;stickier&quot; products (people aren&#x27;t likely to leave Google or Facebook just because the typography is shittier) the downside is less noticeable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pepsi: Breathtaking Design Strategy (2008) [pdf]</title><url>https://jimedwardsnrx.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pepsi_gravitational_field.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianseyer</author><text>Worth mentioning that this is the same design company that blew $35MM on a terrible redesign of Tropicana Orange Juice, which they reverted back within a couple days (but kept the mock orange cap)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thebrandingjournal.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;what-to-learn-from-tropicanas-packaging-redesign-failure&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thebrandingjournal.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;what-to-learn-fro...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>The lid really is great. But yeah that&#x27;s a drastic change (new logo, new typography, new slogan, new image, new lid). They always have to throw the baby with the bath water and be radically modern with every detail.<p>Reddit&#x27;s new design went heavy on modern&#x2F;JS styling and not the raw simple HN-style text-heavy interface. They should have focused on loading the links-&gt;comments, pictures, video as quick as possible. They got the comments page to load async but video is broken and RES plugin does inline image&#x2F;video loading way better. Everything else is a step back or sideways.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bootstrap Icons</title><url>https://github.com/twbs/icons</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thomasqbrady</author><text>For those curious about icon fonts versus SVG, though icon fonts can be easier for the developer to use, there are drawbacks for your users (especially in accessibility).<p>But don’t take my word for it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;css-tricks.com&#x2F;icon-fonts-vs-svg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;css-tricks.com&#x2F;icon-fonts-vs-svg&#x2F;</a><p>“It all comes down to browser support. If you can go IE 9+ &#x2F; Android 3+, inline SVG is better at pretty much everything than icon fonts. If you need the deeper browser support, I feel like an inline SVG fallback would be too big of a pain to be worth it (maintaining a PNG copy, inserting an additional element to display PNG version, hiding SVG element… it’s weighty).”</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bootstrap Icons</title><url>https://github.com/twbs/icons</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spapas82</author><text>Now that&#x27;s a coincidence... Just 5 minutes ago I was checking out the Bootstrap 5 alpha site (which is really great; just check out what it offers) and stumbled upon the Bootstrap icons project! Great stuff!<p>Many, many thanks to the developers!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/18/cyberpunk-2077-how-2020s-biggest-video-game-launch-turned-into-a-shambles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway189262</author><text>What hurts about CyberPunk is how well polished some parts are. The voice acting, story, and world are beautiful and polished. It&#x27;s clear that they just didn&#x27;t have time to implement like half the gameplay they promised.<p>The result is a big beautiful and empty world with a linear path. There&#x27;s little to do, and really little point to the huge open world. 90% of missions are inside buildings on foot. And the ones that aren&#x27;t uniformly suck because vehicle mechanics and AI just isn&#x27;t there</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spike021</author><text>My friend who played on PC basically told me the exact same thing. It runs smoothly on his gaming setup, but the game is too linear with pretty much zero replay-ability because of how shallow the world is. It&#x27;s clear they left a _lot_ out of the game. Even features that would seem &quot;basic&quot; for an open-world game, like AI, are apparently very awful (cops just spawning randomly right around you but they don&#x27;t chase you and oddities like that).<p>While the console issues themselves are huge, it definitely seems the game itself is missing way too much for what it costs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/18/cyberpunk-2077-how-2020s-biggest-video-game-launch-turned-into-a-shambles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway189262</author><text>What hurts about CyberPunk is how well polished some parts are. The voice acting, story, and world are beautiful and polished. It&#x27;s clear that they just didn&#x27;t have time to implement like half the gameplay they promised.<p>The result is a big beautiful and empty world with a linear path. There&#x27;s little to do, and really little point to the huge open world. 90% of missions are inside buildings on foot. And the ones that aren&#x27;t uniformly suck because vehicle mechanics and AI just isn&#x27;t there</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badlucklottery</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s clear that they just didn&#x27;t have time to implement like half the gameplay they promised.<p>Yup. From an art&#x2F;style perspective, the game is top shelf and legitimately impressive. From a gameplay perspective, big parts of it are barely there.<p>It&#x27;s like the opposite problem MGS5 had. That game had a great gameplay loop and well fleshed-out systems but it obviously lacked the assets to make the story work or offer much variety.</text></comment>
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<story><title>☃</title><url>http://☃.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickb</author><text><a href="http://www.♂.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.♂.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.♀.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.♀.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.☯.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.☯.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.☺.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.☺.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.☼.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.☼.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.♫.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.♫.com/</a><p>Just some from my bookmarks...</text></comment>
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<story><title>☃</title><url>http://☃.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>He should start a webmail service--imagine trying to give out an email address @☃.net.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat</title><url>http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/12/10/food-industry-michael-moss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbokun</author><text>I really, truely do not like the taste of sugar in my bread, pasta sauce, and yogurt. (I like the yogurt to taste yogurty, then add something sweet to it, like a banana or chocolate chips.)<p>But it&#x27;s maddening going through package after package of bread, trying to find one without lots of added sugar. Free market capitalism is often advertised as just giving people what they want, but there are lots of cases like this where what people want and what is available to buy don&#x27;t match up.<p>I really hope what the article says about food company profits dropping because people are buying less processed foods. Maybe it will become easier to buy food that tastes like something other than salt, sugar, and fat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debacle</author><text>Trust yourself that you can make your own, delicious, low-effort bread. I produce 2-3 loaves a week, and the effort involved is maybe 30 minutes each time. The cost, barring additional ingredients (usually egg), is close to a dollar per loaf, and you can make exactly the loaf you&#x27;re in the mood for.<p>As long as you don&#x27;t find a way to kill the yeast, even your bad bread will taste better than store bought bread.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat</title><url>http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/12/10/food-industry-michael-moss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbokun</author><text>I really, truely do not like the taste of sugar in my bread, pasta sauce, and yogurt. (I like the yogurt to taste yogurty, then add something sweet to it, like a banana or chocolate chips.)<p>But it&#x27;s maddening going through package after package of bread, trying to find one without lots of added sugar. Free market capitalism is often advertised as just giving people what they want, but there are lots of cases like this where what people want and what is available to buy don&#x27;t match up.<p>I really hope what the article says about food company profits dropping because people are buying less processed foods. Maybe it will become easier to buy food that tastes like something other than salt, sugar, and fat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>After a brief trip to Europe a couple of years back, I returned to the States to discover that our bread is actually, physically, nauseating. It was weeks before I could stomach it again. I&#x27;ve been to Europe on other occasions and not had this happen, not sure why it happened this time.</text></comment>
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